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00:30Hello, everybody. Hope you had a good weekend.
00:33Welcome back. It's Monday afternoon and we're locked in for another five days of Countdown.
00:38Monday to Friday. And quiet, please. No rustling of sweet wrappers.
00:43No coughing when I'm on my backstroke, please.
00:46Because Rachel Riley, we have a Dictionary Corner debutant who played snooker in the day when they were rock and roll stars.
00:52The biggest sport in the world, I'm saying, in the 1980s and now a top commentator.
00:58Great to have John Virgo with us.
01:03Well, listen, I can't wait for this week. You could be here every day for a year.
01:07You would not run out of stories. So looking forward to it, John.
01:11And you join us at a time when we have young Philip Goodwin, who lives in Bristol from Cardiff, halfway to being an octochump.
01:19He's very excited you're here because he's a big fan of the 80s, everything 80s, sport, television.
01:25Is that right? Yeah. A lot of good memories.
01:27Well, listen, you're rolling back the years here. Vintage Countdown, four wins for you.
01:32You're up against Fran Orford from Worsley and Salford. Good for us.
01:36We didn't even give her bus fare. It's just round the corner. We saved a fortune.
01:40How are you today?
01:41All right. Thank you, Colin.
01:42Good. Well, listen, we know you're a singer, so off you go.
01:45No, I'm only joking.
01:46You actually, this will ring a bell with everyone in the studio.
01:49Do you remember when there was the Gareth Malone's Great British Home Chorus during lockdown?
01:59And I remember seeing these beautiful pictures of people, I think it was Keane, Somewhere Only We Know.
02:03And just all these singers got together and they recorded these songs on the Zoom, I think it was.
02:08You were on that?
02:09I was, yes. I did. I recorded my part for that, yes.
02:12Ah!
02:13Somewhere I've got the single at home on CD.
02:15Music and singing is food for the soul.
02:17Yeah, definitely.
02:18And it was an important part of all that, just keeping spirits up.
02:20Especially with other people, even though you couldn't hear them, when it all came together, it was great.
02:24Yeah. Hopefully at the end of this, it'll be a case of I'm still standing and I guess that's why they call it the blues.
02:29But we'll see. We'll see. Good luck, Fran and Philip.
02:34Well, Philip, you're too low for zero, so let's get some points on the board.
02:38OK, could I start off with a consonant, please?
02:40Thank you, Philip. Start the week with M.
02:43Another consonant.
02:46C
02:46A vowel, please.
02:49E
02:50Another vowel.
02:52A
02:52A consonant
02:55P
02:56A vowel
02:59O
03:01A consonant
03:03D
03:05Another consonant
03:08N
03:10And a final vowel
03:13A final E
03:16At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
03:19Go to a author.
03:37And I'll see you next time.
03:41And
03:41a
03:42A consonant
03:43A consonant
03:44A consonant
03:46Philip?
03:52Six.
03:52Six for you, and Fran?
03:54I'll stick with six.
03:54Yeah, nice steady start.
03:56What have you got?
03:57Opened.
03:58Yes, opened.
03:59Camped.
04:00And camped.
04:01Did you have a little sneaky seven you were thinking of?
04:03Well, I was thinking of en-camped, but I don't know if you can.
04:06En-camped.
04:06No, like not a sneaky seven, a sexy eight.
04:10That would have been a sexy eight, because it's in the dictionary.
04:13Anything else?
04:14Is that it, John?
04:15No, I think that was it, yeah.
04:17I'll picture you didn't take the chance.
04:18She played the safety shot.
04:19She put the white against the ball cushion.
04:21Do you know what I mean?
04:22She just smashed it up.
04:24Yeah.
04:25Fran, you're picking these letters.
04:27May I have a consonant, please?
04:29Thank you, Fran.
04:31S.
04:32And another.
04:34K.
04:36And another.
04:38T.
04:39And a vowel, please.
04:41I.
04:43Another vowel.
04:44A.
04:45Another vowel.
04:47E.
04:49Consonant.
04:51S.
04:53Another consonant.
04:55D.
04:56And a final vowel, please.
04:58And a final.
05:00I.
05:0130 seconds.
05:03Yeah.
05:03Thanks.
05:17Thanks.
05:19Bye.
05:20Bye.
05:21Bye.
05:22Bye.
05:29Bye.
05:30Bye.
05:30Bye.
05:30How many, Fran?
05:34Six.
05:34Philip?
05:35Six.
05:36Six as well.
05:37What are the words?
05:37Skated.
05:39Skated and Philip?
05:40Skates.
05:41Skates and skated.
05:43John Virgo?
05:45Well, there was a seven.
05:47Daisies.
05:48Daisies.
05:49Lovely, John.
05:50Look at that.
05:51Bringing colours for the show.
05:52Beautiful.
05:53Is that it?
05:53That is it.
05:54Nice.
05:55OK, 12 points each.
05:56We know it's going to be a close one today.
05:58Let's get our first numbers.
05:59And Philip, you're choosing?
06:02I'll just be a bit boring and stick with one large.
06:05One large and five little.
06:08Coming up, first numbers of the week are nine, four, five, three, three and 25.
06:18And a target, 742.
06:21742, numbers up.
06:29Big target for just a 25, Philip.
06:557-4-1.
06:57One away, Fran.
06:597-4-1.
07:00And 7-4-1.
07:01I told you, Philip.
07:03I did warn you.
07:04Off you go.
07:05So, three add three is six.
07:08Yep.
07:09Then times by five.
07:1030.
07:11Then times by 25.
07:13750.
07:15And then take away the nine.
07:17Yep.
07:177-4-1.
07:18And one below.
07:19Same way, Fran?
07:20Exactly the same, yep.
07:23Yeah.
07:24Well done, both of you.
07:257 points each.
07:26Well, this one's easy because it's divisible by whatchamacallit.
07:29Off you go.
07:30It was divisible by seven and 14 and 53 and it was impossible.
07:33So, that's the best you could have done.
07:34Yay!
07:38Lovely Tea Town teaser.
07:40Do not say we don't treat our Dictionary Corner debutantes well.
07:44The Tea Town teaser is Din Spies.
07:47D-I-N.
07:48Din Spies.
07:49Where's the cue ball going?
07:51I'm unsure thanks to this.
07:53Where's the cue ball going?
07:55I'm unsure thanks to this.
07:57DIN Spies become side spin, side spin.
08:19What about that?
08:20It's a Tea Town teaser for John Virgo.
08:23In terms of breaks, 19 points each at the moment.
08:26It's going to go all the way to the black ball, I think, today.
08:29Fran, your letters.
08:30May I have a consonant, please?
08:32Thank you, Fran.
08:33Z.
08:35Another consonant, please.
08:37R.
08:38And a third.
08:40J.
08:42And a vowel, please.
08:44E.
08:45And another.
08:47A.
08:49And another.
08:50O.
08:52Consonant, please.
08:54W.
08:56Another consonant.
08:58N.
09:00Final consonant.
09:02I hope you like a challenge.
09:04Final G.
09:05Thanks, Rich.
09:06Thanks, Rich.
09:07Thanks, Rich.
09:07Thanks.
09:37We'll get a nine, that's for sure. Fran?
09:39Just a five.
09:40And Philip?
09:41I think I'll risk a six.
09:43OK, well, that's a cheeky smile as far as I'm concerned.
09:46Who knows what he's going to say?
09:47Fran?
09:47Ona.
09:48Philip?
09:50Wanger.
09:51Wanger.
09:52All good?
09:53Not all good, no, because Wanger needs an H.
09:56I've never spelt it with an H.
09:57Never spelt it with an H.
10:00I thought that as well, Philip.
10:01That's a bit hard on you.
10:02Anything else, John?
10:03Yeah, we came up with a seven-letter one.
10:07Wagoner.
10:08Driver of the horse-drawn carriage.
10:10Yeah, the one beside is riding...
10:12Shotgun.
10:13Shotgun, exactly.
10:14That's where that comes from.
10:16We've done that, of course, in Origins of Words.
10:19Philip, your letters.
10:20OK, can I have a consonant, please?
10:22Thank you, Philip.
10:24C.
10:26Another consonant.
10:28R.
10:29A vowel.
10:31A vowel.
10:32I.
10:35A consonant.
10:37L.
10:39A vowel.
10:41E.
10:42Another vowel.
10:45A.
10:46A consonant.
10:48H.
10:51Another consonant.
10:52V.
10:56And a final vowel.
10:59And a final I.
11:02And half a minute.
11:03There's a guy over there.
11:04I don't.
11:04So that's a way.
11:05One.
11:06One.
11:07One.
11:13A vowel.
11:22One.
11:23One.
11:24One.
11:25.
11:25Two.
11:25One.
11:26One.
11:26One.
11:27One.
11:29One.
11:30MUSIC
11:34Philip, give me number, my friend.
11:36I think six.
11:38Six there, Fran. Six.
11:40Six as well. What have we got?
11:42I think maybe Hayler.
11:44Yes, Hayler and... Same word.
11:46Yeah, Hayler, let's just...
11:48We trust you, but he doesn't.
11:50You can read my scroll. Thanks.
11:52There you go. Hayler?
11:54Yep, loud Hayler, that kind of thing, absolutely fine.
11:56John, you'll do well to get anything better than that.
11:58Well, we came up with two seven letters.
12:00Amazing work. Archive.
12:02Oh, yes. And...
12:04Clavier. Yeah, it's a keyboard instrument.
12:06Interesting round, that.
12:08And, Fran, you keep your early
12:10five-point lead and you're picking the numbers.
12:12Can I go with too large,
12:14please, Rachel? You can indeed.
12:16Too large. No pressure, you two.
12:18The next numbers round
12:20is three, ten,
12:22four, five,
12:24and the large two, twenty-five,
12:26five, and one hundred.
12:28And the target?
12:30297. Ah, 297.
12:32Numbers up.
12:34It's not that big one.
12:36It's already alaus of the
12:54property.
13:01There they go.
13:022-9-7, the target, Fran Orford.
13:052-9-6.
13:07One away, Philip Goodwin.
13:09So, 2-9-8.
13:11One the other way, off you go, Fran.
13:13100 times three is 300.
13:16Yep.
13:17Take off the four.
13:19Yep, one away.
13:20And the other way, please, Philip.
13:22So, four times three is 12.
13:25Yep.
13:26Times by 25.
13:28300.
13:29Then, separately, ten over five is two.
13:34And take it off.
13:35On the other way.
13:362-9-7, then.
13:38Now, Rachel, everyone watching around the nation was like,
13:40oh, we've got a three and we've got a 100, this is easy.
13:43Not the case.
13:44Yes, the case.
13:45Get ready to kick yourselves, guys.
13:48Five minus four is one.
13:50100 minus one is 99.
13:52And then times it by three.
13:54Yeah, as I said, it was really, really easy.
13:56We should have all got it.
13:57Well done.
13:58But Fran didn't do you any damage at all there.
14:04Still got that five-point lead.
14:06But Philip's used to close games.
14:07So, looking forward to this today.
14:09As we cross over for the first time this week to have a little chat with John Virgo.
14:13It's interesting, isn't it?
14:14Because the other day, I was making the decision whether to watch my baseball in HD, Ultra HD, 3D, 4D or 6D.
14:23And I thought that was money, 6D, old money.
14:27It's changed so much, John.
14:29It's amazing that there was actually, you know, a fascination with TV sport considering that, you know, black and white television for snooker, in particular, crazy.
14:38Yeah, well, I think that was one of the main reasons that snooker became popular.
14:43And funnily enough, we are all to Sir David Attenborough.
14:46He was the head of BBC Two at the time and he thought colour television was just coming in.
14:52Pop Black, like the colours of the snooker table, and that's how Pop Black first got aired on the BBC.
15:00And, of course, gave licence to Ted Lowe saying, for those of you in black and white, the yellow's behind the blue.
15:10Because it was a transition from black and white to colour.
15:13But that was the big thing, colour television, so people could see the balls and the lovely green bays.
15:19So you must have noticed, then, the change in just that public interest of just going, you know, literally, in terms of the success of the sport from, metaphorically, black and white to colour.
15:32Yeah, it was, obviously, you need a vehicle and Pop Black was the vehicle to put it in people's minds, you know, TV.
15:41So colour television, I always say the final ingredient was Alex Higgins.
15:46Yeah.
15:46Made the game exciting, got people on the edge of the seats, and then, all of a sudden, he came along in the early 70s, and by the end of the 70s, we had a game that was just exploding, which was great.
15:59Brilliant. Thank you very much, sir.
16:03Let's get more letters.
16:05Philip.
16:05OK.
16:06Can I have a consonant, please?
16:08Thank you, Philip.
16:09T.
16:10Another consonant.
16:13S.
16:13Another consonant.
16:16L.
16:18A vowel.
16:19U.
16:21A vowel.
16:23O.
16:25A consonant.
16:27R.
16:30A vowel.
16:32E.
16:35Another vowel, please.
16:38A.
16:38And a final consonant.
16:43Promising selection.
16:44A final W.
16:46Start the clock.
16:47A vowel.
16:48A vowel.
16:49A vowel.
16:49A vowel.
16:49A vowel.
16:49A vowel.
16:50A vowel.
16:50A vowel.
16:50A vowel.
16:51A vowel.
16:51A vowel.
16:51A vowel.
16:51A vowel.
16:52A vowel.
16:53A vowel.
16:53A vowel.
16:53A vowel.
16:53A vowel.
16:53A vowel.
16:53A vowel.
16:53A vowel.
16:54A vowel.
16:54A vowel.
16:54A vowel.
16:55A vowel.
16:55A vowel.
16:55A vowel.
16:57A vowel.
16:57A vowel.
16:57A vowel.
16:58A vowel.
16:58A vowel.
16:59A vowel.
17:00A vowel.
17:01A vowel.
17:01A vowel.
17:02A vowel.
17:02A vowel.
17:03A vowel.
17:03A vowel.
17:04A vowel.
17:04A vowel.
17:05A vowel.
17:06A vowel.
17:06Time's up, Philip. Talk to me.
17:19So, a six.
17:21A six for Philip and Fran?
17:22A seven, I think.
17:24Only thinks. What's the six?
17:26Just waters.
17:27Well, remember, she didn't risk the eight early on.
17:29She's going for it now. What's the seven?
17:31Wastrel.
17:32A wastrel.
17:33Lovely.
17:33Is that as good as it gets, Mr Virgo?
17:35Was it outwears?
17:36Yeah, we did find an eight.
17:38An eight, outwears, but wastrel will do it.
17:41OK, you've extended your lead, Fran,
17:43so you've got to hold your nerve as we get your letters.
17:47Consonant, please, Rachel.
17:48Thank you, Fran.
17:50C.
17:51And another consonant.
17:53N.
17:54And a third.
17:56R.
17:58A vowel, please.
17:59O.
18:01Another vowel.
18:02A.
18:03And another.
18:04I.
18:05A consonant, please.
18:09P.
18:11Another consonant.
18:13G.
18:15A final vowel, please.
18:16And a final.
18:19E.
18:20Here we go.
18:21A.
18:21I.
18:34I.
18:35A.
18:35P.
18:41I.
18:42Our time is up, Fran.
18:53I think an eight.
18:55And Philip?
18:56Just a seven, not written down.
18:58No worries. What's the seven?
19:00It's a pairing.
19:02Pairing? I think she knows the eight.
19:05Capering.
19:06Capering.
19:07Absolutely brilliant.
19:09How are you spelling pairing?
19:11Erm, so P-E-A-R-I-N-G.
19:15OK, yeah, can't spell it that way, I'm afraid, Philip, sorry.
19:17But capering, absolutely brilliant.
19:19A few other good words in there, I'd imagine, John.
19:22That was top answer.
19:23Top answer.
19:23It was.
19:24Yeah, absolutely, well done.
19:25Excellent, well done to you.
19:27Well done to you.
19:28A 20-point lead, still precarious in countdown terms,
19:32as Philip knows, because there's ten points up for grabs now.
19:34Third numbers.
19:35OK, erm, I think I'll try the six more.
19:38It's gambling o'clock, isn't it?
19:40Thank you, Philip.
19:41Six little ones.
19:42Let's see if we can find a challenge for you two.
19:44They are four, six, one, six, eight.
19:51And another one.
19:52Oh, no.
19:53And the target, 282.
19:55Love it.
19:56282.
19:57Numbers up.
19:57We are four, six, one, six.
20:242-8-2.
20:29Philip?
20:30I got nowhere near.
20:32Nowhere near Fran?
20:33I think 2-8-2.
20:34Off you go.
20:35So 6 plus 1 is 7.
20:38Yes.
20:384 plus 1 is 5.
20:40Yes.
20:41If you multiply those together, you get 35.
20:43Yeah.
20:44I'm really hoping if you times that be 8, it's 2-8-2.
20:47Yeah.
20:49Two away.
20:49What a star, but that.
20:50What a star, but that.
20:52Off you go.
20:53It's divisible by 6.
20:55So if you say 8 times 6 is 48, take away 1 for 47,
21:00and 47 times 6 gets you to 2-8-2.
21:03Nice.
21:06What a great game so far.
21:08Thrilling last part ahead, but let's get you there
21:11with this tea time teaser.
21:12Kev, Sandy.
21:14Kev, Sandy.
21:15Kev and Sandy were sporting these.
21:18Kev and Sandy were sporting these.
21:21Kev and Sandy, two guys, and they were sporting Van Dykes.
21:50Van Dykes, which Susie then tells us has to do with beards.
21:54Mm-hm.
21:54And this is the difference between you and I.
21:56I thought Dick Van Dyke, you thought, I think,
21:58some very famous painter.
22:00Yeah, Van Dyke portrait painter.
22:0217th century, also famous for really broad lace or linen collars
22:07on his subject.
22:08So it can be either that, Van Dyke, or the very pointy beard.
22:11Nice.
22:12Thank you very much.
22:13That's what I thought too.
22:14Let's get back to the game.
22:15Fran, your letters.
22:16Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
22:18Thank you, Fran.
22:19L.
22:20And another consonant.
22:23N.
22:24And another.
22:26D.
22:27A vowel, please.
22:28A final vowel, E.
22:49Good luck, everybody.
22:50Wait.
22:51C.
22:52To be continued.
23:04Bye-bye.
23:05Bye.
23:05Bye.
23:07Bye.
23:08Bye-bye.
23:09Bye-bye.
23:09Bye.
23:10Bye-bye.
23:13Bye-bye.
23:15Bye.
23:16Bye-bye.
23:17Bye-bye.
23:19Bye-bye.
23:20Time's up, Fran? Seven.
23:23A seven for you. And Philip? Seven.
23:26And a seven for you too. What have we got? Lending.
23:29Lending. And for you, Philip? Lending too.
23:32Well, lend you a bit of paper. Points shared then,
23:36but the dictionary corner with hope of something better.
23:38Yeah, it was an eight-letter word, needling.
23:41Needling. Needling. As in, he needled them.
23:44Exactly, yes. And another eight, if you'd like, one legion arrayed in legions.
23:49Seven's great, though, under the pressure of this game.
23:52And Philip, it's your letters round.
23:54Can I have a consonant, please? Thank you, Philip.
23:56T. And another consonant.
24:00F. Another consonant.
24:04L. A vowel.
24:08O. Another vowel.
24:11O. A consonant.
24:14M. A vowel.
24:18E. A consonant.
24:24N.
24:27And a final vowel.
24:31Final I.
24:33Let's play.
24:34O. A vowel.
24:49Tijimes.
24:50Post.
24:51Listening to the NML.
24:52E. A capacitors.
24:53If I need to add...
24:54To the NML.
24:55MUSIC
25:05Philip, how many?
25:06Seven.
25:07Seven's a good number to stick on, Fran.
25:09Seven as well.
25:10Seven as well.
25:11What have you got?
25:12So, footman, same word.
25:16Footman.
25:17Oh, yeah.
25:18What else did we have?
25:19We came up with just a seven-letter emotion.
25:23Oh, nice.
25:2473-46, and we'll stay in Dictionary Corner.
25:27Susie, a new week of origins of words, a new world of possibilities.
25:32New world of possibilities.
25:33And hat tip to a lovely book written by Erin McCarthy,
25:37which is a sort of curious compendium of lots of lovely stories.
25:41And this is just really...
25:43It's a group of words that we owe to Hollywood.
25:47So, you know, a nod to Hollywood today.
25:50And all of them, I think, very familiar,
25:52although some of them not quite in the original meaning.
25:55So, I'm going to start with blockbuster.
25:56We all know about blockbusters.
25:57Remember the chain blockbuster?
25:59During World War II, blockbuster was something really explosive
26:04or shocking because they were literally bombs that could take down a block.
26:07So, quite a sort of dark history.
26:09A block in the American sense.
26:11A whole group of buildings.
26:12Cut to the chase.
26:14Think of the silent movies, the early 20th century.
26:17If they wanted a bit of drama and a bit of action,
26:19they would cut to some kind of chase.
26:21Later, very much applied to car chasers
26:24that provided that kind of thrilling element.
26:26So, a producer or director might say, cut to the chase.
26:29One of my favourites.
26:31Embiggins.
26:32Straight from The Simpsons.
26:34And any Simpsons fan will know this.
26:37Jebediah Springfield.
26:38A noble spirit.
26:39Embiggins.
26:40The smallest man.
26:41Then declared by Miss Hoover to be a perfectly cromulent word.
26:45Embiggins in the dictionary, very happily.
26:48Both in the American dictionary and in the Oxford English dictionary.
26:51I think it might have been around before The Simpsons,
26:54but certainly popularised by them.
26:56And finally, another word that we have spoken about before on the show.
26:59Gaslighting.
27:00The very famous movie, 1944, based on a play starring Ingrid Bergman,
27:05in which a woman is basically made to feel that she is going insane
27:11by her husband, who keeps playing various tricks on her,
27:14including making the gas light flicker.
27:17So, she literally thinks that she's hallucinating.
27:19So, all of those words, we owe very much to the big movies.
27:23Thank you, Susie.
27:24APPLAUSE
27:27Alright, blockbuster show today, 73-46.
27:30But when the champion's behind with all the experience and all the skill,
27:34you never rule out an epic comeback.
27:36Let me tell you that.
27:37So, Fran, you do not sit comfortably just yet.
27:40Let's get your letters.
27:41A consonant, please, Rachel.
27:43Thank you, Fran.
27:44B.
27:45And another.
27:46T.
27:47And a third.
27:49R.
27:50A vowel, please.
27:51A.
27:52Another vowel.
27:53A.
27:54Another vowel.
27:55A.
27:56Another vowel.
27:57A.
27:58A consonant, please.
27:59Y.
28:00Another consonant.
28:01D.
28:02Try a final vowel.
28:03And a final.
28:04U.
28:05Hey!
28:06First time we've ever celebrated a U. Countdown.
28:18of the L.
28:20In03 F組,
28:32Å„ champions,
28:33hope you join your skill.
28:35ING
28:48Fran? Just a four. How do you get on, Philip?
28:51Yeah, just a four. A four as well.
28:54What have you got there, Fran? Aura. Yeah.
28:56And Philip? I think arty.
28:59You'd have to get arty to get anything better.
29:01Maybe there is one of those words in there, like a darty or a barty,
29:05you never know. Well, I mean, I was looking at it.
29:08I always think these letters, as they're putting them out,
29:11they can make a word, but when you've got three A's, it's a problem.
29:14They're done. Anyway, we finished up with a five.
29:17Tardy. Tardy.
29:20An old-fashioned word as well that Fran missed,
29:23just to be a bit late, yeah? Exactly, yeah, sorry.
29:26Still looking at this thinking there must be more, but I can't find it.
29:29Too late. It's too late. We have to move on,
29:31because it's the last letters round, and Philip, you're choosing.
29:34OK, can I have a consonant, please? Thank you, Philip.
29:36N.
29:39A vowel.
29:41I.
29:43A consonant.
29:45H.
29:45No, it's never a consonant.
29:49T.
29:51A vowel.
29:53A.
29:55A consonant.
29:57S.
30:00A vowel.
30:02E.
30:05A consonant.
30:07G.
30:08And a consonant.
30:14More promising.
30:14A final.
30:16S.
30:17Absolutely.
30:17Last letters.
30:19So.
30:24Yeah.
30:28Yeah.
30:28A consonant.
30:29What is next?
30:30No.
30:32It could be.
30:33We will have to be delineated.
30:34It could be, of each of us.
30:35We have to be here for the last days.
30:37We will tell.
30:38A verschiedene is up at the top of the table.
30:39We have to see on the left.
30:40We have to leave all those chairs.
30:41So, we have to stay in the lead of what it was.
30:42Even if you've done to start,
30:43hopefully we have to stop.
30:44miljón, Ooh.
30:45What is next?
30:45I'll do it for about.
30:45Just start.
30:46Just switch.
30:47Time's up. Philip?
30:51Er, eight.
30:52An eight. And Fran?
30:54I'll risk an eight, then.
30:55OK, this would be to take the champion's chair.
30:58What have you got, Philip?
30:59Er, just the seat-ins.
31:02Seat-ins.
31:03Same word.
31:03Same word. So, either way, we've got a new champion.
31:06Just show Philip there.
31:09But is it in?
31:10Yes. Well, you might say the restaurant has seating for 80, etc.
31:14In that sense, mass noun.
31:15But it also gives an instance or time of making seats available.
31:19So, you have different seatings throughout the day.
31:21In which case, you can add the S on.
31:22So, very well done.
31:23What else jumped out?
31:25There was another eight. Shanties.
31:27Shanties for eight. Well spotted.
31:29OK, Fran, numbers?
31:31Er, stick with too large, thank you.
31:33Too large.
31:34And four little. No gambles needed.
31:36Now, final numbers of the day.
31:39Seven, five, eight, ten.
31:43And the big ones.
31:4350 and 25.
31:46And the target to reach 539.
31:48Five, three, nine.
31:49Last numbers.
31:50One, two, three, four, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five
32:20539, Fran?
32:23540. 540, let me down.
32:26Philip? Yeah, 540.
32:28So have you. Fran, off you go.
32:3050 plus 25 is 75.
32:33Yep. Times 7 is 525, I think.
32:36It is. Add the 10, add the 5.
32:39One away.
32:41Excellent. And Philip?
32:4350 times 10.
32:45Go over here. 50 times 10, 500.
32:48And then separately, 8 times 5.
32:51Yep. One away again.
32:53Can't believe you both didn't say this is divisible
32:55by the square root of pi r squared. Off you go.
32:58Well, think lucky number 7.
33:0025 plus 50, 75.
33:0410 divided by 5 is 2.
33:07Add that for 77, and 77 times 7 is 539.
33:11All the 7.
33:13APPLAUSE
33:15OK, Philip and Fran, end of a great first show of the week.
33:19Philip, you'll finally get your hands in that teapot
33:21as a four-time champion.
33:23But we will be saying goodbye to you after this round.
33:26For you, Fran, what a first win it would be
33:28if you could get a century.
33:30You're 92 as it stands at the moment.
33:32Philip on 65.
33:34Fingers on buzzers.
33:36The challenger always forgets the finger on the buzzer.
33:39Until they're reminded.
33:40Let's reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:45Go on, Fran.
33:46Astronomy.
33:47Let's have a look.
33:48Yes.
33:49APPLAUSE
33:50Young Philip Goodwin.
33:53You've been a delight to have.
33:55I mean, you made last week a joy.
33:56It's been good to have you this week.
33:58Four wins probably not going to make the end of season, unfortunately.
34:01But you had a good crack?
34:03No, yes.
34:04It's good, thanks.
34:05And, yeah, good luck to Fran.
34:06Philip, thank you very much.
34:07Well done.
34:08APPLAUSE
34:10Fran, how many changes are closed?
34:12Have you brought with you?
34:13Because I think you might be here for a heck of a long time.
34:15I only have to go down the road.
34:17It's not too bad.
34:18Good stuff.
34:19We'll go shopping if we need to.
34:20I love a bit of shopping.
34:21That's good.
34:22Right, John, pack away your queue.
34:23We'll see you tomorrow.
34:24Look forward to it.
34:25Thank you, Susie.
34:26Me too.
34:27What a start to the week, Rach.
34:28Yep.
34:29We'll be back here tomorrow.
34:30Rachel, Susie and I.
34:31You can count on us.
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