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 12, Episode 5 - Meeting Seventy-Two
Further details
Ella Al-Shamahi, a woman who had gone hunting fossils in war zones, making a documentary of Neanderthals, and who does stand-up as a hobby, offers up the perfect cave. Ella argues tht that caves were the original prime real estate, and says the perfect cave would be one full of fossils.
Dillie Keane, one of the members of the musical comedy group Fascinating Aida, a star on Grumpy Old Woman, has recorded 12 albums, and has written songs covering nuclear holocaust, cancer, and a song about Brexit called "We're So Sorry Scotland", gives a jar of her own homemade chutney. Dillie supports the idea of the slow food movement - and by slow, the chutney took a total of 14 years to make.
Richard Curtis, the author of Blackadder, The Vicar of Dibley, Notting Hill], Four Weddings and a Funeral and who seems to put a Bernard in every film he does, donates the word "googies". His parents were Australian, and the word meant "eggs".
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 5th February 2018
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Sally Phillips | Host / Presenter |
Dillie Keane | Guest |
Richard Curtis | Guest |
Ella Al-Shamahi | Guest |
Richard Turner | Producer |
Anne Miller | Producer |
Mike Turner | Researcher |