Before the Big Bang

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2014

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Brian Cox and Robin Ince transport the cage of infinite proportions, for the first of 2 programmes from the Edinburgh Festival. They are joined on stage by cosmologists Carlos Frenk and Faye Dowker and actor and comedian Ben Miller and comedian and fellow physics PhD alumnus Richard Vranch.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Robert Ents.
0:01.2	And I'm Brian Cox.
0:02.2	And welcome to the podcast version of The Infilate Monkey Cage,
0:05.3	which contains extra material that wasn't considered good enough for the radio.
0:09.1	Enjoy it.
0:10.0	I'm Robert Ents.
0:10.8	And I'm Brian Cox.
0:11.7	And we are in Edinburgh, which is, of course, a very, very important place for science,
0:15.7	because it was here that Charles Darwin came to and discovered that he didn't like blood,
0:20.1	but he did like taxidermy.
0:21.6	So thanks to that, we then had a theory of evolution by natural selection and creationists
0:26.4	had something to argue about over and over again for one...
0:29.8	If we come from chimpanzees, how come there's still chimpanzees?
0:33.3	We don't come from chimpanzees.
0:34.9	How many times do I have to explain that?
0:36.5	It's not fair.
0:37.9	So well done, Edinburgh.
0:42.3	Also, in days, of course, the rich home of body snatching in the early 19th century.
0:47.3	Thanks to Edinburgh.
0:49.6	This is where the tradition for medical students to place dismembered hands
0:53.4	under people's pillows that they didn't like happens during rag week every year.
0:57.9	But this is no time for monkeys and limbs.
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