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 6, Episode 2 - Meeting Thirty-Two
Further details
Andrew O'Neill, probably the world's only post-modern, anarchist, crossdressing, vegan, occult stand-up comedian, as well as lead guitarist for steampunk band The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing, donates to the Museum a third class ticket to the London Necropolis Railway, a train system create to remove Victorian London's overflowing number of corpses.
Amanda Palmer, singer and pianist for Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra, who tends to perform tiny gigs and stay overnight in the houses of her fans, gives the Museum a living statue - one of the most cut-throat freelance jobs in the world.
Evolutionary anthropologist Prof. Volker Sommer, a champion of the rights of apes to be given the same rights as humans, provides the Museum with a dozen defecated ant heads. Having ate these disgusting ants to see why they apes do eat them too, Sommer has come to the conclusion that apes are religious.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 7th October 2013
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Humphrey Ker | Host / Presenter |
Andrew O'Neill | Guest |
Amanda Palmer | Guest |
Volker Sommer | Guest |
Richard Turner | Producer |
Dan Schreiber | Producer |
James Harkin | Researcher |
Stevyn Colgan | Researcher |