What a Gas! - Dave Gorman, Mark Miodownik and Lucy Carpenter

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Brian Cox and Robin Ince talk hot air as they explore the pivotal role of gasses in our lives. Joining them to add some Co2 to the mix is material scientist Mark Miodownik, chemist Lucy Carpenter and comedian Dave Gorman. They discuss how humans came to even understand it existed in the first place as well as how many of the innovations in modern society have been underpinned by this mostly invisible and odourless substance. We laud the humble (or is it noble) gas and its key role in technological innovation - from using laughing gas in anaesthesia to the combustion engine and of course the most important of all, the power source behind squirty cream.

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

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0:00.0	Calling all music buffs.
0:03.6	Hey, hey, turn the volume up, yeah?
0:05.0	Make me a mixtape is here.
0:07.0	I'm Jordan Stevens.
0:08.0	I'm Clara Ampho, and this is our brand new weekly music show.
0:12.0	You pick a theme. We select the tunes and we battle it out to create the ultimate playlist just for you.
0:18.0	May the best music lover win? Oh, it's about to go down. Let's go!
0:22.0	Make me a mixtape. Listen only on BBC Sounds.
0:27.8	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:34.0	I'm Brian Cox.
0:35.0	I'm Robin Inch.
0:35.6	And this is the infinite monoxide cage.
0:38.2	Yep, that's right, we are now the infinite monoxide cage,
0:40.6	formerly the infinite monkey cage, which of course people will be very glad that we've changed it because everyone used to go,
0:45.6	oh the infinite monkey cage is so cruel to the infinite monkeys.
0:48.9	Yeah, they say it's infinite. You should have to understand that.
0:52.2	So it was room. Nothing cruel about an infinite. We've got to understand that. So it was room cruel about an infinite.
0:54.2	We've got rid of the monkeys and.
0:56.7	Shut up.
0:57.8	And instead we fill the cage with monoxide.
1:01.2	And apparently it's absolutely fine if you hurt monkeys that's
1:04.4	against BBC rules killing their presenters is absolutely fine because they're
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