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SIM Ep 912 Chops 279: Anna Ptaszynski has Everything To Play For

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Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Sport is for everyone says Anna Ptaszynski – QI elf and host of the No Such Thing As A Fish podcast – which is one of the reasons she’s co-authored Everything To Play For: The QI Book Of Sports. In this week’s Chops, she talks to our Jen about how we can make sport more interesting to a wider audience, funny things we didn’t know about sport, novel ways of cheating in the modern pentathlon and, of course, Charlton Athletic. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats.

0:11.0

So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.

0:15.0

Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Standard issue for all women.

0:35.0

Hello Jen here to tell you about this week's episode of the Sunday Chops.

0:40.0

Regular listeners of the podcast will know that I am a big advocate for sport being something that we can all take some enjoyment from.

0:48.8

So I was absolutely delighted to chat to Anna Tashinsky this week.

0:52.0

QY Elf, host of the No Such Thing as a Fish podcast,

0:55.3

fellow Chart on Athletic Supporter and co-author of the new book, Everything to Play for,

0:59.6

The QI Book of Sports.

1:01.3

It's a fascinating and hilarious look at the history of sports. It's a fascinating and hilarious look at the history of

1:04.9

sport with some excellent trivia in it which Anna wrote in part to try and

1:09.4

break down the mystery around sport and the divisiveness of it. We chatted about

1:14.0

making sport more interesting to a wider audience, funny things that we didn't

1:18.2

know about sport, novel ways of cheating in the modern pentathlon and of course

1:22.1

chart on athletic. I absolutely

1:24.0

loved Anna I love chatting to her and I hope that you'll enjoy this chat too.

1:29.4

I'm joined by Anna Tashinsky QI Elf and co-author of Everything to Play for

1:36.2

the QI Book of Sports. Anna I'm delighted to welcome another QI Elf to the

1:41.3

podcast. We're buddies with QI alumnus, is that the right word, Anne Miller?

1:46.8

Could you please to start off with tell us a little bit about the book?

1:50.6

Because there's basically like four books written by women about sport and one of them's by me so

1:56.6

so for you obviously as someone who loves sport I guess to have the kind of like QI heft behind it.

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