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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:05APPLAUSE
00:31Good afternoon, and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:35And it's that time for sales.
00:38They're back. The January sales.
00:41And apparently, sales actually started years ago.
00:44Even, I think, the first department stores,
00:46the very first one, actually, interestingly,
00:48opened in Londonderry in 1830.
00:50Sadly, it's gone out of business. It was called Austin's.
00:53That was even before Harrods and all the other great department stores.
00:56But the January sales. Nowadays, Rachel, you probably know better than I do,
00:59there are sales springing up all the time.
01:01You've got the summer sales, the January sales, this sales.
01:04But I do love a bargain, and often I've stumbled out.
01:07Having got the bargain and got it home
01:09and realised, actually, it didn't really want it at all.
01:12Well, it is quite nice, isn't it, when you get a bargain?
01:15I remember one of the department stores I went in a couple of years ago
01:18and they had a whole floor of jeans that were kind of £240 to start with.
01:21Everything was £20.
01:23How many did you snap up?
01:25Er, whatever fit.
01:27I'm sure I didn't need some of the ones I got,
01:29but it just shows what stupid prices they are to start with, isn't it?
01:32Still, I'll see you later. We go to the sales afterwards. How about that?
01:35Very nice.
01:37Now, Rachel, who's with us? Darren Godfrey's back.
01:40Two great wins, actually. Very, very good indeed.
01:43Darren's in the financial services market,
01:46and your job is to keep ahead of the gangsters, the fraudsters,
01:49which I think is a very worthwhile thing to be doing.
01:52So you're very welcome back here.
01:54Thank you.
01:55And you're joined by Susie Turner,
01:57an operations trainer from Waverton in Chester,
02:00works for a pub company.
02:02It says here you enjoy good food and drink,
02:04balanced out with plenty of running and cycling,
02:06and you've recently completed your first triathlon.
02:09Yes, I did that this summer in Chester,
02:11but I'm not sure I've got the balance quite right
02:13between eating and drinking and the exercise,
02:15but you've got to give it a go.
02:17Well, you look terrific, that's all I can say, Susie,
02:19and good luck to you, and good luck to you, Darren.
02:21Let's have a big round of applause for our contestants.
02:26And over the corner, Susie, and, of course, Alistair Stewart.
02:30Alistair has been a journalist and a newsman 40 years,
02:34and I think you're the longest-serving male news presenter
02:37on television with ITN at the moment, right?
02:40Yes, I believe I probably am, and I'm glad you made that distinction,
02:43chaps, because there are some women who have been around a bit longer.
02:46You've done it all, all the big stories.
02:48You were in Kuwait, I think, the first guy to report live from Kuwait City
02:52following the defeat of Saddam's army.
02:54Yeah, the Kuwait one was extraordinary,
02:56because, as you well know, chance is everything.
03:00And it was our friend CNN, the American rolling news people,
03:04who literally came crashing into our tent and said,
03:08we've got two spare seats in our Jeep that's going into Kuwait,
03:12it's going to be liberated tonight,
03:14and it was just rapid decision by the woman who was in charge,
03:17Dame Sue Tinson, who was our boss, who said,
03:19right, you go and the cameraman, and off we went.
03:22But in that split second, it could have been somebody else.
03:24Very exciting. A scoop. Thank you, Alastair.
03:27Now, then, Darren, let's get down to business. How about a letters game?
03:30OK. Hi, Rachel. Hi, Darren.
03:32Consonant start, please. Thank you. Start today with L.
03:35And a vowel.
03:37A.
03:38And a consonant.
03:40R.
03:41And a vowel.
03:43O.
03:44A consonant.
03:46S.
03:48And another one.
03:50V.
03:52And a vowel.
03:54E.
03:55A consonant.
03:57L.
03:59And a vowel, please.
04:00And the last one.
04:02I.
04:03And here's the Countdown Clock.
04:18CLOCK TICKS
04:35Yes, Darren?
04:36A seven.
04:37A seven. Susie?
04:38I think I've got an eight.
04:39Thank you. Darren?
04:40Ovaries.
04:42Now, then, Susie.
04:43Overalls.
04:44Overalls.
04:45Excellent. Well done. Well done for eight.
04:47Well done, Susie.
04:48APPLAUSE
04:49Good start.
04:52And in the corner, Susie and Alastair.
04:55Yeah, overalls, brilliant.
04:57And then we also found oversail.
05:00Yes, to oversail is not really a nautical term.
05:04It's of a building projecting beyond another part.
05:07So, example here, a sloping stone oversailing a gutter.
05:11Got it. OK.
05:13Eight points to Susie. Well done.
05:15Now, it's your letters game. Susie?
05:18I'll start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
05:20Thank you, Susie. G.
05:22And a vowel.
05:24U.
05:26And a consonant.
05:28R.
05:29Another consonant, please.
05:31T.
05:33And a vowel.
05:35E.
05:37And a consonant.
05:39R.
05:42Another consonant, please.
05:45A vowel.
05:47O.
05:50And a vowel to finish off with, please.
05:52And finishing with A.
05:54Stand by.
06:15MUSIC
06:26Susie?
06:27I have an eight.
06:29Yes, Darren?
06:30A six.
06:31And that six?
06:32Gutter.
06:33Susie Turner?
06:34Well, I hope this is right.
06:36Garot.
06:37Ooh.
06:38OK.
06:39Tell me how you spell it.
06:41How do you spell it with a double R and a double T?
06:44Um, you'd be absolutely right.
06:46APPLAUSE
06:48Well done.
06:54That's one brisk start, Susie Turner.
06:57It's not bad.
06:58Very good. Well done.
07:00Seriously, seriously impressive.
07:02You can spell it with one R, just in case people were wondering,
07:05but it's fine with double R, double T.
07:07But we also found an eight, because we've all studied so hard
07:10and we have Tutoridge as well.
07:12Tutoridge?
07:13But Garot is absolutely brilliant.
07:1516 points to Susie.
07:16And now, Darren, numbers time.
07:18One large, five little, please.
07:20Thank you, Darren.
07:21One big one, five little ones.
07:23Try and claw some points back.
07:24We shall see.
07:25The first numbers game of the day is three, four, one,
07:29another one, seven, and the large one, 75,
07:33and the target, 302.
07:36302.
08:08Yes, Darren?
08:09302.
08:10And Susie?
08:11302.
08:12Darren?
08:1375 times four?
08:15300.
08:16And then you get the two by doing three minus one.
08:19Well done, 302.
08:20Susie?
08:21Well, I did it completely differently
08:23and got the two by adding one and one.
08:25Completely different, but still valid. Well done.
08:27All right. Thank you.
08:29So, downs off the blocks.
08:30Ten points to Susie's, 26,
08:32as we turn to our first tea time teaser,
08:34which is garlic tea.
08:36And the clue.
08:37Garlic tea might be good for a cold,
08:40but this is all about a tissue.
08:42Garlic tea might be good for a cold,
08:44but this is all about a tissue.
09:02Welcome back. I left you with a clue.
09:04Garlic tea might be good for a cold,
09:06but this is all about a tissue.
09:08And what tissue might that be?
09:11It would be cartilage.
09:13Cartilage.
09:14So, Susie on 26, Darren on ten,
09:16and it's Susie's letters game.
09:18Could I have a consonant, please?
09:20Thank you, Susie.
09:21L.
09:22And a vowel?
09:24I.
09:25And a consonant?
09:27B.
09:30And another consonant?
09:32S.
09:33And a vowel?
09:35O.
09:37And a consonant?
09:39T.
09:41Another consonant, please?
09:43S.
09:45A vowel?
09:47E.
09:49And a final consonant, please?
09:52And a final X.
09:54Stand by.
10:02CLOCK TICKS
10:26Susie?
10:27Seven.
10:29Darren?
10:30Just a five.
10:31Boltz.
10:32Boltz and Susie?
10:34Boxeist.
10:36Boxeist from In The House, yes. Excellent.
10:39Pretty good. And Alastair?
10:41Can't beat that.
10:43Certainly nothing better than that.
10:45I mean, there are several that you can get as five or six,
10:47but Boxeist was seven that we got.
10:50And congratulations.
10:52Very good, well done.
10:53Seriously good.
10:5433-10, and we turn to Darren now.
10:57A consonant, please, Rachel?
10:59Thank you, Darren.
11:00F.
11:01And another?
11:03T.
11:04And a vowel?
11:06A.
11:08A consonant?
11:10Y.
11:11And another?
11:13C.
11:15And a vowel?
11:17O.
11:19And another vowel, please?
11:21I.
11:23And a consonant?
11:25R.
11:27And a final consonant, please?
11:29N.
11:30And a final N.
11:32And here's the Countdown Clock.
12:00Yes, Darren?
12:02A seven.
12:03A seven. Susie?
12:05I've got an eight.
12:07Darren?
12:08Factory.
12:09Susie Turner?
12:11It's a maths one, especially for Rachel.
12:13It's a fraction.
12:15Fraction. Very good.
12:20Well done, well done.
12:22Now, Alastair, Susie?
12:23I just love it. You know when, if they're doing the numbers game
12:26and they both get the same, show you our workings.
12:29LAUGHTER
12:31Factory came to us first and then, by jiggling around,
12:34Susie said, hang on a moment, it's there,
12:36and fractions came out as well.
12:38There it was. Well done.
12:40Thank you, Alastair. 41 plays ten.
12:43Darren on ten and it's Susie's numbers game.
12:45Thank you. A friend of mine asked me to do an inverted T,
12:49so I'll go for that, please.
12:51For your friend, one large and five little.
12:54And for that friend, they are ten, eight, three, nine, two,
13:00and the large one, 25.
13:02And the target to reach, 516.
13:04516.
13:24MUSIC PLAYS
13:37Susie?
13:38And just 517.
13:40What a way. And...?
13:42I'm not as close as that. No. Let's stick with Susie, then, for the moment.
13:45So I did two times ten.
13:47Two times ten, 20.
13:49Times 25 for 500.
13:51500.
13:52I added the nine and the eight.
13:54Four, one away. 517.
13:56Well done. Well done, Susie.
13:58But 516 is really what we needed.
14:01How tricky is that? Rachel?
14:03If you split up this multiplication,
14:05so ten times 25 is 250,
14:08and then add the eight is 258,
14:11and then times that by two and you get 516.
14:14Superb. Well done. Thank you.
14:17APPLAUSE
14:19Thanks, Rachel. Now, let's turn to Alistair.
14:22Well, I thought we should maybe just sort of warm things up a little bit,
14:25having talked of war zones and garrotting and stuff like that,
14:28because that's the day job, but I have other passions as well.
14:32And one of my absolute passions is costume drama,
14:36and particularly Downton Abbey.
14:40I love Downton Abbey and have followed every episode,
14:44some several times.
14:46The cast are people I admire from afar.
14:50But ITV, who obviously I work for in the day job for the news,
14:55but also transmitted the great Downton Abbey,
14:58got to know through social media, I suppose,
15:01that I was this great big fan.
15:03And they actually invited me to host the press conference
15:08for the final series run, and they said,
15:11we think you'll quite enjoy it if you turn up at this particular hotel
15:14in central London at a given time. We have a surprise.
15:17So I turned up, and at one stage I was then whisked away
15:21from the national press, the international press,
15:23the stage, the set, the everything,
15:25and taken down some dark stairs to the back door of the hotel
15:30by the dustbins to see this beautiful great big black motor car arrive
15:36and stepping out of it none other than Dame Maggie Smith.
15:40The Dowager Duchess.
15:42I was complete... I've met Prime Ministers,
15:44I've met members of the Royal Family,
15:46I was in the presence of Dame Maggie.
15:49So we then went upstairs and we did the press conference,
15:52she took the questions, everybody took the questions,
15:54and my final question to Dame Maggie is,
15:56what are you going to be doing next?
15:58And she said, well, dear boy, I think I'll just go somewhere
16:00and have a little lie down.
16:02And I have to tell you right now, having met Dame Maggie Smith
16:06for the first time in the flesh, the most charming woman imaginable,
16:09but I also needed to think about going somewhere for a little lie down.
16:12She's a total star and everything that you'd hope she'd be.
16:15A total gem.
16:17Oh, a lovely story, well done.
16:19APPLAUSE
16:23That's brilliant.
16:25All right, well done, Alastair. Thank you.
16:2748 says Susie's in the lead to Darren's ten.
16:30As we look to Darren for a letters game.
16:33Consonant, please. Thank you, Darren.
16:35T.
16:36And a vowel.
16:38O.
16:40And a consonant.
16:42S.
16:43And a vowel.
16:45A.
16:46And a consonant.
16:48V.
16:49And another.
16:51R.
16:53And a vowel.
16:55E.
16:57And a consonant.
16:59P.
17:01And a final vowel, please.
17:03And a final U.
17:05Time's up.
17:08MUSIC
17:36Darren?
17:37A seven.
17:38A seven. Susie?
17:39I also have a seven.
17:40Yes, Darren.
17:41Powders.
17:42Powders. And...?
17:44Vapours.
17:45Absolutely fine.
17:46Yeah.
17:47A couple of sixes, which are fun,
17:49something I have a passion about, the voters, bless their hearts,
17:52without whom none of us would have a job.
17:54Pastor is there, quite nice as well, but I'm...
17:57I couldn't get up to seven, but...
17:59One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
18:03Aptorus is there,
18:05which means wingless,
18:07and it describes an insect that is wingless,
18:10like a bristle tail, for example.
18:12An aptorus bug.
18:13APPLAUSE
18:15Thank you.
18:19A rare bug indeed.
18:2055 to 17.
18:22It's Susie's letters game. Susie?
18:25Can I have a consonant, please?
18:27N.
18:28And a vowel.
18:30A.
18:31And a consonant.
18:33G.
18:34Another consonant.
18:36P.
18:39And a vowel.
18:41O.
18:42A consonant.
18:44M.
18:46Another consonant.
18:48C.
18:49A vowel.
18:52E.
18:53And a final vowel, please.
18:55And a final I.
18:57Countdown.
19:05MUSIC CONTINUES
19:29Susie?
19:30Seven.
19:31Darren?
19:32Seven.
19:33Sue?
19:34Susie?
19:35Tamping.
19:36Darren?
19:37Teaming.
19:38Both fine.
19:39Very good. Can we match or beat it?
19:41We can beat...
19:43Again, a curiously deceptive mix,
19:45because I-N-G should be very helpful,
19:48but not enormously so.
19:50But you have to remember
19:52that sometimes there are unlikely letters that go together,
19:56like P-T...
19:58Ah.
19:59..to yield...
20:01..to maim.
20:02To maim, yes. Silent P.
20:05But it is a tricky one.
20:07But it's P-T-O-M-A-I-N-E.
20:11It's a compound you don't want to meet
20:13because it's of unpleasant taste and odour
20:15and it's found in putrefying matter.
20:19It comes from the Greek for corpse.
20:21Bless you.
20:23Apologies for that. It's thought to cause food poisoning.
20:26Thank you.
20:2762 plays 24, and now it's Numbers time.
20:30Six more, please, Rachel.
20:31Thank you. Gambling time now.
20:33Thank you, Darren. Six little ones coming up.
20:36And for this challenge they are...
20:385, 6, 10, 7, 3 and 9.
20:43And the target...
20:45454.
20:47454.
21:00MUSIC PLAYS
21:20Darren?
21:21454.
21:22Thank you, Susie.
21:24454 as well.
21:25Darren?
21:26Nine times ten.
21:27Nine times ten, 90.
21:28Times five.
21:29Times five, 450.
21:30Seven minus three is four.
21:32Yep. Well done.
21:34And Susie?
21:35Yeah, pretty much exactly the same way.
21:38OK. All right.
21:39APPLAUSE
21:42I'm Susie on 72.
21:44Good lead there.
21:45As we turn to our second tea time teaser,
21:48which is Dire Harry.
21:50Harry's form was dire,
21:52so he got this treatment from Sir Alex.
21:55Harry's form was dire,
21:56so he got this treatment from Sir Alex.
22:15Welcome back. I left with the clue.
22:17Harry's form was dire,
22:18so he got this treatment from Sir Alex.
22:20And what treatment might that have been?
22:22It was the hairdryer treatment.
22:24Hairdryer treatment.
22:25Terrifying, that would have been.
22:27Hairdryer.
22:28So, Susie's 72, Darren on 34,
22:30and it's Susie's letters game.
22:32Could I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
22:34Thank you, Susie.
22:35B.
22:36And a vowel?
22:38O.
22:39And a consonant?
22:41H.
22:44Another consonant?
22:46T.
22:47A vowel?
22:49E.
22:51Another vowel?
22:53I.
22:54A consonant?
22:56N.
22:58A vowel?
23:00A.
23:02And a final consonant, please?
23:04And a final R.
23:06Stand by.
23:24CLOCK TICKS
23:38Susie?
23:39Seven.
23:40A seven, Darren?
23:41Just a six.
23:42And that six?
23:43Bather.
23:44Bather and?
23:45Another.
23:47And another.
23:48Yes.
23:49Good, very nice.
23:50How did we fare?
23:51We fared slightly better.
23:53Yeah.
23:54Because we applied our brain, which is five,
23:57without any bother, which is six.
23:59Yes.
24:00Should we sing it?
24:01Maybe if we were to sing it, I'd have to sing it, wouldn't I?
24:03Yeah.
24:04Baritone.
24:05Baritone for eight.
24:07Very good.
24:08Baritone.
24:09Well done.
24:10APPLAUSE
24:11Baritone.
24:12Well done.
24:13Darren, your letters game.
24:15Consonant, please?
24:16Thank you, Darren.
24:17K.
24:18And a vowel?
24:20O.
24:21And a vowel?
24:23U.
24:24And a consonant?
24:26S.
24:27And another?
24:29M.
24:31And another, please?
24:33S.
24:35And a vowel?
24:37O.
24:39And a consonant?
24:42N.
24:44And a final vowel, please?
24:46And a final E.
24:48And a vowel?
24:51R.
24:53And a consonant?
24:56L.
24:58And a vowel?
25:01R.
25:03And a consonant?
25:06L.
25:08And a vowel?
25:11R.
25:13And a consonant?
25:17Darren?
25:19It's a risky six.
25:21How about Susie?
25:22A six.
25:24Darren?
25:25Mooses.
25:26Mooses and Susie?
25:28Smokes.
25:30And smokes?
25:31How are you spelling mooses?
25:33M-O-O-S-E-S.
25:35Ah. I think the plural is probably just moose, Darren.
25:40Yeah.
25:41It is the same. Sorry.
25:44Mouses would have been OK in the sense of the computer mouse.
25:48For six.
25:50And Alistair?
25:51Smokes for six as well.
25:54Or the moose that you eat.
25:56But nothing north of that, I'm afraid. Tough letters.
25:59All right.
26:0085-34, and it's Susie.
26:03We now turn to her usual wonderful origins of words.
26:08Well, I've been talking a lot about eavesdropping lately
26:12because it's through eavesdropping that I came to write my most recent book.
26:16It's through listening in to the conversations of others
26:18and trying to decode them if they're talking in a particular kind of jargon.
26:22But a lot of people have said, well, where does eavesdrop come from?
26:25Because it's a slightly odd term.
26:28Go back to the 9th century and you look at the eavesdrip, as it was,
26:32or the eavesdrop of a house,
26:34which was a space of ground that received the rainwater
26:37that was thrown off by the eaves of a house.
26:41It was chiefly used in connection with a very ancient law,
26:43and that prohibited a proprietor of a house
26:47from building at a distance less than two feet from the boundary of his land
26:51in case he injured his neighbour's land by eavesdrip or eavesdrop.
26:56But the law also frowned on another activity to do with this eavesdrop
27:00or the eavesdrip, which was the practice of standing below it
27:03in order to tune in to the conversations that drifted over the neighbouring fence.
27:09You had to pay a fine if you were caught doing that,
27:12but it was that exact practice that gave rise to our modern sense
27:16of eavesdropping or tuning in on conversation
27:19that is not intended for your ears.
27:22And finally, gossip, one of my favourite word stories,
27:26goes back to god-sib, a godmother or a godfather,
27:29a relative of God, the sib-bit is related to sibling,
27:32who would be at the baptism of a child.
27:35And eventually god-sib became a term simply for a very close friend,
27:39and of course it's with close friends that we do all our exchanges of idle chat,
27:43and that's how god-sib, the relative of God, came to give us gossip.
27:48Very good.
27:54Well done, Susie, thank you.
27:5685 days, 34, and we turn to Susie Turner for her letters game.
28:00A consonant, please.
28:02Thank you, Susie. F.
28:04A vowel.
28:06U.
28:07A consonant.
28:09Q.
28:11Another vowel. No.
28:13E.
28:14Sorry, another consonant.
28:17S.
28:19A vowel.
28:21U.
28:23A different vowel.
28:26I.
28:28A consonant.
28:30D.
28:33And another consonant, please.
28:35And lastly, W.
28:38Stand by.
29:04MUSIC STOPS
29:10Susie?
29:11Just a five.
29:12A five, Darren?
29:13A five.
29:14Susie?
29:15Squid.
29:16And?
29:17Same word, squid.
29:19All right. Well done.
29:21But I have a suspicion that Alastair and Susie can beat that.
29:25We can, but only just, with a sig.
29:29We talked a few days ago about the love of horses and what have you,
29:33and equine came to my mind, but obviously there's not an N there.
29:37But there is equids.
29:39Yes.
29:40E-Q-U-I-D-S, which is the kind of generic.
29:43As in, are you going to tell us equus, Latin?
29:45Yes, equidae is the horse family.
29:47Right, right.
29:48So, I'm thrilled to bits about that one.
29:50Very good.
29:51Cos it's six and cos I love them.
29:53All right, Susie on 90, look at this.
29:55Darren on 39, and it's Darren's last letters game.
29:59Consonant, please, Rachel.
30:00Thank you, Darren. P.
30:02And a vowel.
30:04A.
30:05A consonant.
30:07L.
30:09And another.
30:11R.
30:12And a vowel.
30:14E.
30:15A consonant.
30:17N.
30:19And a vowel.
30:21A.
30:23A consonant.
30:25T.
30:27And a final consonant, please.
30:30And a final M.
30:32Go, Darren.
30:57MUSIC
31:04Darren.
31:05Eight.
31:06And eight, Susie.
31:07Also eight.
31:08Darren.
31:09Maternal.
31:10And Susie.
31:11Similar theme, parental.
31:13Parental.
31:15Very good.
31:16Well done.
31:20Well done.
31:21Alistair.
31:22You know, I'm kicking myself cos we didn't see maternal,
31:24but we did see parental.
31:26So, unless you're going to overrule on hyphenation,
31:29cos I'm not sure, prenatal.
31:31Ah, no, not hyphenated.
31:33So, that's eight. So, we're OK on that one as well.
31:35Well done.
31:36So, rich letters, indeed, of a kind of family nature.
31:39Well done, Alistair. And Susie?
31:41There's one other... I love this word and use it often,
31:45even though it's very archaic.
31:47It's a malapert. It's an impudent person.
31:49Very insolent. So, M-A-L-A-P-E-R-T.
31:52Thank you. Well done.
31:54All right, 98 plays 47 into the final numbers game.
31:58It's for Susie Turner.
32:00Could I have two large numbers, please, and four small?
32:03You can indeed, thank you, Susie.
32:05Two large, four little for the final one of the day.
32:07And these numbers are 6, 6, 9, 4, 25 and 75.
32:15And the target, 269.
32:18269.
32:24MUSIC PLAYS
32:50Susie?
32:51269.
32:52269, Darren?
32:53269.
32:54All right, Susie?
32:5575 times 4?
32:56300.
32:58And then 25 plus 6?
33:00It's a 31.
33:01And take it away.
33:02Perfect, well done. 269.
33:04And, Darren?
33:05Same way.
33:06There we go.
33:07APPLAUSE
33:10Very good.
33:11Very good performance from Susie.
33:13First time out, 108.
33:15Let's go into the final round, shall we?
33:17Fingers on buzzers, Darren and Susie.
33:19We're rolling today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:22MUSIC PLAYS
33:29Susie Turner.
33:30Resembled.
33:32Resembled. Let's see whether you're right.
33:34I have little doubt, actually.
33:36Look at that, resembled.
33:38APPLAUSE
33:44That, madam, is a classy start.
33:46Thank you.
33:47118, that's fantastic.
33:49Darren, I'm going to turn to you because you were a great player,
33:52two terrific wins, and along comes somebody else
33:55and knocks you off your perch.
33:57She's a wonderful player. I've had a great time.
33:59Well, we've enjoyed having you.
34:01Take this with you and take your teapot, too.
34:03Thank you.
34:04Brilliant stuff.
34:05And we shall see you next time out.
34:07I look forward to it.
34:08Fantastic.
34:09So, what do you think about Susie Turner, then, you two?
34:12I'm so impressed.
34:13To play in the company of these two has been extraordinary
34:16and clearly Susie is a real champ in the making.
34:19Let's see. Next time. Join us then.
34:22And Rachel.
34:23Yeah, I hope Susie's brought a whole wardrobe of clothes with her
34:26cos I think she might be here for a while.
34:28OK, well put. All right, see you next time.
34:30Next time, same place, you be sure of it.
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