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00:30Hello, everybody. This is Countdown.
00:33Welcome back. You're among friends for the next 45 minutes.
00:37So pull up a chair in good company.
00:40Rachel Riley, would you say at this stage we're a burgeoning relationship?
00:44Are we friends, colleagues or acquaintances?
00:48Well, I think you're my TV husband, surely.
00:52We're taking it to the next level.
00:54I'll take that. I'm ready for that commitment. I really am.
00:58Listen, we're probably to say friends because we know each other's secrets.
01:03And I think that's the start of friendship is we have trust.
01:07We know things about each other we wouldn't tell anyone.
01:09Because today is International Day of Friendship.
01:12And it's about many things.
01:13But one thing is just telling somebody you appreciate them that they're there for you.
01:16What is a friend to you? What are the pillars?
01:21I think a lot of my besties, they know me better than I know myself.
01:24So you tell them something and they go, we knew this was coming, that nothing's ever a surprise for them.
01:28Yeah.
01:28And, you know, I think one of the best friends is someone that you cannot speak to for a few months.
01:32And then you're like, you've never spent any time away from them.
01:35You just pick up where you left off.
01:36Well, I think there's a certain person not too far away from you that falls into that category of really good friend.
01:43Kindness personified is Susie Dent.
01:46And on that note, she's always there.
01:48She's a great listener.
01:50She's not, rarely wants to talk about herself.
01:53Yeah, it's brilliant.
01:53If anyone badmouths you, Susie gets out her black book.
01:56Susie Dent's a black book of blackmail.
01:58You do not want to be in that.
02:00No.
02:00You do not want to be in that.
02:01Well, let's officially introduce our golden girl over there and say thank you for being a friend.
02:07Susie Dent.
02:10And beside her, just the other day, you were talking about local dialects.
02:14So let me introduce me old mocker.
02:16Neil Delamere's back.
02:17Oh, yes.
02:20And Sue Telfer, we feel like friends now.
02:23Get to know each other over these days.
02:25We do, Colin.
02:26You've settled into a real pace now, in and around that hundred.
02:30Do you feel nervous now?
02:31Is this like your living room?
02:32No, very nervous.
02:34Yeah?
02:34Still got it.
02:35That gives you the edge.
02:36Yeah.
02:37That gives you the edge.
02:37That's the main thing.
02:38Well, today, if you want to make it to five, you will be up against the big countdown fan.
02:44Let's welcome Shazia Hassam.
02:46How are you?
02:46Hi, I'm good.
02:48Shazia, you love to travel the world and not always in a car.
02:52Sometimes by camel.
02:52Now, I've been in a camel once and it was on flat.
02:57I wanted to get off after a couple of minutes.
02:59Very uncomfortable day.
03:00What did you do on a camel?
03:02I took a camel up Mount Sinai in Egypt.
03:04Wow.
03:05That's a couple of kilometres, isn't it?
03:07I don't know exactly how long.
03:08It was probably an hour or two.
03:10Right.
03:11And how hard was it to sit down after that?
03:13I didn't think it was that bad.
03:15By the time you get to the top, you're more nervous about being, climbing the rest of the mountain.
03:19So, I didn't really think about the pain.
03:21All right.
03:21Okay.
03:21Well, listen, don't think about the pain today in these early rounds if Sue gets in till later.
03:26All right.
03:26Don't take the hump.
03:27Let's just see what happens by the end.
03:28I'll do my best.
03:29All right, champion.
03:30Sue Telfer, here we go again.
03:32Your letters.
03:33Hi, Rachel.
03:34Hi, Sue.
03:35Consonant, please.
03:36Start today with T.
03:38And a consonant, please.
03:39And a consonant, please.
04:09And a consonant, please.
04:40Shazia, first 30 seconds, where'd you end up?
04:43Six.
04:43Good.
04:43Good start, Sue.
04:44Six.
04:45Wonderful.
04:45Sue, what have you got?
04:46Russet.
04:47And Shazia, from Russet to two?
04:49Sorties.
04:50Sorties.
04:51Let's have a sorties over the dictionary corner.
04:53Oh, she's typing.
04:54There could be problems.
04:55No, it's absolutely fine.
04:57There is a noun.
04:58I was just thinking because the verb, I was wondering about the double E.
05:01But either way, it's absolutely fine, Shazia.
05:02Well done.
05:03Neil Delamere, anything better than a six?
05:05Well, there is a seven.
05:06And I suppose I should get this, given the shows we do.
05:09Satires.
05:10Oh, brilliant.
05:11Yes, satires.
05:12Well done, Neil.
05:13Wonderful.
05:14It's your first time picking some letters.
05:16So, say hello to Rachel, Shazia.
05:18Hi, Rachel.
05:18Hi, Shazia.
05:19Right, can I have a consonant, please?
05:20You can indeed.
05:22L.
05:23And another.
05:25R.
05:27And a vowel, please.
05:29E.
05:31And a consonant.
05:33S.
05:35Another consonant.
05:37D.
05:39Another consonant.
05:41T.
05:43And a vowel.
05:46O.
05:46Another vowel, please.
05:50E.
05:52And a final consonant.
05:54A final.
05:55N.
05:56Kind letters.
05:5730 seconds.
05:57E.
06:07And a vowel, please.
06:09MUSIC PLAYS
06:28Sue?
06:29Seven.
06:30Right, Shazia?
06:31Just a six.
06:32What's the six?
06:32Stolen.
06:34Stolen.
06:34And to steal the points, Sue?
06:36Endorse.
06:37Endorse.
06:38Very nice.
06:38Yeah, we can endorse that.
06:39Needellamere, seven's got to be the best there.
06:41There is an eight there.
06:42Go ahead.
06:43And it might be a word that reminds you of other words.
06:45Redolent.
06:46Redolent.
06:47Yes, it means strongly suggestive of something.
06:50Originally meant strongly smelling.
06:52Well, I strongly suggest Sue picks some numbers.
06:55One from the top, please, and five from anywhere else.
06:57Thank you, Sue.
06:58One large, five little, and the first numbers of the day are nine,
07:03two, three, five, four, and the big one, 50.
07:08And the target to reach 658.
07:11Numbers up.
07:12Oh.
07:12Let's get to it.
07:38How do you do, Shazia?
07:446, 5, 8.
07:45Bang on the button. Sue?
07:476, 5, 8.
07:48OK, both written down. So, Shazia, off you go.
07:509 plus 4 is 13.
07:5213.
07:54Multiply by 50.
07:556, 50.
07:56Add the 5 and add the 3.
07:57Nothing to argue about there. Well done.
07:59There you go. Sue, same way?
08:01The same way.
08:02Wonderful.
08:0210.6. Close enough as we go to our first break with a tea time teaser.
08:09Need a lime. Need a lime.
08:12You don't need a lime to make this. Some coconut and jam will help.
08:15You don't need a lime to make this. Some coconut and jam will help.
08:19MUSIC
08:21Welcome back. Need a lime was your tea time teaser.
08:38You don't need a lime to make this.
08:40Some coconut and jam will help.
08:43Madeline is the answer.
08:44M-A-D-E-L-E-I-N-E.
08:47Susie?
08:47Well, two different things and I have to say I've learned from Neil today because the first literal meaning is this lovely rich cake baked in fluted tins, etc, that most of us would know.
08:57But also, in Proust, the French author, it was used really for a type of thing that really evokes strong memories and that's how Neil knows it.
09:06It evokes strong memories of childhood, I think.
09:08Yeah, my wife actually just said to me once that she had, like, rice pudding she used to have as a kid.
09:12So, rice pudding is a real madeleine for her. So, that's the only reason I know it.
09:15Yes, lovely.
09:16Very good. Shazia, let's get some letters.
09:18Can I start with a vowel, please?
09:20Thank you, Shazia.
09:21O.
09:22And another.
09:24A.
09:25And a consonant.
09:27R.
09:29And another consonant.
09:31H.
09:32And another.
09:34G.
09:36And one more, please.
09:38T.
09:40And a vowel.
09:42I.
09:42And a final consonant, please.
09:50A final P.
09:52Thank you, TV wife.
09:53And a organisator.
10:04Matt.
10:05I.
10:06I.
10:09I.
10:10Time's up, Sue.
10:25A risky seven.
10:27OK, and Shazia?
10:29Just a five.
10:30Let's have the five.
10:32Hoper.
10:32Hoper.
10:33You'll be hoping that counts, because Sue's admitted it's risky.
10:36Telfer, what have you got?
10:38Goateeer.
10:38Oh, sort of, the beard is a little bit more goatier.
10:42Jean-Paul goatier.
10:45Well, either way, it just needs to be in the dictionary.
10:48And that it is, yes, goatier, goateeist.
10:51Well done.
10:54Let's have the full meaning of goatier,
10:56so we can use it after the show in everyday conversation.
10:59Reminiscent of or like a goat or goat.
11:01So, a cheese, one cheese might be goatier than the next.
11:05Anything else?
11:06We don't need anything else after that.
11:07There is an eight.
11:08Oh.
11:09I feel like I should have written it with pencil rather than pen.
11:11Graphite.
11:12Oh, very good.
11:13Well done, me.
11:17Let's pencil in seven more points for the champion and get more letters from her.
11:22Rachel, consonant, please.
11:24Thank you, Sue.
11:24Lastly, B.
11:25Here we go.
11:55.
11:57.
11:59.
12:09.
12:18.
12:18Shazia, how'd you do?
12:26I'm going to try a seven.
12:28Good for you, Sue.
12:29Seven.
12:30Shazia.
12:31Dampier.
12:32Dampier.
12:33And we'll have to definitely check that, Sue.
12:36Praline.
12:36Yes, well, we know that's there, but it's dampier.
12:40Unfortunately not.
12:41I'm so sorry, Shazia.
12:42So seven points for Sue.
12:45And Tenille Delamere.
12:45I had a six that I reckon about 48% of people would have gotten.
12:50That's Remain.
12:50Yeah.
12:51Praline.
12:53And I think, is this a real mid-plane?
13:00Yeah.
13:00I think if you're in the red arrows, you might have a mid-plane,
13:02because it's a plane that passes through the middle.
13:04For eight?
13:04Of other planes, yes.
13:05Very good.
13:06Mid-plane.
13:10All right, let's fly on.
13:11Got more numbers.
13:12It's your turn, Shazia.
13:13Can I get one large and five small, please?
13:16You can indeed.
13:16One from the top and five more not from the top.
13:20And the little ones are five, nine, six, two and seven.
13:26And the big one, 100.
13:29And the target, 732.
13:31Numbers up.
13:31Theabilizing.
13:33Okay.
13:33That's right.
13:34Now, let's watch this.
13:35We all hear the intrigue.
13:36MUSIC CONTINUES
14:067-3-2. Yeah, and Sue.
14:087-3-2. Absolutely. Go ahead, champ.
14:117 times 100 is 700.
14:13700.
14:146 times 5 is 30.
14:16Yeah. And add the 2.
14:17Another straightforward one.
14:19And what about yourself, Shazia?
14:20I did it the same way.
14:22Give me a look there.
14:23APPLAUSE
14:24Wonderful. Well, listen, this time yesterday,
14:28I had to get a tissue out and blow my nose.
14:30I was laughing that much at Neil Delamere
14:33in your funeral interruptions.
14:35What are we talking about today?
14:37Well, this is a show with the written word
14:40and the love of the written word and words.
14:42So I thought I would tell you about
14:44the most fun I've ever had writing letters, right?
14:46So I was staying in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel once.
14:49Other hotels are available.
14:51And I was doing a gig that night in Amsterdam
14:52and I said to the Dutch girl behind the reception desk,
14:56what's the Dutch version of Crime Watch?
14:57Because I had a joke about Crime Watch.
14:59And she said, I don't know.
15:00And I didn't tell her what I wanted it for.
15:02And I got back to the hotel room that night
15:03and they'd left a letter under my door from reception.
15:06And it says,
15:06Dear Mr Delamere,
15:07I've checked the name of Crime Watch in Dutch television
15:09and have two names of two different programmes for you.
15:11Of Sporing for Stockton and Peter R. de Vries.
15:13If you have any other questions,
15:14please contact us.
15:15Regards Maria and Guita front desk.
15:17So I thought,
15:17if I ask them a question,
15:19they have to answer it.
15:20I hadn't much to do that weekend,
15:23so strap yourselves in.
15:25Dear Mr Delamere,
15:26I have checked the average rainfall of Utrecht.
15:29It's 25 centimetres.
15:31If you have any other questions,
15:32please contact us.
15:33It's like she's going,
15:34is that all you got?
15:35Bring it on.
15:36Bring it on I did.
15:38Dear Mr Delamere,
15:39it's thought that there are between 80 and 100,000 badgers
15:41in the Netherlands.
15:42But an exact figure for Amsterdam cannot be established.
15:46Now, this time it says regards,
15:48as if to say,
15:48we know what you're doing.
15:49Please stop doing this.
15:51Mr Delamere,
15:52there's no deer anymore.
15:53They're getting progressively more annoyed.
15:55Hotel staff cannot verify the whereabouts of Wally.
15:59It is not as you suggested in room 206.
16:02And the last one,
16:03and you'll appreciate this one as a music fan,
16:05to whom it may concern,
16:07we do not know who let the dogs out.
16:12Ah, very, very good indeed.
16:15Right, let's stick the letters.
16:16And Sue, you're up.
16:18Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
16:20Thank you, Sue.
16:21T.
16:22And a consonant, please.
16:24D.
16:25And a consonant.
16:27H.
16:28And a consonant.
16:30C.
16:31And a consonant.
16:34M.
16:35And a vowel.
16:37I.
16:38And another vowel.
16:40O.
16:41And a vowel.
16:44E.
16:45And a consonant, please.
16:47And lastly, S.
16:49Good luck.
16:49I.
16:59I.
17:00And a vowel.
17:03I.
17:04Sajir?
17:22Seven, please.
17:23Very good. And Sue?
17:25Seven.
17:25And seven. What's your seven, Sue?
17:27Ditches.
17:28Ditches and Shazia?
17:30Chemist.
17:31Chemist and ditches. Absolutely fantastic.
17:34Intriguing letters, as we add the dictionary.
17:36Corn and Neil Delamere?
17:37There is a nine.
17:39Wow.
17:39Methodics.
17:41Methodics?
17:41Methodics, yes.
17:42The methodology of language teaching.
17:45APPLAUSE
17:45Well, Sue has 54, Shazia has 33.
17:52Shazia, let's get some letters.
17:55Can I have a consonant, please?
17:56You can, indeed.
17:57N.
17:59And a vowel?
18:01I.
18:02Another vowel?
18:03A.
18:05A consonant?
18:07T.
18:08Another consonant?
18:10F.
18:12And a vowel?
18:13E.
18:15And a consonant?
18:17N.
18:19Another consonant, please.
18:21S.
18:23And a final vowel, please.
18:26And a final U.
18:28Start the clock.
18:29into the next.
18:31USAF
18:31New drink,
18:32ooth Anschl вч.
18:33All right.
18:33Newsett,
18:34we'll be right back.
18:34Bye.
18:35See you next time.
18:35Bye.
18:37Bye.
18:38Bye.
18:39Bye.
18:47Bye.
18:48Bye.
18:48Bye.
18:50Bye.
18:50Bye.
18:51Bye.
18:51Bye.
18:51Bye.
18:51Bye.
18:51Bye.
18:52Bye.
18:53Bye.
18:53Bye.
18:54Bye.
18:55Bye.
18:55Bye.
18:56hands down shazia i'm gonna try seven good and sue eight let's try the seven and stain and let's
19:08do the eight funniest ah funniest from satires the funniest it's worked out well for you today
19:15neil yeah i mean sometimes i'm in dictionary corner i like to think of myself as the muse
19:19so thanks a million for that um there is another eight there as well unfasten very good you said
19:24that like you've been a dictionary corner for like 20 years it's your second show sometimes
19:29twice sitting back here twee jacket cigar when i was talking to susie dentist
19:35uh it's absolutely brilliant no unstain i'm afraid chassie just to let you know okay sue numbers uh one
19:44from the top please rachel and any of the five another one large five little combo and for the
19:51third time today your selection is three nine one six five and twenty five and the target
19:59four hundred and ninety five number's up
20:02so
20:06so
20:10so
20:19one away four nine four four nine four chance for shazia i have four nine four as well will you go for a shazia
20:40three plus one three plus one is four multiply by the five multiply by five twenty multiply that by the
20:47twenty five five hundred then minus the six yep one below well done and sue so five minus one is four
20:55five minus one is four times the six is twenty four twenty four times five hundred times twenty five is
21:01five hundred it's six hundred i'm afraid oh sorry that's miles off really really important seven points
21:08that shazia has picked up listen should we give it to the eager beaver over there i think neil delamere has it
21:13oh right come on then i think i have a three by nine is twenty
21:16yes i think you do have it twenty seven minus six minus one is twenty yeah
21:20by twenty five it's five hundred minus five brilliant and the whole of ireland
21:24goes wild well done
21:25not all of ireland the scores so far
21:32sixty two for three shazia has forty and we'll have another tea time teaser
21:37lou plenty lou plenty lou had plenty of money and as such
21:41his house was decorated this way lou had plenty of money and as such
21:46his house was decorated this way opulently lou's house was decorated opulently right it's closer than it has been this whole
22:16contest we have a game on just 22 points on it so shazia you've got the wind
22:21in your sails let's get some letters can i have a consonant please you can indeed
22:26v and another t and another b a vowel please o and another a and one more please
22:41i a consonant a vowel o and another vowel please lastly a start the clock
23:07so
23:15so
23:19give me a million pounds if you've got a nine so just five yeah okay shazia five from me as well
23:36yeah so boost and shazia and boast boast and a boost what have you got uh there is a six and i
23:45think it's kind of from the pacific uh taboos yeah from polynesia yeah well we can't talk about that
23:52let's just move on so let's get more letters uh consonant please rachel thank you r and a
23:58consonant g and a consonant d and a consonant n and a consonant s and another consonant t
24:12and a vowel o and a vowel a and another vowel please lastly u six consonants in a row 30 seconds
24:42shazia uh seven seven right what have you got shazia grounds grounds and sue astound two strong
25:08sevens very good over the dictionary corner neil delamere yeah i couldn't do better than a seven
25:12i had a sound and your grounds are a ground as in to run aground but yeah seven yeah well listen
25:17sue got off to a wonderful start but shazia is keeping pace now just 22 points in it and that
25:24conundrum's 10. let's not forget that but we sit back now and head over for more origins of words
25:29it was bops and barms and cobs and everything yesterday i want to talk about friends in some
25:35ways today just the word friend is beautiful because it's really really ancient um and it's
25:40the root of it is a word meaning to love uh which i think is great but it's also sibling of free because
25:46in roman households those who were free were essentially either family or friends as opposed
25:51to the slaves of the household so it's got quite a history wrapped up in it um but friends possibly
25:57particularly at an england rugby match might sing swing low sweet chariot i thought i'd talk a little
26:04bit about that today because the story is actually quite beautiful albeit mired in sadness um so it
26:09was written we think in 1862 by wallace willis now he was a freed slave apparently he was working in the
26:16cotton fields on the banks of the red river and he was homesick uh really for uh his his old home which
26:23was along the mississippi river and we have to remember that terms like selling someone down
26:28the river actually began with slaves who literally would be sold down the mississippi river so that's
26:32again another sad sad story but he began singing these verses uh swing low sweet chariot off the top of
26:40his head it is said and some believe that the story is simply based on his dream that god would carry
26:45him away to heaven like the prophet elijah in the old testament but others have seen
26:50a coded message in there and certainly you have to remember that it and these kind of songs were picked
26:56up these spirituals were picked up by other slaves and they became these sort of wonderful anthems but
27:01another very popular song of his was called steal away and it was sung apparently by slaves who intended
27:08to break for freedom and the idea is that they would attract others to go with them steal away steal away steal away
27:12steal away to jesus i ain't got long to stay here and so swing low sweet chariot if you follow that theme
27:18might be a coded message about the underground railroad something and this was an informal network of
27:25secret routes secret um houses safe houses really that were used in the escape to freedom by slaves and
27:32with the aid of some abolitionists as well at the time so if you look at it that way it's it's again it's
27:38sort of quite beautiful a sort of slave maybe waiting awaiting his fate but with the dream possibly
27:43of escaping um possibly by this underground railroad but however you want to interpret it it is as i say
27:49just a song of um you know hoping for safety hoping for freedom and hoping for uh redemption i suppose at
27:57the end so it's quite sad but as i say it's kind of i think got friendship at its heart and the sort of
28:01community feeling albeit in terrible situations absolutely thank you susan thank you very much
28:08four rounds left of today's countdown and it is not over yet shazia it's your letters uh can i have a
28:15consonant please rachel thank you shazia w and a vowel e another vowel e and another vowel please o
28:27a consonant a consonant f another consonant f another consonant m a vowel a and a final consonant please a final l
28:4730 seconds
29:17Give me a number, Sue.
29:21Just six.
29:22Shazia?
29:23Six as well.
29:24Sue?
29:25Flames.
29:26Flames and Shazia?
29:27I have the same.
29:28Flames.
29:28Flames, OK.
29:30Oh, I was expecting sevens there.
29:32It's the pressure.
29:33There's a couple really jumped out, I think, at most people.
29:36Let's head over to the dictionary corner.
29:37There's two sevens that I saw anyway,
29:40and I'm looking at Susie and Rachel,
29:42and they're awesome females.
29:44Oh, thank you.
29:45Wonderful.
29:47So it remains 22 points of difference.
29:51We just have one letters game left,
29:53and it's Sue picking those letters.
29:56A consonant, please, Rachel.
29:58Thank you, Sue.
29:59K.
30:00And a consonant.
30:02R.
30:03A consonant.
30:04L.
30:05And a consonant.
30:07P.
30:08And a consonant.
30:09R.
30:10And a vowel.
30:12I.
30:13And a vowel.
30:15E.
30:15And another vowel, please.
30:23Lastly, U.
30:24Einstein.
30:25Um.
30:36A consonant.
30:36One.
30:37A閱��i.
30:38This was a consonant.
30:40One.
30:42Séta port.
30:43One lvl.
30:43Fourth.
30:44One.
30:45In twinger.
30:45One.
30:47One.
30:48One.
30:48Two.
30:48One.
30:48One.
30:49Two.
30:49One.
30:50One.
30:51One.
30:51Two.
30:52One.
30:52Two.
30:53One.
30:53One.
30:53One.
30:54Sue?
30:57A risky six.
30:58Shazia.
30:59A risky six as well.
31:00Well, they're both risky.
31:01Let's get to it, Sue.
31:02Pukier.
31:03Shazia.
31:04Pukier.
31:05More fishy, I'll say, that means.
31:07Both need to be checked by Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner.
31:11Big moment, this.
31:12Yes.
31:13I can tell you that Pukier is in.
31:15And Shazia, I'm so sorry.
31:16Oh, no!
31:17Pukier, but not Pukier.
31:18I'm sorry.
31:19Oh, that's huge.
31:20That is absolutely huge.
31:22After Awesome and Female, this is a very different kind of round name.
31:26Yeah.
31:26Yeah, I couldn't do better than neither of those, I have to say.
31:29Right.
31:30That's the moment of the game, really is.
31:32Just one letter can make all the difference.
31:34Let's get the final numbers.
31:36Can I have one large and five small, please?
31:37We can indeed.
31:38One from the top.
31:39And five little ones to finish off the week.
31:42And this last selection is one, three, five, eight, nine, and 25.
31:49And the target, 830.
31:53Last numbers.
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32:21Last numbers.
32:228.30 on a 25 is the big number.
32:27Sue, did you get it?
32:288.26.
32:29OK, four away, Shazia.
32:31Oh, no, I've just lost it.
32:33Go ahead, champ.
32:343 times 9 is 27.
32:37Yes.
32:38Add 5 is 33.
32:39Add 5 is 32.
32:41Add 5 is 32.
32:43Sorry.
32:44Yeah, that's not going to get it done.
32:46Right, have you got it?
32:468.30?
32:47Yeah, a couple of ways for this one.
32:49One of them, you could have said 8 minus 1 is 7.
32:52Times that by 25 for 175.
32:55Take away 9 for 166 and times it by 5, 830.
33:04Very, very good.
33:05Sue on the cusp of her fifth win.
33:07Well over halfway to becoming an octal champ with a small matter of today's conundrum to get out of the way.
33:13Good luck, Sue.
33:14Good luck, Shazia.
33:15Here it is.
33:22Reconvene.
33:28Reconvene.
33:28She's motoring.
33:30Yes.
33:35Well, Sue, we will reconvene on Monday.
33:38Three more wins.
33:39You'll be an octal champ.
33:40Well done to you.
33:41Shazia, back to London.
33:43Have you enjoyed being here?
33:44Do you feel like you've made friends on this day of friendship?
33:46Yes.
33:47Yeah?
33:48Yes.
33:48Not too far of a camel ride.
33:49Have a safe trip home.
33:51Thank you very much.
33:52Neil and Susie, enjoy your weekend.
33:54We'll see you back here bright-eyed and bushy-tailed on Monday.
33:58Sure.
33:58And on the day of friendship, when you think of friendship and great quotes about friendship, you go to that great philosopher, Winnie the Pooh.
34:07And I'll leave you this.
34:08It's absolutely beautiful.
34:10A friend is someone who helps you when you're down.
34:14And if they can't, they lay down beside you and listen.
34:18Good old Winnie.
34:19Beautiful, that, isn't it?
34:20Lovely.
34:21Absolutely beautiful.
34:22Right.
34:22Well, listen, have a good weekend, my friends.
34:24We'll see you back here on Monday.
34:26Rachel, Susie and I, you can count on us.
34:30You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com or write to us at countdownleaguesLS31JS.
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