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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:05APPLAUSE
00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:34And a particular welcome in our audience today to Pearl Burgess,
00:39somebody who's been watching Countdown since it started all those years ago
00:43and she's taken the trouble to fly all the way from the Shetland Islands
00:48to be with us today. Pearl, you're very welcome. You're very welcome.
00:52And here we are on International Day of Forests.
00:55Let's talk a little bit about forests. It's a United Nations initiative
00:59and it's really to promote the importance of forests and trees.
01:03And would you know, for instance, Rachel,
01:05that forests cover a third of the Earth's land mass
01:10and something like 1.6 billion people rely for their livelihood on forests
01:15and so it goes on. 80% of all the animals, insects and plants live in forests.
01:21However, the downside is that something like 13 million hectares of trees
01:26are chopped down every year and that has a deleterious effect
01:29on the health of this planet.
01:31So what about you? Are you a big tree lover? Do you hug trees?
01:34I like the wildlife, so a couple of rainforests have been amazing.
01:37But, again, it's different when you get to go skiing
01:40and you're in those kind of the massive fir trees
01:43and there's a nice little taste of things and proper nature
01:46and some nice wildlife occasionally if you're lucky.
01:49But Pasha's had a different childhood and in Russia
01:52they used to go out and just pick berries in the forest and mushrooms.
01:54So he's had a proper childhood in that sense.
01:56Yeah, ran into a bear on occasion but lived to tell the tale.
01:59Whoa, that's scary.
02:02Let's see who's with us today.
02:04Somebody who's not at all scary and that's Laurie Collingwood,
02:07retired teacher from Barton on Humber.
02:09It's a big day for you, Laurie.
02:11You've got seven wins under your belt and today, you know,
02:15take it today and you're an OctoChamp and we'll see you in June.
02:18But before you can get there, you've got to get past Penny Williams,
02:22a psychology student from Reading University.
02:25Hello. Welcome.
02:27And you play lacrosse, I think, for the first team at Reading?
02:30Yeah, I'm the goalkeeper.
02:32Apparently. At Lapland, UK, over Christmas, I imagine,
02:35you played a magic elf.
02:38Yeah, it was sort of like a part-time job
02:40and we were sort of like Father Christmas' helpers,
02:43making sure the children were having a good time, that sort of thing.
02:46Were you dressed up in some interesting costume?
02:48Yeah, every day dressed up as an elf with the bells
02:50and rosy cheeks and that kind of thing.
02:52Amazing. Well, good luck to you.
02:54Let's have a big round of applause for Penny and Laurie.
03:02And over here for Susie, of course,
03:04and joining us in the middle of his tour,
03:07great stalwart of the show, member, actually, of the Countdown family,
03:11none other than Dr Phil Hammond.
03:13Welcome back, Phil. Thank you.
03:16APPLAUSE
03:19I am a massive fan of trees. I do hug trees.
03:22There's a lovely metaphor in Captain Corelli's Mandarin about love,
03:26and love is about two trees together with the roots entwining...
03:29Lovely. ..under the surface.
03:31That's the best metaphor for love I've come across.
03:33All right. Now, Laurie, let's have a letters game, shall we?
03:36Sure. Good afternoon, Rachel. Afternoon, Laurie.
03:38Start with a vowel, please. Thank you. Start today with I.
03:41And a second.
03:43And a third.
03:46And a fourth, please.
03:49And a consonant.
03:53And a second consonant.
03:56And a third consonant.
04:00A fourth one, please.
04:06And a fifth.
04:08And, lastly, S.
04:10And here's the Countdown clock.
04:13CLOCK TICKS
04:16CLOCK TICKS
04:41Laurie?
04:43Six.
04:45A six. Penny? Six.
04:47Laurie? Totals.
04:49And...? Trails.
04:51Good start. Yep.
04:53Six apiece. And in the corner?
04:55Well, I was quite impressed with Susie's titular, the seven,
04:58but then we spotted Altruist for eight,
05:01which is pretty impressive, I think.
05:03Excellent. Well done.
05:05And Altruist.
05:07Right. So, Penny?
05:10A consonant, please.
05:12Thank you, Penny. B.
05:14Another one.
05:16N. A vowel, please.
05:19E. A vowel, please.
05:22A. Consonant.
05:25S. A consonant.
05:29Z. Vowel.
05:32U. Consonant.
05:35N. And a consonant, please.
05:37And, lastly, K.
05:39Stand by.
05:42CLOCK TICKS
05:45CLOCK TICKS
06:11Yes, Penny? Just a five.
06:13Five. Laurie? Only a five for me as well.
06:15Penny? Beans.
06:17And...? Bakes.
06:21What else have we got, Phil?
06:23There's an Australian word, sunbake,
06:25but I don't know if it's in the dictionary.
06:27Can I have sunbake? You certainly can, yes.
06:29Or sunbake? Sunbake.
06:31We have a sunbathe, an Australian sunbake.
06:33Well done. All right, 11 apiece.
06:35And now, Laurie, it's the first numbers game for today.
06:37Thank you. One large, please, racial, and five small.
06:39Your usual. Thank you, Laurie.
06:41One from the top row, five little ones.
06:43And the first numbers game of the day is...
06:45seven, four, ten, six,
06:49another ten, and the large one, 50.
06:51And the target...
06:53773.
06:55773.
07:11CLOCK TICKS
07:27Laurie? Lost it. No? Penny?
07:29I think 770.
07:31Let's try.
07:33Ten plus four.
07:3514. Times by 50.
07:37700. And then ten times seven.
07:39And the other ten times seven.
07:41Yep, 770.
07:43Well done. Well done.
07:45Three away. Can we make up the three, Rachel?
07:47Um, yes.
07:49If you say ten plus ten is 20,
07:53times four is 80,
07:55add the 50 for 130,
07:57times it by six for 780,
07:59and take away the seven.
08:01773.
08:03Well done.
08:05Thank you, Rachel.
08:07Wonderful.
08:09So, early lead for Penny by seven points.
08:1118 to Laurie's.
08:1311 as we turn to our first Tea Time teaser,
08:15which is belt delay.
08:17And the clue...
08:19There was a delay on the conveyor belt,
08:21but luggage appeared eventually.
08:23There was a delay on the conveyor belt,
08:25but luggage appeared eventually.
08:29MUSIC
08:37APPLAUSE
08:45Welcome back. I left with a clue.
08:47There was a delay on the conveyor belt,
08:49but luggage appeared eventually.
08:51It appeared belatedly.
08:53Belatedly is the answer.
08:55So, Penny,
08:5718 to Laurie's, 11.
08:59And it's your letters game now.
09:01Can I have a vowel, please?
09:03Thank you, Penny.
09:05I.
09:07Consonant, please.
09:09N.
09:11A consonant, please.
09:13T.
09:15A vowel, please.
09:17E.
09:19Consonant, please.
09:21D.
09:23Another consonant, please.
09:25P.
09:27A vowel, please.
09:29O.
09:31And a final consonant, please.
09:33MUSIC
10:03Penny.
10:05A seven. A seven, Laurie.
10:07Seven as well, yeah. Penny.
10:09Pointed. Yes.
10:11She's crying out.
10:13Can we get anything better?
10:16I got a demotion for an eight,
10:18but you've got a much classier one.
10:20What have you got, Susie?
10:22Yeah, I like this one. Piedmont.
10:24P-I-E-D-M-O-N-T.
10:26A gentle slope leading from the foot of mountains
10:29to a stretch of flat land.
10:31A nod to the region of north-west Italy.
10:34Exactly.
10:38But, yeah, OK.
10:40But the region, capital P, obviously.
10:42But I didn't... Of course, I never twigged that it meant something else.
10:45Yeah. Nice, gentle slope.
10:47Interesting. 25 plays 18.
10:49Penny still in the lead.
10:51Laurie, let us go.
10:53OK. Vowel, please, Rachel.
10:55Thank you, Laurie.
10:57E. A second.
10:59A. Third.
11:01I. And a fourth, please.
11:04O. And a consonant.
11:07V. And a second.
11:10T. A third.
11:13R.
11:17A fourth.
11:19B.
11:21And a fifth, please.
11:23And, lastly, R.
11:25And here's the Countdown Clock.
11:29CLOCK TICKS
11:31CLOCK TICKS
11:58Laurie, seven.
12:00Just a six.
12:02And six for Penny. Your six?
12:04Braver.
12:06And...obviate?
12:08Obviate, yes.
12:10Obviate the need to remove the need for something.
12:12Indeed. Thank you. Well done.
12:1425 apiece now as we turn to Phil. Dr Phil.
12:18We have. We've got two eights there, haven't we?
12:20We have.
12:22I'll let you choose which one you'd like to say first.
12:24OK. I'll go for abortive.
12:27Abortive for eight. Isn't that good? Very good.
12:29I spotted a vibrator in there as well.
12:31Oh, well done.
12:32It's happened to me in the emergency department before as well.
12:35Moving quickly on. 25 apiece.
12:37And now, Penny, it's your numbers game.
12:40Can I have two big and four small, please?
12:42You can indeed, thank you, Penny.
12:43Two from the top row.
12:45Four little and a R.
12:47Two.
12:48Eight.
12:49Nine.
12:50Another two.
12:5225 and 75.
12:54And the target, 825.
12:57MUSIC
13:28Penny?
13:30820.
13:31820, Laurie?
13:33825, I think.
13:35Let's try.
13:3675 plus 25 plus 2.
13:3875 plus 25 plus 2, 102.
13:42Times 2 is 800 and... Sorry, times 8 is 816.
13:45Yep.
13:46And add 9 on.
13:48Yep.
13:49That'll do it. 825.
13:51Well done. Well done.
13:53APPLAUSE
13:58Striding ahead now.
13:5935 to Penny's 25 as we turn to Dr Phil.
14:03Now, what have you got for us?
14:05Well, I've been touring the United Kingdom
14:07with Dr Phil's Health Revolution
14:09and I have to say Countdown viewers, as usual,
14:11are a staple of my audience.
14:13And they always come up and they say,
14:14give us some gossip about Countdown,
14:16tell us what goes on behind the scenes.
14:18And one of the things they don't realise is because of austerity
14:20we've been forced to sharing rooms.
14:22It's all done through drawing straws
14:24and last night I got to Nick again.
14:27Nick has got quite fidgety feet,
14:29so he's not an easy bed companion.
14:31We had to go top to tail for a while.
14:33But he always has medical issues and he says,
14:35I have terrible trouble going to see the doctor, Phil,
14:37so do you mind if you have a look at this?
14:39And it's usually either a tickly cough or a warty growth, isn't it?
14:42Luckily the warty growth came off in the power showers,
14:45so that was OK.
14:46So it just left us the tickly cough and Nick says,
14:48I've had it for three days, should I go to the emergency department?
14:51And so what I thought I'd do is I'd make Nick a T-shirt
14:53with how long common symptoms last.
14:55So here's the first thing you need to know.
14:57People often rush to the doctor or to the emergency department
14:59because they've had a cough or a cold for three days.
15:01A cold will often last up to two weeks before it goes from start to finish,
15:05even in the healthiest people.
15:07The vast majority of occasions there's nothing you or anything else can do
15:10other than help Mother Nature heal it.
15:12A sore throat again can last up to two weeks.
15:14Generally again you don't need antibiotics.
15:16In most cases it will heal on its own if you give it time and love.
15:19Sinusitis can be three weeks.
15:21Most heal without antibiotics.
15:23If it's really unpleasant, high temperature, really nasty snot,
15:26you might need it. Usually not.
15:27A cough can go up to four weeks.
15:29A bad back can last up to 12 weeks.
15:31In most cases you're not actually helped by going to see a doctor.
15:34So here's the interesting thing.
15:35A patient made this for me.
15:37They went onto the website and worked out how much things cost.
15:39So if you suddenly call the ambulance, it'll cost a minimum of £247.
15:44Accident and emergency is £124.
15:46GP £32.
15:48111, £16.
15:50NHS Choice is £46.
15:52The pharmacy, depends on what they sell you,
15:54but pharmacy first is a good thing.
15:56But actually Aunty Muriel is a good person to go and see.
15:59If you had an Aunty Muriel, it could be a granny or whatever,
16:01and you get your tickly cough and she would say,
16:03oh, bit of honey and hot lemon.
16:04Bit of honey and hot lemon.
16:05You get your warty growth, she'd flick it off.
16:07But for about 90% of stuff, you're better off with a dog than a doctor.
16:10Just let nature take its course and go and visit Aunty Muriel first.
16:14So that's my first thing.
16:15To save the NHS, Aunty Muriel first.
16:17That's the carry-on call of today's Countdown plea.
16:20Thank you very much indeed.
16:21Yippee!
16:29That's very good. Here we go.
16:31Thank you. 35 to 25.
16:33Laurie's back in the lead and it is Laurie's letters game now.
16:36Laurie. Thank you.
16:37Vowel, please, Rachel. Thank you, Laurie.
16:39I.
16:40A second.
16:42A.
16:43A third.
16:45E.
16:46A fourth, please.
16:47O.
16:49OK, and a consonant.
16:51S.
16:53A second consonant.
16:54L.
16:56A third.
16:58V.
17:01A fourth, please.
17:03T.
17:05And a fifth.
17:06And to finish, D.
17:09And the clock starts now.
17:16CLOCK TICKS
17:41Yes, Laurie?
17:42Eight.
17:43Just a six.
17:44And a six.
17:45Your six?
17:46Solved.
17:47Laurie?
17:48Violated.
17:49Excellent. Very, very good.
17:51Yeah.
17:52Well done. Violated.
17:53APPLAUSE
17:57Any more? Eight, seven, nine?
17:58No, I got violated, but Clever Clog Susie got...
18:01Well, isolated's another eight, but you've got a nine there, Susie.
18:04There's a lovely nine there, actually. Dovetails.
18:06Dovetails. Very good, isn't it?
18:08APPLAUSE
18:12So, Laurie on 43.
18:15Penny on 25. And, Penny, it's your letters game.
18:18Can I have a consonant, please?
18:20Thank you, Penny.
18:21P.
18:22And another one?
18:24M.
18:25Vowel, please.
18:27E.
18:28Vowel, please.
18:30O.
18:31Consonant, please.
18:33R.
18:34Vowel, please.
18:37A.
18:38Consonant, please.
18:40G.
18:42Consonant, please.
18:44P.
18:45And a vowel, please.
18:47And lastly...
18:49U.
18:51Done by him.
19:14MUSIC PLAYS
19:23Yes, Penny?
19:24Er, a six.
19:25A six. And, Laurie?
19:27Six as well.
19:28Er, pamper.
19:30Both pampered? Pumper.
19:32Pamper.
19:33Yes, nice word. We didn't have that one.
19:35Anything else?
19:36No, Susie's got a word I've never heard of,
19:38so I'm going to have to admit my ignorance here. What's that?
19:40Er, it's from Sanskrit.
19:42Gopuram.
19:43G-O-P-U-R-A-M.
19:45What's that, Nick?
19:46I have no idea.
19:47Ah, good.
19:48In southern India, it's a large pyramid-shaped tower
19:50over the entrance gate to a temple.
19:53Well, I'm dashed.
19:55And where did you manage to dredge that out from?
19:58The dictionary.
20:02That is the correct answer, well done to you.
20:0449 to 31.
20:06And now, Laurie, numbers are back.
20:08One large, five small, please, Rachel.
20:10Don't need to ask any more, thank you, Laurie,
20:12for the last time for a while.
20:14These five smalls are six, eight, one, five,
20:19seven and a large, 25.
20:22And your target, 264.
20:24Two, six, four.
20:40MUSIC PLAYS
20:57Laurie?
20:58265.
20:59Penny?
21:00265.
21:01Laurie?
21:02Five plus six minus one is ten.
21:05Yep.
21:07Times 25 is 250.
21:09And that's seven and eight.
21:11And then the seven and the eight run away.
21:13Thank you. And Penny?
21:15Mine's basically the same.
21:17We happy? Yeah, yeah.
21:19But, Rachel, help us out. 264?
21:21Yes. If you say 25 minus one is 24,
21:26five plus six is 11, and times them together, 264.
21:30Well done. Perfect.
21:32APPLAUSE
21:34All right, so 56 based 38 as we turn to our second Tea Time teaser,
21:38which is rain cover.
21:40And the clue, he doesn't want it too dry.
21:43He likes it slightly pink.
21:45He doesn't want it too dry.
21:47He likes it slightly pink.
21:50MUSIC PLAYS
21:58APPLAUSE
22:05Welcome back. Let's look at the clue.
22:07He doesn't want it too dry. He likes it slightly pink.
22:11And the answer to that one is carnivore.
22:14Carnivore.
22:1656 to 38, Laurie in the lead, and it's Penny's letters game now.
22:19Penny?
22:20Vowel, please. Thank you, Penny.
22:22E.
22:24Another one, please.
22:25I.
22:27Consonant, please.
22:29S.
22:31Vowel.
22:33A.
22:34Consonant, please.
22:36N.
22:37Another consonant, please.
22:39G.
22:41Consonant, please.
22:43L.
22:45Another one, please.
22:47F.
22:49And a final consonant, please.
22:51And a final D.
22:53Stand by.
22:55MUSIC PLAYS
23:06MUSIC CONTINUES
23:24Yes, Penny?
23:26I'm going to try a nine.
23:29Good. Good for you.
23:31Oh, no, it's not a nine.
23:33It's an eight.
23:35And Laurie?
23:37Eight.
23:38Bad luck. We go straight to Laurie. Oh, dear.
23:41Laurie, dealings.
23:43Yeah.
23:44And in the corner there, Phil and Susie?
23:46Yes, be wary of gadflies bearing flanges.
23:49So we've got gadflies. I've never heard of that word.
23:52What's that word?
23:53Finagles?
23:54No, what's that?
23:55It's to obtain something by devious means.
23:57Really?
23:58Wonderful word.
23:59Anything else?
24:00No.
24:0164 plays 38. Laurie on 64.
24:04Letters.
24:06Vowel, please, Rachel.
24:07Thank you, Laurie. E.
24:09And the second?
24:11I.
24:12And the third?
24:13E.
24:14And a fourth, please.
24:15O.
24:17A consonant, please.
24:19S.
24:20And the second?
24:22J.
24:23And the third?
24:25R.
24:28And a fourth, please.
24:30Q.
24:32Yeah. And a fifth, please.
24:34And the last one?
24:35H.
24:37And the clock starts now.
25:03MUSIC STOPS
25:10Laurie, six.
25:12A six and...?
25:13Just five.
25:14And your five?
25:15Horse.
25:16And heroes.
25:18Hmm.
25:19Heroes and horse.
25:21Susie has a play on heroes that I was unfamiliar with.
25:24What have you got, Susie?
25:25You can stretch it to a seven with hero eyes.
25:27Hero eyes, apparently.
25:28To make somebody a hero, do you mean?
25:30To represent someone as a hero.
25:32I've not come across that, but it makes sense, I suppose.
25:34Yes.
25:35Anything else?
25:36Hosea is another one there for six.
25:38And Hosea.
25:4070 plays, 38, and Susie, we're back with you.
25:43For your origins of words, what have you got for us today?
25:46Well, I talked about cabbages and handkerchiefs yesterday,
25:50and they're a surprising link, etymologically speaking,
25:53because they both have head, the word head, at their heart,
25:56so to speak.
25:57I mentioned biceps and capitals, capes and caps,
26:00which also involve the head.
26:02But I didn't mention two other words that may surprise you.
26:05And the first is defined in the dictionary as playfulness
26:08that's intended to either tease or to create trouble.
26:11But originally, it was a word that meant something
26:14with far more dramatic consequences,
26:16and it was actually enshrined in law as wrong or distressed,
26:20caused to somebody, and the legal system was meant to eradicate it.
26:24And that word is mischief.
26:26And the root of mischief is the French word messieve,
26:29in which the mess meant adversely or negatively,
26:32and chive means come to a head.
26:35It was that chive that, if you remember, was in handkerchief.
26:38A kerchief was a couvre-chef, something that covered the head,
26:41because it was originally a headdress.
26:43The pole in poltax and tadpole
26:46also harks back to the Anglo-Saxon word for head.
26:49The nut as in nutting somebody is due to the fact
26:52that the head resembles a sort of smooth, round object,
26:55if you like, and bonce is a variation of bounce,
26:58because the head is a small, round object.
27:01So, for such an important part of our body,
27:03we actually take the head a little bit lightly,
27:05but it's there in far more places than you realise.
27:08Very clever.
27:10Very clever.
27:15Bonce. Brilliant. Thank you.
27:1770 plays to 38, and it's Penny's letters game now. Penny?
27:21Vowel, please. Thank you, Penny.
27:23E
27:25Consonant.
27:27N
27:29Consonant.
27:31M
27:33Vowel.
27:35A
27:37Consonant.
27:39R
27:41Vowel, please.
27:43I
27:45Consonant, please.
27:47Y
27:49Consonant.
27:51L
27:53Standby.
28:22Penny?
28:24A six.
28:26A six. Seven.
28:28And Laurie's got a seven. Penny?
28:30Marine.
28:32And fireman?
28:34Very good. And fireman. Yeah.
28:36Can we add to fireman in any way?
28:38No, we've got mineral, which is seven. I like that word.
28:40What does flammier mean? Well, flammier. Flammier?
28:42Yes. To flame somebody on the internet is to troll them
28:45or send them an abusive message, so you can send a flammy message
28:48or indeed a flammier one than yesterday.
28:50Can you flam it up? Do you flam it up sometimes, Nick?
28:52Not knowingly.
28:54When you're trying to be slightly more sensationalist?
28:56I hope not.
28:58You could say there was a human crisis in the NHS
29:00or you could say there was a humanitarian crisis.
29:02That's flamming it up.
29:04All right. 77 to 38.
29:06Laurie on 77. Laurie, you're back.
29:08Letters.
29:10Vowel, please, Rachel. Thank you, Laurie.
29:12E
29:14And the second?
29:16And the third?
29:18A
29:20Consonant?
29:22C
29:24Consonant?
29:26G
29:28Consonant?
29:30S
29:32A vowel?
29:34Another E.
29:36Consonant, please?
29:38M
29:42And a consonant.
29:44W
29:46Tantan.
30:14Well, Laurie?
30:16Seven.
30:18Just a five.
30:20And a five. Pennies, five?
30:22Peace.
30:24Laurie?
30:26Very, very good.
30:28We didn't actually spot that one.
30:30We had escape but not escapee. Very good.
30:32Using those three Es. That's very good. Well done.
30:34Now, what else have we got?
30:36We can't beat that, but we've got one that uses the three Es quite well.
30:38That's MCs.
30:40As in you can spell MCs.
30:42M-C-S-E-M-C-E-E-S
30:44As in martial ceremonies, it's MC.
30:46MC Hammer, you'd be familiar with, Nick.
30:48On your playlist all the time.
30:50Absolutely. Non-stop.
30:52Anything else?
30:54No.
30:56Escapee. Pretty good, though, from Laurie. Well done.
30:5884 to 38, and it's Penny's numbers game.
31:00Penny?
31:02Can I have two large and four small, please?
31:04Thank you, Penny.
31:06Two from the top row, four little,
31:08and the last ones of the day are
31:103,
31:128,
31:1450 and 75.
31:16And the target,
31:18896.
31:20896.
31:40Yes, Penny?
31:42I think...
31:44899.
31:46899.
31:48Yes, Laurie?
31:50897.
31:52897.
31:54Yes, Laurie?
31:56Six times two is 12.
31:58Yep.
32:00Times 75 is 900.
32:02900.
32:04Take away the three.
32:06For one away, 897.
32:08For one away, 897.
32:10Well done.
32:12But 896, can you crack that one for us?
32:14This was there.
32:16You could have said 50 plus 6,
32:1856.
32:20Two times eight is 16,
32:22and times them together, 896.
32:24Well done. Thank you, Rachel.
32:26APPLAUSE
32:28So, here we are.
32:3091 for Laurie
32:32and Penny on 38,
32:34brave 38 as we go into the final round.
32:36So, fingers on buzzers,
32:38let's reveal today's countdown conundrum.
33:06MUSIC
33:12No, stumped.
33:14Even an octochamp is stumped.
33:16Who in the audience? Come, come.
33:18Let me see hands.
33:20Yes, ma'am?
33:22Principal.
33:24Let's have a look and see whether you're right.
33:26Principal, well done.
33:28APPLAUSE
33:30Well done.
33:32All right.
33:34Penny, brave effort against an octochamp,
33:36but, you know,
33:38he's in cracking form, so 38.
33:40And, indeed, you led for a while,
33:42so that's quite a remarkable thing.
33:44So, back to Reading
33:46and your psychology studies.
33:48What will you do when you've graduated?
33:50I'm hoping to be a primary school teacher.
33:52Well, good luck to that.
33:54And take this goodie bag back with you
33:56and good luck with the lacrosse.
34:00All right, Laurie, an octochamp.
34:02It did, yeah.
34:04We shall see you in June in the finals.
34:06Congratulations, a great run.
34:08Thank you very much.
34:10And we shall see you both tomorrow.
34:12Dr Phil and Susie will have two new contestants.
34:14See you tomorrow.
34:16Well, Laurie got there in the end.
34:18He got there and he's got a well-earned rest now.
34:20I think he has. A couple of months at least.
34:22Indeed. But we plough on for tomorrow.
34:24We'll be back, same time, same place,
34:26you'll be sure of it, a very good afternoon.
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34:46A new baby elephant is on the way,
34:48unpacking our trunks in the secret life of the zoo
34:50at 8 o'clock,
34:52followed at 9 o'clock by a tiny boat
34:54arriving at the Great Barringer Reef.
34:56Mutiny continues.
34:58Next stop, 15 to 1.
35:00APPLAUSE