The Infinite Monkey Cage 100
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Monkey Cage 100!
Brian Cox and Robin Ince celebrate the 100th episode of the hit science/comedy show, by inviting some very well known monkey cage alumni to join them. Brian Blessed, Eric Idle, Katy Brand, Dave Gorman and Andy Hamilton (to name a few) take to the stage to consider what has been learnt since Episode 1, back in November 2009. Joining them on stage, will be science royalty, including Alice Roberts, American Astrophysicist Neil De Grasse Tyson, Professor Sue Black and Prof Fay Dowker, to look at the big scientific discoveries that have happened in the time since Brian and Robin first hit the airwaves, from the Higgs Boson, to Gravitational Waves, to our understanding of how human evolved. What epic discoveries might be made over the course of the next 100 episodes?
For the first time, You can watch the 100th episode of The Infinite Monkey Cage, recorded live in the iconic BBC Radio Theatre, on BBC iPlayer for 30 days from Wednesday July 11th, and on the BBC Red Button at various times for 7 days from Monday 16th July.
Producer: Alexandra Feachem Producer (Vision): Michael Gray.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:03.8 | Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome your host, Professor Brian Cox and Robin Inz. |
| 0:11.6 | APPLAUSE |
| 0:14.1 | APPLAUSE |
| 0:16.1 | You're up, right? |
| 0:17.1 | Yes. |
| 0:18.1 | And I'm Brian Cox. Welcome to the 100th edition of The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:22.9 | Yet this has now been going so long. |
| 0:24.7 | It's not in 2009. |
| 0:26.1 | A time when Brian Cox was so naive that he actually believed |
| 0:29.3 | he could persuade people to believe things with evidence. |
| 0:32.4 | Well, tragically now he spends most of his life online just there going, |
| 0:37.0 | no, it's got to be a sphere. It can't be flat. |
| 0:40.2 | Oh, that shadows, eclipses. |
| 0:42.8 | No, it's not 6,000 years old. It's at least 13... |
| 0:46.2 | Oh, you can't put that on the side of a bus. |
| 0:49.0 | People are never believing. |
| 0:50.5 | LAUGHTER |
| 0:52.5 | So for the avoidance of doubt, this is a show where we assume our audience knows |
| 0:57.6 | that the Earth is an ablates feroid. |
| 0:59.2 | The Big Bang was a hot dense phase in the evolution of the universe, |
| 1:01.9 | 13.8 billion years ago, all life on Earth is related to universal common-own |
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