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 1, Episode 4 - Meeting Four
Further details
Writer and journalist Victoria Finlay mentions the life of Pliny the Elder: naturalist, observer and the man who claimed that hedgehogs stole apples by climbing up trees, falling backwards and piercing the fruit with their spikes.
Kevin Day talks about our misunderstandings about the Battle of Waterloo and some of the more unusual stories behind the famous conflict, such as the story of Lord Uxbridge's leg.
Alastair Fothergill, who worked on several natural history programmes such as The Blue Planet, talks about the hairy angler fish, which he discovered while filming, as well as talking about how he nearly killed David Attenborough.
Notes
The full episode title is "Meeting Four - Rooms 30-32: The Battle of Waterloo, Pliny the Elder, The Hairy Angler Fish".
Broadcast details
- Date
- Wednesday 12th March 2008
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
| Bill Bailey | Host / Presenter |
| Victoria Finlay | Guest |
| Alastair Fothergill | Guest |
| Kevin Day | Guest |
| Richard Turner | Producer |
| Dan Schreiber | Producer |
| James Harkin | Researcher |
| Xander Cansell | Researcher |