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 Rad ...
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Hello and welcome to Are you Michelle from Skins? with me, April Pearson. And yes, I played Michelle in E4’s iconic teen drama, Skins. This show is helping me work through the highs and lows of being associated with something so memorable by talking to other creatives who are also known for that one seminal moment in their career. I'm speaking to boyband members, soap stars, and other Skins cast members about how that one iconic role has impacted their life and career going forwards.Ever won ...
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The Female Pilot Club is a club to celebrate comedy written by women! Pilot-clubbers Kay Stonham and Emily Chase get women TV writers to spill their secrets, from the new and annoyingly talented, to seasoned and annoyingly successful Emmy award winners. We chat about gags and gaffs, what makes a good script great and how to survive and thrive as a female writer in the comedy industry. Featuring clips from pilots performed live at the club with the cream of British comedy talent like Greg McH ...
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Angela Barnes returns with a brand new time capsule! Angela Barnes is a comedian best known for her appearances on Mock The Week and hosting The News Quiz and Newsjack on BBC Radio 4. She’s had her own Radio 4 stand-up series called You Can’t Take It With You which was based on her 2014 début show at the Edinburgh Festival and she co-hosts the "les…
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Eliot Stein is a writer and editor who is currently a journalist at the BBC and deputy editor of BBC Travel. Eliot's forthcoming book, Custodians of Wonder, is inspired by a column he created for BBC Travel called Custom Made, and is about the last people alive maintaining some of the world's most astonishing cultural rites. His work has also appea…
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Andy Zaltzman is the chair of The News Quiz on BBC Radio4, the host of the global hit satirical podcast The Bugle, the cricket statistician for BBC’s Test Match Special and a recent contestant on Taskmaster Series 18. He is currently on his biggest UK tour to date with a brand-new show, The Zaltgeist. The 46-date UK & IRE tour started in in Novembe…
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A re-edited and extended version of our interview with actor and comedian David Mitchell! . David Mitchell is our guest in episode 448 of 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 Davi…
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Global comedy superstar and ventriloquist, Jeff Dunham holds the World record for "Most tickets sold for a stand-up comedy tour”! He held “Billboard’s Top Comedy Tour” for three consecutive years and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Forbes ranked Dunham as the third highest-paid comedian in the United States behind only Jerry Seinfeld and …
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Paul Putner is an actor and comedian best known for his roles in Little Britain, Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle and This Morning with Richard Not Judy as The Curious Orange. Paul also toured in the Little Britain Live show and later appeared in Matt Lucas and David Walliams' TV follow-up, Come Fly with Me. Other TV and film appearance include Spaced,…
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John O’Farrell returns with a brand new time capsule! John O’Farrell is an author and comedy script writer. He was a writer for such shows as Spitting Image, Grumpy Old Men and Have I Got News For You. He co-wrote the Aardman animation film Early Man with Nick Park and wrote the film Chicken Run and it’s sequel Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget. He w…
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Ep. 444 - Joe Kent-Walters A.K.A Frankie Monroe
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Joe Kent-Walters won Best Newcomer at this years Edinburgh Festival Comedy Awards and the 2023 BBC New Comedy Award. He is also won the 2021 Chortle Student Comedy Award and the Best Show award at this years Leicester Comedy Festival. He has been delighting audiences up and down the country with his idiosyncratic style of outrageous character comed…
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Milton Jones returns with a brand new time capsule! Milton Jones regularly appeared on Mock the Week and has also appeared on Live at the Apollo, Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow and House of Games. Milton is currently working his 15th series for Radio 4, and performs regularly on the BBC classic Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, including appearing on the…
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Matilda Thorpe is best known for playing Mandy in the sitcom Desmond’s and it’s spinoff series Porkpie, and in Sicknote on Sky starring Rupert Grint and Nick Frost. Her multiple other TV credits include Murder Most Horrid, The Upper Hand, Bad Girls and Rosemary & Thyme. Her film roles include Nina in One Life, Aunt Melody in the Amy Winehouse Biopi…
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New York comedian Modi was voted one of the top 10 comedians in New York City by The Hollywood Reporter and has been featured on HBO, CBS, NBC, ABC, Comedy Central, Howard Stern, and E! Entertainment. Modi has received rave reviews in The New York Times, Time Out NY and The New York Post. Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, Modi emigrated with his family to …
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We revisit our episode with Andy Hamilton with a re-edit! Resulting in a much more relaxed chat and plenty of unheard material. Andy Hamilton is the writer and director of Outnumbered and Drop the Dead Donkey, a regular panellist on Have I Got News for You, The News Quiz and QI, and the voice of Dr Elephant in Peppa Pig. Andy Hamilton is our guest …
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Karl Howman is best known for playing Jacko in the sitcom Brush Strokes from 1986 to 1991, Mulberry in Mulberry from 1992 to 1993 and Buster Briggs in EastEnders from 2014 to 2016. As a writer, his first book, Secret Spitfires, went to paperback from hardback in 2022; he also co-directed and produced the film of the same name. His second book, A Mi…
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Ep. 438 - Griff Rhys Jones (Re-edit)
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We revisit our episode with Griff Rhys Jones with a re-edit! Resulting in a much more relaxed chat and plenty of unheard material. Griff Rhys Jones is probably best known for his sketch comedy work, most notably in the groundbreaking Not The Nine O’Clock News and for over a decade in Smith & Jones, alongside the late Mel Smith. More recently Griff …
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Ep. 437 - Arthur Smith Returns! (Live at Cheerful Earful Pod Fest)
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Arthur Smith returns with a new time capsule! This time recorded live at The Bedford in Balham as part of Cheerful Earful Podcast Festival! Arthur Smith is a regular voice on BBC Radio 4 as a presenter on such shows as Loose Ends and a regular guest on radio and TV in shows like Just A Minute, The Unbelievable Truth, Grumpy Old Men and Have I Got N…
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Comedian Arthur Smith was our guest in episode 3 of MTC, so we thought we'd re-visit that episode with a re-edit! Arthur Smith is a regular voice on BBC Radio 4 as a presenter on such shows as Loose Ends and a regular guest on radio and TV in shows like Just A Minute, The Unbelievable Truth, Grumpy Old Men and Have I Got News For You. Arthur Smith …
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Our first returning guest! Maria McErlane is best know for co-presenting the Graham Norton radio show on BBC Radio 2 and Now Virgin Radio. She has been acting since 1984 and has appeared in The Fast Show, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Thin Ice and Happiness. She was also the narrator for Eurotrash with Antoine de Caunes and Jean-Paul Gaultier. She’s been a gu…
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