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Stages, Screens & Stadiums
Theatres, opera houses, arenas and awards ceremonies, the rooms built for an audience. Soho Theatre, where the show itself is recorded, gets to sit at the top.
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- 2Sydney Opera Housevenue · Australia
Apparently the car park extends 12 stories into the earth — the Sydney Opera House has the deepest basement in the world.
Open this place → - 3Globe Theatrevenue · United Kingdom
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre is the only building with a thatched roof in London since the Great Fire of London in 1666.
Open this place → - 4Moulin Rougevenue · France
I read about one accident in the Moulin Rouge that happened — this was in 1899 — and there was a British newspaper...
Open this place → - 5Wembley Stadiumvenue · United Kingdom
The reason England sings Sweet Caroline is there was a DJ at Wembley Stadium called Tony Perry who was supposed to play something else, and he played Sweet Caroline before the game and it had gone really well.
Open this place → - 6Colosseumvenue · Italy
So then we think they named the Colosseum the Colosseum, because it was right nearby.
Open this place → - 7Madison Square Gardenvenue · United States
It turns out that Madison Square Garden has been rebuilt a few times.
Open this place → - 8Grand Nationalvenue · UK
A very young jockey called Sean Bowen raced in the Grand National a couple of years ago.
Open this place → - 9King's Placevenue · United Kingdom
We are playing a live show for Fish on the 14th of September at King's Place, part of the London Podcast Festival, and we're going to be live streaming it.
Open this place → - 10Bloomsbury TheatreUnited Kingdom
Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, coming to you live from the Bloomsbury Theatre in London.
Open this place → - 11Covent Garden TheatreUnited Kingdom
One of the most famous theatre riots was in 1809 — the Covent Garden Theatre riots.
Open this place → - 12Ford TheatreUnited States
I saw a huge pillar at the Ford Theatre where they have glued every single book that's been written about Lincoln, or at least as many as they could get, to a pillar that extends to about four floors.
Open this place → - 13Leicester Square TheatreUnited Kingdom
We're crashing Richard Herring's podcast — the Richard Herring Leicester Square Theatre podcast.
Open this place → - 14Up the Creek Comedy ClubUnited Kingdom
This week coming to you from the Up the Creek Comedy Club in Greenwich.
Open this place → - 15Union ChapelUnited Kingdom
Welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast this week coming to you from our Book of the Year 2018 tour, live from the Union Chapel in London!
Open this place → - 16National TheatreUnited Kingdom
He described the National Theatre as something like a clever way of disguising a nuclear power station in the centre of London or something like that.
Open this place → - 17West Bromwich AlbionUnited Kingdom
The first known use of the word 'belend' to refer to a person was for the entire 1992 West Bromwich Albion football team.
Open this place → - 18Millennium DomeUnited Kingdom
It was under the Millennium Dome, and they accidentally dug it up and damaged it.
Open this place → - 19Man CityUnited Kingdom
When the Man City stadium was the Etihad stadium, Etihad in Arabic means United.
Open this place → - 20Goodison ParkUnited Kingdom
Their match was played in 1920 at Goodison Park in Liverpool and it drew a crowd of 53,000 people with another 10 to 15,000 reportedly turned away.
Open this place → - 21Nottingham ForestUnited Kingdom
He was offered a contract to play for Nottingham Forest, but he turned it down because the maximum wage for a football player at the time was £15 a week.
Open this place → - 22Theatre Royal Drury LaneUnited Kingdom
The very theater we're recording this show in, the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, was known in 1794 as the Fireproof Theatre.
Open this place → - 23Haymarket TheatreUnited Kingdom
In 1749 at the Haymarket Theatre, there were adverts all over London that the bottle conjurer was going to be performing, and no one knew who this was.
Open this place → - 24Lyric TheatreUnited Kingdom
A weekly podcast this week coming to you from the Lyric Theatre in London's West End.
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- 26Chelsea Football ClubUnited Kingdom
Ken Bates bought Chelsea Football Club for one pound in 1982, then sold it to Roman Abramovich for 140 million pounds about 20 years later.
Open this place → - 27Belmont ParkUnited States
In 1923, Jockey Frank Hayes won a race in Belmont Park in New York, despite being dead.
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