In Praise of Flies

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In Praise of Flies

Brian Cox and Robin Ince kick off a new series of Infinite Monkey Cage with a look at probably the least revered or liked group of insects, the flies. They are joined by fly sceptic David Baddiel , fly enthusiast and champion Dr Erica McAlister and maggot expert Matthew Cobb to discover why a life without flies would be no life at all. Can Erica and Matthew persuade David to put his fly gun down and learn to love those pesky pests, or is their reputation for being disgusting and annoying justified? What would a planet without flies look like?

Producer: Alexandra Feachem

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, I'm Robin Nitz.
0:05.8	And I'm Braincox.
0:06.8	Now, today's show is a slightly delayed response
0:10.6	to a heckle that I received in 2007.
0:14.5	Oh, that's why you remember it specifically,
0:16.0	because there was only one heckle.
0:17.4	No, it's not... Right, okay.
0:19.2	This is rude.
0:21.0	This is very rude for the first episode,
0:22.8	as far as I'm concerned, right?
0:24.1	So, one heckle, I was doing a show.
0:25.6	It's the first show that I'd told about kind of science,
0:28.1	Mike, Mike, to understand his science.
0:30.0	I did a show, two I showed, talking about Charles Darwin.
0:32.8	I was talking about the fashion sense of the Bonobo ape,
0:35.3	naked mole rats, all of these different things, black holes.
0:39.1	And then after two hours, a man at the back,
0:41.5	very indignant man, just suddenly shouted out,
0:43.5	Drussoffa-la, the fruit fly.
0:46.3	You've talked about the universe,
0:47.9	but why haven't you talked about flies, right?
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