Hi everybody, Andy here, just before we start this week's show, wanted to announce our special guest.

This one is really exciting guys. Our special guest this week is none other than David Mitchell.

That's right, if you haven't heard of David Mitchell, you haven't seen any British comedy recently

because he's been an absolute year everything. Of course, peep show, upstart crow, would I lie to you,

the unbelievable truth, every single panel show going, and he's here, he's on fish this week.

David is here partly because he has, as you are about to hear in the show, a new book out,

and it is a fantastic book. I genuinely finished it this morning, and I loved it. It's called Unruly.

It's a history book. It's a history of England's Kings and Queens. It goes all the way from

King Arthur, fictional, to Queen Elizabeth I, not fictional, and it is so funny and yet you also

are being educated all the way along the way. It's been described as horrible histories for grown-ups,

and that's exactly what it's like. You'll laugh, you'll learn. It's got that classic Mitchell

wit all the way through. It's absolutely fantastic. There are lengthy digressions about things

like where you can get a nice coffee in Oxford, or the James Bond films, all of that. It's so good.

And it's not even just me saying this. It has already been a number one Sunday Times bestseller.

So if you have a history found in your life who you think would like a laugh as well,

this is a perfect present. Also, if you'd like even more David Mitchell in your life after this

episode, his new show OutSiders has just started its third series that's on Dave. It's a kind of

outdoor challenge survival show hosted by David and the guests this series include Alan Davies

of QI and of course, former fish guest. So that's it from me. I'll stop wanging on now.

Hope you enjoy this episode. We really enjoyed recording it. 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 Hobern. My name is Dan Schreiber and sitting here with James Harkin,

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