My Time Capsule

RIOPY is a French pianist and composer whose album Tree of Light reached No.1 on the US Billboard Classical Album chart and continued in the top 10 for 70 weeks. He features on Lana Del Rey’s latest album with a song she wrote over the track of one of RIOPY’s most popular compositions, Flo. RIOPY grew up in an oppressive religious cult, where contact with the outside world was forbidden and all music and television was banned. On a chance visit to a doctor, RIOPY found himself in a castle full of pianos, and discovered music as a way to soothe his anxieties and OCD. At the age of 18, RIOPY escaped the cult, and after a few short stints in Paris and LA (including short periods of homelessness), he found himself in the UK, in a music shop in Reading. A stranger heard him playing on one of the pianos, and helped him attain a scholarship at Oxford Brookes University. His career continued to grow, and in 2011 he was offered a high-profile performance opportunity for a Vanity Fair event. Chris Martin, lead singer of Coldplay, was in attendance and bought RIOPY his first piano – a Steinway Grand. His latest album, THRIVE, is out now.RIOPY is guest number 293 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 RIOPY’s music and tour dates visit www.riopymusic.comFollow 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.

RIOPY is a French pianist and composer whose album Tree of Light reached No.1 on the US Billboard Classical Album chart and continued in the top 10 for 70 weeks. He features on Lana Del Rey’s latest album with a song she wrote over the track of one of RIOPY’s most popular compositions, Flo. RIOPY grew up in an oppressive religious cult, where contact with the outside world was forbidden and all music and television was banned. On a chance visit to a doctor, RIOPY found himself in a castle full of pianos, and discovered music as a way to soothe his anxieties and OCD. At the age of 18, RIOPY escaped the cult, and after a few short stints in Paris and LA (including short periods of homelessness), he found himself in the UK, in a music shop in Reading. A stranger heard him playing on one of the pianos, and helped him attain a scholarship at Oxford Brookes University. His career continued to grow, and in 2011 he was offered a high-profile performance opportunity for a Vanity Fair event. Chris Martin, lead singer of Coldplay, was in attendance and bought RIOPY his first piano – a Steinway Grand. His latest album, THRIVE, is out now.RIOPY is guest number 293 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 RIOPY’s music and tour dates visit www.riopymusic.comFollow 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.

Nina Wadia OBE is best known from the ground braking sketch show Goodness Gracious Me alongside Sanjeev Bhaskar, Meera Syal and Kulvinder Ghir and as Zainab Massood in Eastenders for 6 years. She’s also been in the Jasper Carrot sitcom All About Me, 2 Point 4 Children, The Vicar of Dibley, Holby City, Skins, Chambers, Waking the Dead, Citizen Khan, Death in Paradise, Doctor Who, Finding Fatima, Still Open All Hours, Murder in Mind, Doctors and New Tricks. She also been in the films Bend it like Beckham, I Can’t Think Straight, Code 46, Sixth Happiness and Namaste London. She was a contestant in the nineteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing and been a presenter on Loose Women. Naina won best comedy performance at the British Soap Awards, as well as best on screen partnership within Nitin Ganatra and in 2013 was awarded the Outstanding Achievement in Television award at the Asian Awards.Nina Wadia is guest number 292 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 Nina Wadia on Twitter: @Nina_Wadia & Instagram @nina.wadia .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.

Nina Wadia OBE is best known from the ground braking sketch show Goodness Gracious Me alongside Sanjeev Bhaskar, Meera Syal and Kulvinder Ghir and as Zainab Massood in Eastenders for 6 years. She’s also been in the Jasper Carrot sitcom All About Me, 2 Point 4 Children, The Vicar of Dibley, Holby City, Skins, Chambers, Waking the Dead, Citizen Khan, Death in Paradise, Doctor Who, Finding Fatima, Still Open All Hours, Murder in Mind, Doctors and New Tricks. She also been in the films Bend it like Beckham, I Can’t Think Straight, Code 46, Sixth Happiness and Namaste London. She was a contestant in the nineteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing and been a presenter on Loose Women. Naina won best comedy performance at the British Soap Awards, as well as best on screen partnership within Nitin Ganatra and in 2013 was awarded the Outstanding Achievement in Television award at the Asian Awards.Nina Wadia is guest number 292 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 Nina Wadia on Twitter: @Nina_Wadia & Instagram @nina.wadia .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.

Anita Harris is a singer and actress who is one of the biggest stars of the 60s, 70s and 80s and is still performing today. Her huge hit song Just Loving You was suggested for Anita by Dusty Springfield and written by Dusty’s brother. As an actress she was in the film Carry On Doctor, Casualty, French and Saunders, Midsummer Murders and her own one-woman show. In the 1970’s she was the assistant to the TV magician David Nixon on his TV shows, as well as performing in the Royal Variety performance and having her own This Is Your Life. She was the Variety Club of Great Britain’s Cabaret Performer of the year in 1982 and played the part of Griselda in the west end production of Cats for two years. She’s just about to tour the country again with Freddie Davis’ Legends of Variety Tour, alongside such legends as Freddie himself, Bobby Crush, Bernie Clifton, Tommy Canon, Billy Pearce and The Grumbleweeds, amongst others.Anita Harris is guest number 291 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 Anita Harris on Twitter: @TheAnitaHarris .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.

Anita Harris is a singer and actress who is one of the biggest stars of the 60s, 70s and 80s and is still performing today. Her huge hit song Just Loving You was suggested for Anita by Dusty Springfield and written by Dusty’s brother. As an actress she was in the film Carry On Doctor, Casualty, French and Saunders, Midsummer Murders and her own one-woman show. In the 1970’s she was the assistant to the TV magician David Nixon on his TV shows, as well as performing in the Royal Variety performance and having her own This Is Your Life. She was the Variety Club of Great Britain’s Cabaret Performer of the year in 1982 and played the part of Griselda in the west end production of Cats for two years. She’s just about to tour the country again with Freddie Davis’ Legends of Variety Tour, alongside such legends as Freddie himself, Bobby Crush, Bernie Clifton, Tommy Canon, Billy Pearce and The Grumbleweeds, amongst others.Anita Harris is guest number 291 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 Anita Harris on Twitter: @TheAnitaHarris .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.

Cally Beaton is a stand-up comedian best known for her regular appearances on QI and The Apprentice: You’re Fired, as well as featuring on Live At The Apollo, Pointless Celebrities, Richard Osman’s House of Games and The Blame Game. Cally only started her stand-up career at the age of 45 having perviously held senior management positions at some of the biggest media companies in the world - she was Senior Vice President at the US studio giant ViacomCBS, but she quickly cemented her position as one of the most exciting and original new stand-ups in the country. She is a regular on BBC Radio 4 on The Now Show, The Unbelievable Truth, Saturday Live and Museum Of Curiosity. She is also a regular contributor on Radio 5 Live, Times Radio and BBC London. Cally hosts the podcast Namaste Motherf**kers, the only podcast where the worlds of comedy, self-help and business collide. Cally has written for The Guardian and The Financial Times.Cally Beaton is guest number 290 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 .Listen to Cally’s podcast Namaste Motherf**kers here: podfollow.com/1562113984For everything Cally, visit: callybeaton.comFollow Cally Beaton on Twitter: @callybeaton & Instagram: @callybeatoncomedian .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.

Cally Beaton is a stand-up comedian best known for her regular appearances on QI and The Apprentice: You’re Fired, as well as featuring on Live At The Apollo, Pointless Celebrities, Richard Osman’s House of Games and The Blame Game. Cally only started her stand-up career at the age of 45 having perviously held senior management positions at some of the biggest media companies in the world - she was Senior Vice President at the US studio giant ViacomCBS, but she quickly cemented her position as one of the most exciting and original new stand-ups in the country. She is a regular on BBC Radio 4 on The Now Show, The Unbelievable Truth, Saturday Live and Museum Of Curiosity. She is also a regular contributor on Radio 5 Live, Times Radio and BBC London. Cally hosts the podcast Namaste Motherf**kers, the only podcast where the worlds of comedy, self-help and business collide. Cally has written for The Guardian and The Financial Times.Cally Beaton is guest number 290 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 .Listen to Cally’s podcast Namaste Motherf**kers here: podfollow.com/1562113984For everything Cally, visit: callybeaton.comFollow Cally Beaton on Twitter: @callybeaton & Instagram: @callybeatoncomedian .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.

Sam Teskey is founding member of the Grammy nominated Australian blues and soul band, The Teskey Brothers, alongside his brother Josh. Their debut album, Half Mile Harvest, was nominated for Best Blues and Roots Album at the 2018 ARIA Awards. They followed up with the album Run Home Slow in 2019, which debuted at #2 on the Australian Albums Chart and was nominated for seven ARIA Awards. Their new album, The Winding Way will be released in June and it’s first single, Oceans of Emotions is out now. Throughout their career, Sam has been an integral part of the band's songwriting and production process, often credited as the producer and engineer of their albums. The Teskey brothers are currently on tour in the UK and Europe and will be playing the Black Deer Festival and Glastonbury, among others.Sam Teskey is guest number 288 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 The Teskey Brothers music and tour dates visit: theteskeybrothers.com .Follow The Teskey Brothers on Twitter: @teskeybrothers & Instagram @theteskeybrothers . 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.