Harry Hill has revealed how he used to pop to the pub between operations when he was a hospital doctor.

Talking to Kathy Burke on her Where There's A Will There's A Wake podcast, Hill recalled how he would pop to the pub and if his pager went off he'd rush back. 

"When I was a doctor, I used to be on call and this is a terrible thing. We'd be on call, this is at Kingston Hospital, and there was a pub, which was within the range of the bleep. And so, we'd get all the patients, all sorted out for their operations, and there would be like an hour or something while we were waiting for them to get done. And then we would go to the pub, on the bleep, and if I got bleeped, I would then have to go to the payphone in the pub and say, ‘Oh, it's Doctor Hill here. Can you put me through to Byron Ward?’ or whatever it was, and she'd say, ‘yeah, you've got to come quickly because so and so's not breathing’. And then I’d have to run."

Hill also suggested people that could replace him on tour if he died: "Well, it would have to be someone who looked like me. So, Greg Wallace? ‘Hello! It's Greg Wallace here! Chicken liver, carrots, onions, everyone's talking about casseroles’! He could get it, he could probably sell it. Heston Blumenthal, possibly. I'm thinking of bald guys with glasses."

Where There's A Will There's A Wake is available now.

Harry Hill's tour details are here.