My Time Capsule

Danny Robins is an award-winning writer, broadcaster and journalist. His podcast series, The Battersea Poltergeist, become the No 1 drama podcast in the world. It was made for the BBC and combined drama and documentary to tell a real-life ghost story, starring Toby Jones and Dafne Keen. Danny is now adapting it for TV with Hollywood producers Blumhouse. His latest drama, The Witch Farm starring&nb...

Charlie Baker is a comedian, actor, singer and presenter who most recently stared in Harry Hill’s new music, Tony The Music playing the title character of Tony Blair. Charlie is a regular presenter for TalkSport where he can be heard every Saturday and is a regular performer on The Last Leg. As an actor he’s been in Miranda, The IT Crowd, Richard Bacon’s Beer & Pizza Club, Eastenders, Doctors,...

Rob Rouse is a comedian and actor best known for playing Bottom, in Ben Elton’s comedy series Upstart Crow, about the life of William Shakespeare, alongside David Mitchell, Harry Enfield, Mark Heap and Liza Tarbuck. Rob won Channel Four's prestigious 'So You Think You're Funny’ competition at the Edinburgh Festival in 1998 and has been a regular performer at major venues across the count...

Gary Sinyor is an award winning film-maker. His first feature film, Leon the Pig Farmer, won numerous awards, including the International Critics Prize at the Venice Film Festival, the London Critics Circle and Evening Standard Awards and the Chaplin Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival. His next 2 British films were Solitaire for 2 and Stiff Upper Lips before moving...

James Dreyfus is best known for playing Constable Goody in The Thin Blue Line alongside Rowan Atkinson and Tom in Gimme Gimme Gimme with Kathy Burke. He was in the film Notting Hill, playing Martin the bookseller alongside Hugh Grant, he starred opposite Bette Midler in the American sitcom Bette, and took over the role of Thermoman in the BBC comedy My Hero from Ardal O’Hanlon. James Dreyfus is gu...

John Dowie is a British comedian, musician and writer who was a pioneer of alternative comedy and is credited with establishing observational humour as part of the new movement. He’s often called 'Britain's first alternative comedian’. He toured with and influenced another alternative pioneer, Victoria Wood. As well as writing songs and sketches with her, he is credited with helping her to develop...

Nicola Bryant is best known for playing Peri Brown, a companion to both the fifth Doctor, Peter Davison, and sixth Doctor, Colin Baker, in the BBC science fiction series, Doctor Who and Lana in Star Trek Continues. She also played the dance teacher in the school drama series The Biz, Miss Brown in The Stranger film series, she’s been in The 10%ers, Casualty, Doctors, Holby City...

Standup comedian Josh Jones was nominated for best newcomer at this years Edinburgh Fringe. He’s a regular on TV in shows such as 8 Out of 10 Cats, Jonathan Ross’ Comedy Club, Ch5’s Goes Horribly Wrong series, Iain Stirling’s CelebAbility, E4’s Reality News and Comedy Central’s Undeniable. He is the host BBC Three’s Fast Food Face Off and hosts his own historical-gossip podcast Dead Drama. He was...

Danny Baker’s extremely varied career includes being a comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ, television presenter, advertising star and screenwriter. His credits are too long to list here but this extraordinary interview covers quite a bit! So much that we had to make it two parts. Danny Baker is guest number 229 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like...

Danny Baker’s extremely varied career includes being a comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ, television presenter, advertising star and screenwriter. His credits are too long to list here but this extraordinary interview covers quite a bit! So much, that we had to make it two parts. Danny Baker is guest number 229 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd lik...

Maggie Ollerenshaw is best known for playing Mavis in the BBC sitcom Open All Hours with Ronnie Barker and David Jason, and it’s sequel, Still Open All Hours. She was in the films, A private Function with Michael Palin and Maggie Smith, played Mary Pierrepoint in in Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman with Timothy Spall as well as the film of War Horse. On TV, she’s been in The Little Match Girl, the lo...

Linford Christie is one of the most successful British athletes of all time and still the British record holder for the 100m. In 1993 he was Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European champion, the only British male athlete to hold all titles at the same time, and he won the BBC’s Sports Personality in the same year. He was the first European athlete to break the 10-second barrier and is a former w...

Sunny Ormonde has played Lillian Bellamy in The Archers on BBC Radio 4 for the past 22 years. She is a seasoned Radio Actress and has recorded well over 400 plays and short stories for the BBC. Sunny trained at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama and had many years in theatre preforming at the biggest theatres around the country. She has her own podcast, One Stiletto In The Grave, which she ma...

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Journalist Eleanor Mills was the Editorial Director of The Sunday Times and editor of The Sunday Times magazine until March 2020. She was the youngest ever features editor at the Daily Telegraph, aged just 26 and then joined the Sunday Times in 1998 where she was a columnist and interviewer, interrogating everyone from Mikhail Gorbachev to Sheryl Sandberg and Theresa May. She left The Su...

Michel Roux Jr is an English-French two Michelin starred chef best known as the presenter of MasterChef The Professionals. He owns the world famous restaurant Le Gavroche, in London which he took over from his father Albert Roux and his uncle Michel Roux. Roux co-presented BBC Two's Food and Drink, was one of the mentors in the series The Chef's Protege, presented First Class Chefs for the Disney...

Carla Mendonça is an actor best known as Sophie Johnson in the children’s sitcom My Parents Are Aliens and Orla Crawshaw in Coronation Street. She also played Mrs Fitzgerald in the BBC series So Awkward, was in the films Hilary and Jackie and Common People, and has appeared in The Young Ones, The Lenny Henry Show, Pushing up Daisies, Coming Next, KYTV, Bottom, 32 episodes of Motormouth, French and...

Paul Chowdhry is a standup comedian and actor best known for his multiple appearances on Live at the Apollo, being a contestant on series three of Taskmaster and as the host of Channel 4’s Stand Up For The Week. He’s also been a guest on 8 out of ten Cats Does Countdown and The Russell Howard Hour. He was the first British Asian stand up to sell out Wembley Arena and his record breaking 2019 tour,...

Richard Hope is probably best known for playing Harris Pascoe in Poldark and Hooper, alongside Jeremy Irons in Brideshead Revisited. He’s appeared in dozens of films and on TV been in Lawrence Olivier Presents, Victoria Wood, Happy Families, The Bill, Boon, Peak Practise, Casualty, The Demon Headmaster, Midsomer Murders, Judge John Deed, The Forsyth Saga, Holby City, Foyle’s War, Murder City, Hear...

David Gower OBE was one of the greatest batsmen of all time. Between 1975 and and 1993 David scored 26,339 runs in first class cricket for England, Leicestershire and Hampshire. He hit 53 centuries and captained England to victory in the 1985 Ashes series. He holds the record of 119 consecutive innings without registering a duck (scoring zero runs) in Test cricket. Following his retireme...

Olaf Falafel is a comedian, children’s author and illustrator who most recently had 2 jokes in Dave's top 10 funniest jokes of the Fringe festival 2022. He’d previously won it in 2019 with the joke "I keep randomly shouting out 'Broccoli' and 'Cauliflower' - I think I might have florets". Olaf is the author and illustrator of several kids books including the flatulent ‘Old MacDonald Heard A Parp’...

Michael Spicer is an actor and writer best known as a regular cast member of The Mash Report on BBC2 and for his online sketches called The Room Next Door where he plays a fictional adviser feeding lines into the earpieces of world leaders. These videos have amassed over 60 million views and have led to a book deal, a nationwide tour, a radio series and a regular slot on The Late Late Show with Ja...

Jack Docherty is an actor, writer and chat show host probably best known for the comedy show Absolutely that he co-wrote and starred in and it’s spin off sitcom, Mr Don and Mr George which he starred in alongside his Absolutely colleague and friend, Moray Hunter. He played Ben Gary in the advertising sitcom, The Creatives, was in the sci-fi series The Strangerers on Sky and he appeared regularly i...

Jake Canuso is best know for playing the flirtatious Spanish barman, Mateo Castellanos, in every episode of the ITV comedy, Benidorm. Jake is from Switzerland and began his career as a dancer, appearing in videos with and touring the world with Annie Lennox, Elton John, Take That and the Spice Girls. Jake’s acting career has included the films Kinky Boots, Flyboys, Journal of a Contract Killer, Ni...

Ella Kenion is best known for playing Mrs Cakeworthy in the Only Fools and Horses spin-off, The Green Green Grass by John Sullivan. Ella also played the role of Julie in the ITV sitcom Hardware, with Martin Freeman, she was in 31 episodes of the CBeebies show Swashbuckle as Captain Sinker, 52 episodes of Q Pootle 5, and has played parts in Shakespeare & Hathaway, Warren, 101 Dalmatian Street,...