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00:30Hello, everybody. It's Thursday afternoon.
00:33And if you check your listings magazines, you'll see Countdown, same time, same place, Monday to Friday here on Channel 4.
00:40How are you doing, Rachel Riley?
00:41I'm very well, thank you. How are you?
00:43Good big anniversary today, alluding to listings.
00:46The 100th year, 100 years ago today, the very first Radio Times was published.
00:52It cost 2D.
00:54And it printed the listings for six, what they called back then, wireless stations.
01:01And why was that revolutionary?
01:02Well, because the newspapers refused.
01:05They boycotted printing listings for radio because they feared it would take over.
01:12Like, traditional media has always feared new media throughout all time.
01:18And now, of course, it's the streaming services.
01:20Yeah. Oh, it's going to ruin it.
01:22Yeah.
01:22Yeah.
01:23You know, it's brilliant that a publication like that's still going 100 years later.
01:26Well, a brilliant landmark for them, Rach, but, of course, so many others on the shelves as well.
01:30Your TV quicks and all of that, you know, many places you can get your listings.
01:34Right.
01:35Either way, whatever one you're looking at, the choice is free to you.
01:38You will find it will say there if it's accurate.
01:41Then joining Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner is the brilliant Grace Dent.
01:45Hello.
01:48Right, three wins for Ben Bazzard, our maths teacher, head of maths at a school for eight to 13-year-olds.
01:54Well, it's not much surprise.
01:56You're up against another teacher today.
01:57We have this great run, but good news for you, numbers isn't his thing.
02:01He's a drama teacher, head of drama at a secondary school.
02:04Carl Nicholas from Sevenoaks in Kent.
02:06How are you, mate?
02:07I'm all good, thank you.
02:08Good.
02:08I remember my days at school swapping football stickers.
02:11That was really big.
02:12So you're in the perfect place because you do trading cards, is that right?
02:16Yeah, that's more of my business these days.
02:18So I've been playing sort of collectible card games, trading card games for about 20 years now.
02:23But about 10 years ago, I got into one of the really big ones and it's just been a lifesaver for me.
02:29In fact, I was playing in the taxi ride on the way over here because I just can't give it up.
02:34Well, we're really sorry to interrupt your day.
02:35We'll get this out of the way as quick as we can.
02:38And Carl and Ben.
02:41First letters round, that's always the chump.
02:44Hello, Rachel.
02:44Hi, Ben.
02:45Please, can I start with a consonant?
02:48Of course, you can start with W.
02:50And another one.
02:53S.
02:54And another consonant.
02:56G.
02:57And a vowel.
02:59I.
03:01And another one.
03:02A.
03:03And another one.
03:04E.
03:06And a consonant.
03:08R.
03:09And a consonant.
03:12S.
03:13And finish with another consonant, please.
03:16Finish with R.
03:18At home and in the studio, let's play Kind Down.
03:20And another one.
03:52Eight.
03:53And Carl?
03:54Just a six.
03:55The six is?
03:56Wages.
03:57Started strong.
03:58Gracia.
04:00Gracia.
04:01Gracia knows.
04:02Very good indeed.
04:03Yeah.
04:03Fantastic eight.
04:04Well, we had gracia for eight.
04:05You know I like to put things in a sentence.
04:07When things are gracia, you might find earwigs for seven.
04:11Nice seven.
04:13But gracia for eight.
04:14Strong start, champ.
04:15Carl, let's try and peg him back early.
04:17Hi, Rachel.
04:18Hi, Carl.
04:19Could I start with a consonant, please?
04:22You could indeed.
04:23N.
04:25And a vowel?
04:27U.
04:28And a consonant?
04:30L.
04:31And a vowel?
04:33O.
04:35Consonant?
04:37B.
04:40Vowel?
04:42I.
04:42Another consonant, please.
04:47T.
04:49Vowel?
04:51E.
04:54And we'll go for another consonant, please.
04:56And a final G.
04:58That might help.
04:5930 seconds.
04:59better.
05:13Oh.
05:15And a vowel?
05:17Mm.
05:22Yeah.
05:23I'm sorry.
05:24Bye.
05:25Bye.
05:26Bye.
05:28Bye.
05:28Carl, give me a number.
05:31Just a five.
05:32And Ben?
05:33Eight.
05:34And then look at that, steady eight.
05:36Carl, a five.
05:37Guilt.
05:38Guilt.
05:39Obluting.
05:40Obluting.
05:41Hmm, not there, sorry.
05:44What else did we have there, Grace?
05:46Susie had illusion.
05:47Illusion, yeah, which is a chemistry term,
05:50so it's all about removing substances by washing them with solvents.
05:54Right, first numbers round.
05:56And Ben, it's on you.
05:58Could we try three large ones, please, Rachel?
06:00Yep, three and three, the Ben special.
06:03And for the first one today, the numbers are 10, 3, 4.
06:09100, 50 and 75.
06:12And the first target, 149.
06:15Easy end today.
06:16149, numbers up.
06:26Nice, Ben.
06:49149.
06:49And Carl, 149.
06:52You can't be in an easy numbers round when it's your first time on national TV.
06:56Ben, lead the way, please.
06:58100, add 50, add three, take away four.
07:01Yeah.
07:01Basically the same way, just four minus three is one.
07:04Take that off.
07:05Yeah.
07:06APPLAUSE
07:07Right, first two-time teaser of the day is Cola Chat.
07:12Cola Chat.
07:13Sounds like a great goalkeeper representing Wales.
07:16Sounds like a great goalkeeper representing Wales.
07:19Not the country, an itch in that Wales.
07:46So, catch a lot or cash a lot, obviously a type of Wales.
07:49What type, though?
07:50Sperm whale.
07:51Oh, is it just another word for them?
07:52Yeah, it's an old-fashioned term for them,
07:55and it comes from the Spanish and Portuguese meaning big head.
07:57There you go.
07:58Nice.
07:59Back to the game.
08:00Carl, your letters.
08:02Could I start with a consonant, please?
08:05Thank you, Carl.
08:06T.
08:07And a vowel?
08:10I.
08:10And a consonant?
08:13R.
08:15Vowel?
08:16A.
08:16Consonant?
08:19M.
08:22Vowel?
08:24E.
08:26Consonant?
08:28S.
08:32Consonant, please.
08:35T.
08:37And a final vowel, please.
08:40I'm a seeing selection.
08:41A final I.
08:42Thank you, Rich.
08:43Thank you, Rich.
08:43Thank you, Rich.
08:44Thank you, Rich.
08:44Thank you, Rich.
08:45Thank you, Rich.
08:45Thank you, Rich.
08:46Thank you, Rich.
08:46Thank you, Rich.
08:47Thank you, Rich.
08:47Thank you, Rich.
08:47Thank you, Rich.
08:48Thank you, Rich.
08:48Thank you, Rich.
08:49Thank you, Rich.
08:49Thank you, Rich.
08:49Thank you, Rich.
08:49Thank you, Rich.
08:50Thank you, Rich.
08:50Thank you, Rich.
08:51Thank you, Rich.
08:51Thank you, Rich.
08:52Thank you, Rich.
08:52Thank you, Rich.
08:52Thank you, Rich.
08:53Thank you, Rich.
08:53Thank you, Rich.
08:54Thank you, Rich.
08:55Thank you, Rich.
08:55Thank you, Rich.
08:56Thank you, Rich.
08:57Thank you, Rich.
08:57Thank you, Rich.
08:58ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
09:14Carl? Just a six.
09:16And Ben? I'm going to try an eight. OK.
09:19What's a six? Remits. Remits. Let's see what way this goes.
09:22Airtimes.
09:24Oh, you tried end times the other day, Ben.
09:27So airtime is in, but it does say mass noun
09:32and there is no sense listed in which you can make it a plural.
09:37Smattering the sevens of high hopes for maybe more from my two dents.
09:41What have we got? Mistreat for eight. Beautiful.
09:45Imitates for eight.
09:47But neither of them as good as your word, which wasn't a real word.
09:50I would argue yours are better cos they're in the dictionary.
09:53Point of the show. They don't let me make the rules, unfortunately.
09:55Look at this, you're just firing eights all over the studio.
09:58Lovely. I'm not even going to say my sevens and I'm embarrassed.
10:00OK. I'm embarrassed now.
10:02Look, Carl, that's Countdown for you.
10:05You went for the words you're sure there.
10:07You picked up the points twice and you're actually in the lead now.
10:10So, Ben, one for two in the eights.
10:12Just keep being brave. It's fun.
10:14Go again.
10:15Consonant, please.
10:18Thank you, Ben.
10:19N.
10:20And another.
10:22V.
10:23And another consonant.
10:25N.
10:26And a vowel.
10:28A.
10:30Another vowel.
10:31I.
10:32And another vowel.
10:34E.
10:35And a consonant.
10:37C.
10:38And another consonant.
10:40And finally, L.
10:41Half a minute.
10:43C.
10:44And another consonant, please.
10:45And finally, L.
10:46Half a minute.
10:47.
10:48.
10:54.
10:59.
11:01.
11:14Ben.
11:20Six. Carl.
11:21Try seven.
11:22Oh.
11:23She's using the other foot now.
11:25The six.
11:26Louvins.
11:27Will fortune favour the brave?
11:28I don't think this is spelt correctly, but scalene.
11:31How are you spelling it?
11:32S-C-A-L-I-N-E.
11:36Oh, it's E-N-E, in terms of scalene triangle and things.
11:40I'm sorry, Carl.
11:41That's all right.
11:42Grace again is about to wire us.
11:43What have we got?
11:44Well, we have sanical for seven,
11:48which I'll let my sister Susie explain,
11:50because I don't know what this means.
11:53It's a plant of the parsley family, small prickly fruits,
11:56and it was believed to give good health,
11:59so it's linked to sanatorium and other words,
12:03linked to the Latin for health.
12:04There you go.
12:05Carl, you're picking the numbers for the first time.
12:07Let's do that.
12:07Let's just start nice and simple with one large
12:10and the rest of them small, please.
12:11Well, we will ask the Countdown Gods for something simple,
12:14because you never know.
12:15Let's see.
12:16Something more interesting than the last one, though, please.
12:18The little ones for you are two, nine, seven, five, and ten,
12:24and the big one, 50.
12:26And the target?
12:27621.
12:28621, numbers up.
12:30621, numbers up.
12:30621, numbers up.
12:30621, numbers up.
12:31721, numbers up.
12:32721, numbers up.
12:33721, numbers up.
12:34721, numbers up.
12:35721, numbers up.
12:36721, numbers up.
12:37721, numbers up.
12:38721, numbers up.
12:39721, numbers up.
12:40821, numbers up.
12:41821, numbers up.
12:42821, numbers up.
12:43821, numbers up.
12:44821, numbers up.
12:45921, numbers up.
12:46821, numbers up.
12:47921, numbers up.
12:48921, numbers up.
12:49921, numbers up.
12:50921, numbers up.
12:51921, numbers up.
12:52921, numbers up.
12:53921, numbers up.
12:54921, numbers up.
12:55921, numbers up.
12:56921, numbers up.
12:576-2-1, Carl?
13:026-2-1.
13:03Yeah, and Ben?
13:046-2-1.
13:04Off you go, Carl.
13:0710 plus 2 is 12.
13:09Yep.
13:10Times 50 is 600.
13:13600.
13:13And then if you add the 9, the 7 and the 5 for 21 and add that on?
13:189, 7, 5.
13:19Haven't used any of those.
13:21Lovely.
13:21Lovely.
13:22How'd you do it, Ben?
13:22I've done it exactly the same way.
13:24All right, 10 points.
13:24APPLAUSE
13:25Remains a close game as we chat again with Grace Dent
13:32and there's been a theme all week because of our podcast, of course.
13:35Comfort Eating is now a book and we've been going through different things.
13:38So cheese, then we did toast.
13:41Why is cheese like a cuddle?
13:42Why is butter making everything better?
13:45Yes.
13:47And today I was going to talk about pasta
13:49and why I think it is a basic act of self-care.
13:52I was speaking to you earlier
13:55and you didn't think that pasta was a comfort food
13:58but then it got some gasps from people that were listening to our conversation.
14:04And pasta comes up again and again on my podcast
14:07when I ask people for the things that we eat when no-one's looking,
14:10the things we don't brag about,
14:11maybe the things we don't put on our social media.
14:13and those things like tuna pasta bake come up,
14:17you know, the stodge of tuna pasta bake
14:19or just jars of supermarket pasta sauce hurled into bags of supermarket dried spaghetti or penne.
14:28And all this, I mean, in this chapter that I wrote,
14:30it just got me thinking about this very British way
14:33that we eat what's meant to be Italian food.
14:36You know, how far is this actually from Italy?
14:40It's almost a good job that during the 70s, 80s, 90s,
14:43you know, the world was quite cut off, no internet,
14:46they couldn't see what we were up to.
14:48So I kind of look back at the way that my dad,
14:52he was the first person I ever saw making Italian food.
14:54He would make schetti, spaghetti bolognese, schetti, it was a scouser,
14:59and he would just make it by basically getting spaghetti and boiling it for two hours
15:04and then kind of hurling it into condensed tomato soup,
15:09sometimes with baked beans in it.
15:12Wow.
15:12And that was our pasta sauce.
15:15So I've been looking over the chapter about, you know,
15:17what actually is this delicate, beautiful Italian food
15:21that we really should have been eating?
15:22You know, Ruth Rogers and the River Cafe,
15:25these delicate sofrito bases with celery and milk and, you know,
15:31and although they are lovely and they have got a place,
15:34I still think that the most comforting food, pasta-wise, is tinned spaghetti.
15:40Yeah.
15:41I think that sometimes the best spaghetti is that when you just pull off the tin
15:45and then you just stand against the fridge
15:48and have a long, hard think about your life.
15:49Eating the tin spaghetti.
15:53Do you not like tin spaghetti?
15:54How about ravioli?
15:56Do you remember yesterday when Susie, Rachel and I said,
15:58we'll come round your house for food?
16:00I'm all of a sudden busy for, like, the next 28 years.
16:05How cruel.
16:06I get the idea of toast and the can.
16:09For me, it would be the baked beans with brown sauce, you know.
16:11So I get that idea of that for sure.
16:13And comfort food when it comes to pasta, I would think more mac and cheese.
16:17Mac and cheese.
16:18Because that goes with the comfort food of the Deep South,
16:20that when I do my baseball trips, the biscuits and the mashed potatoes
16:23and the chicken and that's real comfort.
16:26Saucy things and carby things.
16:28Stodgy.
16:29I do wonder with tinned spaghetti, though,
16:31that there's that tomato sauce that goes in all types of tinned spaghetti.
16:36It isn't tomato.
16:37It's kind of a wheat flour and citric acid and citric sugar
16:42and it's a base note that we've all lived with all of our lives.
16:46It's been there in tomato ketchup and tomato sauces
16:49and I think there's something about that that just calms us.
16:52You can warm them up, but, I mean, it feels like a bit of a hassle.
16:56I've got news for you, Grace, most people do.
16:59Who knows what tomorrow will bring?
17:01Maybe she's going to be putting banana on pizza next.
17:03We'll find out.
17:04We'll find the mind boggles.
17:06Well, you know what?
17:06That's the whole point.
17:07Whatever floats your boat when you're having your comfort eating,
17:10you should definitely go for it.
17:11Thanks, Grace.
17:14Our champion, Ben, look positively disgusted throughout all of that chat.
17:20Let's get letters.
17:23We'll start with a consonant, please.
17:25Thank you, Ben.
17:25N.
17:26And another consonant.
17:28C.
17:29And another one, please.
17:31H.
17:32And a vowel.
17:34I.
17:35And another one.
17:36E.
17:37And another one, please.
17:39U.
17:40And a consonant.
17:42M.
17:43And a consonant.
17:45R.
17:46And another consonant, please.
17:49And lastly, S.
17:50Start the clock.
17:51The beat.
17:53And another one.
17:53I'll show you we'll see you next week.
17:54Bye, Lawrence.
17:56Okay.
18:01Bye.
18:01Bye.
18:01And我想, can I, by that one?
18:17Oh, let's go.
18:18Ben.
18:23Seven.
18:25And Kyle.
18:27Eight.
18:28Ben.
18:28Sunrise.
18:29Sunrise.
18:31Munchers.
18:32Munchers.
18:33You can be a muncher, and happily, you can also have the munchies.
18:37Which I thought was a slang word.
18:40There's lots of slang in here.
18:42Susie swears we can use munchies.
18:46You can definitely have the munchies.
18:47I have to disallow Sunrise because there's only one S, so apologies for that.
18:51What else do we have?
18:52Those were ours.
18:53We had a seven urchins, which is a beautiful word, but not as good as the munchies.
18:58I see what you've done.
18:59Brilliant.
19:00Carl, let's keep it up and get more letters.
19:02Could I start with a consonant, please?
19:05Thank you, Carl.
19:05K.
19:07And a vowel.
19:09O.
19:10And a consonant.
19:12L.
19:14And a vowel.
19:16I.
19:16A.
19:17Consonant.
19:19D.
19:21Vowel.
19:23A.
19:25Vowel.
19:27E.
19:29And a consonant, please.
19:32T.
19:34And a final consonant, please.
19:37A final.
19:38Z.
19:38Nice Z to finish us off.
19:41Here we go.
19:41Here we go.
19:54Carl, how many?
20:14Six.
20:15And Ben?
20:16Six.
20:16Six as well.
20:18A rare uneventful round from you two.
20:20What have you got?
20:20Tailed.
20:21Yep.
20:22And Ben?
20:23Toiled.
20:23Toiled.
20:24And Tailed to Dictionary Corner.
20:26It's nice to have it easy.
20:27Easy job this round.
20:28Anything else?
20:29Sixes for us.
20:30We have Zealot.
20:32Zealot for six.
20:33And Dito.
20:34And Dito for six.
20:36Six, six, sixes everywhere.
20:38All right.
20:38Let's get back to the numbers then.
20:39And Ben?
20:40One large, please, Rachel.
20:41One large?
20:42You're not gambling.
20:44Oh, this is a tight contest.
20:46Tactics are going to come into play.
20:47Five little ones for you.
20:48Are eight.
20:50Eight.
20:51One.
20:52Ten.
20:53Six.
20:54And the larger one, 50.
20:56And the target?
20:58I'm just going to sit down.
20:59700.
21:00Nice.
21:01700.
21:01...
21:0210.
21:0540.
21:061140.
21:131240.
21:141330, 133.
21:191440.
21:221240.
21:2315.
21:241640.
21:251640.
21:271670.
21:271675.
21:281640.
21:281650.
21:291660.
21:291660.
21:301660.
21:30Let's get it out of the way, Carl.
21:34700.
21:35And Ben?
21:35700.
21:36Carl, how'd you do it?
21:3710 plus 6 is 16.
21:39Yep, 16.
21:408 over 8 is 1.
21:42It is.
21:43Minus the 1, minus the 1 from the 16 to get 14, times 50, 700.
21:47And you've used all the numbers, but you lose the mark for being fancy.
21:51Yeah, I agree.
21:52I wasn't impressed by that.
21:53I'm overruling.
21:54It's a new rule.
21:54Didn't need that.
21:55Really didn't need that.
21:56Ben?
21:56I've been fancy too, perhaps.
21:588 divided by 8 is 1.
22:00Yep.
22:01Add the other 1 is 2.
22:036 take away 2 is 4.
22:05Add the 10.
22:06I think you'll find that's exactly the same method as Carl,
22:08so you're going to have to show your paper now.
22:10Yeah.
22:10Sorry, I've just done it in a different order.
22:12Sorry.
22:12It's mathematically equivalent.
22:13We need to check these things.
22:14Yep, that's fine.
22:15Right, 10 points for each of you.
22:18Let's get our second three-time teaser.
22:20Latin pan.
22:22Latin pan.
22:23You're not likely to find these chips in a casino.
22:26You're not likely to find these chips in a casino.
22:45Welcome back, everybody.
22:47Food's been a big theme this week, and we're loving it.
22:49Latin pan becomes plantain.
22:51You're not likely to find these chips in a casino.
22:54Where's plantain in your cupboard?
22:55Do you like to cook with that, Grace?
22:57I can buy plantain in several places near my house in London,
23:00and I cook it, but I never do it justice.
23:03Yeah, it's got to be in the origin,
23:04or in a good Jamaican restaurant with your curry goat.
23:07Yep, 100%.
23:08Beautiful, beautiful.
23:10Right, 5 points in at the moment.
23:12Our challenger has the edge,
23:13and Carl, with 6 rounds left, you're on the letters.
23:16Could I start with a consonant, please?
23:20Thank you, Carl.
23:20F.
23:21And a vowel.
23:23O.
23:25And a consonant.
23:27R.
23:28And a vowel.
23:30A.
23:32Consonant, please.
23:34N.
23:36Vowel.
23:38O.
23:40Consonant, please.
23:42S.
23:43Consonant.
23:46D.
23:49And another consonant, please.
23:51And a final P.
23:53Start the clock.
23:54We'll see you next time.
24:04We'll see you next time.
24:04MUSIC PLAYS
24:24Carl?
24:26Six.
24:27Ben?
24:27Seven.
24:28The six?
24:29Aprons.
24:30And the seven?
24:31Pardons.
24:32Yes, very good.
24:33To Susie and to Grace.
24:36We have seven, one-man singing soprano.
24:39Yeah, soprano's great.
24:40And actually, the godfather again is Ben,
24:42as the lead changes hands back to our champion.
24:45And your letters.
24:46Consonant, please.
24:47Thank you, Ben.
24:49T.
24:50And another consonant.
24:52M.
24:53And another one, please.
24:56C.
24:57And a vowel.
24:59A.
25:00And another vowel.
25:01E.
25:02And another vowel.
25:04I.
25:05And a consonant.
25:07N.
25:08And another consonant.
25:10P.
25:11And one more consonant, please.
25:14A final.
25:15D.
25:16Let's play.
25:16Tabs is the noun.
25:22E.
25:28And another vowel.
25:34I.
25:35Do not go.
25:36I.
25:36I.
25:37I.
25:38I.
25:38I.
25:39I.
25:40I.
25:41I.
25:41I.
25:42I.
25:42I.
25:44MUSIC
25:48Ben, eight.
25:50And Carl?
25:51Just a six.
25:52The six is?
25:53Pained.
25:54Eight.
25:55Impacted.
25:56Nice.
25:57Very good.
25:58Impacted, well spotted.
25:59APPLAUSE
26:01Generous letters there, so what else did they offer up?
26:04For eight, we had the last word anyone wants to hear in the world ever,
26:07pandemic.
26:08Yes, right.
26:10Certainly in the dictionary.
26:12Moving on.
26:13Absolutely.
26:14Let's move on from that pandemic.
26:16We don't need to tell you the meaning.
26:18And, in fact, we can't move on.
26:19Let's end dictionary corner because it's origins of words time, Suze.
26:22Are we still with...
26:24Don't tell me.
26:25Linda.
26:26You're right.
26:27This does come from her.
26:28She wondered whether a tank top has anything to do with the armoured war vessel.
26:33OK.
26:34Seems strange, but guess what?
26:36They are actually...
26:37Amazing.
26:38..kind of related.
26:39Amazing.
26:40I'll explain.
26:41It's called a tank, and it probably goes back to a Sanskrit word meaning a pond.
26:46And then it was influenced, a kind of Portuguese version of that, tang, T-A-N-G-U-E.
26:52But before long, it was being used not just for a natural resource of water or reservoir,
26:57it was used for a domestic container of liquid.
27:00So, you know, we still use tanks in that way.
27:03We have petrol tanks, et cetera.
27:05In 1915, tank famously was a secret code word for the armoured military vehicles that were being made.
27:12So, in order to evade the eyes of the enemy on the packing of the crates that carried these big tanks.
27:20It said water tanks for Britain.
27:22Mm.
27:23So, that is why, of course, they weren't water tanks.
27:25They were the tanks.
27:26That is how they got that name.
27:28And a tank top is not so called because it was worn by the driver of a tank,
27:32but because it resembles the top of a one-piece swimsuit that was known as a tank suit,
27:38because we swim in swimming tanks.
27:41So, they all have everything to do with containers of liquid in some way,
27:45albeit the tanks that we see in war were only called that because we were trying to defy the enemy.
27:51Nice. Brilliant one, Linda.
27:52APPLAUSE
27:54Well, Carl certainly hasn't tanked it.
27:56His challenger still a chance of winning ten points behind four rounds in your letters.
28:01Start with a consonant, please.
28:03Thank you, Carl.
28:04P.
28:05And a vowel.
28:07O.
28:08And a consonant.
28:10O.
28:11S.
28:12Vowel.
28:13E.
28:14Consonant.
28:15L.
28:16Vowel.
28:17O.
28:18Consonant.
28:19J.
28:20Vowel.
28:21E.
28:22And another consonant, please.
28:23And a final R.
28:24All right, let's play.
28:25O.
28:26O.
28:27Vowel.
28:28E.
28:29And another consonant, please.
28:30And a final R.
28:31All right, let's play.
28:32O.
28:33O.
28:34O.
28:35O.
28:36O.
28:37O.
28:38O.
28:39O.
28:40O.
28:41O.
28:42O.
28:43O.
28:44O.
28:45O.
28:46O.
28:47O.
28:48O.
28:49O.
28:50O.
28:51O.
29:05Carl.
29:06Dodgy, seven.
29:08And Ben?
29:09Seven.
29:10Not dodgy at all.
29:11Carl.
29:12Respool.
29:13Ben?
29:14um elopers all right well we're right with elopers yes three spoons whether
29:19it's a you know it's a saw machine or it's the old cinema bins and that kind
29:23of thing and yeah it isn't there I'm really sorry it's just not these
29:27frequently enough I'm sorry about that what have we got what's in well we had
29:31elopers and then you said loopers yes which I'm not quite sure I love those
29:37little caterpillars that form loops as they go along yeah the traditional cute
29:41version it's adorable yeah all right there you go but funny enough not not
29:45re-spooling I'm surprised at that but that's the way it goes bit of comfort
29:49now for Ben as we head into our our last letters and you're choosing them
29:54consonant please Rachel thank you then P and another T and another ah and a vowel
30:04please oh and another vowel you and another vowel E and a consonant D and a
30:16consonant S and another constant please and lastly H nice final edit
30:26how many Ben
30:56eight and car seven and a seven the seven is shouted and what's it proudest
31:04proudest yeah very nice very good nice letters great we had an eight which is
31:12postured yes nice and a whole load of sevens and now the upshot of that is Ben
31:17will get his fourth win good competition though today card what are you going to do
31:21with the final at numbers let's go for for large why not why not and even if you're
31:28not confident you can act confident with your history come on drama teacher let's
31:34show the math teacher up final numbers for two and then the big ones one hundred
31:3950 75 and 25 and the target 856 856 numbers up
31:46so
31:548.56 to target, Carl. Fun. Was it fun 30 seconds? How did you get on?
32:218.50. Six away, Ben? I think 8.56. Off you go. 100 times 4. It's a good start.
32:29400. 75 over 25. Is 3. Add that on. 403. Multiply that by 2. 806. And then add 50.
32:38Yes. Nicely done. 8.56. That's fantastic, Ben. Well done to you.
32:46Gets you to 90 points, gets you within a whisker of another century.
32:49Let's see if you can manage that with the last round of this Thursday afternoon, Carl.
32:53Let's see if we can get you to 65 as we reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:58Go on, Ben. Marmalade.
33:25Let's have a look. Nice.
33:28APPLAUSE
33:29Great one for you, Ben. Lovely. Halfway to being in OctoChamp, so we'll see you tomorrow.
33:36And Carl, wouldn't trade places with you. That was good fun, even though you lost.
33:40Yeah. Really good day. Really good fun and great opponent as well.
33:43Yeah. Really good. I like the risk taken on both sides. That was really interesting to watch.
33:47You only get one try sometimes, I suppose, so you've got to take a risk.
33:49Exactly. No regrets as you leave. Thank you for being here, Carl. Cheers.
33:54Grace, Susie, see you tomorrow. Yep, see you then.
33:56Rachel, I'm going to go home because all this talk of food,
33:58every time we finish the show with Grace, I always race straight home.
34:02I'm going to get the spaghetti hoops and I'm going to heat them up because I'm not a freak.
34:06Absolutely. I don't think it's more, you know, comfort food than a cry for help called spaghetti hoops.
34:11Couldn't agree. At last we agree on something emphatically.
34:16I don't care. I'll be back tomorrow anyway.
34:19Yeah, well, we heat up again about ten past two on Channel 4. You can count on us.
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