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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30Welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:33I read an article the other day, Rachel, about the food that we Brits, when we're expats living abroad, like to have sent to us to give us a little taste of home.
00:43Yeah? Interesting.
00:44And the most common foods are, wait for it, it's interesting actually, Jaffa cakes, I sort of understand that, cheese and onion crisps, only the Brits really, crumpets.
00:57Okay, I can get on board.
00:59Are you with that?
01:00Yeah, like a crumpet.
01:01Most popular, baked beans, I sort of understand that, oh, it's an American thing, is it?
01:05But hold on a minute, where's Marmite in all this?
01:08Or, because I spend time abroad, do you know something, in that great country of France, can you get a decent cup of tea?
01:16The answer to that is no.
01:18You can't.
01:19What about you?
01:19What's your favourite when you're abroad?
01:21What do you miss most?
01:22Well, I've had a friend that lived in Florence, and she made me take baked beans when I went to visit her.
01:27Another friend I go travelling with always takes her own tea with her.
01:30Yeah.
01:30But when I went to the States a couple of Christmases ago, I mean, a lot of things go down in America that aren't the same as Britain, but you can tolerate them.
01:37Yeah.
01:38But I can't tolerate white gravy.
01:41No.
01:41You go there, I've ordered food before, and it says gravy on it, and they bring this bread sauce thing with it.
01:47I'd send it straight back, so I'd have to take my own gravy.
01:49Proper British gravy to go with your roast potatoes and your veg and all the rest of it.
01:54I can understand that, although I personally never take gravy, but tea, please.
02:00Don't get them mixed up.
02:01It makes a terrible cup of tea.
02:03I know.
02:04But honestly, actually, I love the French, but their tea's ridiculous.
02:08And they've got 40 or 50 types.
02:11All of it tastes of wee.
02:14Now, who's with us?
02:17Reg, we've got Maggie Barlow's back with three good wins.
02:20Well done.
02:21How are you feeling?
02:22I'm feeling good, thank you, Nick.
02:23Excellent.
02:24Well, you're doing very well.
02:25And you're joined by Derek Harvey, a retired telegraphist from London.
02:30You used to work for the BBC when you were in the telegraphy business.
02:33And you were telling me earlier on that the BBC and the post office had the first, strongest, best telegraphy network in the world.
02:42It's fantastic.
02:43You're a big chess player, too, down in Battersea.
02:45Is that right?
02:45Yes.
02:46Member of the Battersea Chess Club.
02:47Yes.
02:48Excellent.
02:48But also, most importantly, Derek, you're a long-time fan of Countdown.
02:53Well done.
02:57Big round of applause.
02:58Big round of applause for Derek and Maggie.
03:01And over in the corner there, Susie, of course.
03:07And for the last time, television and radio presenter and reporter, the wonderful, friendly and well-travelled Helen Fosbro.
03:13Welcome back.
03:15Well done.
03:19All right, Maggie, you're an expert here.
03:21Well, you're an old hand anyway.
03:24Off you go.
03:25Hi, Rachel.
03:26Hi, Maggie.
03:27Start with the consonant, please.
03:28Start today with P.
03:31And another?
03:33L.
03:34And another?
03:36M.
03:37And a vowel?
03:39A.
03:40Another?
03:41I.
03:42Another vowel?
03:44A.
03:45A consonant?
03:47F.
03:48Another vowel?
03:51E.
03:52And a consonant, please.
03:55And lastly, S.
03:56Stand by.
03:56...
04:08...
04:14...
04:14...
04:16Well, Maggie?
04:29Seven.
04:30Derek?
04:31Seven.
04:32Thank you, Maggie.
04:33Malaise.
04:35Derek?
04:35Impales.
04:37Anything else in the corner there?
04:38Helen?
04:38We had malaise two for seven.
04:41Anything else?
04:42Otherwise we were down to six with impala.
04:44Very good.
04:45Seven apiece.
04:47Good start there, Derek.
04:48Now it's your letters game.
04:50Hi, Rachel.
04:51Hi, Derek.
04:52Have a consonant, please.
04:54Start with N.
04:56And a vowel.
04:58O.
04:59And a consonant.
05:01T.
05:02And a vowel.
05:04E.
05:04And a consonant.
05:06N.
05:07And a vowel.
05:09O.
05:09And a consonant.
05:11L.
05:13And another consonant.
05:15S.
05:16And another consonant.
05:18And to finish, R.
05:19Stand by.
05:20T.
05:22T.
05:23Well, Derek, just a six.
05:53A six, Maggie.
05:54A seven.
05:55Derek.
05:56Stoner.
05:58And?
05:59Looters.
06:01Yes.
06:02That's what you find.
06:04What's a stoner?
06:07A stoner is somebody who gets stoned.
06:14Did you know that, Derek?
06:16Yes, ma'am.
06:17I thought you might have done.
06:19Now, Helen, what are you up to?
06:21Um, Rutles was there for seven, but I think Susie's done better, I think.
06:25I think she's found something bigger.
06:26Um, there is, um, an eight there.
06:29Um, Nortenos, I think you would say.
06:31N-O-R-T-E-N-O-S.
06:34Um, and it's an inhabitant or native of northern Mexico.
06:42Okay, 14 plays seven now.
06:45Maggie, your numbers game.
06:47One from the top, please, Rachel, and any other five?
06:49Thank you, Maggie.
06:50One large five, little.
06:51And the first one of the day is two, one, six, three, two, and twenty-five.
07:01And the target, six hundred and sixty-two.
07:04Six, six, two.
07:05Six, six, three, and twenty-five.
07:36Maggie?
07:37I think I've got six, five, seven.
07:40Derek?
07:41I'm too far away, Nick.
07:42Too far.
07:43Let's stay with Maggie then, shall we?
07:45Maggie?
07:45Okay.
07:46Um, twenty-five times three.
07:50Seventy-five.
07:52Then take away two.
07:56Seventy-three.
07:56And then, uh, six plus two plus one is nine.
08:01Six plus the other two plus one is nine.
08:04And multiply that.
08:06So it's six, five, seven, which is what you declared.
08:08Five away.
08:08Lovely.
08:09Well done.
08:09Well done.
08:10Slightly adrift there.
08:11Rachel, can you dig us out of this?
08:13I can get you to six hundred and sixty, but this one's impossible.
08:18Okay.
08:18Well, well done there, Maggie.
08:20Well done.
08:20Twenty-one plays seven as we turn to our first tea time teaser, which is ninth, Glee.
08:26And the clue.
08:28Tell someone everything you know about energy-saving bulbs, perhaps.
08:32Tell someone everything you know about energy-saving bulbs, perhaps.
08:53Welcome back.
08:54Welcome back.
08:55I left you with the clue.
08:56Tell someone everything you know about energy-saving bulbs, perhaps.
09:02You would certainly enlighten them.
09:05Enlighten.
09:06That's the answer we're after.
09:08Twenty-one plays seven.
09:09Derek, your letters game.
09:11Consonant, please, Rachel.
09:13Thank you, Derek.
09:14N.
09:15And a vowel.
09:17E.
09:18And a consonant.
09:20T.
09:21And a vowel.
09:23A.
09:23And a consonant.
09:25D.
09:27And a vowel.
09:29U.
09:31And a consonant.
09:32K.
09:34And another consonant.
09:36W.
09:37And another consonant.
09:39And lastly, S.
09:40Stand by.
09:43But a
09:54that once you genuinely believe in.
09:58And a consonant.
09:59And a consonant.
10:00And a vowel.
10:02And a vowel.
10:04It's a vowel.
10:05And a vowel.
10:06And a itís a היא and a lasciogi.
10:07And a assessment.
10:08According to a thunder,
10:09and a Armenian.
10:10Derek, six.
10:15Maggie?
10:17Seven.
10:18Derek?
10:19Wakened, thank you, and...
10:22Swanked?
10:24Yes, to display one's wealth, knowledge or achievements
10:27in a way that's intended to impress others.
10:29Very good.
10:30Now, Helen?
10:32Quite a few sevens, I think.
10:34Unasked was my seven.
10:37And Dankest as well.
10:40Excuse me, 28 plays seven, and it's Maggie's letters game.
10:44Maggie?
10:45A consonant, please, Rachel.
10:46Thank you, Maggie.
10:47T.
10:48And another.
10:50R.
10:51And another.
10:53N.
10:55And a fourth.
10:57D.
10:58And a vowel.
11:00E.
11:01Another.
11:02U.
11:03Another.
11:05A.
11:06A consonant.
11:08H.
11:09And a consonant, please.
11:13And the last one, R.
11:15Countdown.
11:15And a consonant, please.
11:17And a consonant, please.
11:17And a consonant, please.
11:18And a consonant, please.
11:18And a consonant, please.
11:19And a consonant, please.
11:20And a consonant, please.
11:20And a consonant, please.
11:21And a consonant, please.
11:21And a consonant, please.
11:21And a consonant, please.
11:22And a consonant, please.
11:22And a consonant, please.
11:23And a consonant, please.
11:23And a consonant, please.
11:24And a consonant, please.
11:24And a consonant, please.
11:25And a consonant, please.
11:26And a consonant, please.
11:27And a consonant, please.
11:28And a consonant, please.
11:29And a consonant, please.
11:30And a consonant, please.
11:31And a consonant, please.
11:32And a consonant, please.
11:33And a consonant, please.
11:34And a consonant, please.
11:35Maggie?
11:48I think an eight.
11:50An eight. Derek?
11:51Seven. And your seven?
11:53Haunted. Thanks, Derek.
11:55And? Unthread?
11:57Yes. Excellent. It's in the dictionary.
11:59Very well done.
12:05And what else can we have there? Helen?
12:07Oh, I don't know what else, but that was our eight on thread.
12:10Yeah, well done.
12:11A good one. 36 to seven. Derek, your numbers game now.
12:16Two large ones, please, Rachel.
12:18Thank you, Derek. Two large ones and four not large ones.
12:21And for this round, they are eight, nine, five, ten, 75, and 50.
12:30And your target?
12:32106.
12:34106.
12:35106.
12:38106.
12:40106.
12:49106.
12:51106.
12:52106.
12:57116.
13:03116.
13:04Well, Derek?
13:07108.
13:08108. Maggie?
13:11I think I've got 102.
13:15Derek?
13:1610 over 5.
13:1810 over 5 is 2.
13:19Times 50.
13:21100.
13:22Plus 8.
13:23Yep, 2 above.
13:25Well done.
13:26But 106. Rachel, can we unpick that?
13:29Or can you unpick it, indeed?
13:30Yes, Nick.
13:31If you say 50 plus 75 is 1, 2, 5.
13:3610 plus 9 is 19.
13:39And take that off.
13:40106.
13:40Yeah, well done.
13:44So 36 to 14 sees Maggie maintaining her lead as we turn to Helen.
13:51And Helen, you work for London's Air Ambulance Service.
13:54And I think that you've got a little story or tale to tell us.
13:57I've been lucky enough to spend quite a bit of time with London's Air Ambulance
14:01recently.
14:02A lot of people don't realise they run as a charity and it takes £10 million a year
14:06to keep them running.
14:08365 days a year.
14:10They're tasked to, on average, 5 to 8 jobs a day saving lives all over the capital.
14:15And they're world-renowned.
14:16They were the first air ambulance service ever, for example, to do open-heart surgery
14:21at the roadside.
14:22And medics come from all over the globe to spend time with them.
14:26But what's even more incredible than their day job is what's going on behind the scenes.
14:32So they have a full-time nurse called Frank whose sole job is to reunite the people they
14:39save with the unsung heroes who have saved their lives.
14:43If you imagine the sort of call-outs they go to, it's stabbings, shootings, terrorist
14:48incidents, major road accidents.
14:50And people go through really traumatic, have really traumatic, life-changing injuries.
14:56And they're being helped by the people who saved their lives.
15:01So I've met a few of these people.
15:03One of them is a gentleman who was riding his scooter in London and he was run over by
15:08a lorry.
15:09He doesn't remember anything of the accident, but he had 15 broken ribs, a shattered pelvis
15:14and his lungs collapsed.
15:16And now he volunteers for the service and he's met the paramedic who saved his life.
15:21And he's helping not only the chap who was injured, but his family come to terms with
15:27what happened that day.
15:28Another lady lost her leg in an accident and she was heavily pregnant.
15:33She now regularly comes to the Royal London Hospital where their helipad's based and spends
15:37time having cups of tea with the surgeon who not only took care of her leg, but went on
15:43to deliver her baby.
15:45They're celebrating 30 years this year.
15:47It's their birthday.
15:48They also help as well, families where the patient, you know, hasn't been lucky enough
15:54to survive.
15:55If you've lost somebody in these circumstances, it can be really comforting to hear, you know,
16:00perhaps that your loved one didn't suffer or there may have been some last words.
16:06And they also raise money for their own service.
16:09So a lot of the medics and pilots go to the Sahara and run marathons in extreme conditions.
16:14They're like a small family and it's a real privilege to do some work with them.
16:21Do they have more than one helicopter or...?
16:24They have two helicopters, but only one flies every day and they only fly in daylight hours.
16:29And when they fly, they have the sort of priority in the airspace.
16:33So over police helicopters and over, you know, commercial planes.
16:38But then when they go off duty and they fly back to North Holt, then they're, you know,
16:42they stick to the normal sort of flying rules.
16:45But it's brilliant.
16:46It feels a real privilege to be up there and see them at work and, you know, see what goes
16:51on every day.
16:52And I know this goes on all over the country with air ambulances.
16:54But the London team are really super and doing so much more than, you know, what it says
17:01on the tin, if you like.
17:02Well, we've got to keep them in the air, haven't we?
17:04Yeah, absolutely.
17:05Well done.
17:08Amazing.
17:11Thank you, Helen.
17:1236 to 14.
17:14Maggie in the lead.
17:15Maggie, back for letters game.
17:18A consonant, please, Rachel.
17:19Thank you, Maggie.
17:20F.
17:21And another.
17:23X.
17:24And another.
17:26G.
17:28And a vowel.
17:30I.
17:31Another.
17:32O.
17:34And a consonant.
17:37R.
17:38A vowel.
17:40A.
17:42And a consonant.
17:44T.
17:45And another vowel, please.
17:47And lastly, U.
17:50And here's the countdown clock.
17:54Maggie.
18:06I.
18:06актив.
18:07And then.
18:07Maggie.
18:07I.
18:08And now.
18:12Maggie.
18:24I'll stick with the six.
18:25Derek.
18:26And six.
18:27Thank you, Maggie.
18:29Guitar.
18:30Derek.
18:31Outrig.
18:32Very good.
18:32Now, Helen, you've got a smile.
18:34I was with Maggie.
18:35I had a guitar.
18:36Well done.
18:37Anything else, Susie?
18:38A couple more.
18:39There's an agouti.
18:41The large burrowing rodent that you'll find in Central and South America.
18:46And also figura, which is a person or thing that symbolises something.
18:5342 plays 20.
18:54Derek.
18:55Letters game for Derek.
18:57Consonant plays Rachel.
18:58Thank you, Derek.
18:59D.
19:01And a vowel.
19:02E.
19:03And a consonant.
19:05H.
19:06And a vowel.
19:08A.
19:09And a consonant.
19:10R.
19:12And a vowel.
19:13O.
19:15And a consonant.
19:17J.
19:19And a consonant.
19:21C.
19:23And one more consonant, please.
19:25And the last one, R.
19:27Standby.
19:27And a consonant.
19:29And a consonant.
19:29And a consonant.
19:29And a consonant.
19:30And a consonant.
19:30And a consonant.
19:31And a consonant.
19:31And a consonant.
19:31And a consonant.
19:32And a consonant.
19:32And a consonant.
19:33And a consonant.
19:33And a consonant.
19:33And a consonant.
19:33And a consonant.
19:34And a consonant.
19:34And a consonant.
19:34And a consonant.
19:35And a consonant.
19:35And a consonant.
19:35And a consonant.
19:36And a consonant.
19:36And a consonant.
19:37And a consonant.
19:37And a consonant.
19:38And a consonant.
19:38And a consonant.
19:39And a consonant.
19:39And a consonant.
19:40And a consonant.
19:40And a consonant.
19:41And a consonant.
19:41And a consonant.
19:42And a consonant.
19:42And a consonant.
19:43And a consonant.
19:43And a consonant.
19:57Derek, seven.
20:01A seven, Maggie?
20:02Seven.
20:03Derek, charred.
20:05Charred?
20:05And charred.
20:06Both charred.
20:09Anybody else burnt over there?
20:10Helen?
20:10A couple of sevens from me, Horda and Orchard.
20:14Yes.
20:15Susie?
20:16Yes, you can be hardcore, and it can be all one word.
20:19That will give you an eight.
20:20Hardcore.
20:20Yeah.
20:20Hard.
20:21Thanks for that.
20:2249 to 27.
20:24Into another numbers game.
20:26Maggie?
20:27One from the top, please, Rachel, and any other five?
20:30Thank you, Maggie.
20:31Your favourite one large five, a little.
20:33And this time around, they are 10, 8, 6, 9, 1, and a large one, 50.
20:42And the target, 435.
20:45435.
20:46435.
20:46435.
20:465.
20:475.
20:47645.
20:495.
20:50635.
20:52MUSIC PLAYS
21:18Maggie. Yes, 435.
21:20Derek.
21:22I've messed it up.
21:25Oh, I'm sorry.
21:27Let's go to Maggie.
21:29OK, 9 times 50.
21:309 fifties are 450.
21:33Take away the 10 and the 6.
21:35The 10 and the 6.
21:37434.
21:38And add the 1.
21:38Lovely. 435.
21:42Well done there, Maggie.
21:44Score now standing 59 to 27 as we turn to our second tea time.
21:49Teaser, which is brush fire.
21:51And the clue, it was all a bit jaded and tatty, so you decided to do this.
21:56It was all a bit jaded and tatty, so you decided to do this.
22:01Welcome back.
22:18I left you with the clue.
22:19It was all a bit jaded and tatty, so you decided to refurbish, refurbish.
22:28So 59 to 27, Maggie in the lead.
22:31It's Derek we turn to.
22:33Your letters came, Derek.
22:34Consonant, please, Rachel.
22:36Thank you, Derek.
22:37T.
22:38And a vowel.
22:39E.
22:40And a consonant.
22:42R.
22:43And a vowel.
22:45O.
22:46And a consonant.
22:48G.
22:50And a vowel.
22:51I.
22:53I.
22:54And a consonant.
22:56P.
22:58And another consonant.
23:00M.
23:02And one more consonant, please.
23:03And the last one, R.
23:05Stand by.
23:06So, back.
23:30Bye.
23:34Bye.
23:34Bye.
23:35Bye.
23:35Bye.
23:35Bye.
23:36Well Derek. Eight. And eight Maggie? Eight. Derek. Importer. And? Add the same. Two importers here. What about the corner? Two importers here I think as well. Yes? Yes.
23:55Hmm. We should be thinking more about export these days. 67 to 35. Maggie. Letters go. A consonant please. Thank you Maggie. L. And another. C. And another. S. And a fourth. G. A vowel. E. Another. U. Another.
24:25E. A consonant. M. And a vowel please. And lastly O. Stand by.
24:55Well Maggie. A seven. A seven. Derek. Six. And your six. Muscle. Maggie. Glucose. And Helen. Legumes.
25:16Legumes. I've not pronounced that very well. Legume. Maybe. Legumes. Legumes. For seven.
25:22Yes. That's really good. And there is an eight there as well. Last minute eight. Eclogs. E-C-L-O-G-U-S. U-E-S I should say. Short poems. Especially pastoral ones.
25:33Oh right.
25:34Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
25:40Pastoral poems. Aww.
25:4274 to 35. Susie. It's your origins of words.
25:48Well I learned about yesterday about going to Africa for the first time.
25:52which inspired me to look at words from Turkey and Africa
25:56because we don't often talk about words from those countries.
26:00There's sort of some countries where you just get a smattering of words
26:02that have been imported into English.
26:04Welsh, for example, only two words I can think of in the dictionary,
26:07corgi and penguin, have come over from Welsh.
26:10And it's the same with Turkey and Africa, in fact.
26:13Very few words have come over.
26:15I thought I'd give you a few of those that have.
26:17Angora wool and the angora goats from which it comes
26:21both take their name from the Turkish capital of Ankara,
26:24which was known as Angora until 1930.
26:29In publishing, if you work in publishing, you get to know the word solecism.
26:33Now, a solecism is a misspelling or it's a misunderstanding of some kind.
26:37It's some kind of grammatical error.
26:39So if you were to confuse imply and infer or disinterested and uninterested,
26:44for example, those would be solecisms.
26:47And they take their words, sorry, they take their name
26:49from the ancient Greek city of Solloi, which is on Turkey's south coast.
26:54And apparently the people there spoke such a crude language,
26:58such a crude local dialect, that the name of the city
27:01eventually morphed into a term for any sentence
27:03that breaks every rule of grammar, which I quite like,
27:08even though the word's not that current or not that popular, I guess.
27:11It's got a nice history to it.
27:12Then we go over to Africa, 36 miles to get to a different continent,
27:18and you arrive in Tangier.
27:19And Tangier is the third largest, I think it's the northernmost city of Morocco.
27:25And that gave us, no surprise here, that gave us the tangerine.
27:29And tangerine first meant anything that came over from Tangier.
27:33But by about sort of 1800s, some really quite exotic tasting,
27:38incredibly sweet, small oranges began to appear in British fruit bowls.
27:43Much sweeter tasting than the oranges that rich Englishmen have begun to grow over here.
27:48And that, they of course, came over from Tangier,
27:52and we gave them the name of tangerine, and they have stayed with us ever since.
27:56So just a few words, really, as I say, just a tiny, tiny smacking of words
28:00that have come over from those two countries,
28:02which is quite surprising given our encounters with them.
28:05But they're worth celebrating, nonetheless.
28:08Absolutely.
28:13Very good. Thank you for that, Susie.
28:1674 to 35. Maggie on 74.
28:19Derek, penultimate letters game for you. Good luck.
28:23Consonant, please, Rachel.
28:25Thank you, Derek. V.
28:27And a vowel.
28:28U.
28:29And a consonant.
28:31L.
28:32And a vowel.
28:34O.
28:35And a consonant.
28:37D.
28:38And a vowel.
28:39I.
28:40And a consonant.
28:42S.
28:44A consonant.
28:46W.
28:47And a vowel.
28:48And a final O.
28:51Stand by.
28:52Okay.
28:59Derrick.
29:23Just a five, Nick.
29:24A five.
29:25And Maggie?
29:26Six.
29:27Derek.
29:28Voids.
29:29Now then, Maggie.
29:31Odeous.
29:32Now, Helen.
29:33If you add the O to voids, you could have Ovoids for six.
29:38Mm-hmm.
29:38Yes.
29:39Anything else?
29:40Egg-shaped objects, essentially.
29:41And six is for us, Nick.
29:4380 to 35.
29:44Maggie, final letters game.
29:46What have you got?
29:47A consonant, please, Rachel.
29:48Thank you, Maggie.
29:49Z.
29:50Zed.
29:51And another?
29:53S.
29:54Another?
29:56T.
29:57And another?
29:59B.
30:02And vowel?
30:04E.
30:05Another vowel?
30:07O.
30:08And a third?
30:10A.
30:12A consonant?
30:14S.
30:16And a consonant, please.
30:18And finally, Q.
30:21Stand by.
30:21A consonant?
30:22A consonant?
30:23A consonant?
30:23A consonant?
30:24A consonant?
30:24A consonant?
30:25A consonant?
30:25A consonant?
30:26A consonant?
30:26A consonant?
30:27A consonant?
30:27A consonant?
30:28A consonant?
30:28A consonant?
30:29A consonant?
30:30A consonant?
30:31A consonant?
30:32A consonant?
30:33A consonant?
30:34A consonant?
30:35A consonant?
30:36A consonant?
30:37A consonant?
30:38A consonant?
30:39A consonant?
30:40A consonant?
30:41A consonant?
30:42A consonant?
30:43A consonant?
30:44A consonant?
30:45A consonant?
30:46A consonant?
30:47A consonant?
30:48A consonant?
30:49A consonant?
30:50A consonant?
30:51A consonant?
30:51Maggie?
30:54Six.
30:55And Derek?
30:56Six.
30:57Maggie?
30:57Boasts.
30:59Boasts and?
31:00Beasts.
31:01Yeah.
31:02And beasts.
31:04Helen?
31:05Boasts and beasts for me, I'm afraid.
31:08That's it.
31:08Susie and the girls?
31:09Yes, we had sabots, French clogs, but six was top for us.
31:1386 to 41 into the final numbers game.
31:16Derek Harvey?
31:18Two large ones, please, Rachel.
31:20Thank you, Derek.
31:20Two large, four little again for you.
31:23And the final numbers of the day are 8, 2, 4, 6, 75 and 100.
31:31And the target, 521.
31:345, 2, 1.
31:355, 2, 1.
31:505, 2, 1.
32:065, 2, 1.
32:09Thank you, Maggie.
32:10Yes, 5, 2, 1.
32:11Off we go.
32:11Derek?
32:13Six times 100.
32:15600.
32:15Minus 75.
32:175, 2, 5.
32:19Minus 4.
32:19Perfect.
32:205, 2, 1.
32:21Lovely.
32:21Maggie?
32:22I did it the same way.
32:23Same way.
32:23There we go.
32:24So, another good score there.
32:3196 to 51 as we go into the final round.
32:35Fingers on buzzers.
32:36Fingers on buzzers.
32:37Let's roll today's countdown.
32:39Conundrum.
32:39Maggie?
33:01Siphoning?
33:03Siphoning.
33:03Let's see whether you're right.
33:06Here we go.
33:07Siphoning.
33:08Well done.
33:09Oh, Maggie, Maggie, May.
33:16Look at you.
33:17106.
33:18Well done.
33:19Hold on.
33:19I'll come back to you with fulsome congratulations in just a second.
33:23But first of all, let me say to Derek, what played?
33:2751.
33:28That's not bad at all.
33:29You're up against an exceptional player.
33:31So, you did okay.
33:33Thank you very much indeed for coming.
33:34You take this goodie bag back to Battersea.
33:37Back to the Battersea Chess Club.
33:39And I'm sure I'll give you a round of applause and a drink, I hope, too.
33:43All right.
33:43Thank you very much for coming.
33:46All right.
33:47Terrific stuff.
33:47Look at that.
33:48What have you got?
33:49Four wins.
33:49See you tomorrow.
33:52Well done.
33:53Well done.
33:53We won't be seeing you tomorrow.
33:54Oh, really?
33:55Come back from Morocco, safe and sound.
33:58I'll tell you all about Morocco when I'm back.
33:59I'm looking forward to it.
34:00Thanks for coming.
34:01It's always a great pleasure.
34:02It's lovely.
34:03Thank you very much for having me.
34:04All right.
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34:10Yep.
34:11What's his name?
34:12Jeremy Thompson.
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