Brits in Space

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Brits in Space!

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by astronaut and author of "The Astronaut Selection Test Book", Tim Peake, first British astronaut Helen Sharman and comedian Mark Steel for a Brits in Space Special. Tim and Helen talk about their different experiences of training to be an astronaut and the challenges of life in space. They also look to the future as the panel talk about the various options being considered for long term space flight with planned future missions to the Moon and ultimately Mars.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.8	Hello, welcome to the Infinite Monk Cage podcast.
0:06.6	This is the podcast, which is slightly longer,
0:08.8	or sometimes actually very much longer than the version
0:11.0	you may have heard on Radio 4.
0:13.2	And for purposes of balance, quite soon,
0:15.0	we're actually going to be using the podcast
0:16.3	to bring out much, much shorter versions,
0:18.0	like about seven minutes,
0:19.0	which are very much the best of what happened
0:20.8	in our conversation about Ravens or quantum cosmology.
0:23.6	I don't let you say anything.
0:24.6	Can I say something?
0:26.0	No, no, no, it's fine. Anyway, listen.
0:27.5	Hello, I'm Robin Inc.
0:28.6	And I'm Brian Cox.
0:29.6	In the last couple of years,
0:30.9	many people have considered leaving the country.
0:33.2	LAUGHTER
0:36.4	But we are more ambitious than that.
0:38.2	We've decided to become Martians.
0:40.6	But what skills will we need to take the monkey cage into space?
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