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Series 1 - Curator Bill Bailey
001 - s01e01 - 2008-02-20
Richard Fortey: The giant hornet of Chang Jiang - Brian Blessed: A Yeti or Sasquatch - Sean Lock: The modern scarf knot
002 - s01e02 - 2008-02-27
Fran Beauman: A pineapple - Gary Sheffield: Anderson shelters - Ben Elton: Privacy
003 - s01e03 - 2008-03-05
Arthur Smith: Arthur Cravan - Frank Close: Nothing - Ronald Hutton: Father Christmas
004 - s01e04 - 2008-03-12
Victoria Finlay: Pliny the Elder - Kevin Day: The Battle of Waterloo - Alastair Fothergill: A hairy anglerfish
005 - s01e05 - 2008-03-19
Jonathan Miller: The Nottingham alabasters - Philip Ball: Phlogiston - Marcus du Sautoy: The Monster
006 - s01e06 - 2008-03-26
John Gribbin: The Big Bang - Alan Davies: Epping Forest - Martha Reeves: Silence

Series 2 - Curator Sean Lock
007 - s02e01 - 2009-05-04
Chris Donald: A British Railways bridge plate - Brian Eno: Grímsvötn - Dave Gorman: The urge to press red buttons that you know you shouldn't press
008 - s02e02 - 2009-05-11
Gavin Pretor-Pinney: A Kelvin-Helmholtz cloud - Simon Singh: The Holmdel horn antenna - Tim FitzHigham: Don Quixote
009 - s02e03 - 2009-05-18
Bettany Hughes: Helen of Troy - Chris Addison: Alan Shepard's six iron - Rupert Sheldrake: A sheep rolling over a cattlegrid
010 - s02e04 - 2009-05-25
Charlotte Uhlenbroek: A chimpanzee rain dance - John Hodgman: Complete world knowledge - Oliver James: Matt Ridley's nameplate from his office door at Northern Rock
011 - s02e05 - 2009-06-01
Kate Adie: The Holy Grail - Jon Richardson: Hannah Hauxwell - Roger Law: The perfect English Spot rabbit
012 - s02e06 - 2009-06-08
Clive James: A P-51 Mustang - Tim Minchin: Tempting fate - Philip Pullman: Inventions being used for things they were not designed for

Series 3 - Curator Jon Richardson
013 - s03e01 - 2010-05-10
Marcus Chown: The Omega Point - Terry Pratchett: A procrastinator - Shappi Khorsandi: Charlie Chaplin
014 - s03e02 - 2010-05-17 - Curator Dave Gorman
Suggs: The Great Exhibition - Ruth Padel: 10,000 tigers - Leigh Francis (Keith Lemon): Spider-Man
015 - s03e03 - 2010-05-24
Richard Wiseman: The Milgram Experiment - Kevin Eldon: The ten worlds - Jon Ronson: A gay bomb
016 - s03e04 - 2010-05-31
Michael Welland: Singing sand dunes - Sarah Bakewell: Michel de Montaigne's medallion - Simon Evans: A total eclipse
017 - s03e05 - 2010-06-07
Ronni Ancona: Barry Marshall and Humphry Davy - Daniel Tammet: Saul Bellow - Robin Hanbury-Tenison: Nyapun, a Penan hunter-gatherer
018 - s03e06 - 2010-06-14
Sarah Millican: Pictures of animals in clothes - David Eagleman: International Ignorance Day - Neil Gaiman: Jack Benny's vault

Series 4 - Curator Dave Gorman
019 - s04e01 - 2011-10-03
Francesca Stavrakopoulou: God - Alex Bellos: A Curta calculator - Jimmy Carr: A book containing all the jokes in the world
020 - s04e02 - 2011-10-10
Graham Linehan: A cassette tape - Helen Scales: A tank full of seahorses - Rory Sutherland: A single Shreddie shown from angle of 45°
021 - s04e03 - 2011-10-17
Roger Highfield: An invisibility cloak - Robin Ince: The essential trifle - Gareth Edwards: The first story ever told
022 - s04e04 - 2011-10-24
David McCandless: The super-ego - Natalie Haynes: TV detectives - David Crystal: A waffle generator
023 - s04e05 - 2011-10-31
Alain de Botton: A High Street psychotherapist - Sara Wheeler: A carved walrus baculum - Alex Horne: The word "dord"
024 - s04e06 - 2011-11-07
Lucie Green: An invisible coronal mass ejection - Harry Enfield: A stupid German - Alan West: A tot of rum

Series 5 - Curator Jimmy Carr
025 - s05e01 - 2012-10-01
Erica McAlister: A cow pat - Al Murray: A travellator - Jan Bondeson: A security coffin
026 - s05e02 - 2012-10-08
Stuart Clark: Johannes Kepler's drink dispenser - Tom Hart Dyke: Puya raimondii - Jo Brand: Childhood, represented by a badly knitted jumper made by your nan
027 - s05e03 - 2012-10-15
Humphrey Ker: Chrétien de Troyes, inventor of chivalry - Dr. Pamela Stephenson-Connolly: The object of desire - Prof. Sir Andre Geim: The ghost of curiosity
028 - s05e04 - 2012-10-22 - Curator Humphrey Ker
Frank Cottrell Boyce: St Columba's Psalter - Dr. Alice Roberts: The love child of a modern human and a Neanderthal - Andy Nyman: Friday the 13th Part III 3-D
029 - s05e05 - 2012-10-29
Dr. Helen Czerski: A bubble - Irving Finkel: An authentic portrait of Jane Austen - Sean Hughes: A tab of LSD
030 - s05e06 - 2012-11-05
Dr. Buzz Aldrin: The Aldrin Mars cycler - Marc Abrahams: The reports of Professor John Trinkaus on his pet peeves - Sara Pascoe: User-friendly poisons, such as Botox

Series 6 - Curator Humphrey Ker
031 - s06e01 - 2013-09-30
John Blashford-Snell: Henry Morton Stanley's compass - Mark Watson: Mark Watson's glasses - Joann Fletcher: A silver denarius struck to celebrate the Battle of Actium found in Barnsley
032 - s06e02 - 2013-10-07
Andrew O'Neill: A third class ticket on the London Necropolis Railway - Amanda Palmer: A living statue - Volker Sommer: A dozen defecated ant heads
033 - s06e03 - 2013-10-14
Howard Stringer: A sandbag - Jane Bussmann: A funnyometer - Richard Ingrams: A machine to give judges electric shocks if they slept in court
034 - s06e04 - 2013-10-21
Richard Herring: Grigori Rasputin - Kristen Lippincott: A eureka moment - Christofer Clemente: A lizard popping a wheelie
035 - s06e05 - 2013-10-28
Robert Llewellyn: An elm tree - Cleo Rocos: A field of agave plants - Kevin Warwick: A thinking machine
036 - s06e06 - 2013-11-04
Paul Sinha: C.B.Fry's mantelpiece - Maggie Aderin-Pocock: The Prospero satellite - David Frost: The Nixon Interviews

Series 7 - Curator Phill Jupitus
037 - s07e01 - 2014-10-06
Jimmy Wales: A mobile phone in 2019 that will cost £10 to buy in Kenya - Helen Keen: The Jack Parsons moon crater - Kees Moeliker: A single pubic louse
038 - s07e02 - 2014-10-13
Kevin Dutton: A smile - Sandra Knapp: Chuño - Richard Osman: A bar of Cadbury's Dairy Milk
039 - s07e03 - 2014-10-20
Sandi Toksvig: The alphabet - Will Storr: Some type of tiny wasps - Lieven Scheire: A parasitic wasp
040 - s07e04 - 2014-10-27
Rich Hall: The front porch - Anna Keay: St. Edward's Crown - Henry Marsh: A sea squirt's brain
041 - s07e05 - 2014-11-03
Clive Anderson: The Old Bailey - Anne Dudley: The Woolsack - Richard Williams: A Disney desk
042 - s07e06 - 2014-11-10
Neil Innes: The Institute of Cognitive Stupidity - Bradley Garrett: London's hidden rivers - Isabel Behncke Izquierdo: A laughing tree
043 - s07eSP - 2015-09-10 - Coding Special - Curator Sarah Millican
Sydney Padua: The Analytical Engine - Eben Upton: A BBC Micro - Matt Parker: A Williams-Kilburn tube

Series 8 - Curator Sarah Millican
044 - s08e01 - 2016-01-11
Holly Walsh: The Vows of the Peacock - David Bramwell: Part of a time machine made by the Federation of Damanhur - Stephen J. Dubner: A microchip implanted into a human brain that could read all thoughts
045 - s08e02 - 2016-01-18
Greg Jenner: The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Hannah Fry: The equation for the perfect marriage - Ken Dodd: William Shakespeare's chuckle muscle
046 - s08e03 - 2016-01-25
Henry Blofeld: P. G. Wodehouse - Helen Sharman: The Deep Space Climate Observatory - Felicity Ward: A toilet
047 - s08e04 - 2016-02-01
Tim Smit: The New Emperor's new clothes, which change colour when you lie - Doris Vickers: A star clock - Rufus Hound: The monkey mirror
048 - s08e05 - 2016-02-08
William Hartston: A black pawn on top of an entire of pile of chess pieces balancing on top of a rook - Sophie Scott: A human tongue - Matt Lucas: A fart
049 - s08e06 - 2016-02-15
Lucy Cooke: A pygmy sloth - Adam Lowe: A Lucida 3D laser scanner - Susan Calman: Fifty Shades of Grey

Series 9 - Curator Noel Fielding
050 - s09e01 - 2016-07-29
Howard Goodall: A pantalon - Rachel Armstrong: A witch bottle - Nish Kumar: Blonde on Blonde
051 - s09e02 - 2016-08-05
Janey Godley: Some random dogs that wandered the streets in the 1970s - Milton Wainwright: A box used to detect microscopic alien life in the stratosphere - Corey Taylor: A deep fried wing of the Museum
052 - s09e03 - 2016-08-12
Susie Dent: A fly on the wall in a meeting between Francis Grose and Samuel Johnson - Mike Shanahan: Some wild fig trees - Ross Noble: Rarajipari
053 - s09e04 - 2016-08-19
Tristram Wyatt: A human pheromone - Vic Reeves: An albino lapwing used by Sir Mick Jagger in 1966 - Kate Williams: A Cottingley fairy
054 - s09e05 - 2016-08-26
Janina Ramirez: Hildegard of Bingen - Peter Frankopan: A retro 1970s spice rack - Jenny Colgan: Narnia red
055 - s09e06 - 2016-09-02
George Monbiot: A short-faced bear - Katie Birkwood: A Treatise on Astronomy by Gerolamo Cardano - Craig Brown: Crossroads Motel

Series 10 - Curator Jo Brand
056 - s10e01 - 2017-01-09
Helen Arney: The 4 newest chemical elements: Nh, Mc, Ts, Og - Thomas Thwaites: A history book published in 2222 AD - Aseem Hashmi: A ship's anchor
057 - s10e02 - 2017-01-16
Lucy Porter: Lycra - Mark Forsyth: A wayzgoose - Dave Trott: A ploughman's lunch
058 - s10e03 - 2017-01-23
Amber Butchart: The colour mauve - Jack Waley-Cohen: A book of Tom Swifties - Jimeoin: The speed of cheese
059 - s10e04 - 2017-01-30
Sofie Hagen: The manifesto for the rules of Dogme 95 - Jon Ablett: A snail glued to a board - Kate Fox: Stone age selfies
060 - s10e05 - 2017-02-06
Deborah Frances-White: Emilia Lanier - Dave Goulson: A pair of virgin deathwatch beetles - Tony Robinson: A war memorial depicting the finale of Blackadder Goes Forth
061 - s10e06 - 2017-02-13
Henry Eliot: Longplayer - Bee Wilson: The smell of coffee - Michelle Wolf: CNN

Series 11 - Curator Romesh Ranganathan
062 - s11e01 - 2017-07-28
Cally Beaton: The population of The Netherlands - Sally Phillips: A knitted tea cosy to cover the museum - Suzy Lishman: An exact replica of the foot bones of Richard III
063 - s11e02 - 2017-08-04
Phill Jupitus: A Siouxsie and the Banshees concert at Chelmsford Odeon on Sunday 26 July 1981 - Roger Graef: The theory of deterrence - Prue Leith: Alexis Soyer
064 - s11e03 - 2017-08-11
Rainer Hersch: A descant recorder - Beth Healey: The International Space Station - Kaffe Fassett: The Watts Towers
065 - s11e04 - 2017-08-18
Cariad Lloyd: A Moomin - Amanda Owen: A shepherd's whistle - Gyles Brandreth: A button from the actor Donald Wolfit's King Lear costume
066 - s11e05 - 2017-08-25
Clive Oppenheimer: A small tin of magma - Penny Rose: A skirt lifter - Francis Wheen: A much-misinterpreted letter from Darwin to Marx
067 - s11e06 - 2017-09-01
Andy Miller: A burst balloon and an empty honey pot - Kathy Lette: The maternal instinct - Stephen Fry: A bunch of grapes

Series 12 - Curator Sally Phillips
068 - s12e01 - 2018-01-08
Nikki Bedi: Ganesha - bbb: The Moon Under Water - Rory Bremner: "Mad Jack" Churchill
069 - s12e02 - 2018-01-15
Joe Lycett: A half-folded towel - Tom Shakespeare: Georges Couthon's rolling chair / wheelchair - Konnie Huq: A Blue Peter badge
070 - s12e03 - 2018-01-22
Stephen K. Amos: Tooting Broadway tube station - Victoria Hislop: The mati - Suze Kundu: Kevlar
071 - s12e04 - 2018-01-29
Sindhu Vee: The concept of hygge - Paul Nurse: The Large Hadron Collider - Rowan Pelling: A saucy limerick
072 - s12e05 - 2018-02-05
Ella Al-Shamahi: The perfect cave - Dillie Keane: Her own homemade, slow-made chutney - Richard Curtis: The Australian word googies, meaning "eggs"
073 - s12e06 - 2018-02-12
Robert Twigger: The attentionometer - Suzanne Williams: The bus seat that Rosa Parks refused to give up - Jack Carroll: Football Manager

Series 13 - Curator Lee Mack
074 - s13e01 - 2018-10-01
Benjamin Zephaniah: Tai chi - Kat Arney: A multi-coloured corn on the cob studied by Barbara McClintock - Lucy Beaumont: The smallest window in the world
075 - s13e02 - 2018-10-08
Dolly Alderton: The world's worst wedding list - Athena Kugblenu: A tin of corned beef - Professor Nigel Shadbolt: Deep Blue
076 - s13e03 - 2018-10-15
Karen Dunbar: Side B, track 14 on disk 8 of a Pioneer LaserDisc karaoke machine (I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor) - Professor John Wood: A single atom of iron and an X-ray free-electron laser - Shaun Keaveny: An old-fashioned tube of toothpaste
077 - s13e04 - 2018-10-22
Steve Mould: Tomy the Talking Tutor - Lucy Mangan: An amusement arcade penny pusher machine - Graeme Le Saux: A 1980s Sony Walkman
078 - s13e05 - 2018-10-29
Daisy Goodwin: Prince Albert - Lord Butler of Brockwell: 30 Russian MiG jet fighters found buried in the sand - Nina Conti: A set of false teeth
079 - s13e06 - 2018-11-05
Andrea Wulf: A Labelling Machine - Vikram Jayanti: A mirror showing unfinished masterpieces - Bridget Christie: A vial of her own tears
080 - s13eSP - 2018-12-25 - Christmas Special - Decennial Stocktake - Curators Lee Mack, Sally Philips, Jo Brand and Jimmy Carr
Lee Mack: Boredom - Sally Philips: Things that are so mediocre they normally they wouldn't be remembered - Jo Brand: The smell of an estate agent

Series 14 - Curator Bridget Christie
081 - s14e01 - 2019-09-30
Linda Agran: Test cricket - Shini Somara: A slotted screw - Jessica Fostekew: A sign saying "Live, Love, Laugh"
082 - s14e02 - 2019-10-07
James Wong: A terrarium - Sarah Kendall: A ship in a bottle - Sir Chris Evans: A cabbage
083 - s14e03 - 2019-10-14
Bobby Acharya: The Extra Dimension Observatory - Fern Riddell: The Fruits of Philosophy published by Annie Besant - Ahir Shah: A tin of tobacco
084 - s14e04 - 2019-10-21
Jen Brister: A microphone - Jason Hazeley: Maurice Ravel's royalties - Edward Brooke-Hitching: A land grant for 60 acres of land in the Poyais
085 - s14e05 - 2019-10-28
Celia Imrie: A half-burnt candle - Lindsey Fitzharris: A cemetery gun - Andrew Maxwell: A scale model old-school gypsy caravan
086 - s14e06 - 2019-11-04
Philippa Perry: A swarm of fruit flies - Carlo Ratti: A bionic arm - Doug Allan: The feeling you get when a wild animal trusts you
087 - s14eSP - 2019-12-23 - Christmas Special
J.K.Rowling: Inspiration - Glyn Johns: A 3M M23 8 Track tape machine featuring a recording of Something by George Harrison - Shazia Mirza: A pair of real eyebrows

Series 15 - Curator Alice Levine
088 - s15e01 - 2020-09-07
Georgia Lewis Anderson: A mobile phone inside a crystal ball - James Prichard (great-grandson of Agatha Christie: Agatha Christie's 900ml mug inscribed "Don't Be Greedy", from which she drank cream - Danny Wallace: A giant balloon for transportation
089 - s15e02 - 2020-09-14
Helen Fielding: The African plant Welwitschia mirabilis - Ainsley Harriott: The Victoria Falls - Suzi Ruffell: A Dutch upright bicycle
090 - s15e03 - 2020-09-21
Roopa Farooki: A virtual patient - Eddie Izzard: The centre of the universe - Miranda Lowe: A moon jellyfish
091 - s15e04 - 2020-09-28
Ian Hislop: All the printed material in the world - Josh Widdicombe: Bowerman's Nose - Eugenia Cheng: An equals sign
092 - s15e05 - 2020-10-05
Jo Frost: A bottle of Mount Gay Rum - Ken Cheng: The Starship Enterprise - Theo Fennell: The perfect after dinner singsong
093 - s15e06 - 2020-10-12
Hannah Gadsby: A tardigrade - Sarah Beynon: A wildflower meadow - Ade Adepitan: A headtorch
094 - s15eSP - New Year Special - Curators Alice Levine, Sally Phillips and Dan Schreiber

Series 16 - Curator Holly Walsh
This series seems to be recorded with all the participants remote from each other, and there is no audience
095 - s16e01 - 2021-10-18
Jamie MacDonald: A Blue Badge - Jennifer Higgie: A Self Portrait of Catharina van Hemessen - Francis Hamel: Hieronymus Bosch's painting The Garden of Earthly Delights
096 - s16e02 - 2021-10-25
Evelyn Mok: Dragon Gate in Sweden - Alun Withey (historian): A mechanical beard - Allan Scott: The Biggles books
097 - s16e03 - 2021-11-01
Jon Culshaw: The view from the surface of an alien planet - Rosie Jones: The missing piece of the jigsaw - Elisabeth Robinson: The high seas
098 - s16e04 - 2021-11-08
Mary Roach: NASA's faecal simulant - Griff Rhys Jones: The River Lea - Lemn Sissay: A button which when pressed tells you your talent
099 - s16e05 - 2021-11-15
Catherine Bohart: A perfect soft-boiled egg - Elizabeth Day: A red apple and a discarded hair extension, referencing The Real Housewives of New York - Bruce Dickinson: A bible with a history
100 - s16e06 - 2021-11-22
Daliso Chaponda: A church of laughter - Sabrina Cohen-Hatton: A pack of Xoloitzcuintle dogs - Kevin Fong: The sunrise after a night shift

Series 17 - Curator Anna Ptaszynski
This series seems to be recorded with all the participants remote from each other, and there is no audience
101 - s17e01 - 2023-02-20
Chris McCausland: The vinyl record - Bill Liao: Drosophila melanogaster, a common fruit fly - Miriam Margolyes: Charles Dickens
102 - s17e02 - 2023-02-27
Rosie Holt: The unwritten part of the poen Kubla Khan - Professor Carlo Ravelli: A white hole - Olivia Potts: A jar of marmalade
103 - s17e03 - 2023-03-06
Steve Nallon: The human larynx - Polly Morgan: A hognose snake in a Tupperware box - Randall Munroe: 10 to the power of 39 litres of soup
104 - s17e04 - 2023-03-13
Hannah Rose Thomas: Getting lost - Alasdair Beckett-King: The Red Book of Appin - Dame Sarah Storey: A map of the world
105 - s17e05 - 2023-03-20
Alfie Moore: A CHIS (Covert Human Intelligence Source) - Dr Jessica Wade: A Raman spectrometer - Isabel Hardman: A bee orchid
106 - s17e06 - 2023-03-27
Sikisa Bostwick-Barnes: A Gameboy Colour - Bridget Nicholls: A termite mound - Levison Wood: A megalodon tooth