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 10, Episode 3 repeated at 2pm on Radio 4 Extra
Episode menu
Gallery 10, Episode 4 - Meeting Fifty-Nine
Further details
Danish comedian Sofie Hagen, who taught herself English to get herself close to Westlife, winner of the Edinburgh Fringe Newcomer prize, and co-host of The Guilty Feminist, donates the manifesto by film directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg that resulted in Dogme 95. Rules include no special effects, all filming was on location, and the director could not be credited. 35 films got a Dogme 95 certificate.
Jon Ablett, the curator of mollusca and cephalopoda at the Natural History Museum responsible for over seven million specimens of snails, slugs and octopuses, provides the museum with a snail glued to a board. In the 19th century the forerunner to the Natural History Museum had this, and one snail turned out to have hibernated for four years.
Kate Fox, a social anthropologist, author of Watching the English, and a woman who admits to lying to getting honest answers from people, and found out that 80% of English people apologise when someone else bumps into them, offers up some stone age selfies: namely, handprint paintings. They were thought to have been made by blowing paint while put your hand against the wall.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 30th January 2017
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Upcoming repeats
- Wednesday 29th January 2025 at 2:00pm on Radio 4 Extra
- Wednesday 29th January 2025 at 8:00pm on Radio 4 Extra
- Thursday 30th January 2025 at 4:00am on Radio 4 Extra
Cast & crew
John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Jo Brand | Host / Presenter |
Sofie Hagen | Guest |
Jon Ablett | Guest |
Kate Fox | Guest |
Richard Turner | Producer |
James Harkin | Producer |
Anne Miller | Researcher |
Mike Turner | Researcher |