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00:30Hello, everybody. Your first nine-letter word of the day is Countdown. That's the magic word that brings us together. Five days a week, 51 weeks of the year. It's lovely to have you along again. And, Rachel Riley, the most famous sign in the world, I would say, is a nine-letter word. Love a trivia question to start the show. What is it?
00:53A famous sign? Yes, public sign, nine letters. Is it Hollywood? It is Hollywood. But actually, it wasn't a nine-letter word. It was a 13-letter word for a lot of time of its existence. It's 100 years old today, which is a nice time to celebrate it.
01:23Bizarre. What's the UK's famous signs? I struggled with this.
01:29Basildon.
01:30What? What?
01:31What? If you go along the A127, from London to South End, you'll get to the Basildon sign, which is just a smaller version of the Hollywood sign, right by Bas Vegas.
01:41If that's what we have to rival the Hollywood sign. I was thinking Penny Lane, probably quite famous, you know, the actual Penny Lane sign.
01:50But then it hit me. The Tube sign, the London Underground is iconic, right? But that's probably the most famous sign, I think, in Britain would be the Tube logo.
02:00Well, you can have the Tube and I'll say Basildon. We'll agree to disagree.
02:03You'll always have Basildon. Thank you, Rachel. A hundred years since the Hollywood sign went up. And over in Dictionary Corner, well, if you know her off air, she's all Hollywood, let me tell you. Proper showbiz.
02:14It's our Dictionary A-lister, Susie Dent. And alongside her, the awesome Rory Bremner.
02:22Well, listen, he's five wins in now. David Edwards, a real battle yesterday, and he's back now with OctoChamp in his sights. How you doing, mate?
02:31Quite drained, if I'm honest. Yeah, that's right. It's like doing it again. Digging in, digging in again.
02:40Well, you're up against Tim Rayner today. A life less ordinary for Tim. How you doing, mate?
02:45I'm pretty good, thanks. Listen, what can I say? A retired bricklayer and boat skipper.
02:51So we've got a proper captain here. I get the bricklaying, but how did you manage to do both things?
02:56When I left the boat skipper and I then did a bricklaying course.
02:59Yeah. When I was doing, um, on the boats, this was in the late 60s. In the summer, you worked seven days a week.
03:05Wow. And I was sort of a late teenager and my friends were all out partying and I thought, well, I don't want to be doing this for the rest of my life.
03:12So I did the bricklaying course, six-month course, and then went from there.
03:17But what were they, passenger boats? Passenger boats, yeah.
03:20Whereabouts? From Windsor, they would go generally to Maidenhead or downstream to as far as Hampton Court.
03:27Yeah. Oh, brilliant. Just to keep the outfit? Special occasions?
03:30No, no, no. I've got some old pictures.
03:33That'll do. Tim and David, good luck to both of you.
03:37APPLAUSE
03:38Here we go again. David, let's get this ship launched.
03:43Good afternoon, Rachel. Afternoon, David.
03:45I'll start with the consonant, please.
03:47Start today with N.
03:50And another.
03:53R.
03:54And another.
03:57S.
03:58And a vowel.
04:00A.
04:01Another vowel.
04:03E.
04:05Another vowel.
04:08A.
04:10And consonant.
04:12N.
04:14And another consonant.
04:17B.
04:19And a vowel, please.
04:23Lastly, E.
04:25OK, at home, man in the studio. Let's play Kind Of.
04:31David.
04:44Seven.
04:45And Tim.
04:46Seven.
04:47Seven.
04:47MUSIC PLAYS
04:57David?
04:58Seven.
04:59And Tim?
05:00Seven.
05:01Sevens, David?
05:02Banners.
05:03Banners and... Tim, yes.
05:04Banners.
05:05Well done. Nice, easy start. Seven points, eight.
05:08Susie and Rory.
05:09So, we also got banners.
05:11Or you could have had ensnare another seven there.
05:14And that's it, right.
05:15Tim, your first time picking the letters half the time of your life.
05:20Hi, Rachel.
05:21Hi, Tim.
05:22Could I start with a consonant, please?
05:23You can indeed.
05:24Start with W.
05:26Another one, please.
05:28T.
05:29Vowel.
05:31I.
05:33Another vowel.
05:34O.
05:36Consonant, please.
05:38W.
05:40Vowel.
05:42E.
05:44A.
05:45Consonant.
05:46N.
05:47Vowel.
05:48I.
05:49And the final consonant, please.
05:50And a final R.
05:5130 seconds.
05:58.
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06:00.
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06:06Tim.
06:07Six.
06:08And David.
06:09Six.
06:10Yep, you did well there.
06:11Tim.
06:12Winter.
06:13Winter.
06:14Same.
06:15There you go.
06:16Oh, yeah.
06:17Yep, same.
06:19Winter.
06:20Six is orient, as in to orient oneself.
06:21Townie is there as well.
06:22Can't be townier, though.
06:23Very good.
06:24Let's get our first numbers round of the day, David.
06:26Go with my two large, please.
06:27Your favourite, two large and four little coming up for you, David.
06:29.
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06:39And for the first time today, the numbers are nine, three, nine, five.
06:40And the biggies, 25 and 100.
06:41And the target to reach with them.
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08:01Well done.
08:04A big ten points and a wonderful Tea Time teaser for you now.
08:09The clue is brilliant.
08:10Bloom race.
08:12Bloom race.
08:13Tastes like garlic, but it's still this to Billy Joel.
08:16Tastes like garlic, but it's still this to Billy Joel.
08:19MUSIC PLAYS
08:21Welcome back.
08:36Tastes like garlic, but it's still this to Billy Joel.
08:40Fantastic clue.
08:41I actually don't know what this word is,
08:43but the answer, I think, is rock and bowl,
08:45or rock and bole, but obviously it's still rock and roll to me.
08:48Fantastic clue.
08:49What is still rock and bowl to me?
08:52It is a plant that is closely related to garlic
08:56and used as a flavouring.
08:58There you go.
08:59Yeah.
08:59Fantastic.
09:00Thank you, my uptown girl.
09:01We'll get back to the game and we'll get more letters now
09:04from Tim Rayner.
09:05Fowl, please.
09:07Thank you, Tim.
09:08A.
09:10Another one, please.
09:13U.
09:14Consonant.
09:16P.
09:17Another one, please.
09:19And a final R.
09:23Up, up, and away.
09:25A vowel.
09:25A vowel.
09:27E.
09:29Another one.
09:31U.
09:34Consonant.
09:36C.
09:37And a final consonant, please.
09:39And a final R.
09:41Up, up, and away.
09:42Ewanites.
09:43The first two, please.
09:44The second one, please.
09:45That will be the second one.
09:46In your room.
09:47The other one, please.
09:48We'll see you.
09:51The next two, please.
09:51itero.
09:52The second one.
09:53St.
09:54And a final distributor.
09:56The first one.
09:57mind.
09:57We'll see.
09:58ū.
09:58The second one.
09:58Is this a mother?
09:59Are you there?
10:02The next one?
10:03You've got 메in Lee.
10:04I'm three.
10:04I.
10:05It's a month now.
10:05I didn't know what you're saying.
10:06Em slaughter.
10:07The second one.
10:07The second one again.
10:07The second one.
10:09E.
10:09The second one.
10:09The third one I got.
10:10Tim?
10:13Six.
10:14Yeah, and David?
10:15We'll go with the six as well.
10:17OK, Tim, what's your word?
10:18Copper.
10:19Copper.
10:20And...
10:20Copper.
10:21And copper and copper.
10:22Are you OK with both of those?
10:23We're not OK with copper, unfortunately.
10:26I know cupping is a kind of technique,
10:29but not in the dictionary in terms of the person doing it.
10:32But copper is in there, as North American English,
10:35and it's more like the icing on the cake.
10:38So it's something that caps or tops anything that's gone before,
10:41sometimes in a bad way, sometimes in a good way.
10:43So loads of sixes.
10:44Can we get any better than that?
10:46No, copper, copper, that's it.
10:48We're out.
10:48We will move on then.
10:49David, more letters, please.
10:52Start with the consonant, please.
10:53Thank you, David.
10:55J.
10:57Another one.
10:59C.
11:01Another one.
11:03T.
11:04Vowel.
11:06A.
11:08Another one.
11:09O.
11:11Consonant.
11:14N.
11:16Another consonant.
11:18Q.
11:20A vowel.
11:22E.
11:26And another consonant, please.
11:30A vowel C.
11:32Thanks, Rich.
11:32A vowel C.
11:33A vowel C.
11:34A vowel C.
11:35A vowel C.
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11:48A vowel C.
11:48A vowel C.
12:02David? Five. And Tim? Five.
12:06And the five as well. What have we got? Cajon. Tim?
12:09A tone. Over to Susie.
12:12Yes, cajon. Not as in cajones.
12:15This is C-A-J-O-N and it's a type of box-shaped drum originating in Peru.
12:20Very good. Very nice. Very tidy indeed.
12:22Five points each. Any difficult round? Anything else?
12:25Well, luckily, I've got a jackanet. A jackanet?
12:27At home, yeah. What is it?
12:30LAUGHTER
12:32It's a lightweight cotton cloth with slightly stiff finish.
12:36You probably do have a jackanet at home, then.
12:38Yep, and I never knew...
12:40LAUGHTER
12:41Right, Tim. Terrible letters, so let's switch to numbers.
12:45That'd be a good idea, yeah.
12:46Can I have an inverted T, please, Rachel?
12:48Yeah, can indeed. One from the top and five little.
12:51You've pleased Colin, for sure. Love it.
12:53Right, these five small ones are six, eight, six, ten and seven.
13:00And the larger one, 100.
13:02And the target, 815.
13:04815, numbers up.
13:06It's a very small one, 100.
13:08Woo-hoo.
13:09All in, 100.
13:11You're zdalian, 100.
13:11I'm sorry.
13:11I'm sorry.
13:12I'm sorry.
13:13That's bad.
13:13I'm sorry.
13:14You're doing it.
13:15I'm sorry.
13:15Fucking name, 100.
13:17No.
13:18Go!
13:18I'll be right back.
13:20Oh no, no, no, no, no.
13:20Say I'm sorry.
13:21I'm sorry.
13:21It's a straight line.
13:21Go!
13:21To be able to go.
13:22To be able to go.
13:24I'm sorry.
13:24Yeah, I may have to walk because you don't wanna get this,
13:24You're right.
13:25I'm sorry.
13:26And the camera's my blister.
13:27I'll be there.
13:28I'll be able to be, but to be like.
13:29And that's time. 8.15, the target. Tim?
13:40I think I've got it, but not fully written down.
13:42No worries. And David? 8.15.
13:44And you're written down, so, Tim, off you go.
13:468 times 100. 800.
13:51And then I've got the 15 by...
13:54Oh, I've lost it now.
13:55Out of time, I'm afraid.
13:58David, off you go.
13:59I've got 6 divided by the other 6 is 1.
14:036 over 6, 1.
14:04Add to the 100.
14:05101.
14:06Multiply by 8.
14:08808.
14:09And add the other 7.
14:10Yeah.
14:11Add the 7. 8.15.
14:12Well done.
14:1644, 13.
14:17Let's pause and talk for our last time in this particular stent in Dictionary Corner
14:21with Rory Bremner.
14:23Rory, take this in the right way, in the way it's intended.
14:25Well, I'm so glad you didn't, for the last five days,
14:28just do impressions.
14:29There's that thing sometimes where a singer just sings.
14:32An impressionist just does impressions, etc.
14:34I love that.
14:35So, in saying that, it's your last day, let's do some impressions.
14:37We're going to do some impressions.
14:38Yeah, absolutely.
14:39Well, listen, we're both sports fans, you and I.
14:41And I think, you know, I love the commentators.
14:44I was very lucky growing up in that golden age of commentators.
14:47And the last of those who were synonymous with their sport,
14:50who died last year, John Motson, of course.
14:53And people remember him for sort of phrases like,
14:54the crazy gang of beating the culture club.
14:57And I think there was another one.
14:58He said, if they had gone in, the goalkeeper would have been completely beaten.
15:01So, he's very recognisable.
15:03Would you say there are people now who are the voice of this sport?
15:06Because I listen to football.
15:07There's not a voice that leaps out at me.
15:09There's a horse racing commentator at the moment.
15:11He does other sports for Five Live called John Hunt.
15:13And when it gets to the last furlong of a race,
15:15you feel like you're being transported back to the 60s.
15:18I don't know what it is in his voice or what he does,
15:22but it just goes to this wonderful place.
15:25So, I would pick him.
15:26You see, I was brought up with the age of Peter S. Sullivan.
15:28And he always remembered that wonderful voice that he had.
15:30And I got to know him in a few years before he died.
15:34And he did say, can you remember all those races that you commentated,
15:38all the great national...
15:39He said, I can remember them all as if it was yesterday.
15:41I said, that's brilliant.
15:42He said, the trouble is I can't remember yesterday.
15:45And I got a lovely letter, one of the years.
15:47It said, may you die, age 95, in bed, shot by a jealous husband.
15:53Which I love.
15:55But I was brought up with Bill McLaren.
15:56Of course, you remember Bill McLaren, the voice of rugby, of course, he was.
15:59And he had a wonderful turn of phrase.
16:01You know, a scrum half would go down the blindside.
16:03He'd say, oh, he's away like a trout up a burn.
16:06And there was...
16:07Do you remember Doddy Weir?
16:08Oh, he's a big...
16:09You could tell who was first in the dinner queue on all of those.
16:13And they just, you know, they had a kind of...
16:15They had a turn of phrase.
16:16They had a joy.
16:17Richie Benno in cricket, who was always memorable for...
16:20He said, there's Glenn McGrath out for one.
16:24Just 99 runs short of what would have been a remarkable chess match century.
16:28So they had a kind of wit about them.
16:31I kind of...
16:32I miss that.
16:33And I keep looking.
16:33Is there...
16:34Where's the next generation of sports commentators who really are synonymous with the sport?
16:40I think there are great commentators there, but lesser-haired because of the paywall of sport.
16:47And maybe, not to be too controversial, maybe a lot more ex-sports people commentating.
16:52But some of them are brilliant.
16:54I mean, I think Steve Cram is fantastic at those big moments in the Olympics.
16:58Simon Brotherton in the cycling.
17:01And they say John Hunt in the horse racing.
17:02But I think we just don't hear them at 25 million people at once, which is maybe the difference.
17:08And I forgot to mention Gavin Hastings, who, of course, is a rugby, but he speaks so slowly,
17:14I don't think we've got time to fit him in.
17:17We'll pick that impression up at the end.
17:20Thank you very much.
17:23Right, well, back to the race we're running now.
17:26And, David, you're picking the letters.
17:28Consonant, please.
17:30Thank you, David.
17:31S.
17:32And a vowel.
17:34O.
17:36And a consonant.
17:38D.
17:40Another consonant.
17:42H.
17:44A vowel.
17:46E.
17:49Another consonant.
17:51S.
17:53Another consonant.
17:56R.
18:00A vowel.
18:01A.
18:02The consonant, please.
18:08And lastly, T.
18:10Start the clock.
18:10A vowel.
18:12A vowel.
18:12A vowel.
18:13A vowel.
18:13A vowel.
18:13A vowel.
18:14A vowel.
18:14A vowel.
18:14A vowel.
18:15A vowel.
18:15A vowel.
18:15A vowel.
18:16A vowel.
18:16A vowel.
18:16A vowel.
18:16A vowel.
18:17A vowel.
18:17A vowel.
18:17A vowel.
18:17A vowel.
18:17A vowel.
18:17A vowel.
18:18A vowel.
18:18A vowel.
18:18A vowel.
18:19A vowel.
18:19A vowel.
18:20A vowel.
18:20A vowel.
18:20A vowel.
18:21A vowel.
18:21A vowel.
18:21A vowel.
18:22A vowel.
18:22A vowel.
18:23A vowel.
18:24A vowel.
18:24A vowel.
18:25A vowel.
18:25A vowel.
18:26A vowel.
18:26A vowel.
18:26A vowel.
18:27A vowel.
18:28THEY CONFER
18:41That's time. David? Seven.
18:43And Tim? Seven. Two sevens.
18:45Mr Edwards? Hardest. Mr Raynor?
18:48Threads. Threads. And hardest.
18:51Lovely round. That's better than the letters we've been getting.
18:54Anything else in Dictionary Corner? Shared is there.
18:57But also, I think, have we got assorted there? Assorted?
19:00Yeah, that will give you an eight. Very good.
19:02APPLAUSE
19:04Nice one, Rory. 31 plus 25.
19:07And Tim, you're picking letters.
19:09Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Tim.
19:12R. Another one.
19:15D. Vowel.
19:18O. Another one.
19:21I. Another one, please.
19:25A. Consonant.
19:29L. Consonant.
19:32N.
19:35Consonant.
19:37T.
19:39And a vowel, please.
19:41And a final E.
19:43Here we go.
19:44Here we go.
19:45So.
19:58So.
19:59That's time, Tim.
20:16A risky eight.
20:18And David?
20:19Risky eight as well.
20:20Might be the same word. Let's find out.
20:22Tim?
20:22Ordinate.
20:23Ordinate.
20:25Redolent.
20:25OK, so you need two E's for redolent.
20:27Oh, is it ENT?
20:29It's ENT.
20:30I'm afraid.
20:31And ordinate, or ordinate, is absolutely fine.
20:34It's all to do with axes in mathematics.
20:36Well done, Tim.
20:37Well done.
20:40Back in the game.
20:41Back in the game, Rory.
20:43Our first nine of the week.
20:45Yeah, it's sitting there.
20:48Rodential.
20:49Rodential.
20:49Yes.
20:51Of a rodent.
20:53Of a rodent.
20:53Sounds like a building society thing, doesn't it?
20:55I don't think I'm banking at the rodential series.
20:59But yes, everything to do with broodence.
21:01Right, anyway, let's get more numbers, David.
21:04Three large.
21:05Thank you, David.
21:06Three from the top and three.
21:07Not never quite sure what you're going to pick.
21:10But for this round, we have...
21:11Nine, four, eight, one hundred, fifty, and twenty-five.
21:19And the target?
21:20One hundred and forty.
21:22One forty.
21:22Numbers up.
21:23One hundred and seventy-five.
21:371.40, the target.
21:56David?
21:571.41.
21:58One away.
21:59Tim?
22:001.41, not written down.
22:01Another low, difficult target.
22:03Tim, you haven't written it down, so you'll be going first.
22:05100 plus 50, minus 9.
22:08Yes, one away.
22:09Yep, and same.
22:11Exactly the same.
22:13Dying to show them there, weren't you, David?
22:15Right, yeah, what's going on?
22:171.40.
22:18I think the tidiness might be creeping in because 9 minus 4 is 5.
22:235 times 8 is 40.
22:25I don't want 100, it's 140.
22:30Let's go in our tea time teaser.
22:32Low vessel, low vessel.
22:34When it comes to words, it's all about rhythm.
22:37Susie, you better get this.
22:38When it comes to words, it's all about rhythm.
22:51APPLAUSE
22:51Welcome back, everybody.
22:59Low vessel becomes a vowel-less.
23:01Vowel-less.
23:02When it comes to words, it's all about rhythm.
23:05Well, in every letters round, the countdown,
23:07minimum of three vowels if you're new to the show.
23:10No matter what, you can't have less.
23:12Let's get more now.
23:13And it's you, Tim, challenger.
23:15Vowel, please, Rachel.
23:17Thank you, Tim.
23:18A.
23:19Another one, please.
23:21I.
23:22Consonant.
23:24H.
23:25Another one.
23:28Y.
23:29Another one, please.
23:31F.
23:33Vowel.
23:35A.
23:36Cool.
23:37Vowel.
23:38I.
23:41Consonant.
23:44S.
23:46The final consonant, please.
23:47A final.
23:49N.
23:50Let's play.
24:03Bye.
24:03Bye.
24:03Bye.
24:08Bye.
24:09Bye.
24:12Bye.
24:15Bye.
24:15Bye.
24:16Bye.
24:16Bye.
24:19Bye.
24:20Bye.
24:21Not getting it easy today. Tim?
24:24No, not. Six. And David?
24:26Six not written down. What have you not written down, David?
24:29Finish. Finish, and...? Oh, I have written that now.
24:32Yeah. Susie and Rory?
24:34Can we beat six? I don't think so. I can't. No, I'm still reeling
24:37from your three vowels and not less.
24:40Oh, fewer. Fewer.
24:42Yes, we just had finish as well. Are you correcting my grammar again?
24:46No. You make me a better person. Thank you.
24:48Appreciate that. She doesn't make me a better person.
24:50All right. 64, 46. David, letters.
24:54Consonant, please. Thank you, David.
24:56L. And a vowel.
24:59O.
25:01Another vowel.
25:03A.
25:05Consonant.
25:08B.
25:09Another consonant.
25:11P.
25:13Another consonant.
25:15S.
25:17Erm.
25:19A vowel.
25:21U.
25:22Another vowel.
25:25I.
25:26And a consonant, please.
25:32Final G.
25:33Good luck.
25:34Good luck.
25:35.
25:40.
25:49David. Just five. Tim. Five. Five. Oh, I thought that was a chance to claw back some points. David, the five?
26:12Bolas. And Tim. Bales. And Bales. Cricket Bales.
26:17Yeah, absolutely fine. A bolus is a small, rounded mass of something.
26:21OK. Anything else?
26:22So we're talking about Peter O'Sullivan. You could have gallops.
26:25Oh, gallops. Yes, but with one L, in which case it's nothing to do with horses and everything to do with dancing.
26:31Nice one, Susie. 69 plus 51. And in fact, we will stay over in Dictionary Corner.
26:37What's our origins of words today, Denticles?
26:39Please. Well, it is inspired by Margaret Sim, a lovely viewer who tells us her favourite word in the dictionary, essentially, which is lackadaisical.
26:49And she says, why? Because it sounds great.
26:52And she's asking if I can delve into its origins, which is one of my favourite things, not least because this involves one of my favourite flowers,
27:02which every member of the crew will know the etymology of because I have given it so often.
27:07But I will, I'll come to that.
27:08So lackadaisical's not got a particularly nice meaning because it means you're just a bit sort of apathetic and you just don't quite know what to do with yourself.
27:17You might feel lackadaisical during the dog days of summer, for example, and a bit languorous.
27:23But actually, when you look back into its earliest incarnation, which is going back a couple of centuries, it meant feebly sentimental.
27:31And that's because originally it had nothing to do with a daisy.
27:34There was no daisical side to it.
27:36It was actually, I lack the day.
27:38So if you can imagine a sort of Victorian sentimental melodrama, you might imagine a stereotypical presentation of a woman going, you know, swooning, going, I lack the day.
27:48It's more like, oh, woe is me.
27:50But at some point in its history, we decided to give it a bit of a flowery embellishment and bring the daisy into it.
27:56So a lackadais became a lackadaisy and then a lackadaisical, which is quite nice.
28:01Beautiful. Beautiful. Thank you.
28:03APPLAUSE
28:04OK, four lines to go. And, Tim, you're up.
28:08Consonant, please.
28:09Thank you, Tim.
28:10T.
28:11Another one.
28:13D.
28:14Another one.
28:17R.
28:18Vowel, please.
28:19E.
28:20Another one.
28:21I.
28:23Another one.
28:24A.
28:27Another one.
28:27E.
28:31A consonant.
28:33T.
28:34And a final consonant, please.
28:36And a final D.
28:38Kind of.
28:39T.
28:39T.
28:40Y.
28:41icho
28:42T.
28:43MUSIC PLAYS
29:10That'll do us, Tim.
29:11Seven.
29:12And David.
29:13Seven.
29:14Seven. You weren't sure.
29:15Tim.
29:16Treated.
29:17The seven?
29:17Traited.
29:18Traited.
29:19And treated.
29:20Susie, are we happy?
29:21Traited, not in, unfortunately.
29:24Having different traits, but you can't be treated.
29:26Cannot be treated.
29:27Sorry.
29:27What did you have?
29:28Attired.
29:30As in what you're wearing.
29:31I'm well attired.
29:32Another seven, nothing more than that.
29:34Nothing more than seven.
29:35Treaded, attired, but no, not that we could see.
29:37Very good indeed.
29:38Very good indeed.
29:39Well, listen, here we are.
29:40David, last letters round.
29:43You're in another close battle.
29:44You've prevailed five times so far.
29:47You're absolute granite.
29:48Let's see if you can do it again.
29:49OK, we'll start with a consonant, please.
29:52Thank you, David.
29:53G.
29:54And another.
29:56T.
29:58And another.
30:00S.
30:02And another.
30:04T.
30:05Erm, and a vowel.
30:08A.
30:10Another vowel.
30:11I.
30:13Erm, consonant.
30:16N.
30:16Erm, vowel.
30:18Erm, vowel.
30:22E.
30:25And a...
30:30Another consonant, please.
30:32A final D.
30:33Good luck.
30:34Ever.
30:40A.
30:45A.
30:46F.
30:47A.
30:47A.
30:48B.
30:48A.
30:48A.
30:50A.
30:51A.
30:58A.
30:59Well, if you don't at least have a seven,
31:06I'm going to kick you out of the studio.
31:09David?
31:10Eight.
31:11And Tim?
31:12Eight.
31:12Very good. What have we got?
31:14Steading.
31:14And Tim?
31:15Sedating.
31:16Sedating and steady.
31:18No staying on your character whatsoever.
31:20What have we got?
31:21Both exactly those two.
31:22Steading is a farmstead.
31:23Well done.
31:24Well, here we are again.
31:2611 points in it.
31:27The deal not sealed yet for David and Tim.
31:29You're in charge of these last numbers.
31:31One large, please, and five small, Rachel.
31:34You know what I'm going to say, Tim?
31:35You're 11 points behind, and you want to pick one large.
31:40OK, then.
31:40Four large.
31:41Four large!
31:42Come on, Tim.
31:43Take your destiny into your own hands.
31:45No coercion at all.
31:46Let's force this crucial conundrum.
31:48Come on, Tim.
31:49The two little ones.
31:50Six and six.
31:52And the big ones.
31:53Well done, Rich.
31:54125, 75 and 50.
31:57You have to best David.
31:58The final target, 730.
32:02730.
32:02Numbers up.
32:03也可以 in front.
32:09If you want.
32:12gelecek space meet now.
32:19Yes, I am.
32:19Good time.
32:20Good time.
32:20Good luck.
32:20The final target, 7300.
32:21That's exactly what I should say.
32:22Congratulations.
32:23All right.
32:24Then be礼カット.
32:25Thanks.
32:25I got a pleasure.
32:25The final target, 10 thinking.
32:26It's gotta be wonderful.
32:27It's gotta be wonderful.
32:27That's protege.
32:28The easy way.
32:29That's like today.
32:30Yeah.
32:31It's gotta be wonderful.
32:32OK, 7.30's the target. Tim?
32:37Pass. Nothing, no.
32:38Oh, no. David?
32:40I think I've got 7.32.
32:41OK, off you go.
32:4375 plus 50.
32:4575 plus 50, 1.25.
32:47Then 100 over the 25 is 4.
32:50Yeah.
32:51Subtract that from the 1.25.
32:53Is 121.
32:55Multiply that by 6.
32:57726.
32:58And then add the other 6.
32:59And add the second 6, yep.
33:014.2 away.
33:02Good. This is your doing, Riley.
33:04So, you know, you made this bed, you lie in it.
33:07Well, if you stopped there and times that by 6,
33:10you get to 7.50, take the 25, add the 6 for 1 away.
33:14Yeah.
33:14But this one was impossible.
33:16Close as you could get.
33:17Right, brings us to our final round.
33:19Fingers on the buzzers.
33:20Oh, yeah.
33:21As we reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:29Go on, Tim.
33:30Remarried.
33:31Let's have a look.
33:33Yes.
33:37There you go.
33:38Ten points in the conundrum.
33:40So, it was earlier rounds that cost you.
33:42Good way to go out, though, mate.
33:44Thank you for being the captain of today's programme.
33:46We appreciate it.
33:47Six shows now.
33:49Can't believe it.
33:50Yes.
33:50Can't believe it.
33:52Tomorrow's another day.
33:53You get your sleep, right?
33:54You get your rest.
33:55And, of course, we say goodbye to Rory.
33:58Look, as I say, Countdown Family.
34:01We'll see you back here again soon, yeah?
34:02So happy to have lasted five shows.
34:04The DJ and pioneer Trevor Nelson joins us.
34:07Amazing.
34:08Tomorrow, which is really good.
34:09All done, Suze.
34:10Rachel, all done for the day.
34:11Did you notice that last conundrum?
34:12Mr. Eadie...
34:14Yes.
34:14..turned to remarried?
34:16And our wonderful producer, Damien Eadie,
34:18got remarried this summer.
34:20So congratulations to Vanessa,
34:21his new better half, Mr and Mrs Eadie.
34:23Absolutely.
34:24Rachel, very well picked up on, very well said.
34:27We are a family here on Countdown,
34:29which means Rachel, Susie and I will be back tomorrow
34:32because it wouldn't work with less than three of us.
34:35You can count on us.
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34:46APPLAUSE