David Alorka, Lynsey Hooper, Mark G Smith, Neil Delamere

Fighting Talk

BBC

Sports, Comedy

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Sports presenter David Alorka, football presenter and reporter Lynsey Hooper, writer and performer Mark G Smith, and comedian Neil Delamere 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	Hello, I'm Giovanna Fletcher and I am a runner, which feels odd as I still find getting
0:07.1	out the door quite a challenge, but I'd love to help you become a runner too. My new Coucher 5K
0:12.9	podcast from BBC Sounds has inspirational guests like Lindsay Burrow, Joe Wiley and Charlie Marlow.
0:18.4	I'm really trying to reframe my brain.
0:21.2	This is my time and I get to do this.
0:23.7	And hopefully I can motivate you to go from couch to 5K.
0:27.6	You never really regret a run.
0:29.3	Might do at the time.
0:31.3	The Couch to 5K podcast.
0:33.6	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:36.1	BBC Sounds.
0:39.5	Music, radio, podcasts.
0:43.6	Under your bed, I'm here growling, same time under the blanket, you're cowering.
0:45.7	I'm Rick Edwards, and this to the show.
1:00.4	It has been quite interesting this week to follow the selection of the new Pope,
1:05.1	and it made me quite nostalgic thinking about the process by which I was
1:08.3	anointed for this job, surprisingly similar to the conclave.
1:12.8	So the way it worked is every living former host of Fighting Talk
1:16.5	was invited to a secret location,
1:18.3	and I'm happy to divulge it was the unisex toilets on the third floor here at the BBC.
1:22.6	We're all wearing matching red track suits,
1:24.7	and then they voted for their choice.
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