The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Murder

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Brian Cox, Robin Ince and their guests will send a shiver down your spine as they sift through the science on murder, and hear some of the more creative techniques scientists use to catch killers. Apparently rambling through brambles is a great way to find buried bodies at the edge of abandoned fields and entomologist Amoret Whitaker says she relies on flies and fleas to tell her whether a crime has been committed. According to criminal psychologist Dr Julia Shaw, we’ve all got it in us to bump someone off, but it isn’t just humans who have this homicidal intent. The zombie wasp paralyses her cockroach prey, then slowly eats it alive, and we also hear about the murderous mushrooms threatening unsuspecting worms.

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 26: The Perfect Murder Series 12: Forensic Science Series 16: Will Insects Inherit the Earth? Series 27: Bees v Wasps Series 27: The Magic of Mushrooms

Transcript

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0:00.0	Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.
0:04.6	My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.
0:08.4	As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable
0:14.3	experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC
0:20.4	makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,
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0:41.0	You're about to listen to an episode of The Infinite Monkeys Guide 2.
0:45.2	Episodes will be released on Wednesdays wherever you get your podcasts.
0:49.0	But if you're in the UK, you can listen to new episodes first on BBC Sounds.
0:55.0	Hello I'm Brian Cox.
0:57.0	I'm Robin Ints.
0:58.0	And welcome to a new series of The Infinite Monkeys Guide 2,
1:00.0	where we bring you some of our favourite clips from the show covering subjects as diverse as failure and the future.
1:06.3	There will be a lot of failure in the future by the looks of things, won't there?
1:09.4	I mean including obviously the sun swelling into a red giant and destroying us.
1:13.5	Yeah ultimately heat death.
1:15.4	Entropy and failure.
1:17.1	Inescapable.
1:18.7	Over the last 15 years we've talked many times about the birth of the universe and the origin of life.
1:24.0	And don't forget and the beauty of the colours of the rainbow.
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