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 3, Episode 3 - Meeting Fifteen
Further details
Psychologist and former magician Richard Wiseman donates an unusual experiment conducted by American psychologist Stanley Milgram which involved people giving people large electric shocks, and he learned that people were willing to give people very big shocks.
The comedian, poet and Buddhist Kevin Eldon gives the museum the Ten Worlds, a system of ten different spiritual worlds that people are subject to: Hell, Hunger, Animality, Arrogance, Humanity, Heaven, Learning, Realisation, Bodhisattvahood and Buddhahood.
The author and documentary film maker Jon Ronson donates the gay bomb, an attempt by the American army to make a bomb that would release a pheromones that would make the enemy soldiers gay and thus they would stop fighting the Yanks and start kissing each other.
Notes
The full episode title is "Meeting Fifteen: The Milgram Experiment, The Ten Worlds & a Gay Bomb".
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 24th May 2010
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Repeats
Show past repeats
Date | Time | Channel |
---|---|---|
Sunday 30th May 2010 | 12:00pm | Radio 4 |
Thursday 19th April 2012 | 9:30am | Radio 4 Extra |
Friday 20th April 2012 | 2:30am | Radio 4 Extra |
Friday 12th December 2014 | 9:00am | Radio 4 Extra |
Friday 12th December 2014 | 6:00pm | Radio 4 Extra |
Saturday 13th December 2014 | 1:00am | Radio 4 Extra |
Tuesday 5th June 2018 | 4:00pm | Radio 4 Extra |
Wednesday 6th June 2018 | 4:00am | Radio 4 Extra |
Cast & crew
John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Jon Richardson | Host / Presenter |
Richard Wiseman | Guest |
Kevin Eldon | Guest |
Jon Ronson | Guest |
Richard Turner | Producer |
Dan Schreiber | Producer |
James Harkin | Researcher |
Molly Oldfield | Researcher |