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The Museum Of Curiosity

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.

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Gallery 3, Episode 2 - Meeting Fourteen

With Jon Richardson stranded in Australia because of the Icelandic volcano, Dave Gorman stands in as curator. This week's guests are Madness lead singer Suggs, the poet Ruth Padel and star of Bo' Selecta! Leigh Francis.

Further details

Suggs, the lead singer of Madness, provides the museum with The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Continents, including the Crystal Palace, which attracted over 6 million people. Exhibits included an alarm clock with a gun.

The poet Ruth Padel provides the museum with a large tiger reserve by donating 10,000 tigers to John and David in order to protect them from poachers and keep them alive. The problem is that there are only about 3,000 in the wild.

Leigh Francis, the man behind Bo' Selecta!, gives the museum one of the world's greatest superheroes in the form of Spider-man. One interesting fact is that Spider-man creator Stan Lee was Romanian, just like Francis's most famous creation, Avid Merrion.

Notes

The full episode title is "Meeting Fourteen: The Great Exhibition, 10,000 Tigers & Spider-man".

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 17th May 2010
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Sunday 23rd May 2010 12:00pm Radio 4
Thursday 12th April 2012 9:30am Radio 4 Extra
Friday 13th April 2012 2:30am Radio 4 Extra
Friday 5th December 2014 6:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Saturday 6th December 2014 1:00am Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 29th May 2018 4:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Wednesday 30th May 2018 4:00am Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Dave Gorman Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Graham McPherson (as Suggs) Guest
Ruth Padel Guest
Leigh Francis Guest
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
Dan Schreiber Producer
James Harkin Researcher
Molly Oldfield Researcher

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