Ep. 491 - Helen Atkinson Wood

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

🗓️ 11 May 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Helen Atkinson Wood is an actress and comedian, best known for her role as Mrs. Miggins in Blackadder. Helen and Mike have been best friends since University. They went on to record seven series of Radio Active for BBC Radio 4 which transferred to BBC television as KYTV. They toured the world together as part of that team, which included the late Geoffrey Perkins, Philip Pope and Angus Deayton. Her other notable roles include The Young Ones, Joking Apart, Doctor Who, OTT, Girls On Top, Absolute Power, Kiss Me Kate, The Comic Strip Presents, The Lenny Henry Show, The Craig Ferguson Show, and she has been a guest on QI, Have I Got News For You, Sarah Millican’s Support Group, Watercolour Challenge and Celebrity Boat Race. She is a travel writer and is married to the writer and director, John Morton.

Helen Atkinson Wood is our guest in episode 491 of 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 .

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to my time capsule. 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.
0:21.3	They pick four things that they really love, and one thing they'd like to forget by burying it in the ground.
0:27.4	My special guest in this episode is the actress Helen Atkinson Wood.
0:32.0	Helen and I have been best friends since we first met at university.
0:35.1	We went on to record seven series of Radioactive for BBC Radio 4,
0:39.7	which transferred to BBC television as KYTV. We toured the world together as part of that team,
0:45.8	which included the late Geoffrey Perkins, Philip Pope and Angus Deaton, and we've been present at most of the
0:51.9	important events in each other's lives. So what can I find out about Helen that I don't already know?
0:57.6	Well, for people who don't know her, Helen is an actress,
1:00.2	who's appeared in, to name it a few,
1:02.4	Blackadder, The Young Ones Joking Apart, OTT, Your Cheating Heart, Girls on Top,
1:07.9	Saturday's Stay Back, Tales from the Poop Deck, the Maltby collection, Absolute Power, Kiss Me Kate, Hot Metal,
1:14.8	the comic strip presents, the Lenny Henry Show, the Craig Ferguson show,
1:18.6	and she's been a guest on QI, Have I Got News for You,
1:22.2	Sary Milliken Support Group, Watercolour Challenge, Celebrity Boat Race, and Beat the Kids.
1:28.7	And that's just a few of the things she's done. Helen has appeared in numerous stage plays throughout the years, including
1:33.5	the Voisei inheritance, the magistrate, the Seagull and the Miser at the Royal Exchange, Manchester.
1:39.6	She's a travel writer and is married to the writer and director John Morton. Helen was one of the first
1:44.7	people I recorded an episode of my time capsule with way back before lockdown. But I was so bad
1:50.4	at being a host then, you may disagree with the word then, that we never put that episode out.
1:56.2	Helen was good, I was rubbish. I'm delighted that I've almost learnt my craft and finally I'm able to say
2:02.7	here is Helen Atkinson Wood with her five time capsule choices.
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