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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 2 - Meeting Forty-Five

Joining John Lloyd and Sarah Millican this week are mathematician Hannah Fry, Horrible Histories resident historian Greg Jenner, and the tattyfilarious Ken Dodd.

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Greg Jenner, a historian who worked as the advisor and "tyrannical pedant" to Horrible Histories, and author of A Million Years in a Day: Stone Age to Phone Age, donates to the museum the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, the act that brought in the prohibition of alcohol in America, as a warning as to how it is seemingly impossible to ban drink (even if in Jenner's case you are tea-total).

Hannah Fry a lecture in the mathematics of cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL, who believes maths could used for things such as dating people, provides The Museum of Curiosity the equation for the perfect marriage, an actual mathematical forumla that can predict if you marriage will be successful 90% of the time.

Ken Dodd, veteran comedian who performs at seven titters per minute, and holder of the 34th best-selling single of all time with "Tears", offers the museum William Shakespeare's chucklemuscle, because everyone has one according to Ken, and everyone should use them to make the world laugh. Dodd also recounts his role as Malvolio in Twelfth Night.

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 18th January 2016
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Sunday 24th January 2016 12:00pm Radio 4
Monday 25th January 2016 7:30am Radio 4 Extra
Monday 25th January 2016 5:30pm Radio 4 Extra
Monday 25th January 2016 10:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 26th January 2016 5:30am Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 18th February 2020 4:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Wednesday 19th February 2020 4:00am Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Sarah Millican Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Hannah Fry Guest
Greg Jenner Guest
Ken Dodd Guest
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
James Harkin Producer
Molly Oldfield Researcher
Anne Miller Researcher

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