Episode 99: Mistress of the Apes (1979)

Mistress of the Apes (1979) tells the harrowing tale of Susan, an anthropologist who lost her pregnancy and learned of her husband’s murder in Congo Kenya in the same week. But she remained strong, without showing any visible signs of emotion whatsoever, until she learned to love again, in the arms of a Homo habilis her husband had discovered prior to his death (his murder was unrelated).

Content warning: this movie contains multiple scenes involving sexual assault.

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In this episode:

• Watch Mistress of the Apes on YouTube

• Homo habilis

• Australopithecus

• Koko banga saka

• African Genesis (1961) by Robert Ardrey

• Congolian Rainforest

• Jimmy Kimmel – Can you name a country?

• Rick Mercer – Talking to Americans

• Timbits

• Writing systems

• Ape sign language was a bunch of babbling nonsense