Ep. 283 - Bilal Zafar

Bilal Zafar is a stand up comedian, actor and writer who was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe 2016 and won the Hackney Empire New Act Award in the same year. He has taken 3 solo shows to Edinburgh and toured them around the UK including runs at London’s Soho Theatre. As a writer, Bilal created and performed his own stand up special for BBC radio 4, is one of the lead writers on Sketchtopia on BBC Radio 4 and written articles for the Guardian and the Independent. As an actor he’s appears in the sitcoms Catastrophe on Channel4 and Sick of It on Sky 1. He was also in the Feature Film Last Christmas alongside Emma Thompson, Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding. Bilal Zafar is guest number 283 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Bilal Zafar on Twitter: @Zafarcakes &  Instagram: @zafarcakes_ .Watch Bilal on Twitch: twitch.tv/zafarcakes .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass The Peas Music .Artwork by matthewboxall.com .This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people.To support this podcast and get all episodes ad-free, please sign up here - https://mytimecapsule.supercast.com. All money goes straight into the making of the podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.