From The Great Sardine Litigation to the taxonomy of the herring; evolution to the racial theory of the herring; from ice ages to global warming... Featuring Enoch Snow of Carousel, The Notorious B.I.G., The Junk Yard Band, the Oscars Hammerstein I, II & III, Edward Rigby, the Tyneside grocery entrepreneur Angus Watson, father of taxonomy Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, Francis Galton, Marcus Eliezer Bloch, Friedrich Heincke, William Hodgson played by Kenneth More, Anatoly Svetovidov & The Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR:a A podcast in eight fitts, each with its own specially-crafted limerick. What more do you want?
00:00 Fitt the First: Sardines or Herrings - from Carousel to Biggie Smalls and The Junk Yard Band; 07:15 Fitt the Second: Angus Watson - My Life, Angus Watson and the The Great Sardine Litigation; 12:35 Fitt the Third: The Glory that was Rome - fish paste, binomial nomenclature and etymology; 17:11 Fitt the Fourth: Plain English - Evolution, The King James Bible and Scientific Racism; 20:14 Fitt the Fifth: A Taxonomic Descent of the Herring - from Empire to Species; 25:12 Fitt the Sixth: Oh, Friedrich Heincke - the Racial Theory of Herring, William Hodgson and Kenneth More; 35:52 Fitt the Seventh: Svetovidov & Ponomareva - the great systematist against the system; 41:04 Fitt the Eighth: Change is Gonna Come - breakfasts of fragile diversity; 43:33 End/Acknowledgements.