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The Museum Of Curiosity

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.

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- Gallery 17, Episode 2 - Meeting One Hundred And Two

John Lloyd and Anna Ptaszynski are joined by comic and satirist Rosie Holt, theoretical physicist, author and philosopher Carlo Rovelli, and ex-criminal barrister turned pastry chef and author Olivia Potts.

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Rosie Holt a classically-trained actor who became a stand-up and famous for her satirical online work which has often fooled intelligent people into thinking she is an actual politician, donates the unwritten second half of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan. She donates it because of the story behind it, with Coleridge being unable to finish it after a visitor from Porlock stopped his flow.

Professor Carlo Rovelli, an Italian theoretical physicist known for his work in quantum gravity, author of multiple books, and philosopher, provides a white hole. This idea behind them is that they are the opposite of a black hole: nothing can ever enter a white hole.

Olivia Potts, a former criminal barrister, who now works a pastry chef, and has written several books including one all about butter, offers a jar of marmalade because it is possibly the most absurd spread around, being made of a bitter fruit.

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 27th February 2023
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

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Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Anna Ptaszynski Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Rosie Holt Guest
Carlo Rovelli Guest
Olivia Potts Guest
Writing team
Jade Gebbie Writer
Cameron Loxdale Writer
Production team
Sam Holmes Producer
Leying Lee Producer
James Robinson Executive Producer
Mike Turner Researcher
Lydia Mizon Researcher
Mandy Fenton Researcher
David Thomas Sound Designer

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