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00:30Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:33Now, earlier this year, I think it was the 10th of January,
00:36the world lost one of the great musical figures.
00:39Some would say he was a legend, he was a great performer,
00:42changed his personality, his persona, time and time and time again.
00:46David Bowie was his name.
00:48And he was also a big collector.
00:50And there's an event down in London.
00:51I think it started on the 1st, it goes on to the end of this week.
00:55It's at Sotheby's, and they're staging a three-part sale of all his works of art.
01:00400 items there.
01:01He's got works by Henry Moore, normally quite heavy works.
01:06Damien Hirst, of course.
01:07Let's hope the tang doesn't leak.
01:10And all sorts of other things.
01:11Anyway, 400 pieces up for Sotheby's, collected by David Bowie.
01:18Amazing.
01:18That's only kept them all.
01:20What about you?
01:21Do you collect art?
01:23No, I mean, I think it's great for people like David Bowie.
01:25If you've got money, then it's going to just sit there.
01:27You'd rather have something you can enjoy, can't you?
01:29But I think, I mean, those kind of works of art cost an absolute arm and a leg.
01:33Absolutely.
01:35Now, guess who's back?
01:37It's Rick Anstey's back with six wins under your belt.
01:41That's right.
01:41Well done.
01:42A manager from Aylesbury, and this week's a very important one, you know.
01:47But, never be complacent.
01:50You're a great player, but then along comes somebody else.
01:52Will it be Amber Farrington?
01:54Welcome, Amber.
01:56A tutor, originally from Melbourne and Australia, but now living in London.
02:00A member of Mensa.
02:01Rick, there's a warning sign.
02:04And Amber enjoys yoga, rock climbing and basketball.
02:07But your favourite activity is?
02:11Travelling.
02:12Travelling, indeed, and exploring new places.
02:14Where have you been?
02:15I've actually just returned from a holiday in Croatia.
02:18Yes.
02:18So, we started in Dubrovnik, and we went to Montenegro, and then up the coast,
02:23and through to Mostar in Bosnia.
02:25Yeah, and then through to some of the national parks, and it was incredible.
02:29A good mix of cities and national parks, and really beautiful scenery.
02:34And that Croatian coastline is exquisite.
02:37And Dubrovnik.
02:38Yeah.
02:39A Roman city.
02:40Incredible.
02:41Beautiful.
02:41Yeah.
02:42Lovely.
02:42Well, welcome.
02:43Let's have a big round of applause for Amber and Rick.
02:49And over in the corner, of course, Susie Dent.
02:53And she's back.
02:53My great friend from The Apprentice.
02:56Lawyer, TV personality, classicist, a good egg.
03:00None other than Margaret Manford.
03:02Welcome back, Margaret.
03:03Thank you very much.
03:04Good.
03:04We'll have lots to talk about a little bit later, but right now, it's Rick's letters game.
03:09Rick.
03:10Hello, Rachel.
03:10Hi, Rick.
03:11Start with a consonant, please.
03:13Start today with R.
03:14And another.
03:15P.
03:17And another.
03:20F.
03:21And a vowel.
03:23A.
03:24And another.
03:26U.
03:28And another consonant.
03:30K.
03:32And another.
03:34D.
03:34And a vowel.
03:37O.
03:39And another vowel, please.
03:40And the last one.
03:42Another O.
03:43And here's the countdown clock.
03:45P.
03:46PUNCH.
03:48PUNCH.
04:17Yes, Rick?
04:18Just a five.
04:19A five.
04:19Amber?
04:20Five for me too.
04:21Two fives.
04:22Rick?
04:23Proud.
04:24Amber?
04:25Proud.
04:25Same words.
04:26They're both pride.
04:28Lots of pride here.
04:29Margaret and Susie?
04:32More fives, but Susie's got a six.
04:36There is a six.
04:37It's a tricky first round, this one, actually.
04:38But padauk is there.
04:40P-A-D-O-U-K.
04:42It's usually spelt A-U-K, but it's a timber from a tropical tree that resembles rosewood.
04:48Um, native to the old world tropics.
04:51Mmm.
04:53All right.
04:54So, five apiece.
04:56Amber, your first letters game.
04:59Hi, Rachel.
05:00Hi, Amber.
05:00Could I please have a consonant?
05:02Start with Y.
05:04A consonant.
05:06T.
05:07And a vowel.
05:09E.
05:10And a vowel.
05:11I.
05:14Consonant.
05:15N.
05:16Consonant.
05:18D.
05:19Vowel.
05:21O.
05:22Consonant.
05:24G.
05:25And a vowel, please.
05:27And the last one.
05:28A.
05:30Countdown.
05:31All right.
06:02Amber.
06:03Just a six.
06:05A six and?
06:05And a six.
06:06Amber.
06:07Dating.
06:08Dating and?
06:09Donate.
06:10And donate.
06:12Yes, absolutely fine.
06:14Any advances?
06:15Margaret, Susie?
06:16Not for me.
06:18Seven, the countdown favourite,
06:20Kadisha, the flowering shrub.
06:23And toadying is there for eight.
06:25So fawning up to somebody,
06:27fawning on them is toadying.
06:29Toadying up.
06:30Yes.
06:31Nobody really likes a toady.
06:32Eleven apiece and it's Rick's numbers game now.
06:35Rick.
06:36I can have one from the top, please, Rachel.
06:37And five little ones, please.
06:40Thank you, Rick.
06:40One large five little coming up.
06:42And the first one of the day is ten, three, two, seven, nine.
06:49And the large one, 75.
06:51And the target, three hundred and seventy-four.
06:54Three, seven, four.
06:57Three, nine, nine, ten, ten.
07:01And every one of the tools and stuff that you can map.
07:18And the third one is calling the other.
07:19Big, four.
07:19And the first one is тяж special.
07:20And the second one is ten, ten, ten, ten, ten.
07:26Yes, Rick?
07:273, 7, 4.
07:29Amber?
07:293, 7, 4.
07:31OK, Rick?
07:335 by 75.
07:34Where's your 5, Rick?
07:35Oh, 7 minus 2.
07:377 minus 2 is 5 by 75, 3, 7, 5.
07:4010 minus 9 is 1.
07:42Yeah.
07:43And take it away.
07:44Lovely, well done.
07:44And Amber?
07:45Same way.
07:46There we go, just show that.
07:48Well done.
07:49All right.
07:50APPLAUSE
07:53Now let's have a tea-time teaser, which is load vino.
07:58And the clue, he drank a load of vino, then finished off the night with this.
08:02He drank a load of vino, then finished off the night with this.
08:12APPLAUSE
08:21Welcome back.
08:22I left you with a clue.
08:23He drank a load of vino, then finished off the night with this.
08:28He finished off with vindaloo.
08:31Ooh.
08:32Sounds like trouble.
08:3421 points apiece, and it's Amber's letters game.
08:37Amber?
08:37Could I please have a vowel to start?
08:40Thank you, Amber.
08:41E.
08:41And a consonant.
08:43R.
08:45Consonant.
08:47S.
08:48Vowel.
08:50I.
08:51Consonant.
08:52M.
08:54Consonant.
08:55L.
08:57Vowel.
08:59A.
09:01Vowel.
09:03O.
09:04And a consonant, please.
09:05And the last one.
09:06N.
09:07Stand by.
09:11BELL RINGS
09:39Amber?
09:40I think I have an eight.
09:42An eight.
09:43I think I've got an eight.
09:45So, Amber?
09:46Semolina.
09:47Semolina and?
09:48Same.
09:49Semolina.
09:50School day.
09:51Semolina.
09:52Excellent.
09:53That's an eight.
09:54Yeah, really good.
09:54Any more eights, chaps?
09:56A few more eights.
09:58Minerals.
09:59Yes.
09:59Is that an eight?
09:59Yep, very good.
10:01But there is a nine there as well, Nick.
10:03Normalise.
10:04Oh, yeah?
10:04Normalise stuff.
10:05Normalise.
10:06APPLAUSE
10:10To normalise relations with somebody.
10:12Yes, situation.
10:13Always striving to do that.
10:15Twenty-nine apiece.
10:17Rick, let us go.
10:18Start with a consonant, please.
10:19Thank you, Rick.
10:20D.
10:21And another.
10:23L.
10:24And a vowel.
10:26E.
10:35And a final consonant.
10:43And a final S.
10:45Stand by.
10:46and a vowel.
11:17Rick?
11:18Seven.
11:19Seven and?
11:20Seven.
11:21Two sevens.
11:22Stilled.
11:24Amber?
11:24Existed.
11:25Existed.
11:26Excellent.
11:27We happy?
11:28Very happy.
11:29Can we beat it in the corner?
11:31We can join it.
11:32Please.
11:33I never thought I'd say this word.
11:35Tellies.
11:37No, that's a terrible word to say.
11:40That's very un-Margaret, that one, isn't it?
11:42Completely.
11:42She can barely bring herself to say televisions.
11:48All right, if you must.
11:4936 apiece.
11:51Amber, it's your numbers game.
11:53Could I please have one large and the rest small?
11:55You can indeed.
11:56Thank you, Amber.
11:56One big five more little ones.
11:59And these numbers are two.
12:01One.
12:02Another one.
12:04Five.
12:04Ten.
12:05And the large one, 25.
12:07And the target, 145.
12:09One, four, five.
12:41And both.
12:43145.
12:45And four, five, of course.
12:46Amber.
12:47So, 25 by the five.
12:50He's one.
12:51Yep.
12:52And then add the two by ten, which is 145.
12:55And Rick.
12:56Just the same.
12:57OK.
12:58There we are.
12:59Nothing too difficult about that.
13:05So, the score's standing at 46 apiece.
13:08We turn to Margaret.
13:09And I hear, Margaret, you've been off on your rambles again, upsetting people.
13:12Where have you been this time?
13:13Well, I didn't upset very many people.
13:15Well, I went to Northumberland and to Durham for a week in May.
13:18And I'd never been to that part of the country before.
13:21It's fascinating.
13:22It was a border country.
13:23It was fought over between the Scots and English for a long time.
13:25And there's castles.
13:27And there's Merlin.
13:28And there's, of course, Hadrian's Wall and the Roman Forts and everything.
13:30And I'd always wanted to go to Lindisfarne and see the monastic settlement there.
13:35Because it had an Irish foundation.
13:37And, you know, I'm always keen on things that are connected with Ireland.
13:39So, I went there.
13:42The 6th century church, obviously, there isn't anything left of.
13:45But there's a 12th century foundation there.
13:48But the place itself is fascinating.
13:50Because it's a tidal island.
13:52And you can only cross at low tide.
13:54You can drive across a causeway or you can walk across the mudflats where the way the pilgrims used to
14:00walk.
14:00And there's huge signs everywhere that tell you the times when it's safe to cross.
14:06And yet, every month, they get, on average, a car that gets stranded.
14:11And people have to spend hours in what they call a refuge box.
14:14It's like a sort of shed on stilts in the middle of the causeway.
14:17You can climb up and stay there until the tide goes back.
14:20And I thought it's really a bit like Countdown, isn't it?
14:23Because you've got to keep your eye on the clock.
14:27Well done.
14:28Now, tell me this.
14:29Hadrian's Wall, of course.
14:30Yes.
14:31That was to keep the barbaric Scots out.
14:33Well, it was really just so that they could tell who was coming in and going out.
14:37It wasn't intended to be defensive.
14:39But this was a Roman job.
14:40It was a Roman job.
14:41Yes, it was.
14:42Because the Romans were there.
14:43They didn't get much further north.
14:45They tried and got beaten back by the Scots.
14:47But they did manage to trample over the English.
14:50Did you take a little trip along the Wall at some stage?
14:53Yes, I did.
14:53I think we're going to talk about that on another day.
14:56All right.
14:57Thank you very much, Margaret.
14:58Very good.
14:59Very good.
15:02Thank you, Margaret.
15:03So, 46 apiece, and it's Rick's letters game, Rick.
15:08Start with a consonant, please.
15:09Thank you, Rick.
15:10L.
15:11And another.
15:14N.
15:14And another.
15:16R.
15:17And a vowel.
15:19I.
15:20And another.
15:21U.
15:22And another.
15:24E.
15:26And a consonant.
15:28S.
15:29And another.
15:31D.
15:33And another, please.
15:35And the last one.
15:36Cue.
15:37Stand by.
15:39BELL RINGS
16:09Yes, Rick.
16:10A seven.
16:11A seven.
16:12Amber.
16:13Um, seven.
16:15Rick.
16:16Squired.
16:17Squired and?
16:18Squired.
16:19Look.
16:20These two.
16:2153 apiece, and Rick's happy with that.
16:25Squired.
16:26We had exactly the same one.
16:28Is that right?
16:28Yes, absolutely fine.
16:30To accompany or escort a woman, usually a man, slightly dented, dated now.
16:36Squired.
16:37Yes.
16:38Anything else?
16:39Um, one of the seven.
16:41Um, insured is there.
16:43Insured.
16:43All right, thank you.
16:4453 apiece, and it's Amber's letters game.
16:47I'll have a consonant to start, please.
16:50Thank you, Amber.
16:51R.
16:51And a consonant.
16:53H.
16:55And a vowel.
16:56A.
16:57And another vowel.
16:59E.
17:00Consonant.
17:02R.
17:03Consonant.
17:05T.
17:06Consonant.
17:08Another R.
17:10Vowel.
17:12I.
17:13And a vowel.
17:15And the last one.
17:16E.
17:17Stand by.
17:33Yes.
17:50Yes, Amber.
17:52An eight.
17:53An eight.
17:54An eight.
17:55Amber.
17:56Heartier.
17:57And earthier.
17:58And earthier.
17:59Excellent.
18:00Very, very good.
18:01That's what you've got?
18:07That matches you?
18:08It does.
18:09We had exactly those two.
18:11Yes, I was smiling because he had something different this time.
18:14Oh, right, right.
18:15All right, 61 apiece.
18:17Close run thing.
18:18It's Rick's numbers game.
18:19Rick.
18:20One from the top.
18:21Thank you, Rick.
18:21Five others, please.
18:22Another one big five little.
18:23Let's see if this can separate you two.
18:24Right.
18:25For this round, we have ten.
18:27Another ten.
18:28Eight.
18:29Another eight.
18:31Seven.
18:31Seven and twenty-five.
18:33Could be tricky.
18:34Target.
18:35Six hundred and thirty-eight.
18:37Six, three, eight.
18:39One, two, three, eight.
18:42One, two, three, eight.
18:43One, two, three, eight.
18:58One, two, three, eight.
18:58One, two, three, eight.
18:59One, two, three, eight.
18:59One, two, three, eight.
19:09Rick, 636, two away.
19:13Amber, 640.
19:15640.
19:17Right, Rick, 10 times 10 is 100.
19:2010 times 100.
19:22Times 7, 700.
19:248 times 8, 64.
19:26Yep.
19:26And take it away.
19:29Yep, two below, 636.
19:31And two above, Amber?
19:338 times 8, 64.
19:36Times 10, 640.
19:37Yep, two above.
19:39Now then, let's get straight to the point here.
19:42638?
19:43Yep, split the difference.
19:44If you say 8 times 10 is 80, add the other 10 for 90,
19:50times that by 7 for 630, and add the other 8.
19:54Well done.
19:55Well done, Rachel.
19:57Well done indeed.
19:58So there's still neck and neck 68 apiece as we turn to our second teacher.
20:02time teaser, which is days I opt, and the clue.
20:06On some days I opt to think of a world where everything is rotten.
20:11On some days I opt to think of a world where everything is rotten.
20:31And the answer to that is dystopia.
20:39Dystopia.
20:40You've got utopia, and you've got dystopia.
20:43Just tell us where these words originate.
20:45Exactly, the opposite.
20:46Well, utopia was coined by Sir Thomas More, and that means no place.
20:52It comes from the Greek for no place, because nowhere is perfect.
20:55And dystopia was coined much, much later.
20:57So the earliest example here is 1952, to mean the exact opposites here,
21:03with a prefix, dys, again going back to Greek.
21:07Margaret will know all of this.
21:09It's used in opposite, in opposition to.
21:12Yeah, so it's a place you don't want to be, where everything is absolutely horrible.
21:15Yeah, so many science fiction films these days, of course,
21:19are sort of set in dystopian landscapes, aren't they?
21:22They are, indeed.
21:24Which are then rescued by the American army.
21:2768 apiece, and it's Amber's Letters game.
21:29Amber.
21:30Thanks.
21:31I'll start with a consonant.
21:32Thank you, Amber.
21:33Z.
21:34And a consonant.
21:37S.
21:38And a vowel.
21:39A.
21:40And another vowel.
21:42U.
21:43Consonant.
21:45G.
21:46Consonant.
21:47S.
21:49Vowel.
21:50A.
21:51Vowel.
21:53E.
21:55Consonant.
21:56And the last one.
21:57G.
21:59Countdown.
22:00S.
22:01C.
22:03C.
22:04C.
22:06C.
22:07C.
22:07C.
22:09C.
22:30Amber.
22:31Seven.
22:32A seven and seven.
22:35Amber.
22:36Sausage.
22:37Two sausages.
22:38Two sausages.
22:40Any more sausages?
22:41Two more sausages over here.
22:43That's quite a lot of sausages, that is.
22:45Anything else?
22:46No.
22:47Just if you wanted to know, it comes from the Romans word for salt.
22:50It's related to sauce and all sorts of other things.
22:52Again?
22:53Yes.
22:53Salt.
22:54All right.
22:55Bangers all around.
22:5675 apiece.
22:57And it's Rick's letters game.
22:59Start with the consonant, please.
23:00Thank you, Rick.
23:01N.
23:02And another.
23:04T.
23:05And another.
23:07R.
23:08And a vowel.
23:09O.
23:10And another.
23:11I.
23:12And another.
23:14A.
23:15And a consonant.
23:17N.
23:19And a consonant.
23:20T.
23:21And another vowel, please.
23:23And the last one.
23:24E.
23:25And the clock starts now.
23:27Okay, so we're going to talk to you about the next key.
23:50Bye-bye.
23:59Yes, Rick. I've got seven, but it's not written down. Amber? Six. And a six. So, Amber?
24:08Ration. Ration and Natia. Excellent. Natia. A Natia suit will be hard to find. Very good.
24:16Yeah. Very good. And that would appear to be a little bit of a breakaway, a little bit of air
24:22there. 82 to 75. For Rick, that is.
24:26Now then, Margaret, Susie? Entrant, which is seven as well. Yeah. Very nice. And there is an eight there as
24:34well, actually. Internate. Internate is there for eight.
24:37Well done. So, as I say, it's 82 to 75. A little bit of a lead there for Rick as
24:47we turn to Susie and her origins of words.
24:50Now then, on this Monday afternoon.
24:54I'm going to talk about cheese, because I know you're partial to a bit of cheese. Do you have it
24:59with an apple, I think you often say, Nick?
25:01So, I'm going to talk a little bit. And a glass of red wine.
25:03About cheese. Well, and a glass of red wine. Very nice.
25:06You probably would have appreciated some of the presents given to monarchs centuries ago, or actually probably not too long
25:14ago in the grand scheme of things,
25:16which were huge, huge wheels of cheese.
25:19So, when Queen Victoria married her cousin, Prince Albert, in 1840, she received an enormous wheel of cheese as a
25:30wedding present.
25:30A slightly bizarre gift, you might think.
25:33And certainly some quipped that that accounts for her demeanor in lots of her portraits, where she was looking quite
25:38fed up.
25:39But, in fact, this, as I say, was quite a standard gift.
25:43Certainly in America as well, when a president was inaugurated, he often would receive a big, big wheel of cheese.
25:49So, Thomas Jefferson was given a 1,200 pound cheese, weighing 1,200 pounds, on New Year's Day in 1802.
25:56But Andrew Jackson could top that.
25:59He was given, at his last official reception at the White House, a 1,400 pound chunk of cheese.
26:05And apparently the White House was extremely smelly for weeks and weeks afterwards.
26:09If you imagine all these guests sort of tucking into this cheese.
26:12But that all might make you think of the origin of the big cheese.
26:17You might think this accounts for the fact this sort of special present that was made would account for that
26:21particular idiom.
26:22In fact, nothing to do with that at all.
26:24That goes back to the Persian and the Hindi words, chiz, meaning a thing.
26:29And the big chiz, very often for soldiers coming back from India, meant the big thing, the real deal.
26:35And, of course, chiz didn't really make much sense to English speakers, so he changed it to cheese.
26:40So there is, unfortunately, a link between Queen Victoria's enormous chunk of cheese that she was given on her wedding
26:45day and the big cheese.
26:47But interesting, nonetheless, I think you would have appreciated, maybe not that big, maybe not a 1,400 pound wheel
26:52of cheese.
26:53But maybe that could be your next birthday present.
26:55The big cheese for Nick.
26:57There you go.
26:57Well done.
26:59You need a lot of clout to go with that one.
27:03The thing is, you know, we all know that cheese is a wonderful thing, actually.
27:08I mean, you know, the variety you can get in English cheese, isn't that, Margaret?
27:12I know Margaret's something of a gourmet, is fabulous now, some of the English cheeses, you know.
27:17So, 82 to 75, and it's Amber's chance to try and catch up.
27:23Amber, good luck.
27:24I'll start with a consonant, please.
27:27Thank you, Amber.
27:28W.
27:29And another consonant.
27:31J.
27:32Vowel.
27:34O.
27:35Vowel.
27:36E.
27:37Consonant.
27:39T.
27:40Vowel.
27:42O.
27:43Consonant.
27:44M.
27:45Vowel.
27:47A.
27:48And finish with a consonant, please.
27:50And finish with D.
27:52Stand by.
28:10And finish with a consonant, please.
28:11And finish with a consonant, please.
28:11And finish with a consonant, please.
28:11And finish with a consonant, please.
28:11And finish with a consonant, please.
28:12And finish with a consonant, please.
28:12And finish with a consonant, please.
28:13And finish with a consonant, please.
28:13And finish with a consonant, please.
28:13And finish with a consonant, please.
28:13And finish with a consonant, please.
28:14And finish with a consonant, please.
28:15And finish with a consonant, please.
28:16And finish with a consonant, please.
28:17And finish with a consonant, please.
28:17And finish with a consonant, please.
28:18And finish with a consonant, please.
28:25Amber.
28:25Six.
28:26A six and six.
28:28Amber.
28:29Mooted.
28:30Mooted and?
28:31Mooted.
28:32And mooted.
28:34Both absolutely fine.
28:35Yes.
28:36What have we got over there?
28:38We've got a meadow.
28:40Well done.
28:42Anything else?
28:43No, mooted and mooted for us too, so six is all round, Nick.
28:46A meadow.
28:47Lovely word, meadow, isn't it?
28:49Meadow.
28:50All right.
28:51Rick, final letters game.
28:53Consonant, please.
28:54Thank you, Rick.
28:55H.
28:55And another.
28:57S.
28:59And a vowel.
29:00O.
29:01And another.
29:03I.
29:04And a consonant.
29:05F.
29:07And another.
29:09B.
29:10And another.
29:12N.
29:13And a vowel.
29:16A.
29:17And a final consonant, please.
29:20And a final V.
29:21Stand by.
29:22I.
29:24I.
29:43And a vowel.
29:51I.
29:55now then rick seven a seven amber six and a six your six banish and rick fashion fashion
30:06and in the corner we happy with those yes we are can we do anything with them can we beat
30:13them
30:13match them fashion was our top as well um margaret had bonsai it's nice as an interesting six but
30:21only a six bonsai is that what you when you clench your fist when you've just beaten something you
30:27say bonsai well you might i was thinking of the little tree well hold on susie what what do you
30:36do what is that uh not torah torah torah but the other one that they shout i'll have to do
30:41some
30:41research on bonsai i think i'm thinking that's the cry of the samurai warrior that must be what
30:47you're thinking of it is bonsai ah you are right the japanese battle cry it's about with his head
30:54i don't care i was sort of near you were i was sort of in it bonsai 95 plays 81
31:01and it's numbers for
31:03amber amber i'll have two large and four small thank you amber too large four little and the
31:10final numbers game of the day is three six six nine and the large one's 50 and 75 and the
31:19target 509
31:20five five oh nine
31:25so
31:37so
31:38so
31:39so
31:53Amber?
31:54509.
31:55509.
31:56Rick, didn't get it.
31:57You didn't get it.
31:59Amber?
32:0175 times 6 is 450.
32:0375 times 6, this is where Rick kicks himself.
32:05Plus 50 is 500, plus the 6 and the 3 is 509.
32:09Lovely.
32:10Well done.
32:10Still in it.
32:11Well done, indeed.
32:14Well done, Amber.
32:16You're back on the horse.
32:17Back on the horse.
32:19Look at this.
32:1995 to 91.
32:20That means only one thing, that we're into a countdown crucial conundrum.
32:26Well done, Amber.
32:28Fingers on buzzers.
32:30Let's reveal that crucial countdown conundrum.
32:58Amber?
33:00Is it unsighted?
33:01Unsighted?
33:05Unsighted?
33:06Whoa!
33:08Whoa!
33:14Amber!
33:15Look at that.
33:16You were there all the time.
33:18And then you slipped away.
33:21Two losses.
33:22And then you came back.
33:24Oh, Rick, what can I say?
33:26That's the way it goes.
33:27Bad luck.
33:28But listen, you go back to Aylesbury with your head held high, carrying a teapot under one arm and your
33:36goodie bag on the hour.
33:37Oh, yes.
33:37Brilliant stuff.
33:38That's some recovery, Amber Farrington.
33:41So we shall see you tomorrow.
33:42Well done, indeed.
33:43Well done.
33:43Well done, Rick.
33:44And we shall see you both tomorrow.
33:47Susie and Margaret, too.
33:48See you tomorrow.
33:49See you then, Nick.
33:49All right.
33:50Wow, that's a bit of a surprise.
33:52Yeah, well, I think Rick's actually our fifth seed, so every likelihood he will be back.
33:55But that was a brilliant game.
33:57Wasn't it good?
33:58Wasn't it good?
33:58Very good ending.
33:59See you tomorrow?
34:00See you tomorrow.
34:00Join us then.
34:02See how Amber Farrington gets on then.
34:04Same time, same place.
34:05You be sure of it.
34:06A very good afternoon.
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34:40Tough stuff.
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