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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 3, Episode 5 - Meeting Seventeen

With explorer Sir Robin Hanbury-Tenison, autistic savant Daniel Tammet and impressionist Ronni Ancona.

Further details

In a special episode, the museum is looking for new members of staff. As a result, all the donations are curious people.

Impressionist and actress Ronni Ancona donates several medical people. One is Dr. Barry Marshall to the museum, who was the man who found the bacterium that caused stomach ulcers. He proved it by consuming the bacteria and giving himself an ulcer. She also donates Dr. Humphrey Davy, inventor of the Davy lamp, discovered more elements than anyone else, and got addicted to laughing gas.

Autistic savant, speaker of 11 languages (one he invented himself) and record holder for remembering pi to the most number of places, Daniel Tammet, gives the museum Saul Bellow, a novelist who used his live for the subject of his books. These include Herzog, which includes a character based on his second wife's adulterer.

Explorer Sir Robin Hanbury-Tenison provides the museum his best friend Nyapun, who acted as Robin's guide on several of his trips, who is an expert in many areas, just processed very little - mainly a blowpipe. He also help defend his Malay from the Japanese.

Notes

The full episode title is "Meeting Seventeen: Barry Marshall, Humphrey Davy, Saul Bellow & Nyapun".

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 7th June 2010
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Sunday 13th June 2010 12:00pm Radio 4
Thursday 3rd May 2012 9:30am Radio 4 Extra
Friday 4th May 2012 2:30am Radio 4 Extra
Friday 26th December 2014 9:00am Radio 4 Extra
Friday 26th December 2014 6:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Saturday 27th December 2014 1:00am Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 19th June 2018 4:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Wednesday 20th June 2018 4:00am Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Jon Richardson Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Robin Hanbury-Tenison Guest
Ronni Ancona Guest
Daniel Tammet Guest
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
Dan Schreiber Producer
James Harkin Researcher
Molly Oldfield Researcher

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