Ep. 547 - Eli Hart - BBC New Comedy Award 2025 winner
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Eli Hart has just won the 2025 BBC New Comedy Award. He was also a finalist in the Komedia New Comedy Award 2025 and the Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2024. Alongside stand-up, Eli is an award-winning writer and director, with short films selected by numerous respected film festivals, including his film, Regulars, which he wrote and directed and which won the ‘Rising Star’ award at the British Independent Film Festival, and PARIS IN THE RAIN which he also wrote and directed and which won him ‘Best Director’ award at the New Renaissance Film Festival .
Eli Hart is our guest in episode 547 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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| 0:00.0 | Hello again and welcome to my time capsule. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens and my time capsule is, as it's always been, the podcast where people tell me five things from their life they wish |
| 0:21.8 | they had in a time capsule. Four things they love and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. |
| 0:28.2 | My guest in this episode is the stand-up comedian and winner of the BBC New Comedy Award |
| 0:33.3 | 2025, Eli Hart. Eli is, obviously, a comedian, and is from the West Midlands. His gloomy, |
| 0:42.0 | astute comedy about the mundanity of life has quickly established him as a regular on pro-bills |
| 0:47.9 | across the UK. As well as the 2025 BBC New Comedy Award, Eli was a finalist in the Comedia New Comedy Award 2025, |
| 0:56.6 | and he reached the finals of the lesser square new comedian of the year, 2024. |
| 1:02.0 | He's pretty good, actually. |
| 1:03.9 | Alongside stand-up, Eli is an award-winning writer and director, |
| 1:07.6 | with short films selected by numerous respected film festivals, including his |
| 1:11.9 | film, Regulars, which he wrote and directed, and which won the Rising Star Award at the |
| 1:17.3 | British Independent Film Festival, and Paris in the Rain, which he also wrote and directed, |
| 1:22.8 | and which won him Best Director Award at the New Renaissance Film Festival. |
| 1:34.0 | I heard Eli being interviewed on Radio 4, and I immediately knew I'd enjoy having him as a guest on my time capsule. |
| 1:35.4 | And of course, I did. |
| 1:38.6 | And consequently, I hope you enjoyed listening to our chat. |
| 1:40.8 | Here is Eli Hart. |
| 1:45.2 | Hi, Michael. How you doing? I'm very well. I'm lovely to see you. Yeah, Michael. How are you doing? |
| 1:47.1 | I'm very well. I'd love to see you. |
| 1:48.4 | Yeah, good to see you. |
| 1:50.5 | It's amazing, isn't it, that we can just do this? |
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