Gabrielle Glaister is probably best known for playing Patricia Farnham in Brookside and Trish Wallace in Family Affairs. She was also Kate or “Bob” in several episodes of Blackadder and has had notable roles in other British television shows including Upstart Crow, Sherlock, Unforgotten, Law and Order UK, New Tricks, Coronation Street, Doctors and Hilary Benshaw in Emmerdale. Gabrielle has appeared in several films, including Buddy’s Song with Roger Daltrey and Chesney Hawks that spawned the no1...
Apr 20, 2023•43 min
Jon Ronson is a British journalist, author and documentary maker best known for his books The Men Who Stare at Goats and The Psychopath Test. The Men Who Stare at Goats was also adapted into a feature film starring George Clooney. Other books include So You've Been Publicly Shamed and Them: Adventures with Extremists. He wrote the screenplay for the feature film Frank staring Michael Fassbender, inspired by his time as the keyboard player in Frank Sidebottom's band. He also co-wrote the screenpl...
Apr 16, 2023•1 hr 21 min
Mina Anwar is best known for playing PC Maggie Habib in the sitcom The Thin Blue Line by Ben Elton staring Rowan Atkinson. She was also in the film Infidel, with Omid Djalili and Matt Lucas, Razzledazzle, Shameless, Upstart Crow, The Invisibles, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Scoop, 106 episodes of House of Anubis, Happy Valley, In the Club, Marley’s Ghost, The Worst Witch, Terms and Conditions and Doctor Who. In 2017 she originated the role of Ray in the new musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie ...
Apr 13, 2023•58 min
Jamie Morton hosts the enormous worldwide hit podcast My Dad Wrote A Porno, with James Cooper and Alice Levine, where, every episode, Jamie reads a chapter of Belinda Blinked, an amateur erotic novel series written by his father under the pen name Rocky Flintstone and they all react to it! It has been downloaded over 440 million times, it’s been an HBO comedy special and has been performed live all over the world, from the Edinburgh Fringe to Montreal’s Just for Laughs comedy festival, the Sydne...
Apr 09, 2023•54 min
Gordon Kennedy is probably best known for the Channel 4 comedy series Absolutely, which aired from 1989 to 1993 which he co-stared in, co-wrote and produced. The BBC radio series of Absolutely is now available as a three series audiobook. Gordon co-hosted the original National Lottery show alongside Anthea Turner and in the late 90s, he was cast in the role of Little John in the BBC's hit series Robin Hood. He has appeared in a variety of shows, including as Sergeant Bruce Hornsby in the BBC dra...
Apr 06, 2023•59 min
Iain Lee is an award winning radio and television presenter who started on The 11 O’Clock Show on Channel 4 which was also the starting point for comedians such as Ricky Gervais and Sacha Baron Cohen. His extensive radio work includes shows on Xfm, LBC and Absolute Radio. He won a Radio Academy Award in 2014 for breakfast show of the year, moved to talkRadio in 2016 winning the audio and radio industry award for best speech presenter, which he won again in 2020 this time for Moment of the Year f...
Apr 02, 2023•1 hr 24 min
John Archer is a magician, comedian, actor and writer who is a member of the Magic Circle’s Inner Magic Circle and is a past winner of the Magic Circle Stage Magician of the Year competition. In 2019 John reached the semi-final of Britain's Got Talent and he was the first magician to successfully “fool” Penn & Teller on Penn & Teller: Fool Us. John has written for many TV shows including the BAFTA winning The Sketch Show and has appeared on such programmes as BAFTA winner Help! My Supply...
Mar 30, 2023•47 min
Tony Way is best known as Lenny, the photographer, in Ricky Gervais’s After Life and Ser Dontos Hollard in Game of Thrones. Other TV appearances include The Fast Show, The Eleven O’Clock Show, Bang Bang it’s Reeves and Mortimer, Spaced, Randall and Hopkirk, Black Books, My Family, Extras, The Wall, Shooting Stars, Mongrels, Sherlock, Derek, Doctor Who, Not Going Out, Pompidou, Inside No.9, Murder in Successville, Collateral, and Mandy. On film he’s been in Ali G Indahouse, Finding Neverland, The...
Mar 26, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Annabelle Dowler is best known for playing Kirsty, in the long running Radio 4 drama, The Archers, that she has played since 1999. On TV she’s been in such shows as The Suspect, Sense8 on Netflix, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, playing Catherine of Aragon, Lewis, The Suspect, Breaking Silence, Brexit - The Uncivil War, Mother’s Day, Doctor Who and the film Suffragette with Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter and Meryl Streep. Annabelle is the voice and augmented computer body, of May in the BAFTA...
Mar 24, 2023•49 min
Catherine Tyldesley is an actor best known for playing Iris Moss in the BBC drama, Lillies, Eva Price on Coronation Street from 2011 to 2018 and Karen Norris in the BBC One sitcom Scarborough co-starring Jason Manford. She was a contestant on the 17th series of Strictly Come Dancing with her partner Johannes Radebe. She has been nominated for the British Soap awards, Inside Soap awards and the TV Choice awards 12 times. Catherine has also been in Holby City, No Angels, Sorted, Florence Nightinga...
Mar 20, 2023•45 min
Sally Hodgkiss is an award-winning actor, writer and comedian. Sally performs regularly on the comedy circuit, most recently as a guest with the legendary Comedy Store Players. She’s performed with Whose Line is it Anyway - Live and The Stephen Frost Impro Allstars. Her acting career has taken her to many theatres around the UK including the Manchester Royal Exchange, Sheffield Crucible, Octagon Theatre Bolton, HOME, and Theatre Royal Plymouth among others. She has extensive screen experience in...
Mar 17, 2023•53 min
David Earl is an actor and comedian famous for his brilliant comedy character, Brian Gittens, which he plays in several Ricky Gervais projects; Derek, Extras, the film Cemetery Junction and the world wide Netflix smash hit, After Life. David works regularly with his After Life co-star, Joe Wilkinson and together they co-wrote and starred in the sitcom Rovers and the comedy series The Cockfields. David co-wrote and starred in the Film 4 feature film Brian and Charles where, as Brian Gittens, he p...
Mar 13, 2023•59 min
Welsh actor Sian Reese-Williams is probably best known for playing Detective Inspector Cadi John in Hidden, a bilingual crime drama for BBC Wales and BBC Four which ran for three very successful series. She played the role of Gennie Walker in Emmerdale from 2008-13. In 2016, she featured in series 3 of the critically acclaimed Welsh crime drama Hinterland and in 2017, she starred in series 3 of the BAFTA award-winning 35 Diwrnod for S4C. Sian was nominated for Best newcomer at the Inside Soap aw...
Mar 10, 2023•51 min
Zoe Lyons is standup comedian and writer best known for her regular appearances on TV and radio in shows such as Mock The Week, The News Quiz, Live At The Apollo, Alan Davies As Yet Untitled, Just A Minute, Celebrity Mastermind, Michael McIntyre Roadshow, Celebrity University Challenge, The Now Show and 8 Out of 10 Cats. She won the Funny Women Competition in 2004 and her debut Edinburgh show was nominated for the Perrier Award. In 2008 she won the Dave, Funniest Joke of The Fringe Award. Zoe Ly...
Mar 06, 2023•45 min
Kerry Howard is a BAFTA nominated actor who is best known for playing Laura in the BAFTA award-winning BBC sitcom Him and Her alongside Russel Tovey, Sarah Solemani and Joe Wilkinson. She had her first big break in the BBC remake of sitcom Reggie Perrin, played the lead ‘Leanne’ in three series of Witless for BBC Three and played the title role in Young Hyacinth for BBC One. Other television credits include Ted Lasso, The Outlaws, The Trouble With Maggie Cole, Finding Joy, Murder in Successville...
Mar 03, 2023•53 min
Actor and singer Tom Read Wilson started his career when he auditioned for The Voice back in 2016 giving an incredible rendition of Accentuate the Positive. This led to him becoming the hilarious receptionist on Celebs Go Dating. Tom has written two books on etymology, one for children called every word tells a story and On the tip of my tongue, for adults. He won Celebrity Mastermind, was 2nd on Celebrity Best Home Cook to Ed balls and has appeared on a multitude of shows such as Michael Macint...
Feb 27, 2023•53 min
Steve Steen is a comedian and actor best known for his appearances on Whose Line Is It Anyway and as a member of the world famous improvisational comedy group, The Comedy Store Players. He, for many years, worked with another of our guests, Jim Sweeney. They joined Oval House Theatre Club in 1972 where they first started doing improv together. By the 1980’s they were performing on TV in the ITV children’s show CBTV, in Little Armadillos, one of Channel 4’s first comedies and played Byron and Col...
Feb 24, 2023•54 min
Gordon Buchanan is a Scottish wildlife filmmaker and television presenter, who has been responsible for some of the most iconic moments in numerous wildlife documentaries, such as filming big cats for Big Cat Diary, grey seals and foxes for Springwatch and his “...and me” documentary series, including The Bear Family & Me, The Polar Bear Family & Me, Snow Wolves, Gorillas, Elephants, Tribes, Reindeers, Grizzly Bear Cubs, Snow Cats and The Cheetah Family and Me. Gordon has been a guest pr...
Feb 20, 2023•58 min
John Altman is a BAFTA and EMMY winning film composer, arranger and musician. His feature films include the award-winning Little Voice, he wrote all the period music for Titanic, the classic tank chase in Goldeneye, he arranged Always Look on the Bright Side of Life from The Life Of Brian, RKO281 (EMMY winner), Hear My Song (BAFTA winner), Shall We Dance starring Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez, Funny Bones, Vendetta, Breaking Through starring Diane Keaton, Hope Springs starring Colin Firth, Min...
Feb 17, 2023•40 min
David Ames is best known for playing Dominic Copeland in Holby City from 2013 to 2022. David has also appeared on TV in He Kills Coppers with Rafe Spall, the first Doctor Who episode to be filmed in HD, Planet of the Dead, which featured David Tennent as Dr Who, and has recently appeared on stage in the title role of Steve at the Seven Dials Playhouse and as Tim in Horse Play at the Riverside Studios in London. David Ames is guest number 262 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens...
Feb 13, 2023•57 min
Lorelei King is one of the most successful and accomplished American actresses working in the UK today. She has appeared in numerous film and TV shows including Alien Covenant, Notting Hill, The Saint, Cold Feet, Jam, Birds of a Feather, Chef, Alistair McGowan's Big Impression, Emmerdale Jonathan Creek, Not Going Out, The Robinsons and Monarch of the Glen. She’s also various voices in the American version of Bob The Builder. Described as ‘the best known American voice on Radio 4’, Lorelei has re...
Feb 10, 2023•55 min
Caitlin O’Ryan is an actor who is best known from the international smash hit TV series, Outlander, where she plays series regular, Lizzie Wemyss, the handmaid. Caitlin is a graduate of The Oxford School of Drama, which has produced many top actors. Outlander was her professional debut but in her final year at drama school she appeared in The Lights at The Royal Court and followed this with If and When at Soho Theatre, directed by Blythe Stewart. Caitlin is also a performance poet, often headlin...
Feb 06, 2023•59 min
Tommy Cannon was one half of the legendary comic double act, Cannon and Ball, until his friend and partner, Bobby Ball’s sad death in 2020. Cannon and Ball’s prime time Saturday night television series, the Cannon and Ball Show, was one of ITV’s most successful series, it ran for twelve years with audiences often as high as twenty million viewers. They even made their own film, The Boys In Blue, in 1982. Tommy and Bobby went on to make their own games show, appeared in the fifth series of I’m a ...
Feb 03, 2023•27 min
One liner comedian Mark Simmons, is probably best known for his multiple appearances on the satirical comedy show, Mock the Week. He was voted the best act by UK Comics’ Comic 2022 and was included in Dave’s top 10 jokes at the Edinburgh Fringe. His Edinburgh show, One linerer, was a sell out hit in 2017 and he followed it up with One Linererer, which was also a sell out. He’s had his own UK tours and has also been tour support for Seann Walsh, Rob Beckett and Rob Brydon and supported Michael Mc...
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Ronnie Golden is a musician, composer, and stand up comedian. Ronnie started as a teenage guitarist, opening shows for Tom Jones, Scott Walker and Engelbert Humperdinck. He worked with David Bowie in his Beckenham Arts Lab days then went on to form the cult new wave group, Fabulous Poodles who outsold both The Clash and The Jam in America in the early 80’s. After that he was doing stand-up as a member of the Comic Strip with regulars Rik Mayall, Ben Elton, French and Saunders and Alexei Sayle. H...
Jan 27, 2023•52 min
Neil Delamere is an award winning Irish comedian. He makes regular appearances on BBC Radio 4 on The News Quiz, The Now Show and The Unbelievable Truth as well as Fighting Talk on BBC 5Live. He’s one of the biggest comics working on the Irish scene with huge sell out tours and having presenting numerous shows on RTE including Neil Delamere’s Just For Laughs, Eureka, The Big Bang Query, and Republic of Tele. He’s also appears on Richard Osman’s House of Games, Celebrity Chase, Countdown, Celebrit...
Jan 23, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Rachel Fairburn is a stand up comedian and podcaster who was featured in Chortle’s ‘One to Watch’ list in 2020. She has been a finalist of several prestigious comedy competitions including Funny Women, City Life Comedian of the Year, the NATYS and English Comedian of the Year. Rachel is co-host of the worldwide smash hit podcast All Killa No Filla, which he hosts with her friend Kiri Pritchard McLean. With a huge international following of over a quarter of a million listeners and growing, they’...
Jan 20, 2023•55 min
Jim Sweeney is a member of the world famous improvisational group the Comedy Store Players, with other members including Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Neil Mullarkey, Richard Vranch, Sandi Toksvig and Jeremy Hardy with many celebrity guests such as Eddie Izzard, Caroline Quentin, Phil Jupitus, Greg Proops and Mike Myers. He’s been in Who's Line Is It Anyway?, Blackadder, One Foot In the Grave, Kiss Me Kate, and on radio was in Just a Minute, All the Young Dudes and the improvised comedy, The Mast...
Jan 16, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Cliff Parisi is best known for playing Minty Peterson in Eastenders for 8 years and Fred Buckle in the multi award winning BBC drama, Call the Midwife. Other notable credits include Bit of Fry and Laurie, KYTV, The Darling Buds of May, The Upper Hand, London’s Burning, Drop the Dead Donkey, Kavanagh QC, Pie in the Sky, A Prince Among Men, The Saint, Paul Merton in Galton and Simpson’s…., Kiss me Kate, Casualty, Waking the Dead, The Bill, Hollyoaks, Outnumbered and Plebs, amongst many more. Cliff...
Jan 13, 2023•35 min
Shaun Keaveny presented the Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 6 Music for 11 years, and the Afternoon Show for a further 3 years. He started his radio career on XFM London and has stood in for a range of presenters on BBC Radio 2 including Liza Tarbuck and currently Johnnie Walker. He has his own podcast, The Line-Up, about people's dream festival line-up. His book R2D2 Lives in Preston is a compilation of little known facts relating to various towns throughout the UK. Shaun Keaveny is guest number 25...
Jan 09, 2023•55 min
