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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, the great Ken Bruce has left the building, |
| 0:07.8 | although not this building because Radio 2 is actually in the building next door. |
| 0:10.4 | But you know what I mean? |
| 0:11.4 | He presented his final mid-morning Radio 2 show after doing it for decades. |
| 0:16.2 | And this was his classy, low-key, very Ken sign-off. |
| 0:20.2 | So I've come to my last link, as we say, on Radio. |
| 0:24.4 | A lot of people would say, all right, down a big speech and deliver it. |
| 0:27.8 | No, that's not the sort of thing I do. |
| 0:29.4 | I do really just want to say thank you to everybody who has contributed in any, any small way to this programme, |
| 0:36.3 | particularly the listeners. |
| 0:37.7 | You know, I really couldn't do it without listeners. |
| 0:40.1 | And to the BBC, I've been here for a long time, |
| 0:42.7 | and apart from the occasional vagary, |
| 0:44.9 | it is still the finest broadcasting organisation in the world. |
| 0:49.3 | I thought about the song to finish, |
| 0:51.1 | and one that comes to an end, I thought, might be the end. |
| 0:55.1 | Tributes of port in from all over the place, he played this one, |
| 0:58.3 | from Rob Briden. |
| 0:59.8 | Hi Ken, it's Rob Briden sending you my best wishes and congratulations, |
| 1:05.0 | as you start on this new chapter. |
| 1:09.2 | And also to say thank you for letting me be you that day, |
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