Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Belfast.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Tyshinski,
Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around 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 during the festival of Britain in London in 1951,
children would deliberately go missing
because the local police station where they waited for their parents had the capital's best collection of comic books.
That's incredible.
This was a huge big deal, 1951, this is the festival of Britain,
probably the last massive festival we had in the UK before the Millennium Dome was built and this...
Don't laugh at...it was a huge success in some measures.
Number of domes.
But yeah, the festival of Britain, there was an amazing thing,
they had all these incredible buildings and structures and exhibitions all over the UK and London and Edinburgh and Belfast in fact,
they did have quite a lot here but then it was in 1951 and by 1952 the entire thing had been demolished.
There was no TV really in those days,
it was really the early days of TV and so these days I think it's quite forgotten the festival of Britain but when you look into it it was absolutely amazing.
And what's extraordinary about it as well, so it was the South Bank in London where the Royal Festival Hall is now,