Brian Cox and Robin Ince emerge from the hedge row waking up their guests from hibernation to discuss the fascinating lives of Britain’s favourite mammal, the hedgehog. They are joined by hedgehog experts Hugh Warwick and Sophie Lund Rasmussen (also know as Dr Hedgehog), and by broadcaster and poet Pam Ayres. Sophie Lund Rasmussen has crowd sourced 14 freezers worth of dead hedgehogs for her research and has brought one of her more unique samples with her, the penis of the oldest known hedgehog who reached a stupendous 16 years of age! Together our panel snuffle their way through the evolution of hedgehogs, their life cycle and how to stop them getting run over by robotic lawn mowers! Producer: Melanie Brown Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem Researcher: Olivia Jani BBC Studios Audio production
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Hello, I'm Robin Ince.
And I'm Brian Cox.
And this is the Infinite Monkey Hedgerow.
You've heard our previous fighting challenges.
Bees versus Wasps, cats versus dogs, Bats versus flies.
Well, today, let's get ready to rumble, because it's hedgehogs, but it's just hedgehogs.
They're not going to be against anything because everyone loves hedgehogs, so there's no point in doing hedgehogs versus flies.
Hedgehogs win.
Hedgehogs versus wasps.
Hedgehogs win.
HedgeHogs versus gazelles.
Hedgehogs win.
Basically, we know that there's no point.
So the hedgehog begins this show as a victor without competition.
I'm very worried for the listeners of Radio 4.
Actually, it's our new time.