No Such Thing As An Anti-German Sock is the sixty-third episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the eleventh episode of the second year, and the twenty-second episode of 2015. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Hay Literary Festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales.
Description[]
Live from the Hay Literary Festival, Dan, James, Andy and Anna discuss the world's first novel, a Beatle as Gandalf, and the inventor of the television.
Facts[]
- The first ever novel, The Tale of Genji, ended mid-sentence. (Ptaszynski)
- J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis both once went to a party dressed as polar bears. It was not a fancy-dress party. (Harkin)
- Agatha Christie thought that Hercule Poirot was a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep". (Murray)
- Before inventing television, John Logie Baird invented a pair of socks to wear underneath your usual pair of socks. (Schreiber)
Trivia[]
- As this episode was recorded live at the Hay Literary Festival, all the facts in this episode are about literature, except for the fourth fact which is about television - "the enemy of literature".