My Time Capsule

EMMY, BRIT and BAFTA award-winning composer, Howard Goodall has composed the music for Red Dwarf, Blackadder, Mr. Bean, The Thin Blue Line, The Vicar of Dibley, The Catherine Tate Show, 2point4 Children and QI. He’s worked extensively with his university friend Rowan Atkinson, writing music for his live shows, Mr Bean, the Johnny English films and his performance at the London 2012 Olympics openin...

Izzy Mant is a double BAFTA winning comedy producer and standup comedian. She produced Peep Show, Harry & Paul, Toast of London, The Windsors, Cuckoo and Gameface. As a standup, her hour-long show ‘Izzy Mant: Polite Club’ was a sell-out success at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Izzy Mant is guest number 83 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd...

Tim Vine is comedian who’s best known for his one-liner jokes and his role on Not Going Out with Lee Mack from 2006 to 2014. He’s won the award for best joke at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe twice and has written several joke books. Tim Vine is guest number 82 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...

Twice Golden Globe nominee Romola Garai , has appeared in such films and TV show as Atonement, The Hour, the title role in Emma, The Crimson Petal and the White (for which she received a BAFTA nomination), The Other Man alongside Liam Neeson and Laura Linney, Stephen Poliakoff's World War II thriller Glorious 39 and so much more! Romola Garai is guest number 81 on My Time Capsule and chats to...

Stand up comedian Ed Byrne has enjoyed huge critical and popular success in the UK and Ireland. He has performed many sold out tours and shows all over the world, he regularly appears on shows like Mock The Week, Have I Got News You and The Graham Norton Show and at the beginning of 2021 he was a contestant on BBC's Celebrity Best Home Cook. Ed Byrne is guest number 80 on My Time Capsule...

Chris Lang is best known as the writer and creator of Unforgotten, the award winning crime drama which can be seen on PBS, Netflix and ITV. Chris has also written Innocent, Dark Heart, Undeniable, A Mother's Son and Torn amongst others. In his youth, he formed a comedy revue called The Jockeys of Norfolk with Hugh Grant. Chris Lang is guest number 79 on My Time Capsule and he chats...

Anna Chancellor is best known for playing Duck Face in Four Weddings and a Funeral but she's also been in Spooks, Miranda, Inside No.9, she was Caroline Bingley in the BBC's Pride & Prejudice with Colin Firth, The Crown, Downton Abbey and so much more. Anna Chancellor is guest number 78 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time cap...

Derren Litten co-wrote and stared in The Catherine Tate Show alongside Catherine Tate, he wrote the BAFTA winning sitcom Benidorm which ran for 10 series and he’s also acted in many comedy and drama series including French and Saunders, Spaced, EastEnders, Coronation Street and Pie in the Sky. Derren Litten is guest number 77 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five...

Comedian Seann Walsh is a regular on TV appearing in shows like Mock The Week, Live at the Apollo, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Celebrity Juice. He was a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2018 and presents a regular show on Fubar Radio. Seann Walsh is guest number 76 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time ca...

Aurora Burghart is best known for her roles in Netflix's The Stranger, October Faction, Sex Education and BBC 2's There She Goes with David Tennant and Jessica Hynes. Aurora Burghart is guest number 75 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about...

Mark Watson is a comedian and novelist. On television, he’s been on Taskmaster, Mock The Week, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Have I Got News For You, Would I Lie To You?, QI and Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls. He’s also written seven novels including his latest, Contacts, which was released in 2020. Mark Watson is guest number 74 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the f...

Best known for playing David Archer in The Archers on BBC Radio 4. Tim Bentinck has also appeared on television in Twenty Twelve, The Thick of It, The Royal Bodyguard and Grange Hill, as a voice artist he was James Bond in the video game The World Is Not Enough, he re-voiced Gérard Depardieu in the film Nouvelle France and Chow Yung Fat in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, as well as being the voice...

Our first married couple on the podcast! Rachel Parris is a regular contributor to BBC 2's The Mash Report for which she was nominated for a BAFTA, She has appeared on Live At The Apollo, Mock The Week, QI and Would I Lie To You and she's a member of the improv comedy group Austentatious. Marcus Brigstocke is a comedian, actor and presenter who has appeared on Have I Got News for You and Live...

Nigel Planer is an actor, comedian, novelist and playwright who is best known for playing Neil in The Young Ones and Ralph Filthy in Filthy Rich & Catflap with Rick Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. He has appeared in many West End musicals, including original casts of Evita, Chicago, We Will Rock You, Wicked, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He was a founding member of the London Comedy Stor...

Mark Thomas is a comedian, writer and activist. The Mark Thomas Comedy Product, his Channel 4 show, ran for 6 series and his BBC Radio 4 show, The Manifesto, ran for 5 series. He has a Guinness World Record for holding 20 protests in 24 hours. Mark Thomas is guest number 70 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...

Vicki Pepperdine co-wrote and starred in the multi-award-winning BBC Four sitcom  Getting On  with Jo Brand and Joanna Scanlan which was adapted for HBO in America. She is one half of the hilarious podcast Dear Joan and Jericha with Julia Davis. She's also appeared in Julia Davis's Camping and Nighty Night, The Windsors in which she plays Princess Anne, Twenty Tw...

British actress Caroline Quentin is best known for her roles in Men Behaving Badly, Jonathan Creek and Blue Murder. She is also a presenter of such show as Restoration Home and The World's Most Extraordinary Homes on BBC 2, she joined The Royal Shakespeare Company in 2019 for a production of The Provoked Wife and in 2020 she was a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing. Caroline Quentin is guest numb...

Clive Anderson is a British television and radio presenter, comedy writer and former barrister. On television he presented Whose Line Is It Anyway, Clive Anderson Talks Back and Clive Anderson All Talk. He's also appeared regularly on Have I Got News For You and QI. On the radio he is the presenter of Radio 4's Loose Ends and Unreliable Evidence. He is also the President of the Woodland Trust. Cli...

Robin Ince is best known as the co-host of the BBC Radio 4 series  The Infinite Monkey Cage  with Professor Brian Cox. As a stand up he has toured the world and won three Chortle Awards and the Time Out Outstanding Achievement Award. His latest book is  I’m a Joke and So Are You and he also co-hosts the podcast  Robin and Josie’s Book Shambles with Josie Long, which is part of...

Kevin Bishop is a British actor, comedian and writer. He stared in the films Muppet Treasure Island, A Few Best Men and Keith Lemon: The Film and on television he's been in Peep Show, Star Stories and his own show, The Kevin Bishop Show amongst countess others. He's also the speaking voice for 2-D, the fictional lead singer of virtual band Gorillaz. Kevin Bishop is guest number 65 o...

Lee Mack is a comedian, writer, actor and presenter. He is best known as the BAFTA winning team captain on BBC One's comedy panel show, Would I Lie To You, with David Mitchell and Rob Brydon and as the writer and star of the Rose d’Or winning sitcom Not Going Out. Lee Mack is guest number 64 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time...

Andi Osho is a stand-up comedian, actress and writer. She's appeared on Live at the Apollo, Mock The Week, Never Mind The Buzzcocks and The Late Late Show in America, her acting credits include I May Destroy You, Eastenders and Death in Paradise. She has a podcast! Creative Sauce with Andi Osho and her debut novel, Asking for a Friend, is out now! Andi Osho is guest number 63 on My Time Capsule an...

Jayde Adams is a British comedian, actress, writer and singer. She was the winner of the 2014 Funny Women award and 2016 nominee for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. She plays Julia Petley in Amazon Prime's  Good Omens , she co-hosts Snackmasters on Channel 4 with Fred Sirieix and Crazy Delicious on Netflix with Heston Blumenthal. Her stand up special, Serious...

Rory McGrath is best known as a panel member of the BBC comedy sports quiz They Think It's All Over and as one of the Three Men in a Boat, alongside Dara Ó Briain and Griff Rhys Jones. He co-founded the British television production company Hat Trick Productions. Rory McGrath is guest number 61 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like...

John Owen-Jones is a hugely successful West End star. He remains the youngest person ever to play Jean Valjean in Les Miserables, a role he's played multiple times in the West End and on Broadway. He has also played The Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera more times than any other actor. John Owen-Jones is guest number 60 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five thi...