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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 3 - Meeting Fifteen

With the author of The Men Who Sate At Goats Jon Ronson, psychologist Richard Wiseman and comedian Kevin Eldon.

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

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Jon Richardson Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Richard Wiseman Guest
Kevin Eldon Guest
Jon Ronson Guest
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
Dan Schreiber Producer
James Harkin Researcher
Molly Oldfield Researcher

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