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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 7, Episode 6 - Meeting Forty-Two

For the last meeting of Gallery 7 John and Phill are joined by comic musician Neil Innes, urban explorer Dr. Bardley Garrett and anthropologist Isabel Behncke Izquierdo.

Further details

Neil Innes, one of the members of The Rutles, the third member of the surreal psychedelic jazz pop fusion combo the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band; consider by some as the seventh member of the Monty Python team; and according to Mitch Benn the 33rd member of the Beatles, donates to The Museum of Curiosity the Institute of Cognitive, which would cover things like drunk-driving, mutually assured destruction and building houses on floodplains.

Dr. Bradley Garrett, a writer, photographer, urban explorer and researcher at Oxford University, and probably the only academic who has been seen hanging onto a crane at the top of the Shard, being arrested on the tarmac at Heathrow for criminal damage, hung a 50ft long scarf around the Angel of the North, and trespassing on private property over 300 times in more than eight countries, gives the hidden rivers of London, like the Fleet, the Tyburn, the Westbourne, and many modern sewers.

Dr. Isabel Behncke Izquierdo, a scientist who grew up in the wild mountains of Chile, doctor of cognitive and evolutionary anthropology, and who has studied neuroscience, music, primatology, poetry, ethnology, complexity theory, behavioural ecology and hobbits offers a laughing tree. This a tree with bonobo apes that were seemingly laughing. To Isabel, it was if the tree itself were laughing.

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 10th November 2014
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Sunday 16th November 2014 12:00pm Radio 4
Monday 17th November 2014 7:30am Radio 4 Extra
Monday 17th November 2014 10:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Monday 29th July 2019 9:00am Radio 4 Extra
Monday 29th July 2019 4:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 30th July 2019 4:00am Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Phill Jupitus Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Neil Innes Guest
Bradley Garrett Guest
Isabel Behncke Izquierdo Guest
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
Dan Schreiber Producer
James Harkin Researcher
Molly Oldfield Researcher

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