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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:05APPLAUSE
00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:34I wonder whether you've heard of the zombie law.
00:37It's been enacted in Honolulu, of all places.
00:39Very interesting, actually.
00:41More accurately, it's called the Distracted Walking Law
00:44and it makes it a criminal offence to cross the road
00:47whilst being engaged with your mobile phone, Rachel.
00:50I think one of the South American countries, like Argentina,
00:52has someone dressed up, lots of people actually dressed up as zebras,
00:55to try it. I think if they have people dressed up as zebras
00:58and then if you try to cross the street while you're on the phone
01:00and a zebra comes and, like, grinds up on you or something,
01:02that should be the punishment.
01:04And that'll stop it far quicker and with a lot more fun than the fines.
01:07The thing is, what are the stats?
01:09You know, how prevalent is it that people do get run over in this country
01:12whilst on the phone, whilst crossing the road? I don't know.
01:16But we've got two new contestants. Let's concentrate on them.
01:19It's Mandy Wilson, a civil servant from Preston
01:22who loves fell walking in the Lake District
01:25and apparently the Lake District is covered in wainwright peaks,
01:28all 214 of them, and you're going through them steadily, I understand.
01:33Yes, my husband and I, we go out most weekends
01:36and we try and conquer a peak, but quite recently we did ten in one go
01:40to raise money for multiple sclerosis.
01:42Good for you. Good for you.
01:44So how many have you done altogether now?
01:4670, so we've got plenty to go at yet.
01:48Good. Let's see whether Louise Regan is going to clamber over you
01:52or whether it'll be the other way around.
01:54We've got a big contest today, very important, two new contestants.
01:57And Louise, you're project manager for Camden Council, big Man United fan.
02:02I certainly am, yes.
02:04You were telling me about Eric Cantona,
02:06that great, great French player who played for Man United.
02:09You went to see him last year? I did, yes.
02:11He's completely my hero and he was doing an audience
02:13with Eric Cantona across the country, including the London Palladium,
02:17and I managed to get the last ticket going virtually in the front row.
02:21I don't like to be unkind, but being in the front row with Eric Cantona
02:24was once upon a time quite a dangerous place to be.
02:27But we don't talk about that sort of thing, do we?
02:29And you filled the Palladium, did you?
02:31Not a seat left, yeah. Every seat was taken.
02:34Excellent stuff. Well, look, good luck to both of you.
02:37Have a lot of fun today and may the best contestant win.
02:40Big round of applause for Mandy and Louise.
02:47Susie's over in the corner, joined once again
02:49by the wonderful Susannah Lipscombe, historian and broadcast.
02:52Welcome back, Susannah. Thank you.
02:58Now, Mandy, off we go. Letters game.
03:01Hi, Rachel. Hi, Mandy. Can I have a consonant, please?
03:04Thank you. Start today with Z.
03:06Ooh.
03:08Another consonant.
03:10L.
03:12A vowel.
03:13A.
03:15Another vowel.
03:16E.
03:18A consonant.
03:20N.
03:22A vowel.
03:24I.
03:26Consonant.
03:28C.
03:30Another consonant.
03:32G.
03:34And another consonant, please.
03:37And lastly, T.
03:39And here's the Countdown Clock.
03:48CLOCK TICKS
04:11Mandy? Seven.
04:13And? Six. Six. And your six?
04:15Lazing. And?
04:17Elating. And elating.
04:19Now, over in the corner.
04:21What have we got over there? Both fine.
04:23To elate, to make somebody happy.
04:25We talk about being elated, obviously,
04:27but you can use it more actively than that. Very good.
04:29Anything else? Another seven.
04:31Angelic. Angelic.
04:33Like a little angel.
04:35Lovely. All right.
04:37So, seven now to Mandy. Early lead there.
04:39And it's Louise's letters game. Louise.
04:41Hi, Rachel. Hi, Louise. Can I have a consonant, please?
04:44Thank you. Start with F.
04:46Consonant.
04:48B.
04:50Consonant.
04:52S.
04:54Vowel, please. O.
04:56And again.
04:58U.
05:00And another vowel, please.
05:02A.
05:04Consonant. T.
05:06And a vowel, please.
05:08E.
05:10And consonant.
05:12And lastly, N.
05:14And the clock starts now.
05:45Louise.
05:47Six. A six. And?
05:49Seven. And seven.
05:51Louise. Farsen.
05:53Farsen. And? Boasted.
05:55There's no D there, unfortunately.
05:57We're sorry.
05:59The eyes can play terrible tricks.
06:01Now, Susanna. We've got a seven.
06:03Yes.
06:05A type of cassock worn by Roman Catholic priests.
06:08Absolutely.
06:10Down to their ankles.
06:13Indeed. Anything else, Susie?
06:15Just a couple of sixes really fast and an about.
06:18Thank you.
06:20So, Louise, just one point behind Mandy,
06:22and it's Mandy's numbers game now.
06:24Can I have one large one and five small ones, please?
06:27You can indeed. Thank you, Mandy.
06:29One big, five little, and the first numbers game of the day
06:32is seven, nine,
06:35three, ten,
06:37another seven, and 25.
06:40And the target, 735.
06:42735.
07:11Mandy.
07:13732, I think.
07:15And Louise?
07:17735, but not very well written down.
07:20Don't worry about that.
07:22Tell us how you got there.
07:24So, 25 x 3 x 10
07:28is 750.
07:30Yep.
07:32And take the...
07:34No, I've gone wrong, I think.
07:36I was going to say take the nine and...
07:38Oh, it's one away.
07:40Bad luck.
07:41Bad luck.
07:42Mandy, down to you.
07:449 x 3 is 27.
07:47Yep.
07:48x 25, I think, is 675.
07:51It is.
07:5310 x 7 is 70.
07:56Yep.
07:57Add it on.
07:58745.
08:00And take away the seven.
08:02And the second seven, 738.
08:05738.
08:07738, I'm afraid.
08:09Oh, dear.
08:11Oh, dear, we've all fallen apart a bit,
08:13but I know somebody who never falls apart, Rachel Riley.
08:16Yeah, there were a couple of ways.
08:18If you say 25 minus 10 is 15,
08:23and then 7 x 7 is 49, and times them together.
08:26There we are.
08:27735.
08:28Thank you.
08:31So, there we are.
08:32Seven plays six.
08:33Mandy in the lead, one point in the lead.
08:35Let's return to our first Tea Time teaser,
08:38which is if wet fish...
08:40And the clue.
08:41If wet fish come into contact with your clothes,
08:44they'll soon become this.
08:46If wet fish come into contact with your clothes,
08:50they'll soon become this.
09:06Welcome back, welcome back.
09:08I left you with the clue.
09:10If wet fish come into contact with your clothes,
09:12they'll soon become this.
09:14And the answer to that one, wow, is whiffiest.
09:18I'll say whiffiest.
09:20So, Mandy on seven, Louise on six,
09:23and it's Louise's letters game.
09:25Louise.
09:26Consonant, please, Rachel.
09:28Thank you, Louise.
09:29K.
09:30Consonant.
09:32Q.
09:34R.
09:36Vowel.
09:37U.
09:39Vowel.
09:41I.
09:42Vowel.
09:44I.
09:46Consonant.
09:48T.
09:50Vowel.
09:52O.
09:54And consonant, please.
09:56And lastly, S.
09:58Stand by.
10:05CLOCK TICKS
10:30Well, Louise.
10:31Six.
10:32And Mandy.
10:33Six.
10:34Louise.
10:35Squirt.
10:36Mandy.
10:37Squirt.
10:38Susanna.
10:39Well, we did define that, obviously, as well,
10:41but, no, not much.
10:42No.
10:43You could put the S at the end for quirts,
10:46which are those short, crandled riding whips.
10:48Oh, yeah.
10:49And to hit somebody with one of those,
10:51but that was about it.
10:52It was poor, slim pickings.
10:54Slim pickings, all right.
10:56Still one point in it.
10:5713 plays 12.
10:58Mandy on 13.
10:59Mandy.
11:00Can I have a consonant, please?
11:02D.
11:03And another consonant.
11:05M.
11:07And a vowel.
11:08E.
11:10And another vowel.
11:12E.
11:14A consonant.
11:16N.
11:18Another consonant.
11:19H.
11:21A vowel.
11:23I.
11:25Another vowel.
11:28E.
11:30And a consonant, please.
11:32And, lastly, another M.
11:34Stand by.
12:01MUSIC STOPS
12:06Yes, Mandy.
12:08Just a five.
12:09A five. Louise?
12:11Six.
12:12So, Mandy?
12:13Mind.
12:14And?
12:15Hemmed.
12:16Hemmed.
12:17Very good, yes.
12:18And in the corner, any advances there?
12:20For seven, mehendi.
12:22The henna that you put on your hands
12:25before an Indian wedding or whatever.
12:27OK. Anything else?
12:28No.
12:29Thank you.
12:30Thank you.
12:31Thank you very much.
12:32So, 18 plays 13.
12:34And, Louise, it's your numbers game.
12:36Hi, Rachel.
12:37Can I have two large ones, please, and four small?
12:40For you, Kennedy.
12:41Thank you, Louise.
12:42Two from the top, four little.
12:44And for the second time today, they are
12:46three, two, six, five.
12:49And the big ones, 125.
12:52And the target, 805.
12:54805.
12:56MUSIC PLAYS
13:00MUSIC CONTINUES
13:26Yes, Louise?
13:27805.
13:28805.
13:29805.
13:30And Mandy?
13:31805.
13:32Louise?
13:33So, six plus two is eight.
13:35Yep.
13:36Times the hundred.
13:37800.
13:38And the five.
13:39Straightforward, 805.
13:40Yes.
13:41Same way.
13:42There we go.
13:43APPLAUSE
13:46So, just five points in it, 28 to Louise,
13:49Mandy on 23, as we turn to Susannah.
13:53More about witches today?
13:55Yes, a bit more about witches.
13:57Yesterday I was talking about how they could be prosecuted under law,
14:00but they were accused by their neighbours.
14:02So, the general scenario was a poor, elderly woman
14:05would go to the door of a richer householder, asking for alms.
14:09He might turn her away, thinking he'd already given enough,
14:12and then maybe she muttered something as she left,
14:14and then a cow got sick or a child died,
14:17and he decided that she must have cursed him, she was a witch.
14:20And so the general picture was of someone who was often female,
14:24poor, elderly, dependent on others, asking for help,
14:29and really receiving not enough or not anything.
14:35And there was a sense from the person who had turned her away
14:38of subconscious guilt.
14:39But actually, this suggests that most of our ancestors,
14:42most of the time, weren't accusing people of witchcraft.
14:45They only did so in certain circumstances,
14:48when there was a catalyst,
14:50or when what happened seemed freakish or unfair,
14:53so a sudden illness in the previously well,
14:55or something like a stroke that left you strangely disabled.
14:58Because, of course, most of the time, if you thought someone was a witch,
15:01what you do is avoid them.
15:03And so it took people years to build up a reputation for witchcraft,
15:06which is one of the reasons that many witches were old
15:09when they were accused, finally, in the end.
15:11Extraordinary. Tell me this. Do you remember...
15:13Well, when I was a child, anyway,
15:15gypsy ladies would offer you a sprig of this or that
15:20to bring you good luck,
15:22and the sort of impulse perhaps one might take from that
15:25is if you don't take it and pay for it,
15:28perhaps you'll have some bad luck.
15:30And there was a sort of a strange feeling about that.
15:33Yes. Was I alone?
15:35Well, there were also often people in the past...
15:37In England, they were called cunning folk
15:39who were what we might think of
15:41beneficent magic practitioners, witches, perhaps.
15:44And so often they might say you needed to go to them
15:47to get a cure for the evil witchcraft.
15:49So it was a kind of system that perpetuated itself.
15:51There's a kind of you take the good luck or you get the bad luck,
15:54you take your pick, you know.
15:56That's very interesting. Thank you so much.
15:58APPLAUSE
16:01Here we go.
16:03So, Mandy, 23, Louise on 28, and it's Mandy's letters game.
16:08Consonant, please.
16:10Thank you, Mandy. Y.
16:12Another consonant.
16:14S.
16:16Consonant.
16:18D.
16:20O.
16:22Another vowel.
16:24I.
16:26Another vowel.
16:28O.
16:30Consonant.
16:32P.
16:34Consonant.
16:36N.
16:39And a consonant, please.
16:42And lastly, J.
16:44Stand by.
16:50WHISTLE BLOWS
17:16Yes, Mandy? Six.
17:18And Louise? Five.
17:20That five? Spoon.
17:22Spoon and...?
17:24Poison. Very good.
17:26Now?
17:28We have poison and spoony.
17:31They're putting a Y on the end.
17:33Yes. Sentimental or foolishly amorous, if you're spoony.
17:37Spoony.
17:39Or just a bit silly. 28-29, only a point in it.
17:42Now then, Louise, off we go.
17:44Consonant, please.
17:46T.
17:48Consonant.
17:50R.
17:52And again, please.
17:54T.
17:56Vowel.
17:58A.
18:00Vowel.
18:02E.
18:04Another vowel.
18:06I.
18:08Consonant.
18:10S.
18:12Consonant.
18:14And a vowel, please.
18:16And the last one, E.
18:18Stand by.
18:20CLOCK TICKS
18:44CLOCK TICKS
18:50Yes, Louise?
18:52Seven. And Mandy?
18:54Six. Your six?
18:56Treats. Louise? Realist.
18:58Mm-hm. Nice.
19:00Realist. Any advances there, Susanna, Susie?
19:02Rattles, for seven.
19:04Yes.
19:06Yes, you can be a literate person.
19:10So, literate is there as a noun.
19:12Somebody who is well-read and educated.
19:14Literate. We give you a nine.
19:16Thank you.
19:18APPLAUSE
19:20Well done. So, 35-29.
19:22Louise has built up a bit of a lead there. Mandy?
19:24It's a numbers game.
19:26One large and five small, please.
19:28Thank you, Mandy. One from the top.
19:30Five little.
19:32And these five little are nine.
19:34One. Another one.
19:36Six. And two.
19:38And the big one, 25.
19:40And the target, 671.
19:42Six, seven, one.
19:44CLOCK TICKS
20:08CLOCK TICKS
20:14Mandy?
20:16Six, seven, four.
20:18Louise?
20:20Six, seven, two, I think.
20:22Do you want to try it? I'll try.
20:24Go on. I'm very confident.
20:26So, two plus one is three.
20:28Yep.
20:30Times the nine.
20:3227. Times the 25.
20:34Six, seven, five. Six, seven, five.
20:36And the other one.
20:38Six, seven, four.
20:40Sorry, I said six, seven, two, I think.
20:42Yeah, sorry.
20:44So, Mandy?
20:46That's exactly how I did it.
20:48To six, seven, four.
20:50So, Rachel, six, seven, one.
20:52It was there. If you say
20:5425 times nine is 225.
20:56Take away one is 224.
20:58And then six divided by two is three.
21:00Times those together for 672.
21:02And take away the other one.
21:04Perfect. Perfect.
21:06APPLAUSE
21:08Well done, Rachel.
21:10So, Mandy has sprung into a one-point lead over there
21:12as we go into our second Tea Time teaser,
21:14which is It Several.
21:16And the clue.
21:18It has several different functions,
21:20which means it's most definitely this.
21:22It has several different functions,
21:24which means it's most definitely this.
21:30MUSIC
21:33APPLAUSE
21:43Welcome back. I left with the clue.
21:45It has several different functions,
21:47which means it's most definitely this.
21:49It's most definitely versatile.
21:51Versatile's the answer.
21:53So, Mandy on 36.
21:55Louise on 35.
21:57Now, Louise.
21:59Consonant, please.
22:01Thank you, Louise.
22:03T
22:05Consonant.
22:07L
22:09M
22:11Vowel.
22:13U
22:15And again, please.
22:17E
22:19Vowel.
22:21A
22:23Consonant.
22:25C
22:27Vowel.
22:29O
22:31Countdown.
22:33MUSIC
23:00MUSIC STOPS
23:02Louise. Seven.
23:04A seven and... Seven.
23:06Louise. Emulate.
23:08Emulate. Well done.
23:10Just showed that to each other.
23:12Well done. Anything else?
23:14We were emulating you two.
23:16Macule.
23:18Macule, yes. We'll give you six.
23:20An area of skin discolouration.
23:22Yes. Related to immaculate, the idea of staining.
23:24But emulate, great for seven. Well done.
23:26So, 43 to 42.
23:28Louise still clinging on to a narrow lead.
23:30Mandy, letters again.
23:32Consonant, please.
23:34Thank you, Mandy. N
23:36Another consonant.
23:38F
23:40Vowel.
23:42A
23:44Vowel.
23:46O
23:48Consonant.
23:50H
23:52Consonant.
23:54S
23:56Another vowel.
23:58A
24:00And a consonant.
24:02And lastly, W.
24:04Countdown.
24:06MUSIC
24:26MUSIC
24:35Mandy.
24:37Seven. Louise.
24:39Seven. Yes, Mandy. Fashion.
24:41And? Fashion.
24:43There we go. Any more fashion?
24:45Yet more fashion. Anything else?
24:47No, not really.
24:49No, awash, otherwise for five.
24:51Awash. We are awash. Yes.
24:53Indeed. One point in it.
24:5549 now.
24:57Susie. Susie.
24:59What have you today?
25:01I have more strange plurals.
25:03I talked about octopuses, octopi, octopities yesterday
25:07and how difficult it is to grasp plurals in English
25:10and how often you need to be careful.
25:12So, ignoramus, for example.
25:14The plural is never going to be ignoramai
25:16because it never started off as a noun in Latin.
25:19It was used by grand juries who couldn't convict a felon
25:22because ignoramus or ignoramus means we do not know
25:25because they didn't have sufficient evidence.
25:27So the plural is always ignoramus is there.
25:30Why are plurals so strange? I mentioned this yesterday.
25:33English is Germanic but then it had huge influences
25:37that came over with the Normans.
25:39It had a thing for Latin and Greek.
25:41It eavesdropped on practically every land that it encountered
25:44and its seafaring exploits.
25:46It is essentially just a hodgepodge of various influences,
25:50from different cultures.
25:52So it's unsurprising that a language with all of that going on
25:55is very, very irregular and a bit topsy-turvy.
25:58It's the same with plurals.
26:00I'm going to talk about goose and moose
26:02because a lot of people will say if the plural of goose is geese,
26:05why do we not talk about meese?
26:07It's a good question. I'll start with goose.
26:09That goes back over 1,000 years to the Anglo-Saxon word gos, G-O-S.
26:15For them, the plural of goose wasn't geese but it was ges, G-E-S.
26:19So they gave us the beginnings of that change of the O to the E
26:22and we're pretty much stuck with that today.
26:25But moose is a far more recent addition to the language.
26:28It's about 400 years old and it was adapted from Algonquian,
26:32which is a group of North American native languages.
26:35It gave us toboggan, moccasin and quite a few other words as well.
26:40So it gave no sense to give moose an old English plural.
26:43Why would you? So meese has never really made any sense at all.
26:48By the time it arrived in our language, we did stick an S onto our words
26:52so you would think it might be mooses.
26:54But in fact, for animals, we've always preserved, game animals particularly,
26:58we've always preserved that singular plural.
27:00Not quite sure why. We have deer, we have elk, and so it was with moose.
27:04The plural of moose is moose.
27:06And as for meese, it never really got a look-in
27:08because the Anglo-Saxons had no hand in it whatsoever.
27:11Excellent.
27:14Fascinating.
27:16And Algonquian, that was a North American tribe of Native Americans?
27:22Yes, and essentially when the Pilgrim Fathers went over on the Mayflower,
27:27because they had no words for all the things that they encountered,
27:30it was a new land, so many new things that they experienced, really,
27:34so they had to take the native words.
27:36They got their tongue around some of them,
27:38but more often than not they corrupted them a little bit
27:40and they've stayed in English ever since.
27:42And the Algonquian then became a famous sort of hotel in the...
27:45Yeah. ..sort of 40s or 30s, even.
27:47It did.
27:49Where the literati hung out.
27:51So, 50 plays 49, Mandy on 50, and it's Louisa's letters game.
27:55Consonant, please. Thank you, Louisa.
27:57L
27:59Consonant.
28:01T
28:03Consonant.
28:05X
28:07Vowel.
28:09I
28:11U
28:13Consonant.
28:15N
28:17Consonant.
28:19R
28:21Vowel, please.
28:23And finally, E.
28:25Stand by.
28:41CLOCK TICKS
28:55Louise. Five.
28:57Now, Mandy. Five.
28:59Louise. Untie.
29:01And... Root.
29:03Untie and root. Now, Susanna.
29:05We can do a couple of sevens.
29:07Routine and retinal.
29:09And we have an eight.
29:11Yes, we have Outliner, a computer programme that allows you to
29:15basically impose a logical structure on your document or an outline.
29:19Thank you.
29:21An Outliner.
29:23Mm-hm.
29:2555 to 54, still that wretched one point in it.
29:28Now, Mandy, your letters game.
29:30Consonant, please. Thank you, Mandy.
29:32D
29:34Consonant.
29:36V
29:37Consonant.
29:39R
29:41A vowel.
29:42I
29:44Another vowel.
29:45A
29:47A vowel.
29:49E
29:50Consonant.
29:52L
29:53Consonant.
29:55R
29:58And a consonant, please.
30:01And lastly, D.
30:02Stand by.
30:07CLOCK TICKS
30:33Mandy.
30:34Six.
30:35Louise.
30:36Six.
30:37And...?
30:38Drivel.
30:39LAUGHTER
30:41Louise.
30:42Varied.
30:43Oh, there we go.
30:45Any more drivel?
30:46Yes, we had drivel.
30:48Riddler for seven.
30:50Arrived, also seven.
30:52Yes.
30:53Yeah, Lardia, also there for seven.
30:55So there were a few sevens.
30:57That's it. No eights.
30:58Not that we can find.
30:59Thank you.
31:0060 to 61.
31:02And Louise, now, then.
31:04You can break this little one-point difference.
31:07It's a numbers game.
31:09Hi, Rachel.
31:10Two large ones again, please.
31:12And four small.
31:13Thank you, Louise.
31:14Two large, four small,
31:15and a potential crucial conundrum coming up.
31:17Final numbers game of the day is eight.
31:20Another eight.
31:21Three, seven, and then the big ones.
31:2350 and 25.
31:25And your target, 605.
31:27605.
31:29CLOCK TICKS
31:34MUSIC PLAYS
32:00Well, Louise?
32:01605.
32:03I lost it.
32:04You lost it?
32:05I lost it.
32:07So, Louise?
32:08Hoping I get this one right.
32:1050 plus 25 is 75.
32:12Yep.
32:13Times one of the eights.
32:15600.
32:16And then the other eight minus the three gives you the five.
32:19And you have the advantage for the crucial.
32:21Well done.
32:22Well done indeed.
32:23APPLAUSE
32:25Well done, Louise.
32:27But...
32:30..it's all up in the air, champ,
32:32as we're heading into a crucial countdown conundrum.
32:35So, poised, fingers on buzzers.
32:38Fingers on buzzers.
32:40Let's roll today's crucial countdown conundrum.
32:51Mandy?
32:52Bantering.
32:54Let's see whether you're right.
32:56No. Down to you, Louise.
32:58Take your time.
33:02BATTERING
33:09No, Louise.
33:10Is it battering, Nick?
33:12Let's see whether you're right.
33:14Well done.
33:15APPLAUSE
33:17Well done.
33:18Well done.
33:19It is.
33:20And you're a winner.
33:2280 points to 61.
33:23So, congratulations.
33:24Welcome to Countryman.
33:26Well played.
33:27Thank you.
33:28It was there or thereabouts, pretty much all the way.
33:31But in the end, Louise took the day.
33:33So, thank you so much for coming.
33:35Take this goodie bag back to Preston
33:37with our very, very best wishes.
33:39And good luck clambering all over the remaining
33:42140-odd Wainwright Peaks too.
33:44Thank you.
33:45Thank you for coming.
33:47Wow, Louise, that was close, wasn't it?
33:49That was close.
33:50Well, you did it.
33:51You did it.
33:52And you're here tomorrow.
33:53Well done indeed.
33:54Thank you.
33:55Congratulations.
33:56And Susanna and Susie will be here tomorrow too.
33:59Of course you will.
34:00We look forward to it.
34:01More witches, perhaps, or...?
34:02Yes, there'll be more witches tomorrow, I think.
34:04Well done.
34:05A day hardly seems proper without them.
34:07Now, see you tomorrow, Rachel.
34:09See you tomorrow.
34:10I think Louise left that late enough to call it Fergie time.
34:12So, well done to the Man United fan.
34:14Well done.
34:15Good on you.
34:16See you tomorrow.
34:17See you tomorrow.
34:18Join us then, same time, same place.
34:20You'll be sure of it.
34:21A very good afternoon to you all.
34:22APPLAUSE
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34:40Tonight, Sarah Lancashire hits on the truth,
34:42what really happened to Kiri.
34:44It all ends at nine o'clock.
34:46But next this afternoon, something a little more quaint,
34:48shortlisting for Village of the Year with Penelope Keith.
34:56APPLAUSE