My Time Capsule

We invited the listeners to our bonus podcast, The Debrief, to join us for a Christmas Party over Zoom and asked them all to bring an item for the Christmas Time Capsule! This is that party with some wonderful people, fascinating items and plenty of amazing coincidences! If you'd like to listen to our bonus podcast and get the main podcast ad-free, sign up here - https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecap...

Our annual Christmas gift for all our listeners: it's A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, read by our host, Michael Fenton Stevens! Feel free to delete if it's not your thing but we hope you enjoy it. Merry Christmas! Thank you to Spoken World Audio for allowing us to put this out. Follow Spoken World Audio on Twitter : @Spoken_World Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter , Instagram & Facebook :...

My Christmas Time Capsule Part 3 features Joe Wilkinson, Jim Howick, Rosie Holt, Tom Read-Wilson and Hywel Roberts. Merry Christmas! 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...

My Christmas Time Capsule Part 2 features Dave Gorman, Jacqui Oatley, Alasdair Beckett-King, Ted Robbins, Professor Turi King, John Fenton-Stevens and Rich Wilson. Merry Christmas! 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 Cas...

My Christmas Time Capsule Part 1 features Alex Horne, Jon Harvey AKA Count Binface, Lindsay Santoro, Aled Jones, Iain Lee, Gabrielle Glaister, Matthew Crosby, Simon Parkin and Paul Clayton. Merry Christmas! Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter , Instagram & Facebook : @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter : @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by J...

Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show Nominee 2023 Ian Smith is a multi-award winning comedian, actor and writer as heard on BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz, The Now Show, Just A Minute and his own comedy-documentary Girl Stuck in Basketball Hoop. Ian’s 2023 Edinburgh Fringe show Crushing was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award and runner-up in Next Up's Biggest Award in Comedy. Ian is also a talented...

Lemn Sissay is a a BAFTA nominated International prize winning writer, broadcaster and poet who has had the MOST extraordinary life. Please listen to his intro to find out more! Lemn was the official poet of the London 2012 Olympics, joined the Booker Prize judging panel in 2020, he’s also won The Pen Pinter Prize and a Points of Light Award, was elected as chancellor of the Univers...

Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Glenn Moore is a comedian, actor and one of the best and most prolific joke writers in the country. He is a regular face on TV, having appeared on Mock The Week, The Russell Howard Hour, Guessable and Rob Delaney’s Stand Up Central on Comedy Central, The Stand Up Sketch Show on ITV2 and he is a regular guest on The Great American Joke Off on The CW Network in the US....

Alex Horne is best known as the creator of BAFTA winning TV series Taskmaster, in which he takes the role of assistant to the Taskmaster Greg Davies. Taskmaster started in 2015 and versions of the programme have also been made in America, Australia, Belgium, Croatia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Finland and New Zealand. Since 2010, Alex has been performing with his band The Horne Sect...

Dave Cohen is a comedy writer who has written on shows including Not Going Out, Have I Got News For You, Spitting Image, My Family and Life of Riley. On Radio he’s written for shows including, The News Quiz, Dead Ringers, Sunday Format and 50 episodes of the Radio 4 show 15 Minute Musical with Richie Webb and David Quantick, which won the Writers Guild Best Comedy 2009. Dave wrote the lyrics for a...

Alfie Moore is an ex-policeman turned comedian, best known for his brilliant Radio 4 comedy series, It’s a Fair Cop, which has run for 7 series. He’s taken a number of very successful shows to the Edinburgh Festival including in 2014, when his show, The Naked Stun sold out for 25 nights and was awarded the Edinburgh Fringe laurel for a sell-out show. Alfie has supported Sarah Millican, R...

Rich Wilson is a stand-up comedian who was nominated for Best MC at the 2023 Chortle awards and has had sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, Melbourne Comedy Festival and the New Zealand Comedy Festival, where he won Best International Guest in 2016. He’s the host of the wildly popular insane in the: podcast series where Rich talks to funny and interesting people about their experiences with me...

Kiell Smith-Bynoe is best known for playing Mike in the sitcom Ghosts on BBC One and Dean in the BAFTA winning sitcom Stath Lets Flats on Channel4. Kiell is also the new presenter of The Great British Sewing Bee on BBC One and was brilliant in the 15th series of Taskmaster. His other acting credits include Dreamland with Lily Allen on Sky, Friday Night Dinner, Whitechapel, Death In Paradise, Blood...

Simon Parkin has been a professional broadcaster for over thirty years, first in the Children's BBC Broom Cupboard alongside Andi Peters and then on programmes such as Top of the Pops and The O Zone. In 1992 he went over to TV where he became one of the launch stars of the new breakfast television station GMTV. He’s had radio shows on stations such as the BBC’s London station GLR, nationally...

Samira Ahmed is a journalist, writer and broadcaster who regularly presents Front Row on BBC Radio 4 and Newswatch on BBC News and BBC Breakfast. She was a newsreader on Channel 4 News from 2002 until she went freelance in 2011. She’s won the Broadcaster of the Year at the Stonewall Awards and has won Celebrity Mastermind twice becoming Mastermind Champion of champions. She has been a a reporter o...

Natasha Hodgson stars in the huge West End musical comedy Operation Mincemeat, which she also co-created, co-wrote and co-composed. It’s received 64 five star reviews including the Times which said it was a gloriously inventive wartime romp, and the Mirror which described it as “part Mel Brooks, part Six, part Hamilton with a side order of One Man Two Guvnors”. It won the Stage Debut award fo...

Bob Cryer is Barry Cryer’s son. He has written a wonderful biography of his dad - "Barry Cryer: Same Time Tomorrow? The Life and Laughs of a Comedy Legend", which is available now. In his own right, Bob is an an actor, director, producer and writer. His 20 plus years of acting includes work on TV such as the new BBC cop drama Interceptor, Outnumbered, Our Hidden Lives, Eastenders, Holby City, High...

Ian Lawman is an ordained CofE exorcist and has been featured on a number of successful television shows including Most Haunted, I'm Famous and Frightened, Living With The Dead, Help My House is Haunted and Celebrity Help My House is Haunted. At 16 Ian become a top Dancer and Fashion model. His modelling won him the accolade of being the Face of 1997. Later, after many years of figh...

Laurence Rickard is best known from BBC sitcom Ghosts where he plays the ghosts Robin the Caveman and Humphrey, the headless ghost. Laurence also co-created and co-writes Ghosts alongside his Horrible Histories group, which is the show they all met working on. He was a principle writer and star of children’s historical sketch show Horrible Histories, which won two National Comedy Awards, four...

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...