Synopsis
A podcast from the QI offices in which the writers of the hit BBC show huddle around a microphone and discuss the best things they've found out this week. Hosted by Dan Schreiber (@schreiberland) with James Harkin (@jamesharkin), Andrew Hunter Murray (@andrewhunterm), and Anna Ptaszynski (#GetAnnaOnTwitter)
Episodes
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204: No Such Thing As A Mean Butterfly
16/02/2018 Duration: 41minDan, James, Anna and Andy discuss the Great Maple Syrup Robbery, a musical Russian invasion and the great Greek god Doris.
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203: No Such Thing As A Muscular Butterfly
09/02/2018 Duration: 38minDan, James, Anna and Andy discuss the secret Matrix sushi recipes, why our skin doesn't leak and butterfly sperm trickery.
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202: No Such Thing As A Deadly Birthday Cake
02/02/2018 Duration: 43minLive from Coventry, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss trousers for horses, swimming the Atlantic, and why the inventor of basketball was so bad at teaching it.
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201: No Such Thing As Lobsters At The Lobster Festival
26/01/2018 Duration: 50minLive from Dunstable, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss King Ferdinand's Orient Express phobia, the giant magnet roaming Glastonbury and Foyle's unorthodox method of wartime shop defence.
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200: No Such Thing As A Jigsaw For The Queen
19/01/2018 Duration: 51minLive from Birmingham, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss the squatting Queen impersonator, misplace nuclear launch codes, and the statue in Belgium commemorating Peter the Great's sick.
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199: No Such Thing As An Heroic Fire-Goat
12/01/2018 Duration: 38minLive from Leicester, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss meerkats' inside-out bottoms, California's imprisoned firefighters, and the risk of finding a golf ball in your crisps.
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198: No Such Thing As Cleopatra Movie Trivia
06/01/2018 Duration: 47minLive from Up The Creek In Greenwich, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss the dead author under the bed, the first ever sports bra, and Poopy the Ambassador.
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No Such Thing As Wasted Material 2017
29/12/2017 Duration: 01h19minAll the outtakes and deleted bits from Fish 2017. Happy In-between-Christmas-and-New-Year-bit!
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Merry Fishmas!
25/12/2017 Duration: 38minA special Christmas Day extract from the audiobook version of The Book Of The Year.
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197: No Such Thing As Eurovision For Christmas Trees
22/12/2017 Duration: 36minA special Christmas episode with Dan, James, Anna and Andy, live from Up The Creek in Greenwich
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196: No Such Thing As Faking The Magic Dream
15/12/2017 Duration: 36minLive from Wimbledon, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss what makes flamingos pink, Cape Canaveral's dialling code, and the secret dream that lets you keep bees in the mountains.
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195: No Such Thing As A Hummingbird With A Greggs Steak Bake
08/12/2017 Duration: 35minLive from Manchester, Dan, James, Anna And Andy discuss how much Coke a human-sized hummingbird would drink, the world's first rollercoaster, and American grocery bag-packing competitions.
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194: No Such Thing As An Orange Crocodile
01/12/2017 Duration: 35minLive from Nottingham, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss green robins, Lenin’s unexpected accent and the Nottingham cheese riots.
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193: No Such Thing As Death By Conga
25/11/2017 Duration: 43minDan, James, Anna and Andy discuss testifying in court through a window, the ant nests made of ants, and book the size of postage stamps.
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192: No Such Thing As A Restaurant Menu For Hats
17/11/2017 Duration: 41minLive from Cardiff, Dan, James Anna and Andy discuss listening to the radio with your hat on, the useless mating call of the pumpkin toadlet, and salmon-shaped mountains.
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191: No Such Thing As A Cannibal Squirrel
10/11/2017 Duration: 44minLive from Bath, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss Calvin Coolidge's robotic horse, the inventor of email, and the language it's easiest to speak while drunk.
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190: No Such Thing As A Magic Oven For Chimps
03/11/2017 Duration: 37minLive from Newcastle, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss British boomerangs, primate rock-paper-scissors, and why the Catalans are so anti-cat.
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189: No Such Thing As A Meringue-Utan
01/11/2017 Duration: 33minLive from the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss the Queen's nickname, the man beaten in a marathon by a tumble dryer, and the anus that is Making America Great Again.
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188: No Such Thing As A Mouth-Propelled Grenade Launcher
27/10/2017 Duration: 35minLive from Newcastle, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss Mo Farah's only Guinness World Record, what's inside a Kit Kat, and how hamsters arrived in the UK.
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187: No Such Thing As An Ant On Its Gap Year
20/10/2017 Duration: 40minAndy, James, Anna and Alex discuss how to get ants drunk, the stolen cities in China, and The Sound Of Julie Andrews Being Blown Over By A Helicopter.