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.
Episode menu
Gallery 9, Episode 4 - Meeting Fifty-Three
Further details
Dr Tristram Wyatt, Senior Research Associate and Emeritus Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford, an expert on pheromones, and his TEDx talk on the 'Smelly Mystery of Human Pheromones' has had over a million views, offers up a human pheromone. The problem is that no human pheromones are known to exist yet.
Vic Reeves, one half of Reeves and Mortimer, co-host of Shooting Star, and an expert of pirates, gives an albino lapwing used by Sir Mick Jagger in 1966. Vic doesn't know what Sir Mick used it for.
Kate Williams, professor of history at Reading University, star of comedy shows The Rest is History and Insert Name Here, and co-presenter of Restoration Home, donates to the Museum a Cottingley fairy. These were the famous fake fairies that fooled Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 19th August 2016
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Noel Fielding | Host / Presenter |
Vic Reeves | Guest |
Tristram Wyatt | Guest |
Kate Williams | Guest |
Richard Turner | Producer |
James Harkin | Producer |
Anne Miller | Researcher |
Mike Turner | Researcher |