The Museum Of Curiosity
- Radio panel show
- BBC Radio 4
- 2007 - 2023
- 106 episodes (17 series)
Radio panel show in which John Lloyd and his curators try to fill up their museum with curious objects. Also features Bill Bailey, Sean Lock, Jon Richardson, Dave Gorman, Jimmy Carr and more.
Key details
- Genre
- Panel Show
- Broadcast
- 2007 - 2023
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Episodes
- 106 (1 pilot + 17 series), plus 1 unbroadcast pilot
- Creators
- John Lloyd, Richard Turner and Dan Schreiber
- Stars
- John Lloyd, Bill Bailey, Sean Lock, Jon Richardson, Dave Gorman, Jimmy Carr, Humphrey Ker, Phill Jupitus and more
- Writers
- Jade Gebbie and Cameron Loxdale
- Producers
- Richard Turner, Dan Schreiber, James Harkin, Anne Miller, Sam Holmes, Leying Lee, Victoria Lloyd, Julia McKenzie and James Robinson
- Company
The Museum of Curiosity is a vast (albeit fictitious) building with a mission statement of housing everything in the universe that is in some way curious (including, as it happens, the entire universe itself).
Each week, a panel made up of entertainers and academic experts put forward their curiosities to the head of the museum John Lloyd, the Professor of Ignorance at the University of Buckingham (later Southampton-Solent) and his curators. In the first series the curator was Bill Bailey, followed by Sean Lock in the second, Jon Richardson in the third, Dave Gorman in the fourth, and Jimmy Carr in the fifth. Humphrey Ker was the 6th curator, Phill Jupitus was the seventh, Sarah Millican starred in the eighth series, Noel Fielding in the ninth, Jo Brand for the tenth, Romesh Ranganathan for the eleventh, Sally Phillips the twelfth, Lee Mack the thirteenth, Bridget Christie the fourteenth, Alice Levine the fifteenth, Holly Walsh the sixteenth and Anna Ptaszynski the seventeenth.
The only rule for donation is that the exhibit has to be in some way curious. It doesn't matter if something is gigantic, microscopic, hughly expensive, or even if it doesn't exist.
Current exhibits in the Museum include the Big Bang when it was the size of a grapefruit, the urge to press red buttons that should not be pressed, and a wildlife reserve containing 10,000 tigers (even if there are only 3,000 in the wild).
Catch-up
Additional details
- Also known as
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- TMOC (Acronym)
- The Professor Of Curiosity (Working title)
- Production
- Studio
- Soundtrack
- Series 1: All music on the programme played live by Bill Bailey. The same theme tune was used for series two, but is performed by Dan Neeson, Ash Gardner and Hugo Shepard from House of Strange.
Website links
- MySpace page
The MySpace page for The Museum of Curiosity. - The Museum's Blog
The official blog for the museum, not updated since 2009. - QI - The Museum Of Curiosity
A guide to the team behind the series. - @MuseumOfCurios
- Wikipedia
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Monday 16th April 2007 on BBC Radio 4
- Most recent repeats
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- Thursday 19th September 2024 at 4:00am on Radio 4 Extra - Gallery 9, Episode 6
- Wednesday 18th September 2024 at 8:00pm on Radio 4 Extra - Gallery 9, Episode 6
- Wednesday 18th September 2024 at 2:00pm on Radio 4 Extra - Gallery 9, Episode 6
Recording details
- The Institute of Physics - Pilot
- Pleasance Theatre (London) - Series 1
- BBC Radio Theatre - Series 2 onwards
- The Tabernacle - Other location