In Answer Me This Episode 394, listeners are struggling with questions about:

catnip for lions

the humerus/funny bone/ulnar nerve/little Jew

Fabergé eggs

all the cool stuff that used to be on Woodhouse Moor

Gallifreyian garden features

treadmills in shoe shops

X-rays in shoe shops

your own children’s mediocrity

and

genies’ feet.

In today’s Bonus Bit of Crap on the App – available for Apple and Android – Olly struggles with home schooling.

Hear our other work:

• Helen makes The Allusionist, an entertainment show about language, and Veronica Mars Investigations, recapping every episode of Veronica Mars from the beginning – now powering to the end of season 3!

• Olly hosts many podcasts, and you can find them all at ollymann.com, including his monthly magazine show The Modern Mann and weekly under-the-radar-news show, The Week Unwrapped.

• Martin makes music – including a new EP – which you can hear palebirdmusic.com, on the Pale Bird podcast, and on Spotify etc. You can also join him in contemplating the work of every song by Tom Waits Tom Waits in Song By Song, and he produced and composed the kids’ science podcast Maddie’s Sound Explorers, hosted by Maddie Moate.

Hang out with us online at twitter.com/HelenAndOlly and facebook.com/answermethis.

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Send us your QUESTIONS, in writing or as voice recordings, to answermethispodcast@googlemail.com for us to answer in future episodes.

We’ll be back with AMT395 on 4 March, and there’ll be a Retro AMT episode in your feeds on 18 February.

Helen & Olly

••• AMT394 Child-Friendly Rating: 82%. Pretty savoury, although some references to things that are problematic. •••

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