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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:05APPLAUSE
00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:34Here we are in Media City and all around us you can hear the sound of laughter.
00:38Why is that? Because there's a huge event happening in Greater Manchester.
00:42All around us it's called Women in Comedy, the Women in Comedy Festival.
00:47And let me tell you, Rachel, it started on the 11th,
00:50goes all the way through to the 26th.
00:52The month, 80 shows featuring 125 female comedy acts
00:57at 16 different venues. Isn't that something?
01:00Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
01:02And if you fancy a laugh, get out there,
01:05because some of the funniest women in the country are performing just for you.
01:09We've had some wonderful laughs, Rachel, here in the studio,
01:11because we've had some of the great comedians.
01:13We've had Jo Brand, Maureen Lipman, an actress and a comedian,
01:17and, of course, Jenny Eclair quite recently may always make us laugh.
01:21But, of course, the world lost one of the great comedians not so long ago.
01:25That was, of course, Joan Rivers, passed away.
01:27Controversial, why not?
01:29But a very, very witty lady,
01:31had that wonderful New York Jewish sense of humour,
01:33and she'll be sorely missed.
01:35My favourite, I think I'd go for Jo Brand, because I love her.
01:39Yeah. How about you? She's brilliant.
01:41Ooh, favourite, I might go for someone who's been here,
01:45but in Cats Does Countdown, Sarah Millican.
01:48She's funny. She's a lovely lady as well.
01:50Yeah? Yeah, she's local to up here.
01:52She's got Pussycats, and just very nice and very funny.
01:54Good for her. I've not met her, but she has that show.
01:57What's it called? The Sarah Millican TV programme.
02:00Is that what it is? How cleverly titled is that?
02:03All right, who have we got here?
02:05We've got Johnny Rye is back.
02:07Two wins under his belt, winning with a score of 101 yesterday.
02:10Well done. Student from Loughborough.
02:12Politics and French are his subjects at Southampton.
02:15And I'm sure you'll be delighted to know
02:18that Rachel is wearing your team's colours.
02:21Leicester. Look what she's done for you, Johnny.
02:23So are you. We're teaming up.
02:25Didn't, um, what's his name, play for Leicester in the early days?
02:29Lineker. Lineker. He was a Leicester City chap.
02:32He's from Leicester, isn't he? Yep.
02:34Yeah. Anyway, enough about Mr Lineker.
02:37What about George Ford? That's much more important.
02:40He's here, sixth-form student from Whittlesea, near Peterborough.
02:43Loves anything to do with maths.
02:45I think Pi was your favourite film. Yeah.
02:49All about maths, of course.
02:51And what do you hope to do? You want to do a maths degree and then?
02:54Just stay in maths education for a while, try and get a Masters,
02:57and then see where it goes from there.
02:59Good for you. Well, I expect to see you testing Rachel
03:02all during today's programme.
03:04And good luck to you both.
03:06Big round of applause, then, for Johnny Rye and George Ford.
03:15And in the corner, Susie, you have a favourite comedian?
03:19Well, yes, I'm with you, it has to be Joe Brown,
03:21but also Josie Long is very, very funny.
03:24Yes, indeed. She's one of the younger comedians.
03:26She plays at the Blackheart in Camden, she's very, very funny.
03:29Very good. All right, you're joined once again by the wonderful Dave Myers,
03:32TV presenter, hairy biker, not a professional chef,
03:36more a lifelong foodie, I guess.
03:39Mmm. A good cook. A good cook.
03:42And we'll hear more from you a little bit later on,
03:44but now it's time to get down to business with Johnny Rye.
03:47Johnny, let us gain.
03:49Hi, Rachel. Hi, Johnny. Can I have a consonant, please?
03:51You can, thank you. Start today with D.
03:54Can I have another consonant?
03:56N. And a third?
03:59R. And a vowel?
04:02U. And another vowel?
04:06E. And a third?
04:09O. And a consonant?
04:12T. And another consonant?
04:15G. And a final vowel, please?
04:19And a final E.
04:21And here's the Countdown Clock.
04:46CLOCK TICKS
04:54Well, Johnny? Seven.
04:56How about George? Seven as well.
04:58Johnny? Tongued.
05:00And George? Undergo.
05:02Undergo. Very good, yes. Excellent.
05:05Two neat ones. What has the corner got to offer?
05:08We've got another seven. Grunted.
05:11Thank you, Dave.
05:13Anything from Susie? Any...?
05:15No, I couldn't get beyond seven, I'm afraid.
05:18No. Grunted, indeed. Seven points apiece.
05:21George, let us gain.
05:23Hi, Rachel. Can I have a consonant, please?
05:25Thank you, George.
05:27S. And another?
05:30M. And a vowel, please?
05:33A. And another?
05:36I. And another?
05:39E. And a consonant, please?
05:43L. And another?
05:46R. And a vowel, please?
05:50A. And a consonant, please?
05:53And lastly, N.
05:55Countdown.
06:13MUSIC
06:27Well, George?
06:29A seven. Yes, Johnny?
06:31Eight. So, George?
06:33Marinas. Marinas. And?
06:35Minerals.
06:37Minerals. Well done.
06:39APPLAUSE
06:43Marinas, yeah.
06:45So, Dave?
06:47We've got a minute to seven, really.
06:49Manlier.
06:51Yes. Following grunty.
06:53Grunting manlier.
06:55In a manlier sort of way. Susie?
06:57If you turn that around a little bit,
06:59you can have marline, the nautical rope.
07:01A marline? Marline.
07:03Thank you. 15 points to George's seven,
07:06and we're back with Johnny for a numbers game.
07:08Johnny?
07:10Can I have one large and five small again, please, Rachel?
07:12Your usual, thank you, Johnny, one from the top row,
07:14five from the other ones.
07:16And for the first numbers game today,
07:18the selection is 5, 10, 3, 6,
07:23another 10 and 50.
07:25And the target, 213.
07:28213.
07:30MUSIC
07:42MUSIC
08:00Well, Johnny? 213.
08:02213. And George? 213.
08:04Thank you. Johnny?
08:0650 minus 10.
08:0850 minus 10, 40.
08:10Times 5, 200.
08:12Plus 10, plus 3.
08:14And then the other 10, 213, lovely.
08:16Now then, George, forward.
08:18I went differently, I did 10 minus 6 is 4.
08:20Yep.
08:21Times by the 50 for 200.
08:23200.
08:24And then the 10 and the 3 added up.
08:26OK, well done.
08:28There you go.
08:33Well done. 25, 17.
08:35But let's have a tea time teaser,
08:37which is am parent.
08:39And the clue, you don't need to be a parent
08:41to show how much you love your son.
08:43You don't need to be a parent
08:45to show how much you love your son.
08:48BELL
08:56APPLAUSE
09:03Welcome back. I left you with a clue.
09:05You don't need to be a parent
09:07to show how much you love your son.
09:09And the answer is permatan.
09:12Cryptically. Permatan.
09:1425 plays, George is 17.
09:16George, letters for you.
09:18Vowel, please, Rachel.
09:20Thank you, George. E.
09:22And another?
09:24A.
09:26And a consonant, please?
09:28V.
09:30And another?
09:32T.
09:34L.
09:36And another, please?
09:38R.
09:40And a consonant?
09:42N.
09:44And a vowel?
09:46E.
09:48And another vowel, please?
09:50And the last one? A.
09:52Stand by.
10:04BELL
10:24Well, George. A seven.
10:26A seven and...?
10:28A risky seven.
10:30A risky seven. So, George. Eternal.
10:32Taverna.
10:34How are you spelling it?
10:36T-A-V-E-R-N-A.
10:38Absolutely fine. Yep, very good.
10:40That's all I heard. So, what else have we got there, Dave?
10:43We managed to squeeze an eight. Relevant.
10:46Relevant, very good. Susie?
10:48Yes, relevant for eight and eternal for seven.
10:50Thank you very much. OK.
10:52Johnny, you're back with a letters game.
10:55Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
10:57Thank you, Johnny. G.
10:59Can I have another consonant?
11:01And a third?
11:03T.
11:05And a vowel?
11:07E.
11:09And another vowel?
11:11A.
11:13And another vowel?
11:15I.
11:17And a consonant?
11:19D.
11:21And a vowel?
11:23A.
11:25And a final consonant, please?
11:27And a final S.
11:29CLOCK TICKS
11:55Well, Johnny?
11:57Nothing.
11:59Nothing. That's a turn-up for the books.
12:01George?
12:03I'll go with a risky seven.
12:05We don't need to be risky any more.
12:07What is it, George?
12:09AGISTID.
12:11AGISTID is excellent, yes. It's a good old-fashioned countdown word.
12:14It used to mean, and probably still does,
12:16to take in livestock in return for payment.
12:19So, to look after somebody else's animals, basically.
12:21OK. Very good. Now then, Dave.
12:24Just for a sakes, we've got staged.
12:27Staged. Susie?
12:29Yeah, AGISTID was ours, too.
12:31Yeah, well done, George. Well done indeed.
12:33Does the world for your score as well.
12:35You're still behind, but only by one point.
12:3732 plays your 31.
12:39And it's Numbers time.
12:41George?
12:43Can I have four from the top, please, Rachel?
12:45You can. Thank you, George. Four big ones, changing it up,
12:47and two little ones.
12:49And this time, the little ones are two and eight.
12:52OK, the big ones, 125, 75 and 50.
12:57And the target, 318.
12:59318.
13:23MUSIC
13:32Now then, George.
13:34Yeah, 318.
13:36Johnny? 318 not written down.
13:38So, Johnny? 75 over 25 is 3.
13:4175 over 25, 3.
13:43Plus 50.
13:44Plus 50, 53.
13:468 minus 2 is 6. Yep.
13:48And times them together. Well done. 318.
13:51I went slightly differently. I did 100 times 75.
13:53100 times 75 is 7,500.
13:57And then 50 times 8 is 400.
13:5950 times 8, 400.
14:02Add the two together for 7,900.
14:047,900.
14:06Divided by 25 and then add the two.
14:08Divided by 25 for 616. Yep.
14:11Well done. 318.
14:13APPLAUSE
14:16APPLAUSE
14:21Well done. Well done, George. Well done, Johnny.
14:2442 plays 41.
14:26But now let's turn to Dave.
14:28And you've had a great career, really,
14:30because you were in the make-up business,
14:32then you went into the, I guess, cooking and writing and the rest of it.
14:35But you started off, actually, as a fine arts student
14:38and then you got a Master's, I think.
14:40Yeah, yeah. I was very, very lucky at school.
14:43I went to a local grammar school
14:45and our art teacher was an amazing man,
14:47a gentleman called Philip Eaton.
14:49He's passed away, sadly.
14:51But he was one of those teachers who changes your lives.
14:54You know, you grow up with no boundaries.
14:57And I did, indeed, go to art school.
15:00My dad worked in a paper mill,
15:02so, really, the one toy I had in abundance was paper.
15:05And I did a foundation course.
15:07Then I went to Goldsmiths and did a degree in fine art,
15:10but, you know, it was just pre-Damien Hirst and that era.
15:13It was a very interesting place to be,
15:15but my art was always very kind of old-fashioned.
15:18I used to paint with egg tempera,
15:20you know, put the egg yolk and water and rock pigments
15:23and I'd make my own gesso panels out of plaster,
15:26rabbit skin, glue and whiting.
15:28And it was lovely.
15:30I did exhibit and they used to sell paintings.
15:33But I applied, after art school, I applied for two jobs.
15:36One was a trainee restorer at the National Gallery,
15:39in their picture frame department,
15:41and the same week I applied for a trainee makeup artist at the BBC.
15:44You know how your life takes a different course.
15:47I remember I had my interview at the BBC
15:49and somebody there was taking me from one building to the other.
15:52This was the old television centre.
15:54It was quite a magical place.
15:56And I said, what's it like working here?
15:58She said, oh, it's great, she said.
16:00I said, what are you doing now?
16:02She said, well, I'm just off to film with the two Ronnies
16:05on the Canberra for six weeks in the West Indies.
16:09And what was your first makeup job? Was it Blake's Seven?
16:12Yes, my very first makeup job,
16:14and it came in just on my rotor and it was Blake's Seven.
16:17And it was an episode that Roy Kinnear was in.
16:20I was very junior in the department
16:22and part of my job was making up a band of aliens
16:25on holiday and out of space.
16:27Roy Kinnear was the caterpillar, the leading alien.
16:31Wonderful.
16:32But it really was, the spaceship in those days,
16:35it was fabricated from tin foil roasting tins, but we all believed it.
16:39Excellent.
16:40And here you are enthralling us on Countdown.
16:43Thank you very much, David. Thank you.
16:45All right, now then, 42 plays Georgie's 41.
16:48Johnny's point in the lead, letters game for you, Johnny.
16:51Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
16:53Thank you, Johnny.
16:55T
16:56Can I have another consonant?
16:58P
16:59And another?
17:01T
17:02Can I have a vowel?
17:04E
17:05And another?
17:07O
17:08And another?
17:09A
17:10And a consonant?
17:12L
17:13And another consonant?
17:15S
17:16And a final vowel, please?
17:18And a final O.
17:21Countdown.
17:34MUSIC PLAYS
17:53Well, Johnny?
17:54This is six.
17:55Six. Yes, George?
17:57Seven.
17:58So, Johnny?
17:59Petals.
18:00Petals and?
18:01Apostle.
18:02Apostle.
18:04Very good.
18:05Now then, what have we got in the corner?
18:07Susie? Dave?
18:08We've got an eight.
18:09We have.
18:10Potatoes.
18:11Potatoes.
18:12Look at that, spuds are in there.
18:16And anything else?
18:18A couple of sevens, otherwise.
18:20Yeah, we've got teapots for seven.
18:23And pootles.
18:25Pootles?
18:26Pootles, pootling about.
18:27O to pootle.
18:29Yeah.
18:30Not advising, really.
18:3242 to George's 48, my word.
18:36And George is back on. Letters.
18:38Can we have a consonant, please?
18:40Thank you, George.
18:41V
18:42And another?
18:44T
18:45And another?
18:47W
18:48And another?
18:51N
18:52And a vowel, please?
18:54A
18:55And another?
18:56O
18:58And a third?
19:00E
19:01And a consonant?
19:03K
19:04And another vowel?
19:06And lastly, O.
19:09Stand by.
19:32Well, George?
19:34A six.
19:35A six, Johnny?
19:36Six.
19:37George?
19:38Novate.
19:39Novate, yes.
19:40Awoken.
19:41Awoken.
19:42Excellent.
19:43Novate is the legal term when you substitute an old contract with a new one.
19:48And awoken, also good.
19:50Yeah.
19:51Dave?
19:52That was it, really.
19:53Just Tolkien for five.
19:56Very good.
19:5748 plays George's 54 as we go into a numbers game for Johnny.
20:02I'm going to change things up.
20:03Can I try three large and three small, please?
20:05You can, indeed.
20:06Thank you, Johnny.
20:07Three from the top this time.
20:08And three little ones.
20:10And this round is seven, nine, five,
20:14and then a large three, 100, 50 and 75.
20:18And the target, 900,
20:20a large three, 100, 50 and 75.
20:24And the target, 935.
20:26935.
20:50Well, Johnny?
21:00935, not written down.
21:02And George?
21:03935.
21:04So, Johnny?
21:05100 times 9.
21:07100 times 9, 900.
21:1075 over 5.
21:1275 over 5, 15.
21:1450 minus 15.
21:1535.
21:16And add it on.
21:17Perfect.
21:19Thank you, George.
21:20I started off the same, but then I did 7 times 5 for the 35.
21:23Er, yeah, perfect.
21:25APPLAUSE
21:33Kind of you, Johnny, to go to all that trouble, really.
21:35I know.
21:36Think about it.
21:3764 plays Johnny's 58.
21:39Let's have a tea time teaser.
21:41Token ban and the clue, think number 10, think brown.
21:44Think number 10, think brown.
21:47Think number 10, think brown.
22:05Welcome back. A warm welcome back.
22:07Elevator with the clue, think number 10, think brown.
22:09And the answer is banknote.
22:12Banknote, 58 to 64.
22:14Let's have a moment, and George is back on.
22:16Have a letters game, George.
22:18Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
22:20Thank you, George. N.
22:22And another?
22:24S.
22:25And a vowel, please?
22:27U.
22:28And a consonant?
22:30F.
22:31And another consonant?
22:33S.
22:35And a vowel, please?
22:37E.
22:39And a consonant?
22:41R.
22:43I.
22:45And a consonant, please?
22:47And the last one? C.
22:49Countdown.
23:14MUSIC
23:22George?
23:23A seven.
23:24A seven.
23:25Johnny?
23:26Seven.
23:27Thank you, George.
23:28Infusers.
23:29And, Johnny?
23:30Fissure.
23:31A fissure?
23:32Fissure, yes, a crack. Very good.
23:35Two good ones, and what of the corner?
23:37Dave?
23:38Just infusers for eight.
23:40With an eight R on it, you can have an infuser.
23:43Well done. Susie?
23:44No, that was our best, Nick.
23:46Well done. 71 plays Johnny's 65. Johnny's back on. Letters game.
23:50Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
23:52Thank you, Johnny. W.
23:54Can I have another consonant?
23:56H.
23:58And another?
24:00G.
24:01And a vowel?
24:02A.
24:03And another?
24:05E.
24:06And another?
24:07A.
24:08And a consonant?
24:10Y.
24:11And another?
24:13D.
24:14And a final consonant, please?
24:16And a final S.
24:18And here's the Countdown Clock.
24:20MUSIC
24:39MUSIC
24:52Yes, Johnny?
24:53I'll try an eight.
24:54An eight. George?
24:56I'll try a seven.
24:58All right. And your seven?
25:00Erm, wash day.
25:02Wash day. Now then, Johnny?
25:05Headways.
25:07Absolutely fine, it is there, all one word.
25:09I was really hoping you weren't going to say headways,
25:12cos I was just debating that myself.
25:14But unfortunately, the dictionary does say mass noun.
25:17There is a second definition,
25:19which is the interval between trains or buses on a regular service,
25:22but it doesn't say that that is a count noun,
25:25and so I think the same rule applies, unfortunately.
25:27Sorry, Johnny.
25:28Ah, bad luck.
25:29Sorry.
25:30Bad luck, Johnny.
25:31That's a groan from the audience there,
25:33particularly from Johnny's mum.
25:35Over the same, wash day and headway.
25:37Very good. Susie?
25:39Sorry, Johnny's mum, that's all I can say.
25:41All right, 78 plays 65.
25:44Now then...
25:45Oh, it's time for Susie.
25:47Susie, you have no wonderful origins of words.
25:49Now then, Susie, what have you got for us?
25:51Well, it's a bit early, Nick,
25:52but I'm going to talk about splicing the main brace,
25:55which is something that we might do at the end of a hard day's work.
25:59You might splice the main brace and have a stiff drink.
26:03But why do we say that?
26:04The expression comes from a comparison
26:06between the reviving effect, if you like, of a stiff drink,
26:09and the repair of the main brace on board a ship,
26:12and the main brace is the rope for holding or turning one of the sails.
26:16And within the Royal Navy,
26:18it was a pretty rare event to have to do this,
26:20but it was also quite a tricky one,
26:21so the sailors might be rewarded with an extra tot of rum,
26:24if they were lucky.
26:25And again, if they were lucky,
26:27they wouldn't have had Admiral Edward Vernon as their boss,
26:31because he was the first to order diluted rum for his sailors.
26:35He wore a grogroom cloak, grogroom being a very coarse cloth,
26:40and eventually he became known as Old Grog,
26:43and that is where, over time, grog became the rum itself, or the drink.
26:48There was one bright side,
26:50because the rum he ordered was also served with lemon or lime juice
26:53as part of the diluting effect,
26:55but that could have saved his men from the scurvy
26:58that was so often suffered due to a lack of vitamin C on the high seas,
27:01and as I've mentioned before,
27:02that is why British sailors became known as limeys.
27:06Just a couple more drinking terms.
27:08To have one over the eight is to have had more than eight pints,
27:11i.e. a whole gallon,
27:12so that's pretty excessive intake of alcohol.
27:15Enough to make you go on the wagon,
27:17and that harks back to watercarts and wagons,
27:20which carried water in the US in the 1900s,
27:23and anybody who was abstaining from alcohol,
27:25as many totalers would flock to the wagons,
27:27they'd clench their thirst
27:29and also sometimes had to sign a pledge
27:31stating that they were on the water wagon.
27:33Very good. Well done.
27:35Thank you, Susie.
27:39Thank you, Susie.
27:42Now, letters game, penultimate letters game, for George.
27:45Hi, Rachel. Can I have a consonant, please?
27:47Thank you, George. D.
27:49And another?
27:51R.
27:52And a third?
27:55And a fourth?
27:58B.
27:59And a vowel?
28:01I.
28:03And another vowel?
28:04O.
28:06And a third?
28:08E.
28:10And a consonant?
28:12S.
28:14And a final consonant, please?
28:17And a final C.
28:19Can-can.
28:25BELL
28:51George?
28:52A seven.
28:53A seven. Johnny?
28:54A six.
28:55And that six?
28:56Priced.
28:57Priced. And, George?
28:59Copiers.
29:00Copiers.
29:01Very good.
29:02Not bad, increasing now.
29:0485 to 65, 20 points ahead.
29:06Dave?
29:08We've got a couple of sevens, we've got periods.
29:10Yes.
29:11And corpsed.
29:13Corpsed.
29:14Corpsed.
29:15When an actor laughs when they...
29:16Oh, when they sort of collapse.
29:18Yeah, it comes from actors trying to...
29:20who were trying to be dead bodies on stage.
29:22Having a fit of the giggles, yes.
29:24Very funny.
29:25All right, so, 85 plays Johnny's 65,
29:28and it's Johnny back on with the final letters game for today.
29:32Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
29:34Thank you, Johnny.
29:35R.
29:36And another?
29:38S.
29:39And a third?
29:41L.
29:42And a vowel?
29:44O.
29:45And another?
29:46E.
29:47And a third?
29:49I.
29:50And a consonant?
29:51X.
29:53And another?
29:55T.
29:57And a final vowel, please?
29:59And a final E.
30:01And here's the clock.
30:21CLOCK TICKS
30:34Yes, Johnny?
30:36A seven.
30:37A seven.
30:38Seven as well.
30:39Two sevens, Johnny?
30:40Toilers.
30:41And, George?
30:42Loiters.
30:43And loiters.
30:45Any advances there, Dave?
30:47This is same.
30:48Yep.
30:49Same here.
30:51All right.
30:52So, 92 plays 72 as we go into the final numbers game,
30:56and it's for George.
30:57I'm going to hopefully play it safe with one large, please.
31:00OK, thank you, George.
31:01One large and five small, a tactical choice, I feel.
31:04Right.
31:05For the last time today, the numbers are 4, 1, 8, 5, 2 and 25,
31:12and your hopefully safe target, 849.
31:16849.
31:17MUSIC PLAYS
31:48Well, George?
31:49849.
31:50Johnny?
31:51849.
31:52Tell me about it, George.
31:538 x 5 is 40.
31:558 x 5 is 40.
31:57Take the 4 and the 2 for 34.
31:5934.
32:00And times by 25 for...
32:01850.
32:02And then take the 1.
32:03Well done. 849.
32:05Johnny?
32:06Slightly different. 8 x 4.
32:088 x 4 is 32.
32:09Plus 2.
32:104 x 34 again.
32:11Times 25.
32:12Again, 850.
32:13Minus 1.
32:14And again, another ten points. Well done.
32:17Very good.
32:23Two good Countdown competitors
32:25as we go into the final round, the conundrum round.
32:28So, Johnny and George, fingers on buzzers, please.
32:31Let's reveal today's Countdown conundrum.
32:34MUSIC PLAYS
32:47BELL RINGS
32:49Johnny?
32:50Paintwork.
32:51Paintwork. Let's see whether you're right.
32:54Well done.
32:55APPLAUSE
32:56Good man.
33:03Well done.
33:05But George, young George Ford, takes the day,
33:08but Johnny, a very good competitor.
33:10Thanks.
33:11Will you take this teapot and the goodie bag...
33:13I'd love to.
33:15..back to Southampton?
33:17George Ford, well done. See you tomorrow.
33:19Now, then, before you go,
33:21are you in the harness yet for your appearance in Panto?
33:25Who will you be and where will you be?
33:27It's another first, Nick.
33:29Another couple of weeks and I start rehearsing Cinderella
33:33in the Hexagon Theatre, Reading, and I'm barren hard up.
33:36And what do you have to do for that, then?
33:38I'm not quite sure yet,
33:39but I think I've got two ugly sisters in Cinderella
33:42and, you know, I'm the dad, really.
33:44It'll be good fun and you'll have prosthetics,
33:46a big nose and Lord knows what else.
33:48Oh, no, no, a bit of rouge and that's it, really.
33:51I just look a bit corpulent and drunk, really.
33:54So it's Christmas.
33:55It'll be fun. Who's the fairy godmother?
33:57Lisa Goddard.
33:58Lisa Goddard, that's nice. Excellent stuff.
34:00Well, we'll all come down to Reading to see you.
34:02Thanks, Nick, I look forward to it.
34:04See you tomorrow. See you tomorrow, Susie and Rachel.
34:07You ever fancied being an ugly sister?
34:10LAUGHTER
34:11Well, that would be very easy for me.
34:13Well, thank you for that suggestion, Rachel.
34:15Great thought. We shall see you tomorrow.
34:17We'll leave that with Dave. Word in.
34:19Same time tomorrow, same place, you'll be sure of it.
34:21A very good afternoon.
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