My Time Capsule

Matt Forde is a comedian, writer, actor, broadcaster, podcaster and impersonator who is one of the countries most sought after satirist, having performed in sold out theatres all over the country and at the Edinburgh festival. He’s been on the Royal Variety Show, Have I Got News For You, Mock the Week, 8 out of 10 Cats, and Jon Richardson Grows Up as well as a guest on Newsnight and Question Time....

Bilal Zafar is a stand up comedian, actor and writer who was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe 2016 and won the Hackney Empire New Act Award in the same year. He has taken 3 solo shows to Edinburgh and toured them around the UK including runs at London’s Soho Theatre. As a writer, Bilal created and performed his own stand up special for BBC radio 4, is one of the lead writers on...

Our 3 year anniversary episode! Recorded live at Ink Festival in Suffolk with the actor David Morrissey. David is possibly best known for his roles as the Governor in the American series The Walking Dead, State of Play for which he was nominated for a BAFTA and the RTS winning and BAFTA nominated drama Sherwood. Other TV and film credits include Inside No.9, The League of Gentlemen, Good Omens, Th...

Gabrielle Glaister is probably best known for playing Patricia Farnham in Brookside and Trish Wallace in Family Affairs. She was also Kate or “Bob” in several episodes of Blackadder and has had notable roles in other British television shows including Upstart Crow, Sherlock, Unforgotten, Law and Order UK, New Tricks, Coronation Street, Doctors and Hilary Benshaw in Emmerdale. Gabrielle h...

Jon Ronson is a British journalist, author and documentary maker best known for his books The Men Who Stare at Goats and The Psychopath Test. The Men Who Stare at Goats was also adapted into a feature film starring George Clooney. Other books include So You've Been Publicly Shamed and Them: Adventures with Extremists. He wrote the screenplay for the feature film Frank staring Michael Fassbender, i...

Mina Anwar is best known for playing PC Maggie Habib in the sitcom The Thin Blue Line by Ben Elton staring Rowan Atkinson. She was also in the film Infidel, with Omid Djalili and Matt Lucas, Razzledazzle, Shameless, Upstart Crow, The Invisibles, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Scoop, 106 episodes of House of Anubis, Happy Valley, In the Club, Marley’s Ghost, The Worst Witch, Terms and Conditions and Do...

Jamie Morton hosts the enormous worldwide hit podcast My Dad Wrote A Porno, with James Cooper and Alice Levine, where, every episode, Jamie reads a chapter of Belinda Blinked, an amateur erotic novel series written by his father under the pen name Rocky Flintstone and they all react to it! It has been downloaded over 440 million times, it’s been an HBO comedy special and h...

Gordon Kennedy is probably best known for the Channel 4 comedy series Absolutely, which aired from 1989 to 1993 which he co-stared in, co-wrote and produced. The BBC radio series of Absolutely is now available as a three series audiobook. Gordon co-hosted the original National Lottery show alongside Anthea Turner and in the late 90s, he was cast in the role of Little John in the BBC's hit series R...

Iain Lee is an award winning radio and television presenter who started on The 11 O’Clock Show on Channel 4 which was also the starting point for comedians such as Ricky Gervais and Sacha Baron Cohen. His extensive radio work includes shows on Xfm, LBC and Absolute Radio. He won a Radio Academy Award in 2014 for breakfast show of the year, moved to talkRadio in 2016 winning the audio and radio ind...

John Archer is a magician, comedian, actor and writer who is a member of the Magic Circle’s Inner Magic Circle and is a past winner of the Magic Circle Stage Magician of the Year competition. In 2019 John reached the semi-final of Britain's Got Talent and he was the first magician to successfully “fool” Penn & Teller on Penn & Teller: Fool Us. John has written for many TV shows including t...

Tony Way is best known as Lenny, the photographer, in Ricky Gervais’s After Life and Ser Dontos Hollard in Game of Thrones. Other TV appearances include The Fast Show, The Eleven O’Clock Show, Bang Bang it’s Reeves and Mortimer, Spaced, Randall and Hopkirk, Black Books, My Family, Extras, The Wall, Shooting Stars, Mongrels, Sherlock, Derek, Doctor Who, Not Going Out, Pompidou, Inside No.9, Murder...

Annabelle Dowler is best known for playing Kirsty, in the long running Radio 4 drama, The Archers, that she has played since 1999. On TV she’s been in such shows as The Suspect, Sense8 on Netflix, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, playing Catherine of Aragon, Lewis, The Suspect, Breaking Silence, Brexit - The Uncivil War, Mother’s Day, Doctor Who and the film Suffragette with Carey Mulligan, Helena Bon...

Catherine Tyldesley is an actor best known for playing Iris Moss in the BBC drama, Lillies, Eva Price on Coronation Street from 2011 to 2018 and Karen Norris in the BBC One sitcom Scarborough co-starring Jason Manford. She was a contestant on the 17th series of Strictly Come Dancing with her partner Johannes Radebe. She has been nominated for the British Soap awards, Inside Soap awards and the TV...

Sally Hodgkiss is an award-winning actor, writer and comedian. Sally performs regularly on the comedy circuit, most recently as a guest with the legendary Comedy Store Players. She’s performed with Whose Line is it Anyway - Live and The Stephen Frost Impro Allstars. Her acting career has taken her to many theatres around the UK including the Manchester Royal Exchange,...

David Earl is an actor and comedian famous for his brilliant comedy character, Brian Gittens, which he plays in several Ricky Gervais projects; Derek, Extras, the film Cemetery Junction and the world wide Netflix smash hit, After Life. David works regularly with his After Life co-star, Joe Wilkinson and together they co-wrote and starred in the sitcom Rovers and the comedy series The Coc...

Welsh actor Sian Reese-Williams is probably best known for playing Detective Inspector Cadi John in Hidden, a bilingual crime drama for BBC Wales and BBC Four which ran for three very successful series. She played the role of Gennie Walker in Emmerdale from 2008-13. In 2016, she featured in series 3 of the critically acclaimed Welsh crime drama Hinterland and in...

Zoe Lyons is standup comedian and writer best known for her regular appearances on TV and radio in shows such as Mock The Week, The News Quiz, Live At The Apollo, Alan Davies As Yet Untitled, Just A Minute, Celebrity Mastermind, Michael McIntyre Roadshow, Celebrity University Challenge, The Now Show and 8 Out of 10 Cats. She won the Funny Women Competition in 2004 and her debut Edinburgh show was...

Kerry Howard is a BAFTA nominated actor who is best known for playing Laura in the BAFTA award-winning BBC sitcom Him and Her alongside Russel Tovey, Sarah Solemani and Joe Wilkinson. She had her first big break in the BBC remake of sitcom Reggie Perrin, played the lead ‘Leanne’ in three series of Witless for BBC Three and played the title role in Young Hyacinth for BBC One. Other television credi...

Actor and singer Tom Read Wilson started his career when he auditioned for The Voice back in 2016 giving an incredible rendition of Accentuate the Positive. This led to him becoming the hilarious receptionist on Celebs Go Dating. Tom has written two books on etymology, one for children called every word tells a story and On the tip of my tongue, for adults. He won Celebrity Mastermind, was 2nd on...

Steve Steen is a comedian and actor best known for his appearances on Whose Line Is It Anyway and as a member of the world famous improvisational comedy group, The Comedy Store Players. He, for many years, worked with another of our guests, Jim Sweeney. They joined Oval House Theatre Club in 1972 where they first started doing improv together. By the 1980’s they were performing on TV in the ITV ch...

Gordon Buchanan is a Scottish wildlife filmmaker and television presenter, who has been responsible for some of the most iconic moments in numerous wildlife documentaries, such as filming big cats for Big Cat Diary, grey seals and foxes for Springwatch and his “...and me” documentary series, including The Bear Family & Me, The Polar Bear Family & Me, Snow Wolves, Gorillas, Elephants, Tribe...

John Altman is a BAFTA and EMMY winning film composer, arranger and musician. His feature films include the award-winning Little Voice, he wrote all the period music for Titanic, the classic tank chase in Goldeneye, he arranged Always Look on the Bright Side of Life from The Life Of Brian, RKO281 (EMMY winner), Hear My Song (BAFTA winner), Shall We Dance starring Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez, F...

David Ames is best known for playing Dominic Copeland in Holby City from 2013 to 2022. David has also appeared on TV in He Kills Coppers with Rafe Spall, the first Doctor Who episode to be filmed in HD, Planet of the Dead, which featured David Tennent as Dr Who, and has recently appeared on stage in the title role of Steve at the Seven Dials Playhouse and as Tim in Horse Play at the Riverside Stud...

Lorelei King is one of the most successful and accomplished American actresses working in the UK today. She has appeared in numerous film and TV shows including Alien Covenant, Notting Hill, The Saint, Cold Feet, Jam, Birds of a Feather, Chef, Alistair McGowan's Big Impression, Emmerdale Jonathan Creek, Not Going Out, The Robinsons and Monarch of the Glen. She’s also various voices in the Ame...

Caitlin O’Ryan is an actor who is best known from the international smash hit TV series, Outlander, where she plays series regular, Lizzie Wemyss, the handmaid. Caitlin is a graduate of The Oxford School of Drama, which has produced many top actors. Outlander was her professional debut but in her final year at drama school she appeared in The Lights at The Royal Court and followed this with If and...