Harry Hill's Fruit Corner
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"Harry Hill's Fruit Corner" was a radio show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom. It starred Harry Hill (real name Matthew Hall), a former doctor and British comedian. Hill achieved his big breakthrough in 1992 when he won the Perrier Award for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The show was commissioned shortly after he received the award.
Hill hosted the show as himself, and each week was joined by his brother Alan Hill (Al Murray), his three year-old adopted son (also called Alan Hill), his parents Jan and Tony Hill and his grandmother Nana Hill. The later series of the show often saw the family joined by Burt Kwouk. The show also enjoyed a variety of other celebrity guests across its run, including Ronnie Corbett and Rolf Harris. The show used surreal humour as the base for many of its jokes, and its presentation was very conversational, with each item tending to involve one or more members of the family, and later on roping in other recurring characters such as scientist Finsbury Park. Each programme was interspersed with surreal jokes from Harry, common ground for anyone familiar with his stand-up routines.
"Fruit Corner" ran for four series on Radio 4. The first of these, in 1993, contained four episodes, but after the show's success it returned for three further six-episode runs in 1994, 1995 and 1997 respectively. The show acted as a springboard for Hill's television career, and his small-screen show on Channel 4, The Harry Hill Show, was not dissimilar in style and structure to "Fruit Corner".
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