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Hello, I'm Lauren Laverne and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast from BBC Radio 4.
Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks,
book and luxury that they'd want to take with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
For rights reasons, the music's shorter than on the original broadcast,
but you can find a version with longer music tracks on BBC Sounds.
Listeners will also get access to episodes 28 days earlier than everyone else.
I hope you enjoy listening.
My castaway this week is the comedian, writer and broadcaster Harry Hill.
He's carved out a career as one of the most popular comics on primetime TV,
with shows like You've Been Framed, Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule,
Junior Bake Off and hit series TV Burp.
Over the course of 11 years, it won three BAFTAs,
three Royal Television Society Awards, a Rose Door and seven British Comedy Awards.
His surreal send-ups of British pop culture are as unpredictable as they are delightful.
One of his shows played out each week on a musical number by the Delia Smiths,
a female singing group dressed as the TV cook covering songs by Morrissey.
Another featured the K-Factor, an X-Factor spoof about knitting,
which was eventually won by a character called Peter the Duck.
Then there was the time he staged a fight between EastEnders Phil Mitchell and Mr Blobby to establish which of them was better at making a dramatic entrance.