Science v Art
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Brian Cox and Robin Ince transport the cage of infinite proportions, to the slightly more confined space of the Latitude Comedy Arena. They will be joined on stage by a panel of guests, including Al Murray, for a witty, irreverent and unashamedly rational look at the world according to science. Given Latitude's artistic, musical and literary credentials, they'll be taking a huge risk by staging the ultimate show down, as they pitch Art against Science and ask which has more to offer and whether the two cultures might ever make a happy union. To help them battle it out, and alongside comedian Al Murray, they'll be joined by cosmologist Andrew Pontzen, comedian and actor Sara Pascoe and CERN scientist Jonathan Butterworth. Let battle commence!
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| 0:00.0 | This is a download from the BBC. |
| 0:02.0 | To find out more, visit bbc.co.uk slash radio4. |
| 0:07.8 | Welcome to the last in the series of Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:10.4 | Last week, the man on my right learnt that observations |
| 0:12.9 | of the Cosmic Microwave background may imply |
| 0:15.0 | that there are an infinite number of worlds |
| 0:16.8 | with an infinite number of versions of himself in them. |
| 0:19.4 | Yet despite this, it turns out that there is a vanishingly |
| 0:21.6 | small probability that he understands |
| 0:23.4 | any of the things I just said in any of those universes. |
| 0:26.6 | It's Robynins. |
| 0:27.6 | CHEERING AND APPLAUSE |
| 0:30.8 | But I am... |
| 0:33.5 | I am happy to know that it thanks to many world interpretation |
| 0:37.0 | that is a world in which the man on my left |
| 0:39.1 | actually walks past a volcano and goes, |
| 0:41.0 | that's rubbish. |
| 0:42.3 | And you know what? |
| 0:43.6 | I don't think the stars are nice at all. |
| 0:46.6 | No, that's an impression of John Ronson. |
| 0:48.5 | It's not. |
| 0:49.7 | It's me doing you as Orville from Keith Harris in Orville. |
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