The Ape That Got Lucky. Image shows from L to R: Professor Austin Herring (Geoffrey McGivern), Chris Addison, Dan Tetsell, Jo Enright. Copyright: BBC
The Ape That Got Lucky
- Radio stand-up
- BBC Radio 4
- 2005
- 4 episodes (1 series)
Chris Addison's Sony Gold Award winning radio show, in which he argues that humans became the top species on Earth through sheer luck. Stars Chris Addison, Geoffrey McGivern, Jo Enright and Dan Tetsell.
Press clippings
If you seek intellectual nourishment then, at all costs, avoid The Ape That Got Lucky (11pm, Radio 4), a new comedy science series featuring Chris Addison (last seen on BBC4's superb The Thick of It). Tonight: why man developed language (answer: so cavewomen could moan at cavemen for not tidying up).
Maxton Walker, The Guardian, 4th August 2005Monkey business
Chris Addison thinks that human evolution is a joke.
James Jackson, The Times, 30th July 2005