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.
- Museum Of New Year's Curisoity, New Year Special repeated Wednesday 1st January at 2pm on Radio 4 Extra
Episode menu
Gallery 3, Episode 2 - Meeting Fourteen
Further details
Suggs, the lead singer of Madness, provides the museum with The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Continents, including the Crystal Palace, which attracted over 6 million people. Exhibits included an alarm clock with a gun.
The poet Ruth Padel provides the museum with a large tiger reserve by donating 10,000 tigers to John and David in order to protect them from poachers and keep them alive. The problem is that there are only about 3,000 in the wild.
Leigh Francis, the man behind Bo' Selecta!, gives the museum one of the world's greatest superheroes in the form of Spider-man. One interesting fact is that Spider-man creator Stan Lee was Romanian, just like Francis's most famous creation, Avid Merrion.
Notes
The full episode title is "Meeting Fourteen: The Great Exhibition, 10,000 Tigers & Spider-man".
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 17th May 2010
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Dave Gorman | Host / Presenter |
Graham McPherson (as Suggs) | Guest |
Ruth Padel | Guest |
Leigh Francis | Guest |
Richard Turner | Producer |
Dan Schreiber | Producer |
James Harkin | Researcher |
Molly Oldfield | Researcher |