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 13, Episode 2 - Meeting Seventy-Five
Further details
Dolly Alderton, a writer and journalist, the author of Everything I Know About Love which includes recipes such as "Apple Pie with Can't Be Arsed Ice Cream", and host of current affairs podcast The High Low, offers up the world's worst wedding list. The list includes overpriced items for the house (e.g. a £300 tray depicting a painted hedgehog in a top hat) and an option to sponsor the Honeymoon.
Sir Nigel Shadbolt, an expert in artificial intelligence, principle of Jesus College Oxford, author of The Spy in the Coffee Machine: The End of Privacy as We Know It (in 2004), donates Deep Blue, the supercomputer that defeated Garry Kasparov. Kasparov said that he could feel a new type of intelligence across the table.
Athena Kugblenu, a comedian, co-host of The Guilty Feminist, and who has recently done a comedy show about the issue of leadership, brings a tin of corned beef. She does so because although she doesn't eat meat, if she did it would be the first meat that she would eat because of her Ghanaian heritage. Corned beef contains no corn.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 8th October 2018
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Lee Mack | Host / Presenter |
Athena Kugblenu | Guest |
Dolly Alderton | Guest |
Nigel Shadbolt | Guest |
Richard Turner | Producer |
Anne Miller | Producer |
Mike Turner | Researcher |
Emily Jupitus | Researcher |