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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 4, Episode 5 - Meeting Twenty-Three

Featuring the comic Alex Horne, polar explorer and writer Sara Wheeler and documentary maker Alain de Botton.

Further details

Alain de Botton, a documentary maker and lover of art and philosophy, provides the museum with the world's first High Street psychotherapist - so you can just pop in and pay for someone to listen to you for a whole hour.

Sara Wheeler, who was once Antarctica's writer in residence, and who considers herself a writer more than an explorer, gives a carved walrus baculum, which is a penis bone. At two feet long it is the largest baculum, pro rata, for any mammal in the world.

The comedian, winner of three episodes of Countdown, and one of the many people competing to be the world's oldest man Alex Horne, donates to the museum the word "dord", a "word" meaning "density" which was accidentally included into the dictionary even though it does not exist.

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 31st October 2011
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Dave Gorman Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Alex Horne Guest
Sara Wheeler Guest
Alain De Botton Guest
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
Dan Schreiber Producer
James Harkin Researcher
Molly Oldfield Researcher

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