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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 2, Episode 2 - Meeting Eight

Comedian Tim Fitzhigham, physicist Simon Singh, and Gavin Pretor-Pinney, author of The Cloudspotter's Guide and co-founder of The Idler donate Don Quixote, a pigeon-spattered telescope and an extremely rare cloud to the museum.

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

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Sean Lock Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Simon Singh Guest
Gavin Pretor-Pinney Guest
Tim FitzHigham Guest
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
Dan Schreiber Producer
James Harkin Researcher
Molly Oldfield Researcher

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