How to Build a Bionic Human

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BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

How to Build a Bionic Human.

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by "supervet" Noel Fitzpatrick, Dr Kevin Fong and comedian Lucy Beaumont to learn how to build a bionic human. They'll be looking at the development of artificial limbs and organs that have been pioneered during times of war and at the extreme end of emergency medicine, and find out how Noel Fitzpatrick is developing new techniques and bionic devices at his veterinary practice, that could eventually be used on humans.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.4	Hello, I'm Robin Hintz.
0:06.2	And I'm Brian Cox.
0:07.2	The title of today's episode is How to Build the Bionic Human.
0:10.2	Something Robin is particularly interested in, given the state of him.
0:14.4	Yeah, because unlike Brian, I'm actually made of organic material,
0:17.8	not merely a kind of dream that Philip K. Dick had.
0:20.4	Anyway, so...
0:21.7	LAUGHTER
0:22.8	This cardigan's not made of natural fiber, though, is it?
0:25.2	This cardigan, actually, it's not entirely made of earth.
0:27.2	But some of this cardigan is my kind of...
0:29.3	Because I was bitten by a radioactive librarian.
0:31.5	It's partly made out of fiber optics as well,
0:34.8	which means that it gives me a superpower of being able to do the duedecimal system
0:38.2	in half the time of normal.
0:39.7	So, there we are.
0:40.7	There was the classification for Bleak House.
0:43.1	823.8.
0:47.1	Look it up! It is!
0:49.6	Why?
0:50.9	800 for literature, and then to do its English fiction,
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