Ep. 195 - Jessica Fostekew
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Jessica Fostekew is a comedian, actor, writer and podcast host. She was nominated for The Dave Edinburgh Comedy Award ‘Best Show’ for her show Hench, in 2019 which had a sold out, international tour. She has since appeared on Live at the Apollo, QI and Harry Hill’s Clubnite. As an actor she starred in the feature films Greed and Official Secrets, Dawn French’s The Trouble with Maggie Cole, Sharon Horgan’ and Holly Walsh's Motherland and Cuckoo on the BBC and Netflix. Jessica has written for Mock The Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and The News Quiz. She hosts her own podcast Hoovering all about eating, which in less than a year has racked up nearly half a million downloads, is regular co-host of huge podcast The Guilty Feminist and a regular host of BBC R4 Extra’s Comedy Club. And this year, Jess is taking her new show, Wench to the Edinburgh Fringe in August and will then be touring the country with the show till the middle of November. Jessica Fostekew is guest number 195 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 .
Jessica's podcast, Hoovering is available here: https://podfollow.com/hoovering .
For tour dates and all things Jessica, visit: www.jessicafostekew.com .
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Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .
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| 0:00.0 | Small Changes |
| 0:02.0 | Wherever they take us to |
| 0:08.0 | Small Changes |
| 0:10.0 | The critically acclaimed new album |
| 0:12.0 | from Mercury Prize winner |
| 0:14.0 | Michael Kiwanuka is out now |
| 0:16.0 | Wanting on |
| 0:18.0 | One and on For the days, for the days of here, one and on. |
| 0:32.1 | This episode is sponsored by Shopify. |
| 0:35.2 | You know where that sound is, don't you, John? |
| 0:37.4 | Yes, it's the sound of another sale on Shopify. |
| 0:39.8 | That's what I was going to say. |
| 0:40.8 | Shopify is the commerce platform revolutionising millions of businesses worldwide. |
| 0:45.4 | Are you actually listening to anything? |
| 0:46.6 | Whether you're selling tea or t-shirts, makeovers or makeup, paint or paintings, |
| 0:51.6 | Shopify simplifies selling online and in person so you can successfully grow |
| 0:55.9 | your business. Have you started a business, Dad? And what's lovely about Shopify is, no matter how big |
| 1:01.0 | you want to grow, Shopify will be there to empower you with the confidence and control to take |
| 1:05.4 | your business to the next level. They have free website designs to launch your store quickly and |
| 1:09.8 | easily, and Shopify takes care of everything from marketing and payments to secure transactions and shipping. |
| 1:15.7 | Excellent, but do you think you'll be any good at business? |
| 1:18.1 | John, millions of users trust Shopify to manage their online stores. |
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