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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:20APPLAUSE
00:32Hello and welcome to Countdown.
00:34On this day in 1981, the musical Cats opened in London
00:39and it's now been seen by 75 million people around the world,
00:44which probably explains, Rachel,
00:47why Lloyd Webber has so many racehorses.
00:50But did you know he's got a dog as well?
00:52Once he saw the film adaptation of Cats,
00:54he was so depressed by it that he got himself a dog to cheer him up.
00:59Yeah, well, any dog would cheer me up,
01:02but I don't know about Andrew Lloyd Webber.
01:04Let's meet the contestants.
01:07Aaron. Hello.
01:08You still look like a baby, but you're really...
01:1132, 32 today.
01:13Yes, well, happy birthday. Cheers.
01:15Has that girlfriend of yours given you a present?
01:18She's not yet, no, no.
01:20Need to wait and see what it is when I get home tonight.
01:22Yeah, but she doesn't know whether you're going to marry her or not.
01:26Well, yeah, so she's got to get me a good present then, hasn't she?
01:29Now you've got Ryan, who's a mathematician, aren't you, Ryan?
01:33I do a little bit of numbers, yeah.
01:35Oh, come on, you've got a first in maths.
01:38That was a long time ago, though.
01:40How old are you? I'm 39.
01:4239. And what do you do now?
01:45So I work for an investment bank.
01:47I do transaction and trade reporting to regulatory bodies.
01:51Very exciting stuff.
01:52Yeah, but you're probably very wealthy, aren't you?
01:55I make enough to feed myself.
01:58I wouldn't say I was wealthy.
02:00Round of applause for our contestants.
02:06Hi, Susie. Hi, Anne.
02:07And hi again to Michael Quick, ace reporter.
02:10We've been talking about your biography of Nigel Farage,
02:14but I want to talk to you about predictions in elections later,
02:19if I may, since you're an expert.
02:22Well, I'm what's called a sophologist, or an amateur sophologist.
02:26I like election statistics and following elections.
02:29Good. Let's have our first round with Aaron.
02:33Happy birthday again, Aaron.
02:35Cheers. Your letters.
02:37I'll have a vowel, please, Rachel.
02:39Thank you. Have a birthday, O.
02:42And a consonant.
02:44B.
02:46And a vowel.
02:48E.
02:50Consonant.
02:52T.
02:53Consonant.
02:55R.
02:56Consonant.
02:58S.
02:59Vowel.
03:01E.
03:02Consonant.
03:04N.
03:06And a final consonant, please.
03:09Final. G.
03:11Let's play Countdown.
03:36MUSIC PLAYS
03:43Aaron?
03:44Only a six.
03:45Ryan?
03:46A six.
03:47Aaron?
03:48Strong.
03:49Ryan?
03:50The same.
03:51Yeah.
03:52How are we doing in the corner?
03:54Strobe, which is a six.
03:56There are a couple of sevens there.
03:58Enrobes and Regents.
04:00Thanks, Susie. OK.
04:02Ryan, the banker. Your letters.
04:04Hi, Rachel. Hi, Ryan.
04:06I'll have a vowel, please.
04:08Thank you. Start with U.
04:10Vowel.
04:12I.
04:14A consonant.
04:16C.
04:18Consonant.
04:19L.
04:20Vowel.
04:22I.
04:23Consonant.
04:25M.
04:27Vowel.
04:29O.
04:30Consonant.
04:33R.
04:34And another consonant, please.
04:36Lastly, G.
04:38Time starts now.
04:40MUSIC PLAYS
05:02MUSIC STOPS
05:10Ryan?
05:11Four.
05:12Oh.
05:13Four as well.
05:14OK. Ryan?
05:15Coil.
05:16Aaron?
05:17Clog.
05:18Could you do better than a four over there?
05:20I can't, I'm afraid. It's, er...
05:22I've got grim.
05:23Grim. It's really hard.
05:25One of the two very familiar Welsh words in the dictionary
05:28is there for a five, corgi.
05:30When does the name of a dog go down into a lowercase?
05:35It depends whether it's based on a proper noun.
05:38So something like Dalmatian, for example,
05:40probably would take a while, I would say.
05:43Now it is there, I think, with a lowercase.
05:47No, it's not, actually. It's still got a capital D.
05:50So when it's based on a country
05:52or it's an eponym named after a person like Jack Russell,
05:55for example, it'll probably keep the capital letter.
05:58But corgi doesn't have one because it comes from the Welsh for dwarf dog,
06:01so it never started as a proper noun.
06:03There's nothing she doesn't know. Amazing.
06:05That's a lot.
06:07Aaron, your numbers.
06:08Can I get a one large and five small, please?
06:11You can indeed.
06:13A birthday, big one, and five little ones.
06:16And they are six, five, three, seven, four,
06:22and a large one, 50, and your target to reach.
06:25One, five, eight.
06:27Number 58.
06:58Aaron?
07:00158, but not written down.
07:02OK. Ryan?
07:04158, written down.
07:06Aaron, you go first.
07:0850 x 3 is 150.
07:1050 x 3 is 150.
07:12No, sorry, I've lost it.
07:14Sorry, Aaron.
07:15Oh. Ryan?
07:17Well, I started the same way. 50 x 3 is 150.
07:19Yep.
07:20A 7 x 5 is 2.
07:22Is 2.
07:23Times 4.
07:24Is your 8.
07:25Lovely. Well done. 158.
07:27APPLAUSE
07:31First teaser, one biggie, one biggie, and the clue,
07:35having one too many at the golf course, perhaps.
07:39Having one too many at the golf course, perhaps.
07:42See you in a minute.
07:52APPLAUSE
07:56APPLAUSE
07:59Welcome back.
08:01I left you with the clue, having one too many at the golf course,
08:04perhaps, and the answer is bogeying.
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08:20Countdown Leeds LS31JS.
08:25Aaron is at 10.
08:27Ryan's at 20, because he could do the last sum.
08:31And Aaron got strangely lost.
08:34Ryan, now your letters, please.
08:37Consonant, please.
08:39Thank you, Ryan.
08:40K.
08:42Consonant.
08:44L.
08:46And another.
08:48S.
08:50And one more.
08:52T.
08:53A vowel.
08:55A.
08:56Another one.
08:58E.
08:59Another vowel.
09:01U.
09:02A consonant.
09:04H.
09:06And a final vowel, please.
09:08A final O.
09:1030 seconds.
09:19CLOCK TICKS
09:42Ryan.
09:43Six.
09:44Aaron.
09:45Seven.
09:46What's your six?
09:47Hotels.
09:48Aaron.
09:49Loads.
09:50Yes, very good indeed.
09:52In the corner.
09:53I only got five, I'm afraid.
09:55Least and Stokes and Stake.
09:57Yeah, it wasn't easy, this one.
09:59There's Hostel as well as Hotels and Hustle,
10:02but Loads, the only seven we could find.
10:04Thank you, Suzy.
10:06Aaron, your letters.
10:08Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:10Thank you, Aaron.
10:11P.
10:12And a vowel.
10:14U.
10:15Consonant.
10:17M.
10:18A consonant.
10:21R.
10:22Vowel.
10:24A.
10:25A consonant.
10:27Q.
10:29Consonant.
10:31S.
10:32A vowel.
10:34A.
10:35And a consonant, please.
10:37And the last one, T.
10:39Good luck with this.
10:41♪♪♪
10:51♪♪♪
11:01♪♪♪
11:11Aaron.
11:12Six.
11:13Ryan.
11:14Six.
11:15Aaron.
11:16Trumps.
11:17Ryan.
11:18Courts.
11:19Very good, yes.
11:21Michael Crick.
11:22I got caught and forgot to use the S.
11:27Yes, trick of the trade, that one.
11:29There is a seven there with traumas.
11:31So there is.
11:33I think you're sort of obliged to use the Q, aren't you?
11:36Yeah, I know what you mean.
11:37You can.
11:38Ryan, have you got a girlfriend?
11:40I have a wife.
11:41Where did you meet her?
11:43Well, we actually met online.
11:45We met through an online dating agency
11:48where my profile name was Mr Conundrum.
11:52What else did your profile say?
11:54If I remember rightly, I think it said
11:56I have a really good sense of direction.
11:59Oh, that's sexy.
12:00Yeah.
12:03Your numbers.
12:05I'll go with six small, please, Richard.
12:07Six little ones up in the ante here.
12:09Could have a challenge on our hands.
12:11Let's find out.
12:12The little ones are six, four, two, one, seven,
12:17and another six, and the target to reach.
12:20472.
12:22472.
12:24This programme contains strong language and adult humour
12:55Ryan.
12:56476.
12:58Aaron.
12:59Yeah, I've lost it.
13:00Ryan.
13:016 plus 4.
13:036 plus 4 is 10.
13:05Times 7.
13:07Times 7, 70.
13:09Take the 2.
13:11Take the 2 for 68.
13:13And then 6 plus 1.
13:16The second 6 plus 1 is another 7.
13:19And multiply those.
13:21And I did not leave the 4.
13:24No, I don't have...
13:25That's what you declared, wasn't it?
13:27Oh, it is.
13:28Sorry.
13:29I didn't write down what I declared.
13:31Yeah, I'm with you.
13:32I'm listening, I promise.
13:34Rachel.
13:35I will have to come back to this one, a tricky one.
13:38Ah, OK.
13:39Michael, we've been talking about Nigel Farage,
13:42and I just want to go on and talk to you about elections,
13:46but one of the things that I've noticed
13:49about elections, but one of the things that struck me in the book
13:53was from how early on he had this fantastic confidence in himself.
13:58It's what we say in the North, he didn't need a grandmother.
14:01That's right.
14:03I mean, when he was at Dulwich College in South London,
14:06at the age of 11, really, everybody said,
14:08well, you know, you could see the future adult Farage.
14:11He was so interested in politics.
14:13Whenever there was a class debate,
14:15the teacher wanted somebody to propose the motion.
14:18Farage's hand would go up first, and the teacher would have to say,
14:21no, no, no, not you, Farage, this time.
14:23So the teacher would then call for somebody to oppose the motion,
14:26Farage's hand would go up again,
14:28and he was a superb debater at that young age.
14:31His confidence left him on the day of the referendum, didn't it?
14:36Because he didn't think Brexit.
14:38On the day of the referendum, he was convinced they were going to lose,
14:42and everybody around him said, look, Nigel,
14:44we've done this internal polling, it shows we're on the way to victory.
14:47He wouldn't believe them.
14:49And you call yourself an amateur sophologist.
14:52Well, semi-amateur, I suppose.
14:54A sophologist is somebody who studies elections.
14:57And no doubt Susie knows the derivation of this.
15:01It comes from the Greek word sephos, which means stone or pebble.
15:05And the ancient Greeks in about 500 BC,
15:08they were the first Democrats, really,
15:10and they used to vote by putting a pebble into an urn.
15:14Now, it sounds like a really ancient and grand word.
15:16It was only invented in 1949, and I wrote a book recently,
15:20and I actually came across a letter
15:22which shows the exact date and circumstances
15:25at which this word, sophology, was invented.
15:27It was a luncheon club called the Inklings,
15:30a famous literary club to which C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien belonged.
15:34And one of these early election watchers went along to the lunch,
15:38and somebody said, well, what are you going to call this subject
15:41you study these days?
15:43And the election guy, the academic, said,
15:45well, why don't we call it electionography?
15:47And all the other members of the club laughed and said,
15:49you can't call it electionography, that's a terrible name!
15:52So they said, and then one of the classicists piped in and said,
15:55well, I tell you what, why don't we call it sephology
15:57after the way the Greeks used to vote?
16:00And the name has stuck ever since.
16:03Quite a trick.
16:08And let's go back to Rachel, who's got the numbers.
16:11Yes, mathology over here.
16:13If you say 7 x 2 is 14,
16:17take 1 for 13,
16:19times that by 6 for 78,
16:22times that by the second 6 for 468,
16:27and you have a 4 left over for 72.
16:30Well done, Rachel.
16:35Aaron, your letters.
16:37Consonant, please, Rachel.
16:39Thank you, Aaron. D.
16:41And a vowel.
16:43I.
16:45Consonant.
16:47R.
16:49Consonant.
16:51V.
16:53Vowel.
16:55E.
16:57Vowel.
16:59E.
17:01Consonant.
17:03T.
17:05Consonant.
17:07L.
17:09Consonant.
17:12L.
17:15E.
17:17Consonant.
17:19R.
17:21L.
17:24Consonant.
17:27T.
17:29Consonant.
17:31Do.
17:33All right.
17:35MUSIC
17:38Aaron.
17:39Eight.
17:40Good. Ryan.
17:42Seven.
17:43What's your seven?
17:44Deliver.
17:45Aaron.
17:46Diverted.
17:47Very good.
17:48APPLAUSE
17:52In the corner.
17:53Well, I knew there was a better word there,
17:55but drivel is all I could do, as usual.
17:59Well, diverted is absolutely excellent,
18:01otherwise we could just back it up with riveted for seven.
18:04Oh. Thank you.
18:06Ryan, your letters.
18:08Consonant, please, Rachel.
18:10Thank you, Ryan. R.
18:12A vowel.
18:14A.
18:15A vowel.
18:17I.
18:18Vowel.
18:20O.
18:21Consonant.
18:23S.
18:24Consonant.
18:26T.
18:27Consonant.
18:29N.
18:30Vowel.
18:33U.
18:34And a final vowel, please.
18:36Final...
18:37A.
18:39Off you go.
19:04MUSIC STOPS
19:10Ryan.
19:11I think I have an eight.
19:13Good. Aaron.
19:14Seven.
19:15What's your seven?
19:16Rations.
19:17Ryan.
19:18Rainouts.
19:19Yes, you know your countdown, because it comes up a lot, this one.
19:22Yes, rainouts, events cancelled due to rain.
19:24Very good indeed.
19:26APPLAUSE
19:30And in the corner.
19:31Well...
19:32This will be disqualified. Unroast.
19:37I'm not sure if you can.
19:38Oh, it's there, believe it or not.
19:40But it's there not as in the active,
19:42I'm going to unroast my chicken, but meaning unroasted.
19:45That's what I meant, yeah.
19:46Oh, sorry. Well, that's excellent in that case.
19:48No, I did mean what you said.
19:50But either way, it's in the dictionary.
19:52Very nice. And I can't beat rainouts.
19:54Thank you. Aaron, your numbers.
19:56Can I have one large and the rest small, please, Rachel?
19:59One large, you're not changing tack.
20:01Five little coming up for you, Aaron.
20:03No panicking just yet.
20:05And this round is nine,
20:07seven,
20:08ten,
20:09seven,
20:10one,
20:11and the big one, 25.
20:13And your target, 358.
20:16358.
20:29MUSIC PLAYS
20:49Aaron?
20:50358.
20:51Good. Ryan?
20:52358.
20:53Aaron?
20:54Seven plus seven is 14.
20:5614.
20:57Times five is 25.
20:58350.
20:59Plus the nine, minus one.
21:01Yeah, could have been a tricky one with those numbers,
21:03but didn't turn out too bad.
21:05358.
21:06Ryan?
21:07Exactly the same way.
21:09Yeah.
21:10APPLAUSE
21:14Second teaser.
21:15Uni tools, uni tools and the clue.
21:18The answer to this seems pretty clear to me.
21:21The answer to this seems pretty clear to me.
21:25See you in a minute.
21:27APPLAUSE
21:41Welcome back.
21:42I left you with the clue.
21:43The answer to this seems pretty clear to me.
21:46And the answer is solution.
21:49The scores are 41-51.
21:52And Ryan, who's got a good sense of direction,
21:55and that's how he got a wife, what's your wife called?
21:58Eve.
21:59Eve. What does Eve do?
22:00She's a geriatrics doctor.
22:02Oh, so it hasn't really been very useful for her, has it,
22:05you having a good sense of direction?
22:08She would be the first to say she doesn't particularly,
22:11so it does help us get around.
22:12Your letters.
22:14I'll have a vowel, please, Rachel.
22:16Thank you, Ryan.
22:17I.
22:19And another.
22:20O.
22:21And a third.
22:23I.
22:25A consonant.
22:27D.
22:28And another.
22:30S.
22:31And another.
22:33L.
22:34And one more.
22:36R.
22:37A vowel.
22:40A.
22:41And another vowel, please.
22:43And lastly, E.
22:46Off you go.
22:54MUSIC
23:17Ryan.
23:18Seven.
23:19Good.
23:20Aaron.
23:21Seven.
23:22Ryan.
23:23Doyleys.
23:24Aaron.
23:25Reloads.
23:26Yes, both absolutely fine.
23:28Quite old-fashioned, Doyleys, isn't it?
23:30Yeah, it was named after Thomas Doyley, I think.
23:32He was a tailor.
23:34And, yeah, we haven't had that for a long time.
23:36I like that word.
23:37Or dailies, as in daily newspapers.
23:40Yep, that's another good seven.
23:42D.
23:43Rails, roadies, quite a few sevens.
23:45And there is a single eight that we can find, idoliser.
23:47Oh, very good.
23:48Aaron, you're lagging behind by ten points.
23:51Your letters.
23:52I'll go for a consonant, please.
23:54Thank you, Aaron.
23:55C.
23:56And a vowel.
23:58A.
23:59Consonant.
24:01D.
24:02Vowel.
24:04E.
24:05Consonant.
24:07T.
24:08Consonant.
24:10N.
24:12Vowel.
24:14E.
24:16Consonant.
24:18B.
24:20And a final vowel, please.
24:23A final U.
24:25Start the clock.
24:51MUSIC STOPS
24:57Aaron?
24:58Seven.
24:59Good. Ryan?
25:00Seven.
25:01Aaron?
25:02Enacted.
25:03Ryan?
25:04Enacted, as well.
25:05These are two countdown players, aren't they, at home?
25:08They know the words.
25:10Yeah.
25:11How about in the corner?
25:13Well, it's pathetic. I couldn't do better than cadet,
25:15which was the first five letters in a row.
25:18I went to pieces after that.
25:20Yeah, I can't advance on enacted.
25:23And over to Susie.
25:25Well, I thought I would lead on from what Michael was discussing
25:28earlier and being a cephalogist and how that came about.
25:31And it's just a really nice insight
25:33into how the Oxford English Dictionary works,
25:36because Michael mentioned that he submitted the letter
25:39to do with the Inklings, this club that met at the Eagle and Child
25:42in Oxford on St Giles, and submitted it to the editors of the OED,
25:46who are always looking for earlier evidence of a word.
25:49It's called anti-dating.
25:51So they will have an existing first record,
25:53but somebody might well find a printed record, as Michael did,
25:56that predates that.
25:57They'll send it in and it will get verified.
25:59And that's exactly what happened.
26:01So 1949 is the first reference that we have to cephalogy,
26:04and it absolutely comes from that letter in which we hear...
26:08By the way, the correct name for the science which we have invented
26:11is cephalogy.
26:12I was with C.S. Lewis and the Choice Spirits today,
26:15and I told them I was the inventor of electionology.
26:18This dreadful hybrid shocked them very deeply,
26:20and so they gave me cephalogy.
26:22So absolutely, it's a lovely, as I say,
26:24lovely little glimpse as to how the OED works,
26:26because it's very much a joint enterprise.
26:28But I thought I'd also touch on other ways of voting
26:31and how they have influenced our language.
26:33So, as Michael says, cephos means pebbles,
26:35because of the way that the ancient Greeks then would cast their votes.
26:39And, you know, little balls were used as well,
26:42and a little ball was called a ballot.
26:44So that gave us ballot.
26:46You could blackball somebody if you put in a black ball,
26:48as opposed to a white ball,
26:50meaning you did not want a particular person to be elected.
26:54And pebbles are also behind being scrupulous.
26:58So you would hope that political candidates
27:00would be very, very scrupulous,
27:02but actually scrupulous meant a really rough pebble.
27:05That was the first meaning of it.
27:07And the idea is, if you are scrupulous today,
27:09you are very careful as though you've got a really sharp pebble in your shoe
27:12and you're having to tread very, very carefully.
27:14And if you're unscrupulous, of course,
27:16you just ride roughshod over everything,
27:18despite the pain that you might be feeling inside.
27:22But scrupulous meant anxiety for quite a long time
27:25because of this idea of the rough pebble.
27:27And then when we calculate something, when Rachel calculates,
27:30that too goes back to the small pebbles that were used on an abacus,
27:34the sort of beads that are, you know, pulled along the wire frames.
27:38And actually, abacus, really early simple device for calculating,
27:41that wasn't about pebbles originally.
27:43It was all about dust because we think that the ancient Babylonians
27:47and the ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans
27:50would use boards that were covered with sand
27:52and the mathematicians would draw the figures in the sand
27:55and then rub them out afterwards.
27:57So it goes back to the Arabic for sand, the abacus.
28:00But I just love the way that all of these sort of ancient ways
28:03of calculating and of electing and voting and things,
28:05quite often the words we use go back to the very original instruments
28:09or, in this case, pebbles that we use.
28:11Thank you, Susie. You're welcome.
28:13APPLAUSE
28:17Ryan, your letters.
28:19Vowel, please, Rachel. Thank you, Ryan.
28:22I.
28:24And another.
28:26O.
28:27And a third.
28:29I.
28:30Consonant.
28:32C.
28:33And another.
28:35S.
28:36And another.
28:37N.
28:38And one more.
28:39T.
28:40Alfao.
28:43O.
28:44And a final consonant, please.
28:46A final D.
28:48Time starts now.
29:03MUSIC PLAYS
29:21Ryan.
29:22Trionate.
29:23Aaron.
29:24I'll trionate as well.
29:26Ryan.
29:27Dictions.
29:28Aaron.
29:29Dictions.
29:30Well, I'm glad you both tried it, at least.
29:32I was hoping that there would be a sense in which you could add the S on,
29:35but the dictionary doesn't give it, I'm afraid.
29:37It says very definitely a mass now.
29:39So I have to dislike you both, sorry.
29:41Oh.
29:42In which case, I got coins, a very poor score.
29:45But you win.
29:46Only five!
29:47But I'm not playing, really.
29:50Yes, I think if you start with diction at seven,
29:52that's probably the best, certainly, that we could do.
29:54And there's tonics for six.
29:56Thank you, Susie.
29:58No movement in the scores.
29:59Aaron, your letters.
30:01Consonant, please, Rachel.
30:02Thank you, Aaron.
30:03R.
30:04And a vowel.
30:06A.
30:07Consonant.
30:09F.
30:10A vowel.
30:11E.
30:12Consonant.
30:14S.
30:15Consonant.
30:17Y.
30:18A vowel.
30:20E.
30:22Consonant.
30:24P.
30:25And a final consonant, please.
30:28Final, W.
30:30Time starts now.
31:01Aaron?
31:02Six.
31:03Ryan?
31:04Six.
31:05Aaron?
31:06Wafers.
31:07Ryan?
31:08Wafers, as well.
31:09Good heavens.
31:11Yeah.
31:12Michael Crick, you're still writing there.
31:14Oh, sorry, yeah.
31:15Wraps and fares, there's only five.
31:17You can get to an eight,
31:19certainly if you live in North America, with freeways.
31:22Yes.
31:23Freeways.
31:24Ryan?
31:25Your numbers.
31:26I'll take four large, please, Rachel.
31:28You take four large and you're hoping to get some points
31:31and avoid a crucial conundrum.
31:33Let's see if that pans out on poor Aaron's birthday.
31:36You never know, the little ones are four and seven,
31:39and then the big four, 75, 50, 25 and 100, as expected.
31:44And the target, 331.
31:46331.
31:58MUSIC PLAYS
32:19Ryan?
32:20332.
32:21Aaron?
32:22332.
32:23OK, Ryan?
32:24Four times 100.
32:26Four times 100, 400.
32:29Take the 75.
32:30325.
32:31And add the seven.
32:33One above.
32:34Aaron?
32:35Four times by 50 is 200.
32:38Four by 50, 200.
32:40Add the 100.
32:41300.
32:42Add the 25.
32:44325.
32:45And add the seven.
32:46Yeah, and we still have a crucial conundrum.
32:48And Rachel?
32:49If you say 50 plus 7 is 57,
32:53times it by four for 228,
32:56and then add 100,
32:58and finally 75 over 25 gives you three to add on for 331.
33:08Interesting times, guys.
33:1168 to 78.
33:14But, Aaron, should you win the conundrum,
33:18you'll be equal and then we'll do another conundrum.
33:21So it really is everything to play for.
33:24Fingers on buzzers.
33:26Please reveal today's crucial conundrum.
33:36Ryan?
33:37Territory.
33:38Let's have a look.
33:41Well done.
33:45Very close, Aaron.
33:48Thank you for being a terrific sport.
33:50Thank you.
33:51You could have won, then,
33:52and you've been good at the conundrums up till now, haven't you?
33:55Yes, that was quick, that, though.
33:57Very quick, Ryan. Well done.
33:59Thank you.
34:00Congratulations, Ryan.
34:02We'll see you tomorrow.
34:03Thanks, I'll look forward to it.
34:05Thank you, Susie.
34:06Thanks, Anne.
34:07We'll see you tomorrow, Michael.
34:08Thank you.
34:09Rachel?
34:10Well, I hope Aaron gets a better birthday present
34:12when he gets home than what Ryan gave him.
34:14Yeah.
34:15Thank you for watching.
34:16See you tomorrow.
34:17Bye.
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