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 15, Episode 1 - Meeting Eighty-Eight
Further details
James Prichard, the CEO of Agatha Christie Ltd the great-grandson of the great writer Agatha Christie, and despite being Welsh has never been able to sell any of her books in Welsh, donates Agatha Christie's favourite mug, which is almost a litre, has the words "Don't be greedy" on it, and from which she drank cream out of.
Georgia Lewis Anderson, a former music journalist, now a broadcaster, podcaster, tech expert, and a woman who makes conversations for robots, offers up a mobile phone inside a crystal ball. This is to represent horoscope apps, mixing old beliefs with modern technology.
Danny Wallace, a comedian who has started his own cult, said yes to everything, started his own country in his own flat, and who has recently written a book about rudeness, provides a giant balloon that was used in the sport of balloon hopping. The sport never took off because people crashed into things, but it became popular in the USA.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 7th September 2020
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Alice Levine | Host / Presenter |
Danny Wallace | Guest |
Georgia Lewis Anderson | Guest |
James Prichard | Guest |
Anne Miller | Producer |
Victoria Lloyd | Executive Producer |
Andrew Smilie | Editor |
Mike Turner | Researcher |
Emily Jupitus | Researcher |
Mike Shephard (as Mike Shepherd) | Researcher |
Lydia Mizon | Researcher |