Risk

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2013

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The Infinite Monkey Cage returns in the first of a new series and turns its gaze on the science of risk.

Professor Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince bring their witty and irreverent take on the world to a programme all about the science of risk. Together with guests David Spiegelhalter, Sue Ion and former Goodie, Graeme Garden, the team explores such questions as: why is seven the safest age to be? Should badgers wear bicycle helmets? How safe is nuclear power and how worried should we be by the threat of asteroid impact? Producer: Rami Tzabar.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Robert Ents.
0:01.2	And I'm Brian Cox.
0:02.2	And welcome to the podcast version of The Infant Monkey Cage,
0:05.3	which contains extra material that wasn't considered good enough for the radio.
0:09.1	Enjoy it.
0:10.1	Hello, I'm Brian Cox.
0:11.4	And I'm Robert Ents, and this is a brand new series of The Infant Monkey Cage,
0:14.4	and with a big format change, there will be no preamble
0:16.8	we're just going to get straight into the show.
0:18.2	I can't talk about physics.
0:19.6	No, you can't.
0:20.4	Well, you may be later on, anyway, a muon or a glue one if you're lucky yet.
0:23.0	Today, we are going to be discussing risk.
0:25.2	Someone who was brought up in the 1970s, I know all about risk,
0:28.2	because we were brought up on health and safety films.
0:31.6	We knew that the grim reaper hung around near puddles.
0:35.1	Freeze be playing near electricity was highly dangerous.
0:39.7	In actually research, this show, one that I'd never remembered.
0:42.0	There's a wonderful one, which goes,
0:43.6	a rag on a polished floor.
0:46.3	You might as well be putting down a man trap.
0:49.4	And he's been, oh, just go, whoa!
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