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Hello and welcome to another episode.

Hello and welcome to another episode of no such thing as a fish, a weekly

podcast this week coming to you live from Glasgow! My name is Dan Schreiber. I am sitting here with Anna Tashinsky, Andrew Hunter

Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days

and in no particular order here we go starting with fact number one that is James

Okay my fact this week is that according to DNA

analysis Beethoven wasn't very musical. Is that saying something about

Beethoven or about DNA analysis and how useful it sort of is not?

We might come to Beethoven. In fact, I'm sure we will.

But this is basically a study where they looked at Beethoven's DNA and they looked at the DNA of a load

of students in a couple of universities, one in Tennessee and one in the Netherlands.

And what they were saying is that DNA tests can't really give much to

historical people and tell you about the characters really is kind of warning against that.

But in actual fact, Beethoven, well he wasn't like Mozart like Mozart when he was age four could play incredible you know pieces but

Beethoven couldn't hold a tune he could not write a tune I like I like. I don't love him. I like him, but he could not write a melody to save himself.

And I bet he'd say he was above that. You know when you get some avant-garde pop stars who say, I don't write the catchy songs because they're beneath me

lots of them before me in Glasgow actually. Yes all of Beethoven's very

uncatchy tunes like da da da da da da da. Oh come on that's the only one. It's a pretty solid riff. I'm sorry I disagree with that completely.

Just on this on this study of the baithoven, the sort of DNA that they study, they did, they had a lock of hair from

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