2015-08-14
33 分钟Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here with James Harkin, Andy Murray, and Alex Bell, 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 my facts.
And my fact this week is that according to the diary of the first chief of MI6, this is how the first day went.
Went to the office, saw no one, nor was there anything to do there.
And that was the first day of proper spying in Britain.
Yeah, when is that because the spies were so good he couldn't fight them?
Yeah, I went in and there were seven lampstands, and I had a lampstand.
So who was this?
Mansfield coming.
He's the founding chief of MI6.
This was in the year 1909, I believe, and he's someone we've mentioned very briefly ages ago on this podcast.
He's the guy who used to, when he was recruiting people in MI6,
would stab a knife into his leg in order to see what the reaction of the person he was interviewing would be.
You've missed out a very important bit of that thing.
Exactly.
Which is that he had a wooden leg.