The Museum Of Curiosity. John Lloyd. Copyright: BBC
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 5, Episode 4 - Meeting Twenty-Eight

John Lloyd and temporary curator Humphrey Ker invite screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, actor/writer/magician Andy Nyman and anatomist Dr Alice Roberts to donate items to the museum.

Further details

The screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, wrote the film 24 Hour Party People and helped to create the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, goes all religious with his donation, which is the Psalter (book of psalms) belonging on St Columba, who held convert much of Scotland to Christianity.

The anatomist Dr. Alice Roberts, an expert in human skeletons and co-host of Prehistoric Autospy, offers the museum a common relation to all of us, namely a child of a human and a neanderthal.

Andy Nyman, actor, star of Campus and close friend of Derren Brown donates to the museum with a surprising cinema innovation in the form of Friday the 13th Part III 3-D, and explains how 3-D always comes across when cinema is in crisis.

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 22nd October 2012
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Sunday 28th October 2012 12:00pm Radio 4
Monday 29th October 2012 7:30am Radio 4 Extra
Monday 29th October 2012 10:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Friday 6th May 2016 9:00am Radio 4 Extra
Friday 6th May 2016 4:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Saturday 7th May 2016 4:00am Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 29th January 2019 4:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Wednesday 30th January 2019 4:00am Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Humphrey Ker Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Frank Cottrell-Boyce Guest
Alice Roberts Guest
Andy Nyman Guest
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
Dan Schreiber Producer
James Harkin Researcher
Stevyn Colgan Researcher

Share this page