Ep. 508 - Lost Voice Guy AKA Lee Ridley
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Lost Voice Guy, real name Lee Ridley, is the multi-award-winning comedian who shot to fame after winning Britain’s Got Talent in 2018—the first comic to do so using a communication device. He also won the BBC New Comedy Award in 2014 and the Tech4Good “Awesome Award” in 2019, and has featured multiple times in the Disability Power 100 list. Lee has appeared on Live at the Apollo, The Royal Variety Performance, The Last Leg, and The Now Show, and co-created the Radio 4 sitcom Ability. He’s also the author of the bestselling autobiography I’m Only In It For The Parking and stars in the ITVX comedy crime spoof Evil Escapees .
Lee Ridley is our guest in episode 508 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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| 1:06.0 | Music Always seek medical advice from your GP or pelvic health specialist. Hello and welcome to My Time Capsule. My name's Mike Fenton-Stevens. |
| 1:11.6 | My Time Capsule is the podcast where people tell me five things from their life they wish they had in a time capsule. |
| 1:18.6 | Four things that they cherish are one thing they'd like to bury and forget. |
| 1:22.6 | My guest in this episode is the stand-up comedian Lee Ridley. |
| 1:32.7 | Lee is probably best known by his stage name, Lost Voice Guy, and as the winner of Britain's Got Talent. |
| 1:33.8 | At the age of six months, he was diagnosed with a form of cerebral palsy, brought about by a brain |
| 1:38.9 | infection that left him in a coma for two months, which affected his movement and rendered |
| 1:44.0 | him unable to speak. |
| 1:45.8 | His disability in early life made it difficult for him to communicate with people, |
| 1:49.9 | until the age of eight when he received his first communication device, |
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