How to Commit the Perfect Murder
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian Susan Calman, Prof Sue Black and Dr Julia Shaw as they invent Infinite Monkey Cluedo, and discover whether they can commit the perfect murder, or whether the latest forensic science will always be able to piece the clues together. They reveal whether the perfect crime or perfect criminal really exists and how we might spot them, and how the latest forensic techniques have transformed even decades-old murder cases. The panel also discuss how the courtroom has changed with the development of ever-more advanced forensic techniques, but also where the weakness in the science might lie.
Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.4 | Hello, I'm Robin Hicks. |
| 0:06.0 | And I'm Brian Cox. And when we met, it was murder. |
| 0:08.8 | Because today is our heart to heart special. |
| 0:11.4 | Robbie, he's also a big fan of Colombo, by the way. |
| 0:14.0 | And my wife is a big fan of you. |
| 0:15.7 | Er, the... |
| 0:16.7 | LAUGHTER |
| 0:18.8 | LAUGHTER |
| 0:21.9 | She's not, she's annoyed with you at the moment. |
| 0:23.9 | You took me on too many tour dates last year. |
| 0:26.8 | Even she actually wanted me home eventually, |
| 0:28.7 | and that's very rare. |
| 0:30.7 | Oh, thank you, thank you. Thank you. |
| 0:32.3 | I don't actually... |
| 0:34.1 | Make it 200 dates, actually. |
| 0:36.6 | And Brian, as you know, is also a big fan of just standing |
| 0:40.1 | on mountain tops, |
| 0:41.2 | wistfully looking across peaks towards the star, |
| 0:44.0 | and occasionally, secretly, just pushing other mountaineers off. |
| 0:47.7 | LAUGHTER |
| 0:49.0 | So we thought we'd combine both of that interest, |
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