Episode Details

Mark Dolan once hosted a show where people did terrible things to each other on camera, has a very specific dream about opening a chain of cafes serving exactly three types of stew, and his dad's pub was once used as a location in Minder. These facts are all equally important.

Mark Dolan is a British comedian, writer, and television presenter known for hosting Channel 4's Balls of Steel and The World's...and Me, his work at GB News, and a career spanning stand-up, television and radio.

• How it all started with The Improverts at the University of Edinburgh — before anyone was watching
• What hosting Balls of Steel revealed about the risks worth taking on camera — and the ones that aren't
• The fact that Minder was once filmed in his dad's pub — and why this is more relevant than it appears
• What The Jump was really like to film — and what it cost him that the audience never saw

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