Daniel Foxx is an award-winning comedian and writer. His comedy sketch videos have earned him a huge online following and millions of views. On screen, Daniel has performed on BBC One and BBC Three as part of the BBC New Comedy Awards. On stage, Daniel has provided tour support for Josh Widdicombe and Sofie Hagen, he is the Winner of the Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence and a Finalist in the Chortle Student Comedy Awards. Daniel also writes plays, screenplays and musical theatre. He co-wrote...
Aug 03, 2023•55 min
Pierre Novellie is a stand-up comedian and writer. He is co-host of The Frank Skinner Show on Absolute Radio, and recent TV appearances include World’s Most Dangerous Roads (Dave), The Mash Report (BBC2), and Stand Up Central (Comedy Central). On the radio, Pierre has performed on The Now Show (Radio 4), hosts the BBC Sounds podcast series Obsessed With… SAS: Rogue Heroes and co-hosts the hit podcast Budpod with Phil Wang. As a writer, Pierre was one of the regular writers on the rebooted Spitti...
Jul 30, 2023•53 min
Elliot Steel is a stand up comedian and comedy writer. Elliot is the son of Mark Steel, who’s also been guest on My Time Capsule! Elliot is a veteran of British comedy having started in stand up at the age of 16. He’s performed all over the world since then, including the Latitude and Reading Festivals, The Comedy Store in London, Hot Water Comedy Club, Top Secret Comedy Club and the Edinburgh Fringe, where he can be seen again this year. Elliot has appeared on Comedy Central's Roast Battle and ...
Jul 27, 2023•59 min
Professor Turi King is best known her work, “cracking one of the biggest forensic DNA cases in history”, leading the genetic analysis for the identification of King Richard III, whose remains were found under a carpark in Leicester. Turi presents, alongside Stacey Dooley, the BBC Two genealogy series, DNA Family Secrets. Turi has a PhD in Molecular Genetics on genetic genealogy. Her award-winning PhD examined the relationship between the Y chromosome and British surnames combining forensic DNA t...
Jul 23, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Stuart Laws is a comedian, director, producer and writer and has supported James Acaster on his UK tours. He has two specials on NextUp Comedy and wrote the play “The Journey” that debuted at The Edinburgh Fringe in 2018. His 2019 Edinburgh show is now available as a comedy special on American label 800 Pound Gorilla. He runs his own production company Turtle Canyon Comedy and has produced and directed shows for Netflix, Prime, Channel 4, BBC, ITV and Sky. In 2017 Stuart produced and directed a ...
Jul 20, 2023•53 min
Comedian Joe Wells is a favourite amongst other comedians and has supported Frankie Boyle, Alexei Sayle and Stephen K Amos. Joe made his name as a political comedian with critically acclaimed Fringe shows including 'Night Of The Living Tories', '10 Things I Hate About UKIP' and 'I Hope I Die Before I Start Voting Conservative', in recent years he has moved into more personal material about mental health and being autistic. Joe’s written two books, Touch and Go Joe: An Adolescents experience of O...
Jul 16, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Lindsey Santoro has been described by Joe Lycett as ‘one of the most naturally hysterical and gifted comedians in recent memory’ and Lindsey reached the finals of the British Comedian of the Year, Funny Women as well as semi-finalist at the BBC New Comedy Awards and Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year. Lindsey has been on Channel 4’s The Joy of Missing Out, BBC Radio 4’s Elephant in the Room with Sarah Millican and on Comedy Central Live. Recently, Lindsey has been seen supporting Russell ...
Jul 13, 2023•53 min
Ashley Blaker is a comedian, writer and producer best known as the producer of Little Britain, the huge sketch comedy series by Matt Lucas and David Walliams. He also worked with Matt and David Rock Profile and co-created and co-wrote The Matt Lucas Awards, with Matt Lucas. He has his own radio 4 series, Ashley Blaker: 6.5 children with series 2 starting soon. As a stand up he’s performed all over the world, including off broadway and the Edinburgh Fringe where he’ll soon be seen again prior to ...
Jul 09, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Laura Lexx is a stand up comedian and writer best known for her appearances on Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo, Hypothetical, Celebrity Mastermind and Roast Battle on Comedy Central. She’s was a finalist at the 2016 Amused Moose Comedy Awards, won Best performer in the Comedian’s Choice award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2018 and was in the top 10 of Dave’s Funniest Jokes of the Fringe that year. She was the comedian’s choice again at the 2019 Chortle awards. She’s been a guest on Richard Herrin...
Jul 06, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Jim Howick is best know for playing the Scout Master Ghost, Pat, in the BBC One sitcom Ghosts which he co-created and co-writes. The same team stared in the hugely popular kid’s show Horrible Histories, created the Sky1 comedy Yonderland and the film Bill, a comedy based loosely around the early life of William Shakespeare. Jim was also Gerard in Peep Show, Gerry in Danny Boyle's Babylon and Anthony in the revival of Reggie Perrin. Jim stars in the Netflix series Sex Education as Mr Hendricks, p...
Jul 02, 2023•54 min
BONUS EPISODE as part of our 300 episodes celebration week! John Fenton-Stevens is Mike's son BUT he is also the producer and editor of the multi-million downloaded podcast, My Time Capsule which has been 'Podcast Of The Week' in The Times, The Guardian and The Radio Times. He has run the music production company Pass The Peas Music since 2005 and has written and produced music for multiple worldwide advertising campaigns including for Land Rover, BMW, Nintendo, L'Oreal and the Home Office. He w...
Jun 29, 2023•1 hr 12 min
EPISODE 300!! For this milestone we have a very special guest in a very special episode that was recorded LIVE in-front of 1,200 people at Kite Festival in Oxfordshire! Dave Gorman started stand-up in 1990 and after a few years on the circuit, started writing on shows like The Fast Show and the Mrs Merton Show. Dave became known to a wider audience with the success of his show Are You Dave Gorman? Which was made into a BBC Two series, The Dave Gorman Collection, and a best-selling book. His othe...
Jun 25, 2023•1 hr
Bridget Christie is a stand-up comedian, actor and writer who won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show with her show A Bic For Her, in 2013. In 2019 the show was named as one of The Times comedy shows of the decade. Her own comedy drama, The Change is currently on Channel 4. Bridget was a contestant in series 13 of Taskmaster and has also been on Have I Got News For You, QI, Harry Hill’s Alien Fun Capsule, It’s Kevin - with Kevin Eldon and Dilemma. Her award winning BBC Radio 4 series’ inclu...
Jun 22, 2023•54 min
Deirdre O’Kane is an Irish stand up comedian, actor and film maker. A household name in Ireland, she hosted her own primetime Saturday night talk show “Deirdre O’Kane Talks Funny” on RTÉ One, reached the final of Dancing with the Stars, she hosts the Irish Film and Television Academy Awards, is the voice of Gogglebox in Ireland, had her own standup comedy series “The Deirdre O’Kane Show” and appeared as a judge alongside Boy George, on the new talent show The Big Deal. She is a six-time Irish Fi...
Jun 18, 2023•57 min
Amy Gledhill is a comedian, actor and writer who was the first person to be nominated for Best Newcomer AND Best Show at The Edinburgh Fringe. Her show, The Girl Before The Girl You Marry was also nominated for Best Live Show at The National Comedy Awards. On TV she’s been on The Jonathan Ross Show, Pointless Celebrities, Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled, Richard Ayoade's Question Team, Hypothetical,The Stand Up Sketch Show, Late Night Mash, Harry Hill’s Clubnite, Comedy Central Live and multiple se...
Jun 15, 2023•57 min
Paul Clayton is and actor, director and writer best known for playing Olivia Colman’s dad in the comedy Peep Show with David Mitchell and Robert Webb. He also played Graham, in the comedy Him & Her with Russel Tovey, Sarah Solimani, Kerry Howard and Joe Wilkinson. He’s about to star in the new Disney+ series of The Full Monty starting the original cast, plus Paul as Dennis! Other TV appearances include. television appearances include One Foot in the Grave, Drop the Dead Donkey, Doctor Who, W...
Jun 11, 2023•57 min
Jake Lambert is a stand-up comedian who has been tour support for some of the biggest names in comedy including Michael McIntyre, Jack Dee, Seann Walsh, Kerry Godliman, Tom Allen, Rob Beckett, and Romesh Ranganathan. He was a 2015 semi-finalist in the BBC New Comedy Award, Magners New Comedian of the Year, English Comedian of the Year, Leicester Mercury New Act of the Year and a finalist in Amused Moose Comedy Awards in 2016. As a writer he’s written for The Ranganation, The Apprentice: You’re F...
Jun 08, 2023•54 min
Stuart Goldsmith is an actor, stand-up comedian and former street performer. He has presented The Comedian's Comedian podcast since 2012, where in each episode he interviews a comedian about how they approach their profession. On it he’s spoken with over 400 comedians like Jimmy Carr, James Acaster, Stewart Lee, Sarah Millican, Sindhu Vee and Russell Howard. Stuart began in street theatre where he "walked the tightrope eating a packet of crisps". He came second in the Street Performance World Ch...
Jun 04, 2023•1 hr 18 min
RIOPY is a French pianist and composer whose album Tree of Light reached No.1 on the US Billboard Classical Album chart and continued in the top 10 for 70 weeks. He features on Lana Del Rey’s latest album with a song she wrote over the track of one of RIOPY’s most popular compositions, Flo. RIOPY grew up in an oppressive religious cult, where contact with the outside world was forbidden and all music and television was banned. On a chance visit to a doctor, RIOPY found himself in a castle full o...
Jun 01, 2023•55 min
Nina Wadia OBE is best known from the ground braking sketch show Goodness Gracious Me alongside Sanjeev Bhaskar, Meera Syal and Kulvinder Ghir and as Zainab Massood in Eastenders for 6 years. She’s also been in the Jasper Carrot sitcom All About Me, 2 Point 4 Children, The Vicar of Dibley, Holby City, Skins, Chambers, Waking the Dead, Citizen Khan, Death in Paradise, Doctor Who, Finding Fatima, Still Open All Hours, Murder in Mind, Doctors and New Tricks. She also been in the films Bend it like ...
May 28, 2023•49 min
Anita Harris is a singer and actress who is one of the biggest stars of the 60s, 70s and 80s and is still performing today. Her huge hit song Just Loving You was suggested for Anita by Dusty Springfield and written by Dusty’s brother. As an actress she was in the film Carry On Doctor, Casualty, French and Saunders, Midsummer Murders and her own one-woman show. In the 1970’s she was the assistant to the TV magician David Nixon on his TV shows, as well as performing in the Royal Variety performanc...
May 25, 2023•59 min
Cally Beaton is a stand-up comedian best known for her regular appearances on QI and The Apprentice: You’re Fired, as well as featuring on Live At The Apollo, Pointless Celebrities, Richard Osman’s House of Games and The Blame Game. Cally only started her stand-up career at the age of 45 having perviously held senior management positions at some of the biggest media companies in the world - she was Senior Vice President at the US studio giant ViacomCBS, but she quickly cemented her position as o...
May 21, 2023•56 min
Sam Teskey is founding member of the Grammy nominated Australian blues and soul band, The Teskey Brothers, alongside his brother Josh. Their debut album, Half Mile Harvest, was nominated for Best Blues and Roots Album at the 2018 ARIA Awards. They followed up with the album Run Home Slow in 2019, which debuted at #2 on the Australian Albums Chart and was nominated for seven ARIA Awards. Their new album, The Winding Way will be released in June and it’s first single, Oceans of Emotions is out now...
May 18, 2023•53 min
Eric Whitacre is a Grammy Award-winning composer and conductor. Eric’s debut album as a conductor, Light and Gold, went straight to the top of the charts, earning him a Grammy. His works are played worldwide and his ground-breaking Virtual Choirs have united 100,000 singers from more than 145 countries over the last decade. Eric has worked with legendary Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer, co-composing the mermaids theme for the Pirates of the Caribbean and music for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justi...
May 14, 2023•52 min
Amanda Wakeley is one of the UK’s top fashion designers having designed for Princess Diana, Harvey Nichols, Elizabeth Hurley, Jennifer Lopez and Queen Rania of Jordan, amongst many other celebrity clients. Amanda was a great influence on Princess Diana, providing her with many of her most iconic outfits, including the bottle-green executive suit she wore when she resigned from public life in 1993. She has her own podcast, Amanda Wakeley: StyleDNA, where each week a celebrity guest reveals their ...
May 11, 2023•39 min
Matthew Crosby is a comedian, broadcaster and TV writer who can be heard every Sunday morning on Radio X co-hosting the Ed Gamble and Matthew Crosby Show. He’s worked with some of the biggest names in comedy - James Acaster, Noel Fielding, Bradley Walsh, Richard Ayoade, Matt Lucas, Sara Pascoe and Harry Hill. He writes for Great British Bake Off, Channel 4’s The Last Leg, 8/10 Cats Does Countdown, BBC's Blankety Blank, Matt Lucas’ Reasons To Be Cheerful and The John Bishop show among others. Mat...
May 07, 2023•1 hr 11 min
Ria Lina is a comedian, actress and writer known for her appearances on Live At The Apollo, Have I Got News For You, Mock The Week, The Last Leg and The Now Show - and in November was named as one of The Evening Standard’s ‘Hottest Comedians You Should Be Watching Now’. She has written and presented her own Channel 4 documentary that revealed the truth behind the myths that surround East Asian women in Britain and is a regular pundit on Sky News, BBC News, Times Radio and TalkRadio. This Autumn ...
May 04, 2023•53 min
Matt Forde is a comedian, writer, actor, broadcaster, podcaster and impersonator who is one of the countries most sought after satirist, having performed in sold out theatres all over the country and at the Edinburgh festival. He’s been on the Royal Variety Show, Have I Got News For You, Mock the Week, 8 out of 10 Cats, and Jon Richardson Grows Up as well as a guest on Newsnight and Question Time. He hosted the political satire television series Unspun on Dave for four seasons. Matt has co-writt...
Apr 30, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Bilal Zafar is a stand up comedian, actor and writer who was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe 2016 and won the Hackney Empire New Act Award in the same year. He has taken 3 solo shows to Edinburgh and toured them around the UK including runs at London’s Soho Theatre. As a writer, Bilal created and performed his own stand up special for BBC radio 4, is one of the lead writers on Sketchtopia on BBC Radio 4 and written articles for the Guardian and the Independent. As an actor he...
Apr 27, 2023•52 min
Our 3 year anniversary episode! Recorded live at Ink Festival in Suffolk with the actor David Morrissey. David is possibly best known for his roles as the Governor in the American series The Walking Dead, State of Play for which he was nominated for a BAFTA and the RTS winning and BAFTA nominated drama Sherwood. Other TV and film credits include Inside No.9, The League of Gentlemen, Good Omens, The Missing, The Driver, The Field of Blood, The Hollow Crown, Blitz, the film Nowhere Boy about the y...
Apr 23, 2023•58 min
