Hi everybody Andy here just before we start this week's show wanted to let you know we have a very special guest on This week Anna is away very sadly.
She's on her holidays,
but the great news is that in her place We have the absolutely magnificent Rachel Paris now I'm sure you may have heard of Rachel
if you haven't frankly wherever you're being guys.
She's a Comedian she's a musician.
She's an actor an improviser.
She does it all She has been on so many brilliant shows and she is a musical comedian as well She tours the country with a grand piano performing magnificently funny solo shows She's basically the heir to Tom Lear and Tim Minchin put together and on top of it all She has just published her first book.
It's called advice from strangers And it's a kind of comedy book slash memoir slash feminist manifesto All centered around the time that she traveled around the country asking her audiences to give her pieces of advice It's funny.
It's serious.
It's hilarious It's uplifting and we're so glad that she could come on the show because
as you're about to hear she was absolutely great So that's it without further ado on with the show Hello and welcome to another episode of no such thing as a fish a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden My name is Dan Schreiber.
I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray James Harkin And it's our very special guest Rachel Paris 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 Rachel My fact is that list the composer played the piano so hard in his concerts that he regularly broke piano strings and Superfans would nick those strings and make bracelets out of them I I've so I don't play the piano But it feels like that's quite a hard thing to do to break a string Guitar string,
right?
Piano string.
It's rare.
It's very rare.
He's not the only person to ever do that But I think that I think
that it happened to him all the time That was like his thing is I'm gonna break these.
Why was he so angry?
I don't know Maybe he just had like really heavy hands or something There were comments