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Hello, and welcome to another episode of no Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast.
This week coming to you live from Glasgow.
My name is Dan Schreiber.
I am sitting here with Anna Tushinsky, Andrew Hunter Murray 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 fact number one, and that is James.
Okay, my fact this week is that according to DNA analysis, Beethoven wasn't very musical.
Is that saying something about Beethoven or about DNA analysis and how useful it sort of is not.
We might come to Beethoven.
In fact, I'm sure we will.
But this is basically a study where they looked at Beethoven's DNA and they looked at the DNA of a load of students in a couple of universities, one in Tennessee and one in the Netherlands.
And what they were saying is that DNA tests can't really give much to historical people and tell you about the characters, really.
It's kind of warning against that.
But in actual fact, Beethoven, well, he wasn't like Mozart.
Like Mozart, when he was age 4, could play incredible pieces, but Beethoven couldn't hold a tune.
He could not write a tune.
No, he wasn't really.
I like him.
I don't love him.