200 Years of Frankenstein

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Brian Cox and Robin Ince mark the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. They are joined on stage by Noel Fielding, evolutionary biologist Nick Lane and writer and expert in popular culture, Sir Christopher Frayling. They'll be looking at the cultural impact of this epic novel, and the long lasting impact it has had on the perception of science and scientists. They'll also be looking at the real science behind some of the ideas about life and the creation of life that Mary Shelley explored.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Robin Hints.
0:00.9	I'm Bran Cox.
0:01.8	And this is the Infinite Monk Cage podcast,
0:04.2	which is a longer version than the one you hear
0:06.2	broadcast on Radio Full.
0:07.4	Let me stop you there because you have to define
0:09.0	what you mean, because it could just be longer
0:10.4	because you're moving at high speed relative to the listener.
0:14.3	Oh, yeah, I hadn't really thought of that.
0:15.8	Well, I suppose longer in terms of the minute measurement,
0:20.8	you see, you get an interreval.
0:22.3	Oh, this is really much harder than I thought.
0:24.4	You can define it in a particular frame of reference.
0:27.6	So you can say in this particular frame of reference,
0:30.0	where the player is at rest relative to the listener,
0:33.6	then the recording you may have made off the radio
0:37.2	is shorter than the recording on the podcast.
0:41.0	Thursday?
0:42.4	Is that a frame of reference Thursday?
0:44.7	It's roughly speaking.
0:46.8	That's a starting point, isn't it?
0:48.5	Yeah.
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