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01:30Yes.
01:30So what do we need to do to get you out of this?
01:33Get me a new watch.
01:34Or a PA.
01:35Or a PA.
01:36We need to get you a PA.
01:37Or a PA indeed.
01:38But there we are.
01:39Some kind of assistant.
01:40I need assistance.
01:42That's every stage of my life.
01:44Now then who have we got with this?
01:45We've got two new contestants, Rachel.
01:47We've got Russ Thornton.
01:48Comes from Liverpool.
01:50Liverpool fan.
01:51Works as a team leader for a printing firm.
01:53Enjoys table tennis and you're a big Morrissey fan, Russ.
01:56Is that right?
01:56Yes, that's right.
01:57Even to the extent of flying out to the States to see him perform.
02:00Yes, recently, three months ago, I saw him five times in eight days on a road trip around
02:07America, 2,000 miles from Salt Lake City through to Dallas.
02:10That's quite something.
02:12And it was the same set he did every day, every time?
02:15No, it does vary slightly from show to show.
02:19Yeah.
02:20Great talent.
02:20Great talent.
02:21Now then, good luck to you today because we know you're a new contestant.
02:25You're joined by another new contestant, Douglas Legg, who lives in West Yorkshire, retired,
02:30once had a job counting sheep.
02:33Indeed.
02:34To go to sleep?
02:35What was the problem?
02:35It was a very sleepy job.
02:38I bet.
02:38I bet.
02:39Well, good to have you with us.
02:40So let's have a big round of applause for Russ and Douglas Legg.
02:49And, of course, over at the corner, Susie.
02:51And welcome back, welcome back to Angelica Bell.
02:54Great to see you.
02:55Good to see you, too.
02:56And we've only got you for a couple more days, sadly.
02:59So let's make the most of it today and tomorrow.
03:00Will do.
03:01Brilliant stuff.
03:02But now, Russ, will you do us the honour of taking us away on a letters game?
03:07Hi, Rachel.
03:09Hi, Russ.
03:09Can I have a consonant, please?
03:12Start the week with R.
03:15Can I have another consonant, please?
03:18F.
03:19Can I have a vowel, please?
03:20I.
03:22Um, vowel.
03:25U.
03:27Consonant.
03:28R.
03:30Consonant.
03:32S.
03:34Vowel.
03:37A.
03:38Consonant.
03:41H.
03:44Vowel.
03:45And the last one.
03:47E.
03:48And here's the countdown clock.
03:50R.
03:51A.
03:51A.
03:53A.
04:03MUSIC
04:20Now then, Russ.
04:22Six.
04:22A six.
04:23How about Douglas?
04:24That's a six.
04:26Russ.
04:27Hiras.
04:29And Douglas.
04:30Fisher.
04:31Fisher.
04:31Fisher.
04:32Very good.
04:33We're happy about that in the corner.
04:35Fisher is a large, there are two definitions actually, one is a large brown marten valued
04:41for its fur.
04:42It preys on porcupines.
04:45Really?
04:46Not what you would expect.
04:47Very good.
04:48And Angelica?
04:49Harry's.
04:50Harry's.
04:50Got that as well.
04:51Very good.
04:52Anything else, Susie?
04:53Just a few reads for six.
04:55All right.
04:56Six apiece, Douglas.
04:57Your first letters game on countdown.
05:00Can we have a consonant, a vowel, a consonant, a vowel, a vowel?
05:04See, I'm blonde, you have to do it one by one on here, otherwise I'll forget.
05:07Consonant, vowel.
05:09Consonant.
05:10Thank you, Douglas.
05:13Vow.
05:13I.
05:14Consonant.
05:15S.
05:16Vow.
05:17E.
05:18Consonant.
05:18T.
05:19R.
05:21R.
05:22I can't see.
05:25All right.
05:27Carry on.
05:28Consonant.
05:30T.
05:36A.
05:38A consonant, a vowel, please.
05:40A.
05:42And a consonant, please.
05:44And the last one.
05:45G.
05:47Stand by.
05:48All right.
06:19Now then, Douglas.
06:20Only a seven, I'm a bad.
06:22A seven, and Russ?
06:24Only a seven also.
06:25Douglas?
06:26Toadies.
06:27Yes, and Russ?
06:29Targets.
06:31Targets.
06:31Now I realise there's no R.
06:33There is no R.
06:34Oh, bad luck.
06:34Sorry.
06:35OK.
06:36A toady is absolutely fine to toady up to somebody
06:39to act in an obsequious way.
06:41Yeah, a toady.
06:42Yes.
06:43A fauna.
06:44A fauna, exactly.
06:45Sick of France.
06:46And what else from the corner?
06:48Angelica?
06:50I'm not going to take any credit for this.
06:52Oh, you should do.
06:53No, it's a very regular count.
06:54I'm worth this one.
06:55Gadishas.
06:56Gadishas.
06:57Pops up now and again.
06:58Yeah.
06:59Very good.
07:00All right.
07:00So, Douglas, look, 13 points.
07:02Well done to Russ's six.
07:04So, Russ, your numbers game.
07:07I'll go for the inverted T, please.
07:09Inverted T, thank you, Russ.
07:10So, one from the top row.
07:11And five little ones for the first numbers game this week.
07:14And this selection is one, nine, eight, ten, another eight, and the large one 75.
07:23And the target, 610.
07:26Six, one, zero.
07:27All right.
07:28All right.
07:54All right.
07:58yes Russ 610 610 how about Douglas 610 yep Russ okay 75 times 8 75 times 8 600
08:09and plus 10 610 easy Thank You Douglas well similar 75 times 8 plus 1 plus 9
08:15yeah lovely very good so Douglas still in the lead 23 to Russ is 16 as we go into a
08:24tea-time teaser which is rug herbs and the clue to these people relish living
08:29where they do to these people relish living where they do
08:50welcome back I left with a clue to these people relish living where they do and
08:54the answer is burgers as in the sort of burgers of Hamburg so where does burgers
09:00actually come from is German or well the burger that you eat without the H is
09:04comes from hamburger comes from Hamburg so nothing to do with a burger made of ham
09:08and this kind of burger with the H and comes from the Dutch and the word burg which
09:14meant a castle it's related to borough right and it's related to bourgeois as well
09:20bourgeois and bourgeois excellent stuff thank you Susie never fails to delight 16 points
09:27to Russ Douglas on 23 Douglas your letters game a bow thank you Douglas I a consonant T a bow
09:38a bow a consonant T a bow a consonant T a bow a consonant T a bow a consonant T
09:48a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow
09:48T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a
09:48bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T
09:48a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow
09:48T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a
09:48bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T
09:50a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow
09:53T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a
09:54bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T
09:56a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow T a bow
10:00T
10:02Countdown.
10:36Yes, Douglas?
10:37A six.
10:38And Russ?
10:39Seven.
10:39Douglas?
10:41Twined.
10:42Thank you, Russ.
10:43Mediate.
10:44Mediate.
10:45Good word.
10:45Very well spotted.
10:46Yes.
10:46Excellent.
10:47Very good.
10:48Any advances on mediate?
10:50Susie, Angelica?
10:51There's mediant as well, which is the third note in a musical scale.
10:55Mediant.
10:56The diatonic scale.
10:56Well done.
10:57Well done.
10:57So 23 apiece.
10:59Neck and neck here, Russ.
11:02Letters came.
11:03Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
11:05Thank you, Russ.
11:06T.
11:07Now a vowel.
11:09I.
11:11Another vowel.
11:13E.
11:14A consonant.
11:17M.
11:19A consonant.
11:21S.
11:23A vowel.
11:25I.
11:26A consonant.
11:29R.
11:31A consonant, please.
11:34Y.
11:36And a consonant.
11:38A consonant.
11:39And lastly, G.
11:42Time starts now.
11:44Eãƒ.
11:45T Gothic.
11:45So 10-000.
11:45T
11:45T
11:45T
12:14Yes, Russ?
12:15Seven.
12:16A seven, and Douglas?
12:17Likewise, seven.
12:19Two sevens.
12:20Russ?
12:20Grimmest.
12:22Grimmest, Douglas.
12:23Mystia.
12:24Mystia.
12:26Mystia, fine.
12:28Grimmest, unfortunately, needs two Ms.
12:31Right.
12:31Okay.
12:32What does that do for us?
12:33Douglas back in the lead by seven points, 32, Russ is 23.
12:37But the corner, anything interesting over there from this selection?
12:41We always look at each other, don't we?
12:42You go, you go.
12:43Okay.
12:44We got an eight.
12:45Yes.
12:47Grimmest.
12:47Well done.
12:48Good one.
12:49Well done, Angelica.
12:50So, 33, and we're in with the numbers.
12:53Douglas, your shout.
12:57Three small ones, please.
12:59Sorry, four small ones, and two large ones.
13:03And two from the top row.
13:05Thank you, Douglas.
13:06You're welcome.
13:07Right, for this round, your little ones are one, six, another one, and eight.
13:12And the large ones, one hundred, and fifty.
13:16And the target, one hundred and seventy-four.
13:19One, seven, four.
13:32Oh!
13:34Oh!
13:38Oh!
13:39Oh!
13:41Oh!
13:49Oh!
13:50how was it Douglas 170 is all I can get 170 and Russ 172 172 yeah right off you
14:00go Russ okay eight times two is six eight times one and one is 16 eight
14:06times one and one in 16 at the 6 22 at the added to the 150 172 away two away
14:16two away not far but far enough 174 and yes if you say eight times six is 48 one
14:27and one two again 48 over two is the 24 and then again at the 50 and the 100 so
14:37what does that do the scoreboard 30 apiece as we turn to Angelica Angelica I
14:43think your dad's a politician Labour leader of Ealing yes and you went off
14:48and did a politics degree yeah I did I am my dad that I'm talking about is my
14:54stepdad and he joined our family when you know I was a little girl and it was
14:59really quite positive experience because you know sometimes when you have step
15:01parents it can be quite disheartening when it was just me my my mom and my sister
15:05and it was you know we did have a bit of a struggle but he it was really a positive
15:09thing because he sort of opened our eyes to university and learning and he
15:13studied politics and economics at Bath he was at Bath University and so he's
15:17really encouraged us to find out about where the world we live in and and read
15:21and I remember at school we had the election it was a time of general election and
15:27they you know they always like you to have a mock one in school and to get
15:30politically activated and stuff and I stood as the conservative candidate and I
15:36dressed up as Margaret Thatcher and I had this massive bag and I put on her voice I
15:39thought it was quite ironic actually but yeah so then I went on to study
15:44politics and so yeah he's doing really well and it's nice to see that he's you
15:49know involved in the community and and really cares and he's passionate about it
15:52so and do you see any chance that you might want to move into the sort of
15:57political arena ever taken if it was yeah I don't know I used it when I lived in
16:02East London I did go to my local sort of Labour group yeah and and so got got
16:08involved that way but you know I wouldn't mind you know they were talking
16:10about Hillary Clinton wants to be the next maybe female president maybe I could be
16:16the next female Prime Minister in this country yes why not well you've got a
16:21little bit of time before next May I know I could see something in maybe or
16:26maybe the next time we'd have you'd have to help me with some fundraising yeah I'll do
16:30that for you all right well done good for you Angelica but now with a score of
16:3430 apiece let's have a little chat with Russ about the next letters game Russ can I
16:40have a consonant please Rachel thank you Russ V another consonant ah a vowel a
16:49consonant ah another vowel you a consonant and a vowel and the last one you and the time starts now
17:15you
17:27you
17:30do
17:32you
17:46Well, Russ?
17:48Just a five.
17:49A five.
17:50How about Douglas?
17:51Six.
17:52So, Russ?
17:53Liver.
17:54Liver and Douglas?
17:55Uniter.
17:57A uniter.
17:59How does that ring with you, Suzy?
18:01It doesn't, I'm afraid.
18:04Sorry, Douglas, it's not specified in the dictionary, which it would need to be, so I'm sorry.
18:09Bad luck.
18:10Bad luck.
18:11Suzy, what have we got over there?
18:12Suzy and Angelica.
18:13Oh, I thought I had a word, but I've seen double with venture, so we crossed that out.
18:17Yeah.
18:18But we did get vulture.
18:20Oh, vulture's good.
18:21Yeah.
18:21Well done.
18:22Bad luck there, Douglas, but five point lead to Russ.
18:26But now you're back on again, Douglas, see what you can do.
18:29Your letters came.
18:30I love a consonant, please.
18:32Thank you, Douglas.
18:33G.
18:34Followed by another consonant.
18:36B.
18:36Followed by a vowel.
18:38A.
18:39And a vowel.
18:41O.
18:42Oh, dear.
18:43And a vowel.
18:45E.
18:46And a consonant.
18:48L.
18:49And a consonant.
18:52J.
18:53And a vowel.
18:55A.
18:57And, I've got any more vowels, can I?
19:00Yeah, you can have one in one.
19:02Consonant.
19:03You sure?
19:03Consonant, yeah.
19:05N.
19:06Stand by.
19:07Bye.
19:16Bye.
19:19Bye.
19:23Bye.
19:28Bye.
19:38now then Douglas six six Russ six also Douglas gamble thank you Russ bangle and bangle there's
19:51no M unfortunately Douglas there we are but let's see what the corner has to offer there's a slightly
19:59unusual seven and forgive me if I'm mispronouncing this it is how you which is g-a-l-j-o
20:07-e-n and it's
20:08a deep-bodied marine fish with a spiny dorsal fin well undashed very unusual well done so 41 points
20:15now to Russ Douglas has slid back a little bit to 30 points but never mind plenty of time there
20:20Douglas as we turn to Russ for numbers game Russ can I have an inverted T please Rachel thank you
20:27Russ T will go from this side this time five little ones one big one and this time they are
20:336 9 4 1 2 and
20:38the large one 25 and the target 226 to 26
20:51so
21:15well Russ 226 226 and Douglas 226 all right Russ
21:2125 times 9 25 times 9 225 plus 1 nice and straightforward 226 and Douglas yeah very good
21:30well done 51 plays are 40 but now it's time for a tea time teaser which is gin tonic and
21:37the clue
21:37putting their powers of observation to good use putting their powers of observation to good use
21:59warm welcome back after the clue putting their powers of observation to good use and the answer
22:04is noticing noticing now Russ on 51 Douglas on 40 not far behind Douglas letters game for you
22:39Such a whole
22:43s and a consonant blues and lastly w stand by
23:23Douglas five five from Douglas Ross six so Douglas idols idols indeed solids thank
23:33you yes happy enough any improvements in the corner and the advances on that was
23:41sale was sale yeah yeah great words else drink plentiful amounts of alcohol and
23:48enjoy oneself in a noisy lively way there's all the way back to me I guess
23:51that's the Vikings all right very good 57 pays 40 we're back with Russ Russ let us
23:57game consonant please Rachel thank you Russ s another consonant h can have a
24:06vowel please oh a consonant t a consonant s a vowel e another vowel a a consonant n and
24:31the vowel and the last one oh and it's pantone
24:43so
25:10Yes, Russ?
25:11Just a six.
25:12A six.
25:12How about Douglas?
25:13Just a six.
25:13And Russ's word?
25:15Sanest.
25:17Douglas?
25:18Honest.
25:19Honest.
25:20Good.
25:21Happy enough?
25:22Yes, very good.
25:23Anything else over there in the corner?
25:25Angelica?
25:27Soothes.
25:28Soothes.
25:29Soothes.
25:30Yes.
25:30All right, well done.
25:3263 plays 46, but now it's time to concentrate,
25:37because Susie's going to deliver one of her wonderful essays on her origins of words.
25:43What have you got for us today, Susie?
25:45Well, I'm often asked about this one.
25:48I think I first talked about it years ago, and that's the origin of sixes and sevens.
25:54Goes all the way back, at least before Chaucer's time, and it was originally to set on six and seven,
26:00and we think it derived from the game of dice.
26:03In fact, more specifically, it was the game of hazard.
26:06And in this, it was probably two dice, and it simply meant to risk your entire fortune on a throw
26:12of a six and a throw of a seven.
26:14If one dice was involved, then obviously a seven is impossible anyway,
26:17so it was a sort of foolhardy enterprise, as I say, risking absolutely everything and achieving the impossible.
26:24So far, so good, but that doesn't really explain why now a sixes and sevens means to be in complete
26:30confusion or in complete disorder.
26:32And there's a lovely story as to why we think it shifted in meaning.
26:36And that goes back to two medieval livery companies that were established in London.
26:41One was the worshipful company of merchant tailors, and the other was the worshipful company of skinners, who were fur
26:48traders.
26:49And each received their royal charter within days of each other, apparently.
26:53And because of this, a very heated argument, a very heated debate, broke out as to who would go before
26:59the other in the order of processions in the city of London,
27:01which was an incredibly prestigious event.
27:03And each of them wanted to be ahead of the other one.
27:06And eventually a compromise was agreed, by which they exchanged sixth and seventh place every year,
27:12and that was the only way that they could be satisfied.
27:14So we know that's not the origin of the phrase, but we're pretty sure that's why,
27:18because of this heated argument and this fracas, that sixes and sevens means what it does today,
27:22to be all over the place in a complete jumble.
27:24Brilliant. Excellent. Well done.
27:28Very interesting. 63 plays. Douglas is 46.
27:32Let's go to Douglas. Let us go.
27:34Consonant.
27:35Thank you, Douglas.
27:36P.
27:37A vowel.
27:40E.
27:42A consonant.
27:44P.
27:46A consonant.
27:47N.
27:49A vowel, please.
27:52I.
27:54Oh.
27:56A vowel.
27:58E.
28:00A consonant, please.
28:03B.
28:05And a vowel, please.
28:09U.
28:11All right.
28:12And a consonant.
28:13And the last one.
28:15X.
28:17Stand by.
28:19And a consonant.
28:21A consonant.
28:22Und...
28:22And a consonant.
28:42A JSON.
28:43And a MacBook.
28:43And a consonant.
28:44Agunt.
28:49Well, Douglas?
28:50I've only got a four of them, Fred.
28:51Only a four. How about Russ?
28:53Only a four, also.
28:54Two fours, there we go. Russ?
28:56Mine's pine.
28:57And Douglas?
28:59Ibex.
29:00Ibex, good word.
29:02Good animal, actually.
29:04Now, what about the corner? Can we do better than the four?
29:07We could get to a five.
29:09Yes.
29:10It's not as pretty. It's exine.
29:13Well, exine, either way.
29:15It's a decay-resistant outer coating of a pollen grain.
29:18Thank heavens for that.
29:20Yes.
29:21Very good.
29:22Very good.
29:23And exine.
29:24All right, so 67 plays.
29:2650.
29:27Douglas on 50.
29:28Russ to go next.
29:29Final letters game, Russ.
29:32Consonant, please, Rachel.
29:33Thank you, Russ.
29:34L.
29:35A vowel.
29:37A.
29:39A consonant.
29:41C.
29:42Another consonant.
29:46R.
29:48Another consonant.
29:50P.
29:52A vowel.
29:55O.
29:57A consonant.
29:59F.
30:02A vowel.
30:05I.
30:07And another vowel, please.
30:11And the last one, O.
30:14Countdown.
30:15A vowel.
30:17A vowel.
30:20A vowel.
30:23A vowel.
30:30A vowel.
30:32A vowel.
30:33A vowel.
30:33A vowel.
30:33A vowel.
30:33A vowel.
30:33A vowel.
30:39A vowel.
30:41A vowel.
30:47well Ross five not written down and Douglas five so Russ frail frail polar polar very good
30:59do five what else have we got over in the corner anything else any improvements and it's a pretty
31:06recent addition it's carpool I would have thought carpools been there for years no um well I suppose
31:12I'm thinking of the fact that it's just become incredibly popular recently it doesn't actually
31:16say when it came into to carpool into that it's our show okay there we go carpool 72 to 55
31:23Douglas you
31:24have the honor of the last numbers game what will you do an un-inverted T an un-inverted T
31:31so just a
31:32T or an inverted inverted T three large three small and well the last time today the numbers are two
31:38eight and ten and the large three fifty seventy-five and twenty-five and the target nine hundred and
31:47twenty-four nine two four
31:52so
32:05so
32:20well Douglas nine two five nine two five Russ nine two five also sir Douglas ten plus two ten plus
32:31two is
32:32twelve seventy five times seventy five plus nine hundred and you are one away indeed and Russ how did
32:41you get there ten plus two again times seventy-five and twenty at the twenty-five it's the same way
32:48same way all right but we're still after nine two four is that a trickster tricky one um it's hidden
32:57in
32:57there if you say fifty over twenty-five is two add that to the seventy-five for seventy-seven and
33:05then
33:05ten plus two again for the twelve and times those two together for nine two four tremendous thank you
33:10Rachel there we go chaps that's the way it's done that is indeed the way it's done seventy-nine plays
33:16Douglas is sixty-two as we plunge into the final round conundrum time so Russ Douglas fingers on buzzers
33:23please let's reveal today's countdown conundrum on looking on looking let's see whether you're right
33:45well done well done Douglas leg brilliant stuff a little bit too late really because uh Russ has beaten you
33:56by um
33:57thin margin of seven points so good show that was a very good show well done will you return now
34:04to West Yorkshire with your
34:05goodie bag and our very best wishes so Russ Russ Thornton we shall see you tomorrow good win well done
34:12thank you well done
34:12see you tomorrow see you tomorrow Nick and we shall see Angelica tomorrow too for the final day sadly
34:18yes she comes back and we'll see you tomorrow again fun day wasn't it it was indeed fun day join
34:24us again
34:24tomorrow same time same place you'll be sure of it a very good afternoon
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