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 tomorrow at 2pm on Radio 4 Extra
Episode menu
Gallery 15, Episode 3 - Meeting Ninety
Further details
Miranda Lowe, scientist, and Natural History Museum curator covering coral and crustaceans, donates to the Museum a moon jellyfish. Despite the name, they are not fish. They also have no brains, bones or blood.
Dr Roopa Farooki, a novelist who has recently gone back to university to train as a doctor, offers up a virtual reality patient. It wasn't until recently that VR was used in medicine.
Eddie Izzard, transgender comedian, actor, screenwriter, marathon runner, wannabe politician, provides the centre of the universe, which Eddie believes is everywhere. He represents this using the film that forms on the surface of a cup of tea.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 21st September 2020
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Alice Levine | Host / Presenter |
Eddie Izzard | Guest |
Miranda Lowe | Guest |
Roopa Farooki | Guest |
Anne Miller | Producer |
Victoria Lloyd | Executive Producer |
David Thomas | Editor |
Mike Turner | Researcher |
Emily Jupitus | Researcher |
Mike Shephard (as Mike Shepherd) | Researcher |
Lydia Mizon | Researcher |