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00:30Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown, the last of this week.
00:34Another five shows go into the Countdown record book.
00:37Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:39Happy Friday, Rach.
00:40Happy Friday, Murray.
00:41I want to take you back to primary school.
00:44Everybody remembers either their favourite teacher,
00:47or let's be honest, the teacher they hated.
00:49Who pops into your mind?
00:51Well, my favourite one was Mrs Jake's in Year 2.
00:54And I don't know why, she was just lovely.
00:56And we used to, you know, make drawings out of paper plates and stick stuff on.
01:00I mean, when you're in Year 2, it's not that taxing, is it?
01:02It's just fun and loads of arts and crafts.
01:04I had a teacher called Mrs Graham, and I refused to leave school
01:07if she didn't give me a peck in the cheek.
01:10Wouldn't happen these days.
01:11Right. So I wouldn't leave.
01:13Eventually, parents were called up to school,
01:18and a negotiation took place where I agreed to leave school
01:22without getting a peck in the cheek from Mrs Graham.
01:25I have no idea why I did it.
01:27But it was just, you know, all innocence.
01:29And I wouldn't even leave.
01:30I used to lie on the ground and kick and scream.
01:33Oh, wow.
01:34But what a great teacher, great influence on me.
01:37We all have those moments.
01:38We always remember our good ones, don't we?
01:40Yeah, absolutely.
01:40Worth their weight in gold.
01:42Well, listen, every day's a school day.
01:44In Dictionary Corner with our J of the D, Susie, Dent.
01:48And I'm delighted to say, picking up the extra show
01:50so we can get back in sync.
01:52A sick show for the presenter, the podcaster,
01:55and my pal, Edith Bowman.
01:59That was my last one.
02:00Yeah.
02:01It's flown by.
02:02Not for me.
02:03Not for me.
02:05It has flown by.
02:07And one of the reasons for that is Harry Savage
02:09has been an absolute fantastic champion.
02:12Seven wins for you.
02:13The marathon is nearly complete.
02:16And people sometimes watch every show.
02:18They only tune in once in a while.
02:19So we must just recap this for everybody.
02:22As you're a speed cuber,
02:23you used to hold a world record.
02:26And you said that if you became an octo champ
02:28at the end of the show,
02:29you would try and do the cube
02:31in under 30 seconds, blindfolded.
02:35Are you regretting that, Harry Savage?
02:37Yes.
02:39Without a doubt.
02:40Well, listen, not only have you got
02:41all our eyes on you,
02:42you've also got a teacher's eyes on you.
02:45Cassandra Ring is with us from Rotherham.
02:47How are you?
02:47Fine, thank you.
02:48Good.
02:48You're retired now,
02:49but 38 years working entirely in primary schools.
02:53Yes.
02:54Oh, there's so many people out there
02:55thinking Mrs. Ring is my teacher.
02:57I remember.
02:58Oh, my goodness, here she is.
03:00What was it?
03:01It's a vocation, right, rather than a job.
03:03What was special about 38 years
03:05of primary school teaching?
03:06Um, I think I wanted to learn every day
03:11as well as teach, so...
03:14And learning from kids?
03:15Yes.
03:16Yeah.
03:16And subjects.
03:18And subjects.
03:18Yeah.
03:19What was your...
03:20Did you ever have a favourite pupil
03:21that sticks in your mind?
03:23No.
03:23No, they were all your children.
03:24Yeah.
03:25They were all your children.
03:26It's as simple as that.
03:27My 38 years, do you miss it?
03:29No.
03:30No?
03:31Are you kidding me, Colin?
03:32I've got a little whiskey at 2.10 in the afternoon
03:35watching Countdown.
03:36Don't miss it at all.
03:37Well, listen, let's see if you can run rings
03:39round your champion, Harry.
03:40It won't be easy.
03:42Sandra, Harry, best of luck.
03:43Let's do it.
03:46One move at a time, Hazza.
03:48Let's get on with it.
03:48Hi again, Rachel.
03:49Hi, Hazza.
03:50Can I start with a consonant, please?
03:51You can start today.
03:52We have T.
03:54And another one, please.
03:56Q.
03:58And another.
04:00K.
04:01And another one, please.
04:03P.
04:04And a vowel.
04:05I.
04:07And another vowel.
04:08E.
04:09And another vowel.
04:11O.
04:12Erm, one final vowel, please.
04:16I.
04:17And a final consonant, please.
04:19Get a nine out of this lot.
04:21A final S.
04:22At home and in the studio.
04:24Let's play Countdown.
04:25MUSIC PLAYS
04:26In part.
04:31And a vowel.
04:31The vowel.
04:41I.
04:41The vowel.
04:44Harry?
04:56I think a seven.
04:57Yeah, and Sandra?
04:59I'll try a six.
05:00The six is?
05:01Posty.
05:02And Harry?
05:03Her pokeyest.
05:03Yeah.
05:04Pockiest room in the house, yes, very good.
05:06Very good, well done for that.
05:08Anything else?
05:09That was it, pokeyest we heard.
05:10Yeah, well done, great start, great start.
05:12Sandra, you two, by the way, six was very strong.
05:15Let's get more letters.
05:16Hello, Rachel.
05:17Hi, Sandra.
05:18Can I have a consonant, please?
05:20You can indeed.
05:21M.
05:22Vowel.
05:24A.
05:25Consonant.
05:27L.
05:29Vowel.
05:30I.
05:32Consonant.
05:34R.
05:35Vowel.
05:37O.
05:39Consonant.
05:40N.
05:41Vowel.
05:45E.
05:45And a consonant, please.
05:47And lastly, D.
05:4930 seconds.
06:03quite a busy round how many sandra six six and harry eight and eight wow sandra what's the six
06:28marine harry radio men radio men yeah they are in and they are all one word no hyphen very good
06:37indeed anything else melanoid melanoid another eight yeah another eight it means relating to
06:43melanin which is the dark pigment we get in our skin and hair right 15 nil we've been here before
06:49he always starts very strongly but it's a marathon not a sprint as we get our first numbers from harry
06:55can i have one large please you can indeed thank you harry one from the top and five little you're
07:00here for the points first one of the day ten eight four five six and fifty and the target nine hundred
07:11and eighteen nine eighteen numbers up
07:14so
07:19nine one eight is the target harry yeah nine one eight he's nailed that one sandra
07:48oh um nine one five okay three away so ten points for harry if he's right
07:56ten plus eight ten plus eight eighteen uh and then fifty add six take away five
08:02fifty one and multiply the two together nine hundred and eighteen very good
08:06a special honour given to the shoulder perhaps a special honour given to the shoulder perhaps
08:21accolade I got accolade but I've no idea why you were going in the right direction in terms of origins
08:35Welcome back. Special honour given to the shoulder, perhaps accolade.
08:41I got accolade, but I've no idea why.
08:43You were going in the right direction in terms of origins,
08:46cos you were saying collar, so an accolade used to be a royal hug,
08:51so it's related to the collar and the neck,
08:52but now it's just a tap on the shoulder, so it's like a knighthood or an honour.
08:55Beautiful little mini origins of words this Friday afternoon.
08:59OK, Sandra Ring, let's get back to those letters in your choosing.
09:03Consonant, please. Thank you, Sandra.
09:05S, vowel, A, consonant, L, vowel, I, consonant, C, vowel, U, consonant, T, vowel, O,
09:28and a consonant, please. Lastly, Z.
09:31A Z. Thanks, Rachel.
10:03Sandra, how'd you get on?
10:05Nothing.
10:06That's OK. Nothing. Well, you could draw. Let's find out.
10:10Harry.
10:11A seven.
10:12A seven. What's the word?
10:13Outsail.
10:14Outsail.
10:15Yes, Harry and his out words. That was the only one we could find.
10:19To sail better or faster than a competitor.
10:20All right. Very good indeed. Harry, let's get more letters.
10:23Can I have a consonant, please?
10:24Thank you, Harry.
10:25P.
10:27And another one.
10:29R.
10:29And another.
10:32G.
10:33And another, please.
10:35C.
10:36And a vowel.
10:38E.
10:39Another vowel, please.
10:40I.
10:41Another vowel.
10:43A.
10:44And another vowel, please.
10:46O.
10:47And a final consonant, please.
10:49A final N.
10:51And that's an N and that's half a minute.
11:05Harry.
11:24An eight.
11:25An eight.
11:25And Sandra.
11:26Five.
11:26The five is?
11:27Great.
11:28Lovely.
11:29And Harry?
11:30Caponnier.
11:32Oh, yes.
11:32Yes, that is absolutely fine.
11:36And it is all to do with a covered passage across a ditch around a fort.
11:41You don't often get an oh, yes, out of Susie.
11:45That's as excited as she gets an oh, yes, for that word.
11:49Anything else?
11:50Yeah, we had a nice eight there.
11:52Capering, capering about.
11:53Nice.
11:54Listen, Sandra, yet to get off the mark as it stands,
11:57but don't worry, it'll come and you're in charge of the numbers.
11:59Good place to be.
12:00Let's have it.
12:00Um, two large, please.
12:04And four little.
12:05Thank you, Sandra.
12:06And ten points coming your way, I'm sure of it.
12:08Right, four little ones.
12:10One, ten.
12:11One, six, twenty-five and one hundred.
12:16And the target, one hundred and fifty-two.
12:19One fifty-two.
12:20Numbers up.
12:20One, six, twenty-five and one hundred.
12:22One, six, twenty-five and one hundred.
12:23One, six, twenty-five and one hundred.
12:24One, six, twenty-five and one hundred.
12:25One, six, twenty-five and one hundred.
12:26One, six, twenty-five and one hundred.
12:27One, six, twenty-five and one hundred.
12:28One, six, twenty-five and one hundred.
12:29One, six, twenty-five and one hundred.
12:30One, six, twenty-five and one hundred.
12:31One, six, twenty-five and one hundred.
12:32One, six, twenty-five and one hundred.
12:33One, six, twenty-five and one hundred.
12:34One, six, twenty-five and one hundred.
12:35One, six, twenty-five and one hundred.
12:36One, six, twenty-five and one hundred.
12:37MUSIC PLAYS
12:511-5-2 the target, Sandra?
12:53150.
12:55Two away, and Harry?
12:56152. Off you go, sir.
12:586 times 25.
13:00625 is a 150.
13:02And add the two ones. Yes.
13:04Well done.
13:05APPLAUSE
13:08Only easy when you see it when it comes to the numbers.
13:10We've all been there.
13:12Listen, it's just like talking to a friend
13:14every time we had Dictionary Corner with Edith there.
13:17If you don't mind, I want to go back to the present
13:19and I want to go back to your soundtrack and podcast
13:21because it's so interesting and this is where you get behind the music
13:24of some of the greatest films ever made.
13:27You interview the biggest directors and you also interview,
13:30of course, the composers.
13:31But it's attracted now, like, the A-list actors.
13:34So tell me about some of those experiences
13:36of getting a bit more time with these stars.
13:39It's really interesting.
13:39So we had Bradley Cooper on, who obviously kind of filled
13:43so many roles for A Star Is Born.
13:45He was the director.
13:46He was the star of it as well.
13:47So it was really interesting to talk to him about it.
13:50Someone like Carey Mulligan as well, who's been brilliant.
13:53But I made a bit of a kind of faux pas with Ed Norton,
13:56who, I mean, probably most famous for Fight Club.
14:00And I've been lucky that I had Fincher on, David Fincher on,
14:03and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, who did the music for it.
14:07Oh, wow.
14:07And there's that really famous line in Fight Club,
14:10where it's like, the first rule of Fight Club is,
14:12you don't talk about Fight Club.
14:13So cut to me actually hosting the red carpet
14:16for the most recent film that he did with the Knives Out film,
14:20Glass Onions.
14:21Very good, by the way.
14:22And it's a murder mystery film.
14:23And so obviously you can't...
14:24It's a what?
14:24A murder mystery.
14:25Murder mystery, OK, thank you, Tiger.
14:27And he eats Curly Wurlies in the film, from a burger van.
14:31And so with it being a murder mystery,
14:34you can't really talk much about the plot,
14:35because it's a whodunit.
14:37And so I tried to be funny on the red carpet with Ed Norton,
14:41where I was like, hey, the first rule of Glass Onions
14:44is we don't talk about Glass Onions.
14:47Talk about it falling like a lead balloon.
14:49It was almost like, whoosh.
14:53I just wanted to be scraped up from the floor and just disappear.
14:56It was so embarrassing.
14:57They are hard to handle, the A-list movie stars.
15:00Yeah, I mean, it's that thing where they're just people.
15:03But then sometimes they're really grumpy people.
15:07Yes.
15:07So you've just got to try and read it really well.
15:10And in those environments on that red carpet,
15:11where people are shouting their names and stuff,
15:13they're totally distracted.
15:15I was really hoping that he would get it and at least chuckle.
15:18But he just...
15:19Yeah.
15:19Yeah, I'm on his side.
15:20I'm on his side.
15:22If you were stuck in a lift with any movie star
15:26that you've had on soundtrack, who would it be?
15:28Come on, Bradley Cooper, surely.
15:31Really, that was who it would be.
15:32Oh, he's brilliant.
15:33And he's got a new film coming out where he's playing
15:35Leonard Bernstein, where he directs it as well.
15:38So I'm really excited to see that.
15:39But, yeah, he's fascinating.
15:41He's great.
15:42I love it.
15:43Keep it up.
15:43It's absolutely sensational to listen to.
15:45Thank you, Edith.
15:46Right, you start.
15:50That's what I say, Sandra.
15:51It's like it's nil-nil in your head.
15:53That's the football manager in me talking.
15:55As we get more letters and Harry's picking.
15:57Can I start with a consonant, please?
15:58Thank you, Harry.
15:59H.
16:00And another.
16:02D.
16:03And another one, please.
16:05B.
16:06And one more.
16:08W.
16:09And a vowel, please.
16:10E.
16:11And another one.
16:12A.
16:13And another.
16:15U.
16:16And another.
16:18A.
16:19Erm...
16:20And one more, please.
16:22Lastly, O.
16:24Start the clock.
16:25Here.
16:28I'll see you later, Karl.
16:36dig at the bell
16:39in San Pedro
16:41in San Pedro
16:42and go down.
16:44ty
16:46and obeys Tall
16:48in San Pedro
16:50in San Pedro
16:51has a great opportunity
16:52there's nothing to do
16:54in San Pedro
16:54with the first one.
16:55Harry. Seven, I think. Seven. Hard letters, these. Sandra. Five. Yeah, you and me both. What do you get, Sandra?
17:03Bowed. Yes. And Harry? Bowhead. Yes, we were just looking at bowhead, actually. An arctic whale that feeds by skimming the surface for plankton.
17:13Good. Here's me thinking it was the old cupid's arrow. That's a bowman. That's a bowman. That's a bowman. That's me.
17:19Anything else? No, that's it. All right. No worries at all. Let's get more letters. Sandra, you're up again.
17:29Consonant, please. Thank you, Sandra. R. Consonant. H. Consonant. N. Vowel. I. Vowel. A. Vowel. E. Consonant. S.
17:49Vowel. O. Consonant. And lastly, T. OK, here we go again.
17:58T. OK, here we go again.
18:07T. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K
18:37word Sandra? Honest. Honest and honestly what the heck is this nine? Hortensia. It's a kind of
18:43hydrangea. Yeah. Did you have anything else? We did. Your favourite Justin Timberlake song,
18:54Senorita. Senorita. Very good indeed. Well done. 75-0 at the moment Sandra but he is something
19:02else. Are you still enjoying yourself? Good. That's all I want to hear Sandra. A lifetime
19:07ambition to be here and ten more points up for grabs. There's always another round. Harry
19:11your numbers. Can I have one large please? Ten points apiece in this one I can feel it. One
19:16large, five little, five little ones are nine, six, seven, four and eight and the large one
19:25100. And the target, 964. Big one, nine, six, four. Numbers up.
19:55Harry, how did you get on? Nine, six, three. One away. And Sandra? Nine, six, three. Nine,
20:08six. That's what I wanted to hear Sandra. Go on Sandra. Come on. Harry, I hope you're
20:12even wrong. Do your one away. Let's hear it. 100 add seven. 107. And times by nine. 963.
20:19One away. Same way. Yes. Come on. Yes. Reach 964. You will have to leave it with me. Okay.
20:32Let's get a tea time teaser then. It's carrot cut. C-A-R-A-T. Carrot cut. It sounds like
20:38the Middle Eastern performer has an eye problem. It sounds like the Middle Eastern performer has
20:43an eye problem. Welcome back. You might have got from carrot cut to cataract but the clue
21:04was the key. It sounds like the Middle Eastern performer has an eye problem. C-A-T-R. C-A-T-R-A-T.
21:10Very good indeed. Just before the break, Sandra get off the mark. We love it. 82 plays seven.
21:15Sandra, let's get some letters. Consonant please. Thank you, Sandra. L. Consonant. R. Vowel. E. Vowel. I. Consonant.
21:32B. And a consonant please. Lastly, L. Let's play.
21:48L. Let's play.
21:54L. Let's play.
21:58L. Let's play.
22:12L. Let's play.
22:16L. Let's play.
22:18It's all the time we have. Sandra. Six. Yes. And Harry. Eight. An eight. The six,
22:24Sandra. Bracers. And the eight. Ballsier. Ballsier, yes. If you're ballsy, you're courageous,
22:30determined. Ballsier's in. Edith Bowman. And Susie Dent, what have we got? Liberals.
22:35Liberals. Liberals for eight. If you've got that at home, brilliant work. Ninety plays seven.
22:41More letters now. It never stops, does it? Harry. Can I start with the consonant, please?
22:45Thank you, Harry. N. And another. R. And another. J. And another consonant, please.
22:53Y. And a vowel. U. Another vowel, please. I. And another vowel, please. E.
23:03E. Okay, for another vowel. O. And a final consonant, please. Final D.
23:10Kind time.
23:11E. Fuck.
23:23It's Richard.
23:25época call.
23:31He and J.
23:36That's time. Harry, how many?
23:43Seven.
23:44And Sandra?
23:44Seven.
23:45Love it. Harry?
23:46Joyride.
23:47Let's double that score, Sandra.
23:49Journey.
23:50Journey, a much more acceptable word than joyride from young Harry,
23:54I have to say, but seven points each as we head to Dixonry Corner.
23:57Both excellent. We had another couple of seven, so that was it.
24:01Injured and joinery.
24:03Very nice indeed.
24:04And we'll stay in Dixonry Corner, Suze,
24:06because we've got more origins of words to finish the week.
24:08Yeah, well, I love sitting next to Edith,
24:10and I've been inspired by the colour of her dress today,
24:13which is just beautiful.
24:14So I'm going to talk a little bit about colours.
24:17Yellow goes back to a really, really old word
24:21that is a sibling of gold.
24:24So you can, obviously, you can see where that came from.
24:27And it kind of branched off into different languages,
24:29which have very similar names.
24:30Some have sort of arisen out of mistakes, really.
24:34So auburn originally meant white,
24:37because it goes back to the lattice albus,
24:39which is where we get Albion from, the white cliffs of Dover.
24:42But it was written in French as Abrun, A-B-R-U-N.
24:46So people thought it sounded a bit like brown.
24:48So now auburn means brown hair, but it didn't always mean that thing.
24:51Pink takes its name from the flower, the gorgeous pink.
24:56So the flower isn't named after the colour.
25:00And similarly, orange, so I always love this fact,
25:02orange, the colour came from oranges.
25:05It came from the fruit, and again, not the other way round.
25:08And we really struggled with having a word for orange
25:10for quite a long time.
25:12So Chaucer, in the nun's priest's tale,
25:16went with the phrase,
25:17betwixt yellow and red,
25:18because he did not know the colour for this.
25:21And then we had an Old English word,
25:22which was essentially yellow red, yule red,
25:24which was pretty clumsy.
25:26But again, it kind of gave that,
25:28well, it's somewhere in there,
25:29but we haven't got a name for it.
25:30And it was only when the fruit
25:32became really widely available in Europe,
25:34and it was considered very exotic,
25:36that we borrowed the colour from that, which I love.
25:39And also colour gives back.
25:41So if you take the colour of the cappuccino monk's habit,
25:46as these are friars from the Franciscan order,
25:49it was a kind of sort of milky brown.
25:51And when the cappuccino was invented, the drink,
25:53it was given that name,
25:55because its colour exactly matched the habits of those monks.
25:59Wow.
26:00I love that.
26:03Now, on the subject of words,
26:05we've been giving nicknames, pet names,
26:08just, you know, in terms of endearment
26:10to special players during the regular season.
26:13So we've got the history maker, Tom Stevenson.
26:15We've got Ronan, the Hurricane Higginson.
26:17And of course, I love Cillian McMulkins,
26:19the incredible Mulk.
26:21I've really struggled with Harry Savage,
26:23who is definitely a special player.
26:26But Susie, this is sensational.
26:28Ready for your nickname, Harry?
26:29Yeah.
26:30Here it is.
26:30So he loves his paleontology,
26:32loves dinosaurs,
26:34knows every word in the dictionary.
26:35This is your nickname.
26:36Yeah, I had sorry in as one of his words.
26:38In his joint effort, I have to say,
26:40thesaurus.
26:41Thesaurus.
26:42Thesaurus.
26:43Thesaurus.
26:43Do you like that?
26:44I love that.
26:44Isn't that beautiful?
26:45Yes.
26:46Thesaurus.
26:47Come on.
26:48Right.
26:49We're not done yet, though.
26:50We're not done yet.
26:51Four rounds to play.
26:52Going to enjoy every single one of them.
26:54Hopefully you will too, Sandra.
26:55Let's get some letters.
26:57Consonant, please.
26:58Thank you, Sandra.
26:58And another vowel, please.
27:25And the last one.
27:27E.
27:28Good luck.
27:58That's time. Sandra ring? Five. And Harry Savage? Six. And six there. Sandra, what's the five? Mouse. Mouse. And Harry? Outsea. There you go. The out is there again. I was on the app pages. It's in the dictionary, yes. Outsea for six. What do we have, Ed? Got a couple of other sixes. Emotes? Yes. And Vetoes. And Vetoes. A few sixes, slim pickings, though, as we get our last letters round and your last one until, without a shadow of a doubt, the end.
28:28End of season finals. Off you go, thesaurus. Can I solve another consonant, please? You can, indeed. R. And another one, please. P. Another consonant. D. And one more consonant, please. G. And a vowel. E. A vowel. U. Another vowel.
28:58Music.
29:00Music.
29:16Music.
29:19Music.
29:20Music.
29:22And that's time, Harry.
29:31Seven.
29:32A seven, and Sandra?
29:33Seven.
29:34And a seven, what have we got?
29:35Pudgier.
29:36Pudgier and Sandra?
29:38Peering.
29:38Yes, peering and pudgier.
29:41Susie?
29:41Very nice, indeed.
29:42Love it.
29:43Edith, marathon stint in dictionary corner, last letters round.
29:47I feel like this should be ticker-tip for the performance that you put in.
29:50What have you got?
29:51Yeah, we had pudgier.
29:53A lot of negative words, really.
29:54I like pudgy, though.
29:55I think it's got a cute feel.
29:57Oh, yeah.
29:58You want to do that to it.
29:58Mr Pillsbury.
29:59Like when you sort of pinch your kid's cheek, pudgy cheek.
30:04Yeah.
30:05110 plays, 21.
30:07That means that Harry's managed to break the century on every single one of his performances.
30:14And he's not done yet, but will Sandra make it easy for him to get another ten points?
30:18It's your numbers.
30:19Er, too large, please.
30:21Thank you, Sandra.
30:22Too large, four little.
30:24Final numbers of the week.
30:25And they are four, three, two, seven, 125.
30:32And the target, 494.
30:36Four, nine, four, last numbers.
30:38They are four, five.
31:05Time's up, Sandra. How did you get on?
31:11Four nine six.
31:13Two away. Harry?
31:14Four nine four.
31:14Off you go.
31:15100 add 25.
31:17125.
31:18Times by four.
31:19500.
31:20And then take away three times two.
31:21For the six to take away.
31:23And another ten points. Well done.
31:27Harry, a little bit of a personal target here.
31:30This would be your top score if you managed to pick up this final ten points
31:34on 130.
31:35Although he might be a bit distracted by what he's going to have to do
31:38after this.
31:39So a chance, Sandra.
31:40Let's get that finger on the buzzer as we reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
31:49No distraction, Harry.
31:50Generally.
31:51Let's have a look.
31:56What a way to go out.
31:58Your best score yet of 130.
32:00An Octo-Champ with 939 points.
32:07Congratulations all the way.
32:10Congratulations, man.
32:11Congratulations.
32:11Sandra, sometimes you run up against a proper great.
32:15Please tell me it was okay for you still.
32:17Yeah, it's been good.
32:18Thank you for being here.
32:19Okay.
32:20We will see you at the end of the season without a shadow of a doubt.
32:23But you promised me before you got a single one of those 939 points
32:27where people that don't know, Harry did the cube in 11 seconds.
32:32You said you were trying to do it blindfolded in under 30.
32:36So I'm going to say goodbye to everybody and then you're going to have to do it.
32:41Catch.
32:41What a way to go out.
32:42Start studying it.
32:44Can I just say what a delight it has been to have Susie and Edith together,
32:48literally two of my favourite people on the planet.
32:50It's been such a joy to have you here.
32:53Thank you so much.
32:54See you soon.
32:55This week, it's been special, hasn't it?
32:57Incredible.
32:57Absolutely incredible.
32:58Yeah.
32:59I've got another nickname for Harry.
33:00The Cubacabra.
33:02Which only works if you know that the Cubacabra is a mythical, vicious creature.
33:06Which he is in countdown terms.
33:08He is.
33:08But given that you need all that knowledge, I'm going to stick with the Saurus.
33:12Fair enough.
33:12And this is the moment.
33:14We've had many Octo-Champs, but we've never had anybody do this.
33:18As his final boy, Harry Savage, blindfolded, will do the Rubik's Cube.
33:24Your time starts now.
33:26Oh, no!
33:49It took you three seconds to find the buzzer, because you were blindfolded.
34:03I'm going to round that down to 20 seconds, and I think I'm being a little bit unfair.
34:08It might have been even quicker.
34:0920 seconds, blindfolded, Rubik's Cube.
34:12Harry, you are just a delight.
34:14Forget the talent in the Rubik's Cube.
34:16Forget how good you are at Countdown.
34:18You've just been brilliant to have around.
34:19Well done, mate.
34:19Thank you very much.
34:24Next week, we've got a woman who can bend spoons.
34:26We'll see you Monday.
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