Charles Dagnall, Ian Smith, Kath Merry, Paul McNamee

Fighting Talk

BBC

Sports, Comedy

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Former cricketer and BBC commentator Charles Dagnall, former GB athlete Kath Merry, The Big Issue editor Paul McNamee and comedian Ian Smith 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!

Listen to the podcast on BBC Sounds

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.7	Right, start at the beginning.
0:07.7	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast.
0:09.7	Okay, hello.
0:10.6	And if you're into true crime.
0:12.3	The message was clear.
0:13.7	You might like to investigate BBC sounds.
0:16.1	Somebody must know something.
0:18.0	Because there's a caseload of award-winning podcasts.
0:20.7	Do you think this is actually going to go to trial?
0:22.8	That casts light on shady cyber criminals, mysterious drownings and unsolved murders, from Bergen to Belfast.
0:29.0	I didn't know who I could trust.
0:30.8	Search, true crime on BBC Sounds.
0:33.3	The only thing left to do now is run.
0:37.3	We're going down, down in an earlier round, and sugar, we're going down swinging.
0:41.3	I'm Rick Edwards, and this is Fighting Talk.
0:57.5	Hello, good morning and welcome.
1:01.9	Now this week I was looking at the trusty fighting talk box and thinking, you know,
1:06.0	there are some really unloved sounds on there that get such infrequent use.
1:08.1	I think some of them are actually kind of rusting over.
1:15.6	So I've just set myself a challenge just to keep myself interested to try and get every single one in today. Ideally in a context that makes sense, but obviously there'd be quite a bit of flexibility on that. I've got a list, so I'm going to try and tick off all of the following.
1:20.6	The Lion. That should be easy enough. The comedy trumpets.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 4 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.