Greg Jenner

This is where I have a go at guessing what our listener will know about today's subject. And I reckon you've seen some cave art at some point somehow. At least you've spotted some in the background on the Flintstones. It's in everything from animated movies like the Ice Age franchise, which I absolutely love.

It's in the Oscar-winning classic The English Patient, which I'd totally forgotten, but it is in there. Maybe you've visited a cave on your holidays. Someone like Cresswell Crags in Derbyshire or Lascaux in the south of France. But for how long have humans been showcasing their artistic talents? What sort of things did they paint on cave walls? Sean's already given us a summary, but there's more.

It's in the Oscar-winning classic The English Patient, which I'd totally forgotten, but it is in there. Maybe you've visited a cave on your holidays. Someone like Cresswell Crags in Derbyshire or Lascaux in the south of France. But for how long have humans been showcasing their artistic talents? What sort of things did they paint on cave walls? Sean's already given us a summary, but there's more.

And were cave people really the first comic book illustrators? Let us find out, shall we? Right, we'll start with some basics. Sean, do you know what we mean by the Paleolithic period? Give me a date range, start and finish. 1975.

And were cave people really the first comic book illustrators? Let us find out, shall we? Right, we'll start with some basics. Sean, do you know what we mean by the Paleolithic period? Give me a date range, start and finish. 1975.

Because really, it's what, 3.3 million?

Because really, it's what, 3.3 million?

You have 4% Neanderthal DNA, Sean.

You have 4% Neanderthal DNA, Sean.

I went through your ancestry. I gave you a swap on the way in.

I went through your ancestry. I gave you a swap on the way in.

That's why you're a bit late. We've got a lab in the back. He stole our hairs. The idea of the Stone Age is 200 years old. The concept of it was coined in the 1820s. When was cave art first discovered? Is it the Victorians?

That's why you're a bit late. We've got a lab in the back. He stole our hairs. The idea of the Stone Age is 200 years old. The concept of it was coined in the 1820s. When was cave art first discovered? Is it the Victorians?

So a mammoth carved a mammoth. Sean, I mean, you're a sketch artist in a comedy sense, but if you were a sketch artist in an artistic sense, what would be your best artwork made of the thing that it's depicting?

So a mammoth carved a mammoth. Sean, I mean, you're a sketch artist in a comedy sense, but if you were a sketch artist in an artistic sense, what would be your best artwork made of the thing that it's depicting?

Let's talk about cave paintings, because I think that's probably what listeners are really imagining in their head. So when were those first found?

Let's talk about cave paintings, because I think that's probably what listeners are really imagining in their head. So when were those first found?

So there's one guy called Harlow who visited this site.

So there's one guy called Harlow who visited this site.

Just get out a sharpie. There you go, mammoth, what do you want? He did the opposite. He wiped his finger across it and smudged it through. What does that prove? That it's incredibly delicate?