UFO special
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
UFO SPECIAL
Brian Cox and Robin Ince host a close encounter of the 1st kind with comedian Lucy Beaumont, astronomer Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Director of Jodrell Bank Professor Tim O’Brien, and science presenter Dallas Campbell to ask if UFOs and aliens have visited Earth? They explore why Lucy's home city of Hull appears to have had more than its fair share of alien visitations, as well as learning about the genuine scientific effort to look for intelligent life elsewhere in our universe. This episode is also available to watch, so you can see our truly out of this world panel in full technicolour glory. Just look for The Infinite Monkey Cage UFO TV Special on BBC iplayer.
Producer: Alexandra Feachem
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:06.6 | Welcome to The Infra-Monkey Cage. |
| 0:08.2 | In over a hundred episodes, we have asked major questions, |
| 0:11.1 | such as, what is death? |
| 0:12.9 | Are humans uniquely unique? |
| 0:15.0 | What is reality? |
| 0:16.5 | From quantum cosmology to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:20.1 | really, we've been building up to the one big question, |
| 0:23.5 | we finally reached the destination, |
| 0:25.2 | because today, we ask, |
| 0:27.2 | did Spacemen colonize the earth? |
| 0:29.5 | Well, we're not asking that, because they didn't. |
| 0:31.6 | Why not? |
| 0:32.5 | It's a very, very good question, |
| 0:34.2 | and I've done an enormous amount of research into this subject, |
| 0:37.5 | such as, |
| 0:38.6 | I have read, did Spacemen colonize the earth? |
| 0:42.0 | So, I have to admit, I haven't read all of it, |
| 0:44.4 | but I've read some very pertinent parts of it. |
| 0:46.4 | Listen, it's certain, I would say, |
| 0:48.2 | that there are aliens amongst us, |
| 0:50.1 | however, by amongst us, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.