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00:31Well, good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:34Here we are. It's the final quarterfinal match today,
00:38so there's just one more place in the semis to be claimed.
00:42Fantastic. So you're sitting at home.
00:44There you are sitting at home watching this wonderful finals, really, for Series 80.
00:50But where are you sitting? That's the big issue, Rachel.
00:52Where are they sitting at home?
00:54Now, a recent report asked people to name the communal place.
00:58Communal place.
00:59The top answer was living room.
01:01That came storming in at 39%, the living room.
01:04Where are you? We're in the living room.
01:06Second was lounge.
01:08Right.
01:09With 30%. I thought only pubs have lounges,
01:11but apparently 30% of people sit in the lounge.
01:14Yeah.
01:14Where is he? He's in the lounge.
01:16And finally then came sitting room.
01:18That's right, at 16%, followed by front room and family room.
01:23Right.
01:23Family room.
01:24I don't know.
01:25Who cares?
01:26Where do you sit when you're sitting?
01:27I'm absolutely with you.
01:28Who cares?
01:29Anyway, I'm crossing out lounge, because I always thought that only lounge...
01:33Oh, no.
01:33It was always a lounge in my family.
01:35There we go.
01:35We've got something out of this.
01:36All right.
01:37And you didn't live in a pub either?
01:39I didn't live in a pub, no.
01:41We're getting away.
01:41Contrary to popular belief.
01:43We're off.
01:43Rachel, who have we got?
01:44Maggie Barlow's joined us.
01:46Welcome, Maggie.
01:47Hi.
01:48Retired librarian from Lutterworth in Leicestershire.
01:50Number four seed scored very well and became an octo champ way back in March.
01:56Dim and distant past.
01:57Dim and distant past, yes.
01:58Well, you're very welcome.
01:59Welcome back here.
02:00And you're joined by Fiona Ditcombe, freelancer, IT developer from Blackwater, Hampshire.
02:07Number five seed, who scored 520 points on her way to these finals.
02:12Good score.
02:14So, are you feeling comfortable, both of you?
02:16Yes.
02:17Competitive?
02:18Yes.
02:19Well, I hope, and we all hope, wherever we are, living room, sitting room, front room,
02:24whatever it's called, we wish you the best of luck, both of you.
02:28Big round of applause for Maggie and Fiona.
02:36And over there, Susie, of course, and sitting as though he's sitting in the lounge, we've got
02:41none other than journalist, TV and radio presenter is that terrible character.
02:47Richard Arnold.
02:48Welcome, Richard.
02:49How are you?
02:49Great to do that.
02:53More great stories from you later on, but as a matter of interest, as we're doing a survey,
02:58what do you call this room at home?
03:00Oh, the good room.
03:01The good room.
03:02The good room.
03:02Yeah, it was always the posh room, you know.
03:04The posh room.
03:05Yeah, yeah.
03:05All right.
03:06It covers over the seats and, you know, the capi de monti on the shelves and all of that
03:10sort of business.
03:10Yeah.
03:11Only used on Sundays.
03:13Absolutely.
03:14Now, Maggie, it's a letter's game.
03:15Off we go.
03:17Hi, Rachel.
03:17Hi, Maggie.
03:18Hi.
03:18Start with the consonant, please.
03:20Start the fourth quarterfinal with R.
03:23And another.
03:25N.
03:26And a third.
03:29M.
03:30A vowel.
03:31A.
03:32Another.
03:33O.
03:34And another.
03:36E.
03:37And a fourth vowel, please.
03:39U.
03:40And a consonant.
03:42B.
03:44And a final consonant, please.
03:46Final T.
03:47And here's the countdown clock.
04:21Maggie.
04:22Seven.
04:23Fiona.
04:24Seven.
04:25Off we go.
04:26Maggie.
04:27Enamor.
04:28Yes, Fiona.
04:30Remount.
04:32Very good.
04:33Yeah, both excellent.
04:34Happy enough?
04:35Very happy.
04:35Richard.
04:37A bromate.
04:38A bromate?
04:39Yes.
04:40Very good.
04:41Yes, which is obviously a chemical term, a bromic acid.
04:44And there's also tambour, a small drum.
04:48Well done.
04:48Thank you for that, Richard, as well.
04:51Perfect.
04:51Seven apiece.
04:52Now, Fiona.
04:54Letters game.
04:55Hello, Richard.
04:55Hi, Fiona.
04:56Could we stop the consonant, please?
04:58Start with W.
05:00And another.
05:03And another.
05:05And another.
05:07F.
05:09And another.
05:11Y.
05:12And another.
05:15C.
05:16And a vowel.
05:18I.
05:20A vowel.
05:22E.
05:23Another.
05:26Another.
05:29Another.
05:30And the last one.
05:32I.
05:33Stand by.
05:34The.
05:36The.
05:38The.
05:47The.
05:51The.
06:05Fiona.
06:06Six.
06:08And Maggie?
06:09Six.
06:10Fiona?
06:11Idiocy.
06:12Yes.
06:13Codify.
06:15Codify.
06:15Both excellent, yes.
06:17Richard and Susie.
06:18Well, no, we had Codify as well.
06:20It's Deify for five, but it wasn't an easy one, that one.
06:22Well done.
06:23Thirteen apiece, and Maggie, it's your numbers game.
06:26Just one from the top, please, Rachel, and then the other five.
06:29Thank you, Maggie.
06:30Potentially keeping it straightforward-ish to start with.
06:33Let's see.
06:34First numbers are three, two, four, eight, three, and a large 150.
06:42And the target, 911.
06:449-1-1.
07:181-1-1.
07:20And Fiona?
07:219-1-1.
07:22Off we go.
07:22Maggie?
07:23Okay.
07:24Four plus two equals six.
07:26Four plus two is six.
07:27Times three.
07:2818.
07:29Times 50.
07:30900.
07:31And then add on the eight and the other three.
07:33Lovely for our producer's favourite band once more.
07:36Well done.
07:37And Fiona?
07:37Exactly the same way.
07:41Well done.
07:47So, 23 apiece as we reach that time for our first Tea Time teaser, which is crude tone.
07:53And the clue, his story didn't add up.
07:56So, he told it again.
07:58His story didn't add up.
08:00So, he told it again.
08:18Welcome back.
08:19I left with the clue.
08:20His story didn't add up.
08:22So, he told it again.
08:23In fact, he recounted it.
08:25He recounted it.
08:2723 apiece.
08:28Fiona, your letters came.
08:32Start with the vowel this time, please.
08:34Thank you, Fiona.
08:35E.
08:36And another.
08:38A.
08:40And another.
08:41I.
08:43And a consonant, please.
08:45R.
08:46And another.
08:48S.
08:50And another.
08:51R.
08:53And another.
08:55C.
08:58And another.
09:00P.
09:01And a final vowel, please.
09:03And a final O.
09:06Stand back.
09:08BELL RINGS
09:38Fiona.
09:39A seven.
09:40Yes.
09:41A seven.
09:42Two sevens.
09:43Fiona.
09:44A prosaic.
09:45Maggie.
09:47I have prosaic as well.
09:49Can you just sort of pop that across?
09:53Now, Richard.
09:55Scarpa for seven.
09:56Yes.
09:57Carries for seven.
09:58Yes.
10:00Copiers for seven.
10:01Yes.
10:01Plethora of sevens, but you couldn't get beyond that.
10:03No eights.
10:04Yeah.
10:0530 apiece.
10:06Maggie.
10:07Maggie, your letters came.
10:09A consonant, please, Rachel.
10:11Thank you, Maggie.
10:11D.
10:12And another.
10:14And another.
10:16And another.
10:18V.
10:19And a vowel.
10:20E.
10:21Another.
10:23A.
10:24A third vowel.
10:26O.
10:28Consonant.
10:30K.
10:31A consonant.
10:34P.
10:35And a vowel, please.
10:38And the last one.
10:39You.
10:41Stand by.
11:12Maggie. Just six. Fiona. Six. Maggie. Parked. And? Proved. And proved. Yes. Sticking close together these two. 36 a piece.
11:27And Richard. Susie's got wood. I do. It's kind of rosewood. At least it resembles rosewood. And it's called Paduk.
11:36P-A-D-O-U-K. Still just a six but an unusual one.
11:39Very. Thank you very much for that, Richard. 36 a piece. And we turn now to our second numbers game.
11:45Fiona.
11:46Well, we're only here once, so let's try four larges. Why not? Push the boat out. Gamble. Live a little.
11:52Thank you, Fiona.
11:53The two small ones are four and five. And the big ones, 50, 25, 75 and 100. And the target,
12:02531.
12:035-3-1.
12:375-2-9.
12:39Yes, Maggie. 5-2-9, but not written down. Right. Maggie. 5 times 100. 5 times 100.
12:48500. Plus 25. Plus 25. Plus 4. 4-2 away.
12:52There we go. Fiona. Exactly the same.
12:56They really are. Joined at the hip. Rachel, here we go. 5-3-1. How problematic is that?
13:03Well, if you start the same way, so 100 times 5, again 500. Add the 25 for 5 to 5.
13:11And then
13:1175 times 4 is 300. Divide it by 50 for 6. And add it on for 5-3-1. Perfect.
13:18Look at that. Wonderful.
13:22Well done. So it's 43 apiece. 43 each. As we turn to Richard. Richard, you've got a bucket list and
13:31of last you've been able to tick one off. A particular one.
13:35A particular one, indeed. Yeah, my mother always tunes into Countdown to find out about me because it's like some
13:39sort of frank confessional every day on this show.
13:42But it came to no shock to her, obviously, having grown up with me from a tender age, that I'm
13:47a huge Cher fan.
13:48And I've interviewed many of the divas that I've talked about here in Dictionary Corner over the years, like Barbara
13:53Streisand. Always Streisand. She'll correct you if you say Streisand, as we say here in the UK.
13:59Celine Dion and Mariah Carey. But Cher had eluded me. And I was convinced, obviously, Cher. The only thing Cher
14:05must think about when she wakes up in the morning is for 25 years that I've been on the red
14:08carpet, we have never had so much as a glancing blow with each other.
14:12And so last summer, she was doing a lot of promotion for Mamma Mia. Here we go again.
14:16I came back from the cobbles one morning and got a phone call from GMB to say Cher is in
14:21L.A.
14:22She'd love you to pop out because she's releasing an album of ABBA covers. ABBA Cher L.A.
14:29I thought this is the mothership calling me home. Arrived in L.A., got to the hotel.
14:34It suddenly dawned on me that I was sort of pacing. I was actually quite nervous because they say, don't
14:39you know, there's that sort of showbiz adage, you know, never meet your heroes.
14:42So, as always with these divas, they are then placed either before or after you. There's very little movement.
14:48So I was sat in the chair here and all the lights were around. The crew were hovering.
14:52And in between myself and the chair where Cher would sit, there was this sort of white screen.
14:57And so I heard Cher off camera and she was sort of being ushered in.
15:02I could hear her laugh tinkling away and my heart's going. I'm thinking, this is great.
15:06This is quite a moment. And then she goes behind the screen and all I can see are the feet
15:10and the stylist fussing around as well.
15:13And then eventually the screen was lifted. And there she was, my very own super trooper.
15:17She looked every inch at the megastar. And I was blinded by her rings.
15:23And I said, are they rhinestones? And she said, no, they're diamonds. Of course they're diamonds.
15:28So I'm sort of sat there slack-jawed just looking at these while the stylist once again sort of arranged
15:32her on the chair.
15:33We had a great chat. She loves the UK. Very fond memories of coming here with Sonny in the 1960s.
15:39I also asked her if I could get away with the outfit that she wore on, if I could turn
15:42back time, which you may remember is the one where she's on a naval ship straddling a cannon with the
15:47slash down the side of the leotard.
15:49You could try it at the weekend, Nick. I'm told the cannon is optional.
15:53And she said, no, she'd prefer to see me in an A-line skirt. But, you know, I snatched a
15:57compliment from the jaws of that.
16:00And all I can say, it was one of those fantastic experiences. I will never forget it.
16:04And then two days later, I was due to go on holiday and fly off to Mykonos, where there were
16:09a lot of men going on holiday who've left their wives at home.
16:12So the fact that I've met Cher two days before made me very, very popular indeed.
16:16And that is a story possibly for another time.
16:18Oh, brilliant.
16:26A perfectly packaged anecdote, if you don't mind me saying so.
16:3043 up the piece.
16:32And Maggie, it's now your letters game.
16:35Hi, let's start with a vowel this time, Rachel.
16:37Thank you, Maggie.
16:38E.
16:39And another.
16:40A.
16:41And another.
16:43E.
16:45A consonant.
16:46T.
16:48Another.
16:50C.
16:52Another.
16:53T.
16:54A vowel.
16:57U.
16:58A consonant.
17:01F.
17:02And a consonant, please.
17:05And lastly, D.
17:07Stand by.
17:08D.
17:09T.
17:09A consonant.
17:10T.
17:11T.
17:11T.
17:11T.
17:12T.
17:12T.
17:14T.
17:15T.
17:16T.
17:27T.
17:28T.
17:39Maggie.
17:40Seven.
17:41Fiona.
17:42Seven.
17:43Maggie.
17:45Faceted.
17:46Yes, Fiona.
17:47Same word.
17:51And over in the corner, Richard.
17:53Educate for seven.
17:55Susie.
17:56Yes, educate, faceted, our sevens.
17:57That's it.
17:58All right, 50 apiece.
18:00Fiona.
18:01Fiona.
18:02Letters go.
18:03Could we start with a consonant, please?
18:05Thank you, Fiona.
18:06S.
18:07And another?
18:09H.
18:11And another?
18:13R.
18:15And a vowel, please.
18:17I.
18:19And another?
18:20A.
18:22And another?
18:24O.
18:26And a consonant?
18:29M.
18:31And a consonant?
18:33Q.
18:35And a final vowel, please.
18:38And a final I.
18:41Stand by.
18:43And a vowel, please.
18:47And a vowel, please.
18:48And a vowel, please.
18:57And a vowel, please.
19:00And a vowel, please.
19:00And a vowel, please.
19:00And a vowel, please.
19:01And a vowel, please.
19:01And a vowel, please.
19:03And a vowel, please.
19:06And a vowel, please.
19:12Fiona.
19:14Six.
19:15And Maggie?
19:16Seven.
19:18Yes, Fiona.
19:19Moorish.
19:21And?
19:22Mohairs, I'm hoping.
19:24Oh, OK.
19:25Moorish, you'd need the E.
19:27That's M-O-R-E-I-S-H, I'm afraid.
19:30And mohair is a mass noun.
19:31I was just looking through the examples to see if there are any plurals there and there aren't.
19:35So I have to stick with the dictionary.
19:36So I have to disallow both, I'm afraid.
19:38Oh, bad luck.
19:39Sorry.
19:40But somehow fair.
19:41Yeah.
19:42Now, what have we got?
19:45Richard, Susie?
19:46We had mohair.
19:47Yes.
19:47And that was pretty much it.
19:48That was it.
19:49All right.
19:50So still 50 apiece as we turn to our next numbers game.
19:55That's for Maggie.
19:56Yes, Maggie?
19:57I'll stick with one from the top, Rachel.
19:59Still trying to play it safe.
20:01See if this can break the deadlock.
20:03Thank you, Maggie.
20:04These five little ones are seven, one, two, five, and another five, and the large one, 100.
20:11And the target, 547.
20:15547.
20:16Oh, yeah.
20:32Oh, yeah.
20:38Oh, yeah.
20:44There we go.
20:44Oh, yeah.
20:45The target.
20:48Maggie?
20:49I think I have 547, but not written down.
20:52Fiona?
20:53548.
20:54Right.
20:55So, Maggie?
20:57OK, 100 plus 7.
20:59107.
21:00Times 5.
21:01Times 5 is 535.
21:035 plus 1 is 6.
21:05Yep.
21:06Times 2.
21:0712.
21:08And I just don't, yeah.
21:09You do have it.
21:09Well done.
21:10547.
21:10Well done.
21:17Well done, Maggie.
21:19Well done.
21:20And that just gives you a little bit of a lead now.
21:2260 to 50.
21:23Well done.
21:25Let's give them a breather whilst we have a tea time teaser.
21:29Number two.
21:29I need word is the teaser.
21:32And the clue.
21:32I need to find another word for a quilt.
21:35I need to find another word for a quilt.
21:39I need to find another word for a quilt.
21:54Welcome back.
21:55I left you with the clue.
21:56I need to find another word for a quilt.
22:00And the answer is, indeed, the other word for a quilt is...
22:03Eiderdown.
22:04Eiderdown.
22:05So, 60 to 50.
22:07Maggie snatched a lead there.
22:08Now, Fiona.
22:10Get that back.
22:11It's a letters game.
22:13Vowel, please.
22:14Thank you, Fiona.
22:15A.
22:16And another.
22:18U.
22:19And another.
22:21E.
22:24A consonant, please.
22:26R.
22:27And another.
22:28H.
22:30And another.
22:32N.
22:34And another.
22:36T.
22:39And another.
22:41G.
22:42And a final vowel, please.
22:44And a final A.
22:48Stand by.
22:50The, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the,
23:12the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the,
23:12the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the,
23:12the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the,
23:12the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the,
23:12the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the
23:20Fiona.
23:21A seven.
23:22A seven, Maggie?
23:23Seven.
23:24Fiona.
23:25Gaunter.
23:26And?
23:27Unearthed.
23:29Very good.
23:30Yes.
23:31Any advance on seven, Richard, Susie?
23:33We had both of those, and then we had Haunter for seven.
23:36Haunter.
23:37Not bad.
23:3967 to 57, still that ten points in it.
23:42Maggie, off we go.
23:43Letters game.
23:44Consonant, please, Rachel.
23:45Thank you, Maggie.
23:46S.
23:47And another.
23:49M.
23:50And another.
23:52N.
23:54A vowel.
23:56O.
23:57Another.
23:59A.
24:01A consonant.
24:03L.
24:04A vowel.
24:06I.
24:08A consonant.
24:10R.
24:12And another consonant, please.
24:15And lastly, S.
24:17Countdown.
24:20Countdown.
24:51Now then, Maggie.
24:52Just six.
24:53A six.
24:54Seven.
24:55And seven for Fiona.
24:57Right.
24:58Maggie.
24:59Salmon.
25:00Now then, Fiona.
25:01Sailors.
25:03Well spotted.
25:03Yeah.
25:04Very good.
25:05But I wonder what Richard and Susie have dug up.
25:08Yes, Richard?
25:10Auralism.
25:11Yes, the system of teaching deaf people to communicate by the use of speech, lip reading rather than sign language.
25:18That is auralism.
25:20Thank you very much.
25:21Sixty-seven to sixty-four.
25:23Now, Susie, it's your wonderful origins of words.
25:26What have you got for us today?
25:29Well, I talked about mizzles yesterday, which are words that we mispronounce because we break up the word in the
25:35wrong place, if you like.
25:36And today I'm going to talk a little bit about clipping, so shortening of words, which become so embedded in
25:41the language that we sort of lose sight of the full version.
25:44And we use these things all the time.
25:46So pants, flu, phone, mic for microphone, et cetera.
25:51Most of us know what the full version is in each of these cases.
25:54But there are just some that might escape without notice and that are kind of becoming a little bit untethered.
25:59So I'm not sure that many of us think about caravans when we talk about a van, like a white
26:03van on the road.
26:05The first use of caravan is an exotic one.
26:08You can still read it today, probably, in novels, et cetera.
26:11A group of people travelling across the desert in Asia or North Africa.
26:16What actually we got from French goes back to Persian, ultimately.
26:19And the sense of a covered, horse-drawn wagon that these people used then emerged and then it became to
26:24mean any kind of third-class covered carriage and eventually any enclosed vehicle, which is how we get the van
26:30today.
26:30But what an exotic past for something so prosaic, I suppose, today.
26:35Chap is from Chapman, a market trader.
26:39It's where we get cheap from as well.
26:41And a journalistic hack is from Hackney Hall.
26:44So one used to pull Hackney carriages and was let out for common hire.
26:49And the poor creature was so worn out in service that it became a little bit jaded, much as we
26:54describe hack journalism today.
26:57Divvy, if we divvy something up, we're dividing it up.
27:00That's quite a simple one.
27:02Perk.
27:02If we talk about the perks of the job, that goes back to perquisite technical term from Latin, meaning a
27:08tip originally.
27:10And soccer.
27:11Soccer, most of us think that that's an American term.
27:15Americans call football soccer, obviously.
27:17Actually comes from British slang and is from association football to distinguish it from other kinds of what was seen
27:24as football in those days, including rugby.
27:26So we use these all the time, these clippings.
27:29And as I say, quite a lot of them are just losing their roots and slipping in to the language.
27:33It's the norm.
27:40Very interesting.
27:4267 to 64.
27:44Maggie in the lead.
27:45Fiona, your letters came.
27:47Consonant, please, Rachel.
27:49Thank you, Fiona.
27:51G.
27:52And another.
27:53T.
27:55And another.
27:57L.
27:59And another.
28:01C.
28:04And another.
28:06S.
28:08A vowel, please.
28:09O.
28:11And another.
28:13E.
28:15And another.
28:18I.
28:20And final consonant, please.
28:23Final P.
28:25Done by.
28:57Fiona.
28:58Fiona.
28:59And?
29:00And seven.
29:01Fiona.
29:02Polices.
29:02Maggie.
29:03Piglets.
29:05Nice.
29:06Little piglets.
29:09Richard and Susie.
29:10Strangely drawn to spigot, aren't you?
29:12Yes.
29:13A small peg or plug that you'll find in the vent of a cask.
29:17Otherwise, we have sevens to.
29:18Polices.
29:19Poetics.
29:20Another one.
29:21Well done.
29:2274 to 71.
29:24Maggie.
29:25Letters came for you.
29:27OK.
29:27Start with a vowel this time, please, Rachel.
29:29Thank you, Maggie.
29:30A.
29:31And another.
29:33O.
29:34And another.
29:36E.
29:37A consonant.
29:38S.
29:40Consonant.
29:41M.
29:43Consonant.
29:44G.
29:46A consonant.
29:48N.
29:50A vowel.
29:53O.
29:54And a consonant, please.
29:57And lastly, L.
30:00Stand by.
30:00Theagus.
30:03From our site.
30:04The precis shots.
30:11And there.
30:12We'll talk about theació.
30:13And we'll let you know.
30:13One with a söz.
30:13One with aрас하고 Nairo.
30:21There.
30:21The 주 if you're allowed.
30:21The Money resign is a' way ofware.
30:22The UK.
30:22The nyt me você never田iese.
30:23And the lumion.
30:28The day is the way to be it.
30:29The moment it is.
30:32Maggie?
30:33Seven.
30:35And?
30:35Seven.
30:37Right, Maggie?
30:38Lagoons.
30:39Fiona?
30:40Mangoes.
30:41And mangoes.
30:42Nice.
30:43Yeah, very good.
30:44Any more sevens in the corner there?
30:46No.
30:47Lemons.
30:47A couple of lemons.
30:49Nobody should be calling you a couple of lemons.
30:51Susie, anything else?
30:52No, we were free to.
30:53Lemons and mangoes, Russ.
30:55All right.
30:56So, 81 to 78 into the final numbers game.
31:00Fiona, good luck now.
31:01Let's try four larges again, please.
31:04Thank you, Fiona.
31:05Four from the top and two little.
31:07Calling out all the stops for the final numbers.
31:09And they are four and five again.
31:12And the big ones.
31:1450, 100, 25 and 75.
31:18And the target, 632.
31:21632.
31:54Fiona?
31:556.30, but not written down.
31:576.30, Maggie?
31:596.33.
32:02Right.
32:04OK.
32:0475 plus 50.
32:0675 plus 50, 125.
32:08Times 5.
32:09Times 5, 625.
32:11Plus 4.
32:12Plus 4, 629.
32:13And 100 over 25 for another 4.
32:16And you haven't used any of those.
32:18Yeah.
32:19Well done.
32:21Excellent.
32:22But 632, Rachel.
32:24Is that something that's achievable?
32:25It is achievable.
32:26If you say 100 plus 50 is 150.
32:3275 over 25 is 3.
32:35Plus 5 is 8.
32:37Add those together for 1, 5, 8.
32:39And times by the 4.
32:40632.
32:40Oh, well done.
32:41Well done.
32:46Excellent.
32:47As ever.
32:48Thanks, Rachel.
32:48So it's 88 to 78.
32:5010 points in it.
32:51Final round, which means only one thing.
32:53It's a crucial countdown conundrum.
32:56Good luck to you both.
32:56Let's roll that crucial countdown conundrum.
33:04Maggie?
33:05Is it Chaparral?
33:08Chaparral.
33:08Let's see whether you're right.
33:11You're a great player.
33:21Maggie, well done.
33:22Well done.
33:24Number 14.
33:24Mind you, Fiona had you, you know, level pegging all the way pretty much.
33:29So well done, Fiona.
33:31Take this kryptonite back to Blackwater with our very best wishes.
33:36It was pretty much anybody's game until the end, anyway.
33:39Thank you very much.
33:40Well done, Maggie.
33:41Well, you made it a very tense match all the way through.
33:45It was great.
33:45Maggie, I've got some news for you.
33:47We're looking forward to seeing you tomorrow.
33:50So have a quiet night.
33:51And you're in the first semi-final tomorrow.
33:56Well done.
33:56Wow.
33:59Mr. Arnold.
34:00Yes, sir.
34:00See you tomorrow.
34:02Indeed.
34:02Can't wait.
34:03We look forward to that.
34:03Some of your wonderful anecdotes.
34:06And Susie, too.
34:07See you tomorrow.
34:07Yeah, see you then.
34:08Rachel?
34:09Well, you know you're in final territory when you're not sure which one's the conundrum
34:12and which one's the answer.
34:14Exactly.
34:14That's where I was.
34:15So very well done.
34:16Very good contest.
34:17Lovely.
34:17See you tomorrow.
34:18See you tomorrow.
34:19Join us then.
34:19Same time, same place.
34:20You be sure of it.
34:21A very good afternoon.
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