Ep. 495 - Peter Fincham
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Peter Fincham was the Controller of BBC One from 2006 to 2007 and ITV’s Director of Television from 2008 to 20016. Before that, Peter was the Managing Director of TalkBack Productions where he oversaw the creation and production of programmes such as The Day Today, Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge, They Think It’s All Over, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, I'm Alan Partridge, Smack the Pony and Da Ali G Show. TalkBack was sold to FremantleMedia in 2001 and Peter became the chief executive of the newly formed Talkback Thames. Since 2017 he’s been the co-CEO of Expectation, the makers of Clarkson’s Farm and highly successful and multi award winning comedy, Alma’s Not Normal. He also makes a podcast with his old University and Cambridge Footlights friend, the head of Hatrick productions, Jimmy Mulville, called Insiders: The TV Podcast, where two of the most experienced men of TV from the last forty years tell all.
Peter Fincham is our guest in episode 495 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 .
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| 0:00.0 | Fancy a fever tree and vodka. |
| 0:03.8 | Yes, vodka, not gin. |
| 0:06.7 | Because this is fever tree Mexican lime soda. |
| 0:10.0 | Yes, soda, not tonic. |
| 0:13.0 | With Mexican lime and Japanese yuzu for a zesty, refreshing lime soda that's just sweet enough. |
| 0:19.6 | Delicious with vodka or on its own. Fever tree, Mexican lime soda that's just sweet enough. Delicious with vodka or on its own. |
| 0:23.1 | Fever Tree Mexican lime soda. |
| 0:25.5 | Mix with the best. |
| 0:27.7 | Mmm, now that hits the spot. |
| 0:29.6 | Music Hello and welcome to my time capsule. |
| 0:45.2 | I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is a podcast where people tell me five things from their life they wish they had in a time capsule. |
| 0:53.5 | They choose four things that they |
| 0:55.0 | really love and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. My guest in this episode is Peter Finchum. |
| 1:02.7 | Peter has had a stellar career in television, although you may never have seen him. In 1985, |
| 1:08.2 | he joined the staff of the independent production company Talkback Productions |
| 1:12.2 | as a producer. Talkback was founded by comedians Mel Smith and Griffries Jones to produce radio |
| 1:18.1 | programs and adverts and to make corporate videos. Peter became the company's managing director |
| 1:23.4 | in 1986 and in 1989 oversaw the move of Talkback into fully fledged television production |
| 1:29.8 | when it produced its founder's sketch show, Alas Smith and Jones, for BBC One. |
| 1:35.1 | Talkback became particularly well known for its comedy output, which included such shows as |
| 1:40.1 | the day-to-day, knowing me, knowing you, with Alan Partridge, they think it's all over, |
| 1:45.0 | never mind the Buzz Cox, I'm Alan Partridge, Smack the Pony, and an Ali G show. |
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