Forensic Science

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2015

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

A Forensic look at Forensics

No dead strawberries this week, but plenty of dead bodies, as Brian Cox and Robin Ince take a gruesome look at the science of death and some of the more unusual ways that forensic scientists are able to look for and gather clues and evidence. From insects that can be used to give a precise time of death, to the unusual field of forensic botany, It's not just DNA evidence that can be used to pinpoint someone to the scene of a crime. They are joined on stage by Professor Sue Black from the University of Dundee, Dr Mark Spencer, a forensic botanist at the Natural History Museum and comedian Rufus Hound.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Robin Inz.
0:01.4	And I'm Brian Cox.
0:02.4	And welcome to the podcast version of The Infant Monkey Cage,
0:05.3	which contains extra material that wasn't considered good enough
0:08.2	for the radio.
0:09.2	Enjoy it.
0:10.4	Hi, I'm Professor Brian Cox.
0:12.1	LAUGHTER
0:14.2	And I'm Robin Inz, and this is The Infant Monkey Cage.
0:17.2	It's the sound you hear.
0:19.0	I do not sound.
0:21.9	You do sound like Ian Volcanoes' wonderful.
0:26.6	When it had me first barm cake in Pompeii,
0:29.4	that's what you do sound like.
0:30.6	I've only got one miserable voice, and it's that one.
0:33.7	It's the last show in the series, and as usual,
0:35.7	our producer looks forward to a summer break
0:37.6	until we accidentally say something contentious
0:40.0	and she has to deal with the complaints.
0:41.8	Yeah, I have to admit that after the last summer series,
0:44.2	the homeopaths are still so angry
0:46.6	about what we said in the last series that they are...
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