Ep. 515 - Anna Hale
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Anna Hale is a musical comedian, and was the winner of the coveted Audience Favourite prize at the 2024 Musical Comedy Awards, as well as placing second overall. She was also a semi-finalist at Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year 2024 and runner-up at Queerovision 2024. She trained and worked as a musical theatre performer, but now sings her own compositions and is doing what she loves best, which is, as she unashamedly admits, singing, playing instruments and showing off. She’ll be doing it at the Edinburgh Fringe at the Cellar in the Pleasance Courtyard. Anna’s Edinburgh show 2025 is called, Control Freak .
Anna Hale is our guest in episode 515 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 Anna’s Edinburgh show, Control Freak, here - https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/anna-hale-control-freak .
Follow Anna Hale on Instagram: @allhaleanna .
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Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .
Music by Pass The Peas Music .
Artwork by matthewboxall.com .
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| 0:37.5 | Music works uncomplicates. Learn more at freshworks.com. Hello again and welcome to my time capsule. My name's Mike Fenton-Stevens, and My Time Capsule is the podcast where people tell me five things from their life that they wish they had in a time capsule. |
| 1:03.1 | They pick four things that they really love, and one thing they like to bury and forget. |
| 1:08.6 | My guest in this episode is the stand-up comedian Anna Hale. |
| 1:13.2 | Anna is a musical comedian on the verge of doing her debut hour at the Edinburgh Fringe. |
| 1:18.5 | She trained and worked as a musical theatre performer, but very wisely preferred to be her own boss. |
| 1:24.4 | So she's now singing her own compositions and doing what she loves best, which is, |
| 1:29.0 | as she unashamedly admits, singing, playing instruments and showing off a bit. She'll be doing it |
| 1:35.0 | in the cellar at the Pleasant's courtyard at 5.30pm throughout most of August. And Anna's show is |
| 1:41.2 | called Control Freak, well I never, which she started writing in 2022, |
| 1:46.2 | so she should have it the way she wants it by now, I think. |
| 1:49.3 | Still, let's find out, shall we, by meeting this delightful and talented comedian |
| 1:53.5 | and asking her to reveal her five time capsule choices. |
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