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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 14, Episode 2 - Meeting Eighty-Two

This week joining John Lloyd and Bridget Christie in the Museum are Australian comedian Sarah Kendall, bioscientist and businessman Sir Chris Evans, and ethnobotanist James Wong.

Further details

James Wong, an ethnobotanist (the study of plants in a particular region and who people in that region use them) and youngest ever medal winner at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, donates a terrarium, which many people think looks nice, but was created to transport plants around the world. It is thanks to these that tea was smuggled out of China and spread around the globe.

Sarah Kendall, storyteller, comedian, and star of comedies Clare in the Community, the Australian Trilogy and Frayed, gives the Museum a ship in a bottle. This is because with the end of really great works, it should feel like pulling a thread to get the sails up on the boat.

Bioscience entrepreneur Sir Chris Evans, a man with 15 letters after his name who has turned many World War One letters into a song for his cancer charity, provides a cabbage, because 30 years ago he helped to develop a way of saving the lifes of prematurely-born babies using enzymes from a cabbage.

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 7th October 2019
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Sunday 13th October 2019 12:00pm Radio 4
Monday 14th October 2019 7:30am Radio 4 Extra
Monday 14th October 2019 5:30pm Radio 4 Extra
Monday 14th October 2019 10:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 15th October 2019 5:30am Radio 4 Extra
Friday 28th October 2022 9:00am Radio 4 Extra
Friday 28th October 2022 4:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Saturday 29th October 2022 4:00am Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Bridget Christie Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Sarah Kendall Guest
James Wong Guest
Chris Evans (as Sir Chris Evans) Guest
Production team
Anne Miller Producer
Victoria Lloyd Executive Producer
Mike Turner Researcher
Emily Jupitus Researcher
Mike Shephard (as Mike Shepherd) Researcher

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