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. 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...
Ep. 337 - Samira Ahmed
November 06, 2023 00:02 - 49 minutes - 56.8 MBSamira 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 Ahm...
Ep. 336 - Natasha Hodgson
November 03, 2023 00:02 - 47 minutes - 54.1 MBNatasha 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 Ense...
Ep. 335 - Bob Cryer
October 30, 2023 00:02 - 1 hour - 91.4 MBBob 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 w...
Ep. 334 - Ian Lawman
October 26, 2023 23:02 - 56 minutes - 64.3 MBIan 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 the world ...
Ep. 333 - Laurence Rickard
October 22, 2023 23:02 - 55 minutes - 63.7 MBLaurence 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 ...
Ep. 332 - Sophie Grigson
October 19, 2023 23:02 - 55 minutes - 63.9 MBSophie 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 Journalist of the Year Award in...
Ep. 331 - Aled Jones
October 15, 2023 23:02 - 59 minutes - 68 MBAled 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 p...
Ep. 330 - Fiona Allen
October 12, 2023 23:02 - 55 minutes - 63.5 MBFiona 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 Pascoe, Coronation Street, Skins, Waterl...
Ep. 329 - Jacqui Oatley
October 08, 2023 23:02 - 58 minutes - 66.4 MBJacqui 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-standing ambassador for Wome...
Ep. 328 - Linda John-Pierre
October 05, 2023 23:02 - 50 minutes - 57.7 MBLinda 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, ...
Ep. 327 - Dane Baptiste
October 01, 2023 23:02 - 53 minutes - 61.6 MBDane 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 Ca...
Ep. 326 - David Barry
September 28, 2023 23:02 - 59 minutes - 68 MBDavid 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 Cr...
Ep. 325 - Robert Popper
September 24, 2023 23:02 - 46 minutes - 53.3 MBRobert 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 Time...
Ep. 324 - Remi Adekoya
September 21, 2023 23:02 - 1 hour - 81.7 MBRemi 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 Business Journ...
Ep. 323 - Roger Black
September 17, 2023 23:02 - 54 minutes - 62.6 MBRoger 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 At...
Ep. 322 - Nooruddean Choudry
September 14, 2023 23:02 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MBNooruddean 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...
Ep. 321 - Lizzie Webb
September 10, 2023 23:02 - 47 minutes - 54.9 MBLizzie 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 ...
Ep. 320 - Hywel Roberts
September 07, 2023 23:02 - 1 hour - 78.7 MBHywel 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 teac...
Ep. 319 - Jon Harvey AKA Count Binface
September 03, 2023 23:02 - 1 hour - 87.9 MBJon 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, New...
Ep. 318 - George Layton
August 31, 2023 23:02 - 1 hour - 80.4 MBGeorge 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...
Ep. 317 - Alasdair Beckett-King
August 27, 2023 23:02 - 56 minutes - 64.9 MBAlasdair 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 ...
The Debrief - Ep. 1 - Acast+ Preview
August 24, 2023 23:02 - 28 minutes - 32.6 MBPREVIEW!! 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...
Ep. 316 - Lou Sanders
August 20, 2023 23:02 - 43 minutes - 49.3 MBLou 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's Sick of It. She is also a regular guest on BBC Radio 4...
Ep. 315 - Rosie Wilby
August 17, 2023 23:02 - 50 minutes - 58.3 MBRosie 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 Th...
Ep. 314 - Doug Allan
August 13, 2023 23:02 - 56 minutes - 64.6 MBDoug 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 and was a presen...
Ep. 313 - Louise Young
August 10, 2023 23:02 - 49 minutes - 57 MBLouise 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 20...
Ep. 312 - Neil Mullarkey
August 06, 2023 23:02 - 1 hour - 77.3 MBNeil 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...
Ep. 311 - Daniel Foxx
August 03, 2023 23:02 - 54 minutes - 62.4 MBDaniel 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-w...
Ep. 310 - Pierre Novellie
July 30, 2023 23:02 - 52 minutes - 60.2 MBPierre 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 Sp...