Lucy Beaumont's Close Encounters
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Brian Cox and Robin Ince send comedian Lucy Beaumont to investigate UFO sightings in the extra-terrestrial hotspot of... Hull! Lucy is joined by her mum GIll Adams who claims to have experienced a number of close encounters of the third kind and they return to Longhill Estate where a UFO was reported in the 1960s. Local historian Mike Covell takes Lucy through the documented accounts of prolific UFO sightings in and around the East Yorkshire area.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello and welcome to the Infinite Monkey Cage, |
| 0:06.4 | Extra Bonus Special UFO, Extra Special... |
| 0:09.6 | What is it? |
| 0:10.6 | It's basically the offcuts. |
| 0:11.6 | What do you mean the offcuts? |
| 0:12.8 | Well, it's the bits that they, the powers that be, |
| 0:16.0 | thought were too close to the truth, |
| 0:17.6 | because it proves that there is a nexus of alien activity |
| 0:21.2 | in the very heart of our civilization. |
| 0:23.4 | Which, where's that again, Lucy? |
| 0:24.8 | Hull. |
| 0:25.8 | What, why in Hull? |
| 0:27.8 | Why not? |
| 0:29.2 | Very good, very good point. |
| 0:30.6 | That's not an argument. |
| 0:32.1 | That is where everything derives from Hull. |
| 0:35.5 | Anyway. |
| 0:36.1 | Historically and metaphorically. |
| 0:39.0 | Anyway, Lucy went to Hull and here is the report |
| 0:41.9 | they didn't want you to write this, Trivel. |
| 0:45.0 | They do. |
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