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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:34I wonder what's the longest time that you've spent on a single project.
00:40And I don't care how long you say it is.
00:42I bet that a young woman called Diana Keyes, well not so young anymore,
00:47has you beat hands down because she spent the last 40 years
00:51painting the inside of her house with scenes from the Sistine Chapel.
00:56Extraordinary. 40 years she's been at it.
00:59She listens to classical music while she's doing it.
01:01But the sort of tragedy in a way is that when she passes on or moves,
01:07because it's a councillor in property,
01:09somebody will move in with a lot of, you know, white distemper
01:12and blot it all out, which seems a terrible shame.
01:16But anyway, well done, Diana, for persevering.
01:19And I hope it looks an absolute treat.
01:21What about you? What have you been up to?
01:23Yeah, it's the set of, well, nine years on Countdown.
01:26I don't think that counts.
01:27I'm not, I pick things up and then I multitask.
01:31Yes.
01:31So I think I'll be learning Russian till I die.
01:33But I probably still won't be able to speak it even then.
01:36All right. Well done.
01:37You'll make it, don't you worry.
01:39Don't you worry.
01:39Who's with us?
01:40John Cole.
01:41I wonder whether he's going to make it.
01:43Retired yachting instructor from Gosport.
01:45Good win yesterday, John.
01:47So you got your teapot.
01:48How are you feeling?
01:50Pretty good. Thank you, Nick.
01:51Yeah, you came up with some great words.
01:53Scored 80, I think.
01:55Well done.
01:56Well, now you're joined, John, by Marjorie Humphries,
01:59retired computer analyst from Royston in Hertfordshire,
02:02who's been very modest about her golf.
02:04I think you belong to the Royston Golf Club
02:08and you play quite a lot.
02:09Quite a bit.
02:10You've got a long-term project ahead of you.
02:12You were telling me your handicap is not going down.
02:15It's sort of hovering a bit.
02:17It's hovering.
02:18Yeah, but you get out on the course anyway.
02:20I do quite a lot.
02:21You enjoy it.
02:22Excellent stuff.
02:23All right.
02:23And have you been playing Countdown at home for a long time?
02:26I have.
02:27And how are you at home?
02:29It's good?
02:29I'm OK at home, but here might be a different matter.
02:33Well, you shouldn't.
02:33You just pretend you're at home.
02:35If you half close your eyes, you can pretend you're at home.
02:38The thing is, it's a very gentle place, this,
02:40but people get sort of frightened by the big clock behind you.
02:44Just have a lot of fun today, both of you.
02:46A lot of fun and good luck to you both.
02:48Big round of applause now for John and Marjorie.
02:54And Susie's over in the corner.
02:56Where would we be without her?
02:58We would be in terrible trouble.
03:01And we are joined, or you're joined indeed.
03:03In fact, we're all joined by food writer and critic Jay Rayner.
03:07Welcome back, Jay.
03:08Hello.
03:13Brilliant.
03:14John, let's get down to business.
03:16Yes.
03:17Let us go.
03:18Thank you, Nick.
03:19Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:21Afternoon, John.
03:21May I have a consonant, please?
03:23You may, thank you.
03:23Start today with V.
03:26And a consonant, please.
03:28T.
03:30Vowel.
03:32U.
03:33Vowel.
03:35A.
03:37Consonant.
03:39N.
03:40Consonant.
03:42L.
03:44Vowel.
03:46O.
03:48Vowel.
03:50E.
03:51And a final consonant, please.
03:54And a final G.
03:55And here's the countdown clock.
03:57Vowel.
04:05Vowel.
04:16CEN.
04:17Vowel.
04:17CEN.
04:18CEN.
04:18CEN.
04:19CEN.
04:19Well, John?
04:29Six.
04:30Six, Marjorie?
04:31Six.
04:32Thank you, John.
04:34Tangle?
04:35Marjorie?
04:36Lounge.
04:39Can we beat six, chaps?
04:41We can go for seven.
04:43There is something you've never done, which is ovulate.
04:47I'm guessing.
04:48I don't want to assume.
04:49No, I think you're okay on that one.
04:50Okay.
04:51And tangelo.
04:53Tangelo.
04:53T-A-N-G-E-L-O, which is a form of fruit.
04:57That's right.
04:57And a new one on me, I have to admit, despite what I do for a living.
05:00It's a mixture, isn't it?
05:01Tangerine and something?
05:02Yeah, tangerine and grapefruit.
05:04That's the one, yeah.
05:05I have now tried one.
05:06I can report back.
05:06It's very nice.
05:07Did I mispronounce?
05:08Would it be tangelo?
05:09Tangelo.
05:09Tangelo is something.
05:10Well done.
05:12Six apiece.
05:13Marjorie, your introduction.
05:16Let us go.
05:17Hello, Rachel.
05:19Hi, Marjorie.
05:20Could I have a consonant, please?
05:21You can indeed, thank you.
05:22Start with R.
05:24And another.
05:26N.
05:27And a vowel.
05:29I.
05:29And another vowel.
05:33O.
05:34And a consonant.
05:36S.
05:37And another.
05:39N.
05:41And a vowel.
05:44E.
05:45And a consonant.
05:48S.
05:50And a consonant.
05:52And lastly, R.
05:55Stand by.
05:56And a consonant.
05:58And a consonant.
05:58And a consonant.
05:59And a consonant.
05:59And a consonant.
05:59And a consonant.
06:00And a consonant.
06:01And a consonant.
06:01And a consonant.
06:01And a consonant.
06:02And a consonant.
06:02And a consonant.
06:02And a consonant.
06:02And a consonant.
06:02And a consonant.
06:03And a consonant.
06:03And a consonant.
06:03And a consonant.
06:03And a consonant.
06:04And a consonant.
06:04And a consonant.
06:04And a consonant.
06:05And a consonant.
06:05And a consonant.
06:06And a consonant.
06:06And a consonant.
06:06And a consonant.
06:07And a consonant.
06:07And a consonant.
06:08And a consonant.
06:08And a consonant.
06:09And a consonant.
06:09And a consonant.
06:10And a consonant.
06:10And a consonant.
06:11And a consonant.
06:11And a consonant.
06:26Marjorie?
06:28Seven.
06:29And John?
06:30Seven.
06:31Marjorie?
06:32Snorers.
06:34Snorers.
06:35And John?
06:36Seniors.
06:37Very good.
06:39Yes, indeed.
06:40Jay?
06:41That's exactly what I've got scribbled on this sheet of paper,
06:43seniors and snorers.
06:44Well done.
06:45Susie, any advances?
06:46That's it?
06:46Tissot for me, yep.
06:4913 apiece.
06:50And it's John's numbers game now.
06:52Thank you, Nick.
06:54May I have two large and four small, please, Rachel?
06:57You may, indeed.
06:57Thank you, John.
06:58Two from the top.
06:59Four little coming up.
07:00And the first numbers game of the day is nine.
07:03Nine.
07:04Ten.
07:06Three.
07:07And I've taken one too many.
07:08So the large one, 75.
07:09One hundred.
07:11And the target?
07:13Three hundred and ninety.
07:13Three nine zero.
07:23Yes, John?
07:48Three nine three.
07:49Three nine three.
07:50Marjorie?
07:51Three hundred and ninety.
07:52Firmly said.
07:55Marjorie?
07:56Three times a hundred.
07:58Three times one hundred, three hundred.
08:00Nine times ten.
08:01I think John's kicking himself, rather.
08:03Three hundred and ninety.
08:04He's having a smile, anyway.
08:08There we are.
08:12It may be a smile through gritted teeth there, because it gives Marjorie a ten-point lead.
08:17And now it's time for a tea-time teaser.
08:19My word, John.
08:20What happened there?
08:22The teaser is Long Winky.
08:25And the clue?
08:27She looked at him, and they both smiled in this type of way.
08:31She looked at him, and they both smiled in this type of way.
08:35They both smiled knowingly.
09:00Knowingly.
09:02Twenty-three to thirteen.
09:04John on thirteen.
09:05Marjorie?
09:06Consonant, please, Rachel.
09:08Thank you, Marjorie.
09:09D.
09:10And another.
09:12F.
09:13And a vowel.
09:14O.
09:15And a consonant.
09:17P.
09:18And a vowel.
09:24U.
09:28And a vowel, please.
09:30I.
09:32And a consonant.
09:34S.
09:36And a vowel.
09:38And the last one.
09:40E.
09:41Stand by.
09:42E.
09:56And a vowel.
10:00Yes, Marjorie?
10:15Six.
10:16A six.
10:17And John?
10:17Seven.
10:18And a seven.
10:19Marjorie?
10:20Poised.
10:21Yes.
10:22John?
10:22Devious.
10:24And devious.
10:25Excellent.
10:26Well done.
10:27Well done.
10:28Jay?
10:29Another six.
10:30Upside.
10:31Yep.
10:31That's against the downside.
10:32OK.
10:34Anything else, Susie?
10:35Posied.
10:36Decorated with posies.
10:37I'll give you another six.
10:39Well done, John.
10:4120 plays 23.
10:42Just three points in it.
10:43John, letters came.
10:45Thank you, Nick.
10:47Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:48Thank you, John.
10:49N.
10:51Consonant.
10:53L.
10:54Consonant.
10:56J.
10:57Vowel.
10:59O.
10:59Vowel.
11:02E.
11:03Vowel.
11:05A.
11:09Consonant.
11:10R.
11:12Consonant.
11:14F.
11:15And a final vowel, please.
11:17And a final U.
11:20Stand by.
11:21Vowel.
11:22Vowel.
11:22Vowel.
11:23Vowel.
11:23Vowel.
11:24Vowel.
11:24Vowel.
11:24Vowel.
11:24Vowel.
11:25Vowel.
11:25Vowel.
11:26Vowel.
11:26Vowel.
11:26Vowel.
11:27Vowel.
11:27Vowel.
11:27Vowel.
11:27Vowel.
11:27Vowel.
11:28Vowel.
11:28Vowel.
11:28Vowel.
11:28Vowel.
11:29Vowel.
11:29Vowel.
11:29Vowel.
11:30Vowel.
11:30Vowel.
11:31Vowel.
11:31Vowel.
11:31Vowel.
11:31Vowel.
11:32Vowel.
11:32Vowel.
11:32Vowel.
11:33Vowel.
11:33Vowel.
11:51well John seven Marjorie six and you're six loaned loaned and John journal journal
12:02is good there's no D there Marjorie unfortunately sorry there's no D in the
12:07selection no D I'm sorry okay well done John and Jay we have got I'm accused of
12:15this occasionally yes of being a flaneur which is someone who wanders
12:19around observing society and that would have given you an eight I think are we
12:26allowed flaneur we allowed it's got a circumflex and everything but it's in
12:30the English dictionary yes a man who saunters around thank you 27 to 23 look
12:35at that John's popped back into the lead in this Marjorie's numbers game Marjorie
12:40two large please Rachel and four small thank you Marjorie two from the top again
12:44and four little ones and this time around your selection is six four six ten
12:52seventy-five and 100 and the target three hundred and thirty three three three
12:59so
13:07Marjorie?
13:32336.
13:34John?
13:35334.
13:37Let's talk to you, John.
13:4075 plus 10.
13:4285.
13:43Times 4.
13:45340.
13:46Minus one of the sixes.
13:47Yep, gets you one away.
13:48Well done.
13:49Very good.
13:51But 333, is it possible?
13:53It is indeed.
13:54If you say 6 plus 6, 12, minus 10 is 2, plus 100 for 102, times it by 4 for 408 and take
14:05away the 75.
14:06333.
14:07Very good.
14:07Very good.
14:08Very good.
14:11So there we are.
14:1234 plays 23.
14:15John on 34 as we turn to Jay.
14:20Stinky food.
14:21How you love it.
14:22Yeah, I do.
14:23I do.
14:23And it's funny, there's a whole bunch of foods that I particularly love, which a lot of
14:28other people run away from.
14:30Cheese, for example.
14:31At the far end, you get these cheeses which reek to high heaven and actually basically smell
14:37of bodily secretions, shall we say.
14:40And yet they don't taste like that.
14:43And a lot of people are put off by the smell.
14:45And it's a function of fermentation, which is one of the most ancient forms of preservation
14:49there is.
14:50We use it, well, ferments are beers and breads are ferments.
14:53But they have this side effect in certain foods, which makes them absolutely stinky.
14:58And I think they are some of the most delicious foods there are.
15:01And other people think I'm strange.
15:03At the furthest end of this, you get to something called sursferming, which is a kind of Baltic
15:08herring fermented, just a little bit of salt.
15:11One Japanese university defined it as the stinkiest food on the planet.
15:14And?
15:15And I tried some.
15:17I opened the tin in a local park away from my house because I didn't think the neighbours
15:22would approve.
15:23And it does absolutely stink.
15:24And the Swedes eat it.
15:26And when you talk to the Swedes about it, they go, yes, it does smell.
15:28But that smell reminds us that we're Swedish.
15:31OK.
15:31And they ritualise it.
15:32They eat it with new potatoes and onions and sour cream wrapped in, and with a lot
15:37of aqua beet.
15:38Lovely.
15:38And when you opened it in the park, did the police arrive?
15:42No, but nobody came near me for a while.
15:44It was strange.
15:45I did try it.
15:47There's a video of me doing this, and it's kind of quite full on.
15:50It's interesting.
15:51There's a lovely passage.
15:53I've never actually finished the book, Ulysses.
15:55I've never finished it.
15:56But there's a great passage in it when Molly Bloom is in bed on a Sunday morning.
16:02And she was very languid in the sort of sheets.
16:05Leopold, the husband, is in the kitchen cooking.
16:08And she's calling down to him or something.
16:10And there's a little description in three paragraphs, maybe, of him cooking breakfast.
16:15And the thing that reminds me was he talks about the pig's kidneys and how they smelt faintly
16:22of urine.
16:23With the faint tang of urine.
16:25Yeah.
16:25That's the line.
16:26Oh, you've read that?
16:27Good.
16:27I have.
16:27Yeah, it's a strangely foodie novel, Ulysses.
16:30Yeah.
16:30In the sense that it has the details of every moment of a day.
16:33Sure, sure.
16:34But the little faint smell of urine, yeah.
16:36It's why somebody attempted to make a kidney soup, and it didn't work.
16:41I love kidneys.
16:42Kidneys are marvellous, but in a can, when you open the can, it didn't smell right.
16:46Thank you so much for that.
16:48Any time.
16:48All right.
16:49Well done.
16:52Very good.
16:55There we are.
16:55I'm lovely.
16:57John, how about a letters game?
16:59Thank you, Nick.
17:00Consonant, please, Rachel.
17:01Thank you, John.
17:02T.
17:04Consonant.
17:06W.
17:06W.
17:07Vowel.
17:09I.
17:11Vowel.
17:12E.
17:14Consonant.
17:16R.
17:17Consonant.
17:19M.
17:21Vowel.
17:23A.
17:24Vowel.
17:26E.
17:29And a final consonant, please.
17:31And a final L.
17:33Stand by.
17:34squeeze from the music.
17:37Bye.
17:38Bye.
17:39Bye.
17:43Bye.
17:48Bye.
17:48Bye.
17:49Bye.
17:49Bye.
17:54Bye.
17:55Well, John?
18:05Seven.
18:07And Marjorie?
18:09Seven.
18:10John?
18:10Emirate.
18:12Marjorie?
18:14Mortier.
18:16Yes, both.
18:17There we go.
18:17Very nice.
18:18Emirate being the ranked lands or reign of an emir.
18:20Very good.
18:22Two good words, Jay.
18:23There's one of the seven we've got, which is wartime, to describe the battle going on here.
18:28Yes.
18:29And anything else, Susie?
18:30Melia would give you another seven.
18:32Melia.
18:3441 to 30.
18:36Marjorie, off we go.
18:38Let us go.
18:39A consonant, please, Rachel.
18:40Thank you, Marjorie.
18:42M.
18:43And another.
18:45Y.
18:46And a vowel.
18:48O.
18:50And a consonant.
18:52B.
18:53And another.
18:56R.
18:58And a vowel.
19:00A.
19:01And a consonant.
19:03D.
19:05And a vowel.
19:07E.
19:09And a consonant.
19:11And the last one, R.
19:14Stand by.
19:14We're going to have to.
19:34Let us know.
19:36Marjorie?
19:46Seven.
19:48John?
19:49Seven.
19:50Marjorie?
19:51Broader.
19:51Broader and?
19:53I've got border with an A.
19:55Someone who boards.
19:57Absolutely fine, yes, no problem with that at all.
19:59Yep.
20:00Borders, yep.
20:02Jay?
20:02Jay and Susie?
20:03We were with border as well, weren't we?
20:05We were, yeah.
20:06Yep.
20:06We have nothing to add.
20:08Dayboys, 48 plays 37.
20:11And now, John, it's your numbers game.
20:13Thank you, Nick.
20:14One large and the rest small, please, Rachel.
20:17Thank you, John.
20:18One from the top and five little this time.
20:20And this selection for you is one, four, six, two, five.
20:28And a large one, 100.
20:29And the target, 195.
20:33One, nine, five.
20:34One, nine, nine, nine, ten.
20:37One, nine, ten.
20:41Two, nine, ten.
20:43Well, John.
21:071.95.
21:08Well done.
21:09And Marjorie.
21:101.95.
21:11John.
21:122 times 100.
21:14Yeah.
21:14Minus 5.
21:15Doesn't get much easier.
21:16There we go.
21:18And Marjorie.
21:18Yes, that's the same.
21:19Just for good form.
21:21So 58 pages 47 as we turn to our second tea time teaser, which is Dove Pairs.
21:27And the clue?
21:29She loves to do this so much so that she could write her own soap.
21:34She loves to do this so much so that she could write her own soap.
21:38Welcome back.
21:54I left you with the clue.
21:55She loves to do this so much so that she could write her own soap.
21:59What does she do?
22:00Why?
22:01Eavesdrop, of course.
22:03Eavesdrop.
22:03So 58 to 47, Marjorie and 47, and it's Marjorie's letters game.
22:09Off we go.
22:10Consonant, please, Rachel.
22:11Thank you, Marjorie.
22:12Z.
22:13And another.
22:15N.
22:16And a vowel.
22:18U.
22:20And another.
22:21E.
22:22And a vowel, please.
22:31A.
22:33And a consonant.
22:35T.
22:37And a consonant, please.
22:40And lastly, D.
22:42Stand by.
22:43And a vowel, please.
23:13Yes, Marjorie.
23:16Seven.
23:17A seven, John.
23:18Only a six.
23:19And that six is skated.
23:22Marjorie.
23:23Dankist.
23:25Dankist, yes.
23:26Nice.
23:27Well, well.
23:2954 plays 58.
23:30And, Jay, what have we got there?
23:33Unasked, which is what I haven't been, because you have asked.
23:37Unasked for seven.
23:38All right.
23:3958 to 54, John in the lead.
23:41John, your letters game.
23:44Consonant, please, Rachel.
23:45Thank you, John.
23:46H.
23:48Consonant.
23:49M.
23:51Vowel.
23:52O.
23:54Vowel.
23:55A.
23:57Consonant.
23:58T.
24:00Consonant.
24:01R.
24:04Vowel.
24:06U.
24:08Vowel.
24:10I.
24:11And a final consonant, please.
24:14And a final C.
24:16Countdown.
24:17Vowel.
24:17Vowel.
24:18Vowel.
24:18Vowel.
24:19Vowel.
24:19Vowel.
24:20Vowel.
24:20Vowel.
24:20Vowel.
24:20Vowel.
24:21Vowel.
24:21Vowel.
24:22Vowel.
24:22Vowel.
24:22Vowel.
24:22Vowel.
24:22Vowel.
24:22Vowel.
24:23Vowel.
24:23Vowel.
24:23Vowel.
24:24Vowel.
24:24Vowel.
24:24Vowel.
24:25Vowel.
24:25Vowel.
24:26Vowel.
24:26Vowel.
24:26Vowel.
24:27Vowel.
24:27Vowel.
24:28Vowel.
24:28Vowel.
24:29Vowel.
24:29Vowel.
24:30Vowel.
24:30Vowel.
24:47Now then, John, what have you got?
24:50Seven.
24:51A seven, Marjorie?
24:52Six.
24:54And your six?
24:55Author.
24:56John.
24:57Chariot.
24:58Very good.
25:00Now, Jay, any improvement on that?
25:03Another seven, which is a rearrangement, pretty much, of Chariot.
25:07In fact, a total rearrangement, which is Hariko, as in the bean.
25:10Yes.
25:11From a foodie side.
25:12And what I will never do with you, which is out-charm.
25:17You.
25:18Go on.
25:19For eight.
25:20Give it a go.
25:21No.
25:21No, you're the master.
25:22I'm, you know, merely learning at your feet, Nick.
25:28Any time.
25:28Susie?
25:29No, excellent eight.
25:31We'll bring all that to a rapid close.
25:3365 to 54, John in the lead.
25:35Susie.
25:36Now then, Susie, your wonderful origins of words.
25:40I thought I'd talk a little bit about various words for enthusiasts today.
25:45And I'm going to start with libertines, who are enthusiasts for all sorts of sensual pleasures, really.
25:52Emancipation in Roman times meant the letting go of a slave or, indeed, of a son by his father.
25:57It comes to manus, meaning hand.
25:58So you would let go of their hands.
26:01And in ancient Rome, the word libertinus denoted a slave who had been liberated.
26:06He was a freed man.
26:08And perhaps it all went to his head because he had very little regard for the society that perhaps it kept him in chain for such a long time.
26:15So he and they, indeed, went about having a pretty good time, leaving lives of unbridled pleasure, usually sensual pleasure.
26:23And that is how libertine came to us today.
26:27A roué was another enthusiast for a kind of debauched way of life, really.
26:31Roué usually applied to an older man who, again, indulges a little bit too much in flesh pots of the time.
26:38That goes back to the French word roux, meaning a wheel, because the punishment for roués was, in fact, to be chained to a wheel and then to be taken off with the chariots or whatever the vehicle was.
26:51So pretty gruesome.
26:53An amateur began as a real enthusiast for something.
26:56If you think about a mot, a mas, a mat, it comes from a lover, a lover of whatever pursuit they were indulging in, if you like.
27:03And finally, enthusiast itself, again, something that's slightly double-edged, because enthusiast was somebody who was thought to be possessed by a god, by a spirit.
27:12It's got theos in it, that word for god, who would basically go into some kind of trance and act as though, as I say, possessed demonically.
27:22And only later did it lose its sting and become somebody who simply is absorbed in a particular subject or area.
27:29Wonderful.
27:33Wonderful.
27:36Beautifully packaged.
27:38It's fabulous.
27:39All right.
27:4065 to 54.
27:42Marjorie, penultimate letters game for you.
27:45Could I have a consonant, please?
27:48Thank you, Marjorie.
27:48L.
27:49And another.
27:51T.
27:52And another.
27:54P.
27:56And a vowel.
27:58E.
27:59And another.
28:01I.
28:01And a consonant.
28:04T.
28:06And a vowel.
28:08O.
28:10And another.
28:14E.
28:15And a consonant.
28:16And lastly, L.
28:18And the clock starts now.
28:20And the clock starts now.
28:20And a consonant.
28:21And a consonant.
28:22And a consonant.
28:22And a consonant.
28:22And a consonant.
28:23And a consonant.
28:23And a consonant.
28:23And a consonant.
28:24And a consonant.
28:24And a consonant.
28:25And a consonant.
28:25And a consonant.
28:25And a consonant.
28:26And a consonant.
28:26And a consonant.
28:26And a consonant.
28:26And a consonant.
28:27And a consonant.
28:27And a consonant.
28:27And a consonant.
28:27And a consonant.
28:28And a consonant.
28:28And a consonant.
28:29And a consonant.
28:29And a consonant.
28:30And a consonant.
28:30And a consonant.
28:31And a consonant.
28:31And a consonant.
28:31And a consonant.
28:32And a consonant.
28:33And a consonant.
28:33And a consonant.
28:34And a consonant.
28:34And a consonant.
28:35And a consonant.
28:35And a consonant.
28:50Yes, Marjorie?
28:53Seven.
28:54A seven, John?
28:55Seven.
28:56Marjorie?
28:57Piloted.
28:58And?
28:59Same word.
29:00There we go.
29:02Piloted.
29:04Susie and Jay.
29:05Jay?
29:06There's Epidote, which is a yellow-green crystalline mineral.
29:11Very good.
29:12It's also a seven.
29:13Nice one.
29:13Susie, anything else?
29:14Yeah, no.
29:15Lustrous yellow-green.
29:17Nice.
29:1872 to 61.
29:19And, John, final letters came for you.
29:21Thank you, Nick.
29:23Consonant, please, Rachel.
29:24Thank you, John.
29:25T.
29:27Consonant.
29:29C.
29:30Consonant.
29:32L.
29:33Vowel.
29:35A.
29:36Vowel.
29:38I.
29:39Vowel.
29:41E.
29:43Consonant.
29:44P.
29:46Consonant.
29:47W.
29:49And a final vowel, please.
29:52And, lastly, A.
29:54And the clock starts now.
29:56We'll be right now.
29:57MUSIC CONTINUES
30:27And Marjorie?
30:30Seven.
30:31John?
30:32Placate.
30:33And?
30:34Capital.
30:35And capital.
30:37Both very good, yes.
30:38Anything else in the corner, Jay?
30:40No, we've got placate for seven.
30:43And place the fish, which is a fine fish.
30:46A fine fish indeed.
30:48Susie?
30:48There is plicate as well, if you put the I in,
30:51and that means folded, crumpled or corrugated.
30:54Plicate.
30:5779 to 68.
30:59And now, Marjorie, it's your numbers game.
31:02Two large, please, Rachel.
31:03And four small.
31:04Thank you, Marjorie.
31:05And if you win this round, you could force a crucial conundrum.
31:08Good luck.
31:08The last numbers of the day are seven.
31:11If I can get it in.
31:12Five.
31:14Five.
31:14Ten.
31:15And then the large two.
31:1625 and 75.
31:17And the target, 258.
31:21Two five eight.
31:22Two five.
31:25I'll see you in the next one.
31:25Woo.
31:25Good luck.
31:26We'll see you then.
31:29Bye.
31:30Bye.
31:31Bye.
31:31Bye.
31:32Bye.
31:33Bye.
31:43Bye.
31:45Bye.
31:46Bye.
31:47Bye.
31:48Bye.
31:49Bye.
31:49Bye.
31:50Bye.
31:51Marjorie?
31:552, 5, 8.
31:56And John?
31:572, 5, 8.
31:59Marjorie?
32:0125 times 10.
32:02250.
32:04Plus 7.
32:052, 5, 7.
32:06And 5 over 5.
32:07Lovely.
32:08Well done, 2, 5, 8.
32:09And John, same way.
32:10Same way.
32:11Same way.
32:1289 to 78 as we go into the final round.
32:23So Marjorie and John, things on buzzers.
32:26Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:42No, John and Marjorie Fox.
33:02Let's turn to the audience, shall we?
33:04Who in the audience will have a shot of this?
33:07Let me see a hand.
33:09I don't see a hand.
33:10My word.
33:11More difficult than we think.
33:13Let's roll it and see.
33:15Here it comes.
33:16Detaching.
33:17Detaching.
33:19So, John comes out the winner with 89 points,
33:24beating his last win of 80 by 9 points.
33:29Notwithstanding the disgraceful first numbers game, John.
33:35Brain freeze, Nick.
33:36It was a bit.
33:37Listen, I'll come back to you in a minute.
33:39Marjorie, well done.
33:40And you crushed him on the first numbers game, if you remember correctly.
33:44So thank you so much for coming and we're going to give you this goodie bag to take all the way back to Royston.
33:50Good luck with the golf.
33:51Thank you very much.
33:51I guess you'll be getting your clubs out any minute now.
33:54It's, you know, in the spring.
33:55Yes.
33:55And I hope that you manage to battle with your handicap and dragging it back down again.
33:59Yes, thank you very much.
34:00And we shall see John Coe tomorrow.
34:03Well done.
34:04Well done indeed.
34:05Jay, are you with us tomorrow?
34:06Of course you are.
34:07Of course I am.
34:08Where else would I be?
34:09We look forward to that.
34:10I look forward to it too.
34:11And Susie too, of course.
34:12Yes.
34:12See you tomorrow.
34:12See you then.
34:13Rachel?
34:13It's terrible having Jay here.
34:15I get really hungry.
34:17I have to wait hours till dinner.
34:19When he talks about food.
34:20It's not fair.
34:20It's very good.
34:21All right.
34:22We'll see you tomorrow?
34:22See you tomorrow.
34:23All right.
34:24Join us then.
34:24Same time, same place.
34:25You be sure of it.
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