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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:05APPLAUSE
00:31Good afternoon and welcome to Countdown Studio.
00:34It's semi-final day.
00:37One place left in the final.
00:39I wonder which of our two contestants today will be heading off
00:42in that direction, off to the final.
00:44And talking about directions, I heard the most extraordinary story
00:47about some American tourists who came to this country, hired a car,
00:50and they decided to go off to Wales.
00:52They thought they'd go and visit Calder Island on the Pembrokeshire coast,
00:55and so off they went.
00:57But the sat-nav that they were slavishly following
01:00took them down the slipway, onto the beach,
01:04sort of almost into the water where they got stuck.
01:07Did you say they were American?
01:09Americans. There we go. Oh, dear.
01:11I've slavishly followed my sat-nav and got into terrible trouble.
01:14Let me tell you very quickly what happened.
01:17I flew to Geneva, hired a car,
01:20plugged in the sat-nav that I had brought, carefully, from England,
01:24put it in, and headed off to a place called Val d'Isere.
01:27And I got to Val d'Isere at about three in the morning.
01:30And when it came time to go back to the airport,
01:33I said to somebody,
01:35it's the fastest way to the airport,
01:37and they said, very simply, you take a left and a right and a straight on.
01:40I said, how long does that normally take?
01:42They said, about an hour and a half. Terribly wrong.
01:44How long did it take you? I think about eight hours.
01:47I promise you, I was exhausted.
01:50Eight hours instead of an hour and a half?
01:52Have you ever got yourself into trouble with sat-nav?
01:55Nothing that bad, but I kind of religiously follow my sat-nav as well.
01:58I go to this Zimba class, which is about five miles from where I live,
02:01and I often cycle.
02:03There's the steepest hill you've ever seen.
02:05And then once I had a puncture,
02:07I went back a different way to get my puncture fixed,
02:10and there was a way I could have just avoided the hill entirely.
02:13You were going for the exercise. You got it.
02:15At least, you know, that's the silver lining, isn't it? I guess.
02:18The lazy version of me just goes the other way now.
02:20There we are. Take a map as well. That's what we do now.
02:23My word. Gerry Tynan. Welcome back, Gerry.
02:26Welcome back to this semi-final.
02:28Count from Lucan in County Dublin.
02:30Number two seed.
02:32You battled through your quarter-final with Steve Redfern,
02:35and eventually you won 93-97.
02:37So good luck today. Thank you.
02:39And good luck also to Tracey Mills,
02:41college student and housewife from Stockport.
02:43Bit of a slow start, but as number three seed,
02:47you came through and you beat Jordan Barker,
02:49a score of 99 points, just under 100, to his 66.
02:53There's some sort of symmetry there, I guess.
02:55So good luck to you as well. Thank you, Nick.
02:57Good luck to you both.
02:58Big round of applause for our semi-finalists here today.
03:06And now then, who have we got?
03:08None other than Susie, of course.
03:10And Jo Brand. Hello.
03:13Who does pretty much everything,
03:15and every time I turn on the television,
03:17she's entertaining the nation.
03:19That's quite irritating, isn't it?
03:21It's not!
03:22I must stay off a bit more, then.
03:24No, no. She wants more of you.
03:26An American did once say to me in Edinburgh many years ago,
03:29isn't it great the way that they built the castle
03:32so close to the station? It's so convenient.
03:39Well done. Well done, Jo.
03:42Now, Gerry, let's go.
03:44Letters game.
03:45Hi again, Rachel. Hi again, Gerry.
03:47Can I start with a consonant, please? Thank you.
03:49Start today with D.
03:51And another consonant.
03:53N.
03:54And a vowel, please.
03:56I.
03:57And a consonant.
03:59L.
04:00And another.
04:02T.
04:03And a vowel, please.
04:06E.
04:07And another vowel.
04:09O.
04:10And a consonant, please.
04:13N.
04:14And a final vowel, please.
04:17And a final A.
04:20And here's the Countdown Clock.
04:43CLOCK TICKS
04:54Gerry? Eight, I think.
04:56And eight, Tracy? Eight for me as well.
04:58Two eights, Gerry.
05:00Delation.
05:01And Tracy? Delation as well.
05:03Both of you just swap notes, as it were.
05:05That's good.
05:06Happy.
05:07And over in the corner, Susie.
05:09Very, very good. Let's go with you first.
05:11Indolent, delation and anointed.
05:14Three eights to be found over here.
05:16Anointed.
05:17Yeah.
05:18Very good. Well done. Eight apiece.
05:20And Tracy, letters game.
05:22Afternoon, Rachel.
05:23Afternoon, Tracy.
05:24Can I have a consonant, please?
05:25Thank you. Start with H.
05:27And another one.
05:29G.
05:30And another one.
05:32Z.
05:34And a vowel, please.
05:36I.
05:37Another vowel.
05:39E.
05:40And another vowel.
05:42O.
05:43A consonant, please.
05:45M.
05:46Another consonant.
05:48R.
05:50And another consonant, please.
05:53And a final L.
05:55Standby.
06:10MUSIC PLAYS
06:27Tracy?
06:28Six.
06:29And Gerry?
06:30Six.
06:31Tracy?
06:32Homier.
06:33Homier and?
06:34Holier.
06:35And holier.
06:37Holier.
06:38Yes.
06:39And what has the corner got for us, Susie or Joe?
06:42I want to have a hog zip, but I can't cos there's no P.
06:46So I was thinking it'd be quite nice if you could...
06:48Shall we pretend?
06:49..unzip a pig.
06:50LAUGHTER
06:52I think we should give you the P.
06:54Nick, there was a very last-minute eight which was out of time,
06:57but you can have homegirl.
06:59Homegirl.
07:00Yes.
07:01All right. 14 apiece. Now, then, numbers time.
07:03Gerry?
07:04Yeah.
07:05Rachel, can I have one from the top and five from anywhere else, please?
07:08Thank you, Gerry. One large one, five little ones.
07:11And for the first time in this semi-final,
07:13the little ones are five, four, another five, six and one,
07:18and the big one, 75.
07:20And the target, 505.
07:22505.
07:24MUSIC PLAYS
07:39MUSIC STOPS
07:54Gerry?
07:55505.
07:56Tracey?
07:57505 as well.
07:58Well done. Yes, Gerry?
08:00Six plus one is seven.
08:02Yep.
08:03By 75.
08:04525.
08:06Five by four.
08:07E is 20.
08:09505, lovely.
08:11Well done. And Tracey?
08:12On the same way.
08:14There we go.
08:16Two good semi-finalists here.
08:18APPLAUSE
08:2124 apiece.
08:23Now, then, let's have a teatime teaser, which is mad grape.
08:26And the clue, tore through the streets as the slope got older.
08:32Tore through the streets as the slope got older.
08:36APPLAUSE
08:51Welcome back. I left you with the clue,
08:53tore through the streets as the slope got older.
08:58And the answer is...
09:01rampaged.
09:03Aged. Rampaged.
09:0524 each. And Tracey?
09:07That's this time.
09:08Could I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
09:10Thank you, Tracey.
09:11N.
09:12And another one?
09:14D.
09:15And another one?
09:17S.
09:18Vowel, please?
09:20A.
09:21Another vowel?
09:23U.
09:24Another vowel?
09:26O.
09:27Consonant, please?
09:29G.
09:30Consonant?
09:32T.
09:33And finish with a vowel, please?
09:36And finish with B.
09:39Stand by.
10:03MUSIC STOPS
10:11Yes, Tracey?
10:12Seven.
10:13Seven. Gerry?
10:15Stick with seven.
10:17Tracey?
10:18Outages.
10:19Outages and...?
10:20Astound.
10:21Happy enough?
10:22Very happy.
10:23This outages comes roaring round time and again, doesn't it?
10:26Yes.
10:27And what else have you got?
10:29I've got an eight for seven. Couldn't get better than seven, Nick.
10:32Joe?
10:33I got an eight.
10:35Gout's a pretty unpleasant condition from what I understand.
10:40And there's a new treatment for it
10:42whereby you use a Black & Decker to just gradually wear away the area.
10:48And that's called doing a gout sand.
10:54If only the world was the way I wanted it.
10:56I know!
10:57Wouldn't it be great?
10:5831 each, and Gerry, letters game.
11:01Can I have a consonant, please?
11:03Thank you, Gerry. M.
11:05And a letter?
11:07R.
11:08And a vowel, please?
11:10I.
11:11A consonant?
11:14Y.
11:15And a letter?
11:17S.
11:19A vowel, please?
11:21A.
11:22A consonant?
11:23K.
11:25A consonant?
11:27L.
11:28And a vowel, please?
11:30And lastly, O.
11:33Stand by.
11:58MUSIC
12:06Yes, Gerry?
12:07Try a seven.
12:08A seven.
12:09Tracey?
12:10Eight.
12:11Right, Gerry.
12:12Smokely.
12:14Tracey?
12:15Royalism.
12:16Yes, they are both there.
12:18Obviously, Royalism goes one better.
12:20Smokely as an adverb, a beautiful one, I think.
12:23And Royalism also there.
12:25The lead by eight points, 39-31.
12:27Tracey, 39.
12:29And it's Tracey's numbers game.
12:31One from the top, please, Rachel.
12:33And any of the five of your choice.
12:35Thank you, Tracey. One large, five little ones again.
12:37And this time around, the little ones are...
12:39Three, eight.
12:41Another eight.
12:42Four and six.
12:43And the big one, 50.
12:45And the target, 474.
12:48474.
12:50MUSIC
12:56MUSIC CONTINUES
13:20Tracey?
13:21474.
13:22And Gerry?
13:23474.
13:24Tracey?
13:2550 plus eight.
13:2650 plus eight is 58.
13:28Multiply by eight.
13:29Is 464.
13:31Plus the six and plus the four.
13:33474, lovely.
13:35Yes, Gerry?
13:36Same weight.
13:37Same weight?
13:38Yeah, fine.
13:39Well done. All right.
13:40APPLAUSE
13:42So, still that eight points in favour of Tracey
13:46as we turn to the corner.
13:48Now, then, Jo?
13:51Now, one academic discipline that's used
13:55is a lot of sort of quite annoying words.
13:59And I know very well that it does because I studied it at university
14:02and I'm almost embarrassed to tell you that I did this,
14:05but it's sociology, right?
14:08And I realised at the end of my degree
14:11that there were several words that were used all the time in sociology
14:16that I had absolutely no idea what they meant
14:19and I'd been listening to them for four years
14:21and I just couldn't be bothered to look them up.
14:23So I cheered myself up by looking them up.
14:26One is hegemony, which is a very popular word in social sciences.
14:32Do you know what that means?
14:33I think Germany's a hegemon, but I don't know what hegemony means.
14:38Well, it means dominance by one state or small group over another.
14:42Germany.
14:43There you go.
14:44And what about empirical?
14:46That's a word I just...
14:48Well, that's one for Rachel.
14:51Is it found by evidence?
14:53Well done.
14:54Well, verifiable by observation or experience
14:59rather than just theory or logic.
15:01So you two are very intelligent. Well done.
15:04Now, when I was studying sociology,
15:07I did a course called Ethnomethodology,
15:11which I know no one ever knew what I was on about.
15:16Let me just tell you what it is.
15:17It's a theoretical approach to sociology
15:19based on the belief that you can discover
15:21the normal social order of society by disrupting it, OK?
15:26Now, this is quite good fun.
15:27So what we had to do was ethnomethodological experiments.
15:32So you would not observe the normal social niceties.
15:36So, for example, we were asked to phone a relative of ours
15:39and at the end of the conversation
15:41just put the phone down without saying goodbye, OK?
15:45Because all people say goodbye on the phone, don't they?
15:48So I phoned my dad up, didn't say goodbye, put the phone down
15:52and he didn't even notice.
15:55Well done. Lovely. Lovely.
15:58So, hegemon and empirical. There we go.
16:02It's not bad, actually. I'm quite pleased with myself.
16:0449 to 41.
16:06So, Gerry, letters game.
16:08Start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
16:09Thank you, Gerry.
16:11V
16:12And letter?
16:14B
16:15And a vowel?
16:17I
16:18And a consonant?
16:20T
16:21And a vowel?
16:23A
16:25And another vowel?
16:28U
16:29And a consonant?
16:31R
16:33And a vowel, please?
16:35E
16:37And a consonant, please?
16:39And the last one? M
16:41Ta-ta.
17:12Yes, Gerry?
17:14Risky nine or eight?
17:16Eight.
17:17All right. Tracey?
17:18Eight for me as well.
17:19Gerry?
17:20Verbatim?
17:21And?
17:22Ambivert.
17:24Ambivert and verbatim?
17:26OK, let me start with Tracey's.
17:29Ambivert is in psychology,
17:33a person who has a balance of extrovert and introvert features
17:36in their personality.
17:38And, Gerry, can you spell yours for me?
17:40V-E-R-B-A-T-U-M
17:43Oh, it's the I-M, I'm afraid, verbatim.
17:48I'm really sorry. It's very bad luck.
17:50So, now then, Tracey, how about a letters game for you?
17:54Could I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
17:56Thank you, Tracey. J
17:58And another one?
17:59S
18:00And another one?
18:02R
18:04And another one?
18:06T
18:07A vowel, please?
18:09O
18:10Another vowel?
18:11A
18:12Another vowel?
18:14I
18:15A consonant, please?
18:17V
18:19And a vowel, please?
18:21And the last one?
18:23A
18:24Stand by.
18:39MUSIC PLAYS
18:57Tracey?
18:58Eight.
18:59Gerry?
19:00Eight as well.
19:01Two eights. Yes, Tracey?
19:02Aviators.
19:04Both of you. Well done.
19:07Susie, can you beat that?
19:09No, I was with aviators as well.
19:11A alters for six, otherwise.
19:1465 plays 49.
19:16And, Gerry, numbers. Good luck.
19:19I'll gamble and try six more, please.
19:21Yeah, gambling time. Thank you, Gerry.
19:23Hopefully it'll be a good decision for you.
19:25Right, these six little ones are...
19:276, 7, 3, 5, 4 and 1.
19:34And the target? 571.
19:37571.
19:39MUSIC PLAYS
20:05Gerry?
20:06I've got 571.
20:08571. Tracey?
20:10Nothing for me.
20:11All right. Gerry?
20:13OK, 7 by 6.
20:157 by 6, 42.
20:17Minus the 4.
20:18Minus the 4 for 38.
20:20Multiplied by 3.
20:21Multiplied by 3 for 114.
20:24Multiplied by 5.
20:25Multiplied by 5 for 570.
20:27Should have the one left.
20:28Very, very good under pressure.
20:30Well done.
20:32Well done, Gerry.
20:33Pulled you right up now.
20:3459 to Tracey, 65.
20:37But there's another whole part to go
20:40as we turn to a teatime teaser, which is Lily's skin.
20:43And the clue?
20:44Lily draped the garment over her skin seductively.
20:47Lily draped the garment over her skin seductively.
20:52MUSIC PLAYS
20:56APPLAUSE
21:03Welcome back.
21:04I left you with the clue,
21:05Lily draped the garment over her skin seductively.
21:09In fact, she did it slinkily.
21:12Slinkily.
21:1359 to Tracey, 65.
21:15But there's another whole part to go as we turn to a teatime teaser,
21:19which is Lily's skin.
21:21Lily draped the garment over her skin seductively.
21:2459 to Tracey, 65.
21:26Tracey, letters.
21:28Could I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
21:30Thank you, Tracey.
21:31D
21:32And another one.
21:34R
21:35And another one.
21:37T
21:38A vowel, please.
21:40O
21:41Another vowel.
21:42I
21:43Another vowel.
21:44E
21:45Another vowel.
21:47A
21:48A consonant, please.
21:50H
21:51And finish with A, another consonant, please.
21:53And finish with R.
21:54Stand by.
21:56MUSIC PLAYS
22:24Yes, Tracey?
22:25Seven.
22:26A seven, Gerry?
22:27Seven as well.
22:28Tracey?
22:29Horder.
22:30Horder and?
22:31Harried.
22:32And in the corner there, Susie?
22:34Tarried, to go with Gerry's Harried.
22:36Yeah.
22:37But just sevens also.
22:38Sevens as well.
22:40And from Jo, a seven, eight, nine?
22:42I've got a nine.
22:43Well done.
22:44Yes, indeed.
22:45Now, you know when you're going on holiday,
22:47if you're going to be on the beach,
22:49you want to make sure you look your best, don't you?
22:52That's why I go to a local branch of Dr Toe Hair.
22:59And they sort it all out for me.
23:02Yeah, in seconds.
23:04Toe Hair.
23:0672 to Gerry's 66.
23:10Gerry?
23:11Letter.
23:12Consonant, please.
23:13Thank you, Gerry.
23:14W
23:15And letter.
23:17L
23:18And a vowel.
23:20O
23:21And a consonant.
23:24X
23:25And another consonant.
23:27N
23:28And a vowel.
23:31E
23:32A consonant.
23:34P
23:35And a consonant.
23:37N
23:38And a vowel.
23:40And lastly, A.
23:43And here's the Countdown Clock.
23:51CLOCK TICKS
24:16Gerry?
24:17Just a five.
24:18You've got a five, Tracey?
24:20A six.
24:21And a six.
24:22Gerry?
24:23A panel.
24:24Panel. And?
24:25Weapon.
24:26Weapon.
24:28There we go.
24:29How did you do, Susie?
24:31We had likewise weapon for six.
24:33You did. Well done.
24:34Now, Susie?
24:36Six.
24:37Your wonderful origins of words.
24:39It's that time again, it's that time of the day,
24:41that we rejoice in.
24:43If you'll excuse me ending it with a preposition.
24:48OK, looking back to ancient Greece,
24:51when punctuation marks didn't exist,
24:54and very often one letter followed another,
24:56there was no space between words,
24:58and it could all look quite confusing on the page.
25:00These were often texts that would be recited from memory
25:03or which would be read aloud by orators.
25:06And to help readers, the Greeks adopted a practice
25:09of putting little marks in to show
25:11where a breath should be taken, for example.
25:14And the comma comes from that.
25:16If you're always taught in school,
25:18the comma will tell you to take a breath,
25:20and that's exactly how it started.
25:22And the Greeks had a system of dots,
25:25so there was a dot at the top or the middle or the bottom,
25:28depending on how long your breath should be.
25:31And a short passage was indicated by...
25:33A short passage itself was called a comma,
25:35and that was indicated by a small mid-sized dot, mid-level.
25:40And the short passage itself, the comma,
25:43eventually became the punctuation mark,
25:45and it soon acquired a little dash
25:47to make it a little bit clearer in the text.
25:50A paragraph goes back to two words,
25:54para meaning beside and graphine meaning to write,
25:57and it came because they used to write a little mark,
26:00or put a little mark beside the word,
26:02which introduced a new thought.
26:04That's where that one came from.
26:06Innuendo, believe it or not,
26:08began as an idea in legal text that showed something in brackets.
26:12It showed a parenthetical remark,
26:14and it literally meant, in Latin, nodding at,
26:17so it was something you nodded to.
26:19And finally, the hashtag,
26:21a hashtag which is so popular today, of course,
26:23that goes back to the Latin abbreviation LB
26:26for the Roman term Libra Ponder, or a pound in weight,
26:30and it was probably the rushed pens of scribes
26:33that over time that LB...
26:35They always used to put a horizontal mark across for an abbreviation,
26:38and over time it became very, very scribbled,
26:40and the LB mutated into the hashtag.
26:43So the hashtag is a lot older than you might think.
26:45Absolutely. I'm surprised at that.
26:47APPLAUSE
26:49Wonderful. Thank you.
26:54Tracy on 78, Jerry 66,
26:56and now we turn to you, Tracy, for a letters game.
26:59Could I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
27:01Thank you, Tracy. G.
27:03And another one?
27:05P.
27:07And another one?
27:09F.
27:11And another one?
27:13M.
27:15A vowel, please?
27:17U.
27:19Another vowel?
27:21I.
27:23Another vowel?
27:25E.
27:27A consonant, please?
27:29S.
27:31And finish with a final vowel, please?
27:33And finish with an O.
27:35Stand by.
27:41MUSIC PLAYS
28:03Yes, Tracy?
28:04Seven.
28:05A seven, Jerry?
28:06A seven.
28:07So, Tracy?
28:09There we go.
28:11All right.
28:13Are you happy?
28:14Yes.
28:15We usually pronounce gimps according to the dictionary here,
28:18so it's G-U-I-M-P-E-S,
28:20and they're high-necked blouses or undergarments
28:22worn showing beneath a low-necked dress.
28:25It's related to wimple, so part of nuns' attire, for example.
28:29Very good. Susie?
28:31Nothing else.
28:32That's it?
28:33Yes, I was with gimps as well.
28:35All right. 85 plays 73,
28:37and Jerry, letters game.
28:39Consonant, please?
28:40Thank you, Jerry.
28:41D.
28:42And a consonant?
28:44G.
28:45And a vowel?
28:46A.
28:47And a consonant?
28:49R.
28:51And another consonant?
28:53R.
28:55A vowel, please?
28:57U.
28:59And another vowel, please?
29:01I.
29:03And another consonant?
29:05S.
29:06And another consonant, please?
29:08And the last one?
29:09Q.
29:10Stand by.
29:36Yes, Jerry?
29:38A six.
29:39A six.
29:40Six for me as well.
29:41Two sixes, Jerry?
29:42Radius.
29:43Radius and?
29:44Guard.
29:45Guard, yes. Well done.
29:47Anything else? Any other sixes?
29:49Guard for me as well.
29:51Sugar, otherwise.
29:53And Jerry and I both came up with a word at the same time,
29:56which isn't in the dictionary.
29:58Which is?
29:59A.
30:00A.
30:01A.
30:02A.
30:03Which isn't in the dictionary.
30:05Which is?
30:06Well, I don't know if you spend a lot of time
30:08cleaning sea creatures, but I do.
30:10It's my hobby.
30:12And, you know, you need a particular bit of kit
30:15for certain types, like octopuses,
30:17and obviously you need a squid rag now and again.
30:21A squid rag.
30:23Very good.
30:25Excellent, in fact.
30:2691 to 79, Trace is still there,
30:29and it's Trace's numbers game now.
30:31Could I have one from top, please, Rachel,
30:33and any other five of your choice?
30:35One from the top, five small to get you over the line.
30:37Thank you, Tracey.
30:39And the final numbers game of the day is
30:41seven, one, six, eight, three and 25.
30:47And the target, 504.
30:49504.
31:01MUSIC PLAYS
31:22Tracey.
31:23504.
31:24504, Gerry.
31:25504.
31:27Tracey.
31:2825 minus one.
31:29Is 24.
31:3024.
31:31Times three.
31:32Times three, 72.
31:33Multiplied by seven.
31:34Perfect, 504, well done.
31:36And Gerry.
31:37I went a slightly more complicated way of
31:39eight minus six minus one is to one.
31:42Yep.
31:43Take from the 25.
31:4425.
31:45Multiply by seven and three.
31:46Yeah, 24, and again, seven and three, using all of them.
31:48Lovely.
31:49Well done, both of you.
31:51APPLAUSE
31:53Well done.
31:55So, Tracey, 101 to Gerry's 89 as we enter the final round.
31:59So, fingers on buzzers.
32:01Let's deal with this countdown conundrum.
32:23BUZZER
32:25Gerry.
32:26Mini Beats.
32:27Let's see whether you're right.
32:29Sadly not.
32:31Down to Tracey.
32:45Both flummoxed.
32:48Have you got it now, Gerry?
32:50Possibly Mini Beats, not sure.
32:52Mini Beats?
32:54Mini Beats.
32:57Oh, bad luck, bad luck.
32:59It's Tracey's day, and well done, Tracey.
33:01You're in the final. Fantastic.
33:03Well done.
33:04Gerry, it's back to Luke and...
33:06APPLAUSE
33:10It's back to Luke and Gerry, where your accountancy job
33:14with the publishing company awaits you,
33:16and I can see why you're an accountant.
33:18Your maths have been pretty tremendous, actually.
33:21Particularly the last game.
33:23So, will you take a piece of crypt tonight
33:25across the Irish Sea for us?
33:27Thank you very much.
33:28With our blessing.
33:29Keep going one day.
33:30All right.
33:31And we shall see Tracey tomorrow.
33:34Grand final.
33:35Yep.
33:36Tom awaits you.
33:37Yep.
33:38It could almost have been a Tom and Gerry final,
33:40but now it's a Tom and Tracey final.
33:43And there we are.
33:44So, see you then, and we shall see you both at the final tomorrow.
33:47We can't wait to see you again, Joe.
33:50Sadly, it'll be your last day until we drag you back again.
33:53Oh, well, never mind.
33:55I can always contact you online...
33:59..through your dating website.
34:01All right, we'll see you tomorrow.
34:03See you tomorrow, yep.
34:05And we still haven't had a female champion in my time,
34:07so tomorrow could be the day.
34:09Could be Tracey.
34:10Could indeed.
34:11All right, let's wait and see.
34:12See you tomorrow.
34:13Join us tomorrow for the final.
34:15The final of series 72.
34:17Tom and Tracey.
34:19There we go.
34:20You'll be sure of it.
34:21Good afternoon.
34:22APPLAUSE
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34:33You can also find our web page at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
34:38APPLAUSE
34:419 o'clock, our new charismatic series, The Try,
34:44that starts tonight, filming the lives of a family in southern Ethiopia
34:48as they go about their day today.
34:50Next up this afternoon will be the final round for In Deal or No Deal.
34:54APPLAUSE