The Infinite Monkey Cage

By BBC Radio 4

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A remarkable combination of science and comedy.

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Professor Brian Cox and Robin Ince host a witty, irreverent look at the world through scientists’ eyes. Joined by a panel of scientists, experts and celebrity science enthusiasts they investigate life, the universe and everything in between on The Infinite Monkey Cage from the BBC.

From the smallest building blocks of life to the furthest stars, the curious monkeys pull apart the latest science to reveal fascinating and often bizarre insights into the world around us and what lies beyond. Can trees talk to each other? Can science help you commit the perfect murder? What might aliens look like and the burning question of our time, are strawberries alive or dead? Join them as each episode they put a different scientific topic under the microscope, from aliens, black holes and hedgehogs, to bacteria, poison and the Big Bang. With past guests including actors Dame Judi Dench and Sir Patrick Stewart, comedians Steve Martin and Conan O’Brien, astronaut Tim Peake, primatologist Jane Goodall and mathematician Hannah Fry, The Infinite Monkey Cage promises to make you laugh, enrich your knowledge and leave you with a deeper appreciation for the universe that we call home. Whether you’re a seasoned scientist or someone who nodded off in physics class, listen in to learn all about funny, fascinating and sometimes ridiculous topics – with the occasional monkey business.


Episode Date
Starless World
Nov 27, 2024
Hedgehogs
Nov 20, 2024
The Cyber Codebreakers
Nov 13, 2024
Alien Life - Russell Kane, Lisa Kaltenegger and Chris Lintott
Aug 21, 2024
An Unexpected History of Science - Rufus Hound, Matthew Cobb, Victoria Herridge and Keith Moore
Aug 14, 2024
What a Gas! - Dave Gorman, Mark Miodownik and Lucy Carpenter
Aug 07, 2024
Extreme Exploration - Anneka Rice, Mike Massimino, Britney Schmidt and Jess Phoenix
Jul 31, 2024
'Beastly Bodies' Kids Special - Steve Backshall, Jess French and Adam Kay
Jul 24, 2024
Science of Board Games - Jess Fostekew, Marcus du Sautoy and Dave Neale
Jul 17, 2024
The Wonder of Trees - Dame Judi Dench, Tony Kirkham and Tristan Gooley
Jul 10, 2024
The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Audience Favourites (Pt 2)
May 29, 2024
The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Tiny Things
May 22, 2024
The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… The Future
May 15, 2024
The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Failure
May 08, 2024
The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Gambling
May 01, 2024
The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… The Gods
Apr 24, 2024
The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Talking to Aliens
Apr 17, 2024
The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Gardening
Apr 10, 2024
The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Love
Apr 03, 2024
The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Murder
Mar 27, 2024
Higgs Boson
Mar 20, 2024
Cats v Dogs
Mar 13, 2024
Poison
Mar 06, 2024
Asteroids
Feb 28, 2024
Could it be magic?
Feb 21, 2024
Egyptian Mummies
Feb 14, 2024
The Monkeys meet The Sky at Night
Dec 20, 2023
Jo Brand's Quantum World
Dec 13, 2023
Hollywood in Space
Dec 06, 2023
The Scale of Life (or were dinosaurs just too big?)
Nov 29, 2023
How I is AI?
Nov 22, 2023
The Science of Coincidence
Nov 14, 2023
Octopuses!
Nov 08, 2023
The Infinite Monkey’s Guide to... Audience Favourites
Nov 08, 2023
The Infinite Monkey’s Guide to... Infinity
Nov 01, 2023
The Infinite Monkey’s Guide to... Being Human
Oct 25, 2023
The Infinite Monkey’s Guide to... Oceans
Oct 18, 2023
The Infinite Monkey’s Guide to... Building a Universe
Oct 11, 2023
The Infinite Monkey’s Guide to... Strawberries
Oct 04, 2023
The Infinite Monkey’s Guide to... The Movies
Sep 27, 2023
The Infinite Monkey’s Guide To... Space Travel
Sep 20, 2023
The Infinite Monkey’s Guide To... The Apocalypse
Sep 13, 2023
The Infinite Monkey’s Guide to... The Supernatural
Sep 06, 2023
Welcome to The Infinite Monkey's Guide To...
Sep 05, 2023
Cosmic Dust
Aug 05, 2023
Ancient DNA Secrets
Jul 29, 2023
The Secret Life of Sharks
Jul 22, 2023
The Magic of Mushrooms
Jul 15, 2023
Bees v Wasps
Jul 08, 2023
Supervolcanoes
Jul 01, 2023
Are we what we eat?
Jun 24, 2023
Magic Materials
Mar 25, 2023
How Far Can the Human Body Go?
Mar 18, 2023
How to Commit the Perfect Murder
Mar 11, 2023
How to think like a mathematician
Mar 04, 2023
Australia’s Scary Spiders
Feb 25, 2023
Southern Skies
Feb 18, 2023
Why does wine taste good?
Dec 24, 2022
The Deep Space Network
Dec 17, 2022
The Age of Conspiracy?
Dec 10, 2022
Can we cure ageing?
Dec 03, 2022
Hunting for Exoplanets
Nov 26, 2022
Exploring our solar system
Nov 19, 2022
What have we learnt from Covid?
Nov 12, 2022
How to Teach Maths
Sep 03, 2022
Brains
Aug 27, 2022
Astronauts
Aug 20, 2022
Black Holes
Aug 13, 2022
The Wood Wide Web
Aug 06, 2022
Exploring the Deep
Jul 30, 2022
Bats v Flies
Jul 23, 2022
A History of Rock
Feb 15, 2021
The Fundamentals of Reality
Feb 08, 2021
The Science of Cooking
Feb 01, 2021
Neanderthals
Jan 25, 2021
Under our Night Sky
Jan 18, 2021
In Praise of Flies
Jan 11, 2021
Does Time Exist?
Aug 26, 2020
What is Life?
Jul 20, 2020
When the Monkeys Met the Chimps
Jun 29, 2020
The Sun
Jun 22, 2020
An Astronaut's Guide to Isolation
Jun 15, 2020
Space Archaeology
Jun 08, 2020
Black Holes
Jun 01, 2020
The End of the Universe
May 25, 2020
UFO special
Feb 12, 2020
Lucy Beaumont's Close Encounters
Feb 12, 2020
Quantum Worlds
Feb 10, 2020
Fire
Feb 03, 2020
Coral Reefs
Jan 27, 2020
Conspiracy Theories
Jan 20, 2020
Science of Laughter
Jan 13, 2020
Brits in Space
Oct 14, 2019
Anniversary of the Periodic Table
Oct 07, 2019
Science of Dreaming
Sep 30, 2019
Clever Creatures
Sep 23, 2019
Dinosaurs
Sep 16, 2019
The Infinite Moonkey Cage
Jul 20, 2019
How We Measure the Universe
Feb 11, 2019
How to Build a Bionic Human
Feb 04, 2019
Are humans still evolving?
Jan 28, 2019
Origin of Numbers
Jan 21, 2019
The Future of Humanity
Jan 14, 2019
Microbes: Secret Rulers of the World?
Jan 07, 2019
GCHQ
Aug 13, 2018
Special Bonus Edition
Aug 09, 2018
The Human Voice
Aug 06, 2018
Immune System
Jul 30, 2018
Invasion
Jul 23, 2018
Big Data
Jul 16, 2018
The Infinite Monkey Cage 100
Jul 11, 2018
Volcanoes
Feb 12, 2018
How Animals Behave
Feb 05, 2018
Teenage Brain
Jan 29, 2018
Antibiotics
Jan 22, 2018
The Secret Life of Birds
Jan 15, 2018
When Two Stars Collide
Jan 08, 2018
Christmas Special 2017: The Science of Magic
Dec 25, 2017
The Mind v the Brain
Aug 07, 2017
Are We Living in a Simulation?
Jul 31, 2017
Will insects inherit the earth?
Jul 24, 2017
Oxygen: A Matter of Life and Death
Jul 17, 2017
Astronaut Special
Jul 10, 2017
What Particles Remain to be Discovered?
Jul 03, 2017
Making the Invisible Visible
Feb 13, 2017
The Human Story: How We Got Here and Why We Survived.
Feb 06, 2017
Oceans: What Remains to Be Discovered?
Jan 30, 2017
Science's Epic Fails
Jan 23, 2017
How to Beat the House and Win at Games
Jan 16, 2017
The Science of Everyday Life
Jan 10, 2017
Christmas Special 2016
Dec 27, 2016
The Universe: What Remains to Be Discovered?
Aug 01, 2016
200 Years of Frankenstein
Jul 25, 2016
Battle of the Sexes
Jul 18, 2016
Science of Sleep
Jul 11, 2016
The Recipe to Build a Universe
Jul 04, 2016
The Sound of Music
Jun 27, 2016
Brian and Robin's Infinite Inbox
Feb 25, 2016
Climate Change
Feb 15, 2016
Maths of Love and Sex
Feb 08, 2016
What Is Reality?
Feb 01, 2016
Invisible Universe
Jan 25, 2016
What is Race?
Jan 18, 2016
Artificial Intelligence
Jan 12, 2016
Christmas Special 2015
Dec 25, 2015
Episode 2
Dec 15, 2015
Episode 1
Dec 08, 2015
Forensic Science
Aug 10, 2015
Speed
Aug 03, 2015
The Infinite Monkey Cage USA Tour: San Francisco
Jul 27, 2015
The Infinite Monkey Cage USA Tour: Chicago
Jul 20, 2015
The Infinite Monkey Cage USA Tour: Los Angeles
Jul 13, 2015
The Infinite Monkey Cage USA Tour: New York
Jul 06, 2015
Serendipity
Feb 23, 2015
What Is the Point of Plants?
Feb 16, 2015
When Quantum Goes Woo
Feb 09, 2015
Solar System
Feb 02, 2015
Fierce Creatures
Jan 26, 2015
Deception
Jan 19, 2015
Christmas Special 2014
Dec 25, 2014
Irrationality
Aug 11, 2014
Before the Big Bang
Aug 04, 2014
Can Science Save Us?
Jul 28, 2014
Does Science Need War?
Jul 21, 2014
Are Humans Uniquely Unique?
Jul 14, 2014
Numbers Numbers Everywhere
Jul 07, 2014
Brian and Robin's Infinite Inbox
Mar 10, 2014
Science and Spin
Dec 23, 2013
Should We Pander to Pandas?
Dec 16, 2013
To Infinity and Beyond
Dec 09, 2013
Science Rocks!
Dec 02, 2013
Through the Doors of Perception
Nov 25, 2013
Risk
Nov 18, 2013
Science Museum
Jul 29, 2013
Alfred Russel Wallace
Jul 22, 2013
What Makes Science a Science?
Jul 15, 2013
Space Tourism
Jul 08, 2013
Glastonbury
Jul 01, 2013
What Is Death?
Jun 24, 2013
Christmas Special: The Science of Christmas Behaviour
Dec 24, 2012
Creating Life
Dec 17, 2012
Brain Science
Dec 10, 2012
Secret Science
Dec 03, 2012
Improbable Science
Nov 26, 2012
Space Exploration
Nov 19, 2012
Science v Art
Jul 23, 2012
Parallel Universes
Jul 16, 2012
The Science of Symmetry
Jul 08, 2012
Does Size Matter?
Jul 02, 2012
Science Mavericks
Jun 25, 2012
Oceans: The Last Great Unexplored Frontier?
Jun 18, 2012
The Science of Christmas
Dec 26, 2011
I'm a Chemist Get Me Out of Here
Dec 19, 2011
The Science of Sound
Dec 12, 2011
The Origins of Life
Dec 05, 2011
A Balanced Programme on Balance
Nov 28, 2011
What's the North Ever Done for Us?
Nov 21, 2011
Science vs The Supernatural: Does Science Kill the Magic?
Jul 05, 2011
Is There Room for Mysticism in a Rational World?
Jun 27, 2011
Is Cosmology Really a Science?
Jun 20, 2011
So You Want To Be An Astronaut?
Jun 13, 2011
Six Degrees
Jun 06, 2011
What Don't We Know?
May 30, 2011
Philosophy
Dec 06, 2010
Randomness
Nov 29, 2010
Modern World
Nov 22, 2010
Apocalypse
Nov 15, 2010
Things Can Only Get Better?
Jul 05, 2010
Science Fiction, Science Fact
Jun 28, 2010
Trust me, I'm a Scientist
Jun 21, 2010
Popular Science
Jun 14, 2010
Science and Religion
Dec 21, 2009
Quantum Physics
Dec 14, 2009
Extraterrestrial Life
Dec 07, 2009
Science and Comedians
Nov 30, 2009