A 50-degree heatwave, a rusty shower in a converted Indian palace, a chilli that nearly took Tony's face off, and a moped chase through Vientiane — this is the unaired adventure stories collection, and it's about as un-PC as the podcast gets.

Television Times Presents: Adventure Stories Vol. 1, a full-length episode pulled together from unused travel story segments recorded during the show's brief run as All My Clothes Need Burning. Steve is joined by his friend Tony P for stories that didn't quite fit the regular format — and some that probably shouldn't fit any format.

• Delhi, 1999: rickshaw scams, a hedgerow hideout, and a tale that's hard to look good in
• The converted Indian palace with two showers in one room, one producing nothing and the other producing pure rust — and the brine-pickled chilli that nearly demanded a second toilet
• A local "currency collector" on the road to a shipyard inspection
• A moped chase through Vientiane after two masked men on a scooter sliced off Steve's wife's bag, followed by an encounter with a police officer who tried to fine them for reporting the crime

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Following the news of Keir Starmer's resignation, I wanted to jump on the mic and share a few thoughts on why these moments feel like television events in their own right, especially after seeing that bloody lectern again!

I also look back at my brief involvement in Labour politics during the 2010 leadership contest and recount my own encounter with Andy Burnham. Having met various political figures over the years, I explain why I think Burnham could make a compelling future Prime Minister.

This isn't a political podcast, and it certainly isn't a conventional bonus episode, but when the nation's eyes are glued to the screen and history is unfolding live on television, it feels very much in the spirit of Television Times.

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Cal was doing impressions in the playground before he knew it could be a job, appeared on Britain's Got Talent (twice), and is currently touring a show featuring 100 impressions in 60 minutes — and if you catch him at the Edinburgh Fringe, you'll get 101!

Cal is a comedian, impressionist, and pantomime regular from the North East, known for his appearances on Britain's Got Talent and a magnificent touring show that is exactly what it says on the tin.

• How Robin Williams in Mrs Doubtfire made him realise that doing voices could be a job
• Why learning an impression is easier now than ever — and conversely, why finding someone worth impersonating is harder than it's ever been
• Why Jeremy Vine is more fun to impersonate than Piers Morgan, and why mimicking Donald Trump is the exception to every rule
• Why, if you were famous in the 70s, you're famous forever — and why those names still get a bigger reaction than anyone who went viral last week

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Meka Mo grew up in Queens, worked on Wall Street, watched the Miracle on the Hudson happen from her office window, lost a South London church basement crowd the moment she swore in front of some Jamaican grandmas, and has never once been pickpocketed anywhere in the world. She's been navigating cultural minefields ever since — and making it look easy.

Meka Mo is a New York City-based comedian, host of the emotional wellness comedy podcast We're Done Here, and a regular on the international comedy circuit. Her new show, New York City Dreams, will be playing at this year's Edinburgh Fringe.

• Why performing internationally means constantly working out which jokes travel and which ones don't
• Why she's never been pickpocketed anywhere in the world — and the flatmates who kept getting robbed in London
• The Columbus Day joke that went badly in Las Vegas
• Watching the Miracle on the Hudson happen in real time from her office window on Wall Street.

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• Instagram
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• Website

Get tickets for Meka's Edinburgh Fringe show here: NewYorkCityDreams

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Steve returns to the microphone to explain why his brief podcast rebrand has already been abandoned, why Television Times is back, and what he learned from watching listener numbers dwindle.

In this short bonus episode, he talks honestly about burnout, second-guessing three years of work, and the surprisingly emotional experience of trying to rename something that people already know and trust.

• Why the rebrand to All My Clothes Need Burning lasted only a handful of episodes before being reversed
• The listener reaction that convinced Steve he'd made a mistake — and the awkward task of re-editing episodes and contacting guests
• What three years and 120+ episodes have taught him about podcasting, branding, and knowing when to stop fighting your audience

Plus, an adventure story from Thailand in 1999 featuring malaria tablets, questionable holiday hair braiding, and a brief encounter with the Thai police that could have gone very differently.

Normal service resumes shortly. Television Times is back, and Steve will now try to refrain from starting any more unnecessary rebrands.

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Dewey Gaedcke was in Hawaii as a last-minute concierge favour when a friend told him about a volcano worth seeing at night. Five days later, he was rescued by a teenager in a tourist helicopter. The park service had already told his family he was probably dead.

Dewey Gaedcke is known for surviving one of the most extraordinary ordeals in recent memory — five days lost on a remote lava field in Hawaii without water, proper footwear, or any idea where he was.

• The small decisions that compounded into a survival situation — an hour-and-a-half hike, a pair of jogging shoes, and no water
• What it actually feels like to be lost with no landmarks, no path, and no signal
• How he kept himself alive in conditions that should have killed him
• The footage he recorded for his daughters in case he didn't make it
• How a teenager in a tourist helicopter found him after the park service had already told his family to prepare for the worst

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John Scott has been doing stand-up since 1999, accidentally said "Brexit" at a Yorkshire corporate full of insurance folk, co-wrote a Japanese animated drama, and once did a gig in Budapest that he's fairly certain was arranged for the Russian mafia. He also wants to go back in time and hang out with Bowie in Berlin, but then again, who doesn't?

John Scott is a comedian, scriptwriter, and host of The Scottish Sweary News, known for his sharp, laid-back delivery and a career that has taken some genuinely unexpected turns.

• The Budapest gig — flown in, flown out the same night, performing to a room full of salespeople who were, he strongly suspects, selling to some very dodgy people indeed
• Walking on stage at a corporate event and saying the one word he'd told himself not to say
• How a pandemic freelancing site led to co-writing a Japanese animated drama — and what it taught him about storytelling
• How The Scottish Sweary News started as an accident — and suddenly gained thousands of followers
• Why he's stepped back from the Edinburgh Fringe — and why he thinks it stopped being a viable career step a long time ago

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Seymour Mace spent time as a clown in Japan, did a Fine Art degree during COVID, built a potter's wheel in his back garden, got a first, and somewhere in the middle of all that did some stand-up. He's fine.

Seymour Mace is a British comedian and actor known for his surreal, offbeat humour and cult status on the UK comedy circuit, best recognised for his role in the BBC series Ideal.

• How he ended up working as a street clown in Japan in the '90s — and how he nearly stayed on as Big Bird at Tokyo Disneyland
• What doing a Fine Art degree during lockdown taught him about creativity — and why the education system quietly beats it out of most people
• Comedy courses and clown schools — why Seymour thinks the best training is just being around funny people and working out why they're funny
• The freedom of not chasing fame, and why, with no mortgage or anyone to answer to, he's essentially living like a rich person without having to be a c**t

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Howard J Ford has stared down a four-ton boulder held up by a single pebble, sat on funeral pots containing the dead while eating lunch, been lifted off his feet by hundreds of people in Burkina Faso, and walked out of a Mississippi murder house that nobody could bring themselves to buy. All in the name of independent filmmaking.

Howard J Ford is a British filmmaker, director, and cinematographer whose films include The Dead, Never Let Go, The Ledge, River of Blood, Dark Game, Escape, and Bonekeeper — out now on Prime Video & Apple TV. His new action thriller Zipwire is heading to Cannes, and if his track record is anything to go by, it won't be long before it lands on your streaming service of choice.

• Why filming Bonekeeper in real caves in Wales and Herefordshire meant learning to light absolute darkness
• The Burkina Faso incident: filming in a village with no electricity, sitting on pots containing dead relatives, and being swept off his feet by hundreds of people at the end of the shoot
• The haunted house in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where both Howard and his producer felt something was seriously wrong
• The screenplay Howard wrote, which Morgan Freeman once wanted to star in
• Why boredom is the starting point for everything — and how every film begins as a blank void before thousands of images and a story slowly emerge from nothing
• The cannibal on a bicycle who stayed to watch the shoot — and why he was laughing

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Something's changed — and it's bigger than just a name.

After four seasons as Television Times, the podcast has a new title: All My Clothes Need Burning. Steve explains why the change makes sense, where the title came from, and what Season 5 is going to look like.

• Why Television Times always felt like a TV listings show to people who'd never heard it — and why that got old
• Where the title All My Clothes Need Burning comes from — and why it was too good to keep in a drawer
• The new format: funny stories from the road, the set, the tour bus, and the moments that didn't go to plan — from guests and from Steve himself

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