Fatiha El-Ghorri: A Match Made Inshallah
Comedy of the Week
BBC
3.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
A Match Made Inshallah is a fearless, funny show where the 44-year-old, twice-divorced stand-up comedian Fatiha El-Ghorri is looking for love and ready to date - and she wants us all to be her wingman.
Mixing stand-up, commentary, and the actual date itself, we will hear Fatiha’s deepest thoughts, hopes, dreams, and judgements as we join her every step of the way through the dating minefield.
Written and Performed by Fatiha El-Ghorri Producer: Laura Grimshaw Executive Producers: Jon Holmes and Carrie Rose
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Steve Bracknelly, are the assistant manager of Sunday League team, the Royal Oak FC. |
| 0:12.0 | Are you sick of changes to our beautiful game? |
| 0:15.0 | Five minute stoppages for VAR checks. |
| 0:17.0 | VAR, the talking point again after a five minute plus delay. |
| 0:20.0 | Cryotherapy ice chambers. |
| 0:22.9 | Olls in back at socks. |
| 0:25.3 | XG double pivots and inferred wingbacks. |
| 0:28.2 | The game's well and truly gone and I'm here to bring it back. |
| 0:31.9 | Games gone. |
| 0:32.9 | The Steve Bracknell podcast. |
| 0:34.9 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:39.5 | Hi, I'm Fatia El Gori and this is a match made, inshallah. It's part stand-up show, |
| 0:45.1 | part actual date, sort of a fly on the wall, then gossip with your friends about it afterwards |
| 0:49.6 | kind of thing. Do you know what I mean? And you, dear listener, are my bestie. So I'm going to tell you |
| 0:55.5 | how this date was and I'm going to tell you what dating is. Dating is a minefield man. And it's |
| 1:03.2 | even more of a minefield when you're me, a 44 year old, twice divorced Muslim woman with |
| 1:08.6 | actual standards. So yeah, I'm looking for love. But I ain't doing it on their apps no more. This is 2026 people. Come on. I'm changing things up. I'm doing it on radio. Yep, that's right. I'm going to find my man through the bloody BBC. And I'm going to go on a date with him and I'm going to record it for you all to listen to with his consent, obviously. this ain't a kink show relax and then i'm going to date with him and I'm going to record it for you all to listen to with his consent obviously |
| 1:28.1 | this ain't a kink show relax and then I'm going to tell you all about it in my natural habitat in front |
| 1:34.3 | of a stand-up comedy crowd ohoy dating is the worst okay if they're not ghosting you they're still in love |
| 1:42.6 | with their ex or they're looking for something casual even though it says on their bloody profile that they're looking for something serious |
| 1:49.8 | Okay, or they have a whole ass wife sitting at home watching EastEnders |
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