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00:30Good afternoon, good afternoon, and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:34Today is World Turtle Day, which aims to raise our awareness of the dangers facing these wonderful, wonderful creatures.
00:43They're some of the oldest creatures on the planet.
00:46Some say that the species started about 200 million years ago.
00:50They've been around a long time, yet many are falling victim because of our interference.
00:55Apparently, one species is called the Yunnan box turtle.
00:58Only about 50 of them left, and we continue to destroy these beautiful things, these gentle giants in many cases.
01:07Is there anything that warms the heart more than to see a giant turtle swimming gracefully in the sea?
01:13It's a brilliant thing.
01:13I've never actually swam with turtles.
01:16Is it something you've done?
01:17I think I just missed one when I was in the water in the Maldives, but in Hawaii on the
01:21Big Island, the beaches are littered with them up and down the beach.
01:24You're not allowed to go within a certain distance of them, but they go on there and they lay their
01:27eggs, and it's every morning there's just loads of them.
01:30It's lovely, and they had to do something to start preserving them because they were endangered, and now their numbers
01:35are flourishing there.
01:36So, it can be done.
01:38No, they're wonderful, beautiful things.
01:40And in the old days, of course, they used to eat turtles a great deal.
01:43I'd do it with a turtle suit.
01:44Tortoises as well, yeah.
01:46Not good.
01:47Let's pay attention and keep these beautiful creatures.
01:49Now, Robin's back.
01:51You'll be pleased to know, Rachel, Robin's back, our three-times winner from Basingstoke, a very keen interest in great
01:57whites.
01:57Like many Countdown contestants, it's a very bizarre fact, but the number of contestants that have sat where you are,
02:04who've swum with great whites and stroked great whites, it's extraordinary.
02:07And you're another one of them.
02:08I am, yes.
02:09Well, well done.
02:10And also a Wigan athletic father.
02:13Probably that's a rarer sort of thing.
02:16Watch it, watch it.
02:17All right, and you're joined today by Cy Prendergast, a massage therapist from Maidstone in Kent.
02:23You follow Maidstone United.
02:25Yes.
02:25But more importantly, you can play Match of the Day on your nose, that theme.
02:30Come on, then.
02:31Let's have it.
02:31I can.
02:32Really?
02:33Give us a quick one.
02:35Are you with me?
02:38Oh.
02:39No, just tuning, just tuning.
02:45Brilliant.
02:49Thank you, Cy.
02:51Very good.
02:56It's just possible we won't ask you to do that again.
02:59Thank you very much for that, anyway.
03:01Brilliant.
03:01Let's have a big round of applause for Cy and Robin.
03:09Oh, dear.
03:10Susie's back.
03:11Well done.
03:11Thank you, Susie.
03:12I hope you had a pleasant weekend.
03:13And you're joined today by an icon of news journalism and a newsreader on our screens for many years, the
03:19wonderful Michael Burke.
03:21Welcome back, Michael.
03:21But if I could do that, life would be complete.
03:25There'd be no ambition left.
03:26I know.
03:27That would be it.
03:28In fact, I might just, you know, if you hear something.
03:31Well done.
03:32Thank you, Michael.
03:33Good to see you back.
03:33Robin, how about the letters again?
03:36Hi, Rachel.
03:36Can I have a consonant, please?
03:38Start today with H.
03:48And the last one, R.
04:06And here's the countdown clock.
04:38Well, Robin.
04:39Seven.
04:40A seven's high?
04:41Six.
04:42And that's six?
04:43Uh, poured.
04:44Yes?
04:45Provide.
04:46And provide.
04:48Provide, yes, very good.
04:49Good seven.
04:50Can we match it?
04:52Michael, Susie?
04:53No, I had provide and drive and pride.
04:56Mm-hmm.
04:57Yep.
04:57Prizzy.
04:58Proved was there, but provide was the only seven that we could find, Nick.
05:02All right, well done, Robin.
05:03Early start, but my word.
05:04Only one game gone now.
05:05Cy?
05:06Hi, Rachel.
05:07Hi, Cy.
05:08Hi, can I have a consonant, please?
05:09You can indeed, thank you.
05:10Start with N.
05:11And a vowel, please?
05:13E.
05:14And a consonant?
05:17F.
05:17And another consonant?
05:20D.
05:22And a vowel?
05:24A.
05:25And another vowel, please?
05:28E.
05:30And a consonant?
05:32W.
05:34And a consonant?
05:37R.
05:38And a vowel, please.
05:41And a final vowel, please.
05:43And a final U.
05:44Countdown.
05:45T.
05:47And a vowel, please.
06:16Sigh? Mr Six. Six and Robin? Eight. And an eight. Sigh? Fender. Mr Mackay? Unfeared. Unfeared? It's not there, I'm
06:30afraid, Robin. Sorry. Not specified in the dictionary, so I can't allow it. Sorry.
06:35Worth a chance, I suppose. Susie? Well, there's wafered, W-A-F-E-R-E-D, doesn't really refer to
06:42ice cream and puddings, and more to a very old sense, which was to fasten or seal a document with
06:48a wafer, which was a small disc of paste used for sealing letters.
06:54Thank you very much. All right, so Seven plays size six. Robin, it's a numbers game for you.
07:00Thank you. One large, please, Rachel. Thank you, Robin. One from the top row, and five little ones, and the
07:05first numbers game of the day is one, seven, four, six, three, and the big one, twenty-five. And the
07:15target, eight hundred and eighteen.
07:17Eight, one, eight.
07:48Robin? Eight, nineteen. One away, Si. Eight, two, five. Let's have a word with Robin first, shall we?
07:54Twenty-five times three, Rachel. Twenty-five times three, seventy-five. Plus seven. Plus seven is eighty-two. Six plus
08:02four is ten. Yep.
08:04And take off to one. So times them for eight hundred and twenty, and the one gets you one away.
08:09Very good. Very good, but not perfect. Rachel, what do you think?
08:14Yeah, there were a couple of ways. One, you could have said six plus four plus one is eleven. Times
08:21three, thirty-three. Times twenty-five, eight, two, five. And take away the seventh, eight hundred and eighteen.
08:27Well done. That's the way. Well done.
08:32So, Robin on 14, science six, as we turn to our first teatime teaser, which is marginal. And the clue,
08:39the noise was very worrying for the burglars. The noise was very worrying for the burglars.
08:59Welcome back. I left you with the clue, the noise was very worrying for the burglars. In fact, it was
09:05alarming. Alarming. So, Robin on 14, Si on six. Si, letters go.
09:11A consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Si. T. And another consonant. G. And a vowel, please. O. And another vowel.
09:24A. And a consonant. S. And a consonant. M.
09:33And a vowel, please. And a vowel, please. O. And a consonant. P. And a final vowel, please. And a
09:46last one. I. And it's countdown.
10:03O. And a consonant. O. And a Québec. There's two days. O. And a vowel, please. O. And another vowel,
10:19please.��.
10:19O. And a vowel, please.
10:20O. Sive.
10:23O. Just a five.
10:24A five.
10:25O. An avait O.
10:25Six.
10:26O. And a six.
10:27O. Sive.
10:29goats now then amigos amigos amigos yes absolutely it's um I'm pretty sure it's
10:37in the dictionary last time I checked certainly is yes Michael and Susie there
10:42is impasto for seven which is a term for from arts and it's the process of
10:47laying on paint or pigment really thickly to know it stands out oh yeah
10:50canvas thank you well done 20 points plays that size six Robin in the lead
10:56and it's Robin's letters game now Robin hi Rachel can I have a consonant please
11:00thank you Robin T vowel E consonant ah vowel sorry a consonant n vowel O
11:17consonant s vowel U consonant and the last one ah standby
11:31so
11:41MUSIC CONTINUES
12:03Yes?
12:04Returned.
12:04Si?
12:05Saunter.
12:06Saunter.
12:07Saunter, very nice.
12:07Good word, isn't it?
12:08Yes.
12:08Saunter.
12:09Very good.
12:10Now, what else have we got in the corner, Susie and Mike?
12:12Er, ranters.
12:14Yep.
12:14Yep, very nice.
12:16Good for seven, yes, we were with the sevens, Nick.
12:19All right, so 27 plays 13, and it's numbers game.
12:23For you, Si?
12:24I've got three from the top, please.
12:26You can indeed, thank you, Si.
12:27Three large and three little ones, something different.
12:29And for this round, the three smalls are seven, four, nine.
12:34And the big three, 75, 125.
12:38And the target, 398.
12:41Three, nine, eight.
12:42Two, ten, eight.
12:47Two, ten.
12:47Two, ten, eight.
12:52Yeah, we 5, ten, eight.
12:52Three, two, ten.
13:03Two, ten, nine.
13:05Four, ten, ten, nine.
13:07Two, ten.
13:09You
13:09One, ten, ten, ten.
13:10Bill.
13:11One, ten, ten.
13:12so 398 398 and robin 398 no doubts there sorry um four times 100 400 and then the nine minus
13:24the seven yeah and take it very straightforward 398 and trying with a slightly different minus
13:30nine plus seven you're happy all right so we score 30 37 to robin sign 23 we turn to michael
13:41and michael took just a little bit about um falling out with greg dyke well that about
13:49yes ratted little chap uh remember him he was director general i do and i don't quite know how
13:56i i i crossed him but i was uh i'm going in to do the 10 o'clock news after
14:01lunch after rather
14:01good lunch as i recall and he was there in the lift in the television center you know slumped
14:06against the far wall and uh he looked at me and he said late again and i said yeah me
14:12too and
14:14it didn't go down very well i was called to his office which was actually really quite um austere
14:20for such a senior public servant as director general of the bbc you know just a full-length
14:24mirror and a throne but i thought the time had come when i really ought to diversify and get
14:29into after dinner speaking um and they're really hazards that you don't anticipate you know as a
14:34as a work on television i mean you've got an audience but news you haven't got an audience at
14:39all and it's rather startling to see people but the other but the other thing is you get betrayed
14:44by the people introduce you at after dinner speaking or think they're wonderful speakers
14:48themselves and they have the freedom to take the mickey out of you in fact one of them introduced
14:52me in the following terms slightly risque i speak at a night as michael burke finest journalist of
14:58his generation warm witty and wise writes like shakespeare looks like a greek god irresistible to
15:05women and like all good newscasters writes his own introductions very good well done very good so um
15:15there you were in this lift because he was quite a competitive sort of chap isn't he uh yeah quite
15:20aggressive snapping i'd say and it's on this particular occasion though on other occasions
15:24quite warm and quite uh quite avuncular yeah yeah on the subject of being betrayed by people
15:29introducing you as a speaker um i was once in literary festival and observing ian mckeown perhaps one of
15:36the finest uh writers in the english language at the moment and the same thing happened to him this
15:42chap introducing him just was a prolonged mickey taking of ian mckeown and he was getting more and
15:47more angry uh and eventually when the time came for mckeown to speak he got up and he said it
15:53was
15:53the great philosopher hegel who said at my age i should only speak in public for as long as i
16:00can
16:00make love and then he sat down and nothing could persuade him to get up again is that right he
16:07really
16:08did it perfect riposte yeah it's very funny that line george hegel that's right you can only stand
16:13up and speak in public for as long as you can make love to your wife which according to the
16:18sun
16:18is three minutes so there we are try that one now then what should we do shall we turn now
16:25to robin
16:26for a letters game thank you um consonant please rachel thank you robin l and a vowel
16:32a consonant and the last one ah stand by
17:02so
17:14so
17:15so
17:15so
17:28Robin seven as seven side seven Robin enabled and blander blander yep very nice yeah Michael
17:41Susie I got blander I'm feeling very proud of myself as a result there was one eight that we
17:49could find it which was deniable deniable deniable okay okay sigh sigh is still in great touch there
18:0130 to 44 hi let us go a consonant please Rachel thank you sigh s and a vowel oh and
18:12another vowel you
18:15and a consonant G and another P and another T and a vowel please B and another vowel I and
18:36a
18:36consonant please and the last one S countdown
19:11yes I'm I'll try a seven please and Robin I'll try a seven as well then so so out pegs
19:19out pegs Robin
19:21posties posties posties absolutely fine there's no out peg I'm afraid sorry bad luck but posties
19:30the postman exactly what can we do in the corner there no no we're we're posty I'm posty yep you
19:42can have soupiest as well you can have the soupiest novel I've ever read which means sort of mawkishly
19:49sentimental you're making it up well Michael and I are old enough to remember pea supers mm-hmm in
19:58the back in the 50s and 60s yeah nasty and they were very soupy all right 51 plays 30 Robin
20:04in the
20:05the lead and it's Robin's numbers game one from the top please Rachel thank you Robin one large five
20:10little again and this time your five little ones are ten six four seven and eight and the big one
20:20100
20:21and the target to reach seven hundred and seventy six seven seven six
20:27so
20:41so
20:56Robin.
20:58776.
20:59And, Si?
21:00776.
21:01Thank you, Robin.
21:02100 plus 10, Rachel.
21:04110.
21:05Times 7.
21:06770.
21:07Hat on the 6.
21:07Yep, lots of roots for this one.
21:10Mm-hmm, Si?
21:11Yes, slightly different.
21:12100 times 8.
21:14100 is times 8, 800.
21:16And 6 times 4.
21:18Is the 24.
21:19And take it off.
21:19Lovely, well done.
21:25So, 61 plays 40, siren 40, as we turn to our second tea time teaser, which is Fess Fowl.
21:31And the clue, it sounds like Susan beats her eggs really hard.
21:35It sounds like Susan beats her eggs really hard.
21:54Welcome back.
21:55I left with a clue.
21:56It sounds like Susan beats her eggs really hard.
22:00And the answer is soufflés.
22:03Soufflés.
22:0361 plays size 40, and it's size lettuce game, Si?
22:07A consonant, please, Rachel.
22:09Thank you, Si.
22:10T.
22:12And a vowel, please.
22:14O.
22:15And a consonant.
22:17N.
22:18And a vowel, please.
22:21A.
22:22And a consonant.
22:25D.
22:25And another, please.
22:29G.
22:30And a vowel, please.
22:33E.
22:34And a consonant, please.
22:37L.
22:38And a final vowel, please.
22:40And the last one.
22:42I.
22:43And the clock starts now.
22:46And a vowel, please.
22:49And a vowel, please.
22:50And a vowel, please.
22:54And a vowel, please.
22:56And a vowel, please.
22:58And a vowel, please.
22:58And a vowel, please.
23:00And a vowel, please.
23:00And a vowel, please.
23:00And a vowel, please.
23:00And a vowel, please.
23:00And a vowel, please.
23:01And a vowel, please.
23:01And a vowel, please.
23:03And a vowel, please.
23:04And a vowel, please.
23:05And a vowel, please.
23:16Sigh?
23:17Seven.
23:18And Robin?
23:19Eight.
23:20Sigh?
23:22Leading.
23:23And Robin?
23:24Delation.
23:26To delete on someone was to inform against them to denounce them in the olden days.
23:32Rotten things to do.
23:33Yes.
23:33Snitch.
23:35All right.
23:36Anything else, Michael?
23:37No, I was fumbling with the feeble fives.
23:40Gonad.
23:41Being a little bit, you know, edgy.
23:44You can just have one.
23:45I did check.
23:47What, Gonad?
23:48Yes, I just watched.
23:49Then you become a mono-orchid.
23:51Did you know that?
23:52Yes, I knew that orchid comes from testicles, originally.
23:55Mono-orchid is a chap with just one testicle.
23:57Ah, okay.
23:58Something about Hitler, I suppose.
24:00Angel.
24:01Angel?
24:03I wanted to bring it back on track, you see.
24:05I think we're going off-piste.
24:07Excuse me a second.
24:08Rachel, what have you got there?
24:09Oh, you mentioned the one going out.
24:10No sooner than said than done.
24:14Well done, Rachel.
24:15Well done.
24:1669, please.
24:1740.
24:17And Robin.
24:18Can I have him a consonant, please?
24:20Thank you, Robin.
24:21D.
24:22A vowel.
24:24A.
24:25Consonant.
24:27M.
24:28Vowel.
24:30I.
24:31Consonant.
24:32F.
24:33Vowel.
24:35E.
24:36Consonant.
24:37M.
24:38M.
24:38Vowel.
24:40O.
24:41Consonant.
24:42And the last one.
24:44L.
24:45Stand by.
24:47BABY Vowel.
24:48A.
25:14BABY VOWEL.
25:17yes Robin eight and eight so I must stick with a six that six a fondle now
25:25they're on inflamed inflamed very nice can we get anywhere near that in the
25:35corner Michael and Susie mmm I did well on this one unusually inflamed I'd
25:41already got and manifold are very good excellent a manifold
25:51mmm seventy seven days forty and now Susie we're with you and your wonderful
25:56origins of words Michael you'll enjoy this I always do well we're from bandy
26:02words about on at this show and we have bandier actually is a possible word
26:06earlier and it reminded me of its its ultimate beginnings because Monday or
26:12bond was a game in France which was perhaps the predecessor of modern ice
26:18hockey game and it's involved people using crooked sticks to hit balls and
26:24strike them extremely hard at each other and as I say it's a little bit like
26:28hockey it came over into English it was played here for a while particularly the
26:33Irish liked it but this idea of the crooked stick gave us bandy legs because
26:39legs look sort of slightly crooked and if they're bandy but also the idea of
26:43tossing ideas and tossing words to and fro just like the ball in the original game
26:48and that brought me on to lacrosse as well because that has rather what I think
26:53fascinating beginnings because it emerged amongst tribal Native Americans who would
27:00swarm in their hundreds the sort of area that they were playing on each
27:05carrying a stick each trying to hit the ball it got incredibly ferocious and in
27:09fact in Native American Indian terms you will find was the translators brother of
27:16war or little brother or little war because they very often use this as a
27:20preparation for battle so ferocious was the actual fighting during during the
27:26sports and eventually of course it crossed over into Canada as well as North America as a sort of more
27:30modern team sport but the cross part again meant a crooked stick it was lacrosse the crooked stick that they
27:37and that they used and finally this leads to
27:41Pall Mall or Pall Mall Pall Mall famously in London used to be a huge thoroughfare
27:47in St James's Park where people would play the game of Pall Mall which was a little bit like croquet
27:52played by the aristocrats in the 17th century and that game gave Pall Mall its title
28:00but also might possibly explain why when we talk about something being Pall Mall today
28:04it's sort of slightly disorganized and all over the place perhaps like as some of
28:07the balls that were hit by those aristocrats in the 17th century
28:10well well thank you very much
28:14always joy
28:16thanks Susie 77 to size 40 and Si you're back on with the penultimate letters game
28:22a consonant please Rachel thank you Si D and a vowel A and a consonant T and a vowel E
28:35and a consonant T and a consonant T and a consonant T and a consonant T and lastly S
28:57Standby.
29:28Standby.
29:29Yes, Si?
29:29Ah, sorry.
29:31Oh, five.
29:32Five.
29:33Robin?
29:33Eight.
29:34Si?
29:35Dates.
29:37And...
29:37Dictates.
29:38And dictates.
29:40Well done.
29:40Very good.
29:45Well done.
29:47Can we beat it?
29:48Can we match it?
29:48In the corner?
29:49No, I'm after hubris nemesis in my case.
29:52Cadets, though.
29:53Cadets.
29:54Nice.
29:54Fine.
29:55And I had ecstatic, which is another eight.
29:58Oh, that's not bad, is it?
29:59Ecstatic.
30:01I'd be ecstatic at that.
30:03Brilliant.
30:0385 plays 40.
30:05Robin, last letters game.
30:07Can I open a consonant, please?
30:09Thank you, Robin.
30:10N.
30:11And a vowel?
30:13A.
30:14Consonant?
30:16S.
30:17Vowel?
30:18O.
30:19Consonant?
30:21T.
30:22Vowel?
30:24S.
30:24E.
30:25Consonant, sorry.
30:28M.
30:29Vowel?
30:30A.
30:32And a consonant.
30:33And the last one.
30:34J.
30:35Going by.
30:36T.
30:38T.
30:38T.
30:39T.
30:39T.
30:40T.
30:43T.
30:44T.
30:47T.
30:52T.
30:54T.
30:56T.
31:07Robin, six, sign, seven, yes, Robin, stayman, sign, seaman, uh, seaman is there, but it's a six rather than a
31:16seven, I'm sorry, what can we have, I wonder, Michael and Susie, no, no, I've peaked now, I'm going downhill
31:22steadily, steam was as, as much as I, when it came out of my ears,
31:27and Susie, uh, rather unusual, uh, seven there, namast, um, N-A-M, or namaste, I think is correct, oh,
31:34it's a buddhist thing, N-A-M-A-S-T-E, it's a respectful greeting, said, uh, when giving a
31:39namaskar, which is a traditional Indian greeting, or gesture of respect, so you put your hands together and bow, oh,
31:46that's what it is, yes, yes, namaste, is it, namaste, that, it's a lovely sign, don't you think, it is,
31:56yeah,
31:56yeah, very peaceful, very, 91 plays, 40, and Si, final numbers game, I hope it's one from the top, please,
32:03Rachel, thank you, Si, just one this time, and five more little ones again, and for the final numbers game
32:08of the day, the little ones are two, nine, eight, three, and six, and the big one, 100, and the
32:17target, 853, 853.
32:52Si, 854, one away, Robin, 853, 853, so, 100 plus six, Rachel, 106, times it by eight, 848,
33:04then that one, the three, and the two, lovely, well done, 853.
33:07Well done, Robin, and he's there, he's over 100 again, let's go into the final round, shall we, fingers on
33:14buzzers, please, Robin, Si, and let's roll today's countdown conundrum.
33:22Is that you, Robin?
33:23Renewable.
33:24Renewable, so fast, let's see whether you're right.
33:29Well done.
33:34Terrific performance, once again, 111 points, Si, you came on the wrong day, takes back to Maidstone with you, and
33:41thanks for coming.
33:42Thanks very much.
33:42All right, well done.
33:43Robin Mackay, we shall see you tomorrow, we look forward to it, well done again, well done.
33:48See you, chaps, tomorrow, Michael and Susie, of course, tomorrow.
33:51All right, now then, Rachel, Mr. Mackay is really sharing some strong promise, don't you think?
33:59I thought I could put my feet up for a few days, and I've definitely done that.
34:02All right, see you tomorrow.
34:04See you then.
34:04Same time, same place, you be sure of it, a very good afternoon.
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