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Ep. 379 - Georgina Hayden

My Time Capsule - April 21, 2024 23:02 - 52 minutes
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 Hou...

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Ep. 378 - Carol Drinkwater

My Time Capsule - April 18, 2024 23:02 - 49 minutes
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 Nation...

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Ep. 377 - Professor Chris Lintott

My Time Capsule - April 14, 2024 23:02 - 47 minutes
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 guita...

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Ep. 376 - Nick Newman

My Time Capsule - April 11, 2024 23:02 - 52 minutes
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 Sport...

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Ep. 375 - Simon Brodkin

My Time Capsule - April 07, 2024 23:02 - 48 minutes
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 star...

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Ep. 374 - Ann Bryson

My Time Capsule - April 04, 2024 23:02 - 44 minutes
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, Onl...

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Ep. 373 - Maisie Adam

My Time Capsule - April 01, 2024 00:41 - 45 minutes
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? compe...

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Ep. 372 - Luke Kempner

My Time Capsule - March 29, 2024 00:02 - 51 minutes
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, inclu...

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Ep. 371 - Richard Talman

My Time Capsule - March 25, 2024 00:02 - 55 minutes
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 ...

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Ep. 370 - Liam Withnail

My Time Capsule - March 22, 2024 00:02 - 40 minutes
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 ...

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Ep. 369 - Tom Shakespeare CBE

My Time Capsule - March 18, 2024 07:38 - 58 minutes
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. Hi...

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Ep. 368 - Professor Sophie Scott

My Time Capsule - March 15, 2024 00:02 - 1 hour
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 rese...

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Ep. 367 - Jon Holmes

My Time Capsule - March 11, 2024 00:02 - 59 minutes
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-creat...

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Ep. 366 - Lewis MacLeod

My Time Capsule - March 08, 2024 00:02 - 59 minutes
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 B...

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Ep. 365 - Jess Conrad

My Time Capsule - March 04, 2024 00:02 - 1 hour
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 six...

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Ep. 364 - Huge Davies

My Time Capsule - March 01, 2024 00:02 - 59 minutes
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’ Co...

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Ep. 363 - Greg Jenner

My Time Capsule - February 26, 2024 00:02 - 1 hour
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...

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Ep. 362 - Phil Ellis

My Time Capsule - February 23, 2024 00:02 - 48 minutes
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 Adef...

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Ep. 361 - Professor Alice Roberts

My Time Capsule - February 19, 2024 00:02 - 56 minutes
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...

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Ep. 360 - Njambi McGrath

My Time Capsule - February 16, 2024 00:02 - 46 minutes
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...

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Ep. 359 - Chloe Petts

My Time Capsule - February 12, 2024 00:02 - 48 minutes
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 an...

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Ep. 358 - Esther Manito

My Time Capsule - February 09, 2024 00:02 - 44 minutes
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 D...

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Ep. 357 - Daliso Chaponda

My Time Capsule - February 05, 2024 00:02 - 50 minutes
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 ...

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Ep. 356 - Ed Patrick

My Time Capsule - February 02, 2024 00:02 - 51 minutes
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...

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Ep. 355 - George Monbiot

My Time Capsule - January 29, 2024 00:02 - 1 hour
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 o...

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Ep. 354 - Larry Dann

My Time Capsule - January 26, 2024 00:02 - 48 minutes
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 Bu...

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Ep. 353 - Rosie Holt

My Time Capsule - January 22, 2024 00:02 - 50 minutes
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 w...

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Ep. 352 - Ricky Sim

My Time Capsule - January 19, 2024 00:02 - 42 minutes
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 o...

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Ep. 351 - Harriet Kemsley

My Time Capsule - January 15, 2024 00:02 - 39 minutes
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 Vicel...

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Ep. 350 - Rob Auton

My Time Capsule - January 12, 2024 00:02 - 54 minutes
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 Collin...