My Time Capsule

Jim Howick is best know for playing the Scout Master Ghost, Pat, in the BBC One sitcom Ghosts which he co-created and co-writes. The same team stared in the hugely popular kid’s show Horrible Histories, created the Sky1 comedy Yonderland and the film Bill, a comedy based loosely around the early life of William Shakespeare. Jim was also Gerard in Peep Show, Gerry in Danny Boyle's Babylon...

BONUS EPISODE as part of our 300 episodes celebration week! John Fenton-Stevens is Mike's son BUT he is also the producer and editor of the multi-million downloaded podcast, My Time Capsule which has been 'Podcast Of The Week' in The Times, The Guardian and The Radio Times. He has run the music production company Pass The Peas Music since 2005 and has written and produced music for multiple worldw...

EPISODE 300!! For this milestone we have a very special guest in a very special episode that was recorded LIVE in-front of 1,200 people at Kite Festival in Oxfordshire! Dave Gorman started stand-up in 1990 and after a few years on the circuit, started writing on shows like The Fast Show and the Mrs Merton Show. Dave became known to a wider audience with the success of his show Are You Dave Gorman?...

Bridget Christie is a stand-up comedian, actor and writer who won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show with her show A Bic For Her, in 2013. In 2019 the show was named as one of The Times comedy shows of the decade. Her own comedy drama, The Change is currently on Channel 4. Bridget was a contestant in series 13 of Taskmaster and has also been on Have I Got News For You, QI, Harry Hill’s...

Deirdre O’Kane is an Irish stand up comedian, actor and film maker. A household name in Ireland, she hosted her own primetime Saturday night talk show “Deirdre O’Kane Talks Funny” on RTÉ One, reached the final of Dancing with the Stars, she hosts the Irish Film and Television Academy Awards, is the voice of Gogglebox in Ireland, had her own standup comedy series “The Deirdre O’Kane Show” and appea...

Amy Gledhill is a comedian, actor and writer who was the first person to be nominated for Best Newcomer AND Best Show at The Edinburgh Fringe. Her show, The Girl Before The Girl You Marry was also nominated for Best Live Show at The National Comedy Awards. On TV she’s been on The Jonathan Ross Show, Pointless Celebrities, Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled, Richard Ayoade's Question Team,...

Paul Clayton is and actor, director and writer best known for playing Olivia Colman’s dad in the comedy Peep Show with David Mitchell and Robert Webb. He also played Graham, in the comedy Him & Her with Russel Tovey, Sarah Solimani, Kerry Howard and Joe Wilkinson. He’s about to star in the new Disney+ series of The Full Monty starting the original cast, plus Paul as Dennis! Other TV appearance...

Jake Lambert is a stand-up comedian who has been tour support for some of the biggest names in comedy including Michael McIntyre, Jack Dee, Seann Walsh, Kerry Godliman, Tom Allen, Rob Beckett, and Romesh Ranganathan. He was a 2015 semi-finalist in the BBC New Comedy Award, Magners New Comedian of the Year, English Comedian of the Year, Leicester Mercury New Act of the Year and a finalist in Amused...

Stuart Goldsmith is an actor, stand-up comedian and former street performer. He has presented The Comedian's Comedian podcast since 2012, where in each episode he interviews a comedian about how they approach their profession. On it he’s spoken with over 400 comedians like Jimmy Carr, James Acaster, Stewart Lee, Sarah Millican, Sindhu Vee and Russell Howard. Stuart began in street t...

RIOPY is a French pianist and composer whose album Tree of Light reached No.1 on the US Billboard Classical Album chart and continued in the top 10 for 70 weeks. He features on Lana Del Rey’s latest album with a song she wrote over the track of one of RIOPY’s most popular compositions, Flo. RIOPY grew up in an oppressive religious cult, where contact with the outside world...

Nina Wadia OBE is best known from the ground braking sketch show Goodness Gracious Me alongside Sanjeev Bhaskar, Meera Syal and Kulvinder Ghir and as Zainab Massood in Eastenders for 6 years. She’s also been in the Jasper Carrot sitcom All About Me, 2 Point 4 Children, The Vicar of Dibley, Holby City, Skins, Chambers, Waking the Dead, Citizen Khan, Death in Paradise, Doctor Who, Finding Fatima, St...

Anita Harris is a singer and actress who is one of the biggest stars of the 60s, 70s and 80s and is still performing today. Her huge hit song Just Loving You was suggested for Anita by Dusty Springfield and written by Dusty’s brother. As an actress she was in the film Carry On Doctor, Casualty, French and Saunders, Midsummer Murders and her own one-woman show. In the 1970’s she was the assistant t...

Cally Beaton is a stand-up comedian best known for her regular appearances on QI and The Apprentice: You’re Fired, as well as featuring on Live At The Apollo, Pointless Celebrities, Richard Osman’s House of Games and The Blame Game. Cally only started her stand-up career at the age of 45 having perviously held senior management positions at some of the biggest media companies in the world - she wa...

Sam Teskey is founding member of the Grammy nominated Australian blues and soul band, The Teskey Brothers, alongside his brother Josh. Their debut album, Half Mile Harvest, was nominated for Best Blues and Roots Album at the 2018 ARIA Awards. They followed up with the album Run Home Slow in 2019, which debuted at #2 on the Australian Albums Chart and was nominated for seven ARIA Awards. Their new...

Eric Whitacre is a Grammy Award-winning composer and conductor. Eric’s debut album as a conductor, Light and Gold, went straight to the top of the charts, earning him a Grammy. His works are played worldwide and his ground-breaking Virtual Choirs have united 100,000 singers from more than 145 countries over the last decade. Eric has worked with legendary Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer, c...

Amanda Wakeley is one of the UK’s top fashion designers having designed for Princess Diana, Harvey Nichols, Elizabeth Hurley, Jennifer Lopez and Queen Rania of Jordan, amongst many other celebrity clients. Amanda was a great influence on Princess Diana, providing her with many of her most iconic outfits, including the bottle-green executive suit she wore when she resigned from public life in 1993....

Matthew Crosby is a comedian, broadcaster and TV writer who can be heard every Sunday morning on Radio X co-hosting the Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby Show. He’s worked with some of the biggest names in comedy - James Acaster, Noel Fielding, Bradley Walsh, Richard Ayoade, Matt Lucas, Sara Pascoe and Harry Hill. He writes for Great British Bake Off, Channel 4’s The Last Leg, 8/10...

Ria Lina is a comedian, actress and writer known for her appearances on Live At The Apollo, Have I Got News For You, Mock The Week, The Last Leg and The Now Show - and in November was named as one of The Evening Standard’s ‘Hottest Comedians You Should Be Watching Now’. She has written and presented her own Channel 4 documentary that revealed the truth behind the myths that sur...

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...