Poison

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Brian Cox and Robin Ince delve into the murky world of historical poisonings. Joining them to add their drops of killer insight are comedian Hugh Dennis, chemist Andrea Sella and Agatha Christie aficionado and former chemist Kathryn Harkup. They find out just how easy poison was to get your hands on and how people literally got away with murder until chemists developed tests for substances like arsenic. Bottles of deadly substances are passed around our expert panel with some trepidation and we learn how seemingly innocuous garden plants can be deadly in the wrong hands.

Producer: Melanie Brown Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds.
0:02.0	Hello everyone, it's Michelle Vassage, and welcome to my podcast Rule Breakers.
0:06.0	But you sit down and be bright.
0:08.0	Celebrating women's voices.
0:10.0	You're very welcome to now you're asking with me, Marion Keys Keys and me Tara Flynn.
0:14.8	This is juicy. No limits, no limits.
0:17.2	Celebrating women.
0:18.8	Where to be a woman is the podcast celebrating the best of women's well-being. We're on a quest to find out
0:24.4	where in the world women are living their best lives. Celebrate yourself.
0:28.8	Lesson on BBC Sounds.
0:33.0	BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:37.0	Hello I'm Brian Cox.
0:38.0	I'm Robin Ince and this is the infinite monkey cage.
0:41.0	Now, if there's one thing that the British public
0:44.7	absolutely love it's sitting down on a Sunday evening after a roast beef dinner
0:50.6	with Yorkshire pudding and lashings of gravy and there's the kitchen sink,
0:54.0	freshly scoured with Vim, the anti-McCassas laundered and flat against the armchair,
0:59.7	all ready for us to lean back and watch someone being slowly poisoned.
1:05.2	On television generally.
1:07.0	Yes, this week we go to the shelf in the medicine cupboard that was strictly out of bounds.
1:11.4	The one that Rold Dahl was very careful to say that George
1:14.2	avoided when he was making his marvelous medicine for his awful grandmother who
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