02/11/2011 The National Lottery: Wednesday Night Draws

Welcome to Lottery HQ for the mid- week Lottery draws and here's your

host Mr OJ Borg. Thank you Alan. Good evening. In the next few

minutes we'll be bringing you, Thunderball, Lotto, and we'll be

joined by Esther Rantzen! There she is. But first a quick reminder that

this Saturday the Lotto draw will be coming live from The National

Lottery Awards and what's more Alan, it's a Lotto Superdraw! Great news.

And perhaps best of all - the jackpot will be an estimated �10

million! It just gets better and better. And I've another piece of

good news. It's time for Thunderball. Alan, are you ready?

am. Then take it away. OK, get Excalibur were chosen for us

earlier. Our draw team tonight is independent adjudicator Sian Fleet-

Milne and draw master Julie Morrissey. On Saturday over 274,000

tickets won a prize. Congratulations if you were a

You can play this game on Wednesday, There is even a prize for matching

with just the Thunderball itself, Time to see if you're in line for

half a million Great British Pounds. Thanks Alan, we'll need your expert

ball talking skills shortly, but for now, you can get back to your

mug of cocoa. No slurping though. Now, our guest tonight has been on

our screens for nearly five decades. Not content with being one of the

country's best loved television presenters, she's been a tireless

charity campaigner and has even turned her hand to politics. Please

welcome Esther Rantzen. Thanks for joining us Esther. So you're here

to celebrate 25 years of Childline. A wonderful achievement, you helped

set it all up, tell us how it all began. We did one edition of the

programme, that's life. Remember? loved it! The helplines were jammed

for 48 hours with children talking about abuse, but they had not told

anyone. I then realised if we had been able to keep the helpline open

we could have helped support and protect maybe millions more

children. And now it's been copied in 150 different countries. What do

you see as Childline's greatest achievement over the last 25 years?

I have been writing a book to meet young adults who ran the Childline

-- rang Childline when they were children, they told me stories

about how would help them. That was amazing. Are you ready? You have to

push the button. It's very skill? They ASH is there a skill? There is.

But first, time for Lotto. How about this for some exciting news?

Last Saturday's �3.9 million jackpot prize was won by... Wait

for it... Eight winning tickets! each ticket scooped a cool �499,000

each. Not bad! Not bad at all Alan, and well done on the mental

arithmetic too. What's in the pot for tonight though? Tonight's

estimated Lotto jackpot is... Alan, let's get the balls rolling.

Release those big money balls. in addition to the eight jackpot

winners, there were nine further tickets that matched five plus the

bonus ball and each scooped over �136,000! So, many congratulations

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 66 seconds

if you were a winner. OK Esther, That's nearly all from us here at

the vaults, thank you for joining us Esther. Remember that Saturday's

lotto is a Superdraw with an estimated jackpot of �10 million.