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Ten to the Top

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Ten to the Top

BBC

Music

4.6557 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

It’s the turn of Karen in Sale & Sean in Manchester to test their metal!

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:06.1

Can I just say?

0:07.6

You're about to listen to a BBC podcast.

0:10.0

It's such a wonderful listen.

0:11.7

So nice.

0:12.5

There are loads more like it on BBC Sounds.

0:14.8

Different paces, different heights, the roof is buckling.

0:17.9

Where you can also listen to live sports commentary.

0:20.2

It's right foot goes for goal.

0:21.6

Oh!

0:22.7

And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories.

0:27.7

The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession.

0:31.2

And she's had to live with that.

0:32.8

So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion.

0:35.8

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:39.7

Sort of expecting that every week now.

0:47.8

BBC Radio 2, 10 to the top. Her first contestant this morning is Karen Adagorki. Hi, Karen.

0:52.9

Morning. How are you? I'm well, thank you. How are you? We're very good. Not as not as well as you though you've recently retired

0:54.1

yep very lucky to have retired at the end of 2024 so had a year of lots of sleeping and

1:01.4

going to gigs and yeah enjoying myself yeah good on you so retiring at your age is quite a thing

1:08.6

because I'm not going to tell people your age but you've retired retired a little early, which is great news. You get to enjoy life now without any pressure. Is that how you're feeling? Totally. Yeah, catching up on sleep from about 40 years. So really good, really enjoying it. Yeah, perfect. Good for you. And a lot of people, when they do retire, they kind of get a sense that, oh, do you know what, I need to keep busy.

1:28.7

After a year, is that kind of crept up on you at all? Maybe a little bit. I started thinking that I should maybe do something more than sleeping and enjoying myself and maybe giving a little bit back and doing some volunteering. But that'll happen over the next couple of months, I think. Oh, I love that, Karen. that goes to show you what kind of person you are

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