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 16, Episode 2 - Meeting Ninety-Six
Further details
Evelyn Mok, a Swedish-Chinese comedian and actor, who has performed a stand-up show called Hymen Manoeuvre, donates Sweden's Dragon Gate. This was intended to be the entrance to Sweden's first Chinatown, but due to red tape the plan failed so it next to a petrol station.
Dr Alun Withey, a history blogger and podcaster, who has written a history of beards and studies the history of medicine, offers up a 19th century mechanical beard with detachable whiskers. It consists of springs and wires so the beard would move.
Allan Scott, a screenwriter, producer, and chairperson of a whisky company, who penned Don't Look Now, The Queen's Gambit and The Witches, provides the Biggles books by Captain W. E. Johns. To be exact, he is lending them and allowing the Museum to copy the books.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 25th October 2021
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Holly Walsh | Host / Presenter |
Evelyn Mok | Guest |
Alun Withey | Guest |
Allan Scott | Guest |
Anne Miller | Producer |
Julia McKenzie | Executive Producer |
David Thomas | Editor |
Mike Turner | Researcher |
Mike Shephard (as Mike Shepherd) | Researcher |
Jack Chambers | Researcher |