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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:20APPLAUSE
00:31Hello, everybody. It is Thursday, December the 14th,
00:35and today marks the start of the series finals for season 88.
00:40Six OctoChamps, two seven-time winners,
00:43battling it out for the Richard Whiteley Memorial Trophy.
00:47We're obviously excited, Rachel, but this whole series, for me,
00:51has been special in many ways,
00:53but I've noticed a lot of those who've lost have scored really high.
00:57I think the standard's been brilliant.
00:59Yeah, it has, but we've got the best of the best right now.
01:02Absolutely. Let's remind everybody who they are,
01:05because today sees our number one seed take on our eighth seed.
01:09The Soros is back.
01:11Harry Savage, 939 points on his way to becoming top seed,
01:15but our eighth seed, David Edwards, 700 points and seven wins.
01:19So, no easy games.
01:21Rachel, it really feels like football now.
01:23I'm really enjoying the sportification, if that's a word, of Countdown.
01:27I'm looking forward to the action replays at the end.
01:29You'll be there circling an S. This is where it all went wrong.
01:32The slow motion. Oh!
01:35Funny you should mention that,
01:37because, actually, football could take a leaf out of our book,
01:40because we've been getting VAR right for decades.
01:44It comes in the form of our G of the D, Susie Dent,
01:47and there's never any controversy.
01:49Oh, well, maybe a bit.
01:51Well, there might be a little bit of kerfuffle and flummox,
01:54but never controversy.
01:56Well, Marcus Brigstocke, it's been a delight to have back in Dictionary Corner
01:59and here for the first quarterfinal. Nice to see you again.
02:02Thanks, Brian. Very excited to be here with you.
02:04Well, so you should be,
02:06because Harry Savage made quite a splash on his way to winning it.
02:10Of course, you did the Rubik's Cube blindfolded in under 20 seconds.
02:14It really did make an impression.
02:16What's it been like for you now,
02:18with those episodes going out on air after that?
02:21Well, I've got a lot of messages from people
02:24that I haven't spoken to in years,
02:26so a lot of people I knew from even primary school
02:29that I haven't spoken to and have reached out and said,
02:31you know, I was watching with my parents and we remember you,
02:34and it was really nice to see.
02:36I love that. Well, listen, you have a well-prepared adversary today.
02:41First against eighth is sort of the draw,
02:44the dreaded draw, David Edwards,
02:46but I believe that you've been studying obscure birds,
02:51fish and minerals as a way to possibly combat Harry.
02:55I love that competitiveness.
02:57Well, he seems to know them all already,
02:59so I'm not sure whether this is really worthwhile,
03:02but anything I can do to chip away, we shall see.
03:06This is all down to you. You're in control of your own destiny,
03:09believe is the word I would use.
03:11Good luck, David and Harry.
03:15Right, let's get under way.
03:17Harry, the first quarterfinal in your letters.
03:19Hi again, Rachel. Hi again, Harry.
03:21Can I start with a consonant, please? Can indeed. Good luck.
03:24Start the first quarterfinal with L.
03:26And another one.
03:28T
03:29Another consonant.
03:31V
03:32And another one.
03:34S
03:35A vowel, please.
03:37I
03:38Another vowel.
03:39A
03:40Another vowel.
03:42E
03:43Another vowel, please.
03:46O
03:47And a final consonant.
03:49And a final D.
03:51At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
04:18MUSIC STOPS
04:23First blood, Harry.
04:25Nine.
04:27David?
04:28Just the eight.
04:32Just the eight. Imagine only getting an eight.
04:35What a shame.
04:37David?
04:38Violated.
04:39Go on, Harry.
04:40Dovetails.
04:42APPLAUSE
04:45I'm coughing, Mike.
04:47There's not much more to say, is there?
04:50I mean, very fitting that violated should be the word that you got for eight.
04:55And dovetails wins it. Well done.
04:58Let's move on. David?
05:00Hi, Rachel. Sorry, David.
05:02It's all right, I'm fine.
05:04We'll see you tomorrow.
05:08Start with a consonant, please.
05:10Yes, come on, let's start again. Start with an M.
05:13And another.
05:15G.
05:17And another.
05:19S.
05:21And another.
05:23Q.
05:25A vowel.
05:27E.
05:29Another vowel.
05:31U.
05:33Another vowel.
05:35A.
05:37Consonant.
05:39R.
05:41And another consonant, please.
05:45A final T.
05:47OK, big decision. 30 seconds.
06:11MUSIC PLAYS
06:20David?
06:22Seven. Seven from you. And Harry?
06:24Seven. Seven as well. David, the word?
06:26Marks. Yes. And for you, Harry?
06:28Morgues.
06:30And to Susie Dent?
06:32Yes, well, I was a bit flummoxed by this one because I was thinking E-R-S,
06:35which is... E-R, rather, which is only there as an adjective.
06:39It means defies or opposes or gets the better of.
06:43Sorry again, David.
06:45But, yeah, it's there as a verb and it's very good indeed.
06:47And M-A-R-Q-U-E-S for David, for marks.
06:51Yes, make of car as opposed to the model.
06:53Excellent. 25 plays seven.
06:55David's off the mark and Harry's picking up first numbers.
06:58Can I have one large, please?
07:00You can indeed, playing it safe to start with.
07:02One large, five little. I wonder if that will continue.
07:05First numbers in this quarterfinal.
07:071-6-6-9-7.
07:11And the large one, 100.
07:13And the target, 808.
07:16It or it. Numbers up.
07:36MUSIC CONTINUES
07:49Time's up. Harry? 808.
07:51Yeah, David? 808.
07:53Nice, easy start. Harry, off you go.
07:55Nine take away one is eight. Eight.
07:57And then 100 add seven and take six is 101.
08:01Yeah. And times the two together. Lovely.
08:03Do you like that, David? More or less.
08:05100 plus one is 101.
08:07Yeah. And six divided by six is the other one.
08:09Yeah. Variations on a theme.
08:11There you go. Well, Peter, off there.
08:13We know you've both got it.
08:1735 plays 17.
08:20Just for the record, David has started with an eight and a seven.
08:23There was only one word in the dictionary
08:25outside of what he managed to get.
08:27And he trails by that gap at the moment.
08:29What a standard. Let's get our first tea time teaser.
08:32Let's ask payees.
08:34Ask payees.
08:36Chat without difficulty at the drinking joint.
08:39Chat without difficulty at the drinking joint.
08:50APPLAUSE
08:58Welcome back. Chat without difficulty at the drinking joint.
09:01Speak easy. Speak easy.
09:03Back to the game, David. Your letters.
09:05Um, consonant, please. Thank you, David.
09:07C
09:09And another.
09:11P
09:13Vowel.
09:15I
09:17A vowel.
09:19E
09:21Consonant.
09:23N
09:25Consonant.
09:27S
09:29Please.
09:31O
09:33Um...
09:35Consonant.
09:37H
09:39And a vowel, please.
09:41And lastly, A.
09:43Thanks, Rachel.
09:59B
10:15Interesting. David?
10:17Seven. Seven from you. Harry?
10:19Seven as well. Seven as well. David?
10:21Hospice. Hospice. And Harry?
10:23Phonics. And phonics.
10:25Two lovely sevens.
10:27Just that maximum nine separating Harry and David so far.
10:31Much closer than maybe the score suggests.
10:33What about you, Marcus?
10:35Well, there are two eights, actually.
10:37There's canopies you could have had for eight.
10:41And there's one other.
10:43Yes, cape and eyes. Not very pleasant.
10:45It is to castrate a domestic cockerel.
10:47Beautiful. And, Marcus, superbly done.
10:49I've been there in Dictionary Corner
10:51when I look down at one of Susie's words and think,
10:53I can't pronounce that.
10:55What is that?
10:57Susie, what's that?
10:59Suave lift of the hump. Susie, I'll let you have this one.
11:0342-24. Harry, your letters.
11:05Can I start with a consonant, please?
11:07Thank you, Harry. T
11:09And another.
11:11R Another one, please.
11:13L
11:15And one more consonant.
11:17W A vowel, please.
11:19U
11:21Another one. E
11:23Another one. I
11:25Another one, please.
11:27Another U.
11:31And a final consonant, please.
11:33Final C.
11:35Half a minute.
11:53MUSIC
12:07Time is up.
12:09Harry? A seven.
12:11David? Dodgy six.
12:13A dodgy six. What is it?
12:15Wilter. He didn't say dodgy, so I've not got much hope for you.
12:17Cultia.
12:19Cultia. Is that in there? Maybe.
12:21No. No? Wow, what a twist.
12:23Neither, actually, is in.
12:25Wilter's not there either, I'm afraid.
12:27So I have to disallow both.
12:29What was in there, Marcus?
12:31Well, close. Cultia.
12:33Oh, my goodness. Cultia was in there for seven.
12:35A utricle.
12:37Oh, utricle. Utricle is another seven.
12:39Yes, utricle. Obviously.
12:41Which is... Well, Susie, why don't you?
12:45It is a small sac
12:47protuberance in an animal or plant.
12:49Well done.
12:51And Cultia, very good use in the two yous
12:53and goes to show there's pressure,
12:55cos I think in a regular game, Harry and David both spot that.
12:57Let's get back to the numbers
12:59and your choosing this time, Mr Edwards.
13:01Got to be six small, I think, please.
13:03Yes, here we go.
13:05This is what we want from the finals.
13:07Fighting talk. The six little ones.
13:09Six, nine,
13:11two, eight,
13:13ten and five.
13:15And the target to reach...
13:17816.
13:19816, numbers up.
13:47816, David.
13:49816.
13:51Harry.
13:53816 but not written down.
13:55Off you go, Harry.
13:57So, nine times five.
13:59Nine times 545.
14:01Add the six. 51.
14:03Times by two. Times by two, 102.
14:05Times by eight. There we are.
14:07816. Phew!
14:09Spotted lead on. David.
14:11Nine times ten.
14:1390.
14:15Subtract the eight.
14:1782. And I've gone wrong because we used the ten again.
14:19Aw!
14:21Aw, David. Unlucky, mate.
14:23Unlucky. 52 plays 24
14:25as we take a couple of minutes
14:27just to catch our breath. What a start it has been.
14:29And we have a chat with Marcus Brigstocke.
14:31In terms of your competitive streak,
14:33you did series one of the jump
14:35and if my memory serves me right,
14:37didn't go exactly according to plan, did it?
14:39Well, not my plan,
14:41no, but I think it was quite good viewing.
14:43Yeah, I made it to the final
14:45of series one of the jump
14:47and I have to say, despite the fact
14:49that I broke my leg,
14:51I would do it again. I had the time of my life.
14:53I was trained to do
14:55Winter Olympic sports by
14:57athletes that I've admired
14:59pretty much all my life.
15:01But the original starting line-up on that,
15:03we had Sam Jones, who played Flash Gordon,
15:05never even made it to air.
15:07Broke his shoulder in training.
15:09Never made it to air.
15:11Never made it to air.
15:13Sir Steve Redgrave broke two ribs and a finger.
15:15Darren Goff broke
15:17three ribs, snapped his hamstring.
15:19Melinda Messinger concussed
15:21for a week.
15:23Henry Conway, journalist, broke this bone
15:25in his thumb into seven
15:27separate pieces.
15:29So I was still standing and I made it
15:31to the final, which was
15:33a ski cross race.
15:35And that's banked turns and jumps
15:37built in with a race
15:39with three across.
15:41And I didn't realise, but I
15:43had more or less already broken
15:45my cruciate ligament.
15:47I came into the final jump, which is
15:49that kind of jump is called a kicker
15:51because it kicks you up into the air
15:53and you have to go in tall and as you
15:55approach the jump, squash down flat
15:57like that so you go long and flat rather
15:59than being projected up into the air.
16:01I forgot and did
16:03the opposite. I went in low
16:05and came out big and I'm
16:076 foot 2 and I weigh a lot
16:09and I reckon
16:11close to 12 foot
16:13in the air, plus my
16:15own height. So my head was a good 18 feet
16:17above the ground and my knee
16:19came apart as I left the jump.
16:21So I was in the
16:23air knowing that the knee
16:25wasn't going to land me.
16:27And I have to tell you, I had enough time
16:29in the air to plan what I was
16:31going to do with the rest of my year.
16:33Honestly,
16:35knowing that I couldn't
16:37land, I was just like,
16:39well, I mean, this is awful.
16:41This is so bad.
16:43But you'd do it again. I would do it again because
16:45it was just so thrilling.
16:47We did the skeleton bobsled
16:49with your chin that far off the ice
16:51going at over 70
16:53miles an hour. It was magic.
16:55Thank you very much, Mark.
16:57APPLAUSE
16:59OK, break time
17:01is over, quite literally.
17:03Harry, more letters, please.
17:05Can I have a consonant, please? Thank you, Harry.
17:07P. And another one.
17:09N.
17:11Another consonant.
17:13T. And one more, please.
17:15S.
17:17A vowel, please.
17:19E. Another vowel.
17:21O. Another vowel.
17:23E.
17:25And one more vowel, please.
17:27I.
17:29And a final consonant, please.
17:31A final M.
17:33Here we go.
18:01MUSIC PLAYS
18:03Harry?
18:05An eight. And David?
18:07Seven. The seven is?
18:09Mo Pierce. And this eight?
18:11Nepotism. Nepotism.
18:13We'll get none of that around here,
18:15but we will give you a round of applause.
18:17APPLAUSE
18:19Nepotism for eight.
18:21Marcus, anything to even keep pace
18:23with that? Yeah, there's one that
18:25keeps pace, which is semitone.
18:27Semitone. Semitone, also an eight.
18:29No nines.
18:31Music to our ears. As good as you can get, then, from Harry.
18:33No surprise. David,
18:35sevens and eights not scoring. I take my hat off to you.
18:37Let's get more letters.
18:39Consonant, please. Thank you, David.
18:41B.
18:43Another consonant.
18:45Z.
18:47And another.
18:49N.
18:51Vowel, please.
18:53A.
18:55And another. E.
18:57And another.
18:59O.
19:01And another.
19:03U.
19:05Erm...
19:07Consonant.
19:09T.
19:11And a...
19:13Vowel, please.
19:15Final E.
19:17And start that clock.
19:27MUSIC
19:49David? Try an eight.
19:51You're halved at this stage. Harry? I'll stick with a six.
19:53The six is? Utane.
19:55It's a big gamble. David? Benzoate.
19:57Benzoate. Susie?
19:59Benzoate, which we didn't see,
20:01is in the dictionary. It's absolutely brilliant.
20:03A salt or ester of benzoic acid.
20:05Yes!
20:07APPLAUSE
20:09Just what you needed, David.
20:11Well done to you.
20:13We're just keeping up. It's going to be like this.
20:15That's fantastic. We didn't have that.
20:17Butane was what we had. Well done.
20:19That was an absolutely sensational top drawer.
20:21World-class countdown.
20:23Back to the numbers now. Harry?
20:25Can I have one large, please? You can indeed stick in with.
20:27Straightforward.
20:29Potentially, as I always say.
20:31Right, these five little ones.
20:3310, 6, 2, 7, 9.
20:37And the large one, 100.
20:39And the target to reach...
20:41950.
20:439-5-0. Numbers up.
20:45MUSIC
20:53MUSIC CONTINUES
21:15Harry? Yeah, 950.
21:17Yeah, you'd better have written this one down. And David?
21:19950. Yeah, off you go, Savage.
21:2110 plus 9?
21:2310 plus 9... 19.
21:25Times by 100? Times by 100...
21:27is 1,900.
21:29And divided by 2? Divided by 2, 950.
21:31Nice. David, how did you get there?
21:33More or less the same, 10 plus 9.
21:35Then 100 divided by 2.
21:37Multiply.
21:39Yeah, same, if you just show that across.
21:41Nice.
21:43APPLAUSE
21:45Well, David's made up a bit of ground in part two.
21:4870 plays, 42 keeps it interesting,
21:50as we get our second Tea Time teaser.
21:52It's I Plait Jed.
21:54I Plait Jed.
21:56Let me spell that for our visually impaired viewers.
21:58It's I-P-L-A-I-T-G-E-D.
22:02I plait Jed's hair
22:04until it ends up like this.
22:06I plait Jed's hair
22:08until it ends up like this.
22:10MUSIC
22:18APPLAUSE
22:26Hello again. I plait Jed's hair
22:28until it ends up like this.
22:30Pig-tailed, it ends up pig-tailed.
22:32Well, this is hair-raising stuff so far.
22:34Harry, our number one seed,
22:36off to a great start with a maximum,
22:38but David's been giving almost as good as he's gotten since.
22:42Still very much a contest, and it's your letters.
22:45Start with the consonant, please. Thank you, David.
22:47D
22:49And another.
22:51K
22:53Erm, another, please.
22:56R
22:58Erm, another consonant, please.
23:01F
23:03And a vowel.
23:05I
23:07And another.
23:09A
23:11Erm, and, er, another.
23:15E
23:17Erm, and a consonant.
23:19P
23:21And another consonant, please.
23:24A final G.
23:26Good luck, everybody.
23:46MUSIC STOPS
23:58That's time up. David?
24:00Six. Harry?
24:02Six as well. David?
24:04Parked. And for you, Harry?
24:06Carida.
24:08Susie?
24:10Carida, in Philippines English, is a married man's mistress.
24:14There you go. Wow, Harry, I don't know why you pulled that out.
24:17Do you see parked and then just think, nah?
24:20LAUGHTER
24:22Anything better than that?
24:24I'm assuming there's no such thing as a fair pig, so...
24:27No. There was nothing better.
24:29There was fridge for another six, but, yeah, nothing better than six.
24:32That's it. Let's get more letters in, Harry.
24:34Can I start with the consonant, please?
24:36Thank you, Harry. R
24:38And another one, please.
24:40M And another consonant.
24:42S One more.
24:44D And a vowel, please.
24:47O And another vowel.
24:49E And another vowel, please.
24:52I And another vowel.
24:55O
24:57And a final vowel, please.
24:59UR Final A
25:01Let's play.
25:03MUSIC PLAYS
25:13MUSIC CONTINUES
25:34Harry. Nate.
25:36Yes, and David.
25:38Got to try Nate. You've got to try it now.
25:40Moidores. David.
25:42Airdomes. And airdomes.
25:44Two words to check for us.
25:46Moidores. I was looking at that exact thing.
25:49It's Portuguese gold coin. It's in there.
25:51Beautifully pronounced by Harry.
25:53Airdome.
25:55It's not. There's airdrome.
25:57But not airdome, I'm afraid, David. I'm sorry.
26:00Anything else there for us, Marcus?
26:02Just Mardis for seven.
26:04Puts me in mind of the Arctic Monkeys' song.
26:06Yeah, Mardibomb. Mardibomb.
26:08Four rounds to go and time to break
26:10and enter Dictionary Corner for a quarterfinal Origins Of Words.
26:14Yeah, nice, Stephen. It's all about spelling,
26:16which is what we're all about after at least half of the show.
26:19And it's from Roger Burton.
26:21Is restaurateur being replaced by restauranter, he asks.
26:26But actually, the real question should be
26:29not why is it missing an N and where has it gone,
26:32but where did it come from in the first place?
26:34Because you don't actually spell it with the N,
26:37not in the standard version anyway.
26:39So, restaurateur, the person who runs a restaurant,
26:43actually predates restaurant.
26:45It comes from a Latin verb, restaurare,
26:47which means to renew or to restore.
26:50And that trickled through into French, as so many Latin words did.
26:54And a restaurateur or restauranteur
26:56was somebody who repaired things.
26:58So they were a repair person, but they could also be a doctor
27:01because they were restoring you to good health,
27:04which is the key here, really,
27:06because in the mid-1700s, it took on a different meaning,
27:09and that was to serve food to somebody
27:11as a way of restoring their health.
27:14And it might seem a little bit random to go to food,
27:17but the very first restaurants, actually, were bouillon restaurants,
27:22and these were serving these amazing broths that had meat, vegetables
27:26and lots of... You know, we still serve, if someone is ill,
27:29we still give them chicken soup, don't we?
27:31It was still that same idea of restoring health.
27:35So they were the restaurateurs, they were the people who restored you.
27:39And restaurant in French, the A-N-T is a bit like ing in English.
27:43It means restoring.
27:44So it was attached to the place where the restoring happened,
27:47essentially.
27:48But the restaurateur never had an N,
27:50and it's only because it's quite hard to pronounce it,
27:54we put the N in to suit our English tongue,
27:56and that is definitely the way restauranteur is going.
27:59Well explained. Thank you.
28:01APPLAUSE
28:04OK, four rounds left to play.
28:06David Edwards, you may need to pull out a maximum here,
28:09so let's see if the letters are kind.
28:11Consonant, please, Rachel.
28:13Thank you, David. J.
28:15And another.
28:17R.
28:18And a vowel.
28:20I.
28:22Another consonant.
28:25N.
28:27Consonant.
28:29L.
28:31Vowel.
28:33E.
28:35Consonant.
28:37S.
28:39Vowel.
28:41U.
28:43And a...
28:46..consonant, please.
28:48Final C.
28:50Thank you, Rachel.
28:59MUSIC PLAYS
29:21David.
29:22Six.
29:23A six from you and Harry.
29:25Seven. David.
29:26Liners.
29:27Big seven points, this.
29:28Injures.
29:29Injures.
29:30Yeah, very nice.
29:31Well, he's fatally injured.
29:32You're going down hopes there. He's out of touch now.
29:34Well done, Harry. We'll give you a round of applause for that.
29:37APPLAUSE
29:39Well done. Anything to add, my lovely two?
29:41Not that much. Another seven.
29:43Juices... Yeah. ..could have had.
29:45But, er, injures, just like my left leg.
29:48It's very good.
29:49Oh, stop going on about it. Well, you know. It should go.
29:52LAUGHTER
29:5391-48. One more letters round.
29:57Harry.
29:58Could I start with a consonant, please?
30:00Thank you, Harry. G.
30:01Another consonant, please.
30:03W.
30:04And another.
30:05D.
30:06One more, please.
30:08R.
30:09And a vowel.
30:11A.
30:12Another vowel.
30:13I.
30:14Another vowel.
30:15U.
30:16And one more vowel.
30:18E.
30:19Final consonant, please.
30:21Final N.
30:22Half a minute.
30:27ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
30:54Harry.
30:55Seven.
30:56And David.
30:57Just six.
30:58Yes, the six, the six.
30:59And the seven.
31:00Gordia.
31:01Gordia.
31:02Very nice indeed.
31:03Yeah, lovely.
31:04Lovely. Well done.
31:05Seven's the best.
31:06Brilliant. It is, yeah.
31:07We had Ewig and Radium, but they're both sixes.
31:10No sevens here. Well done.
31:11Yes, they are not Gordia, without a shadow of a doubt.
31:1498 plus 48.
31:16Bit of a motion.
31:17David, our last round together before the conundrum.
31:19Off you go.
31:20Six more.
31:21Six more.
31:22Yes.
31:23Yeah, that'll soften the blow with Colin.
31:25Six little ones coming up.
31:27Final numbers today.
31:289, 5, 3, 6, 7 and 2.
31:34And the final target, 754.
31:37754, last numbers.
31:39ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
31:56ELECTRONIC MUSIC CONTINUES
32:10754, David.
32:13754.
32:14Bang on. Harry.
32:16754.
32:17Well done. Off you go, Mr Edwards.
32:199 x 7.
32:209 x 7, 63.
32:226 x 2 is 12.
32:25Multiply the two together.
32:27For 756.
32:31And 5 minus 3 is the 2 to take away.
32:34Lovely. 754.
32:36And Harry?
32:37I did it the same way.
32:40Well done.
32:41APPLAUSE
32:44Look at that.
32:45A century for Harry, over the half century for David
32:49and still ten points to hand out.
32:51So let's do that.
32:52Harry and David, fingers on the buzzers.
32:54Let's dot the i, cross the t's.
32:56It's today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:04Savage.
33:05Turboprop.
33:06Let's have a look.
33:08What?
33:09APPLAUSE
33:12OK, well, that was Scale In The Heights from Harry Savage
33:15who goes through to our semi-final.
33:17David Edwards, I'm not being condescending
33:19and I'm not being patronising.
33:21Hundreds of thousands of people will be playing along at home
33:24with three columns.
33:25Hardly anyone's going to have 58 points against what Harry did.
33:29It's been lovely, David. Well done.
33:31APPLAUSE
33:34And, Harry, you took us around the world, didn't you,
33:37with the words that you picked out today?
33:39You must be thrilled.
33:40A 1-1-8 without pressure.
33:41Yeah, I'm very happy with that. It's been great to play.
33:43We'll see you back on Wednesday of next week for the semi-final.
33:46Who you play, we shall see over the next three days.
33:50Marcus, we'll see you tomorrow.
33:52Can't wait.
33:53Susie, you'll be here.
33:54Yes, I certainly will.
33:55And a great start, Rich.
33:56Yeah, I feel like the action replay, though,
33:58goes all the way back to round one.
34:00It does! It absolutely does.
34:02The big moment, the big moment.
34:04We'll have plenty more tomorrow,
34:06because our second seed will be here,
34:08Viraj Silam, who very much thinks he can get his hands
34:11on the Richard Whiteley Memorial Trophy.
34:13And one of my favourites is coming back.
34:15She makes me laugh so much.
34:16Rachel Copley will be looking to cause the upset.
34:19Rachel, Susie and I will be here.
34:21Same time, same place tomorrow. You can count on us.
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34:49CHEERING AND APPLAUSE