The Harry Hill Show

A veteran of the comedy game Mark Steel has been making people laugh from the stage for over three decades and has been a regular on the radio and TV shows such as Have I Got News For You and others, but before that he had plenty of other jobs including being a milkman and achieving a possible unofficial world land speed record in a milk float. In this episode Harry has a Silly Thing you can build at home, and we learnt all about the mysteries of UFOs thanks to Nick Pope formerly of the Ministry of Defence. Find out more about Nick and his work at nickpope.net or follow him on Twitter / XYou can find out when Mark is touring and follow him on his socials at marksteelinfo.comHarry is on tour in 2025! Get your tickets at harryhill.co.ukGet in touch: [email protected]: www.harryhill.co.ukInstagram: @mrharryhillYouTube: @harryhillshowProducer Neil FearnA 'Keep it Light Media' productionAll enquiries: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sara Pascoe turns up for old times' sake, gets grilled by not one but two Sarah's, pitches a Thursday Murder Club rival called The Wednesday Hospice Pickpocket Club, and has her own historic bankruptcy read out live on air by an AI bot with a long memory and no filter. We welcome Queensmith CEO Brett Afshar for this week's theme, Diamonds, and somebody ends up wearing a £185,000 ring.0:17 Going Through My Dead Nan's Handbag2:19 The Locket2:45 Enter Sarah Pascoe3:12 Licky3:36 Catching Up: "Long Time No See"3:50 The YFCs and the Boadicea Chariot Comedy Analogy7:03 The Weirdos Book Club7:13 Flight from Death Row and the Withered Twin Theory8:38 Comedians Training Their Dogs8:58 Amanda Lamb, Shepherd9:49 Sarah's Verdict on AI10:20 The U2 Album Everyone Hated11:49 The Houseboat on the Strait of Hormuz12:14 Turning Down Riyadh and Dubai13:16 Enter the Other Sarah (the AI Bot)16:02 You Must Be Joking and The Tomorrow People18:38 The Belt That Made His Trousers Fall Down19:16 Meeting Cariad Lloyd at University20:11 The Wisest Thing Anyone's Said About Podcasts24:19 The Participation Song25:11 Would I Lie to You and the Lee Mack Rule26:09 The QI Fee and the BBC Tartan26:57 Hosting Have I Got News for You (and the Glue Prank)28:31 Last One Laughing and the Case for Bob Mortimer30:24 Should Roisin Be Allowed in the Room?32:04 A Cigar and Her First-Ever Stand-Up Gig33:07 Interrupted by a Deliveroo (For Greg Wallace)41:44 Twix Drop (Possibly Poisoned)42:20 Why AI Should Run on Sewage44:16 Sacked from The Great British Sewing Bee46:14 The Thursday Murder Club and the Hospice Pickpocket Pitch50:50 Medievaloo52:48 Theme of the Week: Diamonds with Brett Afshar53:23 What Actually Is a Diamond?54:34 How Diamonds Reach the Surface55:36 The History of the Diamond Engagement Ring56:43 Where in the World Diamonds Are Mined58:47 How You Cut a Diamond With a Diamond59:26 The Largest Diamond Ever Found1:00:33 What Makes a Diamond Valuable1:01:37 Carats, Explained1:04:38 Trying On a £185,000 Ring1:06:53 Blood Diamonds and Diamond Ethics1:08:06 Lab-Grown Diamonds1:11:30 Harry's Joke CornerNew episodes of The Harry Hill Show every Monday. Subscribe so you don't miss Gary's Joke Corner.#TheHarryHillShow #HarryHill #SaraPascoe Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Matt Baker - TV royalty, now knee-deep in mud - turns up straight off the train from Durham and gets sniffed out and confesses to the Great Nuremberg Pork Allergy Incident.We're joined by underwater archaeologist Dr Peter Campbell for this week's themed deep-dive, Sunken Cities, and Matt is put through a bruising round of What Is the Velcro Singing?1:20 Unfinished Business3:29 Enter Matt Baker, Show Mascot3:52 The Swiss Army Taser5:02 Max the Cab Driver's Horse-and-Cart Trivia8:22 Sarah the AI Bot Profiles Matt Baker11:12 Gymnastics, Ballet12:13 Attempting the Crab (Slipped Disc Warning)14:08 Blue Peter, Meg the Sheepdog and the "Stolen" Dog16:46 The Nuremberg Donkey and the Pork Allergy Origin Story18:59 Every Blue Peter Presenter Ever19:53 Countryfile, The One Show and "How Do You Sleep?"20:45 Banned for Throwing Bread: One Show Memories23:30 Casting Mary Berry as a Co-Host25:01 Celebrity Showjumping for Sport Relief26:03 Gary's Advert: The EPOK Pen for Pork Allergies27:57 Theme of the Week: Sunken Cities with Dr Peter Campbell29:11 What Actually Is a Sunken City?33:01 Debunking Atlantis34:38 Mapping the Nile, the Tiber and the Thames36:17 Sonar Scanning the Riverbed39:03 Where to Go: Baia, Italy40:37 What Is the Velcro Singing?43:34 Matt's New Caravan Pet Podcast46:09 Gary's Joke Corner48:46 Goodnight from The Harry Hill ShowNew episodes of The Harry Hill Show every Monday.#TheHarryHillShow #HarryHill #MattBaker"Matt Baker" by Wikipedia contributors, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Derived from the Wikipedia article on Matt Baker. / This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the final episode before our summer break, we're joined by Bob Mortimer's co-host, comedy royalty, Paul Whitehouse.Paul who gets sniffed, interrogated, and thoroughly background-checked by a passive-aggressive AI bot with opinions about Rick Stein—alongside Bat Conservation Trust director Joe Nuñez-Miño for an hour of sketch-show mega-nostalgia, dodgy fishing anecdotes, and enough vampire bat trivia to ruin Halloween forever.If you've ever wanted to hear a bat expert calmly explain that echolocation is actually a bat's expensive last resort behind perfectly good eyesight, or witness Harry's own AI son get tased with a homemade "Swiss Army taser" made from a nine-volt battery before the theme tune's even finished, listen up.00:01 – Steve Bartlett's Diary of a CEO02:47 – Licky Learns the Hard Way What a Taser Tastes Like03:08 – Welcoming Paul Whitehouse04:06 – Retirement Pods, Coffins, and the Case for Downsizing Into the Garden06:04 – A Solemn Tribute to Ted, the Gone Fishing Dog Who Never Cared About Anyone07:43 – A Heron Impression Decades in the Making, Featuring Isaac Walton09:08 – Salmon Spearing, Feargal Sharkey, and a Rare Moment of Actual Politics10:11 – Sarah the AI Bot11:34 – Harry's Boyhood Fishing Career: Zero Fish, Infinite Trauma12:22 – Sarah Reveals Paul's Dad Worked for the Coal Board and His Mum Sang Opera, Somehow Producing Paul13:11 – Les Dennis Gets Decked by Bob Mortimer in a White-Collar Boxing Ring14:22 – Paul's Mum Left School at Fourteen, Which Somehow Leads to a Welsh Choir Tangent15:19 – Paul's Mum's Voice Turns Up on a Gone Fishing Recording and Everyone Loses It Slightly16:33 – Harry Enfield Plays Harry Hill With a Bald Cap and Weaponised Tear Ducts18:36 – Peter Fincham's Terrible Beatles-and-Stones Covers Band Staring Down Gary Barlow20:19 – Sarah Digs Up a Punk Band Called The Right Hand Lovers21:26 – Paul Firmly Denies Ever Squatting, Actually Worked for Enfield Council22:34 – Five Years as a Plasterer, Which He Genuinely Enjoyed23:44 – Paul Goes Mute for Five Weeks at School, Returns Speaking Full Mockney24:59 – Sarah Wraps Up With The Fast Show, Gone Fishing, and Playing Argus Filch28:39 – Turning Down a Twix on Account of Type 2 Diabetes29:45 – Defending The Fast Show's Famously Rubbish Title30:18 – A Clause 28 Joke Delivered Entirely in Character as Loadsamoney31:19 – Pitching Cartoons to the BBC and Mourning the Death of Sketch Comedy32:51 – Johnny Vegas Texts Paul About a Whiskey Galore Remake and a Sketch Called Heroin Galore33:39 – Why Broadcasters Will Fund Any Drama But Basically No Sketch Show34:44 – A Fake Telethon Called Charity Innovatathon Featuring Trevor McDonald and a Liz Truss Coin Collection37:40 – Theme of the Week: Bats, With Actual Expert Joe Nunes-Mino39:04 – What Is a Bat, Actually? 1,500 Species and Counting39:43 – The UK Has 18 Bat Species, One of Which Is Just Three Individuals Who Might Not Even Live Here40:32 – Dracula Jokes, and a Firm Reminder That Spiders Are Not Insects42:18 – Bat Sex Explained: Stored Sperm All Winter, Then an October Decision43:08 – Maternity Roosts Operate a Strict No-Males Policy44:02 – Horseshoe Bats Give Birth Upside Down and Catch the Baby Themselves44:40 – Bats Apparently Need Flying Lessons Too, Courtesy of the UK's Bat Carer Network45:51 – Myth Busted: Bats Can See Perfectly Well and Echolocation Is Just Expensive Shouting47:54 – No, Bats Do Not Make Good Pets, Cue the Inevitable Vampire Bat Questions48:19 – Vampire Bats Snack on Cattle Hooves and, Apparently, Sea Lions49:14 – Some Bats Live to 41, Which Is Longer Than Most Marriages on This Podcast50:24 – All UK Bats Are Protected By Law, So Please Stop Trying to Eat Them52:14 – The National Bat Helpline 54:48 – Gary's Joke Corner57:00 – Butterfly in Blue JeansLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week’s episode of the Podscarf, we welcome legendary music producer Rick Rubin—who accidentally ruins our viewer retention stats before getting violently dragged off set—alongside Radio 1 DJ Melvin Odoom and Southwark Borough Fire Commander Daniel Capon for an hour of pure, unadulterated legacy media chat and safety protocols. If you've ever wanted to hear a group commander explain why you should never, under any circumstances, throw a bucket of water on a kitchen oil fire, or witness an adult man explain a legendary schoolyard Desmond’s impression that culminates in a smelly finger, listen up. -00:04 – Rick Rubin's Creative Process01:37 – Analyzing the Podscarf Stats: The Sudden Rick Rubin Retraction Dip02:27 – The Irish vs. Ghanaian Apostrophe Scandal with Melvin Odoom02:49 – Radio 1 Live Lounge Lore: Chilling out with an Enigmatic Harry Styles03:54 – Cantaloupe Melon Sugar: Harry Admits He Is Way Too Old for Current Music04:44 – Licky the Mascot Debuts an Elaborate Swiss Army Taser Dance05:58 – Selling Nine-Volt Batteries and Homemade Shock Equipment for £2006:31 – Misidentifying Greg Wallace and Stalking the Aisles of Home Bargains07:27 – Buying Eight-Foot Teddy Bears and Massive Boxes of Chewing Gum08:03 – CDJs vs. Vinyl: Embracing the Technical Demise of Creative Revenue09:29 – Sarah the AI Bot Offers a Fork Bump and Wants to Kiss Your FM10:10 – Biographies of North London: From Cricklewood to Seven Sisters11:06 – Minoring in Apple Trees: Learning How to Plan Content at Bedfordshire11:56 – A-Level Acting Failures, Clearing, and Stanning Trevor Nelson12:29 – Harry’s Trendy Habits as a Six Music Dad Who Secretly Listens to Gold13:15 – Student Radio Origin Stories and Trading Drama Classes for BBC Toast13:53 – Fired From Capital Radio: The Demise of the 2004 Playlist14:37 – Looking Out at the Aberdeen Museum of Steak while Evanescence Plays15:24 – Welcome to Funch: The 18-to-24 Female Focus Group Disaster16:49 – Chatting Rubbish vs. Real Work: Melvin’s Mum the Dementia Care Worker17:36 – Demanding Jollof Rice and Chicken 18:00 – Sarah Breaks Down the 2009 Kiss Breakfast Sony Radio Silver Award18:48 – Dick and Dom Bungalow Memories and Bleeding Love on a Miniature Guitar19:57 – The Nose-Flute Solo Experiment22:02 – Steve Wright’s The Slammer and Getting Your Foot on the Rung via Free Toast23:03 – Strictly Christmas Revenge and Scored Minuses on House of Games24:16 – Celebrity Take Me Out Lift Entrances and a Fake Date at a Holborn Bowling Alley25:27 – E4’s My Hotter Half: Using Mood Lighting to Make Over Ugly Couples26:12 – Naked Attraction Musings: Releasing Inhibitions and Boosting Ratings27:42 – SUV Entrances on Traitors and Marvin Humes’ Jungle Eating Warnings29:32 – GK Barry Pulls Out of the Show to Go to the Brit Awards30:18 – Gifting a Best Single Brit Award to an Incredibly Beautiful James Blunt31:12 – Rick Rubin's Hamburg Cutlery Shop Memory: Paul McCartney’s Missing Spoons32:00 – Making a Clack-Clack Sound on Cherry Bakewell with German Forks33:07 – Firefighting: Welcoming Daniel Capon (The D-Man) from Southwark33:38 – Surviving the 24-Hour Operational Officer Shift Patterns34:06 – Dispelling Misconceptions: 20,000 Fires vs. 56,000 Special Services34:38 – The Ultimate London Fire Brigade Statistic: Exactly Five Cats Rescued from Trees35:27 – Dripping Radiators and Calling 999 Because the Gardener Smashed a Window36:58 – Modern Prevention Safety: Utilizing Free Station Community Rooms38:39 – The Nature of Big Red Toolboxes and Fixing Things by Default39:22 – Cooking Left Unattended: The Demise of the 1970s Damp Tea Towel Protocol40:48 – Sixty-Second Station Mobilization and the Speed Efficiency of the Fire Pole41:08 – Harry’s 1976 Maidstone Scout Firefighter Badge Strike Trauma42:31 – Lithium-Ion Charge Safe Campaigns: The E-Bike Battery Threat43:22 – Containing Black Smoke Inhalation by Keeping Property Doors Firmly Closed44:39 – The Unsung Heroes of the LFB Control Room Network47:05 – Heartwarming and Heartbreaking Families: Working a 30-Year Career48:34 – Online Home Fire Safety Checkers for Vulnerable London Residents50:14 – GAME TIME: "What is the Velcro Singing?!"51:36 – Mistaking Leona Lewis for Little Mix Black Magic and Only Fools and Horses53:22 – Gary’s Joke Corner (Melvin’s Historic Desmond’s Impression)55:19 – Old African Sayings: Itchy Bums, Smelly Fingers, and Schoolyard Training55:34 – Butterfly In Blue Jeans"Melvin Odoom" by Wikipedia contributors, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Derived from the Wikipedia article on Melvin Odoom. / This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.