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
The Museum Of Curiosity trivia
The news that Jon Richardson was to become curator for the third gallery was announced by Dan Schreiber on Richardson's Wikipedia page. Schreiber announced a competition to see who could find out who the curator was by finding the edit he made.
Each of the exhibits is housed in their own room in the museum, according to the show's sleeve notes. One room, No. 9, actually houses two exhibits according to the notes: "Nothingness" and "Inventions Being Used For Things They Were Not Desgined For".
Source: Sleeve notes from the first and second series audiobooks.
Meeting Nineteen (Episode 4.1) attracted 12 complaints from angry Christians, following Francesca Stavrakopoulou's appearance on the programme (she donated God).
Reportedly fans of The Archers hate The Museum of Curiosity, which is on just before the long-running soap opera starts. This is because they catch the last five minutes of the show and they are normally talking about something rude. Before one episode in which they were talking about public lice, one Archers fan tweet that this was disgusting to talk about and the show should be axed. Someone was replied to this saying: "I agree, #TheArchers is terrible."
Source: No Such Thing As A Fish, Episode 30.