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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Dan, James, Andy and Ella Al Shamahi discuss Sci Fi, vespidae, real life hobbits and real death habits.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome to this week's episode of No Such Thing as a Fish. I have a couple of
0:07.5	very important announcements to say. In fact, we have them because Andy's here as well. Hello.
0:12.5	Hello, Andy. But yes, we have a couple of very important announcements to make. The first one
0:17.2	is that today's episode has a very special guest and that guest is ella al-shamahi
0:22.4	now listeners regular listeners and no such as a fish will know who ella is as she is an explorer
0:29.1	a paleoanthropologist evolutionary biologist general smart cookie and very good friend of ours
0:36.7	and we love having her on the show. It's always
0:38.8	an absolute riot when she comes on. And the important thing to tell you about that is that she has
0:43.9	a new series out. It is called Human and it is on the BBC I player right now if you're in the
0:51.4	UK. But if you're not in the UK, fear not. Because if you're in the USA,
0:56.3	it will be on PBS from Wednesday the 17th of September, which is actually a couple of days ago.
1:03.2	So if you go to the PBS app, you will be able to find that in the US. And believe it or not,
1:08.1	is also coming to Australia, India and Scandinavia soon.
1:11.6	That show is called Human.
1:13.2	It's all about the history of Homo sapiens.
1:16.2	It's absolutely fantastic just as Ella is herself.
1:19.8	Yeah, it's great.
1:21.0	We're lucky to have had her time, frankly.
1:23.1	And our second exciting announcement is that we are doing a live show at Cheltenham, the Cheltenham Literary Festival.
1:32.9	Ooh yeah, it's going to be posh. It's going to be wordy.
1:35.6	And we're going to be talking book stuff with big word.
1:38.7	No, it's going to be great.
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