An invitation to Dry Store Room No 1

London’s enormous Natural History Museum is one of the city’s most famous attractions – and one of it’s most impressive sights. Yet more than half of its mammoth floor space remains permanently closed to the public. So what really goes on behind the bones, birds and beetles?

Last week Richard Fortey, author of Dry Store Room No 1 and until recently one of the museum’s top experts took Radio 4′s Today programme on a tour behind the scenes – and admitted that a life lived amongst the drawers, racks and store rooms can be a fertile breeding ground for eccentricities of all kinds…

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW (7 mins – and you’ll need Realplayer)