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The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

There’s no shortage of surprising science in The Infinite Monkey Cage and this episode is dedicated to you, the audience, as we hear some of your favourite clips from the past 14 years of the show. Palaeontologist Susie Maidment explains why licking rocks is the best way to determine their age, but you were just as interested in whether Robin is older than Brian, who also admits Jon Culshaw’s impression of him is surprisingly accurate. Entomologist Erica McAlister explains what to do if a fly lands in your wine, but be warned, it might put you off drinking! And actor Brendan Hunt gets excited by the prospect of chatty trees. Episodes featured: Series 24: The Wood Wide Web Series 23: A History of Rock Series 5: What’s the North Ever Done for Us? Series 20: Dinosaurs Series 23: In Praise of Flies Series 21: Science of Laughter New episodes will be released on Wednesdays, but if you’re in the UK, listen to new episodes, a week early, first on BBC Sounds: bbc.in/3K3Jzy Producer: Marijke Peters Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, I'm Robininitz, and I'm Brian Cox.
0:07.0	After nine episodes of us being in charge controlling the horizontal and the vertical, not you'd have actually noticed because of course we're an audio show.
0:15.6	We've handed this episode over to you. So this is the infinite monkeys guide to whatever you want.
0:23.0	What does controlling the horizontal and the vertical mean?
0:25.7	I'm glad you asked that because I knew a lot of people wouldn't get that reference.
0:28.2	It's the opening of outer limits, the outer limits.
0:31.5	We control the horizontal. We control the vertical horizontal we are going to take you into the outer
0:36.4	limits which was like kind of the twilight zone.
0:39.4	Do you know I remember that the vertical and horizontal? I'd be interested in the next series that we do where we have again an audience
0:46.0	favorites audience question show I would like people to write in and I would like
0:49.8	them to say that they understood and recognize that reference.
0:53.3	I'd love it to know how many people got that.
0:56.4	Now you've sent in hundreds of suggestions of moments of the show that you found
0:59.6	enlightening or perplexing over the last 14 years that we've been I'm just say on air but that's rather
1:05.9	old fashioned isn't it yeah because we're not really on air now are we but are we on air
1:10.3	or are we through air because it's's on air itself, I suppose.
1:13.4	I think we're mainly through optical fiber now, aren't you?
1:15.5	Anyway, the wonderful thing about all your suggestions is that it definitely took us back to
1:20.2	stories that we'd forgotten and ideas that excited us new ideas and
1:25.4	wonderful stories I thought so I'm glad you all enjoyed it. Well the first thing
1:29.1	we're actually going to hear about is is from an episode not that long ago maybe a couple of years back which was about
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