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 10, Episode 1 - Meeting Fifty-Six
Further details
Helen Arney, member of the Festival of the Spoken Nerd, physicist, musician, star of Domestic Science and maker of classic music programmes on BBC Radio 3 for seven years, donates the latest four chemical elements to be confirmed: oganesson, tennessine, moscovium and nihonium. Only 15 atoms of tennessine have ever been discovered.
Thomas Thwaites, "a designer of a more speculative sort", who has built himself a toaster from the ground up which included collecting raw materials from around the world, and winner of the Ig Nobel Prize for living as a goat in the Alps for six days, offers the museum a history book that won't be published until 2222 AD. Thwaites is especially interested to know if the book contains details on alien life, but he can't read the book as it is in foreign language.
Captain Aseem Hashmi, an ex-British Airways pilot who became the youngest captain in Cunard's entire history, and is now the captain of the company's newest liner The Queen Elizabeth (total cost: £350 million), provides the museum with a simple ship's anchor. The anchor is the ship's emergency break, when lowered it is the only time the ship is contact with the ground intentionally, and Hashmi claims it acts as a reality check.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 9th January 2017
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Upcoming repeats
- Wednesday 8th January 2025 at 2:00pm on Radio 4 Extra
- Wednesday 8th January 2025 at 8:00pm on Radio 4 Extra
- Thursday 9th January 2025 at 4:00am on Radio 4 Extra
Cast & crew
John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Jo Brand | Host / Presenter |
Helen Arney | Guest |
Thomas Thwaites | Guest |
Aseem Hashmi | Guest |
Richard Turner | Producer |
James Harkin | Producer |
Anne Miller | Researcher |
Mike Turner | Researcher |