No Such Thing As A Fish
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
No Such Thing As A Fish makes strange facts funnier by letting a quick, curious panel chase every useful comic connection.
No Such Thing As A Fish turns researched facts into a group comic exercise. A speaker introduces an oddity, then the room tests it with questions, comparisons and increasingly elaborate riffs.
The Blade Runner family tree needs a wall chart; you get to enjoy everyone noticing.
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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.
Maddy Mote and Shapley give the episode its sharpest turns.
No Such Thing As A Fish opens on Maddy Mote, and the mix of BBC children's science work and a curiosity-led YouTube channel gives the episode a bright, busy start.
A nimble dictionary-nerd comic detour with Sally Phillips and generous wordplay.
The episode has Sally Phillips in play with nothing to plug, which leaves Dan and James free to linger over dictionaries, joke definitions, and the sharp little insults tucked inside lexicography.
Olga Koch returns for a brisk run from commuter crowds to Kabuki theater.
Olga Koch returns to No Such Thing As A Fish, and the episode benefits from the easy rhythm that comes with bringing her back after the earlier maternity-leave appearance.
Tom Allen brings garden chat, karaoke, censored trousers, and racy novels to a pleasantly wandering Fish episode.
The episode makes the most of Tom Allen, framing him as a flanner, a man about town, a gardener, and a podcaster with a new show called Pottering with Tom Allen.
A brisk Fish episode where mystery worshippers, church trivia, and Jane Austen all stay in play.
Fish brings Lou Sanders into a fast-moving stretch of conversation that ranges from mystery worshippers and church questionnaires to the smallest church in the world, maybe in Dover, before shifting on to Ramsgate, Jane Austen, and Pride and Prejudice.
Live science history with Alice Roberts, Harvey, and one very bad dog experiment.
A live Royal Institution recording gives the episode a brisk, argumentative rhythm, with Professor Alice Roberts on the Fish panel helping keep the pace sharp.
John Lloyd, odd words, and a secret-album detour keep the conversation moving.
The episode moves at a brisk Christmas clip, led by John Lloyd, who is introduced as the producer of QI and the co-writer, with Douglas Adams, of The Meaning of Left, reissued after 42 years.
Willa Paskin traces one cultural mystery per episode, from web soap operas to prune marketing.
A Radiotopia feed built around the scripted drama Red for Revolution plus curated NPR crossover episodes.
San Quentin's incarcerated and formerly incarcerated producers tell first-person stories from inside prison.
Spanish-language narrative journalism from across Latin America and Latino life.
PJ Vogt investigates one question a week, from GLP-1 drugs to driverless-car policy.
No Such Thing As A Fish: Little Fish: Release The Naughty List turns listener-submitted facts into comic discussions about North Pole, Alaska, Apollo 13, Nazi-era imagery, London transport, football, and Australian politics.
The hosts introduce comedian Zoe Lyons, discuss her podcast about running, and promote their own Patreon club.
A comedic roundtable where hosts share and discuss interesting facts submitted by listeners.
The hosts welcome a guest author to discuss her new children's book about the Cyclops myth, then promote an upcoming online quiz night.
Nina Conti joins No Such Thing As A Fish.
Maddy Mote joins the table, and the episode gives her BBC children's science work its due.
KGB agents couldn't tell if a Scottish MP was spying because they couldn't understand his accent.
The hosts and guest Sally Phillips share quirky facts about Greenland's New Year traditions, historical uses of urine, Merriam-Webster's backward word collection, airline death protocols, and Australian slang.
The hosts of Little Fish share listener-submitted facts, covering topics like cheese meltability scales, mountain climbing oddities, historical measurement standards, and quirky scientific studies.
The hosts and guest Olga Koch share bizarre facts, including TLC's hostage situation over a bad contract, Japanese puns in architecture, using peat bogs as military defense, and the disastrous first online pizza delivery.
The hosts share listener-submitted facts in a comedic trivia format, covering topics like Reba McIntyre corn mazes, jet engine turbines, a Batman social experiment, the first film score, and apostrophe laws in Quebec.
The hosts and guest Tom Allen share quirky facts, including Noel Coward's spy past, Alan Titchmarsh's awkward sex scenes, a king killed by a monkey, Grizzly Adams' bizarre death, and the flamboyant tailor Nudie.
The hosts share listener-submitted facts, covering topics like Nazi propaganda involving a British racing driver, the difficulty of brain surgery versus rocket science, and the Milli Vanilli Grammy scandal.
The hosts and guest Lou Sanders share quirky facts, including right ear dominance, Van Gogh's ear portrait mishap, human ears grown on rats, Ramsgate's raven gate origin, and Morrissey's meat ban at gigs, all delivered with comedic banter.
The hosts share listener-submitted facts, including a woman who lived through the first powered flights on Earth and Mars, a spy scandal involving pies and porn in New Zealand, human waste issues on Mount Everest, a company that made both bowling equipment and nuclear reactors, and traditional Inuit treatments for snow blindness.
The hosts and guest Professor Alice Roberts discuss fascinating facts live at the Royal Institution, covering topics like a perilous first stratosphere flight, historical misconceptions about human anatomy, the real mineral matching Kryptonite, and the origins of Pokemon.
The hosts share listener-submitted facts, including humorous mathematical terms, redundant acronyms, and quirky historical tidbits like Big Ben's clock face design and a pterosaur found in fossilized vomit.
The hosts present a Christmas special reviewing quirky news stories from the year, featuring interviews with experts on topics like dad jokes, cat poo affecting fertility, sewage protests, canoe polo, and AI errors in science.
The hosts share bizarre listener-submitted facts, including the invention of jungle gyms to teach the fourth dimension, a calculation on eating Jesus via communion wafers, and the Vatican's archive of hiccup remedies.
The hosts of No Such Thing As A Fish are joined by special guest John Lloyd to discuss quirky facts, including the polluted history of the Chicago River, Hawaiian guitar tuning secrets, and the impact of shipworms on historical events.
The hosts share listener-submitted trivia facts, covering topics like Juan Trippe's aviation legacy, krill's iron content, breast-shaped dumplings, ant cloning, and unexpected name origins.
The hosts are joined by Adam Chase from Jetlag the Game to discuss quirky facts, including China's map distortions, German train delays, marathon urination speeds, and a missing golden hare treasure.
The hosts share listener-submitted facts, including absurd postal service rules, mall heating myths, carrot production stats, historical bonds, and bird pooping habits, all delivered with comedic banter and quizzes.
In this episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, hosts Dan Schreiber, Andrew Hunter, James Harkin, and guest Michael Palin share quirky facts, including Venezuelan ice cream varieties, a frog that lives near cable cars, and historical censorship in comedy.
The hosts share listener-submitted facts, covering topics like a clock tower with four different times, the Pentagon Pizza Theory, a politician beating O.J.
The hosts discuss quirky facts, including the tradition of hanging panettone upside down, 500-year-old musical temples in India, Alex Honnold's mother climbing El Capitan, and the Post Office Tower naming competition.
In this bonus episode of Little Fish, hosts James, Andy, and Dan share listener-submitted facts, covering topics like unicycle hockey, genetic ancestry quirks, historical scandals, bizarre Guinness World Records, and odd animal trivia.
The hosts and guest Cariad Lloyd share quirky facts, including Joseph Bazalgette's rockstar descendant, bacteria surviving NASA clean rooms, Lord Byron's pantomime inspiration, and Welsh beach speed records.
The hosts present audience-submitted facts, including the ISS urine tank tracker, debunking Oklahoma's shoreline myth, the history of shake-willy machines, and dinosaur timeline comparisons, all delivered with comedic banter and fact-checking.
The hosts and guest Amy Gledhill share quirky facts about bingo history, flirting techniques, Laurel and Hardy's multilingual films, and the invention of Aunt Bessie's Yorkshire puddings.
The hosts discuss listener-submitted facts, including the windiest place in the UK, how a soldier's stomach issue may have sparked WWII, a surgical incision with a suspicious name, a chemical you can taste through touch, and quirky historical connections.
The hosts and guest Rachel Parris share bizarre historical facts, including the Earl of Sandwich's erotic poem revenge, a Japanese prisoner's miso soup escape, and Tom Stoppard's hidden script-doctoring work.
The first episode of Little Fish features humorous and obscure facts submitted by listeners, including a McDonald's executive named Zoe Hamburger, the difference between spiral and helical staircases, astronauts experiencing morning wood in space, Sir Henry Parks' boastful dinner anecdote, and the use of steam-exploded donkey bone powder in cookies.
No Such Thing As A Fish hosts Dan Schreiber, Andrew Hunter-Murray, and James Harkin welcome legendary British comedy writer Ben Elton -- creator of The Young Ones, Blackadder, and Upstart Crow -- to share four surprising facts.
The hosts share quirky facts, including a theatre cat's 20-year career, condoms used in Cats, bizarre Japanese baths, a revenge-driven letter bomb inventor, and a monk scandal in Thailand.
The hosts and guest Sarah Pascoe share quirky facts, including debates on Saturn's rings versus shark ages, the convoluted origins of Blade Runner's title, psychological studies on disgust, and the conservation of fish-catching spiders in Norfolk.
The hosts and guest Melanie Bracewell share quirky facts about Australian traffic solutions, New Zealand's biscuit tin law system, and a lost swipe card found in Antarctica, all wrapped in comedic banter and playful discussions.
The hosts share quirky facts about historical figures like Harriet Beecher Stowe's dementia-driven rewriting of her novel, Frida Kahlo's locked-away possessions, and animal adaptations like hingeback tortoises.
In this live episode from the London Podcast Festival, hosts are joined by guest Richard Osman to share quirky facts, including historical TV shows like The Masked Spooner, the origin of Emmy awards, and spoon-related slang.
No Such Thing As A Fish hosts Dan Schreiber, James Harkin, and Andrew Hunter-Murray welcome paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi to share four favorite facts, ranging from the discovery that 50,000-year-old humans the size of penguins (Homo floresiensis, the Hobbit species) hunted elephants the size of cows, to the wasp ham-or-jam diet survey that lets scientists determine what point in summer it is, to a joke about wasps pursuing Chanel-scented perfume that gives the episode its sausage-and-Chanel title.
The hosts share amusing and obscure facts, starting with Harry Houdini's dog who was a professional escape artist.
The hosts share and discuss funny, surprising facts, starting with tardigrades surviving being shot from a gun.
Samuel Beckett's 1969 play "Breath" lasts 35 seconds, uses no actors or dialogue, and was altered for Kenneth Tynan's Oh!
No Such Thing As A Fish assembles outtakes from the hosts' recent tour after 400 episodes and nearly eight years of recording.
This episode begins with a sponsored ad for QVC and a government ad, then transitions into the show's typical comedic discussion of interesting facts.
The hosts introduce the podcast and share a humorous fact about people being unable to distinguish pate from dog food.
The hosts share a funny fact about poet T.S.