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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 7, Episode 4 - Meeting Forty

Joining Phill Jupitus joins John Lloyd in the seventh gallery are American comedian Rich Hall, the historian Anna Keay and Britain's leading brain surgeon Henry Marsh.

Further details

Rich Hall, a comedian, writer, documentary-maker, part of the basis of Moe in The Simpsons, and a man who has worked on The Late Show with David Letterman and Saturday Night Live donates a front porch, without which we wouldn't have bluegrass music or wooing, and how it demonstrates that the Americans are willing to be more open than the British.

Dr. Anna Keay, a historian who has worked at Stonehenge, the Tower of London, head of the Landmark Trust, and discoverer of possibly the world's oldest Ordience Survey map, offers The Museum of Curiosity St. Edward's Crown, the crown which is only used for coronations.

Dr. Henry Marsh CBE, Britain's leading brain surgeon, leading neurosurgeon at St George's hospital in London, and the star of two award-winning documentaries provides the Museum a sea squirt's brain, a creature that looks like a tadpole which when it becomes an adult sticks to a rock, and just reabsorbs its brain.

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 27th October 2014
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Sunday 2nd November 2014 12:00pm Radio 4
Monday 3rd November 2014 7:30am Radio 4 Extra
Monday 3rd November 2014 10:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Monday 15th July 2019 9:00am Radio 4 Extra
Monday 15th July 2019 4:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 16th July 2019 4:00am Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Phill Jupitus Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Rich Hall Guest
Anna Keay Guest
Henry Marsh Guest
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
Dan Schreiber Producer
James Harkin Researcher
Stevyn Colgan Researcher

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