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The Museum of Curiosity

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Panel show in which guests donate fascinating exhibits to a vast imaginary museum

Panel show in which three distinguished guests donate fascinating exhibits to a vast imaginary museum

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John Lloyd

Noel Fielding

Janina Ramirez

Peter Frankopan

Jenny Colgan

Richard Turner

James Harkin

The Museum of Curiosity: Series 9: Colgan, Ramirez, Frankopan

Colgan, Ramirez, Frankopan

Series 9

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John Lloyd and Noel Fielding with Jenny Colgan, Dr Janina Ramirez and Dr Peter Frankopan.

John Lloyd and Noel Fielding welcome author Jenny Colgan, historian Dr Janina Ramirez and writer Dr Peter Frankopan. From 2016.

This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Noel Fielding welcome:

*    Dr Janina Ramirez, art historian, author and TV presenter. Janina is Course Director for the Undergraduate Certificate in History of Art at the University of Oxford.

*    Peter Frankopan, Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and author.
 
*    Jenny Colgan, a novelist who writes romantic comedies, sci-fi and children's books. 

The Museum's Guest Committee appreciate a medieval polymath nun who created her own language; a collection of food additives from the 1970s; and an infinite number of colours that exist only in the mind and all with the same name.

Researchers: Mike Turner and Anne Miller of QI

Producers: Richard Turner and James Harkin

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in August 2016.

The Museum of Curiosity: Series 9

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and curator Noel Fielding discuss some new curiosities.

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