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.
Episode menu
Gallery 2, Episode 2 - Meeting Eight
Further details
Gavin Pretor-Pinney, co-founder of The Idler magazine and author of The Cloudspotter's Guide donates a very rare type of cloud to the museum and also discusses the dangers of falling through larger clouds.
Physicist and journalist Simon Singh chooses as his exhibit the Horn Antenna, a radio telescope covered with pigeon droppings which provided the first real evidence of the Big Bang.
Comedian, author and the first man to cross the English Channel in a bath Tim Fitzhigham donates the book Don Quixote to the museum and talks about his own attempts to live like a knight.
Notes
The full episode title is "Meeting Eight - Rooms 61-63: A Kelvin-Helmholtz Cloud, The Holmdel Horn Antenna & Don Quixote".
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 11th May 2009
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Repeats
Show past repeats
Date | Time | Channel |
---|---|---|
Sunday 17th May 2009 | 12:00pm | Radio 4 |
Friday 25th November 2011 | 9:30am | Radio 4 Extra |
Saturday 26th November 2011 | 2:30am | Radio 4 Extra |
Friday 27th June 2014 | 9:00am | Radio 4 Extra |
Friday 27th June 2014 | 6:00pm | Radio 4 Extra |
Saturday 28th June 2014 | 1:00am | Radio 4 Extra |
Tuesday 6th June 2017 | 4:00pm | Radio 4 Extra |
Wednesday 7th June 2017 | 4:00am | Radio 4 Extra |
Cast & crew
John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Sean Lock | Host / Presenter |
Simon Singh | Guest |
Gavin Pretor-Pinney | Guest |
Tim FitzHigham | Guest |
Richard Turner | Producer |
Dan Schreiber | Producer |
James Harkin | Researcher |
Molly Oldfield | Researcher |