The Infinite Monkey Cage · BBC Radio 4
What’s the deal with eels? – Lucy Porter, David Righton and Caroline Durif
November 26, 2025·42 min·3 clips
Eels from Norway and Morocco meet in the Sargasso Sea using the Earth's magnetic field as a signpost.
As heard by us
A lively eel episode that keeps the science strange and the banter easy.
This episode follows an oddly compelling eel migration and keeps one foot in science and the other in banter. Robin Ince and Brian Cox lead the conversation, while Caroline helps trace the life cycle from leptocephalus to glass eel to elver to yellow eel to silver eel.
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You want eel science with jokes, two-host banter, and real biological weirdness.
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