Invasion

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Invasion!

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian Phill Jupitus, bat expert and ecologist Professor Kate Jones and forensic botanist Dr Mark Spencer to look at the problems caused by alien invasions, although not of the little green men kind. They look at why such innocent and innocuous sounding plants such as floating pennywort strike terror and fear in the heart of environmentalists up and down the country, and how clever microbes and diseases are able to jump from animals such as bats to humans causing devastating consequences.

Producer: Alexandra Feachem.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the BBC.
0:04.3	Hello, I'm Robin Inz. And I'm Brian Cox.
0:06.6	This is the Implement Monkey Cage.
0:08.2	A show that has now been running for so long
0:10.2	that when we first started broadcasting,
0:12.0	people still believe the earth was round.
0:14.2	LAUGHTER
0:15.6	It's not, it's an ellipsoid.
0:17.3	It's close to a steer. It's not precisely spherical.
0:21.9	There's a thing called the GRS-18 track for this G-I.
0:25.0	I have no idea when I went to eat rock.
0:26.8	Because it could go on for quite a while.
0:28.6	There we go.
0:29.6	It's really a grab-a-session like with potentials.
0:31.6	Yes, anyway, so that is not exactly the film I was referring to on YouTube,
0:36.0	but nevertheless, continue.
0:38.3	Thank you.
0:39.3	This week's episode is about invaders.
0:41.0	Species that invade, dominate,
0:42.8	and often suffocate in indigenous life.
0:45.5	And at this point in the show,
0:46.6	I reckon we've experienced a peak list of ship,
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