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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 11, Episode 3 - Meeting Sixty-Four

John Lloyd and Romesh Ranganathan this week are joined by comic conductor Rainer Hersch, doctor-turned-Antarctic adventurer Beth Healey and fabric artist Kaffe Fassett.

Further details

Rainer Hersch, a comedian and conductor, whose shows have included why organ music is so boring and has performed in 30 countries. provides the descant recorder, because all of the world's greatest music can be played on this cheapest of musical instruments. Rainer gets 10 members of the audience to play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".

Beth Healey, a former doctor who later went to "White Mars", an Antarctic station where people are sent to in order to see how people can cope if they were sent to Mars, gives the Museum the International Space Station, because of the amount of research that has been carried out on it has helped us down on Earth.

Kaffe Fassett, an artists who specialises in fabrics who has written about 40 books and had a show at the Victoria and Albert Museum - the first to a living fabric artist, offers Watts Towers, an artistic sculpture built in one of the most dangerous area in LA.

Broadcast details

Date
Friday 11th August 2017
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Saturday 12th August 2017 12:30pm Radio 4
Monday 14th August 2017 11:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 15th August 2017 9:00am Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 8th February 2022 4:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Wednesday 9th February 2022 4:00am Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Romesh Ranganathan Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Rainer Hersch Guest
Beth Healey Guest
Kaffe Fassett Guest
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
James Harkin Producer
Anne Miller Researcher
Mike Turner Researcher

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