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Speaker 1 Welcome to a brand new series from BBC Radio 4, where we take a look through the Infinite Monkey Cage back catalogue to bring you handy little guides to everything from space travel to, of course, dead strawberries.

Speaker 1 It's called the Infinite Monkeys Guide to.

Speaker 3 The Infinite Monkey Cage is a BBC podcast presented by physicist Brian Cox

Speaker 3 and comedian Robin Inse.

Speaker 1 That's me.

Speaker 3 Delving each week into science's most compelling and often hilarious questions with a team of experts and guest celebrities. It's been going to have 27 series, over 27 series.

Speaker 3 So in celebration, we've pulled together some of the best moments from the shows to date.

Speaker 1 Some of my favourite things, I'm so pleased we've got them, is when we went to Starmus out in Norway and we had that panel that was just all astronauts, we had Charlie Duke, the Apollo astronaut.

Speaker 1 Yeah, walked on him.

Speaker 3 It was a bit humbling, actually, that one, wasn't it?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 What do you do? I floated outside the International Space Station for a very long time. What do you do? I walked on the moon.

Speaker 1 Then we had another space exploration one where you were absolutely wowed by Patrick Stewart's communicator badge.

Speaker 3 We were talking to him about space exploration. Space is really big and there's not very much in it.
And he said, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 He said, most weeks we were filming Star Trek and we went and we landed on planets, nothing interesting happened, but we never broadcast those.

Speaker 1 and then of course there's Brian Blessed one of my favourite ever guests who's been on a few times now and he scared the Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield when he did his impersonation of Jesus on the cross it was a pretty full-on impersonation it was louder than a Soyuz yeah

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Speaker 1 So we'd be hearing from such an eclectic mix of guests including Brian Blessed, Jan Eleven, Steve Martin, Susie Maidman, Carolyn Porco as well, who someone once described as being the greatest photographer ever.

Speaker 3 That was one of the great moments for me because she worked on Voyager. Yeah.

Speaker 3 You know, so you watch some of those programmes about the first photographs of Jupiter, Saturn, the only photographs of Neptune and Venus from a space probe. And she worked on those cameras.

Speaker 3 She's a legend. And that's been one of the great things for me, meeting some of my heroes.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So the Infinite Monkeys Guide 2 is perfect to listen to if you're brand new to the Infinite Monkey Cage and want to learn more. Or if you're just a lifelong, I say just a lifelong fan.

Speaker 1 Thank you very much if you are a lifelong fan and you want to reminisce.

Speaker 3 Is it the infinite monkeys guide to? Is that grammatically correct? We're going to get letters, aren't we? The infinite monkey.

Speaker 3 Yeah, because the infinite monkey cage, that suggests to me a monkey with an infinite number of degrees of freedom.

Speaker 1 So if you're an infinite number of monkeys, we suggest you listen to the infinite monkey cage. If you are a singular infinite monkey, then we suggest you listen to the infinite monkeys guide to.

Speaker 1 Is that what we're saying?

Speaker 3 We'll leave that to you, the listeners.

Speaker 1 I'll tell you what, we definitely will now. We've recorded 10 episodes.
You You can listen to The Infinite Monkeys Guide 2 weekly on BBC Sounds.

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