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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 16, Episode 2 - Meeting Ninety-Six

John Lloyd and Holly Walsh welcome Swedish-Chinese comedian Evelyn Mok, beard historian Dr Alun Withey and writer of The Queen's Gambit and Don't Look Now Allan Scott to the museum.

Further details

Evelyn Mok, a Swedish-Chinese comedian and actor, who has performed a stand-up show called Hymen Manoeuvre, donates Sweden's Dragon Gate. This was intended to be the entrance to Sweden's first Chinatown, but due to red tape the plan failed so it next to a petrol station.

Dr Alun Withey, a history blogger and podcaster, who has written a history of beards and studies the history of medicine, offers up a 19th century mechanical beard with detachable whiskers. It consists of springs and wires so the beard would move.

Allan Scott, a screenwriter, producer, and chairperson of a whisky company, who penned Don't Look Now, The Queen's Gambit and The Witches, provides the Biggles books by Captain W. E. Johns. To be exact, he is lending them and allowing the Museum to copy the books.

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 25th October 2021
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Sunday 31st October 2021 12:00pm Radio 4
Monday 1st November 2021 7:30am Radio 4 Extra
Monday 1st November 2021 5:30pm Radio 4 Extra
Monday 1st November 2021 10:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 2nd November 2021 5:30am Radio 4 Extra
Friday 14th April 2023 9:00am Radio 4 Extra
Friday 14th April 2023 2:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Friday 14th April 2023 7:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Saturday 15th April 2023 5:00am Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Holly Walsh Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Evelyn Mok Guest
Alun Withey Guest
Allan Scott Guest
Production team
Anne Miller Producer
Julia McKenzie Executive Producer
David Thomas Editor
Mike Turner Researcher
Mike Shephard (as Mike Shepherd) Researcher
Jack Chambers Researcher

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