Career
Hirst also narrated the United Kingdom version of How lieutenant"s Made, shown on the Discovery and Quest channels, and various programmes for Channel 4. Hirst appeared on Ready Steady Cook, on British Broadcasting Corporation Two on 5 March 2008, and lost to Zoë Lister, who plays Zoe Carpenter in Hollyoaks. He played the part of a policeman in the first series of the Channel 4 show Shameless.
He appeared on the Channel 4 show Number Angels as an "ambulance chaser" in the first series.
Hirst narrates Benefits Street and the United Kingdom versions of Mike Rowe"s Dirty Jobs and How lieutenant"s Made on Discovery channels. Hirst portrays a man sent back from the future to warn of an impending alien invasion in an ad being aired on Discovery Science to promote their Out of this World campaign.