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00:31Well, good afternoon and welcome to the Count Guy in the studio.
00:35Two very, very big events today.
00:36First of all, it's the third quarterfinal leading up, of course, to a champion.
00:43And secondly, today sees the start of the Chalk Valley History Festival, Rachel.
00:48Now, I didn't know all about this, but apparently the Chalk Valley History Festival down there in Wiltshire,
00:53that Salisbury is the country's largest festival dedicated exclusively to history.
01:01It's amazing.
01:03Let me tell you, talks, of course, presentations, why not?
01:06Immersive living history reenactments.
01:09Now, one of these might appeal to you.
01:10Let's see which one it would be.
01:12For instance, you can see what it was like to be on a Viking battleground.
01:19You could attend a medieval banquet.
01:23Or you'd like to perhaps know what it was like living in a World War I trench.
01:27Take your pick.
01:28I think the one with the food and without the war.
01:31It's an easy one, actually.
01:33All right.
01:33So you'll go for the medieval banquet.
01:35I'll go for the medieval banquet.
01:37All right.
01:38I'll go for that with you.
01:40Now, we've got a bit of a war on here, of course.
01:43In a gentle sort of way.
01:45A cerebral war.
01:46It's between Brendan Whitehurst.
01:48Brendan, how are you?
01:49I'm very well, thanks, Nick.
01:50Welcome back.
01:51Good to see you.
01:52Home shopping colleague from Sunny Hill in Derbyshire.
01:55Number three seed.
01:57Fantastic.
01:57You began your run in the first week of December, becoming an octochamp way back in January.
02:03Well, welcome back.
02:04I hope you've been having a restful time ever since.
02:07No, thank you, Nick.
02:07You're joined by Stephen Turnbull, learning support assistant from Ivor in Buckinghamshire.
02:13Number six seed.
02:14And you got engaged.
02:15And you're getting married next year.
02:17When did you get engaged and where?
02:19So it was in February.
02:21I got engaged in a place called Akal Island in County Mayo, which is where my fiance's family on her
02:26mum's side are from.
02:27So the wedding will be just outside Akal, but very much looking forward to it.
02:32Wonderful.
02:32Well, look, good luck to you both.
02:34A big round of applause now for Brendan and Stephen.
02:41Over the corner, Susie Dent, of course.
02:43And she's got that brilliant actor, comedian, poet.
02:48That's what it says here.
02:52I've underlined it because it's Rufus' hand, one of our favourites.
02:55Rufus, welcome back.
03:03Rufus is special.
03:04OK, Brendan, off we go.
03:07Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:08Afternoon, Brendan.
03:08Can I start with a consonant, please?
03:10We start the third quarterfinal with P.
03:14And a vowel.
03:15I.
03:16And a consonant.
03:18L.
03:19And a vowel.
03:21E.
03:22And a consonant.
03:24C.
03:25And a vowel.
03:27A.
03:28And a consonant.
03:30S.
03:31And a vowel.
03:33O.
03:34And final consonant, please.
03:35And lastly, T.
03:39And here's the count and clock.
03:41T.
03:41T.
03:42T.
03:42And a vowel.
03:42T.
03:46T.
04:12Brendan.
04:13I've got eight.
04:14An eight.
04:15Stephen.
04:15Just seven.
04:16And your seven is?
04:18Opiates.
04:19Opiates.
04:20Yes, Brendan.
04:21Plicates.
04:24How are you spelling it?
04:26It's P-L-I-C-A-T-E-S.
04:29I did exactly the same, but plicated is in, and plicate meaning folded or crumpled, but
04:33it's not there as a verb, I'm afraid, Brendan, I'm sorry.
04:36No worries.
04:36Bad luck.
04:37The same.
04:38Bad luck.
04:39What can we have?
04:40Rufus.
04:40There were a couple of eights.
04:43Poetical, which seems somewhat fitting.
04:45Err, and polecats.
04:48Yeah.
04:49Polecats.
04:50Polecats.
04:50Yeah.
04:51Which is the name of Brendan and I's tag team, which is why we're wearing matching shirts.
04:56The polecats.
04:57The polecats.
04:58Look out.
04:59Brilliant.
05:01Well spotted, by the way.
05:03It was hard to miss, to be fairly honest.
05:06I walked in and spent five minutes just staring at him thinking how much younger I was looking.
05:12Well done.
05:14Seven points to Stephen in Stephen's letters game.
05:17Off we go.
05:18Good afternoon, Rachel.
05:19Afternoon, Stephen.
05:20I have a consonant, please.
05:21Start with R.
05:23And a second.
05:25G.
05:26And a third.
05:29W.
05:30And a vowel, please.
05:32I.
05:32And another one.
05:34U.
05:35And a consonant.
05:36S.
05:38Consonant.
05:40B.
05:41A vowel.
05:43E.
05:45And a final vowel, please.
05:47A final A.
05:50Stand by.
05:52And a vowel.
06:09And a vowel.
06:10And a vowel.
06:10And a vowel.
06:11And a vowel.
06:12And a vowel.
06:22Stephen?
06:23Seven.
06:25Yes, Brendan?
06:26Just six.
06:27And your six?
06:28Wages.
06:30Stephen?
06:31Earwigs?
06:32Well done, well spotted, yeah.
06:33Earwigs.
06:35Very good.
06:36And what of the corner?
06:38There was just, we had more sixes.
06:41Earwigs was the best we did, but for six, Airbus and Brews.
06:46Yeah.
06:4714 points for Stephen.
06:48And now, Brendan, it's your numbers game.
06:50Okay.
06:51Can I go for three large and three small, please?
06:53You can indeed.
06:54Thank you, Brendan.
06:56Three from the top, three not from the top.
06:57And the first one of the day is three, two, two, one hundred, fifty and seventy-five.
07:05And the target, nine hundred and sixty-four.
07:08Nine, six, four.
07:41One away.
07:44Okay.
07:45Stephen?
07:47I can't declare, sorry.
07:49So, Brendan?
07:52So, I did a hundred plus fifty.
07:54One hundred plus fifty, one fifty.
07:57Minus two.
07:58Minus two, one, four, eight.
07:59And then three times two is six.
08:01Three times the other two, four, six.
08:03Times the one, four, eight.
08:04Four, not, sorry, eight hundred and eighty-eight.
08:09And at the seventy-five.
08:10Yeah, there we go.
08:11One away.
08:12Pretty, pretty brilliant.
08:14Is it possible to get the nine-six-four, Rachel?
08:17I got to one away the same way.
08:19That's there you go.
08:19Very sweet.
08:21So, fourteen plays seven, and it's time for our first tea-time teaser, which is drab speed
08:27and the clue.
08:28A decorative cover that you might put on your sandwich before you sleep.
08:32A decorative cover that you might put on your sandwich before you sleep.
08:54Well, welcome back.
08:55Welcome back.
08:56I left with a clue.
08:57A decorative cover that you might put on your sandwich before you sleep.
09:02The answer to that is bedspread.
09:05Bedspread.
09:06Now, if you'd like to become a Countdown contestant, you can email countdown at channel4.com to request
09:13an application form, or write to us at contestantsapplications, countdown leads, LS31JS.
09:22So, fourteen plays seven, Stephen on fourteen.
09:25Stephen, your letters came, and well done.
09:28A consonant, please, Rachel.
09:29Thank you, Stephen.
09:30G.
09:32And a second.
09:34N.
09:35And a third.
09:36H.
09:37And a vowel, please.
09:39O.
09:40Another vowel.
09:42I.
09:43Continent.
09:45L.
09:46A consonant.
09:47J.
09:49A vowel.
09:52A.
09:54Another vowel, please.
09:56And the last one.
09:57O.
09:59Standby.
09:59a 지금은.
10:00The.
10:00A heavy rozm yaz.
10:01The.��.
10:03they.
10:18The.
10:20The.
10:21The.
10:21With.
10:26All.
10:27And.
10:28The.
10:28The.
10:28The.
10:29The.
10:31Stephen?
10:32Eight, I think.
10:34And Brendan?
10:35Just six.
10:36And you're six?
10:37Holing.
10:38Now, Stephen?
10:39I'm a hooligan.
10:42Well.
10:43Well, yeah.
10:47Very good.
10:48Well, you're being a bit of a hooligan at the moment.
10:5022 to 7, that's pretty good.
10:53And Brendan, off we go.
10:54Your letters go.
10:56Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:57Thank you, Brendan.
10:58S.
10:59And a vowel.
11:00U.
11:01And a consonant.
11:03T.
11:04And a vowel.
11:05E.
11:06And a consonant.
11:08P.
11:09And a vowel.
11:10O.
11:11And a consonant.
11:13M.
11:14And a vowel.
11:16A.
11:17And a final consonant, please.
11:19And a final S.
11:21Stand by.
11:22And a vowel.
11:40And a vowel.
11:41And a vowel.
11:41And a vowel.
11:41And a vowel.
11:41And a vowel.
11:42And a vowel.
11:43And a vowel.
11:47and a vowel.
11:53Brendan.
11:54A risky seven.
11:56Now, Stephen, safe six.
11:59And that six of yours?
12:01Stumped.
12:02Brendan.
12:04Outpass.
12:05You will be pleased to hear that you can outpass.
12:08You can exceed somebody in the quality of their passes.
12:10So, football, probably.
12:12Very well done.
12:13Well done.
12:14What of Rufus and Susie?
12:17We couldn't do better than seven, could we?
12:18No.
12:19Well done.
12:19All right.
12:2022 to 14.
12:22See, Stephen, still in the lead.
12:23Stephen, it's your numbers game now.
12:26Off we go.
12:27I'll stick with one large and five small for now, please.
12:29Thank you, Stephen.
12:31Possibly playing it safe.
12:32Let's see.
12:33One from the top five, Little.
12:34And they are one, three, ten, seven, four.
12:40And the large one, 50.
12:42And this target, 985.
12:44985.
13:16Well, Stephen?
13:18I can't declare again, I'm afraid.
13:20No.
13:21Brendan?
13:22I've got 986, not fully written down.
13:25Don't worry about that.
13:26Off we go.
13:27So I've done 50 times 10 is 500.
13:3050 times 10, 500.
13:32Minus 7.
13:33Minus 7, yep, 493.
13:36And 3 minus 1 is 2, times them together.
13:39Yep, for one away.
13:41Pretty good.
13:43Is it possible to actually nail it?
13:45985?
13:46Yep.
13:47A slight rejigging of what Brendan said, but again, 50 times 10 is 500.
13:53If you take the 4 instead of the 7 for 496, and then 3 minus 1 for 2, times those
13:59together
14:00for 992, rather, and you have a 7 left over to take away.
14:06Perfect.
14:08Perfect.
14:09Well done.
14:13Fabulous, Rachel.
14:15Fabulous.
14:1522 to 21.
14:17Wow, Brendan, you've clawed your way back.
14:19Just one point adrift as we look in eager anticipation at Mr. Rufus Hound.
14:26Well, it's the start of the week, but it's where I leave you.
14:30And having prepared poems and the like, all around the theme of photography, this, my last,
14:37is no different.
14:39I'm not a one for looking backwards.
14:42Forwards is the way we go.
14:44Until a time machine's invented, ever thus we'll find it so.
14:47Yet often, present understanding can be gained from taking stock of views which passed in
14:53our rear mirror, reflecting back what we forgot.
14:56And so it was, in preparation for my time, sat next to Susie, online I grabbed a picture
15:01from the past, and what a doozy.
15:04It's from Countdown of a Bygone Age.
15:06There's Joe Brand and Arthur Smith, and Bamba Gascoigne at the back, fresh from a different
15:11quiz.
15:12Nick still has his trademark glasses, but his argent locks are darker.
15:16As he's aged, he's gotten thinner.
15:19Suit colours now a little starker.
15:21Rachel's transformation's crazy.
15:23A natural blonde?
15:24You'd be mistaken.
15:26If anything, she looks younger now than when this snap was taken.
15:29Susie, on the other hand, unchanged.
15:31Her looks stayed static.
15:33I hear she keeps an ageing portrait somewhere in her attic.
15:37Oh, digging out this photo was a lovely thing to do, and as I love it so much, I will
15:42share
15:42it now with you.
15:46Ah, don't they all look lovely?
15:48And don't they all look young?
15:50And don't they all...
15:51You what?
15:52It's who?
15:53Ah, naps.
15:54Jog on.
15:55I'm done.
16:05You're priceless.
16:06You're a great character.
16:08Thank you very much.
16:09No, you're very welcome.
16:09Well done, Ruth.
16:10It's always a real treat, so thank you very much for having me.
16:13Ah, always, always welcome.
16:1522 plays 21.
16:17Brendan on 21.
16:18And now, Brendan, it's your letters game.
16:21Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
16:23Thank you, Brendan.
16:46And a final consonant, please.
16:48And a final consonant, please.
16:50Stand by.
17:23Brendan.
17:24I've got a nine.
17:26And Stephen?
17:28Six.
17:29And your six, Stephen?
17:31Is detain.
17:32Now then, what's our number three seed got?
17:36Innovated.
17:38Erm, how are you spelling that?
17:40I-N-N-O-V-A-T-E-D.
17:43Erm, there's no O, unfortunately.
17:47Oh, Brendan.
17:48I'm wrong, sorry.
17:49Oh, bad luck.
17:51Rufus?
17:52We have a couple of sevens.
17:53Yes.
17:54Deviant is there, to go with our hooligan.
17:57Yes.
17:58Neither of whom were invited.
18:00Invited, well done.
18:02Well done.
18:02All right.
18:0328 to 21, Stephen's pulled away a bit,
18:06and it's Stephen's letters game.
18:09Now then, sir.
18:09Consonant, please, Rachel.
18:11Thank you, Stephen.
18:12T.
18:13And a second.
18:15L.
18:16And a third.
18:18D.
18:19And a vowel, please.
18:20O.
18:21Another vowel.
18:23E.
18:24And a consonant.
18:26Q.
18:27Another.
18:29R.
18:31And a vowel.
18:33A.
18:34And a vowel, please.
18:37The last one.
18:39U.
18:40Stand by.
18:41spoon.
18:52TARI
18:52And a vowel, please.
18:52Bye-bye.
18:52See you next time.
18:52Bye-bye.
18:53Bye-bye.
18:57Bye-bye.
18:58Bye-bye.
19:04Bye-bye.
19:06Bye-bye.
19:09Bye-bye.
19:12Stephen, stigma six, random, I'll do a risky seven, Stephen, loader, and quarted, oh, we're really hoping you weren't going
19:25to go for that one, you're really not going to like me today, Rufus had it the same and it's
19:30not in, I'm afraid, quartet, quarted but not quarted, sorry, Rufus, same ideas clearly, there were a couple of sevens,
19:42equator, yes, was one of them, and, and, with an odd to Richard Whiteley, who was in that photograph, a
19:47leotard, his favourite word, thank you for that, 34 to 21, wow, this is getting dangerous, Stephen on 34, dangerous
19:56for Brendan, and now it's a numbers game for you, Brendan, alright, I'll risk it again, three large and three
20:01small please, three large and three little, let's have another go, thank you Brendan, there you are, seven, three, four,
20:10seventy-five, fifty, and one hundred, and the target, nine hundred and forty-four, nine four four.
20:48Brendan?
20:49Just nine forty.
20:50Nine forty, Stephen?
20:52Nine four three, I think.
20:54Right, Stephen.
20:56Four times three is twelve.
20:58Four threes are twelve.
21:00Times seventy-five.
21:02Times seventy-five, nine hundred.
21:03Add the fifty and take off the seven.
21:06Yep, four nine four three, one away.
21:09Well done, Stephen, well done.
21:10Let's see whether it's possible to actually get to that nine four four.
21:14What do you reckon, Rachel?
21:16Leave it with me again, Nick.
21:18Certainly I will.
21:19It's time now.
21:20There's twenty points in it, chaps.
21:22Stephen, you're playing a blinder.
21:24Let's have our second tea-time teaser, shall we?
21:27It's Herd and Neil, and the clue.
21:29She heard that Neil Diamond was going to be top of the bill.
21:33She heard that Neil Diamond was going to be top of the bill.
21:53Welcome back.
21:54Welcome back.
21:54I left you with the clue.
21:55She heard that Neil Diamond was going to be top of the bill.
21:58The answer to that was, or is rather, headliner.
22:04Rachel, what have you been up to?
22:07Well, I found a way.
22:08If you say fifty plus seventy-five is one hundred and twenty-five.
22:13Minus four is one, two, one.
22:16Times by seven is eight hundred and forty-seven.
22:20And then take away the three and add the one hundred for nine four four.
22:23Fabulous.
22:28Thanks, Rachel.
22:30So, forty-one plays twenty-one.
22:32Stephen, our number six seed, in the lead.
22:36And it's Stephen we turn to now.
22:37Off we go.
22:39Consonant, please, Rachel.
22:40Thank you, Stephen.
22:41N.
22:43And a second.
22:44R.
22:45And a third.
22:47M.
22:48And a vowel, please.
22:50I.
22:51And a second vowel.
22:52O.
22:53Consonant.
22:55T.
22:56Consonant.
22:58L.
22:59A vowel.
23:01A.
23:02And a vowel, please.
23:05And the last one.
23:06I.
23:07Stand by.
23:09And a vowel.
23:27And a vowel.
23:28And a vowel.
23:28And a vowel.
23:28And a vowel.
23:28And a vowel.
23:28And a vowel.
23:28And a vowel.
23:31And a vowel.
23:38yes Steven just six a six and and six Steven mortal Brendan and saying yep can
23:50we wrestle free of the sixes there Rufus Susie well we've got a nine oh right
23:57which is it is trinomial t-r-i-n-o-m-i-a-l and it will often be used
24:07of
24:07an expression in algebra it means consisting of three terms so if there are
24:13three elements in this audio is trinomial oh well mr. Euclid there you go 47 plays
24:2527 Brendan your letters game can I have a constant please Rachel thank you
24:30Brendan yes and the vowel e and the consonant G and the vowel oh and the
24:40consonant H and the vowel a and the consonant are and vowel you and final
24:51consonant please and a final C stand by
24:58so
25:26Brendan a seven a seven and Steven
25:29Stephen? I'll try an eight.
25:32Sir Brendan.
25:33Corsage.
25:35Yes, Stephen. Scouridge?
25:40Um, not there, I'm afraid, Stephen. Sorry.
25:42Hmm. And, Rufus, you're looking really bent up.
25:47I was so excited. I got, like, straight off the bat in with an eight.
25:50Go on.
25:52Coughers.
25:54As in?
25:55As in those who cough.
25:57Very good.
25:59Good morning.
26:0147 page 34.
26:04Susie, it's your origins of words. Oh, happy day.
26:08What have you got for us?
26:09Well, I'm going to talk about a fairly new phenomenon in English.
26:14The sort of overall subject area is mispronunciation,
26:16and we've been mispronouncing things since English, you know, was born, pretty much.
26:21But this is a kind of new subcategory of mispronunciation.
26:25And so these are the kind of words that we think we sort of know.
26:28We probably got to see them in print before they were spoken.
26:31And their spelling is slightly misleading, because quite often they can contain elements
26:35that ordinarily would be pronounced in a different way.
26:39And some linguists and language enthusiasts call these troublesome words mizzles, which is a bat formation of misled,
26:45which is perhaps a prototypical mizzle, if you like, because you can read it in all sorts of different ways.
26:50And I have to say the linguist Stan Kerry has written brilliantly about this.
26:53So it's not so much espresso for espresso, where the kind of spelling is misinterpreted.
26:59These are things where, as I say, we kind of cut the word in the wrong place to produce something
27:05different.
27:05And we're doing this a lot because the hyphen is disappearing.
27:08So if you think about words like co-worker, written down it might seem like a cow worker.
27:14Mishit, you could come up with something a bit ruder for that one.
27:19Sundried, sundried, it reads as.
27:22Unshed, looks a bit like unched.
27:23And sometimes your mind has to do sort of a bit of a backflip to actually get to the right
27:27pronunciation.
27:28As for hyphens, there is probably no way back.
27:31It's been squeezed out because of informal communication.
27:35The way we write these days is pretty much a written, spoken form of English,
27:38where we just, we write things down as we would say them.
27:41And so I don't think the hyphens are going to come back in,
27:44which means, as I say, far fewer hyphens, but a lot more mizzles.
27:48Very good.
27:49Thank you, Keith.
27:54That's wonderful.
27:5547 plays 34.
27:57Stephen still in the lead.
27:58Stephen, your letters came.
28:00Good luck.
28:01Consonant, please, Rachel.
28:02Thank you, Stephen.
28:03N.
28:04And another.
28:06C.
28:07And a third.
28:09S.
28:10And a vowel, please.
28:11E.
28:12And another vowel.
28:13O.
28:14And a consonant.
28:16P.
28:18And a consonant.
28:20S.
28:21A vowel.
28:23E.
28:24E.
28:25And a vowel, please.
28:28And the last one.
28:29I.
28:30Stand by.
28:32There.
28:32cheek egх i'llhm i'll just get you inside.
29:00Super
29:00Bye.
29:00Bye.
29:01Bye.
29:01Stephen.
29:03Stick with six.
29:05And Brendan.
29:07Seven.
29:08Stephen.
29:10Ponces.
29:11Yes, Brendan.
29:13It's species.
29:14Very good.
29:15Yes, nice.
29:16Happy with both?
29:17Very happy.
29:18Rufus.
29:19Session?
29:20Session with a C at the front is a legal term for the formal giving up of rights or property
29:25by a state.
29:26Oh, well done.
29:2747 pays 41.
29:29Brilliant.
29:30Well done, Brendan.
29:31Catching up like that.
29:32And now it's your letters game.
29:34Final one of the day.
29:36Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
29:38Thank you, Brendan.
29:38R.
29:39And a vowel.
29:41O.
29:42And a consonant.
29:43M.
29:44And a vowel.
29:46D.
29:47And a consonant.
29:49R.
29:49And a vowel.
29:51A.
29:52And a consonant.
29:54F.
29:54And a vowel.
29:56U.
29:57And a final consonant, please.
30:00A final T.
30:00Stand by.
30:03Stand by.
30:04Stand by.
30:06Stephen.
30:06CORRECT
30:06And a vowel.
30:09We'll have a consonant, please.
30:10I'll have to repeat it.
30:11I'll have to repeat it.
30:33Stephen?
30:34Six.
30:36Brendan?
30:36Seven.
30:38Stephen?
30:38Forma.
30:40And Brendan?
30:41Formate.
30:42Happy Susie?
30:43Yes, formate is a derivative of formic acid.
30:46That's very good.
30:47Well done.
30:48Anything else there of interest, Rufus?
30:50Well, if you add an R to formate, you could reformat it.
30:56Oh, yes.
30:57And then you might have reformat for it.
30:59Thank you, formate.
30:59Well done.
31:03Want to do that, Susie?
31:04Right.
31:04All right, well done.
31:05So, well done, Brendan.
31:07You keep fighting, Stephen.
31:08Not over yet.
31:09It's your numbers game, for instance.
31:12Off we go.
31:13I'm going to go six more.
31:15Six more.
31:16It's gambling time.
31:17It's not over yet.
31:18Thank you, Stephen.
31:19Let's see if we have a crucial conundrum.
31:21The final six numbers are seven, two, ten, four, nine, and another seven.
31:29And your target, 154.
31:32One, five, four.
31:34The final six numbers are seven, two, ten, four, nine, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and
31:44another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven,
31:52and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another
31:54seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and
31:54another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven,
31:54and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another
31:54seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and
31:55another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven, and another seven,
31:57and another seven, and another
32:05Yes, Stephen.
32:071, 5, 4.
32:08And Brendan.
32:091, 5, 4.
32:10Off we go.
32:11Stephen.
32:129 plus 7 is 16.
32:1416.
32:15Times 10.
32:16160.
32:17Minus the 4 and the 2.
32:18Yep, well done.
32:1910 points.
32:20Yes, Brendan.
32:21Exactly the same.
32:22Same way?
32:24Right.
32:29There we are, then.
32:30Only a point between it.
32:31But we're into the final round, which means that we have a crucial countdown conundrum.
32:39Let's unveil today's crucial countdown conundrum.
32:42Let's unveil today's final round, which means that we have a crucial countdown conundrum.
33:13Hmm, no.
33:15How tricky is it?
33:16Let's roll it and see.
33:20Chagrined.
33:21Chagrined.
33:22Well, well, well.
33:23And so, what happens?
33:26The number three seed comes through.
33:29Well done, Brendan.
33:30Well done.
33:31And Stephen, you played really strongly.
33:34It's fantastic.
33:34You take this piece of kryptonite back to Ivor.
33:38You know, with our applause ringing in your ears, because you really played like a champ.
33:42It was fantastic.
33:43Well done.
33:44Well done.
33:45Good player.
33:46Wow.
33:47That was a bit of a lucky escape, wasn't it?
33:48Oh, say that again.
33:50Listen, we'll see you in the second semi on Thursday.
33:53Well done.
33:55Now, we're going to have to release you back into the wild.
33:58I know.
33:58It seems unnecessary and cruel.
34:00Listen, you come and see us soon again.
34:02And when you're off the stage back there in Stratford, the Royal Shakespeare Company.
34:08Fantastic.
34:09The RSC.
34:10Every fibre of my middle class being is delighted.
34:15But it's for everyone.
34:16I should probably make that point.
34:18Yeah, come and see us.
34:20The Provoked Wife until September.
34:22Brilliant stuff.
34:22Thank you so much for coming.
34:24So, Susie, see you tomorrow.
34:25See you then.
34:26And Rachel too, of course.
34:27Yeah, see you then.
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35:04Thanks, Susie.