No Such Thing As Reginald The Red-Nosed Reindeer

No Such Thing As A Fish

Comedy, Nature, Science, History

4.7 • 18.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2014

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Episode 41 - In a special Christmas episode recorded live at Tufnell Park, Dan, James, Andy and Anna discuss Charles Dickens' warm-up act, lactose intolerant neanderthals, 19th century copyright pirates, penguins in Christmas jumpers and the patron saint of television.

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0:00.0	We run it on QI a few years ago.
0:02.0	Yeah.
0:02.5	Which was, there's no such thing as a fish.
0:04.5	It's kind of a nice such thing as a fish.
0:05.8	No, seriously, it's in the Oxford Dictionary of Underwater Life.
0:09.5	It says it right there, first paragraph, no such thing as a fish.
0:12.5	Hello, and welcome to another episode.
0:19.5	And no such thing as a fish, a weekly podcast coming to you this week from the Aces and Aits Bar and Toppnall Park.
0:25.5	My name is Dan Schreiber.
0:26.5	I am sitting here with Anichesinski, James Harkin.
0:29.5	And Annie Murray, this is our Christmas special.
0:32.0	And once again, we gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts in the last seven days.
0:36.3	And in no particular order, here we go.
0:38.5	We begin with my fact.
0:40.2	My fact this week is that before going on stage to read a Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens had a warm up routine of drinking a pint of champagne.
0:50.5	In the morning when he woke up, he had two tablespoons of rum.
0:54.7	He would have the pint of champagne at lunch.
0:57.2	And then just before he went on stage, he would have cherry, which he would mix raw egg into.
1:02.7	Wow.
1:03.2	The interesting thing is that you would think, okay, Charles Dickens, he probably did one or two readings of a Christmas Carol.
1:10.2	If you look into his biography, you could almost claim that he was as much a performer as a writer.
1:14.7	He spent years as a performer.
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