09/11/2013 The National Lottery Live

APPLAUSE Good evening and welcome to Lottery

HQ for the National Lottery live. The draw machines are primed and

ready to go. Someone could be hand 500,000 richer thanks to

Thunderball. Lottery has a jackpot of ?4.7 million. Plus, there will be

50 winners of ?20,000 in the Lotto Raffle. Where those winners are - we

will tell you later. I'm honoured to be able to talk to some special

gentlemen involved in a lottery-funded project by the name

of D-Day Revisited. Good evening. Good evening. I'll be right back

with you in a moment or two. I have to do the rest of my job!

These ladies here belong to those guys over there. Hi Draw Master

Julie. Hi. You alright? Very well. Ladies everywhere! Please release

the balls. There is another bloke around. Alan?

I'm here. All 40 balls are in the Chamber.

Earlier today, we asked Stuart Toole from Windsor to select this

evening's draw equipment. Chris? Thank you very much. Ladies, are you

ready? Yes. Here we go. Don't let me down, girls. As if they would? Here

we go. First one is about to appear. That is 47. Next, 6. 32. The fourth

one is 1. The next one is 2. The one for the jackpot - that is 29. Good

news if it is yours! Of course, we need to collect a bonus. There it

is, number 13. The Lotto winning numbers in ascending order:

Thanks, Al. Remember, every line is entered into the Lotto Raffle.

Girls, I have to leave you. Ah! Numbers on your tickets and you can

check if you have won any prizes by going to bbc.co.uk/lottery. Or

checking the red button. We can see where the majority of those winning

tickets are right now thanks to the Raffle Map. Look at this. Look at

that. Scotland 7. The pairs? London and the South East. Those two sixes

are the North West and the Isle of Man. Yorkshire and Humber doing

well. All the fours? East Midlands and the East.

Tomorrow is Remembrance Sunday. Tonight, we are honoured to be

joined by D-Day Revisited. Good evening. Good evening. Thanks so

much for being here. John Phipps is the founder. How did it come about?

It was back in 2008 when we were in view of the 65th anniversary of the

Normandy landings and we realised that there are quite a lot of

veterans who want to go over there and can't afford it. We put this

idea together and really what was driving us thinking that in 1944

they didn't have to buy their ticket. So why should they have to

do it now? It just seemed such a right thing to do. And then we were

going to do it as a one-off. Everybody liked it. And the French

liked it. So we kept on going. Five years on, you are looking forward to

the 70th anniversary? Yes. So all the plans are being formed now. We

will be going again. Thank you so much. We caught up with one of the

oldest veterans, 95-year-old Ron Rowson, to hear his story. We went

in on a steamship, which landed to the beach as near as possible. So we

could get our equipment off. It was very frightening. We knew a lot

could happen. I'd advise anybody who hasn't been back to go back. I

wanted to visit the military cemeteries. And pay my respects. It

was a bit frightening at times but I wouldn't have missed it for the

world. It was a wonderful opportunity. I think back to those

who never came back. Inconceivable for most of us. John, you were in

the Royal Navy at the time. You have been back with this organisation?

Yes. What's it meant to you to go back? Well, thanks to Lottery

funding, we are able to go back and next year we will be taking 110,

with a bit of luck, and, of course, we are so grateful to receive the

chance of going back to visit our - well, the graves of the people who

will never come back. We are lucky. We come back. The French people are

very good to us and we go and speak to the kids in the school and they

get a kick, we get a kick out of it. Without - as they have said, without

the money, we couldn't go. It is exceptional. Well, it is a brilliant

initiative. Well done for coming up with it. I know you don't want it to

be about you - and that is quite right. I can tell you that before we

came on air tonight, the Lottery have told us your funding for next

year has been secured. I am sure everybody is very happy with that.

We get a great payback out of this, too. Brilliant. Can I come? Of

course. I would love to come. If you would like to find out more about

D-Day Revisited, you can visit their website via bbc.co.uk/lottery. Time

for one last draw and it is Thunderball time.

Alright. Thunderballs are go! Alan? Julie, start up the Thunderball

machines if you would, please? We are off and running. Both of

tonight's draws are being overseen by an independent adjudicator.

Let's do it. Let's start the draw. Let's see how we get on. The first

one is about to appear. That is 18. A total of 39 balls to pick from in

this first machine. Here is the next one. 27. Three opportunities per

week to play the game itself. The next one is 22. A couple more from

this machine now. Here is the first. That is 14. Finally, how about this

number - 21? Let's draw the Thunderball itself now. Excellent.

There it is, number 1. So, here are tonight's Thunderball numbers in

ascending order: Early indications show one player

has won tonight's Lotto jackpot! Wow! I hope you are watching now.

That is it from us. A big thank you to the gents from D-Day Revisited.

Let's hear it for those guys. APPLAUSE Superb. We will be back

next Saturday. Until then, have a fantastic weekend. Casualty is next

on BBC One.