Jo Brand's Quantum World

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are subject to a non-hostile take over by comedian and non-physicist Jo Brand, as she challenges the panel to help her understand the almost unbelievable world of cheeky particles who may or may not be in several places at once. To help Jo get to grips with the bizarre and strange world of our Quantum Universe, Brian and Robin are joined by theoretical physicist Prof Ben Allanach from the U. of Cambridge and Cosmologist Prof Fay Dowker from Imperial College London who introduce Jo to the weird and wonderful ways of quantum theory, dead and alive cats and multiverses.

Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Once you've wrapped up this podcast, how about trying a very British cult?
0:06.0	What happens if the person you trust with your future isn't what you think they are?
0:10.0	I did feel the whole time he was watching me Yeti.
0:14.0	I saw a footprint and that really gave me goosebumps.
0:16.0	Or people who knew me.
0:18.0	Emmy, I remember every secret, every lie.
0:21.0	I'm the only one who knows the truth.
0:23.0	Discover more of our biggest podcast from 2003.
0:27.0	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:29.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:34.8	Hello, I'm Brian Cox.
0:36.0	I'm Robin Ince.
0:37.0	And I'm Joe Brand, and this is my hostile takeover of the Infinite Monkey Cage.
0:42.0	Actually, it wasn't very hostile because Brian and
0:45.0	Robin were very easily overpowered.
0:46.9	We were. This show is going to be a little different because usually on monkey cage we
0:51.0	sit down together and we say we'd like to do a show about something that's interesting
0:55.7	and we have lots of fun inviting guests. But this time we've decided that we're going to do something
1:01.3	different. It was actually quite frightening. It's
1:03.8	one of the rarest moments of anything where I actually saw the physicist Brian Cox
1:08.2	showing empathy to a guest because it's not generally something that he's been
1:11.6	programmed to do.
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