The Coughing Major | Let's Play Millionaire | 1
British Scandal
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4.4 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Diana Ingram is obsessed with tv quizzes. So obsessed she persuades her reluctant husband – army Major Charles Ingram – to try for the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire hotseat. How far will they go in their quest to win a million pounds?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Prime Members. You can listen to British Scandal at free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:06.0 | Just before we jump into today's episode, a few British Scandal listeners have been listening to the Lord Lucan series and haven't got the episode they expected. |
| 0:14.0 | Episode 3 is the incriminating episode. If you are still struggling to find that, go onto your podcast app of choice. Delete that episode and read our load and it should be there for you so you don't miss a single chapter of that story. |
| 0:27.0 | Just to add, it was all Alice's fault. I told her to just upload episode 3 of Lord Lucan, but she wouldn't listen and I said, please, this is going to cause a lot of trouble. |
| 0:42.0 | Okay, Matt, a new series. And I just thought I'd start with a little survey. Look, a little question for you. |
| 0:47.0 | Okay, I love surveys. |
| 0:48.0 | Do you think that this series will be a nail biting, be stressful, see dramatic or D, at times funny? |
| 0:55.0 | Oh, am I allowed all of the above? |
| 0:58.0 | That's why I've got here with the two questions. Yes, we're so in sync. |
| 1:03.0 | It's September the 10th, 2001, but who wants to be a millionaire set, Elstree? |
| 1:09.0 | Major Charles Ingram shuffles in his chair. He's 38 years old with a cheerful round face and brown wispy hair. He's frowning hard trying to concentrate. |
| 1:19.0 | The studio music thuds around him. He can feel the vibrations under his seat. |
| 1:26.0 | The lights flip to one spotlight. It's almost blinding. He tugs at the collar of his rugby shirt. |
| 1:33.0 | The only person he can see now is the show's host, Chris Tarant. Everything else is in darkness. |
| 1:40.0 | He's in the who wants to be a millionaire hot seat and he's on the million pound question. |
| 1:45.0 | One right answer and he can sort his debts. Keep his girls at their school by a house. |
| 1:50.0 | He closes his eyes. Takes a deep breath. He's got a system in place and it's working. |
| 1:56.0 | But now he wonders if he should quit. Leave with the money he's already won. He hears Chris Tarant's voice. |
| 2:03.0 | For a million pounds, a number one followed by 100 zeros is known by what name? Is it A, Google, B, Megatron, C, Gigabit, D, Nanomole? |
| 2:14.0 | Charles Ingram looks down at the four options on the monitor. Sweat trickles down his back. |
| 2:20.0 | He mutters to himself. Looks up at the ceiling. |
| 2:23.0 | After a while, he says, |
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