An audio recording of an impassioned "meltdown" by Rufus Hound that was cut from a programme has been released. Hound's vociferous attack on government financial policy was recorded in June as part of a forthcoming edition of the next series of R4's Museum of Curiosity. It has been made available with Hound's consent by the programme's producer Richard Turner.

In the two-minute clip Hound talks powerfully about how the management of the economy and policy of austerity has helped the rich and harmed the poor. His voice starts to crack as he gets increasingly worked up: "In the age of austerity, the people with the most doubled their wealth. The money didn’t disappear, it was taken. Your schools, your hospitals… It’s gone...."

The audience laughs and applauds but also listens intently as he continues: "It’s a disgrace! We are better, but we’re fucking chimpanzees."

Richard Turner calls this Hound's "Network" moment – a reference to the 1976 movie in which Peter Finch plays a newsreader who decides that he has to speak out against the things in society that are driving him into a rage. "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this any more".

There is absolutely no suggestion that Hound or the programme was censored or that Hound was cut because he was being so political. Speaking for the first time about the evening to Beyond The Joke, Turner explained that more is always recorded than can be broadcast. "The original recording was 1 hour and 35 mins long. We have to edit the shows down to under 28 mins, so we cut 70% of what was recorded in any case."

The show in which Hound was one of the guests is due to air as part of the eighth series on Monday 1st Feb at 6.30pm, hosted by Sarah Millican and John Lloyd. The other guests are Austrian astroarchaeologist Doris Vickers and Eden Project founder Sir Tim Smit. The new series of Museum of Curiosity starts on Monday 11th January 2016. It airs on Mondays at 6.30pm and is  repeated on the following Sunday at noon.

This is not the first time Hound has been vocal about his beliefs. He stood in the last European elections for the National Health Action Party.

Read a full transcript and listen to the audio version here.