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 11, Episode 3 - Meeting Sixty-Four
Further details
Rainer Hersch, a comedian and conductor, whose shows have included why organ music is so boring and has performed in 30 countries. provides the descant recorder, because all of the world's greatest music can be played on this cheapest of musical instruments. Rainer gets 10 members of the audience to play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".
Beth Healey, a former doctor who later went to "White Mars", an Antarctic station where people are sent to in order to see how people can cope if they were sent to Mars, gives the Museum the International Space Station, because of the amount of research that has been carried out on it has helped us down on Earth.
Kaffe Fassett, an artists who specialises in fabrics who has written about 40 books and had a show at the Victoria and Albert Museum - the first to a living fabric artist, offers Watts Towers, an artistic sculpture built in one of the most dangerous area in LA.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 11th August 2017
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Romesh Ranganathan | Host / Presenter |
Rainer Hersch | Guest |
Beth Healey | Guest |
Kaffe Fassett | Guest |
Richard Turner | Producer |
James Harkin | Producer |
Anne Miller | Researcher |
Mike Turner | Researcher |