Ep. 568 - Beattie Edmondson - Best known for Josh Widdicombe’s sitcom Josh & Disney feature film Patrick
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Beattie Edmondson is a comedy writer performer best known for Disney family entertainment feature film Patrick and three series of BBC3’s sitcom Josh, with Josh Widdicombe, Elis James and Jack Dee . Beattie is in the BBC One drama The Pursuit of Love starring Lily James and written and directed by Emily Mortimer. She is also one third of comedy sketch group Birthday Girls whose podcast Birthday Girls’ House Party was nominated for Best Comedy at the British Podcast Awards. Beattie is a regular on Celebrity Gogglebox and has previously appeared on Celebrity Mastermind. She is the middle daughter of comedians Adrian Edmondson and Jennifer Saunders.
Beattie Edmondson is our guest in episode 568 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 .
Book tickets for Beattie’s show: AN HOUR OF COMEDY: BEATTIE EDMONDSON FIRST AND THEN HOLLY BURN AFTER (OR MAYBE THE OTHER WAY AROUND) - https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/hour-comedy-beattie-edmondson-first-and-then-holly-burn-after-or-maybe-other-way-around-work .
Beattie’s podcast, Birthday Girls House Party - https://anchor.fm/s/63e16794/podcast/rss .
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| 0:00.0 | 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, |
| 0:22.7 | four things they cherish and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. |
| 0:27.2 | My guest in this episode is the actor, comedian and writer, Beatty Edmondson. |
| 0:32.5 | Beatty is a comedy writer, performer, best known for the Disney Family Entertainment feature film Patrick |
| 0:38.0 | and three series of BBC 3's sitcom Josh, with Ellis James, Jack D, and Josh Whittickham. |
| 0:45.8 | Beatty is in the BBC One drama The Pursuit of Love, starring Lily James and written and |
| 0:50.9 | directed by Emily Mortimer. She's also one third of the comedy sketch group |
| 0:55.4 | Birthday Girls, whose podcast, Birthday Girls' House Party, was nominated for Best Comedy |
| 1:01.5 | at the British Podcast Awards and is available on Spotify or via the link in the written description |
| 1:07.6 | of this episode. You'll also find a link to her show Beatty Edmondson first and then Holly Byrne after, |
| 1:14.8 | or maybe the other way round, which will be on at the Pleasance in Islington, London, |
| 1:19.4 | on the 25th of April this year. |
| 1:21.5 | Check it out. |
| 1:22.6 | Beatty is a regular on Celebrity Gogglebox and has previously appeared on Celebrity Mastermind. |
| 1:29.1 | She is, as you probably know, the middle daughter of comedians Adrian Edmondson and Jennifer Saunders. |
| 1:35.4 | So let's discover what Beatty would like to have in her time capsule. |
| 1:39.9 | Have fun, because I did. |
| 2:17.8 | Did you mention, you know, I told you that weird thing in my head... Oh, yeah. About your mum and dad. Do you know, I didn't mention it? Hang on. I should... I should message them and see if that was actually the first one. See if that's the first meeting. Was it when they ran through their set for the comic strip? Yeah. It's, you know, because your brain, it twists things around, doesn't it, all the time? If you talk to somebody else about something from a long time ago, they say that's not what happened at all. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder if, in fact, anything I remember is what actually... Well, I mean, I can't trust any memories anymore. |
| 2:20.7 | No. |
| 2:22.9 | Well, we'll see. |
| 2:24.7 | Well, exactly. |
| 2:26.6 | What's in the time capsule? |
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