My Time Capsule

Jenny Seagrove is an actress of stage and screen. She starred alongside Rupert Everett in the Academy Award-winning short film A Shocking Accident and other film roles include Nate and Hayes opposite Tommy Lee Jones, Bullseye! with Michael Caine and Roger Moore, A Chorus of Disapproval with Anthony Hopkins and Jeremy Irons and Appointment with Death With Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher...

Sara Crowe is probably still best known as the “Philadelphia girl” for her part in the Philadelphia cream cheese adverts in the 90’s playing a ditsy blonde secretary. Sara was the first bride in the film Four Wedding and a Funeral, was in Carry On Columbus and the film version of Tony Hawks's best selling book, Round Ireland with a Fridge. On TV she’s the voice of Queen Thistle in the hugely popul...

Jess Thom is a comedian and theatre-maker who’s known as her alter-ego, Touretteshero. Touretteshero is also a project that she co-founded, aimed at increasing awareness of Tourette syndrome, the neurological condition which Jess was diagnosed with in her early twenties. The first Touretteshero production, Backstage in Biscuit Land debuted at Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2014 and won the Total The...

Finty Williams is an actress best known for her roles in the films Gosford Park, The Importance of Being Earnest, Mrs Brown, Ladies in Lavender and Macbeth as well as a number of other British films, many alongside her mother, Judi Dench. Finty’s father was the actor Michael Williams. On the TV she voices the title role in the animated series of Angelina Ballerina and has been in Born and Bred, Cr...

Jeremy Dyson is a writer best known as a member of the BAFTA winning comedy group, The League of Gentlemen alongside Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith. He co-wrote The League of Gentlemen including a radio series, 3 television series, numerous tours, a feature film, a Christmas special and three 20th anniversary episodes. He co-created the play Ghost Stories with Andy Nyman which r...

As part of our 2nd birthday celebrations, we asked you, our listeners, to send us your items for a listeners time capsule! We received hundreds of entries from all around there world. So many in fact that we had to do 2 parts! Part 1 features Justin Moors, Jennifer, Paul Robinson, Martin Richardson and Tim Easton. They are our guests for episode 185 of My Time Capsule and they chat to Michael Fent...

As part of our 2nd birthday celebrations, we asked you, our listeners, to send us your items for a listeners time capsule! We received hundreds of entries from all around there world. So many in fact that we had to do 2 parts! Part 1 features Darren Fewins, Ryan Williams, Helen Freeman, Bridget Schraders, Andre Baron and Pamela Murphy. They are our guests for episode 185 of My Time Capsule and the...

Welcome to our 2 year anniversary episode with our special guest, Harry Hill! Harry Hill is a comedian, presenter and writer probably best known for his ITV comedy show Harry Hill's TV Burp which ran from 2001 to 2012. Harry has been the voice of You’ve Been Framed since 2004 and his other TV shows include Harry Hill's Shark Infested Custard, Stars in Their Eyes, Harry Hill's Tea Time, Harry Hill'...

Brigit Forsyth is an actress who’s best known for playing Thelma Ferris in the classic BBC comedy Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads and Helen Yeldham in the ITV drama Boon. Since December 2013, Forsyth has appeared in the BBC comedy Still Open All Hours. Her other TV work includes The Glamour Girls, Tom, Dick and Harriet, Doctor Who, Wycliffe, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Jackanory, Murder Most Ho...

Richard Pitman is a retired jump jockey best know for coming second to Red Rum at the 1973 Grand National whilst riding Crisp. Richard rode 427 winners in his career, including Lanzarote in the 1974 Champion Hurdle. He won the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park Racecourse twice, the Whitbread Gold Cup and the Hennessy Gold Cup. He joined the BBC TV racing team as a commentator and pundit in 1975...

Michael Simkins is an actor and writer who has appeared the films V for Vendetta, Wilde, The Iron Lady with Meryl Streep as well as Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy. He has appeared in more than 100 plays and musicals, at places like the National Theatre and the RSC as well as on the fringe and the West End. He’s been in the musicals Chicago and Mamma Mia and he’s made countless T...

Ben Aaronovitch is a multiple Times best selling Author best known for his Rivers of London series, of which the latest, Amongst Our Weapons, is out now. Rivers of London is a series of urban fantasy novels, novellas and graphic novels. Ben wrote for the Doctor Who BBC televsion series in the 1980s and went on to write three Doctor Who spin-off novels and a Doctor Who audio drama. Ben has written...

Mel Hudson is an actress, comedian and writer. She was part of the double act Hudson and Pepperdine, with Vicki Pepperdine and wrote and starred in BBC Radio 4's The Hudson and Pepperdine Show. She performed multiple roles in Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge, including Alan's French co-host Nina Vanier and has worked with the Alan Partridge team in a number of projects, including I’m Al...

Cheryl Baker is a singer and presenter best known as a member of 80s pop group Bucks Fizz, who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981. As a presenter she presented Record Breakers with Roy Castle and Kriss Akabusi from 87-97, The Saturday Picture Show with Mark Curry and her own show Eggs 'n' Baker. She continues to perform with Mike Nolan and Jay Aston of Bucks Fizz under the name The Fizz. Cher...

Dr Julia Patterson is the Founder and Chief Executive of EveryDoctor, a doctor-led campaigning organisation fighting for a better NHS for every doctor and every patient. Julia qualified from UCL Medical School in 2010 and became a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2015. She took a break from her speciality training to set up EveryDoctor, and has now given up her GMC licence to practi...

Rita Simons is best known for playing Roxy Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 2007 to 2017. She won the 2008 National Television Award for Most Popular Newcomer for her role. Since leaving Eastenders she has carved out a very successful stage career appearing in Legally Blonde: the Musical, Everybody's Talking About Jamie at the Apollo Theatre and in the 2021 revival of Hairspray at th...

Josh Bolt is an actor best known for playing Rob Dawson in the sitcom Benidorn, Raff Greenwood in 5 series of the BAFTA winning Last Tango in Halifax and Dunbar in Catch 22 staring and directed by George Clooney. He’s soon to appear in Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s Masters of the Air, the third instalment of their 'Band of Brothers' series. Josh Bolt is guest 175 on My Time Capsule and he chats...

Jim Piddock is a British actor and writer best known for his work with Christopher Guest on the films Best In Show, A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration and Mascots, the last of which he co-wrote and produced. His other film appearances include Get Him to the Greek with Russell Brand, Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Epic Movie, Austin Powers Goldmember, Independence Day and Leth...

Dan Paterson a television producer and writer and the creator and producer of Mock the Week and the UK & US versions of Who’s Line Is It Anyway?. As a producer he produced the shows Clive Anderson Talks Back, Clive Anderson All Talk, Never Mind the Horrocks, The Peter Principle, Room 101 and Kelsey Grammer’s American Sketch Show. His play The Duck House, staring Ben Miller, was nonimated for a...

Danny John-Jules is best known for playing Cat in the comedy series Red Dwarf, policeman Dwayne Myers in the crime drama Death in Paradise and Barrington in the classic children's series Maid Marian and Her Merry Men. Danny was in the original West End cast of the musical Starlight Express and was in the films Labyrinth, Little Shop of Horrors, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Blade II. He...

Catherine Russell is a British actress best known for playing Consultant Surgeon Serena Campbell in Holby City since 2012. Her other film and television credits include Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Messiah, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Waking the Dead, Sherlock Holmes, Silent Witness and Pete versus Life. Her hugely successful stage career has seen her play leads...

Dara Ó Briain is one of the most successful comedians in the UK and tours around the world. As a presenter he’s hosted Mock the Week since 2005, Stargazing Live, Robot Wars, Blockbusters, The Apprentice: You're Fired!, Have I Got News For You and Dara and Ed's Great Big Adventure (with his friend Ed Byrne). He was one of the Three Men in a Boat with Griff Rhys Jones and Rory McGrath and he’s been...

Jonny Weldon is an actor and comedian best known for his hilarious viral twitter videos based around the life of an actor. Everyone wants to be in Jonny’s video and he’s collaborated with such stars as Russel Tovey, Tracy-Ann Oberman, John Challis and most recently with the Emmy winning stars of Ted Lasso, Nick Mohammed and Hannah Waddingham. Even Ricky Gervais is a fan! Jonny Weldon is guest 169...

Tim Healy is an actor, best known for playing Dennis Patterson in the comedy-drama series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Les/Lesley Conroy in the comedy series Benidorm, and Gastric in the comedy series Still Open All Hours with David Jason. Tim Healy is guest 168 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve a...

Kathleen Rose Perkins is and American actress best known in the UK for playing Carol Rance in Episodes alongside Matt LeBlanc, Tamsin Greig, and Stephen Mangan. Her huge list of credits include How I met Your Mother, Nip/Tuck, Grey’s Anatomy, NCIS: Los Angeles, Law & Order: LA, Ballot Monkeys, the film Gone Girl and most recently Doogie Kameāloha, M.D. and Big Shot for Disney+. Kathleen Rose P...