“Fighting Talk” is still on air and still thriving. Like sport itself, it appeals because it is about much more than mere results
ON MARCH 25TH, as on most Saturdays for nearly 20 years, four fans talked about sport. In a mock-game show format, they answered questions and made gags; their host allocated scores capriciously, gifting points for the punchlines he loved and taking them away for pandering or cliché. “Fighting Talk”, a radio show, has been broadcast in Britain on BBC Radio 5 Live since October 2003—so long, jokes Simon Crosse, its producer, that it will soon be able to buy alcohol.
It is not like other sports quiz shows, such as “A Question of Sport”, which rely on expertise. Though some of the dozen or so questions each week require proper punditry—who will win Wimbledon, for example, or what to do about doping in athletics—many are far more personal. Answers to the “biggest sporting event of the week” usually reveal the passions of the contestants, whether that’s a glamourous heavyweight bout in Las Vegas or a mid-table scrap at Swindon Town.
“Fighting Talk” is determinedly wide-ranging. As the reference to wife-carrying attests, it covers far more than football, the most popular sport in Britain, with everything from bobsleigh to darts getting some airtime. Given that specialised coverage is available to fans of most sports nowadays, Mr Murray argues that “Fighting Talk” grips listeners because it still covers sport in all its forms: “In a weird way, it’s being a little old-fashioned that may help us survive in the modern age.
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