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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 8, Episode 1 - Meeting Forty-Four

Joining John Lloyd and new curator Sarah Millican this week are comedian Holly Walsh, the author and adventurer David Bramwell and "Freakonomist" Stephen J. Dubner.

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Holly Walsh, a comedian who made her debut on TV at the age of six as a badger enthusiast, and who later appeared on Celebrity Mastermind with her specialist being "badgers", donates to the museum The Vows of the Peacock, a medieval poem which features strange illustrations, including people with fingers up their arseholes, and naked women riding giant phalluses with smiley faces on them.

One-man cottage industry David Bramwell, a man who has met people from all kinds of alternative backgrounds, from anarchist societies to a utopian society in Arizona, offers the part of a time machine, taken from an Italian community the Federation of Damanhur, who made an underground temple.

Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of Freakonomics, who has helped to proved the drunk walking is more dangerous the drunk driving, and who believes we should abolish the penny, gives The Museum of Curiosity a microchip that could be implanted into a brain that could read human thoughts, even though Dubner hates the idea of it.

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 11th January 2016
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Sunday 17th January 2016 12:00pm Radio 4
Monday 18th January 2016 7:30am Radio 4 Extra
Monday 18th January 2016 5:30pm Radio 4 Extra
Monday 18th January 2016 10:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 19th January 2016 5:30am Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 11th February 2020 4:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Wednesday 12th February 2020 4:00am Radio 4 Extra
Saturday 26th December 2020 10:00pm Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Sarah Millican Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Holly Walsh Guest
David Bramwell Guest
Stephen J. Dubner Guest
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
James Harkin Producer
Molly Oldfield Researcher
Anne Miller Researcher

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