Ep. 573 - Katie Wimpenny - Just finished 2 years in Harry Potter and The Cursed Child
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Katie Wimpenny is an actor and writer who’s just finished a two year run in the West End in Harry Potter and The Cursed Child. She’s also been in Doctors, Emmerdale, Holby City, Marchlands, The Bill, Shameless, Hustle, North and South and Wire in the Blood. Katie is in the new short film Joke by Bob Cryer, a tribute to the jokes of his dad, Barry Cryer, alongside Rebecca Front, Sophie Duker, Justin Edwards, Ashley Taylor Dawson, Les Dennis, Judi Dench, Miles Jupp, Stephen Fry, Michael Palin, Jack Docherty, Harry Hill, Alison Steadman and Michael Fenton Stevens. Katie’s first short film, Time Away was funded by The BFI, produced by Adrian Bate at Vox Pictures and directed by Maxine Peake. The film premiered at Edinburgh Film Festival, 2018. It also screened at Bolton Film Festival, BFI, London Short Film Festival, Hebden Bridge and The Underwire Festival at which she was nominated for best screenwriter .
Katie Wimpenny is our guest in episode 573 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. I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is, as it's been from the beginning, the podcast where people tell me five things from their life they wish |
| 0:20.8 | they had in a time capsule. They pick four things that they really love or cherish, and one |
| 0:26.3 | thing they'd like to bury and forget. My guest in this episode is the actor, Katie Wimpenny. |
| 0:32.4 | Katie is in the new short film by Bob Cryer, a tribute to the jokes of his dad Barry Cryer, alongside Rebecca |
| 0:38.9 | Front, Sophie Duker, Justin Edwards, Tilly Vosborough, Les Dennis, Abby McCurn, Miles Jupp, Stephen Frye, |
| 0:47.4 | Jack Doherty, Harry Hill, Alison Stedman, and of course, me, as well as Judy Dench. |
| 0:57.2 | Not bad, eh? Anyway, Katie has done loads of other things. She's written for TV and film, being on the telly and doctors, Everdale, Holby City, |
| 1:02.2 | Marchlands, The Bills, Shameless, Hustle, North and South, and Wire in the Blood. She's just |
| 1:07.9 | finished a two-year run in the West End in the Harry Potter play, |
| 1:16.9 | The Cursed Child, and she's been in a few films. But that's just work. The important thing is, |
| 1:22.2 | what from Katie's life, does she really cherish? And what's the one thing she'd like to forget? |
| 1:29.2 | Let's waste no more time and find out, shall we? Here is my time capture conversation with Katie Wimpenny. |
| 1:33.2 | Hi. |
| 1:35.4 | Hi, Katie, you're right. |
| 1:36.7 | Yeah, how are you? |
| 1:38.3 | Very good, very good. |
| 1:39.3 | Who's that you got there? |
| 1:41.1 | Oh, this is my cat. |
| 1:42.2 | This is Woody. |
| 1:43.3 | Lovely. |
| 1:44.6 | I've got two. |
| 1:47.2 | I've got another one that's asleep over there. |
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