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March 19, 2026·1 hr·5 clips

In Incan society, ventriloquist priests predicted the future by throwing their voices into fires.

Nina Conti joins No Such Thing As A Fish. The panel frames her as a great stand-up comic and one of the UK’s only ventriloquists, then quickly starts riffing on that fact. Her film Sunlight gets a plug, described as a road trip movie with a giant monkey costume in the mix, which gives the recommendation a very Fish-shaped kind of weirdness. The episode says the film is on Prime. Conti’s podcast with her monkey co-host also gets a mention. From there the chat veers into royal history. Princess Margaret becomes the main subject. The group talks about the amount of comment about her appearance and the sense of a life spent sidelined. They describe her and the Queen Mum writing curt notes to each other and imagine the footman carrying them like a palace text thread. Her marriage to a society photographer comes up next. So does the divorce. The panel notes that her split mattered because it made later royal divorces less scandalous, including Charles’s. Diana enters the conversation too, and Margaret is not presented as sympathetic to her. The discussion also treats Margaret as a difficult and often unpleasant figure. The show keeps its usual pace of jokes, corrections, and digressions throughout. At the end, it points listeners toward Little Fish, Drop Us a Line, and the Club Fish Patreon. The whole episode plays like a lively table chat where facts, puns, and stray royal history keep colliding.

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A guest spot that turns royal history and monkey-costume chaos into sharp, wandering comedy.

Nina Conti gives No Such Thing As A Fish a lively centre: the panel frames her as a stand-up comic and one of the UK's only ventriloquists, praises Sunlight, and then follows one odd detail after another.

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Nina Conti brings ventriloquism, a monkey costume, and royal detours into one sharp No Such Thing As A Fish chat.

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