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00:16Thank you very much.
00:30Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:33Now, I don't know about you, but one of the favourite, most pleasurable times of the week is Sunday morning
00:40and reading the papers.
00:42Some people, of course, take the dog and they have a little walk down to the newsagent and pick up
00:47the papers.
00:48Others lie in bed waiting for the paper girl or paper boy to arrive.
00:52I lie in bed waiting for her indoors to come back with the papers.
00:57And I give her a timed slot.
01:00She has 20 minutes to go and get the papers and get back with a cup of tea.
01:05And then bliss. I don't know about you. I love it. I absolutely love it.
01:10Do you like the Sunday papers?
01:11Um, I'm more of a Sunday morning Zumba, followed by brunch, followed by football.
01:15What is, is that a euphemism for something?
01:18What's a Zumba?
01:19No, Nick, do you plead?
01:21What's a Zumba?
01:22Zumba is kind of a dance fitness class.
01:24Oh, right.
01:25So you can go there, do something good, a bit of exercise, and then go eat all the calories worth
01:30of pancakes.
01:31Well done.
01:32Yeah, that's my Sunday morning.
01:33Excellent stuff.
01:34Good.
01:34Now then, you know, Rachel, we've got this Antoinette Ryan back again.
01:38And this time, today, she's vying for her seventh victory.
01:43Well done, Antoinette.
01:44You've done so well.
01:46You're joined by Peter Dewey, an air ambulance pilot from Warwick, married to Jennifer, has a black Labrador called Wilbur.
01:55And I'm very jealous of you.
01:58I'm very jealous of you, Peter, because once upon a time, you travelled overland from London to Cape Town.
02:03What an extraordinary journey that was.
02:05How long did it take?
02:06It took six months.
02:07It was absolutely fantastic.
02:09What was the sort of route?
02:10We went down through Eastern Europe, through Turkey, across the Bosphorus,
02:14and then, where did we go, Jordan, Egypt, and then followed the Riff Valley, all the way down to Cape
02:20Town.
02:20Fantastic.
02:21It was brilliant.
02:21Absolutely brilliant.
02:22A lucky charm.
02:23Yeah.
02:24Brilliant.
02:24Well, good luck today, Peter.
02:25Good luck to you both.
02:26Big round of applause.
02:27Come on, Antoinette and Peter.
02:29And over in the corner, of course, Susie, of course, joined once again by the wonderful Alastair McGowan,
02:36impersonator, comedian, actor, singer, writer, good bloke.
02:41Good bloke.
02:42And a non-Sunday paper reader.
02:44Is that right?
02:45Why?
02:45I'm afraid to say.
02:46By choice?
02:46Because the paper on a Saturday is so big, I never get round to reading that,
02:50so I always enjoy reading that on the Sunday.
02:52And I feel the day behind, which is quite nice.
02:54It's a day in hand.
02:55All right.
02:56Now then, Antoinette.
02:58Lessons.
02:59Hi, Rachel.
03:00Hi, Antoinette.
03:01Can I have a consonant, please?
03:02Start today with J.
03:04And another.
03:06R.
03:07And another.
03:10V.
03:11And one more.
03:11R.
03:13N.
03:14Vowel, please.
03:16E.
03:17Another.
03:18I.
03:20Another.
03:21O.
03:23A consonant.
03:25T.
03:27And a final consonant, please.
03:29And final C.
03:30And here's the countdown clock.
04:04Antoinette seven a seven and Peter six and that six cretin cretin and jointer a jointer you certainly
04:15can be a joint or it can be a tool used in masonry or the person who joined the pipes
04:20etc absolutely
04:21fine okay well done and in the corner Alastair Susie well there were two eights in there one
04:27of which was contrive yes and the other injector an injector fuel injector yes you've probably
04:33looked at the J and thought I'm not going to include that but it was there within that eight
04:37very good all right seven to Antoinette Peter hello Rachel hi Peter can I start with the
04:44consonant please you can thank you start with R and another M and another T and a vowel please you
04:55and another vowel a and a consonant s and a consonant n and a vowel e and one last consonant
05:12please and the
05:13last one oh stand by
05:17so
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05:46Yes, Peter?
05:47I've got a six.
05:48A six and?
05:49A seven.
05:50A seven.
05:51Peter?
05:52Master.
05:53Nathan Antoinette?
05:54Matures.
05:55Happy enough?
05:55Very happy.
05:56Yep.
05:57What else have we got there?
05:58Susie?
05:58Alistair?
05:59There's another seven which is mature.
06:01Yep.
06:02You have returned for another seven.
06:04Fourteen points to Antoinette.
06:05Very good.
06:06But now we're with the numbers.
06:08Antoinette.
06:09Four large, please, Richard.
06:10Thank you, Antoinette.
06:12Your usual first pick.
06:13Four from the top row and two little ones.
06:15And for the first time today, the small numbers are one and five.
06:19And the large ones, 75, 50, 100, 25.
06:24And the target, 808.
06:27808.
06:32908.
06:32908.
06:32Octane.
06:3392, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 51, 51, 51, 51, 51, 51, 51, 52.
06:59Antoinette, 8.05, how about Peter?
07:038.05, not written down.
07:05OK, well, let's hear from you, Peter.
07:08100 plus 75.
07:12175.
07:13Plus 1.
07:14Plus 1, 176.
07:16Times by the 5.
07:18Times by the 5 for 800 and...
07:215.
07:2280.
07:23Oh, my mistake. Minus the 50 and the 25, sorry.
07:26That's a bit honest, yeah, sorry.
07:28Oh, you had my heart racing.
07:30Yeah, 75, that's 8.05.
07:31Brilliant, thanks.
07:33Brilliant.
07:34Now then, Antoinette, I did 100 plus 50 plus 1.
07:38100 plus 50 plus 1, 151.
07:41Multiplied by 5.
07:42Multiplied by 5, 755.
07:4475 minus 25 for the 50.
07:46Yes.
07:47Well done, yeah.
07:50And 8.05.
07:51There we go then, so 21 plays Peter 7, but plenty of time there, Peter.
07:55But let's see how it's done to perfection.
07:59Rachel?
07:59Well, if you spot it, it's easy enough.
08:0275 over 25 is 3.
08:06Add to the 5 for 8, and then 100 add 1 times 8, 808.
08:12There she is.
08:12Wonderful.
08:13As ever.
08:16So let's have a tea-time teaser, which is mum's done, and the clue mum's done wrong and
08:20is told to attend court.
08:22Mum's done wrong and is told to attend court.
08:40Welcome back.
08:41I left you with the clue mum's done wrong and is told to attend court.
08:45In fact, she's been summoned.
08:48Summoned.
08:49There we are.
08:4921 plays Peter 7, and Peter, you're back on with a letters game.
08:53Hello.
08:53Can I start with a consonant, please?
08:55Thank you, Peter.
08:56D.
08:57And another, please.
08:59N.
09:00And a vowel, please.
09:02O.
09:03And another.
09:04I.
09:05And a consonant, please.
09:08R.
09:09And another.
09:11H.
09:12And another.
09:13P.
09:14And a vowel.
09:17E.
09:19And another vowel, please.
09:21And the last one.
09:22O.
09:24Stand by.
09:25E.
09:26A vowel.
09:27And a vowel.
09:55Yes, Peter.
09:56A seven.
09:57A seven.
09:58And seven.
09:59Yes, Peter.
10:00Honoured.
10:01Honoured and?
10:02Fournier.
10:03Fournier, absolutely fine.
10:07I'm just checking honoured.
10:10For British spelling, you have to have the U.
10:13It's only American spelling that has H-O-N-O-R.
10:17Okay.
10:17Sorry about that.
10:18Bad luck.
10:19But what have we got in the corner there?
10:21Alistair?
10:22Several sixes, ponder, opined, honed, but nothing bigger than that and no other sevens apart
10:28from phonia.
10:29Opined is a good word, isn't it?
10:31Yes.
10:32Opined.
10:3228 to seven and it's Antoinette's letters game.
10:36Antoinette?
10:37Constance, please.
10:38Thank you, Antoinette.
10:39G.
10:40And another.
10:41P.
10:43Another.
10:44K.
10:46Val.
10:47U.
10:48Another.
10:50E.
10:51Another.
10:52A.
10:53A consonant.
10:55H.
10:57Another.
10:59S.
11:01And another consonant, please.
11:03And the last one.
11:04G.
11:05Countdown.
11:06All right, guys.
11:36That was, another quartet.
11:37Antoinette? Six. A six. And Peter? A five. And that five? Is heaps. Yes. Antoinette? Gages. Gages. Well spotted. Yep,
11:48for six. And what of the corner's efforts? Just heaps of fives, pukes, pages, peaks, speak. They were all there,
11:55but nothing bigger than gauges, I don't think.
11:58All right. There we are then. So, numbers game. Peter's first numbers game. Can I have three large, three small,
12:05please, Rachel? You can indeed. Thank you, Peter. Three from the top. Three little ones. And for this round, they
12:09are seven, four, one, one hundred, twenty-five and fifty. And the target? Six hundred and nine. Six oh nine.
12:52Six oh eight. Six oh eight. Six oh eight. Thank you. So, Peter.
12:58Seven minus one. Seven minus one is six. Six times one hundred for six hundred. So, one hundred times six
13:04for six hundred. Yep. And then I've said, plus the seven. You use the seven? Sorry, Peter. Sorry, no, plus
13:12the, yeah, I've made a bit of a picture of this. Sorry. I've got the wrong number, sorry. Never mind.
13:16It happens. Now they're answering it. Come on.
13:18Seven minus one is six. Seven minus one, six. Times a hundred. Six hundred. Fifty over twenty-five is two.
13:25Fifty over twenty-five, two. Times four. Eight. Another one. Yep. Six oh eight. One away.
13:31Well done. Well done. Bad luck, Peter. I think you had it. You're probably being cross with yourself at the
13:35moment. Now then, Rachel, six oh nine.
13:40A bit of a tricky one. I'll have another look. Is it tricky? All right. We'll come back to you
13:44because now it's time to talk to Alistair. Alistair, yesterday we talked football. Well, you talked football.
13:51A bit of baking, too. What have you got for us today? Well, I was hearing recently that Manchester, home
13:57of Countdown, as I'm sure a lot of people know, is soon possibly to get its own regional mayor in
14:01the style of Boris Johnson.
14:03But fortunately for the people of Manchester, it won't be Boris Johnson. Although I say that, I'm sure as the
14:09same for you, Nick, I'm quite happy with what Boris has done in London, which surprises me because I'm more
14:13of a Ken Livingstone man like you.
14:14Yeah. But Boris has been great. And in case you don't know, we like him in London because he's so
14:19off the wall that sometimes his ideas come back off the other wall and start to make sense.
14:23Like just last week, he said, in this country, at this moment in time, we face three major crises. We
14:29have a fuel crisis. We have an obesity crisis and we have an unemployment crisis.
14:33We could solve all three of these crises at a stroke. All we need to do, all we need to
14:37do is to suck the fat out of the fat people, turn it into fuel and pay them for it.
14:42That way they could go on eating as much as they like, safe and proud in the knowledge that they'd
14:46turn themselves into a minor British cottage industry.
14:49Who needs fracking when we've got snacking, ladies and gentlemen, that's what I say.
14:54That's a very good point when you think about it. But of course, Boris, the election is coming up next
14:57year, could soon be back in the House of Commons as an MP.
15:01And the Tory party is changing by the week, it seems. William Hague is going to leave after the next
15:06election, we're told.
15:07He's going to stand down as an MP. But at the moment, he's still the spokesman for the party.
15:10And again, just last week, he was saying, a gentleman said to me recently, when are you going to sort
15:14out this thorny issue of euthanasia,
15:16which you said you won't sort out in your election manifesto?
15:19And I said to that gentleman, as I say to you good people of Manchester today, we will sort out
15:23this issue of euthanasia,
15:25but we have to sort out the youth in this country first. We really, really do.
15:30I've also got a lot of time for Diane Abbott, Labour's Diane Abbott, of course, and partly because she sits
15:36on this week, every week,
15:37and manages to laugh at Andrew Neil's dreadful opening monologue every week.
15:40That takes some skill, Nick. I'm sure you've been there yourself, as have I.
15:44It's not easy to laugh at that stuff, but Diane, she manages somehow.
15:47But, you know, I've been impersonating people now in the world of politics for something like 25 years.
15:52And of all the people I've impersonated in that time, I don't think I've impersonated anybody
15:57who opens their mouth quite as widely as Diane Abbott does when she's talking,
16:02which is quite ironic, because nothing of any value ever seems to come out of that.
16:08Brilliant. Lovely stuff. Well done.
16:14Great stuff, as ever. Thank you so much, Alistair.
16:17Now then, 41 to Antoinette. Peter on seven. There's time, there's time.
16:21But let's turn to Antoinette for a letters game.
16:24Conson, please, Rachel.
16:25Thank you, Antoinette. S.
16:26And another.
16:29D.
16:30Another.
16:31X.
16:32And another.
16:34T.
16:36A vowel.
16:37E.
16:38Another.
16:39O.
16:40Another.
16:42U.
16:43One more.
16:46A.
16:47And a consonant, please.
16:49And lastly, L.
16:51Stand by.
16:52Stand by.
17:22Antoinette.
17:23A seven.
17:24A seven.
17:24Peter.
17:25Six.
17:25And that six.
17:26And that six.
17:27Ousted.
17:27Ousted and?
17:29Toothled?
17:30Tassled, we would say.
17:31Yes, absolutely fine.
17:31Tassled hair, for example.
17:33Mm-hmm.
17:33Yep, very good.
17:34Very good.
17:35And the corner, Alistair?
17:37I was patting myself on the back for seeing Exodus, which is only a six, but thank you
17:42very much.
17:43Ousted was also there.
17:44Yeah.
17:45As is sexual for six.
17:47Mm-hmm.
17:48And then, I've never heard of that.
17:49Uh, no, it sounds like something very different, but luxated in medicine means dislocated,
17:56so you can have a luxated joint.
17:59Wow.
17:59Believe it or not.
18:00Luxated?
18:00There for seven.
18:01Oh, okay.
18:01Thank you very much.
18:03Now then, Peter, your letters again.
18:05Could I start with a consonant, please, Rachel?
18:07Thank you, Peter.
18:08D.
18:08And another.
18:11R.
18:12And another.
18:13P.
18:14And a vowel, please.
18:16E.
18:17And another vowel.
18:18U.
18:20And a consonant.
18:22L.
18:24And another consonant.
18:26T.
18:27And a vowel.
18:30O.
18:31And one more consonant, please.
18:35And the last one, F.
18:37And here's the countdown clock.
19:10Yes, Antoinette.
19:12A seven.
19:13A seven, Peter?
19:14Dodgy seven.
19:15Antoinette?
19:16Flouted.
19:17Flouted and?
19:18Poulter.
19:19P-O-U-L-T-E-R.
19:22Do you know, it sounded very likely to me as well, Peter, but, um, Poulter or Coulter,
19:27um, but not Poulter, I'm afraid, sorry.
19:30That's a shame.
19:30Now then, Susie and Alistair.
19:33Uh, there was another seven which is floured.
19:36Yeah.
19:37Favourite word at the moment in all the baking circles?
19:39Paul Hollywood likes a nice floured surface.
19:42Although it's better to put oil down, in fact, if you're making bread, because it doesn't
19:45make the bread too floury.
19:48A little tip for you.
19:49Susie?
19:50Yes, Susie.
19:51I know I was flouting the wheels as well.
19:53All right.
19:54All right, there we are.
19:54Fifty-five plays seven.
19:56Let's have some numbers, Antoinette.
19:59Can I try two loads, please, Richard?
20:00You can indeed, thank you.
20:01Two from the top, and four little ones this time.
20:04And for this round, they are two, nine, four, another nine, and the large two,
20:11one hundred and twenty-five.
20:13And your target, six hundred and one.
20:16Six-oh-one.
20:48Yes, Antoinette.
20:49Six-oh-one.
20:50Six-oh-one.
20:51Peter?
20:52Six-oh-one.
20:53Antoinette.
20:54Four plus two is six.
20:56Four plus two is six.
20:57Times a hundred.
20:58Six-hundred.
20:58Nine over nine, four or one.
21:00Lovely.
21:00Well done.
21:01Yes, Peter?
21:01Exactly the same way.
21:03OK.
21:04Just have a little glance there.
21:05Are we happy?
21:06Perfect.
21:06Jolly good.
21:07Six-hundred and one.
21:11Very good.
21:12So, keep it up to 17 now as we go into a tea-time teaser, which is sand root.
21:16And the clue, they're not brown entrances, they're clay ovens.
21:20They're not brown entrances, they're clay ovens.
21:40And the answer is tandoors.
21:47Now then, Susie, tandoori, what's this got to do with tandoors?
21:52Well, tandoors are clay ovens.
21:54Yes.
21:55Tandoori chicken would be made in such a thing.
21:57I was just looking at, as a word, it's just done such an amazing journey.
22:00It started off as Arabic, then it went through to a Persian word, then to an Urdu word, and
22:06then eventually, by probably lots of other routes, came over here.
22:09So, it's long travelled.
22:10All right.
22:11So, then.
22:12Peter, you're back with the letters game.
22:15A vowel to start, please, Rachel.
22:17Thank you, Peter.
22:18Aye.
22:19And another.
22:21E.
22:21And a consonant.
22:24S.
22:25And another consonant.
22:27T.
22:28And another.
22:30G.
22:31And one more.
22:33N.
22:34And a vowel, please.
22:36O.
22:38And a consonant, please.
22:41D.
22:42And one last vowel.
22:43And a last A.
22:46Stand by.
22:47D.
22:49And a melon.
22:50Mm...
23:09All right.
23:10Good morning.
23:10Good morning.
23:11Bye.
23:11Good morning.
23:14Bye.
23:16Bye.
23:17Bye.
23:17Bye.
23:17Bye.
23:18Yes, Peter five yes eight and eight my word Peter toned and to a net
23:25Sedating very very good great to find that. Yep. Now then what else we got over there?
23:32there's some nice eights sedation. Yes was that and
23:37Diagnose is also there
23:39Agonized oh, which is what I did cuz I was desperate to find the nine but couldn't find one. No
23:44Plenty of good selection. They're well done. All right. No letters game
23:50Antoinette Ryan, can I get a constant please richard. Thank you, Antoinette
23:55W and another
23:58N and another
24:01T one more
24:04M
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24:08another
24:09another
24:12a
24:15Consonant s and a vowel please and the last one. Oh
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