The Sound of Music
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The Sound of Music
Brian Cox and Robin Ince take to the stage at Glastonbury Music Festival. They are joined by comedian Matt Kirshen, musicians KT Tunstall and Nitin Sawhney and scientists Lucy Cooke and Trevor Cox. No Julie Andrews for this special edition of the long running science/comedy show, although music does take centre stage as the panel discuss the evolution and science of why and how humans are programmed to love everything from the Rolling Stones to Rap to Rachmaninoff. They'll also be looking at whether there are any examples of music in the animal kingdom and whether gorillas really hum.
Producer: Alexandra Feachem.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Robin Hints. |
| 0:00.9 | I'm Bran Cox. |
| 0:01.8 | And this is the Infinite Monk Cage podcast, |
| 0:04.2 | which is a longer version than the one you hear |
| 0:06.2 | broadcast on Radio Full. |
| 0:07.4 | Let me stop you there because you have to define |
| 0:09.0 | what you mean, because it could just be longer |
| 0:10.4 | because you're moving at high speed relative to the listener. |
| 0:14.3 | Oh, yeah, I hadn't really thought of that. |
| 0:15.8 | Well, I suppose longer in terms of the minute measurement |
| 0:21.3 | is the getting in trouble. |
| 0:22.6 | Oh, this is really much harder than I thought. |
| 0:24.4 | You can define it in a particular frame of reference. |
| 0:27.6 | So you can say in this particular frame of reference |
| 0:30.0 | where the player is at rest relative to the listener, |
| 0:33.6 | then the recording you may have made off the radio |
| 0:37.2 | is shorter than the recording on the podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | Thursday? |
| 0:42.4 | Is that a frame of reference Thursday? |
| 0:44.7 | It's roughly speaking. |
| 0:46.8 | That's a starting point, isn't it? |
| 0:48.6 | Yeah. |
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