Ep. 538 - Beth Rigby - Political Editor of Sky News
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Beth Rigby is the Political Editor of Sky News. She joined the network in 2016 and became Political Editor in 2019, leading coverage of major political events, elections, and interviews with senior figures across Westminster. Before Sky, Beth spent over a decade at the Financial Times, where she served as Deputy Political Editor and Chief Political Correspondent.
Beth Rigby is our guest in episode 538 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 .
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| 0:00.0 | Hello 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 they wish they had in a time |
| 0:21.6 | capsule. They pick four things that they cherish and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. |
| 0:27.5 | And my guest in this episode is Beth Rigby. |
| 0:31.1 | Beth has worked for Sky News since 2016 and was appointed political editor in 2019. |
| 0:37.4 | She's previously worked as a newspaper journalist for The Financial Times and The Times, |
| 0:42.3 | and Beth is a co-host of the weekly political podcast, Electoral Dysfunction, alongside Ruth Davidson and Harriet Harman. |
| 0:50.2 | She graduated with a first in social and political science from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, |
| 0:55.2 | and then went on to gain a master's degree in economics and development studies |
| 0:59.4 | from the Institute of the Latin American Studies at the University of London. |
| 1:03.8 | She's interviewed nearly every politician and government representative |
| 1:07.2 | from the UK and abroad around today, |
| 1:10.0 | and many of her interviews have led to extraordinary |
| 1:12.7 | revelations, usually about her interviewees. Beth won political journalists of the year at the |
| 1:18.7 | 2024 Royal Television Society Awards, where the judges said of her, from a very strong set of |
| 1:24.8 | entries, Beth Rigby was the standout winner. |
| 1:27.9 | Her work is absolutely box office. |
| 1:30.1 | She's always exciting to watch and her packaging is excellent, |
| 1:33.7 | always asking the questions we are all yelling at the telly. |
| 1:36.9 | She does a great democratic service and is a political editor at the top of her game. |
| 1:41.9 | That's not bad, is it? |
| 1:43.2 | But that's just Beth's job. She has many |
| 1:45.9 | other strings to her bow, including running the London Marathon in 2025, raising money for the |
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