Brian and Robin's Infinite Inbox
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Infinite Monkeys Brian Cox and Robin Ince delve into the postbag and open up the inbox for a programme specially recorded for BBC Radio 4 Extra. Following their recent series of The Infinite Monkey Cage on Radio 4, Robin and Brian thought it was high time they answered some questions from you, the audience, which have poured in from around the UK and abroad. Penned by listeners as young as 10 and as old as 77, subjects include the nature of black holes, the mathematical abilities of chimpanzees, the suicidal tendencies of robots and complaints about infinity that will run and run. But will they be able to answer perhaps the greatest question of all - is a strawberry dead? Producer: Rami Tzabar.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Rory Stewart and I grew up wanting to be a hero and I'm still fascinated by the ideas of heroism. |
| 0:08.9 | In my new series, I'm taking in the long sweep of history from Achilles to Zelensky and asking, what is a hero? |
| 0:16.2 | Simply doing your job, being a decent human being. |
| 0:20.0 | A true hero is someone who just kind of shines by their own light, |
| 0:23.9 | and that light is to be recognised by others. |
| 0:26.5 | The long history of heroism with me, Rory Stewart. |
| 0:29.5 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.1 | This is a download from the BBC. |
| 0:34.2 | To find out more, visit BBC.com.ukuk slash Radio 4. |
| 0:47.6 | Hello and welcome to Brian and Robin's Infinite Inbox. |
| 0:50.7 | Yeah, we have an enormous number of emails and letters that we've received during the last |
| 0:55.9 | series of our Radio 4 show, The Infinite Monkey Cage, and I, Robin Inns, and you, Brian Cox, |
| 1:02.4 | will be dealing with some of these things. And hopefully by the end as well, we are going to be |
| 1:06.3 | dealing with the exact point of death of a straw brink. |
| 1:15.1 | Hi, aye, hi, aye, aye, bill you're with the exact point of death of a strawberry. So you've made the mistake again there, |
| 1:20.1 | by saying that we're going to be dealing with the exact point of death of a strawberry, |
| 1:23.5 | you've assumed that the strawberry does die. |
| 1:26.6 | Well, what I'm saying is we have been sent a theory, a rigorous theory, |
| 1:31.7 | which I think may well illuminate this point of strawberry death. |
| 1:37.0 | The debate may well remain open, and there is much more research within a punnet to be done. |
| 1:41.7 | Because the question is, is a strawberry dead? |
| 2:02.6 | Well, the answer must be yes at some point if you're going to deal with the point of death of a strawberry. Well, I mean, it may well turn out that you may well say, well, is that really the point of death? It's clear that you can kill a strawberry. You could put it next to a supernova explosion. So I suppose it's valid. Yeah. Well, let's find out when we get to the end. Yeah. Certainly something worth, you know, waiting for. We've got a huge amount |
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