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00:31Welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:33It's the second semi-final today, and it's all to play for placing tomorrow's final, my word, a race to
00:40victory.
00:40And talking about racing, there'll be lots of high-speed racing and motoring antics down at Goodwood House over the
00:47weekend
00:47as the Goodwood Festival of Speed begins.
00:50And you used to have a very fast car, I seem to recall.
00:54Have you toned down?
00:55Well, it wasn't too bad. I'm quite sensible now, but I have had a go in a rally car.
01:00Do you know Tony Jardine?
01:01No.
01:02Brilliant man. He's an ex-Formula 1 driver, I think, and now he does rally driving.
01:07And I got to be his co-driver for a little while, so you have the maps and you have
01:11to kind of direct what's about to happen
01:13as he's driving at top speed.
01:15And it was so much fun. I was going to do it for a little while, but then we couldn't
01:19get insurance clearance, unfortunately,
01:21because it's brilliant just sitting there and going fast with someone who really knows.
01:25Did you feel safe and comfortable?
01:26I felt absolutely calm and safe and fine in his hands.
01:29He knows exactly what he's doing. He's been doing it for years and years and years.
01:31And obviously there's all the roll bars and the security, the safety helmet and everything you're wearing.
01:37Sure.
01:37It was loads of fun.
01:39I think you're braver than I am.
01:40I was driven around another racing circuit called Castle Coombe down in Wiltshire, which is a charming, lovely place,
01:49by an Aston Martin works driver.
01:53And I was the passenger.
01:55I was horrified.
01:58I thought, if we hit that wall, we are dead.
02:02Oh, you'd be in safe hands with Tony.
02:03You should have a ride with him.
02:05Maybe.
02:06Maybe I'm just too old.
02:08Never say that.
02:09I think so.
02:10It's awful.
02:10Now then, Robin Mackay.
02:13Rachel, we've got Robin Mackay.
02:15Our second seed is with us today.
02:17Scored over 100 to beat Sean Cook from Cork in the semifinal.
02:22And you're joined today by Anne Dibbon, our third seed.
02:26Welcome back, Anne.
02:27Came through a thrilling quarterfinal against Tim Down to qualify for today's semifinal.
02:33That was a terrific game, wasn't it?
02:35It's at the heart racing bit.
02:36It really was.
02:37It had us all our hearts racing.
02:39Feeling confident about it?
02:41Nothing.
02:42Yeah?
02:42All right.
02:43Well, good luck to you both.
02:44Big round of applause for our semifinalists.
02:54And over in the corner there, the wonderful Dr. Phil, supported as ever,
03:00or is it the other way around, by our wonderful Susie Dent?
03:03Our wonderful Susie Dent.
03:04We're inextricably linked, Susie and I.
03:06Is there an umbilical cord?
03:08There's a hot water bottle.
03:09Yeah.
03:11And a metaphorical cord, shall we say.
03:13Exactly.
03:14How exciting.
03:14Let's take it away.
03:15Robin Mackay.
03:16Hi, Rachel.
03:17Hi, Robin.
03:18Consonant, please.
03:20Start this semifinal with N.
03:22Foul.
03:24O.
03:25Consonant.
03:27F.
03:28Foul.
03:29I.
03:31Consonant.
03:32S.
03:33Foul.
03:34A.
03:36Consonant.
03:37D.
03:39Foul.
03:42I.
03:43Consonant.
03:44And lastly, P.
03:47And here's the countdown clock.
03:48I.
03:49I.
04:04I.
04:17I.
04:18yes Robin six a six and six thank you Robin pianos and in the corner Susan
04:30Duff Phil dr. Phil no we couldn't talk the pianos or nothing no we couldn't
04:35all right so Anne your letters game afternoon Rachel afternoon and could I
04:40start with a consonant please thank you start with M and another ah and
04:47another please s and a vowel e and another vowel you and consonant n the vowel a and
05:04a consonant D and a final vowel please a final O standby
05:44and eight thank you Robin eight
05:47and neuromas thank you surnamed surnamed yeah well done that is absolutely
05:56brilliant both of them excellent eights well done did we have another eight no
06:01but I did spot neuromas which is interesting because probably the best
06:05known neuroma is an acoustic neuroma which happens on your acoustic nerve it's a
06:09cancer of the acoustic nerve and it presents with one-sided loss of hearing
06:14particularly in an adult when kids lose their hearing it's usually something
06:17like glue ear but if an adult suddenly loses hearing in one ear it's worth
06:21getting that checked out might just be wax but it could be an acoustic neuroma in
06:24which case the sooner it's cut out the better thank you very much so 14 a piece
06:28and it's Robbins numbers game now Robin hi Rachel can I have one large please you
06:33can indeed thank you Robin one large five little for the first time in this
06:37semi-final and these little ones are 7 5 4 2 and 10 and the large one 75 and the
06:47target 8 2 8 8 2 8
07:22Thank you. Thank you, Robin.
07:24828.
07:25And Anne.
07:26828.
07:27Robin.
07:28Right.
07:29Rachel, 7 plus 4 is 11.
07:307 plus 4, yep.
07:32Times it by 75.
07:33825.
07:345 minus 2 is 3, and add it on, please.
07:36Well done. One way to get there. 828.
07:39Anne.
07:39And I use that same way.
07:42Yeah, that's fine.
07:44Well done.
07:4724p.
07:5024p, and we turn to our first tea time teaser, which is after rib.
07:56And the clue.
07:57Sack the spoiled child for bringing home this insect.
08:02Sack the spoiled child for bringing home this insect.
08:20One welcome back.
08:22I left you with a clue.
08:23Sack the spoiled child for bringing home this insect.
08:26And the insect rat.
08:28Mm.
08:28What's that when it's at home?
08:29It's a fast-moving brownish bristle tail, which is a kind of wingless insect with bristles
08:34at the end of its abdomen.
08:35Right.
08:36And they like warm places indoors.
08:38Oh.
08:39It's a little bit like those silverfish, you know, the tiny silverfish.
08:42Yeah, yeah.
08:42They're quite common household pests, I think.
08:45All right.
08:4524 apiece.
08:46And Anne, Anne, it's a letters game for you.
08:49Thank you, Nick.
08:50Could I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
08:52Thank you, Anne.
08:53C.
08:54And another one, please.
08:56P.
08:57And a third.
09:01E.
09:01And another vowel.
09:03I.
09:04And a consonant.
09:06S.
09:07And a vowel.
09:10A.
09:12And a vowel.
09:14I.
09:16And a final consonant, please.
09:19And a final T.
09:21Stand by.
09:53Anne.
09:54Eight.
09:54An eight.
09:56Mr. Mackay.
09:57A seven.
09:57And a seven.
09:58Mm-hmm.
09:59What is your seven?
10:00Sapient.
10:00And Ebon.
10:02Patternize.
10:03Yeah, to cover with a patina, which is that sort of sheen that you get on the surface.
10:07And it's there for eight.
10:08Well done.
10:09Yeah, very good.
10:14Well done.
10:1532 to Robyn's 24.
10:17Robyn, letters game.
10:19Cover a consonant, please.
10:20Thank you, Robyn.
10:22V.
10:22And a vowel.
10:24E.
10:25Consonant.
10:27R.
10:28Vowel.
10:30U.
10:30Consonant.
10:32T.
10:33Vowel.
10:34A.
10:35Consonant.
10:37S.
10:38Vowel.
10:39E.
10:41Consonant.
10:42And the last one, G.
10:44And here's to count down clock.
10:45C.
10:47T.
10:47T.
11:14This is here.
11:16Robin. Seven. A seven and? I'll stick with the seven. All right. Robin. Gesture. Gesture and? Yep. There we go.
11:27Yep. Now. I couldn't make an eight. I got austere and gravis. Did you find an eight in there? No.
11:34Savruga caviar. Savruga for seven, but nothing more than that. Do you eat Savruga caviar?
11:40I once bought out the entire stock of Beluga caviar in the capital of Moldova, and it cost me about
11:49£3.50. It's brilliant. 31 plays, Anne's 39, and it's a numbers game for you, Anne.
11:56Can I have three large, please, Rachel? You can indeed. Thank you, Anne. Three large ones, three little ones coming
12:02up.
12:02And for the second time today, the numbers are two, six, four, and the large, 325, 75, and 50. And
12:11this target, 508.
12:13Five, zero, eight.
12:15Five, zero, four, and the large, one.
12:17Five, zero, eight.
12:44Next target, 508.
12:44Five, zero, eight.
12:45Anne.
12:46508.
12:48Yes, Ms. Bukai.
12:49508.
12:50508.
12:50So, Anne.
12:52675.
12:53675 is 450.
12:55Plus 50.
12:56500.
12:56And 2 times 4.
12:58Yep.
12:58And add it on.
12:59One way for 508.
13:01And Robin.
13:0275 plus 50 is 125.
13:04125.
13:05Times it by 4.
13:06Add on a 6 and a 2.
13:07Lovely.
13:08Well done.
13:08Same result.
13:10Very good.
13:14Well done, Robin.
13:15Well done.
13:16Anne.
13:16As we turn now to Dr. Phil Hammond.
13:19Dr. Phil.
13:20Now, as you know, I'm up to the Edinburgh Fringe in August.
13:23From August the 5th to the 27th, I think.
13:25I'm doing 40-odd shows.
13:27Two a day.
13:28You know, the NHS doesn't have enough money.
13:30It doesn't have enough staff.
13:31The staff are absolutely exhausted.
13:32They're on their knees.
13:33And yet, somehow, you as a patient have to survive it.
13:35Your little 10-minute consultation.
13:37So, I've been suggesting through the week, wear a T-shirt.
13:39If you tell me it's just a virus, I'll scream.
13:43Almost guaranteed to put a smile on their face.
13:45And part of the problem with medicine is it's very difficult making a diagnosis in 10 minutes.
13:48It's a guessing game, to be honest.
13:49And when somebody makes a provisional diagnosis, that's just the most likely diagnosis we can come up with in the
13:54six minutes we've got to make it.
13:55It could be something else.
13:56So, it's always worth asking, what else could it be?
13:58How would I know?
13:59The one I really like, though, is on the back of the T-shirt.
14:01This is my favourite question always to ask any doctor.
14:04What if we just did nothing?
14:06This is really interesting.
14:07The vast majority of treatments that we give you, for prevention, particularly, and for screening,
14:12the question of the answer to this is, if we did nothing, you're likely to live just as long as
14:16we would do if we did something.
14:17You've also got to figure out what sort of patient you are.
14:20So, here's one you could wear.
14:22I'm the kind of patient who likes to know everything.
14:25That would put your doctor on his guard immediately, wouldn't it?
14:28But if you want to know everything, ultimately, in medicine, everything ends with I don't know, because we don't know
14:32how, what's going to happen to an individual.
14:33We're not clairvoyants.
14:36But here's another one you could wear.
14:37If you don't fancy that, you could just get on with it.
14:39I'm knackered.
14:42Sometimes when you're ill, we say it would be an assertive patient.
14:44Sometimes when you're ill, you're absolutely exhausted.
14:46You just want professionals to get on and do a compassionate, competent job.
14:50So, it's perfectly OK also to wear this side of the T-shirt when you're feeling like it.
14:53OK.
14:53My final two, help me die without pain or poo.
14:58This is important, because you don't want to die in pain, and you don't want to die when you've got
15:00a little bit of trouble down below, do you?
15:02And so, let people know that.
15:03There's always something we can do.
15:05You know when you move from being treated into palliative care, and occasionally people say, well, there's nothing more we
15:10can do.
15:10There is always something more that can be done to relieve your symptoms.
15:13And my final, and actually most important one, I think, I think everyone in the NHS should wear this.
15:18Patients, carers, and staff.
15:19Just ask me for help.
15:21Healthcare is about collaboration.
15:22And actually, the NHS will only survive if we have patients and carers to help us.
15:26We don't have enough doctors and nurses, so actually we need everyone on board.
15:29All those 65 million people who are eligible to use the NHS, they should be helping out as well.
15:35So, patients and carers often have the best ideas about how to make the NHS better.
15:39So, just ask me for help.
15:41We all wear that when we go into the NHS.
15:42Automatically, the NHS will be much better.
15:44At a stroke, collaboration.
15:46Thank you very much.
15:47Very good.
15:48Excellent.
15:54Where can we get these T-shirts?
15:55Well, I just made them up, and actually, my message is make your own T-shirt.
15:59You know, you can use my ideas if you want to, but you decide what your attitude is.
16:02You decide what matters to you most in your ten minutes.
16:05Whack it on a T-shirt.
16:06Automatically, it'll be there.
16:07It's like making a list.
16:09This is the most important thing.
16:10Stick it on a T-shirt.
16:11I bet you it'll fundamentally change your ten-minute consultation.
16:14Very interesting.
16:14You have to do a test, but write and let me know if it does.
16:17If you get it removed by security, write and let me know that as well.
16:21Well done, Phil.
16:22Well done, indeed.
16:23All right.
16:2441 to Anne's 49.
16:26Robin, slightly adrift here.
16:27Let's see what you can do now, Robin.
16:30Consonant, please.
16:30Thank you, Robin.
16:32R.
16:33Foul.
16:35I.
16:35Consonant.
16:37Z.
16:38Foul.
16:39A.
16:40Consonant.
16:41H.
16:43Foul.
16:44O.
16:45Consonant.
16:46D.
16:48Vowel.
16:49I.
16:50D.
16:51Consonant.
16:52And the last one.
16:54L.
16:55And the clock starts now.
16:57We'll be here.
17:28Robin six a six and six Robin hairdo and lizard lizard a good one a lizard
17:40excellent a lizard with a hairdo you've got an animal there I've never seen
17:44before what's that it's a hero let me yeah and here are those at London Zoo
17:50possibly yes what is it here alone might be the correct pronunciation h-i-r-o-l-a
17:54rare yellowish-brown antelope native to Kenya and Somalia very early thank you
18:01very much 47 page 55 still that gap and you can stay ahead with this one letters
18:06game hi consonant please Rachel thank you and R and another one T and the third
18:17please F and a vowel E and another vowel please
18:24a and consonant R and a vowel O another vowel please you and a final consonant please and a final
18:43N
18:44stand by
18:45so
18:50so
19:16and
19:19seven now then Robin seven two sevens Robin on seven and fortune and
19:28fortune I came up with unfarter which an Australian word for somebody who opens the windows when
19:33somebody's let one go but
19:36made it over the side of the planet yet but I think it will be there soon unfarter
19:42yeah okay there is yes never mind um yes what
19:48that's fine uh fortune was our best for seven as well thank you Susie all right 62 to 54 and
19:55it's a numbers game for you
19:56Robin thank you one large please thank you Robin one large five little still just the one round in
20:04it and this third numbers game is three seven nine eight two and one hundred and a target nine hundred
20:15and forty nine nine four nine
20:21so
20:34so
20:34so
20:34so
20:34so
20:34so
20:34so
20:49now then Robin nine four nine nine four nine and nine four nine
20:54Robin right um eight minus three plus two is seven eight minus three plus two seven times about the other
21:00seven
21:01seven seven forty nine a hundred times nine plus forty nine basically
21:05one hundred and nine
21:06yeah nine hundred and forty nine lovely
21:09and
21:09the same way
21:10there we go Robin
21:12yeah
21:13happy with that
21:14all right
21:20in the movement then
21:2172 to 64 as we turn to our second tea time teaser which is
21:25each stem
21:26and the clue
21:27each stem of the harvest was cut down with these
21:29each stem of the harvest
21:31was cut down with these
21:49welcome back I left with the clue each stem of the harvest was cut down with these with what
21:55why with machetes
21:58machetes
21:58do we need to go into that
21:59I don't think so
22:01it comes from the Spanish for hammer
22:02okay
22:03but yes
22:04board heavy knives
22:06particularly useless
22:08sugar cane
22:09exactly
22:09yeah
22:10plantations etc
22:11or as a weapon as we know
22:12thank you
22:13all right
22:14so 64 for
22:16Robin
22:16and on 72
22:17and it's
22:18Ann's letters game
22:19Ann
22:19could I start with the consonant please
22:21Rachel
22:21thank you Ann
22:22L
22:22and another one please
22:24M
22:25and a third
22:26T
22:27and a vowel
22:29A
22:30and another vowel please
22:32O
22:33and a third vowel please
22:35U
22:36and a consonant
22:37W
22:40and a vowel
22:43A
22:45and a final consonant please
22:47and a final P
22:48standby
22:50standby
22:50O
22:51K
22:51T
23:01and
23:02and a
23:02and a
23:21Yes, Anne?
23:22Six.
23:23A six.
23:24Six.
23:25Two sixes.
23:26Anne.
23:27Outlaw.
23:28And both of you.
23:30Yeah.
23:30There we go.
23:31Well done.
23:32Great minds.
23:33And Dr Fell, Susie?
23:35What's that word?
23:36It's one of my favourites.
23:37It comes up once in a while.
23:38Plout.
23:39If you plout through the puddles, you splash and plop around.
23:44Anything else?
23:45No.
23:46It's quite enough, actually.
23:4878 plays 70.
23:50Robin, let us go.
23:52Can I have a consonant?
23:53Thank you, Robin.
23:54S.
23:55Vowel.
23:56I.
23:58Consonant.
24:00J.
24:01Vowel.
24:03A.
24:04Consonant.
24:06M.
24:07Vowel.
24:08O.
24:10Consonant.
24:11Consonant.
24:11R.
24:12Vowel.
24:15E.
24:16Consonant.
24:17And the last one.
24:18D.
24:20Stand by.
24:22Stand by.
24:52Well, Robin.
24:52Nine.
24:54Nine.
24:55This might be it.
24:56Anne?
24:57Nine.
24:57Nine.
24:59Now then, things are hotting up.
25:01Majorised.
25:03Yeah.
25:03Very good indeed.
25:06Well done.
25:12Oh, Robin, the way you snapped that one out, I thought, whoa, you must have felt good
25:16about that.
25:17She's good as Anne.
25:18Yeah.
25:18She's very good.
25:19Well, you're both very good.
25:21Ninety-six base, A.T.A., fantastic.
25:24What about the corner?
25:25Your nine?
25:26No, I just got majored.
25:28I didn't even realise majorised was a word.
25:30It is.
25:30It's actually not to do with majors at universities, particularly American universities.
25:34It's a mathematical term, and it's when one functional element of a mathematical calculation
25:39has dominance or precedence over another.
25:41That is majorising.
25:42So important.
25:44Very good.
25:44Yeah, absolutely.
25:46So, Susie, speak to us.
25:49Speak to us of wonderful things.
25:51Well, I've been talking about the most boringly named part of the English language that you
25:56can think of, collective nouns.
25:58But the ones that are lovely is when some sort of personality is ascribed to a particular,
26:03it's usually animals.
26:04So you have unkindness of ravens because they were thought to be augurs of bad things coming
26:09your way, a cowardice of curse, et cetera, and that kind of thing.
26:14But I thought I'd talk about two today.
26:16We have Norman, our lovely vicar, in the audience today.
26:18And back in the Middle Ages, men of the cloth weren't always seen in the greatest of lights,
26:24nor women either, actually.
26:25But I mentioned friars.
26:27They were called a skulk, a skulk of friars.
26:29They weren't attached to any particular monastery, yet they could still deliver confession, the
26:34sacraments, et cetera.
26:35They weren't hugely popular, and they were seen as being sort of skulking around and possibly
26:40taking favours in return for giving confession and that sort of thing.
26:44And monks were even worse.
26:46It was an abomination of monks.
26:47Again, they weren't particularly popular.
26:50They were known to flout the rules of chastity quite often.
26:53This is not all of them, obviously.
26:55But also superfluity of nuns was quite interesting.
26:58I'll finish with that one.
26:59That isn't necessarily because nuns were seen in a bad light, but because the convents were
27:04absolutely packed full of women who took the vows.
27:08And that was because once they'd passed marriageable age, which were still quite young in those
27:12days, there were only two options.
27:13One was to become a spinster and earn their living by spinning, and the other was to go
27:17into a convent and dedicate their lives to God.
27:20There were very few options available to them.
27:21So the convents were, in fact, really full.
27:24How interesting.
27:3096 plays at 88, and it's Anne's letters game.
27:35Anne.
27:36Thank you, Nick.
27:37Could I start with a consonant, please, Rachel?
27:39Thank you, Anne.
27:40C.
27:41And another consonant, please.
27:43V.
27:44And a third.
27:46R.
27:48And a vowel.
27:50I.
27:51And another vowel, please.
27:53A.
27:54And another vowel.
27:57E.
27:58And a consonant.
28:01L.
28:02And a consonant.
28:04R.
28:06And a final vowel, please.
28:09And a final I.
28:12Stand by.
28:45and seven robin seven and clavier yes laria laria yes i'm sure that would be fine be larry
28:57he's certainly be laria yes if you're larry you're cunning or conceited uh or a little bit flashy as
29:01well yeah can be yeah such good players such good players what have we got dr phil no we've got
29:08clavier very good all right and so we plow on well plow on we race on 103 points to ann
29:15well done
29:15and robin on 95 it's getting late robin it's your letters game have a consonant please thank you
29:21robin g and a vowel e consonant w vowel a consonant n vowel i consonant
29:38l um vowel you a consonant and the last one d stand by
29:51so
30:18well robin seven a seven and
30:22eight robin dealing and divan weedling how are you spelling that with an a w-e-a-d-l yeah
30:31it's w-h-e-e-d-l-i-n-g
30:34oh my word one point in it 102 two and 103
30:44in the corner take the pressure off us here a bit there were lots of sevens
30:49indulge uh dealing obviously and uh welding i think was there yeah
30:54yeah you could have stuck with your welding stuck with your welding oh you're still ahead but it's um
30:59one point in it and we're going into the numbers now ann it's your game three large please right
31:05thank you and three large three little and it's been a very good contest so far the final numbers
31:11game is three four one and the large three 25 75 and 50 and the target 673
31:21six seven three
31:54Anne?
31:556, 7, 3.
31:56Yes, Robin?
31:576, 7, 3.
31:59And Anne?
32:014 minus 1 is 3 times 3.
32:04Times 3 is 9.
32:05Times 75.
32:066, 7, 5.
32:08And 50 divided by 25.
32:09Yeah, well done.
32:10Take it away.
32:126, 7, 3.
32:12Very well done.
32:13Yeah.
32:13Thanks, Anne.
32:15Good luck.
32:15Well done.
32:16Yeah.
32:16Well done.
32:18APPLAUSE
32:21So there we are.
32:22Very generous too, Robin, to wish Anne good luck.
32:24That's the spirit of countdown, all right?
32:26But here we are.
32:27Things on buzzers.
32:28We've got a crucial conundrum here.
32:30Let's roll it.
33:02Let's roll it, then. Let's see what it is.
33:06Emphysema.
33:08Emphysema.
33:16There we go, chaps.
33:18And our third seed makes it to the final.
33:21And hard luck there, Robin. You've played so well.
33:24She's a good player. I wish her well in the final as well.
33:26Fantastic. Well done to both of you.
33:28Robin, you go home with a good event.
33:30I know it's not really what you wanted, but you've got some kryptonite.
33:33You'll be able to keep forever.
33:35I'm so pleased with how I've done, and I wish Anne all the best in the final.
33:37Thank you. Well done. Well done.
33:39And we shall see you tomorrow. Brilliant. Well done.
33:42I don't think I can stand it.
33:44You go and have a lie down now.
33:46All right. Brilliant stuff. We'll see you tomorrow at the final.
33:49Yeah, how exciting is that? I think it just played in a lovely spirit, but Anne's an absolute star.
33:54She risks stuff and goes for it and plays with great spirits.
33:58So well done.
33:58Absolutely.
33:59I don't know both of you. Really good. Really good game.
34:01Yeah.
34:01Well done, you two. We'll see you tomorrow.
34:04Well, we have a lady in the final.
34:07We do indeed. Could be our first female champion in my time.
34:11Let's see.
34:11All the pressure's on Anne.
34:12Let's see.
34:13All right.
34:14We'll see you tomorrow.
34:15It'll be a good final.
34:15Well done.
34:16Now, don't miss it tomorrow. Same time, same place.
34:18We've got a final. You be sure of it.
34:20A very good afternoon.
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