Rich Wilson is a stand-up comedian who was nominated for Best MC at the 2023 Chortle awards and has had sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, Melbourne Comedy Festival and the New Zealand Comedy Festival, where he won Best International Guest in 2016. He’s the host of the wildly popular insane in the: podcast series where Rich talks to funny and interesting people about their experiences with mental health. In the last year the podcast has been nominated for an award with Podbible and in 2019 ...
Nov 17, 2023•59 min
Kiell Smith-Bynoe is best known for playing Mike in the sitcom Ghosts on BBC One and Dean in the BAFTA winning sitcom Stath Lets Flats on Channel4. Kiell is also the new presenter of The Great British Sewing Bee on BBC One and was brilliant in the 15th series of Taskmaster. His other acting credits include Dreamland with Lily Allen on Sky, Friday Night Dinner, Whitechapel, Death In Paradise, Bloods, Horrible Histories, Red Flag which he created and wrote and The Witchfinder. He has been a contes...
Nov 13, 2023•44 min
Simon Parkin has been a professional broadcaster for over thirty years, first in the Children's BBC Broom Cupboard alongside Andi Peters and then on programmes such as Top of the Pops and The O Zone. In 1992 he went over to TV where he became one of the launch stars of the new breakfast television station GMTV. He’s had radio shows on stations such as the BBC’s London station GLR, nationally on BBC Radio Five and he now presents Simon Parkin In The Morning on BBC Radio Somerset . Simon Parkin is...
Nov 10, 2023•49 min
Samira Ahmed is a journalist, writer and broadcaster who regularly presents Front Row on BBC Radio 4 and Newswatch on BBC News and BBC Breakfast. She was a newsreader on Channel 4 News from 2002 until she went freelance in 2011. She’s won the Broadcaster of the Year at the Stonewall Awards and has won Celebrity Mastermind twice becoming Mastermind Champion of champions. She has been a a reporter on Today on Radio 4, Newsnight on BBC2 and presented Sunday Morning Live on BBC One . Samira Ahmed is...
Nov 06, 2023•50 min
Natasha Hodgson stars in the huge West End musical comedy Operation Mincemeat, which she also co-created, co-wrote and co-composed. It’s received 64 five star reviews including the Times which said it was a gloriously inventive wartime romp, and the Mirror which described it as “part Mel Brooks, part Six, part Hamilton with a side order of One Man Two Guvnors”. It won the Stage Debut award for Best Composer/Lyricist and the Off West End Award for Best Musical Production and Best Company Ensemble...
Nov 03, 2023•47 min
Bob Cryer is Barry Cryer’s son. He has written a wonderful biography of his dad - "Barry Cryer: Same Time Tomorrow? The Life and Laughs of a Comedy Legend", which is available now. In his own right, Bob is an an actor, director, producer and writer. His 20 plus years of acting includes work on TV such as the new BBC cop drama Interceptor, Outnumbered, Our Hidden Lives, Eastenders, Holby City, Highlander, Coronation Street and Victoria Wood’s Christmas Special. His film work includes Legend with ...
Oct 30, 2023•1 hr 20 min
Ian Lawman is an ordained CofE exorcist and has been featured on a number of successful television shows including Most Haunted, I'm Famous and Frightened, Living With The Dead, Help My House is Haunted and Celebrity Help My House is Haunted. At 16 Ian become a top Dancer and Fashion model. His modelling won him the accolade of being the Face of 1997. Later, after many years of fighting his natural abilities, Ian succumbed to his role as a psychic. He is now a well-known figure in the world of t...
Oct 26, 2023•56 min
Laurence Rickard is best known from BBC sitcom Ghosts where he plays the ghosts Robin the Caveman and Humphrey, the headless ghost. Laurence also co-created and co-writes Ghosts alongside his Horrible Histories group, which is the show they all met working on. He was a principle writer and star of children’s historical sketch show Horrible Histories, which won two National Comedy Awards, four successive BAFTAs and the Prix Jeunesse for the best children's show of the last 50 years. The same team...
Oct 22, 2023•56 min
Sophie Grigson is a food writer and celebrity chef who has written over 20 cookbooks. Her TV career began in 1993 with the award-winning 12-part series Grow Your Greens, Eat Your Greens for Channel 4. Her latest series, Sophie Grigson: Slice of Italy, is on the Food Network and is available on Discovery+. She has written columns for the Sunday Express Magazine, Evening Standard, the Sunday Times and The Independent and she won the Guild of Food Writers Cookery Journalist of the Year Award in 200...
Oct 19, 2023•56 min
Aled Jones will forever be remembered as one of the world's most successful boy sopranos and for singing “Walking in the Air”, the song from The Snowman. He released over 20 albums by the time he was 18 and continues to make music to this day, most recently with the “One Voice” series of albums where Aled duets with his younger self. The 4th and latest One Voice album is One Voice - Full Circle and is available now. As well as a singer, Aled has been and continues to be a hugely successful prese...
Oct 15, 2023•59 min
Fiona Allen is probably best known as a member of Smack the Pony, the Emmy winning sketch show alongside Doon Mackichan and Sally Phillips. All three series were nominated for a BAFTA. Her other comedy appearances include in Goodness Gracious Me, the sitcom Happiness alongside Paul Whitehouse, Mock the Week and she was Sandra in the film version of the Viz comic strip The Fat Slags. She has also appeared in many television dramas including Dalziel and Pascoe, Coronation Street, Skins, Waterloo R...
Oct 12, 2023•55 min
Jacqui Oatley MBE was the first female commentator on Match of the Day, the football highlights programme on BBC One. Jacqui currently works as a commentator for a range of broadcast networks - including FOX Sports at the men’s and women’s FIFA World Cups - and commentates on Premier League games for Sky Sports Match Choice and the world feed, as well as the NWSL for CBS Sports in the USA. She is the current anchor for ITV's live PDC darts coverage. She is a long-standing ambassador for Women in...
Oct 08, 2023•58 min
Linda John-Pierre is a singer, actress, West End star. She’s performed in various musicals, including Sweet Soul Music singing Aretha Franklin’s greatest hits, starring as Sadie Fagin, Billie Holiday’s mother in The Billie Holiday Story and playing Mama Morton in the Broadway Production of Chicago on the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line. On TV and film she’s been in The Take with Idris Elba, Angel Has Fallen with Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman, Greatest Days, the film of the Take That musical, The ...
Oct 05, 2023•50 min
Dane Baptiste was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the first Black British comic to ever be nominated. This led to Dane creating, writing and starring in ‘SunnyD’ on BBC Three. The show was purchased by Lionsgate, for an American version. His live shows have sold out internationally and been adapted for shows such as ‘Live At The BBC’ on Netflix and ‘Live At Soho Theatre’ on Amazon Prime. Dane has appeared on Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats D...
Oct 01, 2023•54 min
David Barry is best known for playing Frankie Abbott, in the 1970’s hit comedies Please Sir! With John Alderton and Derek Guyler, and it’s spin off, The Fenn St Gang, both written by John Edmond and Bob Larbey, who went on to create The Good Life, Ever Decreasing Circles and Brush Strokes. Other acting appearances include Frankula, After Hours, The Bill, The Woman in White, George and Mildred , The Legacy of Reginald Perrin, A Mind to Kill, Never the Twain, Brookside, Carry On Teacher and Crossr...
Sep 28, 2023•59 min
Robert Popper is best known as the creator and writer of Friday Night Dinner, the award winning Channel 4 sitcom, and the co-creator and co-writer of the mock BBC documentary Look Around You, with Peter Serafinowicz. He was the producer for the third and fourth series of Peep Show and the script editor of The Inbetweeners, The IT Crowd and the BBC3 comedy Him & Her. He also wrote on the fourteenth series of South Park and Stath Lets Flats with Jamie Demetriou. Robert wrote the books The Time...
Sep 24, 2023•47 min
Remi Adekoya is a writer, journalist and academic. Before joining academia, Remi was a political journalist for The Guardian, Sunday Times, Washington Post, Politico and Spectator. He has provided sociopolitical analysis and commentary for CNN, BBC, Sky News, Al Jazeera, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, South African Broadcasting Corporation, Talk Radio and Times Radio. He was a regular columnist for Business Day, a Nigerian daily, and a former political editor of the Warsaw Business Journal. ...
Sep 21, 2023•1 hr 11 min
Roger Black is the former athlete who represented Great Britain at the highest level, both as an individual 400m runner and as a member of the 4x400m relay team. He won 15 major Championship medals including World, European and Commonwealth Gold medals and Silver and Bronze Olympic medals. Roger was also British Men's Team Captain. His greatest achievement, he says, was winning the Olympic 400m silver medal in 1996 in Atlanta, beaten by the great Michael Johnson. Since his retirement from Athlet...
Sep 17, 2023•55 min
Nooruddean Choudry is an author, journalist and broadcaster who has written for the Mirror and the Guardian about football and many other subjects. He was Creative Director at JOE, covering and writing about subjects like politics, culture and social issues. His book, Inshallah United, is a journey celebrating the importance of identity and place, discussing what it was like being an Asian Mancunian kid in the late 1980s and 90s. It’s a deeply personal story of faith and football that charts his...
Sep 14, 2023•1 hr
Lizzie Webb is best know as “Mad Lizzie”, the fitness expert from TV-AM’s Good Morning Britain during the 80s and 90s. She introduced daily exercise to millions and her exercise and dance videos rivalled the film star Jane Fonda’s output. Lizzie is responsible for the children’s character, Joggy Bear, and both Lizzie and Joggy starred in their own TV shows on Channel 4. She now tours with Joggy, running fitness classes and stage show across the UK. She’s written her autobiography, Mad About The ...
Sep 10, 2023•48 min
Hywel Roberts has been a teacher for over twenty-five years who has found an incredible and innovative niche in the world of model teaching contributing to and advising curriculum designers and innovators all over the world. Hywel contributes to the national conversation around education at school and university level. He is also a well respected author and contributes regularly to a variety of publications. His first book, Oops! Helping Children Learn Accidentally, is a favourite among teachers...
Sep 07, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Jon Harvey is best known by his alter ego Count Binface who has stood in elections against Teresa May, Boris Johnson and in the London Mayoral election where he came 9th out of 20, beating UKIP. Jon is also a comedy writer, performer & producer. Jon has written, produced and appeared on a number of major TV shows, including The Thick Of It, Have I Got News For You, Time Trumpet with Armando Iannucci, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Fantasy Football League, The Last Leg, Comic Relief, New...
Sep 03, 2023•1 hr 17 min
George Layton is best known as Doctor Paul Collier from the comedy series’, Doctor at Large, Doctor in Charge, Doctor in the House and Doctor at the Top and as Bombadier Solly Solomons in the sit-com It Ain’t Half Hot Mum. He was also Des the Mechanic in Minder. Other TV credits include The Likely Lads, Z Cars, The Liver Birds, The Sweeney and Doctor Who. George started writing for TV with the Doctor shows with a former co-star of the show, Jonathan Lynn. Together they wrote for On the Buses, Ne...
Aug 31, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Alasdair Beckett-King was a regular panellist on Mock the Week, most notably appearing in the show's final ever episode. He was named Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2017 and won the NATYs New Act of the Year in 2014. Alasdair’s debut solo show ‘The Alasdair Beckett-King Mysteries’ was a finalist in the Amused Moose Comedy Award 2017, made Dave's top 10 jokes of the fringe and went on to sell out at the Soho Theatre. A stand up comedian and animator, ABK has written and performed for BBC ...
Aug 27, 2023•57 min
PREVIEW!! Exclusively for our Acast+ subscribers, this is Episode 1 of My Time Capsule - The Debrief! Each week, Mike and John will be discussing the process of making My Time Capsule, behind the scenes info, possibly some unheard material from the main podcast and anything else that springs to mind. To get all future episodes of The Debrief and all MTC episodes ad-free, sign up here: https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter , Instagram & Facebook : @MyTCpod...
Aug 24, 2023•29 min
Lou Sanders is a comedian, actor and writer who won of the 8th series of Taskmaster and co-hosts the Dave comedy panel show Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable, with Mel Giedroyc. She is a regular on shows such as QI, Would I Lie to You?, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Live at the Apollo, Hypothetical, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Red Nose Day for Comic Relief and Russell Howard's Good News. Lou has acted in Aisling Bea's This Way Up and Karl Pilkington's Sick of It. She is also a regular guest on BBC Radio 4's T...
Aug 20, 2023•43 min
Rosie Wilby is an award-winning comedian, author, speaker and the creator of the hit podcast and book The Breakup Monologues. She has appeared many times on BBC Radio 4 including on Woman’s Hour, Loose Ends, Saturday Live and Four Thought. Her first book ‘Is Monogamy Dead?’ was shortlisted for the Diva Literary Awards, longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize and followed her TEDx talk of the same name. Her acclaimed trilogy of solo shows investigating the psychology of love, began with The Sc...
Aug 17, 2023•51 min
Doug Allan was lead cameraman on The Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Life, Human Planet, Frozen Planet, Expedition Iceberg and Forces of Nature and is responsible for some of the most famous wildlife footage ever filmed, including the extraordinary sequence of killer whales creating waves to wash seals off ice floes in Antarctica. Doug has won eight Emmys and four BAFTAs and in 2017 he won an outstanding contribution award at the British Academy Scotland Awards. In 2011 he filmed and was a presenter ...
Aug 13, 2023•56 min
Louise Young is a stand-up comedian who is a regular at clubs up and down the country. Louise has supported the likes of Jason Manford and Alan Carr on their nationwide UK and Ireland tours. In 2020, she was nominated for Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, and the following year was nominated for Leicester Comedy Festival’s Best Festival Appearance. She’s also been a finalist in the Funny Women Awards. Louise has presented a weekly comedy radio show on BBC Radio Newcastle, and at the 2020 G...
Aug 10, 2023•50 min
Neil Mullarkey is an actor, writer and comedian. He is a founder member of world famous comedy improv group, The Comedy Store Players and still appears with them regularly at London's Comedy Store. In the mid-1980s, Neil teamed up with Mike Myers as 'Mullarkey and Myers’. They toured the UK and had a sell out run at the Edinburgh Festival. The two appeared as 'The Sound Asleep Club' on TV-am's 'Wide Awake Club' and Neil would later appear in Mike Myers’ films Austin Powers: International Man of ...
Aug 06, 2023•1 hr 8 min
