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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 3 - Meeting Nine

With biologist Rupert Sheldrake, historian Bettany Hughes and stand-up comedian and star of The Thick of It Chris Addison.

Further details

The ancient historian Bettany Hughes donates Helen of Troy to the museum, which leads to the subject of the "Millihelen", a unit of measurement which states how much beauty it takes to launch a single ship.

Comedian Chris Addison gives the museum the golf club that astronaut Alan Shepard took to the Moon with him so that he could play while visiting the heavenly body.

Controversial biologist Rupert Sheldrake donates a sheep rolling over a cattle gird as an example of his theory of morphic resonance: the idea that animals on one side of the world learn to do something on the other side within just a few days.

Notes

The full episode title is "Meeting Nine - Rooms 73-75: Helen of Troy, Alan Shepard's Six Iron & A Sheep Rolling Over a Cattlegrid".

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 18th May 2009
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Sunday 24th May 2009 12:00pm Radio 4
Friday 2nd December 2011 9:30am Radio 4 Extra
Saturday 3rd December 2011 2:30am Radio 4 Extra
Friday 4th July 2014 9:00am Radio 4 Extra
Friday 4th July 2014 6:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Saturday 5th July 2014 1:00am Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 13th June 2017 4:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Wednesday 14th June 2017 4:00am Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Sean Lock Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Chris Addison Guest
Bettany Hughes Guest
Rupert Sheldrake Guest
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
Dan Schreiber Producer
James Harkin Researcher
Molly Oldfield Researcher

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