Ep. 119 - Mitch Benn

My Time Capsule

Cast Off Productions

Comedy, Lee Mack, Interview, Comedy Interviews, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Rob Brydon, Caroline Quentin, Mike Fenton Stevens, David Mitchell, Michael Fenton Stevens, Arabella Weir, Stephen Fry, Ross Noble

4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Mitch Benn is a comedian and musician best known as the resident comic songwriter on BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show from 1999 to 2016. Mitch’s own Radio 4 show, Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music, ran for three series. Mitch began his comedy career in Edinburgh in the mid-1990s and became one of the most in-demand comedians on the UK comedy circuit. He is a weekly columnist for The New European newspaper and has written three Science Fiction novels - Terra, Terra's World and Terra's War. Mitch Benn is guest number 119 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 .

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

Music by Pass The Peas Music .

Artwork by Matthew Boxall .

Social media support by Harriet Stevens .

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

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. My name is Jamie Lang and I'm the host of Great Company podcast and today we are
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0:46.0	This episode is sponsored by Shopify.
0:49.1	You know where that sound is, don't you, John? Yes, it's the sound of another sale on Shopify.
0:53.6	That's what I was going to say.
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1:10.7	Have you started a business, Dad?
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