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 6 - Meeting Sixty-One
Further details
Henry Eliot, the creative editor of Penguin Classics, co-author of the book Curiosity, and a "literary walker", having provided walks based on The Wasteland and on the influence of cheese on culture, politics and architecture, donates to the Museum the Longplayer, a piece of music that began on New Year's Eve 1999 and won't finish until New Year's Eve 2999, played on Tibetan singing bowls.
Bee Wilson, a food writer, historian, journalist and former Masterchef semi-finalist, and who has written books ranging from subjects such as the way we eat to how we learn to eat, offers up the smell of coffee, because of its usefulness. It helps people sell houses, but also the smell is much better than the taste. It is Britain's fourth favourite smell, behind freshly-cut grass, bacon, and freshly-baked bread.
Michelle Wolf, an American comedian and former banker, who is a star of The Daily Show and has written the presenter's speeches for the Academy Awards and the Emmys, provides the 24-hour rolling news channel CNN. Michelle argues that the channel accidentally helped to get Donald Trump get elected as US president, and suggests the channel is a good example of how you can make an entire civilization fall.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 13th February 2017
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Jo Brand | Host / Presenter |
Michelle Wolf | Guest |
Bee Wilson | Guest |
Henry Eliot | Guest |
Richard Turner | Producer |
James Harkin | Producer |
Anne Miller | Researcher |
Mike Turner | Researcher |