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00:23Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:26Now, down in London's O2, it's a big, big night tonight, oh yes, it's the 38th running of the Brit
00:33Awards, the biggest music bash of the year.
00:37Fantastic last year's winners, who can remember? Who won the best British single? Yes, it was Little Mix.
00:44And what about Rag and Bone Man? That came through as the best, or the biggest breakthrough act.
00:51But, I mean, I'm sort of trying to keep up, thinking which contemporary singers do I really rate?
00:56I don't know, I guess it's a toss-up, really, between Adele and Stormzy.
01:02So, Rachel, who in the current crop takes your fancy?
01:05Well, I went to the Tusk Ball, and someone who gave up his time to sing there was Jack Savaretti.
01:10Have you heard of him?
01:11No. He's sung live, and he has the most amazing voice, really husky, absolutely beautiful.
01:16There's a song called Breaking the Rules. Yeah, wonderful. Excellent.
01:19Hook him up. And that was all to do with the Elephant Charity?
01:23Yeah, Deborah Meaden's charity, yeah. So they do lots of conservation work with animals and people in Africa.
01:29They need our help, too, don't they? My word, they do.
01:32Now, Jill Thwaites. Jill, of course, from Chelmsford, an education appeals advisor and a big sing.
01:40Got a choir. Well, you haven't got your own choir, but you're part of a huge rock choir.
01:45I am, yes.
01:46Fantastic fun, I can imagine. And you travel a lot, or...?
01:51Mostly Chelmsford, Whittam, local area for Essex.
01:54OK, concerts. Excellent stuff. Well done.
01:56Now, you're joined by Philip Aston from Biddeford.
02:00Yep.
02:01Biddeford down in Devon, lovely part of the world.
02:03Yep.
02:04But you're a big Formula One fan.
02:06Absolutely, yes.
02:07The highlight. I think you saw Lewis Hamilton win the British Grand Prix, not last year, but the year before.
02:14Yeah, 2016, yes.
02:16Yeah? Fantastic. What is it about Lewis Hamilton that makes him, I think, now four times world champion?
02:22He is, and he's got more pole positions than anyone else, and he's exceptionally good of a wet as well.
02:27He's absolutely brilliant.
02:28He is brilliant, and still a young man.
02:30Yeah.
02:31Well, you've got to be pretty young, haven't you?
02:33To start, yeah, it seems nowadays, yes, you've got to be quite young to start.
02:37Excellent. Well, good luck to you.
02:38Good luck, Philip.
02:39Good luck, Jill. Big round of applause for our contestants.
02:47And over in the corner, of course, Susie, joined once again by the doyen of newscasters, none other than Alistair
02:55Stewart.
02:55Welcome back, Alistair Stewart.
03:00OK, Jill.
03:01Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:03Good afternoon, Jill.
03:03A consonant, please.
03:04Thank you. Start with T.
03:06And another?
03:09R.
03:09And a vowel.
03:10O.
03:12And another?
03:14E.
03:16And a consonant.
03:17M.
03:18And another?
03:20N.
03:21And a vowel.
03:23A.
03:24And a consonant.
03:26S.
03:27And a final consonant, please.
03:29And a final L.
03:31And here's the countdown clock.
04:04Yes, Jill?
04:05Seven.
04:06No.
04:06Philip?
04:07Eight.
04:09Jill?
04:10Laments.
04:11And Philip Aston?
04:13Monstera.
04:15Monstera?
04:16Yes.
04:17Susie?
04:18Yep, a plant from the Arum family.
04:20The Swiss cheese plant is a member of the Monstera family.
04:24Very good.
04:25Well done.
04:29Well done, Philip.
04:31Alistair and Susie?
04:32Well, if he's straight in with an eight, then he may be a storeman of very good answers.
04:38We have storeman for eight as well.
04:40Well done, Alistair.
04:41Monstera is brilliant.
04:42Well done.
04:42Excellent.
04:43Excellent.
04:43So, Philip on eight, and it's Philip's letters game.
04:47Now, sir.
04:48Hi, Rachel.
04:49Hi, Philip.
04:50Consonant, please.
04:51Start with N.
04:53Another.
04:55T.
04:55Another, please.
04:56R.
04:58Vowel.
04:59E.
05:01Vowel.
05:02A.
05:03Another.
05:04I.
05:06Consonant.
05:08S.
05:09Another.
05:11N.
05:14And a final consonant, please.
05:16And a final T.
05:18Stand by.
05:25Now, we'll be back.
05:28Bye.
05:32Bye.
05:35Bye.
05:37Bye.
05:45Bye.
05:47Bye.
05:49Bye.
05:51Philip?
05:52Eight.
05:53Now then, Jill?
05:54Seven.
05:56Your seven?
05:57Instant.
05:58Philip?
05:59Nitrates?
06:00Ooh.
06:01N-I-T-R-A-T-E-S.
06:03Yes, absolutely fine.
06:06Nitrates are salts or esters of nitric acid.
06:09Very, very good.
06:10Well done.
06:12Well done.
06:15Now, there we are.
06:16That's an eight.
06:17Anything else there?
06:18Yeah.
06:18Brilliant.
06:19Brilliant letters, and we have two nines.
06:21One of them, I'm afraid, is a little building job.
06:25There's instanter as well.
06:26Instanter, which is allowable.
06:29But a beautiful world, transient for nine as well.
06:32So two nines there.
06:33Oh, well done.
06:34Great answers.
06:35Well done.
06:36Alistair and Susie.
06:38Now, Jill, numbers have come around.
06:41Here we go.
06:42One large and the rest small, please, Rachel.
06:45Thank you, Jill.
06:45One from the top five little coming up.
06:47And for the first time today, they are nine, three, eight, seven, five.
06:54And the big one, 100.
06:57And the target to reach, 520.
06:59Five, two, zero.
07:00Well done.
07:29Let's go.
07:30Thank you, George.
07:30And we'll be right back.
07:31Jill?
07:33520.
07:34520.
07:35And Philip?
07:36520.
07:37Jill?
07:38100 times the 5.
07:40500.
07:41And then 9 plus 3 plus 8 for the 20.
07:44Yeah, well done.
07:45520.
07:46Yes, Philip?
07:47Bit differently.
07:47100 plus 7 minus 3 is 104.
07:50Yep.
07:51Multiply by 5.
07:52Perfect.
07:52520.
07:53Lovely.
07:54Well done.
07:58So, Jill's off the blocks there.
08:0010 to Philip's 26 as we turn to our first Tea Time teaser, which is Small Biog.
08:07And the clue.
08:08It may only be small, but it can certainly have a big impact.
08:13It may only be small, but it can certainly have a big impact.
08:35It may only be small, but it can certainly have a big impact.
08:39And the answer to that is, it's globalism.
08:42Globalism.
08:44Now, Jill on 20, Philip on 26.
08:46Philip, let us go.
08:49Consonant, please, Rachel.
08:50Thank you, Philip.
08:51P.
08:52Another.
08:54N.
08:55And a third, please.
08:57X.
08:58Vowel.
08:59E.
09:00Another vowel, please.
09:02O.
09:03Another.
09:04I.
09:06Consonant.
09:07M.
09:09Vowel.
09:10E.
09:12And a final vowel, please.
09:15And a final I.
09:17Stand by.
09:18I.
09:45And a final vowel.
09:49Yes, Philip.
09:50Six.
09:51And?
09:52Five.
09:53Jill?
09:53Pixie.
09:54Pixie and Philip.
09:56Pie men.
09:57And pie men.
09:58Are we happy about pie men?
09:59Yes, definitely.
10:00We are indeed.
10:01And we can't do better than it,
10:03but we must just share another five with you,
10:05if we're allowed.
10:06Please.
10:06It's such a lovely word.
10:08Moxie, M-O-X-I-E.
10:10Think Trump.
10:10It's a North American word.
10:12It's bravado, brash, got it all, and verve.
10:15And what else have we got there, I wonder?
10:17No, we're looking at Moxie.
10:19Force of character or Nerva comes from the name of a soft drink in the 1930s,
10:24but that lovely jubbly came from a soft drink as well.
10:26It's one of those.
10:27OK.
10:28Thanks, Susie.
10:28So, 10 plays 32.
10:30Jill, your letters came.
10:32Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:34Thank you, Jill.
10:35T.
10:35And another.
10:37S.
10:38And a vowel.
10:40E.
10:41And a consonant.
10:43T.
10:44And another.
10:46B.
10:47And a vowel.
10:48A.
10:49And another vowel.
10:52E.
10:53A consonant.
10:55G.
10:56And a final consonant, please.
10:58And a final M.
11:00Stand by.
11:01S.
11:02Murph avoiding angst serÃaNow.
11:18You can do this again on our website.
11:18And a vowel.
11:19It was a vowel.
11:19And a vowel.izers
11:31Jill. Just a five. A five. Philip. Seven. And Jill. Beast. Now then. Philip. Just eight.
11:40Very nice. Yep. Very good. And the corner. Susie and Alistair. Can't better seven. Congratulations.
11:48But we have gametes. Gametes. Gametes. Yes. They're cells whose nucleus unites with that of another cell to form a
11:56new organism.
11:57And fits perfectly therefore with gestate as well. So lovely. Nice symmetry.
12:02Neatly done. Neatly done. 39 plays 10. And it's Philip's numbers game. Now then. Philip.
12:08Can I have an inverted T please? You can indeed. Thank you Philip. One from the top. And five little.
12:13And this time around the five small ones are two. Seven. Nine. Eight. And five. And the big one 25.
12:23And the target 462. 462.
12:31And the target 472.
12:33Yeah.
12:37Yeah.
12:42Yeah.
12:47Yeah.
12:57well Philip I think I've got four six two four six two Jill four six two now
13:03Philip how confident are you four six two okay 25 plus eight is 33 yep times two
13:11is sixty six sixty six times seven times seven yep well done four six two well
13:18done Jill nine times two is 18 yep times 25 for 450 plus the seven plus the five
13:28well done twelve yep lovely four six two
13:30so 49 to Jill's twenties we turn to Alistair now Alistair what have you for us
13:40today well we had a lovely word high-scoring word a little while ago in
13:45this game transient and I suppose if it applies to any class of people more than
13:50others its politicians who I've thoroughly enjoyed working with over the years there
13:55was a very very famous case some of you may recall during the Falklands War when
14:01the great Robin Day was interviewing John not who I think was then the defense
14:05secretary and Robin said why should I take your opinion seriously a here today and
14:10if I may say so gone tomorrow minister but it also applies to prime ministers
14:15John Major won the 92 election against all of the odds and was there until 97 and
14:21going back to that time I so clearly remember a wonderful occasion when my
14:26wife Sally and I were invited to go to number 10 to a charity reception and it's a
14:31big deal I was thrilled to be it so was she the idea of going into number 10 was
14:35lovely there was one slight problem she was very very heavily pregnant with our
14:41third child so I phoned up number 10 and explained all of this and said would it
14:45still be possible because she'd love to come as much as me and they said yes
14:48that's fine so we arrived through the magic door we went up the lovely steps past
14:53the photographs of all of the previous prime ministers to be met at the top by John
14:58Major and his lovely wife Norma and my wife was very evidently heavily pregnant and John
15:04Major said to her oh gosh when is it due and my wife looked back straight as anything and said
15:11probably any moment and John tapped it on the tummy and said well contrary to all public belief
15:16we can cope with a crisis here at number 10 but actually on reflection if it starts call for Norma
15:22because she's better in a crisis than I am lovely story lovely story
15:33so 49 page 20 Jill on 20 Jill's letters came yes Jill
15:38consonant please Rachel thank you Jill S and another Q and a vowel A and a consonant
15:48D and another N and a vowel E and another vowel I and a consonant J and a final consonant
16:05please
16:05and a final T stand by
16:08T stand by
16:39Well, Jill?
16:40Six.
16:41A six.
16:42And Philip?
16:43Seven.
16:44Jill?
16:44De-missed.
16:45And Philip?
16:46Missed date.
16:48Excellent.
16:49Yep, very good.
16:50Well done, well done.
16:52Alistair?
16:52I mean, funnily enough, again, I love this game so much.
16:55The minute I saw ISM come up, I thought, ah, ISM, we can look for something else.
16:59Just find a nice four or five.
17:01But I couldn't find any there, nor could Susie.
17:04But we got missed date, and we don't think we can do better.
17:07So, warmest congratulations to Philip.
17:09Well done.
17:09Thanks, Alistair.
17:10And it's 56 playing 20.
17:12Philip, you're back on.
17:14Consonant, please, Rachel.
17:16Thank you, Philip.
17:16R.
17:17Another.
17:19D.
17:20And a third.
17:22F.
17:23A vowel.
17:25A.
17:26Another.
17:28I.
17:29Another.
17:30E.
17:31Consonant.
17:33G.
17:34Another consonant, please.
17:36L.
17:38And a final vowel, please.
17:41And a final E.
17:43Countdown.
17:45A.
17:45A.
17:46A.
17:48A.
17:51A.
17:53A.
17:54A.
18:14A.
18:14A.
18:14A. A.
18:16Philip.
18:16Eight, not written down.
18:18And Jill?
18:19Six.
18:20And you're six.
18:21Failed.
18:22Now then, filigree, F-I-L-A-G-R-double-A.
18:27Yes, you can spell it with two I's,
18:30but you can also spell it with an A in the middle, as you have, Philip.
18:32Yeah, ornamental work of fine, typically gold or silver wire,
18:36formed into delicate tracery.
18:38Very beautiful.
18:38Yeah, well done.
18:40Well done.
18:43Allister and Susie.
18:45Allister, if you look at what filigree is,
18:49and then somebody has done it,
18:52can what they have done be called filigreed?
18:56It can.
18:57Mine.
18:58Not bad.
18:59Not bad.
19:00You did all the work, I got the best.
19:05That's excellent.
19:08Excellent.
19:08Filigreed, well done.
19:0964 to 20, Jill.
19:12Numbers game.
19:13One large and the rest small, please.
19:15Sticking with the plan, thank you, Jill.
19:16One large, five little coming up for you.
19:18And this selection is two, one, five, nine, three, and 25.
19:27And this target, 728.
19:30Seven to eight.
20:01Well, Jill?
20:02Nowhere near.
20:04No?
20:05Philip?
20:06I think I got 729.
20:09Let's go for it.
20:11OK, 25 times 3.
20:1425 times 3, 75.
20:17Plus 5 plus 1 is 81.
20:20Yep.
20:21Times 9.
20:22Times 9 is 729.
20:25Yeah.
20:26One away.
20:26Which is what you asked for.
20:29Now, 728.
20:30Rach, possible?
20:31Yes, it was possible.
20:33If you say 25 plus 2 is 27.
20:373 times 9 is another 27.
20:4027 squared again gets you 729.
20:43You have the one left over for 728.
20:45Very clever.
20:49Well done, Rachel.
20:51As ever.
20:5271 plays just 20 as we go into our second tea time teaser,
20:56which is a bite with, and the clue.
20:58If you fancy a bite to eat,
21:01you might have these with tartar sauce.
21:03If you fancy a bite to eat,
21:05you might have these with tartar sauce.
21:24Welcome back.
21:25Welcome back.
21:26I left you with the clue.
21:27If you fancy a bite to eat,
21:28you might have these with tartar sauce.
21:30You might have them with tartar sauce indeed.
21:35That'll be white bait.
21:36Oh, yes.
21:37Delicious.
21:38White bait.
21:39So, Philip, your letters again.
21:42A consonant, please, Rachel.
21:44Thank you, Philip.
21:45P.
21:45And another one.
21:47W.
21:48And a third.
21:50H.
21:51A vowel.
21:53O.
21:55Another.
21:56I.
21:57A third.
21:59U.
22:01A fourth, please.
22:04I.
22:04A consonant.
22:07C.
22:09And a final vowel, please.
22:12And a final A.
22:14Stand by.
22:15A
22:16A
22:16A
22:16A
22:16A
22:17A
22:17A
22:17A
22:18MUSIC CONTINUES
22:46Yes, Philip?
22:47Five.
22:48A five, Jill?
22:50Just a four.
22:51And your four?
22:53Chop.
22:53Now then, Philip Aston, pouch.
22:57Yes, very good. Good to get a five.
22:59How did we get on, I wonder?
23:01Uh, chop correct, chip correct, pouch spot on, and we can't inch further north on that, I'm afraid.
23:07Poach is... Oh, poach!
23:09Mm-hm.
23:10A nice little bit of salmon to go after the little bit of whitebait, perhaps.
23:14But no, well done. Really tough letters.
23:17Thank you. Thanks, Alistair.
23:1876 to 20.
23:20Jill, your letters again.
23:22Consonant, please.
23:23Thank you, Jill.
23:24H
23:25And another
23:26L
23:28And a vowel
23:29A
23:30And a consonant
23:32F
23:34And another
23:35L
23:37And a vowel
23:38E
23:39And another vowel, please
23:42O
23:43And a consonant
23:45C
23:46And a final consonant, please
23:48And a final R
23:50Stand by
23:52Prisoner
23:52gamumer
23:52May
23:52D
23:52End
24:21John
24:22Well, Jill.
24:23Six.
24:25And, Philip.
24:27Seven.
24:28Now, Jill.
24:29Caller.
24:31Philip.
24:32I'm not sure on the spelling, but cholera.
24:34How are you spelling it?
24:35C-H-O-L-E-R-A.
24:37Yeah, perfect.
24:38Very, very good.
24:38Well done.
24:39Well done.
24:44Now, Alistair.
24:45I think, as you sometimes ask them to do when they get the same answer on the numbers game,
24:50cholera as well.
24:51Well, I started with cholera, but Madam found cholera as well.
24:56And really, again, two times running, tough, tough letters.
25:00Cholera, we think, seven is as good as it gets.
25:02That's it.
25:0383 to 20.
25:04Susie, what have you forced in your wonderful origins of words today?
25:09I have an email from Anne Hunter in County Durham.
25:13He says, parsimonious is a great word, but why are parsimonious people sometimes known
25:18as skinflints?
25:20I always think of Scrooge when I think of skinflints.
25:22There's a slightly Dickensian feel to it, but it actually goes back a little bit earlier
25:25than that.
25:26I'll start with parsimonious.
25:27It is indeed a nice word.
25:28That goes back to the Romans who gave us parsitas, which meant sparing or thrifty or restrained.
25:35And if you look in the historical thesaurus, which is nested within the wonderful Oxford
25:40English Dictionary, you'll find lots of brilliant synonyms.
25:43So tight-fisted speaks for itself.
25:45Husbandly used to be an adjective meaning miserly because the husband was the male of the household
25:50in control of the finances.
25:52Scrimpy and also squeezy, which is quite fun.
25:56Or a pinch penny.
25:57A skinflint could also be a pinch penny.
26:00But I'll go back to skinflint.
26:02And the idea of skinning a flint or whittling down a flintstone for starting your fire until
26:07it was as thin as skin had, understandably, a lot more resonance in the 17th century than
26:11it does today.
26:12To skin a flint would be a very difficult task and it would only be undertaken by somebody
26:17who really didn't want to go to the trouble of trying to find a new flint for their fire
26:21to keep warm.
26:23But it's been used as a metaphor for extreme miserliness for centuries.
26:27So at least the 1600s, when the first dictionaries of criminal slang were collected and published
26:34around that time.
26:36One of them defines a skinflint as a griping, close-fisted fellow.
26:40And it was popularised by many works of drama and fiction, not by Dickens, actually, but
26:45in the 18th century, a skinflint with a capital S was the name of many stock characters that
26:50you'll find in dramas, plays, etc., who showed extreme greed.
26:55Lots of other phrases doing the same qualities, actually.
26:57And one of them was to skin a flea for its hide and tallow.
27:01So quite a similar idea.
27:03And in French, they talk of tendre sur un oeuf, which is quite fun, which means to
27:07shave an egg.
27:08So again, it's almost, it's a near impossible task, but if you are that miserly, it might
27:13just be one that you do.
27:15Well done.
27:16Thank you, Susie.
27:18Wonderful.
27:20As ever, shaving an egg indeed.
27:23Now, Philip, let us game for you.
27:25Consonant, please, Rachel.
27:27Thank you, Philip.
27:28G.
27:28Another.
27:30R.
27:31And another.
27:33N.
27:34A vowel.
27:36A.
27:37Another.
27:39U.
27:40And another.
27:42E.
27:44Consonant.
27:45P.
27:46A vowel.
27:49Another U.
27:51And another vowel, please.
27:53And lastly, I.
27:55Countdown.
27:56A vowel.
27:57A tower.
28:25A.
28:27Philip?
28:28Seven.
28:29A seven, Jill?
28:30Seven.
28:33Philip, reaping.
28:34And?
28:35More reaping.
28:36Both of you.
28:39Alistair?
28:39Yeah, no, reaping as well.
28:41The minute you've got the ING again, the four drop in perfectly.
28:45So reaping seven.
28:46Lovely.
28:47I don't think we can do better than that, can we?
28:49No, just pinger for six.
28:50Oh, pinger is nice.
28:51A device that transmits high-pitched signals.
28:55But, yeah, couldn't do better than that.
28:56People are pinging tweets, not tweets, but messages, texts to each other.
29:02Ping me, yeah.
29:02Ping here, please.
29:0490.
29:0590 plays 27.
29:07Jill, last letters came for you.
29:10Consonant, please, Rachel.
29:11Thank you, Jill.
29:13M.
29:14And another?
29:16P.
29:17And a third?
29:20S.
29:20And a vowel, please.
29:22A.
29:23And another?
29:25I.
29:25And a consonant?
29:27Z.
29:28And a vowel?
29:31O.
29:32And a consonant?
29:34R.
29:35And a final vowel, please.
29:37And a final I.
29:39Stand by.
29:40I.
29:42I.
30:08G.
30:09I.
30:09I.
30:10I.
30:11Well, Jill?
30:12Just a five.
30:13A five from Jill.
30:15Philip?
30:15Seven.
30:16And a seven, Jill?
30:18Prism.
30:19Now, Philip.
30:20I'll try impairs.
30:22I-M-P-A-I-R-S.
30:24Excellent.
30:25Yep, very, very good.
30:26Is that impairing the flavour if you boil it?
30:28That sort of impairing?
30:29To impair, to spoil, really.
30:31Yeah.
30:32Situation's impaired.
30:33No.
30:34It's very strange, because there's some kind of aura,
30:38anagrammatically, going on here,
30:39because we had Miss Pair.
30:42Yes?
30:43And Prism we had as well.
30:45But tough, but seven is great.
30:47Well done.
30:48Susie, that's it?
30:48That was our best.
30:49Call a halt there.
30:5097 to 27.
30:51Look at this.
30:52Philip, will you crash through the hundred now?
30:55It's your numbers game.
30:56Well, I did an inverted T last time,
30:58so can I have a capital T, please?
31:00You can, indeed.
31:01Thank you, Philip.
31:01Three from the top this time.
31:02And three little ones.
31:04And the final numbers game of the day is five, one, eight,
31:09and then the big three, 75, 50, and 25.
31:13And the target, 644.
31:166-4-4.
31:186-5-4.
31:197-5-6.
31:238-5-6.
31:248-5-6.
31:245-6.
31:298-5-6.
31:319-6-6.
31:318-6-7.
31:349-6-7.
31:36This is a great show.
31:368-6.
31:369-6.
31:369-6-7.
31:3610-6.
31:3610-6.
31:3610-7.
31:3810-7.
31:3910-7.
31:48Yes, Philip?
31:49644.
31:51And Jill?
31:52642.
31:53642.
31:55Philip Aston?
31:5675 times 8.
31:58Is 600.
32:00Add 50.
32:01650.
32:02Minus 5, minus 1.
32:03Yep, 644.
32:04Well done.
32:05Well done.
32:07And straight over the...
32:09The 100 mark, 107,
32:11as we go into the final round.
32:13Fingers on buzzers.
32:14Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:47Yes, Philip?
32:49I haven't got a clue.
32:52And the rest of the time, to you, Jill.
32:58It didn't actually make any difference.
33:00There we are.
33:01But we're stumped here.
33:02But in the audience, you, sir?
33:05Marsupial.
33:07Marsupial.
33:07Let's see whether you're right.
33:09Marsupial.
33:10Oh, well done.
33:12Oh, well done.
33:14Well done.
33:16Marsupial, indeed.
33:16So there we are.
33:17Well, Philip, that was some bravura performance, if you don't mind me saying so.
33:23Thank you very much.
33:23And I'm not altogether sure it's the last that we'll be seeing from you,
33:26because the 107 points on game one is fantastic.
33:29Well done.
33:30But you've got a teapot and you're taking it home.
33:33You're taking it back to Chelmsford, to the choir.
33:36And they can sing your praises when you next meet.
33:39How's that?
33:40It's been lovely being here.
33:42Well, we've enjoyed having you.
33:42You travel safely.
33:43Thank you very much.
33:44Thank you so much.
33:45Good luck, Philip.
33:46Great game.
33:48That was terrific.
33:48We'll see you tomorrow.
33:50Well done.
33:50Well done.
33:51Gosh, good player, isn't he?
33:52Quite extraordinary.
33:53I mean, but all of the players over the last couple of days have been phenomenal.
33:58Really high scores.
33:59Really impressive.
34:00We'll see you tomorrow, Alistair.
34:01Look forward to it, sir.
34:02More tomorrow.
34:03Susie, too?
34:03Yes.
34:04All right.
34:06Hello, Rachel.
34:07What have we got here?
34:08I think Phil is every contestant's worst nightmare.
34:11No offence, Phil.
34:12But Jill got a similar score yesterday.
34:13So it goes to the show.
34:14Absolutely.
34:15See you tomorrow.
34:16See you tomorrow.
34:17Join us then.
34:18Same time, same place.
34:19You be sure of it.
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