Robin Ince

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…