Emma Paton, Luke Moore, Martin Kelner, Neil Delamere

Fighting Talk

BBC

Sports, Comedy

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Presenter and former athlete Emma Paton, journalist Luke Moore, journalist and presenter Martin Kelner, 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!

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.
0:07.0	My Christmas Mix is pure 90s festive nostalgia.
0:11.1	You know, the Christmas songs you listen to on repeat.
0:14.0	Ho!
0:14.3	Ho! Ho! No, no, no.
0:17.5	I'm all about the big hitting Christmas anthems.
0:20.4	Come on, guys. What about those tunes that really slay?
0:23.7	It's Christmas kitchen disco season, surely.
0:26.4	Give me hip-hop Christmas bangers every day.
0:28.6	Those Christmas tracks that are straight out of Lapland.
0:30.9	Get all kinds of Christmassy.
0:32.6	Just search Christmas music on BBC Sounds.
0:35.8	I beat shots like Gerard and when I say I move with dogs, I don't mean wellard.
0:39.4	I'm Rick Edwards and this is Fighting Talk.
0:53.6	Hello, good morning and welcome to the show that has the dexterity of an England fielder in the dusk,
1:00.0	the cheek of a Virgil Van Dyke twerk twerk, and all the sheer class of a World Cup draw in America.
1:07.0	So who is up for the fight today? And is it a group of death? With the greatest respect, not at all.
1:14.9	Certainly more Group D than Group High. I'll just give you a man to check the groups.
1:18.9	Back for her second show, the first of this season's debutante's to come back for more.
1:24.0	On her debut in September, she came last, as 45% of debutantes have all time.
1:28.6	No shame in that.
1:29.8	There is shame, though, in how much time she spends watching Darts. Emma Paiton's here. Hello, Emma. Hello, Rick. It is my job. I've got to watch the dance. You could just say, listen, I need some time off. Given that everyone with an even sort of mild association with football is in Washington for the World Cup draw last night, you must be annoyed, not so I've got an invite, surely. Yeah, Heidi Kloom was there. Why wasn't I there? But this is the thing. Come on, guys. Clum, Peyton. Ferdinand, yeah. Heidi Kloom of darts. Yeah. I'll take that. Top of the CV.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 11 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.