Ep. 393 - James O’Brien

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

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

James O’Brien is best known for his daily current affairs programme on the radio station LBC, with over 1.2 million weekly listeners, he has also presented and appeared on a variety of TV shows including ‘Newsnight’ and ‘Have I Got News For You?’. James is an award-winning writer whose journalism has appeared everywhere from the TLS to the Daily Mirror and was a former editor of the Daily Express gossip column. His first book, How To Be Right, was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the Parliamentary Book Award for Best Political Book by a non-politician. His latest book, How They Broke Britain, was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller .

James O’Brien is guest number 393 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 .

Buy How They Broke Britain, here - https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365

Follow James O’Brien on Twitter: @mrjamesob .

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.

Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by Shopify.
0:02.9	You know where that sound is, don't you, John?
0:05.1	Yes, it's the sound of another sale on Shopify.
0:07.5	That's what I was going to say. Shopify is the commerce platform revolutionising
0:11.1	millions of businesses worldwide. Are you actually listening to anything?
0:14.3	Whether you're selling tea or t-shirts, makeovers or makeup, paint or paintings, Shopify
0:19.7	simplifies selling online and in person so you can
0:22.7	successfully grow your business. Have you started a business, Dad? And what's lovely about Shopify is,
0:27.9	no matter how big you want to grow, Shopify will be there to empower you with the confidence
0:32.1	and control to take your business to the next level. They have free website designs to launch
0:36.6	your store quickly and
0:37.5	easily and Shopify takes care of everything from marketing and payments to secure transactions
0:42.6	and shipping. Excellent, but do you think you'll be any good at business? John, millions of users
0:47.3	trust Shopify to manage their online stores. Yes, but what about you, Dad? How much is it?
0:52.1	Well, me and listeners to my time caps, you can sign up for a £1 per month trial period
0:56.6	at Shopify.com.uk-slash-timecap or lowercase.
1:00.8	Shopify.com.com. Got it. But do you have the skills necessary?
1:06.1	And if not, John, Shopify covers all the sales channels. Shopify even gets you selling
1:10.5	across social media
1:11.5	marketplaces like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. And Shopify gives you complete control of your
1:16.6	business and your brand without having to learn new skills in design or coding.
1:20.6	Yeah, well, you're not great with new skills. It's all right, John. Shopify is ready to support
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Cast Off Productions, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Cast Off Productions and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.