Fighting Talk
- Radio panel show
- BBC Radio 5 Live
- 2003 - 2025
- 817 episodes (22 series)
Long-running panel show on Radio 5 Live focusing on the volatile world of sport. Four guests join the host to chat about the week's stories. Stars Colin Murray, Christian O'Connell, Josh Widdicombe, Georgie Ainslie, Jonathan Pearce and more.
- Continues on Saturday on Five Live at 11am with Series 22, Episode 12
- Catch-up on Series 22, Episode 11
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2016 Summer Specials - Fighting Talk Goes Olympic
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Fighting Talk, the cult weekly sports comedy show, joins in the celebrations for Rio 2016 with an Olympics special. Topics up for contention include; greatest Olympic rivalries, best Olympic sporting bodies and we find out about some rather peculiar events from previous games.
Josh Widdicombe awards points for informed comment, passion and humour but takes them away for any nonsense or drivel. The two highest scoring panellists go head to head to 'defend the indefensible', where they are forced to defend a downright distasteful statement for twenty seconds.
Joining Josh is Badminton Olympic Silver medallist from the 2004 Athens games Gail Emms, Olympic viewer and presenter Rick Edwards, 4x100 relay Silver Olympic medallist from the 1996 Atlanta games Iwan Thomas and Olympic fanatic and comedian Paul Sinha.
The show has also been filmed and is available on the BBC iPlayer website
Broadcast details
- Date
- Saturday 6th August 2016
- Time
- 11am
- Channel
- BBC Radio 5 Live
- Length
- 60 minutes
Cast & crew
| Josh Widdicombe | Host / Presenter |
| Gail Emms | Guest |
| Paul Sinha | Guest |
| Iwan Thomas | Guest |
| Rick Edwards | Guest |