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A podcast that asks guests, such as Stephen Fry, David Mitchell, Caroline Quentin, Ross Noble, Lee Mack, Arabella Weir & Rob Brydon, for five things which they’d like to put in a Time Capsule. They can choose anything from an item, to a memory, a film or even a country. Four of them are things they want to preserve but one has to be something they’re happy to bury and never have to think about again.Hosted by Michael Fenton Stevens.Podcast of the Week in The Times, The Guardian and The Radio Times.@fentonstevens @MyTCpod Get bonus episodes and...

Ep. 467 - Jena Friedman

Jena Friedman is an Academy Award-nominated writer and comedian. She is the creator of SOFT FOCUS on Adult Swim and TRUE CRIME STORY: INDEFENSIBLE on AMC+. Her writing credits include BORAT 2: Subsequent Movie Film, THE CONNERS on ABC and THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN. She was also a field producer on THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART from 2012 through the end of his tenure in 2015, where she wrote and directed field segments. ​She's a contributing writer to THE NEW YORKER and her first book,

Feb 21, • 33:56

Ep. 466 - Steve Nallon

Steve Nallon is a writer and actor best known for voicing Spitting Image’s most iconic characters, including Margaret Thatcher, Alan Bennett and The Queen Mum. Steve's acting work now ranges from theatre, film and television, to video games, radio drama and audio books. As a playwright and comedy writer, Steve has a considerable body of credits to his name, including plays and series for BBC radio, three one-man theatre shows and the satirical book I, Margaret, which he co-wrote with Tom Holt. I

Feb 17, • 1:06:09

Ep. 464 - Nico Tatarowicz

Nico Tatarowicz is an award-winning writer who was a head writer on three series of the BAFTA winning Murder In Successville. He broke into TV in the mid 2000’s going on to write on all three BBC1 series of BAFTA winning The Armstrong and Miller Show, Channel 4’s Very Important People and Spitting Image. He wrote for four series of the award-winning Crackanory on Dave, seeing his words brought to life by Paul Whitehouse, Harry Enfield, Vic Reeves, Sheridan Smith and Carrie Fisher. His latest boo

Feb 14, • 1:14:57

Ep. 464 - Jeffrey Holland

Jeffrey Holland is probably best known for playing Spike in Hi-De-Hi!, also the stuffy footman James Twelvetrees in You Rang M’Lord? and as Mr. Parkin the Stationmaster in Oh, Dr. Beeching! His first TV role was in an episode of Dixon of Dock Green and his television work includes such shows as It Ain’t Half Hot, Mum, Are You Being Served?, Dad’s Army, The Mayor of Casterbridge and Russ Abbot’s Madhouse. He was in “Talent” written and directed by Victoria Wood at The Menier Chocolate Factory in

Feb 10, • 1:00:40

Ep. 463 - Richard Herring (Unedited)

An unedited version of our interview with Richard Herring with 25 minutes of unheard chat.=! Richard Herring's podcast, RHLSTP (Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast), is one of the biggest in the country. He is also a stand up comedian, writer and former comedy partner of Stewart Lee. Richard won series 10 of Taskmaster and Taskmaster Champion of Champions.Richard Herring is our guest in episode 463 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd l

Feb 7, • 1:19:50

Ep. 462 - Angus Deayton

Angus Deayton is best known for presenting Have I Got News For You from 1990 to 2002, Would I Lie to You? from 2007 to 2009 and being Victor Meldrew’s neighbour in the sitcom One Foot in the Grave. He is one of Mike’s oldest friends after Angus cast him in the Oxford Revue at university. This led on to the award winning Radio 4 series Radio Active and it’s TV version KYTV.Angus Deayton is our guest in episode 462 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd l

Feb 3, • 49:01

Ep. 461 - John Challis (Re-edit)

A re-edited and extended version of our interview with John Challis! Best known for playing Boycie in Only Fools and Horses and its spin-off The Green Green Grass but has also been in Benidorm, Dixon of Dock Green, The Sweeney, Doctor Who, Citizen Smith and many others. On stage he's performed in the West End and at the RSC, he's written two volumes of autobiography, Being Boycie and Boycie & Beyond and toured his own stage show, Only Fools and Boycie.John Challis is our guest in episode 461 of

Jan 31, • 55:02

The Debrief - Ep. 75

Mike and John Debrief the latest episodes, reveal Monday's special guest and chat about life a bit...Email your questions for us to - mytimecapsulepodcast@gmail.com .Follow My Time Capsule on Instagram: @mytimecapsulepodcast & Twitter & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .

Jan 29, • 25:43

Ep. 460 - Danny Peacock

Danny Peacock is probably best know for playing Mental Mickey in Only Fools and Horses. Danny is the son of late actor Trevor Peacock (who played Jim “no no no yes” Trott in The Vicar of Dibley). Danny was also in The Young Ones, Robin of Sherwood, The Bill, Doctor Who as Nord the Vandal in the serial The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Casualty and One Foot in the Grave. His film appearances include Porridge, Quadrophenia, Gandhi, Bull in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, with Kevin Costner, Morgan F

Jan 27, • 45:27

MTC recommends Chatty Natty!

Did you know we make another podcast? It's called Chatty Natty and we thought we'd introduce you to it! Regular listeners will have heard Mike talking about his autistic grandson Natty many times. In Chatty Natty, Mike chats to Natty about everything and anything. Listen to the world from the perspective of an Autistic 12 year old boy. This is episode 13 so if you enjoy it, there are plenty more to listen to. Please subscribe to make Natty's day. Thank you.Listen on Apple Podcasts here - https:/

Jan 24, • 31:23

Ep. 459 - Rick Wakeman (Re-edit)

With over 30 minutes of unheard chat here is a re-edited and extended version of our interview with Rick Wakeman!Rick Wakeman is best known for playing keyboards in the progressive rock band Yes. He played piano on David Bowie's Life On Mars and Space Oddity and on Cat Stevens' Morning Has Broken. He's released over 90 solo albums and in 2017, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He's also an author, producer and television presenter.Rick Wakeman is our guest

Jan 20, • 1:26:18

Ep. 458 - Sarah Roberts

Sarah Roberts is a comedian and writer, who is quickly becoming one of comedy’s most exciting new voices. Among her award nods are: Komedia New Comedy Award finalist 2023, Leicester Square New Act runner-up 2022, a 99 Club bursary winner and BBC New Comedy Award regional finalist 2024 as well as Soho Theatre Labs Plus alumni 2022. A graduate of the National Film & Television School’s Writing & Producing Comedy course, Sarah’s graduation project, OnlyFran was featured by Director’s Notes as one o

Jan 17, • 46:17

Ep. 457 - Duncan Preston

Duncan Preston is best known for his appearances in Victoria Wood’s television productions, including his roles of Clifford in the soap opera parody sketches Acorn Antiques and Stan in the sitcom Dinnerladies. He reprised his role of Clifford in Acorn Antiques The Musical in 2005. Duncan has made many guest appearances in various TV series, including Secret Army, The Professionals, All Creatures Great and Small, Robin of Sherwood, Bergerac, The New Statesman, Press Gang, Chalk, Boon, Casualty, H

Jan 13, • 46:21

Ep. 456 - Stuart Mitchell

Stuart Mitchell is regarded as one of the UK’s top comedians and TikTok stars with over 100M views online. He is currently the longest running panellist of BBC Scotland’s Breaking The News and recently starred in his own Radio 4 series “Cost of Living”. His second series “Cost of Dying” has been commissioned and is due to air in July 2025. In addition to this he has made numerous appearances across TV and Radio including Chris McCausland’s ‘You Heard It Here First’, The Blame Game and The News Q

Jan 10, • 37:26

Ep. 455 - John Lloyd (Un-edited)

An unedited version of our interview with comedy producer John Lloyd! John Lloyd is a hugely successful television and radio comedy producer and writer. His television work includes Not the Nine O'Clock News, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Spitting Image, Blackadder and he is the creator of QI. He is also the presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity.John Lloyd is our guest in episode 453 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Steve

Jan 6, • 1:11:08

Ep. 454 - Abby Wambaugh

Comedian Abby Wambaugh was the 2024 winner of the Best Newcomer at the ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards, winner of the Best Show at the European Comedy Awards and the Theatre Weekly Best Show winner. She was also nominated for Best Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Quite a year! She’s previously made the Funny Women finals in 2021, was shortlisted for the 2022 BBC New Comedy Awards and selected for the Pleasance Comedy Reserve in 2023. Her award winning show, The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows, is no

Jan 3, • 56:16

Best of 2024 - Part 2

The best of our guests from 2024! Part 2 features Arthur Smith, Maisie Adam, Rosie Holt, Toby Tarrant, Stephen Fry, David Mitchell, Major General Chip Chapman, Daliso Chapona, Madeline Smith, Nick Newman, Maria McErlane, Simon Brodkin, Tom Baldwin, George Monbiot, Stevie Martin, Jon Holmes, Sophie Duker, Suzi Perry and Jason Manford.Follow My Time Capsule on Instagram: @mytimecapsulepodcast & Twitter & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mike

Dec 30, 2024 • 1:12:03

Best of 2024 - Part 1

The best of our guests from 2024! Part 1 features Iain Stirling, Professor Alice Roberts, Jason Manford, Anette Badland, Professor Chris Lintott, Robin Askwith, Kim Leadbeater MP, Ainsley Harriott, Colin Hoult, Jess Conrad, James O'Brien, Karl Howman, Chloe Petts and Lewis MacLeod.Follow My Time Capsule on Instagram: @mytimecapsulepodcast & Twitter & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Ste

Dec 27, 2024 • 59:29

My Christmas Time Capsule 2024

Mike asks some of our guests from the past year (plus a few clips from our original Christmas episodes from 4 years ago) for something to put in a Christmas Time Capsule! Featuring Jason Manford, Stephen Fry, Arthur Smith, Maria McErlane, Rick Wakeman, Sonali Shah, Lauren Pattison, John O'Farrell, Ellie White, Andy Hamilton, Karl Howman, Aneka Rice, Tony Hawks, Michelle Brasier, Toby Hadoke and Professor Sophie Scott.Warning: Possible grown up chat about Father Christmas!Follow My Time Capsule o

Dec 23, 2024 • 1:31:56

Xmas Present! The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain by Charles Dickens

Another Christmas present from us! Our very own Michael Fenton Stevens reading The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain by Charles Dickens. Merry Christmas!Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/brock-hewitt-stories-in-sound/coventry-carolLicense code: I9F0C4FANTJJOOOO Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Host

Dec 20, 2024 • 3:43:44

Ep. 453 - Mike Batt

Mike Batt is probably best known as the singer/songwriter/producer of The Wombles music, having written the theme tune plus eight hit singles and four gold albums. Mike moved on to work with various artists as a songwriter and producer, most successfully with Steeleye Span and their most successful single and album All Around My Hat in 1975. He wrote the song "Bright Eyes" for the film Watership Down, sung by Art Garfunkel, which reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart and five other countries.

Dec 16, 2024 • 58:09

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Tree read by Michael Fenton Stevens

An early Christmas present from us! Our very own Michael Fenton Stevens reading A Christmas Tree by Charles Dickens. Merry Christmas!Credit - Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/brock-hewitt-stories-in-sound/joy-to-the-worldLicense code: HCAE9GFVEVQJ5HSM Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See

Dec 15, 2024 • 44:37

Ep. 452 - Richard Vranch

Richard Vranch is maybe best known for improvising the music in the Channel 4 series Whose Line Is It Anyway?, famously introduced as “Richard Vranch at the piano”. He’s also a member of The Comedy Store Players and improvises comedy live on stage every Sunday at The Comedy Store in London, which he has done regularly for the past 39 years. He’s also part of the Improv All-Stars and Paul Merton and Suki Webster’s Improv Show. The Comedy Store Players have played the Olivier stage at the Nat

Dec 13, 2024 • 43:48

Ep. 451 - Angela Barnes Returns!

Angela Barnes returns with a brand new time capsule! Angela Barnes is a comedian best known for her appearances on Mock The Week and hosting The News Quiz and Newsjack on BBC Radio 4. She’s had her own Radio 4 stand-up series called You Can’t Take It With You which was based on her 2014 début show at the Edinburgh Festival and she co-hosts the "less-than-serious history podcast" We Are History with writer (and previous MTC guest) John O'Farrell .Angela Barnes is our guest in episode 451 of My Ti

Dec 9, 2024 • 40:56

Ep. 450 - Eliot Stein

Eliot Stein is a writer and editor who is currently a journalist at the BBC and deputy editor of BBC Travel. Eliot's forthcoming book, Custodians of Wonder, is inspired by a column he created for BBC Travel called Custom Made, and is about the last people alive maintaining some of the world's most astonishing cultural rites. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Wired, The Guardian, The Washington Post, National Geographic, The Independent, and The Best Travel Writing book anthology.

Dec 6, 2024 • 53:19

Ep. 449 - Andy Zaltzman

Andy Zaltzman is the chair of The News Quiz on BBC Radio4, the host of the global hit satirical podcast The Bugle, the cricket statistician for BBC’s Test Match Special and a recent contestant on Taskmaster Series 18. He is currently on his biggest UK tour to date with a brand-new show, The Zaltgeist. The 46-date UK & IRE tour started in in November 2024 and run to April 2025, including dates in Cardiff, Salford, Newcastle, Glasgow, Birmingham, Bristol, Dublin, Belfast and London. For dates and

Dec 2, 2024 • 38:15

Ep. 448 - David Mitchell (Re-edit)

A re-edited and extended version of our interview with actor and comedian David Mitchell! .David Mitchell is our guest in episode 448 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow David Mitchell on Twitter @RealDMitchell . Follow My Time Capsule on Instagram: @mytimecapsulepodcast & Twitter & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton

Nov 29, 2024 • 1:15:33

Ep. 447 - Jeff Dunham

Global comedy superstar and ventriloquist, Jeff Dunham holds the World record for "Most tickets sold for a stand-up comedy tour”! He held “Billboard’s Top Comedy Tour” for three consecutive years and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Forbes ranked Dunham as the third highest-paid comedian in the United States behind only Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock. Jeff has also filmed 12 record-breaking comedy specials, and currently holds three of the top-five highest-rated progr

Nov 25, 2024 • 45:45

Ep. 446 - Paul Putner

Paul Putner is an actor and comedian best known for his roles in Little Britain, Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle and This Morning with Richard Not Judy as The Curious Orange. Paul also toured in the Little Britain Live show and later appeared in Matt Lucas and David Walliams' TV follow-up, Come Fly with Me. Other TV and film appearance include Spaced, Look Around You, The Peter Serafinowicz Show, Downton Abby, Call The Midwife, Shaun of the Dead and Black Books. In 2005, Paul Putner took the starri

Nov 22, 2024 • 1:12:32

Ep. 445 - John O’Farrell Returns!

John O’Farrell returns with a brand new time capsule! John O’Farrell is an author and comedy script writer. He was a writer for such shows as Spitting Image, Grumpy Old Men and Have I Got News For You. He co-wrote the Aardman animation film Early Man with Nick Park and wrote the film Chicken Run and it’s sequel Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget. He wrote the book for the Broadway musical Something Rotten which was nominated for 10 Tony Awards including a “Best Book” nomination for J

Nov 18, 2024 • 57:06

Ep. 444 - Joe Kent-Walters A.K.A Frankie Monroe

Joe Kent-Walters won Best Newcomer at this years Edinburgh Festival Comedy Awards and the 2023 BBC New Comedy Award. He is also won the 2021 Chortle Student Comedy Award and the Best Show award at this years Leicester Comedy Festival. He has been delighting audiences up and down the country with his idiosyncratic style of outrageous character comedy, most notably with his comic creation Frankie Monroe. Joe is now in development with the BBC and Hat Trick Productions. His debut solo show Frankie

Nov 15, 2024 • 1:13:18

Ep. 443 - Milton Jones Returns!

Milton Jones returns with a brand new time capsule! Milton Jones regularly appeared on Mock the Week and has also appeared on Live at the Apollo, Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow and House of Games. Milton is currently working his 15th series for Radio 4, and performs regularly on the BBC classic Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, including appearing on their last UK Tour. Milton’s previous tour shows, Milton Impossible, Milton Jones is Out There, Milton Jones On The Road, each performed to over one hund

Nov 11, 2024 • 46:17

Ep. 442 - Matilda Thorpe

Matilda Thorpe is best known for playing Mandy in the sitcom Desmond’s and it’s spinoff series Porkpie, and in Sicknote on Sky starring Rupert Grint and Nick Frost. Her multiple other TV credits include Murder Most Horrid, The Upper Hand, Bad Girls and Rosemary & Thyme. Her film roles include Nina in One Life, Aunt Melody in the Amy Winehouse Biopic Back to Black, Queen of Hearts, Stationer in Crush and Andrea in Not Another Happy Ending. Stage appearances include It's a Girl (Winner Time Out Be

Nov 8, 2024 • 56:15

Ep. 441 - Modi

New York comedian Modi was voted one of the top 10 comedians in New York City by The Hollywood Reporter and has been featured on HBO, CBS, NBC, ABC, Comedy Central, Howard Stern, and E! Entertainment. Modi has received rave reviews in The New York Times, Time Out NY and The New York Post. Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, Modi emigrated with his family to the United States at the age of seven. Equipped with a sharp wit and a knack for reading an audience, Modi has gone on to become a successful fixture

Nov 4, 2024 • 39:14

Ep. 440 - Andy Hamilton (Re-edit)

We revisit our episode with Andy Hamilton with a re-edit! Resulting in a much more relaxed chat and plenty of unheard material. Andy Hamilton is the writer and director of Outnumbered and Drop the Dead Donkey, a regular panellist on Have I Got News for You, The News Quiz and QI, and the voice of Dr Elephant in Peppa Pig.Andy Hamilton is our guest in episode 440 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to prese

Nov 1, 2024 • 54:27

Ep. 439 - Karl Howman

Karl Howman is best known for playing Jacko in the sitcom Brush Strokes from 1986 to 1991, Mulberry in Mulberry from 1992 to 1993 and Buster Briggs in EastEnders from 2014 to 2016. As a writer, his first book, Secret Spitfires, went to paperback from hardback in 2022; he also co-directed and produced the film of the same name. His second book, A Million Ways to stay on the Run which he co-wrote with Donal Macintyre, was a Sunday Times bestseller in early 2023. The audio book, which is narrated b

Oct 28, 2024 • 54:14

Ep. 438 - Griff Rhys Jones (Re-edit)

We revisit our episode with Griff Rhys Jones with a re-edit! Resulting in a much more relaxed chat and plenty of unheard material. Griff Rhys Jones is probably best known for his sketch comedy work, most notably in the groundbreaking Not The Nine O’Clock News and for over a decade in Smith & Jones, alongside the late Mel Smith. More recently Griff appeared as one of the Three Men In A Boat for multiple series on BBC1, was the host of BBC4’s Quizeum, written many books and has fronted a numb

Oct 24, 2024 • 1:08:58

Ep. 437 - Arthur Smith Returns! (Live at Cheerful Earful Pod Fest)

Arthur Smith returns with a new time capsule! This time recorded live at The Bedford in Balham as part of Cheerful Earful Podcast Festival! Arthur Smith is a regular voice on BBC Radio 4 as a presenter on such shows as Loose Ends and a regular guest on radio and TV in shows like Just A Minute, The Unbelievable Truth, Grumpy Old Men and Have I Got News For You.Arthur Smith is guest number 437 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time c

Oct 20, 2024 • 57:48

Ep. 436 - Arthur Smith (Re-edit)

Comedian Arthur Smith was our guest in episode 3 of MTC, so we thought we'd re-visit that episode with a re-edit! Arthur Smith is a regular voice on BBC Radio 4 as a presenter on such shows as Loose Ends and a regular guest on radio and TV in shows like Just A Minute, The Unbelievable Truth, Grumpy Old Men and Have I Got News For You.Arthur Smith is guest number 436 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to

Oct 17, 2024 • 1:01:55

Ep. 435 - Maria McErlane Returns!

Our first returning guest! Maria McErlane is best know for co-presenting the Graham Norton radio show on BBC Radio 2 and Now Virgin Radio. She has been acting since 1984 and has appeared in The Fast Show, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Thin Ice and Happiness. She was also the narrator for Eurotrash with Antoine de Caunes and Jean-Paul Gaultier. She’s been a guest on Have I Got News For You and Just a Minute on Radio4. Her memoir, Bumps in the Road: a memoir – Life and adventure in bike-size chunks, is avail

Oct 13, 2024 • 57:22

Ep. 434 - Will Eaves

Will Eaves is a British writer, poet and professor at the University of Warwick. He began writing for the Times Literary Supplement in 1992 and joined the paper as its Arts Editor in 1995. He left in 2011 to become an Associate Professor in the Writing Programme at the University of Warwick. In 2020, he judged the Goldsmiths Prize and was a Visiting Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. In 2016, he was a Sassoon Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Library. He has written five novels, two books

Oct 10, 2024 • 53:15

Ep. 433 - Toby Tarrant

Toby Tarrant presented the mid-morning slot on Radio X since 2018. He started his national radio broadcasting career on Capital FM, presenting the early breakfast show in 2014. In October 2016, he moved to the same time slot on Radio X,. His daily 10am-1pm slot has amassed 1.2 million weekly listeners, and when Chris Moyles is on holiday, Toby steps in and is let loose on the Radio X Breakfast Show, as well as doing the same for Johnny Vaughn on drive-time. Toby Tarrant, is Chris Tarrant’s son.

Oct 6, 2024 • 55:09

Ep. 432 - Chris Cantrill

Chris Cantrill is a 3-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominated comedian, writer and actor. The Times described him, as “one of the most charmingly, daftly funny comics on the scene right now”. Since making his television debut on Harry Hill’s Clubnite (Channel 4), Chris has become a regular on television and radio. He’s appeared in shows such as the BAFTA-winning Alma’s Not Normal (BBC 2), Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared (Channel 4) and Avoidance (BBC One). He’s also written for the likes of Dave, Channel

Oct 3, 2024 • 54:51

Ep. 431 - Peter York

Peter York is an author and broadcaster who came to fame writing the Sloane Ranger Handbook with Ann Barr. He was also the Style Editor of Harpers & Queen for 10 years and became a media commentator on English social trends and traits, regularly appearing on television. Peter wrote Peter York's Eighties (1996), this time co-authored with Charles Jennings, which was both a book and a BBC television series. This was followed by Dictators' Homes (2005), which explored the interior design favoured b

Sep 29, 2024 • 49:22

Ep. 430 - Lauren Pattison

Edinburgh Best Newcomer Nominee 2017 and Edinburgh Best Show Nominee 2022, Lauren Pattison is a comedian, actor and writer. Her TV appearances include Stand up for Live Comedy (BBC1, )two episodes of Comedy Central at the Comedy Store, Roast Battle, hosting an episode of Takeshi’s Castle, The Dog Ate My Homework (CBBC), The Great Christmas Rant (ITV2), The Blame Game (BBC One Northern Ireland) and internationally on New Zealand’s 7 Days, Australia’s Comedy Up Late and Canada’s The Stand Up

Sep 26, 2024 • 53:06

Ep. 429 - Sue Cleaver

Sue Cleaver is an actor best known for playing Eileen Grimshaw in Coronation Street since 2000, as well as appearing in Dinnerladies, Casualty, A Touch of Frost, and The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper. She took part in a I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here in 2022, and is a regular panellist on Loose Women. She is currently touring the UK as Mother Superior in Sister Act. Her first book, A Work in Progress, is a call-to-arms for women as they get older to remember their value and hold on to their

Sep 22, 2024 • 55:07

Ep. 428 - Elf Lyons

Elf Lyons was awarded the 2024 Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show, the Comedian's Choice Award for Best Show and the Mervyn Stutter 'Spirit of the Fringe' Award and received 12 ★★★★★ reviews and a sell out run of her show Horses at the Edinburgh Fringe. For her show Raven she was awarded Best Show at the Reykjavik Fringe in Iceland and was awarded Best Comedy at the Adelaide Fringe, Australia. In 2023 Elf was listed as number 25 in The Telegraphs 50 Best Comedians of the 21st Century' and was

Sep 19, 2024 • 59:26

Ep. 427 - Robin Morgan

Robin Morgan is a Welsh stand-up comedian, writer, presenter and actor. Robin has appeared on Mock The Week, The News Quiz, The Now Show and co-created Ellie Taylor’s Safe Space on BBC Radio 4. He co-created and hosts the award-winning topical comedy panel show What Just Happened? on BBC Radio Wales. He starred in the Michael-Winterbottom-directed-Kenneth-Branagh-starring drama This England on Sky Atlantic). He has performed four solo shows at the Edinburgh Festival, his debut in 2016 was later

Sep 15, 2024 • 48:22

Ep. 426 - Gary Warren

Gary Warren is a former child actor, best remembered for his role as Peter in the 1970 film The Railway Children. Now retired from acting Gary Warren also played Cedric Collingford in the 1970 TV series Catweazle and Taplow in Whack-O!, as well as starring as Alexander in his own TV sitcom Alexander the Greatest. In the West End, he played the nephew of Mame in the musical Mame starring Ginger Rogers. Gary has written a memoir of his acting years and his passion for music entitled If My Memoir S

Sep 12, 2024 • 1:07:50

Ep. 425 - Christian Brighty

Christian Brighty is an award-winning comedian, actor and writer who has his own BBC Radio 4 series “The Many Wrongs of Lord Christian Brighty”. His show PLAYBOY was one of the best-reviewed shows of the Edinburgh Fringe 2022, and sold out runs at the Pleasance Courtyard and Soho Theatre. The show was nominated for the Amused Moose Best Show award as well as Best New Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival. In 2021, his TikTok sketches based on Bridgerton, Poldark and Jane Austen catapulted him to

Sep 8, 2024 • 1:16:43

Ep. 424 - Major-General Chip Chapman

Major-General Chapman joined the British Army in September 1980. He joined 2nd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) and fought in the Falklands campaign, including the Battle of Goose Green. He stayed with 2 PARA until May 1985 which included his first Northern Ireland tour. In 1994 he returned to 2 PARA as a company commander for an 18 month operational tour in Belfast, prior to becoming 2IC 1 PARA and was promoted to Lt Col in March 1996. In July 1998 he became SO1 Operations in NI, and

Sep 5, 2024 • 56:13

Ep. 423 - Suzy Perry

Suzy Perry is best known for covering MotoGP for the BBC for 13 years, The Gadget Show on Channel 5 for 9 years and the first permanent female anchor for BBC’s Formula One coverage. Her other sports presenting includes Wimbledon, the Boat Race, the London Marathon, Royal Ascot and the Great North Run. She also helped to present the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Suzi has recently reunited with her Gadget show co-presenter, Jason Bradbury, for The Gadget Show Podcast, available now .Suzy Perry i

Sep 1, 2024 • 47:38

Ep. 422 - Anesti Danelis

Anesti Danelis is an award winning comedian, musician, writer, and filmmaker from Canada whose work has been featured on VICE, People Magazine, AV Club, Daily Mail UK, Extra TV and other radio and TV shows across the globe. He has an hour-long musical comedy special streaming worldwide on Next Up Comedy, has taped multiple television sets for CBC as part of the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and has been heard on CBC radio's Laugh Out Loud. His comedic videos consistently go viral, raking in over 400

Aug 26, 2024 • 41:28

Ep. 421 - Liam Farrelly

As seen on Live at the Apollo, Liam Farrelly is a Scottish Comedian of the Year Award winner. He started performing stand-up aged 17 whilst still in High School and immediately went into comedy full-time after graduating. A meteoric rise through the ranks has seen him nominated for and winning a raft of awards including So You Think You’re Funny? Runner Up, Best Newcomer nominee Scottish Comedy Awards and Best Breakthrough Act nominee Scottish Comedy Awards. He’s had a guest acting role on BBC S

Aug 25, 2024 • 38:54

Ep. 420 - Jazz Emu AKA Archie Henderson

Archie Henderson is an award-winning writer, actor, musician, and creator of viral comedy character Jazz Emu, whose videos and songs have garnered over 50 million streams. He was named as the 26th out of 50 funniest comedians of the 21st Century by The Telegraph. His musical character comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2022 (Jazz Emu: You Shouldn’t Have), was included on The Telegraph’s “Top Shows To See At The Edinburgh Fringe”, and the British Comedy Guide’s “Best Reviewed Shows At The Edi

Aug 22, 2024 • 43:28

Ep. 419 - Eric Rushton

Eric Rushton won the prestigious 'Leicester Mercury Comedian of The Year' award in 2020 - an award that was previously won by the likes of Romesh Ranganathan, Jason Manford and Jonny Vegas on their way to stardom. Before that he was a Chortle Student finalist in 2016 and So You Think You're Funny? finalist 2017. He is a regular performer at the UK's biggest comedy clubs and festivals. Since his comedy debut in 2014, Eric Rushton has been mixing with the best newcomers on the comedy scene, and im

Aug 20, 2024 • 38:32

Ep. 418 - Sumukhi Suresh

Sumukhi Suresh is an award-winning writer, showrunner and stand-up comedian from India. She created, wrote and starred in two seasons of Pushpavalli, an Amazon Prime original series, which won various awards, including Best Actress at the 2020 Filmfare OTT Awards and Istanbul Film Awards. Sumukhi has created and starred in productions for various streaming platforms, including Beauty and the Feast on Disney+, Lust Stories and Comedy Premium League for Netflix Hum Doh Teen Chaar for Amazon MiniTV

Aug 18, 2024 • 50:14

Ep. 417 - Elvis McGonagall

Elvis McGonagall is a stand-up poet, comedian and broadcaster. Two series of his sitcom “Elvis McGonagall Takes A Look On The Bright Side” have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 where he appears regularly as well as popping up occasionally on the television. Elvis is the 2006 World Poetry Slam Champion, the compere of The Blue Suede Sporran Club and performs at literary and music festivals, comedy and cabaret clubs, pubs and dodgy dives up and down the country and abroad, including appearances at: E

Aug 15, 2024 • 42:17

Ep. 416 - Mustafa Algiyadi

Mustafa Algiyadi is a stand-up comedian, originally from Lybia, who now lives in Germany. He is the co-founder of the first weekly and longest running English Stand Up Comedy Club in Munich and performs all over the world, including at this years Edinburgh Festival where he’ll be performing his show Almost Legal Alien throughout August, a show about how he longs to be part of the European way of life but is confronted with some cultural differences that make it confusing, chaotic and sometimes h

Aug 13, 2024 • 41:29

Ep. 415 - Rahul Subramanian

Mumbai based stand up comedian, Rahul Subramanian, is one of India’s most versatile comics who has, in a very short time, garnered a huge global following with over 900k followers on Instagram. He has Amazon Prime specials including releasing India's first crowd work special - Rahul Talks To People, and performs sell out shows across the world. But he’s never been to Edinburgh before. He is performing his new show, Who Are You? at the Assembly RoomsRahul Subramanian is guest number 415 on My Tim

Aug 11, 2024 • 45:06

Ep. 414 - Juliet Cowan

Juliet Cowan is an actor and comedian who is returning to Edinburgh 25 years after beating Jimmy Carr, Russell Howard and Andy Zaltzman in the '99 final of So You Think You're Funny?. As an actor she recently played Amy Winehouse’s mum in the biographical film, Back to Black. She guest-starred in over 20 episodes of The Bill and starred in "The Wench Is Dead", the penultimate episode of the Inspector Morse series. She played Nicki in This Life, Carla in Th

Aug 8, 2024 • 41:50

Ep. 413 - Chelsea Birkby

Chelsea Birkby's highly-acclaimed debut comedy hour No More Mr Nice Chelsea won Best Debut at the Amused Moose Awards, was nominated for Best Show at the Comedian's Choice Awards, was listed in the funniest jokes of the fringe in The Times and The Telegraph and transferred for a sell-out run at London's Soho Theatre. She is a regular at many of the UK's top comedy clubs and theatres and has performed in New York and Paris. She has written for several series of BBC's Mock The Week

Aug 6, 2024 • 1:04:47

Ep. 412 - Reginald D. Hunter

Reginald D. Hunter is a comedian who’s TV appearances have included Never Mind The Buzzcocks, 8 out of 10 Cats, Live at the Apollo, QI and Have I Got News For You? He also filmed two series of the BBC2’s hugely popular Reginald D Hunter’s Songs Of The South & Songs of The Border, documenting his epic road trip through 150 years of American popular song.He reached the final of So You Think You Are Funny in 1998 during his first visit to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and was nominated for The Edin

Aug 4, 2024 • 39:43

Ep. 411 - Alexis Gay

Our Edinburgh Month continues with Alexis Gay - a New York-based stand-up comedian, viral video comedian and former tech employee and is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe to perform her first full solo show, Unprofessional, about working in tech. Alexis has accrued many thousands of followers for her short comedy videos on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, which she writes and directs herself .Alexis Gay is guest number 411 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things s

Aug 1, 2024 • 44:34

Ep. 410 - Anirban Dasgupta

Mumbai-based Anirban Dasgupta is a stand-up comedian and screenwriter with a distinct comedic style. A former corporate salesman, Anirban has performed extensively in India and across the world including the prestigious Just For Laughs in Montreal and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. His first stand-up special Take It Easy was released on Amazon Prime Video to wide acclaim, as was Afsos, the dark comedy series he created, also on Prime. This year he makes his Edinburgh debut with his

Jul 30, 2024 • 47:15

Ep. 409 - Sophie Duker

Sophie Duker is a comedian and writer who won the 13th series of Taskmaster and is a regular guest on Frankie Boyle’s New World Order. She has also appeared on Live at The Apollo, Mock the Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, The Last Leg and Hypothetical on Dave. Her Edinburgh Fringe Show, Venus, saw her nominated for the Best Newcomer award and gained critical acclaim and five star reviews, leading to a two week sold out run at Soho Theatre. Sophie ’s other TV and radio appearances include 8

Jul 28, 2024 • 57:07

Ep. 408 - Sara Barron

Edinburgh Month Continues with Comedian Sara Barron who has starred on shows including Live at the Apollo, Would I Lie to You? and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order. Sara has taken 3 critically acclaimed stand-up hours, For Worse (2018), Enemies Closer (2019), and Hard Feelings (2022) to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and had multiple runs in London’s Soho Theatre. Her shows have received rave reviews and she was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Sara’s further television

Jul 25, 2024 • 50:41

Ep. 407 - Michelle Shaughnessy

Continuing our Edinburgh Month... Canadian comedian Michelle Shaughnessy fast made a name for herself across North America. She’s had numerous appearances on television and her debut album “You Know What You Did” hit number one on the iTunes comedy charts. Her sophomore album “Botoxic” received a coveted 5 star review from Toronto’s NOW Magazine. In 2017 she was a finalist in Canada’s “Top Comic” competition and her audition video has since gone viral, with 5 million views and climbing. In 2018

Jul 23, 2024 • 42:27

Ep. 406 - Colin Hoult

Colin Hoult is best known for his work with Ricky Gervais on Derek (Channel 4), After Life (Netflix) and Gervais and Merchant’s Life’s Too Short (BBC). His acting credits include Ghosts (BBC), Trying (Apple), Almost Never (CBBC), Four Weddings and a Funeral (Hulu), This Time with Alan Partridge (BBC), Being Human (BBC) and BBC3’s award-winning Murder In Successville. Colin is a successful character comedian – he is well known for his celebrated ‘has-been actress’ character Anna Mann and has rece

Jul 21, 2024 • 1:03:19

Ep. 405 - Garrett Millerick

Garrett Millerick’s breakout television performance was on the hit US late-night talk show Conan. His live show Sunflower became one of the best reviewed and most talked about shows of 2018, both at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and subsequently at London’s Soho Theatre. The show was Time Out London’s No.1 Comedy Pick and saw Garrett receive a nomination for ‘Breakthrough Act’ at the 2019 Chortle Awards. Garrett has since followed up the show with Smile and Just Trying to Help. The Times called

Jul 18, 2024 • 53:19

Ep. 404 - Chloe Radcliffe+

Chloe Radcliffe is a NYC-based comedian, actor, and writer who was a staff writer on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, has a comedy feature in development with Sony, and was named a TBS Comic To Watch at the New York Comedy Festival. She starred in COMMAND Z from Steven Soderbergh alongside Michael Cera, and was nominated for a Writers Guild Award award for also writing on the series. She has been seen on Comedy Central and After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson. Chloe sold out her full-month ru

Jul 16, 2024 • 45:43

Ep. 404 - Chloe Radcliffe

Chloe Radcliffe is a NYC-based comedian, actor, and writer who was a staff writer on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, has a comedy feature in development with Sony, and was named a TBS Comic To Watch at the New York Comedy Festival. She starred in COMMAND Z from Steven Soderbergh alongside Michael Cera, and was nominated for a Writers Guild Award award for also writing on the series. She has been seen on Comedy Central and After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson. Chloe sold out her full-month ru

Jul 16, 2024 • 46:04

Ep. 403 - Jessie Cave

Jessie Cave is probably best known for playing ‘Lavender Brown’ in the Harry Potter films. She is also a comedian, author and illustrator. She played a lead in Buffering on ITV2 and also starred as regular ‘Heather’ in Sky One's Trollied. Her drama credits also include Black Mirror (Netflix), The Baby (HBO), Miss Scarlet and the Duke (Alibi), Call the Midwife (BBC 1) and Glue (E4). Jessie is a talented comedian who has had three critically acclaimed and sell-out solo shows. Her show Sunrise rece

Jul 14, 2024 • 1:12:52

Ep. 402 - Steve Bugeja

Steve Bugeja is one of the circuit’s most exciting comedians. Steve hosted the BBC Radio 4 series Economics with Subtitles and has made numerous appearances on TV shows including The Russell Howard Hour (Sky One), Love Island: Aftersun (ITV2), Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central (Comedy Central) and Zoe Ball on Saturday (ITV1). Steve is the co-creator and star of ITV2’s hit sitcom Buffering in which he plays the role of Finn. Steve as well as co-writing every episode was also the associate pr

Jul 12, 2024 • 45:45

Ep. 401 - Spring Day

As seen on BBC’s Live at the Apollo, Spring Day is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor living in London. Spring’s uniquely acerbic and sassy style of comedy is always a crowd pleaser, or shocker... A fluent Japanese speaker and a mild cerebral palsy haver, Spring began her career headlining at the Tokyo Comedy Store whilst based in Japan. She has written, produced, directed and performed seven solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She has also written for and appeared in BBC T

Jul 9, 2024 • 44:24

Ep. 400 - Jason Manford

Jason Manford is one of the biggest comedians in the UK as well as a hugely successful actor, presenter and singer. He’s had multiple sell out area tours, presented and appeard on some of the biggest shows in the UK such as Children In Need, QI, team captain on 8 Out Of 10 Cats, one of four judges on ITV's Starstruck and he came in second place as the Hedgehog on The Masked Singer. He has also starred in numerous stage musicals in the West End and across the UK such as Sweeney Todd, The Producer

Jul 4, 2024 • 1:07:02

Ep. 399 - Kim Leadbeater MP

Kim Leadbeater MBE has been a Labour MP since 2021. She is MP for Batley and Spen which is where her sister, Jo Cox, also sat until her tragic murder in June 2016. As of June 2023 she is chair of the all-party parliamentary groups on Sport and Tidy Britain, co-chair of the groups on Political Literacy and on Tackling Loneliness and Connected Communities. In 2020, she was appointed President of West Yorkshire Scouts. In 2018, Kim was awarded the UK's one thousandth Points of Light award by Prime

Jun 30, 2024 • 55:09

Ep. 398 - Catherine McCafferty+

Catherine McCafferty is an actor and stand-up who splits her time between LA and NYC. This summer (2024) Catherine will be taking her solo show: (Not) That Bad, to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Recently Catherine wrapped her second feature a queer rom-com: Crush streaming now on Hulu. She had the pleasure of attending the Austin Film Festival with an original script she wrote, and has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, Dallas Comedy Fest, Portland Comedy fest and the Vail Comedy Fest. Bothered,

Jun 27, 2024 • 40:43

Ep. 398 - Catherine McCafferty

Catherine McCafferty is an actor and stand-up who splits her time between LA and NYC. This summer (2024) Catherine will be taking her solo show: (Not) That Bad, to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Recently Catherine wrapped her second feature a queer rom-com: Crush streaming now on Hulu. She had the pleasure of attending the Austin Film Festival with an original script she wrote, and has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, Dallas Comedy Fest, Portland Comedy fest and the Vail Comedy Fest. Bothered,

Jun 27, 2024 • 41:03

Ep. 397 - Madeline Smith

Madeline Smith is an actress best known for playing Bond girl Miss Caruso in Live and Let Die with Rodger Moore but also had larger roles in the Hammer horror films The Vampire Lovers, Taste the Blood of Dracula, Tam-Lin, Theatre of Blood and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell. She stared in comedy films including Up Pompeii, Up the Front and Carry On Matron and the musical film Take Me High with Cliff Richard. Her television credits include Doctor at Large, The Two Ronnies, His and Her

Jun 23, 2024 • 54:15

Ep. 396 - Milo Edwards

Milo Edwards is a critically acclaimed stand-up comedian and podcaster (with Trashfuture). He was a member of the Cambridge Footlights and a student comic before moving to Moscow in 2015, where he became a TV performer. He has taken 3 critically acclaimed and award nominated shows to Edinburgh and his 4th for 2024, How Revolting! Sorry To Offend, has already earned him a second Best Show nomination at Leicester Comedy Festival. He has written for Mock The Week (BBC2), Hello America (Quibi),

Jun 20, 2024 • 54:20

Ep. 395 - Stevie Martin

Stevie Martin is an actor, writer, comedian and podcaster. She has built a significant following and acclaim for her prolific online output which includes a series of regular viral sketches with Lola-Rose Maxwell which have amassed over 20 million views (3 million of which on Tiktok) two hit podcasts (Nobody Panic with Tessa Coates and Might Delete Later with Gina Martin) which collectively receive over 100,000 downloads a month. A writer published everywhere from Vice to the Guardian, Stevie’s

Jun 16, 2024 • 49:09

Ep. 394 - Dr Benji Waterhouse

Dr Benji Waterhouse is a front-line NHS doctor specialising in psychiatry. He is also an award-winning stand-up comedian who performs sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Festival. He has written for the Guardian and Independent, and was included in a list of 'Inspiring Psychiatrists’ by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has a special interest in psychedelic research and worked on the ground-breaking study featured in the BBC documentary ‘The Psychedelic Drug

Jun 13, 2024 • 54:31

Ep. 393 - James O’Brien

James O’Brien is best known for his daily current affairs programme on the radio station LBC, with over 1.2 million weekly listeners, he has also presented and appeared on a variety of TV shows including ‘Newsnight’ and ‘Have I Got News For You?’. James is an award-winning writer whose journalism has appeared everywhere from the TLS to the Daily Mirror and was a former editor of the Daily Express gossip column. His first book, How To Be Right, was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the Parliament

Jun 10, 2024 • 1:06:20

Ep. 392 - Ali Woods

Ali Woods is a comedian, podcaster and content creator. He won Hackney Empire New Act of the Year 2020 and has appeared on BBC Radio 4, TalkRadio, TalkSport alongside hosting his own podcast ‘All I Do Is Fail’. His online comedy sketches under the tag @aliwoodsgigs have gained millions of views and likes, and featured on LadBible and Buzzfeed UK. Many of Ali’s followers found him after he supported Russell Kane on tour in 2022. Ali is a refreshing mix of the ‘every man’ and the ‘modern man’, who

Jun 6, 2024 • 1:00:59

Ep. 391 - Tom Baldwin

Tom Baldwin is the former director of communications and strategy at the Labour Party and Keir Starmer’s official biographer. As a political journalist he was political editor of The Sunday Telegraph, assistant editor of The Times and The Times’ Washington bureau chief. In 2010, he was appointed as head of communications for the Labour Party and also worked as Senior Adviser to Ed Miliband. He ended this role after Labour's defeat in the 2015 general election. He later worked as director of comm

Jun 2, 2024 • 49:59

Ep. 390 - Alex Kealy

Alex Kealy is a stand-up comedian who, in his first year of performing, reached the final of the prestigious So You Think You’re Funny competition. He has taken five hours of stand-up to the Edinburgh Fringe. Tickets for his 2024 Edinburgh show, The Fear, are available now. An in-demand joke writer, Alex has written for shows including Mock The Week, Late Night Mash, The News Quiz, and The Now Show, and his comedy has been listed in the top Jokes of the Edinburgh Fringe by The Guardian, The Tele

May 30, 2024 • 47:37

Ep. 389 - Sonali Shah

Sonali Shah is a freelance broadcaster best known for being one of the faces of BBC Events and BBC Sport and before that, a long-serving presenter of Newsround. Currently a host of The National Lottery Live on Saturday nights, Radio 4’s Today programme sport bulletins and BBC One’s Escape to the Country, Sonali was part of the presentation teams for Delhi 2010, London 2012 and Glasgow 2014 and joined the BBC Crimewatch team in 2015. Sonly was part of the BBC’s team for the Queen's 90th birthday,

May 26, 2024 • 49:30

Ep. 388 - Dr Helen Fry

Dr Helen Fry has authored and edited over 25 books covering the social history of the Second World War, including British Intelligence and the secret war, espionage and spies, and MI9 escape and evasion. ​ She is the foremost authority on the 'secret listeners' who worked at special eavesdropping sites operated by British Intelligence during WWII. Her groundbreaking research and extensive media coverage have shed light on one of the greatest intelligence deceptions of the war: the bugging of Hit

May 23, 2024 • 47:04

Ep. 387 - Rob Deering

Rob Deering performs stand-up comedy with music, using a guitar, a loop pedal and his voice to create impressive rock and pop soundscapes. Along with being one of the most in-demand headliners on the UK circuit, he’s toured nationally and performed solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe many times since starting out in the year 2000. His late-night, live-music comedy pop quiz Beat This is a festival institution. Rob has performed around the world and he’s appeared on any number of Radio and TV shows

May 19, 2024 • 1:02:41

Ep. 386 - Toby Hadoke

Toby Hadoke is an actor, writer, podcaster and award winning comedian. He is the host of a weekly comedy night in Manchester at XS Malarkey Comedy Club and presents a monthly new material night at the 53Two theatre with comedians such as Sarah Millican, Justin Moorhouse, and Gary Delaney. Toby is a regular presenter of the 7th Dimension on BBC Radio 4 Extra and a walking encyclopaedia of Doctor Who, hence his podcast all about Doctor Who, Toby Hadoke’s Time Travels. His one-man show Moths Ate My

May 16, 2024 • 57:49

Ep. 385 - Annette Badland

Annette Badland is an English actress best known for her roles as Mae the Landlady in Ted Lasso, Charlotte in Bergerac, Margaret Blaine in Doctor Who, Mrs Glenna Fitzgibbons in Outlander, Babe Smith in EastEnders and as Dr Fleur Perkins in Midsomer Murders. She was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 1993 for her performance as Sadie in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice; a role she reprised in the 1998 film adaptation Little Voice. Other TV credits i

May 12, 2024 • 49:53

Ep. 384 - Paul Hendy

Paul Hendy is a script-writer, novelist, director, producer and filmmaker. In his early career, he was a TV presenter hosting the BAFTA nominated Dear Mr Barker, Don’t Try This at Home with Davina McCall, The Disney Club and Wheel of Fortune. He was a regular reporter on ITV’s This Morning and hosted ‘Stash the Cash’. In 2017 Paul wrote, produced and directed a short film The Last Laugh which sees three legendary British comedians in a dressing room discussing the secret of comedy and what it me

May 9, 2024 • 48:07

Ep. 383 - Michelle Brasier

Comedian and actor Michelle Brasier is fast becoming a household name in Australia. She is a lead cast member of ‘We Interrupt This Broadcast’ on channel 7, she voices several characters in ‘Koala Man’, the new adult animated comedy series, alongside Hugh Jackman, Sarah Snook and Jemaine Clement on Disney+ and wrote episodes for and voiced characters in Yolo Crystal Fantasy on HBO MAX. She was also a main cast member of Shaun Micallef’s ‘Mad As Hell’ on A

May 5, 2024 • 48:10

Ep. 382 - Sam Lake

Sam Lake is a stand-up comedian, writer and presenter who won Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year and Hastings Fringe Newcomer of the Year. Sam has recently starred in The Comedy Guide to Life ob Dave and The Joy of Missing Out with Tom Allen on All4. His writing has been featured on Mock The Week, Breaking The News on BBC Radio Scotland & Newsjack on BBC Radio 4. He’s also the host of the podcast “I’ve Had a Rosé, Let’s Talk About Feelings”, and regularly

May 2, 2024 • 54:36

Ep. 381 - Ainsley Harriott

After almost three decades as one of the UK’s favourite TV chefs, Ainsley Harriott has become something of a national institution. In 2020 he was delighted to be awarded an MBE for his services to broadcasting and the culinary arts. Best known for his twenty-one series’ of Ready, Steady, Cook, and with many solo primetime cooking series under his belt, he has become the master of fresh, fun, accessible cuisine. His latest series is Ainsley's National Trust Cook Off on ITV .Ainsley Harriott is gu

Apr 28, 2024 • 47:06

Ep. 380 - Stephen Fry (Re-edit)

It's the 4 year anniversary of our first episode! So to celebrate we thought we'd go right back to where it all started and re-edit Stephen Fry! In the early days we were a bit less confident than we are now and therefore our editing was a bit more ruthless than it is now, so we thought we'd re-edit Stephen's episode with a more relaxed ear. This has resulted in a much more relaxed conversation and plenty of unheard stories, jokes and a few more umms and errs. We hope you enjoy it!Stephen Fry is

Apr 25, 2024 • 1:08:09

The Debrief - Ep. 35

Mike and John answer some emails, talk about the latest guests, play a clip and Mike talks about Wicked, obviously.Email your questions for us to - mytimecapsulepodcast@gmail.com .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass The Peas Music .Artwork by matthewboxall.com .This podcast is proud to be associa

Apr 23, 2024 • 28:56

Ep. 379 - Georgina Hayden

Georgina Hayden is a cook, food writer and stylist. She writes for publications such as The Telegraph, Delicious Magazine and Observer Food Monthly, and in 2021 she won the Fortnum & Mason Best Cookery Writer Award for her work in Waitrose Food magazine. She has appeared on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, and regularly appears on This Morning, Sunday Brunch Saturday Kitchen. Georgina worked for Jamie Oliver’s food team for 12 years where she did everything from styling, developing and writing recipes fo

Apr 21, 2024 • 52:43

Ep. 378 - Carol Drinkwater

Carol Drinkwater is a British actress and best-selling author. Probably best known for playing Helen Herriot in the television adaptation of All Creatures Great and Small, which led to her receiving the Variety Club Television Personality of the Year award in 1985. She was a member of the National Theatre Company under the leadership of Laurence Olivier and won a Critics' Circle Best Screen Actress award for her role in the feature film Father. She’s also been in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Or

Apr 18, 2024 • 49:12

Ep. 377 - Professor Chris Lintott

Astrophysicist Professor Chris Lintott is the primary presenter of the BBC’s The Sky at Night, having previously been co-presenter with Patrick Moore until Moore's death in 2012. He co-authored Bang! – The Complete History of the Universe and The Cosmic Tourist with Patrick Moore and Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May. He has recently been appointed the 39th Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College in London which was founded in 1597. At the same time Chris is Professor of Astrophysic

Apr 14, 2024 • 47:18

Ep. 376 - Nick Newman

Nick Newman is Ian Hislop’s writing partner and the award winning Sunday Times cartoonist. He has worked for Private Eye since 1981 and has been the cartoonist for The Sunday Times since 1989. He was The Cartoon Art Trust’s Cartoonist of the Year in 1997, 1998, 2005 and 2016 and he won the Sports Journalists’ Association’s Cartoonist of the Year award in 2005, 2007 and 2009. Nick’s scriptwriting career with Ian Hislop includes Spitting Image (from 1984-89), Dawn French’s Murder Most Horrid,

Apr 11, 2024 • 52:10

Ep. 375 - Simon Brodkin

Comedian Simon Brodkin is probably best known for his comedy character Lee Nelson and his pranks including giving Teressa May a P45 during her Prime Minister’s speech at the Tory Party Conference, showered Sepp Blatter with dollar bills, surrounded Donald Trump with swastika golf balls, and starred in Britain’s Greatest Hoaxer on Channel 4, which was nominated for ‘Best Documentary’ at the Monte Carlo TV Festival. Simon wrote and stared in in three series of BBC Three’s Lee Nelson’s Well Good Sh

Apr 7, 2024 • 48:08

Ep. 374 - Ann Bryson

Ann Bryson is a very old friend of Mike's and was half of the comedy duo the Flaming Hamsters with a past guest of ours, Sara Crowe, and together they were the Philadelphia cheese advert girls for many years. She was also on television and on film in One Foot In The Grave, KYTV, City Lights, Only Fools and Horses, Inspector Morse, Hale and Pace, Doctor Who, The Steal, All About Me, Days Like These, Sometime Never, Space Vets and The Best of Rory Bremner. This episode was recorded over 4 years ag

Apr 4, 2024 • 44:19

Ep. 373 - Maisie Adam

Maisie Adam is comedian who is fast becoming a household name who has appeared on Live At The Apollo, A League Of Their Own, Mock the Week, Have I Got News for You, QI, Roast Battle, 8 Out of 10 Cats and the Royal Variety Performance. Since winning the nationwide So You Think You’re Funny? competition in 2017, she has won Best New Act at the Chortle Awards and the Amused Moose National New Act gong, as well as being nominated Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe for her debut show ‘Vague’. She

Apr 1, 2024 • 45:27

Ep. 372 - Luke Kempner

Luke Kempner is currently staring in Les Misérables in the West End playing Monsieur Thenardier but Luke is also well known for being a comedian and impressionist at the top of his game. Last year saw Luke voice over 30 puppets in the West End production of Spitting Image: Idiots Assemble, including King Charles, Prince Harry, Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran, Jurgen Klopp and many more. His TV credits include Spitting Image, Steph’s Packed Lunch, The Last Leg, Love Island: Aftersun, The Stand Up Sketch

Mar 29, 2024 • 51:17

Ep. 371 - Richard Talman

Richard Talman is a Master Goldsmith and the resident goldsmith on The Repair Shop, the award winning show on BBC One. Richard’s jewellery business, RTFJ, was founded in 2010 and has customers from around the world. It was awarded the National Winner of The Wedding Industry Awards. Richard is a Freeman of Worshipful company of Goldsmiths, Freeman of city of London and was the ‘Youngest ever’ to receive the Fellowship of the institute of professional goldsmiths. Richard Talman

Mar 25, 2024 • 55:50

Ep. 370 - Liam Withnail

Liam Withnail is an award winning comedian. He co-hosts the popular podcast Enjoy an Album, which was nominated for Best Podcast at the Chortle Awards 2024. He is also a regular guest on BBC Radio Scotland’s Breaking the News and has also been heard on The Good, The Bad and The Unexpected, seen on Socially Distant with Susan Calman and has written on Scot Squad. His 2023 Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Chronic Boom’ was a sellout success and received widespread critical acclaim, racking up sixteen 4 and

Mar 22, 2024 • 40:17

Ep. 369 - Tom Shakespeare CBE

Tom Shakespeare CBE is Professor of Disability Research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and was the 2020 Swarthmore Lecturer. Tom has achondroplasia and uses a wheelchair. He is a social scientist and bioethicist who has worked particularly on disability and on genetics. His books include Disability Rights and Wrongs, Genetic Politics, and Disability – the Basics. Tom has presented programmes and documentaries on BBC Radio and has written for publications including The

Mar 18, 2024 • 58:01

Ep. 368 - Professor Sophie Scott

Professor Sophie Scott is a neuroscientist and the Director of the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience. Her research investigates the cognitive neuroscience of voices, speech and laughter, particularly speech perception, production, vocal emotions and human communication Sophie started her research career in Cambridge at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit She was awarded a Wellcome Trust Fellowship in 2001 and has been funded by them since. As of 2017 she

Mar 15, 2024 • 1:00:41

Ep. 367 - Jon Holmes

Jon Holmes is a comedian, writer, presenter, producer and broadcaster who has won two BAFTAs, nine Gold Sony Radio Awards and two British Comedy Awards. He’s presented major radio shows on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC 6Music, Virgin Radio, XFM, Takradio, LBC and Radio X. On Radio 4, he co-created Dead Ringers, he wrote and appearing in The Now Show and The 99p Challenge where he first worked with Armando Iannucci. He also worked with Armando on Gash on Channel 4 and Time Trumpet on BBC2 and in

Mar 11, 2024 • 59:58

Ep. 366 - Lewis MacLeod

Lewis MacLeod is a Scottish actor best known for voicing characters and his impressions. He was in Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace as the voice of Sebulba (the podracer who competes against young Anakin Skywalker), he is currently the voice of Postman Pat and he regularly appeared on BBC Radio 2's Steve Wright in the Afternoon voicing impressions of Jeremy Vine, Donald Trump and Paul McCartney. He does various impressions in Dead Ringers on BBC Radio 4 and Spitting Image. He also provi

Mar 8, 2024 • 59:15

Ep. 365 - Jess Conrad

Jess Conrad has been ‘the vainest man in showbiz’ self styled since the 1950’s, having been a pop star, a film star, a star of the West End, a TV star and a cabaret star. Jess fell into film extra work, then acting work, being discovered by Jack Goode and having a number of hits in the early sixties, including one voted the sixth worst song of all time. He went on to play Jesus in Godspell and Joseph in Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dream Coat for many years, whilst also appearing in dozen

Mar 4, 2024 • 1:01:05

Ep. 364 - Huge Davies

Comedian Huge Davies appears regularly on television, including his own Channel 4 sitcom ‘The Artists’ which he created, wrote and starred in. Other television appearances include 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Harry Hill’s Clubnite, Roast Battle, Jools Holland, Hypothetical, Jonathan Ross’ Comedy Club, Live at the Comedy Store, Comedians Giving Lectures and The Stand Up Sketch Show. Huge supported Phil Wang and Joe Lycett on their national tours and has been nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy

Mar 1, 2024 • 59:39

Ep. 363 - Greg Jenner

Greg Jenner is a public historian and host and creator of the BBC podcast You’re Dead To Me, the chart-topping comedy with over 82 million downloads. He’s also the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Past Forward: A Century of Sound, the BBC’s award-nominated children’s podcast Homeschool History and the Audible series A Somewhat Complete History of Sitting Down. He was the Historical Consultant to nine series of CBBC’s Emmy & multiple BAFTA award-winning TV comedy series Horrible Histories and a key mem

Feb 26, 2024 • 1:14:23

Ep. 362 - Phil Ellis

Phil Ellis is an award-winning comedian who was nominated for Best Comedy Show at the 2023 Edinburgh Comedy Awards and won The Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality. He starred and co-wrote three series of his own BBC Radio 4 sitcom Phil Ellis is Trying, co-starring Johnny Vegas, Lolly Adefope, Amy Gledhill, Alexei Sayle, Sindhu Vee, Jack Dee, Lee Mack, Mark Lamarr and Sean Lock. The series was nominated for a BBC Audio Award in 2019. In 2014, Phil won the Edinburgh Comedy Award’s panel pri

Feb 23, 2024 • 48:32

Ep. 361 - Professor Alice Roberts

Professor Alice Roberts is and academic and presenter who has presented more than a hundred television documentaries, ranging across human biology, history and archaeology. Her longest running series, BBC Two’s Digging for Britain has been going strong for more than ten years. She first appeared on television in 2001, as a human bone specialist on Channel 4’s Time Team. She went on to present Coast on BBC Two, and then to write and present a range of television series for the BBC, including The

Feb 19, 2024 • 56:23

Ep. 360 - Njambi McGrath

Njambi McGrath is an award-winning comedy star with a hit BBC Radio 4 series Becoming Njambi and her latest BBC Radio 4 series ‘Black Black’. She has just filmed with Comedy Central and has a comedy special with Just For Laughs. She has had successful Soho theatre and Edinburgh runs and filmed 5 comedy specials on Amazon Prime, NextUp and BBC iPlayer. In 2019 she won the coveted Hackney empire New Act Of The Year (NATYS) Award. She’s a regular on BBC Radio 4 and has been guest on Loose Ends, Fro

Feb 16, 2024 • 46:29

Ep. 359 - Chloe Petts

Chloe Petts is one of the most exciting stand-ups on the circuit. She is an alumna of the prestigious Pleasance Comedy Reserve, has been shortlisted for the BBC Comedy Award, was a finalist of Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year Awards 2017, came runner-up in the Funny Women Awards 2017 and supported Ed Gamble on his 2022 UK Tour. She was recently seen on Celebrity Pointless, Richard Osman's House of Games, ITV’s Jonathan Ross’s Comedy Club, Dave’s Hypothetical, has been heard on BBC Five

Feb 12, 2024 • 48:29

Ep. 358 - Esther Manito

Esther Manito is a British-Lebanese comedian who’s been on Live At The Apollo, The Stand Up Sketch Show, Hypothetical on Dave and heard on BBC Sounds Russel Kane’s Evil Genius, co-hosting Radio 4 Extra's Newsjack Unplugged, CBBC Bitesize Parents, BBC'S Breaking the News and Russell Kane’s Boys Don’t Cry. She’s also been on the huge podcasts Off Menu and Parenting Hell. Esther’s show #NotAllMen won best show at Leicester Comedy Festival 2021 and she has supported Alan Davies, Shappi Khorsandi, Si

Feb 9, 2024 • 44:05

Ep. 357 - Daliso Chaponda

Daliso Chaponda is the writer, creator, and host of the Rose d’Or nominated BBC Radio 4 show Citizen of Nowhere. Daliso shot to fame on Britain’s Got Talent, making it to the final of the 2017 series. He became a Facebook and YouTube star amassing over 200 million views of his performances. His televison performances include The Royal Variety Performance, Britain’s Got Talent, Britain’s Got Talent Champions, QI, The Apprentice: You’re Fired, and on radio, he’s been a guest on The News Quiz and T

Feb 5, 2024 • 50:41

Ep. 356 - Ed Patrick

Ed Patrick is a comedian, author and NHS anaesthetist. He has performed across the UK, including at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He created and presented "Infectious Personalities" on BBC Radio 2 with guests Charlie Brooker and Sindhu Vee. Ed has written and performed on BBC Radio 4, for shows such as "Now Wash Your Hands" and "Newsjack", and he has also written for the Guardian about the intersection between medicine and comedy. Ed hosts the "Comedians' Surgery" podcast where he speaks to gue

Feb 2, 2024 • 51:00

Ep. 355 - George Monbiot

George Monbiot is an Orwell Prize winning journalist and environmental activist. He has written a a regular column for the Guardian since 1996 and has written a large number of books on such subjects as human rights, climate change, the corporate takeover of Britain, global justice, and plenty of other key issues. George is a regular on TV including recently as guest on BBC Question Time. He co-presented the short film Nature Now with Greta Thunberg, which has been watched over 60 million times.

Jan 29, 2024 • 1:12:25

Ep. 354 - Larry Dann

Larry Dann is a British actor best known for his roles in the Carry On... Series and for appearing as Sergeant Alec Peters in over 200 episodes of The Bill. His first appearance on screen was in Adam and Evelyn at age 5. Afterward, he would appear in Carry On Teacher, Trouble in Store and The Bulldog Breed. He continued appearing in films as he grew up, appearing in What a Crazy World, All Neat in Black Stockings, The Body Stealers and Before Winter Comes and rejoined the Carry On... Series with

Jan 26, 2024 • 48:34

Ep. 354 - Larry Dann+

Larry Dann is a British actor best known for his roles in the Carry On... Series and for appearing as Sergeant Alec Peters in over 200 episodes of The Bill. His first appearance on screen was in Adam and Evelyn at age 5. Afterward, he would appear in Carry On Teacher, Trouble in Store and The Bulldog Breed. He continued appearing in films as he grew up, appearing in What a Crazy World, All Neat in Black Stockings, The Body Stealers and Before Winter Comes and rejoined the Carry On... Series with

Jan 26, 2024 • 48:05

Ep. 353 - Rosie Holt

Rosie Holt is an actor and writer best known for her viral internet videos on twitter skewering the political landscape since the pandemic. Her videos have achieved more than 18 million views. She is the winner of the Chortle Social Media Award 2022 and is a BPG Emerging Creator Nominee. Rosie was a finalist at the Amused Moose New Comic, Leicester Square New Comedian & Bath New Act awards. She has appeared on The Russell Howard Hour (Sky), Friday Night with Niall Paterson (Sky News), The News Q

Jan 22, 2024 • 50:56

Ep. 352 - Ricky Sim

Ricky Sim is a lawyer-turned-comedian originally from Kuala Lumpur and currently living in New York City. As a comedy writer, Ricky was selected to be the 2021 recipient of The PIT/Saturday Night Live (SNL) Scholarship. With the comedy pilot that he co-wrote, he was selected as the 2023 Fellow of the Yes And…Laughter Lab, which is a competitive incubation lab, pitch program and showcase that lifts up the best comedy writers and performers who create new comedy about topics that matter, with a fo

Jan 19, 2024 • 42:51

Ep. 351 - Harriet Kemsley

Harriet Kemsley began stand-up in 2011 and within months won the Funny's Funny contest. In 2012, she won Bath Comedy Festival New Act of the Year and Brighton Comedy Festival New Act of the Year and was named by Rhod Gilbert as one of the Ten Must See Comics of 2012. She has starred in the Viceland and Comedy Central reality sitcom Bobby and Harriet: Get Married which she co-created and co-wrote with her husband Bobby Mair. She can be seen on Dave's Hypothetical, ITV's Hey Tracey, Comedy Central

Jan 15, 2024 • 39:22

Ep. 350 - Rob Auton

Rob Auton is a stand-up comedian and writer who has written seven five star rated Edinburgh fringe shows. He has performed his unique brand of comedy on The Russell Howard Hour and on Rob Delaney’s Stand Up Central. Rob released his book I Strongly Believe in Incredible Things with Harper Collins in 2021 to critical acclaim and has had three collections of writing and illustrations published by Burning Eye books and has had his poetry turned into short films and shown on Channel 4. As an actor h

Jan 12, 2024 • 54:29

Ep. 349 - Robin Askwith

Robin Askwith is probably best known as Timothy Lea in the “Confessions of a…” film series. He has appeared in many other films including as Keating in the Lindsey Anderson film ‘if…’, Otley, Alfred the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, The Canterbury Tales, the comedy films Bless This House, Carry On Girls and No Sex Please, We're British. Robin appeared on television in series' such as Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Father, Dear Father

Jan 8, 2024 • 55:45

Ep. 348 - Finlay Christie

At 19, stand-up Finlay Christie became the youngest ever winner of the prestigious So You Think You’re Funny competition, following in the footsteps of Peter Kay, Lee Mack and Sarah Millican. 3 years later, his debut Edinburgh show “OK Zoomer” was nominated for NextUp’s “Best Show” award. His YouTube channel, featuring sketches and stand-up clips has over 400k subscribers and 120m views. He has appeared on 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, The Stand-Up Sketch Show on ITV2, The BBC New Comedy Awar

Jan 5, 2024 • 42:54

Ep. 347 - Iain Stirling

BAFTA-winning comedian Iain Stirling is best known as the voice of the hit reality show Love Island, which is now in its 8th series. Iain appeared in series 8 of Taskmaster and took on the role of host for ITV2’s comedy entertainment show, CelebAbility (now in its fifth series). His sitcom, Buffering, a brand new comedy written, created by and starring Iain debuted on ITV2 in 2021. Iain’s book Not Ready to Adult Yet was published through HarperCollins, along with a companion podcast of the same

Jan 1, 2024 • 1:00:40

Best of 2023 - Part 3

The Best of My Time Capsule 2023 Part 3 featuring Tony Robinson, Ted Robbins, Nina Wadia, Neil Delamere, Jim Sweeny, Samira Ahmed, Roger Black, Robert Popper, Jon Harvey AKA Count Binface, Professor Turi King, Neil Mullarkey, Zoe Lyons, Tommy Cannon and Iain Lee.Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pas

Dec 29, 2023 • 54:32

Best of 2023 - Part 2

The Best of My Time Capsule 2023 Part 2 featuring Bridget Christie, David Earl, Doug Alan, Jim Howick, Lindsey Santoro, Mathew Crosby, Catherine Tydesley, Daniel Foxx, John Fenton-Stevens, Glenn Moore, George Layton and Caitlin O'Ryan.Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass The Peas Music .Artwork by

Dec 28, 2023 • 56:43

Best of 2023 - Part 1

The Best of My Time Capsule 2023 featuring Dave Gorman, Jon Ronson, Cliff Parasi, Aled Jones, Deirdre O'Kane, Hywel Roberts, David Morrissey, Iain Lee, Fiona Allen, Eric Whitacre, Lorelei King and Jamie Morton.Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass The Peas Music .Artwork by matthewboxall.com .This

Dec 27, 2023 • 51:13

My Time Capsule Christmas Party!

We invited the listeners to our bonus podcast, The Debrief, to join us for a Christmas Party over Zoom and asked them all to bring an item for the Christmas Time Capsule! This is that party with some wonderful people, fascinating items and plenty of amazing coincidences!If you'd like to listen to our bonus podcast and get the main podcast ad-free, sign up here - https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. You could be joining us next year!Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyT

Dec 22, 2023 • 1:00:13

A Christmas Carol - Our Annual Gift

Our annual Christmas gift for all our listeners: it's A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, read by our host, Michael Fenton Stevens! Feel free to delete if it's not your thing but we hope you enjoy it. Merry Christmas!Thank you to Spoken World Audio for allowing us to put this out.Follow Spoken World Audio on Twitter: @Spoken_WorldFollow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Get bon

Dec 20, 2023 • 3:10:45

My Christmas Time Capsule 2023 - Part 3

My Christmas Time Capsule Part 3 features Joe Wilkinson, Jim Howick, Rosie Holt, Tom Read-Wilson and Hywel Roberts. Merry Christmas!Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass The Peas Music .Artwork by matthewboxall.com .This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical

Dec 18, 2023 • 46:47

My Christmas Time Capsule 2023 - Part 2

My Christmas Time Capsule Part 2 features Dave Gorman, Jacqui Oatley, Alasdair Beckett-King, Ted Robbins, Professor Turi King, John Fenton-Stevens and Rich Wilson. Merry Christmas!Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass The Peas Music .Artwork by matthewboxall.com .This podcast is proud to be associa

Dec 15, 2023 • 52:46

My Christmas Time Capsule 2023 - Part 1

My Christmas Time Capsule Part 1 features Alex Horne, Jon Harvey AKA Count Binface, Lindsay Santoro, Aled Jones, Iain Lee, Gabrielle Glaister, Matthew Crosby, Simon Parkin and Paul Clayton. Merry Christmas!Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass The Peas Music .Artwork by matthewboxall.com .This podc

Dec 11, 2023 • 1:03:56

Ep. 346 - Ian Smith

Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show Nominee 2023 Ian Smith is a multi-award winning comedian, actor and writer as heard on BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz, The Now Show, Just A Minute and his own comedy-documentary Girl Stuck in Basketball Hoop. Ian’s 2023 Edinburgh Fringe show Crushing was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award and runner-up in Next Up's Biggest Award in Comedy. Ian is also a talented actor – starting off as a lead in BBC2 sitcom Popatron. He has gone on to star alongside Katherine

Dec 8, 2023 • 48:46

Ep. 345 - Lemn Sissay

Lemn Sissay is a a BAFTA nominated International prize winning writer, broadcaster and poet who has had the MOST extraordinary life. Please listen to his intro to find out more! Lemn was the official poet of the London 2012 Olympics, joined the Booker Prize judging panel in 2020, he’s also won The Pen Pinter Prize and a Points of Light Award, was elected as chancellor of the University of Manchester in 2015, he was awarded an MBE in 2010 for services to literature and then in

Dec 4, 2023 • 1:07:07

Ep. 344 - Glenn Moore

Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Glenn Moore is a comedian, actor and one of the best and most prolific joke writers in the country. He is a regular face on TV, having appeared on Mock The Week, The Russell Howard Hour, Guessable and Rob Delaney’s Stand Up Central on Comedy Central, The Stand Up Sketch Show on ITV2 and he is a regular guest on The Great American Joke Off on The CW Network in the US. His Radio 4 series ‘Glenn Moore’s Almanac’ is available on BBCSounds now, he appears regularly on T

Dec 1, 2023 • 50:45

Ep. 344 - Glenn Moore+

Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Glenn Moore is a comedian, actor and one of the best and most prolific joke writers in the country. He is a regular face on TV, having appeared on Mock The Week, The Russell Howard Hour, Guessable and Rob Delaney’s Stand Up Central on Comedy Central, The Stand Up Sketch Show on ITV2 and he is a regular guest on The Great American Joke Off on The CW Network in the US. His Radio 4 series ‘Glenn Moore’s Almanac’ is available on BBCSounds now, he appears regularly on T

Dec 1, 2023 • 50:26

Ep. 343 - Alex Horne

Alex Horne is best known as the creator of BAFTA winning TV series Taskmaster, in which he takes the role of assistant to the Taskmaster Greg Davies. Taskmaster started in 2015 and versions of the programme have also been made in America, Australia, Belgium, Croatia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Finland and New Zealand. Since 2010, Alex has been performing with his band The Horne Section. Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section ran for three series on BBC Radio 4, The Horne Section TV

Nov 27, 2023 • 55:19

Ep. 342 - Dave Cohen

Dave Cohen is a comedy writer who has written on shows including Not Going Out, Have I Got News For You, Spitting Image, My Family and Life of Riley. On Radio he’s written for shows including, The News Quiz, Dead Ringers, Sunday Format and 50 episodes of the Radio 4 show 15 Minute Musical with Richie Webb and David Quantick, which won the Writers Guild Best Comedy 2009. Dave wrote the lyrics for around 100 songs for CBBC show Horrible Histories – winning eight BAFTAs and a Rose d’Or. Dave starte

Nov 24, 2023 • 59:21

Ep. 341 - Alfie Moore

Alfie Moore is an ex-policeman turned comedian, best known for his brilliant Radio 4 comedy series, It’s a Fair Cop, which has run for 7 series. He’s taken a number of very successful shows to the Edinburgh Festival including in 2014, when his show, The Naked Stun sold out for 25 nights and was awarded the Edinburgh Fringe laurel for a sell-out show. Alfie has supported Sarah Millican, Russell Kane and Milton Jones on their national comedy tours and he’s currently touring the UK with h

Nov 20, 2023 • 57:22

Ep. 340 - Rich Wilson

Rich Wilson is a stand-up comedian who was nominated for Best MC at the 2023 Chortle awards and has had sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, Melbourne Comedy Festival and the New Zealand Comedy Festival, where he won Best International Guest in 2016. He’s the host of the wildly popular insane in the: podcast series where Rich talks to funny and interesting people about their experiences with mental health. In the last year the podcast has been nominated for an award with Podbible and in 2019

Nov 17, 2023 • 59:22

Ep. 339 - Kiell Smith-Bynoe

Kiell Smith-Bynoe is best known for playing Mike in the sitcom Ghosts on BBC One and Dean in the BAFTA winning sitcom Stath Lets Flats on Channel4. Kiell is also the new presenter of The Great British Sewing Bee on BBC One and was brilliant in the 15th series of Taskmaster. His other acting credits include Dreamland with Lily Allen on Sky, Friday Night Dinner, Whitechapel, Death In Paradise, Bloods, Horrible Histories, Red Flag which he created and wrote and The Witchfinder. He has been a contes

Nov 13, 2023 • 44:05

Ep. 338 - Simon Parkin

Simon Parkin has been a professional broadcaster for over thirty years, first in the Children's BBC Broom Cupboard alongside Andi Peters and then on programmes such as Top of the Pops and The O Zone. In 1992 he went over to TV where he became one of the launch stars of the new breakfast television station GMTV. He’s had radio shows on stations such as the BBC’s London station GLR, nationally on BBC Radio Five and he now presents Simon Parkin In The Morning on BBC Radio Somerset .Simon Parki

Nov 10, 2023 • 48:42

Ep. 337 - Samira Ahmed

Samira Ahmed is a journalist, writer and broadcaster who regularly presents Front Row on BBC Radio 4 and Newswatch on BBC News and BBC Breakfast. She was a newsreader on Channel 4 News from 2002 until she went freelance in 2011. She’s won the Broadcaster of the Year at the Stonewall Awards and has won Celebrity Mastermind twice becoming Mastermind Champion of champions. She has been a a reporter on Today on Radio 4, Newsnight on BBC2 and presented Sunday Morning Live on BBC One .Samira Ahmed is

Nov 6, 2023 • 49:36

Ep. 337 - Samira Ahmed+

Samira Ahmed is a journalist, writer and broadcaster who regularly presents Front Row on BBC Radio 4 and Newswatch on BBC News and BBC Breakfast. She was a newsreader on Channel 4 News from 2002 until she went freelance in 2011. She’s won the Broadcaster of the Year at the Stonewall Awards and has won Celebrity Mastermind twice becoming Mastermind Champion of champions. She has been a a reporter on Today on Radio 4, Newsnight on BBC2 and presented Sunday Morning Live on BBC One .Samira Ahmed is

Nov 6, 2023 • 49:12

Ep. 336 - Natasha Hodgson

Natasha Hodgson stars in the huge West End musical comedy Operation Mincemeat, which she also co-created, co-wrote and co-composed. It’s received 64 five star reviews including the Times which said it was a gloriously inventive wartime romp, and the Mirror which described it as “part Mel Brooks, part Six, part Hamilton with a side order of One Man Two Guvnors”. It won the Stage Debut award for Best Composer/Lyricist and the Off West End Award for Best Musical Production and Best Company Ens

Nov 3, 2023 • 47:17

Ep. 335 - Bob Cryer

Bob Cryer is Barry Cryer’s son. He has written a wonderful biography of his dad - "Barry Cryer: Same Time Tomorrow? The Life and Laughs of a Comedy Legend", which is available now. In his own right, Bob is an an actor, director, producer and writer. His 20 plus years of acting includes work on TV such as the new BBC cop drama Interceptor, Outnumbered, Our Hidden Lives, Eastenders, Holby City, Highlander, Coronation Street and Victoria Wood’s Christmas Special. His film work includes Legend with

Oct 30, 2023 • 1:19:51

Ep. 334 - Ian Lawman

Ian Lawman is an ordained CofE exorcist and has been featured on a number of successful television shows including Most Haunted, I'm Famous and Frightened, Living With The Dead, Help My House is Haunted and Celebrity Help My House is Haunted. At 16 Ian become a top Dancer and Fashion model. His modelling won him the accolade of being the Face of 1997. Later, after many years of fighting his natural abilities, Ian succumbed to his role as a psychic. He is now a well-known figure in

Oct 26, 2023 • 56:11

Ep. 333 - Laurence Rickard

Laurence Rickard is best known from BBC sitcom Ghosts where he plays the ghosts Robin the Caveman and Humphrey, the headless ghost. Laurence also co-created and co-writes Ghosts alongside his Horrible Histories group, which is the show they all met working on. He was a principle writer and star of children’s historical sketch show Horrible Histories, which won two National Comedy Awards, four successive BAFTAs and the Prix Jeunesse for the best children's show of the last 50 years. The same

Oct 22, 2023 • 55:41

Ep. 332 - Sophie Grigson

Sophie Grigson is a food writer and celebrity chef who has written over 20 cookbooks. Her TV career began in 1993 with the award-winning 12-part series Grow Your Greens, Eat Your Greens for Channel 4. Her latest series, Sophie Grigson: Slice of Italy, is on the Food Network and is available on Discovery+. She has written columns for the Sunday Express Magazine, Evening Standard, the Sunday Times and The Independent and she won the Guild of Food Writers Cookery Journ

Oct 19, 2023 • 55:48

Ep. 331 - Aled Jones

Aled Jones will forever be remembered as one of the world's most successful boy sopranos and for singing “Walking in the Air”, the song from The Snowman. He released over 20 albums by the time he was 18 and continues to make music to this day, most recently with the “One Voice” series of albums where Aled duets with his younger self. The 4th and latest One Voice album is One Voice - Full Circle and is available now. As well as a singer, Aled has been and continues to be a hugely successful prese

Oct 15, 2023 • 59:24

Ep. 330 - Fiona Allen

Fiona Allen is probably best known as a member of Smack the Pony, the Emmy winning sketch show alongside Doon Mackichan and Sally Phillips. All three series were nominated for a BAFTA. Her other comedy appearances include in Goodness Gracious Me, the sitcom Happiness alongside Paul Whitehouse, Mock the Week and she was Sandra in the film version of the Viz comic strip The Fat Slags. She has also appeared in many television dramas including Dalziel and

Oct 12, 2023 • 55:27

Ep. 329 - Jacqui Oatley

Jacqui Oatley MBE was the first female commentator on Match of the Day, the football highlights programme on BBC One. Jacqui currently works as a commentator for a range of broadcast networks - including FOX Sports at the men’s and women’s FIFA World Cups - and commentates on Premier League games for Sky Sports Match Choice and the world feed, as well as the NWSL for CBS Sports in the USA. She is the current anchor for ITV's live PDC darts coverage. She is a long-standin

Oct 8, 2023 • 58:01

Ep. 328 - Linda John-Pierre

Linda John-Pierre is a singer, actress, West End star. She’s performed in various musicals, including Sweet Soul Music singing Aretha Franklin’s greatest hits, starring as Sadie Fagin, Billie Holiday’s mother in The Billie Holiday Story and playing Mama Morton in the Broadway Production of Chicago on the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line. On TV and film she’s been in The Take with Idris Elba, Angel Has Fallen with Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman, Greatest Days, the film of the Take That musical, The

Oct 5, 2023 • 50:26

Ep. 327 - Dane Baptiste

Dane Baptiste was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the first Black British comic to ever be nominated. This led to Dane creating, writing and starring in ‘SunnyD’ on BBC Three. The show was purchased by Lionsgate, for an American version. His live shows have sold out internationally and been adapted for shows such as ‘Live At The BBC’ on Netflix and ‘Live At Soho Theatre’ on Amazon Prime. Dane has appeared on Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats D

Oct 1, 2023 • 53:47

Ep. 326 - David Barry

David Barry is best known for playing Frankie Abbott, in the 1970’s hit comedies Please Sir! With John Alderton and Derek Guyler, and it’s spin off, The Fenn St Gang, both written by John Edmond and Bob Larbey, who went on to create The Good Life, Ever Decreasing Circles and Brush Strokes. Other acting appearances include Frankula, After Hours, The Bill, The Woman in White, George and Mildred , The Legacy of Reginald Perrin, A Mind to Kill, Never the Twain, Brookside, Carry On Teacher and Crossr

Sep 28, 2023 • 59:23

Ep. 325 - Robert Popper

Robert Popper is best known as the creator and writer of Friday Night Dinner, the award winning Channel 4 sitcom, and the co-creator and co-writer of the mock BBC documentary Look Around You, with Peter Serafinowicz. He was the producer for the third and fourth series of Peep Show and the script editor of The Inbetweeners, The IT Crowd and the BBC3 comedy Him & Her. He also wrote on the fourteenth series of South Park and Stath Lets Flats with Jamie Demetriou. Robert wrote the books The Timewast

Sep 24, 2023 • 46:32

Ep. 324 - Remi Adekoya

Remi Adekoya is a writer, journalist and academic. Before joining academia, Remi was a political journalist for The Guardian, Sunday Times, Washington Post, Politico and Spectator. He has provided sociopolitical analysis and commentary for CNN, BBC, Sky News, Al Jazeera, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, South African Broadcasting Corporation, Talk Radio and Times Radio. He was a regular columnist for Business Day, a Nigerian daily, and a former political editor of the Warsaw Bus

Sep 21, 2023 • 1:11:21

Ep. 323 - Roger Black

Roger Black is the former athlete who represented Great Britain at the highest level, both as an individual 400m runner and as a member of the 4x400m relay team. He won 15 major Championship medals including World, European and Commonwealth Gold medals and Silver and Bronze Olympic medals. Roger was also British Men's Team Captain. His greatest achievement, he says, was winning the Olympic 400m silver medal in 1996 in Atlanta, beaten by the great Michael Johnson. Since his retirement from A

Sep 17, 2023 • 54:44

Ep. 322 - Nooruddean Choudry

Nooruddean Choudry is an author, journalist and broadcaster who has written for the Mirror and the Guardian about football and many other subjects. He was Creative Director at JOE, covering and writing about subjects like politics, culture and social issues. His book, Inshallah United, is a journey celebrating the importance of identity and place, discussing what it was like being an Asian Mancunian kid in the late 1980s and 90s. It’s a deeply personal story of faith and football that charts his

Sep 14, 2023 • 59:54

Ep. 321 - Lizzie Webb

Lizzie Webb is best know as “Mad Lizzie”, the fitness expert from TV-AM’s Good Morning Britain during the 80s and 90s. She introduced daily exercise to millions and her exercise and dance videos rivalled the film star Jane Fonda’s output. Lizzie is responsible for the children’s character, Joggy Bear, and both Lizzie and Joggy starred in their own TV shows on Channel 4. She now tours with Joggy, running fitness classes and stage show across the UK. She’s written her autobiography, Mad About The

Sep 10, 2023 • 47:58

Ep. 320 - Hywel Roberts

Hywel Roberts has been a teacher for over twenty-five years who has found an incredible and innovative niche in the world of model teaching contributing to and advising curriculum designers and innovators all over the world. Hywel contributes to the national conversation around education at school and university level. He is also a well respected author and contributes regularly to a variety of publications. His first book, Oops! Helping Children Learn Accidentally, is a favourite among tea

Sep 7, 2023 • 1:08:47

Ep. 319 - Jon Harvey AKA Count Binface

Jon Harvey is best known by his alter ego Count Binface who has stood in elections against Teresa May, Boris Johnson and in the London Mayoral election where he came 9th out of 20, beating UKIP. Jon is also a comedy writer, performer & producer. Jon has written, produced and appeared on a number of major TV shows, including The Thick Of It, Have I Got News For You, Time Trumpet with Armando Iannucci, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Fantasy Football League, The Last Leg, Comic Relief, Newsnig

Sep 3, 2023 • 1:16:49

Ep. 318 - George Layton

George Layton is best known as Doctor Paul Collier from the comedy series’, Doctor at Large, Doctor in Charge, Doctor in the House and Doctor at the Top and as Bombadier Solly Solomons in the sit-com It Ain’t Half Hot Mum. He was also Des the Mechanic in Minder. Other TV credits include The Likely Lads, Z Cars, The Liver Birds, The Sweeney and Doctor Who. George started writing for TV with the Doctor shows with a former co-star of the show, Jonathan Lynn. Together they wrote for On the Buses, Ne

Aug 31, 2023 • 1:10:13

Ep. 317 - Alasdair Beckett-King

Alasdair Beckett-King was a regular panellist on Mock the Week, most notably appearing in the show's final ever episode. He was named Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2017 and won the NATYs New Act of the Year in 2014. Alasdair’s debut solo show ‘The Alasdair Beckett-King Mysteries’ was a finalist in the Amused Moose Comedy Award 2017, made Dave's top 10 jokes of the fringe and went on to sell out at the Soho Theatre. A stand up comedian and animator, ABK has written and performed for BBC

Aug 27, 2023 • 56:44

The Debrief - Ep. 1 - Acast+ Preview

PREVIEW!! Exclusively for our Acast+ subscribers, this is Episode 1 of My Time Capsule - The Debrief! Each week, Mike and John will be discussing the process of making My Time Capsule, behind the scenes info, possibly some unheard material from the main podcast and anything else that springs to mind.To get all future episodes of The Debrief and all MTC episodes ad-free, sign up here: https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow

Aug 24, 2023 • 28:31

Ep. 316 - Lou Sanders

Lou Sanders is a comedian, actor and writer who won of the 8th series of Taskmaster and co-hosts the Dave comedy panel show Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable, with Mel Giedroyc. She is a regular on shows such as QI, Would I Lie to You?, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Live at the Apollo, Hypothetical, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Red Nose Day for Comic Relief and Russell Howard's Good News. Lou has acted in Aisling Bea's This Way Up and Karl Pilkington'

Aug 20, 2023 • 43:02

Ep. 315 - Rosie Wilby

Rosie Wilby is an award-winning comedian, author, speaker and the creator of the hit podcast and book The Breakup Monologues. She has appeared many times on BBC Radio 4 including on Woman’s Hour, Loose Ends, Saturday Live and Four Thought. Her first book ‘Is Monogamy Dead?’ was shortlisted for the Diva Literary Awards, longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize and followed her TEDx talk of the same name. Her acclaimed trilogy of solo shows investigating the psychology of love, began with The Sc

Aug 17, 2023 • 50:54

Ep. 314 - Doug Allan

Doug Allan was lead cameraman on The Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Life, Human Planet, Frozen Planet, Expedition Iceberg and Forces of Nature and is responsible for some of the most famous wildlife footage ever filmed, including the extraordinary sequence of killer whales creating waves to wash seals off ice floes in Antarctica. Doug has won eight Emmys and four BAFTAs and in 2017 he won an outstanding contribution award at the British Academy Scotland Awards. In 2011 he filmed

Aug 13, 2023 • 56:24

Ep. 313 - Louise Young

Louise Young is a stand-up comedian who is a regular at clubs up and down the country. Louise has supported the likes of Jason Manford and Alan Carr on their nationwide UK and Ireland tours. In 2020, she was nominated for Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, and the following year was nominated for Leicester Comedy Festival’s Best Festival Appearance. She’s also been a finalist in the Funny Women Awards. Louise has presented a weekly comedy radio show on BBC Radio Newcastle, and at the 2020 G

Aug 10, 2023 • 49:49

Ep. 312 - Neil Mullarkey

Neil Mullarkey is an actor, writer and comedian. He is a founder member of world famous comedy improv group, The Comedy Store Players and still appears with them regularly at London's Comedy Store. In the mid-1980s, Neil teamed up with Mike Myers as 'Mullarkey and Myers’. They toured the UK and had a sell out run at the Edinburgh Festival. The two appeared as 'The Sound Asleep Club' on TV-am's 'Wide Awake Club' and Neil would later appear in Mike Myers’ films Austin Powers: International Man of

Aug 6, 2023 • 1:07:31

Ep. 311 - Daniel Foxx

Daniel Foxx is an award-winning comedian and writer. His comedy sketch videos have earned him a huge online following and millions of views. On screen, Daniel has performed on BBC One and BBC Three as part of the BBC New Comedy Awards. On stage, Daniel has provided tour support for Josh Widdicombe and Sofie Hagen, he is the Winner of the Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence and a Finalist in the Chortle Student Comedy Awards. Daniel also writes plays, screenplays and musical theatre. He co-wrote

Aug 3, 2023 • 54:30

Ep. 310 - Pierre Novellie

Pierre Novellie is a stand-up comedian and writer. He is co-host of The Frank Skinner Show on Absolute Radio, and recent TV appearances include World’s Most Dangerous Roads (Dave), The Mash Report (BBC2), and Stand Up Central (Comedy Central). On the radio, Pierre has performed on The Now Show (Radio 4), hosts the BBC Sounds podcast series Obsessed With… SAS: Rogue Heroes and co-hosts the hit podcast Budpod with Phil Wang. As a writer, Pierre was one of the regular writers on the rebooted Spitti

Jul 30, 2023 • 52:37

Ep. 309 - Elliot Steel

Elliot Steel is a stand up comedian and comedy writer. Elliot is the son of Mark Steel, who’s also been guest on My Time Capsule! Elliot is a veteran of British comedy having started in stand up at the age of 16. He’s performed all over the world since then, including the Latitude and Reading Festivals, The Comedy Store in London, Hot Water Comedy Club, Top Secret Comedy Club and the Edinburgh Fringe, where he can be seen again this year. Elliot has appeared on Comedy Central

Jul 27, 2023 • 59:20

Ep. 308 - Professor Turi King

Professor Turi King is best known her work, “cracking one of the biggest forensic DNA cases in history”, leading the genetic analysis for the identification of King Richard III, whose remains were found under a carpark in Leicester. Turi presents, alongside Stacey Dooley, the BBC Two genealogy series, DNA Family Secrets. Turi has a PhD in Molecular Genetics on genetic genealogy. Her award-winning PhD examined the relationship between the Y chromosome and British surnames combining forensic DNA t

Jul 23, 2023 • 1:05:56

Ep. 307 - Stuart Laws

Stuart Laws is a comedian, director, producer and writer and has supported James Acaster on his UK tours. He has two specials on NextUp Comedy and wrote the play “The Journey” that debuted at The Edinburgh Fringe in 2018. His 2019 Edinburgh show is now available as a comedy special on American label 800 Pound Gorilla. He runs his own production company Turtle Canyon Comedy and has produced and directed shows for Netflix, Prime, Channel 4, BBC, ITV and Sky. In 2017 Stuart produced

Jul 20, 2023 • 52:31

Ep. 306 - Joe Wells

Comedian Joe Wells is a favourite amongst other comedians and has supported Frankie Boyle, Alexei Sayle and Stephen K Amos. Joe made his name as a political comedian with critically acclaimed Fringe shows including 'Night Of The Living Tories', '10 Things I Hate About UKIP' and 'I Hope I Die Before I Start Voting Conservative', in recent years he has moved into more personal material about mental health and being autistic. Joe’s written two books, Touch and Go Joe: An Adolescents experience of O

Jul 16, 2023 • 1:07:16

Ep. 305 - Lindsey Santoro

Lindsey Santoro has been described by Joe Lycett as ‘one of the most naturally hysterical and gifted comedians in recent memory’ and Lindsey reached the finals of the British Comedian of the Year, Funny Women as well as semi-finalist at the BBC New Comedy Awards and Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year. Lindsey has been on Channel 4’s The Joy of Missing Out, BBC Radio 4’s Elephant in the Room with Sarah Millican and on Comedy Central Live. Recently, Lindsey has been seen supporting Russell

Jul 13, 2023 • 52:44

Ep. 304 - Ashley Blaker

Ashley Blaker is a comedian, writer and producer best known as the producer of Little Britain, the huge sketch comedy series by Matt Lucas and David Walliams. He also worked with Matt and David Rock Profile and co-created and co-wrote The Matt Lucas Awards, with Matt Lucas. He has his own radio 4 series, Ashley Blaker: 6.5 children with series 2 starting soon. As a stand up he’s performed all over the world, including off broadway and the Edinburgh Fringe where he’ll soon be seen again prior to

Jul 9, 2023 • 1:01:19

Ep. 303 - Laura Lexx

Laura Lexx is a stand up comedian and writer best known for her appearances on Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo, Hypothetical, Celebrity Mastermind and Roast Battle on Comedy Central. She’s was a finalist at the 2016 Amused Moose Comedy Awards, won Best performer in the Comedian’s Choice award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2018 and was in the top 10 of Dave’s Funniest Jokes of the Fringe that year. She was the comedian’s choice again at the 2019 Chortle awards. She’s been a guest on Richard Herrin

Jul 6, 2023 • 1:01:29

Ep. 302 - Jim Howick

Jim Howick is best know for playing the Scout Master Ghost, Pat, in the BBC One sitcom Ghosts which he co-created and co-writes. The same team stared in the hugely popular kid’s show Horrible Histories, created the Sky1 comedy Yonderland and the film Bill, a comedy based loosely around the early life of William Shakespeare. Jim was also Gerard in Peep Show, Gerry in Danny Boyle's Babylon and Anthony in the revival of Reggie Perrin. Jim stars in the Netflix series&nb

Jul 2, 2023 • 54:04

Ep. 301 - John Fenton-Stevens

BONUS EPISODE as part of our 300 episodes celebration week!John Fenton-Stevens is Mike's son BUT he is also the producer and editor of the multi-million downloaded podcast, My Time Capsule which has been 'Podcast Of The Week' in The Times, The Guardian and The Radio Times. He has run the music production company Pass The Peas Music since 2005 and has written and produced music for multiple worldwide advertising campaigns including for Land Rover, BMW, Nintendo, L'Oreal and the Home Office. He wa

Jun 29, 2023 • 1:11:34

Ep. 300 - Dave Gorman (LIVE at Kite Festival)

EPISODE 300!! For this milestone we have a very special guest in a very special episode that was recorded LIVE in-front of 1,200 people at Kite Festival in Oxfordshire!Dave Gorman started stand-up in 1990 and after a few years on the circuit, started writing on shows like The Fast Show and the Mrs Merton Show. Dave became known to a wider audience with the success of his show Are You Dave Gorman? Which was made into a BBC Two series, The Dave Gorman Collection, and a best-selling book. His other

Jun 25, 2023 • 1:00:28

Ep. 299 - Bridget Christie

Bridget Christie is a stand-up comedian, actor and writer who won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show with her show A Bic For Her, in 2013. In 2019 the show was named as one of The Times comedy shows of the decade. Her own comedy drama, The Change is currently on Channel 4. Bridget was a contestant in series 13 of Taskmaster and has also been on Have I Got News For You, QI, Harry Hill’s Alien Fun Capsule, It’s Kevin - with Kevin Eldon and Dilemma. Her award winning BBC Radio 4 series’

Jun 22, 2023 • 53:42

Ep. 298 - Deirdre O’Kane

Deirdre O’Kane is an Irish stand up comedian, actor and film maker. A household name in Ireland, she hosted her own primetime Saturday night talk show “Deirdre O’Kane Talks Funny” on RTÉ One, reached the final of Dancing with the Stars, she hosts the Irish Film and Television Academy Awards, is the voice of Gogglebox in Ireland, had her own standup comedy series “The Deirdre O’Kane Show” and appeared as a judge alongside Boy George, on the new talent show The Big Deal. She is a six-time Irish Fi

Jun 18, 2023 • 57:12

Ep. 297 - Amy Gledhill

Amy Gledhill is a comedian, actor and writer who was the first person to be nominated for Best Newcomer AND Best Show at The Edinburgh Fringe. Her show, The Girl Before The Girl You Marry was also nominated for Best Live Show at The National Comedy Awards. On TV she’s been on The Jonathan Ross Show, Pointless Celebrities, Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled, Richard Ayoade's Question Team, Hypothetical,The Stand Up Sketch Show, Late Night Mash, Harry Hill’s Clubnite, Comedy Central

Jun 15, 2023 • 57:01

Ep. 296 - Paul Clayton

Paul Clayton is and actor, director and writer best known for playing Olivia Colman’s dad in the comedy Peep Show with David Mitchell and Robert Webb. He also played Graham, in the comedy Him & Her with Russel Tovey, Sarah Solimani, Kerry Howard and Joe Wilkinson. He’s about to star in the new Disney+ series of The Full Monty starting the original cast, plus Paul as Dennis! Other TV appearances include. television appearances include One Foot in the Grave, Drop the Dead Donkey, Doctor Who,

Jun 11, 2023 • 56:30

Ep. 295 - Jake Lambert

Jake Lambert is a stand-up comedian who has been tour support for some of the biggest names in comedy including Michael McIntyre, Jack Dee, Seann Walsh, Kerry Godliman, Tom Allen, Rob Beckett, and Romesh Ranganathan. He was a 2015 semi-finalist in the BBC New Comedy Award, Magners New Comedian of the Year, English Comedian of the Year, Leicester Mercury New Act of the Year and a finalist in Amused Moose Comedy Awards in 2016. As a writer he’s written for The Ranganation, The Apprentice: You’re F

Jun 8, 2023 • 54:11

Ep. 294 - Stuart Goldsmith

Stuart Goldsmith is an actor, stand-up comedian and former street performer. He has presented The Comedian's Comedian podcast since 2012, where in each episode he interviews a comedian about how they approach their profession. On it he’s spoken with over 400 comedians like Jimmy Carr, James Acaster, Stewart Lee, Sarah Millican, Sindhu Vee and Russell Howard. Stuart began in street theatre where he "walked the tightrope eating a packet of crisps". He came second in the St

Jun 4, 2023 • 1:17:45

Ep. 293 - RIOPY

RIOPY is a French pianist and composer whose album Tree of Light reached No.1 on the US Billboard Classical Album chart and continued in the top 10 for 70 weeks. He features on Lana Del Rey’s latest album with a song she wrote over the track of one of RIOPY’s most popular compositions, Flo. RIOPY grew up in an oppressive religious cult, where contact with the outside world was forbidden and all music and television was banned. On a chance visit to a doctor, RIOPY found h

Jun 1, 2023 • 55:26

Ep. 292 - Nina Wadia

Nina Wadia OBE is best known from the ground braking sketch show Goodness Gracious Me alongside Sanjeev Bhaskar, Meera Syal and Kulvinder Ghir and as Zainab Massood in Eastenders for 6 years. She’s also been in the Jasper Carrot sitcom All About Me, 2 Point 4 Children, The Vicar of Dibley, Holby City, Skins, Chambers, Waking the Dead, Citizen Khan, Death in Paradise, Doctor Who, Finding Fatima, Still Open All Hours, Murder in Mind, Doctors and New Tricks. She also been in the films Bend it like

May 28, 2023 • 49:02

Ep. 291 - Anita Harris

Anita Harris is a singer and actress who is one of the biggest stars of the 60s, 70s and 80s and is still performing today. Her huge hit song Just Loving You was suggested for Anita by Dusty Springfield and written by Dusty’s brother. As an actress she was in the film Carry On Doctor, Casualty, French and Saunders, Midsummer Murders and her own one-woman show. In the 1970’s she was the assistant to the TV magician David Nixon on his TV shows, as well as performing in the Royal Variety performanc

May 25, 2023 • 58:47

Ep. 290 - Cally Beaton

Cally Beaton is a stand-up comedian best known for her regular appearances on QI and The Apprentice: You’re Fired, as well as featuring on Live At The Apollo, Pointless Celebrities, Richard Osman’s House of Games and The Blame Game. Cally only started her stand-up career at the age of 45 having perviously held senior management positions at some of the biggest media companies in the world - she was Senior Vice President at the US studio giant ViacomCBS, but she quickly cemented her position as o

May 21, 2023 • 55:30

Ep. 289 - Sam Teskey (The Teskey Brothers)

Sam Teskey is founding member of the Grammy nominated Australian blues and soul band, The Teskey Brothers, alongside his brother Josh. Their debut album, Half Mile Harvest, was nominated for Best Blues and Roots Album at the 2018 ARIA Awards. They followed up with the album Run Home Slow in 2019, which debuted at #2 on the Australian Albums Chart and was nominated for seven ARIA Awards. Their new album, The Winding Way will be released in June and it’s first single, Oceans of Emotions is out now

May 18, 2023 • 53:22

Ep. 288 - Eric Whitacre

Eric Whitacre is a Grammy Award-winning composer and conductor. Eric’s debut album as a conductor, Light and Gold, went straight to the top of the charts, earning him a Grammy. His works are played worldwide and his ground-breaking Virtual Choirs have united 100,000 singers from more than 145 countries over the last decade. Eric has worked with legendary Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer, co-composing the mermaids theme for the Pirates of the Caribbean and music for Batman v Superman: Daw

May 14, 2023 • 51:49

Ep. 287 - Amanda Wakeley

Amanda Wakeley is one of the UK’s top fashion designers having designed for Princess Diana, Harvey Nichols, Elizabeth Hurley, Jennifer Lopez and Queen Rania of Jordan, amongst many other celebrity clients. Amanda was a great influence on Princess Diana, providing her with many of her most iconic outfits, including the bottle-green executive suit she wore when she resigned from public life in 1993. She has her own podcast, Amanda Wakeley: StyleDNA, where each week a celebrity guest reveals their

May 11, 2023 • 39:07

Ep. 286 - Matthew Crosby

Matthew Crosby is a comedian, broadcaster and TV writer who can be heard every Sunday morning on Radio X co-hosting the Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby Show. He’s worked with some of the biggest names in comedy - James Acaster, Noel Fielding, Bradley Walsh, Richard Ayoade, Matt Lucas, Sara Pascoe and Harry Hill. He writes for Great British Bake Off, Channel 4’s The Last Leg, 8/10 Cats Does Countdown, BBC's Blankety Blank, Matt Lucas’ Reasons To Be Cheerful and The John Bish

May 7, 2023 • 1:10:44

Ep. 285 - Ria Lina

Ria Lina is a comedian, actress and writer known for her appearances on Live At The Apollo, Have I Got News For You, Mock The Week, The Last Leg and The Now Show - and in November was named as one of The Evening Standard’s ‘Hottest Comedians You Should Be Watching Now’. She has written and presented her own Channel 4 documentary that revealed the truth behind the myths that surround East Asian women in Britain and is a regular pundit on Sky News, BBC News, Times Radio and Tal

May 4, 2023 • 53:27

Ep. 284 - Matt Forde

Matt Forde is a comedian, writer, actor, broadcaster, podcaster and impersonator who is one of the countries most sought after satirist, having performed in sold out theatres all over the country and at the Edinburgh festival. He’s been on the Royal Variety Show, Have I Got News For You, Mock the Week, 8 out of 10 Cats, and Jon Richardson Grows Up as well as a guest on Newsnight and Question Time. He hosted the political satire television series Unspun on Dave for four seasons. Matt has co-writt

Apr 30, 2023 • 1:05:22

Ep. 283 - Bilal Zafar

Bilal Zafar is a stand up comedian, actor and writer who was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe 2016 and won the Hackney Empire New Act Award in the same year. He has taken 3 solo shows to Edinburgh and toured them around the UK including runs at London’s Soho Theatre. As a writer, Bilal created and performed his own stand up special for BBC radio 4, is one of the lead writers on Sketchtopia on BBC Radio 4 and written articles for the Guardian and the Independent. As an actor he

Apr 27, 2023 • 51:30

Ep. 282 - David Morrissey (Live at Ink Festival)

Our 3 year anniversary episode! Recorded live at Ink Festival in Suffolk with the actor David Morrissey. David is possibly best known for his roles as the Governor in the American series The Walking Dead, State of Play for which he was nominated for a BAFTA and the RTS winning and BAFTA nominated drama Sherwood. Other TV and film credits include Inside No.9, The League of Gentlemen, Good Omens, The Missing, The Driver, The Field of Blood, The Hollow Crown, Blitz, the film Nowhere Boy about the y

Apr 23, 2023 • 58:11

Ep. 281 - Gabrielle Glaister

Gabrielle Glaister is probably best known for playing Patricia Farnham in Brookside and Trish Wallace in Family Affairs. She was also Kate or “Bob” in several episodes of Blackadder and has had notable roles in other British television shows including Upstart Crow, Sherlock, Unforgotten, Law and Order UK, New Tricks, Coronation Street, Doctors and Hilary Benshaw in Emmerdale. Gabrielle has appeared in several films, including Buddy’s Song with Roger Daltrey and Chesney Hawks that spawn

Apr 20, 2023 • 42:41

Ep. 280 - Jon Ronson

Jon Ronson is a British journalist, author and documentary maker best known for his books The Men Who Stare at Goats and The Psychopath Test. The Men Who Stare at Goats was also adapted into a feature film starring George Clooney. Other books include So You've Been Publicly Shamed and Them: Adventures with Extremists. He wrote the screenplay for the feature film Frank staring Michael Fassbender, inspired by his time as the keyboard player in Frank Sidebottom's band. He also co-wrote the screenpl

Apr 16, 2023 • 1:21:14

Ep. 279 - Mina Anwar

Mina Anwar is best known for playing PC Maggie Habib in the sitcom The Thin Blue Line by Ben Elton staring Rowan Atkinson. She was also in the film Infidel, with Omid Djalili and Matt Lucas, Razzledazzle, Shameless, Upstart Crow, The Invisibles, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Scoop, 106 episodes of House of Anubis, Happy Valley, In the Club, Marley’s Ghost, The Worst Witch, Terms and Conditions and Doctor Who. In 2017 she originated the role of Ray in the new musical Everybody’s Talking About J

Apr 13, 2023 • 57:59

Ep. 278 - Jamie Morton (My Dad Wrote A Porno)

Jamie Morton hosts the enormous worldwide hit podcast My Dad Wrote A Porno, with James Cooper and Alice Levine, where, every episode, Jamie reads a chapter of Belinda Blinked, an amateur erotic novel series written by his father under the pen name Rocky Flintstone and they all react to it! It has been downloaded over 440 million times, it’s been an HBO comedy special and has been performed live all over the world, from the Edinburgh Fringe to Montreal’s Just for Laughs c

Apr 9, 2023 • 54:07

Ep. 277 - Gordon Kennedy

Gordon Kennedy is probably best known for the Channel 4 comedy series Absolutely, which aired from 1989 to 1993 which he co-stared in, co-wrote and produced. The BBC radio series of Absolutely is now available as a three series audiobook. Gordon co-hosted the original National Lottery show alongside Anthea Turner and in the late 90s, he was cast in the role of Little John in the BBC's hit series Robin Hood. He has appeared in a variety of shows, including as Sergeant Bruce Hornsby in the BB

Apr 6, 2023 • 58:48

Ep. 276 - Iain Lee

Iain Lee is an award winning radio and television presenter who started on The 11 O’Clock Show on Channel 4 which was also the starting point for comedians such as Ricky Gervais and Sacha Baron Cohen. His extensive radio work includes shows on Xfm, LBC and Absolute Radio. He won a Radio Academy Award in 2014 for breakfast show of the year, moved to talkRadio in 2016 winning the audio and radio industry award for best speech presenter, which he won again in 2020 this time for Moment of the Year f

Apr 2, 2023 • 1:24:00

Ep. 275 - John Archer

John Archer is a magician, comedian, actor and writer who is a member of the Magic Circle’s Inner Magic Circle and is a past winner of the Magic Circle Stage Magician of the Year competition. In 2019 John reached the semi-final of Britain's Got Talent and he was the first magician to successfully “fool” Penn & Teller on Penn & Teller: Fool Us. John has written for many TV shows including the BAFTA winning The Sketch Show and has appeared on such programmes as BAFTA winner Help! My Supply Teacher

Mar 30, 2023 • 47:02

Ep. 274 - Tony Way

Tony Way is best known as Lenny, the photographer, in Ricky Gervais’s After Life and Ser Dontos Hollard in Game of Thrones. Other TV appearances include The Fast Show, The Eleven O’Clock Show, Bang Bang it’s Reeves and Mortimer, Spaced, Randall and Hopkirk, Black Books, My Family, Extras, The Wall, Shooting Stars, Mongrels, Sherlock, Derek, Doctor Who, Not Going Out, Pompidou, Inside No.9, Murder in Successville, Collateral, and Mandy. On film he’s been in Ali G Indahouse, Finding Neverland, The

Mar 26, 2023 • 1:04:36

Ep. 273 - Annabelle Dowler

Annabelle Dowler is best known for playing Kirsty, in the long running Radio 4 drama, The Archers, that she has played since 1999. On TV she’s been in such shows as The Suspect, Sense8 on Netflix, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, playing Catherine of Aragon, Lewis, The Suspect, Breaking Silence, Brexit - The Uncivil War, Mother’s Day, Doctor Who and the film Suffragette with Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter and Meryl Streep. Annabelle is the voice and augmented computer body, of May in the BAFTA

Mar 24, 2023 • 49:13

Ep. 272 - Catherine Tyldesley

Catherine Tyldesley is an actor best known for playing Iris Moss in the BBC drama, Lillies, Eva Price on Coronation Street from 2011 to 2018 and Karen Norris in the BBC One sitcom Scarborough co-starring Jason Manford. She was a contestant on the 17th series of Strictly Come Dancing with her partner Johannes Radebe. She has been nominated for the British Soap awards, Inside Soap awards and the TV Choice awards 12 times. Catherine has also been in Holby City, No Angels, Sorted, Florence Nightinga

Mar 20, 2023 • 44:43

Ep. 271 - Sally Hodgkiss

Sally Hodgkiss is an award-winning actor, writer and comedian. Sally performs regularly on the comedy circuit, most recently as a guest with the legendary Comedy Store Players. She’s performed with Whose Line is it Anyway - Live and The Stephen Frost Impro Allstars. Her acting career has taken her to many theatres around the UK including the Manchester Royal Exchange, Sheffield Crucible, Octagon Theatre Bolton, HOME, and Theatre Royal Plymouth&nb

Mar 17, 2023 • 53:00

Ep. 270 - David Earl

David Earl is an actor and comedian famous for his brilliant comedy character, Brian Gittens, which he plays in several Ricky Gervais projects; Derek, Extras, the film Cemetery Junction and the world wide Netflix smash hit, After Life. David works regularly with his After Life co-star, Joe Wilkinson and together they co-wrote and starred in the sitcom Rovers and the comedy series The Cockfields. David co-wrote and starred in the Film 4 feature film Brian and Charles where, as

Mar 13, 2023 • 58:39

Ep. 269 - Sian Reese-Williams

Welsh actor Sian Reese-Williams is probably best known for playing Detective Inspector Cadi John in Hidden, a bilingual crime drama for BBC Wales and BBC Four which ran for three very successful series. She played the role of Gennie Walker in Emmerdale from 2008-13. In 2016, she featured in series 3 of the critically acclaimed Welsh crime drama Hinterland and in 2017, she starred in series 3 of the BAFTA award-winning 35 Diwrnod for S4C. Sia

Mar 10, 2023 • 51:15

Ep. 268 - Zoe Lyons

Zoe Lyons is standup comedian and writer best known for her regular appearances on TV and radio in shows such as Mock The Week, The News Quiz, Live At The Apollo, Alan Davies As Yet Untitled, Just A Minute, Celebrity Mastermind, Michael McIntyre Roadshow, Celebrity University Challenge, The Now Show and 8 Out of 10 Cats. She won the Funny Women Competition in 2004 and her debut Edinburgh show was nominated for the Perrier Award. In 2008 she won the Dave, Funniest Joke of The Fringe Award.Zoe Lyo

Mar 6, 2023 • 44:32

Ep. 267 - Kerry Howard

Kerry Howard is a BAFTA nominated actor who is best known for playing Laura in the BAFTA award-winning BBC sitcom Him and Her alongside Russel Tovey, Sarah Solemani and Joe Wilkinson. She had her first big break in the BBC remake of sitcom Reggie Perrin, played the lead ‘Leanne’ in three series of Witless for BBC Three and played the title role in Young Hyacinth for BBC One. Other television credits include Ted Lasso, The Outlaws, The Trouble With Maggie Cole, Finding Joy, Murder in Successville

Mar 3, 2023 • 53:11

Ep. 266 - Tom Read Wilson

Actor and singer Tom Read Wilson started his career when he auditioned for The Voice back in 2016 giving an incredible rendition of Accentuate the Positive. This led to him becoming the hilarious receptionist on Celebs Go Dating. Tom has written two books on etymology, one for children called every word tells a story and On the tip of my tongue, for adults. He won Celebrity Mastermind, was 2nd on Celebrity Best Home Cook to Ed balls and has appeared on a multitude of shows such as Michael Macint

Feb 27, 2023 • 53:27

Ep. 265 - Steve Steen

Steve Steen is a comedian and actor best known for his appearances on Whose Line Is It Anyway and as a member of the world famous improvisational comedy group, The Comedy Store Players. He, for many years, worked with another of our guests, Jim Sweeney. They joined Oval House Theatre Club in 1972 where they first started doing improv together. By the 1980’s they were performing on TV in the ITV children’s show CBTV, in Little Armadillos, one of Channel 4’s first comedies and played Byron and Col

Feb 24, 2023 • 53:41

Ep. 264 - Gordon Buchanan

Gordon Buchanan is a Scottish wildlife filmmaker and television presenter, who has been responsible for some of the most iconic moments in numerous wildlife documentaries, such as filming big cats for Big Cat Diary, grey seals and foxes for Springwatch and his “...and me” documentary series, including The Bear Family & Me, The Polar Bear Family & Me, Snow Wolves, Gorillas, Elephants, Tribes, Reindeers, Grizzly Bear Cubs, Snow Cats and The Cheetah Family and Me. Gordon has been a guest presenter

Feb 20, 2023 • 58:28

Ep. 263 - John Altman (film composer)

John Altman is a BAFTA and EMMY winning film composer, arranger and musician. His feature films include the award-winning Little Voice, he wrote all the period music for Titanic, the classic tank chase in Goldeneye, he arranged Always Look on the Bright Side of Life from The Life Of Brian, RKO281 (EMMY winner), Hear My Song (BAFTA winner), Shall We Dance starring Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez, Funny Bones, Vendetta, Breaking Through starring Diane Keaton, Hope Springs starring Colin Firth, Min

Feb 17, 2023 • 39:32

Ep. 262 - David Ames

David Ames is best known for playing Dominic Copeland in Holby City from 2013 to 2022. David has also appeared on TV in He Kills Coppers with Rafe Spall, the first Doctor Who episode to be filmed in HD, Planet of the Dead, which featured David Tennent as Dr Who, and has recently appeared on stage in the title role of Steve at the Seven Dials Playhouse and as Tim in Horse Play at the Riverside Studios in London.David Ames is guest number 262 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens

Feb 13, 2023 • 57:15

Ep. 261 - Lorelei King

Lorelei King is one of the most successful and accomplished American actresses working in the UK today. She has appeared in numerous film and TV shows including Alien Covenant, Notting Hill, The Saint, Cold Feet, Jam, Birds of a Feather, Chef, Alistair McGowan's Big Impression, Emmerdale Jonathan Creek, Not Going Out, The Robinsons and Monarch of the Glen. She’s also various voices in the American version of Bob The Builder. Described as ‘the best known American voice on Radio 4’, Lorelei h

Feb 10, 2023 • 55:08

Ep. 260 - Caitlin O’Ryan

Caitlin O’Ryan is an actor who is best known from the international smash hit TV series, Outlander, where she plays series regular, Lizzie Wemyss, the handmaid. Caitlin is a graduate of The Oxford School of Drama, which has produced many top actors. Outlander was her professional debut but in her final year at drama school she appeared in The Lights at The Royal Court and followed this with If and When at Soho Theatre, directed by Blythe Stewart. Caitlin is also a performance poet, often headlin

Feb 6, 2023 • 58:50

Ep. 259 - Tommy Cannon

Tommy Cannon was one half of the legendary comic double act, Cannon and Ball, until his friend and partner, Bobby Ball’s sad death in 2020. Cannon and Ball’s prime time Saturday night television series, the Cannon and Ball Show, was one of ITV’s most successful series, it ran for twelve years with audiences often as high as twenty million viewers. They even made their own film, The Boys In Blue, in 1982. Tommy and Bobby went on to make their own games show, appeared in the fifth series of I’m a

Feb 3, 2023 • 27:19

Ep. 258 - Mark Simmons

One liner comedian Mark Simmons, is probably best known for his multiple appearances on the satirical comedy show, Mock the Week. He was voted the best act by UK Comics’ Comic 2022 and was included in Dave’s top 10 jokes at the Edinburgh Fringe. His Edinburgh show, One linerer, was a sell out hit in 2017 and he followed it up with One Linererer, which was also a sell out. He’s had his own UK tours and has also been tour support for Seann Walsh, Rob Beckett and Rob Brydon and supported Michael Mc

Jan 30, 2023 • 1:01:39

Ep. 257 - Ronnie Golden

Ronnie Golden is a musician, composer, and stand up comedian. Ronnie started as a teenage guitarist, opening shows for Tom Jones, Scott Walker and Engelbert Humperdinck. He worked with David Bowie in his Beckenham Arts Lab days then went on to form the cult new wave group, Fabulous Poodles who outsold both The Clash and The Jam in America in the early 80’s. After that he was doing stand-up as a member of the Comic Strip with regulars Rik Mayall, Ben Elton, Fren

Jan 27, 2023 • 52:17

Ep. 256 - Neil Delamere

Neil Delamere is an award winning Irish comedian. He makes regular appearances on BBC Radio 4 on The News Quiz, The Now Show and The Unbelievable Truth as well as Fighting Talk on BBC 5Live. He’s one of the biggest comics working on the Irish scene with huge sell out tours and having presenting numerous shows on RTE including Neil Delamere’s Just For Laughs, Eureka, The Big Bang Query, and Republic of Tele. He’s also appears on Richard Osman’s House of Games, Celebrity Chase, Countdown, Celebrit

Jan 23, 2023 • 1:03:54

Ep. 255 - Rachel Fairburn

Rachel Fairburn is a stand up comedian and podcaster who was featured in Chortle’s ‘One to Watch’ list in 2020. She has been a finalist of several prestigious comedy competitions including Funny Women, City Life Comedian of the Year, the NATYS and English Comedian of the Year. Rachel is co-host of the worldwide smash hit podcast All Killa No Filla, which he hosts with her friend Kiri Pritchard McLean. With a huge international following of over a quarter of a million listeners and growing, they’

Jan 20, 2023 • 54:48

Ep. 254 - Jim Sweeney

Jim Sweeney is a member of the world famous improvisational group the Comedy Store Players, with other members including Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Neil Mullarkey, Richard Vranch, Sandi Toksvig and Jeremy Hardy with many celebrity guests such as Eddie Izzard, Caroline Quentin, Phil Jupitus, Greg Proops and Mike Myers. He’s been in Who's Line Is It Anyway?, Blackadder, One Foot In the Grave, Kiss Me Kate, and on radio was in Just a Minute, All the Young Dudes and the improvised comedy, The Mast

Jan 16, 2023 • 1:04:15

Ep. 253 - Cliff Parisi

Cliff Parisi is best known for playing Minty Peterson in Eastenders for 8 years and Fred Buckle in the multi award winning BBC drama, Call the Midwife. Other notable credits include Bit of Fry and Laurie, KYTV, The Darling Buds of May, The Upper Hand, London’s Burning, Drop the Dead Donkey, Kavanagh QC, Pie in the Sky, A Prince Among Men, The Saint, Paul Merton in Galton and Simpson’s…., Kiss me Kate, Casualty, Waking the Dead, The Bill, Hollyoaks, Outnumbered and Plebs, amongst many more.

Jan 13, 2023 • 35:07

Ep. 252 - Shaun Keaveny

Shaun Keaveny presented the Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 6 Music for 11 years, and the Afternoon Show for a further 3 years. He started his radio career on XFM London and has stood in for a range of presenters on BBC Radio 2 including Liza Tarbuck and currently Johnnie Walker. He has his own podcast, The Line-Up, about people's dream festival line-up. His book R2D2 Lives in Preston is a compilation of little known facts relating to various towns throughout the UK. Shaun Keaveny is guest

Jan 9, 2023 • 55:07

Ep. 251 - Ted Robbins

Ted Robbins is a comic and actor, best know for playing Den Perry in Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights and Tony Cluedo, the singer of Crème Brulee in The League of Gentlemen. He was also in the film Calendar Girls, Little Britain, loads of episodes of the children’s show The Slammer as the Governor, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Chucklevision, Benidorm, Bad Education with Jack Whitehall, Coronation Street as Brendan Finch, Diddy TV, Birds of a Feather, Father Brown and Shakespeare and Hath

Jan 6, 2023 • 1:16:34

Ep. 250 - Sir Tony Robinson

Tony Robinson is best known for playing Baldrick in the BBC sitcom, Blackadder and the archaeological show Time Team on Channel 4 for 20 years. He wrote and stared in the BAFTA winning children's comedy series Maid Marian and her Merry Men which ran for four series. Tony has also written 16 children’s books, and is the voice of the audio versions of all of Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels. He was knighted in the 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours for his public and political service. Tony Robin

Jan 2, 2023 • 59:38

Best Of My Time Capsule 2022 - Part 3

The best of My Time Capsule from our guests in 2022, part 3. Featuring Danny Baker, Dara Ó Briain, Gail Porter, Hugh Dennis, Billy Boyd, Linford Christie, Michel Roux Jr, Patrick Stevens, Danny Robins, David Gower, Maggie Ollerenshaw, Siân Berry, Joe Wilkinson, Mark Bonnar and Joe Pasquale.Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast

Dec 30, 2022 • 1:04:14

Best Of My Time Capsule 2022 - Part 2

The best of My Time Capsule from our guests in 2022, part 2. Featuring Harry Hill, Nicola Stephenson, Jess Thom, John Torode, Jason Byrne, Chesney Hawkes, Jim Piddock, Mike Grady, Josh Bolt, Sian Harries, Joanna Scanlan, Mathew Baynton and Tim Healy.Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass The Peas

Dec 29, 2022 • 57:49

Best Of My Time Capsule 2022 - Part 1

The best of My Time Capsule from our guests in 2022. Featuring Harry Hill, Dara Ó Briain, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Fern Britton, Joe Pasquale, Freddie Davies, Jim Piddock, Cheryl Baker, Richard Pitman, Graham Fellows, Catherine Russell, Jeremy Dyson and Toyah Willcox.Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass

Dec 28, 2022 • 53:11

My Christmas Time Capsule 2022 - Part 2

Some of our guests from 2022 have kindly come back to say what they'd put in their Christmas time capsule! Part 2 features Joe Pasquale, Nick Helm, Sarah Greene, Jeremy Dyson, Rob Rouse, Catherine Russell, Tim Downie, Graham Fellows, Jonny Weldon and Gary Sinyor.Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by P

Dec 24, 2022 • 1:09:48

My Christmas Time Capsule 2022 - Part 1

Some of our guests from 2022 have kindly come back to say what they'd put in their Christmas time capsule! Featuring Cheryl Baker, Nicola Stephenson, Joe Pasquale, Fern Britton, Jim Piddock, Mike Grady, Josh Bolt, Nicola Bryant, Michael Simkins and Freddie Davies.Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by

Dec 23, 2022 • 1:06:02

My Christmas Time Capsule from 2021 - Part 2

Part 2 of My Christmas Time Capsule from 2021, where few of our guests from 2021 choose what they'd put into a Christmas time capsule! Featuring Sanjeev Bhaskar, Isy Suttie, Rory McGrath, Katy Brand, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Charlie Higson, Paul Burke, Les Dennis, John O'Farrell, Robin Ince and Bonnie Langford. Merry Christmas!! .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and ed

Dec 19, 2022 • 1:08:16

My Christmas Time Capsule from 2021 - Part 1

Part 1 of My Christmas Time Capsule from 2021! Featuring Clive Anderson, Eilidh Doyle, Andrew Hunter Murray, Lisa Riley, Ken Bruce, Gary Wilmot, Fred MacAulay, Kate Thornton, Derren Litten and Emma Kennedy .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass The Peas Music .Artwork by Matthew Boxall .This podc

Dec 19, 2022 • 1:00:52

A Christmas Carol - A Gift For Our Listeners

A Christmas gift for all our listeners: it's A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, read by our host, Michael Fenton Stevens!! Feel free to delete if it's not your thing but we hope you enjoy it. Merry Christmas!Thank you to Spoken World Audio for allowing us to put this out.Follow Spoken World Audio on Twitter: @Spoken_WorldFollow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Get bonus episo

Dec 18, 2022 • 3:11:39

My Christmas Time Capsule from 2020 - Part 2

Part 2 of the best bits from our 2020 My Christmas Time Capsule episodes! Featuring Stephen Fry, Lucy Porter, John Challis, Tony Hawks, Rufus Hound, Marcus Brigstocke & Rachel Parris, Anthony Head, Janet Ellis, Rick Wakeman, Anneka Rice, Paul Mayhew-Archer and Griff Rhys Jones. Merry Christmas!Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for

Dec 16, 2022 • 1:00:48

My Christmas Time Capsule from 2020 - Part 1

A compilation of the best bits from our 2020 My Christmas Time Capsule episodes! Featuring Arthur Smith, Rebecca Front, Andy Hamilton, Mark Watson, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Jan Ravens, Kevin McNally, Anthony Head, Ellie White plus Anna Ptaszynski, Dan Schreiber & Andrew Hunter Murray from the podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Merry Christmas!Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Prod

Dec 16, 2022 • 53:29

Ep. 249 - Rick Edwards

Rick Edwards is a presenter, journalist, DJ and author. He presents the BBC Radio 5 Live breakfast show which he has co-hosted with Rachel Burden since 2011. He presents The Courtship on NBC in America, a reality television dating game show. Rick’s early career includes being a presenter on Channel 4’s T4 alongside Jameela Jamil and Nick Grimshaw. During the 2012 Paralympics he was part of Channel 4’s commentary team. He writes regular columns for the Observer, The Evening Standard and the Huff

Dec 12, 2022 • 1:02:13

Ep. 248 - Olly Mann

Olly Mann is a broadcaster, writer, journalist and a forerunner in the world of podcasting. He co-hosted the Sony Award winning podcast Answer Me This! with Helen Zaltzman which had over 30 million downloads and ran from 2007 to 2021. Olly has presented hundreds of hours of radio, most recently as host of Radio 4's The Male Room and Four Thought. His documentary, ‘Podcasting: The First Ten Years’ aired on Radio 4, and for many years he was a weekly contributor to BBC 5 Live's 'Sat

Dec 9, 2022 • 50:19

Ep. 247 - Dirk Maggs

Known as “the Steven Spielberg of Audio”, multi award winning Dirk Maggs is one of the most influential people in the world of sound in drama, who has created some of the greatest audio productions ever made. Such as Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Superman, Batman, The Dark Knight, The Amazing Spiderman, Independence Day UK, An American Werewolf in London, Alien, The X-Files with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, Stephen Baxter’s Voyag

Dec 5, 2022 • 51:46

Ep. 246 - Patrick Stevens

Slightly different today, Patrick Stevens is Mike’s brother! But in his own right, Patrick was the Head of the International Division of the Crown Prosecution Service for 10 years working under Keir Starmer. Before that he was a Senior Counter Terrorism Prosecutor at the CPS for 6 years, starting two days after 9/11 and working on some of the biggest cases the UK has ever seen. He continues to work in international law and humans rights. Patrick Stevens is guest number 246 on My Time Capsule and

Dec 2, 2022 • 52:13

Ep. 245 - Joe Wilkinson

Comedian and actor Joe Wilkinson is best known for his hilarious regular appearances on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, as Pat the postman in Ricky Gervais’ After Life on Netflix and Dan in the incredible Him & Her. He’s also been in Live at the Apollo, a number of episodes of Have I Got News For You, Miranda, Derek, Taskmaster, Sex Education and Not Going Out. He was Star Baker on The Great British Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer. His daily podcast, Chatabix, which he does with his After Life

Nov 28, 2022 • 1:00:45

Ep. 244 - Sooz Kempner

Sooz Kempner is a stand up comedian, singer and twitter sensation who, over the last year, has gone viral on Twitter with her hilarious political videos playing Nadine Dories and Liz Truss. Some people have even credited her with helping to bring down Liz Truss. She won Best Newcomer at the Musical Comedy Awards in 2010, the Variety Award at the Funny Women Awards in 2012 and in 2014 she made her Edinburgh debut. She recently completed her eighth solo fringe hour, PlayStation. She graduated

Nov 25, 2022 • 46:27

Ep. 243 - Hugh Dennis

Comedian and actor Hugh Dennis is best known for his appearances in every episode of Mock the Week over the past 18 years, for his brilliant performance in the multi award winning comedy Outnumbered and for playing Toby in Lee Mack’s comedy, Not Going Out. He has co-hosted The Now Show on BBC Radio 4 with Steve Punt since 1998, now in it’s 61st series. He also worked with Steve Punt on The Mary Whitehouse Experience on BBC Radio and TV alongside David Baddiel and Rob Newman. Hugh Dennis is guest

Nov 21, 2022 • 56:15

Ep. 242 - Sian Berry

Sian Berry is the former leader of The Green Party. She was Co-Leader alongside Jonathan Bartley from 2018 to 2021 and its sole leader from July to October 2021. She is one of the Green Party’s representatives on the London Assembly, and has stood as the Green Party candidate in three London Mayoral elections. She is also a Green Party councillor on Camden Council, representing Highgate. Sian Berry is guest number 242 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton S

Nov 18, 2022 • 49:47

Ep. 241 - Sophie Aldred

Sophie Aldred Is best known for playing Ace, the companion to the 7th Doctor Who, played by Sylvester McCoy. A role that she reprised for Jodie Whittaker’s last episode as The Doctor in 2022. Sophie’s voice can be heard as Dennis The Menace in Dennis and Gnasher, the title character in Tree Fu Tom, Muck in Bob the Builder and Mrs Rabbit, Flopsy and Mopsy in Peter Rabbit. She was in Playdays, Rainbow and Jackanory and she’s worked in the theatre, in video games and made a number of films. Sophie

Nov 14, 2022 • 50:57

Ep. 240 - Lloyd Griffith

Lloyd Griffith is a comedian, actor, presenter and classically trained singer. As an actor you may have seen him in Ted Lasso, It’s A Sin, Infinite on Paramount, and Not Going Out. Lloyd fronted the BBC documentary ‘Can You Beat The Bookies?’ and he was co-host of Soccer AM on Sky Sports. You may also have seen him on 8 Out Of 10 Cats, House of Games, Jonathan Ross’ Comedy Club, Pointless Celebrities, Comedy Central Live at The Comedy Store, Roast Battle, Drunk History, Football’s Funniest Momen

Nov 11, 2022 • 52:10

Ep. 239 - Jon Culshaw

Jon Culshaw is one of the UK’s top impressionists. Best know for the show Dead Ringers which ran for 7 series on BBC2 and is now on it 22nd series on BBC Radio4. He stared in 3 series of BBC1’s The Impressions Show alongside Debra Stephenson and has also been in 3 series of Spitting Image, Radio 4’s The Secret World, The Impressionable Jon Culshaw, Parkinson, The Royal Variety Performance, The Graham Norton Show, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross,

Nov 7, 2022 • 53:07

Ep. 238 - Lizzie Roper

Lizzie Roper is an British actress who has appeared in 100 episodes of Hollyoaks as Sam Lomax, the sitcom The Worst Week of My Life with Ben Miller, Sarah Alexander, Alison Steadman and Geoffrey Whitehead, she played Roxanne in Family affairs, was in the film Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging, as well as the TV series Being Human, Him & Her, New Tricks, Waterloo Road, This is Jinsy, Shameless, Silent Witness, Call the Midwife, Dead Boss and Boy Meets Girl. In the West End she appeared with Chris

Nov 4, 2022 • 55:36

Ep. 237 - Danny Robins

Danny Robins is an award-winning writer, broadcaster and journalist. His podcast series, The Battersea Poltergeist, become the No 1 drama podcast in the world. It was made for the BBC and combined drama and documentary to tell a real-life ghost story, starring Toby Jones and Dafne Keen. Danny is now adapting it for TV with Hollywood producers Blumhouse. His latest drama, The Witch Farm starring Joseph Fiennes and Alexandra Roach is available on the BBC now. Danny’s new BBC podcast series Un

Oct 31, 2022 • 1:02:33

Ep. 236 - Charlie Baker

Charlie Baker is a comedian, actor, singer and presenter who most recently stared in Harry Hill’s new music, Tony The Music playing the title character of Tony Blair. Charlie is a regular presenter for TalkSport where he can be heard every Saturday and is a regular performer on The Last Leg. As an actor he’s been in Miranda, The IT Crowd, Richard Bacon’s Beer & Pizza Club, Eastenders, Doctors, Doctor Who and the film, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. He was a team captain on Channel 4’s panel gam

Oct 27, 2022 • 49:01

Ep. 235 - Rob Rouse

Rob Rouse is a comedian and actor best known for playing Bottom, in Ben Elton’s comedy series Upstart Crow, about the life of William Shakespeare, alongside David Mitchell, Harry Enfield, Mark Heap and Liza Tarbuck. Rob won Channel Four's prestigious 'So You Think You're Funny’ competition at the Edinburgh Festival in 1998 and has been a regular performer at major venues across the country and on TV, ever since. He has appeared in Grownups, The Law of the Playground, Coronation Street,

Oct 23, 2022 • 1:01:29

Ep. 234 - Gary Sinyor

Gary Sinyor is an award winning film-maker. His first feature film, Leon the Pig Farmer, won numerous awards, including the International Critics Prize at the Venice Film Festival, the London Critics Circle and Evening Standard Awards and the Chaplin Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival. His next 2 British films were Solitaire for 2 and Stiff Upper Lips before moving to the US to direct The Bachelor with Chris O'Donnell and Renée Zellweger. He subsequently retu

Oct 20, 2022 • 48:22

Ep. 233 - James Dreyfus

James Dreyfus is best known for playing Constable Goody in The Thin Blue Line alongside Rowan Atkinson and Tom in Gimme Gimme Gimme with Kathy Burke. He was in the film Notting Hill, playing Martin the bookseller alongside Hugh Grant, he starred opposite Bette Midler in the American sitcom Bette, and took over the role of Thermoman in the BBC comedy My Hero from Ardal O’Hanlon. James Dreyfus is guest number 233 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd lik

Oct 16, 2022 • 41:33

Ep. 232 - John Dowie

John Dowie is a British comedian, musician and writer who was a pioneer of alternative comedy and is credited with establishing observational humour as part of the new movement. He’s often called 'Britain's first alternative comedian’. He toured with and influenced another alternative pioneer, Victoria Wood. As well as writing songs and sketches with her, he is credited with helping her to develop her future trademark patter between songs. Dowie was among the inaugural acts on Tony Wilson's Fact

Oct 13, 2022 • 1:02:16

Ep. 231 - Nicola Bryant

Nicola Bryant is best known for playing Peri Brown, a companion to both the fifth Doctor, Peter Davison, and sixth Doctor, Colin Baker, in the BBC science fiction series, Doctor Who and Lana in Star Trek Continues. She also played the dance teacher in the school drama series The Biz, Miss Brown in The Stranger film series, she’s been in The 10%ers, Casualty, Doctors, Holby City, My Family, Scoop, New Blood, Gentrification and most recently she played Sandra in The Effect. Nic

Oct 9, 2022 • 52:27

Ep. 230 - Josh Jones

Standup comedian Josh Jones was nominated for best newcomer at this years Edinburgh Fringe. He’s a regular on TV in shows such as 8 Out of 10 Cats, Jonathan Ross’ Comedy Club, Ch5’s Goes Horribly Wrong series, Iain Stirling’s CelebAbility, E4’s Reality News and Comedy Central’s Undeniable. He is the host BBC Three’s Fast Food Face Off and hosts his own historical-gossip podcast Dead Drama. He was nominated for the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year, named one of Chortle.co.uk’s Ones to Watch, he

Oct 6, 2022 • 44:49

Ep. 229 - Danny Baker - Part 2

Danny Baker’s extremely varied career includes being a comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ, television presenter, advertising star and screenwriter. His credits are too long to list here but this extraordinary interview covers quite a bit! So much that we had to make it two parts. Danny Baker is guest number 229 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to th

Oct 2, 2022 • 1:13:26

Ep. 229 - Danny Baker - Part 1

Danny Baker’s extremely varied career includes being a comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ, television presenter, advertising star and screenwriter. His credits are too long to list here but this extraordinary interview covers quite a bit! So much, that we had to make it two parts. Danny Baker is guest number 229 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to t

Oct 2, 2022 • 1:16:47

Ep. 228 - Maggie Ollerenshaw

Maggie Ollerenshaw is best known for playing Mavis in the BBC sitcom Open All Hours with Ronnie Barker and David Jason, and it’s sequel, Still Open All Hours. She was in the films, A private Function with Michael Palin and Maggie Smith, played Mary Pierrepoint in in Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman with Timothy Spall as well as the film of War Horse. On TV, she’s been in The Little Match Girl, the lovely BBC sitcom Scarborough, in which she played Geraldine the owner of the hair salon, Last of the

Sep 29, 2022 • 36:48

Ep. 227 - Linford Christie

Linford Christie is one of the most successful British athletes of all time and still the British record holder for the 100m. In 1993 he was Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European champion, the only British male athlete to hold all titles at the same time, and he won the BBC’s Sports Personality in the same year. He was the first European athlete to break the 10-second barrier and is a former world indoor record holder over 200 metres, and a former European record holder in the 60 metres, 100

Sep 25, 2022 • 50:33

Ep. 226 - Sunny Ormonde

Sunny Ormonde has played Lillian Bellamy in The Archers on BBC Radio 4 for the past 22 years. She is a seasoned Radio Actress and has recorded well over 400 plays and short stories for the BBC. Sunny trained at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama and had many years in theatre preforming at the biggest theatres around the country. She has her own podcast, One Stiletto In The Grave, which she makes with her writer friend Jane James. Sunny Ormonde is guest number 226 on My Time Capsule and chat

Sep 22, 2022 • 52:30

Queen Elizabeth II - 1926-2022

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Sep 18, 2022 • 3:39

Ep. 225 - Eleanor Mills (live at Primadonna Festival)

Journalist Eleanor Mills was the Editorial Director of The Sunday Times and editor of The Sunday Times magazine until March 2020. She was the youngest ever features editor at the Daily Telegraph, aged just 26 and then joined the Sunday Times in 1998 where she was a columnist and interviewer, interrogating everyone from Mikhail Gorbachev to Sheryl Sandberg and Theresa May. She left The Sunday Times in 2020 and on 8 March 2021, International Women's Day, Mills launched Noon, an onli

Sep 15, 2022 • 54:39

Ep. 224 - Michel Roux Jr

Michel Roux Jr is an English-French two Michelin starred chef best known as the presenter of MasterChef The Professionals. He owns the world famous restaurant Le Gavroche, in London which he took over from his father Albert Roux and his uncle Michel Roux. Roux co-presented BBC Two's Food and Drink, was one of the mentors in the series The Chef's Protege, presented First Class Chefs for the Disney Channel, Kitchen Impossible with Michel Roux Jr for Channel 4 and his latest series, Michel Roux's F

Sep 11, 2022 • 39:50

Ep. 223 - Carla Mendonça

Carla Mendonça is an actor best known as Sophie Johnson in the children’s sitcom My Parents Are Aliens and Orla Crawshaw in Coronation Street. She also played Mrs Fitzgerald in the BBC series So Awkward, was in the films Hilary and Jackie and Common People, and has appeared in The Young Ones, The Lenny Henry Show, Pushing up Daisies, Coming Next, KYTV, Bottom, 32 episodes of Motormouth, French and Saunders, 26 episodes of The Legends of Treasure Island, Wycliffe, Smith and Jones, Harry Enfield a

Sep 8, 2022 • 50:57

Ep. 222 - Paul Chowdhry

Paul Chowdhry is a standup comedian and actor best known for his multiple appearances on Live at the Apollo, being a contestant on series three of Taskmaster and as the host of Channel 4’s Stand Up For The Week. He’s also been a guest on 8 out of ten Cats Does Countdown and The Russell Howard Hour. He was the first British Asian stand up to sell out Wembley Arena and his record breaking 2019 tour, Live Innit, was released as an Amazon Prime special in 200 countries. Paul Chowdhry is guest number

Sep 4, 2022 • 1:04:57

Ep. 221 - Richard Hope

Richard Hope is probably best known for playing Harris Pascoe in Poldark and Hooper, alongside Jeremy Irons in Brideshead Revisited. He’s appeared in dozens of films and on TV been in Lawrence Olivier Presents, Victoria Wood, Happy Families, The Bill, Boon, Peak Practise, Casualty, The Demon Headmaster, Midsomer Murders, Judge John Deed, The Forsyth Saga, Holby City, Foyle’s War, Murder City, Heartbeat, New Tricks, Silent Witness, Poirot, Doctor Who, Unforgotten, The Ipcress File and Gentleman J

Sep 1, 2022 • 50:11

Ep. 220 - David Gower

David Gower OBE was one of the greatest batsmen of all time. Between 1975 and and 1993 David scored 26,339 runs in first class cricket for England, Leicestershire and Hampshire. He hit 53 centuries and captained England to victory in the 1985 Ashes series. He holds the record of 119 consecutive innings without registering a duck (scoring zero runs) in Test cricket. Following his retirement from cricket he became a very successful and much loved commentator for BC, Sky Sports and BT Spo

Aug 28, 2022 • 51:00

Ep. 219 - Olaf Falafel

Olaf Falafel is a comedian, children’s author and illustrator who most recently had 2 jokes in Dave's top 10 funniest jokes of the Fringe festival 2022. He’d previously won it in 2019 with the joke "I keep randomly shouting out 'Broccoli' and 'Cauliflower' - I think I might have florets". Olaf is the author and illustrator of several kids books including the flatulent ‘Old MacDonald Heard A Parp’ trilogy, ‘It’s One Giant Leek For Mankind’ plus his latest books Blobfish and Trixie Pickle Art Aven

Aug 25, 2022 • 52:23

Ep. 218 - Michael Spicer

Michael Spicer is an actor and writer best known as a regular cast member of The Mash Report on BBC2 and for his online sketches called The Room Next Door where he plays a fictional adviser feeding lines into the earpieces of world leaders. These videos have amassed over 60 million views and have led to a book deal, a nationwide tour, a radio series and a regular slot on The Late Late Show with James Corden. Michael Spicer is guest number 218 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Steven

Aug 21, 2022 • 52:03

Ep. 217 - Jack Docherty

Jack Docherty is an actor, writer and chat show host probably best known for the comedy show Absolutely that he co-wrote and starred in and it’s spin off sitcom, Mr Don and Mr George which he starred in alongside his Absolutely colleague and friend, Moray Hunter. He played Ben Gary in the advertising sitcom, The Creatives, was in the sci-fi series The Strangerers on Sky and he appeared regularly in BBC3’s Badults. He plays Chief Commissioner Cameron Miekelson in BBC Scotland’s comedy Scot Squad.

Aug 18, 2022 • 50:19

Ep. 216 - Jake Canuso

Jake Canuso is best know for playing the flirtatious Spanish barman, Mateo Castellanos, in every episode of the ITV comedy, Benidorm. Jake is from Switzerland and began his career as a dancer, appearing in videos with and touring the world with Annie Lennox, Elton John, Take That and the Spice Girls. Jake’s acting career has included the films Kinky Boots, Flyboys, Journal of a Contract Killer, Nine, with Daniel Day Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz and Judi Dench, and The Dark Knight Rises wi

Aug 14, 2022 • 48:19

Ep. 215 - Ella Kenion

Ella Kenion is best known for playing Mrs Cakeworthy in the Only Fools and Horses spin-off, The Green Green Grass by John Sullivan. Ella also played the role of Julie in the ITV sitcom Hardware, with Martin Freeman, she was in 31 episodes of the CBeebies show Swashbuckle as Captain Sinker, 52 episodes of Q Pootle 5, and has played parts in Shakespeare & Hathaway, Warren, 101 Dalmatian Street, Detectorists, We Know Where You Live, New Tricks, Law and Order UK, Episodes, Cuckoo, Doctor Who, Black

Aug 11, 2022 • 50:51

Ep. 214 - Billy Boyd

Billy Boyd is best know for playing the hobbit Pippin Took in The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson's epic trilogy. He also played Barret Bonden in the film Master and Commander with Russel Crowe, and Gerald Forbes in the huge time travel adventure, Outlander. Billy started his acting career at St Andrews Rep and the Traverse theatre, before appearing in Taggart, the films Urban Ghost Story, Dorothy and the Witches of Oz, and The Hobbit; The Battle of the Five Armies, among others, and

Aug 7, 2022 • 57:33

Ep. 213 - Urzila Carlson

Urzila Carlson has become one of the biggest names in comedy in Australia and New Zealand. A television favourite in both countries, Urzila is a much-loved series regular on both the Australian and New Zealand versions of the award-winning comedy panel show Have You Been Paying Attention? In 2020, Urzila joined the panel of The Masked Singer Australia on Network Ten. She also released her standalone one hour Netflix stand-up special Overqualified Loser, which was released in 190 countries. A tou

Aug 4, 2022 • 44:02

Ep. 212 - Nick Helm

Nick Helm is a comedian, actor and writer best know for playing the lead role in the BBC Three sitcom, Uncle, and for playing Watto in Channel 4’s Loaded, as well as for his memorable appearances on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Russell Howard’s Good News and Celebrity Mastermind. He is a stand up legend having taken multi hit shows to The Edinburgh Fringe Festival and on tour around the world, including Keep Hold of the Gold, Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Award nominated Dare to Dream and the com

Jul 31, 2022 • 45:43

Ep. 211 - Jason Byrne

Jason Byrne is the Irish stand-up comedian described by the Times as “the outright king of live comedy”. He is a favourite of the stand-up circuit and is often the biggest selling comedian at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where he has been nominated for both the Perrier Newcomer Award and The Perrier Award itself. His TV credits include Live at the Apollo on the BBC, Comedy Annual on ITV, Dave’s One Night Stand, The Channel 4 Comedy Gala, John Bishop’s Only Joking on Sky and Anonymous on RTE2.

Jul 28, 2022 • 53:10

Ep. 210 - John Torode

John Torode is the Australian chef and presenter of Master Chef, the long running BBC cookery competition, which he presents and judges with his friend Greg Wallace. He started his TV career cooking on ITV’s This Morning, but before that he worked in some of the finest kitchens, including Pont de la Tour and Quaglino’s, and then his own restaurants, Smiths of Smithfield and The Cafeteria in Notting Hill. John has made a number of television series exploring and cooking food from around the world

Jul 24, 2022 • 55:30

Ep. 209 - George Lewis

George Lewis is a comedian and writer. His best selling book is out now and called Don’t Panic; All The Stuff The Expectant Dad Needs To Know, with contributions from Andy Parsons, Elis James, Josh Widdicomne, Kerry Godliman, Rich hall, Romesh Ranganthan, Russell Kane and many more. He also writes a weekly football column for The Times. He has appeared on the Stand Up Sketch Show on ITV, hosted Top Gear: Extra Gear on BBC 2, 3 & Worldwide and was the winner of Celebrity Mastermind with the speci

Jul 21, 2022 • 57:43

Ep. 208 - Andy Nyman

Andy Nyman is an actor and writer. As an actor, Andy has been in many films, including Black Death with Sean Bean and Eddie Redmayne, Kick Ass 2, Star Wars The Last Jedi, The Commuter with Liam Neeson, Judy, the Judy Garland film starring Rene Zellweger and Disney’s Jungle Cruise with Dwayne Johnson, Jack Whitehall and Emily Blunt. On TV he’s been in Unforgotten, Dead Set, Ballot Monkeys, Peaky Blinders, and provides voices for Shaun the Sheep and Sarah and Duck. Andy is co-creator of the long-r

Jul 17, 2022 • 46:41

Ep. 207 - Linda Purl

Linda Purl is best known for her roles as Fonzie's girlfriend on Happy Days, Pam Beesly's mother Helene in The Office US and Elizabeth Gaines in Homeland. Other TV roles include Hawaii Five-O, The Waltons, Matlock, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Murder She Wrote, Desperate Housewives, True Blood and Designated Survivor. Since 2020, she has been in a relationship with Patrick Duffy who played Bobby Ewing in Dallas, who she speaks about in the episode. Linda Purl is guest number 207 on My Time Capsule

Jul 14, 2022 • 38:19

Ep. 206 - Chesney Hawkes

Chesney Hawkes is best known for his huge No.1 hit song, “The One and Only” which topped the charts in the UK for five weeks and reached the Top 10 in the United States. The song featured in the film Buddy’s Song which stared Chesney alongside Roger Daltrey. Chesney’s father is the singer Len 'Chip' Hawkes, bassist of the 1960s band The Tremeloes who recently, Chesney has been singing with on tour. Chesney Hawkes is guest 206 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the fi

Jul 10, 2022 • 52:58

Ep. 205 - Rob Carter AKA Christopher Bliss

Rob Carter is best known for his character Christopher Bliss who can be seen on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Question Team on Dave, Comedy Central At The Edinburgh Fringe and his own standup specials and tours. As an actor, Rob has appeared in Peep Show, Fresh Meat, Ladhood and much more. The Raisin, which Rob wrote and directed, won Best Foreign Short Film at the Los Angeles Comedy Festival. Rob Carter is guest 205 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five thi

Jul 7, 2022 • 54:18

MTC Recommends - The Retrospectors

Something a little different today... We're recommending a great podcast for you! This is The Retrospectors. Each day they cover something that happened on that day in history. It's just ten minutes long so perfect over a bowl of cereal or taking the dog round the block and it's from the makers of Answer Me This, Happy Place and ton of other great shows. Here's a taster episode that The Retrospectors have chosen for you - about the life and times of Shirley Temple. Oh and our producer, John, wro

Jul 5, 2022 • 11:26

Ep. 204 - Mathew Baynton

Mathew Baynton is best known as the poet ghost Thomas Thorne in the BBC sitcom Ghosts, which he also co-created and co-writes with his “Horrible Histories” group. The group came together as the cast of the hugely popular children’s show Horrible Histories and went on to create, write and star in Yonderland which ran for 3 series on Sky 1 and then Ghosts on BBC1. Ghosts has now been remade for CBS in America. Mathew also created, wrote and stared in The Wrong Mans with James Corden for BBC2. Othe

Jul 3, 2022 • 51:15

Ep. 203 - Samantha Baines

Samantha Baines is a comedian, actress, writer and broadcaster. You may have seen Samantha in Netflix’s The Crown, Call the Midwife, Silent Witness or Magic Mike Live (directed by Channing Tatum) or personal appearances on ITV's Loose Women, Sky News and Andrew Neil's This Week. You may have heard her presenting on BBC Radio London, BBC Radio Kent, Virgin Radio or on her own podcast The Divorce Social, which has been a 'Times Podcast of the Week' and a No.1 relationship podcast on iTunes. Samant

Jun 30, 2022 • 57:55

Ep. 202 - Tim Downie

Tim Downie is best known for his major roles in Toast of London, Outlander, Upstart Crow, and the films Paddington and The King's Speech. Other TV includes in The Royal Bodyguard with Sir David Jason, Peep Show, Miranda, Hoff the Record with David Hasselhoff and Hapless on Netflix. Other film roles include in War Machine with Brad Pitt, Les Misérables, Transformers: The Last Knight and Horrible Histories: The Movie. Tim Downie is guest 202 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Steven

Jun 26, 2022 • 49:06

Ep. 201 - Taylor Glenn

Taylor Glenn is a UK-based American comedian, writer, and podcaster who is one of the creators and hosts of the hit UK podcast Drunk Women Solving Crime which has had sold out runs in London and Edinburgh, won a Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award in 2022 and is nominated for two British Podcast Awards this year. Taylor has written for the new series of Breeders staring Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard, has contributed to several programmes for BBC as well as writing for Comic Relief, The Guar

Jun 23, 2022 • 53:33

Ep. 200 - Michael Fenton Stevens

Michael Fenton Stevens finally reveals his time capsule items in this special 200th episode! Comedian and podcaster Richard Herring takes Mike’s role as host.Michael Fenton Stevens is an actor and podcast host who's television credits include the recent Slow Horses with Kristen Scott Thomas and Gary Oldman, five series of Benidorm as Sir Henry, the British Consul, The Crown, KYTV, My Family as Robert Lindsay's long suffering boss, Not Going Out, Outnumbered, Pete Versus Life, Persuasion with Sal

Jun 19, 2022 • 1:05:36

Ep. 199 - Andrew Lynford

Andrew Lynford is an actor, presenter, writer, director and casting director. As an actor he’s best known for playing Simon Raymond in EastEnders, the brother of Martine McCutcheon's character Tiffany. His character made headlines in the British press, following a gay kiss with Tiffany’s boyfriend, Tony. After leaving EastEnders, Andrew presented various shows for television, including Wild Thing, Taste Today, and the comedy quiz Arty Facts, which he also devised. He was a writer on the ske

Jun 16, 2022 • 51:29

Ep. 198 - Nicola Stephenson

Nicola Stephenson is known mainly for her roles in television including Margaret Clemence in Channel 4's Brookside in which her on-air kiss with Anna Friel was the first pre-watershed lesbian kiss on British television. She was an original cast member of Holby City playing Julie Fitzjohn, Allie Westbrook in Waterloo Road, Suzie Davidson in Clocking Off, Jackie Armstrong in ITV's Northern Lights & City Lights, Sarah Williams in BBC's The Chase and Tess Harris in Emmerdale. Her theatre roles inclu

Jun 12, 2022 • 55:25

Ep. 197 - Mike Grady

Mike Grady is best known for playing Ken Mills in Citizen Smith opposite Robert Lindsay and as Barry Wilkinson in 161 episodes of Last of the Summer Wine. His film credits include Carry On Loving with Sid James & Kenneth Williams, Up the Front with Frankie Howard, The Return of the Pink Panther opposite Peter Sellers, and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows With Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law. Mike Grady is guest 197 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things h

Jun 9, 2022 • 41:34

Ep. 196 - Nicholas Burns

Nicholas Burns is best known for playing the title role in the comedy Nathan Barley, by Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker and for his role in the first three series of the ITV comedy, Benidorm. But he’s also been in Absolute Power, A touch of Frost, Swiss Toni, The Mighty Boost, the sketch show Man Stroke Woman, Agatha Christies Marple, Roman’s Empire, The IT Crowd, Misfits, Poirot, Uncle, the TV Film Coalition in which he played Ed Balls, Marley’s Ghost, Doctor Who & The Crown. He was in the fil

Jun 5, 2022 • 49:39

Ep. 195 - Jessica Fostekew

Jessica Fostekew is a comedian, actor, writer and podcast host. She was nominated for The Dave Edinburgh Comedy Award ‘Best Show’ for her show Hench, in 2019 which had a sold out, international tour. She has since appeared on Live at the Apollo, QI and Harry Hill’s Clubnite. As an actor she starred in the feature films Greed and Official Secrets, Dawn French’s The Trouble with Maggie Cole, Sharon Horgan’ and Holly Walsh's Motherlan

Jun 2, 2022 • 45:14

Ep. 194 - Mark Bonner

Mark Bonnar is a Scottish actor who is best known for his roles as Ashley Jensons Husband, Chris in Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s Catastrophe, Max in Guilt, Duncan Hunter in Shetland, and for major roles in Line of Duty, for which he was nominated for a Bafta Scotland award, the police drama Unforgotten, with Sanjeev Baskhar and Nicola Walker, for which he won the BAFTA Scotland Best Actor award and the Broadcasting Press Guild Best actor award. He was also in Psychoville, Taggart, Doctor Who,

May 29, 2022 • 58:37

Ep. 193 - Gail Porter

Gail Porter is a Scottish television presenter, model and actress. Best known for presenting such shows as Top of the Pops, Live & Kicking, Children in Need, The Big Breakfast and The Gadget Show. In 2005 Gail developed alopecia totalis, causing her to loose her hair. She decided not to wear a hat or wig in order to raise awareness of the condition and became ambassador for the Little Princess Trust, a charity which provides wigs to children with hair loss. Gail’s alopecia was the subject of the

May 26, 2022 • 33:29

Ep. 192 - Joanna Scanlan

Joanna Scanlan, most recently, won the leading actress BAFTA award for her role in the film After Love, beating Lady Gaga. She was nominated for three BAFTAs for writing and performing in the satirical NHS drama Getting On, which she co-wrote with Jo Brand and Vicki Pepperdine. The series was adapted for an American audience with HBO on which Joanna was an executive producer. It ran for three series earning an Emmy nomination. Joanna’s other film credits include Girl With a Pearl Earring, Notes

May 22, 2022 • 58:27

Ep. 191 - Bobby Crush

Bobby Crush is a pianist, songwriter, actor and television presenter who first came to public attention after winning the ITV talent show, Opportunity Knocks, six times in 1972. Bobby performed three seasons at the London Palladium guest starring with Jack Jones, Vic Damone and Dame Julie Andrews and his other theatrical roles include Liberace in Liberace's Suit, Dr Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Show and Billy Flynn in Chicago. Bobby’s greatest success as a songwriter was writing Keith Har

May 19, 2022 • 43:12

Ep. 190 - Jenny Seagrove

Jenny Seagrove is an actress of stage and screen. She starred alongside Rupert Everett in the Academy Award-winning short film A Shocking Accident and other film roles include Nate and Hayes opposite Tommy Lee Jones, Bullseye! with Michael Caine and Roger Moore, A Chorus of Disapproval with Anthony Hopkins and Jeremy Irons and Appointment with Death With Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher and John Gielgud. She played Jo Mills in the BBC drama series Judge John Deed and her stage work in

May 15, 2022 • 51:13

Ep. 189 - Sara Crowe

Sara Crowe is probably still best known as the “Philadelphia girl” for her part in the Philadelphia cream cheese adverts in the 90’s playing a ditsy blonde secretary. Sara was the first bride in the film Four Wedding and a Funeral, was in Carry On Columbus and the film version of Tony Hawks's best selling book, Round Ireland with a Fridge. On TV she’s the voice of Queen Thistle in the hugely popular children’s animation Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom, has been in Smith & Jones, Harry Enfield’s Tel

May 12, 2022 • 38:48

Ep. 188 - Jess Thom AKA Touretteshero

Jess Thom is a comedian and theatre-maker who’s known as her alter-ego, Touretteshero. Touretteshero is also a project that she co-founded, aimed at increasing awareness of Tourette syndrome, the neurological condition which Jess was diagnosed with in her early twenties. The first Touretteshero production, Backstage in Biscuit Land debuted at Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2014 and won the Total Theatre Award for Best Emerging Company. For BBC 2, Jess made the film Me, My Mouth and I, a 60-minute

May 8, 2022 • 1:22:34

Ep. 187 - Finty Williams

Finty Williams is an actress best known for her roles in the films Gosford Park, The Importance of Being Earnest, Mrs Brown, Ladies in Lavender and Macbeth as well as a number of other British films, many alongside her mother, Judi Dench. Finty’s father was the actor Michael Williams. On the TV she voices the title role in the animated series of Angelina Ballerina and has been in Born and Bred, Cranford, Wives and Daughters, Tales from the Crypt and Doc Martin amongst many others. On the stage s

May 5, 2022 • 46:41

Ep. 186 - Jeremy Dyson

Jeremy Dyson is a writer best known as a member of the BAFTA winning comedy group, The League of Gentlemen alongside Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith. He co-wrote The League of Gentlemen including a radio series, 3 television series, numerous tours, a feature film, a Christmas special and three 20th anniversary episodes. He co-created the play Ghost Stories with Andy Nyman which ran in the West End and on tour for many years as well as at The Sydney Opera House in Australia. He

May 1, 2022 • 1:02:22

Ep. 185 - My Listeners Time Capsule - Part 2

As part of our 2nd birthday celebrations, we asked you, our listeners, to send us your items for a listeners time capsule! We received hundreds of entries from all around there world. So many in fact that we had to do 2 parts! Part 1 features Justin Moors, Jennifer, Paul Robinson, Martin Richardson and Tim Easton. They are our guests for episode 185 of My Time Capsule and they chat to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things they’d like to put in a time capsule; some they’d like to preserve

Apr 28, 2022 • 55:43

Ep. 185 - My Listeners Time Capsule - Part 1

As part of our 2nd birthday celebrations, we asked you, our listeners, to send us your items for a listeners time capsule! We received hundreds of entries from all around there world. So many in fact that we had to do 2 parts! Part 1 features Darren Fewins, Ryan Williams, Helen Freeman, Bridget Schraders, Andre Baron and Pamela Murphy. They are our guests for episode 185 of My Time Capsule and they chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things they’d like to put in a time capsule; some t

Apr 28, 2022 • 52:55

Ep. 184 - Harry Hill

Welcome to our 2 year anniversary episode with our special guest, Harry Hill! Harry Hill is a comedian, presenter and writer probably best known for his ITV comedy show Harry Hill's TV Burp which ran from 2001 to 2012. Harry has been the voice of You’ve Been Framed since 2004 and his other TV shows include Harry Hill's Shark Infested Custard, Stars in Their Eyes, Harry Hill's Tea Time, Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule and Harry Hill's World of TV. He even released his own film, The Harry Hill Movi

Apr 24, 2022 • 1:04:23

Ep. 183 - Brigit Forsyth

Brigit Forsyth is an actress who’s best known for playing Thelma Ferris in the classic BBC comedy Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads and Helen Yeldham in the ITV drama Boon. Since December 2013, Forsyth has appeared in the BBC comedy Still Open All Hours. Her other TV work includes The Glamour Girls, Tom, Dick and Harriet, Doctor Who, Wycliffe, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Jackanory, Murder Most Horrid and Playing the Field. Her stage work includes Calendar Girls and the Alan Bennett plays People

Apr 21, 2022 • 38:16

Ep. 182 - Richard Pitman

Richard Pitman is a retired jump jockey best know for coming second to Red Rum at the 1973 Grand National whilst riding Crisp. Richard rode 427 winners in his career, including Lanzarote in the 1974 Champion Hurdle. He won the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park Racecourse twice, the Whitbread Gold Cup and the Hennessy Gold Cup. He joined the BBC TV racing team as a commentator and pundit in 1975 and stayed with the BBC 35 years. Richard has bred, owned and sold racehorses and has written seven

Apr 17, 2022 • 51:46

Ep. 181 - Michael Simkins

Michael Simkins is an actor and writer who has appeared the films V for Vendetta, Wilde, The Iron Lady with Meryl Streep as well as Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy. He has appeared in more than 100 plays and musicals, at places like the National Theatre and the RSC as well as on the fringe and the West End. He’s been in the musicals Chicago and Mamma Mia and he’s made countless TV appearances including This is Going to Hurt, Finding Alice, Silent Witness, The Crown, Endeavour,

Apr 14, 2022 • 1:01:57

Ep. 180 - Ben Aaronovitch

Ben Aaronovitch is a multiple Times best selling Author best known for his Rivers of London series, of which the latest, Amongst Our Weapons, is out now. Rivers of London is a series of urban fantasy novels, novellas and graphic novels. Ben wrote for the Doctor Who BBC televsion series in the 1980s and went on to write three Doctor Who spin-off novels and a Doctor Who audio drama. Ben has written for Casualty, was a regular writer on the science fiction series Jupiter Moon and has written a numb

Apr 10, 2022 • 42:58

Ep. 179 - Mel Hudson

Mel Hudson is an actress, comedian and writer. She was part of the double act Hudson and Pepperdine, with Vicki Pepperdine and wrote and starred in BBC Radio 4's The Hudson and Pepperdine Show. She performed multiple roles in Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge, including Alan's French co-host Nina Vanier and has worked with the Alan Partridge team in a number of projects, including I’m Alan Partridge, The Friday Night Armistice and The Armando Iannucci Shows. Mel was Lauren Cooper's Fre

Apr 7, 2022 • 59:00

Ep. 178 - Cheryl Baker

Cheryl Baker is a singer and presenter best known as a member of 80s pop group Bucks Fizz, who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981. As a presenter she presented Record Breakers with Roy Castle and Kriss Akabusi from 87-97, The Saturday Picture Show with Mark Curry and her own show Eggs 'n' Baker. She continues to perform with Mike Nolan and Jay Aston of Bucks Fizz under the name The Fizz. Cheryl Baker is guest number 178 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five t

Apr 3, 2022 • 47:00

Ep. 177 - Dr Julia Patterson

Dr Julia Patterson is the Founder and Chief Executive of EveryDoctor, a doctor-led campaigning organisation fighting for a better NHS for every doctor and every patient. Julia qualified from UCL Medical School in 2010 and became a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2015. She took a break from her speciality training to set up EveryDoctor, and has now given up her GMC licence to practice, in order to devote herself fully to advocating for NHS staff and patients. She was a co-founder

Mar 31, 2022 • 52:52

Ep. 176 - Rita Simons

Rita Simons is best known for playing Roxy Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 2007 to 2017. She won the 2008 National Television Award for Most Popular Newcomer for her role. Since leaving Eastenders she has carved out a very successful stage career appearing in Legally Blonde: the Musical, Everybody's Talking About Jamie at the Apollo Theatre and in the 2021 revival of Hairspray at the London Coliseum. Rita was a contestant in I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2018. Rita Simo

Mar 27, 2022 • 46:51

Ep. 175 - Josh Bolt

Josh Bolt is an actor best known for playing Rob Dawson in the sitcom Benidorn, Raff Greenwood in 5 series of the BAFTA winning Last Tango in Halifax and Dunbar in Catch 22 staring and directed by George Clooney. He’s soon to appear in Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s Masters of the Air, the third instalment of their 'Band of Brothers' series. Josh Bolt is guest 175 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like

Mar 25, 2022 • 58:21

Ep. 174 - Jim Piddock

Jim Piddock is a British actor and writer best known for his work with Christopher Guest on the films Best In Show, A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration and Mascots, the last of which he co-wrote and produced. His other film appearances include Get Him to the Greek with Russell Brand, Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Epic Movie, Austin Powers Goldmember, Independence Day and Lethal Weapon 2. On TV he’s been in Friends, Modern Family, Designated Survivor, Get Shorty, Two and a H

Mar 21, 2022 • 58:24

Ep. 173 - Dan Paterson

Dan Paterson a television producer and writer and the creator and producer of Mock the Week and the UK & US versions of Who’s Line Is It Anyway?. As a producer he produced the shows Clive Anderson Talks Back, Clive Anderson All Talk, Never Mind the Horrocks, The Peter Principle, Room 101 and Kelsey Grammer’s American Sketch Show. His play The Duck House, staring Ben Miller, was nonimated for an Olivier Award, toured the county and then transferred to the West End's Vaudeville Theatre. Dan Paters

Mar 18, 2022 • 1:01:43

Ep. 172 - Danny John-Jules

Danny John-Jules is best known for playing Cat in the comedy series Red Dwarf, policeman Dwayne Myers in the crime drama Death in Paradise and Barrington in the classic children's series Maid Marian and Her Merry Men. Danny was in the original West End cast of the musical Starlight Express and was in the films Labyrinth, Little Shop of Horrors, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Blade II. He was a contestant in the 16th series of Strictly Come Dancing. Danny John-Jules is guest 172 on My Ti

Mar 14, 2022 • 45:42

Ep. 171 - Catherine Russell

Catherine Russell is a British actress best known for playing Consultant Surgeon Serena Campbell in Holby City since 2012. Her other film and television credits include Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Messiah, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Waking the Dead, Sherlock Holmes, Silent Witness and Pete versus Life. Her hugely successful stage career has seen her play leads in the West End and around the country. Her most recent roles include Nurse Ratched in One Flew Ove

Mar 11, 2022 • 41:18

Ep. 170 - Dara Ó Briain

Dara Ó Briain is one of the most successful comedians in the UK and tours around the world. As a presenter he’s hosted Mock the Week since 2005, Stargazing Live, Robot Wars, Blockbusters, The Apprentice: You're Fired!, Have I Got News For You and Dara and Ed's Great Big Adventure (with his friend Ed Byrne). He was one of the Three Men in a Boat with Griff Rhys Jones and Rory McGrath and he’s been on Live at the Apollo more times than any other stand up. Dara Ó Briain guest 170 on My Time Capsule

Mar 7, 2022 • 1:09:29

Ep. 169 - Jonny Weldon

Jonny Weldon is an actor and comedian best known for his hilarious viral twitter videos based around the life of an actor. Everyone wants to be in Jonny’s video and he’s collaborated with such stars as Russel Tovey, Tracy-Ann Oberman, John Challis and most recently with the Emmy winning stars of Ted Lasso, Nick Mohammed and Hannah Waddingham. Even Ricky Gervais is a fan! Jonny Weldon is guest 169 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in

Mar 4, 2022 • 49:27

Ep. 168 - Tim Healy

Tim Healy is an actor, best known for playing Dennis Patterson in the comedy-drama series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Les/Lesley Conroy in the comedy series Benidorm, and Gastric in the comedy series Still Open All Hours with David Jason. Tim Healy is guest 168 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Tim Healy on Twitter: @TheRealT

Feb 28, 2022 • 45:13

Ep. 167 - Kathleen Rose Perkins

Kathleen Rose Perkins is and American actress best known in the UK for playing Carol Rance in Episodes alongside Matt LeBlanc, Tamsin Greig, and Stephen Mangan. Her huge list of credits include How I met Your Mother, Nip/Tuck, Grey’s Anatomy, NCIS: Los Angeles, Law & Order: LA, Ballot Monkeys, the film Gone Girl and most recently Doogie Kameāloha, M.D. and Big Shot for Disney+. Kathleen Rose Perkins is guest number 167 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things

Feb 25, 2022 • 52:26

Ep. 166 - Sarah Greene

Sarah Greene is a presenter and actor best known for presenting Blue Peter from 80-83, Saturday Superstore with Mike Read, and Going Live! with Phillip Schofield. She has also presented Pebble Mill, Collectors' Lot, Ghostwatch and This Morning as well as acting in the Doctor Who, Casualty, Brookside and French & Saunders. Sarah competed on ITV's Dancing on Ice in 2008. Sarah Greene is guest number 166 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put

Feb 21, 2022 • 58:30

Ep. 165 - Mike McShane

Mike McShane is an American actor and improvisational comedian, best known for his appearances in the TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway? and the films Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves playing Friar Tuck alongside Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater and Alan Rickman, and Richie Rich with Macaulay Culkin. Mike McShane is guest 165 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like t

Feb 18, 2022 • 52:03

Ep. 164 - Sanjeev Bhaskar

Sanjeev Bhaskar is an actor, writer and comedian best known for creating, writing and staring in the BBC2 sketch show Goodness Gracious Me and the sitcom The Kumars at No. 42. As an actor he plays DI Sunny Khan in Unforgotten and was in the films Paddington 2 and Yesterday by Richard Curtis and Danny Boyle. On stage he played King Arthur in Spamalot in the West End. Sanjeev Bhaskar is guest 164 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a

Feb 14, 2022 • 55:44

Ep. 163 - John Keane

John Keane is an artist who's probably best known for his commissioned portraits of the former Secretary General of the UN, Kofi Annan, for the United Nations, Mo Mowlam for The National Portrait Gallery, Jon Snow for Channel 4 and Greg Dyke for the BBC. In 1990, the Imperial War Museum commissioned him as an official war artist in the Gulf War. He’s worked on exhibitions with Christian Aid in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with Greenpeace in the Amazon against illegal logging and countless other

Feb 11, 2022 • 50:44

Ep. 162 - Sian Harries

Sian Harries is a comedy writer and performer who co-wrote Greg Davies's Man Down for Channel 4 and Tourist Trap for BBC Wales, starring Sally Phillips. She co-hosts the podcast The Froth with her husband Rhod Gilbert and co-hosted The Rhod Gilbert Show on BBC Radio Wales. She co-writes and stars in her own S4C sketch show, O'r Diwedd, and also co-wrote and performed in the SONY Award winning sketch show Here Be Dragons. Sian Harries is guest number 162 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fe

Feb 7, 2022 • 48:17

Ep. 162 - Ben Willbond

Ben Willbond is probably best known for playing The Captain in the BBC One sitcom Ghosts, which he also co-created and co-writes. Ben and his fellow "Ghosts" first came together on the hugely popular children’s series Horrible Histories and later went on to create, write and star in Yonderland for Sky 1. As an actor Ben Willbond has been in The Thick of It, Lead Baloon, Rev, Inside No. 9, Bridget Jones’s Baby, Good Omens and Alma’s Not Normal. Ben Willbond is guest 162 on My Time Capsule and he

Feb 7, 2022 • 59:03

Ep. 161 - Matt Green

Matt Green is a comedian, actor, writer and director. He started his comedy career as a member of the Cambridge Footlights alongside Richard Ayoade, John Oliver and John Finnemore. He has performed six solo standup show at the Edinburgh Fringe. On TV he’s been in Fresh Meat, Extras, Cuckoo, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, on film he was in Finding Neverland and Ali G Indahouse and on the radio he’s been in Inspector Steine, Cabbin Pressure and Ed Reardon's Week. Matt also writes and d

Feb 4, 2022 • 53:16

Ep. 160 - Joe Pasquale

Joe Pasquale is a comedian, actor and television presenter who has been performing for over 30 years. He has appeared in 5 Royal Variety Performances, he won the fourth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2004 and participated in the eighth series of Dancing on Ice in 2013. As an actor on stage, he’s stared in Mel Brooks' The Producers, The Wizard Of Oz, Doctor In The House with Robert Powell, Ha Ha Holmes - The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Spamalot in the West End and on Tour playi

Jan 31, 2022 • 1:12:56

Ep. 159 - Steve Brown

Steve Brown is a composer, music producer and performer perhaps best known for playing Glen Ponder in Steve Coogan’s Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge. As a composer he’s worked extensively with Harry Hill as MD on all his live shows, TV Burp, The Harry Hill Movie and the musical that they wrote together, I Can't Sing! The X Factor Musical. He wrote the West End hit musical, Spend Spend Spend and as a record producer he produced Seasons of My Soul by Rumer and the MOBO winning debu

Jan 28, 2022 • 46:01

Ep. 158 - Toyah Willcox

Toyah Willcox or "Toyah" is a musician, actor, and presenter. In a career spanning more than 40 years, Toyah has had 8 top 40 singles, released over 20 albums, written two books, appeared in over 40 stage plays and 10 feature films, and voiced and presented numerous television shows. Toyah Willcox is guest number 158 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never ha

Jan 24, 2022 • 51:02

Ep. 157 - Fern Britton

Fern Britton is an author and presenter best known for co-hosting This Morning with Phillip Schofield from 99-09. Her other presenting credits include Ready Steady Cook, The British Soap Awards, All Star Mr & Mrs and The Big Allotment Challenge. She was a contestant on the 10th series of Strictly Come Dancing. In recent years she has become a best selling author with a number of bestselling novels, short stories and non-fiction books. Fern Britton is guest number 157 on My Time Capsule and chats

Jan 21, 2022 • 40:53

Ep. 156 - Graham Fellows

Graham Fellows is best known for playing the character John Shuttleworth and the one-hit wonder Jilted John. Graham Fellows created John Shuttleworth in 1986, a middle-aged, aspiring singer-songwriter who expresses his musical talents through his Yamaha PSS680 portable keyboard. His songs include "Pigeons in Flight" which he attempted to have selected for the Eurovision Song Contest. Jilted John’s hit single “Jilted John” got to no.4 in the UK charts. Graham Fellows is guest 156 on My Time Capsu

Jan 17, 2022 • 53:23

Ep. 155 - Robin Windsor

Robin Windsor is best known for being one of the professional dancers on Strictly Come Dancing. Robin has danced in live shows all around the world, most notably in Burn the Floor which toured the world several times leading up to a stint on New York’s Broadway and London’s West End. Robin Windsor is guest 155 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to t

Jan 14, 2022 • 42:39

Ep. 154 - Scroobius Pip

Scroobius Pip is an actor, podcaster and former hiphop artist and spoken word poet. He first gained prominence as one half of hip hop duo Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip with their single "Thou Shalt Always Kill". He manages his own record label, Speech Development Records and hosts the podcast Distraction Pieces Podcast. As an actor he’s appeared in the Marvel film Venom: Let There Be Carnage, the NBC series Debris and the BBC Drama series Taboo. Scroobius Pip is guest 154 on My Time Capsule and he

Jan 10, 2022 • 1:07:10

Ep. 153 - Freddie 'Parrot-Face' Davies

Freddie 'Parrot-Face' Davies was one of the UK’s biggest comedians in the 60’s, 70’s and 80's. He started on the cabaret circuit in 1964 and came to the public’s attention on ITV’s Opportunity Knocks. He appeared on many TV shows including Sunday Night at the London Palladium, The Des O'Connor Show & The Tom Jones Show. Later in his career he started acting, most notably in the films Funny Bones and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Freddie Davies is guest 153 on My Time Capsule and he c

Jan 7, 2022 • 44:23

Best Of My Time Capsule 2021 - Part 3

Part 3 of the best of My Time Capsule from 2021. A compilation, featuring Nick Knowles, Omid Djalili, Anna Chancellor, Alan Davies, Adam Wide, Paul Bradley, Ed Byrne, Chris Lang, Angela Barnes, Nicky Campbell, Anne Hegerty, Hal Cruttendenm, Caroline Quentin, Matthew Kelly, Lee Mack, Mark Watson, Charlie Higson, Tony Hawks and Barry Cryer .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens .P

Dec 31, 2021 • 1:10:12

Best Of My Time Capsule 2021 - Part 2

Part 2 of the best of My Time Capsule from 2021. A compilation, featuring Isy Suttie, Elis James, Mark Thomas, Simon Evans, Emma Kennedy, Gary Wilmot, Jo Caulfield, Ken Bruce, Romola Garai, Sanjeev Kohli, Howard Goodall, Josie Long, Robert Llewellyn, Robin Ince, Steve Delaney AKA Count Arthur Strong, Mark Billingham and Barry Cryer .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produce

Dec 30, 2021 • 1:03:39

Best Of My Time Capsule 2021 - Part 1

The best of My Time Capsule from 2021. A compilation, featuring Ross Noble, Mark Steel, Rob Brydon, Shaparak Khorsandi, John O'Farrell, Paterson Joseph, Josie Long, Les Dennis, Tony Slattery, Katy Brand, Tim Vine, Josie Lawrence, Lisa Riley, Seann Walsh, Richard Wilson and Barry Cryer . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Of

Dec 29, 2021 • 1:01:39

Best Of My Time Capsule 2020 - Part 2

Part 2 of the best of My Time Capsule from 2020. Featuring Griff Rhys Jones, Rebecca Front, Arthur Smith, Janet Ellis, Rick Wakeman, Mark Gatiss, Anneka Rice, John Challis, Ellie White, Richard Herring, Rev Richard Coles, Robert Bathurst, Jan Ravens, Stephen K. Amos, Andy Hamilton and Rufus Hound. What a year!! .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John

Dec 28, 2021 • 1:10:39

Best Of My Time Capsule 2020 - Part 1

A compilation of the best of My Time Capsule from 2020. Featuring Stephen Fry, Rick Wakeman, Lucy Porter, Shane Richie, Arabella Weir, Mark Gatiss, Doon Mackichan, David Jason, Anthony Head, Anna Ptaszynski, Craig Ferguson, David Baddiel, David Mitchell and Milton Jones. What a year!! .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off

Dec 27, 2021 • 59:12

My Christmas Time Capsule 2021 - Part 2

Part 2 of My Christmas Time Capsule 2021 where few of our guests from 2021 choose what they'd put into a Christmas time capsule! Featuring Sanjeev Bhaskar, Isy Suttie, Rory McGrath, Katy Brand, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Charlie Higson, Paul Burke, Les Dennis, John O'Farrell, Robin Ince and Bonnie Langford. Merry Christmas!! . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited

Dec 24, 2021 • 1:08:45

My Christmas Time Capsule 2021 - Part 1

A collection of some of our guests from 2021 choosing what they'd put into a Christmas time capsule! Featuring Clive Anderson, Eilidh Doyle, Andrew Hunter Murray, Lisa Riley, Ken Bruce, Gary Wilmot, Fred MacAulay, Kate Thornton, Derren Litten and Emma Kennedy .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pas

Dec 23, 2021 • 1:01:17

Best Of My Christmas Time Capsule 2020 - Part 2

Part 2 of the best bits from our 2020 My Christmas Time Capsule episodes! Featuring Stephen Fry, Lucy Porter, John Challis, Tony Hawks, Rufus Hound, Marcus Brigstocke & Rachel Parris, Anthony Head, Janet Ellis, Rick Wakeman, Anneka Rice, Paul Mayhew-Archer and Griff Rhys Jones. Merry Christmas!Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for

Dec 20, 2021 • 1:00:35

A Christmas Carol - A Gift From My Time Capsule

Here's a little Christmas gift for all our listeners: it's our host, Mike Fenton Stevens, reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens! Feel free to delete if it's not your thing but we hope you enjoy it! Merry Christmas!Thank you to Spoken World Audio for allowing us to put this out and to get 50% off everything on their website until Jan 1st go to spokenworldaudio.biz and use the code MIKEFS2021.Follow Spoken World Audio on Twitter: @Spoken_WorldFollow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & F

Dec 18, 2021 • 3:11:32

Best Of My Christmas Time Capsule 2020 - Part 1

A compilation of the best bits from our 2020 My Christmas Time Capsule episodes! Featuring Arthur Smith, Rebecca Front, Andy Hamilton, Mark Watson, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Jan Ravens, Kevin McNally, Anthony Head, Ellie White plus Anna Ptaszynski, Dan Schreiber & Andrew Hunter Murray from the podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Merry Christmas!Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Prod

Dec 17, 2021 • 52:09

Ep. 152 - Matthew Kelly

Matthew Kelly is an actor and presenter best known for presenting the shows Stars in Their Eyes, You Bet! and Game for a Laugh. After leaving Stars in Their Eyes he returned to acting. On the stage he won an Olivier Award for his portrayal of Lennie in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men at the Savoy Theatre, He was in Waiting for Godot at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, alongside Ian McKellen and he’s played Pandarus in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida at the Globe in London amongst so much more.

Dec 13, 2021 • 47:48

Ep. 151 - Henry Normal

Henry Normal set up Baby Cow Productions in 1999 with Steve Coogan. He was executive producer on all their output including the Oscar nominated Philomena, Gavin and Stacey, Marion and Geoff, Nighty Night, The Mighty Boosh, Red Dwarf, Hunderby, Camping and Alan Partridge. He co-wrote and script edited the multi-award winning Mrs Merton Show and he co-created and co-wrote the first series of The Royle Family. In 2017 he was honoured with a special BAFTA for services to Television. Henry Norma

Dec 10, 2021 • 1:05:55

Ep. 150 - Chizzy Akudolu

Chizzy Akudolu is an actor and presenter best known for playing Mo Effanga in Holby City for 7 years and dancing in the 15th series of Strictly Come Dancing. She has also appeared in Silent Witness, Twenty Twelve, The Inbetweeners, the film In the Loop, Green Wing, 15 Storeys High as well as Loose Women, Celebrity MasterChef, The Weakest Link and so much more. Chizzy Akudolu is guest number 142 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a ti

Dec 6, 2021 • 50:59

Ep. 149 - Emma Fielding

Emma Fielding is a British actor who has twice been nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award. She won a Theatre World Award for outstanding Broadway debut and has performed at the RSC and The National. Her television work includes Unforgotten, Silent Witness, Doctor Who, Years and Years, This Is England '90 and Death in Paradise amongst a huge list of credits. Emma Fielding is guest number 149 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a tim

Dec 3, 2021 • 49:12

Ep. 148 - Mark Steel

Mark Steel is a comedian and writer best known for his BBC Radio 4 shows Mark Steel's in Town, The Mark Steel Lectures and The Mark Steel Solution as well as regular appearances on shows such as The News Quiz, Have I Got News For You, Room 101, Mock the Week, the Graham Norton Show and Question Time. He has also written regular columns in The Guardian, The Independent and Daily Mirror. Mark Steel is guest 148 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd li

Nov 29, 2021 • 1:19:33

Ep. 147 - Fergus Craig

Fergus Craig is an actor, comedian and writer who won the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year award. He stared in the BAFTA nominated comedies Star Stories and Sorry I've Got No Head, the Emmy winning series Hoff the Record with David Hasselhoff, as well as Extras, Jonathan Creek, Eastenders and Harry Hill's TV Burp amongst others. His latest book, Once Upon a Crime is a spoof crime novel and is out now. Fergus Craig is guest 147 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the

Nov 26, 2021 • 40:54

Ep. 146 - Nick Knowles

Nick Knowles is a presenter and writer best known for presenting DIY SOS on BBC One and the gameshows Who Dares Wins, Break The Safe and 5-Star Family Reunion. He co-wrote the film Golden Years, which stars Simon Callow and Una Stubbs. His latest series, Nick Knowles Heritage Rescue, can be seen on Quest and is available to stream on discovery+. Nick Knowles is guest 146 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four

Nov 22, 2021 • 46:24

Ep. 145 - Nathan Bryon

Nathan Bryon is an actor and author best known for playing Joey Ellis in the ITV sitcom Benidorm, Jamie Bennett in BBC Three sitcom Some Girls and Obi in BBC One sitcom Ghosts. He co-created and writes the Sky One sitcom Bloods and his first children’s book Look Up!, won the 2020 Waterstones Children's Book Prize. In March 2021, Puffin announced Nathan as the first Puffin World of Stories ambassador. Nathan Bryon is guest number 145 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about

Nov 19, 2021 • 41:15

Ep. 144 - Elis James

Elis James is a comedian, actor and radio presenter best known for his radio shows on XFM (now Radio X) and currently on BBC 5 Live which he co-hosts with comedian John Robins. Elis is a hugely successful stand-up and has performed in both English and Welsh. As an actor his most notable performance was playing Josh Widdicombe’s flatmate in the BBC Three sitcom, Josh. Elis James is guest number 144 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in

Nov 15, 2021 • 1:06:25

Ep. 143 - Margaret Cabourn-Smith

Margaret Cabourn-Smith is a comedy actor who has appeared in Motherland, Miranda, Catastrophe, The IT Crowd, Psychoville, Peep Show and Fresh Meat. And on the radio in John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, The Now Show, Sarah Millican's Support Group, Newsjack, Dilemma and Another Case of Milton Jones. She is also one of the team captains on the comedy podcast Do The Right Thing. Margaret Cabourn-Smith is guest number 143 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five thing

Nov 12, 2021 • 48:51

Ep. 142 - Lisa Riley

Lisa Riley is best known for playing Mandy Dingle in Emmerdale, reaching the semi-final of the tenth series of Strictly Come Dancing and presenting You’ve Been Framed before Harry Hill. Lisa Riley is guest number 142 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Lisa Riley on Twitter: @Reallisariley and Instagram @lisajaneriley .Fo

Nov 8, 2021 • 54:10

Ep. 141 - Annie McGrath

Annie McGrath is a comedian renowned for her joke writing skills and deadpan style. She is also a talented artist and host of the podcast Secret Artists. She curated Art is the Best Medicine, an exhibition of artworks by comedians including Vic Reeves, Harry Hill, Josie Long, Jenny Eclair and Alex Horne to raise money for Mental Health UK. Annie was a finalist in the 2018 Funny Women Awards with her short PanettoneGate. She returned to the awards in 2019, where her 5-part series Baby Shower came

Nov 5, 2021 • 29:32

Ep. 140 - Josie Long

Josie Long is a comedian and broadcaster. She started performing stand-up at the age of 14 and won the BBC New Comedy Awards at 17. In 2006, she won the Best Newcomer award at the Edinburgh Festival and has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show three times. She’s has her own shows on Radio 4, Short Cuts and Josie Long’s Gambit and she co-hosts the podcast Book Shambles with Robin Ince. Josie Long is guest number 140 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens abo

Nov 1, 2021 • 1:04:07

Ep. 139 - Steven Hartley

Steven Hartley is an English actor who has appeared in over 60 principal and leading roles on television and film including Happy Valley, EastEnders, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Strictly Confidential, Trial & Retribution, Holby City, Casualty, Pie in the Sky, Agatha Christie's Marple, Merlin, Married... with Children, Vera, Ripper Street, Silent Witness and All Creatures Great and Small. He has been "The Voice" of TalkSPORT radio station for 20 years. Steven Hartley is guest number 139 o

Oct 28, 2021 • 47:57

Ep. 138 - Paterson Joseph

Paterson Joseph is best known for his roles as Alan Johnson in Peepshow, Mark Grace in Casualty in the late 90s and most recently in the BBC’s hugely successful drama, Vigil, playing the Commander of HMS Vigil. He was also Keaty in the film The Beach with Leonardo DiCaprio. His new book, The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho, is out soon. Paterson Joseph is guest number 138 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; fo

Oct 24, 2021 • 47:10

Ep. 137 - Amanda Clapham

Amanda Clapham is an English actor best known for playing Holly Cunningham on the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks for 6 years. She was in the horror comedy film Next Door in 20202 and has performed at Edinburgh Festival. Amanda Clapham is guest number 137 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Amanda Clapham on Twitter: @aman

Oct 21, 2021 • 44:08

Ep. 136 - Shaparak Khorsandi

Shaparak Khorsandi, formerly credited as Shappi Khorsandi, is one of the UK’s finest comedians having performed standup around the world and appearing on TV & Radio shows including; Live at the Apollo, Mock The Week, 8 Out Of 10 Cats, Have I Got News For You, QI and Just a Minute. She was a contestant on the 17th series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! and her latest book, Kissing Emma, was released in September 2021. Shaparak Khorsandi is guest number 136 on My Time Capsule and chats to

Oct 17, 2021 • 54:33

Ep. 135 - Rufus Jones

Rufus Jones is an actor and writer who has appeared in such shows as Julia Davis’ Hunderby and Camping, W1A and Episodes. His own show, Home, was nominated for a BAFTA and he’s currently adapting it for the US with Ben Stiller. He stared in the films Stan & Ollie alongside Steve Coogan and John C Reilly, The Foreigner with Jackie Chan and Paddington. Rufus Jones is guest number 135 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; fo

Oct 14, 2021 • 56:15

Ep. 134 - Hal Cruttenden

Hal Cruttenden is one of the top stand up comedians working in the UK today, as well as being a writer, presenter and actor. He has made several appearances on Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News For You, The Royal Variety Performance, Would I Lie To You, The One Show and The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice. Hal Cruttenden is guest number 134 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and

Oct 10, 2021 • 57:48

Ep. 133 - Dan Tetsell

Dan Tetsell is a comedy writer and performer but he’s probably best known for appearing in Hollyoaks as Jim McGinn for 111 episodes. He’s also been in Miranda, Psychoville, Skins, Peep Show, Utopia, Humans, Red Dwarf, Not Going Out and Upstart Crow. As a writer he’s written The Museum of Everything, That Was Then, This Is Now and Newsjack for BBC Radio 4 and the CBBC series young Dracula. Dan Tetsell is guest number 133 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five t

Oct 7, 2021 • 50:54

Ep. 132 - Anne Hegerty

Anne Hegerty is best known as "The Governess" on The Chase, the ITV quiz show. She also appears in The Chase Australia, Beat The Chasers, The Chasers Road Trip and is the presenter of Britain’s Brightest Family. Anne Hegerty is guest number 132 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Anne Hegerty on Twitter: @anne_hegerty .Fo

Oct 3, 2021 • 54:10

Ep. 131 - Rhys James

Rhys James is a comedian, writer and actor best known as a regular panellist on Mock The Week. He’s also appeared on Roast Battle, Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central, A League of Their Own on Sky One and Live At The Apollo. He has had three BBC Radio 4 series, Rhys James is…, Rhys James Isn’t… and Rhysearch. Rhys James is guest number 131 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to

Sep 30, 2021 • 54:30

Ep. 130 - Richard Wilson

Richard Wilson is best known for playing Victor Meldrew in the BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave. Another notable role was as Gaius, the court physician of Camelot, in the BBC drama Merlin. He’s also a world renowned theatre director and actor. Richard Wilson is guest number 130 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow My Time Cap

Sep 26, 2021 • 50:54

Ep. 129 - Sanjeev Kohli

Sanjeev Kohli is an actor, comedian, and writer, best known for his role as shopkeeper Navid Harrid in the BBC sitcom Still Game, Ramesh Majhu in the radio sitcom Fags, Mags and Bags and A.J. Jandhu in the BBC Scotland soap opera River City. Since 2019, Kohli has hosted his own television talk show Sanjeev Kohli's Big Talk, on the BBC Scotland channel. As a writer he’s written for Goodness Gracious Me and The Big Breakfast and has stared in Look Around You, Fresh Meat, The IT Crowd, Cold Feet an

Sep 23, 2021 • 53:06

Ep. 128 - Jeremy Swift

Jeremy Swift is best known for playing Leslie Higgins in Ted Lasso on Apple TV (which is arguably currently the biggest TV show in the world) and Septimus Spratt, Maggie Smith's butler in Downton Abbey (a previous biggest TV show in the world). He’s also been in the films and TV shows Mary Poppins Returns, Gosford Park, Amazing Grace, Vanity Fair, Foyle's War, The Durrells and National Treasure. Jeremy Swift is guest number 128 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about th

Sep 19, 2021 • 50:51

Ep. 127 - Colin Sell

Colin Sell has been the piano player on I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue on BBC Radio 4 since 1975, often being the butt of the hosts jokes. He has toured with his fellow Clue co-stars Willie Rushton and Barrie Cryer, works with the Comedy Store Players and also tours his own show. Colin Sell is guest number 127 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think ab

Sep 16, 2021 • 45:37

Ep. 126 - Tony Slattery

Tony Slattery is probably best known for his appearances on Who’s Line Is It Anyway? and appearing in the films The Crying Game, Peter's Friends and How to Get Ahead in Advertising. In the mid 90s he suffered a breakdown triggered by cocaine and alcohol and was later diagnosed with bib-polar disorder. He discussed this period and his subsequent living with the disorder in a documentary made by Stephen Fry, The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive, in 2006. Tony Slattery is guest number 126 on My

Sep 12, 2021 • 41:24

Ep. 125 - David Quantick

David Quantick is a comedy writer. He won an Emmy as part of the writing team on Veep, a BAFTA for Harry Hill's TV Burp and a Writers’ Guild Award for The Thick Of It. He’s also written for HBO’s Avenue 5, The Day Today and Brass Eye with Chris Morris, Spitting Image, Smack The Pony and much more. He wrote for the NME for many years and is a best selling author or both fiction and non fiction books. David Quantick is guest number 125 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about t

Sep 9, 2021 • 49:31

Ep. 124 - Robert Llewellyn

Robert Llewellyn is best known for playing the robot Kryton in the sitcom Red Dwarf and as the presenter of Scrapheap Challenge on Channel 4. His own web series, Carpool, ran from 2009 to 2014 and became a TV series on Dave. Robert’s YouTube channel, Fully Charged, is the world's number 1 electric vehicle channel with over 122 million views. Robert Llewellyn is guest number 124 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four h

Sep 5, 2021 • 1:02:43

Ep. 123 - Jo Caulfield

Jo Caulfield is a stand-up comedian, actor and writer best known for her TV appearances on Mock The Week, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Have I Got News For You, Argumental and Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow. On the radio she’s been on Just a Minute, The Now Show, Quote Unquote and her own Radio 4 shows It's That Jo Caulfield Again and Jo Caulfield Won't Shut Up! Jo was a writer on all five series of Graham Norton’s BAFTA Award winning So Graham Norton and head writer on Ruby Wax’s Waiting Game.

Sep 2, 2021 • 55:39

Ep. 122 - Mark Billingham

Mark Billingham is one of the UK’s most successful crime writers. His series of Tom Thorne novels started in 2001 with Sleepyhead and he’s gone on to release 16 more books in the series. Before being a writer, Mark was a standup comedian and actor, most notably playing Gary the guard in the children’s TV show Maid Marian and her Merry Men, which he went on to co-write with Tony Robinson. Mark Billingham is guest number 122 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five thi

Aug 29, 2021 • 41:11

Ep. 121 - Simon Greenall

Simon Greenall is best known for playing Michael in the BBC TV series I'm Alan Partridge and the film Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa. Simon is the voice of Aleksandr Orlov and Sergi in the Compare the Meerkat adverts and Captain Barnacles in the CBeebies show The Octonauts. Simon Greenall is guest number 121 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think abou

Aug 26, 2021 • 45:00

Ep. 120 - Omid Djalili

Omid Djalili is a comedian and actor. As an actor he’s been in the films Gladiator, The Mummy, Mean Machine, The World Is Not Enough, Notting Hill, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Sex and the City 2, Shaun the Sheep Movie and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. He appeared as Nasim in 22 episodes of the U.S. sitcom Whoopi, starring Whoopi Goldberg. As a stand-up he’s performed sellout shows around the world and had his own HBO special. Omid Djalili is guest number 120 on My Time Capsule and c

Aug 22, 2021 • 55:33

Ep. 119 - Mitch Benn

Mitch Benn is a comedian and musician best known as the resident comic songwriter on BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show from 1999 to 2016. Mitch’s own Radio 4 show, Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music, ran for three series. Mitch began his comedy career in Edinburgh in the mid-1990s and became one of the most in-demand comedians on the UK comedy circuit. He is a weekly columnist for The New European newspaper and has written three Science Fiction novels - Terra, Terra's World and Terra's War. Mitch Benn i

Aug 19, 2021 • 47:00

Ep. 118 - Angela Barnes

Angela Barnes is a comedian best known for her appearances on Mock The Week and hosting The News Quiz and Newsjack on BBC Radio 4. She’s had her own Radio 4 stand-up series called You Can’t Take It With You which was based on her 2014 début show at the Edinburgh Festival and she co-hosts the "less-than-serious history podcast" We Are History with writer (and previous MTC guest) John O'Farrell. Angela Barnes is guest number 118 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five

Aug 15, 2021 • 44:25

Ep. 117 - Dallas Campbell

Dallas Campbell is a science presenter best known for the programmes Bang Goes The Theory, The Gadget Show, Stargazing Live, The Sky at Night, Horizon and Supersized Earth. He is a regular contributor to the BBC's science magazine Focus, the Times' Eureka magazine, and The Observer. His book, Ad Astra: An Illustrated Guide to Leaving the Planet, was released in 2017. Dallas Campbell is guest number 117 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like t

Aug 12, 2021 • 1:00:20

Ep. 116 - John O’Farrell

John O’Farrell is an author and comedy script writer. He was a writer for such shows as Spitting Image, Grumpy Old Men and Have I Got News For You. He co-wrote the Aardman animation film Early Man with Nick Park and wrote for the film Chicken Run. He wrote the book for the Broadway musical Something Rotten which was nominated for 10 Tony Awards including a “Best Book” nomination for John. He’s written numerous books including Things Can Only Get Better, An Utterly Impartial Histor

Aug 8, 2021 • 47:54

Ep. 115 - Steve Delaney (Count Arthur Strong)

Steve Delaney is best known for playing his character, Count Arthur Strong. He wrote and performed Count Arthur Strong’s Radio Show! for almost 50 episodes on BBC Radio 4 winning a Song Gold Radio Award and then later in his own BBC sitcom, Count Arthur Strong. He still tours as Count Arthur with a new tour coming up in 2022. Steve Delaney is guest number 115 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserv

Aug 5, 2021 • 42:14

Ep. 114 - Paul Bradley

Paul Bradley is best known for playing Nigel Bates in EastEnders for 6 years and Elliot Hope in the medical drama series Holby City for 10 years. His other acting credits include Red Dwarf, The Young Ones, The Comic Strip Presents, Bottom and My Family. In 2001 he went to Rwanda with Comic Relief to learn about the genocide there. He is the guitarist and vocalist in the band The hKippers (the 'h' is silent) with Stephen Warbeck, the Academy Award-winning composer of Shakespeare in Love. Paul Bra

Aug 1, 2021 • 53:08

Ep. 113 - Sophie Ward

Sophie Ward is an actor and novelist. As an actor she played Dr. Helen Trent in 40 episodes of Heartbeat, she was Lady Ellen Hoxley in Land Girls, Sophia Byrne in Holby City, A Dark-Adapted Eye with Helena Bonham Carter and the fantasy Dinotopia. She was in the films Young Sherlock Holmes, Return to Oz and Jane Eyre with Michael Fassbender and Judi Dench. Her debut novel, Love and Other Thought Experiments, was long listed for the 2020 Booker Prize. Sophie Ward is guest number 113 on My Time Cap

Jul 29, 2021 • 50:53

Ep. 112 - Gary Wilmot

Gary Wilmot MBE is one of the UK’s biggest West End stars having played the lead in such shows as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Me and My Girl, Oliver!, Chicago, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The Wind in the Willows. He’s played the Dame in The London Palladium’s pantomime for the past few years and in 2018 he was made an MBE for services to drama and charity. Gary Wilmot is guest number 112 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule;

Jul 25, 2021 • 47:11

Ep. 111 - Kevin Day

Kevin Day is a British stand up comedian, comedy writer and sports presenter. Kevin is Match of the Day 2’s roving reporter, he’s a programme associate for Have I Got News for You and contributes to writing the programme, he hosted the comedy discussion programme Loose Talk on BBC Radio 1 with comedian Mark Thomas an the hosts the podcasts The Price of Football and Five Year Plan Fanzine. Kevin Day is guest number 111 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five thi

Jul 22, 2021 • 1:15:11

Ep. 110 - Isy Suttie

Comedian, actor and writer, Isy Suttie, is best known for playing Dobby in the sitcom Peep Show alongside David Mitchell and Robert Webb. Other acting credits include the sitcom Damned with Jo Brand & Alan Davies and Greg Davies’ sitcom Man Down. As a comedian she’s been on QI, Would I Lie To You and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Her first book, The Actual One, was released in 2016 and her debut novel, Jane Is Trying is out on 22nd June 2021. Isy Suttie is guest number 110 on My Time Capsule

Jul 18, 2021 • 56:21

Ep. 109 - Alfie Brown

Alfie Brown is a stand up comedian who has toured the, UK and Croatia and has performed at the Edinburgh Festival for many years. The Guardian described him as “An immensely self assured and stylish comic”. His latest stand up special, Imagination, can be seen on YouTube. He is the son of the comedian and previous My Time Capsule guest, Jan Ravens. Alfie Brown is guest number 109 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four

Jul 15, 2021 • 56:31

Ep. 108 - Nicky Campbell

Nicky Campbell has presented the breakfast show on BBC Radio 5 Live since 2003. Before 5 Live he presented shows on BBC Radio 1. On the television he presents the BAFTA winning Long Lost Family on ITV with Davina McCall and The Big Questions on BBC One. He was a regular host of Top of the Pops and presented Wheel of Fortune and Watchdog. His memoir, One of the Family, was a Sunday Times Bestseller and also gives it’s name to his podcast. Nicky Campbell is guest number 108 on My Time Capsule and

Jul 11, 2021 • 52:19

Ep. 107 - Harriet Cross

Harriet Cross is the High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago and has been a member of Her Majesty’s Diplomatic Service for 23 years. She was Consul-General in Boston Massachusetts from 2016 to August 2020 and Deputy Ambassador at the British Embassy in Yemen before that. While in Yemen, she organised the evacuation of the Embassy due to the ongoing civil war there and spent the rest of her posting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Harriet Cross is guest number 107 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael

Jul 8, 2021 • 38:10

Ep. 106 - Emma Kennedy

Emma Kennedy is an actor, comedy writer and author. As an actor, she has appeared in Goodness Gracious Me, This Morning With Richard Not Judy (with her fellow Oxford Revue members Richard Herring & Stewart Lee), Jonathan Creek and People Like Us. As a writer she’s written numerous books in including How To Bring Up Your Parents and The Tent, The Bucket and Me which was also adapted, by Emma, into a six-part BBC TV series called The Kennedys staring Katherine Parkinson. Emma won Celebrity MasterC

Jul 4, 2021 • 51:29

Ep. 105 - Alex Macqueen

Alex Macqueen is an actor probably best known for his roles as Neil’s dad in The Inbetweeners series and both movies, Dr Keith Green in 75 episodes of Holby City and Julius Nicholson in The Thick of It. He’s also been in Peep Show, The IT Crowd, Lead Balloon, Outnumbered, Miranda, Black Mirror, Peaky Blinders, This Is England ’88 and so much more! Alex Macqueen is guest number 105 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; fou

Jul 1, 2021 • 43:43

Ep. 104 - Barry Cryer - Part 2

Barry Cryer is perhaps best known as a panelist on I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue on BBC Radio 4 but his career is so much more than that. Amongst other things, too many to mention, he has written for Dave Allen, Stanley Baxter, Jack Benny, Rory Bremner, George Burns, Jasper Carrott, Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson, Dick Emery, Kenny Everett, Sir Bruce Forsyth, Sir David Frost, Bob Hope, Frankie Howerd, Richard Pryor, Spike Milligan, Mike Yarwood, The Two Ronnies and Morecambe and Wise. Barry Cryer is gues

Jun 27, 2021 • 43:41

Ep. 104 - Barry Cryer - Part 1

Barry Cryer is perhaps best known as a panelist on I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue on BBC Radio 4 but his career is so much more than that. Amongst other things, too many to mention, he has written for Dave Allen, Stanley Baxter, Jack Benny, Rory Bremner, George Burns, Jasper Carrott, Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson, Dick Emery, Kenny Everett, Sir Bruce Forsyth, Sir David Frost, Bob Hope, Frankie Howerd, Richard Pryor, Spike Milligan, Mike Yarwood, The Two Ronnies and Morecambe and Wise. Barry Cryer is gues

Jun 27, 2021 • 40:37

Ep. 103 - Adam Wide

Adam Wide may be our first guest who is not famous BUT he is an extraordinary and fascinating man. He is the vice-chairman of International Gay Rugby, the former creative director at Guinness World Records, in the 90’s his entertainment company Openwide became Europe’s largest independent Entertainment Consultancy and before all that he had a career as an actor, entertainer and magician appearing regularly on shows such as The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow and staring in hundreds of television

Jun 24, 2021 • 49:36

Ep. 102 - Katy Brand

Katy Brand is a comedian, writer and actor who is best known for her series Katy Brand's Big Ass Show, which ran for 3 series on ITV2. She was in the film Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang with Emma Thompson, has been in the TV shows Peep Show, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI, Celebrity Mastermind, Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive and she danced to Single Ladies by Beyonce on Let’s Dance for Sport Relief. Her latest book, I Carried a Watermelon, was published in 2019 and her debut feature film, Good Luc

Jun 20, 2021 • 1:03:34

Ep. 101 - Justin Moorhouse

Justin Moorhouse is a stand up comedian probably best known for his role in Phoenix Nights where he played Young Kenny. He was also in Ken Loach’s film Looking For Eric with Eric Cantona, he’s been in Still Open All Hours, Coronation Street, Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, QI and Celebrity Mastermind. On the radio he had his own sitcom on BBC Radio 4 called Everyone Quite Likes Justin and he presents shows on BBC Radio Manchester. He has a weekly podcast called About 30 minutes, No more than

Jun 17, 2021 • 52:58

Ep. 100 - Ross Noble

EPISODE 100!! Can you believe it? Our very special guest is the comedian Ross Noble. Ross Noble came to prominence in the UK through his appearances on shows such as Have I Got News For You, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, QI, Top Gear and Just a Minute. He’s performed his Stan-up around the world and he was voted the 10th-greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups. He has acted on stage in Mel Brooks’ The Producers and Igor in Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein for which wa

Jun 13, 2021 • 1:18:50

Ep. 99 - Emma Cunniffe

Emma Cunniffe is an actor who has stared on the stage and television, most notably on TV in Silent Witness, Unforgotten, Doctor Who with Matt Smith, Clocking Off, Waterloo Road and much more. On stage she played Queen Anne in the RSC's production of Helen Edmundson's Queen Anne in Stratford and the West End, she won the UK Theatre Awards for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in The Master Builder and she was nominated for "what's on stage" award for her role as Elizabeth Proc

Jun 10, 2021 • 40:54

Ep. 98 - Alan Davies

Alan Davies is best known as a panelist on BBC panel show QI and playing the title role in the BBC mystery drama series Jonathan Creek. He hosts Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled on Dave and will appear as a constant on series 12 of Taskmaster to be released later in 2021. He has written two autobiographies My Favourite People and Me,1978–88 and Just Ignore Him, which has just been released in paperback. Alan Davies is guest number 98 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about

Jun 6, 2021 • 51:52

Ep. 97 - Simon Williams

Simon Williams is best known for playing James Bellamy in the period drama Upstairs, Downstairs and Charles Cartwright in the sitcom Don't Wait Up. Since 2014, he has played the character of Justin Elliott in the BBC Radio 4 series The Archers. He’s also appeared in Bergerac, Dangerfield, Dinnerladies, Doctor The, Scarlet Pimpernel, Dalziel and Pascoe, Bad Girls, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Cutting It, Kingdom and Spooks. Simon Williams is guest number 97 on My Time Capsule and chats to Mich

Jun 3, 2021 • 33:32

Ep. 96 - Bonnie Langford

Bonnie Langford is best known for her roles as Carmel Kazemi in EastEnders and the Doctor Who companion Mel Bush. She came to prominence as a child star in the 1970s, in the TV series Just William. She’s also appeared in numerous musicals over the years in the West End and on Broadway, including shows such as the original cast of Cats, 42nd Street, The Pirates of Penzance and Chicago. She was in the film Bugsy Malone, reached the final of Dancing On Ice and in 2016 she won a British Soap Aw

May 30, 2021 • 48:11

Ep. 95 - Alex Lowe

Alex Lowe is best know for his characters Clinton Baptiste from Phoenix Nights and Barry from Watford which he performed regularly on Steve Wright’s Radio 2 show and Iain Lee’s radio shows. He’s also appeared in The Fast Show, Three Men in A Boat, That Peter Kay Thing, The 11 O’Clock Show and much more. Alex Lowe is guest number 95 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury

May 27, 2021 • 44:56

Ep. 94 - Les Dennis

Les Dennis is best know for presenting Family Fortunes from 1987 until 2002. As an actor Les stared in an episode of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s sitcom Extras, he played Michael Rogers in Coronation Street, on stage he’s been in the musicals Chicago, Me and My Girl and Hairspray and in 2019, he performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Restoration plays The Provoked Wife and Venice Preserved. Les Dennis is guest number 94 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens abou

May 23, 2021 • 50:54

Ep. 93 - James Moore

James Moore is best known for playing Ryan Stocks in Emmerdale for which he won the Best Newcomer at the National Television Awards in 2019. James has cerebral palsy and is passionate about normalising disability on screen and for there to be more roles for disabled actors. James Moore is guest number 93 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think abou

May 20, 2021 • 43:08

Ep. 92 - John Bradley

John Bradley is best known for playing Samwell Tarly in Game of Thrones. Samwell is Jon Snow’s closest friend and ally. He’s also been in Merlin, Shameless, Robot Chicken and the films Patient Zero, Man Up and American Satan. John Bradley (also known as John Bradley West) is guest number 91 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follo

May 16, 2021 • 57:11

Ep. 91 - Josie Lawrence

Josie Lawrence is a comedian and actor best known for her regular appearances in Who’s Line Is It Anyway and her work with improvisational comedy group, The Comedy Store Players. As an actor she was Manda Best in Eastenders, she was in Outside Edge with Timothy Spall and Brenda Blethyn, Jonathan Creek, Humans, Good Omens and much more. On stage she appeared in Victoria Wood’s Acorn Antiques: The Musical and has been a member of the RSC. Josie Lawrence is guest number 91 on My Time Capsule and ch

May 13, 2021 • 1:01:57

Ep. 90 - Charlie Higson

Charlie Higson was the co-creator and star of The Fast Show with Paul Whitehouse. Paul and Charlie started their careers writing for Harry Enfield and continued to work together after The Fast Show on such shows as Down The Line on BBC Radio4 which became the TV series Bellamy’s People. He wrote and starred in The Fast Show’s spin-off sitcom Swiss Toni and was the producer, writer and director on Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) with Bob Mortimer and Vic Reeves. He’s now a best selling author, writi

May 9, 2021 • 1:01:15

Ep. 89 - Simon Evans

Simon Evans is a standup comedian and writer best known for his appearances on Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week and even Question Time and University Challenge. His own radio 4 series, Simon Evans Goes to Market, is into it’s 5th series and as a writer he’s contributed to Not Going Out, Eight out of Ten Cats, The Think Its all Over and The Big Breakfast. Simon Evans is guest number 89 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time caps

May 6, 2021 • 52:41

Ep. 88 - Ken Bruce

Ken Bruce is best known for presenting the mid-morning slot on BBC Radio 2 every weekday. His Radio 2 show features the extremely popular quiz, Pop Master. Ken Bruce is guest number 88 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Ken Bruce on Twitter: @RealKenBruce .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod

May 2, 2021 • 47:22

Ep. 87 - Kate Thornton

Kate Thornton is a presenter and journalist best known for presenting The X Factor, Top of the Pops, This Morning and Loose Women. As a journalist she was the youngest ever editor of Smash Hits magazine at 21 and was contributing editor for The Sunday Times and Marie Claire. Her own podcast, White Wine Question Time, is available now. Kate Thornton is guest number 87 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like

Apr 29, 2021 • 43:41

Ep. 86 - Rob Brydon

Welcome to our 1 year anniversary show with the comedian, actor and presenter, Rob Brydon! Rob is best known for presenting Would I Lie to You on BBC One, playing Bryn West in Gavin and Stacey and his role in The Trip with Steve Coogan. He also now has his own podcast 'Brydon &', exclusively on Spotify. Rob Brydon is guest number 86 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to b

Apr 25, 2021 • 1:02:24

Ep. 85 - Giles Paley-Phillips

Giles Paley-Phillips is an award winning children’s author and podcaster. His debut picture book, The Fearsome Beastie, won the People's Book Prize 2012. He co-hosts the fantastic podcast Blank with the standup comedian Jim Daly. Blank is now also a book! Giles Paley-Phillips is guest number 85 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again

Apr 22, 2021 • 52:36

Ep. 84 - Howard Goodall

EMMY, BRIT and BAFTA award-winning composer, Howard Goodall has composed the music for Red Dwarf, Blackadder, Mr. Bean, The Thin Blue Line, The Vicar of Dibley, The Catherine Tate Show, 2point4 Children and QI. He’s worked extensively with his university friend Rowan Atkinson, writing music for his live shows, Mr Bean, the Johnny English films and his performance at the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony. His musicals are performed all over the world and include Bend it like Beckham, The Hire

Apr 18, 2021 • 1:05:51

Ep. 83 - Izzy Mant

Izzy Mant is a double BAFTA winning comedy producer and standup comedian. She produced Peep Show, Harry & Paul, Toast of London, The Windsors, Cuckoo and Gameface. As a standup, her hour-long show ‘Izzy Mant: Polite Club’ was a sell-out success at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Izzy Mant is guest number 83 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to

Apr 15, 2021 • 47:00

Ep. 82 - Tim Vine

Tim Vine is comedian who’s best known for his one-liner jokes and his role on Not Going Out with Lee Mack from 2006 to 2014. He’s won the award for best joke at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe twice and has written several joke books. Tim Vine is guest number 82 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Tim's film - Fearmoth: https

Apr 11, 2021 • 41:32

Ep. 81 - Romola Garai

Twice Golden Globe nominee Romola Garai, has appeared in such films and TV show as Atonement, The Hour, the title role in Emma, The Crimson Petal and the White (for which she received a BAFTA nomination), The Other Man alongside Liam Neeson and Laura Linney, Stephen Poliakoff's World War II thriller Glorious 39 and so much more! Romola Garai is guest number 81 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to

Apr 8, 2021 • 48:36

Ep. 80 - Ed Byrne

Stand up comedian Ed Byrne has enjoyed huge critical and popular success in the UK and Ireland. He has performed many sold out tours and shows all over the world, he regularly appears on shows like Mock The Week, Have I Got News You and The Graham Norton Show and at the beginning of 2021 he was a contestant on BBC's Celebrity Best Home Cook. Ed Byrne is guest number 80 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; fo

Apr 4, 2021 • 50:07

Ep. 79 - Chris Lang

Chris Lang is best known as the writer and creator of Unforgotten, the award winning crime drama which can be seen on PBS, Netflix and ITV. Chris has also written Innocent, Dark Heart, Undeniable, A Mother's Son and Torn amongst others. In his youth, he formed a comedy revue called The Jockeys of Norfolk with Hugh Grant. Chris Lang is guest number 79 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like t

Apr 1, 2021 • 50:23

Ep. 78 - Anna Chancellor

Anna Chancellor is best known for playing Duck Face in Four Weddings and a Funeral but she's also been in Spooks, Miranda, Inside No.9, she was Caroline Bingley in the BBC's Pride & Prejudice with Colin Firth, The Crown, Downton Abbey and so much more. Anna Chancellor is guest number 78 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow

Mar 28, 2021 • 1:02:26

Ep. 77 - Derren Litten

Derren Litten co-wrote and stared in The Catherine Tate Show alongside Catherine Tate, he wrote the BAFTA winning sitcom Benidorm which ran for 10 series and he’s also acted in many comedy and drama series including French and Saunders, Spaced, EastEnders, Coronation Street and Pie in the Sky. Derren Litten is guest number 77 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and

Mar 26, 2021 • 45:03

Ep. 76 - Seann Walsh

Comedian Seann Walsh is a regular on TV appearing in shows like Mock The Week, Live at the Apollo, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Celebrity Juice. He was a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2018 and presents a regular show on Fubar Radio. Seann Walsh is guest number 76 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Fol

Mar 22, 2021 • 59:26

Ep. 75 - Aurora Burghart

Aurora Burghart is best known for her roles in Netflix's The Stranger, October Faction, Sex Education and BBC 2's There She Goes with David Tennant and Jessica Hynes. Aurora Burghart is guest number 75 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Aurora Burghart on Twitter: @bondgirl2021 and Instagram @auroraburgbum .Follow My Tim

Mar 19, 2021 • 43:12

Ep. 74 - Mark Watson

Mark Watson is a comedian and novelist. On television, he’s been on Taskmaster, Mock The Week, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Have I Got News For You, Would I Lie To You?, QI and Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls. He’s also written seven novels including his latest, Contacts, which was released in 2020. Mark Watson is guest number 74 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury

Mar 15, 2021 • 44:53

Ep. 73 - Tim Bentinck

Best known for playing David Archer in The Archers on BBC Radio 4. Tim Bentinck has also appeared on television in Twenty Twelve, The Thick of It, The Royal Bodyguard and Grange Hill, as a voice artist he was James Bond in the video game The World Is Not Enough, he re-voiced Gérard Depardieu in the film Nouvelle France and Chow Yung Fat in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, as well as being the voice of "Mind The Gap" on the London Underground. He writes travel articles for The Mail on Sunday and h

Mar 12, 2021 • 48:31

Ep. 72 - Rachel Parris & Marcus Brigstocke

Our first married couple on the podcast! Rachel Parris is a regular contributor to BBC 2's The Mash Report for which she was nominated for a BAFTA, She has appeared on Live At The Apollo, Mock The Week, QI and Would I Lie To You and she's a member of the improv comedy group Austentatious. Marcus Brigstocke is a comedian, actor and presenter who has appeared on Have I Got News for You and Live At The Apollo, he was the presenter of The Brig Society and I've Never Seen Star Wars on BBC Radio

Mar 8, 2021 • 52:21

Ep. 71 - Nigel Planer

Nigel Planer is an actor, comedian, novelist and playwright who is best known for playing Neil in The Young Ones and Ralph Filthy in Filthy Rich & Catflap with Rick Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. He has appeared in many West End musicals, including original casts of Evita, Chicago, We Will Rock You, Wicked, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He was a founding member of the London Comedy Store and original member of The Comic Strip. Nigel Planer is guest number 71 on My Time Capsule and he chat

Mar 5, 2021 • 36:27

Ep. 70 - Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas is a comedian, writer and activist. The Mark Thomas Comedy Product, his Channel 4 show, ran for 6 series and his BBC Radio 4 show, The Manifesto, ran for 5 series. He has a Guinness World Record for holding 20 protests in 24 hours. Mark Thomas is guest number 70 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Mark Thomas

Mar 1, 2021 • 57:02

Ep. 69 - Vicki Pepperdine

Vicki Pepperdine co-wrote and starred in the multi-award-winning BBC Four sitcom Getting On with Jo Brand and Joanna Scanlan which was adapted for HBO in America. She is one half of the hilarious podcast Dear Joan and Jericha with Julia Davis. She's also appeared in Julia Davis's Camping and Nighty Night, The Windsors in which she plays Princess Anne, Twenty Twelve, I'm Alan Partridge and Miranda. Vicki Pepperdine is guest number 69 on My Time Capsule and chats

Feb 26, 2021 • 37:49

Ep. 68 - Caroline Quentin

British actress Caroline Quentin is best known for her roles in Men Behaving Badly, Jonathan Creek and Blue Murder. She is also a presenter of such show as Restoration Home and The World's Most Extraordinary Homes on BBC 2, she joined The Royal Shakespeare Company in 2019 for a production of The Provoked Wife and in 2020 she was a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing. Caroline Quentin is guest number 68 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put

Feb 22, 2021 • 54:36

Ep. 67 - Clive Anderson

Clive Anderson is a British television and radio presenter, comedy writer and former barrister. On television he presented Whose Line Is It Anyway, Clive Anderson Talks Back and Clive Anderson All Talk. He's also appeared regularly on Have I Got News For You and QI. On the radio he is the presenter of Radio 4's Loose Ends and Unreliable Evidence. He is also the President of the Woodland Trust. Clive Anderson is guest number 67 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the f

Feb 19, 2021 • 1:01:45

Ep. 66 - Robin Ince

Robin Ince is best known as the co-host of the BBC Radio 4 series The Infinite Monkey Cage with Professor Brian Cox. As a stand up he has toured the world and won three Chortle Awards and the Time Out Outstanding Achievement Award. His latest book is I’m a Joke and So Are You and he also co-hosts the podcast Robin and Josie’s Book Shambles with Josie Long, which is part of The Cosmic Shambles Network, which he also co-created. Robin Ince is guest number 66 on My Time Capsule

Feb 15, 2021 • 54:55

Ep. 65 - Kevin Bishop

Kevin Bishop is a British actor, comedian and writer. He stared in the films Muppet Treasure Island, A Few Best Men and Keith Lemon: The Film and on television he's been in Peep Show, Star Stories and his own show, The Kevin Bishop Show amongst countess others. He's also the speaking voice for 2-D, the fictional lead singer of virtual band Gorillaz. Kevin Bishop is guest number 65 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a

Feb 12, 2021 • 59:37

Ep. 64 - Lee Mack

Lee Mack is a comedian, writer, actor and presenter. He is best known as the BAFTA winning team captain on BBC One's comedy panel show, Would I Lie To You, with David Mitchell and Rob Brydon and as the writer and star of the Rose d’Or winning sitcom Not Going Out. Lee Mack is guest number 64 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .F

Feb 8, 2021 • 1:08:33

Ep. 63 - Andi Osho

Andi Osho is a stand-up comedian, actress and writer. She's appeared on Live at the Apollo, Mock The Week, Never Mind The Buzzcocks and The Late Late Show in America, her acting credits include I May Destroy You, Eastenders and Death in Paradise. She has a podcast! Creative Sauce with Andi Osho and her debut novel, Asking for a Friend, is out now! Andi Osho is guest number 63 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four sh

Feb 5, 2021 • 48:50

Ep. 62 - Jayde Adams

Jayde Adams is a British comedian, actress, writer and singer. She was the winner of the 2014 Funny Women award and 2016 nominee for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. She plays Julia Petley in Amazon Prime's Good Omens, she co-hosts Snackmasters on Channel 4 with Fred Sirieix and Crazy Delicious on Netflix with Heston Blumenthal. Her stand up special, Serious Black Jumper is available on Amazon Prime. Jayde Adams is guest number 62 on My Time Capsule and chat

Feb 1, 2021 • 45:27

Ep. 61 - Rory McGrath

Rory McGrath is best known as a panel member of the BBC comedy sports quiz They Think It's All Over and as one of the Three Men in a Boat, alongside Dara Ó Briain and Griff Rhys Jones. He co-founded the British television production company Hat Trick Productions. Rory McGrath is guest number 61 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to th

Jan 29, 2021 • 45:36

Ep. 60 - John Owen-Jones

John Owen-Jones is a hugely successful West End star. He remains the youngest person ever to play Jean Valjean in Les Miserables, a role he's played multiple times in the West End and on Broadway. He has also played The Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera more times than any other actor. John Owen-Jones is guest number 60 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and nev

Jan 25, 2021 • 57:13

Ep. 59 - Fred Macaulay

Stand-up comedian, Fred Macaulay, is a regular voice on BBC Radio4 appearing regularly on I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, Just A Minute, The Unbelievable Truth and The News Quiz. On TV he's appeared on Mock the Week, QI and Have I Got News For You. He presented MacAulay and Co. on BBC Radio Scotland for almost 18 years. Fred Macaulay is guest number 59 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and on

Jan 18, 2021 • 58:38

Ep. 58 - Eilidh Doyle

British athlete, Eilidh Doyle, specialises in the 400m hurdles and the 4x400m relay. She has an Olympic bronze medal, 2 World silvers and 1 bronze, she is the 2014 European Champion and 3 time Commonwealth silver medalist. She was the captain for the GB Team at the 2017 World Athletics Championships in London and is the most decorated Scottish athlete in Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth competition. She is a super human! Eilidh Doyle is guest number 58 on My Time Capsule and c

Jan 11, 2021 • 42:08

Ep. 57 - Andrew Hunter Murray (No Such Thing As A Fish)

Andrew Hunter Murray is the co-host of the hugely successful podcast, No Such Thing As A Fish. He is a QI Elf and a writes for the show and their numerous books. He also writes for Private Eye magazine and hosts their podcast Page 94. He is a regular performer on BBC2's The Mash Report and is a founding member of the Jane Austen-themed improv show Austentatious, which has sold out at the Edinburgh Fringe every year since 2013 and regularly plays in London’s West End. His first novel, The Last Da

Jan 4, 2021 • 44:53

Ep. 56 - Doon Mackichan

Actor and comedian best known for staring in Smack the Pony, The Day Today, Brass Eye, Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge, Toast of London, Plebs (which she was BAFTA nominated for) and Good Omens. Doon Mackichan is guest number 56 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Fac

Dec 28, 2020 • 53:23

My Christmas Time Capsule No. 25 - Stephen Fry

It's Christmas Day! We hope you've enjoyed our advent calendar of podcasts. For the final episode of My Christmas Time Capsule, we have a very special guest. Stephen Fry. Merry Christmas!!If you're enjoying our Christmas specials, please consider donating to Crisis this Christmas https://www.crisis.org.uk/crisis-this-christmas .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced

Dec 25, 2020 • 6:29

My Christmas Time Capsule Ep. 24 - Rick Wakeman

My Christmas Time Capsule, an advent calendar of podcasts! 25 mini episodes, one a day, up to Christmas Day, where we ask our guests what they would put in a Christmas time capsule! One thing they love and one they hate. The guest behind door number 24 is musician, presenter and David Bowie pianist, Rick Wakeman .If you're enjoying our Christmas specials, please consider donating to Crisis this Christmas https://www.crisis.org.uk/crisis-this-christmas .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagra

Dec 24, 2020 • 5:31

My Christmas Time Capsule No. 23 - Rachel Parris, Marcus Brigstocke & Rev Richard Coles

My Christmas Time Capsule, an advent calendar of podcasts! 25 mini episodes, one a day, up to Christmas Day, where we ask our guests what they would put in a Christmas time capsule! One thing they love and one they hate. The guests behind door number 23 are the BAFTA nominated comedian from The Mash Report, Rachel Parris, comedian Marcus Brigstocke and musician, journalist, former member of The Communards and priest, Rev Richard Coles .If you're enjoying our Christmas specials, please consider d

Dec 23, 2020 • 11:40

My Christmas Time Capsule No. 22 - Arthur Smith

My Christmas Time Capsule, an advent calendar of podcasts! 25 mini episodes, one a day, up to Christmas Day, where we ask our guests what they would put in a Christmas time capsule! One thing they love and one they hate. The guest behind door number 22 is stand-up comedian, Arthur Smith .If you're enjoying our Christmas specials, please consider donating to Crisis this Christmas https://www.crisis.org.uk/crisis-this-christmas .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod

Dec 22, 2020 • 10:28

My Christmas Time Capsule No. 21 - Andrew Hunter Murray & Mark Watson

My Christmas Time Capsule, an advent calendar of podcasts! 25 mini episodes, one a day, up to Christmas Day, where we ask our guests what they would put in a Christmas time capsule! One thing they love and one they hate. The guests behind door number 21 are co-host of the podcast No Such Thing As A Fish, Andrew Hunter Murray and comedian, Mark Watson .If you're enjoying our Christmas specials, please consider donating to Crisis this Christmas https://www.crisis.org.uk/crisis-this-christmas .Foll

Dec 21, 2020 • 5:37

Ep. 55 - Milton Jones

Milton Jones is a British stand-up comedian who is a regular panellist on Mock the Week, has had various shows on BBC Radio 4, has won the Perrier comedy award for best newcomer and his radio 4 show, Another Case of Milton Jones, was awarded silver in the 'Best Comedy' category at the Sony Radio Academy awards. Milton Jones is guest number 55 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preser

Dec 21, 2020 • 38:07

My Christmas Time Capsule No. 20 - Julie Graham

My Christmas Time Capsule, an advent calendar of podcasts! 25 mini episodes, one a day, up to Christmas Day, where we ask our guests what they would put in a Christmas time capsule! One thing they love and one they hate. The guest behind door number 20 is the actress, Julie Graham .If you're enjoying our Christmas specials, please consider donating to Crisis this Christmas https://www.crisis.org.uk/crisis-this-christmas .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Foll

Dec 20, 2020 • 10:24

My Christmas Time Capsule No. 19 - John Challis & Emma Cuniffe

My Christmas Time Capsule, an advent calendar of podcasts! 25 mini episodes, one a day, up to Christmas Day, where we ask our guests what they would put in a Christmas time capsule! The guests behind door number 19 are "Boycie" from Only Fools and Horses, John Challis and RSC actress, Emma Cuniffe .If you're enjoying our Christmas specials, please consider donating to Crisis this Christmas https://www.crisis.org.uk/crisis-this-christmas .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Faceboo

Dec 19, 2020 • 8:48

My Christmas Time Capsule No. 18 - Anneka Rice

My Christmas Time Capsule, an advent calendar of podcasts! We will be releasing 25 mini episodes, one a day, up to Christmas Day, where we ask our guests what they would put in a Christmas time capsule! One thing they love and one they hate. The guest behind door number 18 is presenter and broadcaster, Anneka Rice .If you're enjoying our Christmas specials, please consider donating to Crisis this Christmas https://www.crisis.org.uk/crisis-this-christmas .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instag

Dec 18, 2020 • 5:19

My Christmas Time Capsule No. 17 - Anthony Head & Jayde Adams

My Christmas Time Capsule, an advent calendar of podcasts! 25 mini episodes, one a day, up to Christmas Day, where we ask our guests what they would put in a Christmas time capsule! One thing they love and one they hate. The guests behind door number 17 are British actor who played Giles in Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Anthony Head and the standup comedian, writer and presenter, Jayde Adams .The charity that Jayde Adams' mum's face-masks raised money for is https://www.braintumoursupport.co.uk, so

Dec 17, 2020 • 19:48

My Christmas Time Capsule No. 16 - Kevin McNally

My Christmas Time Capsule, an advent calendar of podcasts! We will be releasing 25 mini episodes, one a day, up to Christmas Day, where we ask our guests what they would put in a Christmas time capsule! One thing they love and one they hate. The guest behind door number 16 plays Joshamee Gibbs in all 5 Pirates of the Caribbean films, it's Kevin McNally .If you're enjoying our Christmas specials, please consider donating to Crisis this Christmas https://www.crisis.org.uk/crisis-this-christmas .Fo

Dec 16, 2020 • 7:36

My Christmas Time Capsule No. 15 - Anna Ptaszynski

My Christmas Time Capsule, an advent calendar of podcasts! We will be releasing 25 mini episodes, one a day, up to Christmas Day, where we ask our guests what they would put in a Christmas time capsule! One thing they love and one they hate. The guest behind door number 15 is co-host of the hugely successful podcast, No Such Thing As A Fish and QI Elf, Anna Ptaszynski .If you're enjoying our Christmas specials, please consider donating to Crisis this Christmas https://www.crisis.org.uk/crisis-th

Dec 15, 2020 • 8:53

My Christmas Time Capsule No. 14 - Justin Edwards & Arabella Weir

My Christmas Time Capsule, an advent calendar of podcasts! We will be releasing 25 mini episodes, one a day, up to Christmas Day, where we ask our guests what they would put in a Christmas time capsule! One thing they love and one they hate. The guests behind door number 14 are, from The Thick of It, the actor Justin Edwards and writer and actor from The Fast Show, Arabella Weir .If you're enjoying our Christmas specials, please consider donating to Crisis this Christmas https://www.crisis.org.u

Dec 14, 2020 • 14:37

Ep. 54 - Arabella Weir

Arabella Weir is best known for being in The Fast Show where her catch phrase "Does My Bum Look Big in This?", also inspired the title of a best selling book and her comedy show "Does My Mum Loom Big in This?". Arabella Weir is guest number 54 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Arabella Weir on Twitter and Instagram: @Ar

Dec 14, 2020 • 42:29

My Christmas Time Capsule No. 13 - Rebecca Front & Simon Evans

My Christmas Time Capsule, an advent calendar of podcasts! We will be releasing 25 mini episodes, one a day, up to Christmas Day, where we ask our guests what they would put in a Christmas time capsule! One thing they love and one they hate. The guests behind door number 13 are the actor from such shows as The Thick of It, Avenue 5, Alan Partridge and Nighty Night, Rebecca Front and the standup comedian from Mock The Week and Live at The Apollo, Simon Evans .If you're enjoying our Christmas spec

Dec 13, 2020 • 7:49

My Christmas Time Capsule No. 12 - Andy Hamilton

My Christmas Time Capsule, an advent calendar of podcasts! We will be releasing 25 mini episodes, one a day, up to Christmas Day, where we ask our guests what they would put in a Christmas time capsule! One thing they love and one they hate. The guest behind door number 12 is the writer of Outnumbered and Drop The Dead Donkey and the voice of Dr Elephant in Peppa Pig, Andy Hamilton .If you're enjoying our Christmas specials, please consider donating to Crisis this Christmas https://www.crisis.or

Dec 12, 2020 • 9:39

My Christmas Time Capsule No. 11 - Tony Hawks

My Christmas Time Capsule, an advent calendar of podcasts! We will be releasing 25 mini episodes, one a day, up to Christmas Day, where we ask our guests what they would put in a Christmas time capsule! One thing they love and one they hate. The guest behind door number 11 is the writer and comedian from such shows as I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Just a Minute, The Unbelievable Truth and Have I Got News for You, Tony Hawks .If you're enjoying our Christmas specials, pleas

Dec 11, 2020 • 14:26

My Christmas Time Capsule No. 10 - Jan Ravens

My Christmas Time Capsule, an advent calendar of podcasts! We will be releasing 25 mini episodes, one a day, up to Christmas Day, where we ask our guests what they would put in a Christmas time capsule! One thing they love and one they hate. The guest behind door number 10 is the actor, comedian and impressionist, Jan Ravens .If you're enjoying our Christmas specials, please consider donating to Crisis this Christmas https://www.crisis.org.uk/crisis-this-christmas .Follow My Time Capsule on Twit

Dec 10, 2020 • 9:22

My Christmas Time Capsule No. 9 - Tom Goodman-Hill

My Christmas Time Capsule, an advent calendar of podcasts! We will be releasing 25 mini episodes, one a day, up to Christmas Day, where we ask our guests what they would put in a Christmas time capsule! One thing they love and one they hate. The guest behind door number 9 is the actor from such show as Humans, The Office, Mr Selfridge and the films The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and The Imitation Game, Tom Goodman-Hill .If you're enjoying our Christmas specials, please consider donating t

Dec 9, 2020 • 9:00

My Christmas Time Capsule No. 8 - Paul Mayhew Archer

My Christmas Time Capsule, an advent calendar of podcasts! We will be releasing 25 mini episodes, one a day, up to Christmas Day, where we ask our guests what they would put in a Christmas time capsule! One thing they love and one they hate. The guest behind door number 8 is the writer of The Vicar of Dibley, Paul Mayhew Archer MBE.If you're enjoying our Christmas specials, please consider donating to Crisis this Christmas https://www.crisis.org.uk/crisis-this-christmas .Follow My Time Capsule o

Dec 8, 2020 • 7:05

My Christmas Time Capsule No. 7 - Ellie White

My Christmas Time Capsule, an advent calendar of podcasts! We will be releasing 25 mini episodes, one a day, up to Christmas Day, where we ask our guests what they would put in a Christmas time capsule! One thing they love and one they hate. The guest behind door number 7 is the actor from such comedies as The Windsors, Stath Lets Flats, Inside No. 9, This Time with Alan Partridge and The Other One, Ellie White .If you're enjoying our Christmas specials, please consider donating to Crisis this C

Dec 7, 2020 • 5:55

Ep. 53 - Shane Richie

Shane Richie is best known for playing Alfie Moon in Eastenders but he has also had an extraordinarily varied career as an actor in films, tv and on stage, a primetime television presenter, a singer and most recently, finishing 4th on I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. Shane Richie is guest number 53 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think abou

Dec 7, 2020 • 49:09

My Christmas Time Capsule No. 6 - Rufus Hound

My Christmas Time Capsule, an advent calendar of podcasts! We will be releasing 25 mini episodes, one a day, up to Christmas Day, where we ask our guests what they would put in a Christmas time capsule! One thing they love and one they hate. The guest behind door number 6 is actor, comedian and presenter, Rufus Hound .If you're enjoying our Christmas specials, please consider donating to Crisis this Christmas https://www.crisis.org.uk/crisis-this-christmas .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Ins

Dec 6, 2020 • 17:13

My Christmas Time Capsule No. 5 - Maria McErlane

My Christmas Time Capsule, an advent calendar of podcasts! We will be releasing 25 mini episodes, one a day, up to Christmas Day, where we ask our guests what they would put in a Christmas time capsule! One thing they love and one they hate. The guest behind door number 5 is actor and co-presenter of Graham Norton's Radio 2 show, Maria McErlane .If you're enjoying our Christmas specials, please consider donating to Crisis this Christmas https://www.crisis.org.uk/crisis-this-christmas .Follow My

Dec 5, 2020 • 8:36

My Christmas Time Capsule No. 4 - Dan Schreiber

My Christmas Time Capsule, an advent calendar of podcasts! We will be releasing 25 mini episodes, one a day, up to Christmas Day, where we ask our guests what they would put in a Christmas time capsule! One thing they love and one they hate. The guest behind door number 4 is QI Elf and host of the podcast No Such Thing As A Fish, Dan Schreiber .If you're enjoying our Christmas specials, please consider donating to Crisis this Christmas https://www.crisis.org.uk/crisis-this-christmas .Follow My T

Dec 4, 2020 • 9:30

My Christmas Time Capsule No. 3 - Janet Ellis

My Christmas Time Capsule, an advent calendar of podcasts! We will be releasing 25 mini episodes, one a day, up to Christmas Day, where we ask our guests what they would put in a Christmas time capsule! One thing they love and one they hate. The guest behind door number 3 is actor, presenter, and best selling author, Janet Ellis .If you're enjoying our Christmas specials, please consider donating to Crisis this Christmas https://www.crisis.org.uk/crisis-this-christmas .Follow My Time Capsule on

Dec 3, 2020 • 11:18

My Christmas Time Capsule No. 2 - Griff Rhys Jones

My Christmas Time Capsule, an advent calendar of podcasts! We will be releasing 25 mini episodes, one a day, up to Christmas Day, where we ask our guests what they would put in a Christmas time capsule! One thing they love and one they hate. The guest behind door number 2 is actor, comedian, presenter, writer and producer, Griff Rhys Jones .If you're enjoying our Christmas specials, please consider donating to Crisis this Christmas https://www.crisis.org.uk/crisis-this-christmas .Follow My Time

Dec 2, 2020 • 11:35

My Christmas Time Capsule No. 1 - Lucy Porter

My Christmas Time Capsule, an advent calendar of podcasts! We will be releasing 25 mini episodes, one a day, up to Christmas Day, where we ask our guests what they would put in a Christmas time capsule! One thing they love and one they hate. The guest behind door number 1 is stand-up comedian, Lucy Porter .If you're enjoying our Christmas specials, please consider donating to Crisis this Christmas https://www.crisis.org.uk/crisis-this-christmas .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram &

Dec 1, 2020 • 11:27

Ep. 52 - Danny Wallace

Danny Wallace is a British filmmaker, comedian, writer, actor, and presenter of radio and television. His books include Are You Dave Gorman?, Join Me and Yes Man which was adapted into a Hollywood movie staring Jim Carey and Zoe Deschanel. Danny Wallace is guest number 52 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow

Nov 30, 2020 • 43:01

Ep. 51 - Athena Kugblenu

Athena Kugblenu writes and performs comedy appearing regularly on Mock the Week, The News Quiz and a regular co-host of The Guilty Feminist podcast and Loose Ends on BBC Radio 4. She is a member of the BBC Comedy Room 2019/20 and was awarded the BBC Felix Dexter Bursary for BAME up-and-coming comedy writers in 2020. Athena Kugblenu is guest number 51 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and o

Nov 27, 2020 • 56:16

Ep. 50 - Dan Schreiber (No Such Thing As A Fish)

Dan Schreiber co-hosts the podcast No Such Thing As A Fish and it's TV spin-off No Such Thing As The News, he is a QI Elf and works on the TV panel show, QI, and contributes to their books, he co-created the BBC Radio 4 panel show The Museum of Curiosity with host John Lloyd and hosts his own Instagram show, Show Us Your Shit. Dan Schreiber is guest number 50 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsul

Nov 23, 2020 • 1:10:17

Ep. 49 - Sir David Jason

Sir David Jason is is best known as Derek "Del Boy" Trotter in Only Fools and Horses, Detective Inspector Jack Frost in A Touch of Frost, Granville in Open All Hours and Still Open All Hours, and Pop Larkin in The Darling Buds of May, as well as voicing the characters of Danger Mouse, The BFG, Count Duckula and Mr. Toad in The Wind in the Willows. Sir David Jason is guest number 49 on My Time Capsule and he

Nov 16, 2020 • 51:45

Ep. 48 - Michael Maloney

Michael Maloney is an english actor. He was Edward Heath in The Crown, Viscount Astor in The Trial of Christine Keeler, he's been in The Thick of It, Mr Selfridge, the films Henry V and Hamlet with Kenneth Branagh, Truly Madly Deeply with Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman, Notes on a Scandal with Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett and that's just some of his acting credits. The list goes on and on! Michael Maloney is guest number 48 on My Time Capsule. He chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the fiv

Nov 13, 2020 • 53:46

Ep. 47 - Stephen K. Amos

Stephen K. Amos is a British stand-up comedian who performs around the world. He is a regular on shows such as Have I Got News For You, QI, Mock The Week and Live at the Apollo. His documentary, Batty Man, about homophobia in the black British community and Jamaica, won a Royal Television Society Award and was nominated for a BAFTA. Stephen K. Amos is guest number 47 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule;

Nov 9, 2020 • 54:10

Ep. 46 - Jimmy Mulville

Jimmy Mulville is the managing director of Hat Trick Productions which he co-founded in 1986. As a producer he's brought to our screens: Father Ted, Derry Girls, Outnumbered, Fonejacker, Room 101, The Kumars at No 42, Drop The Dead Donkey, Whose Line Is It Anyway and Have I Got News For You, which Jimmy created in 1990. Jimmy Mulville is guest number 46 on My Time Capsule. He chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and

Nov 6, 2020 • 1:01:03

Ep. 45 - Tim McInnerny

Best known for playing Lord Percy Percy and Captain Darling in Blackadder with Rowan Atkinson. He also played Robett Glover in Game of Thrones and was in Sherlock, Notting Hill, 101 and 102 Dalmatians, Johnny English Reborn, Eddie The Eagle and The Aeronauts. Tim McInnerny is guest number 45 on My Time Capsule. He chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to thi

Nov 2, 2020 • 41:48

Ep. 44 - Jaye Griffiths

Jaye Griffiths is best known for playing Elle Gardner in Casualty, Janet Mander in Silent Witness, Ros Henderson in Bugs and Dr. Elizabeth Croft in Doctors. In 2014 she opened a one-woman stage show in New York's Broadway, Don't Wake Me. She is guest number 44 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Jaye Griffiths play, Don't Wake M

Oct 30, 2020 • 45:34

Ep. 43 - John Challis

Best known for playing Boycie in Only Fools and Horses and its spin-off The Green Green Grass but has also been in Benidorm, Dixon of Dock Green, The Sweeney, Doctor Who, Citizen Smith and many others. On stage he's performed in the West End and at the RSC, he's written two volumes of autobiography, Being Boycie and Boycie & Beyond and toured his own stage show, Only Fools and Boycie. John Challis is guest number 43 on My Time Capsule. He chats to Michael Fenton Ste

Oct 26, 2020 • 46:21

Ep. 42 - Jan Ravens

Best known for her impressions in Dead Ringers and Spitting Image but also an actress on television, radio and theatre having spent a year at the RSC. She was the first female president of the Cambridge Footlights and the first female radio comedy producer at the BBC. She was a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2006, partnered with Anton du Beke. Jan Ravens is guest number 42 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsul

Oct 22, 2020 • 44:02

Ep. 41 - Robert Bathurst

Best known for playing David Marsden in ITV's Cold Feet, Robert Bathurst has also stared in Toast of London, Downton Abbey, My Dad's the Prime Minister, Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes. He was president of the Cambridge Footlights with his contemporaries Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie and he also appeared the music video for Westlife's Uptown Girl! Robert Bathurst is guest number 41 on My Time Capsule. He chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time

Oct 18, 2020 • 49:47

Ep. 40 - Catherine Mayer

Author and journalist, Catherine Mayer, is President of the Woman's Equality Party, which she co-founded with Sandi Toksvig in 2015. Catherine was TIME magazine's Editor at Large, Europe Editor, London Bureau Chief and Senior Editor. Her books include the controversial biography of Prince Charles, "Charles: The Heart of a King", "Attack of the 50ft. Women" and her new book, "Good Grief", about the death of her husband in February 2020, Andy Gill, the guitarist from the highly influential band Ga

Oct 15, 2020 • 1:05:00

Ep. 39 - Anneka Rice

Anneka Rice is best known for presenting Treasure Hunt and then creating and presenting Challenge Anneka. Since then she has presented many other show on television and on BBC Radio 2, she studied art at Chelsea College of Art, was a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2019 and has even done her own standup comedy shows. Anneka Rice is guest number 39 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve a

Oct 11, 2020 • 53:22

Ep. 38 - David Mitchell

From Peep Show, Would I Lie To You, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Upstart Crow, he's a regular on QI, he hosts BBC Radio 4's The Unbelievable Truth and now, BAFTA winner, David Mitchell is guest number 38 on My Time Capsule. He chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow David Mitchell on Twitter @RealDMitchell .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram

Oct 4, 2020 • 1:06:44

Ep. 37 - Clive Mantle

Best known for playing Mike Barratt in Casualty and Holby City and Little John in Robin Of Sherwood. He was also Dawn French's love interest in The Vicar of Dibley, Greatjon Umber in Game of Thrones, he's been in Sherlock, Alien 3 and is now an award winning Author with his Freddie Malone books series. Clive Mantle is guest number 37 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bur

Oct 1, 2020 • 40:03

Ep. 36 - Kevin McNally

Best known for playing Joshamee Gibbs in all five 'Pirates of the Caribbean' films. He's also stared in Designated Survivor, 24, Downton Abbey, The Good Fight, Fleabag, the film Cry Freedom and has played King Lear at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. Kevin McNally is guest number 36 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Kevin McNa

Sep 27, 2020 • 54:48

Ep. 35 - Tony Hawks

Comedian and author Tony Hawks is a regular on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Just a Minute, The Unbelievable Truth and Have I Got News for You. His book 'Round Ireland with a Fridge', sold over 800,000 copies and his other books include 'Playing the Moldovans at Tennis' and 'One Hit Wonderland'. He had a UK number 4 hit song with Stutter Rap with his band Morris Minor and the Majors. Tony Hawks is guest number 35 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about

Sep 20, 2020 • 52:56

Ep. 34 - Tom Goodman-Hill

British Actor from such show as The Office, Ideal, Channel 4's Humans and ITV's Mr Selfridge. He's also stared in the films The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen and The Imitation Game. Tom Goodman-Hill is guest number 34 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Tom Goodman-Hill on Twitter and Instagram @tgoodmanh .Follow My Time

Sep 13, 2020 • 54:42

Ep. 33 - Russell Grant

Russell Grant has been a TV astrologer and personality for over 40 years. He helped launch breakfast TV in the UK and America, he has regularly writes the horoscopes for many British newspapers. He was the star of series 9 of Strictly Come Dancing in 2011 and now, he is guest number 33 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Rus

Sep 10, 2020 • 55:46

Ep. 32 - Ellie White

Ellie White played Princess Beatrice in The Windsors and has stared in Stath Lets Flats, Inside No. 9, This Time with Alan Partridge, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, The Other One and Semi-Detached with Lee Mack. She is currently writing her own sketch show for the BBC with her comedy partner Natasia Demetriou. She is guest number 32 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to

Sep 6, 2020 • 57:36

Ep. 31 - Craig Ferguson

Craig Ferguson is best known as the host of The Late Late Show on CBS in America from 2005-14 when the role was taken over by James Corden. He started his career as a standup comedian in the UK before moving to America where he stared in The Drew Carey Show. He’s also written and stared in numerous films, including in How to Train Your Dragon, and written three books. Craig is guest number 31 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time

Aug 30, 2020 • 42:41

Ep. 30 - Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss is an English author best known for her best selling book Eats, Shoots & Leaves which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. She has written for The Times, The New York Times, The Independent on Sunday, The Sunday Telegraph and The Listener. She’s also written many other books, and a large number of radio plays and dramas for BBC Radio 4. She is guest number 30 on My Time Capsule and she chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; fou

Aug 27, 2020 • 51:33

Ep. 29 - Rita Rudner

American standup comedian Rita Rudner has the longest-running solo comedy show in Las Vegas, selling around 2 million tickets. She's performed on Late Night with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and has performed for President Barack Obama. She's also been on guest on the enormous podcast WTF with Mark Maron and now she is guest number 29 on My Time Capsule. She chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to

Aug 23, 2020 • 50:04

Ep. 28 - Rick Wakeman

Rick Wakeman is best known for playing keyboards in the progressive rock band Yes. He played piano on David Bowie's Life On Mars and Space Oddity and on Cat Stevens' Morning Has Broken. He's released over 90 solo albums and in 2017, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He's also an author, producer and television presenter. Rick Wakeman is guest number 28 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time ca

Aug 16, 2020 • 51:40

Ep. 27 - Steve Edge

Best known for Phoenix Nights, Starlings, Benidorm, That Peter Kay Thing and co-hosting The Jason Manford Show on Absolute Radio, actor, writer and comedian Steve Edge, is guest Number 27 on My Time Capsule. He chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Steve Edge on Twitter: @sirsteveedge .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpo

Aug 13, 2020 • 51:47

Ep. 26 - John Lloyd

John Lloyd is a hugely successful television and radio comedy producer and writer. His television work includes Not the Nine O'Clock News, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Spitting Image, Blackadder and QI. He is also the presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity. He's guest number 26 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to

Aug 9, 2020 • 1:04:18

Ep. 25 - Julie Graham

Star of television programmes such as Benidorm, Bugs, William and Mary and The Bletchley Circle, and films like Tower Block and Nuns on the Run, the actress and writer Julie Graham has been on our screens constantly since appearing in Taggart in 1986. She's guest number 25 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Watch Dun Breedin on

Aug 6, 2020 • 48:54

Ep. 24 - Danny Walters

Best known for playing Keanu Taylor in the BBC soap opera EastEnders and Tiger Dyke in the ITV sitcom Benidorm, Danny Walters is guest number 24 on My Time Capsule. He chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Danny Walters on Twitter: @DannyWalters_ and Instagram: @danny_walters .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow

Aug 2, 2020 • 48:14

Ep. 23 - Ahir Shah

British comedian Ahir Shah is a writer and performer on BBC Two's The Mash Report. He has appeared on TV panel shows including Frankie Boyle's New World Order, Have I Got News For You, BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz and has performed on Live at The Apollo. His acting roles include Campus, Brotherhood, and Catastrophe, and now he is guest number 23 on My Time Capsule! He chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d

Jul 30, 2020 • 55:28

Ep. 22 - Natascha McElhone

On film, Natascha McElhone is best known for her roles in The Truman Show, Solaris and Ronin. On television she's performed in Californication, Designated Survivor and The First, and now, she is guest number 22 on My Time Capsule! She chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Natascha McElhone on Twitter: @nataschaandsons .Follow My Time Capsule on T

Jul 26, 2020 • 43:41

Ep. 21 - Paul Mayhew-Archer

Paul Mayhew-Archer is a multi-award-winning writer whose credits include 'The Vicar of Dibley', 'Mrs Brown’s Boys' and 'Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot' for BBC One starring Judi Dench and Dustin Hoffman. He also produced the much loved Radio 4 shows ‘I'm Sorry I haven’t A Clue’ and ‘Old Harry’s Game’, and as a script editor he has worked on everything from ‘Spitting Image’ to ‘Miranda’. He chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserv

Jul 23, 2020 • 59:43

Ep. 20 - Miles Jupp

Standup comedian, actor, former presenter of The News Quiz on BBC Radio4, regular panelist on Have I Got News For You, Would I Lie To You, QI and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Miles Jupp is guest number 20 on My Time Capsule. He chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton

Jul 19, 2020 • 55:06

Ep. 19 - Janet Ellis

Best known for presenting Blue Peter but also an actor and best selling novelist, Janet Ellis MBE, is guest number 19 on My Time Capsule. She chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Buy Janet's best selling books! .How It Was : https://amzn.to/30mrYuT .The Butcher's Hook: https://amzn.to/3eBCNi6 .Follow Janet Ellis on Twitter: @missjanetellis .Follow My T

Jul 16, 2020 • 59:03

Ep. 18 - Rachel Khoo

Host of such cookery shows as BBC 2's The Little Paris Kitchen, Zumbo's Just Desserts on Netflix and most recently Rachel Khoo’s Simple Pleasures on The Food Network, Rachel Khoo is guest number 18 on My Time Capsule. She chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Rachel's new show, Rachel Khoo’s Simple Pleasures, is currently on The Food Network every Thurs

Jul 12, 2020 • 48:51

Ep. 17 - Tony Gardner

From: Lead Balloon, My Parents Are Aliens, Last Tango in Halifax, Fresh Meat and The Thick of It, actor and qualified medical doctor, Tony Gardner is guest number 17 on My Time Capsule. He chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Tony Gardner on Twitter: @Tonygardner . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael FS

Jul 9, 2020 • 33:36

Ep. 16 - Richard Herring

From Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP), stand up comedian, writer and former comedy partner of Stewart Lee, Richard Herring is guest number 16 on My Time Capsule. He chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Richard on Twitter: @Herring1967 .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael on Tw

Jul 5, 2020 • 55:39

Ep. 15 - Andy Hamilton

Another surprise “Lockdown Special" episode! Writer and director of Outnumbered and Drop the Dead Donkey, regular panellist on Have I Got News for You, The News Quiz and QI, and the voice of Dr Elephant in Peppa Pig, Andy Hamilton is guest number 15 on My Time Capsule. He chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow us on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @My

Jul 2, 2020 • 43:57

Ep. 14 - Griff Rhys Jones

Star of Not the Nine O'Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones, Olivier Award winning actor, comedian, writer, presenter and producer, Griff Rhys Jones is guest number 14 on My Time Capsule. He chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Griff on Instagram: @griffrhysjones .Follow us on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael on Twitter: @fent

Jun 28, 2020 • 54:51

Ep. 13 - Justin Edwards

Surprise “Lockdown Special" episode! From: The Thick Of It, Veep, Black Mirror, The Trip and The Death Of Stalin, actor, writer and Perrier Award winning comedian, Justin Edwards is guest number 13 on My Time Capsule. He's also the husband of our last guest, Lucy Porter! He chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Justin Edwards on Twitter: @bigedwards

Jun 25, 2020 • 36:50

Ep. 12 - Lucy Porter

From QI, Would I Lie To You, Live At The Apollo and Mock The Week, stand up comedian, actress and writer, Lucy Porter is guest number 12 on My Time Capsule. She chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Lucy Porter on Twitter: @lucyportercomic .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael on Twitter: @fentonsteven

Jun 21, 2020 • 40:32

Ep. 11 - Rev Richard Coles

Former band member of Bronski Beat and The Communards, regular contributor to QI, Would I Lie To You and Have I Got News For You, and ordained priest, Rev Richard Coles is guest number 11 on My Time Capsule. He chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Richard Coles on Twitter: @RevRichardColes .Follow us on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Foll

Jun 15, 2020 • 47:01

Ep. 10 - Maria McErlane

Surprise “Lockdown Special" episode! Co-presenter of Graham Norton's BBC Radio 2 show, actor in The Fast Show and Killing Eve, the voice of Eurotrash and columnist in The Sunday Times and Esquire, Maria McErlane is guest number 10 on My Time Capsule. She chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Maria McErlane on Twitter: @mariamcerlane .Follow us on

Jun 12, 2020 • 40:40

Ep. 9 - David Baddiel

Comedian and writer, David Baddiel is guest number 9 on My Time Capsule. He chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow David Baddiel on Twitter: @Baddiel .Follow us on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael on Twitter: @fentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass The Peas Music .Artwo

Jun 7, 2020 • 55:04

Ep. 8 - Chris Addison

Star of The Thick Of It and In The Loop, comedian, actor, director and Emmy winning executive producer of Veep, Chris Addison is guest number 8 on My Time Capsule. He chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Chris Addison on Twitter: @mrchrisaddison .Follow us on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael on Twitter: @fentonstevens .Produc

May 31, 2020 • 54:45

Ep. 7 - Anthony Head

From Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Stranger, Merlin, The Iron Lady and so much more, Anthony Head is guest number 7 on My Time Capsule. He chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Anthony Head on Twitter: @AnthonySHead .Follow us on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael on Twitter: @fentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-St

May 24, 2020 • 1:03:53

Ep. 6 - Rufus Hound

Comedian, actor and presenter Rufus Hound is guest number 6 on My Time Capsule. He chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again.Follow Rufus Hound on Twitter: @RufusHound .Follow us on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael on Twitter: @fentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions.Music by Pass The Peas Music.

May 17, 2020 • 50:28

Ep. 5 - Anna Ptaszynski (No Such Thing As A Fish)

Anna Ptaszynski cohosts the podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. With millions of downloads and sell out tours around the world, NSTAAF is one of the biggest podcasts around. Anna is also a QI Elf, finding facts and information for the television programme QI. She chooses five things from her life to put into a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again. Hosted by Michael Fenton Stevens.Follow No Such Thing As A Fish on Twitter: @NoSuchTh

May 10, 2020 • 37:48

Ep. 4 - Mark Gatiss

As an actor and writer in such shows as The League of Gentlemen, Sherlock, Doctor Who and Game of Thrones, Mark Gatiss has been a part of some of the biggest TV shows in recent years. Mark chooses five things from his life and career to put into the time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again. Hosted by Michael Fenton Stevens .Follow Mark Gatiss on Twitter: @MarkGatiss .Follow us on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael

May 4, 2020 • 1:11:00

Ep. 3 - Arthur Smith

Standup comedian and writer Arthur Smith is a regular voice on BBC Radio 4 as a presenter on such shows as Loose Ends and a regular guest on radio and TV panel shows like Just A Minute, The Unbelievable Truth and Have I Got News For You. Arthur chooses five things from his life to put into the time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again. Hosted by Michael Fenton Stevens .Arthur's books are available to buy:100 Things I Meant to Tell You

Apr 26, 2020 • 51:12

Ep. 2 - Rebecca Front

From: Avenue 5, The Thick Of It, Poldark, Lewis, Alan Partridge and The Day Today, BAFTA winning actor and writer Rebecca Front is guest number 2 on My Time Capsule. She chooses five things from her childhood, career and family life to put into the time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again. Hosted by Michael Fenton Stevens .Buy Rebecca's books here!Curious: True Stories and Everyday Absurdities .Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Ad

Apr 26, 2020 • 1:09:37

Ep. 1 - Stephen Fry

In the first episode of My Time Capsule, Stephen Fry talks to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things from his life he’d like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again. A fascinating and unique insight in to his past .Follow us on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Mike on Twitter: @fentonstevens .Follow Stephen Fry on Twitter: @StephenFry .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Production

Apr 26, 2020 • 53:34

My Time Capsule - Trailer

My Time Capsule. A podcast that asks guests, such as Stephen Fry, Mark Gatiss, Rebecca Front, Rufus Hound, Anthony Head & Richard Herring, for five things which they’d like to put in a Time Capsule. They can choose anything from an item, to a memory, a film or even a country. Four of them are things they want to preserve but one has to be something they’re happy to lock away and never have to think about again. Presented by Mike Fenton Stevens.Follow us on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod

Apr 8, 2020 • 2:38