Hello and welcome to my time capsule revisited.

This is one of our special episodes where I still ask people to tell me five things from their life that they wish they had in a time capsule,

four things that they cherish and one thing that they wish they could bury and forget,

but in this episode we revisit a past guest's episode and see if we cut out anything that we shouldn't have.

Now that habit was particularly the case in some of our early episodes when John, my son and producer,

and I were concerned that we should stick to the subject of the time capsule and the items

being placed in it, rather than rambling off into other areas too much. This, of course, is why

we've had another look at our third episode, recorded with the wonderful stand-up comedian and

presenter Arthur Smith.

Arthur, full name Brian John Arthur Smith, was one of the stand-up performers of the alternative comedy scene in the 1980s,

and still performs today in very much the same manner, and quite often with some of the same jokes.

He's regularly attended the Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Festival since 1977

and still compares the long-running Hackney Empire New Act of the Year competition final.

He's also written a body of serious or semi-serious work,

including stage plays such as an evening with Gary Linneker.

He's been a radio presenter on such BBC programmes as Excess Baggage and Blue Sends, and was one of the grumpy old

men in the television series of that name. This episode was recorded at his apartment in Ballam.

Ways lived for years, and if you've already heard the original episode,

then I hope this version, virtually everything we recorded,

will provide you with some additional anecdotes and stories that will entertain.

It also ought to give you a clearer impression of the delightful, thoughtful, intelligent,

and very funny man that Arthur is.

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