My Time Capsule
466 episodes - English - Latest episode: 18 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. 400 - Jason Manford
July 04, 2024 23:02 - 1 hour - 76.7 MBJason 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 Prod...
Ep. 399 - Kim Leadbeater MP
June 30, 2024 23:02 - 55 minutes - 63.1 MBKim 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 Pr...
Ep. 398 - Catherine McCafferty
June 27, 2024 23:02 - 41 minutes - 47 MBCatherine 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. Bothe...
Ep. 397 - Madeline Smith
June 23, 2024 23:02 - 54 minutes - 62.1 MBMadeline 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 Hers...
Ep. 396 - Milo Edwards
June 20, 2024 23:02 - 54 minutes - 62.2 MBMilo 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), ...
Ep. 395 - Stevie Martin
June 16, 2024 23:02 - 49 minutes - 56.3 MBStevie 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, Stevi...
Ep. 394 - Dr Benji Waterhouse
June 13, 2024 23:02 - 54 minutes - 62.4 MBDr 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 Trial’. Last May he appeared in...
Ep. 393 - James O’Brien
June 10, 2024 06:43 - 1 hour - 75.9 MBJames 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 Parlia...
Ep. 392 - Ali Woods
June 06, 2024 23:02 - 1 hour - 69.8 MBAli 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’,...
Ep. 391 - Tom Baldwin
June 02, 2024 23:02 - 49 minutes - 57.2 MBTom 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 ...
Ep. 390 - Alex Kealy
May 30, 2024 23:02 - 47 minutes - 54.5 MBAlex 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 ...
Ep. 389 - Sonali Shah
May 26, 2024 23:02 - 49 minutes - 56.7 MBSonali 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 birth...
Ep. 388 - Dr Helen Fry
May 23, 2024 23:02 - 47 minutes - 53.9 MBDr 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...
Ep. 387 - Rob Deering
May 19, 2024 23:02 - 1 hour - 71.8 MBRob 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 s...
Ep. 386 - Toby Hadoke
May 16, 2024 23:02 - 57 minutes - 66.2 MBToby 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 At...
Ep. 385 - Annette Badland
May 12, 2024 23:02 - 49 minutes - 57.1 MBAnnette 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 credi...
Ep. 384 - Paul Hendy
May 09, 2024 23:02 - 48 minutes - 55.1 MBPaul 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 i...
Ep. 383 - Michelle Brasier
May 05, 2024 23:02 - 48 minutes - 55.1 MBComedian 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 ABC. Michelle is a long-term collabor...
Ep. 382 - Sam Lake
May 02, 2024 23:02 - 54 minutes - 62.5 MBSam 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 performs at the bigge...
Ep. 381 - Ainsley Harriott
April 28, 2024 23:02 - 47 minutes - 53.9 MBAfter 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...
Ep. 380 - Stephen Fry (Re-edit)
April 25, 2024 23:02 - 1 hour - 78 MBIt'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 ...
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...