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🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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James, Anna, Andy and Erica McAlister discuss flies, flies, flies and flies.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone welcome to this week's episode of no such thing as a fish where we were joined by the incredible Dr. Erica
0:08.4	Erica Macalista. Now Erica has been on the podcast before so you might remember her but if you don't the one thing
0:15.8	you need to know is that she is an expert in flies insects.
0:21.8	I won't say creepy callies I won't say Creepy-Carlies. I won't say Minnie Beast because I know Erica doesn't like that.
0:26.0	But she is essentially a senior curator at the Natural History Museum and an absolute legend in this office.
0:34.2	She is so enthusiastic about her subject but also so funny, so interesting.
0:39.3	We really really enjoyed making this show.
0:41.6	The main thing I do need to tell you is that Erica has a
0:44.4	buck out. Her book is called Metamorphosis, How Insects are Changing Our
0:50.2	World. It's a lovely thing I've got a copy of it right here. It's got loads of
0:54.7	amazing pictures, incredible stories. It's just a really, really great object
0:59.1	to own and obviously you'll learn a great deal about insects if you buy that buck.
1:04.6	Another thing to say is that the Radio 4 show which spawned the book,
1:09.8	get it spawned, it's called Metamorphosis how Insects Transformed Our World.
1:14.0	That is currently available on BBC Radio 4.
1:17.0	If you Google Radio 4, Erica Macalese, you will find it.
1:21.0	It's a great show and it is full of amazing facts. Anyway, not much
1:26.0	more to add. Join Club Fish if you haven't. Buy our books if you haven't. Bla blah, blah, blah,
1:30.5	blah. Let's get on with a show with with Dr Erika McAllister and on with a podcast. Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly
1:56.4	podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Hoban. My name is Andrea
1:59.7	Hunter Murray and I'm here with Anna Tijinsky James James Harkin and Erika McAllister.
2:04.0	And once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,
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