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🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Harry Benjamin sits down for an in-depth chat with 1996 F1 world champion, Damon Hill, to speak about his career and the release of his new documentary, Hill. Damon, who has been part of the 5 Live F1 team this season, discusses the influence of his father, legendary two-time world champion Graham Hill, and how his death affected him. He also details his initial love of motorbikes, how he worked his way into F1, and that world title triumph in 1996.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | It's F1 summer break, which means if you're hearing this, there's been no major breaking news, and also Andrew Benson is almost definitely getting his legs out down at the beach. |
| 0:19.0 | So it's Harry Benjamin here with you, still putting in the hard yards. |
| 0:22.7 | And this week on Check a Flag Extra, we've got a champion on the show, |
| 0:27.3 | the 1996 world champion Damon Hill, who's been a part of our five live coverage this year. |
| 0:33.6 | So we thought it was a good time to catch up with Damon to talk all about his career |
| 0:37.7 | following the release of his brand new documentary Hill. |
| 0:49.2 | The 1996 Formula One World Champion, Damon Hill, joins me now. Hello, Damon, afternoon. All well? |
| 0:55.0 | Yes, very good, Harry. Thank you very much. |
| 0:56.0 | Good. Now, I imagine you obviously do a lot of this, and I've started asking this question. When you say, obviously, look, do I look like I'm fed up with it? No, no, no, no, that's part of the job, isn't it? You've got to talk to the likes of me. I'm keen to see what you ask me. |
| 0:51.7 | Well, no, but what is the question you hate getting the most, |
| 0:54.9 | that kicks off an interview? |
| 0:56.5 | I don't... to talk to the likes of me. I'm keen to see what you ask me. Well, no, but what is the question you hate getting the most, |
| 1:12.9 | that kicks off an interview? I don't really hate any. I mean, I'm always expecting something out of the blue that I haven't been asked, you know. But generally speaking, I mean, there's only so many things that we can talk about. I mean, unless you're going to ask me about nuclear physics or something, which I don't know the answer to. |
| 1:08.5 | Then I'm, let me. |
| 1:10.5 | Let's see how we get on. |
| 1:11.6 | Okay. |
| 1:12.2 | That was my first question. So, so we'll move on |
| 1:34.1 | then. Entangement theory or whatever it is. Exactly. What is the theory of relativity? Well, I think |
| 1:38.1 | Isaac Hajar's dad is some sort of physicist, but we'll leave the questions for him. Obviously, |
| 1:43.9 | a lot of news around you at the moment. |
| 1:45.9 | Hill is out. |
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