No Such Thing As BIG SHERLOCK HOLMES is the 270th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 10th episode of the sixth year, and the 21st episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Theatre Royal in Norwich.
Description[]
Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss the Mona Lisa's wandering eye, coffee cups that grow on trees, and ancient Roman earlobe specialists.
Facts[]
- For the last four years there has been an annual academic conference dedicated to The Archers. (Schreiber)
- A company in New York has invented coffee cups that grow on trees. (Harkin)
- The Mona Lisa Effect is where a painting is looking directly at you. It has just been discovered that the Mona Lisa Effect does not apply to the Mona Lisa. (Murray)
- In Ancient Rome there was a job which was to deal with infected earlobes. (Ptaszynski)
Trivia[]
- This is the twelfth stop on the In No Particular Order tour.
- The falsified reason for Grace Archer being killed off was mentioned in Episode 30 and Episode 210.
- Romans dying their hair was mentioned in Episode 99: No Such Thing As Bread Civilians.
- Ptaszynski mentions the actor Michael Fenton Stevens. He is married to QI Elf Mandy Fenton, who has not appeared on the podcast.
- The uses of urine by ancient civilisations were mentioned in TBA.