Gallery 7, Episode 1 - Meeting Thirty-Seven
Further details
Jimmy Wales, the creator of Wikipedia, the largest reference work in the world, donates a mobile phone, brought in Kenya in the year 2019 for just £10. It would be a smartphone that would cause a revolution in the whole country.
Helen Keen, comedian and star of BBC Radio 4's It Is Rocket Science and the host of the Large Hadron Collider's first comedy gig, offers the Museum a crater on the dark side of the moon named John Whiteside "Jack" Parsons: brillant rocket scienist and devil worshipper.
Kees Moeliker, the curator of the Natural History Museum of Rotterdam, and winner of the Ig Nobel Prize for uncovering the homosexual necrophilic habits of mallards, provides a single pubic louse, because they are on the decline due to people shaving their pubic hair.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 6th October 2014
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
Regular cast | |
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John Lloyd | Host / Presenter |
Phill Jupitus | Host / Presenter |
Guest cast | |
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Helen Keen | Guest |
Jimmy Wales | Guest |
Kees Moeliker | Guest |
Production team | |
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Richard Turner | Producer |
Dan Schreiber | Producer |

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