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The Museum of Curiosity

Series 11

Episode 3

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for years

Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Romesh Ranganathan welcome:

* Internationally acclaimed conductor, actor, writer, comedian and broadcaster, Rainer Hersch
* Doctor, Antarctic explorer, and prospective Martian astronaut, Beth Healey
* Painter, author and textile, ceramics and costume designer, Kaffe Fassett.

The Museum's Guest Committee offer as exhibits a vast home-made architectural folly, a wind instrument that takes you back to school and a station the size of a football pitch that weighs absolutely nothing and moves at 18,000 mph.

Researched by Anne Miller of QI & Mike Turner.

Producers: Richard Turner & James Harkin.

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2017. Show less

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