| No Such Thing As A Fish | |
|---|---|
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| Presentation | |
| Hosted by | James Harkin Andrew Hunter Murray Anna Ptaszynski Dan Schreiber |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Created by | The QI Elves |
| Language | British English  |
| Updates | Weekly, every Friday |
| Production | |
| Opening theme | "Wasps" by Emperor Yes |
| No. of episodes | 610 |
| Publication | |
| Original release | 8 March 2014 |
| Ratings | 4.72/5 |
| Related | |
| Website | https://www.nosuchthingasafish.com/ |
No Such Thing as a Fish is a weekly British podcast series produced and presented by the researchers behind the BBC Two panel game QI. In the podcast each of the researchers, collectively known as "The QI Elves", present their favourite fact that they have come across that week. The most regular presenters of the podcast are James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski and Dan Schreiber, and there are occasional guest presenters. When one of the regular presenters is unavailable for any reason, fellow QI elves Alex Bell and Anne Miller often take their place.
Since the launch of the podcast it has attracted 700,000 subscribers.[1] In 2014 No Such Thing as a Fish was named by Apple as the "Best New Podcast" that year.[2] In 2015 and 2016 it won the "Internet Award" in the Chortle Awards.[3][4] In 2018 the podcast won the Heinz Oberhummer Award for Science Communication.[5]
In May 2016, a television spin-off series entitled No Such Thing as the News began on BBC Two.[6]
As of October 2023, there are over 500 episodes of the podcast,[7] usually ranging between 30 minutes and an hour. A new episode is released every Friday.
- ^ "QI main page". QI. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
- ^ "Apple shows the best iTunes has to offer in 2014". iNews and Tech. 8 December 2014. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ^ "Acaster and Christie do the double". Chortle. 16 March 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
- ^ "Chortle Award 2016 winners named". Chortle. 22 March 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
- ^ Bennett, Steve. "No Such Thing As A Fish wins a shit prize : News 2019 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide". www.chortle.co.uk. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ "BBC Two orders No Such Thing As The News from QI team". British Comedy Guide. 29 April 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ^ "No Such Thing As A Fish". NoSuchThingAsAFish. Retrieved 21 November 2021.