Ep. 497 - Miranda Raison

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

🗓️ 1 June 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Miranda Raison is perhaps best known as Jo Portman in BBC’s Spooks. Miranda has most recently been seen leading Britbox’s hit show Sister Boniface Mysteries which she returns for series 4 in 2025. Next up she is leading David Hare’s new play Grace Pervades as Ellen opposite Ralph Fiennes at the Theatre Royal Bath in June 2025. Grace Pervades tells the extraordinary story of Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, the greatest stars of the Victorian stage. Miranda has an extensive theatre CV having played the title role in Anne Boleyn at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre to great critical acclaim as well as Hermione in The Winter’s Tale opposite Kenneth Branagh and Dame Judi Dench at the Garrick Theatre. Further credits include Strangers on a Train at the Gielgund, The River at the Royal Court and The Physicists at The Bush Theatre. Other noteworthy film and television credits include HBO’s Warrior as series regular Nellie, Netflix/Studio Canals’ Spotless, Sky 1’s Safe Space with Clive Davies Fox’s, 24: Live Another Day opposite Yvonne Strahovski and Kiefer Sutherland, Netflix’ Vexed opposite Lucy Punch and Toby Stephens, BBC’s Silk opposite Maxine Peake and Rupert Penry-Jones, Murder on the Orient Express with Judi Dench and Johnny Depp, Breathe and My Week with Marilyn opposite Eddie Redmayne and Emma Watson .

Miranda Raison is our guest in episode 497 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 .

Buy tickets for Grace Pervades with Miranda and Ralph Fiennes at the Theatre Royal Bath - https://www.theatreroyal.org.uk/events/grace-pervades .

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0:00.0	Fulham Pier is.
0:01.2	Being sported for choice in a Riverside food hall.
0:03.6	And playing with interactive art.
0:05.0	Tree pose with river views.
0:06.6	Selly laughing at local comedians.
0:08.2	Kids dancing at a toddler disco.
0:10.2	Declaring checkmate with a nighn.
0:12.0	Flat whites and river strolls.
0:13.5	Sampling chef at and buy at seasonal menus.
0:16.0	Watching rowers go head to head.
0:17.6	Slowing down to enjoy what matters most.
0:20.5	London's most exciting new Riverside destination is now open.
0:25.0	Join us 20th to the 22nd of June for our opening celebration.
0:28.8	Visit fullumpier.com. Hello and welcome to My Time Capsule. I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens as normal, and this is my podcast called My Time Capsule, where people tell me five things from their life that they wish they had in a time
0:54.6	capsule. They pick four things that they really love and one thing they'd like to bury and forget.
1:00.1	And my guest in this episode is the actor Miranda raison. Miranda has appeared in a huge number of
1:06.2	films, TV shows and theatre productions, recently starring in HBO Max's Emmy-nominated martial arts crime
1:12.9	drama, Warrior. She starred in the French feature film L'Enchantur for Studio Canal,
1:18.6	Morales speaks fluent French, unlike me, as you can probably tell from that pronunciation,
1:23.1	and starred as one of the leads, Ruth Penny, in the Sister Boniface Mysteries.
1:33.3	She had major roles in Spooks and 24, was in the Golden Globe winning My Week with Marilyn, which starred Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh and Judy Dench,
1:38.3	and was nominated for two Academy Awards and six BAFTAs.
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