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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 6, Episode 2 - Meeting Thirty-Two

Donations this week come from evolutionary anthropologist Prof. Volker Sommer, singer and pianist Amanda Palmer and comedian, steampunk guitarist and occult transvestite Andrew O'Neill.

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Andrew O'Neill, probably the world's only post-modern, anarchist, crossdressing, vegan, occult stand-up comedian, as well as lead guitarist for steampunk band The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing, donates to the Museum a third class ticket to the London Necropolis Railway, a train system create to remove Victorian London's overflowing number of corpses.

Amanda Palmer, singer and pianist for Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra, who tends to perform tiny gigs and stay overnight in the houses of her fans, gives the Museum a living statue - one of the most cut-throat freelance jobs in the world.

Evolutionary anthropologist Prof. Volker Sommer, a champion of the rights of apes to be given the same rights as humans, provides the Museum with a dozen defecated ant heads. Having ate these disgusting ants to see why they apes do eat them too, Sommer has come to the conclusion that apes are religious.

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 7th October 2013
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Sunday 13th October 2013 12:00pm Radio 4
Monday 14th October 2013 7:30am Radio 4 Extra
Monday 14th October 2013 10:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Friday 9th December 2016 9:00am Radio 4 Extra
Friday 9th December 2016 4:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Saturday 10th December 2016 4:00am Radio 4 Extra
Monday 25th March 2019 9:00am Radio 4 Extra
Monday 25th March 2019 4:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 26th March 2019 4:00am Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Humphrey Ker Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Andrew O'Neill Guest
Amanda Palmer Guest
Volker Sommer Guest
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
Dan Schreiber Producer
James Harkin Researcher
Stevyn Colgan Researcher

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