Ep. 516 - John Michie
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
John Michie is best known for playing Detective Inspector Robbie Ross in Taggart from 1998 to 2010. He later became a household name as Karl Munro in Coronation Street (2011–2013) and as neurosurgeon Guy Self in Holby City and Casualty (2013–2022). More recently, he has joined Season 2 of ITV’s crime series Karen Pirie as Fergus Sinclair, a complex businessman entangled in a decades‑old kidnapping. Karen Pirie is available now on ITVX.
John Michie is our guest in episode 516 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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| 1:13.3 | Music works uncomplicates. Learn more at freshworks.com. Hello again and welcome to my time capsule. I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens and my time capsule is the podcast where people tell me five things from their life they wish they had in a time capsule. They pick four things that they love and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. And my guest in this episode is the actor John Mitchie. John is a Scottish television and film actor, |
| 1:19.3 | known for his roles as Di Robbie Ross in the detective drama series Taggart, Carl Monroe in Coronation Street, and the CEO Guy Self in Casualty and Holby City. He was Detective Chief |
| 1:26.1 | Superintendent Jack Mould Brew in series three of the BBC |
| 1:29.3 | Police Drama London Kills and starred alongside Richard Harris in To Walk with Lions, a film |
| 1:35.6 | based on the life of George Adamson, which saw John back in his childhood home of Kenya, playing |
| 1:41.3 | the wildlife conservationist Tony Fitzjohn. John began his acting career |
| 1:45.9 | on the stage and has appeared in several West End productions, including Jean-Aouille's |
| 1:50.9 | comedy, number one at the Queen's Theatre. He played John in No Cowards' Play Easy Virtue at the |
| 1:56.7 | Garrick Theatre and Walker in Andrew Davis's Pryn at the Lyric Theatre, directed by actor, |
| 2:03.4 | stroke director Richard Wilson, who's been a guest on this podcast if you've not heard it. |
| 2:08.6 | John was directed by Richard Wilson twice more at the Royal Court Theatre in Women Laughing |
| 2:13.3 | and in Simply Disconnected at the Chichester Festival Theatre. |
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