Apparently I’m behind, but I just learned of Robin’s essential firing by the BBC because of his humanity. I’m disgusted and saddened. Shame on the BBC. I really loved this show.

Good info and guests and, unfortunately, a lot of people trying to be funny. I rarely get as much as a chuckle out of the humour that disrupts the flow of the science I came to hear. From the start I have come back once or twice a year hoping for some change and been disappointed. Listening to someone trying to be funny is like listening to someone trying to play the violin. There is a reason that comedians work so hard on a routine over the course of weeks/months. They don’t make it up as they go because most attempts fail and lead to people cringing rather than laughing.

I am heart broken to have to leave one of my favorite shows due to the anti-science decision to push out Robin because he has integrity, and the anti-trans bigots at the BBC have none. I believe Brian Cox also needs to walk away from the BBC BIGOTS!

Love this show but the BBC has reared its ugly head once again. Robin Ince will be sorely missed but I believe in a person who stands by their convictions in the face of corporate bigotry! I know good Karma will flow to you! Stay strong Robin

Not listening to any more podcasts from the transphobic bigots at the BBC after they deny the scientific evidence for transgender individuals and force Robin Ince from this show. Instead they accept they bigoted and unscientific findings of a TERF.

The ads always come at odd times and cut in half-sentence while someone is still talking. Some minimum post production is needed BBC.

Please keep posting! The episodes are always fun and interesting

These guys do live shows and it’s not a laugh track it’s the actual audience from their shows. If you can hear the fact that they interact with their audience members in the show you shouldn’t even be here. Leave.

Smart? Brilliant. Genius actually.

This show is turning into a really ego trip for the presenters. Too much time given to their self-regarding comments and virtue-signalling. What was enjoyable about this originally (and made it connect with people so well) was its accessibility and that it just did science. Now its vanity and wokeness...please don't keep doing this and please never, never, have Jo Brand on again. She brings nothing

The content seems fun and interesting but the canned laughter makes it absolutely unlistenable. Whose idea was that?

Eloquent banter, naughty jokes, introduction to scientists, science and books from around the world. This is so much more than a science podcast. It is an inspiration to live out your dreams. I love the jokes and I love the science, and I love learning new names, discovering new books and hearing people talk passionately and excitedly about this world of ours.

From deep space to spider sex. Unexplainably perfect. Hosts are magical and naughty and open and kind. Quenches my wanderlust for things of dreams… feels like going through a secret door into a raunchy pub full of happy, wild, soulful, brilliant humans.

Generally speaking, it’s a fun and fascinating show. I’m just not a fan of Science as a vehicle to promote your political beliefs. The Science Party goes against everything science should be. Politics permeates everything these days.

The title is self-explanatory

This might be a great podcast but when the audience laughs at things I don’t find funny it is really annoying. It might as well be a sitcom with a laugh track.

I was really excited for this podcast, seemed like a perfect mix of science delivered in an entertaining and funny way. The content was clearly there from what I heard. The laugh track is truly an inexcusable decision, it adds absolutely nothing and absolutely destroys any funny moments.

The dry sense of humor, and the canned laughter is absolutely atrocious. I don’t really feel the need to mix science with humor anymore.

It’s so good and very interesting to discover how it was that good and funny

More science you guys aren’t that funny

Subscription?! What?! Love the show and waited til today to listen to new showd and found it was subscription only! Oh well. Hopefully that not last.

It’s not worth the paywall. If you used to like this, try No Such Thing as a Fish or something else free.

The monkey cage is always marvelous. I am shocked that BBC has made their service available only for subscription. That stinks.

I love this show. So I am saddened to find that we apparently must pay to listen...? Not just listen early and/or ad free; but to listen at all. Am I missing something? Does it not behoove everyone to make science communication freely accessible to all? Include ads if its needs some source of funds, fine. Just make science communication freely accessible even if we must endure a few ads. Please tell me I’ve just missed something and it’s free to listen with ads…

Fun sciencey discussions in delightful accents.

Always a delight.

Funny, educational and captivating all at the same time. My kinda program!

Ugh…. I can’t focus on the interesting stuff with LOUD fake audience.

Great podcast, great hosts. Simply amazing.

I just discovered this show and enjoy listening to the episodes on subjects I am not familiar with. But please, stop the track laughs, it sounds so fake!

Be warned this show only comes out occasionally but it's so worth keeping on your feed. The show is always funny and entertaining. The best part is all the information and funny but rational insights it brings. It's so easy and fun to listen to that I forget sometimes how much I have learned from it. Try it out and see how much your smiling at the end!

I like the idea and this podcast has had its moments in the past. The best episodes have included those with astronauts, for example, However, I am starting to wonder if the format has run its course. The episode on the "Science of Cooking" was an absolute low-point: not informative on either science or cooking, not interesting and not funny. The problem with the format is that some of the comedians have really nothing to add - and in fact derail any coherent content, struggling to say anything that could be remotely construed as intelligent or funny. And what was with gratuitous jokes about Jim Al-Khalili in the Neaderthals episode? Questionable. He actually has an informative podcast while this one is in danger of lacking any informative content.

Great content but the laugh track/editing pulls me out of the show and I can’t stand it. It’s like listening to an 80’s sitcom.

One of the best podcasts on science

I love this podcast, especially the quantum physics, dinosaur and human origins. I love how you somehow get the perfect balance of entertainment and science to the point where I really enjoy listening to this in my free time! Great job!

I am SO happy you’re back. Living those pandemic months without new episodes was excruciating. Your science/humor combo is absolutely the best. Thank you!

No question that this is the best science/comedy app out there. You gotta listen to every episode of MONKEY CAGE. Is that strawberry alive?

LETS GO! THEY'RE BACK AGAIN WITH A NEW SEASON!

Without it we couldn’t cure disease, end racism, put one foot in front of the other. We wouldn’t have a heartbeat, pull air into our lungs, exit our mother’s womb. Yes, we pass away, but we learn from time passing. Without that, what fun would life be? Thanks for giving us things to think about!

Give it a try

Crucial conversations with logical approaches, thoughtful and profound, with a dash of humor. 🌌

Is’ a good a’ show

My only complaint is that I want more of episodes

I don’t know if it’s the British accents, the guests, the comedy, or the science. But I’m into it.

Humor feels unnecessary and is most times distracting while focusing on understanding the content of these discussions.

Geez, Trump is really inside the heads of these Brit scientists.

But please stop being so political and dissing Donald Trump. Gets old hearing all you super brilliant minds trying to disrespect America.

Thank you for all episodes inc the wonderful “What is Life” episode

The best podcast I have discovered. As the new generation would say. “No cap”

Keep us the good work