The Museum Of Curiosity

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Annual Stocktake20181225In this special edition of the Museum, John Lloyd attempts to conduct his first ever annual stock take of all of the 237 exhibits that he has so far gathered from 79 Steering Committee meetings. These include a yeti, a pygmy sloth, the giant hornet of Chang Jiang, a hairy anglerfish, a sheep rolling over a cattle grid, a snail glued to a board, the offspring of a Neanderthal and Homo sapiens, and that's just some of the animals. He also needs to account for some seemingly impossible exhibits which include a magic mirror in which you can see the masterpiece you will never make, the Big Bang, silence, Epping forest, the Danish concept of Hygge, a single atom of iron and, quite literally, nothing. To help him out, he has invited former curators Sally Phillips, Lee Mack, Jo Brand & Jimmy Carr, and while he's got them there, he even tries to squeeze a fresh donation out of each of them.

If you want to find out what smell is worth $100,000 Australian dollars more than that of some dirty socks, what chart places Cameron Diaz one place higher than Jimmy Carr, why there is especially nothing particularly special about Ordnance Survey square SE830220, and what's so good about things that are not so good.

The show was researched by Mike Turner and Emily Jupitus of QI.

Producers: Richard Turner and Anne Miller

A BBC Studios Production

John Lloyd takes stock of the Museum with Sally Phillips, Lee Mack, Jo Brand & Jimmy Carr.

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

Christmas Special2019122320191230/31/4) (BBC7)The Museum of Curiosity is a Rose d'Or winning panel show in its fourteenth series hosted by John Lloyd (Blackadder, Spitting Image, Not The Nine O'Clock News, QI). Each series is ‘curated' by a different comedian - the Museum's current curator is Bridget Christie (A Bic For Her, Netflix's Stand Up for Her and the Rose d'Or winning Bridget Christie Minds The Gap).

Last Christmas the Museum reunited four of its previous curators (Sally Phillips, Lee Mack, Jimmy Carr and Jo Brand) for its first Christmas special. This year John and Bridget return with a special extended edition featuring music producer Glyn Johns, comedian Shazia Mirza and novelist JK Rowling.

Glyn Johns is a music producer who has worked with The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Eagles, Bob Dylan, Joan Armatrading and Eric Clapton to name but a few.

Shazia Mirza is a multi-award-winning comedian who is currently touring her latest show Coconut which talks about her experiences fending for herself (and her fellow islanders) on Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls. She won ‘Columnist of the Year' for her writing in The New Statesman.

JK Rowling is the best selling author behind the Harry Potter phenomenon. The books have won multiple awards, sold over 500 million copies and been translated into over 80 languages. She also founded children's charity Lumos, was made an OBE in 2001 and has a gold Blue Peter badge.

In each episode of The Museum of Curiosity the panel are asked to donate an exhibit to the Museum's growing collection. In this special extended episode Glyn Johns choses a 3M M23 8 Track tape machine featuring a recording of Something by George Harrison. Shazia Mirza donates real eyebrows which she fears are going extinct and reveals her plans for ‘eyebrow donation cards'. JK Rowling donates inspiration as she often gets asked where she gets hers from and she suggests the Museum could sell it in the gift shop.

The Museum's exhibits were catalogued by Mike Shephard, Mike Turner and Emily Jupitus of QI.

The Producers were Anne Miller and Victoria Lloyd.

John Lloyd and Bridget Christie take donations from Glyn Johns, Shazia Mirza & JK Rowling

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

The Museum of Curiosity is a Rose d'Or winning panel show in its fourteenth series hosted by John Lloyd (Blackadder, Spitting Image, Not The Nine O'Clock News, QI). Each series is ‘curated' by a different comedian – the Museum's current curator is Bridget Christie (A Bic For Her, Netflix's Stand Up for Her and the Rose d'Or winning Bridget Christie Minds The Gap).

Shazia Mirza is a multi-award-winning comedian who is currently touring her latest show Coconut which talks about her experiences fending for herself (and her fellow islanders) on Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls. She won ‘Columnist of the Year' for her writing in The New Statesman.

In each episode of The Museum of Curiosity the panel are asked to donate an exhibit to the Museum's growing collection. In this special extended episode Glyn Johns choses a 3M M23 8 Track tape machine featuring a recording of Something by George Harrison. Shazia Mirza donates real eyebrows which she fears are going extinct and reveals her plans for ‘eyebrow donation cards'. JK Rowling donates inspiration as she often gets asked where she gets hers from and she suggests the Museum could sell it in the gift shop.

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The Museum's Steering Committee discusses computers made with dominoes, praises the mother of all computer programs and reveals that the first computer bug was actually a moth.

Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his newest new curator Sarah Millican welcome:

- Matt Parker, who left Australia to teach maths in the UK before joining the Festival of the Spoken Nerd comedy group. He is a regular on Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage, presents the Discovery Channel's You Have Been Warned and has shown off his Rubik's Cube skills on CBBC's How to Be Epic at Everything. His latest book Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension explores such topics as the fairest way to cut a pizza and the most efficient way to tie your shoelaces. Matt's favourite numbers are 496, 3,435 and 2,025.

- Eben Upton, who in 2006 conceived the idea of the Raspberry Pi, a credit-card sized fully-programmable computer that went on sale in 2011 and has since sold more than 5 million, becoming the fastest-selling British personal computer in history. MIT has since named him one of the world's top 35 innovators under the age of 35 and he has been awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal.

- Sydney Padua, a Canadian graphic novelist and animator and who has worked on blockbuster movies such as The Illusionist, Clash of the Titans and John Carter as well as teaching at the Animation Workshop in Denmark and at the University of Middlesex. Most recently she has written and illustrated The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, a New York Times bestselling graphic novel in which 19th century computer pioneers Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage build a vast mechanical computer - and use it to fight crime for Queen Victoria.

Researchers: Anne Miller and Stevyn Colgan of QI.

Producers: Richard Turner and James Harkin

A BBC Radio Comedy production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2015.

John Lloyd and Sarah Millican are joined by Matt Parker, Eben Upton and Sydney Padua.

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

Museum Of New Year's Curiosity2020122920210105/06/4) (BBC7)Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and the Museum's latest curator Alice Levine are joined by past curators Sally Phillips and Dan Schreiber and Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Artificial Intelligence Dr Kate Devlin.

The episode was recorded remotely in December 2020.

The Producer was Anne Miller.

The Exec Producer was Victoria Lloyd.

The Production Coordinator was Mabel Wright.

Edited by David Thomas.

A BBC Studios Production

John Lloyd and Alice Levine with Sally Phillips, Dan Schreiber and Dr Kate Devlin.

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

01012008022020101105 (R4)With Sean Lock, Brian Blessed and Richard Fortey.

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010220080227With Ben Elton, Fran Beauman and Prof Gary Sheffield.

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010320080305With Arthur Smith, Ronald Hutton and Frank Close.

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010420080312With Kevin Day, Alistair Fothergill and Victoria Finlay.

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010520080319With Jonathan Miller, Marcus du Sautoy and Philip Ball.

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010620080326With Alan Davies, Martha Reeves and John Gribbin.

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John Lloyd and Sean Lock's guests are Brian Eno, Chris Donald and Dave Gorman.

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Tim FitzHigham, Simon Singh and Gavin Pretor-Pinney donate items to the imaginary museum.

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Chris Addison, Bettany Hughes and Rupert Sheldrake suggest exhibits to the museum.

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John Lloyd invites Oliver James, John Hodgman and Charlotte Uhlenbroek to submit exhibits.

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John Lloyd and Sean Lock host, with guests Jon Richardson, Roger Law and Kate Adie.

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John Lloyd and Sean Lock invite guests Tim Minchin, Philip Pullman and Clive James.

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Prepare to have your synapses twisted into a string theorist's nightmare, as Professor Lloyd and his new curator, the startlingly insightful comedian Jon Richardson, hurriedly throw the dust covers off the Museum's clump of empty plinths for a brand new series of the BBC's most improving comedy panel show.

This week, fantasy novelist Sir Terry Pratchett offers them a Secret And Personal Extra Day Of The Week; cosmologist and author Marcus Chown donates a bizarre but plausible scientific theory of the afterlife known as the Enigma Point; and Shappi Khorsandi has somehow finds herself in a position to offer none other than Charlie Chaplin.

Guests Marcus Chown, Shappi Khorsandi and Sir Terry Pratchett to add to the collection.

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While Jon Richardson is detained by the volcano Eyjafjallajokull, John Lloyd is joined by emergency guest curator Dave Gorman to welcome poet Ruth Padel, Madness frontman Suggs and Bo Selecta comedian Leigh Francis, who are offering us the Great Exhibition of 1851, a tiger reserve and some Spidermans, and all for public display.

John Lloyd and Dave Gorman accept offers from Leigh Francis, Ruth Padel and Suggs.

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John Lloyd invites Kevin Eldon, John Ronson and Richard Wiseman to add to the collection.

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John Lloyd asks Sarah Bakewell, Michael Welland and Simon Evans to add to the collection.

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With polymath Daniel Tammet, explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison and comedian Ronni Ancona.

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David Eagleman, Neil Gaiman and Sarah Millican add to the collection.

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The Museum of Curiosity is, as ever, hosted by the Professor of Ignorance from the University of Buckingham John Lloyd (now with added C.B.E). For this, the fourth series, he is joined by the intensely curious comedian Dave Gorman as his Curator. Dave is the latest in a line of illustrious Museum curators: Bill Bailey, Sean Lock and Jon Richardson.

The Museum of Curiosity has a unique method for collecting exhibits. Once a week it welcomes three luminaries from widely different specialist fields and asks them to bring with them their most treasured items to donate.

The Museum's collection already boasts The Big Bang When It Was The Size Of A Grapefruit; A Pineapple; A Yard Of Silence; Nothing; A British Railways Bridge Plate; A Telepathic Sheep; A Chimpanzee Rain Dance; An Impossible Rabbit; A Gay Bomb; A Choir Of Singing Sand Dunes; National Ignorance Day (of which we know nothing); and An Icelandic Volcano (long before they were fashionable).

In the first of the new series, John and Dave are joined by comedian Jimmy Carr; documentary maker, theologian (and atheist) Francesca Stavrakapoulou; and the mathematician, Guardian South America correspondent and football author Alex Bellos.

The museum's guests later in the rest of the series are:

Philosopher Alain de Botton

Linguist David Crystal

Filmmaker Gareth Edwards

Comedian Harry Enfield

Solar physicist Lucie Green

Classically-trained comedian Natalie Haynes

New Scientist Editor Roger Highfield

Comedian Alex Horne

Rational Comedian Robin Ince

Graham Linehan

Data Miner David McCandless

Marine biologist Helen Scales

Advertising guru Rory Sutherland

Admiral Alan William John West, Baron West of Spithead GCB DSC PC

Polar explorer Sara Wheeler.

John Lloyd and Dave Gorman with Jimmy Carr, Francesca Stavrakopoulou and Alex Bellos.

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

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Hosted by the Professor of Ignorance from the University of Buckingham John Lloyd C.B.E. and the intensely curious comedian Dave Gorman.

This week's guests:

Coming from a long line of vicars, Robin Ince is the UK's most rational comedian, and he tests his reason to the limit once every year by performing at least four shows a day at the Edinburgh fringe. His infamous Bad Book Club, which in which he invites his fellow comedians to celebrate awful literature, has become an institution, and his massive Christmas show Nine Lessons and Carols For Godless People is now a huge event, featuring the likes of Jarvis Cocker, Dara O Briain and Richard Dawkins.

Roger Highfield is a scientist, science author and the editor of New Scientist, but if you met him, you wouldn't immediately guess that science is his thing. He's jolly and worldly and has the hearty laugh of a comic supervillain. He first made his name as a scientist be being the first person ever to bounce a neutron off a soap bubble. Roger has written and co-written 9 best-selling science books, including a book on the hows and whys of Dolly the sheep, an explanation of the science of Harry Potter and a biography of Einstein.

Gareth Edwards is a filmmaker whose success and methods of achieving it have sent ripples of fear through the studios of Hollywood. His movie Monsters is an apocalyptic blockbuster which he made for one five hundredth of the budget for Avatar by shooting with a small, mobile team, hiring non-actors on the spot and using dazzling-but-cheap CGI effects.

John Lloyd and curator Dave Gorman welcome exhibits from Graham Linehan among others.

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

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Hosted by the Professor of Ignorance from the University of Buckingham John Lloyd C.B.E. and the intensely curious comedian Dave Gorman.

This week's guests:

Coming from a long line of vicars, Robin Ince is the UK's most rational comedian, and he tests his reason to the limit once every year by performing at least four shows a day at the Edinburgh fringe. His infamous Bad Book Club, which in which he invites his fellow comedians to celebrate awful literature, has become an institution, and his massive Christmas show Nine Lessons and Carols For Godless People is now a huge event, featuring the likes of Jarvis Cocker, Dara O Briain and Richard Dawkins.

Roger Highfield is a scientist, science author and the editor of New Scientist, but if you met him, you wouldn't immediately guess that science is his thing. He's jolly and worldly and has the hearty laugh of a comic supervillain. He first made his name as a scientist be being the first person ever to bounce a neutron off a soap bubble. Roger has written and co-written 9 best-selling science books, including a book on the hows and whys of Dolly the sheep, an explanation of the science of Harry Potter and a biography of Einstein.

Gareth Edwards is a filmmaker whose success and methods of achieving it have sent ripples of fear through the studios of Hollywood. His movie Monsters is an apocalyptic blockbuster which he made for one five hundredth of the budget for Avatar by shooting with a small, mobile team, hiring non-actors on the spot and using dazzling-but-cheap CGI effects.

John Lloyd and Dave Gorman receive exhibits as donations to their infinitely vast museum.

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

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Hosted by the Professor of Ignorance from the University of Buckingham John Lloyd C.B.E. and the intensely curious comedian Dave Gorman.

This week's guests:

Natalie Haynes is an author, comedian and critic. Her book, The Ancient Guide To Modern Life is all about the wisdom and lifestyles of the ancient Greeks and Romans and uses them to give us a better perspective of our own time. Natalie is bubbling with facts and loves busting cherished myths about the classical past. Natalie is also a massive fan of detective fiction, to which she has applied her prodigious intellect. An obsessive Diagnosis Murder fan, Natalie would give up a year of her life to live in the time in which Dick Van Dyke was the 'biggest star in the world'.

David McCandless is a journalist and the author of Information Is Beautiful, a book which uses imaginative new ways to display complex statistical information, using novel graphics. David was also once the UK's Doom video game champion, narrowly beaten in the world final by a 14-year-old boy with a moustache.

David Crystal is the Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. He is without doubt Britain's top linguist. He has written over a hundred books on the subject, including the standard texts read by every linguistics student in the country, and edited the Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English language. He knows exactly how many different words there are in an average edition of the Sun, because he's counted them, knows just why people are wrong when they say that txtspk is the death of English, and once sold two dozen adjectives at a shilling each.

John Lloyd and Dave Gorman with Natalie Haynes, David McCandless and David Crystal.

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

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Hosted by the Professor of Ignorance from the University of Buckingham John Lloyd C.B.E. and the intensely curious comedian Dave Gorman.

This week's guests:

Alex Horne is a comedian and writer. He co-presents the anarchic BBC4 comedy panel show We Need Answers with Tim Key and Mark Watson. Alex may have started his career as a stand-up comic by winning a Christmas cracker joke writing competition. Since then, his life has been one long experiment, the biggest of which is a project to become the oldest man in the world. He is still alive to this day and climbing up the chart by a hundred places every minute. Alex is also developing his own unique form of beard and has been trying for some time to get a new word of his own invention into the Oxford English Dictionary.

Sara Wheeler is a traveller and travel writer who has been described as the new Eric Newby. Her travel books include Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica; Travels in a Thin Country; and the biography of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, a polar explorer who himself wrote a moving account of his own experience as a survivor of Scott's disastrous 1912 Antarctic expedition. Sara often speaks on behalf of the disenfranchised nomadic peoples of the arctic, such as the Chukchi, who live in the far North Eastern tip of Siberia. When not travelling, Wheeler lives with her family in London.

Alain de Botton is a writer of essayistic books that have been described as a 'philosophy of everyday life' and have been bestsellers in 30 countries. Alain also started and helps to run The School of Life, dedicated to a new vision of education. Alain started writing at a young age. His first book, Essays in Love [titled On Love in the US], was published when he was 23.Alain's next book is titled Religion for Atheists.

John Lloyd and Dave Gorman take exhibits from Alex Horne, Sara Wheeler and Alain De Botton

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

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Harry Enfield is a comedian and sketch character actor whose creations have made a permanent mark on the nation's psyche and whose catchphrases have echoed around playgrounds and building sites for decades. His monstrous creations include the iconic 80s character Loadsamoney, Stavros the Kebab Shop Owner and Tory Boy. Harry had a bit of a punkish image as a youth, but in fact he's quite posh. So posh that Virginia Woolf once famously referred to his grandparents in a notorious letter to Lytton Strachey. To find out what it was she said about them, either listen in or you could always Google it yourself.

Lucie Green is a solar researcher based at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London's Department of Space and Climate Physics, a Bletchley-like stately pile tucked away in the Surrey countryside that houses 150 of Britain's top space scientists. She studies activity in the atmosphere of the Sun. She takes a strong interest in science education, and in 2009 was awarded the Royal Society's Kohn award for Excellence in Engaging the Public with Science.

Admiral Alan William John West, Baron West of Spithead GCB DSC PC once ran the entire Royal Navy. From June 2007 to May 2010, he was a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the British Home Office with responsibility for Security and a Security Advisor to Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Prior to his ministerial appointment, he was First Sea Lord, the professional head of the Royal Navy, from 2002 to 2006. He has served aboard 14 ships, and in his first post as a captain, was the last to abandon ship as his vessel had been attacked by the Argentine Air Force during the Falklands war. As Head of Military Intelligence, he once had the honour of using a desk that played a unique role in history.

John Lloyd and Dave Gorman receive exhibits as donations to their infinitely vast museum.

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

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Professor of Ignorance at the University of Buckingham, Professor John Lloyd CBE welcomes comedian Jimmy Carr for the fifth series.

Three guests are invited to donate one item each and explain why it deserves a place in the museum.

In the opening episode, John and Jimmy welcome the Natural History Museum's resident dipterologist (fly expert) Erica McAlister; Consultant Rheumatologist at the Cardiff University School of Medicine Jan Bondeson and comedian, historian and fictitious Pub Landlord Al Murray.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012

John Lloyd and Jimmy Carr with Dr Erica McAlister, Dr Jan Bondeson and Al Murray.

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

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Professor of Ignorance at the University of Buckingham, Professor John Lloyd CBE is joined by comedian Jimmy Carr for the fifth series.

Three guests are invited to donate one item each and explain why it deserves a place in the museum.

John and Jimmy welcome Astronomer Dr Stuart Clark; Plant-hunter and former hostage Tom Hart Dyke; and comedian, novelist and sitcom writer Jo Brand.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012

Astronomer Stuart Clark, former hostage Tom Hart Dyke and comedian Jo Brand donate items.

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

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Professor of Ignorance at the University of Buckingham, Professor John Lloyd CBE is joined by comedian Jimmy Carr for the fifth series.

Three guests are invited to donate one item each and explain why it deserves a place in the museum.

John and Jimmy welcome comedian Humphrey Ker, sex therapist, comedian and author Dr Pamela Stephenson-Connolly and Nobel Physics Laureate Professor Sir Andre Geim.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012

John Lloyd and Jimmy Carr with Humphrey Ker, Pamela Stephenson Connolly and Andre Geim.

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

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Professor of Ignorance at the University of Buckingham, Professor John Lloyd CBE is joined by comedian Jimmy Carr for the fifth series.

Three guests are invited to donate one item each and explain why it deserves a place in the museum.

John and Jimmy welcome comedian Sean Hughes, physicist Dr Helen Czerski and cuneiform expert Dr Irving Finkel.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012.

John Lloyd and Jimmy Carr with Sean Hughes, Dr Helen Czerski and Dr Irving Finkel.

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

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Professor of Ignorance at the University of Buckingham, Professor John Lloyd CBE is joined by comedian Jimmy Carr for the fifth series.

Three guests are invited to donate one item each and explain why it deserves a place in the museum.

John and Jimmy welcome screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, actor/writer/magician Andy Nyman and anatomist Dr Alice Roberts.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012.

John Lloyd and Humphrey Ker with Frank Cottrell Boyce, Andy Nyman and Dr Alice Roberts.

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

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Professor of Ignorance at the University of Buckingham, Professor John Lloyd CBE is joined by comedian Jimmy Carr for the fifth series.

Three guests are invited to donate one item each and explain why it deserves a place in the museum.

John and Jimmy welcome comedian Sara Pascoe, Ig Nobel founder Marc Abrahams and Astronaut Dr Buzz Aldrin.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012.

John Lloyd and Jimmy Carr with Sara Pascoe, Marc Abrahams and Buzz Aldrin.

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

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The Museum of Curiosity is the natural meeting place for entertaining experts and expert entertainers.

This week, it's flinging open its doors, inaugurating a brand new wing of empty plinths is ready to receive 3 new exhibits.

Our host is (as ever) the Professor of Ignorance, John Lloyd, and for this series he is joined by a new curator, the comedian Humphrey Ker. This week's generous donors are Egyptologist Prof. Joann Fletcher, who is presenting us with a hugely significant Roman coin; explorer Col. John Blashford-Snell, who brings a compass that led its owner the greatest one-liner in History; and the comedian Mark Watson, who is offering us something rather small and personal.

Produced by Richard Turner.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013.

John Lloyd and Humphrey Ker welcome objects from Mark Watson and Joann Fletcher.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Humphrey Ker welcome the crowd-sourcing rock star Amanda Palmer, evolutionary anthropologist Professor Volker Sommer and occult comedian Andrew O'Neill

Up for discussion: steam punk, cross-dressing, rock, sex, death, religion, humans and other great apes.

Producers: Richard Turner and Dan Schreiber

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2013.

John Lloyd and Humphrey Ker are joined by comedian Andrew O'Neill.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Humphrey Ker welcome:

Private Eye founder and editor of The Oldie Richard Ingrams

Comedian and 'world's worst foreign correspondent' Jane Bussmann

Former head of Sony and the CBS network Sir Howard Stringer

Up for discussion: libel, lucky scrapes, African warlords, dozy judges and the difficulties of depicting a famous chat-show host's body parts in a cartoon.

Producers: Richard Turner and Dan Schreiber

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2013.

John Lloyd and Humphrey Ker with Richard Ingrams, Jane Bussmann and Howard Stringer.

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

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This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Humphrey Ker welcome the art historian and former director of the Greenwich Observatory Dr Kristin Lippincott; comedian, chat show host and blogger Richard Herring and animal locomotion expert Dr Christofer Clemente. Topics for illumination include Time, inspiration, writer's block, sticky ants' feet, Russia's Greatest Love Machine lizards doing wheelies and the most controversial moustache in history.

The show was researched by James Harkin, Molly Oldfield and Stevyn Colgan of QI.

The producers were Richard Turner and Dan Schreiber.

Featuring objects from Richard Herring, Kristin Lippincott and Dr Christofer Clemente.

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

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This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Humphrey Ker welcome the author, presenter and actor Robert Llewellyn; comedian, socialite and tequilera Cleo Rocos and the partly-robotic professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, Professor Kevin Warwick. This week, the Museum's Steering Committee discusses the joys of mobile chat shows; the demise of the internal combustion engine; the advantages of higher quality alcohol; the possibility that intelligent machines will make slaves of us all; and the late, lamented trees of our youth.

The show was researched by James Harkin, Molly Oldfield and Stevyn Colgan of QI.

The producers were Richard Turner and Dan Schreiber.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013.

John Lloyd and Humphrey Ker with Robert Llewellyn, Cleo Rocos and Kevin Warwick.

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

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John Lloyd and Humphrey Ker welcome objects from Paul Sinha and Maggie Aderin-Pocock.

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

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The Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd welcomes his latest curator Phill Jupitus.

With the space-obsessed star of Radio 4's It Is Rocket Science Helen Keen; the internet entrepreneur and founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales; and curator of the Natural History Museum of Rotterdam Kees Moeliker, who won an Ig Nobel Prize for his study of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Duck.

The Museum's Steering Committee discusses:

* A smuggling ring 27 kilometres in circumference

* Why the largest reference work in the history of civilisation has room for a list of sexually active popes

* How a sparrow became Holland's most famous martyr to TV Light Entertainment

* How invoking The Wand helped put Americans in space

* How Africa will be transformed by a £10 gadget.

Researchers: James Harkin and Stevyn Colgan of QI.

Producers: Richard Turner and Dan Schreiber

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2014.

John Lloyd and Phill Jupitus with Helen Keen, Jimmy Wales and Kees Moeliker.

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

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The Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd welcomes his latest curator Phill Jupitus.

With the hugely knowledgeable co-star of Pointless and author Richard Osman; author and professor Kevin Dutton; and the Natural History Museum's curator of Solanaceae (the order of plants that includes potatoes, tomatoes and deadly nightshade) Dr Sandra Knapp.

The Museum's Steering Committee discusses:

* Why psychopaths don't seem to blink

* Why cushions on beds are the most pointless things in existence

* How an 18th century Swedish botanist knew everything

* The evolutionary advantages of smiling

* The confectionary milestone that was Cadbury's Dairy Milk

* the culinary revolution of freeze-dried potatoes that taste of Styrofoam.

Researchers: James Harkin and Stevyn Colgan of QI.

Producers: Richard Turner and Dan Schreiber

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.

John Lloyd and Phill Jupitus with Richard Osman, Prof Kevin Dutton and Dr Sandra Knapp.

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

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The Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd welcomes his latest curator Phill Jupitus.

With author and journalist Will Storr, physicist and comedian Lieven Scheire and actor and presenter Sandi Toksvig.

The Museum's Steering Committee discusses:

* Why the alphabet sparked the suppression of women

* Why tiny wasps are claimed to spread diseases

* Why parasitic insects battle each other

Researchers: James Harkin and Stevyn Colgan of QI.

Producers: Richard Turner and Dan Schreiber

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.

John Lloyd and Phill Jupitus with Will Storr, Lieven Scheire and Sandi Toksvig.

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

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The Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Phill Jupitus.

With American comedy writer, stand-up and musician, Rich Hall, historian, author and TV presenter, Dr Anna Keay and leading neurosurgeon, Henry Marsh CBE.

The Museum's Steering Committee discusses:

* How the Wild West wasn't at all like we think it was

* How brain surgery isn't exactly rocket science

* How tourists were encouraged to chip off their own souvenirs from Stonehenge

* Why the key to understanding the difference between Americans and the British is on the front porch

* How British monarchs used to borrow their crown jewels

* How our brains disappear when they're not needed.

Researchers: James Harkin and Stevyn Colgan of QI.

Producers: Richard Turner and Dan Schreiber

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.

Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and curator Phill Jupitus discuss some new curiosities.

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

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The Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd welcomes his latest curator Phill Jupitus.

Television and radio presenter, comedy writer and former barrister Clive Anderson, award-winning musician, composer, arranger, conductor and producer Anne Dudley and world famous animator Richard Williams.

The Museum's Steering Committee discusses:

* How the Old Bailey isn't very old

* How the Wool Sack was found to be a sack of horsehair

* How Disney provided the perfect workstation for animators

Researchers: James Harkin and Stevyn Colgan of QI.

Producers: Richard Turner and Dan Schreiber

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.

John Lloyd and Phill Jupitus with Clive Anderson, Anne Dudley and Richard Williams.

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

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This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Phill Jupitus welcome

Neil Innes, either a musical comedian or a comedy musician or possibly both. He was the third member of the surreal psychedelic jazz pop fusion combo the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band; is acknowledged as the seventh member of the Monty Python team; and was, according to some authorities, the 33rd member of the Beatles.

Dr Bradley Garrett, a writer, photographer urban explorer and researcher at Oxford University. He is perhaps the only academic whose studies have resulted in hanging onto a crane at the top of the Shard, being arrested on the tarmac at Heathrow for criminal damage and trespassing on private property over 300 times in more than eight countries.

Isabel Berncke, a scientist who grew up in the wild mountains of Chile but moved to the UK to study in London, Cambridge and Oxford. She's a doctor of cognitive and evolutionary anthropology, but her research interests include neuroscience, music, primatology, poetry, ethnology, complexity theory, behavioural ecology and hobbits.

This week, the Museum's Steering Committee discusses wrapping the Angel of the North up warm, penis fencing, the lowest-rated prime-time show in American TV history, London's secret rivers, what makes a tree laugh and why we should stupidity should be put in an institution.

The show was researched by James Harkin and Molly Oldfield of QI.

The producers were Richard Turner and Dan Schreiber.

John Lloyd and Phill Jupitus with Neil Innes, Dr Bradley Garrett and Isabel Berncke.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Sarah Millican welcome:

* Holly Walsh, comedian and would-be medieval scholar

* Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of Freakonomics, a best-selling book that turned our understanding of economics on its head

* Dr David Bramwell, author, comic, and adventurer whose book The No 9 Bus To Utopia recounts his year-long pilgrimage in search of a Better Life.

The Museum's Guest Committee speculate on what drove medieval monks to draw obscene doodles on sacred manuscripts; why a mind-reading microchip could see the end of civilisation as we know it; and an interesting theory about who all those streakers were at 1970s sports events.

Researchers: Anne Miller and Molly Oldfield of QI.

Producers: Richard Turner and James Harkin.

A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in January 2016.

John Lloyd and Sarah Millican welcome Holly Walsh, Stephen J Dubner and Dr David Bramwell.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Sarah Millican welcome:

* Singer, photographic playboy and failed accountant Ken Dodd

* The University College London lecturer who took up mathematical modelling to get to grips with the dating scene, Dr Hannah Fry

* The man with the enviable task of overseeing the historical accuracy of over 1,200 songs and sketches that make up Horrible Histories, Greg Jenner

The Museum's peripatetic scholars reveal how the first ever alcoholic drinks were guzzled from a spitton; why the equation Wt+l =a +r.W,+IHW(H) and Hl+l = b + r2Ht + IWH(Wt), is the formula for a happy marriage; and why you can tell a joke in Liverpool that that won't get a laugh in London.

Researchers: Anne Miller and Molly Oldfield of QI.

Producers: Richard Turner and James Harkin.

A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in January 2016.

John Lloyd and Sarah Millican welcome Ken Dodd, Dr Hannah Fry and Greg Jenner.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Sarah Millican welcome:

* An award-winning Australian comedian who is so much more than a mere joker, Felicity Ward

* The cricket commentator whose association with James Bond villainy is more than a mere coincidence, Henry Blofeld

* A former chemist from Mars who is more than a Mir astronaut, Dr Helen Sharman OBE

The Museum's guests discuss the cultural significance of Australians using watermelons as hats; how you can increase your stature in more ways than one by going into space; how it took an author as inventive as PG Wodehouse to coin the word 'gruntled' decades after the word 'disgruntled'; the vital importance of toilets; and the coolest possible way of telling mountain trekkers where you were when you first saw the Himalayas.

Researchers: Anne Miller and Molly Oldfield of QI.

Producers: Richard Turner and James Harkin.

A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in January 2016.

John Lloyd and Sarah Millican welcome Felicity Ward,Dr Helen Sharman and Henry Blofeld.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Sarah Millican welcome:

* Rufus Hound, the comedian, actor, politician and Strictly Come Dancing winner

* Sir Tim Smit, who gave up being a music producer and took up gardening when he found the Lost Gardens of Heligan and founded the Eden Project

* Doris Vickers, from Vienna who studied astronomy but once woke up with an overwhelming desire to learn Latin, now combining the two as an archaeoastronomer.

The Museum's guests discuss how people could tell the time at night before the invention of clocks; how politics could be transformed with the obligatory wearing of lie-detecting suits; and why going ape in the mirror could help us see what makes us human.

Researchers: Anne Miller and Molly Oldfield of QI.

Producers: Richard Turner and James Harkin.

A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in February 2016.

John Lloyd and Sarah Millican welcome Rufus Hound, Sir Tim Smit and Doris Vickers.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Sarah Millican welcome:

* Comedian Matt Lucas

* Neuroscientist Sophie Scott

* Goggleboxer and former British chess champion, William Hartson

Researchers: Anne Miller and Molly Oldfield of QI.

Producers: Richard Turner and James Harkin.

A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in February 2016.

John Lloyd and Sarah Millican welcome Matt Lucas, Prof Sophie Scott and William Hartston.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Sarah Millican welcome:

* Comedian, Fearer of Raisins and Collector of Thimbles, Susan Calman

* An artist who's made an art out of copying art and claims that he has actually slept with the Mona Lisa, Adam Lowe

* A TV naturalist who admits that when she talks to animals, all they want to talk about is food, fighting and, well, mating, Lucy Cooke.

The Museum's guests discuss what Fifty Shades of Grey has in common with Capt. Kirk and Mr Spock making sweet exoplanetary love; how salt could be the building material of the future if only it didn't rain; and why living on a small island will either turn you into a pygmy or a giant.

Researchers: Anne Miller and Molly Oldfield of QI.

Producers: Richard Turner and James Harkin.

A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in February 2016.

John Lloyd and Sarah Millican welcome Susan Calman, Adam Lowe and Lucy Cooke.

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

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The Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his new curator Noel Fielding welcome:

* BBC Radio 4 Extra's Newsjack presenter and half of the double act Gentlemen of Leisure, the writer and comedian Nish Kumar

* Professor of Experimental Architecture and TED fellow Rachel Armstrong

* Award-winning composer of choral music, stage musicals, film and TV scores, Howard Goodall.

The Museum's Guest Committee speculate on the appeal of a 50 year-old piece of vinyl; a magic spell in a bottle; and an extinct piano with no keys.

Researchers: Mike Turner and Anne Miller of QI.

Producers: Richard Turner & James Harkin.

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

John Lloyd and Noel Fielding with Nish Kumar, Prof Rachel Armstrong and Howard Goodall.

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

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The Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his new curator Noel Fielding welcome:

* Comedian, actor, writer pub landlady and 2006 runner up for the 'Scotswoman of the Year' award Janey Godley

* A scientist whose controversial research supports the theory that alien bacteria are constantly bombarding the Earth from outer space, Dr Milton Wainwright;

* Author and award-winning man behind mask Number Eight in the iconic heavy metal band Slipknot Corey Taylor, whose books includes: You're Making Me Hate You: A Cantankerous Look at the Common Misconception That Humans Have Any Common Sense Left.

The Museum's Guest Committee speculate on Dogs From The 1970s; a little CD tray that collects germs from the stratosphere; and the phenomenon of deep fried food.

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.

John Lloyd and Noel Fielding with Janey Godley, Milton Wainwright and Corey Taylor.

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

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The Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his new curator Noel Fielding welcome:

* Freewheeling superstar Geordie comedian Ross Noble

* Science journalist and rainforest ecologist Dr Mike Shanahan

* Famous, renowned, celebrated, prominent and popular lexicographer from Countdown, Susie Dent.

The Museum's Guest Committee appreciate the significance of figs; the joys of long-distance football; and thoughts of an 18th-century spy.

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.

John Lloyd and Noel Fielding with Ross Noble, Dr Mike Shanahan and Susie Dent.

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

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The Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Noel Fielding welcome:

* Vic Reeves, the comedian, artist, author and game show host whose credits include Vic Reeves Big Night Out; Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) and Shooting Stars.

* Dr Tristram Wyatt, Senior Research Associate and Emeritus Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford whose interests are the evolution of pheromones and animal behaviour.

* Professor Kate Williams has presented BBC Two's Restoration Home and Young Victoria and has commentated on many state occasions for the BBC.

The Museum's Guest Committee appreciate a pale bird that fakes injury to protect its young; a childishly photoshopped picture that fooled Conan Doyle; and a faint smell that may or may not exist, but (if it did) might drive you wild.

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.

John Lloyd and Noel Fielding with Vic Reeves, Dr Tristram Wyatt and Prof Kate Williams.

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

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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.

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

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

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

* Craig Brown, critic and satirist, best known for his parodies in Private Eye. Writer for The Independent on Sunday, The Guardian and Daily Telegraph. Books include The Little Book of Chaos.

* Katie Birkwood, the rare books and special collections librarian at the Royal College of Physicians, London. Katie regularly contributes to the journal Library & Information History.

* George Monbiot, environmental journalist and campaigner. Guardian columnist and author of Captive State, The Age of Consent, Poisoned Arrows and No Man's Land.

The Museum's Guest Committee appreciate a mythical hotel from another age; a book that was stolen from the greatest library of the Tudor age; and the greatest bear that ever lived.

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 September 2016.

John Lloyd and Noel Fielding with Craig Brown, Katie Birkwood and George Monbiot.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his new curator Jo Brand welcome:

* Science communicator, musician and comedian Helen Arney

* Thomas Thwaites, who lived as a goat in the Alps for six days and built a toaster from the ground up

* Captain of a 14-storey £350 million pound cruise ship, The Queen Elizabeth, Captain Aseem Hashmi

The Museum's Guest Committee catch up on the latest 4 elements to be added to the periodic chart, flip through a history book from the future, which is all about now; and the thing that keeps a sea captain grounded, figuratively as well as literally, his 12-ton anchor.

Researched by Anne Miller of QI & Mike Turner.

Producers: Richard Turner and James Harkin.

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

John Lloyd and Jo Brand with Helen Arney, Thomas Thwaites and Captain Aseem Hashmi.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his new curator Jo Brand welcome:

* Feel-good writer and comedian, Lucy Porter;

* Etymologist, self-proclaimed pedant and 'Inky Fool' Mark Forsyth

* Lipsmackin' thirstquenchin' acetastin' motivatin' goodbuzzin' cooltalkin' highwalkin' fastlivin' evergivin' coolfizzin' advertising creative legend, Dave Trott.

The Museum's Guest Committee stretch their minds over the subject of Lycra, revive an old word for a printer's day off; and explore the surprisingly recent cultural heritage of the Ploughman's Lunch.

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 January 2017.

John Lloyd and Jo Brand with Lucy Porter, Mark Forsyth and Dave Trott.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Jo Brand welcome:

* A fashion historian with a taste for nautical chic, Amber Butchart

* A quizzer with a business head and 57 trillion entries in his address book, Jack Waley-Cohen;

* A comedian who's as big Down Under as he is internationally, Jimeoin.

The Museum's Guest Committee investigate a failed cure for malaria that made the world go crazy for mauve; an inventive use of adverbs that will obsess inventive punsters; and a new unit of velocity for compressed curd.

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 January 2017.

John Lloyd and Jo Brand are joined by Amber Butchart, Jack Waley-Cohen and Jimeoin.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Jo Brand welcome:

* Danish comedian Sofie Hagen

* Mollusc and cephalopod expert, Jon Ablett

* 'Watching the English' anthropologist, Kate Fox.

The Museum's Steering Committee ruminate on the rules of Dogma films, a snail that survived four years glued to a board in the British Museum and the paleolithic origins of the selfie.

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 January 2017.

John Lloyd and Jo Brand with Sofie Hagen, Jon Ablett and Kate Fox.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Jo Brand welcome:

* Comedian, screenwriter and Guilty Feminist podcaster, Deborah Frances-White

* Entomologist and bumblebee expert, Professor Dave Goulson

* 'That bloke off Time Team who was Baldrick in Blackadder', Sir Tony Robinson.

The Museum's Guest Committee enshrine the first Englishwoman to make a living as a professional poet, Emilia Lanier; speculate on the unusual polyphiloprogenitive strategies of virgin death watch beetles; and pay homage to the moment when Blackadder finally went 'over the top'.

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 February 2017.

John Lloyd and Jo Brand with Deborah Frances-White, Prof Dave Goulson and Tony Robinson.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Jo Brand welcome:

* American comedian, Michelle Wolf

* Food writer, Bee Wilson

* Writer, Henry Eliot

The Museum considers a 24-hour news channel, a 1,000 year long piece of music and the smell of fresh coffee.

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 February 2017.

John Lloyd and Jo Brand with guests Michelle Wolf, Bee Wilson and Henry Eliot.

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

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

* A high-powered media executive who was persuaded by none other than Joan Rivers to become a stand-up comedian, Cally Beaton

* The wonderfully funny comedy actor from Smack The Pony, I'm Alan Partridge, Green Wing and Miranda, Sally Phillips

* Consultant in cellular pathology at Peterborough City Hospital and president of the Royal College of Pathologists, Suzy Lishman

The Museum's Guest Committee offer as exhibits the entire population of the Netherlands; Richard III's foot bones; and a knitted tea-cosy to cover the entire Museum.

Researched by Anne Miller of QI & Mike Turner.

Producers: Richard Turner & James Harkin.

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

John Lloyd and Romesh Ranganathan with Cally Beaton, Sally Phillips and Suzy Lishman.

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

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

* Comedian, artist, performance poet, musician, radio DJ, author, musical actor and former Museum of Curiosity Curator, Phill Jupitus

* Criminologist, broadcaster, writer and award-winning documentary film-maker, Roger Graef

* Novelist, Michelin-starred restaurateur, food columnist, Chancellor of Queen Margaret University and Great British Bake Off judge, Prue Leith.

The Museum's Guest Committee offer as exhibits the world's first celebrity chef, a newspaper headline calling for longer sentences and one evening in Chelmsford Odeon on Sunday July 26th 1981.

Researched by Anne Miller of QI and Mike Turner.

Producers: Richard Turner & James Harkin.

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

John Lloyd and Romesh Ranganathan with Phill Jupitus, Roger Graef and Prue Leith.

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

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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.

John Lloyd and Romesh Ranganathan with Rainer Hersch, Beth Healey and Kaffe Fassett.

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

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

* Austentatiously funny improvisor, comedian and writer, Cariad Lloyd

* The Huddersfield girl who escaped modelling and headed for the Yorkshire hills, Amanda Owen

* Broadcaster, author and after-dinner speaker, former MP, Gyles Brandreth.

The Museum's Guest Committee offer as exhibits a bleak but cuddly Finnish troll, a tiny device that commands attention and a button with a dramatic past.

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 August 2017.

John Lloyd and Romesh Ranganathan with Cariad Lloyd, Amanda Owen and Gyles Brandreth.

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

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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.

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

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

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

* Australian writer, columnist and formerly obsessive teen fan of Spike Milligan, Kathy Lette.

* Author and adventurer, podcaster and editor, and Miniature Golf competitor, Andy Miller.

* Comedian, actor, author, social media guru and ambassador for Norwich City FC, Stephen Fry.

The Museum's Guest Committee offer as exhibits, the mysterious thing that drives women to be mothers, a receptacle for honey that contains nothing more than a broken balloon and a bunch of grapes...

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.

John Lloyd and Romesh Ranganathan with Kathy Lette, Andy Miller and Stephen Fry.

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

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

* The satirical comedy impressionist Rory Bremner

* The presenter of the BBC World Service's The Arts Hour Nikki Bedi

* The award-winning writer who makes you thirsty for beer, Pete Brown.

The Museum's Guest Committee find out about the boy-elephant-god Ganesh, and why the direction his trunk is pointing in is so important; reveal the last British soldier to bring down an enemy with a longbow, and enter George Orwell's favourite non-existent pub.

Researched by QI & Mike Turner.

Producers: Richard Turner, Anne Miller & James Harkin.

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2018.

John Lloyd and Sally Phillips with Rory Bremner, Nikki Bedi and Pete Brown.

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

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

* Comedian, Joe Lycett

* Sociologist, Professor Tom Shakespeare

* Blue Peter's longest-serving female presenter - Konnie Huq.

The Museum's Guest Committee discovers how wheels turned for the French Revolution, how a little blue ship on a plastic chip can get you into over 200 UK attractions, and the brain-tinglingly sensational significance of towels in the hands of a woman called Maria.

Researchers Anne Miller and Mike Turner.

Producers: Richard Turner and Anne Miller.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018.

John Lloyd and Sally Phillips with Joe Lycett, Professor Tom Shakespeare and Konnie Huq.

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

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

* Comedian Stephen K. Amos

* Nanochemist Dr Suze Kundu

* Author of The Island, Victoria Hislop

The Museum's Guest Committee highlight the resilience of Tooting Broadway, the bulletproof qualities of Kevlar and the influence of the Protective Eye.

The show was researched by Mike Turner and QI.

The Producers were Richard Turner and Anne Miller.

A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2018.

With Stephen K Amos, Dr Suze Kundu and Victoria Hislop.

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

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

* The former merchant banker-turned-stand-up, Sindhu Vee

* The Nobel Prize-winning geneticist, Sir Paul Nurse

* The editor of The Amorist magazine, Rowan Pelling.

The Museum's Guest Committee blow hot and cold over the Danish concept of hygge, get in a spin at the Large Hadron Collider and end up dizzy with a choice collection of saucy limericks.

Researched by QI & Mike Turner.

Producers: Richard Turner, Anne Miller & James Harkin.

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2018.

John Lloyd and Sally Phillips with Sindhu Vee, Sir Paul Nurse and Rowan Pelling.

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

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

* Satirical comedy songstress Dillie Keane

* Intrepid Neanderthal expert Ella Al-Shamahi

* Writer of Notting Hill, Blackadder and The Vicar of Dibley, Richard Curtis

The Museum's Guest Committee tuck into some homemade chutney, get embarrassingly excited about caves and celebrate some choice bits of Australian slang.

Researched by QI & Mike Turner.

Producers: Richard Turner and Anne Miller.

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

John Lloyd and Sally Phillips with Dillie Keane, Ella Al-Shamahi and Richard Curtis.

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

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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.

John Lloyd and Sally Phillips with Jack Carroll, Suzanne Williams and Robert Twigger.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Lee Mack welcome:

* Comedian and writer Lucy Beaumont

* Scientist, writer and storyteller Dr Kat Arney

* Multi-award-winning poet Benjamin Zephaniah

The Museum's Guest Committee tuck find out how jumping genes took the world by surprise, peep through the smallest window in the world and practise the ancient art of Tai Chi.

Researched by QI and Mike Turner.

Producers: Richard Turner and Anne Miller.

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2018.

John Lloyd and Lee Mack with Lucy Beaumont, Dr Kat Arney and Benjamin Zephaniah.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Lee Mack welcome:

* Comedian Athena Kugblenu

* Writer and podcaster Dolly Alderton

* Artificial Intelligence expert Sir Nigel Shadbolt

The Museum's Guest Committee opt for the cheapest item on a wedding list, celebrate the triumph of a machine over the best chess player in the world and feel vegetarian nostalgia for corned beef.

Researched by QI and Mike Turner.

Producers: Richard Turner and Anne Miller.

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2018.

John Lloyd and Lee Mack with Athena Kugblenu, Dolly Alderton and Sir Nigel Shadbolt.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Lee Mack welcome:

* Comedian and writer Karen Dunbar

* Metallurgist Professor John Wood

* Breakfast radio host Shaun Keaveny.

The Museum's Guest Committee steel themselves for some deadly karaoke, use a massive machine to show off a single atom of iron and experience the unalloyed joy of opening an old-fashioned tube of toothpaste.

Researched by QI and Mike Turner.

Producers: Richard Turner and Anne Miller.

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2018.

John Lloyd and Lee Mack with Karen Dunbar, Professor John Wood and Shaun Keaveny.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Lee Mack welcome:

* Journalist and author Lucy Mangan

* Scientist and writer Steve Mould

* Former England footballer Graeme Le Saux

The Museum's Guest Committee indulge in past pleasures with a mechanical talking robot, an amusement arcade penny pusher machine and the soothing sounds of a 1980s Sony Walkman.

Researched by QI and Mike Turner.

Producers: Richard Turner and Anne Miller.

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2018.

John Lloyd and Lee Mack with Lucy Mangan, Steve Mould and Graeme Le Saux.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Lee Mack welcome:

* Comedian and ventriloquist Nina Conti

* Writer of the hit TV period drama series Victoria, Daisy Goodwin

* Former Cabinet Secretary Lord Butler of Brockwell

The Museum's Guest Committee discuss the magical properties of false teeth, the prominent contribution made by Queen Victoria's consort Prince Albert, and the mysterious case of 30 Russian jet fighters found buried in the sand.

Researched by QI and Mike Turner.

Producers: Richard Turner and Anne Miller.

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2018.

John Lloyd and Lee Mack with Nina Conti, Daisy Goodman and Lord Butler of Brockwell.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Lee Mack welcome:

* Comedian and writer Bridget Christie

* Writer and historian Andrea Wulf

* Oscar-winning documentary-maker Vikram Jayanti

The Museum's Guest Committee discover the therapeutic value of spontaneous crying, look hard into the mirror and make neat little labels for their herbs and spices.

Researchers: QI and Mike Turner.

Producers: Richard Turner and Anne Miller.

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2018.

John Lloyd and Lee Mack with Bridget Christie, Andrea Wulf and Vikram Jayanti

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Bridget Christie welcome:

* Comedian Jessica Fostekew

* Engineer Dr Shini Somara

* TV producer Linda Agran

The Museum's Guest Committee donate a slotted screw, Test Match Cricket and a sign telling people to Live, Love, Laugh.

Researchers: Mike Turner, Mike Shepherd and Emily Jupitus of QI.

Producers: Richard Turner and Anne Miller.

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in September 2019.

John Lloyd and Bridget Christie with Jessica Fostekew, Dr Shini Somara and Linda Agran.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Bridget Christie welcome:

* Comedian Sarah Kendall

* Botanist James Wong

* Bioscience entrepreneur Sir Chris Evans

The Museum's Guest Committee donate a ship in a bottle, a terrarium and a cabbage.

Researchers: Mike Turner, Mike Shepherd and Emily Jupitus of QI.

Producers: Richard Turner and Anne Miller.

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2019.

John Lloyd and Bridget Christie with Sarah Kendall, James Wong and Sir Chris Evans.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Bridget Christie welcome:

* Comedian Ahir Shah

* Historian Dr Fern Riddell

* Physicist Professor Bobby Acharya

The Museum's Guest Committee donate nicotine addiction, an 18th century sex and contraception guide and an intergalactic space observatory.

Researchers: Mike Turner, Mike Shepherd and Emily Jupitus of QI.

Producers: Victoria Lloyd and Anne Miller.

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2019.

John Lloyd and Bridget Christie with Ahir Shah, Dr Fern Riddell and Prof. Bobby Acharya.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Bridget Christie welcome:

* Comedian Jen Brister

* Map expert Edward Brooke-Hitching

* Comedy writer Jason Hazeley.

The Museum's Guest Committee donate the Ravel royalties, a land grant to a place that doesn't exist and a microphone.

Researchers: Mike Turner, Mike Shepherd and Emily Jupitus of QI.

Producers: Victoria Lloyd and Anne Miller.

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2019.

John Lloyd and Bridget Christie with Jen Brister, Edward Brooke-Hitching & Jason Hazeley.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Bridget Christie welcome:

* Comedian Andrew Maxwell

* Medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris

* Actor Celia Imrie

The Museum's Guest Committee donate a half-burned candle, an example of prisoner art and a piece of kit to ward off would-be body snatchers.

Researchers: Mike Turner, Mike Shepherd and Emily Jupitus of QI.

Producers: Victoria Lloyd and Anne Miller.

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2019.

John Lloyd and Bridget Christie with Andrew Maxwell, Dr Lindsey Fitzharris & Celia Imrie.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Bridget Christie welcome:

* Psychotherapist, Philippa Perry

* Architect and inventer, Carlo Ratti

* Underwater cameraman, Doug Allan.

The Museum's Guest Committee donate a swarm of fruit flies, a bionic arm and the feeling you get when a wild animal trusts you.

Museum exhibits catalogued by Mike Shepherd, Mike Turner and Emily Jupitus of QI.

Producers: Victoria Lloyd and Anne Miller.

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2019.

John Lloyd and Bridget Christie with Philippa Perry, Carlo Ratti and Doug Allan.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Alice Levine welcome:

* Writer and presenter Danny Wallace

* Broadcaster and tech expert Georgia Lewis Anderson

* Agatha Christie's great-grandson and CEO of Agatha Christie Ltd James Prichard

The Museum's Guest Committee donate a giant balloon, a mobile phone inside a crystal ball and Agatha Christie's favourite mug.

Researchers: Mike Turner and Anne Miller of QI.

Producers: Victoria Lloyd and Anne Miller.

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in September 2020.

John Lloyd and Alice Levine with Danny Wallace, Georgia Lewis Anderson and James Prichard.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Alice Levine welcome:

* Comedian and podcaster Suzi Ruffell

* Chef and presenter Ainsley Harriott

* Writer and creator of Bridget Jones, Helen Fielding

The Museum's Guest Committee donate a Dutch upright bicycle, the welwitschia mirabilis plant and the Victoria Falls.

Researchers: Mike Turner and Anne Miller of QI.

Producers: Victoria Lloyd and Anne Miller.

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in September 2020.

John Lloyd and Alice Levine with Suzi Ruffell, Ainsley Harriott and Helen Fielding.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Alice Levine welcome:

* Comedian and actor Eddie Izzard

* Natural History Museum curator Miranda Lowe

* Doctor and author Dr Roopa Farooki.

The Museum's Guest Committee donate the centre of the universe, a jellyfish and a virtual patient.

Researchers: Mike Turner and Anne Miller of QI.

Producers: Victoria Lloyd and Anne Miller.

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in September 2020.

John Lloyd and Alice Levine with Eddie Izzard, Miranda Lowe and Dr Roopa Farooki.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Alice Levine welcome:

* Comedian and The Last Leg host Josh Widdicombe

* Mathematician and pianist Dr Eugenia Cheng

* Have I Got News For You captain Ian Hislop

The Museum's Guest Committee offer as exhibits Bowerman's Nose, the equals sign and print.

Researchers: Mike Turner and Anne Miller of QI.

Producers: Richard Turner & James Harkin.

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in September 2020.

John Lloyd and Alice Levine with Dr Eugenia Cheng, Ian Hislop and Josh Widdicombe.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Alice Levine welcome:

* Comedian Ken Cheng

* Jewellery and silverware designer Theo Fennell

* Supernanny Jo Frost

The Museum's Guest Committee donate the Starship Enterprise, a bottle of rum and the perfect after dinner singsong.

Researchers: Mike Turner and Anne Miller of QI.

Producers: Richard Turner & James Harkin.

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2020.

John Lloyd and Alice Levine with Ken Cheng, Theo Fennell and Jo Frost.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Alice Levine welcome:

* Comedian Hannah Gadsby

* Entomologist and ecologist Dr Sarah Beynon

* Presenter and Paralympian Ade Adepitan

The Museum's Guest Committee donate a wildflower meadow, a headtorch and a tardigrade.

Researchers: Mike Shepherd, Mike Turner, Emily Jupitus and Lydia Mizon of QI.

Producer: Anne Miller

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2020.

John Lloyd and Alice Levine with Ade Adepitan, Dr Sarah Beynon and Hannah Gadsby.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Holly Walsh welcome:

* Comedian and writer Jamie MacDonald

* Art critic and author Jennifer Higgie

* Artist Francis Hamel

The Museum's Guest Committee donate a blue badge to talk about the ways the country is becoming more accessible, the first self portrait ever painted of an artist at work at the easel - painted by Catharina van Hemessen in 1548.

Researchers: Mike Shepherd, Mike Turner, Emily Jupitus and Jack Chambers of QI.

Producer: Anne Miller

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2021.

John Lloyd and Holly Walsh with Jamie MacDonald, Jennifer Higgie and Francis Hamel.

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

The Museum's Guest Committee donate a blue badge to talk about the ways the country is becoming more accessible, the first self portrait ever painted of an artist at work at the easel – painted by Catharina van Hemessen in 1548.

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Holly Walsh welcome:

* Comedian Evelyn Mok

* Historian Dr Alun Scott

* Screenwriter Allan Scott.

Evelyn talks about the rivalry between Gothenberg and Stockholm and donates the Swedish Dragon Gate to the Museum - it was intended to be the country's first Chinatown but things didn't go according to plan.

Dr Alun discusses his research into beards which led to the media dubbing him the ‘maven of shaving' and Allan talks about his time running a Scottish whisky company before becoming a screenwriter and working with Garry Kasparov on The Queen's Gambit.

Researchers: Mike Shepherd, Mike Turner and Jack Chambers of QI.

Producer: Anne Miller

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2021.

John Lloyd and Holly Walsh with Evelyn Mok, Dr Alun Withey and Allan Scott.

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

Evelyn talks about the rivalry between Gothenberg and Stockholm and donates the Swedish Dragon Gate to the Museum – it was intended to be the country's first Chinatown but things didn't go according to plan.

Dr Alun discusses his research into beards which led to the media dubbing him the ‘maven of shaving' and Allan talks about his time running a Scottish whisky company before becoming a screenwriter and working with Garry Kasparov on The Queen's Gambit.

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Holly Walsh welcome:

* Impressionist Jon Culshaw

* Comedian Rosie Jones

* Writer Elisabeth Robinson.

Jon Culshaw shares both his favourite people to impersonate and his passion for astronomy.

Rosie Jones talks about becoming Team GB's cheerleader at the 2021 Paralympic Games and her passion for puzzles.

And Elisabeth Robinson discusses what she's learned about the creative process in Hollywood as well as her fascination with the high seas.

This series was recorded remotely.

Museum's exhibits were catalogued by Mike Shephard, Mike Turner and Mandy Fenton and Lydia Mizon of QI.

Producer Anne Miller

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2021.

John Lloyd and Holly Walsh with Jon Culshaw, Rosie Jones and Elisabeth Robinson.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Holly Walsh welcome:

* Comedian, actor and presenter Griff Rhys Jones

* Bestselling author Mary Roach

* Award-winning poet Lemn Sissay

Mary Roach talks about her latest book Animal, Vegetable, Criminal which is about animals who break the law.

Lemn Sissay explores the role of a poet and his Christmas Day Project to provide Christmas dinners for care leavers.

Griff Rhys Jones discusses his time on Not The Nine O'Clock News and his love for the River Lea.

This series was recorded remotely.

Researchers: Mike Shepherd, Mike Turner and Jack Chambers of QI.

Producer: Anne Miller

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2021.

John Lloyd and Holly Walsh with Griff Rhys Jones, Mary Roach and Lemn Sissay.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Holly Walsh welcome:

* Comedian and podcaster Catherine Bohart

* Broadcaster and author Elizabeth Day

* Iron Maiden frontman and airline pilot Bruce Dickinson

Catherine Bohart talks about creating her comedy new material night Gigless and her appreciation for a perfectly soft boiled egg.

Elizabeth Day explores what can be learned from failure and the success of her latest book Magpie.

Bruce Dickinson discusses life as the lead singer of Iron Maiden and his other life as a pilot flying all over the world.

This series was recorded remotely.

Researchers: Mike Shepherd, Mike Turner, Mandy Fenton and Lydia Mizon of QI.

Producer: Anne Miller

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2021.

John Lloyd and Holly Walsh with Catherine Bohart, Elizabeth Day and Bruce Dickinson.

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

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Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Holly Walsh welcome:

* Comedian and writer, Daliso Chaponda

* Anaesthetist and space medicine specialist, Dr Kevin Fong

* Chief Fire Officer of the West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service and neuroscientist, Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton

Daliso explains how jokes have got him into some seriously hot water and discovers how many anagrams there are of his name.

Sabrina discusses how experiencing homelessness as a teenager led her to the fire service and her love of Xoloitzcuintlis (Mexican hairless) dogs.

And Dr Kevin Fong explores how an air ambulance could work in space and donates a special tribute to the NHS teams working devotedly through the COVID 19 crisis.

This series was recorded remotely.

Researchers: Mike Shepherd, Mike Turner, Mandy Fenton and Lydia Mizon of QI.

Producer: Anne Miller

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2021.

John Lloyd and Holly Walsh with Daliso Chaponda, Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton and Dr Kevin Fong

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

17012023022020230227/4) (BBC7)John Lloyd and Anna Ptaszynski welcome entrepreneur Bill Liao, actress Miriam Margolyes OBE and comedian Chris McCausland to the first episode of a new series of The Museum of Curiosity. Inspiring questions such as: What is the best record? What would your favourite, long dead, author write about now? And how could a fruit fly save your life?

This series of The Museum of Curiosity has been recorded remotely.

The Museum's exhibits were catalogued by Mike Turner, Mandy Fenton and Lydia Mizon of QI.

Exec Producer: James Robinson

Producer: Sam Holmes & Leying Lee

Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Nicholls

Sound: David Thomas

A BBC Studios production.

John Lloyd and Anna Ptaszynski with Bill Liao, Miriam Margolyes OBE and Chris McCausland.

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

17022023022720230306/4) (BBC7)John Lloyd and Anna Ptaszynski welcome comedian Rosie Holt, author Olivia Potts and theoretical physicist Professor Carlo Rovelli whose donations to the museum range from the never was, the may be, and... a jar of marmalade.

This series of The Museum of Curiosity has been recorded remotely.

The Museum's exhibits were catalogued by Mike Turner, Mandy Fenton and Lydia Mizon of QI.

Exec Producer: James Robinson

Producer: Sam Holmes & Leying Lee

Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Nicholls

Sound: David Thomas

A BBC Studios production.

John Lloyd and Anna Ptaszynski with Rosie Holt, Olivia Potts and Professor Carlo Rovelli.

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

17032023030620230313/4) (BBC7)John Lloyd and Anna Ptaszynski welcome taxidermist Polly Morgan, cartoonist Randall Munroe and impressionist Steve Nallon. On the episode we learn the limits of the human throat, what to do with a snake in a box, and how much soup it would take to destroy a galaxy.

The Museum's exhibits were catalogued by Mike Turner, Mandy Fenton and Lydia Mizon of QI.

Producer: Sam Holmes & Leying Lee

Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Nicholls

Sound: David Thomas

A BBC Studios production.

John Lloyd and Anna Ptaszynski with Polly Morgan, Randall Munroe and Steve Nallon.

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

17042023031320230320/4) (BBC7)John Lloyd and Anna Ptaszynski welcome comedian Alasdair Beckett-King, athlete Dame Sarah Storey and artist Hannah Rose Thomas to the Museum for an episode full of fitness, fantasy and fake moustaches.

The Museum's exhibits were catalogued by Mike Turner, Mandy Fenton and Lydia Mizon of QI.

Producer: Sam Holmes & Leying Lee

Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Nicholls

Sound: David Thomas

A BBC Studios production.

John and Anna return with Alasdair Beckett-King, Dame Sarah Storey and Hannah Rose Thomas.

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

17052023032020230327/4) (BBC7)John Lloyd and Anna Ptaszynski welcome journalist Isabel Hardman, cop turned comedian Alfie Moore and physicist Dr Jessica Wade to the museum this week for an episode full of discovery, deception, and a very frustrated bee.

The Museum's exhibits were catalogued by Mike Turner, Mandy Fenton and Lydia Mizon of QI.

Producer: Sam Holmes & Leying Lee

Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Nicholls

Sound: David Thomas

A BBC Studios production.

John Lloyd and Anna Ptaszynski with Isabel Hardman, Alfie Moore and Dr Jessica Wade.

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

17062023032720230403/4) (BBC7)In this series finale of The Museum of Curiosity, John Lloyd and Anna Ptaszynski are joined by comedian Sikisa Bostwick-Barnes, insect champion Bridget Nicholls and explorer Levison Wood who come armed with a wonder of the ancient world, a wonder of the natural world, and a wonderful artefact of 90s nostalgia.

The Museum's exhibits were catalogued by Mike Turner, Mandy Fenton and Lydia Mizon of QI.

Producer: Sam Holmes & Leying Lee

Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Nicholls

Sound: David Thomas

A BBC Studios production.

John Lloyd and Anna Ptaszynski with Sikisa, Bridget Nicholls and Levison Wood.

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