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 8, Episode 3 - Meeting Forty-Six
Further details
Henry Blofeld, one of the presents of Test Match Special and former cricket player himself who almost played for England, donates to the Museum PG Wodehouse, one of the world's funniest novelists, wrote over 100 books, writing each book three times before the final draft.
Helen Sharman, a former chemist working at for Mars Bars, who later went on to become the first Briton in space after hearing an advert on the radio, offers up the Deep Space Climate Observatory, which takes full colour photos of Earth every few hours.
Felicity Ward, an Australian actor and stand-up comedian, and who has starred in The Inbetweeners 2 and made documentaries about mental health, provides the Museum with something rather simple, and the thing she has the longest standing relationship with - a toilet.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 25th January 2016
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Sarah Millican | Host / Presenter |
Felicity Ward | Guest |
Henry Blofeld | Guest |
Helen Sharman | Guest |
Richard Turner | Producer |
James Harkin | Producer |
Stevyn Colgan | Researcher |
Anne Miller | Researcher |