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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:05APPLAUSE
00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:34Maps, amazing.
00:36I saw a fascinating series of maps not long ago,
00:40sort of dealing with the origins of the words or the names of various countries.
00:45You know, England, land of the Angles,
00:48suits guys studying geometry, I suppose.
00:50France, land of the Franks.
00:52But now I've got a series of questions for you.
00:54Well, first of all, let's deal with a couple of the rather more poetic ones.
00:58Land of a long, white cloud. Any ideas?
01:02Long, white cloud.
01:04I'll give you half of it.
01:06New.
01:07Zealand.
01:08Well done.
01:09Well spotted.
01:11High and beautiful.
01:12Whose country has as its national bird the magpie?
01:19Korea.
01:20North and south, presumably.
01:22And I like this one,
01:24and I have no idea why Spain is known as the land of many rabbits.
01:28Can you help me on that?
01:30Not even a little bit.
01:32But talking about maps, I went to Hereford Cathedral,
01:35which is one of the great cathedrals of England,
01:38and it houses two things of extraordinary interest.
01:41One is the Chained Library, the other one being at Christ Church in Oxford,
01:45and it also houses the Mapamundi,
01:49which is the map of the world that was drawn on parchment
01:53in 1290, and it's absolutely amazing.
01:56You look at this, it bears no relationship to anything that we know,
02:00but it was a very primitive map.
02:02It was extraordinary.
02:04Worth a look, it really is.
02:06Did it have New Zealand on it?
02:08I don't know. It took me ages to find England.
02:11But apparently they keep forgetting New Zealand off the world map,
02:14so New Zealand have got angry,
02:16and even the New Zealand Tourist Board website
02:19is also featuring a world map missing New Zealand.
02:22You're kidding me!
02:24No, everyone forgets it's there, right at the bottom.
02:26Brilliant. Now then, who's with us?
02:28Rachel, Andy Wedlake's back, PhD student from Cambridge,
02:32who won his teapot yesterday.
02:34Yes.
02:35Well done.
02:36Thank you very much.
02:37Don't relax.
02:38You're joined by Paul Hollidge.
02:40Welcome, Paul. Security officer from East Grinstead
02:42and a lifelong Crystal Powers fan.
02:44Certainly am, yes.
02:45You're very welcome, mate. You're very welcome.
02:47Big round of applause for Paul and Andy.
02:51Paul and Andy.
02:53And, of course, over the corner, Susie.
02:55Susie's there, joined once again by Clive Anson, TV and radio presenter.
02:59Par excellence.
03:00I can help you out with the rabbits in Spain.
03:02All rabbits started in Spain,
03:04and then they got spread around the world by human activity,
03:07keeping them in warrens and then escaping.
03:09So that's where they all started from.
03:11Really?
03:12Yes. Pliny noted them as small-eared hares.
03:15How interesting.
03:17Pliny got everywhere.
03:19Pliny got everywhere.
03:20He did, yeah, and rabbits have got everywhere now,
03:22including to New Zealand, I think you'll find.
03:24Yeah, well, of course, they breed like rabbits.
03:27Yeah, flies.
03:28Thank you. Thanks.
03:30Now then, Andy, off we go.
03:33Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:34Afternoon, Andy.
03:35A consonant, please.
03:36Thank you. Start today with N.
03:39And another.
03:41P.
03:42A vowel, please.
03:43O.
03:44And another.
03:46O.
03:47A consonant.
03:48Q.
03:49G.
03:50Another consonant.
03:52H.
03:53Vowel.
03:55I.
03:56Consonant.
03:58D.
03:59And a final vowel, please.
04:02And a final E.
04:04Stand by.
04:18MUSIC PLAYS
04:36Well, Andy, six.
04:38And Paul?
04:40Going to try a seven.
04:42Thank you. Andy?
04:44Pooing.
04:45Yes. Paul?
04:47Hooping.
04:49And you'd be right, Paul, yes, it's in the dictionary, well done.
04:52Very good. Hooping.
04:54Meaning?
04:55Well, you could be hula-hooping, you could be throwing a hoop over something.
04:58Hooping. OK, I'm hula-hooping.
05:00Yes, or you could hoop, maybe hoop...
05:02Rolling a hoop.
05:03Yes.
05:04You know, with kids, with a stick.
05:05Yes.
05:06Before my time, actually.
05:08Anything else there, Clive?
05:09I was trying to do something with dee-poo,
05:11which you might do with looking after your dog,
05:13you sometimes have to dee-poo the garden,
05:15but, er, hoodie, H-O-O-D-I-E.
05:18Yeah, very good.
05:19Excellent.
05:20That's there in hooding as well, for putting a hood over something.
05:23Oh, right.
05:24Like a falcon or something.
05:25Yes.
05:26Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:27Excellent.
05:28Seven points to Paul, and it's Paul's letters game now.
05:30Yes, sir.
05:31Hello, Rachel.
05:32Hi, Paul.
05:33Could I have a consonant, please?
05:34You can indeed, thank you. Start with B.
05:36And another, please.
05:38D.
05:39And another.
05:41R.
05:42And a vowel.
05:43O.
05:44And another.
05:45U.
05:46And a consonant, please.
05:48D.
05:50And another.
05:52S.
05:53And a vowel.
05:55A.
05:57And another vowel, please.
05:58And the last one.
06:00E.
06:01Stand by.
06:14ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
06:34Paul?
06:36A seven.
06:37Thank you. Andy?
06:39Eight.
06:40Paul?
06:41Aroused.
06:43A ten.
06:44Adsorbed.
06:46Erm, adsorbed.
06:48To adsorb a liquid is to hold molecules of it as a thin film on the outside surface.
06:54Excellent. Well done.
06:56Very good.
06:57APPLAUSE
06:59He is a chemist, after all.
07:01Yeah, very, very good.
07:02Am I right?
07:03All right. And over in the corner, Clive?
07:05I got aroused as well, but I won't talk about that now.
07:07But rosebud.
07:08Oh, well done.
07:09Lovely. Rosebud.
07:12But not with a capital R.
07:14Now, eight plays seven. Andy on eight.
07:17Andy's numbers game. Good luck.
07:19Er, three large and three small, please.
07:22Thank you, Andy. Haven't had this selection for a while.
07:25Three large, three little. And they are...
07:27Six.
07:28Nine.
07:29Two.
07:3025.
07:31150.
07:33And the target, 458.
07:36458.
07:38ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
07:42ELECTRONIC MUSIC CONTINUES
08:08Andy.
08:09458.
08:10Well done. Paul.
08:11458.
08:13Thank you. Andy?
08:15Er, nine times 50.
08:17450.
08:19Plus six, plus two.
08:20Yep. 458.
08:22And Paul.
08:23Er, exactly the same, am I?
08:25Yeah.
08:26APPLAUSE
08:27Well done, guys.
08:31So, it's 18 to 17.
08:34Andy, just one point in the lead as we turn to our first tea time teaser,
08:38which is Colin's oil.
08:40And the clue...
08:41Colin's oil is all over the road.
08:44He's just had an accident.
08:46Colin's oil is all over the road.
08:49He's just had an accident.
09:00APPLAUSE
09:02APPLAUSE
09:08Welcome back.
09:09I left you with the clue, Colin's oil is all over the road.
09:12He's just had an accident.
09:14And the answer to that one, that he's just had a collision.
09:18A collision.
09:20Now, then, one point in at 17, plays 18. Andy on 18.
09:24And it's Paul we turn to now. Paul?
09:27Hello, Rachel. Can I have a consonant, please?
09:30Thank you, Paul. R.
09:31And another one, please.
09:33Z.
09:34And another one.
09:36N.
09:37And a vowel, please.
09:39I.
09:40And another.
09:41O.
09:42And a consonant.
09:45L.
09:46And another, please.
09:48R.
09:49And a vowel.
09:52E.
09:53And a final vowel, please.
09:55And a final E.
09:57Countdown.
10:01CLOCK TICKS
10:04CLOCK TICKS
10:29Paul.
10:30Only a five.
10:32Andy?
10:33Five.
10:34Paul?
10:35Liner.
10:36And?
10:37Loner.
10:38And a loner.
10:40Clive?
10:41Well, there is Loriner, which is how many letters?
10:44One, two, three, four, seven letters.
10:46That's good.
10:47There's a livery company of Loriners.
10:49I don't know what they actually did or do.
10:51They used to make stirrups and saddles.
10:53Of course they did, they had to do something.
10:55Anything there, Susie?
10:57No, this is Loriner as well.
10:59Yeah, Lorimer. Thank you.
11:01One point.
11:0223-22 separates Andy and Paul in Andy's favour
11:05and it's Andy's letters game.
11:07Consonant, please.
11:08Thank you, Andy.
11:09N.
11:10And a vowel.
11:12I.
11:13Consonant.
11:15C.
11:16Vowel.
11:18O.
11:19A consonant, please.
11:20S.
11:21And another consonant.
11:23T.
11:25Vowel.
11:27O.
11:28Consonant.
11:30X.
11:31And a consonant, please.
11:34And lastly, V.
11:36Stand by.
12:01MUSIC STOPS
12:09Yeah, Andy?
12:11Five.
12:12Paul?
12:13I'll try a six.
12:15Andy?
12:16Twos?
12:18No, Paul.
12:19Toxins?
12:21Toxins, yeah. Excellent. Very good.
12:23No, Clive?
12:24Toxins is the best one, or...
12:27Susie, you suggested...
12:28I'm not happy with it.
12:29Convos, you suggested, but is that a word?
12:31Yes, certainly in Australia and possibly New Zealand as well.
12:35Convos, short for conversations.
12:37Let's have a little convo.
12:39Yes.
12:4228-23.
12:44Paul sprung a five-point lead there.
12:46Paul, how about a numbers game for you?
12:48OK, Rachel, can I have two large and four small, please?
12:51Of course you can. Thank you, Paul.
12:53Two big ones, four little ones.
12:55And these numbers are three, eight, two,
13:00another three in the large ones, 50 and 75.
13:04And this target, 857.
13:068-5-7.
13:09MUSIC PLAYS
13:25MUSIC STOPS
13:41Paul?
13:428-5-6.
13:44One away. Andy?
13:45Just 8-5-0.
13:47And 8-50. Let's try Paul.
13:49Paul?
13:508 x 75.
13:52600.
13:54Sorry, then. Oh, sorry, Paul.
13:56It's gone? Yeah, that's fine.
13:58Andy?
14:003 x 3 is 1.
14:023 x 3 is 1.
14:048 x 2, plus that one.
14:0716 x 1, 17.
14:09Times 50.
14:10Yep, 850.
14:11Very good.
14:13But it's not quite what we wanted, Rachel.
14:16Can you land 8-5-7 for us?
14:19It was there. If you say 50 x 8 is 400.
14:243 x 3 is 9.
14:26Take that away for 391.
14:29Times that by 2 for 782,
14:33and then add on the 75.
14:35Perfect.
14:40Thank you, Rachel. That's brilliant.
14:42Let's have a chat with Clive.
14:44Clive, apart from all the studio-based programmes that you've made,
14:48you've been out on the road,
14:50and sometimes when you're on the road,
14:52you find yourselves in places you wish you hadn't bothered.
14:55Yeah, broadcasting studios, TV studios, radio studios are relatively safe,
15:00made for your own comfort, more or less,
15:02but I've made quite a few documentaries, television and radio,
15:05and years ago I had quite a good scam, or an idea.
15:09We went off to beautiful countries and looked at their problems,
15:12and then with the next series we did, we looked at difficult places
15:16and tried to make them look good,
15:18which was actually a better format when we got there.
15:21One of them, we went to Lagos in Nigeria,
15:23because it used to head the polls
15:25of the least popular place for business people to go to,
15:28so we set about trying to film it to make it look as nice as possible.
15:31It's a big place, Lagos is a big city,
15:33big music scenes, plenty to eat and drink there,
15:36we even found some beaches.
15:38Nonetheless, we offended in some way by our presence,
15:41there was like a security police force,
15:44which had a rather disturbing abbreviation called SSS,
15:49and they picked us up from the hotel at the weekend
15:52and just took it off, we were arrested basically,
15:54taken into custody, even though we'd had a government minder with us
15:57when we were filming, they weren't sure about what we did,
15:59and we were held in this custody for a while,
16:02and they had to look at all our film and go,
16:04we weren't allowed to film for a few weekends,
16:06so we stayed an extra week and an extra weekend,
16:09and because the weather was bad,
16:11we filmed at a roadside eating shack,
16:14one we weren't really aiming at, to avoid the rain,
16:17and we got arrested again, this time at gunpoint,
16:20with the guns being cocked, and that was actually on camera,
16:23which was much more exciting and worth having.
16:25But the disturbing discovery that we made,
16:28me, the presenter, the director and the producer,
16:31we were taken off into custody by the SSS,
16:34the original pick-up, and while we were away,
16:38the cameraman and the soundman were left on their own,
16:41so they filmed themselves talking about how the fact that we'd gone,
16:44and they were happy to be on their own,
16:46and when we got reunited, we worked out that without us being there,
16:50the director, the presenter, the cameraman and the soundman
16:53could have happily carried on and made the documentary on their own,
16:56whereas if they'd been arrested, we would have been completely stuffed
16:59because we wouldn't know how to operate the equipment.
17:01So it was a humbling and disturbing discovery
17:04that we didn't have the technical skills on our own.
17:07Quite. Well done.
17:09APPLAUSE
17:10Good to have you back.
17:1528 plays 28, and it's Andy's letters game. Andy.
17:20A consonant, please.
17:22Thank you, Andy. K
17:24And another.
17:25T
17:26And another one.
17:28S
17:29A vowel, please.
17:31U
17:32And another.
17:33E
17:34Another.
17:36A
17:37Can I get a consonant, please?
17:40H
17:41A vowel.
17:43E
17:45And a final consonant, please.
17:47And a final G.
17:49Stand by.
18:06MUSIC PLAYS
18:22Andy.
18:23A six.
18:24Paul.
18:25Only a five, I'm afraid.
18:26And your five?
18:28Stage.
18:29Stage. And hugest?
18:31Hugest. Very good.
18:33And over in the corner.
18:34Gasket.
18:35Lower gasket. That was the best we could do for six.
18:37Yeah, well done.
18:39Hugest.
18:4034 to 28, Paul.
18:43Come on, Paul. Letters game.
18:45Rachel, can I have a consonant, please?
18:47Thank you, Paul. D
18:49And another, please.
18:51M
18:52And another.
18:54L
18:55And a vowel, please.
18:57U
18:58And another.
18:59O
19:00And another, please.
19:02E
19:04And a consonant.
19:06C
19:07And another.
19:09Z
19:11And a final vowel, please.
19:13And a final U.
19:15Stand by.
19:17MUSIC PLAYS
19:35MUSIC STOPS
19:47Well, Paul?
19:48I'll try seven, please.
19:50Andy.
19:51Seven.
19:52Paul.
19:53Clouded.
19:54Good word. Andy.
19:55Moulded.
19:56Yeah, absolutely fine. Both.
19:58Very good.
19:59I can't approve on that, I don't think.
20:01No.
20:02But that's been overtaken.
20:04Yes, clouded was the best, yeah.
20:06Yeah.
20:07It'll do.
20:08Thank you very much. Moulded and clouded.
20:1035 to 41. Andy's still in the lead.
20:13And it's a numbers game for him now.
20:15One large and five small, please.
20:18Thank you, Andy. Back to one from the top.
20:21And this time they are...
20:23eight, ten,
20:25one, three,
20:28six and the large one, 75.
20:31And the target, 594.
20:33594.
21:02MUSIC STOPS
21:05How was it, Andy?
21:07Yeah, 594.
21:09And Paul?
21:10594.
21:11Andy?
21:1275 times eight.
21:14600.
21:15Minus six.
21:16That's all it is, yeah.
21:17And Paul?
21:18Exactly the same. My eight times 75 was right this time.
21:22LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
21:26Still very close together, 51 to 45 in Andy's favour
21:30as we turn to our second tea-time teaser,
21:32which is Mired Pets.
21:35And the clue, his dogs have been mired in this viral struggle
21:39for a few days now.
21:41His dogs have been mired in this viral struggle
21:44for a few days now.
21:47MUSIC STOPS
21:54APPLAUSE
22:03Welcome back. I left with the clue,
22:05his dogs have been mired in this viral struggle for a few days now
22:09and the viral struggle was distemper, distemper.
22:13Paul, letter's game?
22:15Letter's game? Right, yeah. Hi, Rachel.
22:17Can I have a consonant, please?
22:19Thank you, Paul. P.
22:21And another, please?
22:23S.
22:24And another?
22:26T.
22:27And a vowel?
22:29I.
22:30And another, please?
22:31E.
22:33And a consonant?
22:35B.
22:36Another, please?
22:38J.
22:39Er, a vowel, please?
22:42A.
22:43And a final consonant?
22:45And a final T.
22:47Stand by.
23:13MUSIC STOPS
23:18Yes, Paul?
23:19Er, seven.
23:20A seven. Andy?
23:21Seven.
23:22Paul?
23:23Patties.
23:24Oh, yes.
23:26Andy?
23:27Appetise.
23:28Excellent. Yeah, both very good.
23:30And over in the corner, Susie?
23:32Yes, those were our two sevens.
23:34Otherwise down to pasty for six.
23:36Thanks a lot. 58-52, six points in it.
23:39Andy, we turn to you for a letter's game.
23:42Consonant, please.
23:43Thank you, Andy. Y.
23:45A vowel.
23:47E.
23:48Consonant?
23:50M.
23:51Another, please?
23:54R.
23:55A vowel?
23:57A.
23:58Consonant?
24:01L.
24:02Vowel?
24:04E.
24:05Consonant?
24:07W.
24:09And a final consonant, please?
24:11D.
24:12And a final D.
24:14Countdown.
24:42Andy?
24:44Seven.
24:46Paul?
24:47Er, seven.
24:48Andy?
24:49Emerald.
24:50Yes. Both of you?
24:52Yes.
24:53Lovely.
24:54And Clive?
24:56Ooh, er, there's leeward.
24:58Yes.
24:59Which is downwind of emerald, but that's, er...
25:02Emerald.
25:03Anything else?
25:04That was it.
25:05Thank you. 59-65.
25:08Susie, we're back.
25:10You're back.
25:11Your wonderful origins of words.
25:14Well, we love to loathe the North Americans, Nick, don't we,
25:18for mucking about with our spelling.
25:20We disagree with so many of those.
25:23Colour, without the U, and honour, without the U,
25:26the I-Z-E spelling, etc.
25:28When, in fact, as I think I will have told you proudly before,
25:31Shakespeare used all of those spellings,
25:33and if you look at his folios, those ones, the American ones,
25:36actually outweigh the British ones in most of his works.
25:39And he certainly quite liked the I-Z-E spelling as well.
25:43We are stuck with the regional differences today,
25:46or the national differences,
25:48because someone called Noah Webster,
25:50the famous American lexicographer,
25:52he really loved simplified spelling,
25:54and, in fact, he tried to spread this
25:56throughout all North American schools.
25:58So it's really thanks to him that things like defence with an S
26:01came about, traveller with one L,
26:03and that these, colour, honour, etc., without the U, stuck.
26:06In Britain, we, just like the Americans,
26:08wanted to shift ourselves away from the Americans,
26:10because there was a lot of divisiveness and division around at the time.
26:13We preferred the Latin influence,
26:15so we kind of went backwards, if you like,
26:17so the spellings that we once had, we added on to.
26:20So it's a very complicated picture.
26:22But the one spelling that we can sort of blame the Americans for,
26:26at least certainly the expression we can blame them for,
26:29and it was mucking about with spelling, was OK.
26:32It started off much like text speak today,
26:34as a joke on all correct,
26:36and it was spelled O-R-L-K-O-R-R-E-K-T.
26:40And it was used as a sort of slang, saying,
26:43yes, that's all correct,
26:45perhaps represented a bit of American pronunciation as well.
26:48But crucially for OK,
26:50it was picked up by incumbent president Martin Van Buren.
26:53Now, he was a Democrat from Kinderhook in New York State.
26:56His nickname was Old Kinderhook,
26:58and all the slogans and the electioneering by his team
27:02used the Old Kinderhook, abbreviated to OK, throughout.
27:07And even though Van Buren didn't actually win the election,
27:10OK stuck, and we have him to thank for it ever since.
27:13So they did muck around with the spelling, it did give us OK,
27:16and we can blame them for that, but nothing else.
27:18Excellent. Well done.
27:23Perfect, Susie, thank you. Thank you.
27:2665-59, Andy in the lead now, and it's Paul.
27:30Come on, Paul, let us go.
27:32Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel? Thank you, Paul.
27:35N. And another?
27:38F. And another?
27:41S. Vowel, please?
27:44A. And another?
27:46E. And another?
27:48I. Consonant, please?
27:51P. And another?
27:53R.
27:56And a final consonant, please?
27:58F. And a final T.
28:00Stand by.
28:29Yes, Paul?
28:31Eight. And eight, Andy?
28:34Seven. You're seven.
28:36Pansier. Paul?
28:38Painters.
28:40Very good. Excellent.
28:47No pansier, I'm afraid. Not in the dictionary.
28:50But, yeah, painters, excellent.
28:52What we have got, though, is a two-point lead for Paul there.
28:55What can we have? Anything else?
28:57Well, there's pantries, which is fairly close to what you have already.
29:00Yep. So, pantries.
29:02Yes, that will give you another eight.
29:04Lots of sevens in there. Fair is sapient as well.
29:06Sapient? Yeah. Eight was our best.
29:08Thank you for that. Thank you. Andy, final letters game.
29:11Make the most of it now. Two points adrift.
29:13A consonant, please?
29:15Thank you, Andy.
29:17S. A vowel?
29:20U. Consonant?
29:23R. And a vowel?
29:25E.
29:27Consonant?
29:29P.
29:31Another consonant, please?
29:33L. A vowel?
29:35A.
29:37A consonant?
29:39S.
29:41And a vowel, please?
29:43And lastly, I.
29:45Stand by.
29:55MUSIC PLAYS
30:17Andy? Seven.
30:19Paul?
30:21Gone wrong. I've written down two Ls.
30:23Sorry, nothing.
30:25Andy, you've got a lucky break.
30:27Passia?
30:29Passia.
30:31I'm not sure if I'm glad about this or not.
30:33I think I am, but passia is not in the dictionary, I'm afraid.
30:36Sorry.
30:38Nasty-sounding word, anyway, isn't it? Yeah.
30:40Passia. Now then.
30:42Clive, what have we got?
30:44Spirals? That's there, isn't it? Spirals?
30:46Yes, it is. Very good.
30:48I wanted pearlies, but I apparently need another E,
30:50because there's never enough letters, is there?
30:52Yeah, I know. I'm trying to do words.
30:54Pearlies are there.
30:56But you can get to the next with up-raises.
30:58Up-raises. To raise something to a higher level.
31:00Well done.
31:04Well, we're heading towards choppy waters here.
31:07Maybe heading towards a crucial countdown conundrum.
31:10Anyway, let's see. Two points in it, and it's Paul's numbers game.
31:13Paul. No pressure, then.
31:15Can I have two large and four small, please?
31:17Yes, indeed. Two large, four small.
31:19Your chance to avoid a crucial conundrum.
31:21Let's see if you manage to do it.
31:23The last numbers of the day are 2, 7, 3 and 6.
31:27And the big ones, 150.
31:30And this target, 604.
31:33604.
31:47CLOCK TICKS
32:05Paul. Yeah, 604.
32:07Andy. 604.
32:09Paul.
32:11Six times 100. 600.
32:13And seven minus the three. Yeah, we can do that in our heads.
32:16Andy. Same way.
32:18There we go. So there we are, then.
32:20That's it.
32:22Crucial conundrum time, gentlemen.
32:2475 to 77.
32:26Fingers on buzzers.
32:28Let's roll today's crucial countdown conundrum.
32:31CLOCK TICKS
32:46BUZZER RINGS
33:00Andy.
33:02Disc Raider.
33:04Let's see whether you're right.
33:06No. Down to you, Paul. Take your time.
33:09BUZZER RINGS
33:13Pipped up here. I'll come back to you in a second, Paul.
33:15Pipped there. Who in the audience will take this on? Come, come.
33:19I see a hand over here.
33:21Yes, madam.
33:23Disregard, Nick.
33:25Let's see whether you're right.
33:27Disregard. Well done.
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33:31Well done.
33:33Oh, Andy, we say cheerio to you.
33:35You got your teapot.
33:37Now drag that teapot back to Cambridge.
33:41Thank you. Thank you so much for coming.
33:43Well done. Thanks.
33:45Paul Hollis, look at this.
33:47You're coming back.
33:49Thank you. More points than Pallis.
33:51Indeed. Well done. We shall see you tomorrow.
33:53Congratulations. Thank you. Fantastic.
33:55You travel safely back to Cambridge.
33:57Yes.
33:59And, Clive, you're coming back tomorrow for the last time.
34:01Oh, right. OK. Have you enjoyed yourself?
34:03Oh, it's been wonderful. I've learned so much about words
34:06and how to calculate figures quickly.
34:08Exactly.
34:10Well, you've seen other people doing it anyway.
34:12You've got some good words too.
34:14So thanks for that. We'll see you tomorrow. Susie also.
34:16Yes. And Rachel. See you tomorrow?
34:18It's all right. All right.
34:20Join us then. Same time, same place.
34:22You'll be sure of it. A very good afternoon.
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