Ep. 435 - Maria McErlane Returns!
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Our first returning guest! Maria McErlane is best know for co-presenting the Graham Norton radio show on BBC Radio 2 and Now Virgin Radio. She has been acting since 1984 and has appeared in The Fast Show, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Thin Ice and Happiness. She was also the narrator for Eurotrash with Antoine de Caunes and Jean-Paul Gaultier. She’s been a guest on Have I Got News For You and Just a Minute on Radio4. Her memoir, Bumps in the Road: a memoir – Life and adventure in bike-size chunks, is available now! .
Buy Maria’s memoir here - https://www.waterstones.com/book/bumps-in-the-road-a-memoir/maria-mcerlane/9781914227615 .
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to my time capsule. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is the podcast where people tell me five things from their life they wish they had in a time capsule. |
| 0:21.5 | Four things that they cherish, and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. My guest in this episode is |
| 0:27.4 | Maria McCurlin, the actor, broadcaster and writer. To sort of summarize her career briefly, |
| 0:33.8 | she's been on radio with Graham Norton for years, played lots of characters in the far show, |
| 0:38.8 | was in Fat Friends, This Life, Happiness, Killing Eve, and the film Children of Men with Clive Owen, |
| 0:45.3 | Julianne Moore, and Michael Kane. |
| 0:48.0 | She's been on Have I Got News for You, and Just a Minute, was the narrator of Eurotrash for years, |
| 0:53.3 | has been a regular guest of Nigella Lawson |
| 0:55.8 | on Nigella's show, Nigella, aptly named, and Maria is a regular columnist for the Sunday Times |
| 1:02.5 | and Esquire magazine. Now, those of you who've listened to My Time Capsule from the very beginning |
| 1:07.2 | will know that this is a special episode, as it's the first time we've |
| 1:11.0 | had a guest on twice. So, in fact, this is really my time capsule revisited, or take two, or |
| 1:18.0 | don't know, I haven't really thought of a title yet. Anyway, Maria was our tenth guest over four |
| 1:23.1 | years ago, and this is an attempt to see if we could ask some of our early guests back and see if their original choices for things they'd want in a time capsule still apply. Would they like to replace them or possibly leave the original time capsule in the ground for posterity and choose five new things to put in a brand new time capsule? This is something we hope to do with a number of previous |
| 1:44.4 | guests and the end result may well be different with each of them, but it ought to be interesting, |
| 1:49.5 | I think. For example, does what's important to us change over time? Or does it change every day? |
| 1:55.7 | Well, Maria has her autobiography out called Bumps in the Road. So she's bound to have thought of other things |
| 2:01.6 | from her life that are important to her, I hope. So let's find out what they are. And just to let |
| 2:07.2 | you know, this was recorded in person at my house, in fact, in my kitchen. And before we started, |
| 2:13.3 | Maria attempted to turn her phone off and accidentally rang the emergency services, as you do. |
| 2:19.9 | And outrage. It's a marvellous service, as you'll see. Anyway, here for the second time is the ever |
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