Ted Robbins is a comic and actor, best know for playing Den Perry in Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights and Tony Cluedo, the singer of Crème Brulee in The League of Gentlemen. He was also in the film Calendar Girls, Little Britain, loads of episodes of the children’s show The Slammer as the Governor, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Chucklevision, Benidorm, Bad Education with Jack Whitehall, Coronation Street as Brendan Finch, Diddy TV, Birds of a Feather, Father Brown and Shakespeare and Hath...
Jan 06, 2023•1 hr 17 min
Tony Robinson is best known for playing Baldrick in the BBC sitcom, Blackadder and the archaeological show Time Team on Channel 4 for 20 years. He wrote and stared in the BAFTA winning children's comedy series Maid Marian and her Merry Men which ran for four series. Tony has also written 16 children’s books, and is the voice of the audio versions of all of Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels. He was knighted in the 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours for his public and political service. Tony Robin...
Jan 02, 2023•1 hr
The best of My Time Capsule from our guests in 2022, part 3. Featuring Danny Baker, Dara Ó Briain, Gail Porter, Hugh Dennis, Billy Boyd, Linford Christie, Michel Roux Jr, Patrick Stevens, Danny Robins, David Gower, Maggie Ollerenshaw, Siân Berry, Joe Wilkinson, Mark Bonnar and Joe Pasquale. Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter , Instagram & Facebook : @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter : @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Steven...
Dec 30, 2022•1 hr 4 min
The best of My Time Capsule from our guests in 2022, part 2. Featuring Harry Hill, Nicola Stephenson, Jess Thom, John Torode, Jason Byrne, Chesney Hawkes, Jim Piddock, Mike Grady, Josh Bolt, Sian Harries, Joanna Scanlan, Mathew Baynton and Tim Healy. Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter , Instagram & Facebook : @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter : @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pas...
Dec 29, 2022•58 min
The best of My Time Capsule from our guests in 2022. Featuring Harry Hill, Dara Ó Briain, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Fern Britton, Joe Pasquale, Freddie Davies, Jim Piddock, Cheryl Baker, Richard Pitman, Graham Fellows, Catherine Russell, Jeremy Dyson and Toyah Willcox. Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter , Instagram & Facebook : @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter : @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Mu...
Dec 28, 2022•53 min
Some of our guests from 2022 have kindly come back to say what they'd put in their Christmas time capsule! Part 2 features Joe Pasquale, Nick Helm, Sarah Greene, Jeremy Dyson, Rob Rouse, Catherine Russell, Tim Downie, Graham Fellows, Jonny Weldon and Gary Sinyor. Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter , Instagram & Facebook : @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter : @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions ....
Dec 24, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Some of our guests from 2022 have kindly come back to say what they'd put in their Christmas time capsule! Featuring Cheryl Baker, Nicola Stephenson, Joe Pasquale, Fern Britton, Jim Piddock, Mike Grady, Josh Bolt, Nicola Bryant, Michael Simkins and Freddie Davies. Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter , Instagram & Facebook : @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter : @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions ...
Dec 23, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Part 2 of My Christmas Time Capsule from 2021, where few of our guests from 2021 choose what they'd put into a Christmas time capsule! Featuring Sanjeev Bhaskar, Isy Suttie, Rory McGrath, Katy Brand, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Charlie Higson, Paul Burke, Les Dennis, John O'Farrell, Robin Ince and Bonnie Langford. Merry Christmas!! . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter , Instagram & Facebook : @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter : @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produ...
Dec 19, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Part 1 of My Christmas Time Capsule from 2021! Featuring Clive Anderson, Eilidh Doyle, Andrew Hunter Murray, Lisa Riley, Ken Bruce, Gary Wilmot, Fred MacAulay, Kate Thornton, Derren Litten and Emma Kennedy . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter , Instagram & Facebook : @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter : @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by Matthew Boxal...
Dec 19, 2022•1 hr 1 min
A Christmas gift for all our listeners: it's A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, read by our host, Michael Fenton Stevens!! Feel free to delete if it's not your thing but we hope you enjoy it. Merry Christmas! Thank you to Spoken World Audio for allowing us to put this out. Follow Spoken World Audio on Twitter : @Spoken_World Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter , Instagram & Facebook : @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter : @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens . To ...
Dec 18, 2022•3 hr 12 min
Part 2 of the best bits from our 2020 My Christmas Time Capsule episodes! Featuring Stephen Fry, Lucy Porter, John Challis, Tony Hawks, Rufus Hound, Marcus Brigstocke & Rachel Parris, Anthony Head, Janet Ellis, Rick Wakeman, Anneka Rice, Paul Mayhew-Archer and Griff Rhys Jones. Merry Christmas! Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter , Instagram & Facebook : @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter : @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fento...
Dec 16, 2022•1 hr 1 min
A compilation of the best bits from our 2020 My Christmas Time Capsule episodes! Featuring Arthur Smith, Rebecca Front, Andy Hamilton, Mark Watson, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Jan Ravens, Kevin McNally, Anthony Head, Ellie White plus Anna Ptaszynski, Dan Schreiber & Andrew Hunter Murray from the podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Merry Christmas! Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter , Instagram & Facebook : @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter : @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefenton...
Dec 16, 2022•53 min
Rick Edwards is a presenter, journalist, DJ and author. He presents the BBC Radio 5 Live breakfast show which he has co-hosted with Rachel Burden since 2011. He presents The Courtship on NBC in America, a reality television dating game show. Rick’s early career includes being a presenter on Channel 4’s T4 alongside Jameela Jamil and Nick Grimshaw. During the 2012 Paralympics he was part of Channel 4’s commentary team. He writes regular columns for the Observer, The Evening Standard and the Huff ...
Dec 12, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Olly Mann is a broadcaster, writer, journalist and a forerunner in the world of podcasting. He co-hosted the Sony Award winning podcast Answer Me This! with Helen Zaltzman which had over 30 million downloads and ran from 2007 to 2021. Olly has presented hundreds of hours of radio, most recently as host of Radio 4's The Male Room and Four Thought. His documentary, ‘Podcasting: The First Ten Years’ aired on Radio 4, and for many years he was a weekly contributor to BBC 5 Live's 'Saturday Edition'....
Dec 09, 2022•50 min
Known as “the Steven Spielberg of Audio”, multi award winning Dirk Maggs is one of the most influential people in the world of sound in drama, who has created some of the greatest audio productions ever made. Such as Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Superman, Batman, The Dark Knight, The Amazing Spiderman, Independence Day UK, An American Werewolf in London, Alien, The X-Files with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, Stephen Baxter’s Voyage and his incre...
Dec 05, 2022•52 min
Slightly different today, Patrick Stevens is Mike’s brother! But in his own right, Patrick was the Head of the International Division of the Crown Prosecution Service for 10 years working under Keir Starmer. Before that he was a Senior Counter Terrorism Prosecutor at the CPS for 6 years, starting two days after 9/11 and working on some of the biggest cases the UK has ever seen. He continues to work in international law and humans rights. Patrick Stevens is guest number 246 on My Time Capsule and...
Dec 02, 2022•52 min
Comedian and actor Joe Wilkinson is best known for his hilarious regular appearances on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, as Pat the postman in Ricky Gervais’ After Life on Netflix and Dan in the incredible Him & Her. He’s also been in Live at the Apollo, a number of episodes of Have I Got News For You, Miranda, Derek, Taskmaster, Sex Education and Not Going Out. He was Star Baker on The Great British Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer. His daily podcast, Chatabix, which he does with his After L...
Nov 28, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Sooz Kempner is a stand up comedian, singer and twitter sensation who, over the last year, has gone viral on Twitter with her hilarious political videos playing Nadine Dories and Liz Truss. Some people have even credited her with helping to bring down Liz Truss. She won Best Newcomer at the Musical Comedy Awards in 2010, the Variety Award at the Funny Women Awards in 2012 and in 2014 she made her Edinburgh debut. She recently completed her eighth solo fringe hour, PlayStation. She graduated from...
Nov 25, 2022•46 min
Comedian and actor Hugh Dennis is best known for his appearances in every episode of Mock the Week over the past 18 years, for his brilliant performance in the multi award winning comedy Outnumbered and for playing Toby in Lee Mack’s comedy, Not Going Out. He has co-hosted The Now Show on BBC Radio 4 with Steve Punt since 1998, now in it’s 61st series. He also worked with Steve Punt on The Mary Whitehouse Experience on BBC Radio and TV alongside David Baddiel and Rob Newman. Hugh Dennis is guest...
Nov 21, 2022•56 min
Sian Berry is the former leader of The Green Party. She was Co-Leader alongside Jonathan Bartley from 2018 to 2021 and its sole leader from July to October 2021. She is one of the Green Party’s representatives on the London Assembly, and has stood as the Green Party candidate in three London Mayoral elections. She is also a Green Party councillor on Camden Council, representing Highgate. Sian Berry is guest number 242 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things s...
Nov 18, 2022•50 min
Sophie Aldred Is best known for playing Ace, the companion to the 7th Doctor Who, played by Sylvester McCoy. A role that she reprised for Jodie Whittaker’s last episode as The Doctor in 2022. Sophie’s voice can be heard as Dennis The Menace in Dennis and Gnasher, the title character in Tree Fu Tom, Muck in Bob the Builder and Mrs Rabbit, Flopsy and Mopsy in Peter Rabbit. She was in Playdays, Rainbow and Jackanory and she’s worked in the theatre, in video games and made a number of films. Sophie ...
Nov 14, 2022•51 min
Lloyd Griffith is a comedian, actor, presenter and classically trained singer. As an actor you may have seen him in Ted Lasso, It’s A Sin, Infinite on Paramount, and Not Going Out. Lloyd fronted the BBC documentary ‘Can You Beat The Bookies?’ and he was co-host of Soccer AM on Sky Sports. You may also have seen him on 8 Out Of 10 Cats, House of Games, Jonathan Ross’ Comedy Club, Pointless Celebrities, Comedy Central Live at The Comedy Store, Roast Battle, Drunk History, Football’s Funniest Momen...
Nov 11, 2022•52 min
Jon Culshaw is one of the UK’s top impressionists. Best know for the show Dead Ringers which ran for 7 series on BBC2 and is now on it 22nd series on BBC Radio4. He stared in 3 series of BBC1’s The Impressions Show alongside Debra Stephenson and has also been in 3 series of Spitting Image, Radio 4’s The Secret World, The Impressionable Jon Culshaw, Parkinson, The Royal Variety Performance, The Graham Norton Show, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, 2DTV, Head Cases, and Jon Culshaw’s Commercial Bre...
Nov 07, 2022•53 min
Lizzie Roper is an British actress who has appeared in 100 episodes of Hollyoaks as Sam Lomax, the sitcom The Worst Week of My Life with Ben Miller, Sarah Alexander, Alison Steadman and Geoffrey Whitehead, she played Roxanne in Family affairs, was in the film Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging, as well as the TV series Being Human, Him & Her, New Tricks, Waterloo Road, This is Jinsy, Shameless, Silent Witness, Call the Midwife, Dead Boss and Boy Meets Girl. In the West End she appeared with C...
Nov 04, 2022•56 min
Danny Robins is an award-winning writer, broadcaster and journalist. His podcast series, The Battersea Poltergeist, become the No 1 drama podcast in the world. It was made for the BBC and combined drama and documentary to tell a real-life ghost story, starring Toby Jones and Dafne Keen. Danny is now adapting it for TV with Hollywood producers Blumhouse. His latest drama, The Witch Farm starring Joseph Fiennes and Alexandra Roach is available on the BBC now. Danny’s new BBC podcast series Uncanny...
Oct 31, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Charlie Baker is a comedian, actor, singer and presenter who most recently stared in Harry Hill’s new music, Tony The Music playing the title character of Tony Blair. Charlie is a regular presenter for TalkSport where he can be heard every Saturday and is a regular performer on The Last Leg. As an actor he’s been in Miranda, The IT Crowd, Richard Bacon’s Beer & Pizza Club, Eastenders, Doctors, Doctor Who and the film, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. He was a team captain on Channel 4’s panel...
Oct 27, 2022•49 min
Rob Rouse is a comedian and actor best known for playing Bottom, in Ben Elton’s comedy series Upstart Crow, about the life of William Shakespeare, alongside David Mitchell, Harry Enfield, Mark Heap and Liza Tarbuck. Rob won Channel Four's prestigious 'So You Think You're Funny’ competition at the Edinburgh Festival in 1998 and has been a regular performer at major venues across the country and on TV, ever since. He has appeared in Grownups, The Law of the Playground, Coronation Street, The Wrigh...
Oct 23, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Gary Sinyor is an award winning film-maker. His first feature film, Leon the Pig Farmer, won numerous awards, including the International Critics Prize at the Venice Film Festival, the London Critics Circle and Evening Standard Awards and the Chaplin Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival. His next 2 British films were Solitaire for 2 and Stiff Upper Lips before moving to the US to direct The Bachelor with Chris O'Donnell and Renée Zellweger. He subsequently returned to the UK and set up Magnet Fi...
Oct 20, 2022•48 min
James Dreyfus is best known for playing Constable Goody in The Thin Blue Line alongside Rowan Atkinson and Tom in Gimme Gimme Gimme with Kathy Burke. He was in the film Notting Hill, playing Martin the bookseller alongside Hugh Grant, he starred opposite Bette Midler in the American sitcom Bette, and took over the role of Thermoman in the BBC comedy My Hero from Ardal O’Hanlon. James Dreyfus is guest number 233 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd lik...
Oct 16, 2022•42 min
John Dowie is a British comedian, musician and writer who was a pioneer of alternative comedy and is credited with establishing observational humour as part of the new movement. He’s often called 'Britain's first alternative comedian’. He toured with and influenced another alternative pioneer, Victoria Wood. As well as writing songs and sketches with her, he is credited with helping her to develop her future trademark patter between songs. Dowie was among the inaugural acts on Tony Wilson's Fact...
Oct 13, 2022•1 hr 2 min
