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Sark

Sark
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About Sark

Sark is an island in the southwestern English Channel, off the coast of Normandy, and part of the archipelago of the Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a self-governing British Crown Dependency, with its own set of laws based on Norman law, and its own parliament. It was a royal fiefdom until 2008, when the Constitution of Sark went into effect.

On the show โ€” 3 mentions total

In Sark, the island of Sark, there is a jail with a single cell. You can fit two prisoners in it.

from No Such Thing As The Brilliant Billion, 2015-12-04 at 00:24:50 ยท read transcript

Other times Sark came up

  1. You were sick. Yeah. Please, another. November 3rd, 2022. I was on holiday. Were you? Yeah. No cars? Where you went? I was on the Isle of Sark. Beautiful place. Lovely. No cars. No cars on Sark, famously. All right, well, story checks out. The thing is, like, why not just have a notepad? Yeah. Why write it on something where it might get washed off or whatever?

    Little Fish: It's Mostly Machines These Days, 2026-01-11 ยท listen

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Coordinates: 49.4331, -2.3608

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