Ep. 506 - Chris Tarrant
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Chris Tarrant is a British broadcaster and presenter best known as the original host of the hit quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, which he fronted from 1998 to 2014. With a career spanning over five decades, he began as a radio DJ and rose to fame in the 1970s on the anarchic children’s TV show Tiswas. Tarrant has also hosted numerous radio shows, most notably with Capital Radio, where he hosted the breakfast show for 17 years. Beyond game shows and radio, Tarrant has fronted a wide range of television programmes, including travel documentaries and crime series such as Extreme Railways and Tarrant on TV. Known for his warmth, humour, and distinctive voice, he remains one of Britain’s most enduring and versatile broadcasting personalities. His latest project is the book, For the Love of Bears, where he writes about one of his greatest passions – bears. He regales us with tales of his expeditions to see bears in their stunning, natural habitats, from the Arctic Circle, to Canada, Alaska, Scandinavia and Russia.
Chris Tarrant is our guest in episode 506 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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| 0:33.3 | Music Hello and welcome to my time capsule. 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. They pick four things that they really love, |
| 0:55.2 | and one thing they hate, |
| 0:57.3 | something they'd want to bury in the ground |
| 0:59.0 | and never think of again. |
| 1:01.1 | My guest in this episode is Chris Tarant. |
| 1:04.8 | Chris's break in television came in 1972, |
| 1:07.8 | when he landed a job at the ATV network |
| 1:09.9 | before going on to become a presenter for ATV today. |
| 1:13.5 | He rose to national fame in 1975 as the host of the groundbreaking children's show Tiz was, |
| 1:19.8 | that introduced us Sir Sally James, John Gorman, Bob Carroll G's, David Rappapour, and a very young Lenny Henry. |
| 1:27.4 | From 1984, Chris enjoyed a successful |
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