My Time Capsule

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...

Katy Brand is a comedian, writer and actor who is best known for her series Katy Brand's Big Ass Show, which ran for 3 series on ITV2. She was in the film Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang with Emma Thompson, has been in the TV shows Peep Show, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI, Celebrity Mastermind, Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive and she danced to Single Ladies by Beyonce on Let’s Dance for Sport Relief....

Justin Moorhouse is a stand up comedian probably best known for his role in Phoenix Nights where he played Young Kenny. He was also in Ken Loach’s film Looking For Eric with Eric Cantona, he’s been in Still Open All Hours, Coronation Street, Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, QI and Celebrity Mastermind. On the radio he had his own sitcom on BBC Radio 4 called Everyone Quite Likes Justin and he p...

EPISODE 100!! Can you believe it? Our very special guest is the comedian Ross Noble . Ross Noble came to prominence in the UK through his appearances on shows such as Have I Got News For You, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, QI, Top Gear and Just a Minute. He’s performed his Stan-up around the world and he was voted the 10th-greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups. He ha...

Emma Cunniffe is an actor who has stared on the stage and television, most notably on TV in Silent Witness, Unforgotten, Doctor Who with Matt Smith, Clocking Off, Waterloo Road and much more. On stage she played Queen Anne in the RSC's production of Helen Edmundson's Queen Anne in Stratford and the West End, she won the UK Theatre Awards for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in...

Alan Davies is best known as a panelist on BBC panel show QI and playing the title role in the BBC mystery drama series Jonathan Creek. He hosts Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled on Dave and will appear as a constant on series 12 of Taskmaster to be released later in 2021. He has written two autobiographies My Favourite People and Me,1978–88  and Just Ignore Him , which has just been released in p...

Simon Williams is best known for playing James Bellamy in the period drama Upstairs, Downstairs and Charles Cartwright in the sitcom Don't Wait Up. Since 2014, he has played the character of Justin Elliott in the BBC Radio 4 series The Archers. He’s also appeared in Bergerac, Dangerfield, Dinnerladies, Doctor The, Scarlet Pimpernel, Dalziel and Pascoe, Bad Girls, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Cu...

Bonnie Langford is best known for her roles as Carmel Kazemi in EastEnders and the Doctor Who companion Mel Bush. She came to prominence as a child star in the 1970s, in the TV series Just William. She’s also appeared in numerous musicals over the years in the West End and on Broadway, including shows such as the original cast of Cats, 42nd Street, The Pirates of Penzance and Chicago. She was in t...

Alex Lowe is best know for his characters Clinton Baptiste from Phoenix Nights and Barry from Watford which he performed regularly on Steve Wright’s Radio 2 show and Iain Lee’s radio shows. He’s also appeared in The Fast Show, Three Men in A Boat, That Peter Kay Thing, The 11 O’Clock Show and much more. Alex Lowe is guest number 95 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the f...

Les Dennis is best know for presenting Family Fortunes from 1987 until 2002. As an actor Les stared in an episode of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s sitcom Extras, he played Michael Rogers in Coronation Street, on stage he’s been in the musicals Chicago, Me and My Girl and Hairspray and in 2019, he performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Restoration plays The Provoked Wife and Venice...

James Moore is best known for playing Ryan Stocks in Emmerdale for which he won the Best Newcomer at the National Television Awards in 2019. James has cerebral palsy and is passionate about normalising disability on screen and for there to be more roles for disabled actors. James Moore is guest number 93 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put...

John Bradley is best known for playing Samwell Tarly in Game of Thrones. Samwell is Jon Snow’s closest friend and ally. He’s also been in Merlin, Shameless, Robot Chicken and the films Patient Zero, Man Up and American Satan. John Bradley (also known as John Bradley West) is guest number 91 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time caps...

Josie Lawrence is a comedian and actor best known for her regular appearances in Who’s Line Is It Anyway and her work with improvisational comedy group, The Comedy Store Players. As an actor she was Manda Best in Eastenders, she was in Outside Edge with Timothy Spall and Brenda Blethyn, Jonathan Creek, Humans, Good Omens and much more. On stage she appeared in Victoria Wood’s Acorn Antiques: The M...

Charlie Higson was the co-creator and star of The Fast Show with Paul Whitehouse. Paul and Charlie started their careers writing for Harry Enfield and continued to work together after The Fast Show on such shows as Down The Line on BBC Radio4 which became the TV series Bellamy’s People. He wrote and starred in The Fast Show’s spin-off sitcom Swiss Toni and was the producer, writer and director on...

Simon Evans is a standup comedian and writer best known for his appearances on Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week and even Question Time and University Challenge. His own radio 4 series, Simon Evans Goes to Market, is into it’s 5th series and as a writer he’s contributed to Not Going Out, Eight out of Ten Cats, The Think Its all Over and The Big Breakfast. Simon Evans is guest number 89 on My Time...

Ken Bruce is best known for presenting the mid-morning slot on BBC Radio 2 every weekday. His Radio 2 show features the extremely popular quiz, Pop Master. Ken Bruce is guest number 88 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 and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again . Follow K...

Kate Thornton is a presenter and journalist best known for presenting The X Factor, Top of the Pops, This Morning and Loose Women. As a journalist she was the youngest ever editor of Smash Hits magazine at 21 and was contributing editor for The Sunday Times and Marie Claire. Her own podcast, White Wine Question Time, is available now. Kate Thornton is guest number 87 on My Time Capsule and chats t...

Welcome to our 1 year anniversary show with the comedian, actor and presenter, Rob Brydon ! Rob is best known for presenting Would I Lie to You on BBC One, playing Bryn West in Gavin and Stacey and his role in The Trip with Steve Coogan. He also now has his own podcast 'Brydon &', exclusively on Spotify. Rob Brydon is guest number 86 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens ab...

Giles Paley-Phillips is an award winning children’s author and podcaster. His debut picture book, The Fearsome Beastie, won the People's Book Prize 2012. He co-hosts the fantastic podcast Blank with the standup comedian Jim Daly. Blank is now also a book! Giles Paley-Phillips is guest number 85 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a ti...