Hi everyone welcome to this week's episode of No Such Thing as a Fish where we were joined by a special guest and that was Helen Scales.

Now if you don't know Helen she is a marine biologist, a writer, a broadcaster.

We've known her for many many years. She's so funny, so interesting. She loves her subject so much. Her books are absolutely great. The first one that she wrote was called

Spirals in Time. I think that was the first one, which was all about shells and the history of shells. And her most recent one is called What the Wild Sea Can Be.

And it is basically a look at the future of the oceans, which you might think is quite negative because of all the news stories that are going around but

Helen as is her want is very positive about what the future might be and how we can save the world

If you'd like to get her books obviously they're available from all the usual places

but if you go to Helen scales.com you can visit her shop which is related to the online bookseller's bookshop and if you go there then all her commissions will go to the charity Sea Changes so you'll help save the sea as well as learning about the sea. There's also details on her

website about a couple of shows she's doing to promote the book so make sure you

have a look at that if you like what you hear in this episode and I know that you will.

One more thing to say you know we have a tour coming up.

There is still tickets for most of the UK dates and a couple of the Australia dates left for that. do get your tickets a s a p and the people of

Sydney and London do go back to no such things and fish dot com forward slash live because there are details of new dates on there

so if you missed out on tickets to Sydney or London then fear not because we have put

some more dates on.

Okay that's it that's all I have to say this week so really all there is

left to say is on with the podcast so let's say it on with a podcast. Yes. Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Hoban.

My name is Anna Tashinsky and I'm sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, James Harkin,

an extra special guest today, Helen Scales. Héllekale and we have gathered round our microphones with our four

favourite facts in the last seven days so in no particular, here we go.

Starting with Helen.

My fact is you can play peek-a-boo- with an octopus.

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