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, Anna Chazinski and James Harkin,
and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go.
Starting with you, Andy.
My fact is that in the 19th century, champion plowers were traded like Premier League footballers.
I don't know how exactly like Premier League footballers it was.
It wasn't for like 10 million pounds.
No, exactly.
I think the sums are a bit lower.
But there was a big thing where there were lots of plowing competitions in the 19th century where you had to plow up and down a field,
and there are all these metrics in plowing about whether you're doing it right or wrong,
and squires who had lots of plowmen would kind of pet them against each other,
and then the winners would win a year's wages, and then they might be transferred for a fee.
Can I ask what a squire is?
Because I associate that with King Arthur times, and this is the 19th century.
Probably where it started.
Yeah.
So that's a kind of assistant to a nobleman, isn't it?