Caroline Barker, Jim White, Paul McNamee, Vittorio Angelone
Fighting Talk
BBC
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Sports broadcaster Caroline Barker, sports reporter Jim White, The Big Issue editor Paul McNamee, and comedian Vittorio Angelone join guest host Gordon Smart 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. |
| 0:05.6 | Hello, I've just nipped in before your BBC podcast starts to tell you all about |
| 0:09.4 | You're Dead to Me. We're the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Also from the BBC |
| 0:13.9 | and presented by me, Greg Jenner. I should have told you that at the beginning. Sorry. |
| 0:17.9 | Anyway, like many other BBC podcasts, such as Desert Island Discs, Evil Genius, or In Our Time, your dead to me is available first on BBC Sounds, |
| 0:26.3 | a whole month earlier than anywhere else, in fact. So if you can't wait another day to hear |
| 0:31.2 | the very latest in history and loads of other good stuff, then listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.5 | You're hanging around and climbing trees pretending to fly. |
| 0:39.0 | Do you want to be a spaceman and live in the sky? |
| 0:41.0 | I'm Gordon Smart and this is Fighting Talk. |
| 1:01.0 | Hello and welcome to the finest satirical Saturday morning magic sponge of sport here on Five Live. Now, in a bid to improve morale and get a new boss bounce in fighting talk, I've introduced an old school team bath to the studio today. |
| 1:08.0 | I've run some tepid water, throwing off my supply teacher suit, |
| 1:12.1 | and in a non-creepy way, invited today's panel to join me in my filthy cauldron of fantasy and lies. |
| 1:18.6 | One of them has brought the spoon of truth and wisdom. The others, already feeling like an old bar of imperial leather kicked in Rick Edward's spider hares. |
| 1:29.3 | That's revolting. So you have me as judge and jury for three weeks. |
| 1:31.6 | Let's examine the runners and riders and points |
| 1:33.3 | for punditry. Three veterans of |
| 1:35.3 | the game today and a newbie. |
| 1:37.3 | All of them are ravenous for victory |
| 1:39.1 | today. So present for show number |
| 1:41.1 | 24 under our six different |
| 1:43.2 | host and yet to win this decade, I'm afraid to say, |
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