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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio. It's that time of year again, and the annual event that is
00:38World Book Night kicks off, of course, a celebration of reading and enjoying books. It's run by the national charity,
00:44The Reading Agency, and it's really to inspire people to really take up reading because it's surely one of the
00:50greatest leisure pastimes that one could ever, ever enjoy.
00:55And if you're keen on Shakespeare, you might like to know that actually he passed away on this very day,
01:02way back in 1616. If you've got nothing better to do, of course, you could always head down to London
01:08to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, where The Merchant of Venice is opening tonight.
01:13Tonight, wonderful, wonderful stuff. So, World Book Night tonight, enjoy a good read before we go to sleep. And I
01:20thought about Shakespeare. Of course, like in every other school, I guess, we had Shakespeare up to here, and we
01:26had a Shakespearean play every year.
01:27I think we might have even had two. And I somehow got drummed into them a bit. But when you
01:33were a kid, did you do a lot of Shakespeare in school?
01:35I think everyone's kind of forced to, aren't they? We did a few. We did Romeo and Juliet, which was
01:39okay. Twelfth Night I quite liked. In Summer Night's Dream. My least favourite was Macbeth.
01:45But Twelfth Night, I quite like the modern adaptations as well, like She's the Man. And I went to see
01:51Shakespearean Love, which is nice. It's kind of got a little bit of the Shakespearean, but with language you can
01:56understand.
01:57So you prefer the sort of modern adaptations. I saw the film, Shakespearean Love. It's lovely.
02:01Yeah, well, just the language of Shakespeare can be quite hard going for an hour and a half, can't it?
02:05Quite hard to understand. So I prefer the modern stuff that you can actually, you know what's going on.
02:10Exactly. All right. I wonder whether Gavin will know what's been going on, because he had a bit of a
02:15shock, didn't he, Rachel, yesterday, when we had Mark in. But he swept away at the very end.
02:22Yep.
02:23How did you feel? Did you think you'd blown it?
02:24I totally thought I'd lost it.
02:26Yeah?
02:27Yeah.
02:27And then you snapped up the conundrum.
02:29Yeah, I was lucky.
02:30The crucial conundrum. Well done. All right. Let's see how you get on today, Gavin, because now you've got four
02:35wins. You're halfway to Octo-Champton.
02:37But you've got to see Joe Foxenhoff, who's a student at York University, a member of the Comedy Society at
02:46York. What's that mean? Did you do stand-up, Joe?
02:49I have done a couple of times, yeah.
02:51That's terrifying, isn't it?
02:52Not as terrifying as this.
02:54Oh, come on.
02:56Really? Is this in front of your fellow students, or are you going out into a club in town?
03:00Yeah, just in front of students, yeah.
03:01Good luck to you both. Let's have a big round of applause for today's competitors.
03:05APPLAUSE
03:10And over in the corner, of course, Susie and Mylene Klaas. The multi-talented Mylene Klaas is back for her
03:18second...
03:18Did my mum write that?
03:21Thanks for having that.
03:22No, but I hope she's watching.
03:23She'll be watching.
03:24Very good. All right.
03:25She loves you.
03:26All right. Oh, good.
03:29Now then, Gavin, let's have a letterscape, shall we?
03:33Afternoon, Rachel.
03:34Afternoon, Gavin.
03:34Can I have a consonant, please?
03:36You can indeed, thank you.
03:36Start today with M.
03:39And another, please.
03:40N.
03:42And another.
03:44T.
03:45And a vowel.
03:47O.
03:48And another.
03:49E.
03:51And another.
03:52A.
03:54And a consonant, please.
03:56C.
03:57And another.
04:00R.
04:01And a final vowel, please.
04:03And a final E.
04:05And here's the countdown clock.
04:08C.
04:08And a vowel, please.
04:11C.
04:12And a vowel.
04:30And a vowel, please.
04:30C.
04:37yes Kevin just a six a six Joe seven mm-hmm Kevin create and Joe cremate cremate neatly
04:49done and over there in the corner my lean class Susie romance is there for seven as well just
04:58sevens yes we had cremate too but couldn't get beyond that one well done okay seven points to
05:03Joe then early lead and let us time again Joe so Rachel can have a constant please thank you
05:09start with M and another one please D and a vowel please hey and another oh and another e
05:25and a consonant T and a vowel oh a consonant s and another consonant please and the last one L
05:43let's turn
05:44by
06:15Yes, Joe?
06:16Six.
06:17Six, Gavin?
06:19Risky seven.
06:20Joe?
06:21Looted.
06:22Now then, your risk?
06:24Stalled.
06:27I think to stall, yeah, if there is a verb, it means to throw up shoots from the root of
06:33a plant.
06:34So stalled is absolutely fine.
06:36It's the past tense.
06:36Very good.
06:37Well done.
06:38Well done.
06:39And anything fresh from you, Mylene?
06:41You've got a goodie.
06:43I had maltose for another seven, which is the sugar produced when starch breaks down.
06:49Got it.
06:50Thank you very much.
06:51Seven apiece, and it's numbers time.
06:53Gavin?
06:54One large and five small, please, Rachel.
06:56Thank you, Gavin.
06:57One from the top row, five little ones coming up.
06:59And for the first time today, the numbers are two, one, three, nine, and six, and the big one, twenty
07:07-five.
07:08And the target, seven hundred and eighty-nine.
07:11Seven, eight, nine.
07:12Seven, nine, and nine.
07:14One, two, one.
07:17One, two, three, two, one.
07:28One, two, one, three, four, three, four, five, you see?
07:40One, two, three, four.
07:44Devon I know we're near how about Joe seven eight one seven eight one eight away but good enough
07:50have a crack at that then uh 25 times 3 75 and then 9 add 2 is 11 yeah enough
08:01so sorry no it's
08:02wrong oh yep all blown apart we rely on you Rachel seven eight nine it was possible if you say
08:10three
08:10plus two is five times six is 30 25 plus one 26 times them together for 780 and add on
08:21the nine
08:21seven eight nine fantastic thank you Rachel well done well done so scores stalled at seven apiece as
08:33we turn to a tea time teaser which is had upset and the clue had an upsetting day because his
08:39employers threw him on this had an upsetting day because his employers threw him on this
09:02welcome back welcome back a letter with a clue had an upsetting day because his employers threw him on
09:08this they threw him on the dust teeth dust teeth poor chap seven apiece and Joe it's your letters game
09:17yeah can I have a constant place thank you Joe F and another L and another ah and a vowel
09:30please I and
09:34another a and a constant and lastly yes and by
09:53okay
10:06yeah
10:07yeah
10:24Yes, Joe?
10:25Six.
10:26Six.
10:27Gavin?
10:28Six.
10:29Joe?
10:29Silver.
10:31And Gavin?
10:32Rifles.
10:33Rifles.
10:35Rifles, indeed.
10:37Now, what have you got in the corner, Susie?
10:39Susie smashed it.
10:41Go on.
10:42There is an eight there.
10:44Failover.
10:45It's a computing term.
10:47Don't think you can put the S on it.
10:49It's a procedure by which a system automatically goes over to a duplicate system when it detects a fault in
10:55the current one.
10:56So it's like a transfer once a failure's been spotted in the system.
11:00And that's a failover.
11:01Very good.
11:02Very good.
11:05And that's it from your corner.
11:07Yes.
11:08That's it.
11:08All right.
11:09Thirteen apiece.
11:10And Gavin?
11:11Another letters game.
11:13A very consonant, please, Rachel.
11:14Thank you, Gavin.
11:15J.
11:16And another.
11:18D.
11:19And another.
11:21T.
11:22And a vowel, please.
11:25I.
11:25And another.
11:27U.
11:29And another.
11:31A.
11:32And a consonant, please.
11:35S.
11:37And another.
11:39V.
11:41And a final vowel, please.
11:43And a final U.
11:46Stand by.
11:47guitar solo
11:48Just before.开始
11:49another. And
12:14a vowel, please. And
12:15another. Here.
12:16And another.
12:16And a vowel,
12:17That a vowel,
12:18Yes, Gavin six Joe. I just five and your five Vista
12:24Vista and Gavin audits
12:27Audits excellent. Yes, nice fair enough. Yeah
12:30Now then what news from the corner the lady in the red dress
12:35audits
12:37snap and
12:38Susie an alternative six would be Davits D-A-V-I-T-S and there's more cranes on board a
12:44ship
12:45Yeah, use them for lowering life, but it's that kind of thing. Yeah, as opposed to divots of course
12:50Which is something you kick up on a golf course exactly a davit right all right 19 to Joe's 13
12:56Joe
12:57Don't let him slip away here. It's a numbers game for you now
13:00Yes, can I have one large and five small please you can thank you Joe one big one
13:04And five more little ones and this time around they are six
13:09nine
13:11another six two
13:12Five and the big one twenty five again and the target eight hundred and seventy one eight seven one
13:50Well Joe now I haven't got it
13:54How about Gavin eight seven seven?
13:57Yeah, give it a shot six on six is thirty six. Yeah time is twenty five is nine hundred nine
14:05hundred
14:05uh, two times nine is eighteen
14:09Add the five and take it away twenty three and eight seven seven. Yep six away six away
14:16How can we get to eight seven one Rachel?
14:19Um, if you say twenty five times nine is
14:23225 take away six for
14:26219 and then the other six minus two is four times them together for
14:31Eight hundred and seventy six and then take away the five eight seven one. Wow, perfect. Thank you Rachel
14:42So Gavin stealing a bit of a lead at the moment 24 to Joe's 13 as we turn to my
14:48lean and my lean tonight is world
14:50Book night, and you've got two little children. What does it mean to them?
14:55Oh, well actually you were talking about Shakespeare earlier my littlest hero is named after a character in much dear
15:00about nothing
15:01Which is eat it from the Greek?
15:03Yeah, Greek mythology, but um
15:05Last month as you probably know it was world book day and all the children either dress up as characters
15:11their favorite characters from a book
15:13Or their favorite authors or anything from a literary
15:16Angle and I asked my my seven-year-old well, what would you like to go as and she said?
15:20I want to go as mama
15:22And my littlest hero who's three I was up and mums will know what this feels like I was up
15:29pretty much
15:30Most of the night trying to make the little antennae for the hungry caterpillar
15:34She'd lost her headdress so I had the wire out and I was wrapping ribbons around it
15:38She took one look at my eldest dressed as mom because every little girl wants to be their mom and
15:44so I had five minutes
15:46Literally to cobble or get together another outfit because she wanted to be mom, too
15:50So I had two little mini mummers going to school
15:54Three of us in one house. It was quite surreal, but then Ava my eldest said I have to have
16:00a coffee. You always have a coffee
16:02Really? How old is Ava again?
16:05Ava seven going on 17 and and hero she's
16:09Yes, three I call her my three-nager. Yeah, brilliant. So you can genuinely say my little hero
16:15Yeah, she's my little superhero. So two of them went to yeah, both of them went to their schools as
16:21Mini mummers excellent stuff lovely story. Thank you very much. Now. Where are we?
16:2624 plays Joe's 13 still well in touch Joe
16:29Let's see what Gavin is going to do now. Let us go about consonant, please Rachel. Thank you Gavin ah
16:35Ah, and another
16:39Q and another
16:43F and a vowel
16:46E and another
16:49I and another
16:52O and a consonant place
16:56T and another
17:00Y and a final vowel place and a final e
17:05And here's the countdown clock
17:07And here's the countdown clock
17:38Gavin five five Joe five as well Kevin fiery fiery and Joe 40 now then
17:50yes really tough this one I don't think we can beat 540 yeah we tie another one
17:56yeah couldn't get any bigger than that all right that's the draw then so 29
18:02plays 18 and it's Joe's letters game now Joe I can have a consonant please thank
18:08you Joe s and another see and another h and another is w and a vowel oh and
18:26another I and another I and constant s and the vowel and the last one you stand
19:12by
19:15yes Joe five five and Gavin five Joe shows shows and so much shows there we go
19:23happy Joe all right and over in the corner Mylene and Susie any advances still five
19:29swish yes Charles yeah I was looking for cowish but it's not there I'm afraid so
19:37there's fives again that's it all right 34 to 23 and now it's numbers time Gavin
19:43have one large five small please Rachel same again thank you Gavin one from the
19:47top and five little ones and this time the small ones are four nine eight another
19:55four and six and the big one 75 and the target eight hundred and sixty four eight
20:02six four
20:03the
20:04the
20:04the
20:07the
20:08the
20:08the
20:09the
20:17the
20:19the
20:21the
20:21the
20:23the
20:23the
20:23the
20:36Gavin 870 870 Joe I'm not even close no back to Gavin then about your 870 4 plus 8 is
20:4712
20:48yeah I'm 75 is 900 900 9 minus the other 4 is 5 yeah I'm 6 for 30 it's 13
20:58take it away 870 yep there we go
21:01but some way off some way off uh 864 Rachel um yes if you say 6 times 4 is 24
21:09and then 9 times the
21:12other 4 is 36 and times them together 864 look at that it's perfect thank you Rachel very good
21:21so Gavin 39 to Joe's uh 23 as we lurch into a tea time teaser which is pardon me
21:28and the clue for a fresh smell keep this in your drawers for a fresh smell keep this in your
21:36drawers
21:52welcome back I left with a clue for a fresh smell keep this in your drawers
21:57and the answer is pomander pomander where does that come from uh well it can be a container
22:08a physical container it can also be a piece of fruit often you'll have an orange with um spices
22:12sort of studded into it if you like there's all the way back to the romans and the latin pomam
22:17de ambra which was the apple of ambergris um and ambergris is a sort of waxy like substance I don't
22:22if it if it is aromatic I guess it must be but the romans used them too are you hang
22:28these things in
22:29your wardrobe yeah put them in your drawers yeah keep them in your drawers really good thank you 39 to
22:3523 Gavin in the lead and it's joe's chance to catch up joe have a consonant please thank you joe
22:42d
22:42and a vowel please e and a consonant p and another please r and another d and a vowel please
23:02o and another a
23:07a and a consonant l and a consonant and finally m can't
23:24so
23:36so
23:36so
23:36so
23:36so
23:51Joe.
23:52Seven.
23:53A seven, Gavin?
23:54A six.
23:56And you're a six?
23:56Palmed.
23:57Palmed and Joe?
23:59Leopard.
24:00Leopard?
24:01Yep, very good.
24:02Very good.
24:02That's fine.
24:03What else have we got in the corner?
24:04More sevens as paddler.
24:07Yep.
24:08Preload.
24:10Yes.
24:10Anything else?
24:12No, just sevens.
24:13Those were our sevens.
24:14All right.
24:1539 to 30, nine-point difference.
24:18And Gavin, letters time.
24:20Have a consonant, please, Rachel.
24:21Thank you, Gavin.
24:23T.
24:24And another.
24:26B.
24:27And another.
24:29N.
24:30And a vowel, please.
24:32E.
24:33And another.
24:35I.
24:36And another.
24:38A.
24:39And a consonant, please.
24:41L.
24:42And another.
24:45H.
24:46And a final consonant, please.
24:50And a final G.
24:52Stand by.
24:53B。
24:54Bi-
25:13And a heartbeat.
25:17K.
25:17Bye.
25:18Bye.
25:18Bye.
25:25Yes, Kevin, eight and eight Joe eight as well Kevin bleating and Joe
25:33Yeah
25:34Very good and
25:36What do we got in the corner the same eights with bleating got some sevens as well. Yes
25:43Lighten yes, I'm healing belting quite a few inks in there
25:47But bleating was the best certainly we could find thank you very much all right
25:51So 47 place 38 as we turn to you Susie for your wonderful origins of words and today
25:59What will you speak to us of today is the story of hue and cry which is a great fuss
26:05a hullabaloo or a commotion
26:07The expression looks back to a practice in england is very very very old and it was all about
26:15Making it almost impossible for a thief to get away with his or her gains
26:19In anglo-saxon england the country was divided into districts that could muster at least a hundred soldiers if called
26:27upon
26:27Each district was subsequently called a hundred and was considered to have its own
26:32Governmental unit and you'll still find reference to hundreds in place names in buckinghamshire for example
26:38So each had its own jurisdiction and its own court and if the crime was committed within the confines of
26:45the hundred
26:45It was the duty of the hundred to apprehend the villain on behalf of the crown
26:51It was particularly important that they did this in fact
26:53It was crucial because if the crime was a robbery then the hundred itself was responsible for the stolen property
26:59And it had to cough up at the compensation if the goods couldn't be found that the robber had run
27:05off with
27:05So when a crime was committed it was very important to make a big fuss
27:10And the victim or the person who had been offended in some way would raise an outcry and that would
27:17be picked up by all the
27:18Residents there would be crying there would be presumably banging of
27:23Drums anything they could get their hands on to make as much noise as possible and the resulting clamor would
27:28Ensure that the whole community would assemble and gather together and then they would go out as one big posse
27:35to
27:36To apprehend the the villain the whole procedure was called the hue and cry of the hundred with the hue
27:42coming from the old French for a war or
27:45hunting cry
27:47And instantly right down to the early part of the 20th century and the lookouts on the cliffs of Cornwall
27:51Who looked for the arrive of pilchards the shoals of pilchards were also called hewers h-u-e-r-s
27:58not your spelling nick and because they sounded the alert to
28:00Fishermen through large speaking trumpets
28:03But yeah, it goes all the way back to anglo-saxon England when it was pretty crucial to catch the
28:08robber otherwise the cost would be very very high
28:12fantastic
28:17Very good. Thank you. Now then Joe
28:20Where are we penultimate letters game and you're on 38 you're still well in touch Joe good luck
28:27Can I have a consonant please? Thank you Joe
28:30N
28:30And another
28:32N
28:34And another
28:36B
28:39And a vowel please
28:41E
28:42And another
28:44O
28:46And another
28:48E
28:50And another
28:52A
28:54And a consonant please
28:56And
28:57And another
28:57And the last one
29:02R
29:04Countdown
29:05And next
29:32A
29:36Now then Joe. Six. A six. Six. Two sixes. Joe. Banner. Gavin. Yep. Same. Same. Any advances on Banner? None
29:49at all. Banner. That's it. All right. That's as far as it goes then. 53 page 44. Gavin. Final letters
29:57game. Have a consonant please Rachel. Thank you Gavin. M. And another.
30:03S. And another. W. And a vowel please. E. And another. A. And another. U. And a consonant please. G.
30:22And another. P. And a final consonant please. And a final T. Stand by.
30:34S. And a consonant please.
31:03Now Gavin. Just a five. A five Joe. A five as well. Gavin. Sweat. And Joe's. Thank you. What does
31:13the corner think of this?
31:15Yes. Um. Yep. Absolutely fine. We were just looking at an eight and sorry. No. It is an eight. I'm
31:21wondering if we could have it. And I think we can. And what is it?
31:26Stumpage. Stumpage? Stumpage. It sounds strange. But it's a price on standing timber and the right to harvest it.
31:32Well I'm dashed. Stumpage. There we go. Fifty-eight plays. Fourteen-nine as we go into the final numbers game
31:38Joe.
31:38Let's have something else for a change. Two large please.
31:41Two large. Thank you Joe.
31:42And still all to play for. And four little ones. And for the final time today the numbers are one,
31:48seven, four, two. And the big ones fifty and seventy-five.
31:54And the target? Two hundred and three. Two-oh-three.
31:59Three-oh-three.
32:03Three-oh-three.
32:05Three-oh-three.
32:17Three-oh-three.
32:19Three-oh-three.
32:19Three-oh-three.
32:21Three-oh-three.
32:24Three-oh-three.
32:25Three-oh-three.
32:26Three-oh-three.
32:27Three-oh-three.
32:28Three-oh-three.
32:31Yes, Joe.
32:32Two or three.
32:33And Gavin?
32:34Two or three.
32:35Come on then, Joe.
32:36Fifty times four.
32:38Two hundred.
32:38Add two, add one.
32:39Nice and straightforward, two or three.
32:41And Gavin?
32:43Exactly the same way.
32:44Yeah.
32:45So here we go, chaps.
32:51Prepare for a crucial clundrum, 59 to 68.
32:57Fingers on buzzers, please.
32:59Let's reveal that.
33:01Crucial countdown conundrum.
33:13Gavin?
33:14Bloodshed.
33:16Bloodshed.
33:16You're normally rather good at this.
33:18Let's see whether you're right this time.
33:21Bloodshed.
33:21There you go.
33:27Well done, Gavin.
33:28Well done.
33:30That's sort of a favourite of yours, isn't it?
33:32The old conundrum.
33:33Well done.
33:33So bad luck, Joe.
33:35You came up against somebody who's now got five wins.
33:39So, you know, he's a pretty mean competitor.
33:42So back to York with our very best wishes and a goodie bag.
33:46Good luck with the comedy club.
33:48And good luck with the physics.
33:49All right.
33:50Thank you very much indeed.
33:51We will not be seeing you tomorrow because tomorrow we're off racing.
33:55So we'll see you on Monday.
33:56And I hope you two will be back on Monday.
33:58Yes?
33:59You'll have me, yes.
34:00I'd love to.
34:01Excellent.
34:02All right.
34:02We'll see you on Monday.
34:03Have a pleasant time in between.
34:04And Rachel too.
34:06So they're not the greatest, these two on the maps, will they?
34:08You have to get them out of trouble again.
34:10Just rubbing it in a little bit, aren't you?
34:12There's pressures on when you're here and the clock's ticking.
34:15I've done it a few times.
34:15I'm used to it now.
34:17All right.
34:17Well, we'll see you on Monday.
34:18Have a pleasant break.
34:20Join us again on Monday.
34:21Enjoy the racing.
34:22But you can't wait until Monday, can you?
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34:59You bet it is.
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