Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Chazitzky, Andrew Huntamari and James Harkin,
and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favourite backs from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go.
Starting with you, Andy.
My fact is that there is a 16th century exercise manual which recommends exercises including running,
tennis and loud reading.
So two of those sounded quite sensible.
Running and loud reading.
Exactly.
But what is about tennis?
It's not good for you.
So this was actually posted on Twitter by our colleague Justin Pollard, who is a historian,
and it was an article which was based on something found by Joan Fitzpatrick,
who was reading a dietary by Sir Thomas Elliott.
It does sound like someone with a speech impediment saying the word diary there.
It is a dietary, and it's called the Castle of Health,
so it's about all these different ways that you can gain health in your life,
and there is a category of exercise called strong or violent exercise where he recommends all these things you can do,