No Such Thing As Footprints On The Sea is the 247th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 39th episode of the fifth year, and the 51st episode of 2018. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Anna Ptaszynski, and QI Elf Ed Brooke-Hitching. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.
Description[]
Anna, James, Andy and Ed discuss whistling oysters, Captain Cook's goat, and King Lear's happy ending.
Facts[]
- The most experienced sailor aboard Captain Cook's first voyage was a goat. (Brooke-Hitching)
- For 150 years, Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of King Lear had a happy ending. (Ptaszynski)
- Some advertisers have started putting single pixels on mobile phone ads so that you think it's dust, try to rub it off, and accidentally click on the ad. (Murray)
- One of the most popular celebrities in London in 1860 was an oyster who could whistle. (Harkin)
Trivia[]
- Regular host Dan Schreiber is absent.
- In his place, Anna Ptaszynski hosts.
- Ed Brooke-Hitching guests, making his second appearance.
- Brooke-Hitching is promoting his book The Golden Atlas.
- The play King Lear with Sheep was also mentioned in TBA.