Ep. 566 - Robin Ince Returns - Robin returns for a brand new time capsule!
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Robin Ince returns for a brand new time capsule! Robin Ince is many things. A multi award winning comedian, author, broadcaster, bibliomaniac and a populariser of scientific ideas. 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 Ince is our guest in episode 564 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to my time capsule. I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens and my time capsule is a podcast where, as always, people tell me five things from their life that they wish they had in a time capsule. |
| 0:22.2 | Four things they cherish and one thing they like to bury and forget. |
| 0:26.1 | Well, usually they do. |
| 0:27.6 | Anyway, my guest in this episode was also my guest when this podcast first started. |
| 0:32.5 | He's one of my favorite guests without a doubt, so I'm delighted to welcome back Robin Inns. |
| 0:38.2 | Robin is many things, a multi-award winning comedian, author, broadcaster, bibliomaniac, |
| 0:44.2 | and a popularizer of scientific ideas. |
| 0:47.6 | He is perhaps best known as the former co-hosts and co-creator of the Sony Gold Award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, The Infinite Monkey Cage, |
| 0:56.3 | with Professor Brian Cox. |
| 0:58.2 | As a stand-up, Robin has toured the world, and as an author he's written five acclaimed books, |
| 1:03.6 | including Bibliomaniac, which earned him the prestigious Booksellers Association Author of the Year Award. |
| 1:10.0 | His fifth book, |
| 1:12.9 | Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal, |
| 1:14.3 | was published in May 2025. |
| 1:16.0 | His debut poetry collection, |
| 1:17.7 | ice cream for a broken tooth, |
| 1:19.5 | is also out now |
| 1:20.4 | and I can't recommend it highly enough. |
| 1:23.0 | You can even get signed copies of it |
| 1:24.7 | through his website, |
| 1:26.0 | robininths.com, |
| 1:27.3 | where you'll also find a link |
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