Mathew Baynton is best known as the poet ghost Thomas Thorne in the BBC sitcom Ghosts, which he also co-created and co-writes with his “Horrible Histories” group. The group came together as the cast of the hugely popular children’s show Horrible Histories and went on to create, write and star in Yonderland which ran for 3 series on Sky 1 and then Ghosts on BBC1. Ghosts has now been remade for CBS in America. Mathew also created, wrote and stared in The Wrong Mans with James Corden for BBC2. Othe...
Jul 03, 2022•51 min
Samantha Baines is a comedian, actress, writer and broadcaster. You may have seen Samantha in Netflix’s The Crown, Call the Midwife, Silent Witness or Magic Mike Live (directed by Channing Tatum) or personal appearances on ITV's Loose Women, Sky News and Andrew Neil's This Week. You may have heard her presenting on BBC Radio London, BBC Radio Kent, Virgin Radio or on her own podcast The Divorce Social, which has been a 'Times Podcast of the Week' and a No.1 relationship podcast on iTunes. Samant...
Jun 30, 2022•58 min
Tim Downie is best known for his major roles in Toast of London, Outlander, Upstart Crow, and the films Paddington and The King's Speech. Other TV includes in The Royal Bodyguard with Sir David Jason, Peep Show, Miranda, Hoff the Record with David Hasselhoff and Hapless on Netflix. Other film roles include in War Machine with Brad Pitt, Les Misérables, Transformers: The Last Knight and Horrible Histories: The Movie. Tim Downie is guest 202 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Steven...
Jun 26, 2022•49 min
Taylor Glenn is a UK-based American comedian, writer, and podcaster who is one of the creators and hosts of the hit UK podcast Drunk Women Solving Crime which has had sold out runs in London and Edinburgh, won a Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award in 2022 and is nominated for two British Podcast Awards this year. Taylor has written for the new series of Breeders staring Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard, has contributed to several programmes for BBC as well as writing for Comic Relief, The Guar...
Jun 23, 2022•54 min
Michael Fenton Stevens finally reveals his time capsule items in this special 200th episode! Comedian and podcaster Richard Herring takes Mike’s role as host. Michael Fenton Stevens is an actor and podcast host who's television credits include the recent Slow Horses with Kristen Scott Thomas and Gary Oldman, five series of Benidorm as Sir Henry, the British Consul, The Crown, KYTV, My Family as Robert Lindsay's long suffering boss, Not Going Out, Outnumbered, Pete Versus Life, Persuasion with Sa...
Jun 19, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Andrew Lynford is an actor, presenter, writer, director and casting director. As an actor he’s best known for playing Simon Raymond in EastEnders, the brother of Martine McCutcheon's character Tiffany. His character made headlines in the British press, following a gay kiss with Tiffany’s boyfriend, Tony. After leaving EastEnders, Andrew presented various shows for television, including Wild Thing, Taste Today, and the comedy quiz Arty Facts, which he also devised. He was a writer on the sketch s...
Jun 16, 2022•51 min
Nicola Stephenson is known mainly for her roles in television including Margaret Clemence in Channel 4's Brookside in which her on-air kiss with Anna Friel was the first pre-watershed lesbian kiss on British television. She was an original cast member of Holby City playing Julie Fitzjohn, Allie Westbrook in Waterloo Road, Suzie Davidson in Clocking Off, Jackie Armstrong in ITV's Northern Lights & City Lights, Sarah Williams in BBC's The Chase and Tess Harris in Emmerdale. Her theatre roles i...
Jun 12, 2022•55 min
Mike Grady is best known for playing Ken Mills in Citizen Smith opposite Robert Lindsay and as Barry Wilkinson in 161 episodes of Last of the Summer Wine. His film credits include Carry On Loving with Sid James & Kenneth Williams, Up the Front with Frankie Howard, The Return of the Pink Panther opposite Peter Sellers, and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows With Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law. Mike Grady is guest 197 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five thin...
Jun 09, 2022•42 min
Nicholas Burns is best known for playing the title role in the comedy Nathan Barley, by Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker and for his role in the first three series of the ITV comedy, Benidorm. But he’s also been in Absolute Power, A touch of Frost, Swiss Toni, The Mighty Boost, the sketch show Man Stroke Woman, Agatha Christies Marple, Roman’s Empire, The IT Crowd, Misfits, Poirot, Uncle, the TV Film Coalition in which he played Ed Balls, Marley’s Ghost, Doctor Who & The Crown. He was in the...
Jun 05, 2022•50 min
Jessica Fostekew is a comedian, actor, writer and podcast host. She was nominated for The Dave Edinburgh Comedy Award ‘Best Show’ for her show Hench, in 2019 which had a sold out, international tour. She has since appeared on Live at the Apollo, QI and Harry Hill’s Clubnite. As an actor she starred in the feature films Greed and Official Secrets, Dawn French’s The Trouble with Maggie Cole, Sharon Horgan’ and Holly Walsh's Motherland and Cuckoo on the BBC and Netflix. Jessica has written for Mock...
Jun 02, 2022•45 min
Mark Bonnar is a Scottish actor who is best known for his roles as Ashley Jensons Husband, Chris in Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s Catastrophe, Max in Guilt, Duncan Hunter in Shetland, and for major roles in Line of Duty, for which he was nominated for a Bafta Scotland award, the police drama Unforgotten, with Sanjeev Baskhar and Nicola Walker, for which he won the BAFTA Scotland Best Actor award and the Broadcasting Press Guild Best actor award. He was also in Psychoville, Taggart, Doctor Who,...
May 29, 2022•59 min
Gail Porter is a Scottish television presenter, model and actress. Best known for presenting such shows as Top of the Pops, Live & Kicking, Children in Need, The Big Breakfast and The Gadget Show. In 2005 Gail developed alopecia totalis, causing her to loose her hair. She decided not to wear a hat or wig in order to raise awareness of the condition and became ambassador for the Little Princess Trust, a charity which provides wigs to children with hair loss. Gail’s alopecia was the subject of...
May 26, 2022•33 min
Joanna Scanlan, most recently, won the leading actress BAFTA award for her role in the film After Love, beating Lady Gaga. She was nominated for three BAFTAs for writing and performing in the satirical NHS drama Getting On, which she co-wrote with Jo Brand and Vicki Pepperdine. The series was adapted for an American audience with HBO on which Joanna was an executive producer. It ran for three series earning an Emmy nomination. Joanna’s other film credits include Girl With a Pearl Earring, Notes ...
May 22, 2022•58 min
Bobby Crush is a pianist, songwriter, actor and television presenter who first came to public attention after winning the ITV talent show, Opportunity Knocks, six times in 1972. Bobby performed three seasons at the London Palladium guest starring with Jack Jones, Vic Damone and Dame Julie Andrews and his other theatrical roles include Liberace in Liberace's Suit, Dr Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Show and Billy Flynn in Chicago. Bobby’s greatest success as a songwriter was writing Keith Har...
May 19, 2022•43 min
Jenny Seagrove is an actress of stage and screen. She starred alongside Rupert Everett in the Academy Award-winning short film A Shocking Accident and other film roles include Nate and Hayes opposite Tommy Lee Jones, Bullseye! with Michael Caine and Roger Moore, A Chorus of Disapproval with Anthony Hopkins and Jeremy Irons and Appointment with Death With Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher and John Gielgud. She played Jo Mills in the BBC drama series Judge John Deed and her stage work in...
May 15, 2022•51 min
Sara Crowe is probably still best known as the “Philadelphia girl” for her part in the Philadelphia cream cheese adverts in the 90’s playing a ditsy blonde secretary. Sara was the first bride in the film Four Wedding and a Funeral, was in Carry On Columbus and the film version of Tony Hawks's best selling book, Round Ireland with a Fridge. On TV she’s the voice of Queen Thistle in the hugely popular children’s animation Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom, has been in Smith & Jones, Harry Enfie...
May 12, 2022•39 min
Jess Thom is a comedian and theatre-maker who’s known as her alter-ego, Touretteshero. Touretteshero is also a project that she co-founded, aimed at increasing awareness of Tourette syndrome, the neurological condition which Jess was diagnosed with in her early twenties. The first Touretteshero production, Backstage in Biscuit Land debuted at Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2014 and won the Total Theatre Award for Best Emerging Company. For BBC 2, Jess made the film Me, My Mouth and I, a 60-minute ...
May 08, 2022•1 hr 23 min
Finty Williams is an actress best known for her roles in the films Gosford Park, The Importance of Being Earnest, Mrs Brown, Ladies in Lavender and Macbeth as well as a number of other British films, many alongside her mother, Judi Dench. Finty’s father was the actor Michael Williams. On the TV she voices the title role in the animated series of Angelina Ballerina and has been in Born and Bred, Cranford, Wives and Daughters, Tales from the Crypt and Doc Martin amongst many others. On the stage s...
May 05, 2022•47 min
Jeremy Dyson is a writer best known as a member of the BAFTA winning comedy group, The League of Gentlemen alongside Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith. He co-wrote The League of Gentlemen including a radio series, 3 television series, numerous tours, a feature film, a Christmas special and three 20th anniversary episodes. He co-created the play Ghost Stories with Andy Nyman which ran in the West End and on tour for many years as well as at The Sydney Opera House in Australia. He ...
May 01, 2022•1 hr 2 min
As part of our 2nd birthday celebrations, we asked you, our listeners, to send us your items for a listeners time capsule! We received hundreds of entries from all around there world. So many in fact that we had to do 2 parts! Part 1 features Justin Moors, Jennifer, Paul Robinson, Martin Richardson and Tim Easton. They are our guests for episode 185 of My Time Capsule and they chat to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things they’d like to put in a time capsule; some they’d like to preserve ...
Apr 28, 2022•56 min
As part of our 2nd birthday celebrations, we asked you, our listeners, to send us your items for a listeners time capsule! We received hundreds of entries from all around there world. So many in fact that we had to do 2 parts! Part 1 features Darren Fewins, Ryan Williams, Helen Freeman, Bridget Schraders, Andre Baron and Pamela Murphy. They are our guests for episode 185 of My Time Capsule and they chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things they’d like to put in a time capsule; some t...
Apr 28, 2022•53 min
Welcome to our 2 year anniversary episode with our special guest, Harry Hill! Harry Hill is a comedian, presenter and writer probably best known for his ITV comedy show Harry Hill's TV Burp which ran from 2001 to 2012. Harry has been the voice of You’ve Been Framed since 2004 and his other TV shows include Harry Hill's Shark Infested Custard, Stars in Their Eyes, Harry Hill's Tea Time, Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule and Harry Hill's World of TV. He even released his own film, The Harry Hill Movi...
Apr 24, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Brigit Forsyth is an actress who’s best known for playing Thelma Ferris in the classic BBC comedy Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads and Helen Yeldham in the ITV drama Boon. Since December 2013, Forsyth has appeared in the BBC comedy Still Open All Hours. Her other TV work includes The Glamour Girls, Tom, Dick and Harriet, Doctor Who, Wycliffe, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Jackanory, Murder Most Horrid and Playing the Field. Her stage work includes Calendar Girls and the Alan Bennett plays People...
Apr 21, 2022•38 min
Richard Pitman is a retired jump jockey best know for coming second to Red Rum at the 1973 Grand National whilst riding Crisp. Richard rode 427 winners in his career, including Lanzarote in the 1974 Champion Hurdle. He won the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park Racecourse twice, the Whitbread Gold Cup and the Hennessy Gold Cup. He joined the BBC TV racing team as a commentator and pundit in 1975 and stayed with the BBC 35 years. Richard has bred, owned and sold racehorses and has written seven...
Apr 17, 2022•52 min
Michael Simkins is an actor and writer who has appeared the films V for Vendetta, Wilde, The Iron Lady with Meryl Streep as well as Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy. He has appeared in more than 100 plays and musicals, at places like the National Theatre and the RSC as well as on the fringe and the West End. He’s been in the musicals Chicago and Mamma Mia and he’s made countless TV appearances including This is Going to Hurt, Finding Alice, Silent Witness, The Crown, Endeavour, Harlots, Grantchester, Ea...
Apr 14, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Ben Aaronovitch is a multiple Times best selling Author best known for his Rivers of London series, of which the latest, Amongst Our Weapons, is out now. Rivers of London is a series of urban fantasy novels, novellas and graphic novels. Ben wrote for the Doctor Who BBC televsion series in the 1980s and went on to write three Doctor Who spin-off novels and a Doctor Who audio drama. Ben has written for Casualty, was a regular writer on the science fiction series Jupiter Moon and has written a numb...
Apr 10, 2022•43 min
Mel Hudson is an actress, comedian and writer. She was part of the double act Hudson and Pepperdine, with Vicki Pepperdine and wrote and starred in BBC Radio 4's The Hudson and Pepperdine Show. She performed multiple roles in Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge, including Alan's French co-host Nina Vanier and has worked with the Alan Partridge team in a number of projects, including I’m Alan Partridge, The Friday Night Armistice and The Armando Iannucci Shows. Mel was Lauren Cooper's Fre...
Apr 07, 2022•59 min
Cheryl Baker is a singer and presenter best known as a member of 80s pop group Bucks Fizz, who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981. As a presenter she presented Record Breakers with Roy Castle and Kriss Akabusi from 87-97, The Saturday Picture Show with Mark Curry and her own show Eggs 'n' Baker. She continues to perform with Mike Nolan and Jay Aston of Bucks Fizz under the name The Fizz. Cheryl Baker is guest number 178 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five t...
Apr 03, 2022•47 min
Dr Julia Patterson is the Founder and Chief Executive of EveryDoctor, a doctor-led campaigning organisation fighting for a better NHS for every doctor and every patient. Julia qualified from UCL Medical School in 2010 and became a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2015. She took a break from her speciality training to set up EveryDoctor, and has now given up her GMC licence to practice, in order to devote herself fully to advocating for NHS staff and patients. She was a co-founder ...
Mar 31, 2022•53 min
Rita Simons is best known for playing Roxy Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 2007 to 2017. She won the 2008 National Television Award for Most Popular Newcomer for her role. Since leaving Eastenders she has carved out a very successful stage career appearing in Legally Blonde: the Musical, Everybody's Talking About Jamie at the Apollo Theatre and in the 2021 revival of Hairspray at the London Coliseum. Rita was a contestant in I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2018. Rita Simo...
Mar 27, 2022•47 min
