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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 10, Episode 6 - Meeting Sixty-One

Joining John Lloyd and Jo Brand are American comedian Michelle Wolf, food writer Bee Wilson and literary walker Henry Eliot.

Further details

Henry Eliot, the creative editor of Penguin Classics, co-author of the book Curiosity, and a "literary walker", having provided walks based on The Wasteland and on the influence of cheese on culture, politics and architecture, donates to the Museum the Longplayer, a piece of music that began on New Year's Eve 1999 and won't finish until New Year's Eve 2999, played on Tibetan singing bowls.

Bee Wilson, a food writer, historian, journalist and former Masterchef semi-finalist, and who has written books ranging from subjects such as the way we eat to how we learn to eat, offers up the smell of coffee, because of its usefulness. It helps people sell houses, but also the smell is much better than the taste. It is Britain's fourth favourite smell, behind freshly-cut grass, bacon, and freshly-baked bread.

Michelle Wolf, an American comedian and former banker, who is a star of The Daily Show and has written the presenter's speeches for the Academy Awards and the Emmys, provides the 24-hour rolling news channel CNN. Michelle argues that the channel accidentally helped to get Donald Trump get elected as US president, and suggests the channel is a good example of how you can make an entire civilization fall.

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 13th February 2017
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Sunday 19th February 2017 12:00pm Radio 4
Monday 20th February 2017 7:30am Radio 4 Extra
Monday 20th February 2017 5:30pm Radio 4 Extra
Monday 20th February 2017 10:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 21st February 2017 5:30am Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 20th July 2021 4:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Wednesday 21st July 2021 4:00am Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Jo Brand Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Michelle Wolf Guest
Bee Wilson Guest
Henry Eliot Guest
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
James Harkin Producer
Anne Miller Researcher
Mike Turner Researcher

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