Ep. 480 - Jess Robinson
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Jess Robinson is a multiple award-winning impressionist, actor, voice artist and classically-trained singer, who is the lead female voice artist in the new Spitting Image and a regular on Channel 4’s The Last Leg. She has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe with a new show every year since 2014; including the wildly successful NO FILTER, which rounded off a critically-acclaimed, nationwide tour with a five-night run at the Soho Theatre in 2019. Her podcast Stars In Your Ears with Jess Robinson won Best Entertainment Podcast at the British Podcast Awards in 2021. On stage, Jess played the title role in Jim Cartwright’s Little Voice and joined The Guilty Feminist on their UK tour and at the Royal Albert Hall and Hammersmith Apollo. Jess has appeared on TV shows as far reaching as CBBC’s hit Horrible Histories, The Impressionists Show (BBC 1), The Last Leg (C4), The Week That Wasn’t (Sky 1), Don’t Hate The Playaz (ITV) and The Imitation Game (ITV). In 2017, Jess appeared on BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT, making it to the live shows. Her audition video became a viral sensation, clocking up millions of online views.
Jess Robinson is our guest in episode 480 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 .
Tickets for Your Song, Jess’s Elton John’s songs show, are available here:
Soho Theatre - https://sohotheatre.com/events/jess-robinson-your-song
Edinburgh Festival - https://assemblyfestival.com/whats-on/903-jess-robinson-your-song
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Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .
Music by Pass The Peas Music .
Artwork by matthewboxall.com .
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to my time capsule. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is a podcast where people tell me five things from their life they wish they had in a time capsule. |
| 0:20.9 | They pick four things they love and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. |
| 0:25.6 | My guest in this episode is Jess Robinson. |
| 0:29.2 | Now, Jess is a multi-award winning impressionist, actor, voice artist, and classically trained singer. |
| 0:35.7 | She was the lead female voice artist in the new spitting image |
| 0:38.6 | and is a regular on Channel 4's The Last Leg. |
| 0:42.0 | In fact, you might have seen her recently performing live, |
| 0:45.1 | her version of defying gravity about the Labour government, |
| 0:48.7 | called Denying Disability. |
| 0:51.3 | Jess has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe with a new show every year since 2014, |
| 0:56.3 | including the wildly successful No Filter, which rounded off a critically acclaimed nationwide tour |
| 1:01.9 | with a five-night run at the Soho Theatre. Her podcast stars in Your Ears, won Best Entertainment |
| 1:08.3 | Podcast at the British Podcast Awards in 2021, probably because I didn't enter. |
| 1:14.2 | Or maybe because it's better. |
| 1:15.8 | Anyway, alongside her stage work, playing the title role in Jim Cartwright's Little Voice, |
| 1:20.9 | and joining the guilty feminists on tour in the UK, and at the Royal Albert Hall and Hammersmith Apollo, |
| 1:27.3 | Jess has appeared on TV shows as far-reaching as CBBC's hit Horrible Histories, |
| 1:32.8 | Dead Ringers, The Impressionist Show, The Last Leg, as mentioned, The Week That Wasn't, |
| 1:37.8 | Don't Hate the Players, and The Imitation Game. |
| 1:41.2 | She's released two albums and sang the theme tune for the recently released Horrible |
| 1:45.3 | Histories of the movie, and she's voiced countless characters on an array of UK and US |
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