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 6 - Meeting Eighteen
Further details
The Geordie stand-up comedienne Sarah Millican provides the museum with something that got her through her divorce - pictures of animals wearing clothes. These include a picture of a pig in cow slippers and a dog in a bikini.
American neuroscientist David Eagleman proposes that the museum invents International Ignorance Day to celebrate all the things that as of yet we do not know. We cannot see most of the universe for starts, so there is a lot of missing stuff out there. Sadly, no-one yet knows when International Ignorance Day takes place.
Neil Gaiman, the author of such books as The Sandman and Stardust, gives the museum American comedian Jack Benny's vault. One of the earliest radio comedy shows, Benny created a miserly persona of himself and in his radio show he had a vault which amongst other things was guarded by a polar bear and had a very odd alarm.
Notes
The full episode title is "Meeting Eighteen: Pictures Of Animals In Clothes, International Ignorance Day & Jack Benny's Vault".
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 14th June 2010
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Jon Richardson | Host / Presenter |
Sarah Millican | Guest |
David Eagleman | Guest |
Neil Gaiman | Guest |
Jack Benny | Self (Archive Material) |
Richard Turner | Producer |
Dan Schreiber | Producer |
James Harkin | Researcher |
Molly Oldfield | Researcher |