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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 8, Episode 4 - Meeting Forty-Seven

John Lloyd and Sarah Millican are given donations by actor and comic Rufus Hound, creator of the Eden Project Sir Tim Smit, and archaeoastronomer Doris Vickers.

Further details

Dutchman Sir Tim Smit, the man who created the Eden Project and former music producer, donates the New Emperor's new clothes, a set of clothes that when you wear them will change colour whenever you lie. He argues that all politicians should wear them.

Austrian Doris Vickers, an archaeoastronomer who studies the relationship between the stars and the past, and examines the relationship between astronomy and astrology, provides a star clock, a device that tells the time using the stars in the night's sky.

Rufus Hound, comedian, actor, former political candidate, and winner of Strictly Come Dancing, offers The Museum of Curiosity with the monkey mirror, a mirror that reflects our primitive primate self, which will hopefully make us kind be reminding ourselves of the way we used to live.

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 1st February 2016
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Sunday 7th February 2016 12:00pm Radio 4
Monday 8th February 2016 7:30am Radio 4 Extra
Monday 8th February 2016 5:30pm Radio 4 Extra
Monday 8th February 2016 10:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 9th February 2016 5:30am Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 3rd March 2020 4:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Wednesday 4th March 2020 4:00am Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Sarah Millican Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Rufus Hound Guest
Tim Smit Guest
Doris Vickers Guest
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
James Harkin Producer
Stevyn Colgan Researcher
Anne Miller Researcher

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