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 4, Episode 1 - Meeting Nineteen
Further details
The theologian Francesca Stavrakopoulou, who in the past has written books about such light hearted subjects as human sacrifice, donates God to the museum, which is odd seeing as how she does not believe in him.
The journalist and mathematician Alex Bellos gives to the museum a Curta calculator, a hand cranked calculating machine which quite literally crunches numbers.
The stand-up comedian Jimmy Carr decided to donate a book containing all the jokes in the world, and we come across the oldest joke known to humankind.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 3rd October 2011
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
| Dave Gorman | Host / Presenter |
| Jimmy Carr | Guest |
| Alex Bellos | Guest |
| Francesca Stavrakopoulou | Guest |
| Richard Turner | Producer |
| Dan Schreiber | Producer |
| James Harkin | Researcher |
| Molly Oldfield | Researcher |
Press
Professor of Ignorance and owner of The Museum of Curiosity John Lloyd (perhaps better known as the producer of Blackadder and QI) returns with a new curator, Dave Gorman, to help extract descriptions of bequests from prospective benefactors. This episode's objects are donated by atheist theologian Francesca Stavrakopoulou, mathematician Alex Bellos and comedian Jimmy Carr. These highly intelligent guests are happy to sink to unimaginable depths of taste in both their conversation and their choices, but it makes for truly wicked comedy - especially when one guest bequeaths God!
Jane Anderson, Radio Times, 3rd October 2011