Award winning science/comedy chat with Brian Cox, Robin Ince and guests. Witty, irreverent look at the world according to science with physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince. New Series starting on BBC Radio 4, Monday June 24th at 4.30pm (repeated on Tuesday evenings at 11pm) for 6 weeks.
Episodes available:
Indefinitely 
Mon, 24 Dec 12
Duration:
29 mins
Brian Cox and Robin Ince get into the Christmas spirit as they look at the science of christmas behaviour.
Mon, 17 Dec 12
Duration:
29 mins
Robin Ince and Brian Cox are joined by comedian Ed Byrne and science writers Adam Rutherford and Philip Ball to talk about science's quest to create life.
Mon, 10 Dec 12
Duration:
29 mins
Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian Jo Brand and neuroscientist's Sophie Scott and Brian Butterworth to ask whether science will ever be able to really understand the human mind.
Mon, 3 Dec 12
Duration:
29 mins
Robin Ince and Brian Cox are joined by Simon Singh, Sue Black and comedian Dave Gorman to talk codes and secret science as they discuss the extraordinary achievements of Bletchley Park.
Mon, 26 Nov 12
Duration:
29 mins
Robin Ince and Brian Cox are joined on stage by comedian Katy Brand, biologist Matthew Cobb and science editor and ignobel prize giver Marc Abrams to discuss improbable research and whether some areas of scientific research are just pointless.
Mon, 19 Nov 12
Duration:
29 mins
Brian Cox and Robin Ince talk space exploration with Sir Patrick Stewart, Ben Miller and Professor Monica Grady.
Mon, 23 Jul 12
Duration:
28 mins
Brian Cox and Robin Ince pitch Science against Art at the Latitude Festival. With guests Al Murray, comedian and actor Sara Pascoe, Cosmologist Andrew Pontzen and particle physicist Jon Butterworth.
Mon, 16 Jul 12
Duration:
29 mins
Brian Cox, Robin Ince are joined by Professor Sir Martin Rees, Dr Lucie Green and QI creator John Lloyd to discuss the possibility of parallel universes.
Sun, 8 Jul 12
Duration:
29 mins
Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by mathematician Marcus Du Sautoy, biologist and broadcaster Adam Rutherford and graphic novelist Alan Moore to discuss all things symmetrical.
Mon, 2 Jul 12
Duration:
29 mins
Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by Andy Hamilton, materials scientist Mark Miodownik and engineer Eleanor stride to discuss whether size really matters?
Mon, 25 Jun 12
Duration:
29 mins
Brian Cox and Robin Ince take to the stage at this year's Cheltenham Science Festival to discuss science mavericks, with guests Marcus Brigstocke, Nobel Laureate Professor Barry Marshall, medic and science broadcaster Kevin Fong, and evolutionary biologist Aoife McLysaght
Mon, 18 Jun 12
Duration:
29 mins
Brian Cox and Robin Ince get the urge to submerge as they are joined by guests Dave Gorman, Lloyd Peck and Bramley Murton and ask whether its true we really know more about the surface of the moon than our own oceans.
Mon, 26 Dec 11
Duration:
29 mins
Brian Cox and Robin Ince celebrate the science of Christmas with Professor Richard Dawkins, actor and writer Mark Gatiss and science journalist Roger Highfield.
Mon, 19 Dec 11
Duration:
29 mins
It's the ultimate battle of the Sciences as Physics goes head to head with Chemistry. Brian Cox and Dara O'Briain take to the ring to defend Physics and Tony Ryan and Andrea Sella make the case for Chemistry, with Robin Ince as ringside referee.
Mon, 12 Dec 11
Duration:
29 mins
Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian and former acoustics student Tom Wrigglesworth, Professor of Acoustics Trevor Cox and Professor Chris Plack to discuss the science of sound. Recorded at the home of the BBC Philharmonic in Salford.
Mon, 5 Dec 11
Duration:
29 mins
Robin Ince and Brian Cox are joined by comedian and musician Tim Minchin, Dr Nick Lane and Adam Rutherford to discuss the origin of life
Mon, 28 Nov 11
Duration:
29 mins
Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by Katy Brand, Simon Mayo, Sir Paul Nurse and Professor Steve Jones for a look at how science is portrayed in the media and the issue of scientific balance.
Mon, 21 Nov 11
Duration:
29 mins
Robin Ince and Brian Cox head north to the Manchester Science Festival to discuss the great city's contribution to scientific discovery. With impressionist Jon Culshaw, physicist Jeff Foreshaw and Biologist Matthew Cobb
Tue, 5 Jul 11
Duration:
29 mins
Robin Ince and Brian Cox pit science against the supernatural, as they explore ghosts and other paranormal phenomena with the help of actor and magician Andy Nyman, psychologist Richard Wiseman and neuroscientist Bruce Hood.
Mon, 27 Jun 11
Duration:
31 mins
Robin Ince and Brian Cox prove science is the new rock and roll as they take to the stage at Glastonbury, with guests Billy Bragg, Graham Coxon, Shappi Khorsandi and Professor Tony Ryan.
Mon, 20 Jun 11
Duration:
29 mins
Robin Ince and Brian Cox transport The Infinite Monkey Cage to the Cheltenham Science Festival with guests Alan Moore, Dallas Campbell and Professor Ed Copeland. They talk about ideas that are pushing the frontiers of Cosmology and ask whether some of these theories are based more in science fiction than science fact.
Mon, 13 Jun 11
Duration:
28 mins
So you want to be an astronaut? Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by space experts Chris Riley, Dr Kevin Fong and comedian Helen Keen to discuss the future of human space flight.
Mon, 6 Jun 11
Duration:
31 mins
Robin Ince and Brian Cox are joined by Stephen Fry, Simon Singh and Aleks Krotoski to discuss the maths behind 6 degrees of separation and whether there is something special about Kevin Bacon that seems to make him so well connected?
Mon, 30 May 11
Duration:
28 mins
Robin Ince and Brian Cox are joined by comedian Paul Foot, Science writer Marcus Chown and geneticist Steve Jones, to ask "What Don't We Know?"
Mon, 6 Dec 10
Duration:
31 mins
Robin Ince and Brian Cox are joined by comedian Alexei Sayle, Philosopher Julian Baggini and Professor Raymond Tallis, to ask "Is Philosophy Dead?"
Mon, 29 Nov 10
Duration:
29 mins
Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian Tim Minchin and mathematician Alex Bellos to talk randomness, probability and chance.
Mon, 22 Nov 10
Duration:
29 mins
Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian Paul Foot, technology writer Aleks Krotoski and chemist Professor Tony Ryan, to discuss whether the modern world is a force for good or evil?
Mon, 15 Nov 10
Duration:
29 mins
Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by writer and comedian Andy Hamilton, science broadcaster Adam Rutherford and solar scientist Lucie Green to discuss whether the end is indeed nigh, and whether science can save us.
Mon, 5 Jul 10
Duration:
29 mins
Physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince look at the notion of perfection and whether the latest advances in the biomedical sciences could ever lead us to the perfect body.
Mon, 28 Jun 10
Duration:
29 mins
Brian Cox, Robin Ince and guests discuss multiple dimensions, alternate universes and look at whether science fact is far more outrageous than anything Hollywood or science fiction authors could ever come up with.
Mon, 21 Jun 10
Duration:
29 mins
Brian and Robin are joined by special guests Ben Goldacre and comedian Dave Gorman to discuss the notion of trust in science.
Mon, 14 Jun 10
Duration:
29 mins
Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by guests Ben Miller and Robert Winston to explore the choppy waters of science and fame. Are we are entering a golden age of science popularity?
Mon, 21 Dec 09
Duration:
26 mins
Robin and Brian are joined by Victor Stock, Dean of Guildford Cathedral, and science journalist Adam Rutherford for a special Christmas edition of the programme.
Mon, 14 Dec 09
Duration:
26 mins
Physicist turned comedian Ben Miller joins Brian and Robin to discuss quantum physics, and if astrology really shares its roots with more scientific pursuits.
Mon, 7 Dec 09
Duration:
26 mins
Robin and Brian are joined by alien abduction expert Jon Ronson and Seth Shostack from the SETI Institute in California to discuss science conspiracies, UFOs and the search for ET.
Mon, 30 Nov 09
Duration:
26 mins
Former cosmologist Dara O'Briain and Dr Alice Roberts join physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince for a witty, irreverant and unashamedly rational look at the world according to science.
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