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The Museum of Curiosity

Series 12

Episode 6

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for years

Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Sally Phillips welcome:

* Britain's Got Talent runner-up (at the age of 14!) Jack Carroll
* Hostage negotiator, Suzanne Williams
* Traveller with big ideas about mastering little things, Robert Twigger

The Museum's Guest Committee contemplate how someone changed history by choosing her bus seat carefully in 1955, what life might be like if we paid each other more attention and why all of life might actually be a simulation in a future game of Football Manager.

Researched by QI & Mike Turner.

Producers: Richard Turner and Anne Miller.

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in February 2018. Show less

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