My Time Capsule
445 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago -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.
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Ep. 379 - Georgina Hayden
April 21, 2024 23:02 - 52 minutes - 60.3 MBGeorgina 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 recipe...
Ep. 378 - Carol Drinkwater
April 18, 2024 23:02 - 49 minutes - 56.3 MBCarol 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 Clockwor...
Ep. 377 - Professor Chris Lintott
April 14, 2024 23:02 - 47 minutes - 54.1 MBAstrophysicist 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 Astroph...
Ep. 376 - Nick Newman
April 11, 2024 23:02 - 52 minutes - 59.7 MBNick 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, ...
Ep. 375 - Simon Brodkin
April 07, 2024 23:02 - 48 minutes - 55.1 MBComedian 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 Goo...
Ep. 374 - Ann Bryson
April 04, 2024 23:02 - 44 minutes - 50.7 MBAnn 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 year...
Ep. 373 - Maisie Adam
April 01, 2024 00:41 - 45 minutes - 52 MBMaisie 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’. ...
Ep. 372 - Luke Kempner
March 29, 2024 00:02 - 51 minutes - 58.7 MBLuke 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 Sk...
Ep. 371 - Richard Talman
March 25, 2024 00:02 - 55 minutes - 63.9 MBRichard 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’s has recently ...
Ep. 370 - Liam Withnail
March 22, 2024 00:02 - 40 minutes - 46.1 MBLiam 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 ...
Ep. 369 - Tom Shakespeare CBE
March 18, 2024 07:38 - 58 minutes - 66.4 MBTom 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 ...
Ep. 368 - Professor Sophie Scott
March 15, 2024 00:02 - 1 hour - 69.5 MBProfessor 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 h...
Ep. 367 - Jon Holmes
March 11, 2024 00:02 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBJon 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...
Ep. 366 - Lewis MacLeod
March 08, 2024 00:02 - 59 minutes - 67.8 MBLewis 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 p...
Ep. 365 - Jess Conrad
March 04, 2024 00:02 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBJess 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 d...
Ep. 364 - Huge Davies
March 01, 2024 00:02 - 59 minutes - 68.3 MBComedian 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 Com...
Ep. 363 - Greg Jenner
February 26, 2024 00:02 - 1 hour - 85.1 MBGreg 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...
Ep. 362 - Phil Ellis
February 23, 2024 00:02 - 48 minutes - 55.6 MBPhil 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...
Ep. 361 - Professor Alice Roberts
February 19, 2024 00:02 - 56 minutes - 64.5 MBProfessor 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 ...
Ep. 360 - Njambi McGrath
February 16, 2024 00:02 - 46 minutes - 53.2 MBNjambi 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,...
Ep. 359 - Chloe Petts
February 12, 2024 00:02 - 48 minutes - 55.5 MBChloe 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 F...
Ep. 358 - Esther Manito
February 09, 2024 00:02 - 44 minutes - 50.5 MBEsther 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...
Ep. 357 - Daliso Chaponda
February 05, 2024 00:02 - 50 minutes - 58 MBDaliso 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 a...
Ep. 356 - Ed Patrick
February 02, 2024 00:02 - 51 minutes - 58.4 MBEd 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...
Ep. 355 - George Monbiot
January 29, 2024 00:02 - 1 hour - 82.9 MBGeorge 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 ti...
Ep. 354 - Larry Dann
January 26, 2024 00:02 - 48 minutes - 55.6 MBLarry 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 ...
Ep. 353 - Rosie Holt
January 22, 2024 00:02 - 50 minutes - 58.3 MBRosie 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 Ne...
Ep. 352 - Ricky Sim
January 19, 2024 00:02 - 42 minutes - 49 MBRicky 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 ...
Ep. 351 - Harriet Kemsley
January 15, 2024 00:02 - 39 minutes - 45.1 MBHarriet 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 Cen...
Ep. 350 - Rob Auton
January 12, 2024 00:02 - 54 minutes - 62.4 MBRob 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 act...
Ep. 349 - Robin Askwith
January 08, 2024 00:02 - 55 minutes - 63.8 MBRobin 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 and a recurring role as Eddie in Please Sir! and its spi...
Ep. 348 - Finlay Christie
January 05, 2024 00:02 - 42 minutes - 49.1 MBAt 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 ...
Ep. 347 - Iain Stirling
January 01, 2024 00:02 - 1 hour - 69.4 MBBAFTA-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 s...
Best of 2023 - Part 3
December 29, 2023 00:02 - 54 minutes - 62.4 MBThe 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 . ...
Best of 2023 - Part 2
December 28, 2023 00:02 - 56 minutes - 64.9 MBThe 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...
Best of 2023 - Part 1
December 27, 2023 00:02 - 51 minutes - 58.6 MBThe 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 matthewbox...
My Time Capsule Christmas Party!
December 22, 2023 00:02 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBWe 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 & Facebo...
A Christmas Carol - Our Annual Gift
December 20, 2023 00:02 - 3 hours - 218 MBOur 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_World Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonsteve...
My Christmas Time Capsule 2023 - Part 3
December 18, 2023 00:02 - 46 minutes - 53.6 MBMy 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! Provi...
My Christmas Time Capsule 2023 - Part 2
December 15, 2023 00:02 - 52 minutes - 60.4 MBMy 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 pro...
My Christmas Time Capsule 2023 - Part 1
December 11, 2023 00:02 - 1 hour - 73.2 MBMy 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....
Ep. 346 - Ian Smith
December 08, 2023 00:02 - 48 minutes - 55.8 MBEdinburgh 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 Kather...
Ep. 345 - Lemn Sissay
December 04, 2023 00:02 - 1 hour - 76.8 MBLemn 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 2021 was awarde...
Ep. 344 - Glenn Moore
December 01, 2023 00:02 - 50 minutes - 58.1 MBEdinburgh 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 ...
Ep. 343 - Alex Horne
November 27, 2023 00:02 - 55 minutes - 63.3 MBAlex 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 Sectio...
Ep. 342 - Dave Cohen
November 24, 2023 00:02 - 59 minutes - 67.9 MBDave 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 st...
Ep. 341 - Alfie Moore
November 20, 2023 00:02 - 57 minutes - 65.7 MBAlfie 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 his own...
Ep. 340 - Rich Wilson
November 17, 2023 00:02 - 59 minutes - 67.9 MBRich 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 2...
Ep. 339 - Kiell Smith-Bynoe
November 13, 2023 00:02 - 44 minutes - 50.5 MBKiell 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 co...
Ep. 338 - Simon Parkin
November 10, 2023 00:02 - 48 minutes - 55.7 MBSimon 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 Park...