Adam Hurrey, Ian Moore, Lynsey Hooper, Thomas Green
Fighting Talk
BBC
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Journalist, author and podcaster Adam Hurrey, comedian and author Ian Moore, sports broadcaster Lynsey Hooper, and comedian Thomas Green join Rick Edwards for an hour of sporting punditry, humour and entertainment. Points are awarded for informed comment, wit and passion, but taken away for nonsense and answers lacking in conviction.
In the final round, the top two points scorers go head-to-head in 'Defend the Indefensible' where they must both defend a statement however ludicrous or distasteful for twenty seconds. There can only be one winner!
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Steve Bracknelly, are the assistant manager of Sunday League team, the Royal Oak FC. |
| 0:12.0 | Are you sick of changes to our beautiful game? |
| 0:15.0 | Five minute stoppages for VAR checks. |
| 0:17.0 | VAR, the talking point again after a five minute plus delay. |
| 0:20.0 | Cryotherapy ice chamber. |
| 0:22.9 | Olls in back at socks. |
| 0:25.3 | XG double pivots and inferred wingbacks. |
| 0:28.2 | The game's well and truly gone and I'm here to bring it back. |
| 0:31.9 | Games gone. |
| 0:32.9 | The Steve Bracknell podcast. |
| 0:34.9 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:37.5 | Villain get the money like curls land of milk and honey with the swirls. I'm Rick Edwards, |
| 0:41.1 | and this is Fighting Talk. |
| 1:00.9 | Hello, good morning and welcome to the show that has the unswerving resolve of an Arsenal title charge. |
| 1:08.1 | The public support of a Floyd Mayweather return to boxing, the legal backing of a Trump global tariff, |
| 1:11.9 | and the redacted, redacted, of a redacted, redacted, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. |
| 1:14.4 | So who is on then with fighting their heart? |
| 1:17.1 | And don't laugh too much of that. |
| 1:18.6 | Heart and passion in their veins, making his 45th appearance. |
| 1:23.2 | No one on this panel has won a show hosted by me, but his total of five winnish shows is particularly impressive, given that I quite like him. When he started coming on the show, he was introduced as mod, comic, Blackburn fan and chutney maker. Now, Mod, comic, Blackburn fan, chutney maker and best-selling author. It's a varied life, isn't it? It's a mixed bag, is what it is, Ian. It's a mixed bag. Now, I think we've discussed this before. You must be running out of titles, including French words that English people have heard of. So you've done Death and Ball. You've had Death and Quassons, Death and Fromage, Jardin, Chateau. Is it time to switch languages? And have a go out to Spanish. I've got two left. What have you got? The next one's Death and Deja vu. Yeah, okay, good. Everybody's read the plot already. Yeah, fantastic. And the one after that is Death and Olala. Oh, you've given up, haven't you? I have. You absolutely given up. |
| 2:36.0 | But yeah, death and tapas, death and teasts. Just take it around the continent. Okay, all right, no. On tour. Death on tour. Yeah, death on tour. Lovely stuff. Nice having you here, as per, and in your lovely velvet jacket. We'll give you a point for that. Thank you. On for show number 26, her first as a 10-year veteran of fighting talk. |
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