The Infinite Monkey’s Guide to... Strawberries

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Robin Ince and Brian Cox are still struggling to decide when a strawberry dies as they trawl through the archive to ponder where we should draw the line between life and death. Katy Brand kicks the debate off with her thoughts on whether strawberries have souls, which leads her to wonder whether it might be possible for people to be resurrected? While it’s theoretically possible to bring someone back to life, it’s not looking likely any time soon. Instead, Rufus Hound talks us through how he’d commit the perfect murder, right down to the use of a woodchipper to destroy any DNA evidence. Little does he realise that this fingerprint of life gets everywhere, including down comedian Susan Calman’s pants. Episodes featured: Series 7: Improbable Science Series 8: What is Death? Series 12: Forensic Science Series 26: How To Commit The Perfect Murder 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/3K3JzyF Producer: Marijke Peters Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem

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0:00.0	BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:04.8	Hello, I'm Brian Cox.
0:05.8	And I'm Robin Inz, and welcome to an Infinite Monkeys Guide
0:09.2	to Straw Brits.
0:11.1	We've finally got there.
0:12.3	Yes!
0:13.2	Finally to the Straw Brits.
0:14.9	This is it.
0:15.6	This is what I've been waiting for all these years.
0:17.5	This is my last ever Infinite Monkey Cage.
0:19.3	There are five more episodes of this afterwards, by the way.
0:21.3	Oh.
0:21.8	So, we have tried to interrogate numerous scientific ideas
0:24.9	over the last 14 years.
0:26.3	Questions of temporality, quantum complexity
0:29.0	and genetic manipulation.
0:30.9	As we know, science doesn't necessarily answer questions
0:33.5	so much as create better questions.
0:35.8	Well, it does both.
0:37.0	Well, by answering the question,
0:38.4	then we generate new questions.
0:39.8	It's very rare we reach some kind of grand conclusion,
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