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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:33Well, the festival season is well and truly underway and there's a festival apparently starting every day.
00:40Well, today it's the Ledbury Poetry Festival.
00:44For the next ten days at Ledbury in Herefordshire, poets from all over the world will be congregating, milling around for the UK's largest poetry event.
00:54As well as hearing work from established poets, of course, there'll be all sorts of competitions split into, I think, three categories.
01:01Adults, young people and children too. Extraordinary thing.
01:07Now, do you have a favourite poem or do you ever try and write poetry?
01:10I don't try and write. It probably won't surprise you to know that. But I like W.H. Auden.
01:14Yes?
01:14Yes. Got some lovely poems.
01:16He was a good poem.
01:17And our producer does, yeah, he's got some good rhymes on him.
01:20He is a man of letters, isn't he? Many of them rude.
01:24Many, many, many of them. When they're put together into words, they're very short words.
01:28Yeah. But we should not deny his talent because he's an extraordinarily talented man.
01:34There's no one like him.
01:35No one at all. Long may he run this steady ship of Countdown because without him we'd be all in terrible trouble.
01:44Now, Rachel, we've got Andrew Fenton back again with four wins under his belt, storming away there.
01:50Although Rhys gave you a bit of a run for your money yesterday.
01:53He sure did.
01:54You came through. Love sport, play cricket, golf and skittles.
01:58Now then, make sure that somebody here doesn't skittle you out.
02:01None other than Michael Hawkins, a church organist and choir master from Binfield in Bracknell.
02:07You tell me that you've got seven grandchildren. Name them.
02:11Well, they're Connie.
02:12Yes?
02:14Sophie, Maude, Charlotte, Helen, Elsie and the only boy is Isaac.
02:20We were waiting for a boy. Isaac. Fantastic.
02:23And are they watching today?
02:25I sincerely hope so.
02:26Well, you look in the camera and say there'd better be, otherwise you'll need a word.
02:29You'll want to worry.
02:30You'll be watching.
02:32Well done.
02:33Let's have a big round of applause for Grandpa Hawkins and Andrew Fenton.
02:40And over in the corner, Susie, of course, sitting next to the wonderful John Culturall.
02:47Welcome back, John, and we'll talk to you later on.
02:49Now then, Andrew, let's have a letters game, shall we?
02:52A consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you.
02:55Thank you, Andrew.
02:56D.
02:56And a vowel, please.
02:58U.
03:00A consonant.
03:02S.
03:03A consonant.
03:05R.
03:07A vowel.
03:09E.
03:10A consonant.
03:12W.
03:14A consonant, please.
03:16L.
03:17Vowel.
03:20I.
03:22And a final consonant, please.
03:24And a final H.
03:27And here's the countdown clock.
03:28Vowel.
03:32M.
03:33Vowel.
03:34So.
03:34Vowel.
03:36Vowel.
03:42So, Andrew.
04:00Seven.
04:00And Michael.
04:01Seven.
04:02Andrew?
04:03World.
04:04Now then, Michael.
04:06Lushier.
04:07Lushier, certainly there, Michael.
04:09And slushier, but not lushier.
04:11Bad low.
04:12What can we have, John?
04:14Great words for the Lancashire accent.
04:16We have a couple of sevens.
04:18World, as we heard, but also hurdles.
04:22400 metres hurdles.
04:25That's very West Country.
04:27Lovely.
04:27That'd be hurdles.
04:29Hurdles.
04:29Hurdles would be like the hurdles, you know.
04:32Thank you, John.
04:33Susie?
04:34Swirling for me.
04:35Swirled.
04:36Swirled?
04:37Yes.
04:37All right.
04:39What shall we do?
04:40Michael?
04:40Shall we have a letters game?
04:41A consonant, please.
04:44Thank you, Michael.
04:45T.
04:46And another.
04:49Q.
04:50And another, please.
04:53R.
04:53And one more.
04:56T.
04:57And a vowel.
04:59A.
05:00And another.
05:03O.
05:04And one more.
05:07A.
05:08And a consonant.
05:11L.
05:13And a final vowel, please.
05:15And a final E.
05:17Countdown.
05:18O.
05:50Yes. Michael. Six. A six and? Six for me. Two sixes. Michael? Rattle. Andrew? Latter. Right. Now, John and Susie, what have you conjured up?
06:07There was another six there for Rotate. Yes. And Deja Vu of a scene replayed with Griff Rhys-Jones on It'll Be Alright on the Night for Areola for another six.
06:19Yes. Indeed. I recall that. Yes. Susie? No. That one's a six. That's it. Alright. Thank you.
06:28Thirteen plays six. Andrew on thirteen. And it's Andrew's numbers game. Thank you. All faithful for me, please.
06:35Two from the top and four from anywhere else. It's working for you so far. Thank you, Andrew. Thank you.
06:39Two big for little. And for the first time today, the little ones are six, seven, three, four, and the large, fifty, and twenty-five.
06:48And the target? Five hundred and fifty-seven. Five, five, seven.
06:51Five, five, five, five, six.
07:20Andrew?
07:245, 5, 7.
07:25And Michael?
07:265, 5, 6.
07:28Let's try with Andrew first, shall we?
07:30Andrew?
07:317 plus 4 is 11.
07:33Yep.
07:33Times 50 is 550.
07:36550.
07:37And then 6 times 3 is 18.
07:39Yeah, it is.
07:40Take that from the 25 is 7.
07:42And add it on.
07:44Well done.
07:445, 5, 7.
07:45Well done.
07:48Well done.
07:49And so 23, 6, as we move to our first Tea Time teaser, which is Albino.
07:54And the clue, you can borrow it by all means, but I'll definitely want it back.
07:59You can borrow it by all means, but I'll definitely want it back.
08:03Welcome back.
08:19I left you with the clue.
08:20You can borrow it by all means, but I'll definitely want it back.
08:24Because it's only loanable.
08:28Loanable is the word.
08:29Loanable.
08:29Now 23 plays Michael, 6.
08:31And it's Michael's letters game.
08:33Michael?
08:34Consonant, please, Rachel.
08:35Thank you, Michael.
08:37C.
08:37And a final consonant, please.
09:05And a final consonant, please.
09:05And a final D.
09:07Countdown.
09:08And a final consonant, please.
09:09And a final consonant, please.
09:10And a final consonant, please.
09:11And a final consonant, please.
09:12And a final consonant, please.
09:13And a final consonant, please.
09:14And a final consonant, please.
09:15And a final consonant, please.
09:16And a final consonant, please.
09:17And a final consonant, please.
09:18And a final consonant, please.
09:19And a final consonant, please.
09:20And a final consonant, please.
09:21And a final consonant, please.
09:22And a final consonant, please.
09:23And a final consonant, please.
09:24And a final consonant, please.
09:25And a final consonant, please.
09:26And a final consonant, please.
09:27And a final consonant, please.
09:28And a final consonant, please.
09:29And a final consonant, please.
09:30And a final consonant, please.
09:31And a final consonant, please.
09:32Michael.
09:41Six, not fully written down.
09:43And how about Andrew?
09:45I'll risk a seven.
09:47All right, Michael.
09:48Radios.
09:50Radios.
09:51And Andrew?
09:52Cardios.
09:54Unfortunately, cardio is a mass noun, Andrew.
09:58And, yeah, he was talking about doing some cardio in the gym
10:04rather than cardios, I'm afraid,
10:06so I'd have to take it in the singular.
10:08Sorry.
10:08Bad luck.
10:09Works in Michael's favour, though.
10:1112 now to Andrew's 23.
10:12As we turn to the corner and interrogate John and Susie.
10:18And?
10:19Well, there was another seven there.
10:20Orchids.
10:22And Karius for another seven was also there.
10:25Sounds like an indie band when you put them together.
10:26The Karius Orchids.
10:28Indeed.
10:29Not nearly as nice.
10:31Karius is a rotting of teeth, so decaying.
10:34Indeed.
10:35Indeed.
10:36Yeah.
10:37All right.
10:3823, please.
10:39Michael's 12.
10:40And we turn to Andrew now.
10:42Andrew?
10:43Start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
10:45Thank you, Andrew.
10:46M.
10:47And another, please.
10:50S.
10:51And a third.
10:53R.
10:54Vowel.
10:55E.
10:56Vowel.
10:58I.
10:59Vowel.
11:01U.
11:02Consonant.
11:04F.
11:06Consonant.
11:08K.
11:09And consonant, please.
11:11And lastly, S.
11:12Stand by.
11:13F.
11:22C.
11:22Andrew?
11:45Seven.
11:46A seven.
11:46Michael?
11:47Seven not written down.
11:49All right.
11:50Michael?
11:51Muskier.
11:52Yes, and Andrew?
11:54Fassier.
11:55Are we happy, Susie?
11:56Fassier and muskier both very good.
11:58Yes.
11:59What else have we got there?
12:00Susie?
12:02John?
12:02Yes, Fisher you could have had for another seven.
12:06Yes.
12:06Fisher.
12:07As in a crack.
12:08Indeed.
12:08Yes.
12:09Nothing else?
12:10That was our bet at all.
12:11We'll leave it there.
12:1130 plays, 19.
12:13And now, Michael, it's your numbers game.
12:15One large and five small, please, Rachel.
12:18Thank you, Michael.
12:18One from the top row and five little ones.
12:21And this time, your little ones, are two, four, eight, nine, and one.
12:29And the big one, 75.
12:31And the target, 661.
12:33Six, six, six, one.
12:34And the target.
12:55Michael.
13:066, 6, 1.
13:08Thank you, Andrew.
13:096, 6, 1.
13:10Michael.
13:129 times 75.
13:146, 7, 5.
13:168 plus 4 plus 2.
13:18Is 14.
13:20And take it away.
13:21Perfect. 6, 6, 1.
13:23Very good. Andrew.
13:2475 plus 9 is 84.
13:2784.
13:28Times 8 is 6, 7, 2.
13:30It is indeed.
13:30And then 4 times 2 is 8.
13:33Plus 1 is 9.
13:35Plus 1 for 9.
13:37That doesn't get you.
13:38That sets you to 6, 6, 3.
13:40I've miscalculated. Sorry, Andrew.
13:42Bad luck.
13:43So Michael gets it. Well done.
13:45So it's 29 to 30.
13:47Just one point behind Michael. Well done.
13:49As we turn to John Colshaw.
13:54Well, the familiar countdown 30 second music, we hear it so often.
13:59It's occurred to me that I don't think I've ever heard any lyrics put to that music.
14:04I don't know whether 8 out of 10 cats has done that on that version of the show, but perhaps not.
14:09So I'll give this a try.
14:11A little of countdowns, early days and present days, compressed into 30 seconds.
14:16Deep breath. Here we go.
14:181982, what I tried to do, long to channel 4, first show out the door, Richard Whiteley, witching sprightly, charming lovely blow, puns and corny jokes, trying to play the game.
14:27I was really lame, longest words from me, letters number 3, failing every time, lazy brain design, get me way behind, contender got a 9.
14:34Honour being in the corner now.
14:35Susie regulates, Rachel calculates, from the governor's chair, somewhere over there.
14:39You be sure of it, be the cure of it, and so that's Countdown's theme.
14:44May your words beat all niners, and your number has fallen dream.
14:49Whee!
14:49That was terrific.
14:59You had a heart in my mouth, because I thought you'd finished a bit early, but you hadn't quite finished.
15:06Brilliant.
15:07I'll do the rest of the programme as Alan Bennett to get me breath back.
15:11Oh, that's brilliant.
15:13So good.
15:13Andrew, it's a letters game.
15:16A consonant, please.
15:17Thank you, Andrew.
15:18B.
15:19And another, please.
15:21M.
15:22And a vowel.
15:25A.
15:26A consonant.
15:29M.
15:31Vowel.
15:33I.
15:34Vowel.
15:36E.
15:37Consonant.
15:38F.
15:40Consonant.
15:42G.
15:44And consonant.
15:46And the last one.
15:47T.
15:48Stand by.
15:49Vowel.
15:50Vowel.
15:50Vowel.
15:51Vowel.
15:51Vowel.
15:51Vowel.
15:52Vowel.
15:52Vowel.
15:52Vowel.
15:53Vowel.
15:53Vowel.
15:53Vowel.
15:54Vowel.
15:54Vowel.
15:55Vowel.
15:55Vowel.
15:55Vowel.
15:55Vowel.
15:55Vowel.
15:55Vowel.
15:55Vowel.
15:56Vowel.
15:56Vowel.
15:56Vowel.
15:57Vowel.
15:57Vowel.
15:57Vowel.
15:57Vowel.
15:58Vowel.
15:58Vowel.
15:59Vowel.
15:59Vowel.
15:59Vowel.
15:59Vowel.
15:59Vowel.
16:00Vowel.
16:01Vowel.
16:19Yes, Andrew?
16:22A seven.
16:23A seven.
16:24Michael?
16:24Seven.
16:26Andrew?
16:26Beating.
16:27And Michael?
16:29Same word.
16:29There we go.
16:31Yeah.
16:31Well done.
16:32And John and Susie?
16:34Yes, a bunch of sevens going on over here, beaming for seven, megabit, ambient.
16:41A line-up of sevens in that one.
16:43Very good.
16:44Anything else, Susie?
16:45No, we couldn't push it to the eight, Nick.
16:46All right.
16:47So it's still just one point in it.
16:50Thirty-seven to Michael's.
16:51Thirty-six.
16:52Giving him a run for his money there, Michael.
16:55And it's a letters game.
16:57Michael?
16:58Consonant, please, Rachel.
16:59Thank you, Michael.
17:00B?
17:01And one more.
17:04T?
17:05And a third.
17:07L?
17:09And a fourth, please.
17:12R?
17:13And a vowel.
17:15U?
17:16And another.
17:17I?
17:19And another.
17:21O?
17:22And another.
17:25A?
17:28And a consonant, please.
17:30And the last one.
17:32G?
17:33Stand by.
17:33The voice.
17:34I don't know.
17:34I don't know.
18:00Yes, Michael.
18:06Five.
18:06Five.
18:07Andrew.
18:08Safe six.
18:10Michael.
18:12Ratio.
18:13Ratio and brutal.
18:15Yes.
18:16Very good.
18:17And in the corner?
18:19Um, bailout was there for seven.
18:21I often heard William Hague using that word,
18:24the bailout of the bankers.
18:27That's from him quite a lot.
18:29Um, yeah.
18:30No more than that.
18:31Susie?
18:32No, I just saw Andrew kicking himself,
18:34because I think you were going to try that one.
18:36No hyphen in that.
18:37There we go.
18:38All right.
18:38But it's still 43 to Michael's 36.
18:42And now, Andrew.
18:43Numbers again.
18:44Two from the top, please,
18:45and four from anywhere else.
18:47The usual thing, Andrew.
18:48Two large, four little coming up.
18:50And this time, your four little ones.
18:53A nine, one, two, four,
18:56and a large two, 25, and 100.
18:59And this target, 756.
19:02Seven, five, six.
19:03All right.
19:07Bye.
19:08Bye.
19:09Bye.
19:13Bye.
19:17Bye.
19:18Bye.
19:18Yes, Andrew?
19:36765 on that one.
19:38765.
19:40Michael?
19:41Nothing, I'm afraid.
19:43Too far.
19:44So here we are then, Andrew.
19:46Four times two is eight.
19:48Yes.
19:49Times a hundred is eight hundred.
19:51Eight hundred.
19:52And subtract the twenty-five, nine and the one.
19:56Twenty-five and the nine and the one, thirty-five.
20:00765.
20:01Seven, six, five.
20:03Quite a long way away.
20:05Help us.
20:07Yeah, there were a couple of ways.
20:08One you could have said one hundred plus twenty-five plus one, one, two, six, and then four plus two is six, and times them together.
20:18Oh, well done.
20:19Thank you, Rachel.
20:21Seven, five, six.
20:22Very good indeed.
20:23As we turn to our second tea time teaser, which is tube relief.
20:27And the clue, talk at length about the one that got away.
20:30Talk at length about the one that got away.
20:33Welcome back.
20:50I left you with the clue.
20:50Talk at length about the one that got away.
20:53And the answer is fabulate.
20:57Susie.
20:58Yes, it's a little bit more than that.
20:59It's to make up stories, often for good purposes.
21:03So you might, if you were telling a story to a child, you might fabulate the ending to make us a little bit happier.
21:08So it's to relate invented stories.
21:11I see.
21:11To hide the true facts.
21:14Thank you very much.
21:15Forty-eight plays.
21:16Thirty-six.
21:16And Michael, it's your letters game.
21:18Consonant, please, Rachel.
21:21Thank you, Michael.
21:22Z.
21:22And one more.
21:25S.
21:26And a third.
21:29T.
21:30And a fourth.
21:32S.
21:33And a vowel, please.
21:35I.
21:36And a second.
21:38E.
21:39And another.
21:41U.
21:43And one more.
21:45A.
21:46And a consonant, please.
21:48And the last one's D.
21:50Stand by.
21:51I.
21:52I.
21:57I.
21:58I.
21:59I.
22:13I.
22:13I.
22:14I.
22:15I.
22:16Michael?
22:23Seven.
22:24A seven, Andrew?
22:26Seven.
22:26Michael?
22:28Daisy-est.
22:29And Andrew?
22:30Studies.
22:31Now then.
22:32Studies is absolutely fine.
22:34It's in there, the verb.
22:36I'm not sure we're going to find Daisy as an adjective there.
22:40Daisy, but not Daisy, Michael, sorry.
22:43Bad luck.
22:44Yeah.
22:44Very bad luck.
22:44Now, Jordan, Susie, desist for six, but do we have an eight?
22:50We do.
22:51I think we might do, no?
22:51Yes, we have some plants with white or pinkish flowers, and they're called deutzias.
22:57D-E-U-T-Z-I-A-S, deutzias.
23:02Native to Asia and Central America.
23:04All right, very good.
23:10Deutzias.
23:11Well, I'm dashed.
23:1255 plays, 36.
23:13Andrew, letters came.
23:15A consonant, please.
23:16Thank you, Andrew.
23:18N.
23:19And a vowel.
23:21O.
23:23Consonant.
23:24N.
23:26Vowel.
23:28I.
23:29Consonant.
23:31R.
23:33Consonant.
23:33S.
23:35S.
23:35Consonant.
23:38P.
23:39Vowel.
23:41O.
23:43And a consonant, please.
23:45And lastly, N.
23:48Countdown.
23:48R.
23:49C.
23:50T.
23:52C.
23:53C.
23:54What?
23:56Ha.
23:56C.
23:57C.
23:57C.
23:58H.
23:58C.
23:59C.
23:59C.
24:00C.
24:00C.
24:00C.
24:00C.
24:02C.
24:02C.
24:02C.
24:07C.
24:07C.
24:08C.
24:08C.
24:09C.
24:10Andrew.
24:22Save six.
24:23Save six.
24:23How about Michael?
24:24Just the five.
24:26That five?
24:27Spoon.
24:28Spoon and Andrew?
24:30Onions.
24:30Spooning the onions.
24:32John?
24:33Prison was there for another six.
24:36And I think Ronins might have been there for six.
24:39The ancient warriors.
24:40Oh.
24:41Ronins.
24:42I think they were samurai type birds.
24:44Japanese.
24:45Wandering samurais.
24:46Nice.
24:47You have no lord or master.
24:48Very good.
24:50And there is a seven there as well.
24:52A rather unusual one from biochemistry.
24:55It's an antibody or other substance which binds to foreign cells.
24:59And that's an opsonin.
25:01Sorry, opsonin.
25:02O-P-S-O-N-I-N.
25:04Thank you for that.
25:05You're welcome.
25:07Very good.
25:07Sixty-one place.
25:09Thirty-six.
25:09And now it's our chance to learn something important.
25:13Susie, your origins of words?
25:15Yes.
25:16Well, more fun, I think, today.
25:18This is a question from John Healy.
25:21John emailed in to say,
25:22please give you some of the origin of the phrase bells and whistles.
25:26It's a literal phrase.
25:27We know it's been around for about 150 years.
25:31And it was used in reference, first of all, to the noisemakers on streetcars and railway locomotives and steamships.
25:39And U.S. train locomotives, the locomotives on the railroads, they had both.
25:45And, for example, if they needed to stop at a jerkwater town, which was a small, possibly insignificant town along the way,
25:53they would make a noise with their bells and whistles to signify that they were going to stop.
25:58People would jump out.
26:00They would put a bucket down a well that was here at these jerkwater towns and then bring the water up,
26:06jerk it up with a bucket, with the same bucket.
26:09And from here, of course, we get jerk, the insult used for an insignificant or rather foolish person.
26:16It goes all the way back to those jerkwater towns.
26:18But anyway, that's a bit of a digression.
26:20Back to bells and whistles.
26:22Probably began with the entertainment machine, the cinema organ.
26:25And in the heyday of films, they would rise out of the pit.
26:29They would bring the organist with them.
26:31Michael, you probably won't recognise the bells and whistles today.
26:34But they would entertain, essentially, during intervals.
26:38And they had all sorts of sound effects.
26:40They had car horns, sirens, bird whistles, you name it.
26:43And they were called toys.
26:45And some organs had toy counters, as they were called, with 20, 30 noises that would entertain the audiences along the way.
26:52And, of course, when talkies moved out, these noises weren't so necessary anymore.
26:57And they became, as I say, these sort of nice, slightly inconsequential items.
27:03Good to have, but not always necessary.
27:05And that's probably where we get the idea of bells and whistles from today.
27:08Fantastic.
27:10APPLAUSE
27:11All right.
27:1461 plays 36.
27:16And Michael, Michael, the organist, it's your letters game.
27:22Consonant, please, Rachel.
27:23Thank you, Michael.
27:24M.
27:26And one more.
27:28R.
27:29And a vowel, please.
27:32A.
27:33And one more.
27:35I.
27:35And a consonant.
27:39P.
27:40And one more.
27:43D.
27:44And a vowel.
27:47E.
27:48And another vowel.
27:51A.
27:52And a consonant, please.
27:54And lastly, Y.
27:57Stand by.
27:57And a vowel.
27:58And a vowel.
27:59And a vowel.
27:59And a vowel.
28:00And a vowel.
28:00And a vowel.
28:01And a vowel.
28:01And a vowel.
28:01And a vowel.
28:02And a vowel.
28:02And a vowel.
28:03And a vowel.
28:03And a vowel.
28:03And a vowel.
28:03And a vowel.
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28:04And a vowel.
28:04And a vowel.
28:04And a vowel.
28:05And a vowel.
28:05And a vowel.
28:05And a vowel.
28:06And a vowel.
28:07And a vowel.
28:07And a vowel.
28:08And a vowel.
28:08And a vowel.
28:09And a vowel.
28:09And a vowel.
28:10And a vowel.
28:11And a vowel.
28:11And a vowel.
28:12And a vowel.
28:13And a vowel.
28:13And a vowel.
28:14and a vowel.
28:15And a vowel.
28:27Michael?
28:29Seven.
28:30A seven.
28:31Andrew?
28:32Seven.
28:33Michael?
28:34Not sure I've spelt it right.
28:36Impaired.
28:36And Andrew?
28:37Exactly the same word.
28:40You need two I's, I'm afraid, for impaired.
28:43So I-M-P-A-I-R-E-D.
28:45Sorry.
28:46So that's a standstill as we look to John and Susie.
28:51Pyramid was there for a rather nice seven.
28:54Very good.
28:54All right.
28:5561 to 36.
28:56And it's the final letters game.
28:59And it's Andrew's.
29:01A consonant, please.
29:02Thank you, Andrew.
29:04D.
29:06Another, please.
29:07N.
29:09And a third.
29:11G.
29:13Vowel.
29:14I.
29:15Consonant.
29:17L.
29:19Vowel.
29:20E.
29:22Consonant.
29:24R.
29:25Vowel.
29:26A.
29:29And a consonant, please.
29:31And the last one.
29:32S.
29:33Countdown.
29:34We'll see you next time.
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29:46We'll see you next time.
29:47Andrew?
30:06Eight, I think.
30:07Michael?
30:08Eight.
30:09Andrew?
30:11Dealings.
30:11And Michael?
30:13Readings.
30:14Absolutely fine, yes.
30:15Very good.
30:16John?
30:18Well, we have that marvellous word of the showbiz community
30:22when they've forgotten someone's name.
30:23They say, hello, darlings.
30:25Hello, darlings.
30:27Darlings was there for eight.
30:28Very good.
30:28But news just in.
30:29Susie, do we have a nine?
30:31We do have a very...
30:32Nine, so, yes, probably out of time.
30:35But drag lines, large excavators with a bucket pulled in by a wire cable.
30:40Yes, a drag line.
30:42Very good.
30:44There you go.
30:4569 plays.
30:4644, and it's the final numbers game.
30:49Michael?
30:50One large and five small, please, Rachel.
30:53Thank you, Michael.
30:53One big five, little.
30:55And the final numbers game of the week is...
30:58Three, five, eight, two, four, and the large one, 75.
31:05And the target, 955.
31:08Nine, five, five.
31:09Nine, seven, seven, seven, eight, three, five.
31:19CHOIR CONTINUES
31:49CHOIR CONTINUES
32:19Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:26Andrew Fenton.
32:28Crunchies.
32:29Whatever they are.
32:31Crunchies.
32:32Let's see whether you're right.
32:34No, it's down to Michael.
32:36Now take it down, Michael.
32:37No, it's down to Michael.
33:07You're up here, but in the audience.
33:09Do I see anybody?
33:10Yes, sir?
33:11Scrunchie.
33:13Scrunchie.
33:14Let's have a look.
33:16Scrunchie.
33:20Andrew, you were sort of pretty much there.
33:23If I said it, I knew it was wrong and I knew it was scrunchie.
33:25Yeah, well done.
33:26There we go.
33:27But, you know, nothing lost because you take the day with a score of 79.
33:32Well done.
33:33Well done, Michael.
33:3454 is a good score.
33:35Thank you very much for coming.
33:37And you take this back to Binfield.
33:39I'm sure your little grandchildren, all seven of them, will be proud of you.
33:44And we shall see you, young man, on Monday.
33:47On Monday.
33:49When Alison Stedman, the great Alison Stedman, will join us.
33:52That'll be fun.
33:54Excellent.
33:54We'll see you then.
33:56John, parting is such sweet sorrow.
33:58Yeah, it's been a fantastic week.
34:00It really has some wonderful games, some fantastic contestants.
34:03And I always love my weeks at Countdown.
34:06Well, we love your weeks, too, because the anecdotes are great fun and the voices are wonderful.
34:10And good luck with all your projects, too.
34:12Thank you very much.
34:13I know you're very, very busy.
34:14Excellent stuff.
34:15See you soon.
34:15We shall see you, young lady, on Monday.
34:18Look forward to it.
34:19Have a restful weekend.
34:21And Rachel, too, of course.
34:22See you on Monday.
34:23All right.
34:24Same time, same place.
34:25You be sure of it.
34:26Good afternoon.
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34:46This weekend, she was remembered as a cruel tyrant, but is there a different side to China's forgotten emperor?
34:52That's here on 4, Sunday at 8.
34:54Now, tonight, she's been here before, but she had such a nice time, she's come back again.
34:58Carrie Fisher joins the lads for the last leg at 10.