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Ten to the Top

Gladiators... ready!

Ten to the Top

BBC

Music

4.6557 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Gladiators Fire and Steel battle it out, but who will win the music knowledge duel...?

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts.

0:05.6

Oh, hello. You have chosen a BBC podcast, but before you listen to it, we thought you might like our podcast too.

0:12.1

You might. You might. It is called Sightraught with me, Nick Grimshaw.

0:15.2

And me, Annie Mack. And we talk about the week in music.

0:18.2

All the news, all the cultural happenings in the UK and beyond.

0:22.2

And great guests.

0:23.3

And it's on BBC Sounds.

0:24.7

Yes, where you can also enjoy lots of playlists, music mixes and live radio.

0:29.9

Everything from my six music breakfast show to Radio 3 Unwind.

0:34.5

But obviously start with our podcast, sidetrack.

0:36.3

Obviously.

0:36.7

Obviously.

0:38.2

So if you like music,

0:39.1

listen on BBC Sounds.

0:41.2

Galliator ready.

0:43.6

10 to the top on BBC Radio show.

0:48.2

So to mark the third series of Gladiators,

0:52.6

we thought we'd do a Friday celebrity special of 10 to the Top. Let's welcome Fire. Hey! And Steel! Hey, you doing. From the Gladiators. Third series, who'd have thought? Well, we'd have thought, really, because the first one was so successful. But Fire will start with you. It's an amazing show. It takes, dare I say, regular people. The people that compete are not regular people, are there? They've got a little fire in their belly. Oh, more than a bit of fire in their belly. I try and put me out a few times, but we don't talk about that. Honestly, I think what inspires people is people think they can do it. You want to look at the show and go, actually, I want to be there and I feel that you can come against my formidable family here. But we all bring different shepherds and some of us a little bit unpredictable than others. So if you do end up being on there, you've got to play hard, but make sure that you give everything because we always hit back harder. Yeah, nice. Faya, when you're in the arena and the show's about to start. Yeah. Which of all the events that you guys do? Which one is the most popular?

1:45.0

I think actually the iconic jewel, to be honest, I think bring something on there where it's one-on-one and anything could happen actually when you're at three meters in the air, you've got a pugil stick in your hand. It's your favourite into it. I love a lot of games. My background is rugby, so I love the ring, I loveball I really love the edge the edge is not for

2:02.0

everyone it is super high up and the edge is way high in real life that it comes across on TV so I love

2:09.4

tackling people off the edge it's brilliant but yeah when you get here with the pugustit you

2:12.8

definitely know about it right steel I'm afraid you're going to take a back seat you're going to

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