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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.

Episode menu

Gallery 4, Episode 4 - Meeting Twenty-Two

Guests are colourful writer and journalist David McCandless, linguist David Crystal and comedian Natalie Haynes.

Further details

David McCandless, an author and journalist best known for his graphic representation of just about every form of information, donates the super-ego, the part of the psyche which stops you from going too far.

Comedian and classics fan Natalie Haynes, donates to the museum all the TV detectives in the world (except Jessica Fletcher from Murder, She Wrote - Haynes claims she was a serial killer).

Linguist Prof. David Crystal provides the museum with his waffle generator, a device which gets you out of awkward conversations by saying nothing but cliches.

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 24th October 2011
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Sunday 30th October 2011 12:00pm Radio 4
Monday 31st October 2011 7:30am Radio 4 Extra
Monday 31st October 2011 10:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Monday 18th March 2013 11:30pm Radio 4 Extra
Friday 13th March 2015 9:00am Radio 4 Extra
Friday 13th March 2015 6:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Saturday 14th March 2015 1:00am Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 14th August 2018 4:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Wednesday 15th August 2018 4:00am Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Dave Gorman Host / Presenter
Guest cast
David McCandless Guest
David Crystal Guest
Natalie Haynes Guest
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
Dan Schreiber Producer
James Harkin Researcher
Molly Oldfield Researcher

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