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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 4 - Meeting Seventy-One

Joining John Lloyd and Sally Phillips are comedian Sindhu Vee, geneticist Sir Paul Nurse and the former editor of the Erotic Review Rowan Pelling.

Further details

Shindu Vee, a former investment bank with degrees from Oxford, Chicago and Delhi, who later became a stand-up comic after a unfunny friend decided to give it a go, offers the Danish concept of hygge, the concept of coziness. It involves candels, a little drink, and freezing cold darkness - thus you really can't have it in Britain or Shindu's native India.

Sir Paul Nurse, Nobel prize winning geneticist, an ex-Socialist Worker salesman, and a man who has failed French O-Level six times, gives the Museum the Large Hadron Collider - the biggest, most complex scientific machine ever built. It may explain what dark matter and dark energy is - if they can clear away the dead weasels from it.

Rowan Pelling, the former editor of the Erotic Review, the current editor of The Amorist, and who once sent two reporters to cover an orgy in Hemel Hempstead, provides a saucy limerick. She believes it is a fun form of poetry, and deals with the subjects of sex in a very British way.

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 29th January 2018
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Sunday 4th February 2018 12:00pm Radio 4
Monday 5th February 2018 7:30am Radio 4 Extra
Monday 5th February 2018 5:30pm Radio 4 Extra
Monday 5th February 2018 10:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 6th February 2018 5:30am Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 17th May 2022 4:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Wednesday 18th May 2022 4:00am Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Sally Phillips Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Sindhu Vee Guest
Paul Nurse Guest
Rowan Pelling Guest
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
Anne Miller Producer
Mike Turner Researcher

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