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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 6, Episode 1 - Meeting Thirty-One

Humphrey Ker joins John Lloyd as the Museum opens up the sixth gallery. This week's generous donors are Egyptologist Prof. Joann Fletcher, who is presenting us with a hugely significant Roman coin; explorer Col. John Blashford-Snell, who brings a compass that led its owner the greatest one-liner in history; and the comedian Mark Watson, who is offering us something rather small and personal.

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Col. John Blashford-Snell, a man who has lead over 100 expeditions - including delivering a grand piano to the Wai Wai tribe in the Amazon - and the accidental inventor of white-water rafting, donates to the Museum the actual compass that Henry Morton Stanley used to find Dr. David Livingstone, who together stopped the slave trade from Africa.

Mark Watson, noted comedian, a man who has been honoured on Britsol Zoo's Walk of Fame, and who as a child wrote a suicide note after losing a game of Connect 4, gives his own glasses to the Museum. The ones he is wearing at the recording are the pair that he has managed to keep hold of the longest - at a record for two months. He donates them to the Museum so he will always know they are.

Egyptologist Prof. Joann Fletcher, discoverer of the mummy of Queen Nefertiti and the world's oldest nit provides the Museum a silver denarius of Mark Antony that was struck by him and Celopatra to celebrate the victory of the Battle of Actium, that was found in Joann's hometown of Barnsley.

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 30th September 2013
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Sunday 6th October 2013 12:00pm Radio 4
Monday 7th October 2013 7:30am Radio 4 Extra
Monday 7th October 2013 10:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Friday 2nd December 2016 9:00am Radio 4 Extra
Friday 2nd December 2016 4:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Saturday 3rd December 2016 4:00am Radio 4 Extra
Monday 18th March 2019 9:00am Radio 4 Extra
Monday 18th March 2019 4:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 19th March 2019 4:00am Radio 4 Extra
Saturday 23rd March 2019 12:00pm Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Humphrey Ker Host / Presenter
Guest cast
John Blashford-Snell Guest
Mark Watson Guest
Joann Fletcher Guest
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
Dan Schreiber Producer
James Harkin Researcher
Stevyn Colgan Researcher

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