James Haskell, Kath Merry, Martin Kelner, Susie McCabe
Fighting Talk
BBC
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Former Rugby union player James Haskell, former GB athlete Kath Merry, journalist and presenter Martin Kelner, and comedian Susie McCabe 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!
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.4 | If you like this... |
| 0:07.8 | What you're telling me? You're a traitor. |
| 0:09.9 | Yes, we're in there. |
| 0:11.6 | Then you'll love the final week of The Traitors Uncloked. |
| 0:14.6 | We'll get to see how the final few faithful react |
| 0:16.8 | when they find out who the traitors are. |
| 0:18.8 | And we'll chat to celebrity fans |
| 0:20.2 | to hear their theories on what's going to happen next. It's fun to not know, and it's fun to be confused as well. See and hear it all in the nail-biting last week of the traitors uncloked, the official visualised companion podcast with me, Ed Gamble. Watch on EyePlayer, listen for more on BBC Sounds. Scientific, my hand, kissed it, robotic, let's think optimistic. |
| 0:39.5 | I'm Rick Edwards and this is Fighting Talk. |
| 0:53.6 | Hello, good morning and welcome. |
| 0:56.1 | Now, last time on, one of today's panellists took so long to answer question three |
| 1:02.0 | that we had to drop two questions and then we got told off for overrunning |
| 1:06.3 | and taking two and a half minutes out of five-life sports time. |
| 1:09.4 | I zoned out after about 35 seconds, but I think it was something about the NFL and the quarterback of the Cleveland Browns. |
| 1:15.8 | With that memory haunting me, today's introductions will be very short as we will have to make up time. |
| 1:22.1 | So up first, former fastest woman in the world, which is ironic, Aston Villa and NFL fan, |
| 1:27.6 | and one of the few fighting talk panellists |
| 1:29.2 | to know who the backup quarterback |
| 1:30.7 | at the Cleveland Browns is. |
| 1:32.8 | Kath Mary's here. |
| 1:35.0 | Hello, Kath. |
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