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The Museum Of Curiosity

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.

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Gallery 3, Episode 6 - Meeting Eighteen

With neuroscientist David Eagleman, Geordie comedienne Sarah Millican, and fantasy novellist Neil Gaiman.

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

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Jon Richardson Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Sarah Millican Guest
David Eagleman Guest
Neil Gaiman Guest
Jack Benny Self (Archive Material)
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
Dan Schreiber Producer
James Harkin Researcher
Molly Oldfield Researcher

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