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00:01This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:04APPLAUSE
00:31Hello, everybody. It's Thursday, June the 22nd.
00:34This is Countdown.
00:36And before anything else, thank you so, so much for tuning in
00:39and staying with us throughout all of Series 87.
00:42We're at the thick end today, Rachel, our second quarterfinal.
00:46But trivia question for you. Mm-hm.
00:48Today is the anniversary of what I would say
00:50is the most infamous quarterfinal in football history,
00:54certainly in our lifetime.
00:57Yes, it was.
00:59Me miming Maradona. Yeah.
01:011986, on this day,
01:03a man three feet smaller than goalkeeper Peter Shelton
01:07outjumped him, but, of course, with the use of his hand.
01:10And when he was asked about it after, he said,
01:12it was a little bit with the head of Maradona
01:15and a little bit with the hand of God.
01:17And there you go.
01:18Probably one of the most famous phrases in all of sport.
01:21It's one way to describe cheating, isn't it?
01:23A very poetic way.
01:24Well, there'll be no cheating here whatsoever
01:26and we know that we won't have any cheating
01:28on the day of the D.
01:29Susie Dent takes care of that.
01:31And back again is the brilliant Marcus Brigstocke.
01:34APPLAUSE
01:36We're so excited about today.
01:38It's one of those games that I have to keep catching myself
01:41when I say this, because in no other world
01:44could Killian McMulcan, from County Tyrone,
01:48be the second seed.
01:50He equalled Tom Stevenson's all-time top score
01:54in a single countdown of 154.
01:57He equalled the history maker.
01:59But, Killian, you know Ronan Higginson,
02:01you know how he plays.
02:03Yeah.
02:04I mean, you're second seed?
02:05I'm not surprised, to be honest,
02:07whenever you know that Ronan's on the same series as you.
02:09Yeah, I'm not surprised to be second seed.
02:12So good to have you.
02:13You get the Champions Chair, courtesy of being the second seed.
02:16You're taking on seed seven,
02:18but there's always one of those seeds
02:20that maybe is right lower than they should be,
02:23and I think that's Dave Koppelman,
02:25whose score was 115.
02:27You managed to win six games, 621 points.
02:30So your average was fantastic as well.
02:32Good to have you back.
02:34Good to have you back.
02:35Now, Killian will have been practising non-stop for this.
02:37Have you taken the other attitude,
02:39just chill out, come in relaxed?
02:41No, practising non-stop.
02:43Good man, there you go.
02:44This'll be closer than you think.
02:45I can't wait.
02:46Dave and Killian, good luck.
02:48APPLAUSE
02:50OK, Mr McMulcan, get us started.
02:53Hi, Rachel. Hi, Killian.
02:54Start with a consonant, please.
02:55Thank you. Start the second quarterfinal with N.
02:59And another.
03:02R.
03:03And a third.
03:05N.
03:06Vowel.
03:08O.
03:09And another.
03:10E.
03:11And a third.
03:12O.
03:14Consonant.
03:16T.
03:18Another.
03:20S.
03:22And a final vowel.
03:24A final...
03:26A.
03:27At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
03:54MUSIC PLAYS
04:00How many, Killian?
04:01I'll try a nine.
04:02Going to try a nine.
04:04Dave?
04:05Seven.
04:06The seven is?
04:07Treason.
04:08Treason.
04:09He's not sure, so let's find out.
04:11Killian?
04:12Rantoons.
04:13Rantoons to Susie Dent.
04:15Are we starting the second quarterfinal with a maximum?
04:18So, that is Rantoon with an E at the end.
04:21It is in the dictionary and it was a type of tricycle
04:25used in the 19th century.
04:27Well done.
04:32A type of tricycle from the 19th century?
04:35Yeah, it had foot pedals, it had hand-operated levers,
04:38it had the works and I've never heard of it, so well done.
04:41On your bike, Killian, on your bike.
04:43My goodness me!
04:44Right, Dave, don't be rattled,
04:46you've just got to get back in the saddle with some more letters.
04:49Hi, Rachel. Hi, Dave.
04:50Start with a consonant, please. Thank you.
04:52Start with F.
04:54And another consonant.
04:56D.
04:58And a vowel, please.
05:00I.
05:02And another vowel.
05:03E.
05:05And another consonant, please.
05:08P.
05:10And another consonant.
05:12C.
05:14And another consonant.
05:16And another consonant.
05:18S.
05:20And a vowel.
05:22A.
05:27And a consonant, please.
05:29Lastly, M.
05:3130 seconds.
05:46CLOCK TICKS
06:02Time's up. Dave?
06:04Seven. A seven. Killian?
06:06Seven. Dave, what have you got?
06:08D counts. D counts.
06:10Killian? Scampi.
06:12Scampi with the I-E,
06:14as in prawns and batter, the old scampi and chips.
06:18Susie?
06:20Yeah, is that how you're spelling it?
06:22S-C-A-M-P-I-E?
06:24Yeah, not there.
06:26Scampi and chips, definitely just the I at the end,
06:29and there isn't a version with the I-E, I'm afraid, sorry.
06:32What else have we got in Dictionary Corner?
06:34There's an eight. Midfaces?
06:36Midfaces, yes. Your midface is the middle part,
06:39so it's the glabella, which is that bit, and the nose.
06:42So you can pluralise that for an eight. Midfaces.
06:44Midfaces, 4-8.
06:46The upshot of it is, Dave, after facing a maximum in the first round,
06:50pulls seven points back.
06:52Killian, first numbers round in your choosing.
06:55One large, five small, please, Rachel.
06:57Fine, it's safe to start with one big, five little.
07:00Let's see if it continues that way.
07:02Five small ones.
07:03Six.
07:04Nine.
07:06Six.
07:07Three.
07:09Seven.
07:10And 25.
07:12And the target, 262.
07:14262, numbers up.
07:41MUSIC CONTINUES
07:47262, Killian?
07:48Yeah, 262.
07:49Yeah, Dave?
07:50262.
07:51262, both bang on. I expected that. Killian, off you go.
07:54Three plus seven is ten.
07:56Times 25.
07:57250.
07:58And add the two sixes.
07:59Straightforward enough.
08:01Yeah, same way, Dave?
08:02Yeah, same way.
08:03There you go, nice.
08:04APPLAUSE
08:07Easy it off, there you go.
08:0928 plus 17.
08:11We've had a maximum already in this quarterfinal
08:13as we get our first tea time teaser.
08:16Dumpy Knows.
08:18Dumpy Knows, you'll find it roughly around your mid-face.
08:21Dumpy Knows wasn't his real name.
08:23It was this.
08:24Dumpy Knows wasn't his real name.
08:26It was this.
08:35APPLAUSE
08:40Welcome back.
08:41Dumpy Knows wasn't his real name.
08:43It was this.
08:44A pseudonym, a pseudonym.
08:46Right, Killian McMulgan, 28 points her second seed.
08:50Fantastic resilience from Dave Kappelman
08:52after being in the wrong end of a nine in the very first round.
08:56On 17, and you're picking the letters.
08:58Let's start with the consonant again, please.
09:00Thank you, Dave.
09:01B.
09:02And another one.
09:04T.
09:06And a vowel, please.
09:08E.
09:10And another vowel.
09:12A.
09:13And a consonant.
09:15G.
09:17And a vowel.
09:19E.
09:21And another consonant, please.
09:23N.
09:25And another consonant.
09:27S.
09:29And a final consonant.
09:31And a final R.
09:33Thank you, Rachel.
09:38MUSIC
10:05A lot going on there, Dave.
10:07Eight.
10:08And Killian?
10:09Eight.
10:10Both maybe the same word. Let's find out, Dave.
10:12Grantees.
10:13Grantees. Killian?
10:15Reagents.
10:16Over to Susie.
10:17Yeah, absolutely fine.
10:18A grantee, in law, is a person to whom a grant or conveyance is made.
10:23And a reagent is something involved in a chemical reaction
10:28or chemical analysis.
10:30So, yeah, two good eights.
10:31Yeah, top drawer stuff.
10:32Marcus Brigstocke, anything else for me?
10:34We didn't have for nine, sadly, but we did have another eight.
10:37Sergeant.
10:38Generous letters.
10:39Upshot of it all, Killian and Dave bag eight more points each.
10:42Such is the standard, Killian. Let's go again.
10:45Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:47Thank you, Killian.
10:48L.
10:49And another.
10:51T.
10:52And a third.
10:54R.
10:55Oil.
10:57I.
10:58And another.
10:59O.
11:00And a third.
11:01E.
11:02A consonant.
11:04G.
11:05A...another consonant.
11:08D.
11:09And a final...
11:11Vowel.
11:13Final O.
11:14And half a minute.
11:34MUSIC CONTINUES
11:47Give me a number, Killian.
11:49Seven.
11:50And Dave?
11:51Eight, I hope.
11:52An eight. Don't ask me!
11:55Killian, the seven?
11:57Rigolette.
11:58Dave, the eight?
11:59Goodlier.
12:00Goodlier?
12:01Goodlier. OK, I'll start with rigolette.
12:03That's a lovely word, it means a stream or a rivulet.
12:06But we did check goodlier and it is in.
12:09Goodly, goodlier, goodliest.
12:11To be goodliest can be considerable in size.
12:14If it's goodlier, it's more considerable than the next thing.
12:17So, well done.
12:18Wow.
12:19APPLAUSE
12:20The magic and mystery tour of Wordsworth.
12:23Anything else?
12:24No, that's it.
12:25Goodlier was the best we had.
12:27And just like that, from 18 points down to three points in it,
12:31Dave Kappelman, you're picking the numbers.
12:33I may regret this, but I'm going to say four large.
12:36Taking your life into your own hands.
12:38I hope you won't have any regrets.
12:40But let us find out.
12:42The two small ones, seven and two.
12:45And we know 25, 50, 100 and 75.
12:49But we don't know the target.
12:51289.
12:53289, numbers up.
12:57BUZZER
12:59BUZZER
13:27Time's up.
13:28291.
13:29Two away, Cillian.
13:31289.
13:32Bang on, go.
13:3450 plus two.
13:3550 plus two, 52.
13:37Times seven.
13:38Times by seven is 364.
13:41And then minus 75.
13:42Yeah, there were a few ways for this one.
13:44That is one of them, well done.
13:45Doodle.
13:46APPLAUSE
13:48Beautiful.
13:49Great.
13:50It's almost like you've got a first en masse
13:53from Queen's University in Belfast, Cillian McMulcan.
13:56Let's head to Dictionary Corner.
13:58Marcus Brigstocke was on the last day of his first ever week on Countdown.
14:02That's ludicrous.
14:03You feel like you've been here forever.
14:05It's been a joy to have you here because you love the show.
14:08I do love the show.
14:09I've watched this since the first episode and I love it.
14:12I'm so thrilled to be here.
14:14And it's a fascinating game to play if, like me, you're dyslexic.
14:19Because most of us, when the clock starts,
14:21are convinced we've got a nine.
14:23Just with the first row of letters.
14:25I recognise that word.
14:27That's what happens.
14:28But I was very lucky.
14:30Lots and lots of people are diagnosed dyslexic now
14:33and it's great because they're mostly getting the help they need.
14:37I was lucky, my mum was a teacher,
14:39so I got diagnosed young and I got help early.
14:42But for a while, you know, there was the stigma
14:44if you're dyslexic that you're probably thick.
14:47You can't spell and words jump around on the page
14:49when you're trying to read.
14:51I think a lot of people have come to understand
14:54that it's the way my brain constructs comedy
14:57because it breaks things down and puts them back together
15:00and because of the extra effort I've had to make reading,
15:03my brain sees ways round things and stuff
15:06that I've always found really helpful.
15:08Plus, it's made life itself more exciting.
15:11I once went to a toga party dressed as a goat.
15:14LAUGHTER
15:15It was good fun.
15:16As a kid, every Christmas, I look forward to a visit from Satan.
15:20I used to have that.
15:21But, you know, if life gives you melons...
15:24LAUGHTER
15:26..there's another way of looking at things and it's a gift.
15:29Yes, and actually, not only are you not the first
15:33Dyslexic Dictionary Corner guest of this series,
15:36but the one that springs to mind straight away is Back Tomorrow.
15:40Maggie Adderham-Polcock, who talked about it as well
15:44when she was on So Beautifully, a space scientist.
15:47She's one of the greatest minds I've met in recent times.
15:51Thank you. Oh, sorry.
15:53But you're not bad either. Thanks, mate.
15:55Don't get me wrong, you're the rocket man.
15:57She deals with space. We're all good.
15:59I love that. Thank you, Marcus.
16:01APPLAUSE
16:03Right, where are we? Another letters round.
16:05Cillian McMulcan, you're choosing.
16:07A consonant, please, for two. Thank you, Cillian.
16:09J. And another.
16:12S. And a third.
16:15L. Vowel.
16:18A. And another.
16:20I. And a third.
16:23B. Consonant.
16:26K. A consonant.
16:30R. And a final consonant.
16:34Final N.
16:36Start the clock.
16:44CLOCK TICKS
17:08That's all we've got time for.
17:10Cillian? A seven.
17:12Dave? Seven.
17:14Seven's all right. Cillian?
17:16Lankier. Dave? Same word.
17:18Two lankiers.
17:20And you go over to Dictionary Corner.
17:22Well, lankier's fine. We only had a seven as well.
17:25My hips are slightly snakeier than Cillian's.
17:28Oh! Snakeier.
17:31OK, Dave, let's get nine more letters.
17:33Consonant, please. Thank you, Dave.
17:35H. And another.
17:39R. Vowel, please.
17:42I. And another, please.
17:45A. And a consonant.
17:49W. And a vowel.
17:52I.
17:55And a consonant.
17:58S.
18:00And a consonant.
18:03N.
18:06And a vowel.
18:09Final O.
18:11Final O, here we go.
18:42Dave Kopelman.
18:44Only a five, cos I got the wrong word at the start.
18:47Don't worry, let's see. Cillian?
18:49Try seven.
18:51The five, Dave. Warns.
18:53He's taking a risk here, though. Let's find out the seven.
18:55Ironiers.
18:57Ironiers. Suzy Dent, all eyes on you, no pressure.
19:00Yes, it is pretty much the same as irony, actually.
19:05It's from Rhetoric.
19:07It doesn't say you can't pluralise it.
19:10I'm not sure you would, to be honest, on many an occasion,
19:13but according to the dictionary, you can put the S on it.
19:15So, well done. Very good.
19:19I like the fact that Dave declared a five,
19:21cos he picked the letters declared first
19:23and Cillian still played quite dangerously,
19:25but he did that all the time when he won his eight.
19:27Anything else?
19:29No, we didn't get anything better than that.
19:31All right, Cillian, let's get numbers.
19:33Going to go one large, five small again, please, Rachel.
19:36Sticking with your one large and your five small
19:38with your little lead there. Let's see if this changes anything.
19:41Five small numbers are 8, 4, 8, 5, 7 and 50.
19:49And this time, the target, 338.
19:52338, numbers up.
20:08MUSIC PLAYS
20:24338, the target. Cillian?
20:27338. Dave?
20:29338.
20:30Yeah, you gave that away by not doing anything for 29 seconds.
20:33Off you go, Cillian.
20:3550 x 7.
20:37350.
20:38Minus the 8, minus the 4.
20:40Yeah, straightforward. Just what you wanted.
20:42Did you show both, Dave, or straightforward?
20:44Same way.
20:45There you go. 10.6.
20:47APPLAUSE
20:49All to play for.
20:51We'll be back after this second tea time teaser
20:53with six rounds still to play.
20:55And it's nut for tea.
20:57Nut for tea.
20:59The squirrel had a nut for tea, how very lucky.
21:02The squirrel had a nut for tea, how very lucky.
21:05APPLAUSE
21:20Welcome back.
21:21The squirrel had a nut for tea, how very lucky.
21:24Nut for tea becomes fortunate.
21:26Fortunate.
21:2720 points in it between Cillian and Dave
21:29in our second quarterfinal of Series 87.
21:32It's the business end of the show, Dave.
21:34Let's see if you can rise to the occasion. Let's go.
21:36Consonant, please.
21:38Thank you, Dave. S.
21:40And another.
21:42Q.
21:44Vowel, please.
21:46U.
21:47Imagine.
21:48Another vowel.
21:50O.
21:52No squirrel.
21:53Consonant.
21:54G.
21:56Vowel.
21:58I.
22:01Consonant.
22:03T.
22:07Consonant.
22:09D.
22:11And a vowel.
22:13Final E.
22:15Let's play.
22:33MUSIC PLAYS
22:47Dave.
22:48Seven.
22:49Cillian.
22:50Seven.
22:51What have you got, Dave?
22:52Outside.
22:53Outside. And Cillian?
22:54Same.
22:55There you go.
22:56Seven points each, so the tension remains high.
22:59To Dictionary Corner, Marcus.
23:01Yeah, outside, tedious and, pleasingly, the word squidge.
23:05Squidge is there.
23:06Outside will get you the points.
23:08Let's get back inside the game.
23:10And more letters now from Cillian.
23:12Consonant, please, Rachel.
23:13Thank you, Cillian.
23:14N.
23:15And another.
23:18V.
23:19And a third.
23:20T.
23:22Vowel.
23:24O.
23:25And another.
23:26E.
23:27And a third.
23:28A.
23:30Consonant.
23:31S.
23:33Another consonant.
23:35M.
23:37And a final...
23:39Vowel.
23:41Final O.
23:43Good luck.
23:44MUSIC PLAYS
24:01MUSIC STOPS
24:15That's it. Cillian?
24:17Seven.
24:18And Dave?
24:19Seven.
24:20Seven.
24:21The tension is just fantastic at the moment.
24:23What have you got?
24:24Moon set.
24:25Moon set.
24:27And Dave?
24:28I got for novate this one.
24:30Novate.
24:31Novate and moon set.
24:33That's so beautiful.
24:34To novate in law is to put a new contract in place of an old one.
24:38So that's absolutely fine, too.
24:40So was there any eights at all?
24:42Didn't find an eight, but a pleasing thing a Canadian says
24:46if they're on a heist with a moose is,
24:48we should vamoose.
24:50Which means to scarper away.
24:52Vamoose.
24:53Great word to find, Marcus.
24:5584-64.
24:57It's time for Origins of Words.
24:59It is.
25:00And I guess we're gearing up for the countdown derby, aren't we?
25:04And I'm going to talk a little bit about derby,
25:06because I'm often asked, you know,
25:08why do we talk about a local derby?
25:10What's that all about?
25:12And there's a lovely story attached to the word derby itself,
25:15which is that it comes from the town of Ashbourne,
25:17which is in Derbyshire.
25:19And from the 12th century until this day, apparently,
25:22two teams from opposite ends of the town
25:25will play a really quite fierce rough-and-tumble ball game.
25:30It's a little bit like rugby,
25:32called the Royal Shrove Tide football match.
25:35And it's between the uppers and the downers,
25:37so these are townspeople from opposite sides of the river.
25:40And they had to get a painted leather ball
25:42into the opposition's goal however they possibly could.
25:46And it's a lovely idea that, you know,
25:48something that is so steeped in tradition
25:50would have given us something that is equally traditional.
25:53And, you know, we know that the derby is...
25:56The Epsom Derby is what we all know it as today,
25:59and that was founded in 1840 by the 12th Earl of Derby.
26:04And that, of course, is where we get the derby from.
26:07However lovely this competition in Ashbourne is,
26:11and even though it's in Derbyshire,
26:13we do know it goes back to that first derby, which was in 1780.
26:16And a local derby, of course, is simply, you know,
26:19people from the local area who are coming together
26:22to meet and compete.
26:24But, yeah, it's applied to any now really sort of fierce sporting event,
26:28and I'd like to think that we have our own version of it here,
26:32which happily doesn't involve any horses,
26:34but just absolute genius players.
26:36Thank you, Susie.
26:40OK, our seed to Kelly McMulcan,
26:43still holding onto that 20-point lead with four rounds left.
26:47Dave, let's see if it changes with these letters.
26:50Consonant, please.
26:51Thank you, Dave.
26:52T
26:53And another.
26:55R
26:57And a vowel, please.
26:59A
27:00And another.
27:02E
27:03And a consonant.
27:04P
27:06And a vowel.
27:09U
27:12And a consonant.
27:16S
27:17And another consonant.
27:19V
27:22And another consonant.
27:24Lastly, M.
27:26Kind of.
27:50That's it. Dave?
27:52Seven.
27:53Cillian?
27:54Seven.
27:55Seven as well.
27:56We're locked together, Dave.
27:58And matures.
27:59Matures.
28:00And Cillian?
28:01Pasture.
28:02Pasture.
28:03And matures.
28:04Yes.
28:05Other sevens jumping out there.
28:07What do we have in Dictionary Corners, Susie and Marcus?
28:10So, tempura is in the dictionary as a massive vegetable.
28:14It's a type of vegetable.
28:16So, tempura is in the dictionary as a mass noun.
28:19So, it's a Japanese dish that's fried in batter, vegetables, things.
28:23But countdown rules mean that if you wanted more than one
28:26in a restaurant and you were ordering them,
28:28you could say, I'll have a couple of tempuras, please.
28:30So, you could have that for eight.
28:32There you go.
28:35Now, nobody getting battered here.
28:37Still on a knife edge. Cillian, more letters.
28:40Consonant, please, Rachel.
28:41Thank you, Cillian.
28:42R
28:43And another.
28:45H
28:46Third.
28:48T
28:49File.
28:51A
28:52And another.
28:53U
28:54And a third.
28:56E
28:58Consonant.
28:59C
29:01Another consonant.
29:03S
29:05And a final file.
29:08A final I.
29:10Last letters.
29:14F
29:16I
29:18F
29:20I
29:23F
29:25I
29:27F
29:29I
29:30F
29:32F
29:34F
29:38F
29:42Cillian, it.
29:44Dave.
29:45Only a six. Six.
29:46This could be the moment. Six, Dave. What is it?
29:49Charts.
29:50Charts. And for a place in that semifinal?
29:52Eucrites.
29:54Eucrites. Susie.
29:55OK, I will look that up.
29:57There's no A for charts, unfortunately.
30:01I'm sorry about that.
30:02How are you spelling it?
30:03E-U-C-R-I-T-E-S.
30:06And it is in... Of course it is.
30:08It's a stony meteorite.
30:10What more can I say?
30:11APPLAUSE
30:14Well, it brought Dave crashing down the Earth eventually.
30:17What an effort to stay with Kelly.
30:19That was sensational, Dave.
30:20We'll get to that at the end of the programme.
30:22Anything else in Dictionary Corner?
30:25Heretics, we had for eight.
30:26Heretics was there. Yes.
30:28But I think that was it. Eucrites is amazing.
30:30It's amazing.
30:31Dave, final numbers round in your choosing.
30:33Let's go back to my old favourite, Too Large.
30:35Why not? Just for fun.
30:37Last numbers of this contest.
30:40And they are...
30:50And the final target, 473.
30:52473, last numbers.
31:10ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
31:25473, Dave.
31:26473.
31:28473.
31:29And, Killian?
31:30473.
31:31Off you go, Mr Koppelmann.
31:336 minus 2 is 4.
31:35I think competitive Colin, who hasn't got this, is going to kick himself.
31:38Thanks for pointing that out.
31:39Times 100.
31:40400.
31:42Plus 75.
31:43Go away.
31:44Minus 2.
31:46Minus 2.
31:47473, yep.
31:48It's the pressure of this quarter-final.
31:50Killian?
31:51I did it a different way, completely.
31:5375 plus 2, plus 2.
31:5679.
31:57Times 6.
31:58Times 6 is 474.
32:00And minus the 1.
32:02And take away the 1.
32:03Plenty of ways for this one, Colin.
32:04Well done.
32:05APPLAUSE
32:08And you broke the century.
32:09109 plays 81.
32:12That means Killian will be into that semi-final,
32:15returning on Wednesday of next week.
32:19But let's duck the eyes, cross the Ts,
32:21as we ask Killian and Dave to put their fingers on the buzzers
32:26as we reveal this Thursday afternoon's Countdown Conundrum.
32:29TENSE MUSIC PLAYS
32:38TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES
33:00Marcus, you're staring at me either confused or you have it.
33:04I'm confused. I'm confused!
33:06Shall we just reveal it?
33:07If you got this at home, well done.
33:10Inoculant! Inoculant!
33:12Wow! If that had been a crucial Countdown Conundrum,
33:15it would have been something else.
33:17But it wasn't.
33:18But, Dave Koppelman, 81 points.
33:20I'm glad I pointed out at the start just how formidable you are.
33:24Look what I have down here for you.
33:26Everybody gets this to take home.
33:28This is a memento of making the final eight of Series 87.
33:31So thank you so much for being here.
33:33Thank you. Thank you, well done.
33:34APPLAUSE
33:37Kellyanne, you needed to pull out maximums and all sorts
33:39to make that work today, didn't you?
33:41Yeah, that was really tough.
33:42Very well played, Dave. Really well played.
33:44Well, a second seed.
33:45The pressure will be on again next Wednesday.
33:47We'll see you then. Cheers.
33:48And, Marcus, I hope in Series 88 we can see you again.
33:51I would love to come back.
33:52What a privilege to be next to such amazing players.
33:55Well done. Good.
33:56Well, listen, we ring the one number
33:57and if Rachel Parris isn't available, we will have you.
34:00Thanks, mate.
34:02Susie, see you tomorrow. Yeah, look forward to it.
34:04Maggie Adderham-Polcock will be in Dictionary Corner.
34:08Rachel, that was close enough.
34:09It was good, but both of our top two seeds lost points,
34:12so it could be anybody's team.
34:14Yeah, never take it for granted.
34:16Two of the hottest players of the recent era, of all time, really.
34:20I mean, we're talking about history makers,
34:22but nothing is over until it's over.
34:24We'll see if they meet in that final.
34:26Two more quarterfinals, two more semifinals to go.
34:29The third quarterfinal of the week tomorrow,
34:31same time, same place.
34:32Rachel, Susie and I will be here.
34:34Thank you for being kind on us.
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