The Harry Hill Show

Harry's elephant rescue mission takes an unexpected turn involving a clown, a dark web chat room and the police.

Comedian, quizzer and former GP Paul 'The Sinnerman' Sinha stops by to talk about following in Harry's footsteps at St George's Medical School, the brutal realities of the World Quizzing Championships and staying relevant enough for The Chase.

This weeks Theme of The Week is TAXIDERMY! Simon 'The Stuffa' Wilson tells us all about life stuffing animals for Hollywood.

00:22 – Sarah the baby elephant: the clown-rescue story
02:53 – Sarah comes on stage
04:10 – Gary announces the guest
04:24 – Paul Sinha says hello to Licky
05:01 – Harry and Paul's shared history: a brutal 1995 gig in South London
06:33 – Doctor by day, open-mic comic by night
08:53 – Sarah the AI Bot: St George's, the "slag mag," and the racist admissions computer
16:16 – Why quizzing? Paul's dad's "you're no son of mine" ultimatum
17:30 – Growing up on Sale of the Century and old-school TV quizzes
19:10 – Gary's phone call aside (the "never actually a doctor" gag)
20:07 – Sarah AI Bot: career highlights, The Weakest Link to The Chase's "Cinnamon"
20:52 – The Twix draw / Cinnamon vs. Sinner name mix-up
21:48 – How the World Quizzing Championships actually works
24:08 – Staying relevant for The Chase
26:56 – Paul's book, Once Sinner Lifetime, and getting a mention in it
29:10 – St George's memories and Dominic Holland, Spider-Man's dad
31:00 – Corporate gig disasters: Dave the badger and the Southampton guessing game
33:27 – Regency Innovations Home Cremation
34:36 – Theme of the week: Taxidermy with Simon "the Stuffa" Wilson
44:36 – Name the Celebrity Seed
49:35 – Gary's Joke Corner
52:40 – Butterfly In Blue Jeans

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In this week's episode of the Podscarf, we welcome prop comedy legend, Spencer Jones, alongside University of Manchester New Testament scholar Dr Andrew Boakye, for an hour of pure, unadulterated junk-shop invention and first-century Galilean prophecy. Licky's fame finally goes to his head, Spencer unveils a £160 pair of parcel-photo feet, Sarah the AI Bot grows a moustache, and Gary goes blonde.

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Sunil Patel turns up to be offered a Scotch Prize Ball (Regency Innovation TM), asked repeatedly about working for Natwest, and finds out from an AI bot that his dad ran a pub, prompting a full on-air correction.

Harry sits down with crime historian Dr Angela Buckley for this week's themed deep-dive, Victorian Crime, and somebody nearly wins a round of Name the Celebrity Seed.

0:17 The Mechanically Reclaimed Meat Society (MRSA)
1:03 Introducing Scotch Prize Balls
4:01 Offering Sunil a Scotch Prize Ball
4:52 "Have We Met Before?"
5:05 The Radio Show About Living Forever
5:26 The Man Who Freezes Bodies
6:01 £130k for Full-Body Cryonics
6:38 Who Makes This Set?
7:14 How Cryonic Freezing Actually Works
7:55 "I'm Going to Say Scam"
8:07 Paying for Your Own Cryonics with Life Insurance
9:20 Is There a Halfway House for Frozen Guys?
9:25 Middle-Aged Men Freezing Their Dead Mothers
10:11 How Sunil Feels About AI
11:26 Mistaken for a Fred West Advert
11:49 Nationwide or NatWest?
13:01 Sarah's AI Biography Begins
14:57 "Not Much Clear Information About Me Online"
15:04 The University of Kent Honorary Doctorate
16:02 How He Drifted Into Stand-Up
17:28 Sarah's Grudge Against Charles the Robot
19:13 "Best Actor in That Nationwide Advert"
20:51 The Crypto Podcast and the 12-Year-Old NFT Millionaire
21:37 Pitching HasBucks: A New Cryptocurrency
22:24 What's Next for Sunil Patel
22:49 Starting Out on Radio 4's Weekending
23:43 The Trousers-Falling-Down Pitch Meeting
24:19 The Beans-Down-the-Pants Comedian
25:39 Twix Drop
26:04 Ad Break: Scotch Prize Balls (Full Advert)
27:18 Theme of the Week: Victorian Crime with Dr Angela Buckley
28:22 What Actually Was Victorian Crime?
29:34 Buzzers, Snow Dippers and Victorian Thief Slang
30:16 Crimes Against Property vs Crimes Against People
30:56 Policing Before the Police: The Bow Street Runners
31:44 Punishments: Capital Crimes, Fines and Transportation
32:17 Detectives in Disguise
33:24 Modern Pickpocketing (and Phone Theft)
34:17 Jack the Ripper
35:16 Why the Press Made Him a Legend
37:03 The Royal Family Conspiracy Theory
38:00 The Victorian Crime Hotbeds
38:37 Murdered in Your Own Bed
39:51 The Victorian Version of a Phone Scam
40:06 Prison Treadmills
40:54 Why Transportation to Australia Ended
43:20 Where to Find Dr Angela Buckley's Work
44:16 How Victorian Detectives Actually Solved Crimes
47:22 "Criminals Always Return to the Scene"
47:54 Are Criminals Getting Better?
48:24 Name the Celebrity Seed
52:31 Gary's Joke Corner
54:15 Butterfly In Blue Jeans

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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 Handbag
2:19 The Locket
2:45 Enter Sarah Pascoe
3:12 Licky
3:36 Catching Up: "Long Time No See"
3:50 The YFCs and the Boadicea Chariot Comedy Analogy
7:03 The Weirdos Book Club
7:13 Flight from Death Row and the Withered Twin Theory
8:38 Comedians Training Their Dogs
8:58 Amanda Lamb, Shepherd
9:49 Sarah's Verdict on AI
10:20 The U2 Album Everyone Hated
11:49 The Houseboat on the Strait of Hormuz
12:14 Turning Down Riyadh and Dubai
13:16 Enter the Other Sarah (the AI Bot)
16:02 You Must Be Joking and The Tomorrow People
18:38 The Belt That Made His Trousers Fall Down
19:16 Meeting Cariad Lloyd at University
20:11 The Wisest Thing Anyone's Said About Podcasts
24:19 The Participation Song
25:11 Would I Lie to You and the Lee Mack Rule
26:09 The QI Fee and the BBC Tartan
26:57 Hosting Have I Got News for You (and the Glue Prank)
28:31 Last One Laughing and the Case for Bob Mortimer
30:24 Should Roisin Be Allowed in the Room?
32:04 A Cigar and Her First-Ever Stand-Up Gig
33:07 Interrupted by a Deliveroo (For Greg Wallace)
41:44 Twix Drop (Possibly Poisoned)
42:20 Why AI Should Run on Sewage
44:16 Sacked from The Great British Sewing Bee
46:14 The Thursday Murder Club and the Hospice Pickpocket Pitch
50:50 Medievaloo
52:48 Theme of the Week: Diamonds with Brett Afshar
53:23 What Actually Is a Diamond?
54:34 How Diamonds Reach the Surface
55:36 The History of the Diamond Engagement Ring
56:43 Where in the World Diamonds Are Mined
58:47 How You Cut a Diamond With a Diamond
59:26 The Largest Diamond Ever Found
1:00:33 What Makes a Diamond Valuable
1:01:37 Carats, Explained
1:04:38 Trying On a £185,000 Ring
1:06:53 Blood Diamonds and Diamond Ethics
1:08:06 Lab-Grown Diamonds
1:11:30 Harry's Joke Corner

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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 Business
3:29 Enter Matt Baker, Show Mascot
3:52 The Swiss Army Taser
5:02 Max the Cab Driver's Horse-and-Cart Trivia
8:22 Sarah the AI Bot Profiles Matt Baker
11:12 Gymnastics, Ballet
12:13 Attempting the Crab (Slipped Disc Warning)
14:08 Blue Peter, Meg the Sheepdog and the "Stolen" Dog
16:46 The Nuremberg Donkey and the Pork Allergy Origin Story
18:59 Every Blue Peter Presenter Ever
19:53 Countryfile, The One Show and "How Do You Sleep?"
20:45 Banned for Throwing Bread: One Show Memories
23:30 Casting Mary Berry as a Co-Host
25:01 Celebrity Showjumping for Sport Relief
26:03 Gary's Advert: The EPOK Pen for Pork Allergies
27:57 Theme of the Week: Sunken Cities with Dr Peter Campbell
29:11 What Actually Is a Sunken City?
33:01 Debunking Atlantis
34:38 Mapping the Nile, the Tiber and the Thames
36:17 Sonar Scanning the Riverbed
39:03 Where to Go: Baia, Italy
40:37 What Is the Velcro Singing?
43:34 Matt's New Caravan Pet Podcast
46:09 Gary's Joke Corner
48:46 Goodnight from The Harry Hill Show

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