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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.
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
