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00:17Thank you very much.
00:31Good afternoon. Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:34Now, tomorrow is a very, very important date in history, in the history of warfare, I guess,
00:40because it will be the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme.
00:44Terrible, terrible battle.
00:46And to mark that centenary, overnight vigils will take place tonight in every UK capital city,
00:51including at Westminster Abbey around the grave of the unknown soldier.
00:55And then tomorrow morning, a national commemorative service will be held not far from here at Manchester Cathedral,
01:01followed by a people's procession and a live music orchestra featuring the Halle.
01:07And what a terrible, terrible battle it was.
01:09I think, Rachel, on the very first day, the very first day,
01:13something like 50,000 people were either killed or wounded, just in the day.
01:17And then, of course, I think there's a great luncheon's memorial to commemorate the 72,000 people who were actually
01:26killed.
01:26It was just awful, just awful.
01:30So, prayer for those who fell in the Battle of the Somme.
01:33Now then, Rachel, we've got joining us Andrew Fenton, our reigning champion with three wins under his belt,
01:39proposed to his girlfriend by spelling out,
01:41will you marry me, I love you, in beer bottle tops on the lounge carpet.
01:46Andrew, you're an exciting sort of fellow.
01:48Well, it's different.
01:49It certainly is.
01:50Yes.
01:50And, of course, then you got married, and you've got two children.
01:53You've got a little boy of, I think, seven.
01:58Seven and...
01:59And the new one, Harrison.
02:00Yes, ten weeks.
02:01Not married yet, but getting there.
02:04All right, well done.
02:05All right.
02:05Now, Andrew, you're joined by Rhys Danino.
02:09Hello there.
02:10Rhys, how are you?
02:11I'm apprehensive, but happy enough.
02:12I'm so grateful that you managed to grow that beer, especially for us.
02:15It's a magnificent appendage.
02:17That is all mine.
02:18That is all mine.
02:18Brilliant.
02:19And you're a private tutor living in...?
02:23In Whitney, in Oxfordshire at the moment, yeah.
02:24All right.
02:25And you're tutoring, what, A-level students?
02:28Yeah, A-level students.
02:29Sort of, I'm looking for students who are applying to university,
02:31so we do admissions tests and interview technique.
02:34Great stuff.
02:35Now, you once took yourself off to Reykjavik,
02:39to the University of Iceland, to learn the language.
02:41It got the better of me, to be honest.
02:43Is it a difficult language?
02:44It is fiendish, yeah.
02:45And, well, you don't get many people learning Icelandic,
02:48so either they assume you speak it or you don't.
02:50It's quite binary, so you're never quite sure where you are.
02:52All right.
02:52Anyway, let's have a big round of applause, then,
02:54for Mr Danino and Mr Fenton, Andrew Fenton.
02:58APPLAUSE
03:01And over in the corner, Susie, of course,
03:03and the wonderful comedian and impressionist, John.
03:07John, welcome back.
03:09Great friend of this programme.
03:10Well, it's always lovely to be here.
03:12Iceland, of course, great for the northern lights.
03:14Some wonderful displays up there in the auroral oval,
03:17as they call it, yes.
03:18So more from John Cultural shortly,
03:20but now we get down to business with Andrew's letters game.
03:23Andrew.
03:24Good afternoon.
03:25Afternoon, Andrew.
03:25Can I have a consonant, please?
03:27Starts with F.
03:29And a vowel.
03:51And a final consonant, please.
03:54And a final R.
03:56And here's the countdown clock.
04:23MUSIC PLAYS
04:29Andrew.
04:30Dodgy seven.
04:31Now then, Rhys.
04:32Um, seven, yes.
04:34All right.
04:35Andrew.
04:35Furries.
04:37And Rhys.
04:37Um, ferries.
04:38Are we happy?
04:39But you need...
04:40Oh, hang on, you need two E's there.
04:41So you do.
04:43Oh, I'm sorry.
04:44No problem.
04:44Andrew, what else was...?
04:45Furries.
04:46Furries.
04:47Um, no.
04:49That's not very the furry history of being fine.
04:51All furries, but not furries.
04:52I'm sorry.
04:53A happy release for Rhys there.
04:55A happy escape.
04:56And over in the corner now then, John Culshaw.
04:58Uh, what do we have here?
05:00Figures.
05:01Is there?
05:02Figured.
05:02Yes.
05:03Uh, both for, uh, seven.
05:04And, uh, guiders.
05:06Do we have?
05:07Yes.
05:07Just there as a synonym for guide, really.
05:09Um, but useful for countdown, because you can add the R, so that's definitely another seven.
05:13All right.
05:13Well done.
05:14Thank you very much indeed, sir.
05:15It's a zero, zero.
05:17Who's going to kick us off?
05:17Rhys?
05:18Letters game.
05:19Hello there, Rachel.
05:20Hi, Rhys.
05:20Can I start with a consonant, please?
05:22Start with S.
05:24And a vowel?
05:26A.
05:28And another consonant?
05:30M.
05:31And a vowel?
05:33U.
05:34And another one, please.
05:37I.
05:38And a consonant, please.
05:40T.
05:41A consonant, please.
05:43Y.
05:44Um, a vowel, please.
05:47O.
05:48And finally, a consonant.
05:50And finally, N.
05:53Stand by.
06:24Yes, Rhys?
06:25Six.
06:26Six.
06:26Andrew?
06:27Six also.
06:28Rhys?
06:29Mutiny.
06:30Mutiny.
06:30Andrew?
06:31Mutiny also.
06:32All right, there we are.
06:33Yep.
06:34So we're both away there, six points apiece.
06:37And over in the corner, Susie and John.
06:39Well, we've got, there's an eight over here.
06:43Manitous.
06:44Manitous, yes.
06:45They are good or evil spirits.
06:48Very good.
06:52Well done.
06:53Well done for the Manitous.
06:55Six apiece, as I say.
06:56And we're on the numbers game.
06:57First of the day, Andrew?
06:59Two from the top, please.
07:01And four anywhere else.
07:02Thank you, Andrew.
07:03Two large, four little.
07:05And the first numbers game of the day is five, six, nine, four.
07:11And the large two's 50 and 25.
07:14And the target, 1-5-7.
07:161-5-7.
07:33And the target, 1-5-7.
07:34And the target, 1-5-7.
07:36And the target, 1-5-7.
07:36And the target, 1-5-7.
07:36And the target, 1-5-7.
07:36And the target, 1-5-7.
07:36And the target, 1-5-7.
07:36And the target, 1-5-7.
07:37And the target, 1-5-7.
07:37And the target, 1-5-7.
07:38And the target, 1-5-7.
07:38And the target, 1-5-7.
07:39And the target, 1-5-7.
07:39And the target, 1-5-7.
07:40And the target, 1-5-7.
07:43And the target, 1-5-7.
07:48Andrew.
07:491, 5, 6.
07:501, 5, 6.
07:51Read.
07:52I've got it wrong.
07:53Nothing.
07:54All right.
07:55So let's turn to Andrew.
07:574 times 25 is 100.
08:004, 25 is 100.
08:02Plus 50.
08:03Plus 6.
08:05And at the 6.
08:06Yes.
08:07Yes.
08:07One away.
08:08There we go.
08:09But we like to get it right, don't we, Rachel?
08:121, 5, 7.
08:13Yes.
08:14Plus if you say 6 minus 4 is 2.
08:19Times 9 is 18.
08:22And then 5 times 25 is 1, 2, 5.
08:26Add the 50 for 1, 75 and take away the 18.
08:301, 5, 7.
08:31Well done.
08:32Thank you, Rachel.
08:351, 5, 7.
08:37Let's have a key time teaser.
08:39First one of the day.
08:40It's vain sight.
08:42And the clue.
08:43It sounds like you ask lots of vowels to come to your party.
08:47It sounds like you ask lots of vowels to come to your party.
09:08It sounds like you ask lots of vowels to come to your party.
09:14And the answer is invitees.
09:18Invitees.
09:19So, Andrew on 13, Rhys on 6.
09:22And Rhys, it's your letters game.
09:24Can I have a consonant, please?
09:25Thank you, Rhys.
09:27S.
09:27And a vowel, please.
09:29E.
09:30And another one.
09:32A.
09:33And a consonant, please.
09:35T.
09:36And a consonant, please.
09:39J.
09:41Um, vowel, please.
09:43I.
09:44And a consonant, please.
09:46L.
09:47And a consonant, please.
09:50N.
09:51Um, and a vowel, please.
09:54And lastly, O.
09:56Stand by.
09:57And a consonant, please.
10:28Ries?
10:29Um, 7, yes.
10:30A 7.
10:30Andrew?
10:31I'll stick with a 7.
10:33Ries?
10:33Um, elation.
10:35Elation and?
10:36Same word.
10:37Same word?
10:37Yes.
10:38All right, just show it to, er.
10:40Sorry.
10:40There we go.
10:41Well done, well done.
10:42And John and Susie?
10:43There was another quite nice 7 there.
10:45Salient.
10:46Yep.
10:47And, er, for 8, you could have had toenails.
10:53Toenails.
10:53Now then, 20 plays 13.
10:55Andrew in the lead.
10:56And it's Andrew's letters game.
10:58A consonant, please.
11:00Thank you, Andrew.
11:01S.
11:02And another, please.
11:04B.
11:06Vowel.
11:06E.
11:08Vowel.
11:10A.
11:11And vowel.
11:13E.
11:15Consonant.
11:16N.
11:17Consonant.
11:20G.
11:21Consonant.
11:23N.
11:24And a final consonant, please.
11:26And the last one.
11:27R.
11:29Countdown.
12:01Andrew?
12:02Seven.
12:03A seven?
12:04Seven as well.
12:05Two sevens.
12:06Andrew?
12:07Bangers.
12:08Bangers, Riz?
12:09Yep, bangers as well.
12:10There we go.
12:10Yep.
12:12Any more bangers over in the corner?
12:13Yeah, we've got some bangers over here.
12:15Also some beans to go with the bangers.
12:17Yes.
12:18And, um, banners as an alternative.
12:23Banners.
12:23Yeah, amongst that lot.
12:24Thank you so much.
12:25We done, Susie?
12:26Yeah, and Rage is another seven.
12:27Lots of sevens.
12:28All right.
12:2927, please.
12:3120.
12:31Only seven points in it as we turn to Riz and his first numbers game.
12:36Riz?
12:36Could you please have one large and five small?
12:38You can, indeed, very enthusiastically.
12:40Thank you, Riz.
12:41One large one, five little ones coming up.
12:42And for this round, your five small ones are ten, two, four, six, eight, and the large one,
12:5025.
12:51And the target, 315.
12:543-1-5.
13:25Riz?
13:263-1-5, I think.
13:273-1-5.
13:28And Andrew?
13:293-1-4.
13:303-1-4.
13:31Riz?
13:32Okay.
13:33Um, I think eight times four is 32.
13:35Yep.
13:36Plus two is 34.
13:38It is, indeed.
13:39Times by ten.
13:39340.
13:41Minus 25.
13:42Perfect.
13:42315.
13:44Strong stuff, Riz.
13:47Well done.
13:49Very good.
13:50Two points, three points even in the lead.
13:52Now, 32.
13:54Andrew's 27.
13:55Andrew's 27.
13:55As we turn to the great John Karlsjord.
13:58John, what have you got for us?
14:00Well, it's a bit of a saga today, Nick, about the, someone who's considered to be amongst
14:04the unluckiest of explorers and astronomers of all time.
14:09And he was born in Coutances, in France, in 1725.
14:13Now, Susie, you'll tell me if I get his pronunciation correct.
14:17Guillaume Le Gentil.
14:18Very good.
14:19Le Gentil, yes.
14:20Excellent.
14:21That was his name.
14:22And, as we say, one of the unluckiest explorers and astronomers of all time.
14:26He was a member of an international collaboration who, at the time, they were seeking to work out
14:31the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
14:34We now know that that's 93 million miles, one astronomical unit.
14:37But, at the time, the way they wanted to work it out was to send 100 people to strategic
14:43points around the world, and all of them would take scientific measurements of the transit
14:49of Venus, where we see the disk of Venus moving across the Sun as a black dot.
14:55And with this collective information, in the 1700s, we could work this out.
15:00And the French part of this mission turned out to be particularly unlucky, and not very
15:05well-starred for our friend Guillaume Le Gentil.
15:09So he set out from Paris in 1760 for Pondicherry, a French territory of India.
15:14However, the wind was going in completely the wrong direction, blew them completely off course.
15:18By the time their ship got close to Pondicherry, where they needed to be, the British had occupied
15:23the city, which meant they couldn't go there.
15:25So he had to turn around and go all the way back to the Isle de France.
15:29And when the day of the transit of Venus came, the skies were beautifully, perfectly clear,
15:35ideal observing conditions.
15:36But he couldn't make any scientific observations at all, because he was on board a ship, and
15:40it was rolling around everywhere.
15:42So that was that.
15:43His mission failed.
15:45Time had been wasted.
15:47But transit of Venus happened eight years apart in these pairs, and such pairs are separated
15:52by a hundred years.
15:54So he thought, do you know what, I've missed this one, but I'll hang on.
15:58I'll wait eight years for the next one.
16:00But on the day he'd waited eight years for, it was completely overcast.
16:05And he missed it again.
16:07And this drove him to the point of almost insanity.
16:10He almost lost his mind.
16:12But after a while he decided, OK, I've summoned enough strength, I'll sail home.
16:18And finally, he made it home 11 years later, back to Paris.
16:24When he got home, he discovered that his wife had remarried.
16:28He had lost his place at the Royal Academy of Sciences.
16:32His relatives had happily plundered all his belongings and stolen everything.
16:36So he had to speak to the king and intervene, and it took a long time to get everything put
16:41back, but eventually things were all normalised and brought back to how they should be.
16:48And he remarried and lived happily ever after for another 21 years.
16:52Thank goodness for that.
16:53I don't think I could have coped if it had gone wrong at the end, but it ended happily
16:57for Jean de Gentile.
17:00Oh, brilliant.
17:06There you go.
17:07So 30 points to Andrew's 27.
17:10Rhys, three points in the lead.
17:12It's Andrew's letters game.
17:14A consonant, please.
17:15Thank you, Andrew.
17:16S.
17:17And a consonant.
17:19M.
17:20And another.
17:23N.
17:24And a vowel, please.
17:25I.
17:27Vowel.
17:27A.
17:29Consonant.
17:30P.
17:32Consonant.
17:35L.
17:36Vowel.
17:38O.
17:40And another vowel, please.
17:42And lastly, E.
17:44Stand by.
17:45F.
17:46R.
17:46C.
17:47F.
17:50F.
17:52F.
17:53F.
17:54F.
17:55F.
17:57F.
18:16Yes, Andrew?
18:18Risky eight, not written down.
18:20Mm-hmm.
18:21Ris?
18:21Seven.
18:22So you're seven?
18:23Animals.
18:25Now then, Andrew?
18:26Pomains.
18:27P-O-M-A-I-N.
18:28Yeah.
18:29Might have made it up.
18:32Er, I think you might have done.
18:34It's not there, I'm afraid.
18:36And animals, you need two A's.
18:39Oh, so you do.
18:40Yeah, sorry about that.
18:42Let's actually do flat base.
18:44Now then, what have we got over there?
18:47Susie uncovered two eights in just like that, straight off the bat.
18:52Manipause there for eight, as was the curse of school dinners, semolina.
18:57Semolina for another eight.
18:59And one more.
19:00Yeah, well, manipause is subdivision, or were subdivisions of Roman legions, but also vestments worn in the Christian church.
19:07So two very different meanings.
19:08And a neoplasm is a new and abnormal growth of tissue, something you don't want to have.
19:15Thank you, Susie.
19:16So still at a three point between Rhys and Andrews.
19:21You turn to Rhys for his letters game.
19:23Can I have a consonant, please?
19:24Thank you, Rhys.
19:26R.
19:26Another one, please.
19:29C.
19:30And a vowel.
19:32U.
19:33And a consonant, please.
19:35P.
19:36And a vowel.
19:38I.
19:39And a vowel.
19:41E.
19:43And a vowel.
19:45A.
19:47And a consonant.
19:49X.
19:51And finally a consonant.
19:52And the last one, T.
19:54Stand by.
19:56And a vowel.
20:21And a vowel.
20:21And a vowel.
20:22And a vowel.
20:22And a vowel.
20:22And a vowel.
20:22And a vowel.
20:22And a vowel.
20:23And a vowel.
20:25And a vowel.
20:26Rhys?
20:27A seven.
20:28A seven, Andrew?
20:29Just a six.
20:30Your six?
20:31Pirate.
20:32Now then, Rhys?
20:33Um, picture, I think.
20:35Picture.
20:35Yes, very good.
20:37Excellent.
20:37Picture.
20:38John?
20:39Cuprite for seven.
20:41Yes, dark red or brownish black mineral.
20:44Very good.
20:45There we go.
20:46Ten points in it.
20:4637 to 27.
20:48Andrew, it's your numbers game now.
20:50Two from the top, please.
20:51The usual.
20:52Thank you, Andrew.
20:53Two large, four little, and this time, your four little ones are four, ten, six, and five,
21:00and the large ones, one hundred, and fifty, and this target, eight hundred and seventy-five.
21:06Eight, seven, five.
21:39Eight, eight, zero.
21:40Eight, eight, zero.
21:42Rhys?
21:42Eight, seven, zero.
21:44Let's go with Andrew first, shall we?
21:46Ten plus six is sixteen.
21:49Sixteen.
21:49Times fifty is eight hundred.
21:51Yep.
21:51Plus a hundred is nine hundred.
21:55And then five times four is twenty, and take it away.
21:58Yep.
21:58Four, five away.
22:00Eight, eighty.
22:01Now then, Rhys, the other way.
22:03No, don't worry, I've made a mistake.
22:04Forget that.
22:04So, we turn to Rachel.
22:06Get us out of this muddle.
22:07Eight, seven, five.
22:08Can you do it?
22:09Yes.
22:10If you say one hundred divided by four is twenty-five, and then fifty minus ten and minus the five
22:17is thirty-five,
22:18we'll times them together.
22:19There you go.
22:20That's the way it's done.
22:22Well done.
22:23So, thirty-seven for Rhys Andrew on thirty-four, as we turn to our second tea-time teaser,
22:30which is Mud Lords, and the clue,
22:33Is she depressed about Barbie's musical accessories?
22:37Is she depressed about Barbie's musical accessories?
22:57Welcome back.
22:58I left with the clue,
22:59Is she depressed about Barbie's musical accessories?
23:02And the answer is doldrums.
23:06Doldrums.
23:07So, there we have it.
23:09Thirty-seven for Rhys, Andrew on thirty-four.
23:11Rhys, letters.
23:12Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
23:13Thank you, Rhys.
23:14D.
23:15And another one?
23:17G.
23:18And a vowel, please.
23:20O.
23:21And another one?
23:23I.
23:24And a consonant, please.
23:26T.
23:27And a consonant, please.
23:29V.
23:30And a vowel?
23:32A.
23:33And one more vowel, please.
23:35E.
23:37And one last consonant.
23:38And one last D.
23:41Stand by.
23:42T.
23:43T.
23:43T.
24:14Rhys?
24:15A six, I think.
24:16Andrew?
24:16A seven, I think.
24:18Right.
24:19Rhys?
24:20Oviate.
24:22And Andrew?
24:24Godetia.
24:24G-O-D-E-T-I-A.
24:26Godetia?
24:27Very good, yes.
24:28Classic countdown word, that one.
24:30It's the North American plant for showy flowers.
24:33There is no oviate, though.
24:35I'm afraid Rhys says ovate.
24:36Or aviate, but no oviate, sorry.
24:3941 points to Rhys.
24:41It's 37.
24:42The game's on.
24:42Andrew, letters game.
24:44A consonant, please.
24:45Thank you, Andrew.
24:47G.
24:47And a vowel.
24:49O.
24:50And a consonant.
24:53R.
24:54Vowel.
24:55A.
24:57Consonant.
24:58W.
25:00Vowel.
25:02O.
25:04Consonant.
25:05T.
25:06Consonant.
25:08M.
25:10And a vowel.
25:12And lastly, I.
25:14Stand by.
25:15Vowel.
25:17Vowel.
25:18Vowel.
25:28Vowel.
25:30Vowel.
25:31Vowel.
25:32Vowel.
25:32Vowel.
25:32Vowel.
25:47Mmm. Andrew? Just a five.
25:50A five, Breeze? Only a five as well.
25:52Andrew? Groom.
25:54And? Motor.
25:56And motor. Yeah, motor was the only thing.
25:59That was it, Susie? Yes, I apologise.
26:02If people get better at home, then I can applaud them,
26:05because we didn't hear the five. Well done.
26:07All right. So, 46 plays 42.
26:10Susie, your origins of words delight us normally.
26:15What have you got today?
26:17Well, I'm going to answer an email,
26:19at least I'm going to try and answer an email, from Kong Law,
26:21who asks for the origin of two sayings, which are all about codes, really.
26:25The first is, why do people call out May Day, May Day, when in trouble?
26:29And the second was, why is D-Day so called?
26:32What does the D stand for?
26:34I'm going to start with SOS, because that's inextricably linked with May Day.
26:39And lots of stories about SOS.
26:41Most people think it stands, or a lot of people think it stands,
26:44for Save Our Ship or Save Our Souls, etc.
26:47In fact, it originated in German, in the German language,
26:51some three years before.
26:53It was used by the government in Germany.
26:55So we know that Save Our Souls and Save Our Ships doesn't quite work.
26:59And the answer is, it was chosen because it's very easily transmitted in Morse.
27:03So it was one of the easiest codes to relay in the Morse code.
27:09However, it wasn't the easiest, apparently, to pick up by telephone.
27:13The letter S could often be misheard,
27:16which is why the international radio distress signal became May Day.
27:22And that has much more of a linguistic origin, if you like,
27:25nothing to do with the month of May,
27:27and everything to do with the French,
27:28which Mede, meaning help me.
27:30The D-Day, the D there was simply a code name for any given day.
27:36D was for day.
27:37It was used a lot in military circles.
27:39And in order not to divulge the exact timing of an operation
27:43that was in subterfuge or a covert operation,
27:45a definite date was never written down except as D.
27:49And, of course, a different war to the Battle of the Sun
27:52we were talking about earlier,
27:53the day the Allied troops invaded France,
27:55which was the 6th of June, 1944.
27:57That was one such operation, one of many,
28:00and the code name has stood for it ever since.
28:03Indeed. Well done.
28:07Thank you, Susie. Thank you.
28:1146th place, 42.
28:12Andrew's back where he normally finds himself,
28:15but there's time for Rhys.
28:17No time like the present, Rhys.
28:19Let us get in.
28:20A consonant, please, Rachel.
28:21Thank you, Rhys.
28:22P.
28:23And another one.
28:25N.
28:26And a vowel, please.
28:28A.
28:29And another vowel.
28:31E.
28:32And a consonant, please.
28:34V.
28:35And another consonant, please.
28:38T.
28:39And a vowel.
28:41I.
28:43And another vowel, please.
28:45O.
28:47And one last consonant.
28:48And the last one.
28:49N.
28:51Countdown.
29:09And another vowel, please.
29:09And another vowel, please.
29:09And another vowel, please.
29:09And another vowel, please.
29:09And another vowel, please.
29:09And another vowel, please.
29:10And another vowel, please.
29:10And another vowel, please.
29:11And another vowel, please.
29:12And another vowel, please.
29:13And another vowel, please.
29:23Rhys? Only a five, I'm afraid. Andrew? Eight, I think. Rhys? Patio. Thank you. Now then. Innovate. That is a
29:33really excellent one. We haven't seen that, Andrew. Well done. Very good. Very good indeed.
29:38Thank you. What? What have you seen? One more eight in there. Venation was there for eight. It's the arrangement
29:45of veins in an insect's wing or veins in a leaf. So they can show different types of venation, different
29:53very patterns.
29:54Well, thank you very much indeed. 54 plays. 42. And it's the final letters game for Andrew Fenton. Andrew? Continent,
30:03please. Thank you, Andrew. D.
30:06And a vowel. A. Consonant. P. Vowel. U. Consonant. T. Consonant. L. Vowel. I. Another vowel. A. And a final
30:32vowel, please. And a final E.
30:35And here comes the countdown clock.
30:37Here comes the countdown clock.
30:40Mate, D.
30:412.
30:47Alright.
30:48Let's do it.
30:48To the countdown.
31:00We'll be right.
31:01Bye.
31:01Bye.
31:09andrew seven a seven reese seven as well thank you andrew platted and plaudit uh i would have
31:18made the same mistake reese but um plaudits is actually only given in the dictionary in the
31:21plural i'm afraid so you can't have a singular plaudit which seems a bit mean what else we got
31:26john interesting seven amongst that lineup palated is there for seven yes palated having
31:32a palatable taste of a very specific kind specified kind i see anything else is it no that was it
31:38that
31:39was our best for seven that's it yes all right 61 plays 42 final numbers game good luck reese
31:45could i have one large or five small rachel don't want to gamble this late sage um 19 points in
31:50it
31:5020 to get okay three large trees why not you regret it if it was easy three large ones three
31:56little
31:56ones clunky reese and for this final round they are nine six two and the big ones
32:0225 50 100 and the target 811 811
32:12so
32:25so
32:41Rhys?
32:428-1-1, I think.
32:438-1-1, and Andrew?
32:468-1-1.
32:47So, Rhys?
32:482 plus 6 is 8.
32:50Yep.
32:50Times 100, 800.
32:51800.
32:5250 over 25 is 2.
32:54It is indeed.
32:55So then, 800 plus 9 plus 2.
32:57Lovely.
32:58Well done.
32:598-11.
33:00Andrew.
33:00Same way.
33:02There we go.
33:02Yep.
33:03Great.
33:04Well done, guys.
33:05All right.
33:07So, 52.
33:0952 plays 71.
33:11Andrew's on 71.
33:12Let's have a conundrum, shall we, shall we?
33:14Fingers on buzzers.
33:15We're revealing.
33:16We're rolling today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:26Rees.
33:26Is it difficult?
33:28Let's see whether you're right.
33:30Here it comes.
33:32Difficult.
33:33Wow.
33:38Well done, Rees.
33:39Well done, indeed.
33:40And well done, Andrew.
33:41Andrew lives to fight another day.
33:43Just about.
33:44Sort of just, yeah.
33:45But, Rees, I'll first of all say what a good performance you did because you beat old
33:50Andrew down.
33:50He's normally up in the 90s and he's only on 71 and he's lucky to be there, frankly.
33:55You put up a great old fight.
33:56So, well done.
33:57Cheers.
33:57You take this back to Whitney with you.
34:00And your A-level students will be very proud of you.
34:02They'll really listen to what you're saying now.
34:04Thank you very much.
34:05Thanks for coming.
34:06Thank you for having me.
34:06All right.
34:07Now, Andrew, we'll see you tomorrow.
34:09Okay.
34:09See you tomorrow.
34:10All right.
34:11And we'll see John tomorrow.
34:13More tomorrow.
34:14And Susie, too, of course.
34:15See you tomorrow.
34:15Well done.
34:16Yeah.
34:17Old Andrew was giving a run, wasn't he?
34:18Yeah.
34:19I blame myself with that last numberless game.
34:21No crucial conundrum to put you on edge.
34:24Good game, though.
34:24Well done.
34:25Well done, indeed.
34:26See you tomorrow, Rachel.
34:27See you tomorrow.
34:27See you tomorrow.
34:28Same time, same place.
34:28You'll be sure of it.
34:29A very good afternoon to you all.
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