The Infinite Monkey Cage

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The Infinite Monkey Cage is a BBC Radio 4 comedy and popular science series. Hosted by physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince, The Independent described it as a “witty and irreverent look at the world according to science

Each show has a particular topic up for discussion, with previous topics including the apocalypse and space travel. There are normally three guests; two of these are scientists with an interest in the topic of discussion, offering an expert opinion on the subject. The other guest is usually a comedian, who takes a less serious view of the subject, and often makes the show more accessible by asking the ‘stupid’ questions that the other guests may have overlooked.

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Episode List

• S01E01 – Science and Comedians
• S01E02 – Extraterrestrial Life
• S01E03 – Quantum Physics
• S01E04 – Science and Religion
• S02E01 – Popular Science
• S02E02 – Trust me Im a Scientist
• S02E03 – Science Fiction Science Fact
• S02E04 – Things Can Only Get Better
• S03E01 – Apocalypse
• S03E02 – Modern World
• S03E03 – Randomness
• S03E04 – Philosophy
• S04E01 – What Dont We Know
• S04E02 – Six Degrees
• S04E03 – So You Want To Be An Astronaut
• S04E04 – Is Cosmology Really a Science
• S04E05 – Is There Room for Mysticism in a Rational World
• S04E06 – Science vs The Supernatural Does Science Kill the Magic
• S05E01 – Whats the North Ever Done for Us
• S05E02 – A Balanced Programme on Balance
• S05E03 – The Origins of Life
• S05E04 – The Science of Sound
• S05E05 – Im a Chemist Get Me Out of Here
• S05E06 – The Science of Christmas
• S06E01 – Oceans The Last Great Unexplored Frontier
• S06E02 – Science Mavericks
• S06E03 – Does Size Matter
• S06E04 – The Science of Symmetry
• S06E05 – Parallel Universes
• S06E06 – Science v Art
• S07E01 – Space Exploration
• S07E02 – Improbable Science
• S07E03 – Secret Science
• S07E04 – Brain Science
• S07E05 – Creating Life
• S07E06 – Christmas Special The Science of Christmas Behaviour
• S08E01 – What Is Death
• S08E02 – Glastonbury
• S08E03 – Space Tourism
• S08E04 – What Makes Science a Science
• S08E05 – Alfred Russel Wallace
• S08E06 – Science Museum
• S09E01 – Risk
• S09E02 – Through the Doors of Perception
• S09E03 – Science Rocks
• S09E04 – To Infinity and Beyond
• S09E05 – Should We Pander to Pandas
• S09E06 – Science and Spin
• S09ESP – Brian and Robins Infinite Inbox
• S10E01 – Numbers Numbers Everywhere
• S10E02 – Are Humans Uniquely Unique
• S10E03 – Does Science Need War
• S10E04 – Can Science Save Us
• S10E05 – Before the Big Bang
• S10E06 – Irrationality
• S10ESP – Christmas Special
• S11E01 – Deception
• S11E02 – Fierce Creatures
• S11E03 – Solar System
• S11E04 – When Quantum Goes Woo
• S11E05 – What Is the Point of Plants
• S11E06 – Serendipity
• S12E01 – USA Tour New York
• S12E02 – USA Tour Los Angeles
• S12E03 – USA Tour Chicago
• S12E04 – USA Tour San Francisco
• S12E05 – Speed
• S12E06 – Forensic Science
• S12ESP1 – An Infinite Monkeys Guide to General Relativity – 01. Episode 1
• S12ESP2 – An Infinite Monkeys Guide to General Relativity – 02. Episode 2
• S12ESP3- Christmas Special
• S13E01 – Artificial Intelligence
• S13E02 – What is Race
• S13E03 – Invisible Universe
• S13E04 – What Is Reality
• S13E05 – Maths of Love and Sex
• S13E06 – Climate Change
• S13ESP – Christmas Special
• S14E01 – The Sound of Music
• S14E02 – The Recipe to Build a Universe
• S14E03 – Science of Sleep
• S14E04 – Battle of the Sexes
• S14E05 – 200 Years of Frankenstein
• S14E06 – The Universe What Remains to Be Discovered
• S15E01 – The Science of Everyday Life
• S15E02 – How to Beat the House and Win at Games
• S15E03 – Sciences Epic Fails
• S15E04 – Oceans What Remains to Be Discovered
• S15E05 – The Human Story How We Got Here and Why We Survived.
• S15E06 – Making the Invisible Visible
• S16E01 – What Particles Remain to be Discovered
• S16E02 – Astronaut Special
• S16E03 – Oxygen A Matter of Life and Death
• S16E04 – Will insects inherit the earth
• S16E05 – Are We Living in a Simulation
• S16E06 – The Mind v the Brain
• S16ESP – Christmas Special The Science of Magic
• S17E01 – When Two Stars Collide
• S17E02 – The Secret Life of Birds
• S17E03 – Antibiotics
• S17E04 – Teenage Brain
• S17E05 – How Animals Behave
• S17E06 – Volcanoes
• S18E01 – 100
• S18E02 – Big Data
• S18E03 – Invasion
• S18E04 – Immune System
• S18E05 – The Human Voice
• S18E06 – GCHQ
• S19E01 – Microbes Secret Rulers of the World
• S19E02 – The Future of Humanity
• S19E03 – Origin of Numbers
• S19E04 – Are Humans Still Evolving
• S19E05 – How to Build a Bionic Human
• S19E06 – How We Measure the Universe
• S19ESP1 – Brian and Robins Infinite Inbox
• S19ESP2 – 100th Episode TV Special
• S19ESP3 – Special Bonus Edition
• S19ESP4 – The Infinite Moonkey Cage
• S20E01 – Dinosaurs
• S20E02 – Clever Creatures
• S20E03 – Science of Dreaming
• S20E04 – Anniversary of the Periodic Table
• S20E05 – Brits in Space
• S21E01 – Science of Laughter
• S21E02 – Conspiracy Theories
• S21E03 – Coral Reefs
• S21E04 – Fire
• S21E05 – Quantum Worlds
• S21E06 – UFO special
• S22E01 – The End of the Universe
• S22E02 – Black Holes
• S22E03 – Space Archaeology
• S22E04 – An Astronaut’s Guide To Isolation
• S22E05 – The Sun
• S22E06 – When the Monkeys met the Chimps
• S22E07 – Does Time Exist
• S22E08 – The Human Brain
• S22E09 – What is Life
• S23E01 – In Praise of Flies
• S23E02 – Under our Night Sky
• S23E03 – Neanderthals
• S23E04 – The Science of Cooking
• S23E05 – The Fundamentals of Reality
• S23E06 – A History of Rock
• S24E01 – Bats v Flies
• S24E02 – Exploring the Deep
• S24E03 – The Wood Wide Web
• S24E04 – Black Holes
• S24E05 – Astronauts
• S24E06 – Brains
• S24E07 – How to Teach Maths
• S25E01 – What have we learnt from Covid
• S25E02 – Exploring our solar system
• S25E03 – Hunting for Exoplanets
• S25E04 – Can we cure ageing
• S25E05 – The Age of Conspiracy
• S25E05 – The Deep Space Network
• S25E06 – Why does wine taste good
• S26E01 – Southern Skies
• S26E02 – Australia’s Scary Spiders
• S26E03 – How to think like a mathematician
• S26E04 – How to Commit the Perfect Murder
• S26E06 – How Far Can the Human Body Go
• S26E07 – Magic Materials
• S27E01 – Are we what we eat
• S27E02 – Supervolcanoes
• S27E03 – Bees v Wasps
• S27E04 – The Magic of Mushrooms
• S27E05 – The Secret Life of Sharks
• S27E06 – Ancient DNA Secrets
• S27E07 – Cosmic Dust
• S28E01 – Octopuses!
• S28E02 – The Science of Coincidence
• S28E03 – How I is AI
• S28E04 – The Scale of Life (or were Dinosaurs just too big)
• S28E05 – Hollywood in Space
• S28E06 – Jo Brand’s Quantum World
• S28E07 – The Monkeys meet The Sky At Night
• S29E01 – Egyptian Mummies
• S29E02 – Could it be magic
• S29E03 – Asteroids
• S29E04 – Poison
• S29E05 – Cats v Dogs
• S29E06 – Higgs Boson
• S30E01 – The Wonder of Trees – Dame Judi Dench, Tony Kirkham and Tristan Gooley
• S30E02 – Science of Board Games – Jess Fostekew, Marcus du Sautoy and Dave Neale
• S30E03 – ‘Beastly Bodies’ Kids Special – Steve Bakshall, Jess French and Adam Kay
• S30E04 – Extreme Exploration – Anneka Rice, Mike Massimino, Britney Schmidt and Jess Phoenix
• S30E05 – What a Gas! – Dave Gorman, Mark Miodownik and Lucy Carpenter
• S30E06 – An Unexpected History of Science – Rufus Hound, Matthew Cobb ,Victoria Herridge and Keith Moore
• S30E07 – Alien Life – Russell Kane, Lisa Kaltenegger and Chris Lintott

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