Robin Ince

Robin Ince

Date of birth: 30-11-1968
Robin Ince started his comedy career as a writer, working on shows including Alistair McGowan's Big Impression, V Graham Norton and Meet Ricky Gervais, his first of many collaborations with the After Life creator. He regularly supported Gervais on tour. He also appeared in one episode of The Office, playing interviewee Stewart Foot.

That role inspired his tongue-in-cheek solo Edinburgh debut in 2004, and he has returned to the Fringe every year since. In 2005 he started erudite comedy night The Book Club, loosely based around bad literature, which won him the innovation award at the 2006 Chortle Awards as well as the outstanding contribution to comedy accolade at that year's Time Out awards.

In 2006, he co-wrote his first feature film, Razzle Dazzle, about children's dance contests in Australia.

More latterly, Ince has become known for science-based shows, especially the Christmas spectacular Nine Lessons And Carols For Curious People, which began in 2008 – the year before he started co-hosting Radio 4 pop-science show Infinite Monkey Cage with Professor Brian Cox.

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New podcast from Robin Ince

All about inspiring figures

Robin Ince is co-hosting a new podcast in which guests talk about their most inspiring figures.

The comic will be joined by co-presenter  Dr Helen Czerski – a physicist and oceanographer - plus two guests in each episode They’ve Made Us

It was recorded in front of a live audience at The Royal Institution in London earlier this year and featured guests including Steve Backshall, Natalie Haynes, Professor Sue Black, Helen Glover and Professor Chris Jackson.

Ince said: ‘While writing Bibliomaniac, I started to think about all the minds that have changed me and changed my reality, not just scientists like Carl Sagan and Janna Levin, but poets, authors, classicists and even mystics. 

‘We should be living in a world where our perceptions are changing on a weekly basis, where the stars become more vivid and full of stories and the feel of the soil beneath our feet seems both familiar and more strange. 

‘I wanted to find out who has changed the minds of some of my favourite artists, thinkers and scientists, so what better way than to go to the Royal Institution, a venue that changed my view of the universe every Christmas from the age of ten, and where I happily allowed someone to toy with the motor region of my brain with a magnet one Christmas, and along with Helen, talk to people I admire about who has made their universe an ever more exciting place to explore.’

The series will be released free as a video series on the YouTube channel of The Cosmic Shambles Network and an audio podcast on all usual platforms.

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Published: 4 Sep 2023

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Past Shows

Edinburgh Fringe 2001

Rubbernecker


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