:00:16. > :00:20.APPLAUSE Good evening and welcome to Lottery
:00:21. > :00:27.HQ for the National Lottery live. The draw machines are primed and
:00:28. > :00:31.ready to go. Someone could be hand 500,000 richer thanks to
:00:32. > :00:37.Thunderball. Lottery has a jackpot of ?4.7 million. Plus, there will be
:00:38. > :00:41.50 winners of ?20,000 in the Lotto Raffle. Where those winners are - we
:00:42. > :00:45.will tell you later. I'm honoured to be able to talk to some special
:00:46. > :00:48.gentlemen involved in a lottery-funded project by the name
:00:49. > :00:51.of D-Day Revisited. Good evening. Good evening. I'll be right back
:00:52. > :01:01.with you in a moment or two. I have to do the rest of my job!
:01:02. > :01:12.These ladies here belong to those guys over there. Hi Draw Master
:01:13. > :01:13.Julie. Hi. You alright? Very well. Ladies everywhere! Please release
:01:14. > :01:29.the balls. There is another bloke around. Alan?
:01:30. > :01:37.I'm here. All 40 balls are in the Chamber.
:01:38. > :01:46.Earlier today, we asked Stuart Toole from Windsor to select this
:01:47. > :01:51.evening's draw equipment. Chris? Thank you very much. Ladies, are you
:01:52. > :01:58.ready? Yes. Here we go. Don't let me down, girls. As if they would? Here
:01:59. > :02:33.we go. First one is about to appear. That is 47. Next, 6. 32. The fourth
:02:34. > :02:39.one is 1. The next one is 2. The one for the jackpot - that is 29. Good
:02:40. > :02:48.news if it is yours! Of course, we need to collect a bonus. There it
:02:49. > :03:01.is, number 13. The Lotto winning numbers in ascending order:
:03:02. > :03:12.Thanks, Al. Remember, every line is entered into the Lotto Raffle.
:03:13. > :03:17.Girls, I have to leave you. Ah! Numbers on your tickets and you can
:03:18. > :03:23.check if you have won any prizes by going to bbc.co.uk/lottery. Or
:03:24. > :03:27.checking the red button. We can see where the majority of those winning
:03:28. > :03:34.tickets are right now thanks to the Raffle Map. Look at this. Look at
:03:35. > :03:39.that. Scotland 7. The pairs? London and the South East. Those two sixes
:03:40. > :03:45.are the North West and the Isle of Man. Yorkshire and Humber doing
:03:46. > :03:56.well. All the fours? East Midlands and the East.
:03:57. > :04:02.Tomorrow is Remembrance Sunday. Tonight, we are honoured to be
:04:03. > :04:07.joined by D-Day Revisited. Good evening. Good evening. Thanks so
:04:08. > :04:12.much for being here. John Phipps is the founder. How did it come about?
:04:13. > :04:17.It was back in 2008 when we were in view of the 65th anniversary of the
:04:18. > :04:20.Normandy landings and we realised that there are quite a lot of
:04:21. > :04:25.veterans who want to go over there and can't afford it. We put this
:04:26. > :04:29.idea together and really what was driving us thinking that in 1944
:04:30. > :04:33.they didn't have to buy their ticket. So why should they have to
:04:34. > :04:39.do it now? It just seemed such a right thing to do. And then we were
:04:40. > :04:43.going to do it as a one-off. Everybody liked it. And the French
:04:44. > :04:49.liked it. So we kept on going. Five years on, you are looking forward to
:04:50. > :04:53.the 70th anniversary? Yes. So all the plans are being formed now. We
:04:54. > :04:59.will be going again. Thank you so much. We caught up with one of the
:05:00. > :05:09.oldest veterans, 95-year-old Ron Rowson, to hear his story. We went
:05:10. > :05:16.in on a steamship, which landed to the beach as near as possible. So we
:05:17. > :05:24.could get our equipment off. It was very frightening. We knew a lot
:05:25. > :05:32.could happen. I'd advise anybody who hasn't been back to go back. I
:05:33. > :05:53.wanted to visit the military cemeteries. And pay my respects. It
:05:54. > :05:58.was a bit frightening at times but I wouldn't have missed it for the
:05:59. > :06:11.world. It was a wonderful opportunity. I think back to those
:06:12. > :06:16.who never came back. Inconceivable for most of us. John, you were in
:06:17. > :06:20.the Royal Navy at the time. You have been back with this organisation?
:06:21. > :06:25.Yes. What's it meant to you to go back? Well, thanks to Lottery
:06:26. > :06:34.funding, we are able to go back and next year we will be taking 110,
:06:35. > :06:40.with a bit of luck, and, of course, we are so grateful to receive the
:06:41. > :06:44.chance of going back to visit our - well, the graves of the people who
:06:45. > :06:48.will never come back. We are lucky. We come back. The French people are
:06:49. > :06:55.very good to us and we go and speak to the kids in the school and they
:06:56. > :06:59.get a kick, we get a kick out of it. Without - as they have said, without
:07:00. > :07:03.the money, we couldn't go. It is exceptional. Well, it is a brilliant
:07:04. > :07:08.initiative. Well done for coming up with it. I know you don't want it to
:07:09. > :07:12.be about you - and that is quite right. I can tell you that before we
:07:13. > :07:16.came on air tonight, the Lottery have told us your funding for next
:07:17. > :07:21.year has been secured. I am sure everybody is very happy with that.
:07:22. > :07:26.We get a great payback out of this, too. Brilliant. Can I come? Of
:07:27. > :07:30.course. I would love to come. If you would like to find out more about
:07:31. > :07:34.D-Day Revisited, you can visit their website via bbc.co.uk/lottery. Time
:07:35. > :07:42.for one last draw and it is Thunderball time.
:07:43. > :07:52.Alright. Thunderballs are go! Alan? Julie, start up the Thunderball
:07:53. > :07:59.machines if you would, please? We are off and running. Both of
:08:00. > :08:06.tonight's draws are being overseen by an independent adjudicator.
:08:07. > :08:16.Let's do it. Let's start the draw. Let's see how we get on. The first
:08:17. > :08:21.one is about to appear. That is 18. A total of 39 balls to pick from in
:08:22. > :08:29.this first machine. Here is the next one. 27. Three opportunities per
:08:30. > :08:37.week to play the game itself. The next one is 22. A couple more from
:08:38. > :08:50.this machine now. Here is the first. That is 14. Finally, how about this
:08:51. > :09:00.number - 21? Let's draw the Thunderball itself now. Excellent.
:09:01. > :09:01.There it is, number 1. So, here are tonight's Thunderball numbers in
:09:02. > :09:24.ascending order: Early indications show one player
:09:25. > :09:29.has won tonight's Lotto jackpot! Wow! I hope you are watching now.
:09:30. > :09:34.That is it from us. A big thank you to the gents from D-Day Revisited.
:09:35. > :09:39.Let's hear it for those guys. APPLAUSE Superb. We will be back
:09:40. > :09:41.next Saturday. Until then, have a fantastic weekend. Casualty is next
:09:42. > :09:43.on BBC One.