My Time Capsule

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,...

Billy Boyd is best know for playing the hobbit Pippin Took in The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson's epic trilogy. He also played Barret Bonden in the film Master and Commander with Russel Crowe, and Gerald Forbes in the huge time travel adventure, Outlander. Billy started his acting career at St Andrews Rep and the Traverse theatre, before appearing in Taggart, the films Urban Ghost Sto...

Urzila Carlson has become one of the biggest names in comedy in Australia and New Zealand. A television favourite in both countries, Urzila is a much-loved series regular on both the Australian and New Zealand versions of the award-winning comedy panel show Have You Been Paying Attention? In 2020, Urzila joined the panel of The Masked Singer Australia on Network Ten. She also released her standalo...

Nick Helm is a comedian, actor and writer best know for playing the lead role in the BBC Three sitcom, Uncle, and for playing Watto in Channel 4’s Loaded, as well as for his memorable appearances on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Russell Howard’s Good News and Celebrity Mastermind. He is a stand up legend having taken multi hit shows to The Edinburgh Fringe Festival and on tour around the world,...

Jason Byrne is the Irish stand-up comedian described by the Times as “the outright king of live comedy”. He is a favourite of the stand-up circuit and is often the biggest selling comedian at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where he has been nominated for both the Perrier Newcomer Award and The Perrier Award itself. His TV credits include Live at the Apollo on the BBC, Comedy Annual on ITV, Dave’s...

John Torode is the Australian chef and presenter of Master Chef, the long running BBC cookery competition, which he presents and judges with his friend Greg Wallace. He started his TV career cooking on ITV’s This Morning, but before that he worked in some of the finest kitchens, including Pont de la Tour and Quaglino’s, and then his own restaurants, Smiths of Smithfield and The Cafeteria in Nottin...

George Lewis is a comedian and writer. His best selling book is out now and called Don’t Panic; All The Stuff The Expectant Dad Needs To Know, with contributions from Andy Parsons, Elis James, Josh Widdicomne, Kerry Godliman, Rich hall, Romesh Ranganthan, Russell Kane and many more. He also writes a weekly football column for The Times. He has appeared on the Stand Up Sketch Show on ITV, hosted To...

Andy Nyman is an actor and writer. As an actor, Andy has been in many films, including Black Death with Sean Bean and Eddie Redmayne, Kick Ass 2, Star Wars The Last Jedi, The Commuter with Liam Neeson, Judy, the Judy Garland film starring Rene Zellweger and Disney’s Jungle Cruise with Dwayne Johnson, Jack Whitehall and Emily Blunt. On TV he’s been in Unforgotten, Dead Set, Ballot Monkeys, Peaky Bl...

Linda Purl is best known for her roles as Fonzie's girlfriend on Happy Days, Pam Beesly's mother Helene in The Office US and Elizabeth Gaines in Homeland. Other TV roles include Hawaii Five-O, The Waltons, Matlock, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Murder She Wrote, Desperate Housewives, True Blood and Designated Survivor. Since 2020, she has been in a relationship with Patrick Duffy who played Bobby Ewi...

Chesney Hawkes is best known for his huge No.1 hit song, “The One and Only” which topped the charts in the UK for five weeks and reached the Top 10 in the United States. The song featured in the film Buddy’s Song which stared Chesney alongside Roger Daltrey. Chesney’s father is the singer Len 'Chip' Hawkes, bassist of the 1960s band The Tremeloes who recently, Chesney has been singing with on tour...

Rob Carter is best known for his character Christopher Bliss who can be seen on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Question Team on Dave, Comedy Central At The Edinburgh Fringe and his own standup specials and tours. As an actor, Rob has appeared in Peep Show, Fresh Meat, Ladhood and much more. The Raisin, which Rob wrote and directed, won Best Foreign Short Film at the Los Angeles Comedy Festival....

Something a little different today... We're recommending a great podcast for you! This is The Retrospectors . Each day they cover something that happened on that day in history. It's just ten minutes long so perfect over a bowl of cereal or taking the dog round the block and it's from the makers of Answer Me This, Happy Place and ton of other great shows. Here's a taster episode that The Retrospec...

Mathew Baynton is best known as the poet ghost Thomas Thorne in the BBC sitcom Ghosts, which he also co-created and co-writes with his “Horrible Histories” group. The group came together as the cast of the hugely popular children’s show Horrible Histories and went on to create, write and star in Yonderland which ran for 3 series on Sky 1 and then Ghosts on BBC1. Ghosts has now been remade for CBS...

Samantha Baines is a comedian, actress, writer and broadcaster. You may have seen Samantha in Netflix’s The Crown, Call the Midwife, Silent Witness or Magic Mike Live (directed by Channing Tatum) or personal appearances on ITV's Loose Women, Sky News and Andrew Neil's This Week. You may have heard her presenting on BBC Radio London, BBC Radio Kent, Virgin Radio or on her own podcast The Divorce So...

Tim Downie is best known for his major roles in Toast of London, Outlander, Upstart Crow, and the films Paddington and The King's Speech. Other TV includes in The Royal Bodyguard with Sir David Jason, Peep Show, Miranda, Hoff the Record with David Hasselhoff and Hapless on Netflix. Other film roles include in War Machine with Brad Pitt, Les Misérables, Transformers: The Last Knight and Horrible Hi...

Taylor Glenn is a UK-based American comedian, writer, and podcaster who is one of the creators and hosts of the hit UK podcast Drunk Women Solving Crime which has had sold out runs in London and Edinburgh, won a Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award in 2022 and is nominated for two British Podcast Awards this year. Taylor has written for the new series of Breeders staring Martin Freeman and Daisy...

Michael Fenton Stevens finally reveals his time capsule items in this special 200th episode! Comedian and podcaster Richard Herring takes Mike’s role as host. Michael Fenton Stevens is an actor and podcast host who's television credits include the recent Slow Horses with Kristen Scott Thomas and Gary Oldman, five series of Benidorm as Sir Henry, the British Consul, The Crown, KYTV, My Family as Ro...

Andrew Lynford is an actor, presenter, writer, director and casting director. As an actor he’s best known for playing Simon Raymond in EastEnders, the brother of Martine McCutcheon's character Tiffany. His character made headlines in the British press, following a gay kiss with Tiffany’s boyfriend, Tony. After leaving EastEnders, Andrew presented various shows for television, including Wild T...

Nicola Stephenson is known mainly for her roles in television including Margaret Clemence in Channel 4's Brookside in which her on-air kiss with Anna Friel was the first pre-watershed lesbian kiss on British television. She was an original cast member of Holby City playing Julie Fitzjohn, Allie Westbrook in Waterloo Road, Suzie Davidson in Clocking Off, Jackie Armstrong in ITV's Northern Lights &a...