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00:20Welcome to Countdown Studio.
00:22Yesterday we celebrated the 125th anniversary of the Financial Times
00:25and today we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the London Underground,
00:30the oldest underground network in the world,
00:34serving Paddington to Farringdon Street way back in 1863.
00:39And how many stations are there nowadays?
00:43275, I'm told, with 2.7 million people riding the Tube every day.
00:48And I don't know about you, Rachel, I love the old Tube.
00:51It's brilliant. I don't know how you'd get around London without it.
00:54Well, first of all, no driving.
00:57Bikes, fine, but rather sweaty, and if it rains, it's unpleasant.
01:01Taxis, formidably expensive.
01:03The Tube's so fast and slick.
01:05And it's nice that they renovated some of them for the Olympics as well.
01:08Absolutely.
01:09Which is the amount of my neck of the woods, East London.
01:11Much nicer, much more roomy.
01:13Yeah, but actually it's cheap, it's warm in the winter,
01:16nobody's smoking on it anymore.
01:18No.
01:19When you get to my age, of course, girls stand up and offer you their seat.
01:22It's so hurtful, I can't tell you.
01:25Anyway, there we are, there we are.
01:27Now, who have we got with us today?
01:28We've got Ben Wilson, a civil servant from North Highcombe,
01:31is that how we pronounce it?
01:32Yep.
01:33In Lincoln, former editor of the Association of British Scrabble Players Newsletter.
01:38So you must be a hot number on the Scrabble.
01:42Warm, maybe.
01:43I think you're hot, don't worry, we'll soon find out.
01:46You study Aikido, an active member of Mensa, and you also draw mazes.
01:51Yep.
01:51And you were the Countdown Series winner from 2001.
01:55How brilliant.
01:56Have you kept up the training?
01:58Um, where I can, mostly just by watching the show.
02:03Yeah, well that's the best way.
02:04Of course.
02:05Absolutely.
02:06That's how everybody gets to be so good.
02:07And you're joined by Connor Travers, a very remarkable young man,
02:12originally from Luton, now reading maths at Cambridge.
02:15Yep.
02:15Yep, so you and Rachel can have a tussle later on.
02:19But in 2006, you made headlines when you became the youngest series champion ever,
02:25aged just 14.
02:27And I think they've dug up a shot.
02:30Cover your face, Connor.
02:31Here it comes.
02:33There you are, Lord.
02:35Bless.
02:37So, let's have a real round of applause for Ben and young Connor Travers.
02:46Very good.
02:47And over in the corner, welcome back, Susie.
02:49And Dave.
02:50Hello, Nick.
02:50Welcome back.
02:52The penultimate day.
02:53It's been great fun having you here.
02:54Oh, I know I'll be sad to leave.
02:56I always have a good time here.
02:57Yeah.
02:58Well...
02:58I think many, many people do.
03:00It's part of the day.
03:01It's a sort of a family affair, isn't it?
03:03Yeah.
03:03I'm a new member.
03:04I'm sort of newborn, as it were.
03:06But, yeah, I'm enjoying it, finding my feet, I think.
03:09Anyway, let's see who's going to prevail today.
03:13Will it be Ben or will it be Connor?
03:14Ben, why don't you take the lead?
03:18Afternoon, Rachel.
03:18Afternoon, Ben.
03:19I'll start with a consonant, please.
03:21Start today with L.
03:24And another one, please.
03:26K.
03:27And a vowel.
03:30A.
03:31And another one.
03:33E.
03:34And another one.
03:36I.
03:38And a consonant, please.
03:40T.
03:41And another one.
03:44D.
03:45And another one, please.
03:49H.
03:51And a final consonant, please.
03:54And a final R.
03:56And here's the countdown clock.
04:29Now then, Ben.
04:30A seven.
04:30A seven.
04:31Connor?
04:31A seven as well.
04:32All right.
04:33Ben?
04:34A trailed.
04:34A trailed.
04:35Two trails?
04:36Yeah.
04:37Very good.
04:38Dave, are you trailing?
04:40Yeah, we're trailing.
04:41Very good.
04:41Anything else?
04:42No, trails seem to be the best.
04:43Good enough.
04:44Seven.
04:44All.
04:44Connor, come on then.
04:46Off you go.
04:47Hi, Rachel.
04:47Hi, Connor.
04:48Can I start with a consonant, please?
04:50Start with T.
04:52And another.
04:55G.
04:55A third.
04:57Y.
04:58A vowel, please.
05:01E.
05:01Another vowel.
05:03O.
05:04And another.
05:06E.
05:07A consonant.
05:10T.
05:11A consonant.
05:13S.
05:15And a final consonant, please.
05:18And a final T.
05:19And bye.
05:20E.
05:41And a final consonant, please.
05:51No, Connor just five of five Ben. Oh, I'll try six. Okay, Connor adjust
05:58Thank you, and Ben probably making this up stotty
06:03S-t-o-t-t-y fantastic. It's um
06:06We might know this. Yeah, it's a joddy eusty cake. Yeah, I've filled with
06:12Split peas and ham. It's delicious
06:15Really? Yeah, big bap
06:18Exactly, it's a bap. Very good indeed. Well done Ben. Well done indeed. 13 to 7. You've all leapt into
06:24the lead
06:24And it's your letters game also. A consonant, please Rachel. Thank you, Ben
06:30D another
06:34N and the vowel please a
06:38another
06:39you
06:42another I
06:44And a consonant, please
06:45W
06:47and another
06:50T
06:51and another
06:54M
06:55And a final vowel, please
06:57And a final
06:58E
06:59And it's clock time
07:01T
07:02And a
07:29E
07:33and seven and Connor seven also all right Ben minutes it yes mediante now
07:41they're in the corner we've got untamed untamed like an untamed tiger on seven
07:47very good and the girl Susie no just say immediate is the third night for musical
07:53scale very good well done all right 20 plays 14 Connor drifting slightly there
07:58as we go into another letters game and it's yours Connor can I have a
08:02constant place thank you Connor F and another V a third ah vowel please Oh
08:14another vowel I and another e a consonant s a consonant G and a final
08:28vowel please and the last one a clock time
08:36so
09:04Connor eight and eight Ben eight
09:07right then Connor forgives both forgiven so yeah very good giving each other
09:14very good indeed Dave we've got two sevens we've got forages and ovaries very good
09:25ovaries and forages yes all right 28 plays 22 now then Ben you're ahead by six points and
09:33now it's your numbers game so Rachel awaits your instructions hello Rachel I'll have five small
09:40numbers and another small number please ah wrong deduction there thank you Ben six little ones for
09:48you and we should have a challenge here the small numbers are four six four ten
09:56another six and two let's hope it's even the target 899 899
10:08so
10:14yeah
10:14yeah
10:14yeah
10:14yeah
10:14yeah
10:14yeah
10:34Ben.
10:35900.
10:37900, one away.
10:38900 as well.
10:40Yep, two 900s here.
10:42Right then, Ben.
10:44Six times four.
10:45Six times four, 24.
10:47Times four.
10:49Times four, 96.
10:50Take off a six.
10:51Take off the six, 90.
10:52And multiply by ten.
10:53And multiply by ten, 900.
10:55Connor?
10:56The same way.
10:56Same way.
10:57Yeah.
10:58Is it possible to make the 899?
11:00Yeah, what you do...
11:01No, I'm only joking.
11:02Just trying to put them on the ropes.
11:04Absolutely.
11:05That would have put the wind up, Connor.
11:07My word it would.
11:0935 plays 29.
11:11As we now look towards you, Dave.
11:13Dave, what have you been up to that you can talk about?
11:16Well, it's nearly eight years to the day that the first hairy bikers came on telly.
11:22And it was in Portugal that we started.
11:24And it was kind of quite an interesting choice because so much of the world's food depended on Portugal.
11:29You know, it took chilies to Asia for the first time.
11:32They say that they introduced tempura to Japan.
11:36But our reasons for going there, it was two facts we found in Portugal, apart from the interesting food,
11:40that there's a museum of the lobotomy outside of Lisbon.
11:44And there's a neurosurgeon called Igas Moniz in the 1930s.
11:48He won a Nobel Peace Prize for perfecting the art of primitive neurosurgery.
11:53So we went there, and then we cooked a fish stew on a beach.
11:57And then we carried on down to southern Portugal, where there's a breed of web-footed poodles that still exist.
12:03And they were bred by the Romans, and they used them to fish.
12:06Rather, a sheepdog would shepherd, obviously, sheep.
12:10These dogs that have web feet, these poodles, they will rustle fish into the nets.
12:15And they're still there.
12:16And that's how we built our first programme, around what we could find to eat on the way from the
12:22Museum of the Lobotomy to these web-footed poodles.
12:27Brilliant stuff.
12:28And let me tell you, a friend of mine who's got one.
12:30Yes.
12:31But actually, he calls it a Spanish web-footed something-or-other.
12:37And they used to, apparently, drag the nets out in their teeth and swim.
12:43What a lovely dog.
12:44They are gorgeous, but we had about four of them, and they were scared of the water.
12:48No, that's not...
12:48They wouldn't go out and play ball.
12:50And we were floating in these float tubes, like giant rubber rings.
12:53The idea was that we'd be fishing away, surrounded by these wonderful web-footed poodles.
12:59In the end, what we did was, we took them out in a speedboat.
13:02No.
13:02We put the poodles over the side.
13:04It was all fine.
13:05It wasn't cruel.
13:06And, of course, what they did was, they swam to us with our rubber rings and looked up to the
13:10side, whilst we fed them titbits.
13:13I think it was terribly cruel, Dave.
13:15No, it wasn't, because they got the poodles back, and they left the South and Cy, out in the sea,
13:19going out into the Mediterranean.
13:22Extraordinary.
13:22They picked us up some time later.
13:25Lobotomy.
13:25What were you doing there?
13:26That's a horrible thing.
13:27It's an interesting, but it's a very gruesome place.
13:30But it's interesting, because one of his patients got better, recovered, and went back and shot him.
13:34And you can still see his study, where it happened.
13:36I'm not surprised.
13:37And it was an interesting pitch to the BBC for our first programme, really.
13:41Brilliant.
13:42Brilliant.
13:42You remember Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cookies?
13:44Yes, of course.
13:45That was a sad, you know, end to it when he was lobotomized.
13:48How tragic.
13:49How tragic.
13:50I feel quite upset about it now.
13:51So I'm going to read a Tea Time teaser, which is Silk Bias.
13:55And the clue, it sounds like the reptile who ran Fawlty Towers.
13:58It sounds like the reptile who ran Fawlty Towers.
14:17Welcome back.
14:19I left you with a clue.
14:19It sounds like the reptile who ran Fawlty Towers.
14:22And the answer is basilisk.
14:25What is the exact definition of a basilisk?
14:27It is a mythical reptile with a lethal gaze or lethal breath, hatched by a serpent from
14:33a cock's egg.
14:34All right.
14:35Anyway, there we are.
14:3635 plays, 29.
14:37Ben, in the lead.
14:39Connor, what are you going to do about all this?
14:42I'll start with a consonant, please.
14:43Thank you, Connor.
14:45T.
14:46And another.
14:48F.
14:49And another.
14:52D.
14:53A vowel, please.
14:55E.
14:55Another vowel.
14:57U.
14:58And another.
15:00O.
15:00A consonant.
15:03L.
15:04A vowel, please.
15:06I.
15:07And a final consonant.
15:08And a final R.
15:10Stand by.
15:11A vowel.
15:13совет.
15:14A Bhagavad.
15:43yes Connor and nine and nine well done Ben eight okay and you're eight a
15:49fluoride fluoride very good and the nine not to pronounce it flora witted
15:54could you pronounce that for me F L O R yes you I T E D ah yes this break
16:02this
16:02brings back such memories I was always coming up with words that took me a while
16:07to to look up it is a verb flow it is is used in conjunction with a specified
16:14period or set of dates to indicate when a particular historical figure lived well
16:19very good
16:22oh cracker well done
16:25well done Connor what else have we got Dave we've got outfield yeah eight and two
16:32sevens flirted and flouted ah those two are favorites flirted and flouted now
16:39then Connor up his brilliance has shot you into the lead 47 to Ben's 35 so then
16:45Ben look he's come up on the outside what you can do a consonant please Rachel
16:50thank you Ben G and another one s another one h a vowel please e another one oh and
17:06another one I and another one please a and a consonant please w and another one please and
17:19the last one d
17:21gap time
17:52Yes, Ben?
17:53Seven.
17:54Seven.
17:54Connor?
17:55Seven as well.
17:55OK.
17:56Ben, seven.
17:57Food again.
17:58Hoagies.
17:59Yes, thank you.
18:00And Connor?
18:00Hoagies as well.
18:02Two hoagies here.
18:03Yep.
18:03Any more for any more?
18:05Any more hoagies?
18:05Yes.
18:06Yeah, hoagies.
18:07Got washed for six.
18:08Hoagies rule.
18:09I remember them well from my time in New York.
18:11They're very, very long rolls.
18:13You can fill them with meat, with cheese, with salads.
18:15A bit like subs, short for submarines.
18:18Very tasty.
18:19Very good.
18:2042 plays Connor's 54.
18:24Connor, if you'd be so kind.
18:26Could I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
18:28Thank you, Connor.
18:29L.
18:30And the second.
18:32P.
18:33And the third.
18:35S.
18:36A vowel, please.
18:38U.
18:39Another vowel.
18:40E.
18:41And another.
18:43A.
18:44A consonant.
18:46C.
18:47A consonant.
18:50S.
18:51And a final consonant, please.
18:54And a final C.
18:56And here's the big hand.
18:57monkey.
19:01We'll see you next time.
19:10Oooh.
19:27Justbij.
19:27You know, this is where I am.
19:28Connor?
19:29Eight.
19:30Eight, Ben?
19:31Eight.
19:32Very good.
19:32Connor?
19:33Subspace.
19:35Capsules.
19:36Capsules.
19:38Happy with that?
19:39Absolutely brilliant.
19:40Subspace is a term for maths, a space that is wholly contained in another space, or it's
19:45also to be found in science fiction.
19:47Very, very good.
19:48Very good.
19:48We should have asked Rachel about that.
19:51Yeah.
19:54Rachel wouldn't have had to have read it out of a book.
19:57What else have we got?
19:59Dave?
19:59Just subspace and capsules.
20:02Yes.
20:02Very good.
20:03Scalps is in there, too, somewhere, but not...
20:06It's only a few letters, but I quite like it.
20:08Yeah.
20:08People who sell you theatre tickets over the stated price, they're known as scalpers, apparently.
20:17Right.
20:18No longer touts, but scalpers.
20:19They're scalpers now.
20:20It's an American term.
20:2162 plays 50, and Ben.
20:24Letters game.
20:25A consonant, please, Rachel.
20:27Thank you, Ben.
20:29X.
20:30And another one, please.
20:32P.
20:33And another one.
20:35N.
20:36And a vowel, please.
20:38U.
20:39And another one.
20:41E.
20:42And another one.
20:43O.
20:45And a consonant, please.
20:48V.
20:49And another one.
20:51T.
20:53And a final consonant, please.
20:56And a final...
20:57V.
20:58And they're off.
21:00Capcom.
21:01They're off.
21:02And a spouse.
21:03They're off.
21:03And another one.
21:27And another one.
21:28And a vowel.
21:31then six not written down all right well then I'll stick with four now you're a
21:36four yes let's hear your four a pout pout then I'll probably made this up as
21:44well up the vote up vote yeah okay sounds unlikely
21:54never quite sure but up vote isn't I'm afraid it's not one of there we are now
22:00then Dave what do we got a couple of fours please punt thank you and bone thank
22:06you very good 66 plays 50 but now it's our turn to actually learn quite a lot
22:13more about the English language Susie and her origins of words I think Dave knows
22:20an awful lot of what I'm saying but it's still been fun to research and today
22:25I'm going to talk about food names that have occurred as the result of mistaken
22:29beliefs or because we changed them from a foreign language into you know
22:33terminology that sounded a little bit more familiar if you take the famous and
22:37delicious shortbread that is the Scottish petticoat tails let's go all the way back
22:42to the 16th century and the French loving courtiers of Mary Stewart now they called
22:47them pretty gato or little cakes but the Scots didn't really recognize that too
22:52much they prefer to translate it into their own version and so pretty gato became
22:55petticoat tails and they even began to bake them with those famous scalloped edges to
23:00resemble a petticoat and we fried beans aren't refried at all the Spanish refritos
23:06means well fried not refried spare ribs aren't spare either they come from the
23:11German river spare in which the spare is the spit on which the pork ribs are
23:16roasted rosemary began life as Ross marinos in Latin which is literally see
23:22do because the Romans saw that the herbs grew on the wild sea cliffs and finally
23:27the cellar in the salt cellar is actually completely unnecessary comes from the
23:31French Sally which itself meant a salt dispenser so the word is literally assault
23:35salt cellar very good well done well done now then Connor 66 16 ahead of Ben and this is
23:48your time talk numbers to Rachel well I might be doing maths but I haven't seen a
23:53number in years so I'm just gonna go one large I remember that feeling thank you
23:56Connor one large one and five small ones and these will all be numbers and for
24:01this round they are four nine seven five three and the large one 75 and your
24:11target 359 359
24:44yes Connor that's three five nine three five nine Ben uh 359 don't share from you then uh 75 times
24:525
24:5375 times 5 3 7 5 uh take away 7 and 9 yeah well done very good Connor the same
25:00way same route
25:01yep very good well done 76 that's Connor plays uh 60 as we go into a tea time teaser and
25:13the teaser is
25:14nice talc and the clue you might find this biblical chant rather amusing you might find this biblical chant rather
25:29amusing
25:36welcome back I left you with the clue you might find this biblical chant rather amusing and the answer is
25:41canticle or maybe canticle
25:44simply a hymn or chant usually with a biblical text that you'll find in a church service okay
25:49counticle very good 76 plays 60 as we look to you Ben to stabilize the ship here a consonant please
25:58Rachel thank you Ben
25:59and another one please
26:02and another one please
26:04and another
26:05M
26:07and the fourth
26:08G
26:11and a vowel please
26:13E
26:15and another one
26:16U
26:17and another one
26:19O
26:21and a consonant please
26:24P
26:27E
26:28and a vowel please
26:29and the last one
26:31E
26:32and here's the clock
26:33E
26:35and here's the clock
26:35E
26:35E
26:36E
26:36E
26:36E
26:36E
26:37E
26:37E
26:37E
26:38E
27:04BAM
27:05Just six
27:06Six? Connor?
27:07Six as well
27:07Okay, Ben?
27:09Morgue
27:10Morgue
27:11Not both in the morgue
27:12Yep
27:13Oh, Dave, you in the morgue?
27:16Susie's got a good one, but I don't know what it means
27:19Promulge
27:19Promulge, yes, it's P-R-O-M-U-L-G-E
27:24And it's simply a very old variant of promulgate
27:26Oh, yeah
27:27And if you promulgate an idea, you promote it widely
27:29Yeah, the church was always busy promulgating things
27:32Yes, they've been promulging as well, so it's there for eight
27:35Very good
27:36Very good indeed, 82 plays 66
27:39Connor, are you going to maintain the lead with this letters game?
27:42Can I start with a consonant, please, Rachel?
27:45Thank you, Connor
27:45Another
27:46And another
27:49R
27:50And a third
27:52J
27:53A vowel, please
27:55I
27:56Another vowel
27:57O
27:58And another vowel
27:59E
28:01A
28:01A consonant
28:03N
28:04A
28:05A consonant
28:07N
28:09And a final consonant, please
28:11And a final P
28:14And here's the clock
28:17And a half
28:17A Chat
28:17Astüt
28:17A
28:17A
28:17A
28:17A
28:17A
28:18A
28:30MUSIC CONTINUES
28:32MUSIC CONTINUES
28:47Connor. 7. 7. Ben. I'll have to try 7 then.
28:51OK. Connor. Proline.
28:54Proline, yes. You two welded to each other.
28:59Any variations?
29:01No, same here. Proline.
29:02Proline. It's an amino acid that you'll find in collagen.
29:06And that was it.
29:07In collagen?
29:08Yes, in the skin tissue.
29:10OK, very good.
29:11All right, 89 plays 73 as we go into the final letters game of today's countdown.
29:17And, Ben, it's up to you.
29:20Consonant, please, Rachel.
29:21Thank you, Ben.
29:23T.
29:23T. And another.
29:25S.
29:27And another.
29:30N.
29:31And the fourth one, please.
29:33R.
29:34And a vowel, please.
29:37U.
29:38Another.
29:39O.
29:40And another, please.
29:44I.
29:44And a fourth vowel.
29:48O.
29:49And a final vowel, please.
29:53And a final A.
29:56Tick tock.
29:57Tick tock.
30:01Tick tock.
30:19Bye.
30:19Bye.
30:19Bye.
30:20Bye.
30:28Ben.
30:28Bates.
30:30Yes, Connor.
30:31Eight as well.
30:32All right.
30:32Ben.
30:33Orations.
30:34OK.
30:35Connor.
30:36Tournois.
30:37It's obviously French.
30:39I'm pretty sure it's in there, but I can't remember what it is.
30:42But the dictionary tells us it's a coin.
30:44It's an adjective, actually, tournois, and it denotes a coin struck at tour,
30:48which was one-fifth less in value than one coined in Paris.
30:54Very well.
30:55Well done.
30:58What a good word there, Connor.
31:00So that's 97.
31:01Pace 81.
31:03As we go into the final numbers game of the day, Connor, that one's down to you.
31:07Can I have one large and five small, please?
31:09Same again.
31:10Thank you, Connor.
31:10One from the top and five little ones for the last time today.
31:14And for this round, they are nine, five, two, ten, eight.
31:21And the large one, 50 this time.
31:23And your target, 426.
31:26426.
31:26.
31:27.
31:28.
31:40MUSIC CONTINUES
31:42MUSIC CONTINUES
31:5846.
31:59Well done.
32:0046.
32:00Both 426s.
32:02So take it away, Connor, your explanation.
32:0450 plus 2.
32:0650 plus 2, 52.
32:08Multiplied by 8.
32:09Multiplied by 8, 416.
32:11And add the 10.
32:12Well done.
32:12Very good.
32:13Yep.
32:14Then my way was a lot more wasteful.
32:1750 times 8.
32:19You've got all the numbers.
32:19You might as well use them.
32:2050 times 8, 400.
32:22And add all the other four numbers.
32:24And what have we got?
32:2610, 2, 5 and 9.
32:28Yep, again, 46.
32:31Very good.
32:35Well done, both of you, cracking game.
32:37So as we go into the final round, the conundrum round, it's 1.07.
32:41Well done, Connor.
32:42You've breached the 100 mark to Ben's 91 just shy.
32:46So, it's conundrum time.
32:48Fingers on buzzers, please.
32:49Let's reveal today's countdown conundrum.
32:55My word, Connor.
32:57Yes.
32:57Bourgeois.
32:58Bourgeois.
32:59Let's see whether you're right.
33:02Very good indeed.
33:08They don't come much faster than that.
33:10Well done, Connor.
33:12117.
33:12Cracking score.
33:14Brilliant score.
33:15Ben, bad luck.
33:16You're up against a real crack of a player there.
33:18Absolutely.
33:19At least I've got the teapot.
33:19And he's only 21.
33:20At least I've got the teapot.
33:21You did indeed.
33:22And you also get a little trophy.
33:24So, good luck when you go back to North Highcombe and your job in the...
33:28Which ministry are you with?
33:29It's the Parliament of Work and Pensions.
33:31Work and Pensions.
33:32OK.
33:32Because, of course, pensions.
33:34Biting issue these days, isn't it?
33:35People are going to have to work longer and longer and longer because the state pension
33:39won't sort of tip in some time ahead, admittedly, but until people are so much older.
33:44And so, now there's a sort of a contributory scheme whereby if the employee contributes,
33:50the boss, the employer's got to contribute just as much.
33:53Yes.
33:54Yeah.
33:54Good scheme.
33:55I did something with that last year.
33:57Anyway, good luck to you.
33:58But now then, Conor, we'll be seeing more of you shortly.
34:01Yeah.
34:01Brilliant.
34:02Brilliant performance there.
34:04Well done.
34:05And very well.
34:06You'll be running up against Rachel again, if I can put it that way.
34:11Yeah.
34:12Very good.
34:12You say you don't deal in numbers anymore.
34:14What do you...
34:15It's usually just like abstract nonsense and symbols and...
34:18Nonsense and symbols.
34:19Well, I don't want to use the word nonsense.
34:21And you're in your final year?
34:22Final year, yeah.
34:23You're going to do a Master's or a Doctorate?
34:24Oh, I'm doing a Master's now.
34:26Are you?
34:26Yes.
34:27All right.
34:27And then the big bad world.
34:29The big bad world, indeed.
34:31But I don't think, you know, it'll hold any terrors for you.
34:34Anyway, we'll see you soon.
34:37Susie, thank you so much.
34:39Dave, our last day tomorrow.
34:41Yes.
34:41Gracing the Countdown Studio.
34:43Oh, it's been lovely.
34:44More fun tomorrow.
34:46Yeah, brilliant.
34:47More fun tomorrow.
34:48This Connors are likely loud, isn't he?
34:50He's very good.
34:51He actually strikes fear in the hearts of the other champions.
34:53Ah, he's great.
34:54His reputation precedes him.
34:56Yeah.
34:56A worthy, worthy young man.
34:58Worthy, yeah.
34:58Looking forward to seeing some more stuff from him.
34:59We look forward to seeing him.
35:00And we look forward to seeing you tomorrow, same time, same place.
35:03You be sure of it.
35:04Good afternoon.
35:16When the cabbie met the plumber tonight, you can't dampen the sparks at the first date's hotel, new at nine.
35:22But coming next, who doesn't fancy a bit of Mallorca?
35:25A place in the sun.
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