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 6 - Meeting Ninety-Three
Further details
Dr. Sarah Beynon, entomologist, bug-farmer, and someone who is working on edible insects, donates a wildflower meadow. She wants it to help provide a home for so many different forms of wildlife. Britain has lost 97% of its wildflower meadows since the 1930s.
Ade Adepitan, bronze medal-winning Paralympic wheelchair basketball player, TV presenter, and children's author, offers a headtorch. In 2005, he traveled across Nicaragua for a TV documentary with other disabled people, and he used a headtorch to help save someone's life.
Hannah Gadsby, award-winning Australian autistic comedian and student of art history, provides a tardigrade. It is a creature that can survive in just about any conditions and is believed they could survive any apocalyptic event.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 12th October 2020
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
| Alice Levine | Host / Presenter |
| Hannah Gadsby | Guest |
| Sarah Beynon | Guest |
| Ade Adepitan | 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 |