Science of Sleep

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by Professor Russell Foster, Professor Richard Wiseman and comedian Katy Brand as they attempt to get to grips with the science behind Robin's insomnia. They'll be asking why we sleep, is 8 hours really enough, and why has every creature on the planet evolved with some period of inactivity? They'll also be investigating the purpose of dreams and whether analysing them has any useful purpose? Was Freud right with his symbolic interpretation of dreams, or if we dream about aggressive courgettes, does this reveal our inner most anxieties about.... aggressive courgettes? Producer: Alexandra Feachem.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Robin Inz.
0:01.4	And I'm Brian Cox.
0:02.4	And welcome to the podcast version of The Infant Monkey Cage,
0:05.3	which contains extra material that wasn't considered good enough
0:08.2	for the radio.
0:09.2	Enjoy it.
0:10.4	Hello, and welcome to The Infant Monkey Cage.
0:12.1	I'm Brian Cox.
0:12.9	And I'm Robin Inz.
0:13.8	And I should say that we're trying to be proactive with this show
0:16.2	and make shows that react to our audience's scientific questions,
0:19.6	such as, why does Saturn have rings?
0:22.1	What is consciousness?
0:23.9	And I had a lovely dream about Brian Cox last night.
0:27.5	What does it mean?
0:29.3	Annoyingly, because of lazy science,
0:31.5	we don't have answers to the first two questions.
0:33.6	Therefore, tonight's show is about,
0:35.6	what does it mean to have a lovely dream about Brian Cox?
0:40.0	Well, it's also about sleep, but sleep and having lovely dreams
0:43.8	about Brian Cox.
0:45.7	Why do animals need sleep?
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