Asteroids

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Brian Cox and Robin Ince journey through the asteroid belt to discuss space rocks with Dr Who companion John Bishop, professor of planetary science Sara Russell and astrophysicist Alan Fitzsimmons. They learn that these seemingly innocuous rubble like rocks can hold secrets to the formation of the solar system but just don’t jump on one – you may shoot straight through it! They find out about the latest space missions that are trying to bump into or grab bits of asteroids and how these technological feats are helping to avoid the end of life on earth as we know it.

Producer: Melanie Brown Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan
0:05.2	I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy
0:10.2	podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really.
0:13.0	Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,
0:18.0	making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.
0:22.0	But you know I also know that comedy is really
0:24.4	subjective and everyone has different tastes so we've got a huge range of comedy on offer
0:29.6	from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you
0:36.2	fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds.
0:40.1	You're about to listen to the infinite monkey cage. Episodes will be released on Wednesdays, wherever you get your podcast.
0:46.0	If you're in the UK, the full series is available right now.
0:48.0	At first, on BBC Sounds.
0:50.0	Hello, I'm Brian Cox.
0:52.0	I'm Robinitz, and this is the infinite monkey cage. Now my
0:55.4	favorite is 624 hectare while Brian's favorite I believe is 4179 to Taylor.
1:03.0	Go on what you're talking about.
1:05.0	I am talking about...
1:06.0	B-bo-bo-bo-boo-boo-boo,
1:08.0	be-boo,
1:10.0	b-boo,
1:11.0	b-boo, b-boo. Anyone know what that is?
1:15.0	There we go.
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