Bob Mortimer has asked Vic Reeves to sing a classic pop song at his funeral.

Mortimer revealed on Desert Island Discs to host Lauren Laverne that he would like Vic – real name Jim Moir – to sing Squeeze's Some Fantastic Place when he dies. "He hasn’t asked me to sing it at his though, so he obviously knows he is going to last a little bit longer,” added Mortimer.

In the programme the Middlesbrough-born comedian talked about the lasting impact the death of his father had on him when he was seven. He said he had been shy for the first thirty years of his life and it was meeting Vic/Jim at a pub in South London in the 1980s and asking to go onstage with him that finally brought him out of his shell. 

He also talked about his heart operation and how his heart rate went so high on their 25th anniversary reunion tour in Leeds that he really should have stopped but kept on going. 

Mortimer chose Paul Theroux's book My Secret History to take away with him.

Bob Mortimer's choice of records is below. 

Listen to the programme here.