Speed

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Need for Speed

The Monkey Cage returns from its tour of the USA, as Brian Cox and Robin Ince take to the stage of the BBC Radio Theatre to look at the science of speed. They are joined by comedian and former motoring correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, Alexei Sayle, Land Speed Record Holder Andy Green and Professor Danielle George from the University of Manchester. They'll be looking at the engineering challenges of creating the fastest vehicle on the planet, and whether the limits to human speed are engineering or the laws of physics themselves.

Transcript

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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.
0:10.2	Hello, I'm Robin Inz.
0:11.2	And I'm Brian Cox.
0:12.2	And this is our first show back from America.
0:14.8	Yeah, L.A. didn't suit you, did it?
0:16.5	L.A. didn't suit me, actually.
0:17.5	I arrived wearing a duffel coat in 25 degrees centigrade heat
0:22.4	and managed to get a part in Hollywood as a bear.
0:27.0	Actually, America was great because a lot of the scientists,
0:29.2	there was a lovely moment where they kept coming.
0:30.6	It's going, oh, it's really great.
0:32.0	You must be so happy to live in England,
0:33.6	because everyone in England is so fascinated by science
0:36.7	and philosophy and ideas.
0:39.2	And I thought, should I tell them?
0:41.4	No.
0:42.6	Let them dream of this utopia, they've imagined.
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