The Infinite Monkey Cage USA Tour: New York
Discovery
BBC
4.3 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2015
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The BBC’s award-winning radio science/comedy show The Infinite Monkey Cage has transported itself to the USA bringing its unique brand of witty, irreverent science chat to an American audience for the first time.
In the first of four specials, professor Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince take to the stage in New York, to ask the question - is science a force for good or evil? They are joined on stage by Bill Nye the Science Guy, cosmologist Janna Levin, actor Tim Daly and comedian Lisa Lampanelli.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading from the BBC. |
| 0:03.0 | The details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use, |
| 0:07.0 | go to BBCworldservice.com slash podcasts. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, I'm Professor Brian Cox and I'm a broadcasts. we've decided to take our show The Infinite Monkey Cage on tour across North America |
| 0:24.8 | to scrutinise the possible differences in thinking about particle physics, evolutionary biology |
| 0:29.5 | and very big dinosaurs. |
| 0:31.8 | This is what happened when we went to New York. |
| 0:34.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready for some particle physics? |
| 0:40.0 | Are you ready for quantum cosmology? |
| 0:45.0 | Are you ready for epigenetics? |
| 0:48.0 | Please welcome for the first time live in New York, the infinite monkey cage with Mr Robin Ince and Professor |
| 0:56.5 | Brian Cox. Hello? |
| 1:09.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:10.0 | We should explain what we're doing? |
| 1:13.0 | You probably now wonder what you're doing here. |
| 1:17.0 | But we're going to record the infinite monkey cage, which is our radio show. |
| 1:20.0 | I think it'll be broadcasting something like June, won't she? |
| 1:23.0 | She's going to confuse everybody when we make all the references to the weather, etc. |
| 1:27.0 | But, so... |
| 1:28.0 | Oh yeah, that will confuse people, not the particle physics, they'll be fine with that. |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah. Fine with the behavior. physical physics they'll be fine with that. |
| 1:33.0 | Fine with the behavior of the particles, |
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