Comedian Robin Ince quits Radio 4 show, claiming BBC found his views ‘problematic’

Sat, 13 Dec 2025

Ince says he resigned as co-host of Infinite Monkey Cage because of what he described as his lack of ‘obedience’

The comedian and author Robin Ince has resigned from his role as co-host of the long-running BBC Radio 4 podcast The Infinite Monkey Cage after a fallout with BBC executives over “problematic” opinions and what he described as a lack of “obedience”.

Ince, who has co-presented the popular science show alongside Prof Brian Cox for 16 years, posted on social media that his personal views, aired outside the BBC, “have been considered problematic for some time” and he “felt he had no choice but to resign”.