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 4 - Meeting Twenty-Two
Guests are colourful writer and journalist David McCandless, linguist David Crystal and comedian Natalie Haynes.
Further details
David McCandless, an author and journalist best known for his graphic representation of just about every form of information, donates the super-ego, the part of the psyche which stops you from going too far.
Comedian and classics fan Natalie Haynes, donates to the museum all the TV detectives in the world (except Jessica Fletcher from Murder, She Wrote - Haynes claims she was a serial killer).
Linguist Prof. David Crystal provides the museum with his waffle generator, a device which gets you out of awkward conversations by saying nothing but cliches.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 24th October 2011
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
| Dave Gorman | Host / Presenter |
| David McCandless | Guest |
| David Crystal | Guest |
| Natalie Haynes | Guest |
| Richard Turner | Producer |
| Dan Schreiber | Producer |
| James Harkin | Researcher |
| Molly Oldfield | Researcher |