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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 6 - Meeting Forty-Nine

For the final room in Gallery Eight, John Lloyd and Sarah Millican are joined by comedian Susan Calman, explorer and zoologist Lucy Cooke and Factum Arte's Adam Lowe.

Further details

Lucy Cooke, a zoologist and former comedy performer, founder of the Sloth Appreciation Society and self-declared "Amphibian Avenger", offers the Museum a pygmy sloth, which are only found in an island off the coast of Panama that seems to be constantly stoned.

Adam Lowe, artist and innovator, founder of Factum Arte art foundation which among other things helps to renovate art that is in danger of being destroyed with new technology, donates a Lucida 3D laser scanner, a machine that helps to re-create the surface of paintings that an endangered.

Susan Calman, Scottish comedian, an ex-solicitor who previously worked on Death Row cases, a suffer of a fear of raisins (inyaphobia) and collector of thimbles (a digitabulist), provides a copy of Fifty Shades of Grey, because it began as a copy of Twilight fan-fiction, and fan-fiction is something that is mainly dominated by women.

Notes

This and episode five were swapped around to avoid Susan Calman's appearance clashing with her appearance on The News Quiz that week.

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 15th February 2016
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Sunday 21st February 2016 12:00pm Radio 4
Monday 22nd February 2016 7:30am Radio 4 Extra
Monday 22nd February 2016 5:30pm Radio 4 Extra
Monday 22nd February 2016 10:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 23rd February 2016 5:30am Radio 4 Extra
Monday 5th September 2016 11:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 17th March 2020 4:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Wednesday 18th March 2020 4:00am Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Sarah Millican Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Susan Calman Guest
Lucy Cooke Guest
Adam Lowe Guest
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
James Harkin Producer
Stevyn Colgan Researcher
Anne Miller Researcher

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