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Ep. 159 - Steve Brown

Steve Brown is a composer, music producer and performer perhaps best known for playing Glen Ponder in Steve Coogan’s Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge. As a composer he’s worked extensively with Harry Hill as MD on all his live shows, TV Burp, The Harry Hill Movie and the musical that they wrote together, I Can't Sing! The X Factor Musical. He wrote the West End hit musical, Spend Spend Spend and as a record producer he produced Seasons of My Soul by Rumer and the MOBO winning debut by Laura Mvula, Sing To The Moon. Steve has written the music for a number of hit television shows including Not Going Out, SM:TV Live, My Parents Are Aliens, Spitting Image, The Mary Whitehouse Experience, Newman and Baddiel, They Think It’s All Over, Fantasy Football League, Lenny Henry Goes To Town, Rory Bremner, Jasper Carrott, Frank Skinner, Smith and Jones and Zig and Zag. Steve Brown is guest 159 on My Time Capsule and he 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 .


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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 Matthew Boxall .


This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people.

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