GCHQ

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The Code Breakers

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian Katy Brand, as they transport the cage of infinite proportions to the home of modern day cryptography and codebreaking., GCHQ. They'll be discovering how far we've come from the days of the humble code book and the birth of machines like Enigma. and how the new digital era has turned us all into modern day code breakers and cryptographers, without us even realising it.

Producer: Alexandra Feachem.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the BBC.
0:03.6	I'm Robin Hanks, and I'm Brian Cox, and this is the Infinite Monkey Gage.
0:06.9	And such a...
0:08.0	Oh, I'm...
0:09.2	by...
0:10.2	YEEE.
0:11.2	Woot-a-suncha.
0:13.2	What are you doing?
0:15.0	I'm speaking in a code that I've made.
0:17.8	Did you understand any of it?
0:19.1	No.
0:20.1	It's a brilliant code, then, isn't it?
0:21.4	How does that code work?
0:23.4	Well, as opposed to saying the words that are in my head,
0:26.2	I just kind of make a random selection of noises. That's what I do.
0:29.3	How am I... I decipher those sounds?
0:31.4	You can't. That's what it's brilliant code.
0:33.3	And it's brilliant.
0:34.8	No one knows what it means.
0:35.8	No, even I don't.
0:37.2	See, it's impenetrable. I'm like a young Alan Turing.
0:40.0	Anyway.
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