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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:03CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:34On the very day that way back in 1925,
00:37the late, great Gerald Durrell was born.
00:41He'd be 90 today, of course.
00:43He was a wonderful writer.
00:45He wrote such things as My Family And Other Animals.
00:47His brother was Lawrence Durrell, who wrote the Alexandria Quartet.
00:51But Gerald, of course, his great passion was the conservation of animals
00:57and his zoo in Jersey, Rachel, now the Durrell Wildlife Park,
01:02was established way back in 1958.
01:04And I think after a while he became really rather pessimistic about zoos,
01:08but conservation was his great thing.
01:11And he carried it out with the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.
01:16And I know that your family are devoted to animals.
01:19Your brother's crackers about animals.
01:21Yeah, absolutely. I've actually been to Durrell's in Jersey.
01:24Have you? They had a backstage tour.
01:26It wasn't like zoos. They don't call it a zoo.
01:28They call it wildlife conservation.
01:30And they gave us a tour of all the stuff they do around the world.
01:33And they do do a good job to... Indeed.
01:35..try and save some endangered species.
01:37Good for you. All right. Now, then, who have we got with us today?
01:40Why, Andy Noden's back.
01:42Won his third game yesterday.
01:44The speed with which you crack these conundrums is really quite breathtaking.
01:49You're joined by Ruth Bland,
01:51a retired administrative officer from Amberlin, Northumberland.
01:55You have moths. Yes.
01:57And they got you into trouble once upon a time.
01:59Yes. What was that about?
02:01It's the big, furry ones, the ones with the big, furry bodies.
02:04Yes. And I was driving to the station at Gidea Park in Essex...
02:08Yes. ..to pick my husband up. Yes.
02:10And I got to this roundabout
02:12and these two big, hairy moths came out of the air vents.
02:15Oh! And I stopped the car on the roundabout,
02:19opened the door, left the engine running
02:21and got out and yelled for help to somebody
02:24to get the moths out.
02:26I don't mind little ones and I think butterflies are beautiful.
02:29Yes, indeed. Well, anyway, relax.
02:32And let's have a big round of applause, then, for Andy and Ruth.
02:41And we turn now to Susie. Susie, the fear of moths is...?
02:46Motophobia. So, M-O-T-O-P-H-I-A. So, you're motophobic.
02:51And welcome back, Jon Culture, again.
02:53I'm completely with you on the moths. I don't like moths, either.
02:56If you're sort of near a butterfly, the butterfly sort of goes,
02:59well, hello. But if you go near a moth, it goes, get off.
03:02There's something aggressive about them. I completely agree.
03:05Very good. Well done. Thank you, Jon.
03:07Now, then, let's get down to business here.
03:09Andy, will you take us away on a letters game?
03:11Afternoon, Rachel. Afternoon, Andy.
03:13Consonant, please, to start. Thank you. Start today with Y.
03:16And another, please.
03:19Another, please.
03:22A vowel.
03:25A vowel.
03:27Another vowel, please.
03:29Another vowel.
03:32A consonant.
03:34And another consonant, please.
03:36And the last one, P.
03:38And here's the Countdown Clock.
03:48CLOCK TICKS
04:10Andy. Six.
04:12A six. Six, not written down.
04:14All right. Ruth, tell us what you've got.
04:17Phobia.
04:19Well done. Well done.
04:21And Andy. I'm the same.
04:23Very well.
04:25Well done. No doubt.
04:27Now, then. I'm the same. And you two?
04:29Susie Dent.
04:31It was just too good to be true, that one, wasn't it?
04:33Yeah. Anything else?
04:35No, we were giggling at that one.
04:37Indeed. So, six points apiece,
04:39and it's Ruth Bland's letters game now.
04:42Hello, Rachel. Hi, Ruth.
04:44Can I have my consonant, please? Of course, thank you.
04:46M.
04:48And another.
04:50T.
04:52And a third.
04:54N.
04:56And a vowel, please.
04:58I.
05:00And another one.
05:02A.
05:04And a third one.
05:06U.
05:08And a consonant.
05:10F.
05:12And a vowel.
05:14F.
05:44Yes, Ruth?
05:46Five.
05:48Andy? Six.
05:50Ruth?
05:52Faint.
05:54Thank you, Andy.
05:56Fonkier. Fonkier?
05:58Fonkier.
06:00F-U-N-K-I-E-R.
06:02I-A. OK. It's another botanical name.
06:05It's another name for the hofster,
06:07which has got the shade-tolerant foliage
06:10and loose clusters of tubular flowers,
06:13and the white will move, I think. Very, very good.
06:15That is terrific. Amazing.
06:17Well done. Thank you, Andy. Excellent stuff.
06:20And in the corner, John?
06:22There was a couple more sixes, intake,
06:25and minuet.
06:27Therefore, a pair of sixes.
06:29Thank you very much. Susie, that's it?
06:31That's it. A little minuet.
06:3312 plays. Ruth, six.
06:35And we're with the numbers. Andy?
06:37Deja vu. One large.
06:39Thank you, Andy.
06:41Your favourite pick. One large one, five little ones.
06:44And the first numbers game of the day is six, one, eight,
06:49another eight, another one, and 75.
06:52Could be interesting.
06:54And the target, 378.
06:56378.
07:11MUSIC PLAYS
07:28Andy?
07:30377.
07:32One away. Ruth?
07:34I think I've got 378, but I'm not sure.
07:37Well, do you want a shot at it?
07:39Six minus one.
07:41Six minus one is five.
07:43Times 75.
07:45Times 75 is 375.
07:48I've said 385.
07:51I've done it wrong.
07:53So we turn now to Andy.
07:55Starting off in the same way.
07:57Six minus one is five, times by 75.
08:01Then eight over eight is one.
08:04Yes.
08:05Add the other one, so 375.
08:07Well done. Yeah, two away. 377.
08:09Two away. Now then, Rachel.
08:12Help us.
08:14What you could have said was six minus one is five,
08:1875 minus one is 74.
08:21Multiply those two together for 370 and then add on the eight of 378.
08:25There we are.
08:30She makes it so simple.
08:32So simple.
08:3418 plays Ruth six,
08:37as we turn to a teatime teaser,
08:40which is Gran Isn't.
08:43And the clue, Gran isn't happy.
08:46She's known for these verbal outbursts.
08:49Gran isn't happy. She's known for these verbal outbursts.
08:53APPLAUSE
09:08Welcome back. I left with the clue, Gran isn't happy.
09:11She's known for these verbal outbursts,
09:13or rantings, as they're known.
09:16Rantings.
09:18Now then, Andy, 19, Ruth on six, plenty of time.
09:21Letters game.
09:23Consonant, please.
09:25Thank you, Ruth. T
09:27And a vowel.
09:29A
09:31And another vowel, please.
09:33E
09:35Consonant.
09:37C
09:39Another consonant.
09:41P
09:43Consonant.
09:45M
09:47Vowel.
09:49I
09:51And a consonant, please.
09:53And lastly, D.
09:55The clock starts now.
10:19CLOCK TICKS
10:27Yes, Ruth? Six.
10:29A six. Andy?
10:31A very ropey seven.
10:33Ropey seven. So, Ruth?
10:35Camped.
10:37Andy?
10:39Pumiced.
10:41To pumice.
10:43Can you just spell it out for me, Andy?
10:45P-U-M-I-C-E-D
10:47Pumice is, of course, that volcanic rock
10:49that you use to shed off any hard skin
10:52and all the softness underneath.
10:54Pumice stone in the bathroom, yeah.
10:56Yeah, but there is a verb. Very good.
10:58Well, what have we got in the corner?
11:00There is an eight amid all of those
11:03and impacted is lying there for an eight.
11:07Very good. Impacted.
11:13Our old friend the impacted wisdom tooth.
11:16No, then, Andy. Letters game.
11:18Vowel, please.
11:20Thank you, Andy.
11:22A. Another, please.
11:24I. Consonant, please.
11:26C.
11:28Consonant.
11:30V. Vowel.
11:32E. Consonant.
11:34D. Vowel.
11:36O. Consonant.
11:38L.
11:40And another consonant, please.
11:42And finish, P.
11:44Stand by.
12:15Well, Andy. Seven.
12:17A seven. Ruth?
12:21Six.
12:22A six, all right.
12:24And your six?
12:25Placed.
12:26Thank you. Andy?
12:27Policed.
12:28Policed.
12:29Very good.
12:30Very good.
12:31John?
12:32Susie?
12:33Yeah, we got policed over this end as well.
12:35Pedalo was there for another six.
12:37Yep.
12:38Which was quite nice in the mix.
12:40Nothing more than seven.
12:41Pedalo.
12:42So, Andy on 33, Ruth on six, but this time, Ruth,
12:46and now it's numbers for you.
12:48Yeah. One from the top, please, Rachel,
12:50and five from the two rows on your left.
12:55That's it. On your left.
12:57So, five out of these ones?
12:59Yes, please.
13:00There we go. Thank you, Ruth.
13:02Right, for this round, the five small ones are
13:04one, ten, nine, five, and another ten,
13:09and the large one, 100.
13:11And the target, 922.
13:13922.
13:40Yes, Ruth?
13:42921.
13:44921. Andy?
13:46A 921.
13:47Yes. So, Ruth?
13:49100 times nine.
13:51100 times nine, 900.
13:53Ten plus ten.
13:55Ten plus ten, 20.
13:57Plus the one.
13:58921, one below.
14:00Mm. Andy, same, Ruth, and I'm the same way.
14:03Yeah.
14:04I think we were all there.
14:07But Rachel is now going to help us out, I hope.
14:11Rachel?
14:12Yes, if you say 100 minus nine plus one is 92,
14:17multiplied by ten for 920,
14:20and then the other ten divided by five is two,
14:23to add on for 922.
14:25Well done, Rachel. Perfect.
14:27APPLAUSE
14:28There we are.
14:30They took the easy route, didn't they?
14:33There we go, 40 plays, 13,
14:35and now we turn to John Culshaw.
14:39What have you got, John?
14:40Well, a sideline of mine over the last year
14:44has been writing a column in the Sky At Night magazine
14:47called Exoplanet Excursions,
14:50because nowadays planets outside of the solar system
14:53are being discovered almost weekly,
14:55and some of them are very, very, very strange places.
15:00And so I write a sort of travelogue,
15:03as if it would be some place you could actually visit,
15:06and what it would look like, what it would feel like,
15:08what it would sound like.
15:09And my favourite one so far is a planet called 55 Cancri e,
15:14and it's about eight times the size of the planet Earth,
15:1741 light-years away,
15:18and through very incredible methods,
15:21astronomers know that this planet's made of carbon
15:24and a lot of graphite,
15:25which means that the volcanic activity,
15:27it will rain diamonds on this planet.
15:30It will rain diamonds,
15:31and because it's very close to its star,
15:33it doesn't turn on its axis.
15:34So the star will be in the sky the whole time and never move.
15:38So it rains diamonds.
15:39Some of these diamonds will fall on the mountains,
15:41creating this translucent glass-like effect,
15:45and so the sun will cut through it,
15:47and these diamonds on the mountaintops
15:49will act like a prism,
15:51casting a permanent ray of light
15:53into the sky.
15:54Imagine an alien scene like that.
15:57And just thinking of alien planets in this wistful way,
16:01it sort of took me to Alan Bennett
16:03and how he might think of the planet Venus.
16:06Bit of a swerve, but I don't care.
16:09One afternoon on Venus is the length of 124 Earth days.
16:15Imagine an afternoon of such impressive duration.
16:18Putting that into language we Earth people understand,
16:21that means we'd have to consume 5,982 cups of tea
16:26and 15,012 creamed biscuits
16:29just to get to the end of one afternoon.
16:32We'd have to sigh wistfully 83,000 times at the curtains
16:37and watch 130 editions of Countdown.
16:40It'd feel almost as long as a wet Sunday afternoon
16:43I spent at my Auntie Edith's in 1973
16:46admiring her collection of knitted macaroons.
16:49Thinking it through, I'm quite happy where I am,
16:52although space seems quite nice in its own way.
16:55As my learned neighbour Leonard once said,
16:58welcome to the universe, you'll never leave.
17:02APPLAUSE
17:04Very good.
17:06Very good.
17:08Beautifully read, John.
17:10Now, 40 plays, Ruth's 13, and we turn back to Andy.
17:14Andy, strong performance again. Letters.
17:17Start with a consonant, please.
17:19Thank you, Andy. S
17:21Another consonant, please.
17:23T
17:24A vowel.
17:25E
17:26Another vowel.
17:28A
17:29And another.
17:30U
17:31Consonant.
17:33S
17:34Another consonant.
17:35M
17:36A vowel.
17:38I
17:39And a final consonant, please.
17:41And a final D.
17:43Stand by.
17:47MUSIC PLAYS
17:49MUSIC CONTINUES
18:15Yes, Andy?
18:16Eight.
18:17And Ruth?
18:18Seven.
18:19And your seven?
18:20Er, misused.
18:22Thank you. Andy?
18:23Stadiums.
18:25Stadiums.
18:26You prefer stadia, don't you?
18:28I'm easy either way, to be quite honest.
18:30OK. These three tracks for chariot races, those were the original.
18:33They would definitely have been stadia in those days.
18:36Well, aren't they? Really?
18:38So, John, what do you think?
18:40There was another seven in there, no more than eight,
18:43but D, Mists, was a rather nice seven in the collection that round.
18:47Very good. So, Andy on 48, Ruth, 13, and Ruth, your letters game now.
18:52Er, consonant, please.
18:54Thank you, Ruth. N
18:56And another one.
18:58D
18:59And a vowel.
19:01A
19:02And another.
19:04E
19:05And a third one.
19:07A
19:08And a consonant.
19:09R
19:11Another.
19:13J
19:14Whoops.
19:15And a consonant.
19:18S
19:19And a vowel.
19:20And lastly.
19:22O
19:23And here's the clock.
19:45O
19:46O
19:47O
19:48O
19:49O
19:50O
19:51O
19:52O
19:53O
19:54O
19:55O
19:56O
19:57R
19:58Ruth?
19:59Six, not written down.
20:01A six. How about Andy? A sex.
20:03Ruth?
20:04A dawn's.
20:05A dawn's. Thank you. Andy?
20:07Reason.
20:09Reason.
20:11Yes, nice. I like a dawn's. We haven't seen that one. Very good.
20:14One more six in there, arenas.
20:16Yes.
20:18Arenae.
20:19No, arenas, that goes back to the Latin for sand,
20:22because where the gladiators fought there'd be lots of gore and blood
20:25and the sand would soak up the spillage.
20:28Good thought.
20:29Sorry to lower the tone there.
20:31Good thought not at all.
20:32Yeah.
20:33Very important.
20:3454 plays 19 and it's numbers again.
20:36Now, there's Rachel. Andy, what would you like to ask her?
20:40Do you want to guess?
20:41Same again?
20:42Correct.
20:43Thank you, Andy.
20:44And there are four or five little ones.
20:46And this time your numbers are seven, eight, two, another two,
20:52one and a large one, 25.
20:55And a target, 249.
20:58249.
21:13MUSIC PLAYS
21:31Andy?
21:33Yeah, 249.
21:35And Ruth?
21:36249.
21:37Thank you. Andy?
21:38Eight plus two.
21:39Eight plus two, ten.
21:41Times five, 25.
21:43Minus one.
21:44Nice and straightforward, 249.
21:46And Ruth, same?
21:47Same.
21:48Just check that out.
21:49Are we happy?
21:50Well done.
21:51APPLAUSE
21:5564 plays Ruth's 29 as we turn to a tea time teaser,
21:58which is Cling Now.
22:00And the clue, the orange and white fish is always mucking about.
22:04The orange and white fish is always mucking about.
22:09MUSIC PLAYS
22:12APPLAUSE
22:24Welcome back.
22:25I left with the clue, the orange and white fish is always mucking about.
22:29And the answer is that it's clowning.
22:32Clowning.
22:34Clownfish.
22:3564-29, Andy in the lead.
22:38Ruth, your letters game.
22:40A consonant, please.
22:42Thank you, Ruth.
22:43G.
22:44And another.
22:46D.
22:47And a third.
22:49T.
22:50And a vowel, please.
22:52E.
22:53And another vowel.
22:54A.
22:56And another.
22:58O.
22:59Consonant.
23:01N.
23:02Another consonant.
23:04G.
23:06And a final consonant, please.
23:08And a final F.
23:10Dun, dun.
23:12MUSIC PLAYS
23:38MUSIC STOPS
23:44Yes, Ruth.
23:45Six.
23:46Andy.
23:47Seven.
23:48Ruth.
23:49Neg.
23:52Andy.
23:53Tangled.
23:54Tangoed.
23:55Yes.
23:56Another great countdown word, tangoed.
23:59And Susie, John.
24:01Well, tongued was there for a six,
24:03but there's a rather good eight-letter word in there, isn't there?
24:06The faggoted.
24:07Yeah.
24:08Is there for eight.
24:09Faggoted?
24:10Yeah.
24:11A faggot is a bundle of sticks bound together as fuel
24:13and if you collect them and bind them,
24:15then you have the verb to faggot them.
24:17All right.
24:18So, Andy, how about a letters game?
24:20Consonant, please, Rachel.
24:22Thank you, Andy.
24:23P.
24:24And another.
24:26N.
24:27One more.
24:29T.
24:30A vowel, please.
24:31I.
24:32Another vowel.
24:33U.
24:34Another vowel.
24:35O.
24:36One more.
24:38E.
24:39A consonant.
24:40G.
24:41And a consonant, please.
24:42And the last one, N.
24:44Stand by.
25:05MUSIC
25:16What do you make of it, Andy?
25:18Seven.
25:19A seven. How about Ruth?
25:20Seven.
25:21Andy?
25:22Poutine.
25:24And...
25:25Pouting.
25:26Pouting.
25:27Pouting.
25:28Yeah.
25:29Pouting, very good.
25:30And poutine is...
25:32You find this particularly in Canada.
25:34Potato chips are chips topped with cheese curds and gravy.
25:37That is your poutine.
25:39Never heard of it.
25:40Now then, John.
25:41Another seven was there.
25:43Opening for another seven.
25:45Yeah.
25:46Anything else?
25:47No, we were pouting otherwise.
25:48Yeah.
25:49Yeah.
25:50All right.
25:51Now the penguin race.
25:53Yeah, I wonder how many of these got bought over Christmas.
25:55A lot, I imagine.
25:56With cuddly penguins.
25:57Extraordinary, wasn't it?
25:58Yeah.
25:59All right.
26:00Now then, 78 to 36.
26:02And now we're back with Susie.
26:04Oh, bless an hour.
26:07Your origin of word, Susie, come on.
26:09Thanks, Nick.
26:10Well, I was going to talk about two expressions in English,
26:13two idioms that have to do with the fiddle.
26:15The first one is to fiddle while Rome burns,
26:18so doing nothing at a time when action is absolutely required.
26:22And according to legend, the music mad, Emperor Nero,
26:27fiddled while a devastating fire swept through Rome.
26:31And rumour had it that he himself had started this fire
26:35in order to rebuild Rome, the city,
26:38on the scale that he wanted, which was much grander.
26:41He blamed the arson on the Christians
26:43and they were persecuted as a result.
26:46This was the legend, but in fact it couldn't quite have happened
26:49because the fiddle wasn't invented at that time.
26:52His instrument of choice was the lyre.
26:54However, some historical accounts do say that, in fact,
26:58he did nothing to stop the fire.
27:00And some Roman historians, again,
27:02do claim that he sang while the fire was burning.
27:05So whatever the truth, that is where the idiom comes from.
27:08And then we also have fiddle sticks, which I really like.
27:11Slightly old-fashioned now, it's an exclamation of nonsense, really.
27:14And that goes back to the 17th century.
27:16And there is a very popular story attached to this,
27:19which is that the wooden bars that were used to stop crockery
27:22sliding off tables aboard a ship were the fiddle sticks.
27:25They were, in fact, called the fiddles,
27:27but there's no evidence to suggest the sticks came with them.
27:30We know that a fiddle stick was first a violin bow.
27:34Both fiddle and violin, incidentally,
27:36come from the Roman goddess of joy, Vitula,
27:39and she gave her name to the stringed instrument.
27:42Fiddle stick began to be used for something insignificant and trivial,
27:46perhaps because a violin bow was seen as something
27:49such as light and inconsequential,
27:51or perhaps simply because the word sounds very silly.
27:54Again, not completely sure,
27:56but I think fiddle sticks for nonsense is brilliant
27:58and we should keep it going.
28:00Wonderful. Thank you.
28:06Very good.
28:0778 plays 36 as we move to Ruth for a letters game.
28:11Consonant, please.
28:12Thank you, Ruth.
28:14R
28:15And another one.
28:17W
28:19Vowel.
28:21I
28:22And another.
28:24E
28:25And another.
28:26A
28:27Consonant.
28:29M
28:30And another one.
28:32T
28:33Vowel.
28:35E
28:36And a consonant.
28:38And the last one, S.
28:40And here's the Countdown Clock.
28:52CLOCK TICKS
29:14Yes, Ruth?
29:15Seven.
29:16A seven.
29:17Eighth.
29:18And an eight.
29:19So, Ruth?
29:20Waiters.
29:21Andy?
29:22Emirates.
29:23Emirates. Very good.
29:25Great. Fantastic.
29:26I like the Emirates.
29:27Very good. The Emirates of the Gulf.
29:29Yes.
29:30John, what have we got?
29:31There was a bit of a torrent of eights amongst that selection.
29:34Weariest and steamier were a couple of alternative eights that...
29:39Steamier.
29:41A steamier novel, it would be hard to imagine.
29:43And Susie?
29:45No, I was with the Emirates as well, of course.
29:47Emirates.
29:48Yes.
29:49It's 36 and we're into the final letters game, Andy.
29:54Vowel, please.
29:55Thank you, Andy. U.
29:57Another vowel, please.
29:58O.
29:59Consonant.
30:01T.
30:02Consonant.
30:03R.
30:04Another one, please.
30:06N.
30:07And another.
30:09L.
30:10And another.
30:12T.
30:13Vowel.
30:15A.
30:16And a final vowel, please.
30:17And a final I.
30:20Time's done.
30:47Andy?
30:48Seven.
30:49And Ruth?
30:50Six.
30:51And that six?
30:52Out ran.
30:53Out ran.
30:54Now then, Andy.
30:55You don't like this one.
30:56Reign out.
30:57Reign out.
30:58You don't like that, no.
30:59It's very true.
31:00Andy's been watching, I can tell.
31:02Yeah, a cancellation or premature ending of an event because of rain.
31:05It's very American.
31:06It hasn't really come over here yet.
31:08Reigned off, we would say.
31:10Well, it's a bit of a...
31:11It's a bit of a...
31:12It's a bit of a...
31:13It's a bit of a...
31:14It's a bit of a...
31:15Reigned off, we would say.
31:17What about John Culshaw?
31:18Yeah, reign out.
31:19It's not cricket, is it?
31:21Not at all.
31:23Titular was there again, second time this week.
31:26Yes.
31:27For another seven.
31:28Some words, they stalk us, don't they?
31:30I come roaring back again and again.
31:32Now then, Susie, anything else?
31:33Nothing else, Nick.
31:34All right.
31:35Reigned off.
31:3693 plays 36, final numbers game.
31:39Ruth Bland.
31:42One from the top and five from those two left-hand lines, please.
31:47Another one large, five little ones.
31:49And for the final time today, the numbers are 9, 2, 10, 3, 5 and 50.
31:58And the target, 413.
32:00413.
32:12Yes, Ruth?
32:34412, not written down.
32:37One away.
32:38Andy?
32:39413.
32:40413.
32:4250 minus 3.
32:4450 minus 3, 47.
32:46Times by 9.
32:47Times by 9, 423.
32:49And minus the 10.
32:50413, lovely.
32:52Neatly done.
32:53Well done, Andy.
32:54APPLAUSE
32:57And through the hundred mark, well done, 103 points.
33:01Excellent stuff.
33:02So we're at the final round.
33:04So, Andy Norton, Ruth Bland, fingers on buzzers, please.
33:08Please reveal today's countdown conundrum.
33:22BUZZER
33:25Rather slow, Andy.
33:26Go on.
33:27Impaction.
33:28Mmm?
33:29Impaction.
33:30Oh, I'm not sure.
33:31Let's see whether you're right.
33:34We are right!
33:35APPLAUSE
33:37Well done, Andy.
33:45You sounded doubtful, I certainly was.
33:47And you were very slow on that.
33:49Look at this.
33:50All about 12 seconds.
33:52He's normally in under a second, you know.
33:55Extraordinary.
33:56Well done.
33:57Well done again.
33:58113, great score.
34:00And we shall see you tomorrow.
34:02Sadly, we're going to have to say cheerio to Ruth Bland.
34:06Will you drag this goodie bag back with you?
34:08Yeah, that's what I came for, was for the dictionary.
34:11You've got one, there we are.
34:12Well, you've been a lot of fun, well done.
34:15Excellent stuff.
34:16See you tomorrow.
34:17Yep.
34:18We shall see Susie and John tomorrow too.
34:20You will.
34:21God willing.
34:22And Rachel too.
34:23See you tomorrow.
34:24Excellent stuff.
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