The Wonder of Trees - Dame Judi Dench, Tony Kirkham and Tristan Gooley

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Brian Cox and Robin Ince leaf through the latest tree science with Dame Judi Dench, Tony Kirkham and Tristan Gooley. Dame Judi Dench shares her great love for treekind and describes how over time she has come to create a small woodland in her garden and how meaningful that is for her. Tony Kirkham, former head of Kew Arboretum and Gardens shares some of the amazing journeys he's been on to find unusual and rare trees around the world. Navigator Tristan Gooley, has spent a lifetime learning how to read trees, he explains how nearly everything on a tree can provide clues into the environment around it and how elements like leaf shape and colour can help us to use trees as a compass to navigate our way.

Producer: Melanie Brown Exec Producer: Alexandra Feachem BBC Studios Audio production

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0:00.0	When the in-betweeners came out, people were being so nasty about my weight.
0:05.2	What is it really like to be famous?
0:07.4	But then I thought, I didn't know my weight was ever going to be discussed, ever.
0:11.8	In my new podcast, I'll hear about the highs and loads of
0:14.5	fame from guests like Emily Atak, Lee Francis and Daisy May Cooper. The students
0:19.6	that were in my year were saying about what the favorite Shakespeare plays were and I just thought I've got
0:24.9	no idea what I'm doing here.
0:27.2	How to be in the spotlight with me, Ryland.
0:30.0	The job is so fun in it? Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:35.0	BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:40.0	Hello, you're about to listen to the infinite monkey cage.
0:43.5	Episodes will be released on Wednesdays wherever you get your podcast.
0:47.0	But if you're in the UK, the full series is available right now on BBC Sounds.
0:58.0	Hello I'm Brian Cox. I'm Robin Ince and this is the infinite monkey cage back for a new series. The question of course is always if a tree falls in the woods and there's nobody there to hear it, does it make a sound?
1:04.8	And if Robin Ince is invited to a Royal Institution Christmas lecture and his head is placed inside
1:10.0	a giant magnetic pulse generator, does he make a sound? The answer to that is no
1:16.4	genuinely from experience. I had a magnetic pulse on the right-hand side of my brain
1:22.0	while doing jab Javawock to
1:23.8	was brilliant the slided toveted gare and gimbal in the whoo and that was what
1:27.4	happened and Brian now can't get hold of that machine but he would love to shut
1:31.8	me up with my motor region.
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