The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Love
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Love is in the air(waves) as Brian and Robin trawl through the Monkey Cage archive. From using maths to find a boyfriend or girlfriend, to why birds and bees have far more exciting sex lives than you might imagine, this week’s episode is all about passion.
Number crunching might not sound sexy but mathematician Hannah Fry tells Robin Ince and Brian Cox why research shows it pays to be proactive when you’re searching for a partner, even when that means risking total humiliation. But when it comes to the world's most extraordinary mating rituals the best place to look is… in the garden. Female bees go on a special nuptial flight, where they’re impregnated by males mid-air, and we hear how cockerels are surprisingly picky when it comes to which chicken they choose to cosy up with.
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 13: Maths of Love and Sex Series 17: The Secret Life of Birds Series 27: Bees v Wasps Series 17: How Animals Behave
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 podcasts. But you're in the UK you can listen to new episodes first on BBC |
| 0:47.6 | Sounds for those old enough to remember renting videos in the days before all films and art and everything else lived in a cloud. |
| 0:54.4 | We're talking to a Radio 4 audience in because everybody remembers renting videos who's listening. |
| 0:59.9 | No, no, no, but this is also podcast and you sometimes get people in their 30s listening to that. |
| 1:04.5 | Oh, okay. That would be DVDs then. Yeah, yeah. Right. Anyway, you will recall that your chosen film would be prefaced by a radio |
| 1:11.1 | one DJ in the days when radio on |
| 1:13.2 | dejays were considered the highest form of moral authority. |
| 1:16.4 | Yeah, we gloss over that bit anyway, but that DJ was a course |
| 1:18.8 | Simon Bates who would warn you of the possible contents of your VHS and it might include |
| 1:23.5 | scenes of a graphic nature and sexual swear words. So today we've been told to |
| 1:28.9 | give you a similar warning. This episode has been given the Lord Wreath Red Triangle, which means |
| 1:35.1 | it will contain references to penises. Anyway, I'm Robin Ince. Is that the |
| 1:40.0 | penis reference? Well done. I taught him everything he knows but he's run |
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