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 books. David Quantick is guest number 125 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about t...
Sep 09, 2021•50 min
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 and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four h...
Sep 05, 2021•1 hr 3 min
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 of Graham Norton’s BAFTA Award winning So Graham Norton and head writer on Ruby Wax’s Waiting Game. ...
Sep 02, 2021•56 min
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 Billingham is guest number 122 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five thi...
Aug 29, 2021•41 min
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 in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think abou...
Aug 26, 2021•45 min
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 around the world and had his own HBO special. Omid Djalili is guest number 120 on My Time Capsule and c...
Aug 22, 2021•56 min
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 newspaper and has written three Science Fiction novels - Terra, Terra's World and Terra's War. Mitch Benn i...
Aug 19, 2021•47 min
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. Angela Barnes is guest number 118 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five...
Aug 15, 2021•44 min
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 number 117 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put ...
Aug 12, 2021•1 hr
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 for John. He’s written numerous books including Things Can Only Get Better, An Utterly Impartial History of Britain an...
Aug 08, 2021•48 min
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 Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preser...
Aug 05, 2021•42 min
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' is silent) with Stephen Warbeck, the Academy Award-winning composer of Shakespeare in Love. Paul Bra...
Aug 01, 2021•53 min
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 Experiments, was long listed for the 2020 Booker Prize. Sophie Ward is guest number 113 on My Time Cap...
Jul 29, 2021•51 min
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 Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule;...
Jul 25, 2021•47 min
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. Kevin Day is guest number 111 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things h...
Jul 22, 2021•1 hr 15 min
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 debut novel, Jane Is Trying is out on 22nd June 2021. Isy Suttie is guest number 110 on My Time Cap...
Jul 18, 2021•56 min
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 Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four...
Jul 15, 2021•57 min
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 and also gives it’s name to his podcast. Nicky Campbell is guest number 108 on My Time Capsule and ...
Jul 11, 2021•52 min
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 posting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Harriet Cross is guest number 107 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael...
Jul 08, 2021•38 min
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, into a six-part BBC TV series called The Kennedys staring Katherine Parkinson. Emma won Celebrity Mas...
Jul 04, 2021•51 min
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 Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; fou...
Jul 01, 2021•44 min
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, Richard Pryor, Spike Milligan, Mike Yarwood, The Two Ronnies and Morecambe and Wise. Barry Cryer is gues...
Jun 27, 2021•44 min
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, Richard Pryor, Spike Milligan, Mike Yarwood, The Two Ronnies and Morecambe and Wise. Barry Cryer is gues...
Jun 27, 2021•41 min
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 regularly on shows such as The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow and staring in hundreds of television ...
Jun 24, 2021•50 min
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. Her latest book, I Carried a Watermelon, was published in 2019 and her debut feature film, Good Luc...
Jun 20, 2021•1 hr 4 min
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 presents shows on BBC Radio Manchester. He has a weekly podcast called About 30 minutes, No more than...
Jun 17, 2021•53 min
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 has acted on stage in Mel Brooks’ The Producers and Igor in Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein for which was no...
Jun 13, 2021•1 hr 19 min
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 The Master Builder and she was nominated for "what's on stage" award for her role as Elizabeth Proc...
Jun 10, 2021•41 min
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 paperback. Alan Davies is guest number 98 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the ...
Jun 06, 2021•52 min
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, Cutting It, Kingdom and Spooks. Simon Williams is guest number 97 on My Time Capsule and chats to Mich...
Jun 03, 2021•34 min
