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 14, Episode 6 - Meeting Eighty-Six
Further details
Philippa Perry, a psychotherapist who has written a graphic novel about her world, presenter of documentaries Being BiPolar and The Truth About Children Who Lie, and author of The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will be Glad That You Did), donates a swarm of fruit flies, because they can be used in both psychological and social experiments.
Carlo Ratti, an Italian architect, inventor, professor at MIT, and a specialist at looking at how cities will evolve in the future, provides a bionic arm. Ratti has experimented on them, and has come across bionic arms that can build Ikea furniture.
Doug Allan, a cameraman who specialises in underwater wildlife, who has contributed to Blue Planet, Frozen Planet and Planet Earth, offers up the feeling you get when a wild animal trusts you, on the grounds that if more people had this feeling that the world would be a better place.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 4th November 2019
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Bridget Christie | Host / Presenter |
Anne Miller | Producer |
Victoria Lloyd | Executive Producer |
Mike Turner | Researcher |
Emily Jupitus | Researcher |
Mike Shephard (as Mike Shepherd) | Researcher |