Robin Ince is many things. A multi award-winning comedian, author, broadcaster, bibliomaniac, populariser of scientific ideas and poet. He is perhaps best known as the former co-host and co-creator of the Sony Gold Award-winning BBC Radio 4 series The Infinite Monkey Cage with Professor Brian Cox.
As a stand-up Robin has toured the world and as an author he has written four acclaimed books, including Bibliomaniac, earned him the prestigious Booksellers Association Author of the Year award. His fifth, Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal is published in May 2025. He co-created the Cosmic Shambles Network and created the groundbreaking science variety night Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People which has been adapted worldwide. He has received an Honorary Fellowship of UCL, an honorary doctorate from Royal Holloway College (University of London), and is a fellow of the British Science Association.
Robin will read poetry from his recent collections ‘Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth’ and ‘Let the Quiet Ones Speak’.
‘When someone writes a history of modern comedy, they should make room for Robin Ince’
Time Out
‘An alchemic mix of enthusiasm, knowledge and observation’.
The Scotsman
‘Robin is like a piece of a Jenga puzzle – pull him out and a lot of things would collapse. Without Robin, comedy would be a very different shape and a generation is grateful’.
Stewart Lee
‘Robin has genuinely changed the conversation internationally, not just nationally, about science’
Natalie Haynes
Supported by Kyla Jardine
Kyla Jardine is a genre-crossing writer and spoken word artist who has been in love with storytelling since she was a child. Armed with a BA in Literature, an MA in Creative Writing and a well-cultivated caffeine habit, Kyla has spent over a decade working in media and communications. After years of telling other people’s stories, Kyla decided it was time to tell her own.
An all-afternoon ticket is available for £35 enabling you to see Parts 1, 2 and 3, or come and go as you please
