Rated or Dated: Chariots of Fire (1981)

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🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Is it the Devil's work to run on a Sunday? Who's even heard of Cambridge University? And who will win a mini-break with Nigel Havers? Find out the answers to these and many more questions as we watch the classic '80s Oscar (and God) botherer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Rated or Dated. I'm Mickey Noonan and I'm joined by Jen Offord.
0:13.9	Hi, hello.
0:15.1	Peace be with you, Jen. And also with you, Hannah Dunleavy. Amen.
0:19.6	Now, Hannah, it was your pick this week.
0:21.7	And if you don't deliver some sort of speech while being roughly massaged by a moustachioed Ian home, quite frankly, I'm not staying.
0:30.5	What did you have us watching?
0:32.3	This week, we watched 1981's heady mix of running and god-bothering
0:38.0	chariots of fire.
0:42.4	So 80s and yet.
0:45.2	We'll get to that, Jen.
0:46.3	We'll get to it.
0:47.2	If you enjoyed this,
0:48.7	Disney said to me
0:49.6	when it finished,
0:50.6	you may like call Runnings.
0:52.9	Absolute lulls. They're so similar. They're so similar.
0:58.2	I love John Candy in chariots of fire. He's amazing. Producer David Putnam was bemoaning the state of
1:05.3	the British film industry while also living in America, avoiding the UK's high taxes in the 1970s.
1:12.1	Interesting, David.
1:13.4	When he read a book about the Olympics and hit upon the idea for chariots of fire.
1:20.3	What a successful idea it was too.
1:23.0	It was nominated for seven Oscars and won four, including Best Picture,
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