Scrum V Top 5: Steve Speirs

Scrum V

BBC

Sports, Rugby

4.6 • 927 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Actor and comedian Steve Speirs joins Mike Bubbins at his bar to pick his top 5 rugby heroes. Speirs has appeared in some of the world’s biggest films and most iconic British comedies, but away from the cameras he’s also a passionate rugby fan. So which players will make his top 5 rugby heroes? Please note – this episode was recorded before Geoff Wheel passed away in December.

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0:00.0	Ellis, if someone had never heard of our podcast before, how would you describe it?
0:05.3	Initially, I would sympathise, and I would say, I feel so sorry for you. You've missed out on so much
0:10.6	great content. And Alice, if someone had never heard our weekly BBC Sounds Only episode
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0:32.8	Music, radio podcasts. Hi, I'm Mike Bubbins, and this is Scrub 5 Top 5.
0:39.1	Welcome to my bar.
0:40.5	We'll be inviting some legends of Welsh sport to pick their greatest rugby moments.
0:44.7	Today we're talking rugby heroes, and joining me as a kind of fear of my own.
0:49.2	But I definitely won't be telling him that.
0:51.4	He's an actor, he's a writer, created his own sitcom, The Tucker's, which he starred in,
0:55.9	also being in massive shows like extras and afterlife,
0:59.0	it's Steve Spears.
1:16.0	Well, Welcome Mr Steve Spears. Thank you, mate. Nice to be here.
1:17.3	I've got to see you pal. What do you think of the place?
1:19.2	Fantastic. Who's it?
1:20.8	This is mine, all mine, all my own hard work.
1:22.6	That's hard of you to put a pub up.
1:24.4	Well, you got a gym as well?
1:25.7	I got a gym, yeah. Yeah, I'll stick in the pub. Yeah, I spend more time you're in the gym.
1:29.3	Yeah, it's nice, I gotta say.
1:31.3	It is nice, I gotta say.
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