The Monkeys meet The Sky at Night

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by the longest running science show in the world, The Sky at Night, alongside comedian and astronomy enthusiast Dara O Briain for the ultimate guide to studying the stars from your own back garden. Sky At Night presenters Dr Maggie Aderin Pocock, Chris Lintott and Pete Lawrence join the panel to offer their top tips to backyard astronomy over the winter season. From binoculars to telescopes and even the naked eye: meteor showers, planetary moons and odd behaving galaxies are just some of the heavenly phenomena visible with or without equipment from the comfort of your own garden or local park. An out of this world seasonal special. And you can catch the monkey's on a special edition of the Sky At Night on BBC iplayer from November 13th.

Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem

Transcript

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0:00.0	Once you've wrapped up this podcast, how about trying a very British cult?
0:06.0	What happens if the person you trust with your future isn't what you think they are?
0:10.0	I did feel the whole time he was watching me Yeti.
0:14.0	I saw a footprint and that really gave me goosebumps.
0:16.0	Or people who knew me.
0:18.0	Emmy, I remember every secret, every lie.
0:21.0	I'm the only one who knows the truth.
0:23.0	Discover more of our biggest podcast from 2003.
0:27.0	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:29.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:34.8	Hello I'm Brian Cox.
0:36.1	I'm Robinitz and Brian is very, very excited about this week's The Infinite
0:40.7	Monkey Cage.
0:41.3	His head is just reeling with excitement because
0:44.8	because today is all about the sky at night with the sky at night. Now of course
0:49.8	the sky at night is one of the longest running TV series in the world. In fact, there's very few other TV
0:55.6	shows that have been going for longer. In fact, the two that we found out that have been going
0:59.6	on for longer are actually the Miss America pageant and the Miss Universe pageant and
1:05.2	interestingly enough it was actually Patrick Moore's failure to get into the last
1:09.9	three of the Miss Universe pageant which led to him doing the sky at night and I feel he was
1:15.4	robbed because of all of the Miss Universe contestants he undoubtedly explained the
1:20.8	universe far better than any of the others.
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