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 3, Episode 4 - Meeting Sixteen
Further details
The geologist Michael Welland provides the museum with a choir of singing sand dunes, which consists of a fast collection of dunes, each playing a different note in the musical scale. No-one knows how it is done, but we do know there are more kinds of life in sand than the rainforest.
Author and historical biographer Sarah Bakewell donates the medallion designed by the 16th century sceptical French writer Michel de Montaigne. This is a medal that he designed to help inspire fellow writers.
Stand-up comedian and former soft porn writer Simon Evans provides the museum with a total eclipse, which is very interesting in that from Earth, the Sun and the Moon look exactly the same size, but it is all a coincidence.
Notes
The full episode title is "Meeting Sixteen: Singing Sand Dunes, Michel de Montaigne's Medallion & The Total Eclipse".
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 31st May 2010
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
| Jon Richardson | Host / Presenter |
| Simon Evans | Guest |
| Sarah Bakewell | Guest |
| Michael Welland | Guest |
| Richard Turner | Producer |
| Dan Schreiber | Producer |
| James Harkin | Researcher |
| Molly Oldfield | Researcher |