Peter Fincham was the Controller of BBC One from 2006 to 2007 and ITV’s Director of Television from 2008 to 20016. Before that, Peter was the Managing Director of TalkBack Productions where he oversaw the creation and production of programmes such as The Day Today, Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge, They Think It’s All Over, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, I'm Alan Partridge, Smack the Pony and Da Ali G Show. TalkBack was sold to FremantleMedia in 2001 and Peter became the chief executive of the newly formed Talkback Thames. Since 2017 he’s been the co-CEO of Expectation, the makers of Clarkson’s Farm and highly successful and multi award winning comedy, Alma’s Not Normal. He also makes a podcast with his old University and Cambridge Footlights friend, the head of Hatrick productions, Jimmy Mulville, called Insiders: The TV Podcast, where two of the most experienced men of TV from the last forty years tell all.

Peter Fincham is our guest in episode 495 of 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 .

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