The Plaice to Know

Episode

No Such Thing As A Non-Judgemental Herring

2019-06-07 · 4 places on the map · episode transcript

  1. HebridesOne-offUnited Kingdom

    In the Hebrides, there's a tradition of tossing porridge into the sea. This particularly happens on what's called Big Porridge Day, or Great Grul Thursday.

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  2. Berlin MuseumOne-offGermany

    There were loads of original Mozart, Beethoven and Bach manuscripts — all the famous ones you've heard of, like all the big Beethoven symphonies and all the Mozart's — and they were moved from the Berlin Museum because…

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  3. Natural History MuseumShow favouriteUnited Kingdom

    In 1973 there was this guy called Dr. Peter Whitehead who was working in the Natural History Museum and he was a biologist and he was just obsessed with finding this picture of this herring.

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  4. McGill UniversityOne-offCanada

    There was a study done in Canada which actually showed that you can calm a man down by showing him a picture of a piece of meat. Stop it. No, you can't. That is so stupid. No, no, no. This was at McGill University in…

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