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Monkey

Brian Cox earns Bragging rights

Brian Cox
Prof Brian Cox ... teaming up with Billy Bragg. Photograph: Graeme Robertson

Monkey got ludicrously over excited at the news that Brian Cox, particle physics' answer to Paul Whitehouse's Fast Show "Brilliant!" character, is teaming up with Billy Bragg for a Glasto gig. Oh, hang on – it's not that kind of gig, you say? OK, so – actually they'll be recording a special Glasto edition of Radio 4 science with chuckles show The Infinite Monkey Cage. But just imagine the playlist if it was a musical collaboration: Life on Mars, Across the Universe, Another Girl, Another Planet, The Particle Physicist of Human Kindness, Waiting for the Great Quantum Leap Forwards ... And their band name? Bragging about the size of their Cox.

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