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00:30Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:34Now, I read an astonishing article, a very worrying article recently,
00:39about the number of employees that are being asked by their employers to wear tracking devices, Rachel.
00:48And these tracking devices apparently measure fitness, productivity and stress levels.
00:54And a bank, one of the big banks, is doing it, and parts of the NHS as well.
00:58It's an extraordinary thing.
00:59What do you think about this?
01:01It's creepy.
01:02It's an Orwellian.
01:03It's very creepy.
01:04It's a little bit of a black mirror.
01:05It's taking it too far.
01:06You don't know what they're going to do with it, who can hack into it, where they're going to...
01:09I don't know.
01:10It's just not for me.
01:12Quite right.
01:13It's Big Brother.
01:14It's Orwellian.
01:15Who's with us?
01:15Not Orwell, but Burkan Chelykan, who's sitting here, two wins under his belt,
01:21computer sciences student from Bexley.
01:23Welcome back.
01:25Are you happy and confident?
01:26Oh, yeah.
01:27I've done better than I expected to do.
01:28Well, you've done very well indeed.
01:30You're joined today by Matt Windsor, a chartered accountant from Southampton, poker player.
01:35Once sat across the table from Matt Letizier, who was on here once.
01:38Apparently, you thought, well, if Matt Letizier can do it, so can I.
01:41Indeed, yeah.
01:42A man of many talents, so I thought I'd try and follow in his footsteps.
01:44Good.
01:45Well, good luck to you both.
01:46Let's have a big round of applause for both Matt and Burkan.
01:54And Susie's over in the corner, as ever, joined for the first time by Adam Henson,
01:58farmer, author, TV presenter, whose book, Like Farmer, Like Son, is just out in paperback.
02:06Indeed, it is.
02:07A big welcome to you.
02:08Thank you very much.
02:09Now, Burkan, let us go.
02:17Hi, Rachel.
02:18Hi, Burkan.
02:19Could I have a consonant, please?
02:20Start today with N.
02:23And another consonant.
02:26Q.
02:27A vowel.
02:29U.
02:31Another vowel.
02:33E.
02:35Another vowel.
02:37O.
02:37And a consonant.
02:41T.
02:42A consonant.
02:45M.
02:47A consonant.
02:50L.
02:52And another consonant, please.
02:54And lastly, D.
02:57And here's the countdown clock.
02:58What?
03:00What?
03:05What?
03:06Who?
03:08What?
03:12What?
03:12BIRKIN
03:17BIRKIN
03:18BIRKIN
03:22BIRKIN
03:26BIRKIN
03:28BIRKIN
03:30BIRKIN
03:32A seven, Matt? Just a six. And your six?
03:34Quoted. Quoted and?
03:36Mounted. Mounted, thank you.
03:38And over in the corner there, Adam and Susie?
03:42Well, it was a tricky one.
03:44We've got D-mount. Yep.
03:46What else have we got there, Susie?
03:48And we have Malted. Malted.
03:50As well. Malted.
03:52Shedding of fur. Shedding of fur.
03:54Molting, yeah. I suppose when...
03:56I mean, as a farmer now, you...
03:58Chickens, do they molt?
04:00They do molt, yes, yes. So they often molt
04:02and then they come into their full plumage
04:04for the springtime, which is when they
04:06they would start breeding like wild birds would.
04:08So they look their best. Okay.
04:10Excellent. Thank you. All right.
04:12So Birkhand's off. Flying start.
04:14They're seven points and it's Matt's...
04:16Let us get Matt. Hi, Rachel. Hi, Matt.
04:18I'll go for a consonant, please. Thank you. Start with...
04:20T. And a vowel.
04:22A. A consonant.
04:24R.
04:26Vowel.
04:28O.
04:30Consonant. T.
04:32A vowel.
04:34O.
04:36And final consonant, please.
04:38And a final L.
04:40Standby.
04:42O.
04:44And final consonant, please.
04:46And a final L.
04:48Standby.
04:50O.
04:52A vowel.
04:54O.
04:56Yes, Matt?
04:58O.
05:00O.
05:01O.
05:02O.
05:04O.
05:05O.
05:06O.
05:07O.
05:08O.
05:09O.
05:10O.
05:11O.
05:12O.
05:13O.
05:14O.
05:15O.
05:16O.
05:17O.
05:18Yes, Matt?
05:19Six.
05:20Six.
05:20Birkin?
05:21Six.
05:22Matt.
05:23Rattle.
05:24And?
05:25Rotate.
05:26Rattle and rotate.
05:27Yep.
05:28Absolutely fine.
05:29Any advances?
05:31Well, we had Natter for Six, which is what Adam and I were just doing,
05:35about the word autolan, which I was explaining as a songbird,
05:41formerly eaten as a delicacy, in fact.
05:43Oh, yeah.
05:44It's illegal now, yeah.
05:46They drown them in brandy.
05:48Is that right?
05:49Yeah.
05:50Goodness me.
05:50They brown...
05:51I can't imagine.
05:52These little songbirds, they drown them in brandy,
05:55and then you eat them whole with a napkin over your head.
05:59It all seems a bit odd, but it's no longer legal.
06:02All right.
06:0313 plays six.
06:04Birkin on 13, and it's Birkin's numbers game.
06:08Could I have one large and five small, please?
06:11You can indeed.
06:11Thank you, Birkin.
06:12One from the top rope, five little.
06:14And the first one of the day is two, ten, three, another ten, eight, and 75.
06:23And the target, 524.
06:25Five, two, four.
06:27Five, two, four.
06:57OK.
06:595-2-4.
07:005-2-4.
07:02And match.
07:02Also 5-2-4.
07:04OK.
07:05I did 10 minus 3.
07:077.
07:09Times 75.
07:105-2-5.
07:11And then the other 10, take away 8.
07:14Is 2.
07:15Divided by 2.
07:16To the 1.
07:16And took it off.
07:17Perfect.
07:185-2-4.
07:19Well done.
07:19And match.
07:20Exactly the same.
07:23Yeah.
07:24Happy now?
07:25All right.
07:27Well done.
07:31So 23 plays 16 as we lurch into our first tea time teaser, which is client age.
07:37And the clue.
07:37The age of the client had nothing to do with his illness.
07:41It was hereditary.
07:42The age of the client had nothing to do with his illness.
07:45It was hereditary.
07:46And the answer to that one is that it was genetical.
08:14Genetical.
08:14So Birkin on 23, Matt on 16, and it's Matt's letters game.
08:20I'll go for a consonant, please.
08:21Thank you, Matt.
08:22S.
08:23A vowel.
08:24And a final consonant, please.
08:46And a final D.
08:48And the clock starts now.
08:49And a final consonant, please.
08:50And a final consonant, please.
08:51And a final consonant, please.
08:51And a final consonant, please.
08:52And a final consonant, please.
08:53And a final consonant, please.
08:54And a final consonant, please.
08:55And a final consonant, please.
08:55And a final consonant, please.
08:56And a final consonant, please.
08:57And a final consonant, please.
08:57And a final consonant, please.
08:58And a final consonant, please.
08:59And a final consonant, please.
09:00And a final consonant, please.
09:01And a final consonant, please.
09:02And a final consonant, please.
09:03And a final consonant, please.
09:04And a final consonant, please.
09:05And a final consonant, please.
09:06And a final consonant, please.
09:07And a final consonant, please.
09:08And a final consonant, please.
09:09And a final consonant, please.
09:10Yes, Matt?
09:21Six again.
09:23Six, Birkin?
09:24Got a seven.
09:25And a seven, Matt.
09:26Mister.
09:27Mister?
09:29Matures.
09:30Matures.
09:32Mr. Matures.
09:34What else have we got there?
09:35Well, I got matured.
09:37Yep, with a D rather than S.
09:38Yes, and then some very clever words here.
09:41It says you're bright as a button, aren't you?
09:43Oh, no, not at all.
09:45Well, we have Mardiest for eight, and then some Muderates, M-U-D-I-R-A-T-E-S,
09:51and they are the territories of a Muder, which is the governor of a sub-district in Turkey,
09:57or of a province in Egypt or the Sudan.
10:00You knew that.
10:00Of course!
10:01You knew that.
10:02Of course!
10:04I'm just going to pop back to my Muderate.
10:08Yes.
10:10Where did you drag that one from, Francis?
10:12You are extraordinary.
10:13Just a dictionary.
10:14All right.
10:1530 plays.
10:1616, and Birkan.
10:19Birkan, it's your letters again.
10:22Start with consonant, please.
10:24Thank you, Birkan.
10:25L.
10:26A consonant.
10:29H.
10:30Another one.
10:31B.
10:34A vowel.
10:36I.
10:38Another vowel.
10:40E.
10:42A consonant.
10:44N.
10:46A vowel.
10:48A.
10:50Another vowel.
10:53I.
10:54And a consonant, please.
10:56And the last one.
10:57W.
10:58Stand by.
10:59We will try.
11:12We're trying.
11:14We've got to do this.
11:17We'll be getting started.
11:19We're trying.
11:20OK, a five, a five, and Matt?
11:33A six.
11:34A six.
11:34Birkhan?
11:35Well, thank you, Matt.
11:38Inhale.
11:39Inhale.
11:40Very good.
11:40Pretty good?
11:41Excellent.
11:42All right.
11:43And in the corner, Adam and Susie.
11:45Yeah, I was on inhale as well.
11:47That's a good one.
11:48But that was really hard, wasn't it?
11:50That was tricky.
11:51Anything else, Steph?
11:52Just another six.
11:53Wahine, W-A-H-I-N-E, a Maori woman or wife?
11:57Indeed.
11:58Where's my Wahine?
12:00In your mute direction.
12:01Where is she now?
12:0230 plays 22, Birkenham in the lead, and it's Matt's numbers game now.
12:07Matt?
12:07I have one large, please, and five small.
12:10Thank you, Matt.
12:10One's on the top again.
12:11Five more little ones.
12:12And these little ones are eight, five, nine.
12:18Ten and one.
12:20And the big one, 100.
12:22And this target, 594.
12:25Five, nine, four.
12:26Four, nine, four.
12:38I only have five, nine, eight.
13:00Five, nine, eight.
13:03Yes, Ben.
13:03Five, nine, four.
13:04Five, nine, four.
13:06And?
13:06I did 100 at 10, add nine.
13:10100 at 10, add nine, 119.
13:12Times five.
13:14Times five.
13:15Five, nine, five.
13:16And take away one.
13:18And take away the one you haven't used.
13:19Five, nine, four.
13:20Well done.
13:20Yeah.
13:21Well done.
13:24Well done.
13:25Well done, Burkhan.
13:26So 40 plays, match 22.
13:28As we turn to Adam.
13:30And Adam, you run the Cotswold Farm Park.
13:33And you've got some extraordinary animals.
13:35Rare animals.
13:37We have indeed.
13:37Yeah, my dad started collecting rare farm animals back in the late 60s.
13:42And then ended up with quite a large collection.
13:44The reason they were rare, they weren't very commercially viable.
13:46So as well as having the animals on display and talking about rare breeds conservation,
13:50he started to use them in films and dramas as well.
13:52Because obviously producers and directors wanted the right wigs and the right makeup and the right architecture and costume.
13:58But they also wanted the right animals to fit the periods of history.
14:01And Dad had a whole array of animals to do that.
14:03So we've had oxen in Braveheart that we pulled William Wallace's dead body back from the battlefield.
14:08Or his father's dead body.
14:10So I got dressed in a big ginger wig and a kilt and got directed by Mel Gibson helping the actors use the oxen.
14:15And we had a pig in 101 Dalmatians.
14:19So if you remember when Cruella de Vil is chasing the puppies and she gets kicked by a big shy horse in the stable,
14:25ends up on a pile of steaming manure and then gets sat on by a big Gloucestershire Oldspot pig.
14:29Well, that was my pig.
14:33That's extraordinary.
14:34And oxen.
14:35Because, of course, in the old days, they used to shoe oxen, didn't they?
14:38They did indeed, yes.
14:40And they had, and they used to, when they walked geese for miles and miles on the drover's routes,
14:44they used to shoe geese as well.
14:45They'd walk them through tar and grit so they would protect their feet.
14:50Really?
14:51It's fascinating, really.
14:52Now, what's the definition of an ox?
14:55Well, an ox is an ungulate, a sort of cattle animal that's used for draft work,
14:59so used to pull a plough or a cart.
15:01OK.
15:02And so it can be used, you know, they're used all around the world, still today in many countries.
15:06But in Britain, of course, they were outclassed by the horse and then the combustion engine came along
15:10and now we've got the amazing motor car.
15:12But my dad loved working with cattle and training oxen.
15:16And he had six pairs at one time that we had in a row at the Bath and West show one year.
15:21Just tremendous sight.
15:23How amazing.
15:24And they were, what, dragging a plough?
15:26Yeah, so we pulled carts and ploughs and all sorts of them.
15:30So at the Bath and West we were pulling a cart, yes.
15:32Fascinating.
15:32I love it.
15:33Well done.
15:35Very good.
15:38All right.
15:38So 40 plays 22.
15:39Birkin on 40.
15:41Birkin, your letters game.
15:43Thanks, Nick.
15:44Vowel, please.
15:45Thank you, Birkin.
15:47I.
15:48A consonant.
15:50S.
15:52Another consonant.
15:53L.
15:56Another consonant.
15:58R.
16:00A vowel.
16:02A.
16:03A vowel.
16:05E.
16:07Another vowel.
16:10A.
16:11A consonant.
16:14D.
16:14And a consonant, please.
16:18And lastly, C.
16:20Stand by.
16:21BELL RINGS
16:23Yes, back down.
16:44Yes, Berkhan?
16:53Seven.
16:54A seven.
16:55Matt?
16:55Six again.
16:56And your six?
16:57Railed.
16:58Berkhan?
16:59Radials.
17:01Radials.
17:02Yeah, the tyres are absolutely fine.
17:03Indeed, yeah.
17:04Yeah.
17:04And in the corner?
17:06We've got some eights over here.
17:07Salaried.
17:08Yes.
17:09None of us will be on a salary like you, Nick, obviously.
17:11I'm not.
17:11I've got no salary.
17:15And Susie?
17:16And radicals are also their face.
17:18Radicals.
17:19Radicals.
17:19All right.
17:20Very good.
17:22So, Berkhan on 47, Matt on 22, and it's Matt's letters game.
17:27Matt?
17:28Consonant, please.
17:29Thank you, Matt.
17:30R.
17:30Vowel.
17:32U.
17:33Consonant.
17:35Y.
17:36Vowel.
17:38A.
17:39Consonant.
17:39S.
17:42Vowel.
17:44E.
17:45Consonant.
17:47M.
17:49A vowel.
17:51O.
17:53And a final consonant, please.
17:55And a final V.
17:57Stand by.
17:58We'll see you later.
17:58We'll see you later.
18:06All right.
18:06Come on.
18:07Yes, Matt?
18:30Six again.
18:31Six.
18:32Birkan?
18:33Six.
18:34Matt?
18:35Movers.
18:36And?
18:37Saver.
18:38Saver.
18:39Any more sixes?
18:41Adam?
18:41Extension on saver, savory.
18:43Very good.
18:43Anything else?
18:44There's also over-say, which means pretty much the same as over-state,
18:48to exaggerate something, to over-say it.
18:51Over-say.
18:52All right, thank you.
18:5353 to 28, into the numbers once again.
18:56Birkan, numbers again.
18:59One large five small, please.
19:00Thank you, Birkan.
19:01Same again.
19:02One big five little coming up, and this time around,
19:04the selection is ten.
19:06Nine, six, nine, four, another nine, and 25.
19:12And the target, 142.
19:15One, four, two.
19:16One, five, four, one.
19:17Two, three, three.
19:18One, six, nine, and 25.
19:19Al the way, we have to get the cards together.
19:20One, four, three, two.
19:21One, four, three.
19:22One, four, three.
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20:22So if you say 9 plus 9 minus 10 is 8, then you've got the 150, take it away.
20:29All right.
20:29Well done.
20:32Well done, Rachel.
20:34Now we turn to our second tea time teaser, which is rugby date.
20:37And the clue, due to financial constraints, he took his date to a rugby match.
20:41Due to financial constraints, he took his date to a rugby match.
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20:54Welcome back.
21:03I left you with a clue.
21:04Due to financial constraints, he took his date to a rugby match.
21:08And the answer to that is budgetary.
21:13Budgetary.
21:14So, 60 pays 35.
21:16Birkan in the lead.
21:18Good lead there.
21:18And it's Matt's letters game now.
21:20Matt.
21:20I'll go for a consonant, please.
21:22Start with G.
21:23A vowel.
21:24A.
21:26A consonant.
21:28R.
21:29A vowel.
21:31E.
21:32A consonant.
21:34F.
21:36A vowel.
21:38I.
21:39A consonant.
21:41N.
21:42A vowel.
21:45U.
21:46And a final consonant, please.
21:48And a final R.
21:50Countdown.
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22:21Matt. Seven. And Birkan? Also seven. Matt. Fearing. And Birkan? That's the same. Same. There we are. Perfect. Can we do any better? Adam, Susie? Well, we've got seven as well. So, gunfire. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. That's it? That's it. Seven was our best. Gunfire. All right. 67 to 42. Into letters, then. Birkan. May I have a vowel, please? You may. Thank you, Birkan.
22:50O. And a consonant. S. Consonant. K. Vowel. A. A consonant. V. Consonant. Zed. A vowel. O. A vowel.
23:18A. And a consonant, please. And the last one. S. And here's the countdown clock.
23:40Barkan, six.
24:01A six, Matt?
24:03I only have a...
24:05No, I don't have anything.
24:07That's tough, isn't it?
24:08It's tough.
24:08Yeah.
24:09What's Barkan done with it?
24:10Got kazoos.
24:12Oh, you have?
24:13All right, well done.
24:15Well done.
24:16Anything else?
24:16Did you get that?
24:17No, that's as good as we got.
24:18Did you ever play a kazoo, Nick?
24:20Is that the thing you play at football matches,
24:21if you're in South Africa?
24:22Yeah, it makes a funny sort of buzzing noise
24:24when you blow it, yeah.
24:25I would give you an impression,
24:26but I'm just going to look like a fool.
24:27Oh, I'm thinking of something else.
24:30The Louvuzella you're thinking of.
24:31That's it, which should be banned, I think.
24:33I think there have been, yeah,
24:34motions to ban it, definitely.
24:36Kazoo is a bit more homegrown.
24:38All right.
24:39None the less irritating.
24:40Yeah.
24:4173 to 42, and Susie, it's your origins of words.
24:47Adam, you'll like this.
24:48Well, the system of secret voting in elections,
24:51I'm going to talk about today,
24:53known as a ballot.
24:54So, voters in general elections for political candidates
24:58would normally associate the ballot with the ballot box,
25:00which, of course, you put your votes inside.
25:02But the origin of the word ballot might possibly surprise you.
25:06It comes from the Italian word balotta.
25:08That's how it came into English, which means little ball.
25:12And this is because early voting systems involved secretly placing a small ball in the appropriate container to mark your vote.
25:20And at one point, it was customary to put a black ball in a container to indicate a vote against somebody,
25:28perhaps to ostracise them,
25:30and white balls to indicate being in favour of a candidate.
25:34That black ball created, inevitably, the verb to blackball somebody,
25:39which we still use today to vote against somebody becoming a member of a club or an organisation.
25:44But it all goes back to that very early voting system.
25:47And blacklist also was once very, very literal.
25:52The Oxford English Dictionary's definition of blacklist is a list of the names of people, groups, etc.,
25:57who have incurred suspicion, censure or displeasure,
26:00and are typically, therefore, subject to punishment.
26:04That punishment was once very real.
26:06Obviously, we associate this slightly with the McCarthy era blacklisting.
26:09But it was first used very much on ships, at least.
26:14That was how it became very popular, or unpopular indeed,
26:18because it involved the misdemeanour or the misbehaviour, if you like, of a sailor,
26:23who was then subject to flogging, or the cat of the nine tails,
26:28that notorious instrument of torture.
26:30There's one quote here from 1837 involving a man called Paddy C.
26:34I don't know whether he was the boss, but he doesn't sound very nice.
26:37Paddy C. had flogged half the ship's company, at least, stopped their grog,
26:41blacklisted them, and played the very devil.
26:45So you would not want to be on someone's blacklist,
26:47nor, indeed, would you want to be in their black books.
26:50And that goes all the way back to Henry VIII, at least,
26:54who held a black book into which he wrote the abuses of monasteries at the time,
26:59and he used it as a rationale for the dissolution of monasteries.
27:02But it was a very real black book,
27:04and it's amazing, really, that that expression endures to this day.
27:08Extraordinary.
27:08Well done.
27:14For people who hold grudges,
27:17you know, put them, perhaps, in a little mental black book, you know.
27:21Yeah.
27:22We tend to use it quite lightly these days, don't we?
27:24Am I in your black books?
27:25But, yeah, not a good thing to have been in.
27:2773 to 42.
27:28Birkin on 73.
27:29And it's Matt's letters game?
27:31I'll go for a consonant, please.
27:32Thank you, Matt.
27:34J.
27:35A vowel.
27:37E.
27:38A consonant.
27:40P.
27:41A vowel.
27:42I.
27:44A consonant.
27:45B.
27:46A vowel.
27:48E.
27:50A consonant.
27:51S.
27:53A vowel.
27:55U.
27:57And a final consonant, please.
28:00And a final R.
28:03Stand by.
28:33Yes, Matt. Six. And? Six. Six. All right. And Matt. Busier. Busier. Birkan. Bruise. We had sixes as well. Superb. Yes. Yeah. Anything else? No advance on six at the moment. That'll do. All right. 79 to 48. And final letters game. Birkan. Consonant, please. Angie Birkan. S. Consonant. T.
29:03Vowel. E. Consonant. X. Vowel. A. Vowel. I. Consonant. T.
29:33Stand by.
30:04Yes. Birkan. Just a five. A five. Matt. I think I've got a seven. Okay. Birkan. Taxis. Taxis and? Gestate. Gestate. Well spotted. Yeah. Good man. That's a really good one.
30:19Very good. And Adam? Well, exiats I had. Yep. But that was the best I could do. Yep. Gestate was the only seven we could find. Very good. You know, all of the animals that you've got, which one has got the longest gestation period?
30:34Well, the cows for us. Yeah. So a cow is nine months the same as people. Yeah. But the favourite one that everyone likes is the pig. Because it's three months, three weeks and three days.
30:45Is that right? Three, three, three. Lovely. Thank you. 79 to 55. And final numbers game, Matt. I'll go for one large again, please.
30:56Thank you, Matt. One from the top. Five little to finish the day. And this last numbers game is four, seven, one, ten, another ten, and 75.
31:08And the target, 639. 639.
31:38Mad. I think I have gone wrong. Yeah. Yes. Nothing. All right. Birkin. 640. One away. Off we go.
31:53I did seven add one. Seven add one, eight. Times 75. 600. And then ten times four is 40. Four the 40, yep. I did it on. One away.
32:02Very good. But 639. Rachel, help us.
32:08If you say 75 minus four, 71. Ten minus one is nine. And times them together.
32:16Well done. Very good.
32:22639. So 86 plays 55 as we go into the final round. So gentlemen, fingers on buzzers. Let's roll today's countdown conundrum.
33:02No. No good. Let's roll it and find out. Here we go. Today's countdown conundrum is tawdriest. Tawdriest. Well done.
33:13So 86 to 55. Birkin stays on to fight another day. And we say thank you, Matt, for coming.
33:21Bad luck. You're up against somebody now with three solid wins for his name.
33:24So you take this goodie bag back to Southampton, back to your gambling table. How do you come out of this gambling thing?
33:33Win some, you lose some. I guess that's what they say.
33:35Enjoy it?
33:36Yes, very much.
33:36Have you got a technique?
33:38Not really. Not as much as I should have.
33:41There isn't a sort of a Windsor scheme.
33:43Ha ha, no.
33:44All right. And Birkin, see you tomorrow.
33:46See you tomorrow.
33:47And we shall see Adam tomorrow. More great stories from the countryside.
33:50All right. And Susie too.
33:52See you then.
33:52See you tomorrow.
33:53And Rachel?
33:54I'm learning a lot today.
33:55We'll see if we can't run through the whole farm by the end of fantasy.
33:59We'll see you tomorrow.
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