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Comedian Robin Ince has resigned from his role as presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage. The 56-year-old, who presented the show alongside professor Brian Cox, described his resignation as “the saddest day of my professional life”.

In a post on Instagram, he said: “Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage.

“I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until I dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys.

“I resig

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