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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:04APPLAUSE
00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:34Now, it's a special year, special time for World Heritage this year
00:38because it celebrates its 30th anniversary of the inscription
00:42of the first seven UNESCO sites here in the UK,
00:45and they're wonderful sites, actually.
00:47Way up, of course, the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland,
00:50and it goes on St Kilda, and Durham Castle and Cathedral,
00:53that's another one, and the birthplace, they say,
00:56that would be Ironbridge in Telford in Shropshire.
00:59But my own favourite, in my own home county, really, in Wiltshire,
01:02where I grew up, we have two, we have Stonehenge and, of course,
01:05Avebury, that beautiful twin circles of, you know, Neolithic stones.
01:09Wonderful. I used to go there as a kid.
01:11Do you have a favourite site?
01:14I've not been to any of the ones in England that you just mentioned,
01:17in the UK, rather. Have you been to the Giant's Causeway?
01:20Yes, a long time ago. Yeah, it's always windy up there, actually.
01:24I was slightly worried about getting blown into the Atlantic,
01:27but there we are. I've been there, yeah.
01:30Well, you can just take me one day.
01:33In the hope that I'll get blown in, or that you will.
01:36I'd like to see it, like a tour guide.
01:38We'll hold hands. All right, then.
01:40Now, who have we got? Rach, we've got Tom Stephens back.
01:43Won his fifth game yesterday, well done. Thank you.
01:46Well done. And when you first came on the show, of course,
01:48you were up against somebody who'd won four shows,
01:50Doug, I think his name was, in fact, I'm sure it was.
01:52And I said to Doug, be careful.
01:54And I'm saying to you, be careful,
01:56because there's always somebody in the wings.
01:58And will that be Charlie Clarke, from Cork, I wonder?
02:01Hi, Nick. Welcome, Charlie. Thank you very much.
02:03From the good city of Cork. That's right.
02:05I've never been to Cork, but I must go. You must go.
02:08Now, what's all this about banana boats and bumpy rides?
02:12Well, years ago, when my children were young,
02:14we were down by the sea and there was one of these inflatable bananas
02:18being towed by a speedboat.
02:20So the kids said, Dad, come onto it.
02:22And they put me at the back.
02:24I thought this was great,
02:26until the speedboat suddenly turned direction sharply
02:29and I got flung off the back, hit the water face first,
02:32and was floating stunned in there
02:34and had to be assisted by the children onto the speedboat.
02:39I wasn't expecting that.
02:41So I had a few choice words for the speedboat driver afterwards.
02:44LAUGHTER
02:46The winded floating face down? Totally, yeah.
02:48Not good? Yeah. It's like hitting a wall, really,
02:51when you're not expecting it, you know.
02:53Well, kids love to see their fathers in uncomfortable situations.
02:56They enjoy it immensely.
02:57All right, let's have a big round of applause for Charlie and Tom.
03:00APPLAUSE
03:03And please welcome back in the corner, Susie Dent.
03:06And she's back.
03:07It's good afternoon to Good Morning Britain presenter Charlotte Hawkins.
03:10Good afternoon. Lovely to be back. Thank you for having me again.
03:13Good to see you. All right, now then, Tom Stevens.
03:16Shall we have a letters game? Let's, yeah.
03:18Good afternoon. Afternoon, Tom.
03:20Let's start with a consonant, please. Thank you. Start today with T.
03:23And another.
03:25R
03:27And another.
03:29M
03:31A vowel.
03:33O
03:34And another.
03:36I
03:38And another.
03:40A
03:42A consonant.
03:44L
03:46A consonant.
03:48T
03:50And a vowel, please.
03:51And the last one.
03:53E
03:54And here comes the Countdown Clock.
04:15CLOCK TICKS
04:27Yes, Tom?
04:28A seven.
04:29A seven. Charlie?
04:30Six.
04:31And a six. Your six?
04:32Matter.
04:33And?
04:34Termite.
04:36Oh, it's only one E, Tom. Were you spelling it wrong?
04:38No.
04:39Oh.
04:40Yeah, sorry.
04:41Yeah.
04:42Bad luck.
04:43What else have we got? Charlotte, Susie?
04:45Maltia, for seven.
04:47Yes.
04:48And triolet.
04:50A poem of eight lines.
04:52It's structured so that the first line recurs as the fourth and the seventh, etc., every three lines.
04:57A triolet.
04:58A triolet. Thank you.
05:00So, Charlie, six points, early lead, and we turn back to you for your letters game.
05:06Hi, Rachel.
05:07Hi, Charlie.
05:08May I have a consonant, please?
05:09You may, thank you. Start with N.
05:13And another one.
05:15C.
05:16And a third.
05:19S.
05:20A vowel, please.
05:22I.
05:23And another vowel.
05:24U.
05:26A third vowel.
05:27A.
05:28A consonant.
05:30Z.
05:31Another consonant.
05:33M.
05:34And a final vowel.
05:36And a final O.
05:38Stand by.
05:42MUSIC
06:10Yes, Charlie?
06:11A six.
06:12A six, Tom?
06:13Six.
06:14Charlie?
06:15A cousin.
06:16And?
06:17Mannix.
06:18Thank you, Mannix.
06:20Um...
06:22Ooh, I'm not sure that's going to be there as a noun, Tom.
06:25Um...
06:28No, it's just there as an adjective, so we can't put the S on, I'm afraid.
06:32Sorry.
06:33Have luck.
06:34What can we do? Charlotte?
06:35Well, there's mosaic.
06:37Six as well.
06:38Yes.
06:39Pretty good.
06:40And musico, which is an old term for a castrato in a choir.
06:45So that gives you another six.
06:47Thank you. Not used very often these days, are you?
06:49I don't think so.
06:5012 points for Charlie.
06:52Tom, it's your numbers game.
06:54One large, please, Rachel.
06:56Thank you, Tom.
06:57One from the top, five small ones.
06:59And the first numbers game of the day is...
07:013, 8, 10, 6, 4, and the large one, 25.
07:07And the target, 358.
07:09358.
07:38Yes, Tom?
07:40358.
07:41Charlie?
07:42358.
07:43Thank you, Tom.
07:4525 plus 6 plus 4.
07:4725 plus 6 plus 4, 35.
07:49Times it by ten and add the 8.
07:51358, lovely.
07:53And Charlie?
07:54Yes, I just switched the 10 onto the 25 and then...
07:58Switched them over.
07:59Lovely. Same result.
08:01There you go.
08:02APPLAUSE
08:04So, Tom's off and running.
08:06Ten points to Charlie's.
08:0722 as we go into our first teatime teaser,
08:10which is I React By.
08:12And the clue,
08:13I react with my usual sharp and forthright tongue.
08:16I react with my usual sharp and forthright tongue.
08:20MUSIC
08:34APPLAUSE
08:41Welcome back. I left you with the clue,
08:43I react with my usual sharp and forthright tongue.
08:46And the answer is acerbity.
08:48Acerbity.
08:50Ten to 22, Charlie on 22.
08:52It's Charlie's letters game now.
08:54Rachel, can I have a consonant, please?
08:56Thank you, Charlie.
08:58N.
08:59And another one?
09:01S.
09:02And another consonant?
09:04B.
09:05A vowel, please?
09:07E.
09:08Another vowel?
09:10I.
09:11And a third?
09:13A.
09:14And a consonant, please?
09:16R.
09:17Another consonant?
09:19L.
09:20And a final consonant?
09:22And a final...
09:24N.
09:25Stand by.
09:26MUSIC
09:33MUSIC CONTINUES
09:57Well, Charlie, seven.
09:59Tom?
10:00Seven.
10:02Berlin's.
10:04And Tom?
10:05Banners.
10:08Berlin's.
10:10Berlin, the capital is in there.
10:12Yeah, I thought it was something musical.
10:14Oh, sorry. Not in there, I'm afraid.
10:16What can we have?
10:18Another seven is lesbian, we can have.
10:21And?
10:22Banners, mailers, quite a few sevens, actually.
10:25All right. Well done. Thank you.
10:27Now then, Tom, letters game.
10:30A consonant, please?
10:32Thank you, Tom. S.
10:34And another?
10:36Q.
10:38And a vowel?
10:40E.
10:41And another?
10:42O.
10:44A consonant?
10:46F.
10:47And another?
10:49N.
10:51A vowel?
10:53I.
10:56A vowel?
10:59A.
11:00And a consonant, please?
11:01And a last one?
11:02R.
11:03Stand by.
11:30Yes, Tom?
11:31Just a six.
11:32A six. Charlie?
11:33Seven.
11:34Tom?
11:35Frames.
11:36Charlie?
11:37Formier.
11:39Well done.
11:40Formier.
11:41Excellent.
11:42Very good.
11:4329 now to 17, my word.
11:45Now, Charlotte and Susie.
11:47Yeah, another seven, airsome?
11:50Yes.
11:51A local word in Canada, in Newfoundland,
11:56it means cold, windy or bracing, perhaps on the Giant's Causeway.
12:00It would be airsome.
12:01Airsome.
12:02Very good. Anything else?
12:04No, that was our best, along with Framier.
12:06That'll do.
12:0729 plays 17, and now we move to numbers.
12:09Charlie, how are you with the numbers?
12:11One large one.
12:12Thank you, Charlie. One from the top again.
12:14And five little ones.
12:16And this time, small numbers are one, six, eight,
12:22another one, and nine, and the large one, 75.
12:26And the target, 573.
12:29573.
12:51Yes, Charlie?
13:03I didn't get it.
13:05How did Tom do?
13:06573.
13:08Take it away.
13:09So 75 times eight...
13:12600.
13:14One plus one is two.
13:16Six divided by two is three.
13:19And nine times three to get the 27 to take away.
13:22Perfect. 573.
13:24Well done indeed.
13:28Well done, Tom. You're back in touch now.
13:30Two points behind, 27 to Charlie's.
13:3229, so we turn to Charlotte.
13:34And, Charlotte, here we are in the early afternoon.
13:36Of course, this must seem like the middle of the night to you
13:39because you start working at six,
13:41which means you've got to get up pre-dawn.
13:43Yes.
13:44Oh, dear.
13:45Bright and early.
13:46I mean, I love working in breakfast television
13:48where you tell people you're up,
13:49you tell them what's going on in the world first,
13:51but it does mean a very early alarm call.
13:54And I think it is the question that I get asked the most,
13:57what time do you get up in the morning?
13:59I have had some recent good news on this front
14:01because I used to set my alarm for 2.40 in the morning.
14:05It's a bit eye-watering, isn't it?
14:07But they've just moved our morning meeting slightly back
14:10and I think this might be to give peers a bit of extra beauty sleep in the morning.
14:15So now I get up at three o'clock,
14:17which I know would still bring most people out in a rash,
14:19but for me there's something quite nice about your alarm clock
14:22starting with a three rather than a two.
14:25It kind of feels like you're getting a bit closer to morning.
14:28But it is quite strange because usually when I go into work
14:31there are a fair few people making their way home,
14:34staggering back after a good night out,
14:36so you know that it's early when that happens.
14:39But I do have the capacity to fall asleep anywhere and anytime,
14:44which can have its uses but sometimes can be a little bit embarrassing.
14:47On the train in particular, although I always worry about missing my stop
14:51and ending up at the end of the line somewhere.
14:54At the hairdressers when I'm having my hair washed.
14:57I've even managed to sit upright having a manicure and fall asleep,
15:01so that's another one.
15:03In the backs of cars, which I worry about because inevitably
15:06you worry that you've been snoring or dribbling or something
15:09and you're always a bit worried if you wake up
15:12and the driver's looking at you a bit quizzically in the rear view mirror.
15:16But I think the most impressive place I've managed to fall asleep so far
15:21is at the dentist's.
15:23Now he had given me painkillers but it wasn't just a normal check-up
15:28that I was having when I managed to fall asleep.
15:30It was actually during root canal surgery.
15:33So he was trying to keep waking me up and saying,
15:36you really have to keep your mouth open.
15:38He was a bit worried about how much anaesthetic he'd given me.
15:42But from my point of view, it was a really lovely comfy chair.
15:45I was lying back, but perhaps not the right place to be falling asleep.
15:50I need the name of that dentist.
15:53He's obviously a brilliant pain management man.
15:57It's not just the pain, it's the noise.
15:59It's the good bedside manner as well.
16:01Fantastic. Anyway, thank you very much. Well done.
16:04Thank you, Charlotte Hawkins.
16:08Now, only two points in it. Well done.
16:11Well recovered, Tom.
16:13And it's your letters game now.
16:15Consonant, please.
16:17Thank you, Tom. S.
16:19And another?
16:21T.
16:22And another?
16:24L.
16:26And a vowel?
16:28O.
16:29And another?
16:31V.
16:33And another?
16:35U.
16:37Consonant?
16:39D.
16:41And another?
16:43S.
16:45And a final vowel, please.
16:47And a final E.
16:49Stand by.
17:08MUSIC
17:21Yes, Tom?
17:23Just a six again.
17:24A six, Charlie?
17:25Seven.
17:26Tom?
17:27Er, tossed.
17:28And, Charlie?
17:30Loudest.
17:31Very good.
17:32Loudest, good man.
17:33Yeah, excellent.
17:35Can we beat it? Can we match it? Charlotte, Susie?
17:37There is a seven, which is tousled, as in tousled hair.
17:41Yeah.
17:42And an eight?
17:44Yes, not very pleasant.
17:46D.
17:47To get rid of lice.
17:49Very important.
17:51APPLAUSE
17:56Very important for those who are unfortunate to have them.
17:59So, 36 to 27.
18:01Charlie's sped ahead again and it's Charlie's letters game.
18:04Consonant, please, Rachel.
18:05Thank you, Charlie.
18:06N.
18:07And another one.
18:09M.
18:10Another consonant.
18:12R.
18:13And a vowel.
18:15A.
18:16Another vowel, please.
18:17I.
18:18A consonant.
18:20T.
18:21And a vowel.
18:24E.
18:25A consonant.
18:27R.
18:29One more consonant.
18:31And the last one, N.
18:33Stand by.
19:04Yes, Charlie?
19:06A seven.
19:07A seven, Tom?
19:08A seven.
19:09Charlie?
19:10Mariner.
19:11And?
19:12Remnant. Sorry, remnant.
19:13Remnant.
19:14Remnant.
19:15Yes, very nice.
19:16Mariner, yeah.
19:17Now, then, in the corner.
19:20So, eight, train men, is that one word?
19:23Yes.
19:24Yes, people who work on the railways, excellent, that's a really good eight.
19:27And that might be as good as it got for us.
19:30And train, trainer, remnant, that kind of thing.
19:33But train men's excellent.
19:34Train men, thank you.
19:3643 to 34, and it's Tom's numbers game.
19:39Good luck, Tom.
19:40One from the top again, please.
19:41Thank you, Tom, one large.
19:43Five little for the third time today.
19:45And these numbers are...
19:475, 4, 5, 2, 8 and 75.
19:54And the target, 424.
19:56424.
20:00Yes, Tom?
20:294 2 3 1 away and Charlie. No, I'm further away further. Yeah
20:34How much further I'll say 4 3 2 4 3 2. Okay, and
20:40Tom
20:4175 times 5 times 5 3 7 5
20:454 times 2 is 8 times by the other 8
20:5164
20:53I've gone wrong. So
20:55Sorry, I meant 4 plus 2 4 plus 2 4 6. Sorry times 8 times 8 48
21:01Should be 4 2 3. Yes. It is 4 2 3 1 away
21:05Well done. Well done
21:07No
21:08Rachel 44 let's nail this one. Yeah a couple of ways and one you could have said 5 times 5
21:1525 at 75 for 100 8 minus 2 is 6 add them all together for 106 and times it by 4
21:24Well done
21:29As we come to our second tea time teaser
21:30Which is blog sack and the clue the woodcutter is really behind with all his jobs
21:35The woodcutter is really behind with all his jobs
21:54I left with the clue. The woodcutter is really behind with all his jobs and the answer that one is
22:01backlogs
22:02Backlogs. All right, 41 to 43 Charlie two points in the lead
22:08Charlie that's his game
22:10Constant please Rachel. Thank you Charlie D and another consonant
22:15T a third one
22:17P a vowel, please. Hi and another vowel Oh
22:23Another vowel a
22:27Consonant
22:29D
22:31another consonant s and a vowel and the last one a
22:38Tantor
22:53You
23:09Yes, Charlie seven and Tom seven Charlie adipose
23:15adipose Tom and toddies
23:19toddies
23:20Toddies. Yes, very good
23:23All about tissue used for the storage of fat
23:26Some medical term that's adipose. Thank you and Charlotte
23:31There is a dioptase
23:33Yes, that's there for eight. That's a rare mineral occurring as emerald green or blue green crystals
23:40Dioptase very good
23:44So two points in it 52 at Tom's 48 and Tom here's your chance with the less is game
23:51Consonant, please. Thank you Tom W and another ah
23:57And another
24:00D
24:01vowel Oh
24:04and another a
24:08And another
24:10You
24:12Consonant
24:14G
24:16Vowel I
24:20And consonant, please and lastly s stand by
24:51You
24:58Tom
24:59Stick with a six a six Charlie and a six
25:02Tom guards and
25:05Charlie gourds
25:07Yeah words
25:10Now Charlotte and Susie
25:12There is a seven jealous. I will have to hand you over to Susie for the definition of this, right?
25:18Yes useful for a countdown, but you won't hear it regularly in daily life is both old and derogatory
25:24So probably not to be used a Jawa is a non-muslim, especially a Christian
25:29How do you spell it again? Gi a oh you are okay. Thank you
25:3456 to 54 still at two points as we turn back to Susie for her wonderful origins of words and today Susie
25:43Well today, I'm going to talk a little bit about possibly the most boringly titled
25:49Process that happened in the history of the English language. It's actually quite exciting and it's called the great vowel shift
25:55Which doesn't exactly make your hair stand on end
25:58But it's actually responsible for so many instances in English where the sound of a word is
26:05Completely different to the way that it's spelt and it took place over many centuries between about 1350 and
26:121600 so vowels in words like blood used to be pronounced blued and flood
26:19Similarly, it was fluid but that all changed and the spelling stayed the same
26:23But today I wanted to talk about a consonant change and that is in the word colonel, which is spelled obviously colonel
26:29So we have to go back to around 1550 when we borrowed the word
26:35Colonel twice
26:36From French. It seems very strange in a few decades apart. So the first one was colonel and the second was coronel and
26:45Both of them come from the Italian colonella
26:47Which means a little column and the idea was that the the officer with this title?
26:52Traditionally led the first little column at the head of a regiment. So that makes sense, but the spelling with the R
27:00Was the result really of words changing because they trip more easily off the tongue
27:05So purple, for example used to be spelt purple and pepper, but that's quite hard to pronounce
27:11American accent so we put the L in and something similar was going on with with colonel
27:16So coronel and colonel prevailed side-by-side for it in certainly in written language for quite a long time
27:24but the sound slowly began to change and
27:28Colonel was around and then coronel people didn't like the sound of that
27:32So it became coronel and eventually colonel which we ended up with today
27:36But all the way through the spelling looks back to the Italian colonel a colonel. Oh a little column
27:50Thank You Susie, all right, so 56 plays 54 Charlie you're gonna hang on to this lead I hope so
27:57Go on then. Let us go
27:59Constant, please Rachel. Thank you, Charlie L and the second one, please
28:04Why and another consonant G and a vowel?
28:10E and another vowel Oh
28:14Consonant ah
28:16another consonant
28:19P a vowel a
28:24And a final vowel and a final
28:27I
28:29stand by
28:58a
29:00Yes, Charlie a six six Tom just a five and you're five pager now then Charlie player a
29:10Player yeah
29:13Now
29:15Charlotte we have a seven and it's something that I would love to have in my garden pergola a pergola
29:23Your wish will be granted
29:25Susie
29:26No, that was the best the art structure in the garden climbing plants often they do
29:31Good 62 page 54 Tom final letters game
29:38Consonant, please. Thank you Tom D and another
29:43H and another
29:46T and
29:49another
29:50n
29:52vowel
29:53E and another
29:56Oh
29:57and another
30:00You
30:02Consonant
30:04Okay
30:06And a final consonant, please and a final teeth done by
30:26I
30:42Yes, Tom just a six a six Charlie seven
30:46Tom touted touted now then
30:49nutted
30:50Yes
30:52Very good
30:53All right. Now
30:56What are the corner?
30:57Yes, I think the only other we just had a seven as well. That was knelt it. Yes
31:05Again I think it's knelt it but probably originally it was knelt it as it's about with a K at the beginning
31:11Again, not something happily you're likely to encounter too often in Imperial Russia
31:16And now it was a whip used to inflict punishment often causing death and to be knelt it was to be flogged with such a whip
31:23Wow, that's pretty serious. Yeah, not nice. It kills you. Yes. It's as often causing death. Yeah. Whoa
31:3069 to 54
31:32Impressive there Charlie as you go into the final numbers game Charlie one large one, please Rachel
31:38Thank you, Charlie one large five little and this is for the win possibly the final numbers game of the day is five three
31:46seven ten
31:48two and
31:49100 and the target
31:51373 373
32:22I
32:25Charlie
32:26373 373 Tom. Yeah, thank you very much and Charlie
32:31100 by 3
32:33300 300 10 by 7 70 and 5 minus 2 is the other three add them all together
32:40Perfect. There we go. Anton exact same way. All right
32:43So
32:4779 plays 64 as we lurch into the final round, which of course is the conundrum round
32:53So fingers on buzzers, let's reveal today's countdown conundrum
33:14I
33:26Know with watered here, but who in the audience
33:30What brave do I see hands? Yes, ma'am incurable incurable. Let's see whether you're right
33:38Incurable well done
33:44That's a very good start Susie because Charlie she's in that seat tomorrow playing you so watch out
33:52Bad luck Tom you great player five good wins and who knows, you know, you're sailing high
33:58We may well see you in the finals in December. I hope we do. Thank you
34:03Charlie we shall see you tomorrow. Thank you very much. There we go. I hope you haven't got a ticket back to court
34:09Not yet
34:11Have an open return well played we shall see you tomorrow. We shall see Charlotte tomorrow as well and Susie, of course
34:19And Rachel and no relaxing for Tom's. It's only a few weeks for the finals. Absolutely. Yeah all likelihood. He'll be back
34:24All right, see you tomorrow. Same time. Same place. You be sure of it a very good afternoon
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