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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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Comedy production for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 first broadcast in January 2016.
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