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 5 - Meeting Forty-Eight
Further details
William Hartston, a chess grandmaster, master of mathematics, author of a huge number of books including the subject of numbers, and star of Gogglebox, donates to The Museum of Curiosity something from his greatest achievement - a black pawn that was on top of an entire pile of chess pieces balancing on top of one rook.
Prof. Sophie Scott, a neuroscientist at University College London, who is researching everything from why people's accent change when they suffer brain damage, to studying laughter under laboratory conditions, provides the Museum with a human tongue, which is different just about every other tongue in nature, mainly because we can speak with it.
Matt Lucas, the star of Little Britain, Pompidou, The Matt Lucas Awards, and the Shooting Stars as the man with the scores George Dawes, offers a fart, because it is something that we all do (with the possible exception of celebrities like Mr. Lucas).
Notes
This and episode six were swapped around to avoid Susan Calman's appearance clashing with her appearance on The News Quiz that week.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 8th February 2016
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Sarah Millican | Host / Presenter |
Matt Lucas | Guest |
Sophie Scott | Guest |
William Hartston | Guest |
Richard Turner | Producer |
James Harkin | Producer |
Molly Oldfield | Researcher |
Anne Miller | Researcher |
Video
Rufus Hound's austerity & NHS rant
This happened during a The Museum of Curiosity recording and naturally had to be cut from the broadcast version. It's Rufus's "Network" moment, and it's so straight from the heart that it gave me goosebumps.
Featuring: John Lloyd & Rufus Hound.