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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.
00:34It's a Friday, it's January, and for many of us,
00:37our thoughts begin to turn to getting away,
00:41to having fun, vacations, travel.
00:44Well, if you're feeling adventurous, you like the water,
00:47why don't you head down to Excel and the London Boat Show?
00:51They're all there, from dinghies to superyachts,
00:54from eight-foot to huge to huge.
00:57There's surely something there for everybody who fancies setting sail.
01:02Ship ahoy.
01:04Some people, Rachel, crave a life on the ocean wave,
01:07and I'm not one of them. Do you fancy sailing?
01:10I would, actually, especially what you did over the summer
01:13with my friend's dad.
01:15Yes, yes! You had my friend's dad as your captain, didn't you?
01:18Well, not my captain.
01:20I was on a big superyacht as a guest,
01:23and your pal's dad was the captain.
01:26What a good guy he was.
01:28Captain Jekylls. I'm jealous, I've never been out with them.
01:31I love looking at the big yachts in Portofino and Cannes.
01:34So I was over the summer, I was just staring at them,
01:37and you were on them. Next time, I'll go in your suitcase.
01:40I'm staying on shore.
01:42Now, who have we got with us? We've got Andy Noden.
01:45Back with us again. Another big victory yesterday.
01:48Well done, although you lost the conundrum.
01:51But hoping to finish off the week with a sixth win.
01:54Hopefully.
01:56Godspeed to you, and you're joined by Basia Foster,
02:00a hospice worker originally from Birmingham, now living in Leicester.
02:04And your favourite place in the whole world is Krakow.
02:07And you own an apartment in Krakow. How did this come about?
02:11Have you got Polish antecedents?
02:13I have. Both my parents are from Poland, and my mum's actually from Krakow.
02:17So I've still got family there.
02:19It's a beautiful city, and you bought an apartment. How clever of you.
02:23Well, good luck to you both, to Basia and to Andy.
02:26Big round of applause for today's contestants.
02:33And in the corner, as ever, the wonderful Susie Dent.
02:36And joined for the last time, until we can persuade them to come back,
02:39which will not be too long, I trust,
02:41the wonderful John Culshaw, comedian and impressionist.
02:45It's been a gorgeous week. It always is,
02:47when I have the chance to spend a little time here.
02:50It's a pleasure to have you, and you've kept us enthralled.
02:53But now it's time for Andy to amaze us.
02:56A letters game. Andy.
02:58Hiya, Rachel. Hi, Andy.
03:00Consonant, please, to start. Thank you. Start today with R.
03:03And a vowel.
03:05U. Another vowel.
03:07E. Another vowel.
03:09I. Another vowel.
03:13A. A consonant.
03:15T. Another consonant.
03:17C. Another one, please.
03:19M. And a final consonant.
03:21And a final K.
03:24And here comes the Countdown Clock.
03:49CLOCK CHIMES
03:58Andy. Seven.
04:00And Basha. Seven.
04:02Andy. Muriate.
04:04Yes, Basha.
04:06Maquia. Maquia.
04:08Now, take your pick.
04:10Well, I like both of them.
04:12Muriate comes from muriatic acid.
04:14It's a salt or ester of muriatic acid,
04:17and muriate is a hydrochloric acid.
04:21And maquia just sounds great, I think.
04:24And in the corner?
04:26No, we were with those, actually. I was looking at muriate.
04:28All right, well done.
04:30So, seven apiece and Basha.
04:32Letters.
04:34I'll start with a consonant, please.
04:36Thank you, Basha.
04:38T. And another one.
04:40R. And another one.
04:43L.
04:45E. And another one.
04:47O.
04:49And a consonant.
04:51V.
04:54And a vowel.
04:56I.
04:58Consonant.
05:00M.
05:02Another consonant.
05:04And finally, F.
05:06Stand by.
05:08CLOCK CHIMES
05:15WHISTLE BLOWS
05:38Yes, Basha?
05:40Seven.
05:42Seven. Andy?
05:44Trefoil.
05:46Trefoil. Wow.
05:48And Andy?
05:50Vomiter.
05:52Oh, a vomiter. OK.
05:54That is there.
05:56That's absolutely fine. Derivative of vomit, obviously.
05:58And trefoil is fantastic.
06:00It's a small plant of the pea family,
06:02and it has yellow flowers in three lobes, just like clover.
06:05Very good. Tre being three, presumably.
06:07Yes.
06:09Now then, what have we got? John?
06:11There's another seven in there.
06:13You could be over-lit.
06:15You could be over-lit by a bad photographer, for instance.
06:18You could be.
06:20Heaven for femme, that should have happened.
06:2214 points apiece. Andy, first numbers game.
06:25Can I have one large, please?
06:27You can, you're usual pick.
06:29One large and five little ones. Thank you, Andy.
06:32And for the first time today,
06:34the numbers are ten, four, two,
06:37three, seven and 25.
06:40And the target, 627.
06:42627.
07:11Andy?
07:13627.
07:15Thank you, Basha.
07:17Oh, I didn't get it.
07:19No? No.
07:21Down to Andy, then. Yeah.
07:23It was seven times three...
07:25Seven times three is 21.
07:27Plus the four.
07:29Plus the four for 25.
07:31Times by the 25.
07:33Times by the 25 was 625.
07:35And you got there. Well done, 627.
07:37Smartly done, Andy.
07:39Well done.
07:43Very good indeed.
07:45So you've sprung a ten-point lead there, 24.
07:47To Basha's 14, as we go into a tea-time teaser,
07:50which is Tom Issue.
07:52And the clue...
07:54Tom has an issue with Gerry because he's this.
07:57Tom has an issue with Gerry because he's this.
08:10APPLAUSE
08:17Welcome back. I left with a clue.
08:19Tom has an issue with Gerry because he's this.
08:22Because he's...
08:24the mousiest.
08:26Mousiest. Seems a bit unfair.
08:28Andy on 24.
08:30Basha, 14. Basha, your letters game.
08:33OK, Rachel, I'll start with a consonant, please.
08:36Thank you, Basha.
08:38D
08:40And another one, please.
08:42N
08:44And another one.
08:46X
08:48I'll try a vowel.
08:50E
08:52And another vowel.
08:54A
08:56And another vowel.
08:58I
09:00And a consonant.
09:02H
09:04Another consonant.
09:07Another consonant.
09:09And the last one.
09:11N
09:13Countdown.
09:36MUSIC
09:44Yes, Basha.
09:46Seven.
09:48Seven. Andy?
09:49Seven as well. Basha?
09:51Chained.
09:52Chained. And?
09:53Echidna.
09:55Yes, thank you.
09:57Susie?
09:58Well, for once we anticipated, Andy.
10:00Echidna is absolutely brilliant.
10:02It's another name, in fact, for the spiny anteater.
10:05Excellent word. And John?
10:07Those were the words that appeared over here in that order.
10:10Chained and echidna.
10:12And there were no others. Well done.
10:14Well done, Andy. That's a sparkling one.
10:1631-21, Andy in the lead. Andy's back on with the letters game. Andy?
10:21Vowel, please. Thank you, Andy.
10:23E
10:24Another vowel, please.
10:25A
10:26Consonant.
10:28R
10:29Consonant.
10:31M
10:32Vowel.
10:34I
10:35A vowel.
10:37O
10:38Consonant.
10:39D
10:40Consonant.
10:42W
10:43And another consonant, please.
10:45And lastly, T.
10:46And the clock starts now.
11:04CLOCK TICKS
11:19Yes, Andy?
11:21Seven.
11:22Basha?
11:23Six.
11:24And that six?
11:25Admire.
11:26Admire.
11:27Readmit.
11:28To readmit.
11:29Very nice.
11:31Very nice.
11:32Very good.
11:33What else have we got there? John, Susie?
11:35There's a rather nice eight. Mediator.
11:37Yes.
11:38Is there for eight.
11:39And...
11:40Ooh, yes, another eight.
11:42Susie just has some news just in.
11:44Midwater.
11:46Yes, we were talking about boats earlier.
11:49So, whales and seals feed in midwater or on the seabed,
11:53is the example given.
11:54Oh, so it's a depth issue.
11:56APPLAUSE
11:58OK.
12:0038-21. Andy in the lead.
12:03Basha, numbers for you.
12:05I'll have one from the top and then you as a five, please.
12:08Thank you, Basha. One big, five little again.
12:11And this time the little ones are ten, three, seven,
12:16another seven, eight, and the large one, 100.
12:20And the target, 848.
12:23848.
12:25CLOCK TICKS
12:30CLOCK TICKS
12:56Yes, Basha?
12:57849.
12:59849, Andy.
13:01848.
13:03Come on.
13:057 minus 3...
13:077 minus 3 is 4.
13:09..is 4.
13:1010 minus 4 is 6.
13:12Yep.
13:13100 plus 6.
13:14106.
13:15Sounds about right.
13:16Perfect. 848.
13:17Can I get a wee-wee?
13:19APPLAUSE
13:21Well done.
13:23Very impressive.
13:25We've had a good start at 21, but now we turn to John.
13:29Now, then, John, it's general election year.
13:32It is 2015, the general election looming,
13:36and I think last time the political characters
13:40were a little bit, often described as being a bit grey
13:45and uninteresting.
13:47We did have Gordon Brown with his vast array of hand gestures,
13:50some in this direction and some by way of a contrast
13:53in that direction, or over here, in this manner.
13:56But I think there's quite a nice little mix of characters now
13:59and it's shaping up rather nicely.
14:01You know, David Cameron, very posh with his repeated hand gesture
14:04as though he's having a very busy game of Hungry Hippos, like that.
14:07And of course, Michael Farage, paint myself yellow,
14:09I'll become a proper Simpson, waiter, mine's a bottle of wine,
14:12in fact, forget the bottle, just tie me down and waterboard me with it.
14:15The Dead Ringer's writers gave Nick Clegg a very simple catchphrase.
14:20Hello, I'm Nick Clegg, sorry about that.
14:25And of course, you know, to sort of bail us out, of course,
14:28we have the beautiful, skilled buffoonery of Boris Johnson,
14:32the only fellow outside the B&O who says
14:34cripes and stone the crows and by golly gosh, blah!
14:39It's just before he goes off to have a shampoo with a water cannon, blah!
14:43But I think perhaps my favourite in terms of comedy
14:47is the sort of pleading sense that comes from Ed Miliband.
14:51And look, you know, viewers of Countdown,
14:55what I say to people when I go up and down the country
14:59and I talk to the hard-working people of Great Britain on their doorstep,
15:03what they say to me when I'm on their doorstep,
15:06when I'm going up and down the country,
15:08talking to the hard-working people of Great Britain on the doorstep,
15:12look, what they say to me is,
15:14what are you, what are you doing on my doorstep?
15:17So he sort of evokes a slight bit of sympathy.
15:20But I think for comedy, Ed Miliband might be the favourite.
15:23I think, yeah, that's unusual, but you did it beautifully.
15:26Beautifully. Big round of applause.
15:28APPLAUSE
15:30Well done.
15:32Always spot on is our John Culshaw.
15:35Now then, Andy on 48, Bash at 21, and Andy's back.
15:40Start with a consonant, please.
15:43Thank you, Andy. P
15:45Another consonant, please.
15:47L
15:48And a vowel.
15:50A
15:51Another one, please.
15:53I
15:54Another vowel.
15:56O
15:57Consonant.
15:59N
16:00Consonant.
16:01S
16:02Final consonant.
16:04N
16:05And a final vowel, please.
16:07And the last one. A
16:09Countdown.
16:13B
16:40Now, Andy.
16:42Seven, I think.
16:44Basha?
16:45I've only got six.
16:47And your six?
16:48Planes.
16:49Now then, Andy.
16:50Suppenin.
16:51Suppenin.
16:52Yeah.
16:53It is a toxic compound which is present in soapwort.
16:57Believe it or not, it makes foam when shaken with water.
17:00In other words, I think it's what we use for soap.
17:03Very, very good.
17:04Very good. Now, in the corner, what use?
17:07There is an eight-letter word in that line-up, a musical one.
17:11Isn't it, I believe?
17:13Yes. Pianolas are there.
17:15Oh, the pianola.
17:17It's a piano but you put in a sort of a mechanical disc.
17:20A piano roll, yes.
17:21And it looks as though you're playing it but you have nothing to do with it.
17:24No.
17:25How funny.
17:26Lovely. Lovely sound.
17:27Very good.
17:2855 plays 21. Andy on 55.
17:30And Basha's back with a letters game.
17:33I'll start with a consonant, please.
17:35Thank you, Basha.
17:36D
17:37And another one.
17:39T
17:40T
17:41And another one.
17:43G
17:44A vowel.
17:46E
17:48Another vowel.
17:49O
17:53A consonant, please.
17:55N
17:56Another one.
17:58P
17:59A vowel.
18:02E
18:06And another vowel, please.
18:08And lastly, U.
18:10Stand by.
18:39Yes, Basha?
18:42Seven.
18:43Seven. Andy?
18:44A seven.
18:45Basha?
18:46Tongued.
18:47Thank you. Both of you?
18:48Tongued.
18:49Tongued.
18:51And in the corner?
18:52Yeah, that appeared over here as well.
18:54A couple of sixes also did.
18:56Punted and opened was there.
18:59All right.
19:0062 plays 28.
19:03And it's numbers time with Andy.
19:07One large, please.
19:09Thank you, Andy. One large, five small.
19:11And you're on a roll here,
19:12so we'll see if you can make it three in a row for this game.
19:15Don't jinx me.
19:16I'll try not to.
19:17Right, these little ones are two, five, nine, one and seven.
19:22And the big one, 75.
19:24And the target, 200.
19:27Two, zero, zero.
19:36MUSIC PLAYS
20:00Andy?
20:01200.
20:02Basha?
20:03No, 199.
20:05So let's start with Andy, then.
20:0775 times two.
20:0975 times two, 150.
20:11Nine plus one.
20:12Nine plus one is ten.
20:13Times by five.
20:14Times by five, 450.
20:16Well done.
20:17200.
20:18Three out of three.
20:19Well done.
20:23Well done, Andy.
20:2472 plays 28 as we go to a tea time teaser,
20:27which is nap, sleep.
20:29And the clue, he never has a nap or a sleep,
20:33he's too busy being mischievous.
20:35He never has a nap or a sleep, he's too busy being mischievous.
20:40MUSIC PLAYS
20:54Welcome back.
20:55I left with the clue, he never has a nap or a sleep,
20:58he's too busy being mischievous.
21:00Why?
21:01Because he's, Susie, a spall-peen.
21:04Yeah.
21:05What is this?
21:06It's an Irish word, actually, Nick, for a rascal.
21:10I love the word rascal.
21:12Late 18th century and it originally meant a migratory farm worker.
21:17A spall-peen.
21:18Yeah.
21:19Never heard it.
21:20OK.
21:21Well done, Basha.
21:22You can use it now.
21:23Well, yeah.
21:24Spall-peen.
21:25Now, then, 72 plays Basha's 28.
21:28Basha, how about a letters game?
21:31Consonant, please.
21:32Thank you, Basha.
21:33T
21:34And another one.
21:36S
21:37And another one.
21:39D
21:41And another one.
21:43Y
21:45A vowel.
21:47E
21:49And another one.
21:50O
21:51And another one.
21:53E
21:55And another one.
21:58A
21:59Consonant.
22:00And lastly, M.
22:02Stand by.
22:29Yes, Basha.
22:31Seven.
22:32A seven.
22:33Andy?
22:34Seven.
22:35Basha?
22:36Steamed.
22:37And?
22:38Mosed.
22:39Mosed?
22:41He mosed in.
22:42Yes.
22:43Susie?
22:44How are you spelling that one, Andy?
22:46M-O-S-E-Y-E-D.
22:48E-D.
22:49Absolutely correct spelling.
22:50Yes.
22:51Very good.
22:52So, John, anything else?
22:54I don't know why, but I want to know.
22:56So, John, anything else?
22:58I don't know why, but I want to say this is Richard Osman for some reason.
23:01So, yeah, many other sevens that you could have had in there.
23:05Demotes was there for a very good seven.
23:07You could have had that one.
23:09Modesty, also there for another very good seven.
23:11So, well done if you went for any of those.
23:13Very good answers.
23:14Well done if you got that at home.
23:16LAUGHTER
23:18Very good.
23:19Well done, John.
23:20Any more?
23:21No.
23:22Cranky sevens.
23:23That's a cracker.
23:24Very good.
23:2599 plays 35 now.
23:27Andy, letters game.
23:29Vowel, please.
23:30Thank you, Andy.
23:31O.
23:32Another vowel.
23:33E.
23:34Consonant.
23:36N.
23:37Another consonant.
23:39B.
23:40Consonant.
23:41R.
23:42Vowel.
23:44U.
23:45Consonant.
23:47Q.
23:48Vowel.
23:50I.
23:51And a final consonant, please.
23:53And a final L.
23:55Stand by.
24:23MUSIC
24:28Andy.
24:29Seven.
24:30Basher.
24:31Six.
24:32And your six?
24:33Boiler.
24:34Andy.
24:35Ronquil.
24:37Ronquil.
24:39Goodness.
24:40It's not a plant this time, because Andy's amazing at his plants,
24:43but he's good at fish as well.
24:44This is a slender, ocean-dwelling fish.
24:46It lives in cold coastal waters of the North Pacific.
24:49APPLAUSE
24:50Very good.
24:54Extraordinary.
24:56Now then, John.
24:58Well, in the face of all these brilliant words,
25:00you know, we've got a six and maybe we need it.
25:03Some liquor.
25:04Liquor.
25:0686 plays 35,
25:08but now we revert...
25:11..to Susie and her wonderful origins of words.
25:14Now then, Susie.
25:15Well, just a little bit of history to bless you,
25:19which people will say when you sneeze,
25:22if you're lucky.
25:23Lots of stories behind this expression,
25:25but there is a common theme that underpins all of them,
25:28and that was the belief in the Middle Ages
25:30that when you sneezed,
25:32you basically expelled your soul from your body.
25:37In doing so, you would make room for an evil spirit
25:40or, even worse, the devil himself.
25:43And the only way of bringing the soul back to the person who had sneezed
25:48was by blessing them and thus bestowing grace upon them
25:52and they would regain their soul.
25:54And as you might expect,
25:56it did become a daily expression during the Great Plague of London in 1665,
26:01when sneezing obviously was a symptom of the Black Death,
26:04in which case a blessing seemed all the more appropriate.
26:07So that was bless you,
26:09but the Black Death is also often said to be behind the nursery rhyme
26:12ring-a-ring-a-roses, pocket full of poses,
26:14a tissue we all fall down.
26:17And many people believe that the nose gays
26:21that were carried to escape the stench of death,
26:23they were the poses,
26:25and that sneezing obviously was a symptom,
26:27as well as red sores around the mouth,
26:29and that was the ring of roses.
26:31So it was all said to be the symptoms of the plague.
26:33And I mentioned the word nose gay,
26:35and we talked about this on Countdown before.
26:37It meant a nose ornament, a gay was ornament.
26:39And again, it was intended to mask the smell of unsavoury things,
26:42particularly in the days of poor sanitation.
26:44But they were also known, when I was researching these,
26:46in Victorian times as tassie massis, believe it or not.
26:49And that is a word that comes from French,
26:51and it might be related to tousser, meaning to cough,
26:54which brings us right back again to the Great Plague.
26:57Well, well, well. How extraordinary.
27:04Pepys wrote a wonderful account of the plague.
27:07It came from Holland.
27:09It came from Holland, yeah.
27:11And it came in on the ships coming in from Holland,
27:13and they sort of saw it coming.
27:16And he recounted the number of deaths per day and how it grew.
27:22It's extraordinary. Extraordinary.
27:25Very frightening.
27:2786 to Basher's 35.
27:29And, Basher, you're back on.
27:31Penultimate letters game.
27:33I'll start with a consonant.
27:35Thank you, Basher.
27:37S.
27:38And another one.
27:40R.
27:41And another one.
27:43G.
27:45And another one.
27:47P.
27:48A vowel.
27:50O.
27:51And another one.
27:53E.
27:54And another one.
27:56U.
27:59A consonant.
28:01L.
28:04And another consonant.
28:06And lastly, C.
28:08Stand by.
28:11MUSIC PLAYS
28:13MUSIC STOPS
28:40Yes, Basher?
28:42A six.
28:43A six.
28:44Eight.
28:45An eight.
28:46Basher?
28:47Groups.
28:48And?
28:49Couplers.
28:50Couplers.
28:51Yes, fantastic. I was just looking at that.
28:53Lots of senses.
28:54The main one, obviously, is something that connects two things.
28:57You can get them in music, in organs, for example,
29:00connecting notes, in photography, acoustic, couplers.
29:03Lots of senses, but they're in the dictionary.
29:06Very good. And trains, carriages, I think, are coupled.
29:09OK.
29:10Right. Final letters game for Andy, then. Andy.
29:14A vowel, please.
29:16Thank you, Andy. A.
29:18Another vowel, please.
29:20E.
29:21A consonant.
29:22B.
29:23Consonant.
29:24S.
29:25Consonant.
29:27G.
29:28Consonant.
29:29T.
29:30Another one, please.
29:32S.
29:33A vowel.
29:34O.
29:35And another vowel, please.
29:37And lastly, A.
29:39Tanka.
30:10Andy.
30:12A six.
30:13A six.
30:14Pasha.
30:15Six.
30:16Andy.
30:17Sabos.
30:18Sabo and...?
30:20Stages.
30:21Stages.
30:22Yes.
30:23Sabos.
30:24Sabos.
30:25Plogs.
30:26Plogs. Andy might kick himself, though.
30:28Oh!
30:29Go on.
30:30Sabotages.
30:31Sabotages, yes.
30:32It was there.
30:33Yes.
30:34It was there. A full nine.
30:36And, of course, they're related.
30:38Yes, they are.
30:42That would have been brilliant.
30:44Of course, they were throwing the clog into the machinery
30:47to break it. It was known as sabotage.
30:49Yeah, well, from destroying things.
30:51Well done.
30:52So, 100 plays.
30:53Basher's very respectable 41
30:55as we go into the last numbers game.
30:57Basher.
30:58One from the top and then the other five.
31:00Thank you, Basher.
31:01One large, five little ones to finish the week.
31:04And for the final time, the numbers are six, eight, seven,
31:09two, another six, and a large one, 50.
31:13And the target, 577.
31:16577.
31:34MUSIC PLAYS
31:50Basher.
31:51576.
31:53One away. Andy?
31:55579.
31:56Right.
31:58Basher.
32:00Right, so I did 50 plus seven.
32:0357.
32:04Eight plus two is ten.
32:06Yep.
32:07Multiply them together.
32:08570.
32:09And I did the six.
32:10And add the six, the one below. Well done. 576.
32:13Well done indeed.
32:15But 577, how tricky is that?
32:18Can you unravel it for us?
32:20You could have said 50 times six is 300,
32:24minus eight, 292,
32:27times by two for 584,
32:30and take away the seven for 577.
32:32Oh, yes.
32:38Thank you, Rachel.
32:39So, 100 plays 48 as we go to the final round, conundrum time.
32:43So, Andy, Basher, fingers on buzzers, please.
32:46Let's reveal today's countdown conundrum.
32:53Andy, come, be reasonable.
32:54Marketing.
32:56Marketing.
32:59Ah!
33:02Extraordinary.
33:08I don't know whether that was under a second or just on a second.
33:11It was extraordinary.
33:12Look at that, 110 points.
33:14Well done.
33:15Basher, I'm sorry you should have to come up against this Andy Noden,
33:19because he's a formidable player.
33:20That's six straight wins for you.
33:22It is, yeah.
33:23Excellent stuff.
33:24Basher, you played very well.
33:26Back to Leicester with our very best wishes.
33:29And next time you're in Krakow,
33:31pop into the cathedral there and light a candle for me.
33:34It's a beautiful cathedral.
33:36I will.
33:37Brilliant stuff.
33:38Andy, we shall see you on Monday.
33:39We will.
33:40Great stuff, you'll be going for seven wins.
33:42Who knows, you might be an OctoChampion.
33:44Hopefully, yeah.
33:45Brilliant stuff, well done.
33:46And Susie, have a peaceful weekend.
33:48Thank you, you too.
33:49To you too, John.
33:50Will you please come and see us again soon?
33:52It's always such a great pleasure to have you here.
33:54It can't come soon enough.
33:56I always love my week here.
33:58Good for you.
33:59Thank you for having me.
34:00Come again soon.
34:01Brilliant stuff.
34:02Have a good weekend.
34:03I will.
34:04It's my birthday.
34:05I'll try and come back on Monday, but no promises.
34:07Please do.
34:08So when's your birthday, really?
34:10On Sunday.
34:11On Sunday.
34:12Happy birthday on Sunday.
34:13Why, thank you.
34:14I'll try not to be in too bad a state on Monday.
34:16I'm sure you'll manage it perfectly well.
34:19Anyway, happy birthday.
34:21Happy birthday to Rachel, from all of you at home.
34:24And until Monday, have a very pleasant weekend.
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