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 12, Episode 3 - Meeting Seventy
Further details
Stephen K. Amos, comedian, actor, trainee lawyer, a maker of a documentary about homophobia in the black community called Batty Man which is now being used to teach people in schools and prisons, presents Tooting Broadway Tube Station, as seen in the opening titles of Citizen Smith. Tooting was named one of the top ten places to visit in the world by Lonley Planet.
Victoria Hislop, novelist and former journalist, who wrote The Island, The Last Dance, and Cartes Postales from Greece, which got turned into the biggest TV show in Greece which has her husband Ian as a guest, offers the mati, the Greek for the word "eye" . It is known as the evil eye, and people in Greece wear mati jewelrey in order to protect yourself from evil looks.
Dr. Suze Kundu, a 4'10" nanochemist at the University of Surrey, presenter for the Discovery Channel of an science outreach programme, gives the Museum some Kevlar, a fiberous material that was discovered by a female engineer by accident, and is the material used in bullet-proof material. In June 2014, the million bullet-proof vest was sold in the same week the inventor died.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 22nd January 2018
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Sally Phillips | Host / Presenter |
Stephen K Amos | Guest |
Suze Kundu | Guest |
Victoria Hislop | Guest |
Richard Turner | Producer |
Anne Miller | Producer |
Mike Turner | Researcher |