Ep. 254 - Jim Sweeney
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Jim Sweeney is a member of the world famous improvisational group the Comedy Store Players, with other members including Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Neil Mullarkey, Richard Vranch, Sandi Toksvig and Jeremy Hardy with many celebrity guests such as Eddie Izzard, Caroline Quentin, Phil Jupitus, Greg Proops and Mike Myers. He’s been in Who's Line Is It Anyway?, Blackadder, One Foot In the Grave, Kiss Me Kate, and on radio was in Just a Minute, All the Young Dudes and the improvised comedy, The Masterson Inheritance. In 1985, Jim was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a progressive disease which disrupts the ability of parts of the nervous system to transmit signals. He now lives in a home with 24 hour care, which is where Mike spoke to him.
Jim Sweeney is guest number 254 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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| 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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