Another Christmas present from us! Our very own Michael Fenton Stevens reading The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain by Charles Dickens. Merry Christmas!

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Mike Batt is probably best known as the singer/songwriter/producer of The Wombles music, having written the theme tune plus eight hit singles and four gold albums. Mike moved on to work with various artists as a songwriter and producer, most successfully with Steeleye Span and their most successful single and album All Around My Hat in 1975. He wrote the song "Bright Eyes" for the film Watership Down, sung by Art Garfunkel, which reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart and five other countries. Mike wrote and produced three more UK Top Ten hits, "Please Don't Fall in Love" (for Cliff Richard), "A Winter's Tale" (for David Essex, with lyrics co-written by Tim Rice) and "I Feel Like Buddy Holly" (for Alvin Stardust). Mike composed and produced the four million-selling album, The Violin Player, which launched classical violinist Vanessa-Mae, and he discovered Katie Melua in 2002. Her album Call Off The Search (containing six of Mike’s songs including "The Closest Thing to Crazy") was released in November 2003. It spent six weeks at number one in the UK Albums Chart, sold over 1.8 million copies, in the UK and three million copies in total, making Melua the biggest selling UK female artist of 2004. Mike now has an autobiography called The Closest Thing to Crazy, My Life of Musical Adventures, available in all bookshops or from here! .

Mike Batt is our guest in episode 453 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 Mike Batt’s autobiography, The Closest Thing to Crazy is available here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Closest-Thing-Crazy-Musical-Adventures/dp/1785120840 .

For everything else Mike Batt, visit - https://www.mikebatt.com .

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Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .

Music by Pass The Peas Music .

Artwork by matthewboxall.com .

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An early Christmas present from us! Our very own Michael Fenton Stevens reading A Christmas Tree by Charles Dickens. Merry Christmas!

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Richard Vranch is maybe best known for improvising the music in the Channel 4 series Whose Line Is It Anyway?, famously introduced as “Richard Vranch at the piano”. He’s also a member of The Comedy Store Players and improvises comedy live on stage every Sunday at The Comedy Store in London, which he has done regularly for the past 39 years. He’s also part of the Improv All-Stars and Paul Merton and Suki Webster’s Improv Show. The Comedy Store Players have played the Olivier stage at the National Theatre and performed annually at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. They toured India in 2004 and in 2010 they achieved the Guinness World Record for the longest running comedy show with the same cast. They’ve also appeared at the Globe Theatre annually since the millennium and will be performing there again on the 17th of December 2024. He formed a comedy double-act with Tony Slattery in 1981. The duo hosted the Channel 4 quiz The Music Game and over 100 episodes of Cue The Music on ITV. Richard won the 2004 Sony Radio Award for Comedy for the BBC Radio 2 series Jammin .

Richard Vranch is our guest in episode 452 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 .

Tickets for The Comedy Store Players at The Globe are available here - https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/the-comedy-store-players .

Tickets for The Comedy Store Players at The Comedy Store are available here - https://comedystoreplayers.com .

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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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Angela Barnes returns with a brand new time capsule! Angela Barnes is a comedian best known for her appearances on Mock The Week and hosting The News Quiz and Newsjack on BBC Radio 4. She’s had her own Radio 4 stand-up series called You Can’t Take It With You which was based on her 2014 début show at the Edinburgh Festival and she co-hosts the "less-than-serious history podcast" We Are History with writer (and previous MTC guest) John O'Farrell .

Angela Barnes is our guest in episode 451 of 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 Angela’s tour dates and tickets, visit - https://www.angelabarnescomedy.co.uk .

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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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Eliot Stein is a writer and editor who is currently a journalist at the BBC and deputy editor of BBC Travel. Eliot's forthcoming book, Custodians of Wonder, is inspired by a column he created for BBC Travel called Custom Made, and is about the last people alive maintaining some of the world's most astonishing cultural rites. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Wired, The Guardian, The Washington Post, National Geographic, The Independent, and The Best Travel Writing book anthology. He has won Writer's Digest, Lowell Thomas, and Solas Awards and regularly speaks about his work at universities, on podcasts and in print .

Eliot Stein is our guest in episode 450 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 Elliot’s book Custodians of Wonder, here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Custodians-Wonder-Ancient-Profound-Traditions/dp/1250281091 .

For Elliot’s articles, books, photos and everything else, visit his website - https://www.eliotstein.me

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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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Andy Zaltzman is the chair of The News Quiz on BBC Radio4, the host of the global hit satirical podcast The Bugle, the cricket statistician for BBC’s Test Match Special and a recent contestant on Taskmaster Series 18. He is currently on his biggest UK tour to date with a brand-new show, The Zaltgeist. The 46-date UK & IRE tour started in in November 2024 and run to April 2025, including dates in Cardiff, Salford, Newcastle, Glasgow, Birmingham, Bristol, Dublin, Belfast and London. For dates and tickets go to https://www.andyzaltzman.co.uk .

Andy Zaltzman is our guest in episode 449 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 .

For Andy Zaltzman’s tour, The Bugle podcast and everything else Andy Zaltzman, visit https://www.andyzaltzman.co.uk .

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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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A re-edited and extended version of our interview with actor and comedian David Mitchell! .

David Mitchell is our guest in episode 448 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 .

Follow David Mitchell on Twitter @RealDMitchell . 

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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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Global comedy superstar and ventriloquist, Jeff Dunham holds the World record for "Most tickets sold for a stand-up comedy tour”! He held “Billboard’s Top Comedy Tour” for three consecutive years and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Forbes ranked Dunham as the third highest-paid comedian in the United States behind only Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock. Jeff has also filmed 12 record-breaking comedy specials, and currently holds three of the top-five highest-rated programs on Comedy Central. His 2019 Netflix special “Beside Himself,” still ranks in the top five most watched among all Netflix Comedy Specials. He has performed live in front of over 7.7 million people across 1,500+ performances since June 2007 and he’s completed a total of nine international tours with shows in more than twenty different countries including South Africa, where he’s the highest-selling international comedian of all time. His autobiography, “All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed and Me,” was on the New York Times’ Best Seller list three weeks in a row. Jeff is bringing his cast of colourful characters to two UK arenas in 2025. On Friday 13th June at London’s OVO Wembley Arena and Manchester’s Co-op Arena on Saturday 14th June as part of his World tour, ‘Artificial Intelligence’. Go to jeffdunham.com for tickets.

Jeff Dunham is our guest in episode 447 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 .

For tour tickets and everything else Jeff Dunham, visit -  jeffdunham.com

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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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Paul Putner is an actor and comedian best known for his roles in Little Britain, Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle and This Morning with Richard Not Judy as The Curious Orange. Paul also toured in the Little Britain Live show and later appeared in Matt Lucas and David Walliams' TV follow-up, Come Fly with Me. Other TV and film appearance include Spaced, Look Around You, The Peter Serafinowicz Show, Downton Abby, Call The Midwife, Shaun of the Dead and Black Books. In 2005, Paul Putner took the starring role (as a mime) in the 7th district section of the film Paris, Je T’aime written and directed by Sylvain Chomet. The film opened the "Un Certain Regard" section of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

Paul Putner is our guest in episode 446 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 .

Follow Paul Putner on Twitter @RealPaulPutner . 

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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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John O’Farrell returns with a brand new time capsule! John O’Farrell is an author and comedy script writer. He was a writer for such shows as Spitting Image, Grumpy Old Men and Have I Got News For You. He co-wrote the Aardman animation film Early Man with Nick Park and wrote the film Chicken Run and it’s sequel Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget. He wrote the book for the Broadway musical Something Rotten which was nominated for 10 Tony Awards including a “Best Book” nomination for John. He also wrote the Broadway and West End hit music Mrs Doubtfire and the upcoming Live Aid Musical Just, For One Day, He’s written numerous books including Things Can Only Get Better, An Utterly Impartial History of Britain and The Man Who Forgot His Wife and has sold over 1 Million books in the UK alone. His latest book, Family Politics, is now out in paperback.

John O’Farrell is our guest in episode 445 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 John’s new book, Family Politics, here - https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/458800/family-politics-by-ofarrell-john/9781804992968

Follow John O’Farrell on Twitter @mrjohnofarrell 

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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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