My Time Capsule

Tony Slattery is probably best known for his appearances on Who’s Line Is It Anyway? and appearing in the films The Crying Game, Peter's Friends and How to Get Ahead in Advertising. In the mid 90s he suffered a breakdown triggered by cocaine and alcohol and was later diagnosed with bib-polar disorder. He discussed this period and his subsequent living with the disorder in a documentary made by Ste...

David Quantick is a comedy writer. He won an Emmy as part of the writing team on Veep, a BAFTA for Harry Hill's TV Burp and a Writers’ Guild Award for The Thick Of It. He’s also written for HBO’s Avenue 5, The Day Today and Brass Eye with Chris Morris, Spitting Image, Smack The Pony and much more. He wrote for the NME for many years and is a best selling author or both fiction and non fiction book...

Robert Llewellyn is best known for playing the robot Kryton in the sitcom Red Dwarf and as the presenter of Scrapheap Challenge on Channel 4. His own web series, Carpool, ran from 2009 to 2014 and became a TV series on Dave. Robert’s YouTube channel, Fully Charged, is the world's number 1 electric vehicle channel with over 122 million views. Robert Llewellyn is guest number 124 on My Time Capsule...

Jo Caulfield is a stand-up comedian, actor and writer best known for her TV appearances on Mock The Week, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Have I Got News For You, Argumental and Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow. On the radio she’s been on Just a Minute, The Now Show, Quote Unquote and her own Radio 4 shows It's That Jo Caulfield Again and Jo Caulfield Won't Shut Up! Jo was a writer on all five series...

Mark Billingham is one of the UK’s most successful crime writers. His series of Tom Thorne novels started in 2001 with Sleepyhead and he’s gone on to release 16 more books in the series. Before being a writer, Mark was a standup comedian and actor, most notably playing Gary the guard in the children’s TV show Maid Marian and her Merry Men, which he went on to co-write with Tony Robinson. Mark Bill...

Simon Greenall is best known for playing Michael in the BBC TV series I'm Alan Partridge and the film Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa. Simon is the voice of Aleksandr Orlov and Sergi in the Compare the Meerkat adverts and Captain Barnacles in the CBeebies show The Octonauts. Simon Greenall is guest number 121 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put...

Omid Djalili is a comedian and actor. As an actor he’s been in the films Gladiator, The Mummy, Mean Machine, The World Is Not Enough, Notting Hill, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Sex and the City 2, Shaun the Sheep Movie and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. He appeared as Nasim in 22 episodes of the U.S. sitcom Whoopi, starring Whoopi Goldberg. As a stand-up he’s performed sellout shows aro...

Mitch Benn is a comedian and musician best known as the resident comic songwriter on BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show from 1999 to 2016. Mitch’s own Radio 4 show, Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music, ran for three series. Mitch began his comedy career in Edinburgh in the mid-1990s and became one of the most in-demand comedians on the UK comedy circuit. He is a weekly columnist for The New European newspap...

Angela Barnes is a comedian best known for her appearances on Mock The Week and hosting The News Quiz and Newsjack on BBC Radio 4. She’s had her own Radio 4 stand-up series called You Can’t Take It With You which was based on her 2014 début show at the Edinburgh Festival and she co-hosts the "less-than-serious history podcast" We Are History with writer (and previous MTC guest) John O'Farrell. Ang...

Dallas Campbell is a science presenter best known for the programmes Bang Goes The Theory, The Gadget Show,  Stargazing Live, The Sky at Night, Horizon and Supersized Earth. He is a regular contributor to the BBC's science magazine Focus, the Times' Eureka magazine, and The Observer. His book, Ad Astra: An Illustrated Guide to Leaving the Planet, was released in 2017. Dallas Campbell is guest...

John O’Farrell is an author and comedy script writer. He was a writer for such shows as  Spitting Image, Grumpy Old Men  and  Have I Got News For You. He co-wrote the Aardman animation film Early Man with Nick Park and wrote for the film Chicken Run. He wrote the book for the Broadway musical Something Rotten which was nominated for 10 Tony Awards including a “Best Book” nomination...

Steve Delaney is best known for playing his character, Count Arthur Strong . He wrote and performed Count Arthur Strong’s Radio Show! for almost 50 episodes on BBC Radio 4 winning a Song Gold Radio Award and then later in his own BBC sitcom, Count Arthur Strong. He still tours as Count Arthur with a new tour coming up in 2022. Steve Delaney is guest number 115 on My Time Capsule and chats to Micha...

Paul Bradley is best known for playing Nigel Bates in EastEnders for 6 years and Elliot Hope in the medical drama series Holby City for 10 years. His other acting credits include Red Dwarf, The Young Ones, The Comic Strip Presents, Bottom and My Family. In 2001 he went to Rwanda with Comic Relief to learn about the genocide there. He is the guitarist and vocalist in the band The hKippers (the 'h'...

Sophie Ward is an actor and novelist. As an actor she played Dr. Helen Trent in 40 episodes of Heartbeat, she was Lady Ellen Hoxley in Land Girls, Sophia Byrne in Holby City, A Dark-Adapted Eye with Helena Bonham Carter and the fantasy Dinotopia. She was in the films Young Sherlock Holmes, Return to Oz and Jane Eyre with Michael Fassbender and Judi Dench. Her debut novel, Love and Other Thought Ex...

Gary Wilmot MBE is one of the UK’s biggest West End stars having played the lead in such shows as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Me and My Girl, Oliver!, Chicago, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The Wind in the Willows. He’s played the Dame in The London Palladium’s pantomime for the past few years and in 2018 he was made an MBE for services to drama and charity. Gary Wilmot is guest number 112 on My Time C...

Kevin Day is a British stand up comedian, comedy writer and sports presenter. Kevin is Match of the Day 2’s roving reporter, he’s a programme associate for Have I Got News for You and contributes to writing the programme, he hosted the comedy discussion programme Loose Talk on BBC Radio 1 with comedian Mark Thomas an the hosts the podcasts The Price of Football and Five Year Plan Fanzine. Kev...

Comedian, actor and writer, Isy Suttie , is best known for playing Dobby in the sitcom Peep Show alongside David Mitchell and Robert Webb. Other acting credits include the sitcom Damned with Jo Brand & Alan Davies and Greg Davies’ sitcom Man Down. As a comedian she’s been on QI, Would I Lie To You and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Her first book, The Actual One, was released in 2016 and her...

Alfie Brown is a stand up comedian who has toured the, UK and Croatia and has performed at the Edinburgh Festival for many years. The Guardian described him as “An immensely self assured and stylish comic”. His latest stand up special, Imagination, can be seen on YouTube. He is the son of the comedian and previous My Time Capsule guest, Jan Ravens. Alfie Brown is guest number 109 on My Time Capsul...

Nicky Campbell has presented the breakfast show on BBC Radio 5 Live since 2003. Before 5 Live he presented shows on BBC Radio 1. On the television he presents the BAFTA winning Long Lost Family on ITV with Davina McCall and The Big Questions on BBC One. He was a regular host of Top of the Pops and presented Wheel of Fortune and Watchdog. His memoir, One of the Family, was a Sunday Times Bestseller...

Harriet Cross is the High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago and has been a member of Her Majesty’s Diplomatic Service for 23 years. She was Consul-General in Boston Massachusetts from 2016 to August 2020 and Deputy Ambassador at the British Embassy in Yemen before that. While in Yemen, she organised the evacuation of the Embassy due to the ongoing civil war there and spent the rest of her postin...

Emma Kennedy is an actor, comedy writer and author. As an actor, she has appeared in Goodness Gracious Me, This Morning With Richard Not Judy (with her fellow Oxford Revue members Richard Herring & Stewart Lee), Jonathan Creek and People Like Us. As a writer she’s written numerous books in including How To Bring Up Your Parents and The Tent, The Bucket and Me which was also adapted, by Emma, i...

Alex Macqueen is an actor probably best known for his roles as Neil’s dad in The Inbetweeners series and both movies, Dr Keith Green in 75 episodes of Holby City and Julius Nicholson in The Thick of It. He’s also been in Peep Show, The IT Crowd, Lead Balloon, Outnumbered, Miranda, Black Mirror, Peaky Blinders, This Is England ’88 and so much more! Alex Macqueen is guest number 105 on My Time Capsu...

Barry Cryer is perhaps best known as a panelist on I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue on BBC Radio 4 but his career is so much more than that. Amongst other things, too many to mention, he has written for Dave Allen, Stanley Baxter, Jack Benny, Rory Bremner, George Burns, Jasper Carrott, Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson, Dick Emery, Kenny Everett, Sir Bruce Forsyth, Sir David Frost, Bob Hope, Frankie Howerd, Rich...

Barry Cryer is perhaps best known as a panelist on I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue on BBC Radio 4 but his career is so much more than that. Amongst other things, too many to mention, he has written for Dave Allen, Stanley Baxter, Jack Benny, Rory Bremner, George Burns, Jasper Carrott, Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson, Dick Emery, Kenny Everett, Sir Bruce Forsyth, Sir David Frost, Bob Hope, Frankie Howerd, Rich...

Adam Wide may be our first guest who is not famous BUT he is an extraordinary and fascinating man. He is the vice-chairman of International Gay Rugby, the former creative director at Guinness World Records, in the 90’s his entertainment company Openwide became Europe’s largest independent Entertainment Consultancy and before all that he had a career as an actor, entertainer and magician appearing...