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My Time Capsule

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A podcast that asks guests, such as Stephen Fry, David Mitchell, Caroline Quentin, Ross Noble, Lee Mack, Arabella Weir & Rob Brydon, for five things which they’d like to put in a Time Capsule. They can choose anything from an item, to a memory, a film or even a country. Four of them are things they want to preserve but one has to be something they’re happy to bury and never have to think about again. Hosted by Michael Fenton Stevens. Podcast of the Week in The Times, The Guardian and The Radio Times. @fentonstevens @MyTCpod Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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United Kingdom

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Comedy

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A podcast that asks guests, such as Stephen Fry, David Mitchell, Caroline Quentin, Ross Noble, Lee Mack, Arabella Weir & Rob Brydon, for five things which they’d like to put in a Time Capsule. They can choose anything from an item, to a memory, a film or even a country. Four of them are things they want to preserve but one has to be something they’re happy to bury and never have to think about again. Hosted by Michael Fenton Stevens. Podcast of the Week in The Times, The Guardian and The Radio Times. @fentonstevens @MyTCpod Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Twitter:

@MyTCpod

Language:

English

Contact:

07980264521


Episodes
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Ep. 378 - Carol Drinkwater

4/18/2024
Carol Drinkwater is a British actress and best-selling author. Probably best known for playing Helen Herriot in the television adaptation of All Creatures Great and Small, which led to her receiving the Variety Club Television Personality of the Year award in 1985. She was a member of the National Theatre Company under the leadership of Laurence Olivier and won a Critics' Circle Best Screen Actress award for her role in the feature film Father. She’s also been in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, Chocky, The Sweeney, Queen Kong, The Shout and the film adaptation of Beryl Bainbridge's novel An Awfully Big Adventure starring Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman. Her multimillion selling books include commercial fiction and a series of best-selling memoirs about her experiences on her olive farm in Provence . Carol Drinkwater is guest number 378 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again . For Carol’s books and everything else Carol, visit - http://www.caroldrinkwater.com . Follow Carol Drinkwater on Twitter: @Carol4Olivefarm . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewboxall.com . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people . Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:49:12

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Ep. 377 - Professor Chris Lintott

4/14/2024
Astrophysicist Professor Chris Lintott is the primary presenter of the BBC’s The Sky at Night, having previously been co-presenter with Patrick Moore until Moore's death in 2012. He co-authored Bang! – The Complete History of the Universe and The Cosmic Tourist with Patrick Moore and Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May. He has recently been appointed the 39th Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College in London which was founded in 1597. At the same time Chris is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford and a Research Fellow at New College. Chris Lintott is the co-founder of zooniverse.org, the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research and which was the topic of his first book, ‘The Crowd and the Cosmos’. His latest book, Our Accidental Universe: Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens, is a tour of the key astronomical events of the past century, and of all the accidents and human error involved in our pursuit of asteroids, radio waves, new stars and alien life . Chris Lintott is guest number 377 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again . Follow Chris Lintott on Twitter @chrislintott . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewboxall.com . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people. Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:47:18

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Ep. 376 - Nick Newman

4/11/2024
Nick Newman is Ian Hislop’s writing partner and the award winning Sunday Times cartoonist. He has worked for Private Eye since 1981 and has been the cartoonist for The Sunday Times since 1989. He was The Cartoon Art Trust’s Cartoonist of the Year in 1997, 1998, 2005 and 2016 and he won the Sports Journalists’ Association’s Cartoonist of the Year award in 2005, 2007 and 2009. Nick’s scriptwriting career with Ian Hislop includes Spitting Image (from 1984-89), Dawn French’s Murder Most Horrid, The Harry Enfield Show (with the creation of Tim Nice-But-Dim), the BBC1 film Gobble and the sitcom My Dad’s the Prime Minister. In 2008 their film A Bunch of Amateurs starring Burt Reynolds was chosen for the Royal Film Performance, before being adapted for the stage. In 2014 their film The Wipers Times won the Broadcast Press Guild Award for best single drama and was nominated for a BAFTA, before its stage adaptation and sell-out tour . Nick Newman is guest number 376 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again . Follow Nick Newman on Twitter @ncknwmn & Instagram @nicknewmancartoons . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewboxall.com . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people. Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:52:10

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Ep. 375 - Simon Brodkin

4/7/2024
Comedian Simon Brodkin is probably best known for his comedy character Lee Nelson and his pranks including giving Teressa May a P45 during her Prime Minister’s speech at the Tory Party Conference, showered Sepp Blatter with dollar bills, surrounded Donald Trump with swastika golf balls, and starred in Britain’s Greatest Hoaxer on Channel 4, which was nominated for ‘Best Documentary’ at the Monte Carlo TV Festival. Simon wrote and stared in in three series of BBC Three’s Lee Nelson’s Well Good Show & Well Funny People. Simon is one of the most exciting comedians to see live and his current 110-date international ‘Screwed Up’ tour has been extended for a third time due to phenomenal demand, including a second show at London’s prestigious Hammersmith Apollo . Simon Brodkin is guest number 375 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again . For Tour tickets, visit - https://www.simonbrodkin.com/#tickets . For his prank videos and everything else Simon, visit - https://www.simonbrodkin.com . Follow Simon Brodkin on Twitter & Instagram @simonbrodkin . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewboxall.com . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people. Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:48:08

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Ep. 374 - Ann Bryson

4/4/2024
Ann Bryson is a very old friend of Mike's and was half of the comedy duo the Flaming Hamsters with a past guest of ours, Sara Crowe, and together they were the Philadelphia cheese advert girls for many years. She was also on television and on film in One Foot In The Grave, KYTV, City Lights, Only Fools and Horses, Inspector Morse, Hale and Pace, Doctor Who, The Steal, All About Me, Days Like These, Sometime Never, Space Vets and The Best of Rory Bremner. This episode was recorded over 4 years ago as a pilot which we didn’t think would ever go out. We recently listened to it again and enjoyed so asked our Acast+ listeners if we should put it out. They all voted to say we should so here it is! . Ann Bryson is guest number 374 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewboxall.com . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people . Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:44:19

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Ep. 373 - Maisie Adam

3/31/2024
Maisie Adam is comedian who is fast becoming a household name who has appeared on Live At The Apollo, A League Of Their Own, Mock the Week, Have I Got News for You, QI, Roast Battle, 8 Out of 10 Cats and the Royal Variety Performance. Since winning the nationwide So You Think You’re Funny? competition in 2017, she has won Best New Act at the Chortle Awards and the Amused Moose National New Act gong, as well as being nominated Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe for her debut show ‘Vague’. She followed this up with two more shows; a sold out Edinburgh run of the critically acclaimed ‘Hang Fire’, before embarking on a sold out 63-date tour of her most recent show ‘Buzzed’ which went on to finish with a sold out run at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. She is also the host of the hugely successful Big Kick Energy podcast which she co-hosts with friend and fellow comedian Suzi Ruffell, and won Sports Podcast of the Year in the Sports Broadcast Awards just 5 months after the first episode aired . Maisie Adam is guest number 373 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again . For Maisie’s 2024 tour tickets, visit - https://www.maisieadam.com . Follow Maisie Adam on Twitter & Instagram: @maisieadam . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewboxall.com . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people . Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:45:27

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Ep. 372 - Luke Kempner

3/28/2024
Luke Kempner is currently staring in Les Misérables in the West End playing Monsieur Thenardier but Luke is also well known for being a comedian and impressionist at the top of his game. Last year saw Luke voice over 30 puppets in the West End production of Spitting Image: Idiots Assemble, including King Charles, Prince Harry, Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran, Jurgen Klopp and many more. His TV credits include Spitting Image, Steph’s Packed Lunch, The Last Leg, Love Island: Aftersun, The Stand Up Sketch Show and CelebAbility. As well as this, Luke created and starred in his own review show for ITV 2, entitled Luke Kempner’s Impression of 2015 and was the resident comedian on Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit On The Side for 9 series. He is also a regular on BBC Radio 4’s topical comedy institutions The Now Show and News Jack. He can also be heard on his weekly podcast series with his wife Alana Macfarlane Kempner and her identical twin sister Lisa Macfarlane, otherwise known as Sh*t! I Married a Twin . Luke Kempner is guest number 372 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again . Listen to Luke Kempner’s podcast Sh*t! I Married a Twin, here - https://podfollow.com/1683817312 . Follow Luke Kempner on Twitter & Instagram @lukekempner . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewboxall.com . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people. Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:51:17

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Ep. 371 - Richard Talman

3/24/2024
Richard Talman is a Master Goldsmith and the resident goldsmith on The Repair Shop, the award winning show on BBC One. Richard’s jewellery business, RTFJ, was founded in 2010 and has customers from around the world. It was awarded the National Winner of The Wedding Industry Awards. Richard is a Freeman of Worshipful company of Goldsmiths, Freeman of city of London and was the ‘Youngest ever’ to receive the Fellowship of the institute of professional goldsmiths. Richard Talman’s has recently launched his new jewellery brand called ‘Emilice’, named after his young daughters Emily & Alice . Richard Talman is guest number 371 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again . Richard’s new jewellery brand - https://emilice.co.uk . Richard’s award winning jewellery - https://www.rtfj.co.uk . Follow Richard Talman on Instagram @RTFJ . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewboxall.com . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people. Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:55:50

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Ep. 370 - Liam Withnail

3/21/2024
Liam Withnail is an award winning comedian. He co-hosts the popular podcast Enjoy an Album, which was nominated for Best Podcast at the Chortle Awards 2024. He is also a regular guest on BBC Radio Scotland’s Breaking the News and has also been heard on The Good, The Bad and The Unexpected, seen on Socially Distant with Susan Calman and has written on Scot Squad. His 2023 Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Chronic Boom’ was a sellout success and received widespread critical acclaim, racking up sixteen 4 and 5 star reviews including from The Independent and The Times, making it one of the best reviewed comedy shows of 2023. Liam will be taking the show on his debut UK tour in Spring 2024. Liam’s previous Edinburgh Fringe shows have racked up a myriad of rave reviews with his 2019 show ‘Homecoming’ winning the Amused Moose Award for Outstanding Show. He’s a previous finalist in Scottish and English Comedian of the Year along with multiple Scottish Comedy Award nominations . Liam Withnail is guest number 370 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again . Tickets for Liam’s tour are available here - berksnest.com/liam . Follow Liam Withnail on Twitter & Instagram @liamwithnail . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewboxall.com . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people. Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:40:17

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Ep. 369 - Tom Shakespeare CBE

3/18/2024
Tom Shakespeare CBE is Professor of Disability Research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and was the 2020 Swarthmore Lecturer. Tom has achondroplasia and uses a wheelchair. He is a social scientist and bioethicist who has worked particularly on disability and on genetics. His books include Disability Rights and Wrongs, Genetic Politics, and Disability – the Basics. Tom has presented programmes and documentaries on BBC Radio and has written for publications including The Guardian and The Lancet, alongside talking to academic, professional and lay audiences around the world. In July 2018 Shakespeare was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. He has been a stand-up comedian, an actor, a dancer, and an artist. His latest book is his first novel, The Ha-Ha . Tom Shakespeare is guest number 369 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again . Tom’s new book, The Ha-Ha, is available here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ha-Ha-feel-good-comedy-friends-reunited/dp/1788424778 . Follow Tom Shakespeare on Twitter @TommyShakes . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewboxall.com . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people. Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:58:01

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Ep. 368 - Professor Sophie Scott

3/14/2024
Professor Sophie Scott is a neuroscientist and the Director of the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience. Her research investigates the cognitive neuroscience of voices, speech and laughter, particularly speech perception, production, vocal emotions and human communication Sophie started her research career in Cambridge at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit She was awarded a Wellcome Trust Fellowship in 2001 and has been funded by them since. As of 2017 she holds a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship. She is a member of the British Psychological Society, the Society for Neuroscience, the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, and the Experimental Psychology Society. She’s a Fellow of the British Academy. Sophie is known for her public engagement work, including performing standup comedy. She’s been a panel guest several times on BBC Radio 4 programme The Infinite Monkey Cage and appeared on the BBC TV series Horizon, The Science of Laughter with Jimmy Carr. Sophie presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2017 entitled The Language of Life which explored the topic of communication. She’s published several books including, The Brain: 10 Things You Should Know. She’s a Fellow of the British Academy and was awarded a CBE in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to neuroscience . Professor Sophie Scott is guest number 368 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again . The Brain: 10 Things You Should Know is available here - https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-brain/sophie-scott/9781399602921 Follow Sophie Scott on Twitter & Instagram: @sophiescott . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewboxall.com . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people . Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:01:00:41

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Ep. 367 - Jon Holmes

3/10/2024
Jon Holmes is a comedian, writer, presenter, producer and broadcaster who has won two BAFTAs, nine Gold Sony Radio Awards and two British Comedy Awards. He’s presented major radio shows on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC 6Music, Virgin Radio, XFM, Takradio, LBC and Radio X. On Radio 4, he co-created Dead Ringers, he wrote and appearing in The Now Show and The 99p Challenge where he first worked with Armando Iannucci. He also worked with Armando on Gash on Channel 4 and Time Trumpet on BBC2 and in 2006 he received his sixth Sony Award for his work on Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive on Radio 4. On TV he co wrote Horrible Histories for BBC One for which he won two BAFTAs, he presented the fifth series of The Eleven O’clock Show on Channel 4 and wrote for the award-winning Channel 4 show V Graham Norton. He has been a Sunday Times columnist and has written for The Guardian, The Times and the Radio Times. He is now an award winning travel writer for the Sunday Times . Jon Holmes is guest number 367 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again . Follow Jon Holmes on Twitter & Instagram @jonholmes1 . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewboxall.com . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people. Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:59:58

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Ep. 366 - Lewis MacLeod

3/7/2024
Lewis MacLeod is a Scottish actor best known for voicing characters and his impressions. He was in Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace as the voice of Sebulba (the podracer who competes against young Anakin Skywalker), he is currently the voice of Postman Pat and he regularly appeared on BBC Radio 2's Steve Wright in the Afternoon voicing impressions of Jeremy Vine, Donald Trump and Paul McCartney. He does various impressions in Dead Ringers on BBC Radio 4 and Spitting Image. He also provides voices for some of the biggest video games including as Obi-Wan Kenobi in numerous Star Wars games and he voiced Draco Malfoy, Albus Dumbledore, Fred Weasley and George Weasley in various Harry Potter video games. Lewis . Lewis MacLeod is guest number 366 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again . Follow Lewis MacLeod on Twitter: @lewismacleod & Instagram @macleodlewis . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewboxall.com . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people. Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:59:15

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Ep. 365 - Jess Conrad

3/3/2024
Jess Conrad has been ‘the vainest man in showbiz’ self styled since the 1950’s, having been a pop star, a film star, a star of the West End, a TV star and a cabaret star. Jess fell into film extra work, then acting work, being discovered by Jack Goode and having a number of hits in the early sixties, including one voted the sixth worst song of all time. He went on to play Jesus in Godspell and Joseph in Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dream Coat for many years, whilst also appearing in dozens of films like Reach For The Sky, The Queen’s Guard and the Sex Pistol’s film, The Great Rock n Roll Swindle. Jess has appeared in TV shows like Dixon of Dock Green,The Human Jungle, Softly Softly, Space 1999, Are You Being Served and Last of the Summer Wine . Jess Conrad is guest number 365 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again . Jess Conrad’s autobiography “From Blitz to Glitz” is available here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blitz-Glitz-Autobiography-Jess-Conrad/dp/1837914567 . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewboxall.com . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people. Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:01:01:05

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Ep. 364 - Huge Davies

2/29/2024
Comedian Huge Davies appears regularly on television, including his own Channel 4 sitcom ‘The Artists’ which he created, wrote and starred in. Other television appearances include 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Harry Hill’s Clubnite, Roast Battle, Jools Holland, Hypothetical, Jonathan Ross’ Comedy Club, Live at the Comedy Store, Comedians Giving Lectures and The Stand Up Sketch Show. Huge supported Phil Wang and Joe Lycett on their national tours and has been nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award, Leicester Square Comedian of the Year, Amused Moose New National Comic Award, Hackney Empire New Act of the Year and the Musical Comedy Awards. Huge has worked as a writer for Never Mind The Buzzcocks & Famalam, is a regular performer on BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show and co-hosts live podcast The Film Quiz with Nick Helm . Huge Davies is guest number 364 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again . Follow Huge Davies on Twitter & Instagram: @HugeDavies . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewboxall.com . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people. Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:59:39

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Ep. 363 - Greg Jenner

2/26/2024
Greg Jenner is a public historian and host and creator of the BBC podcast You’re Dead To Me, the chart-topping comedy with over 82 million downloads. He’s also the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Past Forward: A Century of Sound, the BBC’s award-nominated children’s podcast Homeschool History and the Audible series A Somewhat Complete History of Sitting Down. He was the Historical Consultant to nine series of CBBC’s Emmy & multiple BAFTA award-winning TV comedy series Horrible Histories and a key member of the team on the BAFTA-nominated film Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans. He is also the consultant to Corpse Talk, a Royal Television Society Awards nominated Kids animated series. Phil Ellis is guest number 363 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again . For Greg’s books and everything else Greg Jenner, visit - gregjenner.com . Follow Greg Jenner on Twitter & Instagram: @greg_jenner . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewboxall.com . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people. Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:01:14:23

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Ep. 362 - Phil Ellis

2/23/2024
Phil Ellis is an award-winning comedian who was nominated for Best Comedy Show at the 2023 Edinburgh Comedy Awards and won The Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality. He starred and co-wrote three series of his own BBC Radio 4 sitcom Phil Ellis is Trying, co-starring Johnny Vegas, Lolly Adefope, Amy Gledhill, Alexei Sayle, Sindhu Vee, Jack Dee, Lee Mack, Mark Lamarr and Sean Lock. The series was nominated for a BBC Audio Award in 2019. In 2014, Phil won the Edinburgh Comedy Award’s panel prize with his anarchic, sleeper hit show Funz and Gamez which was broadcast as part of BBC Radio 4’s Fresh from the Fest and BBC Comedy Feeds (BBC Three). He is currently on tour with his show Phil Ellis’s Excellent Comedy Show . Phil Ellis is guest number 362 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again . For tour tickets and everything Phil Ellis, visit - philelliscomedy.com . Follow Daliso Chaponda on Twitter: @thephilellis & Instagram: @philelliscomedy . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewboxall.com . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people. Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:48:32

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Ep. 361 - Professor Alice Roberts

2/19/2024
Professor Alice Roberts is and academic and presenter who has presented more than a hundred television documentaries, ranging across human biology, history and archaeology. Her longest running series, BBC Two’s Digging for Britain has been going strong for more than ten years. She first appeared on television in 2001, as a human bone specialist on Channel 4’s Time Team. She went on to present Coast on BBC Two, and then to write and present a range of television series for the BBC, including The Incredible Human Journey, Origins of Us and Ice Age Giants, as well as several Horizon programmes. She’s also fronted several history series on Channel 4 including Britain’s Most Historic Towns, Fortress Britain and Ancient Egypt by Train, as well as Curse of the Ancients and Royal Autopsy on Sky History. She’s written numerous popular science books including The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being, which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015 . Alice Roberts is guest number 361 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again . For tour tickets, books and everything else Alice Roberts, visit - alice-roberts.co.uk . Follow Alice Roberts on Twitter @theAliceRoberts and Instagram @prof_alice_roberts . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewboxall.com . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people . Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:56:23

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Ep. 360 - Njambi McGrath

2/16/2024
Njambi McGrath is an award-winning comedy star with a hit BBC Radio 4 series Becoming Njambi and her latest BBC Radio 4 series ‘Black Black’. She has just filmed with Comedy Central and has a comedy special with Just For Laughs. She has had successful Soho theatre and Edinburgh runs and filmed 5 comedy specials on Amazon Prime, NextUp and BBC iPlayer. In 2019 she won the coveted Hackney empire New Act Of The Year (NATYS) Award. She’s a regular on BBC Radio 4 and has been guest on Loose Ends, Front Row, Saturday Morning Live. She’s a political commentator with appearances on Channel 4, BBC One, Broadcasting House and LBC. She’s also a script writer. Njambi has performed all over Europe, Africa, Middle East and last ast year she supported Jason Manford. Her debut novel ‘Rinsing Mũkami’s Soul’ is out now via Jacaranda, the first of a two-book deal with the publishing house . Njambi McGrath is guest number 360 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again . For everything Njambi McGrath, visit - njambimcgrathcomedy.co.uk . Order ‘Rinsing Mũkami’s Soul’ here - https://jacarandabooks.co.uk/products/rinsing-mukamis-soul-3 . Follow Njambi McGrath on Twitter and Instagram @NjambiMcgrath . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewboxall.com . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people . Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:46:29

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Ep. 359 - Chloe Petts

2/12/2024
Chloe Petts is one of the most exciting stand-ups on the circuit. She is an alumna of the prestigious Pleasance Comedy Reserve, has been shortlisted for the BBC Comedy Award, was a finalist of Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year Awards 2017, came runner-up in the Funny Women Awards 2017 and supported Ed Gamble on his 2022 UK Tour. She was recently seen on Celebrity Pointless, Richard Osman's House of Games, ITV’s Jonathan Ross’s Comedy Club, Dave’s Hypothetical, has been heard on BBC Five Live’s Fighting Talk and has appeared on Channel 4’s Random Acts and BBC 3 Quickies. She is also a huge football fan and has contributed regularly to Sky Sports' Good Morning Euros show across the Women's Euros 2022 . Chloe Petts is guest number 359 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again . For tour dates and everything Chloe Petts, visit - chloepetts.org . Follow Chloe Petts on Twitter and Instagram @chloepetts . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewboxall.com . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people . Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:48:29