A podcast from the QI offices in which the writers of the hit BBC show huddle around a microphone and discuss the best things they've found out this week. Hosted by Dan Schreiber (@schreiberland) with James Harkin (@jamesharkin), Andrew Hunter Murray (@andrewhunterm), and Anna Ptaszynski (#GetAnnaOnTwitter) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss get-fit schemes, bubble extremes, Norma Jeane, and an olm's routine.Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
21/02/2020 • 52:34
Dan, Anne, Anna and Andrew discuss Ringo Starr's exorcism, driving with a pavlova, and the tiniest classified thing at GCHQ.Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
14/02/2020 • 44:58
Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss the never-ending opera, whether worms are carbon neutral, and how Edgar Allan Poe helped to create Scrabble.Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
07/02/2020 • 49:10
Dan, James, Anna and John Lloyd discuss correct gambling attire, the inventor of Vaseline, and Athens' sixteen thousand secret swimming pools.Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
31/01/2020 • 50:03
Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss the world's first electric cargo ship, jelly wobbliness testing Edison's near-miss with a flying badger.Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
24/01/2020 • 43:29
Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss parachuting beavers, why hotdogs are called hotdogs, and how your emails are warming the planet.Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
17/01/2020 • 53:15
Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss 11th century rental eels, Nelson's lesser-known brother, and how to break into Alcatraz.Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
10/01/2020 • 57:26
Happy New Year! Enjoy a bumper compilation of deleted bits from 2019 - all the facts, flubs and terrible terrible puns that somehow didn't make the edit.Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
03/01/2020 • 84:26
A clip from the audiobook version of the latest Book Of The Year instalment - buy it now from audible.com!Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
27/12/2019 • 31:02
Merry Fishmas! Live from Birmingham, Dan, James Anna and Andrew discuss the earliest known pornography, Mariah Carey's Christmas tree, and how a poodle saved the Queen's speech.Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
25/12/2019 • 51:00
Live at the Heinz Oberhummer Award ceremony in Vienna, Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss edible sleds, the first attempt at laser eye surgery, and our shithole universe.Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
20/12/2019 • 63:28
Live from Washington D.C., Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss the goats that guard Reagan's library, poppy field crop circles, and which Apollo moon landing was faked.Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
13/12/2019 • 58:55
Live from New York, Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss Hornigold the pirate, support animals for other animals, and why the French can't decide on what to call a pencil. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
06/12/2019 • 53:45
Live from New York, Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss the loudest birds on earth, the astronaut who ate shrimp cocktail 48 times in a row, and who really gave us all syphilis.Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
29/11/2019 • 46:15
Live from Philadelphia, Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss crash test moose, radioactive slippers, and the multi-presidential inventor of chewing gum.Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
22/11/2019 • 50:03
Live from Boston, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss Bastard baguettes Saddam Hussein's campaign song, and the first ever criminal to be put in Boston's stocks.Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
15/11/2019 • 45:41
Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss hand-drawn stockings, raccoon-damaged temples, and the doomsday aircraft destroyed by a single bird.Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
08/11/2019 • 57:42
Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss prehistoric sippy-cups, Rasputin's litigious assassins, and the coolest ever publicity stunt.Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
01/11/2019 • 57:53
Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss four facts taken from The Book Of The Year 2019, including Greta Thunberg's adventurous middle name, the polling station with only one voter, and the worst way to dispose of a speeding ticket.The Book Of The Year 2019 is out now!Amazon:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Year-2019-Such-Thing/dp/1786332019Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/gb/book/the-book-of-the-year-2019/id1462378633Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
24/10/2019 • 57:23
Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss marrying chips, geese-rearing astronauts and the restaurant with tables in two different countries. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
18/10/2019 • 58:53
Alex, James, Anna and Andrew discuss Tolstoy's hat-wearing habits, nuclear-powered icebreakers (literal, not conversational) and how to hack a fax from the moon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
11/10/2019 • 60:30
Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss leaping maggots, the point of motion sickness and why you shouldn't put on too much red lipstick.Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
04/10/2019 • 50:40
Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss elephantine super-sniffing, Thomas Jefferson's version of the Bible, and André the Giant's all-night bender.Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
27/09/2019 • 52:21
Live from Antwerp, Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss diamond vacuums, North Korean app stores, and what happens when you give an elephant a gold enema.Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
20/09/2019 • 46:38
Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss the invention of ball pits, a fisherman's unluckiest fruit, and how the internet was nearly called The Information Mine.Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
13/09/2019 • 42:21
Dan, James, Andrew and Anna discuss special mud for baseball, why YouTube was invented, and Brazilian caesarian section parties.Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
06/09/2019 • 52:19
Live from Paris, Dan, James, Andrew and Anna discuss odour-analysing t-shirts, New York under meteor attack, and self-pricking porcupines.Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
30/08/2019 • 44:42
Live from Geneva, Dan, James Anna and Andrew discuss selling shadows, exploding aphids and the emerging blimp driving industry.Visit nosuchthingasafish.com for news about live shows, merchandise and more episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
23/08/2019 • 44:20
Live from Copenhagen, Dan, James, Andrew and Anna discuss Bjorn Borg's karate-tennis instructor, singing teachers for canaries, and what happens when a shrew gets brain-freeze. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
16/08/2019 • 43:32
Live from Amsterdam, Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss how to clean warship guns, the anti-Valentine's march, and interviewing a cow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
09/08/2019 • 43:48
