Carl Donnelly is an award-winning stand-up comedian who has twice been nominated for the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Awards. His TV appearances include shows like Mock the Week, Russell Howard’s Good News, Dave’s One Night Stand and Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled. Carl launched his comedy career in 2005 and quickly rose through the ranks—winning Laughing Horse New Act of the Year (2006), Chortle Best Newcomer (2007), and Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year (2007). Over more than a decade, he’s...
Jul 03, 2025•1 hr 9 min
Sheli McCoy is better known as "Sabre" from Gladiators, the British TV endurance sports game show, which she first appeared on in 2024. She is recognised as one of the stand-out stars of the show, going on to be a guest speaker for the Dundee University giving their Annual Public Lecture in Entrepreneurship, appearing on the BBC One charity fundraising show Comic Relief, the television quiz shows The Weakest Link and on The Wheel as one of the celebrity experts. Sheli is a fitness industry entre...
Jun 29, 2025•49 min
Kerry Ellis is one of the biggest stars of musicals from the West End to Broadway. She originated the role of Meat, in Queen’s We Will Rock You and was the first British Elphaba in the West End smash, Wicked, for which Kerry won the 2008 Whatsonstage.com Award for ‘Best Takeover in a Role’. She then immediately transferred to Broadway and played Elphaba at the Gershwin Theatre for 6 months, where she won the Broadway.com Audience Award for Favourite Female Breakthrough Performance. Her many othe...
Jun 26, 2025•43 min
Steve Backshall is a BAFTA-winning wildlife presenter, explorer and author. His hit BBC series Deadly 60 , where he tracks down the world’s most remarkable predators, is a huge hit amongst kids and adults. A seasoned adventurer, he has led expeditions to some of the planet’s most remote and dangerous environments, including uncharted jungle rivers and unexplored cave systems. Steve has presented numerous wildlife and adventure documentaries for the BBC and Sky, including Expedition with Steve Ba...
Jun 22, 2025•46 min
Olia Hercules is a Ukrainian-born, London-based chef, food writer, and culinary storyteller renowned for bringing the vibrant flavours and traditions of Eastern Europe to a global audience. Olia trained at Leiths School of Food and Wine and went on to work as a chef de partie at Ottolenghi, later becoming a sought-after recipe developer and stylist. Her debut cookbook, Mamushka (2015), won the Fortnum & Mason Debut Food Book Award and earned her the Observer’s Rising Star accolade. She’s sin...
Jun 19, 2025•1 hr 9 min
Our guest in EPISODE 500!! is the comedian Josh Widdicombe. Josh appears regularly on QI, The Last Leg, Fighting Talk, Mock the Week, 8 out of 10 Cats, Have I Got News For You and Hypothetical. He wrote and stared in his own sit com, Josh, won the first series of Taskmaster, has co-hosed Pointless with Alexander Armstrong, appeared on Strictly Come Dancing’s Christmas episode and filmed Who Do You Think You Are? where he discovered some extraordinary things about his ancestry. His autobiography ...
Jun 16, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Very slight delay before our 500th episode so here's a look back at an unedited version of episode 100 with Ross Noble with around 30 minutes of unheard chat! 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 has acted on stage in Mel Brooks’ ...
Jun 12, 2025•1 hr 42 min
Ute Lemper is an internationally celebrated German singer and actress. She first gained international acclaim playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret in Paris, a performance that earned her the Molière Award for Best Newcomer. She went on to star as Velma Kelly in Chicago in both the West End and on Broadway, winning the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical and a Theatre World Award. Her early career also included key roles in Cats in Vienna and Peter Pan and The Blue Angel in Berlin. Ute has bec...
Jun 08, 2025•53 min
Petroc Trelawny is best known for being the host of BBC Radio 3’s Breakfast show for 14 years from 1998. In April 2025, he transitioned to co-host “In Tune” alongside Katie Derham, succeeding Sean Rafferty. In 1992, Petroc joined Classic FM as its inaugural afternoon show host, later moving to London News Radio and co-presenting BBC GMR’s Breakfast Show. Petroc has introduced numerous broadcasts for Radio 3, including the BBC Proms, Cardiff Singer of the World, and the Leeds International Piano ...
Jun 06, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Miranda Raison is perhaps best known as Jo Portman in BBC’s Spooks. Miranda has most recently been seen leading Britbox’s hit show Sister Boniface Mysteries which she returns for series 4 in 2025. Next up she is leading David Hare’s new play Grace Pervades as Ellen opposite Ralph Fiennes at the Theatre Royal Bath in June 2025. Grace Pervades tells the extraordinary story of Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, the greatest stars of the Victorian stage. Miranda has an extensive theatre CV having played ...
Jun 01, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Joe Sutherland is a comedian who performs all over the UK and internationally, with a Sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Tour support for Ellie Taylor and UK tour support for stars of Rupaul's Drag Race. Joe’s recent appearances on TV include Dave’s Hypothetical and the BBC’s Eastenders. As he embarks on his first international tour, Joe is ready to share his story with his new show, MissWorld, in which he’ll bravely talk about something that, until recently, he's suffered with in silence: th...
May 30, 2025•47 min
Peter Fincham was the Controller of BBC One from 2006 to 2007 and ITV’s Director of Television from 2008 to 20016. Before that, Peter was the Managing Director of TalkBack Productions where he oversaw the creation and production of programmes such as The Day Today, Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge, They Think It’s All Over, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, I'm Alan Partridge, Smack the Pony and Da Ali G Show. TalkBack was sold to FremantleMedia in 2001 and Peter became the chief executive of ...
May 25, 2025•1 hr 4 min
Ben Hart is a magician best known for reaching the grand final of Britain's Got Talent in 2019, finishing third. He has returned to the programme several times, on BGT: The Champions, America's Got Talent: The Champions, and Britain's Got Talent Christmas Spectacular. An award-winning performer, he’s also a writer, inventor, and designer of magic tricks and illusions. At the age of 16, Ben won the prestigious "Young Magician of the Year" award from The Magic Circle. He wrote and starred in Kille...
May 22, 2025•55 min
Alexei Sayle is an actor, author, stand-up comedian, television presenter and former recording artist. He was one of the leading figures in the British alternative comedy movement in the 1980s, becoming the leading performer at The Comic Strip, in Soho. In 1981, he wrote and performed the radio series, Alexei Sayle and the Fish People, for which he won a Pye Radio Award. This was followed by Alexei Sayle and the Dutch Lieutenant's Trousers, and two series of Lenin of the Rovers, a 1988 comedy ab...
May 18, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Christopher Macarthur-Boyd presents the comedy podcast Here Comes The Guillotine with Frankie Boyle and Susie McCabe. 2024 saw Christopher release his debut stand-up comedy special Oh No! with 800 Pound Gorilla Media. After a sell-out run at the Fringe, Christopher toured the UK and Ireland with his hit-show Scary Times, culminating with his biggest show to date at the 1500 seater Pavilion Theatre in Glasgow. Star of Comedy Central Live, Christopher has also co-starred in two series of BBC Scotl...
May 15, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Helen Atkinson Wood is an actress and comedian, best known for her role as Mrs. Miggins in Blackadder. Helen and Mike have been best friends since University. They went on to record seven series of Radio Active for BBC Radio 4 which transferred to BBC television as KYTV. They toured the world together as part of that team, which included the late Geoffrey Perkins, Philip Pope and Angus Deayton. Her other notable roles include The Young Ones, Joking Apart, Doctor Who, OTT, Girls On Top, Absolute ...
May 11, 2025•42 min
Liz Guterbock is an award winning actress, stand up comedian and voice artist. Her television highlights include Armando Iannucci’s hit sci-fi comedy series Avenue 5 on HBO, Channel 4’s ‘For the Love of Cars,’ and CBBC’s Victorian Drama series ‘Hetty Feather.’ Liz has worked extensively as a voice artist, having lent her voice to commercial campaigns for King and Amazon as well as character work in video games like Pillars of Eternity II and Payday 2. She’s received multiple nominations for stan...
May 08, 2025•1 hr 5 min
David Hepworth co-presented Live Aid on the BBC in 1985. He was also one of the presenters of the BBC rock music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test. David launched and edited magazines such as Smash Hits, Q, Mojo, Just Seventeen, Heat and The Word, among many others. He has won the Editor of the Year and Writer of the Year awards from the Professional Publishers Association and the Mark Boxer award from the British Society of Magazine Editors. He’s written books about the recording studio Abbey...
May 04, 2025•1 hr
Charles Collingwood is best known for playing Brian Aldridge in the BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers for the past 50 years, since March 1975. He is married to Judy Bennett who played Shula Hebden Lloyd in the series from 1971–2024. Charles started his career, having left RADA where he trained, in Children’s Television, starting with The Raven and the Cross (1974) and The Secret Garden. He was the score-keeper on Noel Edmonds' BBC One quiz show Telly Addicts, co-hosted the Southern Television q...
May 01, 2025•1 hr
Limahl is best know as the lead singer of 80s band Kajagoogoo, who enjoyed the instant fame of hitting the top of the charts with their debut single "Too Shy”. This was followed by two more Top 20 hits "Ooh To Be Ah" and "Hang On Now" (all of which he co-wrote). Limahl then struck out on his own and hit the charts again with his first solo single ‘Only For Love,’ quickly followed with the Giorgio Moroder–produced worldwide smash ‘Neverending Story’, the theme song from the hit film of the same n...
Apr 27, 2025•1 hr 22 min
It's our 5th birthday so Mike and his producer/son John, each choose their 5 favourite clips and memories from the past 5 years! Featuring Caroline Quentin, Dave Gorman, Seann Walsh, Jon Ronson, Sir David Jason, Josie Long, George Mombiot, Howard Goodall, Anita Harris and Michael Simkins. Happy Birthday to us! Follow My Time Capsule on Instagram : @mytimecapsulepodcast & Twitter /X & Facebook : @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter /X: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefe...
Apr 24, 2025•1 hr 39 min
An unedited version of Mike’s conversation with Mark Thomas from 2021 with around 30 minutes of unheard chat! 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 our guest in episode 485 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time ca...
Apr 20, 2025•1 hr 24 min
Sam Nicoresti is a writer, performer and award winning comedian. Sam was the Winner of the Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2021 and was nominated for Best Compere at the Chortle Awards in 2024. Sam is known for her blending of stand-up, surreal theatre, film and music to create one-person shows that explore consciousness, identity, and cosmic horror. Sam’s first show 'Bedtime' was a midnight cult-hit at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2018. And In 2019 Sam followed it up with 'UFO', a show abo...
Apr 17, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Jessica Martin is an actress, singer, and illustrator. Specialising as an impressionist, her television roles have included Spitting Image, Copy Cats and The Bobby Davro Show. She featured as the werewolf Mags in the 1988 Doctor Who serial The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, and provided the voice of the Queen in the 2007 Doctor Who Christmas special, "Voyage of the Damned". On stage, she starred with Gary Wilmot in the West End show Me and My Girl for two years at the Adelphi Theatre and then on a...
Apr 13, 2025•1 hr 18 min
Natty is Mike’s grandson. If you’ve listened regularly to My Time Capsule you will have heard Mike talk about him quite a bit. Or if you listen to our other podcast, Chatty Natty (where Mike chats to Natty about anything and everything), you’ll know Natty from that. Natty is a 13 year old autistic boy and has many special interests. He's not currently in school but hopes to find a suitable one soon. Natty is our guest in episode 482 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about th...
Apr 10, 2025•42 min
Comedian Ignacio Lopez has appeared on TV shows including QI, Live At The Apollo, Have I Got News For You, Comedy Central Live, Celebrity Mastermind and Richard Osman’s House Of Games. He was branded Spain’s Best Export by the Spanish Embassy and Office of Culture in the UK. As well as hosting on TV, headlining top comedy clubs all over the U.K and Europe, and taking the piss out of British people directly to their faces, Ignacio writes sketches, sitcoms, and used to tweet a lot. Having performe...
Apr 06, 2025•54 min
Jess Robinson is a multiple award-winning impressionist, actor, voice artist and classically-trained singer, who is the lead female voice artist in the new Spitting Image and a regular on Channel 4’s The Last Leg. She has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe with a new show every year since 2014; including the wildly successful NO FILTER, which rounded off a critically-acclaimed, nationwide tour with a five-night run at the Soho Theatre in 2019. Her podcast Stars In Your Ears with Jess Robinson won...
Apr 03, 2025•56 min
Did this come out on April 1st? Did we worry you? Thanks to Lewis MacLeod for his extraordinary Trump impression! Donald Trump is The President of The United States of America, business mogul and former host of the US version The Apprentice. Donald Trump is our guest in episode 479 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 My Tim...
Mar 31, 2025•39 min
Kevin Cummins has an international reputation as one of the world’s leading photographers and is famed for his iconic portraits of musicians including Ian Curtis, Bowie, The Smiths, Iggy Pop, Bjork, Debbie Harry, Bob Marley, Public Enemy, Patti Smith and Oasis. These photographs have appeared on magazine covers and in galleries and museums worldwide, including Brooklyn Museum, Sydney Opera House, and the Pace Gallery, His work is included in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gal...
Mar 30, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Alexis Dubus is an award winning comedian and actor. His awards include winning Chortle Award - Best Character, Mervyn Stutter's Spirit Of The Fringe Award, Best Show - Fringe World Award, Adelaide Fringe Weekly Awards, Amused Moose Comedy Award and Buxton Fringe Award. Alexis regularly performs as Marcel Lucont, a multi-award-deserving deadpan Frenchman, with his acclaimed interactive show, in which he serves up a unique Whine List from the audience’s past woes and misdemeanours. Marcel has bee...
Mar 28, 2025•55 min
