Deception

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2015

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by author and journalist David Aaronovitch, psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman and neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott as they tackle the science of deception. They'll be asking why we seem to be so good at telling lies, but not very good at spotting them, and why being good liars could be the secret to our success as a social animal. They will also be carrying out their own act of deception on the monkey cage audience. They reveal the results of an experiment to test the idea of subliminal advertising, carried out by David Aaronovitch for the Radio 4 documentary, "Can You Spot the Hidden Message" . Will they manage to secretly persuade a section of the theatre audience to pick one type of soft drink over another by secretly flashing the name of a certain brand on a screen? All will be revealed.

Producer: Alexandra Feachem.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Robert Inz.
0:01.4	And I'm Brian Cox.
0:02.4	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.
0:09.2	Enjoy it.
0:10.0	Hello and welcome to You and Yours. I'm Jack Cousteau.
0:13.2	And I'm Valerie Singleton.
0:15.2	Today, we're going to ask where the physics is merely
0:18.1	a fable to fabricate the pondering of God's mind,
0:20.6	and why the most rapidly growing language in the world is sheep dog trial whistling.
0:24.8	And is it true that Brian Cox keeps seeing Niels Bors face in a piece of toast?
0:30.4	For those who haven't realised yet, this week's theme on The Infilate Monkey Cage is deception.
0:34.8	Yes, despite his brilliant impression, Brian, is not Valerie Singleton.
0:38.6	Yet.
0:41.2	Do the voice again?
0:42.6	Hello, I'm Valerie Singleton.
0:44.2	It's on Cany. Absolutely on Cany.
0:46.2	So, today we're asking, is deception a necessary part of the human condition?
0:50.6	Is it possible to be wholly truthful and survive in our culture?
0:54.0	Once we believe a lie, why is it so hard to be convinced we were misled?
0:58.2	How can we spot the lies of charlatans, politicians and green grocers?
1:02.8	Not just green grocers, grocers, butchers, fishmongers, winkle pickers.
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