Ep. 471 - Ruth Bratt

My Time Capsule

Cast Off Productions

Comedy, Lee Mack, Interview, Comedy Interviews, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Rob Brydon, Caroline Quentin, Mike Fenton Stevens, David Mitchell, Michael Fenton Stevens, Arabella Weir, Stephen Fry, Ross Noble

4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Ruth Bratt became a permanent member of the world famous Comedy Store Players in 2024, the first new permanent member for nearly 30 years. She played the recurring character of Roche in the comedy show People Just Do Nothing. Ruth is a founder member of Showstopper: The Improvised Musical. The show had its own series for Radio 4 and can be seen live in the West End and touring the UK throughout 2025. Ruth was a regular in Touch Me I’m Karen Taylor on BBC3 as Well as Rob Brydon’s Annually Retentive for BBC3. She was in Ricky Gervais’ Derek and Vic Reeves on The Ministry of Curious Stuff. Ruth voiced several characters in both series of the BBC comedy Mongrels. She also plays Marion in Sarah Millican’s hit series for BBC Radio 4, Sarah Millican’s Support Group.

Ruth Bratt is our guest in episode 471 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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1:17.6	Hello and welcome to My Time Capsule. I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens. At My Time Cptial is the podcast where people tell me five things from their life they wish they had in a time capsule. They pick four things they love and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. My guest in this episode is Ruth Brat. Ruth is a comic writer, singer, performer and improviser, and has recently become a permanent
1:49.9	member of the world-famous comedy store players, the first new permanent member for nearly
1:55.4	30 years.
1:57.2	She first came to prominence when she was runner-up in the prestigious nationwide funny women stand-up competition.
2:04.0	Ruth is an improv specialist and was a regular on BBC 2's show, Fast and Loose.
2:09.3	She's also a founder member of Showstopper, the Improvised Musical.
2:13.6	The show had its own series on Radio 4 and can be seen live in the West End and touring the UK throughout 2025,
2:21.2	performing every month for an evening at the Cambridge Theatre in London.
2:25.1	At the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, they were the recipients of the Mervyn Stutter Spirit of the Fringe Award.
2:30.9	And Ruth has performed at the Edinburgh Festival for the last 11 years, where she's performed
2:35.6	with showstoppers and Trod on Brat, a double act with her friend Lucy Trod, which was also a BBC Radio
2:42.2	four series. She was a regular in Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor on BBC 3, appeared in CBBC's The Slammer,
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