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

Romesh Ranganathan

Penny Rose

Francis Wheen

Clive Oppenheimer

Richard Turner

James Harkin

The Museum of Curiosity: Series 11: Episode 5

Episode 5

Series 11

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John Lloyd and Romesh Ranganathan with Penny Rose, Francis Wheen and Clive Oppenheimer.

John Lloyd and Romesh Ranganathan welcome designer Penny Rose, Francis Wheen and volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer. From 2017.

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

*    A costume designer who has dressed Johnny Depp, Madonna and Tom Cruise, Penny Rose.
*    Truth seeker, commentator, author, biographer, columnist and Private Eye's Editor, Francis Wheen.
*    Cambridge Uni's Professor of Volcanology and author who travels from the Antarctic to North Korea in search of Hot Stuff, Clive Oppenheimer.

The Museum's Guest Committee offer as exhibits a decorous device for lifting a Victorian lady's skirt, a letter that Karl Marx never wrote and a tin can full of liquid rock.

Researched by Anne Miller of QI and Mike Turner.

Producers: Richard Turner and James Harkin

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in September 2017.

The Museum of Curiosity: Series 11

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and curator Romesh Ranganathan discuss new curiosities.

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