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17: No Such Thing As A Bassoon In A Football Stadium

No Such Thing As A Fish

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Introduction

The first known football chant was composed by Elgar. The bassoon is a very important thing in all sorts of ways. Darwin used to play the bassoon to worms on his billiard table. A referee called Graham Pollen never, I suppose, became a referee. My name is Chan and it's supposedly traced back to a footballer who was a goalie called William Henry Folkerson. And we also have a special guest today: QI creator John Lloyd.

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