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 6 - Meeting Forty-Nine
Further details
Lucy Cooke, a zoologist and former comedy performer, founder of the Sloth Appreciation Society and self-declared "Amphibian Avenger", offers the Museum a pygmy sloth, which are only found in an island off the coast of Panama that seems to be constantly stoned.
Adam Lowe, artist and innovator, founder of Factum Arte art foundation which among other things helps to renovate art that is in danger of being destroyed with new technology, donates a Lucida 3D laser scanner, a machine that helps to re-create the surface of paintings that an endangered.
Susan Calman, Scottish comedian, an ex-solicitor who previously worked on Death Row cases, a suffer of a fear of raisins (inyaphobia) and collector of thimbles (a digitabulist), provides a copy of Fifty Shades of Grey, because it began as a copy of Twilight fan-fiction, and fan-fiction is something that is mainly dominated by women.
Notes
This and episode five were swapped around to avoid Susan Calman's appearance clashing with her appearance on The News Quiz that week.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 15th February 2016
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Sarah Millican | Host / Presenter |
Susan Calman | Guest |
Lucy Cooke | Guest |
Adam Lowe | Guest |
Richard Turner | Producer |
James Harkin | Producer |
Stevyn Colgan | Researcher |
Anne Miller | Researcher |