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Hello, I'm Brian Cox.
I'm Robin Ince and we're back for a new series of the Infinite Monkey Cage.
We have our 201st extravaganza,
where we're going to talk about how animals emote when around trains and tunnels or something like that.
I'm not entirely sure.
We're doing one on potatoes.
Of course we're doing one on potatoes.
You love potatoes.
Yeah, you love chips.
I'll only enjoy it if it's got curry sauce on it.
We've also got techno fossils, moths versus butterflies and a history of light.
Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcast.
BBC sounds music radio podcasts Hello and welcome to you're dead to me the radio for comedy podcast that takes history seriously.
My name is Greg Jenner I'm a public historian author and broadcaster and today we are packing our trunk and boarding a ship to 13th century China to learn all about medieval traveler Marco Polo and to help us on our way We have two very special traveling companions in history corner She's distinguished professor of literature at the University of California Santa Cruz Her research focuses on the intercultural relations of 12th and 13th century Asia and Europe and in literature,
particularly.
And luckily for us, she's the most recent translator of Marco Polo's book,
as well as the author of Marco Polo and His World.
It's Professor Sharon Kinoshita.
Welcome, Sharon.