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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:03CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:35And here we are sitting in Salford,
00:37just a stone's throw away from the great city of Manchester.
00:41And I was very interested to read very recently, actually,
00:44Rachel, in the Guardian newspaper, a survey,
00:47a Reader's Travel Awards,
00:50talking about their favourite UK cities and foreign cities.
00:54So I was particularly interested to see
00:58what favourite UK cities are with an eye on Manchester.
01:03You may be surprised, you may not be,
01:05but the favourite UK city in third place came Edinburgh.
01:09And in second place, Bath.
01:12Right.
01:14Hold tight. First place, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
01:18So clearly that says a great deal about the Manchester Guardian readership.
01:22But there we are indeed.
01:24And, please, you may be interested to know that Singapore came third.
01:28Second?
01:30Er, New York?
01:32No. Tokyo, where I've never been. My fancy Tokyo.
01:35I'd love to, yeah.
01:36And the winner, Venice. No surprises there.
01:38Oh, beautiful. I went last year. It was gorgeous.
01:40Isn't it great?
01:41Absolutely lovely, yeah. Like a film set.
01:43Overseas, I'm being a bit boring here.
01:45I just think Paris is a great town.
01:47Oh, OK. Not done too much in Paris. I like Cannes, though.
01:50It's south of France, somewhere a bit warmer.
01:53Yeah. Indeed.
01:55Let's see whether young Neil Stephenson's going to be hot today.
01:58He's been very good up until now.
02:00He's got three wins, going for four today.
02:02Well done, Neil. You did extremely well.
02:04You were held pretty tight until the latter stages,
02:08and then off you went, roaring away.
02:10Let's see whether Tracey Mills,
02:12a housewife from Stockport, can hold you back today.
02:15Big Manchester United fan. That'll please Rachel.
02:18But on your first driving course, you crashed.
02:22My husband was teaching me in an automatic car,
02:25and I forgot to press the pedal,
02:27so he had to press the handbrake in time,
02:29otherwise I'd have crashed into some poor woman's wall.
02:32Oh, dear. No, you always get a professional teacher.
02:35Yeah. Because you'll fall out if you're with your husband.
02:39Well, we had a nice row afterwards.
02:41Oh, did you? That's good.
02:43Let's have a big round of applause for the non-driver, Tracey,
02:46and Neil Stephenson, after his fourth win today.
02:54And in the corner, of course, Susie,
02:56joined once again by Tim Warnocott,
02:58who I guess is one of the great experts on antiques
03:03and all things old, and a great entertainer too.
03:06So welcome back, Tim. Welcome back. Thank you very much.
03:08But now let's get down to business.
03:10Neil, take us around the letters game.
03:12Hi, Rachel. Hi, Neil. And the consonant, please.
03:14Thank you. Start today with L.
03:17And another one.
03:19S. And another.
03:21M.
03:23And a vowel, please.
03:25A. And another one.
03:27E.
03:29And another vowel.
03:31I.
03:33A consonant, please.
03:35T.
03:37Another consonant.
03:39N.
03:41And a final vowel.
03:43And a final O.
03:45And here's the Countdown Clock.
04:14Yes, Neil?
04:16Eight.
04:18And Tracey?
04:19Eight.
04:20So, Neil?
04:21Two Nils.
04:23Tracey?
04:24Semolina.
04:25Semolina. Very good.
04:27Fantastic. Well done.
04:29APPLAUSE
04:31Good start there, Tracey.
04:33But watch out, there's trouble.
04:35Now, what have we got in the corner? Tim, Susie?
04:37It's rather ill over here, so we might go for ailments.
04:40Yes, why not? Ailments.
04:42Susie?
04:43Just to be different, you can turn it round into aliments,
04:46which means food or nourishment, but in Scottish law,
04:49that's also alimony or maintenance.
04:51Is that right? Yes.
04:53Aliments, yeah.
04:55Alimentaire.
04:56Now, then, eight points for me, Tracey.
04:58Letters game.
04:59Hi, Rachel. Hi, Tracey.
05:01May I have a consonant, please? You may.
05:03Thank you. Start with G.
05:05Another one.
05:07M.
05:09Another one.
05:11R.
05:12Vowel, please.
05:14A.
05:15Another vowel.
05:17E.
05:18Another vowel.
05:19U.
05:20Consonant.
05:22D.
05:23Consonant.
05:25L.
05:26And finish with a final consonant.
05:29And finish with H.
05:31Stand by.
05:38MUSIC PLAYS
06:03Tracey?
06:04Seven.
06:05Seven.
06:06Neil?
06:08So, Neil?
06:09Laughter.
06:10Laughed. Same word.
06:12All right. Well done. Show that.
06:14And in the corner, any more laughter?
06:16Laughed about the only seven that I could find.
06:18There might well be something else, though.
06:20Very well. Very well.
06:22All right, 15 apiece, and it's numbers time.
06:25So, Neil, Rachel awaits your pleasure.
06:29You got it. Four large, please.
06:31Oh, the top row. Thank you, Neil.
06:33And two little ones.
06:34And for the first time today, the small numbers are two and one.
06:37Oh, this could be tricky.
06:39The large ones, 150, 25 and 75.
06:44And the target... Oh, a bit of a test.
06:47985.
06:48985.
06:49MUSIC PLAYS
07:04MUSIC CONTINUES
07:20Yes, Neil?
07:21990, not written down.
07:23And?
07:24Nothing.
07:25And nothing. Right, so, Neil?
07:2875 plus 50 is 125.
07:3075 plus 50, 125.
07:32425.
07:34Over 25 is 5.
07:36Times 2 is 10.
07:37Times 2 is 10.
07:38100 minus 1.
07:39100 minus 1 for the 99.
07:42Yep, 5 away.
07:445 away, quite a gap.
07:46How tricky is that, Rachel? 985.
07:49Impossible. You could have got to 2 away, but that's ridiculously hard.
07:52So you didn't do too badly, then?
07:54No, very good. Very, very good.
07:56Thank you, Rachel. 22 plays, traces.
07:5815 as we go into a tea time teaser, which is Giant Log.
08:02And the clue is Gloria Full Of Smug Satisfaction.
08:06Is Gloria Full Of Smug Satisfaction?
08:09BELL RINGS
08:18CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
08:25Welcome back. I left with the clue,
08:27is Gloria Full Of Smug Satisfaction?
08:29And the answer is gloating.
08:31Gloating.
08:32She was gloating.
08:3322 plays, traces, 15.
08:35Tracey, you're back on. Letters game.
08:37Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
08:39Thank you, Tracey. R.
08:41And another one?
08:43D.
08:44Another one?
08:46P.
08:47Vowel, please?
08:49O.
08:50Another vowel?
08:51A.
08:52Another vowel?
08:54I.
08:55Consonants?
08:57T.
08:58Consonants?
09:00S.
09:01And a final vowel, please?
09:04And a final E.
09:06Stand by.
09:31BELL RINGS
09:39Yes, Tracey?
09:40Eight.
09:41And eight?
09:42Eight.
09:43Two eights. Tracey?
09:44Parotids.
09:45Thank you. Neil?
09:46Dioptase.
09:47Dioptase. Absolutely brilliant, yes.
09:49Just to show you what parotids is, first they are the salivary glands.
09:53And dioptase is a rare mineral
09:56occurring as emerald green or blue-green crystals.
09:59Very rare.
10:00Yeah.
10:01Almost as rare as the word aparadist.
10:04Yes.
10:05Which is...
10:06Rare for eight.
10:07..a rare word.
10:08Yes.
10:09Very good. Aparadist, what does that mean?
10:11Somebody who parodies something, so...
10:13Oh, OK.
10:14Yeah.
10:15Susie?
10:16Dopiest for seven, if you prefer.
10:18Yeah, I can get that one.
10:2030 plays 23, Sniggs, in the audience.
10:23And Neil is back.
10:25Consonant, please?
10:26Thank you, Neil.
10:27R.
10:28And another?
10:30W.
10:31Another consonant?
10:33N.
10:34And one more, please?
10:36P.
10:37Vowel?
10:39O.
10:40And another?
10:42E.
10:43Another one?
10:45I.
10:46And another one?
10:49A.
10:50And a consonant, please?
10:51And the last one, L.
10:53Stand by.
10:59MUSIC
11:25Yes, Neil?
11:26Seven.
11:27Seven.
11:28Seven, Tracey?
11:29Seven.
11:30Neil?
11:31Praline.
11:32And Tracey?
11:33Aileron.
11:34Very good, our old friend, the aileron.
11:36Aircraft's wing, absolutely.
11:38Mm-hm.
11:39And what else have we got there? Tim?
11:41Proline.
11:42Yes, proline.
11:43It's a bit more unusual, termed from biochemistry.
11:46It's an amino acid which you'll find in most proteins,
11:49including collagen, which, of course, is part of the skin.
11:52Very good.
11:53And it's Numbers time.
11:55Tracey, would you take us away on a Numbers game?
11:58Could I have one from the top
12:00and any other five of your choice, please?
12:02Thank you, Tracey.
12:03One from the top and five other ones,
12:05and let's try for a possible one this time.
12:07Right, these numbers are four, nine, one, three,
12:12another one, and 50.
12:15And the target, 832.
12:17832.
12:19MUSIC
12:26MUSIC
12:49Tracey?
12:50832.
12:51832. Neil?
12:52832.
12:53Thank you, Tracey.
12:54Right, 50 plus 1 plus 1 is 52.
12:5755 plus 1 plus 1, 52.
12:599 plus 3 plus 4 is 16.
13:02And 52, 16, should give you 832.
13:04They do indeed. Well done.
13:06Neil?
13:07APPLAUSE
13:12Well done. Neatly done. Very neatly done.
13:1447 plays 40.
13:17But now it's time to talk to Tim.
13:19And tell us a tale of the antiques trail.
13:22Well, of course, the marvellous thing about the auction business,
13:25and I worked in it at Sotheby's for 25 years,
13:28is that it is littered with stories that relate to objects and people.
13:33So you have to imagine a scene.
13:35You're an old-age pensioner,
13:37you're selling your property to move into a retirement home in Bournemouth,
13:41and you need every single penny out of the sale of your bungalow in Worthing
13:45because it's going to fund your retirement for the rest of your living days.
13:48And you can't find anybody to buy your bungalow,
13:50and eventually a beastly man comes along and makes an offer,
13:53which is way below what you really want.
13:55So when you move out, you decide to unscrew absolutely everything from that bungalow.
13:59You take out the lavatory holder, all the light bulbs,
14:02you unscrew everything that is unscrewable from that house.
14:06And when you're walking out the back door,
14:08you remind your husband that there is that ornament
14:11that's in the middle of the goldfish pond in the middle of the garden,
14:14and he says, but it's concreted in this thing.
14:16She says, never mind, hack it out.
14:19We're going to take it with us, along with everything else.
14:22And that ornament, that bronze thing, covered in guano,
14:26which had been in their bungalow in the garden for 40 years in Worthing,
14:30pictures up at Sotheby's,
14:32and an awfully nice man there in a suit says it's worth £1,000 for £1,500,
14:36and the woman says, marvellous, sell it.
14:38It's £1,000 that that nasty man that bought our house in Worthing will not have.
14:43Anyway, it goes to be catalogued,
14:46and a senior cataloguer comes along and says,
14:48oh, my Lord, that isn't a 19th-century Italian tourist market piece,
14:54that is a genuine piece of 17th-century sculpture,
14:59and it's not worth £1,000 to £1,500, it's worth £6,000 to £800,000.
15:04You have the telephone call to the retirement home in Bournemouth,
15:08and it goes something like,
15:10that statue that you said you would sell for £1,000 to £1,500,
15:14we thought about it again, and it might be worth £6,000 to £800,000.
15:18The guys in Bournemouth are very excited,
15:21and when it came to the auction itself, which I was at in London,
15:25there is a certain buzz sometimes when something rare is about to come up,
15:29and this figure, which was by a Flemish sculptor called Adrian de Vries,
15:33was unrecognised and unknown,
15:36and when it was sold, it did remarkably well.
15:39Would you like to know what it made?
15:41£6.2 million.
15:43No!
15:44Yes.
15:45So you imagine the next telephone call to the Bournemouth retirement home,
15:49which went along the lines of,
15:51if you don't get £600,000, you get £6 million.
15:54And as the elderly couple were presented with a capital gains tax bill
15:59of several million pounds,
16:01they decided that they'd go and live in Monte Carlo,
16:04which is where they retired to after.
16:06Brilliant story. What a great story. Lovely.
16:09APPLAUSE
16:14Wow. Isn't it heartening to hear such a thing?
16:17Well, it's a wonderful thing, isn't it? Absolutely.
16:20It works out that way.
16:21I think they sold their bungalow for a couple of hundred thousand pounds,
16:24so that was pretty good going. Excellent. What a lovely story.
16:27There we are. 47-40.
16:29Neil in the lead, and Neil's back with the letters again.
16:32A consonant, please. Thank you, Neil.
16:34Q
16:35And another one.
16:37S
16:38Another one.
16:40N
16:41And another one.
16:43C
16:44A vowel, please.
16:46O
16:47Another one.
16:48I
16:50A consonant.
16:52B
16:54Another vowel.
16:56E
16:58And a consonant, please.
16:59And the last one. R
17:01Stand by.
17:07WHISTLE BLOWS
17:09WHISTLE BLOWS
17:34Yes, Neil?
17:36Try seven.
17:38And Tracey? Six.
17:40And you're six?
17:42Er, senior.
17:44Yes. Neil?
17:46Coiners.
17:47You happy, Susie?
17:48Yes, we talk about coiners of new words quite a lot
17:51in the lexicography profession, so, yeah, very, very good.
17:54Very good. 54-40.
17:56Tracey, letters.
17:58Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel? Thank you, Tracey.
18:01C
18:02Another one.
18:04S
18:05Another one.
18:07M
18:08Er, vowel, please.
18:10I
18:11Another vowel.
18:13O
18:14Another vowel.
18:16A
18:17Er, consonant.
18:19V
18:21Consonant.
18:23T
18:24And a final vowel, please.
18:26And a final E.
18:28Countdown.
18:37WHISTLE BLOWS
19:00Tracey? Seven.
19:02A seven, Neil? Seven.
19:04Tracey?
19:05Avocets.
19:07Avocets and? Atomise.
19:09Atomise.
19:10Very nice.
19:12Remind me about an avocet.
19:14Is it a small animal?
19:16It's a wading bird. A wading bird.
19:18Yes. Susie?
19:19A couple more sevens.
19:21There's somatic, which means relating to the body as opposed to the mind,
19:24and psychosomatic obviously brings mind and body together.
19:27And a vicomte, which is V-I-C-O-M-T-E.
19:31French nobleman.
19:34Yeah.
19:36Vicomte. 61 plays 47.
19:39And here we are with the numbers again.
19:41Let's see how Neil gets on this time.
19:43Neil? Four large, please.
19:45Same as usual, thank you, Neil. Four large.
19:47And hopefully a possible four large for this round.
19:50The two small ones are four and seven.
19:53And the large, 50, 25, 100 and 75.
19:58And the target, 135.
20:00135.
20:03MUSIC PLAYS
20:05MUSIC STOPS
20:32Yes, Neil?
20:34Just 136.
20:36136. Tracey?
20:38136.
20:39Both of you, Neil?
20:41I haven't really done, so...
20:43100 plus 50.
20:45100 plus 50, 150.
20:4775 over 25 is three.
20:49Yep.
20:50And take away that and the seven and the four.
20:53So all of those for 14 to take away, and one above. 136.
20:57Thank you, Tracey.
20:59Slightly different, I did 100 plus 25.
21:02Plus four plus seven is 136.
21:05Yep, it is.
21:07So, is 135 so difficult?
21:10No, quite a few ways.
21:12You could have said 75 plus 50 is 125,
21:17divided by 25 is five,
21:19times by the seven, 435,
21:22and add on 100, 135.
21:24There we go. Thank you, Rachel.
21:26APPLAUSE
21:28Straight to it. Straight to it.
21:30Let's have a tea-time teaser.
21:32He came in, and the clue,
21:34he came inside to cool down because this was so hot.
21:38He came inside to cool down because this was so hot.
21:43BELL RINGS
21:59Welcome back. I left you with the clue.
22:01He came inside to cool down because this was so hot.
22:04What was so hot?
22:06The chiminea.
22:08Help me out on this. What is it? Chimneys?
22:10Yes, freestanding fireplace or an oven,
22:13and it's one of those ones with those bulbous bodies
22:16that sort of tapers up, looks a bit like a periscope.
22:18They're Spanish.
22:20They are... Yes, Spanish for chimney.
22:23Related to chimney, we were just saying, and our chimney, obviously.
22:26OK. 68-54.
22:28And, Tracy, letters game?
22:30Constant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Tracy.
22:33S
22:34Another one.
22:36K
22:37Another one.
22:40S
22:41A vowel, please.
22:43A
22:44Another vowel.
22:46E
22:47Another vowel.
22:50A
22:51A consonant.
22:53R
22:55Another one.
22:57T
22:59And a final consonant, please.
23:01And a final L.
23:03And here's the Countdown Clock.
23:10CLOCK TICKS
23:36Yes, Tracy? Seven.
23:38Rachel? Eight.
23:40So, Tracy?
23:41Gators.
23:42Gators and?
23:43Stalkers.
23:45Stalkers. Very, very good.
23:47Stalkers? Yes.
23:48OK.
23:49Don't want one of those. Very, very good.
23:51Yeah. What else have we got there, Tim?
23:53Artless.
23:54Artless, yes, indeed.
23:56Artless, Susie?
23:58You could have talkers as well as stalkers.
24:00Yeah. And that would give you a seven.
24:02Talkers and stalkers, yeah.
24:04Very good. 76-54.
24:07Let's go back with his letters game.
24:10Neil?
24:11Consonant, please.
24:12Thank you, Neil. S
24:14Another one.
24:16T
24:17Another one.
24:19X
24:20That's a vowel, please.
24:22O
24:23And another one.
24:25U
24:26And another one.
24:28E
24:30And another one.
24:32A
24:34Another one, please.
24:36And a consonant, please.
24:37And lastly, G.
24:39Stand by.
25:07Yes, Neil?
25:08Seven.
25:09Tracey?
25:10Seven.
25:11Neil?
25:12Outages.
25:13Outages and?
25:14Outages also.
25:15Lights went out there.
25:17Outages, the American expression for power cuts.
25:20Yeah.
25:21Is that right?
25:22Absolutely right.
25:23What else have we got there, Tim?
25:25Goatees.
25:26Goatees.
25:27Yeah.
25:28OK, just one apiece, I suppose, really.
25:30There we go.
25:3183-61, Neil's team.
25:34There we go.
25:3583-61, Neil's in charge.
25:37Now then, Susie, what have you got for us today?
25:41Well, I mentioned yesterday, Nick,
25:43that I've been reading this great book on the vocabulary of war
25:46by Philip Gooden and Peter Lewis.
25:48I'm going to talk about code words today
25:50because during World War II, code words were used by the Germans
25:54to catch out Allied spies.
25:56So just as Germans find it very hard to say the word squirrel,
26:00which was our code word quite often,
26:02because the same animal takes a bit of learning.
26:04And it's Eichhörnchen,
26:06which you have to just really move your lips in certain ways to do that.
26:10But Winston Churchill had very firm views
26:12on what military operations should be called,
26:15the code words that were chosen for them.
26:17He liked names from the figures of antiquity,
26:20Greek mythology, Roman mythology, constellations, stars,
26:24that kind of thing.
26:25So we had Juno, Gold, Sword,
26:27and for the Normandy landings, Overlord, famously.
26:31But a knowledge of those subjects
26:33that Churchill liked for the code names
26:35actually proved quite useful for people at Bletchley Park,
26:39the experts who were decoding German information.
26:43And one of the ones they were trying to crack
26:45was a code name called Freya Gerät,
26:47which meant the Freya apparatus.
26:49And an expert at Bletchley
26:51remembered that the goddess Freya's most prized possession
26:54was a necklace.
26:56And so he was able to work out that the German name
26:58might mean a chain of radar installations.
27:01So he cracked that.
27:03And there was another operation called Woltan,
27:06which referred to the myth that the god had only one eye.
27:09And as it turned out, the Germans were referring to a system
27:12which sent a light beam across the air
27:15and a bomber could fly just above that target, that single beam,
27:18so a controller at a radar station
27:20could work out exactly how far the bomber was from his target.
27:23But thanks to that knowledge of Roman and Greek mythology
27:26and the fact that Bletchley advocated, they were able to crack the code.
27:29That's very clever. Very good.
27:35Thank you very much. So there we are.
27:37There we are. 83 plays 61.
27:39Neil's there, all right.
27:41And now it's Tracy's letters game.
27:43Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Tracy.
27:45R. And another one.
27:49P. And another one.
27:51V.
27:53Vowel, please.
27:55Another vowel.
27:57U. Another vowel.
27:59I.
28:02Another vowel.
28:04O.
28:06Consonants.
28:08R.
28:10And a final consonant, please.
28:13And a final S.
28:15Stand by.
28:25MUSIC PLAYS
28:47Yes, Tracy? I want to go for an eight.
28:49An eight. Neil? A seven.
28:51And your seven?
28:53Now, Tracy?
28:55Pave yours.
28:57Yes, well done, Tracy. You can spell it I-O-R-S or I-O-U-R-S,
29:00but they're paving stones. Very, very good.
29:0683 plays 69.
29:08And final letters game for Neil.
29:11Consonant, please. Thank you, Neil.
29:13T. Another one.
29:16N. And another.
29:19G.
29:21Vowel, please.
29:23I.
29:25Another vowel. E.
29:27And another vowel.
29:29U.
29:31Consonant.
29:33F.
29:35Another consonant.
29:37R.
29:39And a vowel, please.
29:41And the last one.
29:43A.
29:45And here's the Countdown Clock.
29:47MUSIC PLAYS
29:52MUSIC CONTINUES
30:16Yes, Neil?
30:18Eight.
30:20Nine.
30:22Right.
30:24Yes, Neil? A few things.
30:26Tracy?
30:27Featuring.
30:29Well done. Excellent.
30:31APPLAUSE
30:33Good for you, young lady.
30:36Good for you. We're coming up on the rails there.
30:39Now, what have we got over there? Tim?
30:41How about figurant?
30:43The female of figurant was at the end,
30:45and it's actually a sophisticated word for an extra in a film or a play.
30:49But the applause really goes to Tracy on that one.
30:53So, final numbers game. Tracy?
30:55One from the top, and any other five, please, Rachel?
30:58Thank you, Tracy. Good comeback.
31:00One large and five little ones, but we know how good Neil is at the conundrum.
31:04So here is the last numbers game for you.
31:06We have seven, eight, two, another eight, six, and the large one, 25.
31:12And the target, 859.
31:14859.
31:16MUSIC PLAYS
31:20MUSIC CONTINUES
31:47Tracy?
31:48858.
31:50One away. Neil?
31:52858. I haven't written it down.
31:54You haven't? No.
31:56Neil? Go ahead.
31:58So, eight minus two is six.
32:01Eight minus two, six.
32:03Times six is 36.
32:0536, yeah.
32:06Times 25.
32:08Times 25 is 900.
32:10Add eight.
32:11And add...
32:13Add... Oh, yeah.
32:15Add eight. Add eight, yes.
32:18That's not the right sum, is it?
32:20LAUGHTER
32:22Is that what you said?
32:24Yes, it is. Never mind.
32:26Sorry.
32:27Do we now turn to you, Tracy?
32:30Yep.
32:31Seven, six is a 42.
32:33Seven, six is 42.
32:35Take eight is 34.
32:37Uh-huh.
32:3834, 25 are 850.
32:40850.
32:41And add the eight.
32:43And no crucial conundrum. Well done.
32:45Well done indeed.
32:47APPLAUSE
32:49Well done.
32:50You lose 11 points clear.
32:5294-2, Neil's.
32:5483.
32:56But...
32:57859.
32:59A tricky one, but you could have said
33:0125 times six is 150.
33:04Minus eight is 142.
33:07And then the other eight minus two is six.
33:10Times them together for 852.
33:15And add the seven.
33:17859.
33:18Well done. Well done, Rachel.
33:20APPLAUSE
33:21That is very good.
33:23So, as we go to the final round,
33:26conundrum round,
33:28Neil at 83, Tracy at 94.
33:30Fingers on buzzers.
33:31Let's reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:38Tracy?
33:39Consulted.
33:41With confidence. Let's see whether you're right.
33:44Oh, well done.
33:45APPLAUSE
33:47Well done.
33:53Tracy Mills, you look very pleased with yourself.
33:56I am, yes.
33:57What?
33:58I am.
33:59Your husband's in the audience.
34:00He is.
34:01Excellent. Well, he'll be very proud of you.
34:03That was terrific, because you were sort of
34:05lagging behind for a long time.
34:07I was, yes.
34:08Behind a very, very good player in Neil Stephenson.
34:10Thank you very much for coming.
34:11Get a teapot, too, as well as your goodie bag.
34:14So, there we go.
34:15Travel safely and get back to business, yeah?
34:18Tracy Mills, well done.
34:20See you tomorrow.
34:21Yeah, thank you.
34:22See you tomorrow. Wonderful stuff.
34:23See you tomorrow, you two over there.
34:24Susie and Tim, what have you got?
34:25See you tomorrow.
34:26We'll see you tomorrow, Rachel.
34:27See you tomorrow.
34:28And we'll see you all tomorrow, same time, same place.
34:30You'll be sure of it.
34:31A very good afternoon.
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