393: No Such Thing As Charlie And The Sperm Factory

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 17.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Dan, James, Andy and special guest Mary Roach discuss vomiting vultures, bootleg truffles, hairy astronauts, and the seediest postcards ever sent.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome to this week's episode of no such thing as a fish. Now before I remind you
0:05.7	about our tour, which is about to begin in places such as Tumberidge Wells, Nottingham Richmond,
0:10.8	Redding, Peterborough and a whole lot of other places, I want to tell you about the very,
0:15.6	very, very special guest that we have on today's show. Anna is away at the moment, she's on holiday,
0:21.9	I'm not sure exactly where she's gone, probably somewhere very sunny. Last day saw she was
0:27.6	removing lots of the holiday clothes from her bag and replacing them with 19th century literature,
0:31.9	so I'm sure she's having a great time. But in her place we have the incredible journalist and
0:38.8	author Mary Roach. Now I don't know if you'll know about Mary, you really should if you don't.
0:44.9	She is, well what I would say is if you were to take QI, the TV show and no such thing as a fish,
0:50.6	and squish it all together in a tiny little bowl, send it over to America, and then reconstitute it
0:57.2	as a single human, then pretty much you're going to end up with Mary Roach. She has written some of
1:03.1	the greatest popular science books in history, books such as Stiff, The Curious Lives of Human Cadavas,
1:11.6	Bunk, The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. I think you could see probably why we get
1:17.1	on very well with Mary. And packing for Mars, The Curious Science of Life in the Void, Gulp,
1:21.8	Adventures on the Elementary Canal, and her latest book is in America it's called Fuzz
1:28.8	when Nature breaks the law, and in the UK it is known as Animal Vegetable Criminal, and it is
1:35.6	book all about times when the natural world came up against the legal world. I haven't read it yet,
1:41.3	Dan has read it and he assures me it's absolutely brilliant and I can definitely believe that because
1:45.6	I've read all of Mary's other books and to a tone they are incredible. So really do enjoy the show
1:52.3	and show you will buy Mary's new book and pretty much all of her old books if you're interested in
1:58.3	stuff, and do come to our live shows if you live in any of the aforementioned places that I mentioned
2:04.3	earlier on, then come along in the next couple of weeks, or if you live anywhere in the UK and
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