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 4 - Meeting Ninety-One
Further details
Josh Widdicombe, stand-up, podcaster with the 1990s football show Quickly Kevin, star of the sitcom Josh and co-host of The Last Leg, offers the museum Bowerman's Nose, a tor on Dartmoor. The legend of the feature concerns a man who was turned into stone by witches after he knocked over a cauldron.
Dr Eugenia Cheng, a woman who teaches maths to arts students by being scientist-in-residence at the School of Art Institute of Chicago, as well as a pianist, donates an equals sign, or rather the concept behind it. One of the key things is that sign indicates things are both the same but are displayed differently.
Ian Hislop, satirist, editor of Private Eye, documentary-maker, and the only person to have appeared on every episode on Have I Got News For You, provides is print - all of it, including books, magazines, pamphlets and newspapers. He argues that print is alive and that it should be kept going.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 28th September 2020
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Alice Levine | Host / Presenter |
Josh Widdicombe | Guest |
Eugenia Cheng | Guest |
Ian Hislop | 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 |