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00:30Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio, I'd like to talk to you about plucking
00:36up courage to do something, because that's what a woman did on her daily commute. For
00:40a year, she took the same bus, and she fancied a chap on the bus, she had a crush on him.
00:49And eventually after a year, she decided to pluck up courage and do something about it,
00:54Rachel, and she put her phone number on a little piece of paper, and as she passed him
00:58on her way out, she palmed it to him, and guess what? Roll forward a few years, she's
01:04married with two children, to this man, with this man, isn't that a lovely story?
01:08Amazing.
01:09So sometimes, you know, pluck up courage and do it. And I was wondering, on the non-romantic
01:16front, whether I've plucked up courage, and the thing that I did pluck up courage to do,
01:21because I was terrified, was, have I got news for you, come and do this. I said, oh, no,
01:28it's terrifying. And eventually, I do like a risk, actually, I did it, and it was terrifying.
01:35It was terrifying. Because you go there, and then they lock you in a dressing room, with
01:40all the papers, and they say, we'll come and get you eventually. And then they come and
01:44get you, I said, is there a briefing? They said, no, not really. And they said, well,
01:49there is a bit of a briefing. I went down, and it lasted about two minutes, and I said
01:52to Paul Merton, Paul, what do I do? He said, just get in early. And with that, he disappeared.
01:58And then suddenly, you're on this, you know, absolutely terrifying. But the truth of the
02:02matter is, those two, Hislop and Paul Merton, are so decent, if you're not a politician
02:09or some big shot, you know, they look after you. But it was nerve-wracking, and then you
02:14suddenly realise it's not, because they will look after you. It's fascinating.
02:17Have you done question time as well?
02:19I did. That was equally terrifying.
02:21Surely that's more scary.
02:22I was rescued, because it was the week that your friend Putin invaded Crimea, and I had
02:27driven through the Ukraine, so I was the expert. That was it. What about your risk-taking?
02:35Well, I'm a bit shy, actually. You know, the story that you originally started with was,
02:40you know, a lady approaching a stranger, and whenever I meet footballers who I really,
02:44really like, I just kind of tend to shy away, unless it's for someone else. If it's for
02:47my dad or for the little kids, then you get a bit braver, don't you? So I met Norman
02:51Whiteside on the fantasy football show with Paul Merson, the other Paul Merson. And my
02:57dad brought every single thing he'd owned from the 80s for him to sign. It was, you
03:01know, one thing after another. And he was brave, and I was brave enough to ask on his
03:06behalf, but...
03:07Good for you.
03:08Lovely story to start the show.
03:09Yeah. Now, Rachel, who's here? Chris Thorne is back, Rachel, Sports Events Administrator
03:15from Chelmsford. Three wins now, and he's a cool customer. How are you feeling?
03:20Happy with the hat trick so far?
03:21Yeah, it's good for you. Well done. You're joined by Anne Duckworth, a staff nurse. You're
03:25from Rochdale, working at the Royal Oldham Hospital, is that right?
03:28Yes, in the outpatients department.
03:31You're also a member of the Rochdale Vintage and Car Collectors Club, because you and your
03:35partner have some old bangers.
03:36Yes.
03:37I'm sure he doesn't like them.
03:38Some very nice vintage cars.
03:40Yeah? I love old cars. Big round of applause for Anne and Chris.
03:46Very good. And over in the corner, Susie, naturally, joined once again by a sports presenter,
03:55John Inverdale. Welcome back, John.
03:57Yes, looking forward to it.
04:02Now, Chris, off we go. You know the routine.
04:06Afternoon, Rachel.
04:07Afternoon, Chris.
04:08Have a constant, please.
04:09Thank you. Start today with P.
04:10And another.
04:13T.
04:14And another.
04:16G.
04:17Vowel.
04:19E.
04:20Another.
04:21I.
04:23One more.
04:25E.
04:26Constant.
04:28T.
04:30Constant.
04:32V.
04:34And a constant.
04:36And lastly, F.
04:38And here's the Countdown Clock.
04:40Countdown Clock
05:10Yes, Chris.
05:11Six.
05:12Anne.
05:13Six.
05:14Chris.
05:15Petite.
05:16And Anne.
05:17Patty.
05:18Yes.
05:19How are you spelling that, Anne?
05:20P-A-T-T-I-E.
05:21Oh, there's no A, I'm afraid, in this election.
05:23Sorry.
05:24What can we have, John?
05:25Yeah, we had petite as well.
05:27It is funny, actually, how some words, foreign words, become part of our language and others don't.
05:31Petite is, we just say it the whole time without thinking really about its derivation at all.
05:36So many of our words are French, but that one is obviously French.
05:39Indeed. Susie?
05:40No, that was almost the single six that we could find.
05:42Thank you.
05:44So, Anne, off we go. Letters game.
05:47Hello, Rachel.
05:48Hi, Anne.
05:49Can I have a consonant, please?
05:50Thank you. Start with T.
05:52And another.
05:54R.
05:55And another.
05:57N.
06:00And a vowel.
06:02O.
06:04Another vowel.
06:05I.
06:06And a third.
06:08A.
06:10And a consonant.
06:12R.
06:14Consonant.
06:16D.
06:17And a vowel.
06:18And lastly, E.
06:21Counter.
06:38ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
06:54Anne?
06:55Five.
06:56Chris?
06:57Seven.
06:58Anne's five is...?
06:59Dream.
07:00Dream, Chris.
07:01Mardia?
07:02Very nice, yes.
07:03It's amazing how often that word comes up.
07:06It's a beautiful word.
07:08Yeah, it's becoming more mainstream, though,
07:10but it's a beautiful word, I love it.
07:12Now then, John.
07:13Yeah, we had married and tarried, and we had an eight,
07:15which was mediator.
07:16Mediator. Very good.
07:21Very good.
07:22And 13 points to Chris.
07:25Chris, your numbers game.
07:26One large and five small, please.
07:28Thank you, Chris.
07:29One from the top, five little.
07:31And for the first time today, they are three,
07:34six, seven, another three, and a large on 100.
07:38And the target to reach, 886.
07:41886.
07:43ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
08:04ELECTRONIC MUSIC CONTINUES
08:14Yes, Chris?
08:15886.
08:16886. Anne?
08:17886.
08:19Thank you, Chris.
08:20Six plus three is nine.
08:22Yep.
08:23Times 100.
08:24900.
08:25And seven times two is 14, and subtract.
08:27Well done, 886.
08:28Anne?
08:29The same way.
08:30Same way?
08:31Oh, yeah.
08:33So, hands off the mark there.
08:3510 to 23, Chris, on 23,
08:37as we turn to our first Tea Time teaser,
08:40which is Peter made, and the clue?
08:42Peter made a curry and the smell spread throughout the house.
08:46Peter made a curry and the smell spread throughout the house.
08:51ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
08:59APPLAUSE
09:03APPLAUSE
09:07Welcome back.
09:08After the clue, Peter made a curry and the smell spread
09:11throughout the house.
09:12In fact, it permeated.
09:15The whole house permeated.
09:17So, 23 to 10.
09:19Chris leads, and it's Anne's letters game.
09:21Would you have the consonant, please?
09:23Thank you, Anne.
09:24T.
09:25And another?
09:27R.
09:28And another?
09:30M.
09:31And a vowel?
09:33O.
09:34And another?
09:36I.
09:37And another?
09:39A.
09:41And a vowel?
09:44I.
09:45A consonant?
09:47S.
09:48And another consonant?
09:50And lastly, L.
09:52Countdown.
09:53ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
10:02ELECTRONIC MUSIC CONTINUES
10:23Anne?
10:24Seven.
10:25Chris?
10:26Six.
10:27What six?
10:28Trails.
10:29And Anne?
10:30Mistral.
10:31Yep, very good. The wind. Yep.
10:33Now, John, we've got, we've got trialism.
10:36Yeah.
10:37And we have moralist.
10:39Moralist.
10:40Very good.
10:41APPLAUSE
10:43Anything else, Susie?
10:44I'll just tell you what trialism is.
10:46It's a threesome, essentially.
10:47Oh, really?
10:48In French, yes.
10:49Thank you.
10:50Good.
10:5123 plays 17.
10:52Chris on 23.
10:54Yes, Chris?
10:55Consonant, please.
10:56Thank you, Chris.
10:57S.
10:58And another?
11:00N.
11:01One more.
11:03X.
11:04One more.
11:06N.
11:07Vowel?
11:09O.
11:10Another?
11:11E.
11:13Another?
11:15A.
11:17Consonant?
11:19P.
11:21And a vowel, please.
11:23And lastly, U.
11:25Standby.
11:26This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
11:57Yes, Chris?
11:58Five.
11:59Anne?
12:00Five.
12:01Chris?
12:02Saxon.
12:03No.
12:04Anne Duckworth?
12:05Spanx.
12:06Thank you.
12:07OK, just check those.
12:08Saxon, unfortunately, is capitalised.
12:10And Spanx, I think it's probably a trademark.
12:14It's not in the dictionary, I'm afraid, with the X.
12:16Sorry.
12:17There we go.
12:18John?
12:19Well, we have pause as a five and unopen as a six.
12:21Very good.
12:22It's 23-17, Anne on 17.
12:24Anne's numbers game.
12:26Can I have one large and five small, please?
12:28Thank you, Anne.
12:29One from the top.
12:30And five little ones.
12:32Anne, for this round, the five small ones are three, five, two, one,
12:38seven, and the big one, 25.
12:41And your target, 657.
12:44Six, five, seven.
12:52THEY COUNT DOWN
13:17Anne?
13:18I'm sorry, nothing.
13:20Too far.
13:21I think I've got 653.
13:23653. Let's try.
13:25Seven times three is 21.
13:27Yep.
13:28Plus five is 26.
13:3026.
13:31Times 25...
13:32650.
13:33A few.
13:34And then plus one and plus two.
13:36Yep. Don't doubt yourself. 653.
13:38Well done.
13:39But 657, Rachel, can you help?
13:41Yes, this one was there.
13:43If you say 25 plus one is 26,
13:46times three is 78,
13:48minus five is 73,
13:50and then two plus seven is nine,
13:52and times them together.
13:54Well done.
13:56657.
13:59Very good. So the score standing 30 for Chris,
14:02Anne on 17, and we turn to John.
14:04John, Russia and football.
14:06Yes, well, I'm a bit concerned about treading into this sort of territory here
14:10because I'm going to talk about the Russian language.
14:13And I know we have a bilingual expert on my right here,
14:16so anything I say is going to be taken down and given in evidence.
14:19But, I mean, it seems to me, from the bit of research I've done,
14:22that it's the most incomprehensible of languages,
14:24largely because it's not just about the languages.
14:26There are six cases, five moods, four voices.
14:29You have to sort of incorporate into the whole thing.
14:31And it's a language that's subject to...
14:33There's another word I hadn't heard as well.
14:35Agglutination, which is sort of like the mish-mashing together
14:38of all sorts of different compounds of words,
14:41which sort of comes from medical...
14:43Lots of blood cells and things like that originally, I think.
14:46But anyway, so I thought I'd throw a few phrases at you,
14:48which, you know, when you're watching the telly,
14:50you might like to sort of shout at the television screen
14:53when things are done which you're not happy with.
14:55It's a great verb, actually, I think,
14:57which you can just sort of toss in anywhere, which is to Kershikov.
15:00There was a guy called Alexander Kershikov
15:02who missed an absolute sitter in the European Championships in 2012.
15:06And it was such a bad miss that his surname
15:08has now passed into the Russian language.
15:10So if you Kershikov, you just miss a golden opportunity
15:13on or off the football pitch.
15:15So that's a rather unfortunate way for his name to live on
15:17once his football career is over.
15:19Anyway, so there's obviously things, you know,
15:21ВПЕЙОД РУССИЯ, does that just go Russia?
15:24ВПЕЙОД РУССИЯ.
15:26У ВАМ ЕСТЬ ОЧЕНЬ ПЛОХОЙ АКЦЕНТ.
15:28Yeah, him.
15:30But the two phrases, I thought,
15:32if when Russia end up playing England,
15:34there's a couple of phrases that I think, you know,
15:36that you could be saying or you'll be hearing on the screen at home
15:39and you'll say, ah, I'm going to be very clever,
15:41I know what those mean.
15:43I've got to get the glasses out for these,
15:45because I've got to get this right.
15:47So, ОТ МОСКИ ДО БРЫСТАНИЯ МОРЕ
15:49РУССКАЯ АРМИЯ ВСЕХ СИЛЬНИ.
15:51I understood some of those words.
15:53Did you? That's a start. I mean, I'm happy with that.
15:55Anyway, that means,
15:57FROM MOSCOW TO THE BRITISH SEA,
15:59THE RED ARMY IS THE STRONGEST.
16:01Apparently that's what they say.
16:03But the chant, which is more football-y,
16:05which you'll hear a lot of if Russia are playing England,
16:08is АНГЛИЯ ПОРАША, ПОБЕДА БУДЕТ НАША.
16:12Yeah, will be ours.
16:14It means, England is a toilet, victory will be ours.
16:17LAUGHTER
16:19So, you will hear that on the football terraces of Russia in the summer.
16:24So, they're up to speed on all the insults, then?
16:26Well, I think, and there's a lot more besides, which I didn't say,
16:29which I'm sure would have made Rachel blush.
16:31But anyway, it is a fascinating language,
16:33and there are lots of Russian words, actually,
16:35a bit like we had ПЕТИТ, you know, as a word earlier on.
16:38There's lots of Russian words that we have in our language
16:40in everyday use as well.
16:41So, I thought we'd talk about those tomorrow.
16:43Absolutely. Well done. Thank you.
16:49Good stuff, John. Thank you very much.
16:51Now, 30-17, Chris in the lead, and it's...
16:54Yes, Chris's letters game.
16:56Consonant, please. Thank you, Chris.
16:58R. And another.
17:01W. One more.
17:04J. Vowel.
17:06O. Another.
17:09A. Another.
17:12I. Consonant.
17:15D. And another.
17:18L. And a vowel, please.
17:22And lastly, E.
17:24Stand by.
17:36ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
17:57Yes, Chris?
17:59I'll try a seven.
18:01Anne? Six.
18:03And your six?
18:05D. Jowlier.
18:07Oh, I'm sure you can.
18:09Famous last words. Oh, yes, you can.
18:11Jowlier. Now, then.
18:13Well, we had a word, Dariole.
18:15Yeah.
18:16Which is a cooking sort of thing.
18:19Comes around all the time, extraordinarily.
18:21Yeah.
18:22Flour pot-shaped mould in French cooking.
18:24Yeah. Anything else, Susie? No.
18:26That was our better seven. Stick with Dariole.
18:28Thank you. 37-17.
18:31Anne, your letters game.
18:33A consonant, please. Thank you, Anne.
18:35K. And another.
18:38N. And another.
18:41R. And another.
18:44L. And a vowel, please.
18:47O. And another.
18:50A. And another.
18:53I.
18:56And another vowel.
18:58A. And a consonant, please.
19:00And lastly, S.
19:02Stand by.
19:33Yes, Anne?
19:35Six. And Chris?
19:37Five.
19:38And that five?
19:39Larks.
19:40Anne?
19:41Koalas.
19:43Very nice.
19:44Oh, yes.
19:46Well done.
19:48But over in the corner there, John's looking feverish.
19:51What's happened?
19:52No, not remotely, actually, but we had sailor for six
19:55and anoraks for seven.
19:56Anoraks. I just love the word koala.
19:58Yeah.
19:5937-23. Chris on 37.
20:02Chris, numbers game.
20:04Six small, please, Rachel.
20:05Thank you, Chris.
20:07Six little ones again, coming up.
20:09And for this round, we have one...
20:11Oh, dear.
20:12One, five, ten, three, and nine.
20:18And the target...
20:20692.
20:226-9-2.
20:29WHISTLE BLOWS
20:56Now then, Chris.
20:58And Anne?
20:59700.
21:00Yeah, Chris?
21:02Five plus three is eight.
21:04Yep.
21:05Times by nine...
21:0672.
21:0772. Minus one and minus one...
21:0970.
21:10Times by ten.
21:11Yep, 700.
21:12Anne?
21:13Nine plus one is ten.
21:15Yep.
21:16Times ten is 100.
21:18Five plus three minus one is seven,
21:21and times them together.
21:23Yep, 700 again, lovely.
21:25We need... We need 692, really, Rachel. Can you help?
21:29Well, from this, you can wrangle seven times nine times 11,
21:32or 693, but one away is the best you could do.
21:35Well done. Thank you.
21:37Thank you. And now it's time for our tea time teaser.
21:40Our second one, and it's Rip Voices and the clue.
21:43No chips for this type of creature, it'll just have fish.
21:47No chips for this type of creature, it'll just have fish.
21:56APPLAUSE
22:06Welcome back. I left with a clue.
22:08No chips for this type of creature, it'll just have fish.
22:11And the answer to that is it's a piscivore.
22:13Only eats fish.
22:15A fish eater. 42 to 28, Chris on 42.
22:19What shall we do? Anne, letters game?
22:21Consonant, please.
22:22Thank you, Anne. B.
22:25And another.
22:27T.
22:28And a third.
22:30D.
22:31And a vowel, please.
22:33U.
22:35And another.
22:36O.
22:37And another.
22:39U.
22:41And a consonant.
22:43L.
22:44And a consonant.
22:46D.
22:47And a final vowel, please.
22:49And a final A.
22:51Stand by.
22:54This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
22:58MUSIC PLAYS
23:24Anne.
23:25Five.
23:26Anne.
23:27Don't.
23:28No, Chris. Adult.
23:30Adult.
23:31Any advance on five, Susie, John?
23:33No, we're stuck on a lot of fives.
23:35Doula, is that? Doula?
23:37Doula.
23:38Doula, what does that mean?
23:39Someone who gives support and advice during pregnancy to another woman.
23:42Yeah.
23:43Anything else?
23:44No, five is tops for us.
23:46Five is tops. 47 to 33.
23:48Chris, we're on the run-in now. It's your letters game.
23:51Consonant, please.
23:52Thank you, Chris. L.
23:54And another.
23:56N.
23:57And another.
23:59C.
24:00And another.
24:02M.
24:03Vowel.
24:05E.
24:06And another.
24:07O.
24:09Another.
24:11E.
24:13Consonant.
24:14Z.
24:16And a consonant, please.
24:17And the last one, T.
24:19Stand by.
24:24WHISTLE BLOWS
24:51Well, Chris?
24:52Five.
24:53The game end.
24:54A seven.
24:55A seven?
24:56Yes.
24:57Chris?
24:58Clone.
24:59No. Anne?
25:00Clement.
25:01Absolutely fine.
25:02Beat us to it there.
25:03We could only get up to a six with cement and molten.
25:07And at the last minute, at the 59th second of the 11th hour,
25:12you suddenly had a seven word, which was a...?
25:14Telecom, as in telecom companies.
25:16Yes.
25:17I'd give you another seven, but I prefer Clement, I have to say.
25:19Not telecoms, but telecom.
25:21It's telecommunications, but if you use it as an adjective,
25:24as a modifier, as you would say, you can have it in the singular.
25:27Well done. Thank you.
25:29So, only seven points in it, Anne. Well done.
25:31You've clambered up 40 to 47.
25:33As we turn to Susie and her wonderful origins of words now.
25:37Susie?
25:39I had a tweet from Chloe Wright,
25:42who asked the background of being in one's element,
25:46if you're in one's element.
25:48And to answer this, you need to look back
25:50at the elements that were once believed to be
25:52the make-up of all human beings.
25:55The primary elements being earth, fire, air and water.
25:59And as regular viewers will know,
26:01every human being was classified
26:03according to their humorous dispositions.
26:05The humours here having nothing to do with comedy or wit
26:08and everything to do with the bodily fluids
26:10and the balance with which they existed in the body.
26:13But if you take those bodily humours,
26:15they were always thought to have one corresponding element,
26:18whether it was, as I say, air, fire, water or earth.
26:21And every human being was thought to have
26:23a particular affinity to one of those.
26:25And they weren't always obvious either.
26:27So, salamander, for example, was thought to exist in fire.
26:30So, quite curious medieval beliefs there.
26:34But to go back to those corresponding elements,
26:37somebody who was introspective, quite creative,
26:39but prone to melancholy.
26:41Melancholy, as you know, meant black bile,
26:44because a melancholy person was thought to have too much of it.
26:47These people were supposed to be ruled
26:49by the cold and dry element of earth.
26:52The wiry, often red-haired for some reason,
26:55ambitious and choleric person was dominated by fire.
26:58They were hot and dry.
27:00And the sluggish, slightly phlegmatic
27:02and perhaps slightly tubby person
27:05was said to be influenced by water.
27:07Whereas someone who was sanguine, red-cheeked, optimistic,
27:11they enjoyed all the healthful benefits of air.
27:14So, obviously, there were quite neat categories
27:17that they thought people existed in, but it wasn't always the case.
27:20Clearly, not all of us are red-haired or optimistic all of the time.
27:24So, they were a little bit too neat.
27:26And the truth was that we all need,
27:29in order to keep a happy existence,
27:31to have these elements and these humours in good balance.
27:34But it was quite interesting, because the phlegmatic person,
27:37somebody who was full of phlegm, it was thought,
27:39and stowardly calm as a result, was advised not to eat fish,
27:42because that would make the water element go overboard,
27:45if you'll excuse the pun, so that wasn't a good thing.
27:48And someone affected by melancholy was told to avoid eating vegetables,
27:52because then the pull of the earth would become too strong.
27:55So, it really informed so much, not just beliefs as to personality,
27:59but also medicine, dietary habits, all that kind of thing.
28:02And all of the characters in the writings of Shakespeare
28:05and his contemporaries reflect this view of the world.
28:08And references to being in your element
28:10date all the way back to the 16th century and beyond.
28:13So, it was a really core part of understanding the world
28:16and the universe, was to be in one's element,
28:18and that was crucial for a happy life.
28:21Magnificent.
28:27That's our lesson for today. Thank you so much.
28:30Thank you. 47-40, Chris just in the lead.
28:33It's Anne's letters game. Anne.
28:36A consonant, please. Thank you, Anne. R.
28:39And another. S.
28:42And another. P.
28:45And another. N.
28:48And a vowel. O.
28:51And another. U.
28:53And another. E.
28:56And a consonant, please. M.
28:59And a final consonant.
29:02And a final T. Stand by.
29:09CLOCK TICKS
29:35Anne. Seven.
29:37Eight. Anne.
29:39Mentors. No, Chris.
29:41Remounts. Very good.
29:43Well done.
29:49John. Yeah, that's all we had.
29:51We had amounters, we had for an eight, remounts,
29:54but that was pretty good.
29:56Strong stuff, because it takes you up to 55 now, Chris.
29:59And on 40 as we go into the final letters game.
30:02Chris. Consonant, please. Thank you, Chris. R.
30:05And another. P.
30:08And another. T.
30:11A vowel. I.
30:14And another. U.
30:17And another. I.
30:20And another vowel.
30:23E. A consonant.
30:26G. And a consonant, please.
30:28And lastly, S.
30:30Tone.
30:35CLOCK TICKS
31:01Yes, Chris? Hopefully eight.
31:04And Anne? Eight.
31:06Chris? Riptides.
31:08Riptides and? Spirited.
31:10What do you think? Riptides?
31:12Well, I have to say, I mean, just for once in a blue moon,
31:16literally instantaneously I saw the word riptides,
31:19and so, you know, as you did,
31:21and we had a quick look at the dictionary,
31:24and the English dictionary said no,
31:26but the American dictionary said yes.
31:28Yes, well, yes, in the British English it tends to be two words,
31:31but in American English it tends to be one word,
31:33and we allowed American words, just not American spellings.
31:36So that's absolutely fine. Both of you, well done.
31:39APPLAUSE
31:43Well done, John.
31:45So, 48-63, and we go into Anne's numbers game.
31:49Good luck, Anne. One large and five small, please.
31:52Thank you, Anne. It's still not over yet.
31:54One big one, five little. Could have a crucial conundrum on our hands.
31:58Anne's game of the day is 6-2-8-3-7 and 100.
32:05And the target, 113.
32:08113.
32:29MUSIC
32:42Anne? 113.
32:44Yes, Chris? 113.
32:46Thank you very much. Anne?
32:48100, plus 8, plus 2, plus 3.
32:50Yeah, too easy. Chris?
32:52100, plus 7, plus 6.
32:54Lovely. There we go.
32:56With the score standing, 73-58.
32:59Fingers on buzzers.
33:01Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:10BUZZER
33:12Chris? Political.
33:14Political. Let's see whether you're right.
33:17Well done. APPLAUSE
33:19Well done, Chris.
33:22APPLAUSE
33:24Pretty quick.
33:26Becoming pretty polished on these conundrums, too.
33:29Well done, Chris. Well done.
33:31So, you carry the day.
33:33Anne Duckworth, you had him on the run for quite a time
33:36and then he suddenly had a little bit of a gallop.
33:39But thank you so much for coming.
33:41Take this goodie bag back to Rochdale.
33:44Thank you. Thank you so much.
33:46And we shall see Chris Thorne tomorrow. Well done.
33:49They're getting harder. Not bad. Well done.
33:52We'll see John tomorrow and Susie too, of course.
33:54All right. Look forward to it.
33:56And Rachel, of course. See you tomorrow.
33:58See you tomorrow. All right. Join us then, same time, same place.
34:01You be sure of it. A very good afternoon to you all.
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