Adam Buxton: Alone in the Shed - Part One
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Adam Buxton writes...
It all started in September 2009 when I was watching a documentary on Channel 4 called in which documentary maker Ed Wardle set off to the Canadian Yukon to see how long he could survive completely alone in the wild (which I think is how the title came about) in order to make his life more extraordinary. Over three episodes we saw Ed swimming nude with his joolies carefully covered, trying to shoot a squirrel out of a tree, getting frightened of bears though he never actually saw one, losing weight and crying and crying and crying. Finally he got fed up and called for the rescue plane, which took him to a hotel where Ed had a Snickers and cried for a while longer. It was the most inspiring thing I have ever seen on television and I vowed to myself that I too would do something to make my life more extraordinary whilst getting myself on TV.
Unfortunately my wife felt that a solo trip to Canada was an unjustifiable drain on the family finances so I decided to see how long I could survive in our shed. The shed is a very special, spiritual place for me. Because I'm one of the most famous people in the country, I am constantly hounded by paparazzi and attractive stalkers and the shed is one of the few places I can go to be free of the attention. I go there to meditate about the media (or 'media-tate'), to stare at printer boxes or just to listen to old Adam & Joe podcasts with a glass of frozen wine. I thought it would be easy to spend several weeks in there but just like Ed Wardle, I soon realised how very wrong and slightly prattish I was.
Come back tomorrow to see what Adam did next... in the shed. Alone in the Shed was previously shown as part of 2009 Unwrapped with Miranda Hart.
Comment number 1.
At 7th Jan 2010, YourNameHere wrote:I'm so glad this turned out to be a spoof. I've had sleepless nights worrying about Buckles since I first saw it.
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