Fierce Creatures
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2015
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by naturalist Steve Backshall, zoologist Lucy Cooke and comedian Andy Hamilton as they battle it out to decide which creature wins the title of earth's most deadly. The panel reveal their own brave encounters with a host of venomous, toxic and just downright aggressive beasts, including the bullet ant, rated the most painful stinging insect on the planet, deadly tree frogs and snakes, sharks, scorpions and hippos. They ask whether our seemingly innate fear of snakes and spiders is justified, and whether the deadliest creature on the planet is in fact a human being.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Robin Ents. |
| 0:01.4 | And I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:02.4 | And welcome to the podcast version of the Infinite 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, I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:11.4 | And I'm Robin Ents, and this is the Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:14.4 | The show described by one disgruntled blogger as one of those shows |
| 0:18.0 | that thinks she can prove anything with facts and evidence. |
| 0:21.4 | Generally true. |
| 0:23.4 | And presented by someone described as so-called professor. |
| 0:29.4 | Brian Cox. |
| 0:30.4 | And he is, by the way, just so you know, he is so called professor Brian Cox |
| 0:34.0 | because he is a professor. |
| 0:36.0 | And so as you probably realise already, he is very much the brains of the operation |
| 0:41.0 | while I'm the... |
| 0:43.0 | Not brain. |
| 0:44.0 | Pills and eggs. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm the not brains, really, of the operation. |
| 0:47.0 | That's my main question. |
| 0:48.6 | I can do Mr. McGoo being Richard Feynman. |
| 0:51.4 | I got a friend who's an artist and sometimes says something I don't agree with too well. |
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