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 5, Episode 4 - Meeting Twenty-Eight
Further details
The screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, wrote the film 24 Hour Party People and helped to create the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, goes all religious with his donation, which is the Psalter (book of psalms) belonging on St Columba, who held convert much of Scotland to Christianity.
The anatomist Dr. Alice Roberts, an expert in human skeletons and co-host of Prehistoric Autospy, offers the museum a common relation to all of us, namely a child of a human and a neanderthal.
Andy Nyman, actor, star of Campus and close friend of Derren Brown donates to the museum with a surprising cinema innovation in the form of Friday the 13th Part III 3-D, and explains how 3-D always comes across when cinema is in crisis.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 22nd October 2012
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Humphrey Ker | Host / Presenter |
Frank Cottrell-Boyce | Guest |
Alice Roberts | Guest |
Andy Nyman | Guest |
Richard Turner | Producer |
Dan Schreiber | Producer |
James Harkin | Researcher |
Stevyn Colgan | Researcher |