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00:20Thank you very much.
00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:34Now, we've heard our audience cheering away.
00:36Everybody, including the audience, has gone flipping mad today.
00:39Why? Because it's Pancake Day.
00:42And although, I guess, sugar and lemon are still the most popular ingredients and toppings for pancakes,
00:49people, Rachel, are becoming much more adventurous these days.
00:52And I'd like to see, very quietly, whether, I know chocolate spread fruit and yoghurt,
00:58Yeah, they're all there. But what about things like baklava pancakes with pistachio, rosewater, cinnamon and honey?
01:05Sounds good. Very nice.
01:06Very sweet. Or how about squash pancakes?
01:10Now, this is interesting. Butternut squash, goat's cheese and rosemary.
01:14I don't care about all this, as long as they're hot.
01:16Is there anything worse than a cold pancake?
01:19I don't think there is. What about you?
01:20I think there are a few things worse. I won't go into them now.
01:22But I like a savoury pancake.
01:24Yeah.
01:24But then there's, I mean, pancake covers a whole range of sins, doesn't it?
01:27It's American kind, crepes, English pancakes, Russian pancakes, galettes.
01:32Where's your heart?
01:36On any of them, as long as they're hot.
01:38Love this stuff.
01:40Now, Rachel, who have we got? Phil Davis is back.
01:43Phil the postman, the ex-copper from Chelmsford, is the quiet killer.
01:47He's fantastic.
01:49Six wins now for Phil and 104 points yesterday.
01:54Yes.
01:54Fantastic. Well, good luck today.
01:55Now, you're joined by Mike O'Connell, a staff nurse from Dundee.
02:00And you're working in a rehabilitation unit, I think.
02:03It's the shortest area of your unit, yeah.
02:04Okay.
02:05So people come out of surgery or something, and then they need to get back on their feet?
02:09They've been in the hospital. They're medically well.
02:10They come down to us for a wee bit more physio, nursing care.
02:13Then we send them home again.
02:15So when I get my hips replaced, I might come up and spend a few days in your place?
02:19Yeah, you're more than welcome.
02:20Yeah. Get me back on my feet.
02:22I'm not planning it, but, you know, thinking ahead.
02:24And you're a DIY man, too.
02:27I do my best.
02:28Yeah?
02:28Yeah.
02:28Got all your fingers?
02:30Still got them all, just though.
02:31Well done.
02:32Big round of applause for Mike and Phil.
02:39And Susie's over in the corner.
02:41Sitting next to one of the great characters, I guess, in all sorts of areas.
02:47Because not only did you start out as an impressionist, but you're an actor and now a musician.
02:52It's the wonderful Alistair McGowan.
02:54Welcome back, Alistair.
03:00Now, Phil, off we go.
03:02OK.
03:03Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:04Good afternoon again, Phil.
03:05Can we start with a consonant, please?
03:07Start today with T.
03:09A consonant.
03:10A consonant.
03:13A vowel.
03:14E.
03:15A consonant.
03:18R.
03:19A consonant.
03:21H.
03:22A vowel.
03:24I.
03:26A vowel, please.
03:28O.
03:30O.
03:31A consonant.
03:32A consonant.
03:33S.
03:34And a final consonant, please.
03:36And a final R.
03:37And here's the countdown clock.
03:41Oh, my.
03:42For real.
03:48A compute game.
03:48Than.
04:08A vowel.
04:11Yes, Phil?
04:12I've got an eight.
04:13And Mike?
04:14Seven.
04:15And you're seven?
04:16Shorter.
04:18And Phil?
04:19I've got Resister.
04:21OK.
04:23Absolutely fine.
04:24Very good.
04:26Well done.
04:30Now, Alistair and Susie, what have you got for us?
04:33There were two other eights.
04:34Horsiest was there.
04:36The horsiest-looking person in the room.
04:38We won't say who that is.
04:39Probably me.
04:40And shorties.
04:42We won't say who that is, Anna, but shorties.
04:44Shorties.
04:44Yeah, short people, I suppose.
04:46Yes, Nick James, but a short person is a shortie.
04:49Well done.
04:50Eight points to Phil.
04:51Now, Mike, your letters game.
04:53OK.
04:54Good afternoon, Rachel.
04:56Good afternoon, Mike.
04:56Can I have a consonant, please?
04:59P.
05:00And another consonant.
05:02D.
05:04A vowel.
05:05A.
05:07Another vowel.
05:07O.
05:09And another vowel.
05:11E.
05:14A consonant.
05:16G.
05:18Another consonant.
05:21N.
05:24And another consonant, please.
05:27D.
05:28And a vowel.
05:29And the last one.
05:31U.
05:33Countdown.
05:34The End.
05:37The End
05:38The End
06:04Yes, Mike.
06:05A eight.
06:07Phil.
06:08Oh, good night.
06:08And Mike?
06:10Poundage.
06:11Poundage?
06:11Yes, that's why I've got Poundage.
06:13Poundage.
06:14Excellent.
06:19Here we are.
06:21Alistair, Susie.
06:22Nothing to beat that.
06:23I was stuck on six with Ponged.
06:26Ponged, yep.
06:26Yeah, but there was a couple of sevens there.
06:28Unpaged and Pounded.
06:31But Poundage is excellent.
06:32Yep.
06:33Sixteen plays eight.
06:34Mike's off the blocks there.
06:35Phil, numbers.
06:37Can I have two large and four small, please?
06:39You can indeed, thank you.
06:40You have two from the top, four little.
06:42And the first numbers game of the day is ten, nine, five and eight.
06:47And the big one's one hundred and seventy-five.
06:50And the target, two-six-six.
06:52Two hundred and sixty-six.
06:54Two hundred and thirty-six.
06:54Two hundred and seventy-six.
07:05And where are you?
07:22Okay, what are you?
07:26Phil?
07:27I've got 266.
07:28And Mike?
07:30266.
07:31Phil?
07:325 times 75 is 375.
07:35It is.
07:36Minus 100.
07:38275.
07:39Minus 9.
07:39Perfect.
07:40Mike?
07:41I've got 10 minus 8 is 2.
07:44Yep.
07:44Multiplied by 100.
07:46200.
07:4775 minus 9 is 66.
07:50It is.
07:51Come on.
07:51Well done.
07:52266.
07:52Well done.
07:55So 26 plays Mike's 18 as we turn to our first Tea Time Teaser, which is Billy Eats.
08:02And the clue, Billy Eats His Food With All The Grace Of A Wild Animal.
08:05Billy Eats His Food With All The Grace Of A Wild Animal.
08:26Welcome back.
08:27I left you with a clue.
08:28Billy Eats His Food With All The Grace Of A Wild Animal.
08:31He does so bestially.
08:35He does so bestially.
08:35Bestially.
08:37Disgusting.
08:3826 to 18.
08:39Phil in the lead.
08:40Mike, your letter's going.
08:42Can I have a consonant please?
08:44Thank you, Mike.
08:44W.
08:46And another consonant.
08:48M.
08:50A vowel.
08:51A.
08:53A.
08:53And another vowel.
08:55O.
08:57Another vowel.
08:58I.
09:00A consonant.
09:02L.
09:05And a consonant.
09:07S.
09:10Another consonant.
09:11P.
09:15And a final vowel please.
09:18And a final U.
09:21Counter.
09:21A vowel.
09:23A consonant.
09:51A consonant.
09:53Yes, Mike.
09:54Just a five.
09:55A five, Phil?
09:56A six.
09:58Mike.
09:59Spoil.
10:00And?
10:01Uh, pilums?
10:02How are you spelling that?
10:03P-I-L-U-M-S.
10:06U-M-S.
10:08Hmm.
10:09Not fair, I'm afraid.
10:10Oh, OK.
10:11Um, sorry, Phil.
10:13A Roman column or something.
10:15Ah.
10:16Not in the current dictionary, sorry.
10:18OK, no problem.
10:18That's bad luck.
10:20So it takes, uh, Mike up to 23 against your 26.
10:24As we turn expectantly to the corner.
10:27Being a cat lover, I went for meows, uh, which is spelt in various different ways in different books.
10:32But, uh, M-I-A-O-W-S.
10:34Interestingly, because people have different ways of representing meow, one of my favourites is in James Joyce's Ulysses.
10:40Yes.
10:40And at the front there's a cat meowing, and I think it's the first page.
10:43And he spells it M-K-N-A-O-W-S, I think, McNow.
10:47And I've never heard a cat, perhaps it's the Irish cat's go, McNow.
10:50But he represents it, McNow.
10:53But normally.
10:53That's quite nice, isn't it?
10:54Yeah.
10:5626th place, 23.
10:57Phil on 26.
10:58Now, Phil.
11:00OK.
11:01Uh, can I start with a vowel, please?
11:03Thank you, Phil.
11:04E.
11:04And a consonant.
11:06D.
11:09Consonant, please.
11:11P.
11:12A vowel.
11:14I.
11:16A consonant.
11:18N.
11:19A consonant.
11:20H.
11:22A vowel, please.
11:24O.
11:26A consonant.
11:28M.
11:30And a consonant, please.
11:31And lastly, T.
11:33Stand by.
11:35BELL RINGS
12:05Yes, Phil.
12:06Seven.
12:08Mike?
12:08Seven.
12:09And?
12:10I've got pointed.
12:12Mike?
12:12I've got pointed as well.
12:13There we go.
12:15Lovely.
12:15How did we do in the corner there?
12:18Uh, I had pointed as well for seven.
12:19But there was an eight, we think.
12:21Uh, there was, yes.
12:22Piedmont.
12:23Uh, P-I-E-D-M-O-N-T.
12:25Gentle slope leading from the foot of mountains to a region of flat land.
12:30Oh, right, yeah.
12:34It's also part of the Italian, uh, Alps.
12:39Yes.
12:39Of Piedmontese.
12:40But that's, but you can use it with a small P?
12:42Uh, you certainly can, yes.
12:43That's in the foothills of the Alps, isn't it?
12:45Yeah, but they both mean at the foot of a mountain.
12:47Yeah, Piedmont.
12:48Mm, 33 to 30.
12:50Phil, three points in the lead.
12:52Mike?
12:53Numbers go.
12:54Can I have two large and four small, please?
12:57You can indeed.
12:58Thank you, Mike.
12:58Two from the top, four not from the top.
13:00And for this round, the four smalls are two, seven, nine and six.
13:05And a large two, one hundred and twenty-five.
13:09And the target, eight hundred and three.
13:11Eight oh three.
13:13Two from the top, four smalls are two, seven, nine and six.
13:43Yes, Mike?
13:44Eight oh seven.
13:47And I've got eight oh two.
13:50Eight oh two.
13:51Yes, Phil?
13:52OK, so six plus two times one hundred.
13:55Eight times one hundred, eight hundred.
13:58Then nine minus seven is two.
14:01And add it on.
14:03One away.
14:03One away indeed.
14:05Eight oh three, Rachel, can you help us?
14:08I can.
14:08And if you say nine plus seven is sixteen, times that by one hundred for sixteen hundred.
14:16Add the six, sixteen oh six, and divide it by two, eight hundred.
14:25And now we link to Alistair.
14:28Alistair, you've sort of transitioned now into music in a big way.
14:33You've got this CD out, the piano album.
14:37Yes.
14:38Just out, which he's done incredibly well.
14:41And yet, six months ago, a year ago, you weren't a pianist at all sort of thing.
14:44No.
14:46The whole thing, it's like being in a parallel universe for me at the moment.
14:49I played the piano when I was seven for two years.
14:51Yeah.
14:52Now, if you want to be a really good pianist, you've probably got to start at the age of
14:54about four and not stop.
14:56I started at seven and then stopped after two years into my mid-thirties, so that wasn't
14:59a great start.
15:00Yeah.
15:00And then in my mid-thirties, I played again for a couple of years because I'd always liked
15:03piano music.
15:03I thought, one day I've got to go back to this.
15:05But even then, I let it go again after a couple of years.
15:07So it was only really three years ago that I started playing in earnest.
15:10But the practice is the important thing.
15:12John Field, I played a bit of Chopin on the album, a bit of John Field, who was an Irish
15:15composer and pianist, a forerunner of Chopin, in fact.
15:19People always say he sounds like Chopin, Chopin, it sounded like John Field.
15:22But Field had a great thing where he would say, practice what you can't get right until
15:27you can't get it wrong.
15:29It's a great dictate for life.
15:30And it's the same with the day job.
15:31I keep practicing the impressions, and it's the same thing, you've got to practice them.
15:34Greg Wallace is somebody I was asked to do recently.
15:37Now, I listened and listened and listened to him, and I'm still practicing it.
15:39But I realized, in my head, I thought Greg Wallace was just, you know, a cockney, a wide
15:43boy.
15:43But when you listen to him, you realize that Greg, actually, what he's trying to do is
15:47not sound like he's from London.
15:48So he spends a lot of time saying, this is a marvelous plate of food.
15:52Well done.
15:52You've done a marvelous thing there.
15:53What you've created there is absolutely beautiful.
15:55But every so often, he turns into some sort of Victorian strangler.
15:59And you hear him go, what you've done there is absolutely wonderful.
16:01And I love the way that this boy's captured him.
16:04But really, genuinely, that is a marvelous plate of food.
16:06Well done.
16:07So practice, practice, practice.
16:08That's the key to success.
16:10That's wonderful.
16:10That's wonderful.
16:11Excellent.
16:15My mum used to play the piano quite a lot, until eventually, the family lowered the piano
16:20into the cellar.
16:21Oh?
16:22Sent her down there to play.
16:25Poor old mum.
16:2640 plays 30.
16:27Phil's on 40.
16:29And what shall we do?
16:30Phil?
16:31Letters came.
16:32Start with a consonant this time, please.
16:34Thank you, Phil.
16:35J.
16:36A consonant.
16:38R.
16:39A vowel, please.
16:41E.
16:42A consonant.
16:45S.
16:46A consonant.
16:49W.
16:50A vowel, please.
16:52A.
16:54A vowel, please.
16:57I.
16:58A consonant.
17:00R.
17:01And a consonant, please.
17:03And lastly, T.
17:06Down by.
17:06B папf accents.
17:09Bye.
17:14Bye.
17:29Now theseok andнимary joined by
17:30Bye.
17:32Bye.
17:33Bye.
17:34Bye.
17:37Yes, Phil?
17:38I've got a seven.
17:39A seven. Mike?
17:41I've got a seven also.
17:42Thank you. Phil?
17:43I've got waiters. Mike?
17:45Tarries.
17:46Tarries?
17:47Tarries.
17:47Tarries, absolutely fine.
17:48Yes, to dawdle, to tarry.
17:51And Alistair?
17:53Yes, I had waiters as well, which is appropriate in my waistcoat.
17:57Also, there was wariest for another seven.
18:00Good word.
18:01Couldn't see anything bigger.
18:02Susie?
18:02No, sevens all the way.
18:04So, 37 to 47, ten points, Phil's in the lead, and it's Mike's letters game.
18:10Mike?
18:10Can I have a consonant, please?
18:12Thank you, Mike.
18:13N.
18:15And another consonant.
18:16S.
18:18A vowel.
18:20E.
18:22A vowel.
18:23A.
18:26A consonant.
18:27X.
18:30A vowel.
18:32O.
18:34Another consonant.
18:36Another consonant.
18:38A consonant.
18:40R.
18:42And another consonant.
18:45And lastly, M.
18:48Stand by.
18:49A vowel.
18:51So.
18:51A condemn.
19:07A vowel.
19:08A vowel.
19:08A vowel.
19:112000, a Sounds of OST.
19:11A shades.
19:11A tongues.
19:11A vowel.
19:11A vowel.
19:12A probe.
19:15A vowel.
19:17A vowel.
19:17A utiliz.
19:18A Od. A vowel.
19:20Mike.
19:20Seven.
19:21A seven, Phil.
19:22I've got an eight.
19:24Now then, Mike.
19:25Monster.
19:26Monster, Phil.
19:27I've got Monstera.
19:29Yes, excellent.
19:31A large tropical American climbing plant is in the Aram family.
19:35That's very clever.
19:36Well done.
19:39Always that little bit extra.
19:41That's very good.
19:42Alistair, Susie.
19:44Nothing to beat that.
19:45Moaners was also there.
19:47Moaners.
19:47Yeah.
19:48Susie?
19:49You can turn Monstera into Stallman for another eight.
19:52Stallman shopkeeper.
19:55In America.
19:5655 to 37 now, and it's Phil's numbers game.
19:59Yes, Phil.
20:00One larger, five small, please.
20:02Thank you, Phil.
20:03One from the top again.
20:04Five more little ones, and this time around, your selection is nine, ten, three, five, eight,
20:12and 25.
20:14And the target, 315.
20:16Three, one, five.
20:46One, three, one, five.
20:47Two, one.
20:48Phil?
20:49Yeah, I've got 315.
20:51Mike?
20:51No, I've lost it.
20:53I've had luck.
20:54I've had luck.
20:54Now, Phil?
20:55I've got 9 plus 3 is 12.
20:57Yep.
20:58Times 25.
20:59300.
21:00Plus 10, plus 5.
21:02That'll do.
21:02Well done.
21:03315.
21:04Well done.
21:08So, 65 to 37, and we turn to our second tea time teaser, which is base altar.
21:15And the clue, the base of the altar was adorned with figures made of this.
21:19The base of the altar was adorned with figures made of this.
21:39Welcome back.
21:39I left with the clue, the base of the altar was adorned with figures made of this.
21:44Made with alabaster, alabaster.
21:47So 65 to 37, fill on 65.
21:51Mike, your letters go.
21:52Hi, Rachel. Can I have a consonant, please?
21:55Thank you, Mike.
21:56S.
21:57And another consonant.
21:59N.
22:01And a vowel.
22:03E.
22:04Another vowel.
22:06I.
22:07A consonant.
22:10T.
22:11Another consonant.
22:13D.
22:15A vowel.
22:17E.
22:19A consonant.
22:21V.
22:23And a final vowel, please.
22:27And a final A.
22:30Stand by.
22:32A consonant.
22:32A consonant.
22:47A consonant.
22:48A consonant.
22:48A consonant.
22:48A consonant.
22:48A consonant.
22:48A consonant.
22:48A consonant.
22:49A consonant.
23:01Mike?
23:02Seven.
23:03Phil?
23:04I've got an eight.
23:06Mike?
23:06Veinist.
23:08Veinist and?
23:09Deviant.
23:10Very nice.
23:11Very, very nice.
23:12Deviant.
23:14Deviant.
23:16Deviant.
23:17Can we match?
23:18Deviants?
23:19There were two other eights there, which were sedative and invested.
23:23Yeah.
23:24Anything else, Susie?
23:25No, a couple of eights.
23:26Good ones.
23:2773 to 37.
23:29Phil, letters again for you.
23:32OK.
23:33A vowel, please.
23:34Thank you, Phil.
23:35E.
23:36And a consonant?
23:38R.
23:39A consonant?
23:41L.
23:43A vowel, please.
23:44I.
23:46A vowel?
23:47U.
23:49A vowel, please.
23:52E.
23:53A consonant?
23:55B.
23:58A consonant, please.
24:00G.
24:01And a consonant, please.
24:03And lastly, L.
24:05Stand by.
24:07A consonant, please.
24:08A consonant, please.
24:13A consonant, please.
24:19A consonant, please.
24:20A consonant, please.
24:21A consonant, please.
24:21A consonant, please.
24:22A consonant, please.
24:22A consonant, please.
24:24A consonant, please.
24:24A consonant, please.
24:24A consonant, please.
24:26A consonant, please.
24:29A consonant, please.
24:35A consonant, please.
24:39yes Phil seven and Mike six your six it's a bottle and I'm gonna try bulgier
24:49yeah it's in your suitcase can be bulgier than someone else's indeed Alistair and
24:56bulgier as well and also wondered if bullier is there not there no no check
25:00that one being more bullied but bullish yeah but there was another eight which
25:05Susie saw beguiler if you are a seducer or deceptor really a beguiler good
25:16word is it to beguile yes nice 80 pays 37 fill on 80 Susie to wonderful origins of
25:24words has come round again and carnival day has come round again because today is
25:30carnival day and in Roman Catholic countries it's the period before lunch
25:34it's a time of public merrymaking and a great feasting and festivities and it
25:40comes from the Latin medieval Latin car they love them which meant to put away
25:45meat which is exactly of course what you do when you begin fasting a lot of people
25:50think it's carne vale so goodbye to me but actually that's not quite right it is
25:55to put it away and and there are many other flesh related words and which are
26:00linked strangely to carnival and you wouldn't always put them together
26:03carnivorous because you've got the meat connection carnage carnation from the
26:08flowers fleshy color and carrion and incarnation as well so lots of lots of
26:15bedmates if you like in English but today of course is Shrove Tuesday as we say it's
26:19pancake day and Shrove Tuesday is linked to giving somebody short shrift which is to
26:25treat them in a really curt and a very dismissive way and that phrase originally
26:29referred to the short time that a condemned criminal was allowed to make penance before
26:34he or she was executed so they would be shriven absolved of their sins by a priest but as the
26:40day
26:40before the start of Lent it's marked by feasting and celebration and of course we mostly call it
26:45pancake day but other countries celebrated as Mardi Gras which of course means fat Tuesday again
26:49that link to feasting and eating a lot and while we're on pancakes pancake makeup often used for stage
26:57makeup the very very heavy makeup that you use nothing to do with the flat things that we eat
27:01today and everything to do with pan is slang for the face it's because of the shape the round shape
27:07is where we get deadpan from if you have a deadpan expression it's a dead expression on your face and
27:13so
27:13lots and lots of strange links there sort of little whirl around pancakes but whatever I hope everyone eats lots
27:19and makes merry
27:20thank you all right so 80 to 37 fill on a team Mike your letters game hey can I have
27:32a constant please
27:33thank you Mike P another consonant N and another one T vowel O another vowel A
27:54consonant R consonant F and a vowel and the last one A
28:06stand by
28:08stand by
28:09stand by
28:36stand by
28:39make just a six a six Phil I've got a seven now Mike a parent parent and pronate
28:48mm-hmm
28:49right word yeah turning your foot or the palm of your hand inwards absolutely yes pops up all the
28:57time Alistair I I had a disaster that time didn't get anything but Susie saw a very nice one which
29:03I
29:03thought was piano forte which almost is there but it wasn't it can fort pan forte yes it's a cake
29:09from
29:09Siena in Italy it's delicious it's spicy and this sort of nuts and honey and candied fruit that kind of
29:17very nice
29:22now then Phil final letters game okay start with a consonant please thank you Phil
29:28Z another consonant please L a consonant T vowel please I another vowel please A
29:41a consonant a consonant V a consonant please R a vowel I and a consonant please and lastly T
29:58countdown
30:01countdown
30:02countdown
30:33Yes, Phil?
30:34I've got a seven, but it's not written down.
30:37And Mike?
30:37I've got a five.
30:38And that five?
30:39Rival.
30:41Now, trivial.
30:43Very, very good.
30:44Mmm, not too trivial.
30:46Alistair?
30:47The competition in the corner was just the same.
30:48I was with Mike with rival.
30:50Suzy was with trivial.
30:51Didn't do anything else.
30:52Horrible lessons, really.
30:53But, yeah.
30:54Sorry.
30:55The best we could do.
30:56All right.
30:5794 to 37.
30:58And it's Mike's numbers game.
31:00Yes, Mike?
31:01OK.
31:01Can I have two from the two big ones and four small ones?
31:05You can indeed.
31:06Thank you, Mike.
31:06Two large, four small for the final one of the day.
31:09And they are one, four, nine, two.
31:14And the big one's 25 and 100.
31:18And the target, four, three, one.
31:19Four, three, one.
31:20Three, one.
31:49Four, four, four, five, four.
31:50Five, five, six, five, six, six, six.
31:52Yes, Mike?
31:53I've got 4-3-2.
31:554-3-2.
31:57Phil?
31:57OK, so 4 times 100.
31:59400.
32:00Plus 25.
32:014-2-5.
32:02Then 9 minus 2 minus 1 is 6.
32:05Perfect.
32:06Add it on.
32:06Well done.
32:074-3-1.
32:08Very good.
32:10So, Phil, you're over the 100 again.
32:12Well done.
32:13104 to 37, Mike.
32:15Brave effort there up against this chap,
32:17who's now pretty much inevitably going to be a 7-times winner.
32:21Fingers on buzzers for the final act.
32:24Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:40Phil?
32:41Attribute.
32:43Attribute?
32:44Or attribute.
32:45Or attribute.
32:45Let's see whether you're right.
32:46Here we go.
32:48Attribute.
32:52Well done.
32:55Well done, Phil.
32:57Cracking, aren't you?
32:5840.
32:59Mike, I was saying, you know, that's a good, brave score,
33:01because he's a tremendous player.
33:03You started off strongly, too.
33:06You held him, but he broke away a little bit.
33:08So, thank you very much for coming.
33:10You take this goodie bag back up to Dundee.
33:13Dundee.
33:13And I look forward to seeing you when I have my hips replaced, whenever that is.
33:18Let's hope it never happens.
33:19I don't know.
33:20It's a bit grumbly in the mornings, actually.
33:23Now, Phil, you've played like a real champ.
33:27We'll see you tomorrow.
33:28Brilliant stuff.
33:28See you tomorrow, Alistair.
33:30More music, more stories.
33:31More music.
33:31And I was talking about Chopin earlier, and I forgot to say, people often say, what's your
33:35favourite piece of Chopin for the piano?
33:37Yeah.
33:37And mine is posthumous C-sharp, Nocturne and C-sharp minor.
33:43And it's obviously published after his death.
33:45And it's interesting how many artists, you know, poets, playwrights, some of their best
33:49work is posthumous.
33:50And you think about it, it says amazing how many of them died after eating hummus.
33:58That's a shock.
34:00Thank you, Alistair.
34:02Well, we'll chew on that until we see you tomorrow.
34:05Brilliant stuff.
34:05Well done.
34:06Susie, see you tomorrow.
34:07See you then.
34:08All right.
34:09When Phil comes back, Rachel.
34:11Yep.
34:11Potential Octo-Champ.
34:13Inexorable, I've said.
34:14He gets a nice rest after this, though.
34:16Indeed.
34:16See you tomorrow.
34:17See you tomorrow.
34:18Joins tomorrow, same time, same place.
34:20See if Phil becomes our Octo-Champ, our latest Octo-Champ.
34:25A very good afternoon.
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