When you hear the names Charles Darwin and Richard Feynman the last thing you would think of is comedy, writes Andy Bloss.

But award winning comedian Robin Ince will be doing just that.

Known for blending comedy and science in presenting BBC radio show The Infinite Monkey Cage with physicist Brian Cox, he bases his new show, The Importance of Being Interested, on his two favourite scientists Darwin and Feynman.

He talks about why we have eyebrows, why bald dogs have bad teeth, how heavy metal music pigs deaf and why spaghetti snaps into four pieces.

The close friend of Ricky Gervais also looks at a range of other weird and wonderful animals which inhabit the Earth.

He says: "I was reading some of Charles Darwin’s journals and at one point he had this wonderful phrase when he recalls going into the Brazilian rainforest where he says ‘my mind is a chaos of delight.’ I thought it was a fantastic phrase.

"I want to try and recapture the excitement of looking at the world around us. Sometimes people stopped noticing how the world has moved forward.

"I am always reading and sometimes I will come across and idea and think how can I translate that to an audience in an entertaining and funny way."

He adds: "Hopefully people will be enthused and usually I have some really vibrant conversations with people at the bar afterwards.

"It is probably the show I most enjoy doing. I really love showing images of blob fish and red lipped bat fish and all manner of other weird creatures that live in the sea.

"I also like the reaction they give to a nice big blown up picture of a naked mole rat. So all of these things are things that I enjoy."

Robin Ince - The Importance of Being Interested, Matthews Yard, Surrey Street, September 20, 8pm, got to facebook.com/matthewsyard for more details.