My Time Capsule

Sophie 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 Sund...

Aled 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 an...

Fiona 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...

Jacqui 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...

Linda 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...

Dane 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...

David 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 , Th...

Robert 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 fourte...

Remi 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 col...

Roger 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 40...

Nooruddean 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 Mancuni...

Lizzie 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, r...

Hywel 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 pu...

Jon 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 Ia...

George 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 Doc...

Alasdair 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 se...

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Lou 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 R...

Rosie 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 sa...

Doug 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...

Louise 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 Wom...

Neil 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 'Wi...

Daniel 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 C...

Pierre 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 podc...

Elliot Steel is a stand up comedian and comedy writer. Elliot is the son of Mark Steel, who’s also been guest on My Time Capsule! Elliot is a veteran of British comedy having started in stand up at the age of 16. He’s performed all over the world since then, including the Latitude and Reading Festivals, The Comedy Store in London, Hot Water Comedy Club, Top Secret Comedy Club and th...