Jimmy Carr had made a first appearance on BBC Radio 4’s (R4) Museum of Curiosity in 2011 (here).

In 2012 he was asked to be the Series 5 Curator of the Museum (co-hosting with John Lloyd).

Having had his tax affairs all over the papers (in June, before the Episode1 record) one of the MOC writers said in an interview that Jimmy had said “’if you think this could cause the show problems then I will pull-out’.

Chortle had a brief story with a quote from a co-producer who said:

Jimmy was a guest on our last series and was absolutely brilliant. He’s going to be an awesome curator

Amazon Audible have an offering of an audiobook of all meetings from Series 5-8 – here.

There is a photo from the Buzz Aldrin meeting – here. And this post (here) has some new images.

The 5 shows that Jimmy hosted included the below (except 28):

Meeting Twenty-Five

October 1^st 2012

• Rheumatologist – Jan Bondeson
• Dipterologist – Eric McAlister
• Pub Landlord – Al Murray

Meeting Twenty-Six

October 8^th 2012

• Comedian – Jo Brand
• Horticulturalist – Tom Hart Dyke
• Astronomer – Stuart Clark

Meeting Twenty-Seven

October 15^th 2012

• Dr Pamela Stephenson Connolly
• Comedian – Humphrey Ker
• Prof Sir Andrew Geim

Meeting Twenty-Eight

October 22^nd 2012

The original screenshots that I have from the BBC website (from many years ago) have Jimmy as Curator on all 6 meetings. The British Comedy Guide have this one as having a temporary curator (Humphrey Ker) and the BBC entry has since been changed to show Ker.

• Anatomist – Dr Alice Roberts
• Screenwriter – Frank Cottrell Boyce
• Magician – Andy Nyman

Meeting Twenty-Nine

October 29^th 2012

• Comedian – Sean Hughes
• Assyriologist – Irving Finkel
• Physicist – Helen Czerski

Meeting Thirty

November 5^th 2012

• Comedian – Sara Pascoe
• Astronaut – Buzz Aldrin – short audio clip here
• Ig Nobel Prize inventor – Marc Abrahams