Hello and welcome to the Taskmaster podcast. My name is Ed Gamble, I am the host of the

Taskmaster podcast and today we are doing a deep dive on episode 4 of series 1 of Taskmaster.

If you're just joining us, we've gone back to the beginning with Taskmaster the way

we do things here is we take one episode and we talk about it in depth. We give it more

attention than anybody ever should. That's the way we do things you can't get us on that.

We've gone back to the beginning of the series, we're on episode 4 of Taskmaster ever in

series 1 and we will be proceeding through in chronological order with a brilliant guest

every episode. Now up until this point, all of our guests for the series 1 chat through

have been people who've been involved in this series. We had Alex Horn, we've had two

of the contestants from Taskmaster series 1. Today, not the case. Today, we have a brilliant

wonderful special guest in Nicola Cochlan, Nicola Cochlan of course, a brilliant actor

you've seen her in dairy girls. You've seen her in Bridgerton and most crucially, you

have seen her in the Taskmaster New Year's Treat. It was a one-off episode. If you've

not seen that, go back, watch it, we will be talking about that. It was Nicola, it was

John Hanna, it was Ryland, it was Krishnan Guru Murthy and it was Shirley Ballas and yes,

that sounds like a motley crew and it was and they were brilliant, it worked. So go back,

listen to that, go back and watch series 1 episode 4, come back, listen to this podcast,

it's going to be a ball, we will see you on the other side.

Welcome Nicola to the Taskmaster podcast. Well, thank you for having me. It's so exciting

to have you here, thank you very much for agreeing to come on. My pleasure. You are not

only a fan of the show, I'm told, you're also a previous contestant in the New Year's

special. I was a one-offer, I was like, also it was funny because it kind of, the offer

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