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The Chris Evans Show

The one with Colin Furze

The Chris Evans Show

Virgin Radio UK

Comedy

4.5695 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Amazing inventor Colin Furze tells us about his programme The Science of the Winter Olympics, on BBC iPlayer.

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0:00.0

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0:05.2

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0:10.7

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0:16.9

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0:28.6

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0:36.1

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0:36.9

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0:40.9

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0:43.1

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0:43.8

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0:49.8

Our next guest is an inventor, engineer, YouTuber and expert on all things Winter Olympics.

0:55.1

His show, The Science of the Winter Olympics, was the most watched thing on BBC Eye Player this Saturday and is still available to watch now. So let's see what occurs and feel the burrs with

1:01.4

Colin Furr. Yeah, Colin, there he is. Arms are stretched. How are you, mate? All good, all good.

1:09.7

Well, thank you for everything you do anyhow just

1:12.2

generally in life Colin um when did you get the call from the beep about the winter olympics

1:16.8

oh it was only about three weeks two or three weeks ago it was very short notice well it's great

1:22.1

it's a great idea um i enjoyed uh what you were telling it telling us yesterday about the stones, not the rolling stones, but the curling stones.

1:32.1

Just for people who didn't see it, what did you share with this yesterday?

1:34.9

So essentially, we've done six little science clips, six sports, just showing some of the science behind them.

1:40.1

Because a lot of people will watch the Winter Olympics, like you, you'll sit there in your lounge, looking at these sports and you won't necessarily understand what they're doing. Like curling, for example, it's like you look at it, you think this is giant marbles, but then you look at the guy sweeping in front of it, and you're like, what actually is that all about? So we've gone into like the minute detail of what the purpose of that is and how it affects the game and, you know, and all the little intricacies behind it all.

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