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Seven things you may not know about No Such Thing As a Fish

With tonight’s announcement that the award-winning weekly podcast is set to embark on a UK theatre tour this November, we thought we’d share some fun trivia about it with you.

No Such Thing As a Fish features four presenters – Dan Schreiber, James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski and Andrew Hunter Murray – who discuss the strangest and most amusing facts they’ve discovered over the past seven days. The show has been named by iTunes UK among its top 10 most downloaded podcasts of 2016.

Below you’ll find some other interesting stuff about No Such Thing As a Fish… and don’t worry, we won’t put you to a test!

1.) Schreiber, Harkin, Ptaszynski and Hunter Murray are the ones who research, write and produce the BBC comedy panel quiz QI. They’re also known as the “QI Elves”.

2.) According to Schreiber, the podcast originally started “as four dorks sitting around a single microphone trying to make each other laugh”.

3.) No Such Thing As a Fish was launched in March 2014. As of today, there are 157 episodes.

4.) This is just a sampling of the bizarre topics they’ve discussed over the past three years: jean cleaning, Godzilla’s toilet habits, sex lives of spiders, illegal doorknobs, iceberg cowboys, meaty rain, rehab for drunk birds, saunas in the Sinai desert, the lizard of Oz and much, much more!

5.) The podcast has racked up a whopping 55 million downloads and received two Chortle Awards.

6.) Last year, the foursome landed their own BBC2 show called No Such Thing As the News on which they share fascinating things they find in the news each week.

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7.) No Such Thing As a Fish has toured the UK and Europe before. In fact, the 2015-16 tour sold out the 1,000-seat Lyric theatre in London’s West End and a dozen other venues across the UK.

The show’s 2017 tour will kick off in Nottingham on 24 November and make stops in several cities (including London on 27 November) before wrapping up in Coventry on 2 December.

Here are those dates:

24 November – Playhouse, Nottingham
26 November – Opera House, Manchester
27 November – New Wimbledon Theatre, London
28 November – De Montford Hall, Leicester
29 November – Grove Theatre, Dunstable
30 November – New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham
2 December – Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry

Don’t miss seeing these hilarious know-it-all podcasters live! Presale tickets for the No Such Thing As a Fish 2017 live tour will be available at 9:00 on Tuesday 28 March at Ticketmaster.co.uk.