Name: Fish Story
Uploaded: 2018-01-05T04:58:39.000Z
Duration: 13 min 39 s
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I can't even imagine how many times I've made you tell this story now.

That you've made me tell the story, I think ...

... five, certainly, that I can remember.

I'm saying 'tell the story' like I'm some kind of raconteur.

- How does it come up? - So it came, it came up ...

How does it come up when I don't bring it up?

It comes up because I'm discussing my stupid name, Caspar Salmon.

my grandmother was invited to attend the opening of

Yeah, well I couldn't remember what it was, d'you see?

Cos I was a kid, I couldn't think what thing she'd been to.

And then I subsequently had it confirmed to me.

So she attended the opening of the Anglesey Marina

other people from the area in North Wales, where she lives, who also happened to have

because my grandmother's called Pauline Salmon.

Cos this is a key point as well, actually, that I've not really scrutinised.

- Cos, for instance, you've listed two. - Yeah.

They get there, and everybody who is there

including the Crabs and the Herrings and everybody else

A copy ... I keep saying a copy, what's the word for ...

So the people who are called Salmon receive a salmon

I suppose more than one herring cos a herring is a smaller fish.

so my grandmother received a salmon and she was able to take it home and cook it

and it was given to her by Sir Michael Fish

who was there to open the marina officially, so he was the person ...

and he was there giving out the fish to everyone.

What point in Michael Fish's career is this?

he had the nadir of his career when he failed to predict a hurricane I think maybe.

Earlier on today apparently a woman rung the BBC and said she heard

Well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't.

I think that was in 1988 or something and if I'm correct then ...

In 1986 he'd have been at the height of his powers, and fame.

And wonderfully he fit the theme perfectly, because he was famous and ...

... his name is Fish, and the theme was fish.

Your call cannot be taken at the moment, so please your message after the tone.

It's about the opening of a marina in the 1980s that I'm hoping he might know something about

I'm looking into the opening of a marina in the late 1980s.

Where was the marina? What town was it in?

The reason I ask is that apparently the organisers filled the opening

with people from the area who had fish-related names.

You've been trawling through the directory, have you?

Hello, I'm hoping to reach the Mullet family

... fish-related surnames, like yourself.

I think we went there, perhaps, when the kids were little

but I don't think we got invited there, you know, with a fish-related name.

... to get as many people there as possible with fish-related surnames.

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Fish Story

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