Nicola Bryant is best known for playing Peri Brown, a companion to both the fifth Doctor, Peter Davison, and sixth Doctor, Colin Baker, in the BBC science fiction series, Doctor Who and Lana in Star Trek Continues. She also played the dance teacher in the school drama series The Biz, Miss Brown in The Stranger film series, she’s been in The 10%ers, Casualty, Doctors, Holby City, My Family, Scoop, New Blood, Gentrification and most recently she played Sandra in The Effect. Nicola Bryant is guest ...
Oct 09, 2022•52 min
Standup comedian Josh Jones was nominated for best newcomer at this years Edinburgh Fringe. He’s a regular on TV in shows such as 8 Out of 10 Cats, Jonathan Ross’ Comedy Club, Ch5’s Goes Horribly Wrong series, Iain Stirling’s CelebAbility, E4’s Reality News and Comedy Central’s Undeniable. He is the host BBC Three’s Fast Food Face Off and hosts his own historical-gossip podcast Dead Drama. He was nominated for the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year, named one of Chortle.co.uk’s Ones to Watch, he...
Oct 06, 2022•45 min
Danny Baker’s extremely varied career includes being a comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ, television presenter, advertising star and screenwriter. His credits are too long to list here but this extraordinary interview covers quite a bit! So much that we had to make it two parts. Danny Baker is guest number 229 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 th...
Oct 02, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Danny Baker’s extremely varied career includes being a comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ, television presenter, advertising star and screenwriter. His credits are too long to list here but this extraordinary interview covers quite a bit! So much, that we had to make it two parts. Danny Baker is guest number 229 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 t...
Oct 02, 2022•1 hr 17 min
Maggie Ollerenshaw is best known for playing Mavis in the BBC sitcom Open All Hours with Ronnie Barker and David Jason, and it’s sequel, Still Open All Hours. She was in the films, A private Function with Michael Palin and Maggie Smith, played Mary Pierrepoint in in Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman with Timothy Spall as well as the film of War Horse. On TV, she’s been in The Little Match Girl, the lovely BBC sitcom Scarborough, in which she played Geraldine the owner of the hair salon, Last of the ...
Sep 29, 2022•37 min
Linford Christie is one of the most successful British athletes of all time and still the British record holder for the 100m. In 1993 he was Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European champion, the only British male athlete to hold all titles at the same time, and he won the BBC’s Sports Personality in the same year. He was the first European athlete to break the 10-second barrier and is a former world indoor record holder over 200 metres, and a former European record holder in the 60 metres, 100...
Sep 25, 2022•51 min
Sunny Ormonde has played Lillian Bellamy in The Archers on BBC Radio 4 for the past 22 years. She is a seasoned Radio Actress and has recorded well over 400 plays and short stories for the BBC. Sunny trained at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama and had many years in theatre preforming at the biggest theatres around the country. She has her own podcast, One Stiletto In The Grave, which she makes with her writer friend Jane James. Sunny Ormonde is guest number 226 on My Time Capsule and chat...
Sep 22, 2022•53 min
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Sep 18, 2022•4 min
Journalist Eleanor Mills was the Editorial Director of The Sunday Times and editor of The Sunday Times magazine until March 2020. She was the youngest ever features editor at the Daily Telegraph, aged just 26 and then joined the Sunday Times in 1998 where she was a columnist and interviewer, interrogating everyone from Mikhail Gorbachev to Sheryl Sandberg and Theresa May. She left The Sunday Times in 2020 and on 8 March 2021, International Women's Day, Mills launched Noon, an online media platfo...
Sep 15, 2022•55 min
Michel Roux Jr is an English-French two Michelin starred chef best known as the presenter of MasterChef The Professionals. He owns the world famous restaurant Le Gavroche, in London which he took over from his father Albert Roux and his uncle Michel Roux. Roux co-presented BBC Two's Food and Drink, was one of the mentors in the series The Chef's Protege, presented First Class Chefs for the Disney Channel, Kitchen Impossible with Michel Roux Jr for Channel 4 and his latest series, Michel Roux's F...
Sep 11, 2022•40 min
Carla Mendonça is an actor best known as Sophie Johnson in the children’s sitcom My Parents Are Aliens and Orla Crawshaw in Coronation Street. She also played Mrs Fitzgerald in the BBC series So Awkward, was in the films Hilary and Jackie and Common People, and has appeared in The Young Ones, The Lenny Henry Show, Pushing up Daisies, Coming Next, KYTV, Bottom, 32 episodes of Motormouth, French and Saunders, 26 episodes of The Legends of Treasure Island, Wycliffe, Smith and Jones, Harry Enfield a...
Sep 08, 2022•51 min
Paul Chowdhry is a standup comedian and actor best known for his multiple appearances on Live at the Apollo, being a contestant on series three of Taskmaster and as the host of Channel 4’s Stand Up For The Week. He’s also been a guest on 8 out of ten Cats Does Countdown and The Russell Howard Hour. He was the first British Asian stand up to sell out Wembley Arena and his record breaking 2019 tour, Live Innit, was released as an Amazon Prime special in 200 countries. Paul Chowdhry is guest number...
Sep 04, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Richard Hope is probably best known for playing Harris Pascoe in Poldark and Hooper, alongside Jeremy Irons in Brideshead Revisited. He’s appeared in dozens of films and on TV been in Lawrence Olivier Presents, Victoria Wood, Happy Families, The Bill, Boon, Peak Practise, Casualty, The Demon Headmaster, Midsomer Murders, Judge John Deed, The Forsyth Saga, Holby City, Foyle’s War, Murder City, Heartbeat, New Tricks, Silent Witness, Poirot, Doctor Who, Unforgotten, The Ipcress File and Gentleman J...
Sep 01, 2022•50 min
David Gower OBE was one of the greatest batsmen of all time. Between 1975 and and 1993 David scored 26,339 runs in first class cricket for England, Leicestershire and Hampshire. He hit 53 centuries and captained England to victory in the 1985 Ashes series. He holds the record of 119 consecutive innings without registering a duck (scoring zero runs) in Test cricket. Following his retirement from cricket he became a very successful and much loved commentator for BC, Sky Sports and BT Sport. He was...
Aug 28, 2022•51 min
Olaf Falafel is a comedian, children’s author and illustrator who most recently had 2 jokes in Dave's top 10 funniest jokes of the Fringe festival 2022. He’d previously won it in 2019 with the joke "I keep randomly shouting out 'Broccoli' and 'Cauliflower' - I think I might have florets". Olaf is the author and illustrator of several kids books including the flatulent ‘Old MacDonald Heard A Parp’ trilogy, ‘It’s One Giant Leek For Mankind’ plus his latest books Blobfish and Trixie Pickle Art Aven...
Aug 25, 2022•52 min
Michael Spicer is an actor and writer best known as a regular cast member of The Mash Report on BBC2 and for his online sketches called The Room Next Door where he plays a fictional adviser feeding lines into the earpieces of world leaders. These videos have amassed over 60 million views and have led to a book deal, a nationwide tour, a radio series and a regular slot on The Late Late Show with James Corden. Michael Spicer is guest number 218 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Steven...
Aug 21, 2022•52 min
Jack Docherty is an actor, writer and chat show host probably best known for the comedy show Absolutely that he co-wrote and starred in and it’s spin off sitcom, Mr Don and Mr George which he starred in alongside his Absolutely colleague and friend, Moray Hunter. He played Ben Gary in the advertising sitcom, The Creatives, was in the sci-fi series The Strangerers on Sky and he appeared regularly in BBC3’s Badults. He plays Chief Commissioner Cameron Miekelson in BBC Scotland’s comedy Scot Squad....
Aug 18, 2022•50 min
Jake Canuso is best know for playing the flirtatious Spanish barman, Mateo Castellanos, in every episode of the ITV comedy, Benidorm. Jake is from Switzerland and began his career as a dancer, appearing in videos with and touring the world with Annie Lennox, Elton John, Take That and the Spice Girls. Jake’s acting career has included the films Kinky Boots, Flyboys, Journal of a Contract Killer, Nine, with Daniel Day Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz and Judi Dench, and The Dark Knight Rises wi...
Aug 14, 2022•48 min
Ella Kenion is best known for playing Mrs Cakeworthy in the Only Fools and Horses spin-off, The Green Green Grass by John Sullivan. Ella also played the role of Julie in the ITV sitcom Hardware, with Martin Freeman, she was in 31 episodes of the CBeebies show Swashbuckle as Captain Sinker, 52 episodes of Q Pootle 5, and has played parts in Shakespeare & Hathaway, Warren, 101 Dalmatian Street, Detectorists, We Know Where You Live, New Tricks, Law and Order UK, Episodes, Cuckoo, Doctor Who, Bl...
Aug 11, 2022•51 min
Billy Boyd is best know for playing the hobbit Pippin Took in The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson's epic trilogy. He also played Barret Bonden in the film Master and Commander with Russel Crowe, and Gerald Forbes in the huge time travel adventure, Outlander. Billy started his acting career at St Andrews Rep and the Traverse theatre, before appearing in Taggart, the films Urban Ghost Story, Dorothy and the Witches of Oz, and The Hobbit; The Battle of the Five Armies, among others, and the tv pro...
Aug 07, 2022•58 min
Urzila Carlson has become one of the biggest names in comedy in Australia and New Zealand. A television favourite in both countries, Urzila is a much-loved series regular on both the Australian and New Zealand versions of the award-winning comedy panel show Have You Been Paying Attention? In 2020, Urzila joined the panel of The Masked Singer Australia on Network Ten. She also released her standalone one hour Netflix stand-up special Overqualified Loser, which was released in 190 countries. A tou...
Aug 04, 2022•44 min
Nick Helm is a comedian, actor and writer best know for playing the lead role in the BBC Three sitcom, Uncle, and for playing Watto in Channel 4’s Loaded, as well as for his memorable appearances on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Russell Howard’s Good News and Celebrity Mastermind. He is a stand up legend having taken multi hit shows to The Edinburgh Fringe Festival and on tour around the world, including Keep Hold of the Gold, Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Award nominated Dare to Dream and the com...
Jul 31, 2022•46 min
Jason Byrne is the Irish stand-up comedian described by the Times as “the outright king of live comedy”. He is a favourite of the stand-up circuit and is often the biggest selling comedian at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where he has been nominated for both the Perrier Newcomer Award and The Perrier Award itself. His TV credits include Live at the Apollo on the BBC, Comedy Annual on ITV, Dave’s One Night Stand, The Channel 4 Comedy Gala, John Bishop’s Only Joking on Sky and Anonymous on RTE2. ...
Jul 28, 2022•53 min
John Torode is the Australian chef and presenter of Master Chef, the long running BBC cookery competition, which he presents and judges with his friend Greg Wallace. He started his TV career cooking on ITV’s This Morning, but before that he worked in some of the finest kitchens, including Pont de la Tour and Quaglino’s, and then his own restaurants, Smiths of Smithfield and The Cafeteria in Notting Hill. John has made a number of television series exploring and cooking food from around the world...
Jul 24, 2022•56 min
George Lewis is a comedian and writer. His best selling book is out now and called Don’t Panic; All The Stuff The Expectant Dad Needs To Know, with contributions from Andy Parsons, Elis James, Josh Widdicomne, Kerry Godliman, Rich hall, Romesh Ranganthan, Russell Kane and many more. He also writes a weekly football column for The Times. He has appeared on the Stand Up Sketch Show on ITV, hosted Top Gear: Extra Gear on BBC 2, 3 & Worldwide and was the winner of Celebrity Mastermind with the s...
Jul 21, 2022•58 min
Andy Nyman is an actor and writer. As an actor, Andy has been in many films, including Black Death with Sean Bean and Eddie Redmayne, Kick Ass 2, Star Wars The Last Jedi, The Commuter with Liam Neeson, Judy, the Judy Garland film starring Rene Zellweger and Disney’s Jungle Cruise with Dwayne Johnson, Jack Whitehall and Emily Blunt. On TV he’s been in Unforgotten, Dead Set, Ballot Monkeys, Peaky Blinders, and provides voices for Shaun the Sheep and Sarah and Duck. Andy is co-creator of the long-r...
Jul 17, 2022•47 min
Linda Purl is best known for her roles as Fonzie's girlfriend on Happy Days, Pam Beesly's mother Helene in The Office US and Elizabeth Gaines in Homeland. Other TV roles include Hawaii Five-O, The Waltons, Matlock, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Murder She Wrote, Desperate Housewives, True Blood and Designated Survivor. Since 2020, she has been in a relationship with Patrick Duffy who played Bobby Ewing in Dallas, who she speaks about in the episode. Linda Purl is guest number 207 on My Time Capsule...
Jul 14, 2022•38 min
Chesney Hawkes is best known for his huge No.1 hit song, “The One and Only” which topped the charts in the UK for five weeks and reached the Top 10 in the United States. The song featured in the film Buddy’s Song which stared Chesney alongside Roger Daltrey. Chesney’s father is the singer Len 'Chip' Hawkes, bassist of the 1960s band The Tremeloes who recently, Chesney has been singing with on tour. Chesney Hawkes is guest 206 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the fi...
Jul 10, 2022•53 min
Rob Carter is best known for his character Christopher Bliss who can be seen on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Question Team on Dave, Comedy Central At The Edinburgh Fringe and his own standup specials and tours. As an actor, Rob has appeared in Peep Show, Fresh Meat, Ladhood and much more. The Raisin, which Rob wrote and directed, won Best Foreign Short Film at the Los Angeles Comedy Festival. Rob Carter is guest 205 on My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five thi...
Jul 07, 2022•54 min
Something a little different today... We're recommending a great podcast for you! This is The Retrospectors . Each day they cover something that happened on that day in history. It's just ten minutes long so perfect over a bowl of cereal or taking the dog round the block and it's from the makers of Answer Me This, Happy Place and ton of other great shows. Here's a taster episode that The Retrospectors have chosen for you - about the life and times of Shirley Temple. Oh and our producer, John, wr...
Jul 05, 2022•11 min
