Episode 5

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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.