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 7, Episode 1 - Meeting Thirty-Seven
Further details
Jimmy Wales, the creator of Wikipedia, the largest reference work in the world, donates a mobile phone, brought in Kenya in the year 2019 for just £10. It would be a smartphone that would cause a revolution in the whole country.
Helen Keen, comedian and star of BBC Radio 4's It Is Rocket Science and the host of the Large Hadron Collider's first comedy gig, offers the Museum a crater on the dark side of the moon named John Whiteside "Jack" Parsons: brillant rocket scienist and devil worshipper.
Kees Moeliker, the curator of the Natural History Museum of Rotterdam, and winner of the Ig Nobel Prize for uncovering the homosexual necrophilic habits of mallards, provides a single pubic louse, because they are on the decline due to people shaving their pubic hair.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 6th October 2014
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Phill Jupitus | Host / Presenter |
Helen Keen | Guest |
Jimmy Wales | Guest |
Kees Moeliker | Guest |
Richard Turner | Producer |
Dan Schreiber | Producer |
James Harkin | Researcher |
Stevyn Colgan | Researcher |