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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:34The competition is really heating up here as we start the quarterfinals of the Champion of Champions contest.
00:41There will be a lot of contests tonight down in the O2 Arena as well.
00:47Why? Because the NBA Global Games come to town.
00:52Now, Rachel, in an attempt to increase popularity of American basketball on this side of the Atlantic,
00:57the Orlando Magic will take on the Toronto Raptors in a regular season game to be packed, packed.
01:05The O2 will be packed.
01:06But actually, something strange about American sports,
01:10something strange about the Americans where sports concern, those team games,
01:14have you noticed how much they absolutely delight in the statistics of absolutely everything,
01:20particularly in football, how many yards have been run, how many, you know, running this and running that,
01:25who's blocked who, only cricket, I think, over here has got this fascination with statistics.
01:31Do you like American sports particularly?
01:33Well, I've seen two basketball games live in the States and they were, well, the first one was really good.
01:38It was the Oklahoma Thunder against New Jersey Nets.
01:42Yeah.
01:42And Oklahoma Thunder were amazing.
01:44They've got a player called Kevin Durant who's just absolutely incredible.
01:47Well, you get it, do you?
01:48Well, it's a good atmosphere there.
01:50Yeah?
01:51But there's a lot of pausing.
01:52There's a lot more pausing in the American game.
01:54Even the TV commercials can cause breaks.
01:56That's why they're doing it.
01:58Yeah.
01:58Absolutely.
01:59So it's very different to the sport you get over here.
02:01I want to talk to our guest, John Inverdale, about this because he knows everything about sport.
02:06And I wonder whether he'll agree with me.
02:08But anyway, before that, let's see who we've got.
02:10We've got Tom Kappelman is back in this quarterfinal.
02:13Well done, software engineer from Enfield.
02:16Last week, you sailed through to our quarterfinals here today, beating Glenn Webb.
02:22And here to see if you can hold on to your champion title that you won way back in June
02:28of 2015.
02:29But first of all, you've got to get past Giles Hutchings, one of our younger contestants back in 2013,
02:37who was also a champion.
02:39Welcome back.
02:40And last week, you beat Heather Stiles.
02:42Giles, how are you feeling about going up against Tom today?
02:45He's a competitor and a half.
02:46Yeah, pretty nervous and excited, I think, in equal measure.
02:49I think you're both champions.
02:50Therefore, you're even Stephen at the moment.
02:53Good luck to you both.
02:54Big round of applause then for Tom and Giles Hutchings.
03:01And over in the corner, of course, Susie and the wonderful John Inverdale, TV and radio sports presenter.
03:08I was sort of rambling on about the sort of the stats that the Americans go in for.
03:13What about the Americans and their love of statistics?
03:16Because it's creeping into your great sport, rugby.
03:19When I was a kid, game line and all of these things, and they're trying to complicate it to make
03:25it more sort of interesting or what?
03:28Not skilful?
03:29No, I think they're trying to make it have extra elements to it to engage people.
03:34Because, you know, it's like 24-hour news when actually there's not enough news to fill 24 hours, but you
03:39have to fill it anyway.
03:40There's not enough news, there's not enough sports news to fill 24 hours.
03:43So how are we going to fill it?
03:44We're going to fill it with more and more extraneous guff, and that's kind of what we do.
03:48Is that what we call padding?
03:49It's what we call padding.
03:50It's what this is.
03:51Well done.
03:54Thank you, John.
03:56Well done.
03:57All right.
03:58Now then, Tom Kaplman, let's have a letters game.
04:01Hi, Rachel.
04:02Hi again, Tom.
04:03Can I have a consonant, please?
04:04Start today with B.
04:07And a second.
04:08D.
04:09And another.
04:11G.
04:12And another.
04:15J.
04:15And a vowel.
04:17I.
04:18And another.
04:19U.
04:20And another.
04:22E.
04:23And a consonant.
04:26F.
04:27And a final consonant, please.
04:29And a final T.
04:31And here's the countdown clock.
04:45Bye.
04:45Yeah.
05:03Yes, Tom.
05:04Six.
05:05Six.
05:05And Giles.
05:06Six as well.
05:07Mm-hmm.
05:08Tom.
05:08Budget.
05:09And Giles.
05:10Gifted.
05:11And gifted.
05:13Yes.
05:14Yeah, six is all we've got.
05:15We've got a budget fidget.
05:18Yep.
05:19But not much more than that.
05:20All right.
05:21Six apiece.
05:22And Giles, your letters game.
05:25Hi, Rachel.
05:25Hi, Giles.
05:26A consonant, please.
05:27Thank you, Giles.
05:28R.
05:29And another.
05:30D.
05:31And a third.
05:33N.
05:34And a vowel.
05:35O.
05:36And another vowel.
05:37E.
05:38And a consonant.
05:40H.
05:41And a vowel.
05:43I.
05:44And another vowel.
05:46A.
05:47And a final consonant, please.
05:49And a final N.
05:51Stand by.
05:51And a vowel.
05:53And a vowel.
06:20And a vowel.
06:22Well, Giles?
06:23Just seven.
06:24Seven, Tom?
06:25I've got to try Nate.
06:27Very well, Giles.
06:28Handier.
06:29And Tom?
06:31Roradine.
06:31I think it's got various spellings.
06:33R-H-O-E-A-D-I-N.
06:39Yes, it is there as a variant spelling,
06:42because normally it would have the E at the end.
06:44It is a mildly toxic alkaloid
06:47present in the seed capsules of the corn poppy.
06:50Very obscure and very brilliant.
06:58My word, Tom.
06:59Now, what of the corner?
07:01John?
07:02Yeah, we had that.
07:05We had things like drone for five,
07:08handier, aneroid for seven.
07:10So we had sevens, but that was too good.
07:12All right.
07:13Thank you very much, and thank you, Tom, for that one.
07:15Fourteen plays, Giles is six,
07:17and it's Tom's numbers game now.
07:19Tom?
07:19Can I go six more, please?
07:21You can indeed.
07:22Thank you, Tom.
07:23Six more is going to be quite a contest.
07:25Right, the first numbers game of the day is
07:27eight, four, seven, two, ten, and three.
07:34And the target?
07:36991.
07:36991.
07:39991.
07:39991.
07:41991.
07:42991.
07:42991.
07:43991.
07:43991.
07:43991.
07:45991.
07:47991.
07:48991.
07:48991.
07:53991.
07:54991.
07:56991.
08:02991.
08:09Yes, Tom?
08:109-9-1.
08:119-9-1, Giles?
08:12It's 9-9-6.
08:139-9-6.
08:14So, Tom?
08:15OK, 10 times 8.
08:1610 times 8 is 80.
08:19Plus 2.
08:20Plus 2 is 82.
08:223 times 4 is 12.
08:233 times 4, yep, 12.
08:25Multiply them together.
08:26For 984.
08:29And add on to 7.
08:29Perfect, 9-9-1, well done.
08:31Well done indeed.
08:33APPLAUSE
08:36Good opening for you, Tom.
08:3824 to 6 as we go into our first Tea Time teaser,
08:42which is called Rigid Man.
08:44And the clue, the sort of glance you might give to your bow.
08:48The sort of glance you might give to your bow.
08:53APPLAUSE
09:06One welcome back.
09:07I left you with the clue.
09:08The sort of glance you might give to your bow.
09:11And the answer is, it would be an admiring glance.
09:15Admiring.
09:15Now, if you'd like to become a Countdown contestant,
09:19you can email Countdown at Channel4.com
09:22to request an application form
09:23or write to us at Contestants Applications,
09:27Countdown Leads, LS 3, 1, J, S.
09:32So, Tom on 24, Giles on 6.
09:35And Giles, it's a letters game.
09:37Now, a vowel, please, Rachel.
09:38Thank you, Giles.
09:39E.
09:40And another.
09:42O.
09:43And a consonant.
09:44P.
09:45And another one.
09:47S.
09:48And a consonant.
09:50H.
09:51And a vowel.
09:53A.
09:54And another vowel.
09:56U.
09:57Consonant.
09:59G.
10:00And another consonant, please.
10:03And the last one, D.
10:04Stand by.
10:05C.
10:06trombone
10:07T.
10:08C.
10:09T.
10:11T.
10:12T.
10:13T.
10:36Giles.
10:36Seven.
10:37Tom.
10:38Seven.
10:39Sir Giles.
10:40Salud.
10:42And?
10:42Same word.
10:43Yeah, it's fine, yeah.
10:44There we are.
10:47Giles and Susie.
10:49Love Salud.
10:50It's very beautiful.
10:51It doesn't actually sound as beautiful as its meaning,
10:53which is when the wind makes a moaning or rustling sound in the trees.
10:57Yeah, yeah.
10:58Anything else?
10:59Susceration.
11:00No.
11:01We have sixes otherwise.
11:02We have sixes otherwise, so...
11:03Yeah.
11:03Pashed.
11:04Kissed amorously.
11:06Pashed.
11:07Thank you, Pashed indeed.
11:09Pashed, 30 in place, 31.
11:12And Tom.
11:13Can we start with a consonant, please?
11:14Thank you, Tom.
11:16R.
11:17And another.
11:18Y.
11:19And another.
11:21S.
11:22And a fourth.
11:24M.
11:25And a vowel.
11:27O.
11:28And another.
11:29E.
11:33And a final vowel, please.
11:41And a final E.
11:43Stand by.
11:44And a vowel.
12:02And a vowel.
12:03And a vowel.
12:03And a vowel.
12:03And a vowel.
12:04And a vowel.
12:04And a vowel.
12:14Tom?
12:15Seven.
12:16And Giles?
12:17Seven.
12:18Tom?
12:19Ayrson.
12:20Yes.
12:20I have Ayrson as well.
12:22Exchange notes there.
12:25And over in that corner of ours, John and Susie.
12:28Well, we had Seamia as a seven, but what does Ayrson mean?
12:32If I tell you about Ayrson, it's Canadian, regional.
12:34We found it in Newfoundland, and it means cold, windy or bracing.
12:40Particularly Ayrson day.
12:42It's a bit of an odd one, isn't it?
12:44All right.
12:4538 to 20.
12:46Tom in the lead, and it's Giles' numbers game.
12:49Giles?
12:50I don't want to risk six small or four large.
12:52I'll go two large, please.
12:54OK.
12:54Taxis coming to play now.
12:55Thank you, Giles.
12:56Two large and four small for your first selection.
12:59And they are six, one, four, another four.
13:03And the large, two, 50 and 100.
13:07And the target, 468.
13:09Four, six, eight.
13:11Good.
13:26So long.
13:37See you next week.
13:39Bye.
13:42Giles.
13:434, 6, 8.
13:44And Tom.
13:454, 6, 8.
13:46So, Giles.
13:47100 times 4.
13:49100 times 4.
13:50400.
13:51450.
13:52And then 4 minus 1 is 3.
13:53The other one.
13:54And times it by 6.
13:55Yep, for 18.
13:57Perfect, 4, 6, 8.
13:58And Tom.
13:59Same way.
14:00There we go.
14:02Well done.
14:0548 plays 30 as we turn to our Dictionary Corner guest,
14:10great John Inverdale.
14:12John, here we are, Olympics year.
14:14More stories from the past.
14:16Yeah, more stories from the past.
14:17I was actually going to talk about Cassius Clay,
14:19who later became Muhammad Ali,
14:20because I think if you've never seen an Olympic medal,
14:23there is something, it does have a wow factor about it,
14:25whatever Olympics it may have come from.
14:28And I thought a couple of interesting Olympic medal stories today,
14:31one which concerns Cassius Clay,
14:33because before he became Muhammad Ali,
14:36he won an Olympic title in Rome in 1960,
14:39and it was a very different world in those days.
14:42And he went back to Kentucky.
14:44He was known as the Louisville Lip,
14:45and he went back to Kentucky as a national hero,
14:49so he thought,
14:50but then he found that he was still not being admitted
14:52to whites-only restaurants and all that sort of stuff.
14:56So, in a fit of kind of, what's the word I'm looking for here?
15:02No, not peak, no, but as a gesture of defiance,
15:04that's the way I'm saying it.
15:05Anyway, he threw his Olympic gold medal in the Ohio River,
15:09and, you know, a big play was made of that.
15:13And a lot happened in an intervening 36 years,
15:16and I think one of the great images of the Atlanta Olympic Games,
15:19perhaps the only great image of the Atlanta Olympic Games,
15:22was Muhammad Ali lighting the flame,
15:24where he was, you know, suffering from Parkinson's by that stage.
15:27So, it's got a kind of shaking paw,
15:30but this giant paw lighting the Olympic flame.
15:33And after that, they actually presented him
15:36with another gold medal
15:37to replace the one that he'd thrown in the river 36 years earlier,
15:41which I think was a great gesture from the IOC.
15:43So, that's a very unique gold medal.
15:45And there's a great story, actually, going back to the 30s,
15:49about two Japanese pole vaulters
15:51who came second and third in the pole vault.
15:53And they were teammates, they were great friends,
15:56and because the IOC or the organising committee
15:59hadn't really planned for dead heats and things like that,
16:01they only had one silver and one bronze medal.
16:04Both guys said that they weren't prepared
16:06to have a sort of jump-off.
16:08So, a guy called, and I did write his name down here,
16:11Sui Oe, good old Sui.
16:13He agreed to be third and to stand on the bronze podium
16:17for the purposes of the, you know, protocol.
16:20When they got back to Japan,
16:21they had this great idea because they were mates,
16:23and they went to a local jewellers
16:24who cut both medals in half,
16:27welded them back together again,
16:29one half silver, one half bronze.
16:31And so these are, to this day,
16:33the only silver and bronze medals
16:36from any Olympic Games ever.
16:38And they're known as the medals of friendship in Japan,
16:41and they're great sort of symbols of team spirit
16:43and all that sort of stuff.
16:45But actually, it was just two mates saying,
16:47no, you know, we went through this all together,
16:49and we're going to stick with it together.
16:51And I think it's just, again, another great story
16:52about the fraternity and the humanity of the Olympics,
16:56amid all the trouble and the strife that there's been
16:59on both sides of the equation.
17:01And there's also some things that are also extremely amusing as well.
17:04And I thought I'd finish off tomorrow,
17:05because today's, or all week,
17:07we've been talking about going to Rio in the summer
17:09and going to Brazil,
17:09about the incredible journey
17:12that the Brazilian Olympic team went on
17:15to get to Los Angeles in 1932.
17:17So that's a little tease for tomorrow.
17:19Brilliant. Well done.
17:21Lovely story.
17:25Well done. Thank you, John.
17:26Now, 48 to Tom.
17:28John's on 30.
17:29And we turn back to you, Tom, for a letters game.
17:32Consonant, please.
17:33Thank you, Tom.
17:34W.
17:35And another?
17:37T.
17:38And another?
17:39S.
17:41And another?
17:43N.
17:44And a vowel, please.
17:46A.
17:47And another?
17:48E.
17:49And another?
17:51O.
17:52And a consonant?
17:54T.
17:56And a final vowel, please.
17:59And a final I.
18:01Countdown.
18:03MUSIC PLAYS
18:34Yes, Tom?
18:34A seven.
18:35A seven, Giles Hutchings?
18:36Eight, I think.
18:37An eight.
18:38Tom?
18:39No Tates.
18:41Nalan Giles?
18:42Tawniest.
18:43Well spotted.
18:44Tawniest.
18:45Yeah.
18:46Oh.
18:48Well done.
18:52Well done.
18:53Just ten in it now.
18:55John?
18:55Yeah, we had a toasty.
18:57A toasty.
18:57Well done, lucky chap.
18:59Isn't it funny how you just write a word like toasty and you want one?
19:02Yes.
19:03It just has an immediate effect, you know it?
19:04It's so true.
19:05Absolutely, I could do with one right now.
19:08Well done.
19:0848 plays.
19:0938.
19:09And Giles takes the floor.
19:12Let us go.
19:13A consonant, please.
19:14Thank you, Giles.
19:15S.
19:16And another.
19:18N.
19:19And a third.
19:20Q.
19:21A vowel.
19:22A.
19:24And another.
19:25U.
19:26And another.
19:27E.
19:28Consonant.
19:30P.
19:32Vowel.
19:34I.
19:35Another vowel, please.
19:36And lastly, E.
19:39Consonant.
19:41Consonant.
19:45E.
20:10Yes, Giles?
20:12I'll risk an eight.
20:13An eight?
20:14I'll try an eight as well then.
20:16All right.
20:16Giles?
20:17Queenies.
20:19And?
20:19Same risk.
20:21Queenies here.
20:22Yeah, well the risk is because it's got an A in it.
20:24But it's absolutely fine.
20:26It's a Scottish word for a young girl or a woman or a daughter.
20:29A queenie.
20:30A queenie.
20:31Yeah.
20:31Great.
20:36So Tom won 56, Giles 46, only 10 in it as we turn to Tom's numbers game.
20:42Tom?
20:43Can I go six more again, please?
20:44You can.
20:45Six more.
20:46Your tactics now.
20:46Thank you, Tom.
20:47And these six little ones are one, seven, ten, three, two, and five.
20:57And this target, 890.
20:59Eight, nine, zero.
21:32Yes, Tom?
21:33Eight, nine, six, not written down.
21:34Eight, nine, six.
21:36And Giles?
21:37I think I have eight, nine, zero.
21:39Let's hear from you.
21:40Seven minus one is six.
21:41Yep.
21:42Good start.
21:42Seven minus one is six.
21:4460.
21:45Times three.
21:46Times three, 180.
21:47Minus two.
21:48Yep.
21:49And then times up by five.
21:50Wow, well done.
21:51Game on.
21:59Now we've got a scrap on our hands.
22:0256 apiece.
22:03Giles has suddenly put his foot down, my word.
22:06Let's have a tea time teaser while they catch their breath.
22:10It's hinge set.
22:11And the clue, angry about a marine creature, perhaps.
22:14Angry about a marine creature, perhaps.
22:32A warm welcome back.
22:34I left with the clue, angry about a marine creature, perhaps.
22:37And the answer is seething.
22:41Or even the seething.
22:43Seething.
22:4556 all.
22:47And now, Giles, carry on.
22:50Constantly, Rachel.
22:52Thank you, Giles.
22:53G.
22:54And another one.
22:55R.
22:56And a third.
22:58S.
22:59A vowel.
23:01O.
23:02And another.
23:03A.
23:04And another.
23:06I.
23:07Another vowel.
23:09A.
23:09A.
23:10Consonant.
23:12T.
23:13And a final consonant, please.
23:16And a final R.
23:18Stand by.
23:36And a final consonant, please.
23:38And a final consonant, please.
23:38And a final consonant, please.
23:38And a final consonant, please.
23:38And a final consonant, please.
23:39And a final consonant, please.
23:39And a final consonant, please.
23:39And a final consonant, please.
23:39And a final consonant, please.
23:40And a final consonant, please.
23:41And a final consonant, please.
23:42And a final consonant, please.
23:43And a final consonant, please.
23:47And a final consonant, please.
23:50yes Charles any six Tom sits as well okay I got groats and Tom ratios ratios sixes any sixes in
24:03the corner John Susie oh yeah I like groats good word groat but we've actually got a seven which
24:09is rosaria oh yes or is area a plural of rosarium which is a rose garden rosaria all right 62
24:18apiece
24:18and Tom make hate on we're getting near the end it's a letters game a consonant please thank you
24:25Tom s and another ah and another m and another d and a vowel oh and another
24:37a and another e and a consonant t and a vowel please and the last one oh canton
25:21Tom nine yes Charles yep nine should we better the same word Tom moderatos moderatos and moderatos as
25:31there we go two good champs there and the nine in the corner yeah we had doormats
25:40doormats is slightly more esoteric I think than moderatos which means
25:44passages marked to be performed at a moderate pace all right
25:53well done 80 points apiece and now it's Susie's origins of words Susie
26:00Nick uh we're going to be talking uh about numbers um about 2 000 years ago um it was believed
26:08that
26:08everything was made up of four known elements that was earth air fire and water and these um dictated
26:15everything including the bodily humors um of course the balance of the humors within your body was
26:20supposed to um determine your moods and in fact sometimes your destiny um but aristotle said that
26:26there was a fifth element to add to all of this which the heavenly bodies uh were composed and in
26:32greek
26:32he called this a pempty usia which was translated by the romans as the fifth substance or the quintessence
26:40and the quint in there's like quintuplets um it is all about that fifth very very all-important um
26:46substance that determined human life and today if we talk about the quintessence of course we're
26:52talking about the ultimate representation of something and it that meaning uh gradually took
26:59over I suppose in the 15th 16th century and so Walter Scott for example talked uh to a friend in
27:05a letter
27:05about um having escaped the quintessence of boars which I think is a great phrase um but if you
27:11go from five to three you'll also find the number three behind the word trivial and for the romans
27:17trivial meant where three roads meet it was the the crossroads if you like and the idea was that it
27:23was
27:23so commonplace this sort of meeting meeting place that uh trivial took on the meaning of something that
27:29was sort of not particularly important but also if you can imagine at this crossroads would be a bit
27:34like the water cooler today people would exchange commonplace uh gossip if you like and make everyday
27:40conversation but the trivium also in medieval times was the introductory course of grammar rhetoric and
27:47logic it was like 101 if you like it was the sort of early stage and that helped the idea
27:51of something
27:52that was simple and basic the trivial there but what's interesting as well is the extreme opposite of
27:58trivial of course is crucial and that goes back to the latin crux and crucial the crux was initially
28:04a finger post at a crossroads indicating which way travelers should go so it's all important
28:09because it showed you the right way ahead very good wonderful well done 80 points please and giles
28:18here we go penultimate letters game make it count consonant please thank you giles f and another
28:27m and the third l and a vowel e and another a and another o a consonant r and a
28:43vowel e and a another vowel please
28:48and the last one o
28:50o
28:51ÇANBY
28:52O
28:52O
28:53O
28:54O
28:54O
28:54O
28:54. . .
29:19. .
29:22Giles?
29:23Seven.
29:24Seven, Tom?
29:25I'll try a seven.
29:26Right, Giles.
29:27Femoral, I think.
29:30No, Tom.
29:31Formal.
29:32Formal with a knee.
29:34Er.
29:35Oh, it's not that at all.
29:36I thought it was.
29:37Er, as you must have done, but it's not, I'm afraid.
29:41I'm sorry about that.
29:42Bad luck.
29:43Femoral, of course, relating to the femur, the upper part of the thigh.
29:46but no formal bad luck bad luck what have we got in the corner john we haven't we had femoral
29:54as
29:54well we had that was it all right we cannot improve all right 87 plays at tom's 80 and tom
30:01you're back again now letters game uh constant please thank you tom p and another n and another
30:10v and a fourth t and a vowel i and another a and another o and another e and a
30:29final consonant and a final l
30:32stand by
31:04tom uh seven uh seven giles seven mhm tom pantile well done giles polenta and polenta yes two
31:16excellent countdown words very good can you guys match seven violates and we also had pivotal
31:21ah two good ones very good 94 plays 87 and giles it's your numbers game now giles
31:29i'm going to rely on the conundrums they're going to have a nice two large
31:32i can give you a two large i can't guarantee it'll be nice thank you giles two large four small
31:37for
31:37the final time today these numbers are one four two eight and a large two 150 and the target 528
31:49five two eight
31:50do
32:21Yes, Giles?
32:225, 2, 8.
32:235, 2, 8.
32:24And Tom?
32:245, 2, 8.
32:26Giles?
32:2750 over 2 is 25.
32:2850 over 2, 25.
32:30Add that to 100.
32:32125.
32:33Then 8 minus 1 is a 7.
32:35Yeah.
32:35And then you get 132.
32:38So add that for 132.
32:40And then times by 4.
32:41And then times by 4.
32:43Yes, well done.
32:445, 2, 8.
32:45Well done.
32:45And Tom?
32:47Differently, 50 minus 2.
32:4950 minus 2, 48.
32:518 plus 4, minus 1.
32:538 plus 4, minus 1, 11.
32:55And multiply them together.
32:56Yeah, well done.
32:575, 2, 8.
32:58Fantastic.
32:58Well done.
33:03Well done, chaps.
33:05So 104 to 97.
33:07Tom Giles, fingers on buzzers.
33:09Let's reveal today's crucial conundrum.
33:15Will Mott.
33:17Will Mott.
33:17Yes.
33:17Will Mott.
33:18Let's see whether you're right.
33:22Gilly Mott.
33:23Whoa!
33:24Whoa!
33:30Well done.
33:35Well, you spat that out so fast with a bit of desperation in your voice.
33:39But you got it right.
33:40Well done.
33:42114 to Tom's 97.
33:44And so it is that we shall see you in our first semifinal.
33:47Well done indeed.
33:48And I'm sorry about Tom.
33:50Only one slip, really.
33:52There we go.
33:53But listen, you're a tremendous competitor, as always.
33:56Take this kryptonite with you.
33:58Drag it home with our applause ringing in your ears.
34:03Well done indeed.
34:04Thank you very much.
34:05Well done.
34:05Well done.
34:06See you tomorrow, John and Susie.
34:08Wasn't that good?
34:09Close run thing.
34:10Went 15 rounds, landed the knockout punch at the end.
34:13Indeed he did.
34:13Brilliant stuff.
34:14See you tomorrow.
34:15See you tomorrow.
34:16Rachel?
34:17That was a close one, wasn't it?
34:19Absolutely.
34:20It's hard to call at the start.
34:21Did you see young Giles Hutchings?
34:23He shot that answer out.
34:24It was brilliant.
34:25Come back, kid.
34:26Absolutely.
34:27Tactics paid off.
34:28Indeed.
34:29Same time tomorrow.
34:30We've got more for you.
34:32You be sure of it.
34:33A very good afternoon.
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