No Such Thing As Oceans Eleven with Puffins

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  Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of No Singers of Fish.

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  This is another live show which was recorded at the Soho Theatre in London and who is our special guest today?

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  Well if you are a podcast fan, if you are a fan of amazing books,

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  if you were a fan of the TV show Horrible Histories then you'll know who I'm talking about.

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  Our guest was the historian Greg Jenner.

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  So like I say Greg first came to prominence I suppose as the historical consultant on Horrible Histories but he has

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  since become a nerdy superstar in his own right thanks to his podcast Your Dead To Me which you definitely

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  if you haven't,

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  I'm sure you've heard it but if you haven't heard it you definitely should check

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  that out but he also has written lots of books the latest of which are called Ask a Historian and Dead Famous and Unexpected History of Celebrity and the very exciting thing about those

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  if you are super quick off the blocks is that at the moment they are both 99p on ebook for the rest of September.

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  He also has an illustrated kids book called You Are History and that is out in hardback and audiobook as well.

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  Look just go to the place where you buy your books,

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  ebooks and audiobooks and search for Greg Jenner and you will not be disappointed and I hope you will also not be disappointed with this week's podcast so let's just get on with it.

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  On with the podcast!

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  Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,

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  a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from the Soho Theatre in London!

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  My name is Jan Schreiber, I am sitting here with James Harkin,

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  Andrew Hunter Murray and Greg Jenner and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go starting with fact number one and that is my fact this week.

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  My fact is when Virginia's Barter Theatre first opened in 1933 it paid playwrights their royalties exclusively in ham except for George Bernard Shaw who was a vegetarian and managed to negotiate his payment to be in spinach.

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