My Time Capsule

Angus Deayton is best known for presenting Have I Got News For You from 1990 to 2002, Would I Lie to You? from 2007 to 2009 and being Victor Meldrew’s neighbour in the sitcom One Foot in the Grave. He is one of Mike’s oldest friends after Angus cast him in the Oxford Revue at university. This led on to the award winning Radio 4 series Radio Active and it’s TV version KYTV. Angus Deayton is our gue...

A re-edited and extended version of our interview with John Challis! Best known for playing Boycie in Only Fools and Horses and its spin-off The Green Green Grass but has also been in Benidorm, Dixon of Dock Green, The Sweeney, Doctor Who, Citizen Smith and many others. On stage he's performed in the West End and at the RSC, he's written two volumes of autobiography, Being Boycie and Boycie &...

Danny Peacock is probably best know for playing Mental Mickey in Only Fools and Horses. Danny is the son of late actor Trevor Peacock (who played Jim “no no no yes” Trott in The Vicar of Dibley). Danny was also in The Young Ones, Robin of Sherwood, The Bill, Doctor Who as Nord the Vandal in the serial The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Casualty and One Foot in the Grave. His film appearances include...

Did you know we make another podcast? It's called Chatty Natty and we thought we'd introduce you to it! Regular listeners will have heard Mike talking about his autistic grandson Natty many times. In Chatty Natty, Mike chats to Natty about everything and anything. Listen to the world from the perspective of an Autistic 12 year old boy. This is episode 13 so if you enjoy it, there are plenty more t...

With over 30 minutes of unheard chat here is a re-edited and extended version of our interview with Rick Wakeman! Rick Wakeman is best known for playing keyboards in the progressive rock band Yes. He played piano on David Bowie's Life On Mars and Space Oddity and on Cat Stevens' Morning Has Broken. He's released over 90 solo albums and in 2017, he was inducted into the Rock and...

Sarah Roberts is a comedian and writer, who is quickly becoming one of comedy’s most exciting new voices. Among her award nods are: Komedia New Comedy Award finalist 2023, Leicester Square New Act runner-up 2022, a 99 Club bursary winner and BBC New Comedy Award regional finalist 2024 as well as Soho Theatre Labs Plus alumni 2022. A graduate of the National Film & Television School’s Writing &...

Duncan Preston is best known for his appearances in Victoria Wood’s television productions, including his roles of Clifford in the soap opera parody sketches Acorn Antiques and Stan in the sitcom Dinnerladies. He reprised his role of Clifford in Acorn Antiques The Musical in 2005. Duncan has made many guest appearances in various TV series, including Secret Army, The Professionals, All Creatures G...

Stuart Mitchell is regarded as one of the UK’s top comedians and TikTok stars with over 100M views online. He is currently the longest running panellist of BBC Scotland’s Breaking The News and recently starred in his own Radio 4 series “Cost of Living”. His second series “Cost of Dying” has been commissioned and is due to air in July 2025. In addition to this he has made numerous appearances acros...

An unedited version of our interview with comedy producer John Lloyd! John Lloyd is a hugely successful television and radio comedy producer and writer. His television work includes Not the Nine O'Clock News, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Spitting Image, Blackadder and he is the creator of QI. He is also the presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Museum of C...

Comedian Abby Wambaugh was the 2024 winner of the Best Newcomer at the ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards, winner of the Best Show at the European Comedy Awards and the Theatre Weekly Best Show winner. She was also nominated for Best Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Quite a year! She’s previously made the Funny Women finals in 2021, was shortlisted for the 2022 BBC New Comedy Awards and selected for...

The best of our guests from 2024! Part 2 features Arthur Smith, Maisie Adam, Rosie Holt, Toby Tarrant, Stephen Fry, David Mitchell, Major General Chip Chapman, Daliso Chapona, Madeline Smith, Nick Newman, Maria McErlane, Simon Brodkin, Tom Baldwin, George Monbiot, Stevie Martin, Jon Holmes, Sophie Duker, Suzi Perry and Jason Manford. Follow My Time Capsule on Instagram : @mytimecapsulepodcast &amp...

The best of our guests from 2024! Part 1 features Iain Stirling, Professor Alice Roberts, Jason Manford, Anette Badland, Professor Chris Lintott, Robin Askwith, Kim Leadbeater MP, Ainsley Harriott, Colin Hoult, Jess Conrad, James O'Brien, Karl Howman, Chloe Petts and Lewis MacLeod. Follow My Time Capsule on Instagram : @mytimecapsulepodcast & Twitter & Facebook : @MyTCpod . Follow Michael...

Mike asks some of our guests from the past year (plus a few clips from our original Christmas episodes from 4 years ago) for something to put in a Christmas Time Capsule! Featuring Jason Manford, Stephen Fry, Arthur Smith, Maria McErlane, Rick Wakeman, Sonali Shah, Lauren Pattison, John O'Farrell, Ellie White, Andy Hamilton, Karl Howman, Aneka Rice, Tony Hawks, Michelle Brasier, Toby Hadoke and Pr...

Another Christmas present from us! Our very own Michael Fenton Stevens reading The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain by Charles Dickens. Merry Christmas! Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/brock-hewitt-stories-in-sound/coventry-carol License code: I9F0C4FANTJJOOOO To support this podcast and get all episodes ad-free, please sign up here - https://mytimecapsule.su...

Mike Batt is probably best known as the singer/songwriter/producer of The Wombles music, having written the theme tune plus eight hit singles and four gold albums. Mike moved on to work with various artists as a songwriter and producer, most successfully with Steeleye Span and their most successful single and album All Around My Hat in 1975. He wrote the song "Bright Eyes" for the film Watership D...

An early Christmas present from us! Our very own Michael Fenton Stevens reading A Christmas Tree by Charles Dickens. Merry Christmas! Credit - Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/brock-hewitt-stories-in-sound/joy-to-the-world License code: HCAE9GFVEVQJ5HSM To support this podcast and get all episodes ad-free, please sign up here - https://mytimecapsule.supercast.com . Al...

Richard Vranch is maybe best known for improvising the music in the Channel 4 series Whose Line Is It Anyway?, famously introduced as “Richard Vranch at the piano”. He’s also a member of The Comedy Store Players and improvises comedy live on stage every Sunday at The Comedy Store in London, which he has done regularly for the past 39 years. He’s also part of the Improv All-Stars and Paul Mert...

Angela Barnes returns with a brand new time capsule! 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 wit...

Eliot Stein is a writer and editor who is currently a journalist at the BBC and deputy editor of BBC Travel. Eliot's forthcoming book, Custodians of Wonder, is inspired by a column he created for BBC Travel called Custom Made, and is about the last people alive maintaining some of the world's most astonishing cultural rites. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Wired, The Guardian, Th...

Andy Zaltzman is the chair of The News Quiz on BBC Radio4, the host of the global hit satirical podcast The Bugle, the cricket statistician for BBC’s Test Match Special and a recent contestant on Taskmaster Series 18. He is currently on his biggest UK tour to date with a brand-new show, The Zaltgeist. The 46-date UK & IRE tour started in in November 2024 and run to April 2025, including dates...

A re-edited and extended version of our interview with actor and comedian David Mitchell! . David Mitchell is our guest in episode 448 of My Time Capsule and 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 David Mitchell on Twitter @RealDMitchell .  Follo...

Global comedy superstar and ventriloquist, Jeff Dunham holds the World record for "Most tickets sold for a stand-up comedy tour”! He held “Billboard’s Top Comedy Tour” for three consecutive years and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Forbes ranked Dunham as the third highest-paid comedian in the United States behind only Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock. Jeff has also film...

Paul Putner is an actor and comedian best known for his roles in Little Britain, Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle and This Morning with Richard Not Judy as The Curious Orange. Paul also toured in the Little Britain Live show and later appeared in Matt Lucas and David Walliams' TV follow-up, Come Fly with Me. Other TV and film appearance include Spaced, Look Around You, The Peter Serafinowicz Show, Dow...

John O’Farrell returns with a brand new time capsule! 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 the film Chicken Run and it’s sequel Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget. He wrote the book for the Broadway m...

Joe Kent-Walters won Best Newcomer at this years Edinburgh Festival Comedy Awards and the 2023 BBC New Comedy Award. He is also won the 2021 Chortle Student Comedy Award and the Best Show award at this years Leicester Comedy Festival. He has been delighting audiences up and down the country with his idiosyncratic style of outrageous character comedy, most notably with his comic creation Frankie Mo...