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00:30Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown, as we promised to light up your afternoon once again.
00:36Wednesday afternoon, Rachel Riley's here.
00:39And on this day, Rachel, 1875, the first time the Blackpool eliminations lit up,
00:46dubbed the best free light show on the planet.
00:49Now, I think you've been dragged there a few times as a kid, right?
00:52Well, my nan used to live in Salford, so I remember, yeah, the first time we got shoved in a
00:56car
00:56and saw the Blackpool eliminations, and I think I was terrified, because I must have been so young.
01:01They had a kind of Benjamin Button thing, where they started off old and gradually went into becoming babies.
01:07And as a kid, that terrified me that that was going to happen.
01:10But it thankfully hasn't, so I'm fine.
01:12And now, obviously, with Pasha and his dancing, he's there every five minutes.
01:15It's got a great history, because, obviously, it started from World War II, but then because of austerity after that,
01:21it was 1949 before it started again.
01:23And then, of course, there was a moment where everyone went, hey, that might not be great for the environment.
01:28So there's been a huge switch to LED sustainable lighting, so that's changed a lot.
01:33But you still need the cables.
01:35So if you let down every lead from the Blackpool eliminations, try and put a distance on it.
01:40What do you think?
01:40Oh, I don't know.
01:41Probably not as far as our intestines reach.
01:43How far do our intestines reach?
01:44I've no idea.
01:45A long way.
01:46There's a great question.
01:47What would stretch further?
01:49Your intestines or all the cables?
01:50If only we had a man who knew random facts about stuff.
01:53Yes, let's see.
01:53Richard Osman.
01:55Was he reading everything off a computer, or does he actually remember?
01:58How long are your intestines?
02:00How long are my intestines?
02:01I would say longer than yours.
02:05Oh, dear.
02:06Susie's actually looking it up.
02:08I am.
02:09It says here that the combined length of the small and large intestines is at least 15 feet.
02:14Oh, maybe.
02:15It's probably longer than that.
02:17I think it would be.
02:18That's my Christmas tree.
02:21200 miles.
02:23Oh, it's close.
02:23200 miles of cable.
02:24Not even Richard has intestines that stretch that far.
02:27Love it.
02:28Well, Richard Osman is back with, as always, a delight alongside Susie.
02:32And we've got a new member of our team, of course, David Burgess, our new champion.
02:36How are you, mate?
02:36I'm very well, thank you.
02:37Good.
02:37We talked chess yesterday, but you went to school for a heck of a long time.
02:41Your further education, bachelor's in history, MA in international relations, graduate diploma in law.
02:47So now you're through all that, you know, what do you want to be now you're growing up?
02:51I hope to be a solicitor.
02:52So that's my next step.
02:54What's the process that you go through then in the workplace?
02:57Well, you have to do two qualifying examinations, and then you have to have two years of qualifying work experience.
03:02And that's where I'm at the moment.
03:03You're stuck in that.
03:03Yeah.
03:04All right.
03:04Excellent stuff.
03:05Well, you're going up against Joanne Horton-Hill today, our French teacher teaching at Bournemouth School for Girls.
03:12Welcome to the programme.
03:13Thank you very much.
03:13Should I call you Miss Horton-Hill, or are you OK with Joanne?
03:16Joanne's just great.
03:17Tell me about the actual learning to become a teacher, because I'm guessing if it's a language, do you get
03:23to actually go to that country for a while?
03:24You do.
03:25You go there for a year as part of your studies.
03:27Do you get to choose where to go?
03:28You can to a degree.
03:30You might get where you ask for.
03:31Yes, I ended up in the western part of France.
03:34Whereabouts exactly?
03:35Near Cognac.
03:36Well, that's a good place to choose, isn't it?
03:38That's a good place.
03:39Well, you might be raising a little Burrandian celebration at the end of this programme.
03:43Let's see.
03:44Joanne and David, best of luck.
03:46And David, you're first.
03:49Hello, Rachel.
03:49Can I have a consonant, please?
03:51You can indeed.
03:52Start today with T.
03:54And a vowel?
03:56E.
03:57And a consonant?
03:59G.
04:00And a vowel?
04:02I.
04:03And a consonant?
04:04L.
04:05And a vowel?
04:07E.
04:08And a consonant?
04:10S.
04:10And a consonant?
04:12P.
04:13And a final vowel?
04:15And a final I.
04:18At home and in the studio, let's play Kite Down.
04:42MUSIC
04:50David?
04:51Just five.
04:52Five.
04:53And Joanne?
04:54Seven.
04:55Seven from you.
04:56David?
04:57Split.
04:58And Joanne?
04:59Piglets.
05:01Beautiful.
05:02Piglets.
05:02Love it.
05:03Yay.
05:04That's great.
05:05You may have longer, I don't know, you won't have better.
05:07No, we do not have longer or better is a lovely word, piglets.
05:10Excellent.
05:11And, of course, French for piglets, Colin, is...
05:13Piglets.
05:14Les petits cochons.
05:16That is insulting me and everybody else.
05:18I don't know about that.
05:19I mean, that's just me small pigs, right?
05:20Sounds good.
05:22Well, you've been here before, David,
05:25because you were 7-0 down after one round yesterday
05:27and you were on to become champion.
05:29Joanne, off you go.
05:30Start with a consonant, please.
05:32Thank you, Joanne.
05:33W.
05:35And a vowel.
05:37A.
05:38And a consonant.
05:40D.
05:40P.
05:42And a vowel.
05:43O.
05:44And a vowel.
05:46I.
05:48And a consonant.
05:49P.
05:51And a consonant.
05:53C.
05:55And a vowel.
05:57A.
06:01And a consonant.
06:03And lastly, N.
06:05then...
06:0530 seconds.
06:38Joanne.
06:39Six.
06:40And David.
06:40Just five, I'm afraid.
06:41Five again, slow start from the champion.
06:43David, what's the five?
06:44Piano.
06:45A great start from Joanne.
06:46Erm, Peacod.
06:48Ooh.
06:49Spell?
06:50How are you spelling that?
06:51P-E-A-C-O-D.
06:53There's no E.
06:54Oh, excuse me.
06:55Yeah, unfortunately.
06:57Oh, sorry about that, Joanne.
06:58The five counts for a champion.
07:00Richard, what did you spot?
07:01Er, there is a six, I didn't spot it, Susie did.
07:04Er, and no dick.
07:05Yes.
07:05All to do with anodes, which are positively charged electrodes.
07:10Remember that from physics?
07:11No, I absolutely do not.
07:13Let's get the first numbers.
07:14Can I have one large and the rest more, please?
07:17Thank you, David.
07:17One from the top.
07:18And five little coming up.
07:20First numbers of the day.
07:22Two, nine, three, one.
07:26Five and the large one, 50.
07:27And the target, 915.
07:31915.
07:32Numbers up.
07:32Two, nine, 15.
08:04David? 915. And Joanne? 915. Brilliant. Off you go, David.
08:09OK, so 2 times 50 is 100. 100. Times by the 9. 900.
08:15And then 5 times 3, add it on. Straightforward enough. 915.
08:19Joanne, did you do it the same way? Yes, I did the same way.
08:21Pass it over, because we're only getting to know you.
08:23Yep, that's fine. That's how trust spells, Joanne. Well done.
08:29Let's get our first tea-time teaser of our midweek countdown.
08:32Tinder men. Tinder men.
08:34Whether you swipe left or right, it's her job to block you.
08:37Whether you swipe left or right, it's her job to block you.
08:57Welcome back, everyone. A tea-time teaser for all the hockey players out there.
09:00Whether you swipe left or right, it's her job to block you.
09:03She's the netminder. Maddie Hinch comes straight to my mind when I say that.
09:08Right, two points in it. Let's get back to it.
09:10Our challenger with her nose in front on your letters.
09:14I'd like to start with a consonant, please.
09:15Thank you, Joanne.
09:17And a consonant.
09:20And another.
09:23S.
09:24And another.
09:25F.
09:27And a vowel.
09:28E.
09:31And a consonant, please.
09:46And lastly, N.
09:49Thanks, Rich.
09:49Thanks, pessoal.
09:53Thanks, guys.
09:57Thanks, Rich.
10:20Goodness me, so much going on. Joanne?
10:23An eight. An eight. And David?
10:25Eight as well. Eight as well. OK, let's see if it's the same word. Joanne?
10:28Feasting. Feasting, the I-N-G.
10:31Exactly the same. Well done. Fill your boots, both of you.
10:34APPLAUSE
10:36So there you go, we have the I-N-G, the I-E-S, the I-E-S-T,
10:40and the brain goes a bit crazy, Richard. What did you focus in on?
10:43Well, I'm going to shock you, Colin, and say that we got feasting.
10:46Ha-ha! Yeah. No-no-max. No-max. Stedding is another word.
10:51Another one. It's a synonym for a farmstead, essentially.
10:55But no, we can get more than that. Wow.
10:57Looks like it, doesn't it? It looks like there's a nine there, but no.
10:59My goodness me. More letters now, David. Let's see what fate throws up.
11:03Can I have a consonant, please? Thank you, David.
11:06W. And a vowel?
11:09A. And another consonant?
11:12T. And a vowel, please.
11:14O. And a consonant?
11:17S. And a vowel?
11:20I. And a consonant?
11:23V. And another consonant, please.
11:26T. And a final consonant.
11:29And a final M.
11:31T. And start the clock.
11:33T. And start the clock.
12:00T. And a vowel, please.
12:05T. And a vowel, please.
12:06T. And a vowel, please.
12:07T. And a vowel, please.
12:07T. And a vowel, please.
12:09T. And a vowel, please.
12:11T. And a vowel, please.
12:13T. And a vowel, please.
12:14T. And a vowel, please.
12:15T. And a vowel, please.
12:18T. And a vowel, please.
12:20T. And a vowel, please.
12:22T. And a vowel, please.
12:24T. And a vowel, please.
12:29Yeah, people study atoms in science, et cetera.
12:31Beautiful. David, then, your nose back in front.
12:34Joanne, doing very well so far. Numbers again.
12:37OK. Go for one large and five small, please.
12:40Thank you, Joanne. One from the top, five knots.
12:43And for the second time today, the numbers are three.
12:46One, two, four, nine.
12:49And the large one, 100 this time.
12:51And you need to reach 645.
12:54645. Numbers up.
13:26645, the target. Joanne.
13:29645. And David.
13:31Nowhere near.
13:32He's missed it. He's blinked. Joanne, let's see if you can take the lead.
13:36So, three times two is six. Yep.
13:40Six times 100, 600. 600.
13:43Four plus one is five.
13:45And five lines are 45. Well done.
13:48Six, four, five. Ten points. Well done.
13:52Keep trying to take a little break with Joanne getting her nose back in front
13:56as we have another chat with Richard Osman,
13:59who's in Dictionary Corner all this week.
14:01Now, if you haven't watched the first two shows of this week,
14:04Richard's not letting me talk about the Thursday Murder Club movie
14:07until Thursday, which I think is a little cruel.
14:09So, what are we talking about today?
14:11We're going to talk about prizes on game shows. Oh.
14:13For a number of reasons.
14:14Firstly, we're on a game show that has a wonderful prize,
14:17the Countdown Teapot, which David, of course, already has one of.
14:20But I don't know if anyone here is familiar with Mr Beast.
14:23Oh, yeah. Yes, on YouTube.
14:24Who is a famous YouTuber.
14:26And he has just signed a deal to do a show with Amazon,
14:29a game show which has got the biggest prize in game show history,
14:32which is $5 million. Wow.
14:34So, if you win his show, there are 1,000 contestants, however,
14:37so it's quite hard to win. Yeah.
14:39But $5 million, which is...
14:40I don't know how many Countdown Teapots you get for that. Four.
14:43But it's a few.
14:44Before that, the biggest ever game show jackpot was $4.68 million,
14:48which was Squid Game The Challenge,
14:49which, again, had lots and lots of contestants.
14:51So you earned your money there.
14:53But sometimes you can win a lot of money for not doing an awful lot.
14:57Red or Black, which was a very short-lived game show on British TV.
15:02A man called Graham Fletcher won the biggest ever jackpot on British TV,
15:051.5 million, just on the spin of a wheel,
15:09which is an easier way to make 1.5 million, isn't it?
15:12Yes.
15:13But the sort of shows that we do, where you have a Pointless Trophy
15:16or you'll have a Countdown teapot or things like that,
15:19I went on eBay to see if I could buy some of the classic game show prizes.
15:24Ah.
15:25And I'll tell you the order they went in.
15:28You just beat Pointless. You'll be delighted to hear.
15:30Yes.
15:31Blankety-blank checkbook and pen, £90.
15:34Ooh.
15:3490 quid for that.
15:37Pointless Trophy, £207.
15:39Wow, we're higher than that.
15:41Countdown teapot, £211.
15:44Come on, a win's a win.
15:46You'll pay for that.
15:47The biggest, though, of the big four prizes he really wants,
15:50a bendy bully.
15:52Ah.
15:53£399.
15:54No, I've got one of those at home.
15:55Have you?
15:55God.
15:56Like a real one you won?
15:57Yeah, no.
15:58You're not going to get money for that.
15:59It's got to be one that you won on the show.
16:01It'll be the original.
16:02Yeah, that's the absolute key.
16:03Now, talking of winning money for not doing very much,
16:06we once made a show for ITV.
16:08And the first couple of episodes didn't do particularly well
16:11in the ratings.
16:12And that was in the days where TV had an awful lot of money.
16:14So after the first two episodes, they just didn't put the rest out.
16:17OK, so the rest of those episodes were never shown.
16:20And on the fifth episode, a man won £250,000.
16:25He won a quarter of a million pounds, and no-one's ever seen it.
16:28Like, his neighbours must think he stole it from a bank
16:30because he won all of that money.
16:32It was never, ever shown on television.
16:34No.
16:34It's worth having...
16:35I'd rather have a teapot, though.
16:36Love it.
16:37Richard, thank you so much for that.
16:38That's great.
16:39APPLAUSE
16:41OK, listen, David already has his teapot.
16:44Joanne doesn't, but she has a lead of six points.
16:47I don't think there's a phrase, one hand in the teapot.
16:49I don't think there is.
16:50Let's get back to it then, David, your choosing.
16:52OK, can I have a consonant, please?
16:55Thank you, David.
16:56S.
16:56And a vowel?
16:58O.
16:59And a consonant?
17:00B.
17:01And a vowel?
17:03E.
17:04And a consonant?
17:06C.
17:07T.
17:07And a vowel?
17:08O.
17:09And a consonant, please?
17:11R.
17:13And a consonant?
17:14T.
17:16And a final consonant?
17:17T.
17:17And a final S.
17:19For crying out loud.
17:21T.aked
17:22with a vowel first. Alec
17:23Holder. T.
17:50washes
17:51David Burgess. Eight. Well, what a return. And Joanne Horton-Hill. Eight as well.
17:58Matching them all the way. David. Scooters. Scooters. And for you, Joanne?
18:03Boosters. Boosters. Very nice. And scooters. Yeah. Very good, both. Well done.
18:09Well done. The Bs, the Bs, all that's left there from scooters. We've got Robot S, of course.
18:15Yeah. A lady robot. All done? All done. All done. Let's go again then. Joanne, great
18:20show today. Let's have more letters. Start with a consonant, please. Thank you, Joanne.
18:26N. And another. S. And another. X. And another. R. And a vowel, please. A. And a vowel. O. And
18:51a consonant. G. And a final vowel, please. And a final U. And here we go again.
19:00What?
19:17I'm sorry.
19:18I'm sorry.
19:19What?
19:19What?
19:21What?
19:22What?
19:23What?
19:25What?
19:30Joanne?
19:31Seven.
19:32And David?
19:33Also seven.
19:34Seven.
19:34Well done with those letters.
19:35How did you get on, Joanne?
19:36What's the word?
19:37Oranges.
19:38And for you, David?
19:39The same.
19:39OK.
19:40That's great.
19:41Well, they're not the only fruit, but seven points for David and Joanne.
19:45But was it the only seven?
19:47Yeah, well, it's the only seven that we got.
19:50We've also got eight for how I take my tea, which is one sugar.
19:53Hey!
19:54Very nice.
19:56There you go.
19:57Six points, the difference.
19:59Ten points left before we take our second break of the day,
20:02and that's going to be numbers from David.
20:04Can I have one from the top and the rest more, please?
20:07You can indeed.
20:08Thank you, David.
20:09One from the top.
20:10The rest of them, little ones, which are ten, nine, five, nine, one,
20:18and the large one, 100.
20:19And the target for this round, 384.
20:22Three, eight, four.
20:24Numbers up.
20:24And the M nimble.
20:25And man, I'll see you next time.
20:30beliefième of the moon.
20:31One from the top.
20:31Yeah.
20:42The gold star, three, seven.
20:43All right.
20:43Two to one.
20:44Almightyергie.
20:45One, three, two.
20:45I pick another.
20:45You equal one, three, three, four.
20:46Nature, one, four.
20:47Two, three, three, five.
20:48You know what I know you're talking about?
20:563-8-4. David?
20:583-8-2.
21:00Two away, Joanne.
21:01Same, 3-8-2.
21:02Same as well. I was two the other way, so my goodness me.
21:05Right, David, go.
21:065-1.
21:075-1 is 4.
21:09Times by 100.
21:10400.
21:11And then take away the two nines.
21:13And the two nines, yep, two away.
21:15Joanne?
21:16Yep, I did exactly the same way.
21:19Yeah, that's fine.
21:20Well done.
21:213-8-4.
21:23Rach?
21:24You're going to have to leave it with me.
21:25Tricky.
21:26Really tricky.
21:27Let's all calm down and get a tea time teaser.
21:29It's kin glowed.
21:31Kin glowed.
21:32A sea creature?
21:34Surely that's what lampposts are for.
21:36A sea creature?
21:37Surely that's what lampposts are for.
21:45MUSIC PLAYS
21:54Hello again, a sea creature?
21:55Surely that's what lampposts are for.
21:57It's a dogwinkle.
21:58Very clever indeed.
22:01Susie, a dogwinkle.
22:03Yeah.
22:03It's a marine mollusk, which includes, of course, the common dog whelk.
22:09Yeah.
22:10But just reading down here, the wonderful purple that emperors used on their robes, they were
22:17extracted from these dogwinkles.
22:20Yeah.
22:21Dave and Joanne, let's get back to the game.
22:23Six rounds to go.
22:24And Joanne, you're picking the letters.
22:25Consonant, please.
22:27Thank you, Joanne.
22:29M.
22:30And another.
22:32N.
22:33And another.
22:35L.
22:36And a vowel, please.
22:39E.
22:41And a vowel.
22:42U.
22:43And another vowel.
22:45A.
22:48And another vowel.
22:50U.
22:51And a consonant.
22:54R.
22:56And a vowel.
22:58A final E.
23:00And countdown.
23:31We'll see you next time.
23:59Joanne.
24:01Going right on a knife edge.
24:02Can you believe it?
24:03What a Wednesday afternoon.
24:04David, six behind his champion.
24:07Off you go.
24:08Can I have a consonant, please?
24:09Thank you, David.
24:10T.
24:11And a vowel.
24:13U.
24:14And a consonant, please.
24:16N.
24:17And a vowel.
24:18A.
24:20And a consonant.
24:20Y.
24:22A consonant.
24:24I.
24:25A consonant.
24:26M.
24:28A consonant.
24:29S.
24:31And a final consonant.
24:33And a final N.
24:34Let's do it.
24:36Let's do it.
24:37Let's do it.
24:38MUSIC PLAYS
25:07David?
25:08Just five.
25:09And for you, Joanne?
25:10Five not written down.
25:11What have you not written down?
25:13Mains.
25:15Mains. And for you, David?
25:16The same.
25:17Weirdly, you have to show it.
25:20Excellent. Excellent stuff. Five points.
25:22A little bit KG. What about dictionary corner?
25:25We talked on Monday about a wonderful book called The Wager by David Gran,
25:29which is about a sea voyage in the 18th century.
25:32It's an extraordinary book, but it has many tales in there of a mutiny.
25:37Mutiny for six.
25:38But even better than that, from Susie Dent.
25:42Hopefully we didn't have one of these.
25:43Tsunami.
25:44No.
25:45Yeah.
25:46Excellent. Look at this.
25:47We stay six points in it.
25:49Four rounds to go.
25:51Series 90 might not have had many octo-champs,
25:53but probably because of that, we've had so many close battles.
25:56It's been such a treat.
25:57Another one today, after we get origins of words.
26:00Yeah.
26:01Well, thanks to Judith Morris from London,
26:03who asked for the origin of two expressions.
26:07Oh, my giddy aunt.
26:09And she gets on my wick.
26:13So I'll start with, oh, my giddy aunt,
26:15which was a favourite of my grandmother, for sure.
26:21And fairly old, you might guess, sort of late 19th century,
26:25and you'd be right.
26:261886 is the first record we have.
26:28And it was simply my aunt.
26:30So the first record we have of this
26:31is my aunt gasped scrubs and dropped his pipe.
26:36And the sort of records that we have after that
26:39are quite similar in terms of register.
26:41Then giddy started to come into it
26:42at the beginning of the 20th century.
26:451903 is the first reference that we have for that.
26:47And it was just added for effect.
26:49You know how we like to sort of big things up linguistically?
26:52It was the same sort of thing.
26:53So I don't think anyone was particularly giddy in the family.
26:57Giddy, just to remind you, is rooted in the word God,
27:00because those who were giddy to begin with
27:03were thought to be possessed by a God,
27:06and it made them very kind of vertiginous,
27:08but they also acted in quite a sort of frenzied manner.
27:11So giddy has actually been used as an intensifier itself
27:14for quite a long time.
27:16So Shakespeare loved it.
27:19He talked about giddy-headed.
27:21There was the giddy goat as well, the giddy ox, et cetera.
27:26And he loved the way that it kind of matched other G words as well.
27:29So he loved the alliteration of it.
27:31So it was really all about hyperbole.
27:33So that's giddy aunt.
27:35I think it's probably slightly dated now, sadly,
27:38because I think it's quite a useful exclamation.
27:40But getting on someone's wick is a little bit crude, yeah?
27:42So I'm going to tread carefully with this one
27:44and just say,
27:45dates back to the final years of the Second World War,
27:47and it's probably from a slightly crude piece of rhyming slang
27:51involving the place name Hampton Wick.
27:54Good place name. Thank you.
27:56APPLAUSE
27:58All right, well, do you want to get?
27:59And on David's wick still, six points in it,
28:02and it's your letters, Joanne.
28:04A consonant, please, Rachel.
28:06Thank you, Joanne.
28:07H.
28:08And another.
28:10L.
28:11And another.
28:13R.
28:15And a vowel, please.
28:17O.
28:18And another.
28:20A.
28:26And a consonant, please.
28:28B.
28:30And a vowel.
28:32E.
28:37And a consonant.
28:38And lastly, M.
28:40Here we go.
28:41.
28:42.
28:43.
30:15And a final vowel.
30:18A final E.
30:19All-important last letters.
31:17And, yep, you can have that.
31:20Yeah, and what we do have is Prickle.
31:22And Prickle, yes.
31:24All right, so David extends his slight lead, but it's within the ten points, which means it's kind of as
31:30you were.
31:30We're heading towards a crucial countdown conundrum.
31:33We're not there yet because one more numbers round.
31:35And Joanne, Horton Hill, I need six.
31:38One large and five small, please, Rachel.
31:41Important last numbers round and a potential crucial coming up.
31:44Let's see if we get there.
31:45Final numbers.
31:46Seven, three, five, eight, nine, and 75.
31:53And this target, 116.
31:55One, one, six, last numbers.
32:25One, six, last numbers.
32:27One, one, six.
32:29Joanne.
32:31Need an answer.
32:31Um.
32:33All right, the time, Joanne.
32:35Could be a huge moment, David.
32:36One, six.
32:37To win.
32:38OK, seven times five.
32:40Seven times five.
32:4235.
32:43Add the 75.
32:44Add the 75 for 110.
32:46Nine minus three.
32:47You haven't used.
32:49For your six.
32:50And for the win.
32:50Well done.
32:51Yeah, well done.
32:52Well done.
32:54Well, that's two days in a row we were odds on.
32:57For a crucial Countdown Conundrum and didn't quite get there.
33:00David and Joanne both played their part to make today's show absolutely mega.
33:04So let's top it off now.
33:05Joanne and David, fingers on the buzzers.
33:08S'il vous plaît, as we reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:26Joanne.
33:26Joanne.
33:27Fletchling.
33:27Let's have a look.
33:29Ah.
33:32Fletchling it is.
33:33and it feels like we're clipping your wings prematurely here.
33:36Just little moments that change things.
33:39The last numbers round, the last letters round.
33:42Could have been a different story.
33:43I hope you've enjoyed your time here
33:45because I feel like we've lost a champion, not a challenger.
33:48It's a really lovely day. Thank you very much.
33:50Thank you for being here.
33:52Well, David, whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
33:55And your first...
33:56Wow, your first... No, not at all.
33:58A battler, a grafter.
34:00That's what you are.
34:01And you're sitting now with two wins. Sensational.
34:03See you tomorrow. Thank you.
34:05Thank you, Richard. Thank you, Sue.
34:07Great midweek. Another close encounter, eh?
34:09Fancy a trip down to Blackpool. Get the two peas ready.
34:12Well, listen, I'll be going to Blackpool when you're turning them on.
34:14Have you done that yet?
34:15No, not yet.
34:16I did a list.
34:17One day, hopefully.
34:18Well, I had a look. It was Sophie Ellis-Bexter last year.
34:20You cost about the same, I think.
34:22We get that done. Get that sorted.
34:24Right, happy days. We'll be back tomorrow.
34:26The lights will turn back on. Same time, same place.
34:28You can count on us.
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