The Museum Of Curiosity: Series 1 Audiobook
The Museum Of Curiosity: Series 1 Audiobook
- John Lloyd, Bill Bailey
- BBC Worldwide Ltd
- 2009-01-05
- 3 h 0 min
Summary:
Join Teacher John Lloyd and Curator Expenses Bailey as they plunge down the badger gap of ignorance inside a search for the universe’s most mind-boggling oddnesses. ‘The Museum of Curiosity’ is BBC Radio 4’s monumental humor edifice, and the only one with gargoyles in the foyer. It enables nothing inside unless it certainly makes you scratch your mind, heart stroke your chin or, at the very least, go ‘Hmm’. Secondly, it is almost completely empty. Luckily, helping to fill its vacant plinths is definitely a gathering of about The Museum Of Interest: Series 1 the world’s most primary minds. So pay attention in as Sean Lock, Brian Blessed, Alastair Fothergill, Ben Elton, Fran Beauman, John Gribbin, Alan Davies, Ronald Hutton, Jonathan Miller, Victoria Finlay, Arthur Smith, Richard Fortey and so many more agglutinate an exhibition from the wondrous and difficult that includes the beginning of the world, the entire Fight of Waterloo, the real Father Christmas and a quite interesting, fairly new method of knotting a scarf. ‘Like a headmaster who, having been locked up within a lunatic asylum, offers clambered on the wall structure and set up a rival establishment later on… The whole lot works wonderfully’ – Philip Pullman ‘If you or I pitched this idea, we’d hardly have got time to consume our free of charge BBC biscuits before becoming proven the door’ – Independent