My Time Capsule

Connor Burns is one of the fastest-rising stars in UK comedy. Career highlights include supporting Daniel Sloss on three continents, closing the Sydney Comedy Festival Gala at the Sydney Opera House, he completed an off-Broadway run at the New York Comedy Festival and he’s won the Fringe Encore Series twice, in 2024 & 2025. Hailing from Scotland, he’s sold out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Fes...

Matthew Lorenzo was one of the original presenters on Sky Sports , he went on to front major sporting events for ITV , Channel 4 , BBC Sport , GMTV TalkSPORT , covering everything from Premier League and Champions League football to Formula 1 and The World Cup. As a producer and director, Matthew has created a series of acclaimed sports documentaries, including Bobby — the definitive film on Engla...

An unedited version of Episode 86 with Rob Brydon, with over 30 minutes of unheard chat! Rob Brydon is best known for presenting Would I Lie to You on BBC One, playing Bryn West in Gavin and Stacey and his role in The Trip with Steve Coogan . Rob Brydon is our guest in episode 540 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four...

Happy Halloween! We're on holiday so this is a special compilation episode featuring clips from guests who have been on My Time Capsule on Halloween over the past 5 years. Featuring the comedian Josie Long, the Bugs and Silent Witness actor Jaye Griffiths, actor and Barry's son Bob Cryer, writer and host of Uncanny Danny Robins and Brushstrokes actor and writer Karl Howman. Follow My Time Capsule...

Beth Rigby is the Political Editor of Sky News. She joined the network in 2016 and became Political Editor in 2019, leading coverage of major political events, elections, and interviews with senior figures across Westminster. Before Sky, Beth spent over a decade at the Financial Times, where she served as Deputy Political Editor and Chief Political Correspondent.  Beth Rigby is our guest in e...

An unedited version of Episode 20 with Miles Jupp, with over 50 minutes of unheard chat! Miles Jupp is a standup comedian, actor, former presenter of The News Quiz on BBC Radio4, regular panelist on Have I Got News For You, Would I Lie To You, QI and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown . Miles Jupp is our guest in episode 537 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things...

Amanda Barrie is a British actress who first gained attention in the 1960s with roles in the classic Carry On films, including Carry On Cabby (1963) and Carry On Cleo (1964), where she played Cleopatra. On television, she became a household name as Alma Baldwin in Coronation Street , appearing regularly from the 1980s to 2001. After leaving the soap, she joined the cast of Bad Girls as Bev Tull, a...

Joz Norris is an acclaimed comedy writer and performer. He makes unusual shows for the Edinburgh Fringe including the smash hit Joz Norris Is Dead. Long Live Mr Fruit Salad. (winner of the Comedians’ Choice Award for Best Show, nominee for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality, the Chortle Award for Best Music & Variety Act, and longlisted for the Edinburgh Comedy Award) and Blink (on...

Professor John Duncan is among the pioneers of modern cognitive neuroscience. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2008 and a Fellow of the British Academy in 2009. In 2012, he was awarded the Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. After completing his education at the University of Oxford in 1976, Duncan worked for two years with Mic...

Edy Hurst is a critically acclaimed and award winning stand-up comedian and musician who has appeared on BBC Radio 4, MTV UK, NextUp Comedy, and BBC Radio Manchester. Having been successful in numerous new act competitions in his early career, he has also made the finals of the 2021 Musical Comedy Awards and been nominated for North West Comedy Award for Best Alternative Act and Best Comedy Show a...

Doug Naylor is a British Emmy-award-winning television writer, best known as the co-creator of the iconic sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf for which he wrote or co-wrote all 74 episodes. He is also a Sunday Times bestselling novelist and an award-winning TV director. He was one of the two Head Writers at Spitting Image during the series heyday and co-penned the number one single 'The Chicken Song', on whic...

Ray Bradshaw is a Scottish stand-up comedian, presenter, and writer. He is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio Scotland and regularly appears on radio shows such as Off the Ball and Breaking the News . His innovative show Deaf Comedy Fam —performed in both spoken English and British Sign Language—won critical acclaim and a Scottish Culture Award, cementing his reputation as one of the most inventiv...

Adam Frost is best known for his work on BBC’s Gardeners’ World . He is an award-winning British garden designer, author, and television presenter. A seven-time Chelsea Flower Show gold medalist, Adam is celebrated for his naturalistic, wildlife-friendly designs and approachable style. He began his career working with garden legend Geoff Hamilton before founding his own design business and trainin...

Harriet Dyer is a comedian from Live at the Apollo, Cats Does Countdown and won The Channel 4 Sean Lock Comedy Award in 2024. Harriet’s other tv credits include Rosie Jones’ Disability Comedy Extravaganza, Comedy Central Live, The Russel Howard Hour, Jokes Only Neurodivergent People Can Tell on Channel 4 and Movie Megastars: Made In The 80s on Sky Max, as well as Elephant In The Room, The Fringe C...

Reece Dinsdale first rose to fame in the classic sitcom Home to Roost opposite John Thaw, before going on to deliver powerful performances in landmark dramas such as playing Jimmy in the BAFTA-winning nuclear holocaust film Threads and the cult football thriller I.D., for which he won the Special Jury Prize at the Geneva Film Festival. He became a familiar face to millions through his long-running...

Emmanuel Sonubi is a two time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee. Nominated for Best Newcomer in 2022 and Best Show in 2023, as well as the Chortle Award for Best Club Comedian in 2023 and Next Up Comedy Award for Best Show in 2022. He has headlined BBC's Live at the Apollo and appeared on QI and Have I Got News for You. He will next be seen in the forthcoming shows The Hitlist (BBC), Silence is Golde...

Mark Steel returns for his second time capsule! Mark Steel is an award-winning British comedian, writer and broadcaster, celebrated for his sharp political satire and witty social commentary. A regular on Radio 4’s The News Quiz and television panel shows, he is best known for his long-running series Mark Steel’s in Town , which explores the quirks of communities across the UK. He has written for...

Josh Jones returns to fill another time capsule! Josh is an Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer, nominated for his critically acclaimed sell-out show Waste of Space. He followed this up with a total sell-out run of Gobsmacked at the Fringe before embarking on his debut UK Tour. Josh was previously a finalist for the prestigious BBC New Comedy Award, which he subsequently went on to judge on BBC T...

Marcus Brigstocke returns for his own capsule! His first being shared with his wife, comedian Rachel Paris in ep 72. Marcus Brigstocke is a comedian, actor and writer who performs stand up to sell-out audiences on tour nationally. His last tour show, Devil May Care, is now available to watch on Amazon Prime. BBC Radio 4 has become somewhat of a second home to Marcus with regular appearances on I’m...

Jim Meskimen is an American actor, comedian, and master impressionist whose career spans film, TV, animation and voiceover. His acting roles include the films Apollo 13, There Will Be Blood, The Grinch, Frost/Nixon and The Punisher, and on TV in Parks and Recreation, Friends, Whose Line is it Anyway? and Fresh Prince of Bel Air. His voice credits are just as impressive — from Justice League, Avata...

Nick Helm returns for his second time capsule! Nick Helm is a comedian, actor and writer known for his larger-than-life stage persona and a mix of stand-up and music. He rose to fame with his Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated shows and went on to star in 3 series of the hit BBC Three sitcom Uncle . On television, he’s appeared on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown , Live at the Apollo and Russell Howa...

An unedited version of Episode 214 with Billy Boyd with over 15 minutes of unheard chat! Billy Boyd is best known for playing Hobbit Pippin Took in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy. He went on to star opposite Russell Crowe in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World , took a darker turn in the cult horror Seed of Chucky , and has appeared in hit television series including Gre...

Irish comedian Emma Doran embarked on her first ever stand-up gig while on maternity leave, that evening she won best act of the night and has been gigging non-stop since. Emma has garnered over 318k followers on social media for her stand up clips and sketches. In 2022 her debut nationwide Ireland stand up tour “Mad Isn’t It” was a sell out with seven dates at Dublin’s Vicar Street. In the same y...

Robert Ross is Britain’s foremost comedy historian, author of over twenty acclaimed books including The Monty Python Encyclopedia, Sid James – Cockney Rebel and Marty Feldman – The Biography of a Comedy Legend. He is the official historian of the Carry On films ad has written Doctor Who audio dramas for Big Finish with casts including Colin Baker, Leslie Phillips, Roy Hudd, Doug Bradley and David...

Suzi Ruffell is a critically acclaimed comedian, writer, and podcaster. With standout television appearances on shows like Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week, The Jonathan Ross Show, QI, 8 Out of 10 Cats and The Last Leg—she brings sharp wit and storytelling flair to every performance. A five-time Edinburgh Fringe sell-out artist, a National Comedy Awards nominee and Chortle Award winner, her live...