Hello there! It's me, Harry Hill! I've got a visualised podcast, or A VODSCARF. Nish Kumar said "You're self funding your own mental breakdown" which doesn't feel very fair.
Join me, my son Gary and Sarah the A.I Bot as we talk to a motley crew of comedians, celebrities and cultural icons.
It's also SMART as well as funny as we speak to an expert on stuff like the big bang, sweets, the day of the dead, lighthouses, and even JESUS as well as lots more in our Theme Of The Week!
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Ore Oduba: Stoat Alert, Strictly Glory and Hieronymus Bosch
Season 3 · Episode 8
Monday, November 2, 2026 • Duration 45:24
This week on The Harry Hill Show, the team deal with a stowaway stoat before welcoming Ore Oduba — Newsround alumnus, Strictly Come Dancing champion and Rocky Horror Show veteran.
Sarah the AI Bot runs through his journey from a sporty Dorset childhood and Loughborough University to a broadcasting career spanning Newsround, Match of the Day Kickabout and the Royal Opera House, plus his unlikely Strictly win.
Harry and Ore swap stories about a long-forgotten TV pilot with Janet Street-Porter and Rylan, lockdown’s chaotic drive-in comedy gigs, and treading the boards in The Rocky Horror Show.
This week’s Theme of the Week welcomes art historian Verity Babbs to talk us through the deranged genius of Hieronymus Bosch, before Ore puts his knowledge to the test in a game of What Is The Velcro Singing?, and Gary tries out some jokes in his usual corner.
00:00:00 – Stoat Alert
00:02:04 – Licky
00:03:54 – Reminiscing about a forgotten TV pilot with Janet Street-Porter and Rylan
00:05:57 – Ore plugs his podcast “The Actors Safe Space”
00:07:58 – Sarah the AI Bot’s intro and bio: Dorset childhood, school sports and Loughborough
00:10:06 – PE teacher chat and the Steve Redgrave/Olympics mix-up
00:13:29 – Sarah returns with Ore’s broadcasting CV: Newsround, Sportsround, Match of the Day Kickabout
00:14:24 – Newsround nostalgia and why BBC children’s TV lost its way
00:16:19 – The Royal Opera House ballet relays with Darcy Bussell
00:19:06 – Lockdown drive-in gigs and the car-ferry heckling story
00:21:25 – Sarah’s third update: the National Lottery, Claimed and Shamed, This Morning and winning Strictly
00:22:00 – Joining the cast of The Rocky Horror Show
00:26:23 – Theme of the Week: Hieronymus Bosch with art historian Verity Babbs
00:38:16 – What Is The Velcro Singing?
00:40:33 – Gary’s Joke Corner
00:44:01 – Butterfly In Blue Jenas
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Jessica Fostekew: Barristers, Gravity and a Charred Jürgen Klopp
Season 3 · Episode 7
Monday, October 26, 2026 • Duration 49:17
Harry’s friend Loggy needs the heating turned up, then comedian and Guilty Feminist co-host Jessica Fostekew stops by to talk Club Night, training as a barrister before quitting to do stand-up, and the unexpected size of her nostrils after indoor skydiving. Professor Chris Lintott joins us to talk us through why gravity is the weirdest weak force in physics.
00:00 – Loggy is cold
00:55 – Jessica Fostekew arrives
01:50 – Remembering Club Night
05:11 – Sarah the AI Bot wants to wrestle
06:30 – Barrister training vs. stand-up
12:18 – The Guilty Feminist and “I’m a feminist, but...”
15:02 – Mandy crashes the call 17:28 – How she got into comedy
20:42 – Regency Innovations Presents; Loggy and Co.
21:58 – Theme of the week: Gravity with Professor Chris Lintott
22:38 – The 17th-century spring-powered space chariot
33:07 – Newton’s apple
40:10 – Name the Celebrity Seed
45:50 – Gary’s Joke Corner
48:03 – Butterfly In Blue Jeans
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Leigh Francis: Following Richard and Judy in Character, Lord Byron’s Many Affairs and Harry's freaky ex!
Monday, October 19, 2026 • Duration 56:06
Harry’s ex Mandy crashes the cold open with a few home truths set to music, then Keith Lemon and Bo’ Selecta creator Lee Francis stops by to talk getting discovered by Davina McCall, “manifesting” Keith Lemon on his kitchen wall, following Richard and Judy in character, and testing Celebrity Juice games with Johnny Vegas. Dr Emily Patterson-Morgan joins us in Theme Of The Week to discuss the genuinely unhinged life of Lord Byron.
00:00 – Cold open: Mandy crashes the show
01:20 – Breakup song
03:53 – Leigh Francis arrives
04:40 – Leigh’s podcast with Jill, Emma Bunton and Jade
05:36 – How they really first met
07:49 – Alex Horne and “when’s Kevin Lygo gonna die”
08:18 – Gino D’Acampo’s “northern people” story
09:42 – Show and tell: Fancy Dress Friday
15:16 – Sarah the AI Bot: Lee’s facts and early career
22:14 – Keith Lemon and Avid Merrion origin story
25:20 – Sketch: the dating agency
28:25 – Celebrity Juice, Keith Lemon the Film, Rocketman cameo
32:19 – Ad break: Notorious Baddies Mini Pants
34:01 – Theme of the week: Lord Byron
48:27 – Name the Celebrity Seed
52:20 – Gary’s Joke Corner
54:50 – Butterfly In Blue Jeans
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Paul Sinha: The Racist Admissions Computer, International Quizzing and a Name The Seed Poem.
Season 3 · Episode 5
Monday, October 12, 2026 • Duration 53:52
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
Spencer Jones: Licky is Getting Too Big For His Boots, A Remote Controlled Dog and JESUS.
Season 3 · Episode 4
Monday, October 5, 2026 • Duration 56:03
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: Scotch Prize Balls, Working with Fred/Dom West and Victorian Crime with Dr Angela Buckley
Season 3 · Episode 3
Monday, September 28, 2026 • Duration 53:34
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
Sara Pascoe: The Boadicea Chariot of Young Female Comics, The Wednesday Hospice Pickpocket Club, Getting Called Trevor, and a £185k Diamond
Season 3 · Episode 2
Monday, September 21, 2026 • Duration 01:01:20
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
Matt Baker: A Triple Back Somersault, Nuremberg Pork Allergy Disaster, and Sunken Cities with Dr Peter Campbell
Season 3 · Episode 1
Monday, September 14, 2026 • Duration 50:06
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
Paul Whitehouse: A Walk Down Comedies Memory Lane, Ted the Indifferent Dog, and a Vampire Bat Anatomy Lesson
Season 2 · Episode 12
Monday, July 27, 2026 • Duration 58:47
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 CEO
02:47 – Licky Learns the Hard Way What a Taser Tastes Like
03:08 – Welcoming Paul Whitehouse
04:06 – Retirement Pods, Coffins, and the Case for Downsizing Into the Garden
06:04 – A Solemn Tribute to Ted, the Gone Fishing Dog Who Never Cared About Anyone
07:43 – A Heron Impression Decades in the Making, Featuring Isaac Walton
09:08 – Salmon Spearing, Feargal Sharkey, and a Rare Moment of Actual Politics
10:11 – Sarah the AI Bot
11:34 – Harry's Boyhood Fishing Career: Zero Fish, Infinite Trauma
12:22 – Sarah Reveals Paul's Dad Worked for the Coal Board and His Mum Sang Opera, Somehow Producing Paul
13:11 – Les Dennis Gets Decked by Bob Mortimer in a White-Collar Boxing Ring
14:22 – Paul's Mum Left School at Fourteen, Which Somehow Leads to a Welsh Choir Tangent
15:19 – Paul's Mum's Voice Turns Up on a Gone Fishing Recording and Everyone Loses It Slightly
Melvin Odoom: The Swiss Army Taser, The 1976 Scout Strike Trauma, and Harry's Focus Group Disaster
Season 2 · Episode 11
Monday, July 20, 2026 • Duration 57:25
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.
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