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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 12, Episode 2 - Meeting Sixty-Nine

With comedian Joe Lycett, sociologist Prof Tom Shakespeare and television presenter and writer Konnie Huq.

Further details

Joe Lycett, the comedian, author of humorous complaint letters, and the performer of an Edinburgh Fringe show called That's the Way A-ha A-ha Joe Lycett, offers a half-folded towel. This is because he watched videos of a woman named Maria folding towels and this gives him "brain tingles".

Tom Shakespeare, a sociologist at the University of East Anglia who worked for five years at the World Health Organisation, and a man who once used the word "antidisestablishmentarianism" correctly on Question Time, provides a rolling armchair, a type of wheelchair belonging to Georges Couthon, a French lawyer and revolutionary. It is to show how wheelchairs have progressed.

Konnie Huq, the longest-running female presenter on Blue Peter, and world record holder for among other things starring in the world's fastest panto and the world's fastest duvet change, gives the Museum a Blue Peter badge. She is the only presenter not to have a gold badge because she lost one, and eBay stops people from selling them on.

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 15th January 2018
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Sunday 21st January 2018 12:00pm Radio 4
Monday 22nd January 2018 7:30am Radio 4 Extra
Monday 22nd January 2018 5:30pm Radio 4 Extra
Monday 22nd January 2018 10:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 23rd January 2018 5:30am Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 3rd May 2022 4:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Wednesday 4th May 2022 4:00am Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Sally Phillips Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Joe Lycett Guest
Tom Shakespeare Guest
Konnie Huq Guest
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
Anne Miller Producer
Mike Turner Researcher

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