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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 9, Episode 3 - Meeting Fifty-Two

Joining John Lloyd and Noel Fielding this week are surreal Geordie comic Ross Noble, rainforest ecologist Dr. Mike Shanahan and Countdown lexicographer Susie Dent.

Further details

Susie Dent, lexicographer, resident of Countdown's "Dictionary Corner" and it's comedy spin-off 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, brings to the Museum a fly that was on the wall at a meeting between Francis Grose, author of A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, and Dr. Samuel Johnson, the creator of the most famous dictionary. It is not know if the two ever met however.

Mike Shanahan, an expert on rainforests, illustrator, the author of a crowdfunded book on fig trees, and has tackled all kinds of illegal treatment of animals, offers up some wild fig trees. These trees have outlived the dinosaurs and each depends on their own special insects to survive.

Ross Noble, surreal Geordie comedian, star of Freewheeling, and who used to ride a unicycle to school, provides the game of rarajipari. While healing a swollen ankle he went around barefoot, he learned about a tribe called the Tarahumara in Mexico, who play this game with a wooden ball where they kick it for long distances.

Broadcast details

Date
Friday 12th August 2016
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Saturday 13th August 2016 12:30pm Radio 4
Monday 15th August 2016 11:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 16th August 2016 9:00am Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 30th June 2020 2:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Wednesday 1st July 2020 2:00am Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Noel Fielding Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Ross Noble Guest
Susie Dent Guest
Mike Shanahan Guest
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
James Harkin Producer
Anne Miller Researcher
Mike Turner Researcher

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