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No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Comedy, Nature, Science, History

4.718.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Maddie Moate joins Dan, James and Andy to discuss bees, bulbs, cereal and stars.

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, welcome to this week's episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, where we were joined by the brilliant Maddie Mote.

0:10.5

Now, if you have children of a certain age, then you will know exactly who Maddie is.

0:16.4

She is often seen on the BBC doing various kid shows, especially ones related to science communication.

0:23.5

But if you want to know more about her having heard her today on this show, and I'm absolutely certain you will,

0:29.6

then the best thing to do is to go to her YouTube channel.

0:32.9

So Maddie's YouTube channel is all about curiosity.

0:37.0

It's all about animals, it's about plants,

0:38.9

it's about travel, it's about technology. She is really right up our street. She loves everything

0:44.2

about knowledge and her videos are absolutely fantastic. And if you want to find them,

0:48.5

then go to YouTube.com slash Maddie moat. That's M-A-W-D-I-E-M-O-A-T-E, or just search for Maddie's name on the internet. If you'd like to learn more about us and what we're up to at the moment and in the future, then the best place probably at the moment is to go to Patreon. So if you go to patreon.com slash no such thing as a fish, you can sign up there. You don't have to pay anything.

1:11.1

If you sign up, it is a place to get little free bits of pieces here and there and learn about what's going on.

1:16.7

And then, of course, on top of that, we do have our various tiers if you want to support the podcast financially.

1:22.5

And in return for doing so, you will get all sorts of amazing things from ad-free episodes on our lowest tier

1:28.7

all the way up to live internet quizzes and merch at our very top tier anyway there's

1:34.5

loads to see there so just go to patreon.com slash notions things of fish to find out more but in the

1:40.1

meantime really hope you enjoy this show with the fantastic Maddie Mote on with the podcast hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Hoburn.

2:11.5

My name is Dan Schreiber. I'm sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, James Harkin, and Maddie Mote,

2:16.5

and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts

2:20.1

from the last seven days.

2:21.5

And in no particular order, here we go.

2:24.5

Starting with fact number one, and that is Maddie.

2:27.5

Okay, so I thought I could pose this fact as a question, sort of a bit of a guessing game.

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