Phil Ellis is an award-winning comedian who was nominated for Best Comedy Show at the 2023 Edinburgh Comedy Awards and won The Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality. He starred and co-wrote three series of his own BBC Radio 4 sitcom Phil Ellis is Trying, co-starring Johnny Vegas, Lolly Adefope, Amy Gledhill, Alexei Sayle, Sindhu Vee, Jack Dee, Lee Mack, Mark Lamarr and Sean Lock. The series was nominated for a BBC Audio Award in 2019. In 2014, Phil won the Edinburgh Comedy Award’s panel pri...
Feb 23, 2024•49 min
Professor Alice Roberts is and academic and presenter who has presented more than a hundred television documentaries, ranging across human biology, history and archaeology. Her longest running series, BBC Two’s Digging for Britain has been going strong for more than ten years. She first appeared on television in 2001, as a human bone specialist on Channel 4’s Time Team. She went on to present Coast on BBC Two, and then to write and present a range of television series for the BBC, including The ...
Feb 19, 2024•56 min
Njambi McGrath is an award-winning comedy star with a hit BBC Radio 4 series Becoming Njambi and her latest BBC Radio 4 series ‘Black Black’. She has just filmed with Comedy Central and has a comedy special with Just For Laughs. She has had successful Soho theatre and Edinburgh runs and filmed 5 comedy specials on Amazon Prime, NextUp and BBC iPlayer. In 2019 she won the coveted Hackney empire New Act Of The Year (NATYS) Award. She’s a regular on BBC Radio 4 and has been guest on Loose Ends, Fro...
Feb 16, 2024•46 min
Chloe Petts is one of the most exciting stand-ups on the circuit. She is an alumna of the prestigious Pleasance Comedy Reserve, has been shortlisted for the BBC Comedy Award, was a finalist of Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year Awards 2017, came runner-up in the Funny Women Awards 2017 and supported Ed Gamble on his 2022 UK Tour. She was recently seen on Celebrity Pointless, Richard Osman's House of Games, ITV’s Jonathan Ross’s Comedy Club, Dave’s Hypothetical, has been heard on BBC Five ...
Feb 12, 2024•48 min
Esther Manito is a British-Lebanese comedian who’s been on Live At The Apollo, The Stand Up Sketch Show, Hypothetical on Dave and heard on BBC Sounds Russel Kane’s Evil Genius, co-hosting Radio 4 Extra's Newsjack Unplugged, CBBC Bitesize Parents, BBC'S Breaking the News and Russell Kane’s Boys Don’t Cry. She’s also been on the huge podcasts Off Menu and Parenting Hell. Esther’s show #NotAllMen won best show at Leicester Comedy Festival 2021 and she has supported Alan Davies, Shappi Khorsandi, Si...
Feb 09, 2024•44 min
Daliso Chaponda is the writer, creator, and host of the Rose d’Or nominated BBC Radio 4 show Citizen of Nowhere. Daliso shot to fame on Britain’s Got Talent, making it to the final of the 2017 series. He became a Facebook and YouTube star amassing over 200 million views of his performances. His televison performances include The Royal Variety Performance, Britain’s Got Talent, Britain’s Got Talent Champions, QI, The Apprentice: You’re Fired, and on radio, he’s been a guest on The News Quiz and T...
Feb 05, 2024•51 min
Ed Patrick is a comedian, author and NHS anaesthetist. He has performed across the UK, including at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He created and presented "Infectious Personalities" on BBC Radio 2 with guests Charlie Brooker and Sindhu Vee. Ed has written and performed on BBC Radio 4, for shows such as "Now Wash Your Hands" and "Newsjack", and he has also written for the Guardian about the intersection between medicine and comedy. Ed hosts the "Comedians' Surgery" podcast where he speaks to gue...
Feb 02, 2024•51 min
George Monbiot is an Orwell Prize winning journalist and environmental activist. He has written a a regular column for the Guardian since 1996 and has written a large number of books on such subjects as human rights, climate change, the corporate takeover of Britain, global justice, and plenty of other key issues. George is a regular on TV including recently as guest on BBC Question Time. He co-presented the short film Nature Now with Greta Thunberg, which has been watched over 60 million times....
Jan 29, 2024•1 hr 12 min
Larry Dann is a British actor best known for his roles in the Carry On... Series and for appearing as Sergeant Alec Peters in over 200 episodes of The Bill. His first appearance on screen was in Adam and Evelyn at age 5. Afterward, he would appear in Carry On Teacher, Trouble in Store and The Bulldog Breed. He continued appearing in films as he grew up, appearing in What a Crazy World, All Neat in Black Stockings, The Body Stealers and Before Winter Comes and rejoined the Carry On... Series with...
Jan 26, 2024•49 min
Rosie Holt is an actor and writer best known for her viral internet videos on twitter skewering the political landscape since the pandemic. Her videos have achieved more than 18 million views. She is the winner of the Chortle Social Media Award 2022 and is a BPG Emerging Creator Nominee. Rosie was a finalist at the Amused Moose New Comic, Leicester Square New Comedian & Bath New Act awards. She has appeared on The Russell Howard Hour (Sky), Friday Night with Niall Paterson (Sky News), The Ne...
Jan 22, 2024•51 min
Ricky Sim is a lawyer-turned-comedian originally from Kuala Lumpur and currently living in New York City. As a comedy writer, Ricky was selected to be the 2021 recipient of The PIT/Saturday Night Live (SNL) Scholarship. With the comedy pilot that he co-wrote, he was selected as the 2023 Fellow of the Yes And…Laughter Lab, which is a competitive incubation lab, pitch program and showcase that lifts up the best comedy writers and performers who create new comedy about topics that matter, with a fo...
Jan 19, 2024•43 min
Harriet Kemsley began stand-up in 2011 and within months won the Funny's Funny contest. In 2012, she won Bath Comedy Festival New Act of the Year and Brighton Comedy Festival New Act of the Year and was named by Rhod Gilbert as one of the Ten Must See Comics of 2012. She has starred in the Viceland and Comedy Central reality sitcom Bobby and Harriet: Get Married which she co-created and co-wrote with her husband Bobby Mair. She can be seen on Dave's Hypothetical, ITV's Hey Tracey, Comedy Central...
Jan 15, 2024•39 min
Rob Auton is a stand-up comedian and writer who has written seven five star rated Edinburgh fringe shows. He has performed his unique brand of comedy on The Russell Howard Hour and on Rob Delaney’s Stand Up Central. Rob released his book I Strongly Believe in Incredible Things with Harper Collins in 2021 to critical acclaim and has had three collections of writing and illustrations published by Burning Eye books and has had his poetry turned into short films and shown on Channel 4. As an actor h...
Jan 12, 2024•54 min
Robin Askwith is probably best known as Timothy Lea in the “Confessions of a…” film series. He has appeared in many other films including as Keating in the Lindsey Anderson film ‘if…’, Otley, Alfred the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, The Canterbury Tales, the comedy films Bless This House, Carry On Girls and No Sex Please, We're British. Robin appeared on television in series' such as Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Father, Dear Father and a recurring role as Eddie in Please Sir! and its spin-of...
Jan 08, 2024•56 min
At 19, stand-up Finlay Christie became the youngest ever winner of the prestigious So You Think You’re Funny competition, following in the footsteps of Peter Kay, Lee Mack and Sarah Millican. 3 years later, his debut Edinburgh show “OK Zoomer” was nominated for NextUp’s “Best Show” award. His YouTube channel, featuring sketches and stand-up clips has over 400k subscribers and 120m views. He has appeared on 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, The Stand-Up Sketch Show on ITV2, The BBC New Comedy Awar...
Jan 05, 2024•43 min
BAFTA-winning comedian Iain Stirling is best known as the voice of the hit reality show Love Island, which is now in its 8th series. Iain appeared in series 8 of Taskmaster and took on the role of host for ITV2’s comedy entertainment show, CelebAbility (now in its fifth series). His sitcom, Buffering, a brand new comedy written, created by and starring Iain debuted on ITV2 in 2021. Iain’s book Not Ready to Adult Yet was published through HarperCollins, along with a companion podcast of the same ...
Jan 01, 2024•1 hr 1 min
The Best of My Time Capsule 2023 Part 3 featuring Tony Robinson, Ted Robbins, Nina Wadia, Neil Delamere, Jim Sweeny, Samira Ahmed, Roger Black, Robert Popper, Jon Harvey AKA Count Binface, Professor Turi King, Neil Mullarkey, Zoe Lyons, Tommy Cannon and Iain Lee. Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter , Instagram & Facebook : @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter : @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions...
Dec 29, 2023•55 min
The Best of My Time Capsule 2023 Part 2 featuring Bridget Christie, David Earl, Doug Alan, Jim Howick, Lindsey Santoro, Mathew Crosby, Catherine Tydesley, Daniel Foxx, John Fenton-Stevens, Glenn Moore, George Layton and Caitlin O'Ryan. Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter , Instagram & Facebook : @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter : @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Mu...
Dec 28, 2023•57 min
The Best of My Time Capsule 2023 featuring Dave Gorman, Jon Ronson, Cliff Parasi, Aled Jones, Deirdre O'Kane, Hywel Roberts, David Morrissey, Iain Lee, Fiona Allen, Eric Whitacre, Lorelei King and Jamie Morton. Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter , Instagram & Facebook : @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter : @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewb...
Dec 27, 2023•51 min
We invited the listeners to our bonus podcast, The Debrief, to join us for a Christmas Party over Zoom and asked them all to bring an item for the Christmas Time Capsule! This is that party with some wonderful people, fascinating items and plenty of amazing coincidences! If you'd like to listen to our bonus podcast and get the main podcast ad-free, sign up here - https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule . You could be joining us next year! Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter , Instagram & Facebo...
Dec 22, 2023•1 hr
Our annual 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 @mikefentonsteve...
Dec 20, 2023•3 hr 11 min
My Christmas Time Capsule Part 3 features Joe Wilkinson, Jim Howick, Rosie Holt, Tom Read-Wilson and Hywel Roberts. Merry Christmas! Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter , Instagram & Facebook : @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter : @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewboxall.com . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Prov...
Dec 18, 2023•47 min
My Christmas Time Capsule Part 2 features Dave Gorman, Jacqui Oatley, Alasdair Beckett-King, Ted Robbins, Professor Turi King, John Fenton-Stevens and Rich Wilson. Merry Christmas! Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter , Instagram & Facebook : @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter : @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewboxall.com . This podcast is pr...
Dec 15, 2023•53 min
My Christmas Time Capsule Part 1 features Alex Horne, Jon Harvey AKA Count Binface, Lindsay Santoro, Aled Jones, Iain Lee, Gabrielle Glaister, Matthew Crosby, Simon Parkin and Paul Clayton. Merry Christmas! Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter , Instagram & Facebook : @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter : @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music . Artwork by matthewboxal...
Dec 11, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show Nominee 2023 Ian Smith is a multi-award winning comedian, actor and writer as heard on BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz, The Now Show, Just A Minute and his own comedy-documentary Girl Stuck in Basketball Hoop. Ian’s 2023 Edinburgh Fringe show Crushing was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award and runner-up in Next Up's Biggest Award in Comedy. Ian is also a talented actor – starting off as a lead in BBC2 sitcom Popatron. He has gone on to star alongside Katherine ...
Dec 08, 2023•49 min
Lemn Sissay is a a BAFTA nominated International prize winning writer, broadcaster and poet who has had the MOST extraordinary life. Please listen to his intro to find out more! Lemn was the official poet of the London 2012 Olympics, joined the Booker Prize judging panel in 2020, he’s also won The Pen Pinter Prize and a Points of Light Award, was elected as chancellor of the University of Manchester in 2015, he was awarded an MBE in 2010 for services to literature and then in 2021 was awarded an...
Dec 04, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Glenn Moore is a comedian, actor and one of the best and most prolific joke writers in the country. He is a regular face on TV, having appeared on Mock The Week, The Russell Howard Hour, Guessable and Rob Delaney’s Stand Up Central on Comedy Central, The Stand Up Sketch Show on ITV2 and he is a regular guest on The Great American Joke Off on The CW Network in the US. His Radio 4 series ‘Glenn Moore’s Almanac’ is available on BBCSounds now, he appears regularly on T...
Dec 01, 2023•51 min
Alex Horne is best known as the creator of BAFTA winning TV series Taskmaster, in which he takes the role of assistant to the Taskmaster Greg Davies. Taskmaster started in 2015 and versions of the programme have also been made in America, Australia, Belgium, Croatia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Finland and New Zealand. Since 2010, Alex has been performing with his band The Horne Section. Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section ran for three series on BBC Radio 4, The Horne Section TV...
Nov 27, 2023•55 min
Dave Cohen is a comedy writer who has written on shows including Not Going Out, Have I Got News For You, Spitting Image, My Family and Life of Riley. On Radio he’s written for shows including, The News Quiz, Dead Ringers, Sunday Format and 50 episodes of the Radio 4 show 15 Minute Musical with Richie Webb and David Quantick, which won the Writers Guild Best Comedy 2009. Dave wrote the lyrics for around 100 songs for CBBC show Horrible Histories – winning eight BAFTAs and a Rose d’Or. Dave starte...
Nov 24, 2023•59 min
Alfie Moore is an ex-policeman turned comedian, best known for his brilliant Radio 4 comedy series, It’s a Fair Cop, which has run for 7 series. He’s taken a number of very successful shows to the Edinburgh Festival including in 2014, when his show, The Naked Stun sold out for 25 nights and was awarded the Edinburgh Fringe laurel for a sell-out show. Alfie has supported Sarah Millican, Russell Kane and Milton Jones on their national comedy tours and he’s currently touring the UK with his own sol...
Nov 20, 2023•57 min
