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 17, Episode 1 - Meeting One Hundred And One
Further details
Chris McCausland, stand-up comedian, panel show regular, and who once applied to work for MI5 despite going blind, donates to the museum a vinyl record. Despite loving modern technology, he likes proper records and having to listen to music in a particular way.
Bill Liao, a Chinese-Australian environmentalist, author, social media pioneer and businessman who once stopped flying until he and his company planted 100 million trees, offers Drosophila melanogaster, aka the common fruit fly, which has been used in experiments to help in cancer research.
Miriam Margolyes, an actress, documentary maker, and author who admits to hating comedy, provides Charles Dickens and his works. Dickens liked to act in front of the mirror in between writing his books.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 20th February 2023
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Catch-up
Cast & crew
| John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
| Anna Ptaszynski | Host / Presenter |
| Bill Liao | Guest |
| Miriam Margolyes | Guest |
| Chris McCausland | Guest |
| Jade Gebbie | Writer |
| Cameron Loxdale | Writer |
| Sam Holmes | Producer |
| Leying Lee | Producer |
| James Robinson | Executive Producer |
| Mike Turner | Researcher |
| Lydia Mizon | Researcher |
| Mandy Fenton | Researcher |
| David Thomas | Sound Designer |