Ep. 531 - Ray Bradshaw

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

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Ray Bradshaw is a Scottish stand-up comedian, presenter, and writer. He is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio Scotland and regularly appears on radio shows such as Off the Ball and Breaking the News. His innovative show Deaf Comedy Fam—performed in both spoken English and British Sign Language—won critical acclaim and a Scottish Culture Award, cementing his reputation as one of the most inventive voices in comedy today. He has previously supported John Bishop on his arena tour as well as numerous tours with Frankie Boyle .

Ray Bradshaw is our guest in episode 531 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 .

Tickets for Ray’s tour are available here - https://www.raybradshaw.com/dates .

For everything else Ray Bradshaw, visit - https://www.raybradshaw.com .

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Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .

Music by Pass The Peas Music .

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0:00.0	They did it again. Flower, instead of flowers, on my birthday. And 95 minutes late, but it's hard to leave when you've shared so much. Your postcode, your gluten intolerance. Then I saw it. 25% off your first Akado shop, plus free delivery. And I just knew I'd found the online supermarket of my dreams.
0:21.8	Akado, life delivered.
0:23.5	Geographical restrictions, min spend 60 pounds and charges apply.
0:26.7	Max saving 20 pounds, new customers only, terms at Akado.com. Hello and welcome to my time capsule.
0:45.3	I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is, as it's always been, the podcast where people tell me the five things from their life that they wish they had in a time capsule, four things that they love and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. My guest
0:59.4	in this episode is the comedian Ray Bradshaw. Now, Ray is an international multi-award winning comedian
1:05.9	who performs shows all over the world. He's about to embark on his fourth UK tour with his brand new show,
1:12.5	Coda. Ray is a regular feature on UK television and can be heard on national radio weekly.
1:18.3	He's previously supported John Bishop on his arena tour, as well as numerous tours with Frankie Boyle.
1:24.2	Ray's own podcast, called Fantasy Fives, which is all about a guest picking their dream five-aside team, has had rave reviews. And having grown up with deaf parents, Ray has signed since he was a small child, and recently has introduced signing for all his own shows, including where he does the signing himself, quite extraordinary. Or does Ray not see it that way?
1:45.5	Well, let's find out as we ask one of the funniest comedians in the UK,
1:49.1	the five things he'd want in a time capsule.
1:56.4	I understand when you have a number of things to do in a day,
2:00.1	and you go, right, I'm going
2:01.0	to start again, am I? I'm going to try not to ask you the same questions when I'm not going to ask you any questions. I will happily talk the same amount of shite over and over again. So we're all good. I've actually had to reframe so you can see my son's Lego behind me because I had to move over. Yeah. Because it was bouncing off the sound. I've got a door covered in
2:18.6	grandchildren's drawings.
2:21.0	Do you know why that is? son's Lego behind me because I had to move over. Yeah. Because it was bouncing off the sight of the last of. I've got a door covered in grandchildren's drawings.
2:21.0	Do you know why that is? That door is covered in
2:23.4	grandchildren's drawings because they came in and I
2:26.3	came and saw me and said the paint came off the door.
2:30.7	And I said, oh did it? Did it just fall off?
2:36.8	Clearly they'd slowly been, all that comes,
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