The title for No Such Thing as a Fish comes from a fact in the QI TV series. In the third episode of eighth series, also known as "Series H", an episode on the theme of "Hoaxes" reported that after a lifetime studying fish the biologist Stephen Jay Gould concluded that there was no such thing as a fish. He reasoned that while there are many sea creatures, most of them are not closely related to each other. For example, a salmon is more closely related to a camel than it is to a hagfish.^[6] The opening of early episodes of the podcast used to feature a recording of the elves mentioning this fact, which appears in the first paragraph of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Underwater Life.^[7][8]

http://qi.com/podcast/

Anyone else listen to these podcasts?

I just looked up my details and I registered on QI in 2006.

So I've been a member there for over 10 years and never knew they did podcasts for the episodes - although I haven't really been active for at least the last 5 of those.

Did they only recently (i.e. in the last 5 years or so) begin to post these?

Anyway, to answer your question, no I do not yet listen to these podcasts, but thanks very much for posting about them, now I know they exist I'll start listening to them.

BTW, do you know where the ones for eps 2-52 are?

The "Where are Episodes 2 - 52" podcast says go to nosuchthingasafish.com but that just redirects to http://qi.com/podcast/

I'd quite like to listen to them in the correct order.

I think they address this in episode 53.

Originally all the podcasts were available for free. At some point they had to commercialize them so Episodes 1 - 52 are only available on vinyl (me either but I think that's the point). Of course if you buy the vinyl you also get downloads & a bonus episode. Basically they're free for a year, then they sell them.

They also have a TV show "No Such Thing As The News" BBC2 Thurs 10pm.

Noodled24 said:

I think they address this in episode 53.

Originally all the podcasts were available for free. At some point they had to commercialize them so Episodes 1 - 52 are only available on vinyl (me either but I think that's the point). Of course if you buy the vinyl you also get downloads & a bonus episode. Basically they're free for a year, then they sell them.

They also have a TV show "No Such Thing As The News" BBC2 Thurs 10pm.

Thanks for that. I didn't know they had a TV show either, so I'll look out for that.

I've listened to eps 53 & 54 so far, I think they did make some mention of eps 2-52 but to be honest I can't remember what they said. Might have tyo listen to it again at some point. Anyway, plenty there to keep me occupied for a while.

Steadwood said:

What the Hell did I just eat with my chips then?

purplethunder3121 said: