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🗓️ 28 January 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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It sounds like a Hollywood movie - bringing extinct animals like the dodo back to life - but a company has attracted hundreds of millions of dollars of investment to do just that. We hear the arguments for and against de-extinction technology.
Also, losing the alcohol but keeping the taste, our reporter takes a sober dive into the tech behind alcohol-free beer.
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Presenter: Chris Vallance Producer: Tom Quinn Editor: Monica Soriano
(Image: An illustration of a dodo bird. Credit: DeAgostini Picture Library/Getty Images)
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0:00.0 | On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see. |
0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
0:05.6 | And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
0:08.3 | In this series, we're going to have a planet off. |
0:10.8 | I feel like Jupiter wins. |
0:12.8 | And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit. |
0:15.9 | We're talking about your bog standard. |
0:17.8 | Ice, not the fancy one. |
0:20.1 | Science with funny bits. |
0:21.9 | The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
0:24.1 | Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. |
0:28.0 | Hello and welcome to TechLife on the BBC World Service with me, Chris Fallons. |
0:33.1 | This week, it sounds like a Hollywood movie, bringing extinct animals such as mammoths and dodo's back to life, |
0:39.8 | but a company has attracted hundreds of millions of dollars of investment to do just that. |
0:46.7 | We hear the arguments for and against de-extinction technology. |
0:51.5 | And losing the alcohol, but keeping the taste. |
0:54.6 | Our reporter takes a sober dive into the tech behind alcohol-free beer. |
1:00.2 | Looking at it, it's pretty unremarkable from the outside. |
1:03.1 | It looks like a series of tubes and a few big pumps. |
1:06.4 | Music Well, let's kick off today with a sound. |
1:35.8 | That's a recording of the Yangtze River dolphin in China, |
1:39.2 | and it's a sound that will probably never be recorded again, |
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