Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming

to you for the first time from the new QI offices in Hobern.

My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, James Harkin, and

here to cut the red ribbon and officially open the new fish podcasting headquarters is

the founder of QI himself, John Lloyd.

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

the last seven days and in a particular order here we go.

Starting with fact number one, that is Andy.

My fact is that there was a job in medieval times called the Municipal Swine Herde who

was effectively a professional pig walker for city dollars who didn't want to walk their

own pigs.

Right.

So it's just a job that you used to be able to get.

Were they on leashes?

No, I don't think they were.

That's a more difficult job than I reckon, because you're corralling the pigs as well

as walking them.

It's difficult in that way, but it's also very hard I imagine to keep a pig on a leash

if it doesn't want to be.

Is it?

Really?

The pigs are very strong, but they're also very intelligent and can be trained.

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