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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Donna Ferguson

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

Robin Ince
Robin Ince has co-presented the science show alongside Prof Brian Cox for the past 16 years. Photograph: Keith Morris/Hay Ffotos/Alamy

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”.

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