The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Gardening

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BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Robin Ince and Brian Cox dig into the secret lives of plants to discover that there’s more going on in your average garden than you might at first think. They hear why trees are better than humans at re-growing broken bits, while comedian Ed Byrne reveals a surprising understanding of horticulture, despite dropping out of his university degree early. And while they’re still no closer to discovering if they’re alive or dead, the team find a new debate to have about strawberries, as they argue with forensic botanist Dr Mark Spencer over whether they should be classified as an invasive species. But what about other common pests? Phill Jupitus tells them about an intimate encounter with grey squirrel, and entomologist Erica McAllister puts up a strong defence of the mosquito, claiming they don’t deserve such a bad reputation.

New episodes will be released on Wednesdays. If you’re in the UK, listen to the full series on BBC Sounds: bbc.in/3K3JzyF

Producer: Marijke Peters Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem

Episodes featured: Series 11: What’s the Point of Plants? Series 18: Invasion! Series 23: Bats v Flies

Transcript

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0:00.0	Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:06.8	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:11.8	telly we share what we've been watching
0:14.0	Fladiated.
0:16.0	Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:19.0	Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:25.0	searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:35.0	You're about to listen to an episode of The Infinite Monkeys Guide 2.
0:39.1	Episodes will be released on Wednesdays wherever you get your podcast podcasts but if you're in the UK you can
0:44.6	listen to new episodes first on BBC Sounds. I'm Robin Eights and I'm Brian Cox and
0:50.2	this is the infinite monkey's guide to
0:54.0	gardening. Finally after love and murder we just lovely now we're back in the garden
0:58.1	we're surrounded by the beautiful flowers and there's not going to be a lot of
1:01.2	pragmatic advice.
1:02.6	No, I'll be honest with we've left that to Gardner's question time.
1:06.0	I could have been the new Alan Titchmarsh, you know.
1:08.4	Yeah, well you were offered it and you said no didn't you.
1:10.7	I know he's got he's got me to thank
1:12.6	yeah for that career. Yeah he was the first choice for Alan Titchmarsh
1:16.7	but eventually they gave it to Alan Titchmarsh. It was going to be
1:18.4	Alan Titchmarsh's wonders of the solar system and it was going to be me
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