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A duel of words and wit between with Patrick Campbell
Hannah Gordon, Charles Gray, Frank Muir, Angela Rippon and Tim Rice.
The Referee is Robert Robinson
Hannah Gordon, Charles Gray, Frank Muir, Angela Rippon and Tim Rice.
The Referee is Robert Robinson
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00:00Hello, we come to the last in this present series of Call My Bluff, which means that
00:26among those who will have to go back to work is Patrick Campbell.
00:34To my incredulous amazement, our team was defeated last week, but we return now with redouble
00:45fury to the fray with gentle Hannah Gordon.
00:56And gentlemen, Charles Gray.
01:05And someone else who will be picking up his case of samples again is Frank Muir.
01:11Once again, I have my modestly successful team, the splendid games player, Angela Rippon.
01:31And the equally splendid Tim Rice.
01:33See, old bell, if you work for the last time, yes you do, and you produce as good a word
01:45as we've ever had, riba zuba, or pronounce it any which way, I don't know.
01:50Patrick and his team will define riba zuba three different ways, two are false, one's true,
01:54that's the one that Frank and co will try and pick out.
01:56Patrick, what of it?
01:58The riba zuba, like the Vox Humana, or the diapos, it's a kind of organ stop.
02:07You will not find it on the church organ, because it might frighten the vicar.
02:12But you do get the riba zuba on the cinema organ.
02:17Now, I'd rather have gone out of fashion, the mighty well, let's remember that?
02:21You have riba zuba on it, it produces a kind of marvellous, thick, deep, brassy note.
02:31I would like the end of the world.
02:34I'll let you go from the cinemas, riba zuba.
02:36I've got a minute, yeah, done, thank you.
02:38Had that been Frank, I think he might have given us an example.
02:41I don't want to encourage you.
02:42He could do it yet, probably.
02:43Yeah, he may well, you never know.
02:44Charles Gray.
02:45Well, riba zuba, or riba zuba, is a dead giveaway if you speak Russian,
02:51because, as anyone in the Kremlin will tell you, it means walrus ivory.
02:56And if any of you happen to run across a cossack or the other way around,
03:00you've noticed that the handle, the hilt of their dagger,
03:04would certainly be made of riba zuba, or riba zuba.
03:12Yes.
03:13Very near thing there.
03:15Hannah, Hannah Gordon, your turn.
03:17Come on, Hannah.
03:19I've forgotten how to pronounce it.
03:21Riba zuba is an obsolete camp term for money.
03:26Nowadays, it would be something like bread or lolly, something like that.
03:31According to Mr. Gross's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, published in 1796,
03:36the expression for the riba zuba runs thick,
03:39that meant ostentatious wealth.
03:43That's all.
03:44Well, as Patrick said, it's an organ stomp.
03:49As Charles said, it's ivory from a walrus,
03:53and as Hannah said, it's a slang term, cant term for money.
03:57Frank Muir.
03:57We've got a walrus tusk at home, and we were, by an incredible coincidence, we were given it in Moscow.
04:08With the walrus, or...?
04:09No, it was filleted.
04:10No, it was filleted.
04:12Nobody said riba zuba to us, or whatever else you said approximating to it.
04:18So I can't think that can be it.
04:20Might be, but I don't think so.
04:22The organ stomp or the money.
04:26That quotation from Gross's Dictionary doesn't sound right.
04:31The second half of it.
04:32Otherwise, I would have gone for that.
04:34So it looks like Paddy's...
04:38You wouldn't call it deep, heavy cinema organ.
04:41Yes, you would.
04:42Paddy, it's you.
04:43Organ stomp.
04:44He said it was an organ stomp.
04:45He will now own up.
04:47True or bluff?
04:47Who gave the true definition?
05:00Here it comes.
05:02There it was.
05:03Oh, it was.
05:10You had two pieces of the jigsaw there, Frank, but I suppose you were too...
05:15As well, you might be too suspicious of people like that.
05:18Fugoid is the next word.
05:20Frank, you can go.
05:24Slight sort of lesson in the classics coming now.
05:26Fugoid comes from the Greek word fugue, which refers to a lobster.
05:34The other oid means pertaining to.
05:37Now, if we continue that thought, follow very closely behind me here.
05:42Fugoid means appertaining or in the shape of a lobster, like shrimp or prawn.
05:50Class dismissed.
05:53That's all?
05:55What do you get for this money?
05:57Oh.
05:58It's all pure protein, though.
06:00Tim Rice.
06:00Well, fugoid is a word that you would often hear Egyptologists say.
06:05Fugoid, they would say.
06:07This is because it's an adjective which is of or pertaining to the science of embalming.
06:13When, for example, the tomb of Tutankhamen, which I hope I've pronounced correctly...
06:18Don't look at me, mate.
06:21...was opened in 1922, Tutankhamen's tomb.
06:24He'd been buried for about 3,000 years, and the first word they all said was fugoid.
06:33Terribly reasonable, yes.
06:35Angela, your go.
06:38Fugoid is the word used to describe a certain eccentricity in the flight path of an aircraft,
06:44a sort of fore-and-aft oscillation or a dipping and a rising of the nose of an aircraft when it should be flying
06:52in a nice, straight flight path without any oscillation at all.
06:56And if you've been flying recently and haven't noticed this,
06:58it's because engineers have overcome this by using large control surfaces.
07:05Yes.
07:06Not the weather.
07:07Now, no, what they say is it's lobster-shaped, it's of embalming,
07:14and it's wobbly aircraft in just the way that Angela said.
07:18Patrick.
07:22Absurd to apply a word like fugoid to aeroplanes.
07:26They're far more technical.
07:30But lobster, no, it doesn't have to do with aeroplanes.
07:33Is it?
07:33Lobstery work, Frank?
07:36I don't know.
07:39But if you go it when you open the tomb, that's going a little far.
07:44It's got to be something to do with the shape of a lobster.
07:47Let's see your card.
07:48That was Frank.
07:49Let him see it.
07:50Let him see it.
07:53It's true, isn't it?
07:55Oh, no.
07:55No, nothing whatever to do with a lobster.
08:04Let's hear who gave the true definition of the word.
08:07Fugoid.
08:08Yeah.
08:09Oh, no.
08:10Yep.
08:15Very technical word, meaning the way that a plane would go up and down,
08:18front and back, something like that, wasn't it, Angela?
08:20Except the engineers are very clever these days.
08:23Now, blouser is the next one.
08:25Charles Gray.
08:25Now, a blouser is a man who's hired at the height of the pilchard season
08:30to help the pilchard fishermen spread the nets, dry them,
08:36and take the pilchards to the cannery and put them into tins.
08:40And that's it.
08:41The height of the pilchard season.
08:46Well, well, a phrase I shall remember.
08:48Hannah.
08:50A blouser is a clumsy felt overshoe with a soft leather sole.
08:54What else?
08:56Which you put over another pair of shoes, like a sort of dry galosh.
09:02During the First World War, the government issued many, many thousands of pairs of these blousers
09:06to workers in munition factories so that the hobnailed boots
09:11didn't create any sparks on stone floors.
09:16Very important.
09:17Very important.
09:17Yeah.
09:20Figures.
09:21Patrick.
09:21A blouser is a horse with dirty eating habits.
09:28This poor nag gets its face into a load of hay, briefly chews, around about half the hay falls out.
09:39This might be because the horse is tired of hay, but more often than not,
09:45it means the horse has got an infection of the throat.
09:48He's called a blouser by the vet who comes to see him.
09:56Infections of the throat always were good for a laugh.
09:58I don't know what people...
10:00It's a serious matter.
10:01Yeah, I know, but they used to fall about over those.
10:04Anyway, it's an overshoe.
10:06Fisherman's mate or assistant, that kind of thing.
10:08And a horse which eats sloppy because he's got something wrong with it.
10:12Tim Rice.
10:14Well, we are almost as one on this.
10:15I cannot believe that there will be a word for horses with dirty eating habits,
10:20because all horses have dirty eating habits.
10:23So the word for a horse with dirty eating habits is horse.
10:30I was very impressed by Hannah's shoes, among other things,
10:33but I don't think it's the felt overshoe.
10:35I do think it's Charles' pilchard canning man.
10:41Chap who helps, yeah.
10:42That was indeed Charles Grey.
10:45He'll have to tell us now.
10:46True or bluff?
10:49To Bullseye.
10:50The pilchard catcher's help meat is what it means.
11:04Timmy noggy.
11:05Ah, yes.
11:06One of those endearing words.
11:08Tim Rice.
11:10Well, a timmy noggy,
11:11which is sometimes abbreviated to just Timmy,
11:14as I am sometimes abbreviated to just Timmy.
11:16A little bit more of that, please.
11:18Yes, a homely touch.
11:20Up to a point.
11:21It was 19th century Australianese, or strine,
11:24for a native Aussie,
11:26i.e. not someone like Thompson and Lily,
11:28but somebody of Aboriginal stock
11:30who had adopted European ways and customs.
11:33Many Timmy noggies, or Timmies,
11:35became thus Europeanised
11:36by being taken on as servants
11:38by the residents of convict settlements.
11:41Gareth.
11:42You're in no position to say go off.
11:46What does Angela Rippon say?
11:48She'll tell us.
11:49Timmy noggy is the name given
11:51to the original Cornish pasty.
11:54And it was a rather nice meat pie
11:56made by Cornish tin miners' wives
11:58for them to take down the mines
12:00so that they could eat it in their lunch break.
12:02And if you've ever seen a real Cornish pasty,
12:04you'll see that it has rather a nice thick crust
12:06around the bottom of it.
12:08And that was a sort of finger hold
12:09so that the miners could catch hold
12:11of this little crust around the outside
12:12and eat their Timmy noggy
12:14without getting their dirty hands
12:16all over the nice meat and potato inside.
12:21Hung from it by their very fingers.
12:24Frank.
12:26Timmy noggy, naval term,
12:29except possibly in the Irish Navy.
12:31For a sailor's makeshift solution
12:36for some problem,
12:38for instance, to use a teaspoon
12:41or the captain's left boot for bailing
12:45would be a Tiki Noggy,
12:47or to use braces to tie up the anchor
12:49would be a Tiki Noggy or Timmy noggy,
12:52or a pair of bloomers as a spinnaker.
12:56The list is endless.
12:58They're all called Timmy noggy,
13:00except not all sailors use the word Timmy noggy
13:03for this device.
13:04Some call them a Wim Wom.
13:07What?
13:08Wim Wom.
13:12It's a Europeanised Australian Aboriginal.
13:16It's a Cornish pasty,
13:18and it's a sailor's makeshift.
13:21Charles Gray.
13:21I don't think it can be
13:24any of those naval things
13:26that go in the place of the others,
13:28can it really, Frank?
13:29And I'm not sure about Timmy noggy.
13:30Well, I don't know, Charles.
13:33If you consider...
13:36Let me interrupt you, sir.
13:38Tim's 19th-century Australian son.
13:41I'm going to have a go at Angela's pasty.
13:44I think it might be that.
13:45The one they grabbed hold of.
13:48Yes, Angela?
13:50No, no.
13:59No, wasn't that kind of pasty...
14:02What was it?
14:04A sailor's timmy noggy.
14:05Yeah.
14:05A thing in the week, I think.
14:07Never used it in the Irish Navy, then, Patrick.
14:16We had nothing but the best of equipment there.
14:18We didn't use teaspoons.
14:22But that's what it means in all the...
14:24Well, you know, in the rest of the Navy.
14:26Kinning is the next one.
14:27Hannah Gordon.
14:29Kinning is the cicatricula of your breakfast egg.
14:32The cicatricula of your breakfast egg,
14:41or anybody, or any egg for that matter.
14:43That is the round white spot on the egg yolk bag,
14:48which some weeks before formed the nucleus
14:51of the embryo of the chicken.
14:56While it was still inside the hen.
14:59Is that clear?
15:02Actually, a sonnet, very compact.
15:07Patrick.
15:08On a very, very close attention here,
15:09rather complicated architectural matter.
15:13Uh-huh.
15:15Kinning...
15:16An architectural picture that you often find
15:19on the ends of old houses.
15:22You've referred to my notes for a moment.
15:23Don't go away.
15:25It's the end part of a building
15:27where they've lopped off the gable.
15:30This is called hipping off.
15:32When you've hipped off the gable,
15:35you get a kind of inclined edge.
15:37Don't think we need any more of this rubbish, do you?
15:39This is also...
15:40It's simplified for you.
15:44This is also known as a truncated gable,
15:48or a kinning.
15:52Right.
15:52Right.
15:53Right.
15:53Charles Gray.
15:55Kinning was a cant word used by tramps and beggars
15:58in the 16th century
15:59to describe a boy or a girl
16:01who belonged to a...
16:03who'd been adopted by
16:04their community
16:06in order to teach them,
16:07I'm sorry to say,
16:08to steal.
16:10Like Fagin's lot,
16:12not of a twist.
16:12They were, you know,
16:13they were groomed to pinch pocket,
16:16pickpockets,
16:17and things like that.
16:21Yes.
16:22It's a spot on an egg.
16:24It's the cut-off end of a gable.
16:26And it's a beggar child.
16:29Angela.
16:31Patrick sounds terribly painful.
16:33I don't think it could possibly be that.
16:35Agony, yes.
16:36I can believe it.
16:37No, no, I don't think it's that.
16:38Pinching things.
16:41A school for thieves.
16:42Kinning.
16:43Pinching.
16:44I suppose it could be.
16:48No, I think it must be Hannah.
16:50I don't know why,
16:51but I think it must be Hannah.
16:52She said...
16:53A spot on an egg.
16:53A spot on an egg.
16:54On an egg.
16:55Was it true, Hannah?
16:57Or was it a bluff?
16:59Yes, it's true.
17:00APPLAUSE
17:01It's that little bit that,
17:10if you look closely,
17:11when you next eat a boiled egg,
17:12you'll see it's that little spot.
17:144-1.
17:15And we have prone pot.
17:18Angela Rippon.
17:20Prone pot is a prostate rambler.
17:24And I don't mean somebody with a rucksack on his back
17:26having a quiet zizz in the hedgerows.
17:27It's a plant which grows that way
17:31instead of that way.
17:33That way.
17:34Or that way.
17:35Instead of that way.
17:36Make a note.
17:37To be much more precise.
17:38OK?
17:39To be much more precise.
17:40It's a sort of countryman's word
17:42for the Hypericum or the St John's wort.
17:45A plant which is very good for ground cover.
17:49Yes.
17:50Is it frankly on now?
17:53Rather obvious as soon as I pronounce it.
17:56It's pro-nipot.
18:00Pro-nipot.
18:02From the Latin, naturally.
18:04The Latin prefix pro, meaning before, in front of.
18:09And nipot, the same word as nipotism, really.
18:13It's from nipos, which means a grandson.
18:17So a pro-nipot is a great-grandchild.
18:21Stands to never mind.
18:22Are you sure?
18:28No, but next.
18:31Tim Rice.
18:33No, don't worry, Patrick.
18:34Tim Rice.
18:35Pro-nipot is a very ancient word for a trick or a prank.
18:40I can't really add much to that, except to say that there was a quote,
18:45I believe, from Canterbury Tales by some doxy or other,
18:48who said,
18:49But, Lord, the pretty pro-nipots we mad wenches played.
18:54You just sunk yourself with that one, have you?
18:56Left it alone.
18:58That means a prank.
19:01It means a great-grandson,
19:03or it means the rambling Hypericum.
19:06Anna Gordon.
19:07Huh?
19:08I don't know.
19:10Oh.
19:11He doesn't know.
19:12You're right on your own.
19:13It's a long time since I did any latter,
19:15but I thought nipos was a nephew, is it?
19:18Yes.
19:19Yes, so it's not.
19:19It can't be anything to do with a grandchild if it's a nephew,
19:23so I don't think it's Frank's.
19:27That was awfully silent.
19:32Tim's trick or prank?
19:35I can't...
19:35Pro-nip...
19:36No, how did you pronounce it?
19:37Pro-nipot.
19:38Pro-nipot.
19:40No, I don't think it's that either.
19:42Prone is something to do with on the ground, isn't it, I think?
19:45So I think it's that rambling Hypericum of Angelus.
19:49Yes, she said it.
19:50Rambling plant of some sort, ground cover.
19:53True or bluff?
19:55No, no.
19:56No, it wasn't.
20:05Who gave the true definition?
20:08Reveal all now.
20:09No granddad there.
20:10It's there.
20:11Apparently, sir, it does mean great-grandson.
20:22It does?
20:22Oh.
20:23There you are.
20:235-1.
20:24Goodness me.
20:25Chessie, we have Patrick.
20:28Chessie must be blindingly obvious to anyone with a mind the size of a pin.
20:34simply means being very good at chess.
20:41If my feet were handcuffed together,
20:48and a lead weight hung round my neck,
20:50and I was sunk into eight fathoms of water,
20:54and I check-meated you playing chess against you in two moves from there,
20:57I could be called a very, very Chessie player.
21:01And will be in the future.
21:05Charles Gray.
21:07Chessie's a refined form of civet
21:09that's got from that musky smell
21:12that's obtained from the rear end of civet cats.
21:17And you might like to make a note
21:19that John Bunyan, of all people,
21:21regularly soused himself in Chessie
21:25during his incarceration in Bedford Jail.
21:30What?
21:30Why?
21:32Why do you do that?
21:33A lot of cats about, I suppose.
21:35Hannah.
21:37A Chessie.
21:41Is...
21:42Would you laugh at me?
21:43Get on with it.
21:44You took me off.
21:46A Chessie is something which every household
21:47should have in its medicine cabinet
21:49in the first aid compartment.
21:51It's a double bandage
21:53which is used for supporting the chin
21:56if you dislocate your jaw.
21:59And it's very complicated to describe this.
22:02It's easier just to tell you
22:03that it is a double bandage
22:04for a dislocated jaw.
22:07So that's what it is.
22:08They say it's another word for civet,
22:11another word for being very good at...
22:13well, one word for the words
22:14being very good at chess
22:15and another word for bandage,
22:18one that goes round your jaw.
22:20Frank.
22:22You could beat me
22:24with both your ears
22:26tied below your elbows at chess
22:28because I can't play it.
22:31I can't either.
22:33But I'm below the water.
22:35Mind you, I'm pretty drafty.
22:36I wonder whether...
22:38I don't know.
22:39Next, please.
22:42The thing of poor old Bunyan
22:44dousing himself
22:45with the backsides of cats
22:48is a terrifying sort.
22:50Quite new.
22:52Double bandage
22:54for supporting chins
22:56when there was...
22:56A well-known piece of equipment
22:59in our medicine cabinets
23:00is usually referred to at the chemists
23:01as a double bandage
23:02for supporting chins.
23:04It certainly wouldn't have a special name.
23:06So, therefore,
23:07I think it's Patrick.
23:10Yes, he said it was being good at chess,
23:12didn't he?
23:12Yes.
23:13True or bluff, Patrick?
23:17There's something very odd about this.
23:28It does mean what it says, you know.
23:30Chessy, of chess.
23:32Very good.
23:32Very chess-worthy.
23:33That kind of thing.
23:34Sometimes the obvious definition
23:35on this game
23:36is the real one.
23:38So, then we come to
23:39Proca and Frank Muir.
23:43Proca, roughly speaking,
23:46is a wig-maker's labourer.
23:50You see, you've got...
23:52And it's an anglicised French word.
23:55You've got your wig-maker himself
23:56who actually cons the customer
24:00into choosing the expensive long-coloured one.
24:03And it was the labourer
24:05who had to actually stitch
24:06the strands of hair
24:10onto the curious shape
24:13but a net, which was the poke.
24:16Never.
24:17Never, ever.
24:19Or, I'm a liar.
24:20Yep.
24:24Tim.
24:24Well, Proca is beer.
24:26Not B-I-E-E-R as in funerals
24:28but B-E-E-R as in drink.
24:31And it's beer that's just about on the turn
24:33that's perhaps slightly over-fermented
24:35due to overexposure to the air.
24:38It was also once known as penny Proca
24:40because it was cheap
24:41and also as shower trough
24:43because it was considered only fit for pigs.
24:48Mm-hmm.
24:49Angela's turn.
24:51A Proca is a piece of metal
24:53usually about a yard long.
24:56And in rather upper-class homes
24:58you would find it in the drawing room
25:00for prodding at
25:02or proking at the fire.
25:05In other words,
25:05it's what you or I
25:07or normal civilised people
25:09might call a Poker.
25:11But they called it a Proca.
25:14Yes.
25:15Well, it's sour beer,
25:17a Wigmaker's assistant
25:19or a Poker.
25:22Patrick.
25:23I think first of all
25:24certain people ought to go back
25:26to newsreading
25:26where they weren't doing any harm.
25:32It isn't Old Bear
25:34and it isn't a Wigmaker's labourer
25:35it's a Proca.
25:38What?
25:39It's a Proca.
25:40It's a newsreader's word.
25:42Let's see it, girl, quickly.
25:43No, the Proca is a Poker.
25:44Oh, no!
25:47You said that with such decision.
25:56I knew it.
25:57You knew it.
25:58I didn't know it.
25:58No.
25:59She's kind of older like all the time.
26:00Yeah, that's right.
26:01I only get names, generally.
26:03Poker is a Proca.
26:05And we come to our last word,
26:07Gullop,
26:08and Charles Gray defines it for us.
26:10Well, um,
26:12Gullop
26:12is a very
26:13anti-social verb
26:16and I'm
26:16I'm sorry to bring it up
26:18but it simply means
26:19to belch.
26:22Ah, ah, ah.
26:23Ah, ah.
26:24There's a pun lurking there
26:26somewhere, isn't there?
26:27I know.
26:27Hannah, your turn.
26:29It's a verb,
26:30Gullop,
26:30and it describes the gait
26:31of an exceptionally
26:32long-limbed horse.
26:35That means it can
26:35to walk
26:36or to counter
26:36or to gallop.
26:38And it does so
26:38with a kind of
26:39rolling corkscrew
26:40movement.
26:43It does sometimes.
26:45It does sometimes.
26:47Yeah.
26:48Now, Patrick,
26:49I think it's your go.
26:50A gallop
26:51is a tool
26:52used by
26:52sculptors.
26:54Oh, that one.
26:58It's a kind of
26:59spoon-shaped
27:00chisely thing
27:02making
27:04little holes
27:07in the picket
27:08that he's making
27:08like, for instance,
27:10with a human navel.
27:15You make a navel
27:16with a gullop.
27:20So you say
27:21it's a sculptor's chisel
27:22for use in
27:23particular circumstances.
27:25It's the way
27:25a horse gallops
27:27along,
27:27it's got a
27:28corkscrew motion
27:28and sometimes
27:29falls over,
27:30as Hannah's
27:30kind enough to add.
27:32And, yes,
27:34to belch.
27:35Tim Rice,
27:36your choice.
27:37Well, there's a
27:38certain amount
27:38of controversy
27:39or controversy
27:40on our side.
27:41Good.
27:41But between us,
27:43we have eliminated
27:43Patrick.
27:45Or rather,
27:45we have eliminated
27:46his sculptor's tool.
27:47We don't believe
27:48it's that.
27:50I was tempted
27:51by Hannah's
27:52horse
27:52clip-clopping along,
27:54but I've been
27:55overruled by
27:56horse experts
27:56on our side.
27:58Which one
27:58is the horse
27:59expert on that
27:59side?
28:03I'm just covering
28:04myself in case
28:05I'm wrong.
28:08So I'm going
28:09to choose
28:10Charles's belch.
28:13Charles,
28:14your belch
28:15has been chosen,
28:16sir.
28:16True or bluff?
28:17It's a bull
28:20line!
28:21Oh!
28:32It certainly does
28:33mean that.
28:34It means that.
28:36And with...
28:36Oh, it's a very
28:37dramatic score
28:38on which to end
28:39our programme
28:40and indeed
28:40our little series.
28:41And so,
28:42score standing
28:43at 7-2,
28:43no question about it.
28:45Is there, Frank?
28:46You've won!
28:47Yes?
28:47Perhaps that last
28:48question will
28:48earn us a repeat.
28:57I'm going to get
28:58you to say that
28:58again, Frank,
28:59unless I'm blamed
29:00for it.
29:00Just say it again,
29:01will you?
29:01That last question?
29:02I said I only
29:03hope that last
29:03question earned
29:04us a repeat.
29:05Ah!
29:08How do I mean?
29:10How do you mean?
29:11Well, on that
29:12note, if that's
29:13what you can call it,
29:14we leave the
29:16corpses to slumber
29:17peacefully for a
29:18while in the
29:18Oxford English
29:19Dictionary while
29:20we take our
29:20farewells,
29:21beginning with
29:21Charles Gray.
29:26Tim Rice.
29:30Anna Gordon.
29:33Anne to the
29:34Rippon.
29:36Patrick Kemp.
29:40Frank Muir.
29:41G
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