# James Harkin: Curious Fairways

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Podcast: [the story pilgrim](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-story-pilgrim-6591005)
Published: 2026-01-27T00:00:00+00:00
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Send us Fan Mail James Harkin, co-host of the hit podcast No Such Thing As A Fish and Head Researcher on BBC’s QI, joins me for a walking, and golfing, conversation about curiosity, childhood, and how a life quietly takes shape. We met at Deane Golf Club, the course where James learned the game as a boy, and played a round while talking through his early years in Bolton, school days, falling sideways into research, and ending up at the sharp end of British comedy and television. Between misse...

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