Should We Pander to Pandas?

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2013

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This week, Brian Cox and Robin Ince wonder if the world would be better off without spending an undue amount of time and energy trying to get giant pandas to mate and instead concentrated on saving species which let's face it, are a lot less cute but probably more important for the planet. Should we make a distinction between the organisms we want to save as opposed to those we need to save? The science and politics of biodiversity and conservation, explored and explained (sort of) with the help of Sandy Knapp, Simon Watt and comedian Sara Pascoe. Producer: Rami Tzabar.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Robert Enz.
0:01.4	And I'm Brian Cox.
0:02.4	And welcome to the podcast version of the Infinite Monkey Cage,
0:05.4	which contains extra material that wasn't considered good enough for the radio.
0:09.2	Enjoy it.
0:10.2	On my left, a man who used to be that rarest of species, the disco scientist.
0:15.0	But now they're tenor penny.
0:16.2	You can barely get Richard Dawkins' dimension God nowadays.
0:18.8	He's so busy either getting down low or busing a wine with Melvin Bragg.
0:23.2	Sick man. Yeah. Look at me, I'm twerking.
0:26.2	It's Brian Cox.
0:29.2	What does busing a wine mean?
0:31.4	We have no idea what busing a wine means.
0:33.4	We were going to say bust a fat move with Richard Dawkins,
0:35.6	but it's probably very old language.
0:37.4	So we wrote to Radio 1 Extra, gently.
0:39.4	Yeah, you and Lee, we got Radio 1 Extra.
0:41.6	Brian Cox and I are both in our 40s.
0:43.4	We're not really sure what bust a fat move would be nowadays.
0:47.0	They wrote back saying, you've spelt fat with an F.
0:49.4	We were immediately feeling foolish.
0:51.4	Anything.
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