Why should more teens listen to The Infinite Monkey Cage?
The Infinite Monkey Cage is a comedic and popular science series on BBC Radio 4, hosted by physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince. The name is a reference to the infinite monkey cage.
The programme won a Gold Award in The Best Speech Programme category at the 2011 Sony Radio Awards. It also won The Best Radio Talk Show at the 2015 Rose’d or Awards.
I was introduced to The Infinite Monkey Cage a few years back, during my GCSE’s, I felt like I wanted to find a way to keep my mind engaged without having it to be intense studying or information that I was constantly revising. I also wanted to be able to do this whilst doing other things, like waking up in the morning and getting ready, and The Infinite Monkey Cage, for me, did just that.
The comedic aspect mixed with science created a powerful, light hearted and welcoming podcast for all listeners. It has been a spectacular podcast to wake up my mind with a positive attitude in the morning, furthermore, it enlightens your brain with new and captivating knowledge that schools most likely don’t teach you. It has tested my perceptions of the world and the strength of my thought processes.
My mother works in the BBC and asked myself and a friend of mine if we would like to go and be part of the audience to The Infinite Monkey Cage; of course, I was ecstatic to go.
Watching the programme made me fall in love with it even more. Throughout the retakes and the entire show in general, it felt like such an open-arms experience, you can tell that everything is so genuine, and it is just a group of people talking about a topic they find interesting and discussing it with everyone. It is one of those feel-good shows.
It was, in a positive way, slightly informal, which I liked because this quality allows more people to enjoy it on a personal level.
The Infinite Monkey Cage talks about topics such as ‘Will insects inherit the earth?’, ‘Making the Invisible Visible’, ‘Science of everyday life’ and ‘Oceans; What remains to be discovered?’
These aren’t necessarily straightforward topics which is a huge aspect that I love about the podcast.
To conclude, I highly recommend that more people and especially teenagers, should take it upon themselves to listen to the podcast as it is a great addition to your day and overall, your life.
