Keith Adams

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1,358 appearances 10 recordings 3 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 6 Sep

Keith Adams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Global News Podcast · Israeli strikes reported in Lebanon, despite Hezbollah ceasefire · 20 Jun 2026 podcast

After studying at the Yale School of Drama, he got involved in TV and theatre, where he was introduced to Mary Tyler Moore.

There was no better introduction to the world of the comedy television series.

Directing some of her enormously popular shows and then those of the equally popular comedian Bob Newhart, it was just the start of a career that saw Burroughs refashioning the genre.

He concentrated on improving every facet, including lighting, camera numbers and comic timing.

And having worked on Taxi with the brothers Glenn and Les Charles, the three determined to acquire more control over their work, which led to Cheers, almost all of whose 275 episodes were directed by Burroughs.

And as a spin-off from that came Frasier, which won five consecutive Emmy Awards.

In the end, Burroughs had directed over a thousand episodes of television and 50 pilots for TV series, including Third Rock from the Sun.

Not to mention various episodes of The Big Bang Theory.

But Burroughs' appearance in the Friends episode, The One with the Butt, stands perhaps as a tribute to his comic sense.

There, he played the director of a film in which the character Joey is cast as Al Pacino's butt-double.

Hey, butt guy, what the hell are you doing?

But as the man behind so many great shows, there was no substitute for James Edward Burroughs.

Terry Egan reporting.

Still to come in this podcast...

And sorry for the slight delay, that's because we take a look at time-lapse footy.

While Pakistan's leaders are playing a big role on the global stage, mediating the deal between the US and Iran, the country remains locked in a conflict of its own with neighbouring Afghanistan.

In its first major offensive action in months, Kabul says it has launched strikes on two provinces in Pakistan, targeting suspected Islamic State militants along the border.

Pakistan has denied that its territory was used at all.

Both sides are giving conflicting information, but the two countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan, they have been clashing near the border areas for several months now, leading to hundreds of deaths, mainly civilian casualties, according to the UN.

Now, in the latest round, the Taliban defense ministry said they used...

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