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00:30Hello, everybody.
00:32Thursday, May the 16th.
00:34Countdown well into its stride this week.
00:36Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:3715 rounds of Letters and Numbers coming your way.
00:40Hello, Rachel Riley.
00:41Hello, Colin Murray.
00:42Going to take you back to 1919.
00:45And on this day, the birth of the world's highest-paid entertainer
00:51through the 50s right through until the 70s.
00:54Now, you'll have someone's name in your head at home.
00:58Las Vegas residency, showman, extravagant, outrageous, talented.
01:05Not Elvis.
01:06But it is.
01:07Do you want to have a guess?
01:08No, tell me.
01:09Liberace.
01:10Oh, the highest-paid.
01:11Yeah.
01:12Liberace was just absolutely a global megastar.
01:16Now, I don't know a huge amount about him,
01:18so I've honestly just been reading up a lot.
01:20And Susie will love this, but probably knows this already.
01:24But he had a fierce criticism, Liberace, despite his success.
01:28And that's where the phrase laughing all the way to the bank
01:31apparently comes from.
01:33So some critic wrote this review, basically saying he was the worst
01:36out of his piano playing was awful.
01:38But Liberace and his brother wrote a letter to the critic and said,
01:42thank you, whatever.
01:43Thank you for your scathing review.
01:44We are laughing all the way to the bank.
01:46So a little bit of etymology in there as well.
01:49Well, I think when people become popular with the masses,
01:52there's the side of the critics that don't like that, do they?
01:55And he needed all that money to be able to cover each piano
01:58in diamantes and his outfits.
02:00I mean, he's remembered for that, if nothing else.
02:02Yeah, I read about some of his lavishness
02:04and the shapes of his swimming pools and all sorts.
02:06Oh, yeah.
02:07Absolutely like a trip round a Susie Dent's house at the weekend.
02:10Oh, yeah.
02:10Love it.
02:11There she is.
02:12Our diamond amongst the rubble.
02:14Susie Dent.
02:15Did I get that roughly right?
02:16Er, well, he didn't invent it.
02:18So first record is 1908, but he is mentioned in 1959.
02:23He agreed that the expression had become a standard gag of his.
02:26Yeah.
02:26So he definitely popularised it, but didn't invent it.
02:29So Netra Sarka, let that be a lesson to you.
02:31Check everything with Susie before you set national TV.
02:33Well, I am not laughing all the way to the bank,
02:35unlike yourself, Cyan, I'm sure.
02:37But I'm very happy to be here today.
02:39Love it. Great to have you back.
02:40APPLAUSE
02:41I'm good to have 16-year-old Arthur Page back with us,
02:46who's just getting stuck into his A-level studies,
02:49his biology, his chemistry, his maths and his German.
02:52Let's get to know you a little bit better, my friend.
02:55Big into your chess.
02:57Yeah, that's right.
02:57I like a game of chess.
02:59Wouldn't play you, Arthur.
03:00Absolutely would not.
03:01Be over in a couple of seconds.
03:02How serious are you about your chess?
03:04Last year and this year, I was under-18 county champion.
03:07That is sensational.
03:08I love it.
03:09Well, Arthur Page, there's only one game you're playing today.
03:11That's Countdown, and you're taking on Lesley Hayler.
03:14Well, you live in Westgate on sea now, but are you a Londoner?
03:17I am.
03:18All right.
03:18So what is it that move out, get out to the seaside, you know,
03:21take life a bit easier?
03:22I just didn't like London anymore.
03:25It was too hectic.
03:26And what about Countdown?
03:27How long have you been watching for?
03:29Ever since it started.
03:30You're a 1982er?
03:32I am.
03:32We need a name for that, guys.
03:34We need a name for people who've watched from show one.
03:36Oh, jeez, the original gangsters of Countdown.
03:40There's certainly nothing I'd associate with Countdown.
03:42The original Countdowner, maybe OCs.
03:45Original Countdowners, OCs.
03:47Yes, like that.
03:48We'll go with OCs for now.
03:50You're an OC.
03:50I'm an OC.
03:51Yes, I'm an OC.
03:53Yeah, he was born in 2007.
03:55On that bombshell, Lesley, good luck to you.
03:59Good luck to you, Arthur.
03:59Thank you very much.
04:02OCs.
04:03Well, Arthur, let's see how it feels.
04:04I like it.
04:05Right, Arthur, off we go.
04:07Hi, Rachel.
04:07Hi, Arthur.
04:08Can I get a consonant, please?
04:09You can indeed start today with H.
04:12And another.
04:14D.
04:16And another.
04:16And a vowel, please.
04:37And a final O.
04:40At the home hand in this studio, let's play Countdown.
05:13That's time.
05:15Tricky start, Arthur.
05:17Six.
05:17Six from you.
05:18And, Lesley?
05:19Five.
05:19Five.
05:20The five is?
05:21The five is about.
05:23About.
05:23And what about that six?
05:25Bought.
05:26And bought.
05:27Yes, you bought yourself six points.
05:29Well spotted.
05:29There was another six.
05:31Outbid.
05:31Yes, the out.
05:33You can't be using the out for that.
05:34And our favourite, Aguchi.
05:36Oh, excellent.
05:37Long-legged rodent.
05:38Looks like a guinea pig.
05:39Nice.
05:40Yeah.
05:40That's what we have.
05:41Sixes, sixes and sixes.
05:42So here we go, Lesley.
05:44Your letters.
05:44Could I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
05:47Thank you, Leslie.
05:49T.
05:49And another.
05:51S.
05:54And one more.
05:57M.
05:59And can I have a vowel, please?
06:02E.
06:04And another vowel.
06:06O.
06:08One more vowel, please.
06:10A.
06:12A consonant.
06:14V.
06:16A vowel.
06:19U.
06:21And a consonant, please.
06:23And lastly, P.
06:2530 seconds.
06:26A consonant, please.
06:28A consonant, please.
06:29A consonant, please.
06:30A consonant, please.
06:31A consonant, please.
06:31A consonant, please.
06:31A consonant, please.
06:32A consonant, please.
06:32A consonant, please.
06:33A consonant, please.
06:33A consonant, please.
06:33A consonant, please.
06:34A consonant, please.
06:34A consonant, please.
06:35A consonant, please.
06:36A consonant, please.
06:36A consonant, please.
06:37A consonant, please.
06:38A consonant, please.
06:39A consonant, please.
06:40A consonant, please.
06:41A consonant, please.
06:42A consonant, please.
06:43A consonant, please.
06:44A consonant, please.
06:45A consonant, please.
06:46A consonant, please.
06:47A consonant, please.
06:48A consonant, please.
06:49A consonant, please.
06:50A consonant, please.
06:51THEY CONFER
06:56Leslie?
06:57Six.
06:58Six from you, and Arthur?
06:59Yeah, six.
07:00Six as well, good stuff.
07:01Leslie?
07:02Upmost.
07:03Yes, and what about yourself there?
07:05Osmate.
07:06Osmate, let's throw both words over to Susie.
07:08So, upmost is absolutely fine, that is in there,
07:13and an osmate is, in chemistry, a salt or ester of osmic acid,
07:19which I have to say is a new one on me, and I can look that up.
07:23Yeah, it's simply a solution of osmium tetroxide.
07:27Good stuff.
07:28What else have we got in the dictionary corner?
07:30There's a nice seven there, upvote.
07:32So, you know, online, if you register approval of something,
07:35you give an upvote.
07:36Well spotted.
07:3712 plays, six then.
07:38Well done to both of you as we move on to our first numbers.
07:42Arthur, can I get two large, please?
07:44You can indeed.
07:45Two from the top and four little ones coming up for you both.
07:48And the first numbers of the day are seven, eight, seven, five,
07:53and the large two, one hundred and fifty.
07:56And the target, 663.
07:59663, numbers up.
08:01And the number is the number of the top of the day are eight, seven, eight, seven, eight, ten, eight, ten, eight, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten.
08:096-6-3, Arthur.
08:33Yeah, 6-6-3.
08:35Yeah, Leslie.
08:366-6-3.
08:37Well done, off you go, Arthur.
08:38100 times 7.
08:39100 times 7.
08:41700.
08:42Minus the 50.
08:43650.
08:44And then 5 plus 8 for the 13.
08:455 plus 8 for the 13.
08:46Well done.
08:47Nice.
08:48Leslie Hayler.
08:49I've just done it wrong.
08:51Aw, don't worry.
08:52Happens a lot on everyone's first numbers, right?
08:54Yep.
08:55So that's fine.
08:56Ten points for Arthur.
08:57Well done.
08:58All right, first two-time teaser of the afternoon, my friends.
09:02It's Run Amigo.
09:03Run Amigo.
09:04Your brain may have to go to Monte Carlo to get this.
09:08Your brain may have to go to Monte Carlo to get this.
09:11Welcome back.
09:12And on the odd occasion I have the tea-time teaser, the clue and the answer written down and
09:18still don't understand it.
09:20Your brain may have to go to Monte Carlo to get this.
09:21Oregonum or oregano or some form of pronunciation of that is the answer.
09:27Yes.
09:28Origenum.
09:29And it is linked to oregano, or oregano as they might say in the US because this is an
09:34aromatic plant of a genus that includes marjoram and oregano.
09:36Herbs.
09:37Herbs.
09:38Herbie.
09:39Herbie goes to Monte Carlo.
09:40Oh, no.
09:41Oh, for goodness.
09:42For goodness sake.
09:43Great films those, eh?
09:44Yes.
09:45Before your time, Arthur.
09:46But there's three or four of them.
09:47Get on it.
09:48Brilliant.
09:49Let's get some letters now from Lesley.
09:50You remember it, don't you, Les?
09:51I do.
09:52Yeah, exactly.
09:53Off we go.
09:54Can I have a vowel, please, Rachel?
09:55Thank you, Lesley.
09:56E.
09:57Another vowel.
09:58U.
09:59Consonant, please.
10:00F.
10:01Another one.
10:02T.
10:03T.
10:04T.
10:05T.
10:06T.
10:07T.
10:08T.
10:09T.
10:10T.
10:11T.
10:12T.
10:13T.
10:14T.
10:15T.
10:16T.
10:17T.
10:18T.
10:19T.
10:20T.
10:21T.
10:22T.
10:23T.
10:24T.
10:25T.
10:37T.
10:38Another one, please.
10:39N.
10:40A vowel.
10:41A.
10:42Consonant.
10:43G.
10:43Vowel.
10:44E.
10:45And a final consonant, please.
10:46And a final S.
10:47Thanks, Rich.
10:53MUSIC PLAYS
11:18Tricky round again here, Lesley. How many?
11:20Six.
11:21Yeah, well done for that an arter.
11:22Eight.
11:23My goodness me.
11:24Wow.
11:25I'm not sure what we missed here, Lesley. What's the six?
11:27Unsafe.
11:28Right. Well, let's see if it is unsafe. What have you got?
11:32Fungates.
11:32Oh, fungates.
11:34Yes, this one for a medic rather than a chemist.
11:37It's to form a fungoid growth on the skin or other surface of the body.
11:42It just sounds like so much more a positive, enjoyable word than your description.
11:47Right, brilliant. Well done, young man.
11:48And that's your lot, I'm assuming.
11:51Yes, we were sadly dwelling there, but we also had tunage for seven.
11:56Tunage for seven, which usually we'd applaud, but just the silence is deafening.
12:00As we move on to more letters, Arthur.
12:03Can I get a consonant, please?
12:04Thank you, Arthur.
12:05T.
12:07Another.
12:09R.
12:11Another.
12:14N.
12:15Vowel.
12:17U.
12:18Another.
12:19A.
12:21Another.
12:22E.
12:24Consonant.
12:26K.
12:26Um, a vowel.
12:30I.
12:31Uh, and another vowel, please.
12:34And lastly, E.
12:36And half a minute.
12:37Good night.
12:48So,
12:51Let's go.
12:51I.
12:52R, sir?
13:10Seven. Seven from you and Lesley?
13:12Seven. Well done, what have you got, R, sir?
13:14Kerriton. These are victories, Lesley. What have you got?
13:16Retaken. Retaken.
13:18Very nice indeed, yeah.
13:19Good, lovely. Two sevens, yeah.
13:22APPLAUSE
13:23Sinatra, can you join the seven club?
13:26Trainee. Yeah.
13:28Nice one, there you go.
13:2937.13, second numbers round.
13:32Lesley, never a bad thing to get Arthur off the letters,
13:34so let's get six from you.
13:36Can I have one large and...
13:37Rest smoke, please.
13:38Thank you, Kennedy. Thank you, Lesley.
13:39One large and five knots.
13:42And for the second time today,
13:44the numbers are two, eight,
13:46four, seven,
13:48four and 100.
13:51And the target
13:52six hundred and seventy-three.
13:54Six, seven, three.
13:55Numbers up.
13:56MUSIC PLAYS
13:57That is all the time.
14:02That is all the time I can give you.
14:27Lesley, six, seven, three.
14:29How do you get on?
14:30No, we're near.
14:30Oh, Arthur.
14:32Yeah, six, seven, three.
14:32Off you go, mate.
14:34100 minus four.
14:3696.
14:36Times it by seven.
14:38672.
14:39Four times two is eight.
14:41Yep.
14:41Over the other eight is one to add on.
14:43Marvellous.
14:44Marvellous.
14:45Six, seven, three.
14:49Symmetra, then, let's have a chat for today.
14:52And I believe we're going to be looking at TV terminologies
14:54that I believe you find on scripts and things like that.
14:57Not that I would know.
14:58You would, though.
14:59You know, there's certain phrases that we hear
15:01and we talk about a lot that you don't actually know what it means.
15:04And I thought, when I was 16, unlike Arthur,
15:07I was struggling at 16 on TV, wondering what certain words meant.
15:13And there'd be words like POV, you know, point of view.
15:16And there'd be lots of other terminologies
15:17that I'd have to ask people about.
15:18And one of them was, it's a wrap,
15:21which we all know it means it's the end of the shoot,
15:23end of the day.
15:24But wrap actually stands for wind, roll and print.
15:29No.
15:29Yeah, it comes from the early days
15:31when you used to wind the reel right back onto the spool,
15:36process it and print it off.
15:38And then the classic one was the martini shot,
15:42which is the last shot of the day
15:44because the next shot you'll have is a martini.
15:46It's a martini in the bar.
15:48Yeah, we appreciate that one, don't we?
15:50But there are some of the phrases that I still don't know
15:53and I thought I might ask Susie about...
15:54Oh, my goodness, I might not know.
15:56Well, you will.
15:56You will.
15:57Like, the phrase, nobody says good luck, you know,
15:59when you go on stage, we say break a leg.
16:00Yeah.
16:01No one really wants to break a leg,
16:02especially the dancers.
16:04Why do we say it?
16:05There are so many theories,
16:06ranging from John Wilkes Booth,
16:07who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
16:09and who was supposed to have broken his leg
16:11when climbing on the stage,
16:12to...
16:14Oh, there's just lots.
16:15But there's a German phrase,
16:16Halbz und Beinbruch,
16:18neck and leg break,
16:20so they actually say break your neck as well.
16:22And that's where it came from.
16:24But why we say that, we still don't know.
16:26See, how dramatic, how terrible.
16:28How terribly right for actors to be that theatrical.
16:31I get a bit of that.
16:32Right, Sinatra, thank you very much.
16:34APPLAUSE
16:35Let's get back to the game.
16:38Looking forward to it.
16:39Arthur, more letters.
16:40Can I get a consonant, please?
16:41Thank you, Arthur.
16:43N.
16:44Another.
16:46S.
16:47Another.
16:49Q.
16:50Vow.
16:52I.
16:53Another.
16:53Another.
16:54E.
16:55Another.
16:56U.
16:58Um, another.
17:01E.
17:03Uh, consonant.
17:05F.
17:06And a consonant, please.
17:09And a final M.
17:11And here we go again.
17:37Nice letters, those, Arthur, how many?
17:46I'll stick with a six.
17:47And Lesley?
17:48Six.
17:49Six for you as well, Arthur.
17:51Queens.
17:51Queens, and for you, Lesley?
17:54Same.
17:54Queens.
17:55Yeah.
17:56How did you get on over there?
17:58I got a six sequin.
18:00Yes, lovely spot of that.
18:01Nice on talking about Liberace to get a sequin.
18:04There we go.
18:05Definitely.
18:05And you can stretch it to a seven with a couple of horses, equines.
18:09Equines.
18:10I didn't know whether you could pluralise that, but a great spot.
18:12Yeah, you can put it on.
18:13You can.
18:14Magic, magic.
18:15Well done, both of you, though.
18:17Points in the bag as we go again, Lesley.
18:19I'll have a consonant, please, Rachel.
18:21Thank you, Lesley.
18:23R.
18:24Another.
18:26Y.
18:28Another.
18:30G.
18:32Vowel, please.
18:34O.
18:35Another vowel.
18:37I.
18:39And another.
18:41A.
18:42Consonant, please.
18:44R.
18:46Another consonant.
18:47N.
18:49And a vowel, please.
18:51And lastly, U.
18:54And start the clock.
18:55And a vowel, please.
18:56And a vowel, please.
18:56And a vowel, please.
18:56And a vowel, please.
18:57And a vowel, please.
18:57And a vowel, please.
18:58And a vowel, please.
18:58And a vowel, please.
18:59And a vowel, please.
19:00And a vowel, please.
19:00And a vowel, please.
19:00And a vowel, please.
19:01And a vowel, please.
19:01And a vowel, please.
19:01And a vowel, please.
19:02And a vowel, please.
19:02And a vowel, please.
19:03And a vowel, please.
19:03And a vowel, please.
19:04And a vowel, please.
19:04And a vowel, please.
19:05And a vowel, please.
19:05And a vowel, please.
19:06And a vowel, please.
19:06And a vowel, please.
19:07And a vowel, please.
19:08And a vowel, please.
19:08Leslie? Six. Six for you and Arthur? Seven. And the seven. The six is?
19:31Grainy. And what have you got for me, Arthur?
19:33Roaring. Roaring, yeah. Probably the best ING there was there, eh?
19:36Absolutely, yeah. And those were our exact two.
19:39Excellent. 60 players, 19. Let's get another numbers round in before we take our second break.
19:44And Arthur, you'll choose. Can I get four last, please?
19:47You can indeed. Four from the top and two little ones coming up for you.
19:51And these two little ones are nine and seven. And as we know, 25, 50, 75, 100 are the big ones.
19:59And you need to reach 737.
20:02Seven, three, seven. Lift off.
20:06Seven, three, seven.
20:36Arthur? 738.
20:38Missed it by what, Neslie? 727.
20:41727. Oh, you nearly had me there.
20:4410 away. Arthur for seven points.
20:4675 plus seven.
20:4875 plus seven, 82.
20:51Times it by nine. Times by nine, yeah.
20:53One away, 738.
20:55Is that as close as you can get? Mm-mm.
20:57Excellent, off you go. No, you can get there.
20:59100, take away nine, is 91.
21:0391 times seven is 637.
21:06And you can add the 75 and the 25 is 737.
21:09Brilliant.
21:10APPLAUSE
21:12And listen, just before we go to the break,
21:14you look at our champions over this week and last week.
21:17Everything from 79-year-old Janet to 16-year-old Arthur.
21:21And it's proof positive we just don't say we do
21:23in terms of not having a demographic in this show.
21:26If you want to come on and you love Countdown,
21:28that's all that matters.
21:29And the email is countdown at channel4.com.
21:32There it is.
21:34All you have to do is use the number, not the letters,
21:36in the four.
21:37And that's actually the youngest you can apply
21:39to come on Countdown, 16.
21:41So when you get your 16th birthday on that day,
21:43you can email.
21:44So whether you're watching now, you're 16, you're 76,
21:47you can apply to come on here by just sending that email.
21:50Let's get our tea time teaser.
21:51It's non-pigs.
21:53Non-pigs is in N-O-N-E.
21:55Opportunities to take part in golf tournaments.
21:58Opportunities to take part in golf tournaments.
22:01Non-pigs becomes openings.
22:04Openings.
22:05OK, six rounds to go today.
22:07Lesley Hayler, you're doing well hanging in.
22:08With an absolutely fantastic champion.
22:09So let's get more letters.
22:10A consonant please, Rachel.
22:11Thank you, Leslie.
22:12T.
22:13And another.
22:14M.
22:15And another.
22:16J.
22:17Vowel, please.
22:18A.
22:19And another.
22:20E.
22:21And another.
22:22And another.
22:23O.
22:24And one more.
22:25And one more.
22:26And one more.
22:27A.
22:28And another.
22:29I.
22:30Consonant.
22:31M.
22:32And another.
22:33And another.
22:34A.
22:35And another.
22:36And another.
22:37T.
22:38And a final consonant.
22:39T.
22:40And a final consonant please.
22:41And a final consonant please.
22:42Vowel, please.
22:44A.
22:46And another.
22:47E.
22:49And another.
22:51O.
22:53And one more, please.
22:55I.
22:57Consonant.
22:58M.
23:00And a final consonant, please.
23:03And a final T.
23:05Let's play.
23:07And one more, please.
23:14And one more, please.
23:17I'll see you next time.
23:21MUSIC PLAYS
23:39Leslie? A risky six. Why not? Arthur?
23:42Seven. Oh, my goodness. What's a risky six, anyway?
23:47Matty, with the IE. OK, with the IE.
23:49We'll have a little check of that. What's the seven?
23:52Mamoty? Yes. OK, so I can say yes to both.
23:55So, Matty, with an IE, is actually a very young herring,
23:58believe it or not.
23:59And Mamoty, M-A-M-O-T-I-E, in this case,
24:04is a hand tool for digging, and you'll find it mostly in South Asia.
24:07Brilliant. Let's move on and get more letters, Arthur.
24:10Can I get a vowel, please? Thank you, Arthur.
24:12O. And another.
24:15A. One more.
24:18U. Consonant.
24:20L. Consonant.
24:23D. Another.
24:25S. Another.
24:28C.
24:31Consonant.
24:33T.
24:35And another consonant, please.
24:38And lastly, P.
24:40Kind of.
24:41We'll see you next time.
24:42We'll see you next time.
24:43Bye-bye.
24:43Bye-bye.
24:44Bye-bye.
24:44Bye-bye.
24:44Bye-bye.
24:45Bye-bye.
24:45Bye-bye.
24:45Bye-bye.
24:46Bye-bye.
24:46Bye-bye.
24:46Bye-bye.
24:47Bye-bye.
24:47Bye-bye.
24:47Bye-bye.
24:48Bye-bye.
24:48Bye-bye.
24:49Bye-bye.
24:49Bye-bye.
24:49Bye-bye.
24:50Bye-bye.
24:51Bye-bye.
24:51Bye-bye.
24:52Bye-bye.
24:53Bye-bye.
24:53Bye-bye.
24:54Bye-bye.
24:54Bye-bye.
24:55Bye-bye.
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24:57Bye-bye.
25:11ARTHUR
25:14Just a six. A six there. And Lesley? Just a six.
25:17And a six as well. What have you got there, Arthur?
25:19Adults. And Lesley? Clouds.
25:22Susie and Sinatra, talk to me.
25:25Well, we've got... Is it copulas?
25:28Copulas, yes, they're connecting words in grammar, in linguistics.
25:32So that will give you a seven.
25:35And you can just turn that round a little bit and have cupulas,
25:38C-U-P-O-L-A-S, they're rounded domes that you'll find on buildings.
25:43So they're there for seven.
25:44Edie plays 25, four rounds to go. We love every single round.
25:48It's great to see Lesley smiling the whole way through this.
25:51You have to, right? Let's get our origins of words today.
25:54Well, I heard a message coming via social media, actually,
25:58rather than via a usual channel, but just as relevant.
26:01And I like to think that John Wesley also watches Countdown.
26:04And he's wondering where by hook or by crook comes from.
26:07And, you know, if you do...
26:09If you will get there by hook or by crook,
26:11you will get there by any means possible.
26:13And you have to go back to the Norman conquest for this one,
26:17when the forest that belonged to a manor house
26:21was set apart for the nobleman's hunting.
26:24And this greatly, really, restricted the lives,
26:27if you can imagine it, of the local inhabitants,
26:29who were quite reliant often on the woods,
26:31not just for food, if they were hunters themselves,
26:35but from, you know, firewood and that kind of thing.
26:40And so the new Norman rulers, the new Norman aristocracy,
26:45did some thinking.
26:46And they did actually donate tracts of common land to the peasants.
26:50And they were then allowed to gather kindling
26:53because fires were so important, obviously,
26:56in those days for heating and for cooking.
26:58And they would gather the dead wood,
27:00usually by pulling down branches,
27:02if they didn't find it on the forest floor.
27:04And for this, they would get their hooked poles
27:07or they would get their sickles,
27:09with which they would lop off low-lying branches.
27:13And if you look at the Bodmin register, for example, of 1525,
27:17it tells us that, I'm not sure how you pronounce this actually,
27:20Dinmuir wood was open and common to the inhabitants of Bodmin
27:24to bear away on their backs the burden of lop, crop,
27:27hook, crook and bag wood.
27:30And so it was a feudal right to firewood.
27:33And eventually, some of those fell away.
27:36And by hook or by crook, it was allowed to gather your firewood.
27:40And, of course, because fire was so important,
27:42it came to mean the wherewithal, the means to everything.
27:45But it all began with the Norman Conquerors.
27:47Thank you so much.
27:48You're welcome.
27:49APPLAUSE
27:51So we're getting the hook in four rounds from now,
27:53so we'd better get on with it.
27:54More letters, please, Lesley.
27:55Er, a fell, please. Right, draw.
27:57Thank you, Lesley.
27:58O.
28:00And another.
28:01E.
28:02And a consonant.
28:04C.
28:05Another consonant, please.
28:06H.
28:07And another.
28:08S.
28:09A vowel.
28:10A.
28:11And another vowel.
28:13E.
28:14Consonant, please.
28:15D.
28:16And a final consonant, please.
28:17And a final R.
28:18Good luck, everybody.
28:19S.
28:20Good luck, everybody.
28:21S.
28:22S.
28:23S.
28:24S.
28:25S.
28:26S.
28:27S.
28:28S.
28:29S.
28:30S.
28:31S.
28:32S.
28:33S.
28:34S.
28:35S.
28:36S.
28:37S.
28:38S.
28:39S.
28:40S.
28:41S.
28:42S.
28:43S.
28:44S.
28:45S.
28:46S.
28:47S.
28:48S.
28:49S.
28:50S.
28:51S.
28:52S.
28:53S.
28:54S.
28:55S.
28:56S.
28:57S.
28:58S.
28:59S.
29:00S.
29:01S.
29:02S.
29:03S.
29:04S.
29:05S.
29:06S.
29:07S.
29:08S.
29:09S.
29:10S.
29:11S.
29:12S.
29:13S.
29:14S.
29:15S.
29:16S.
29:17S.
29:18S.
29:19S.
29:20S.
29:21S.
29:22S.
29:23Don't become such a sawhead. In North American English is the answer to that one.
29:27Don't roll your eyes. Goodness me.
29:28It's a really good eight. Right, let's move on and get more letters, Arthur.
29:32A vowel, please. Thank you, Arthur.
29:34O.
29:36Consonant.
29:37T.
29:38Another.
29:41V.
29:43A vowel, please.
29:45I.
29:46Another.
29:47E.
29:49Consonant.
29:51R.
29:52Another.
29:54P.
29:56Another.
29:58R.
30:00And a vowel, please.
30:01And lastly, O.
30:04Last letters.
30:06So,
30:06And lastly,
30:07I'll see you well.
30:08I'll see you well.
30:08See you well.
30:19Yeah.
30:19R, sir?
30:37A seven.
30:38And Lesley?
30:40Four.
30:40The four is, don't worry.
30:42Over.
30:42Over.
30:43It is over, innit?
30:44It really is.
30:46R, sir?
30:47A pivoter.
30:48A pivoter.
30:49For somebody who pivots?
30:50Oh, imagine if the four counted here.
30:53It's in.
30:54Exactly that definition.
30:55Somebody who pivots.
30:56I don't know why I even speculated it wasn't in.
30:58Everything he picks is in.
30:59That's great.
31:01Two more rounds to go.
31:02Lesley, you're picking the numbers.
31:04What are you going to do?
31:05Can I have two large and four small, please?
31:08You can indeed, thank you, Lesley.
31:09Two from the top and we'll go down the bottom row for four little ones.
31:12And the final selection of the day is nine, eight, eight, five,
31:17twenty-five, twenty-five and one hundred.
31:21And with them, you need to make three hundred and seventy-five.
31:23Three-seventy-five.
31:24Numbers up.
31:25Two from the top and we'll be right back.
31:32See you next week.
31:33Bye-bye.
31:353-7-5, Lesley?
31:583-7-5.
31:59Arthur?
32:00Yeah, 3-7-5.
32:01Get ten. Off you go, Lesley.
32:029-5 is 4.
32:044 times the 100.
32:064 times the 25.
32:08Simple.
32:09Arthur?
32:10100 minus 25.
32:1175.
32:12Times 5.
32:12Straight there again.
32:13Nice one.
32:15APPLAUSE
32:15Well, there you go, Arthur.
32:18A little personal milestone hit for you.
32:20Congratulations.
32:2197 on your debut.
32:22You win 105 today and a chance to take that to 115.
32:26But, Lesley, you're going to do everything in your power to stop him.
32:30Come on, finger on the buzzer.
32:32Let's do it.
32:32Let's do it.
32:33You might have to tickle him or something.
32:35Let's see what we can do.
32:37Arthur and Lesley, let's reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:56That's it. Well, it stumped you both. Anyone? No? All right. Well, there you go. Let's
33:15have a look. Podcaster. Oh, my goodness me. Of course. The old podcaster. Right. Excellent
33:24stuff. What a day it's been. Really good. Leslie, you've been just such a breeze to have
33:28in the studio. You've made it a good day. It's been all right, hasn't it? It's been
33:31lovely. It's been brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. 35, very respectable. Well done. Lovely to
33:35have you in, Leslie. Thank you. Brilliant. We'll see you back tomorrow for Friday's show, Arthur.
33:39Yeah, see you tomorrow. Nice one. Last day for you, Sinatra. Yeah, I'm sad to leave. I've
33:44enjoyed it so much. Good crack, innit? Yeah. Good crack. See you tomorrow, Suze. Yeah, see
33:48you then. And all done, Rich. And on the Liberace theme, I mean, this is looking a bit plain now,
33:52we've mentioned to him. Can I get, you know, a few more Diamontis on my numbers truck?
33:56This is what she's like up in the dressing rooms. It really, really is. My goodness me.
34:00We'll get it sorted. We'll do it best. Good. Just, I won't look you in the eye. Don't worry.
34:05Back tomorrow, Rachel, Suze and I, sparkly as ever. We'll see you tomorrow. You can count
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