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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.
- Gallery 9, Episode 5 repeated Wednesday at 2pm on Radio 4 Extra
Episode menu
Gallery 10, Episode 3 - Meeting Fifty-Eight
Further details
Jack Waley-Cohen, a quiz champion that has among other shows has won Countdown and Weakest Link, and the recent inventor of what3words, a website which divides on world into simple three-word address, donates a book of Tom Swifties, a type of pun with a person's name and an adjective. For example: "I've discovered someone else who writes fairy tales, said the brothers grimly."
Amber Butchart, a historian who specialises in fashion, has spoken at the Tate and V&A, and has given talk on the influence of war on fashion and the cultural history of shoes, gives the Museum the colour mauve, the first synthetic dye that was ever invented. Before that, purple dyes had to be made using crushing seashells.
Jimeoin, the one-named Irish-Australian stand-up who was actually born in England, and the first comic to tour the top of Australia, offers up a new measurement: the speed of cheese. This is because seemingly all knives cut through cheese at the same time. The standard appears to the time to cut cheddar.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 23rd January 2017
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Jo Brand | Host / Presenter |
Jimeoin | Guest |
Amber Butchart | Guest |
Jack Waley-Cohen | Guest |
Richard Turner | Producer |
James Harkin | Producer |
Anne Miller | Researcher |
Mike Turner | Researcher |