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The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Audience Favourites (Pt 2)

Listeners' favourite moments from the Infinite Monkey Cage featuring guests including Alan Moore and Noel Fielding, and a scientist explaining spider sex

`This week it's over to you the listeners, as we hear some of your favourite moments from The Infinite Monkey Cage. Comedian Claire Hooper hears about the mating rituals of spiders, which use several of their legs in this complex process. But she discovers the females of the species get their own back by eating the males once the deed is done. Comedian Noel Fielding explains how he made a plasticine figure of singer Joey Ramone, prompting Robin to wonder about the pitfalls of building a real-life Frankenstein. And writer Alan Moore tells Jonathan Ross how he used string theory as inspiration for a comic strip... about a virtuoso violinist.

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Producer: Marijke Peters
Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem

Episodes Featured:
Series 26: Australia's Scariest Spiders
Series 14: 200 Years of Frankenstein
Series 2: Science Fiction, Science Fact
Series 22: Space Archaeology
Series 5: The Science of Sound

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