413 episodes

A podcast that asks guests, such as Stephen Fry, David Mitchell, Caroline Quentin, Ross Noble, Lee Mack, Arabella Weir & Rob Brydon, for five things which they’d like to put in a Time Capsule. They can choose anything from an item, to a memory, a film or even a country. Four of them are things they want to preserve but one has to be something they’re happy to bury and never have to think about again.
Hosted by Michael Fenton Stevens.
Podcast of the Week in The Times, The Guardian and The Radio Times.
@fentonstevens @MyTCpod

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My Time Capsule Cast Off Productions

    • Comedy
    • 4.7 • 43 Ratings

A podcast that asks guests, such as Stephen Fry, David Mitchell, Caroline Quentin, Ross Noble, Lee Mack, Arabella Weir & Rob Brydon, for five things which they’d like to put in a Time Capsule. They can choose anything from an item, to a memory, a film or even a country. Four of them are things they want to preserve but one has to be something they’re happy to bury and never have to think about again.
Hosted by Michael Fenton Stevens.
Podcast of the Week in The Times, The Guardian and The Radio Times.
@fentonstevens @MyTCpod

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    Ep. 378 - Carol Drinkwater

    Ep. 378 - Carol Drinkwater

    Carol Drinkwater is a British actress and best-selling author. Probably best known for playing Helen Herriot in the television adaptation of All Creatures Great and Small, which led to her receiving the Variety Club Television Personality of the Year award in 1985. She was a member of the National Theatre Company under the leadership of Laurence Olivier and won a Critics' Circle Best Screen Actress award for her role in the feature film Father. She’s also been in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, Chocky, The Sweeney, Queen Kong, The Shout and the film adaptation of Beryl Bainbridge's novel An Awfully Big Adventure starring Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman. Her multimillion selling books include commercial fiction and a series of best-selling memoirs about her experiences on her olive farm in Provence .
    Carol Drinkwater is guest number 378 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
    For Carol’s books and everything else Carol, visit - http://www.caroldrinkwater.com .
    Follow Carol Drinkwater on Twitter: @Carol4Olivefarm .
    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 matthewboxall.com .
    This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people .
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    • 49 min
    Ep. 377 - Professor Chris Lintott

    Ep. 377 - Professor Chris Lintott

    Astrophysicist Professor Chris Lintott is the primary presenter of the BBC’s The Sky at Night, having previously been co-presenter with Patrick Moore until Moore's death in 2012. He co-authored Bang! – The Complete History of the Universe and The Cosmic Tourist with Patrick Moore and Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May. He has recently been appointed the 39th Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College in London which was founded in 1597. At the same time Chris is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford and a Research Fellow at New College. Chris Lintott is the co-founder of zooniverse.org, the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research and which was the topic of his first book, ‘The Crowd and the Cosmos’. His latest book, Our Accidental Universe: Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens, is a tour of the key astronomical events of the past century, and of all the accidents and human error involved in our pursuit of asteroids, radio waves, new stars and alien life .
    Chris Lintott is guest number 377 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
    Follow Chris Lintott on Twitter @chrislintott .
    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! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people.
    Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule.



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    • 47 min
    Ep. 376 - Nick Newman

    Ep. 376 - Nick Newman

    Nick Newman is Ian Hislop’s writing partner and the award winning Sunday Times cartoonist. He has worked for Private Eye since 1981 and has been the cartoonist for The Sunday Times since 1989. He was The Cartoon Art Trust’s Cartoonist of the Year in 1997, 1998, 2005 and 2016 and he won the Sports Journalists’ Association’s Cartoonist of the Year award in 2005, 2007 and 2009. Nick’s scriptwriting career with Ian Hislop includes Spitting Image (from 1984-89), Dawn French’s Murder Most Horrid, The Harry Enfield Show (with the creation of Tim Nice-But-Dim), the BBC1 film Gobble and the sitcom My Dad’s the Prime Minister. In 2008 their film A Bunch of Amateurs starring Burt Reynolds was chosen for the Royal Film Performance, before being adapted for the stage. In 2014 their film The Wipers Times won the Broadcast Press Guild Award for best single drama and was nominated for a BAFTA, before its stage adaptation and sell-out tour .
    Nick Newman is guest number 376 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
    Follow Nick Newman on Twitter @ncknwmn & Instagram @nicknewmancartoons .
    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! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people.
    Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule.



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    • 52 min
    Ep. 375 - Simon Brodkin

    Ep. 375 - Simon Brodkin

    Comedian Simon Brodkin is probably best known for his comedy character Lee Nelson and his pranks including giving Teressa May a P45 during her Prime Minister’s speech at the Tory Party Conference, showered Sepp Blatter with dollar bills, surrounded Donald Trump with swastika golf balls, and starred in Britain’s Greatest Hoaxer on Channel 4, which was nominated for ‘Best Documentary’ at the Monte Carlo TV Festival. Simon wrote and stared in in three series of BBC Three’s Lee Nelson’s Well Good Show & Well Funny People. Simon is one of the most exciting comedians to see live and his current 110-date international ‘Screwed Up’ tour has been extended for a third time due to phenomenal demand, including a second show at London’s prestigious Hammersmith Apollo .
    Simon Brodkin is guest number 375 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
    For Tour tickets, visit - https://www.simonbrodkin.com/#tickets .
    For his prank videos and everything else Simon, visit - https://www.simonbrodkin.com .
    Follow Simon Brodkin on Twitter & Instagram @simonbrodkin .
    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! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people.
    Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule.



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    • 48 min
    Ep. 374 - Ann Bryson

    Ep. 374 - Ann Bryson

    Ann Bryson is a very old friend of Mike's and was half of the comedy duo the Flaming Hamsters with a past guest of ours, Sara Crowe, and together they were the Philadelphia cheese advert girls for many years. She was also on television and on film in One Foot In The Grave, KYTV, City Lights, Only Fools and Horses, Inspector Morse, Hale and Pace, Doctor Who, The Steal, All About Me, Days Like These, Sometime Never, Space Vets and The Best of Rory Bremner. This episode was recorded over 4 years ago as a pilot which we didn’t think would ever go out. We recently listened to it again and enjoyed so asked our Acast+ listeners if we should put it out. They all voted to say we should so here it is! .
    Ann Bryson is guest number 374 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
    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 matthewboxall.com .
    This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people .
    Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule.



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    • 44 min
    Ep. 373 - Maisie Adam

    Ep. 373 - Maisie Adam

    Maisie Adam is comedian who is fast becoming a household name who has appeared on Live At The Apollo, A League Of Their Own, Mock the Week, Have I Got News for You, QI, Roast Battle, 8 Out of 10 Cats and the Royal Variety Performance. Since winning the nationwide So You Think You’re Funny? competition in 2017, she has won Best New Act at the Chortle Awards and the Amused Moose National New Act gong, as well as being nominated Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe for her debut show ‘Vague’. She followed this up with two more shows; a sold out Edinburgh run of the critically acclaimed ‘Hang Fire’, before embarking on a sold out 63-date tour of her most recent show ‘Buzzed’ which went on to finish with a sold out run at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. She is also the host of the hugely successful Big Kick Energy podcast which she co-hosts with friend and fellow comedian Suzi Ruffell, and won Sports Podcast of the Year in the Sports Broadcast Awards just 5 months after the first episode aired .
    Maisie Adam is guest number 373 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
    For Maisie’s 2024 tour tickets, visit - https://www.maisieadam.com .
    Follow Maisie Adam on Twitter & Instagram: @maisieadam . 
    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 matthewboxall.com .
    This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people .
    Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule.



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    • 45 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
43 Ratings

43 Ratings

dhindman ,

My default podcast

I can’t remember how I came across My Time Capsule but it has lodged itself firmly into my weekly rotation. On paper, it shouldn’t appeal as much as it does - I’m an American, 20+ years younger than Mike with little interest and even less knowledge of theater or British television. I have usually never heard of the guest. Why is it then that I have now listened to 200+ episodes and, at times when I just want to put something on in the background, choose My Time Capsule more than any other podcast? I think it’s because of the good nature of the conversations. There doesn’t seem to be an agenda other than learning from various life experiences, laughing at misfortune, commiseration and finding common ground. In that sense it’s a very “safe” listen. I can expect to hear a new perspective from my own with each episode. You get to know the producing team because of different angles of the same family stories show up every now and then. That’s not to say you won’t be caught off guard by some candid, unfiltered stories, dad jokes or capsule choices.

I highly recommend this podcast to anyone who enjoys good, entertaining conversations and is open to expanding their world view. Keep up the fabulous work, Mike and John!

- David from Long Island, New York

ElaineLib ,

One of the best podcasts around

This is the podcast I listen to as soon as it drops. It is like joining in a conversation between friends, even when Mike has only just met his guest. As an American with a narrow knowledge of popular culture, I’m usually unfamiliar with the guests’ work, but I still thoroughly enjoy each episode. Mike is one of the best hosts I’ve ever heard-he’s a gem! Yes, Mike, you’re—Brilliant!

Niban #2dj ,

Tim Bentinck

First time listener, subscribed to be sure I could listen to the Earl of Portland (yeah, David Archer). Loved the show, love the premise! All around wonderful. I look forward to both future programs and exploring the back catalog.

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