Southern Skies
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Brian Cox and Robin Ince start a new series from Sydney, Australia. They are joined by astrophysicists Kirsten Banks and Devika Kamath and comedian Ross Noble as they discuss how different the night sky looks from the southern hemisphere. They hear stories of how different cultures have always used constellations in the sky to help navigate life down here, on planet Earth. They find out how just one point of light can tell you exactly what a star is made of and why this can be the key to understanding the future of our galaxy.
Producer: Caroline Steel Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Robyn Inc. |
| 0:01.0 | And I'm Brian Cox and we're back for a brand new series. |
| 0:03.8 | New episodes will be released weekly, |
| 0:05.7 | but if you're in the UK and can't wait, |
| 0:07.9 | you can hear it all right now before anywhere else. |
| 0:11.2 | First on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:14.0 | It's wonderful, plentiful, so good. |
| 0:15.8 | B-B-C sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:20.9 | I'm Robyn Inc. |
| 0:21.7 | And I'm Brian Cox and this is a new series |
| 0:23.8 | of the Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:25.2 | And today we are in Australia again, of course, |
| 0:28.5 | in Australia because as many Australians will know, |
| 0:31.9 | when you kind of got a sitcom in Britain |
| 0:34.1 | that eventually is starting to fall apart |
| 0:35.8 | and reach the end of its life, it comes to Australia. |
| 0:38.4 | So are you being served Tony Hancock, Love Thy Neighbor, |
| 0:42.5 | all of them eventually found themselves here and so do we. |
| 0:46.1 | I wouldn't say we're a sitcom. |
| 0:47.6 | There's no place for comedy in science. |
| 0:49.3 | That's why we worked well together, actually. |
| 0:51.4 | LAUGHTER |
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