Ep. 452 - Richard Vranch
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Richard Vranch is maybe best known for improvising the music in the Channel 4 series Whose Line Is It Anyway?, famously introduced as “Richard Vranch at the piano”. He’s also a member of The Comedy Store Players and improvises comedy live on stage every Sunday at The Comedy Store in London, which he has done regularly for the past 39 years. He’s also part of the Improv All-Stars and Paul Merton and Suki Webster’s Improv Show. The Comedy Store Players have played the Olivier stage at the National Theatre and performed annually at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. They toured India in 2004 and in 2010 they achieved the Guinness World Record for the longest running comedy show with the same cast. They’ve also appeared at the Globe Theatre annually since the millennium and will be performing there again on the 17th of December 2024. He formed a comedy double-act with Tony Slattery in 1981. The duo hosted the Channel 4 quiz The Music Game and over 100 episodes of Cue The Music on ITV. Richard won the 2004 Sony Radio Award for Comedy for the BBC Radio 2 series Jammin .
Richard Vranch is our guest in episode 452 of 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 .
Tickets for The Comedy Store Players at The Globe are available here - https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/the-comedy-store-players .
Tickets for The Comedy Store Players at The Comedy Store are available here - https://comedystoreplayers.com .
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| 0:00.0 | A national book token gives a world of discovery, where imaginations run wild with endless possibility. |
| 0:07.2 | They might choose a voyage to stars in black holes, or to relive their team's most legendary goals, |
| 0:13.7 | to learn how to draw, to grow, to bake, or scare themselves silly and stay wide awake. |
| 0:19.8 | From the depths of love to the depths of the ocean, |
| 0:23.0 | give a gift beyond words, give a national book token. |
| 0:26.2 | Buy now for Christmas in bookshops everywhere and online. |
| 0:32.2 | This episode of My Time Capsule is brought to you by the Woodland Trust. |
| 0:36.1 | Merry Christmas, John. |
| 0:37.1 | A bit early, isn't it, Dad? No, I've already got my gifts sorted thanks to the Woodland Trust. Merry Christmas, John. A bit early, isn't it, Dad? |
| 0:38.2 | No, I've already got my gifts sorted thanks to the Woodland Trust. |
| 0:41.4 | Really? What did you get? |
| 0:42.7 | Well, I don't want to spoil the surprise. |
| 0:44.5 | Oh, okay, then. |
| 0:45.3 | But I will. I dedicated a tree in your name. |
| 0:47.6 | Wow. |
| 0:47.9 | In fact, a whole area of woodland for all the family. |
| 0:50.7 | And we can visit whenever we like as the Woodland Trust Woods are open 365 days a year |
| 0:55.4 | with no admission fee. That's good. The Woodland Trust is the UK's largest woodland conservation |
| 1:00.5 | charity. Yeah, I know. And by dedicating a tree or an area of woodland, you directly support |
| 1:05.8 | their work, protecting and planting trees and woods across the UK. Plus, they send you a special dedication pack, |
| 1:11.9 | which contains a personalised certificate, an information leaflet, and a map of the wood where you've |
| 1:16.6 | dedicated. It's unbelievably generous of you, Dad. Yeah, well, you know me. Yes, that's why I find it |
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