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The Infinite Monkey Cage

Brian and Robin introduce Series 32

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.79.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Brian Cox and Robin Ince look ahead to the topics and guests you can enjoy in Series 32 of The Infinite Monkey Cage.

Listen first on BBC Sounds from Wednesday 19 February, 2025.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy.

0:05.1

My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC.

0:08.7

It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs,

0:13.5

moments and movements, stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous.

0:19.1

And the BBC's position, at the heart of British music

0:21.7

means we can tell those stories like no one else.

0:24.5

We were, are and always will be right there at the centre of the narrative.

0:28.6

So whether you want an insightful take on music right now

0:31.3

or a nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous and infamous moments in music,

0:36.1

check out the music podcasts on BBC Sounds.

0:40.2

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:45.0

Hello, I'm Robin Inns. And I'm Brian Cox, and we would like to tell you about the new series

0:49.4

of The Infinite Monkey Cage. We're the show that tackles scientific quandaries using the sharpest minds on the planet.

0:56.1

And also, Robin, which is part of our charm. Yeah, well, I mean, that's the point is you're not

1:00.8

going to feel the benefit of sharp, sharp minds if you haven't got a slightly blunter mind in there.

1:05.9

And that is how I help you. So much wiser than you really are. I'll go with that one.

1:15.6

In this series, we're going to have a planet off. Yeah, this is very, very exciting now. Some of you might have heard in the past we've done shows like bats versus flies, bees versus wasps, cats versus dogs.

1:24.5

But now we decided it was time to go cosmic, so we are going to do

1:29.6

Jupiter versus Saturn.

1:34.3

It was very well done that, because in the script, it does say, in square brackets,

1:37.7

wrestling voice question mark. Yeah, I hoped it was a wrestling voice of an

1:41.3

introduction, not the voice of someone being wrestled. But we can try both of those things.

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