Hello everyone 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,

four things that they cherish, and one thing they'd like to bury and forget.

My guest in this episode is Geoffrey Holland.

Geoffrey is probably best known for his portrayal of Spike in BBC TV's Heidi High.

Also, the stuffy footman James Twelve Trees in Eurangmalode,

and as Mr. Parkin, the stationmaster, in O. Dr. Beeching. He was born in Warsaw and trained in

Birmingham and began his career with four and a half years in repertory at the Belgrade Theatre

Coventry. He also worked at the Chichester Festival Theatre,

the Edinburgh Festival, appeared in the stage production of television's Dad's Army as to Spiv Private

Walker, had many summer seasons, including the stage production of Heidi High, which enjoyed a

successful run at London's Victoria Palace Theatre, as well as run for your wife at the Criterion Theatre,

and travels with my aunt at the Whitehall.

He was a regular member of the cast of Radio 2's Russ Abbott Show,

and has frequently appeared in radio shows such as weekending, crowned huds, and, well, many more.

He recently had the pleasure of recreating the Peter Sellers' characters in Goon again,

a tribute to the Goon Show for the BBC.

Geoffrey's first TV role was in an episode of Dixon of Doc Green,

and his television work includes such shows as It Ain't Half Hot Mum,

Are You Being Served, Dad's Army, the Mayor of Castelbridge and Russ Abbott's Madhouse.

He's also appeared in three of BBC Two's Shakespeare Productions, Richard II, as you like it, and Henry V.

He appeared in talent, written and directed by Victoria Wood at the Minier Chocolate Factory in London,

and more recently, he toured the UK in Waiting for God and was in Brastoff at the Minier Chocolate Factory in London, and more recently he took the UK in

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