We already knew the board had two firm cheeses, one goat cheese and one stinky cheese, which meant that the final cheese was most likely the creamy, soft variety.
Apr 29, 2025
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27:09 - 27:18
WDWDY #18: C'est la fin du fromage
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Midweek Mayhem
Second time emailing, hoping I'm on to something this time. Combining two clues, normal cheeses, low cheeses. I think the board is lacking in goat's cheese options, since the general rule for a five-cheese board would be a soft, a blue, a goat, a hard and a wild card.
Apr 28, 2026
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26:38 - 26:51
WDWDY #69: Caught with a Kumquat
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Midweek Mayhem
May 26, 2026
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49:43 - 49:45
WDWDY #73: I'm Eating Bullets
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Midweek Mayhem
We also learned it needed to be a cheese. Max thought it was weird, but that David insisted was just a normal cheese.
Apr 29, 2025
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26:22 - 26:29
WDWDY #18: C'est la fin du fromage
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Midweek Mayhem
and also because i thought i thought the like these are not left field in a way cashel blue is the most left field cheese right these are all just classics i mean i'll be honest with you and
Jan 22, 2025
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23:06 - 23:19
WDWDY #4: People Getting a Latte in Brighton
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Midweek Mayhem
So without further ado, here are my normal cheeses for David's Five Cheese Board. Oh, thank you so much.
Mar 11, 2026
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50:26 - 50:33
WDWDY #62: Dublin Show Post Mortem
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Midweek Mayhem
Okay. There is high cheese and there is low cheese. They were all high cheeses. There is a low cheese somewhere in this.
Apr 21, 2026
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26:41 - 26:49
WDWDY #68: I am Poo Poo
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Midweek Mayhem
Okay, so they're just normal countries now and cheese board at the end, or which way around do you want to do it?
May 19, 2026
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17:20 - 17:25
WDWDY #72: The Montenegro Tease
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Midweek Mayhem
Cashel blue. Bing. Camembert. Gruyere. Toonsbridge mozzarella. Ooh. So it's still a three and a half cheese board.
Feb 25, 2026
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51:43 - 52:00
WDWDY #60: Yesterday waits for no man
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Midweek Mayhem
But here we are. This is so exciting. I go overwhelmed. How many cheeses? It's two cheeses.
Jan 21, 2026
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43:08 - 43:14
WDWDY #55: A Soapy Explosion
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Midweek Mayhem
I had two toasted crumpets and some cheese. What cheese? Just extra mature cheddar. I'm not sure.
Sep 20, 2025
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9:44 - 9:49
S3 EP14: Mike Bubbins
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Interview
them a lot last week while wearing said socks it suddenly hit me what if the cheese on my socks is destined to marry the cheese chosen by DOD the cheese is there sorry the brie is there the Cashel Blue is definitely there so let's see if the rest
Feb 4, 2026
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50:49 - 51:01
WDWDY #57: Sandwich and soup combo
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Midweek Mayhem
I'm hoping so. I haven't heard that on off-menu yet, so well done. We also produced some good cheese in Norway, but these are not just normal cheeses.
Oct 15, 2025
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11:14 - 11:21
WDWDY #42: Play the game...
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Midweek Mayhem
One-cheese board, yep. It's a high cheese. That's all I'll say.
May 26, 2026
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49:45 - 49:48
WDWDY #73: I'm Eating Bullets
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Midweek Mayhem
These are just, are they all saints? From now on. Dubliner. I mean, that's a shitty cheddar.
Jan 21, 2026
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56:19 - 56:27
WDWDY #55: A Soapy Explosion
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Midweek Mayhem
Is it just Babybel, Dairy Lee, Easy Singles, Tesco Cheddar? Is it mild cheddar, medium cheddar, mature cheddar, Cathedral City?
Apr 15, 2025
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17:09 - 17:19
WDWDY #16: They might not actually be normal cheeses...
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Midweek Mayhem
We're slowly getting very exciting, but nobody knows what those three cheeses are. Obviously, if you listen back to other episodes, you'll know the other cheeses that have been knocked out.
Feb 19, 2025
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21:09 - 21:21
WDWDY #8: A nose like a sommelier on heat...
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Midweek Mayhem
Cheese. This is cheese. Oh, no. Cheese. This is cheese. Oh, no. Cheese. This is cheese.
Mar 19, 2025
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18:08 - 18:16
WDWDY #12: Not your average Monday...
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Midweek Mayhem
What? There's four spots. These are not super obscure cheeses or anything. Don't give any clue.
Jan 15, 2025
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42:39 - 42:45
WDWDY #3: Right Cheese, Wrong Place
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Midweek Mayhem
Here's what I'm going to do. A cheese is close to one of the cheeses.
Jan 8, 2025
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15:25 - 15:32
WDWDY #2: Midweek Mayhem
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Midweek Mayhem
May 26, 2026
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49:32 - 49:35
WDWDY #73: I'm Eating Bullets
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Midweek Mayhem
Okay, not just five cheeses, but Kim or Mo had made a little plinth for the cheeses.
Feb 19, 2025
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21:40 - 21:47
WDWDY #8: A nose like a sommelier on heat...
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Midweek Mayhem
Cashel Blue. Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Cheddar. But it's not that basic. Camembert. Manchego.
Feb 12, 2025
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19:10 - 19:26
WDWDY #7: MEAT BATS
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Midweek Mayhem
but like a thousand times more. I was so euphoric. And the thing is, I don't know the cheeses either.
Apr 9, 2025
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22:26 - 22:31
WDWDY #15: The Champignon's League
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Midweek Mayhem
So I put some oil and salt on them. I think we all just had cheese in the end.
Feb 1, 2026
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47:11 - 47:14
S4 EP5: Richard Herring
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Interview
It's a cheese, isn't it? Okay. There we go. So, we're now on a three cheese board.
Feb 19, 2025
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21:02 - 21:09
WDWDY #8: A nose like a sommelier on heat...
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Midweek Mayhem
wonder, eh, would anyone like to try and guess what the five cheeses were? Let's play curdle II. Five Four Three Two One. I've got cheese. This is cheese.
Mar 11, 2026
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49:03 - 49:51
WDWDY #62: Dublin Show Post Mortem
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Midweek Mayhem
Let's find out. Jarlsberg. Okay. So it is a two cheese board. We know Cashel Blue, Manchego, Compta.
Mar 26, 2025
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15:25 - 15:36
WDWDY #13: A Sad Cardboard Kazoo
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Midweek Mayhem
Wensleydale. Eh-eh. Apple wood smoked cheddar. Eh-eh. Red Leicester. Eh-eh. Gouda. Eh-eh. There we are.
Jan 7, 2026
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44:26 - 44:41
WDWDY #53: Do yesterdays dream of electric cheese?
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Midweek Mayhem
Yes. So far, I've counted three times Cheddar, St. Tola, and Gouda, two times Gruyere, Port Salou, Applewood Smoke, Babybel, Edam, Camembert, plus Cashel Blue was repeatedly suggested in repeated positions, says Neil in Warrington.
May 5, 2026
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23:43 - 23:56
WDWDY #70: In The Air Tonight
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Midweek Mayhem
i have quite basic taste in food if there's a cheese board and then no cheddar i am devastated you sort of think you're guaranteed like you'll have the smelly ones on the outside but back in the middle there's gonna be a wookie
Jan 22, 2025
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23:19 - 23:31
WDWDY #4: People Getting a Latte in Brighton
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Midweek Mayhem
Hmm. Let me just think about cheeses. Another cheese. Don't say anything. With a bit of salad as well.
Jan 14, 2026
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39:43 - 39:49
WDWDY #54: A Yesterday Like Any Other
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Midweek Mayhem
Yeah, it's like the cheese puffs from M&S that are What's It's. And they are referred to in our household as What's It's, but they're cheese puffs.
Mar 23, 2025
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5:33 - 5:43
S2 EP12: Jess Knappett
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Interview
I mean, this is the problem. I think they use gubbeen cheese, which is a very specific Irish one.
Oct 7, 2025
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33:22 - 33:28
WDWDY #41: Five Finger Messages
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Midweek Mayhem
Yeah. Okay, fine. My apologies. That's the level of cheese knowledge. The world's premier cheese quiz, and these two don't even know Emmental.
Jan 7, 2026
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43:09 - 43:17
WDWDY #53: Do yesterdays dream of electric cheese?
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Midweek Mayhem
This week I was cheese browsing in the supermarket feeling a little thrill each time I spotted a cheese from our game. Cashel Blue, look at it there with this little picture of a farmhouse in Tipperary. Goat, with a little picture of a goat. Manchego, a little
Apr 23, 2025
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2:41 - 2:59
WDWDY #17: A confession from David...
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Midweek Mayhem
From here, we had a nice chat about our shared love of normal cheeses and Top Loader.
Nov 5, 2025
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8:42 - 8:46
WDWDY #45: Chainsaw Lube
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Midweek Mayhem
Mozzarella. I don't think you put it on a cheese board. This is exciting. So now we've got Cashel Blue and we've got Manchego somewhere, right cheese, wrong place.
Feb 12, 2025
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19:48 - 19:58
WDWDY #7: MEAT BATS
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Midweek Mayhem
Five. Four. Three. Two. One. I've got cheese. This is cheese. My guess is as follows. Brie. Bing bing bing bing. Manchego. Caerphilly. Bing bing bing bing.
Apr 7, 2026
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45:17 - 46:11
WDWDY #66: Busted knees and ruptured spleens
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Midweek Mayhem
The cheese bought a brie and blue. Yeah, blue, big, stinky, Cashel Blue. He had great cheese into his food, and he just wouldn't have it.
Jun 29, 2025
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1:11:39 - 1:11:51
S3 EP2: Tom Basden
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Interview
It's a soft French sheep's cheese with a slightly yellowy-orange wax around it. People say it's pretentious, but I don't really understand what they...
Apr 29, 2025
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29:26 - 29:36
WDWDY #18: C'est la fin du fromage
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Midweek Mayhem
So there are five cheeses, okay? Okay. It's going to go on forever. We do cheeses have an order.
Jan 8, 2025
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14:33 - 14:43
WDWDY #2: Midweek Mayhem
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Midweek Mayhem
They're not idiots. Kerrygold cream cheese. Ah. Okay. So it's a three and a half.
Jan 28, 2026
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53:45 - 53:52
WDWDY #56: All my troubles seemed so far away...
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Midweek Mayhem
But at least your shame is now ended. Are we still at this? Normal cheeses thing.
May 6, 2025
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4:55 - 5:00
WDWDY #19: The Puppet Master Revealed
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Midweek Mayhem
So here we have the January 15th rebel cheese game. Two cheeses. Normal email. There is crossover.
Jan 21, 2026
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43:55 - 44:02
WDWDY #55: A Soapy Explosion
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Midweek Mayhem
All right, okay. And there could be a low cheese here. I just, everyone's guessing these.
Mar 11, 2026
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51:06 - 51:14
WDWDY #62: Dublin Show Post Mortem
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Midweek Mayhem
Yeah, okay, great. We believe the five cheeses... The five cheeses from the O'Doherty family cheese board are as follows.
Apr 29, 2025
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27:54 - 27:59
WDWDY #18: C'est la fin du fromage
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Midweek Mayhem
Is that just because cream cheese is nice?
May 30, 2026
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36:32 - 36:36
S4 EP22: Briony May Williams
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Interview
It's just a normal brie. Geniusly worked out by Roxanne and Felix. You don't necessarily know it's come from a woolly lady.
May 6, 2025
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7:31 - 7:40
WDWDY #19: The Puppet Master Revealed
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Midweek Mayhem
Cashel Blue. Bing bing bing bing. Cathedral city cheddar. Er er. Ok so still a two cheese board. So look, we have that. Maybe we move Curdle up to the midpoint now that normal countries have gone. And not have it here as an also-ran. Yeah. I think so. A low cheese
Apr 7, 2026
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46:11 - 46:26
WDWDY #66: Busted knees and ruptured spleens
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Midweek Mayhem