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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 6 - Meeting Twelve

With writer and critic Clive James, fantasy author Philip Pullman and musical comedian Tim Minchin.

Further details

The critic, writer and poet Clive James gives to the Museum a P-51 Mustang, an American aeroplane which helped to win World War II. Clive also demonstrates his vast knowledge of war planes.

The Australian musical comedian Tim Minchin donates the notion of tempting fate and which leads to a look at all those strange superstitions we still believe in.

Philip Pullman, the author of the His Dark Materials series, gives to museum a collection of inventions that are now used for things that they were not designed for, such as nitroglycerine, the "@" symbol and the human appendix.

Notes

The full episode title is "Meeting Twelve - Rooms 7-9: A P-51 Mustang, Tempting Fate & Inventions Being Used For Things They Were Not Designed For".

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 8th June 2009
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Sunday 14th June 2009 12:00pm Radio 4
Friday 25th December 2009 7:30am Radio 4
Friday 23rd December 2011 9:30am Radio 4 Extra
Saturday 24th December 2011 2:30am Radio 4 Extra
Friday 25th July 2014 9:00am Radio 4 Extra
Friday 25th July 2014 6:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Saturday 26th July 2014 1:00am Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 4th July 2017 4:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Wednesday 5th July 2017 4:00am Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Sean Lock Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Clive James Guest
Tim Minchin Guest
Philip Pullman Guest
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
Dan Schreiber Producer
James Harkin Researcher
Molly Oldfield Researcher

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