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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 4, Episode 6 - Meeting Twenty-Four

Featuring comedian Harry Enfield, solar physicist Lucie Green and former head of the British Navy Lord Alan West.

Further details

Lucie Green, a physicist who specialises in the Sun donates an invisible coronal mass ejection. This is slightly worrying as a powerful one could destory the entire electronic infrastructure of the planet.

The comedian Harry Enfield gives the museum someone he has never come across: a stupid German. Give the huge number of the things they invented it is no surprise Enfield has yet to spot one.

Alan West, Baron West of Spithead, former First Sea Lord and head of the Royal Navy, provides the museum with something that powered the British Navy for well over a century, namely a tot of rum.

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 7th November 2011
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Sunday 13th November 2011 12:00pm Radio 4
Monday 14th November 2011 7:30am Radio 4 Extra
Monday 14th November 2011 10:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Monday 1st April 2013 11:30pm Radio 4 Extra
Friday 27th March 2015 9:00am Radio 4 Extra
Friday 27th March 2015 6:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Saturday 28th March 2015 1:00am Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 28th August 2018 4:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Wednesday 29th August 2018 4:00am Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Dave Gorman Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Harry Enfield Guest
Lucie Green Guest
Alan West (as Lord Alan West) Guest
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
Dan Schreiber Producer
James Harkin Researcher
Molly Oldfield Researcher

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