Ep. 480 - Jess Robinson

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-songEdinburgh Festival - https://assemblyfestival.com/whats-on/903-jess-robinson-your-songFollow Jess Robinson on Instagram: @jessrobinsonofficial .Follow My Time Capsule on Instagram: @mytimecapsulepodcast & Twitter/X & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter/X: @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.