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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 4 - Meeting Fifty-Three

Offering their donations to John Lloyd and Noel Fielding are the surreal comic Vic Reeves, pheromone expert Tristram Wyatt and historian Kate Williams.

Further details

Dr Tristram Wyatt, Senior Research Associate and Emeritus Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford, an expert on pheromones, and his TEDx talk on the 'Smelly Mystery of Human Pheromones' has had over a million views, offers up a human pheromone. The problem is that no human pheromones are known to exist yet.

Vic Reeves, one half of Reeves and Mortimer, co-host of Shooting Star, and an expert of pirates, gives an albino lapwing used by Sir Mick Jagger in 1966. Vic doesn't know what Sir Mick used it for.

Kate Williams, professor of history at Reading University, star of comedy shows The Rest is History and Insert Name Here, and co-presenter of Restoration Home, donates to the Museum a Cottingley fairy. These were the famous fake fairies that fooled Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Broadcast details

Date
Friday 19th August 2016
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Saturday 20th August 2016 12:30pm Radio 4
Monday 22nd August 2016 11:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 23rd August 2016 9:00am Radio 4 Extra
Tuesday 7th July 2020 2:00pm Radio 4 Extra
Wednesday 8th July 2020 2:00am Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
John Lloyd Host / Presenter
Noel Fielding Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Vic Reeves Guest
Tristram Wyatt Guest
Kate Williams Guest
Production team
Richard Turner Producer
James Harkin Producer
Anne Miller Researcher
Mike Turner Researcher

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