I managed to achieve my monthly belly laff quota in one evening – the night I recorded The Infinite Monkey Cage for BBC Radio 4, a science geek comedy panel programme hosted by physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince. The other panelists were chemist Tony Ryan and the hilarious Paul Foot.

The topic was The Modern World: Good or Evil? We managed to slander chemistry, physics, social psychology and the organic food movement. I didn’t mention that I’d been shopping in the local organic food shop minutes before arriving…

Listen to the episode.