My Time Capsule

Sam Williams is an award-winning comedian, writer, and actor who is known for his vivid confessional stand-up. His acclaim on the live circuit includes winning the Komedia New Comedy Award in 2023 and making his TV debut on BBC Three’s New Comedy Awards. He can also be seen on ITV2’s Standup Sketch Show and at the Pleasance Comedy Reserve at the Fringe. Sam’s social media presence is booming, with over 70,000 followers and over 100 million views on Instagram and TikTok. His writing credits span Late Night Mash, Almost Never, Newsjack, and Breaking The News. His debut hour at the Edinburgh Fringe this year (2025) is called Touch Me Not and at The Pleasance Reserve. Sam Williams is our guest in episode 513 of 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 . Buy tickets for Sam Williams’ Edinburgh show, Touch Me Not, here - https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/sam-williams-touch-me-not [https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/sam-williams-touch-me-not] .   Follow Sam Williams on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/samwilliamscomedy] @samwilliasamwilliamscomedymscomedy . Follow My Time Capsule on Instagram [http://instagram.com/mytimecapsulepodcast]: @mytimecapsulepodcast & Twitter/X [https://x.com/mytcpod] & Facebook [http://facebook.com/MyTCpod]: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter/X [https://x.com/fentonstevens]: @fentonstevens & Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/mikefentonstevens/] @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music [http://www.passthepeasmusic.com/] . Artwork by matthewboxall.com [https://matthewboxall.com/] . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! [https://www.viva-group.org.uk/] Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people . To support this podcast, get all episodes ad-free and a bonus episode every Wednesday of "My Time Capsule The Debrief', please sign up here - https://mytimecapsule.supercast.com [https://mytimecapsule.supercast.com]. All money goes straight into the making of the podcast. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Paul Sinha is perhaps best known as the Sinnerman on the ITV quiz show 'The Chase’. Paul has also been a successful comedian for a number of years. As a club comedian, he has played every major comedy club in the UK, performed in eighteen other countries across the globe, and been three times nominated for Best Club Comedian at the Chortle Awards, winning in 2014. Paul has taken eight solo shows to the Edinburgh Fringe, his 2006 show Saint Or Sinha being nominated for the Perrier award. His 2017 show Shout Out To My Ex had a sellout run and toured nationally, with 2018’s The Two Ages Of Man following suit. On Radio 4, Paul has appeared several times on Just A Minute, The Now Show, and The News Quiz; and has made his own programmes on cricket, the 2012 Olympics, the Magna Carta, and UK citizenship; and three series of the Rose d’Or-winning Paul Sinha’s History Revision. He also plays for the South of England on the long-running Round Britain Quiz. On Radio 5 Live, he is a regular (and twice series champion) on the sports panel show Fighting Talk. Paul is ranked sixth in the UK at quizzing and, in November 2017, recorded his second top-ten finish at the European Quizzing Championships. Paul Sinha is our guest in episode 512 of 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 . Buy tickets for Paul Sinha’s Edinburgh show, 2 Sinha Lifetime, here - https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/paul-sinha-2-sinha-lifetime [https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/paul-sinha-2-sinha-lifetime] . Buy Paul Sinha’s memoir, here - https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/456343/one-sinha-lifetime-by-sinha-paul/9781529908541 [https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/456343/one-sinha-lifetime-by-sinha-paul/9781529908541] .   Follow Paul Sinha on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/paulsinhacomedian_official] @paulsinhacomedian_official . Follow My Time Capsule on Instagram [http://instagram.com/mytimecapsulepodcast]: @mytimecapsulepodcast & Twitter/X [https://x.com/mytcpod] & Facebook [http://facebook.com/MyTCpod]: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter/X [https://x.com/fentonstevens]: @fentonstevens & Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/mikefentonstevens/] @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music [http://www.passthepeasmusic.com/] . Artwork by matthewboxall.com [https://matthewboxall.com/] . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! [https://www.viva-group.org.uk/] Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people . To support this podcast, get all episodes ad-free and a bonus episode every Wednesday of "My Time Capsule The Debrief', please sign up here - https://mytimecapsule.supercast.com [https://mytimecapsule.supercast.com]. All money goes straight into the making of the podcast. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Matt Parker is a stand-up comedian, #1-best-selling maths author and a YouTuber with over 1.3 million subscribers and over 100 million views. He is a regular on Discovery’s Outrageous Acts of Science and BBC Radio 4’s More or Less and has been heard and see on BBC2’s QI, on BBC Radio 4’s Infinite Monkey Cage and The Museum of Curiosity and he created the BBC Radio 4 comedy show Domestic Science. His latest book Love Triangle was a New York Times best-seller and was his second book to be a #1-best-seller in the UK. Matt has previously held world records for both the Rubik’s Cube and Space Invaders. He has flipped a coin 10,000 times, traveled to Antarctica, memorised π to hundreds of digits, and been stung by a bullet ant in the Amazon, all in the pursuit of maths. His new show, Getting Triggy with It: Matt Parker Does the Maths, will be at the Edinburgh Fringe and then at venues around the UK this Autumn 2025, culminating in a huge show in London’s West End. Matt Parker is our guest in episode 511 of 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 . Buy tickets for Matt’s show “Getting Triggy with It” at Edinburgh and on tour here - https://standupmaths.com/shows [https://standupmaths.com/shows] . Check out Matt’s Youtube channel, Stand-up Maths, here - https://www.youtube.com/user/standupmaths [https://www.youtube.com/user/standupmaths] .   Follow Matt Parker on Twitter/X [https://x.com/standupmaths] & Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/standupmaths] @standupmaths . Follow My Time Capsule on Instagram [http://instagram.com/mytimecapsulepodcast]: @mytimecapsulepodcast & Twitter [http://twitter.com/MyTCpod]/X & Facebook [http://facebook.com/MyTCpod]: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter [http://twitter.com/fentonstevens]/X: @fentonstevens & Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/mikefentonstevens/] @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music [http://www.passthepeasmusic.com/] . Artwork by matthewboxall.com [https://matthewboxall.com/] . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! [https://www.viva-group.org.uk/] Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people . To support this podcast, get all episodes ad-free and a bonus episode every Wednesday of "My Time Capsule The Debrief', please sign up here - https://mytimecapsule.supercast.com [https://mytimecapsule.supercast.com]. All money goes straight into the making of the podcast. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

James Cosmo is an iconic Scottish actor who has starred in over 130 Hollywood movies as well as global classic TV productions. His films include Braveheart, Trainspotting, Troy, The Chronicles of Narnia, Ben Hur and The Last King of Scotland. On television, he’s known to millions as Jeor Mormont in Game of Thrones, and has appeared in hit series like Sons of Anarchy, His Dark Materials and Jack Ryan. He appeared as a contestant on the nineteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother in 2017, finishing in fourth place. His latest project is staring in the new series of the ITV drama Karen Pirie, available now on ITVX [https://www.itv.com/watch/karen-pirie/10a0641] . James Cosmo is our guest in episode 510 of 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 . Watch the new series of Karen Pirie on ITVX here - https://www.itv.com/watch/karen-pirie/10a0641 [https://www.itv.com/watch/karen-pirie/10a0641] Follow James Cosmo on Twitter/X [https://x.com/MrJamesCosmo]: @MrJamesCosmo . Follow My Time Capsule on Instagram [http://instagram.com/mytimecapsulepodcast]: @mytimecapsulepodcast & Twitter [http://twitter.com/MyTCpod]/X & Facebook [http://facebook.com/MyTCpod]: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter [http://twitter.com/fentonstevens]/X: @fentonstevens & Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/mikefentonstevens/] @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music [http://www.passthepeasmusic.com/] . Artwork by matthewboxall.com [https://matthewboxall.com/] . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! [https://www.viva-group.org.uk/] Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people . To support this podcast, get all episodes ad-free and a bonus episode every Wednesday of "My Time Capsule The Debrief', please sign up here - https://mytimecapsule.supercast.com [https://mytimecapsule.supercast.com]. All money goes straight into the making of the podcast. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Steve Blacknell dated Kate Bush and flew on Concorde with Phil Collins from London to Philadelphia during Live Aid—just two highlights from a life lived at full volume. A former BBC presenter and MTV VJ, Steve introduced New Order on Riverside, hosted Breakfast Time and Radio1’s In Concert, and interviewed everyone from Lemmy to David Cassidy (in a hotel jacuzzi). He got his start in hospital radio thanks to advice from John Peel, worked in PR for labels like Decca and Chrysalis, and did PR for Peter Stringfellow in the ’80s. Now CEO of the Central London School of TV and Media Training and host of Soho’s Waffle Club, Steve’s memoir Tales From The Bedroom Wall, charts his journey through fame, addiction, reinvention—and everything in between .  Steve Blacknell is our guest in episode 509 of 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 . Steve Blacknell’s memoir, Tales From The Bedroom Wall: The Life & Times of a Serial Thrill Seeker, is out now, copies are available to buy from https://www.steveblacknell.com [https://www.steveblacknell.com] Follow My Time Capsule on Instagram [http://instagram.com/mytimecapsulepodcast]: @mytimecapsulepodcast & Twitter [http://twitter.com/MyTCpod]/X & Facebook [http://facebook.com/MyTCpod]: @MyTCpod . Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter [http://twitter.com/fentonstevens]/X: @fentonstevens & Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/mikefentonstevens/] @mikefentonstevens . Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions . Music by Pass The Peas Music [http://www.passthepeasmusic.com/] . Artwork by matthewboxall.com [https://matthewboxall.com/] . This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! [https://www.viva-group.org.uk/] Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people . To support this podcast, get all episodes ad-free and a bonus episode every Wednesday of "My Time Capsule The Debrief', please sign up here - https://mytimecapsule.supercast.com [https://mytimecapsule.supercast.com]. All money goes straight into the making of the podcast. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.