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00:00Thank you
00:30Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:34Now, I don't know whether you read the same article as I did,
00:36but up in Yorkshire, there is a farm, nothing unusual about that,
00:40a great farming county, but this one actually produces
00:43the world's first ethically sourced caviar.
00:47Fantastic.
00:48And, of course, the sturgeon from which caviar comes,
00:52they're extraordinary fish.
00:53They used to swim freely around the Caspian Sea,
00:56but the Caspian has become so dirty
00:58that it's very difficult to find the sturgeon in the Caspian these days,
01:01you know, but in Yorkshire, instead of killing the sturgeon
01:05in order to get at the eggs, which in turn makes the caviar,
01:08they massage them and squeeze the eggs out,
01:12leaving the fish to carry on swimming,
01:16presumably having had a little rest,
01:18because the male lives to be 50 years old,
01:20and the female, wouldn't you know, lives for twice as long.
01:25And, of course, it's from the female sturgeon that the eggs come.
01:28It's an extraordinary thing, really.
01:29But, anyway, good luck to them.
01:30I've actually eaten caviar once, nothing special, really.
01:35But when I began to think about the most unusual things I've ever eaten,
01:38it was really quite recently.
01:41It was at home, and it was a shoulder of lamb,
01:44and it was the most extraordinary dish.
01:47I don't know what she did to it,
01:49but, God, it was tough going.
01:52What about you?
01:54Do you like unusual food?
01:56Not different meats and stuff.
01:58I'm quite happy with...
01:59I mostly just eat fish, actually, these days.
02:01I don't mind a bit of caviar, though.
02:03A little bit of caviar, and ice-cold vodka.
02:06Lovely.
02:06Lovely.
02:07Who's here?
02:08Stephen is back.
02:09Stephen Reid.
02:10Before you know what's going on,
02:12he's had two great performances.
02:14The first one in 119, then 110.
02:17Fantastic sort of debut, if I can put it that way.
02:20A maths tutor from Lim in Cheshire.
02:24Well done.
02:24Well done.
02:25And now you've got to beat Tim Clark.
02:27And Tim's here, retired bank manager from Malvern.
02:30What a lovely place.
02:31Beautiful.
02:31Particularly in the autumn.
02:33Fantastic.
02:33Big rugby fan.
02:35Supports Worcester Warriors.
02:36You played for the Hereford and Worcester under-23s,
02:38and you rather modestly claim the only reason you played for them
02:41was because you had the car to go away to away games.
02:45Absolutely true.
02:46Only ever picked for away games.
02:47Never picked for a home game.
02:49Yeah.
02:49Well, we'll talk to our guest in Dictionary Corner about that, perhaps.
02:52But in the meantime, let's have a big round of applause
02:55for Tim and Stephen.
03:00And those in the corner, of course, Susie,
03:02joined once again, for the last time on this outing, as it were,
03:05the wonderful John Inverdale.
03:06He's shortly off to the French Open.
03:09We'll talk tennis later.
03:10We will.
03:11All right.
03:11Well done.
03:14Now, let's get down to business.
03:17Stephen Reid.
03:18Take it away.
03:19Thanks, Nick.
03:19Hi, Rachel.
03:20Hi, Stephen.
03:21Start with the consonant, please.
03:22Start today with C.
03:25And again.
03:27V.
03:28Vowel.
03:30I.
03:31And again.
03:33O.
03:34Consonant.
03:34N.
03:37Vowel.
03:39E.
03:41Consonant.
03:42G.
03:44Vowel.
03:46O.
03:48And another vowel.
03:50And lastly, E.
03:52Stand by.
03:53Good.
03:57jest.
04:01Good.
04:02You.
04:05Yeah.
04:11You.
04:12Yeah.
04:13Yeah.
04:15Okay.
04:17Hey.
04:17Hey.
04:18Hey.
04:18Hey.
04:19Hey.
04:20Hey.
04:20Hey.
04:20Wait.
04:21Hey.
04:22Hey.
04:22Yes, Stephen.
04:25I'll try a seven.
04:26Seven. How about Tim?
04:27A dodgy six.
04:29And that's six?
04:30I think it might be a bird, a goonie.
04:32Fine. What about, though, Stephen?
04:34Urogenic.
04:36Well, I'm throwing this over to the corner, frankly.
04:40On both counts.
04:42Yeah, eugenic is in, not urogenic, unfortunately.
04:46That's all about breeding within a population.
04:50And you said goonie, not coonie, didn't you?
04:52It's a goonie bird.
04:53With a G.
04:53Yeah, not there, so I have to say no to both.
04:56We do have an eight-letter word, which is coo-eeing,
04:58as in coo-ee, which is C-O-O-E-I-N-G.
05:03And I was just wondering if that means that that word
05:05is the one word in the language that has five consecutive vowels.
05:09It could be. Leave that one with me. I'll do some work.
05:11OK, well, then.
05:12Well done. All right.
05:15Nothing on the scoreboard yet, gentlemen.
05:17Let's see whether we can do better with Tim's letters game.
05:20Hello, Rachel.
05:21Consonant, please.
05:21Thank you, Tim.
05:23V.
05:24And another one.
05:26T.
05:27And a vowel, please.
05:29A.
05:30Vowel.
05:32E.
05:33Consonant.
05:35L.
05:36Another consonant.
05:38R.
05:39Another consonant, please.
05:41L.
05:42Vowel.
05:44U.
05:46Consonant.
05:47And lastly, T.
05:50Stand by.
05:51T.
05:52Find me.
05:53Jigen.
06:08T.
06:08T.
06:09T.
06:10T.
06:13innocent.
06:13T.
06:14T.
06:14T.
06:15T.
06:16T.
06:18T.
06:18T.
06:19T.
06:19Yes, Tim?
06:23Seven.
06:24Yeah, seven.
06:25Two sevens, Tim?
06:26Volta.
06:27And Stephen?
06:28Yeah, Volta.
06:29There we go.
06:30A Volta.
06:31And a Volta.
06:33That's it.
06:34We have a collective round for Volta's.
06:36Susie?
06:37That was it.
06:37No, that was our best for seven.
06:38Thank you, seven apiece.
06:39And now, Stephen, it's your numbers game.
06:42Two March, please, Rachel.
06:44Thank you, Stephen.
06:44Two big, four little.
06:46And the first one of the day is four.
06:49One, six, eight, one hundred and fifty.
06:56And the target, one hundred and forty-one.
06:59One for one.
07:19Yes, Stephen?
07:32And a one for one.
07:33And?
07:34One for one.
07:35Yes, Stephen?
07:36A hundred plus fifty, minus eight, minus one.
07:39Yeah, very easy, this one.
07:40There we go.
07:40And Tim?
07:41Same.
07:41So, just show it to Stephen.
07:44Nothing to argue about there, that's for sure.
07:46So, we've got 17 apiece on the board as we turn to our first tea-time teaser, which is
07:53man's girth.
07:55And the clue, he pulled this and could barely stand up afterwards.
07:59He pulled this and could barely stand up afterwards.
08:02Welcome back.
08:19I left you with the clue.
08:19He pulled this and could barely stand up afterwards.
08:23Of course, he pulled his hamstring.
08:25So painful.
08:26Hamstring.
08:26Now, if you'd like to become a Countdown contestant, you can email countdown at channel4.com
08:33to request an application form, or write to us at contestantsapplications, countdown
08:39leads, LS3, 1, J, S.
08:43There we go.
08:4417 apiece, and it's Tim's letters game.
08:47Tim?
08:49Consonant, please.
08:50Thank you, Tim.
08:51R.
08:52And another one?
08:54X.
08:54And another?
08:56R.
08:57Vowel, please.
08:59E.
09:00Another one?
09:02A.
09:04Consonant.
09:05N.
09:07Consonant.
09:08P.
09:10Vowel.
09:13O.
09:14And a consonant, please.
09:15And lastly, S.
09:18Stand by.
09:18OK.
09:26Yes, Tim?
09:50Only a five, I'm afraid.
09:51A five, Stephen?
09:52A seven.
09:53And Jim?
09:55Poser.
09:56Stephen?
09:57Serrano.
09:58Serrano.
10:00Absolutely fine.
10:00Yes, more S.
10:01More green chilli pepper of a very hot variety.
10:04Indeed.
10:05Yeah.
10:05Now, what in the corner?
10:06Or more regularly, Sporran.
10:09Sporran.
10:09I have a Sporran.
10:10All right.
10:12Very good.
10:12Susie?
10:13Yeah, that was our best, actually.
10:14Persona is also there for seven.
10:16Well done.
10:16Thank you very much.
10:17Sporran.
10:1924, please.
10:1917.
10:21Stephen on 24.
10:22Stephen's letters came now.
10:24A consonant, please, Rachel.
10:25Thank you, Stephen.
10:26D.
10:28And again.
10:30P.
10:31Vowel.
10:33I.
10:34And again.
10:36U.
10:37Consonant.
10:39Z.
10:41Vowel.
10:41I.
10:44Consonant.
10:46D.
10:47Vowel.
10:50E.
10:52And a consonant.
10:55And lastly.
10:56Q.
10:58Stand by.
10:59Vadim.
11:09Vowel.
11:09Vowel.
11:10You.
11:10You.
11:10You.
11:10You.
11:23You.
11:25You.
11:26Stephen?
11:31Six.
11:32For a six, and Tim?
11:33Five.
11:34You're five?
11:34He quit.
11:36Now then, Stephen?
11:37Peaked.
11:38Peaked, indeed.
11:39Yep, he got peaked.
11:40Excellent.
11:41And anything else?
11:42I had quizzed, but then I was knocked back and told it was double Zed.
11:46Yeah, sadly.
11:47But peaked, good word.
11:49To prick something.
11:50Peaked.
11:5130 plays 17.
11:53Stephen on that 30.
11:55And now, Tim, your numbers game.
11:57Two large, four small, please.
11:59Thank you, Tim.
12:00Another two large, four level one selection.
12:02And for this one, they are eight, seven, eight, four, 75, and 100.
12:11And the target, 447.
12:13447.
12:14447.
12:14266.
12:16547.
12:16287.
12:16447.
12:17547.
12:17547.
12:17547.
12:17Which one is the only one.
12:18How is it?
12:20've cheated.
12:20547.
12:21647.
12:21848.
12:22648.
12:2255.
12:22That's it.
12:35Tim.
12:474-4-8.
12:484-4-8, one away.
12:49Stephen?
12:504-4-7.
12:51Stephen?
12:52100 minus 7 is 93.
12:5493.
12:55Times 4.
12:56Is 372.
12:58Add 75.
12:59Perfect, well done.
13:004-4-7.
13:01Well done.
13:03Well done, Stephen.
13:06So 40 plays at 17 as we turn to John.
13:09And John, what have we got now?
13:11Well, during the course of my sort of stint here,
13:13we've been looking at the origins of various sports,
13:16and I thought I'd finish on tennis.
13:18Interesting, actually, that we think that we've given,
13:21we, the British, have given the world all these sports,
13:24but actually so many other countries have actually got there first,
13:26whether it was the Dutch with golf and Flanders with cricket
13:29and everything else.
13:29Anyway, the huge French influence on tennis.
13:32Originally, it was played with your hands, not with a racket,
13:35and it was called Jeux de Poem, so it was a game of your hand.
13:39The interesting thing is how the game that we play now got to be as it is,
13:44and the scoring system.
13:46And the magnificently named Major Clopton Wingfield,
13:49and he and some mates got together to play a game
13:52that was kind of a variation on Palotta mixed with rackets
13:57on his garden lawn, on his estate in North Wales.
14:01And they played on a court that was the shape of an hourglass.
14:06And so that's how the scoring system started.
14:08But when you scored a point, you got to quarter past,
14:11second at the bottom of the hour,
14:13next three-quarters way round, and then to the top of the hour.
14:15So that's how the 15, 30, 45 it was originally,
14:21and then game happened.
14:23But 45 kind of got abbreviated to 40,
14:26just as these things do over time.
14:29But it's interesting how tennis, the name,
14:31is derived from tenir, the French, tenir, to hold,
14:35which is why you hold, serve.
14:38And deuce is deux à jeu.
14:41So it's two people playing a game equally.
14:43So that's when you get to 40 all, it's deuce.
14:47One of the other interesting questions is,
14:49why is it love?
14:50And the generally accepted reason for that
14:54is that it's loeuf, love, as in loeuf, French, egg, mort.
14:59So it all comes from Major Clopton Wingfield.
15:01And I must admit, he's one of these guys
15:03that I didn't really know much about.
15:04But I'm sure one or two people watching
15:06have been lucky enough to go to Wimbledon,
15:08the All England Club,
15:09and a lot of people will have seen it on television,
15:11many, many millions.
15:12And there's the Wingfield Restaurant at Wimbledon.
15:16And until this programme this week,
15:18it had never occurred to me who that was named after.
15:22And that's who it's named after.
15:23And in the same way that when you're walking down London streets
15:25and you see blue plaques,
15:27and you think, oh, I've never heard of that bloke,
15:29who's obviously some sculptor from 1423.
15:32Well, Major Wingfield is commemorated with a blue plaque
15:35as the father of lawn tennis
15:37in St George's Square in Pimlico.
15:39So next time you're getting off the Victoria line,
15:42there you are, it's right in front of you,
15:44the man who gave us the game of tennis,
15:46which is a great story, I think.
15:47Fantastic. Great story.
15:52That was fascinating.
15:54Didn't know any of that.
15:55We didn't know.
15:56Fantastic. I do.
15:56All right.
15:5740 plays 17.
15:58Stephen on 40.
16:00And it's Stephen's letters game.
16:02A consonant, please, Rachel.
16:03Thank you, Stephen.
16:04R.
16:04And again.
16:07N.
16:09And vowel.
16:10I.
16:11And again.
16:13O.
16:14A consonant.
16:16S.
16:17Vowel.
16:19I.
16:20A consonant.
16:22H.
16:24And vowel.
16:26U.
16:28And a consonant.
16:30And the last one.
16:32S.
16:32And the clock starts now.
16:34S.
16:38I.
16:39E.
16:40And a consonant.
16:41S.
16:44How was it, Stephen?
17:05A seven.
17:06A seven.
17:07Tim?
17:07Six.
17:08And that six?
17:09Hurons.
17:10Yeah.
17:12And nourish.
17:13And nourish.
17:15Huron's an Indian tribe, no?
17:17Yes, absolutely.
17:18Capital H.
17:19And because of that, it's got a capital H.
17:20Yes, I'm sorry about that.
17:22The Huron, yeah.
17:23Yeah.
17:23Bad luck.
17:24Bad luck.
17:25John?
17:26You've got rhinos, but nourish.
17:30Nourish takes it.
17:31Yeah.
17:31All right, well done.
17:3347 plays 17, and it's Tim's lettuce game.
17:37Constant, please, Rachel.
17:38Thank you, Tim.
17:39M.
17:40And another one.
17:42L.
17:43And a vowel.
17:45O.
17:46Another vowel, please.
17:48I.
17:49Consonant.
17:50S.
17:51Consonant.
17:53R.
17:54Consonant.
17:56D.
17:57Vowel.
17:59E.
18:01And another vowel, please.
18:02And the last one.
18:04O.
18:05Countdown.
18:06We'll see you next time.
18:07We'll see you next time.
18:07We'll see you next time.
18:07We'll see you next time.
18:08We'll see you next time.
18:08We'll see you next time.
18:08We'll see you next time.
18:09We'll see you next time.
18:09We'll see you next time.
18:09We'll see you next time.
18:10We'll see you next time.
18:10We'll see you next time.
18:11We'll see you next time.
18:11We'll see you next time.
18:11We'll see you next time.
18:12CHOIR SINGS
18:42Yep, and moedos.
18:45Very, very good.
18:47Portuguese gold coins, current in England in the early 18th century, worth about 27 shillings.
18:52Oh, really?
18:53Yeah.
18:53Well done.
18:56Look at that, moedos.
18:58Something to do with gold?
19:00Yeah, it is from the Portuguese moedadouro, money of gold.
19:04Money of gold, yeah.
19:05All right, 55 plays 17.
19:08Stephen, your numbers game.
19:10Too large, please, Rachel.
19:11Same again, thank you, Stephen.
19:13The two from the top and four from the bottoms.
19:16And this time they are two, six, three, eight, and the large two, 25 and 50.
19:24And the target, 561.
19:26561.
19:27561.
19:28bows.
19:34And the target, 561.
19:43And the target, 561.
19:45Stephen.
20:00560.
20:01Not written down.
20:02One away.
20:03How about Jim?
20:04560.
20:05Written down.
20:05Written down.
20:06So, Stephen.
20:0850 plus 25.
20:1075.
20:11Minus 3, minus 2.
20:13For 70.
20:14Times 8.
20:15Yep.
20:15One away.
20:16560.
20:17Well done.
20:18And Tim?
20:19I think I've gone wrong.
20:20Sorry.
20:21Oh.
20:21Yes?
20:21Bad luck.
20:23Bad luck.
20:23Let's look to Rachel.
20:25561.
20:26It's there if you say 50 plus 3 minus 2 is 51.
20:31And then 25 minus 8 and minus 6 is 11.
20:35And times them together.
20:36Oh, well done.
20:37Well done, Rachel.
20:38Well done, indeed.
20:40So, Stephen on 61.
20:42Tim 17.
20:43As we turn to our second tea time teaser.
20:44Which is China's star?
20:46And the clue for him?
20:48The order of the day is disorder.
20:50For him?
20:51The order of the day is disorder.
20:53Welcome back.
21:10I left you with a clue.
21:11For him, the order of the day is disorder.
21:14And the answer to that is because he's an anarchist.
21:17Anarchist is the answer.
21:19So, 62 plays 17.
21:21Stephen on 62.
21:22And it's Tim's letters game.
21:24Tim.
21:25Consonant, please.
21:26Thank you, Tim.
21:27P.
21:28And another one.
21:30S.
21:30And a vowel, please.
21:32E.
21:33And consonant.
21:35T.
21:36Consonant.
21:38J.
21:39Vowel.
21:42A.
21:43Vowel.
21:43E.
21:45And two consonants, please.
21:48K.
21:49And a final.
21:50W.
21:51Stand by.
21:52T.
22:00T.
22:02T.
22:02T.
22:02T.
22:03T.
22:05T.
22:08T.
22:18T.
22:18Yes, Tim?
22:23Five.
22:24Five.
22:25Stephen?
22:25A seven.
22:26And a seven.
22:27Tim?
22:28Steep.
22:29S-T-W-E-P.
22:31And?
22:32Weakest.
22:33Weakest, yeah.
22:34Yeah.
22:34Well done.
22:35It's not easy, that one, I think.
22:37How did you get on, John?
22:38No, we had so many fires.
22:39We had takes and sweat and waste and peaks, and we thought five was the maximum.
22:43And then your man came through.
22:4569 now to 17.
22:46Stephen?
22:47Stephen, your letters game.
22:49Consonant, please, Rachel.
22:51Thank you, Stephen.
22:52R.
22:53And again.
22:55F.
22:56Vowel.
22:58O.
22:59And again.
23:00A.
23:02Consonant.
23:04R.
23:05Vowel.
23:07U.
23:08Consonant.
23:10N.
23:12Vowel.
23:14E.
23:15And a consonant.
23:18And the last one.
23:19M.
23:21Countdown.
23:22A.
23:26C.
23:28A.
23:31Honador.
23:32A.
23:35A.
23:38A.
23:38A.
23:39V.
23:40A.
23:40Vadis już.
23:40妳.
23:40A.
23:42A.
23:44A.
23:44A.
23:45A.
23:46A.
23:46Vözel.
23:47A.
23:47A.
23:47A.
23:47A.
23:48A.
23:49A.
23:49Yes, Stephen?
23:53Seven.
23:54Seven. And Tim?
23:55Six.
23:56And your six?
23:58Reform.
24:00Nothing, Stephen?
24:01Foreman.
24:02Foreman.
24:04Reform and Foreman.
24:05Yeah, Foreman.
24:06Warner.
24:07Foreman is the obvious one to go for.
24:08Yeah.
24:09Nothing else, Susie?
24:10It's a nice six there.
24:12Marron.
24:12M-A-R-R-O-N.
24:14A large Australian freshwater crayfish.
24:1776 plays 17.
24:19Stephen on 76.
24:20And, Susie, are you prepared to deliver your wonderful origins of words?
24:28Well, I am because I have been reading the most wonderful book,
24:32almost as wonderful as the OED, which is saying something.
24:35And it's by Cassia Sinclair, and it's called The Secret Lives of Colours.
24:39And in it, Cassia takes different colours and charts their history.
24:45And she also includes quite a lot of linguistic details.
24:48So I'm taking her as my starting point.
24:51And this comes under the entry for white, and it starts quite dramatically.
24:55She says that in May 1894, fear swept through the streets of Hong Kong.
25:00And it was plague in its final, if you like, grand pandemic of the time, had been spreading throughout China before then,
25:09but really exploded onto the scene there.
25:11And horrible symptoms that we have known and read about, flu-like chills, fever, headaches, and then the vomiting.
25:17And then it goes horribly wrong from there.
25:21Death was very common, and it was agonising.
25:24And at this point, transmission was – the cause and transmission were both unknown quantities.
25:29And so those fighting the disease absolutely despaired of staunching this horrible tide.
25:36And they tended the sick then in swiftly erected isolation camps, if you like.
25:42And one of the measures that they took was to furiously whitewash the streets and the houses in the infected areas.
25:51Now, whitewash – very, very cheap paints made from a mixture of crushed and heated limestone and calcium chloride or salt.
25:59But before then, even during the English Reformation, churches and parishioners would often obscure beautiful murals and altarpieces that depicted saints
26:09that were now thought of as being impious, unholy, etc.
26:14Of course, over the years, the paint grew thin and the faces began to peek through again.
26:19But lots and lots of attempts to conceal things, really.
26:23And whitewashing as a make-up routine was also very, very common.
26:27And often, the mixture could be quite – it could be mixed with horrible, toxic chemicals.
26:32But women were said to diabolically, some of the records say, whitewash their faces from morning till night
26:38in attempt to achieve that sort of blanched look, if you like.
26:42But all of these things, this attempt to hide errors and faults, etc., lie behind the idea of whitewashing today.
26:48So if something is whitewashed, often politically, it has been scrubbed clean, if you like,
26:52completely painted over in order to conceal the truth.
26:56Indeed.
26:56Very good.
27:00Remember Nixon's great lie, there'll be no whitewash in the White House, remember?
27:05Yes.
27:05Of course, that's exactly what it was.
27:07Yes.
27:0876 plays 17.
27:09Stephen on 76.
27:11And Tim.
27:13Let's have a letters game.
27:14Try a vowel this time, please.
27:16Thank you, Tim.
27:17U.
27:17And another one.
27:19A.
27:20And a consonant.
27:20Y.
27:22And another one.
27:25S.
27:26And a vowel.
27:28E.
27:29Consonant.
27:30N.
27:31Consonant.
27:32T.
27:34Consonant.
27:35L.
27:36And a vowel, please.
27:40And to finish.
27:42A.
27:43Stand by.
27:44And a vowel.
27:45And a vowel.
27:45And a vowel.
27:46And a vowel.
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27:57and a vowel.
27:58And a vowel.
28:14hmm Jim nothing no Stephen seven seven your seven sultana oh yes the sultana
28:25wife of the sultan yes very very good anything else there we had eluent eluent yes they are the
28:35result of the process of elution which is basically washing a substance with a solvent
28:42uh washing it clear especially in chromatography all right anything else uh no that was our best
28:47for seven no and sultana great word isn't it 83 to 17 and Stephen final letters game for you
28:55uh consonant please Rachel thank you Stephen r and again s a vowel i and again e a consonant
29:08m a vowel i a consonant t a vowel a and a consonant and finally g don't go
29:29so
29:34so
29:39Stephen i'm eight an eight tim six and you're six mitres thank you now what's this eight migrates
30:08migrates why not yeah migrates very good
30:12yeah we've got a nine as well which um i've never heard of the world what does it mean yeah very last
30:21minute um if uh something is uh well somebody is trigamous instead of bigamous it means they have
30:27three wives or husbands at the same time uh the act of that is trigger me and if you have more than
30:33one instance of one instance of trigger me you have trigger me's
30:36you hear me
30:38well after three does it then just become polygamy so we're just getting maybe many yeah also becomes
30:50incredibly expensive
30:51one another great performance steven as we go into the final numbers game tim thank you two large
31:01four small please thank you tim two from the top four not from the top for the final one of the day
31:06and these numbers are 10 another 10 4 7 75 and 50 and the target 586 586
31:19so
31:22so
31:26so
31:29so
31:33so
31:38so
31:44Tim.
31:505, 8, 6.
31:515, 8, 6.
31:52And Stephen?
31:53Yeah, 5, 8, 6.
31:54Tim.
31:5650 times 10.
31:57500.
31:58Plus 75.
31:595, 7, 5.
32:00Plus 7, plus 4.
32:01Perfect.
32:015, 8, 6.
32:03Well done indeed.
32:05And?
32:06Yeah, same way.
32:07Same way.
32:11So Stephen has bounced through
32:13with his third 100-plus in a row
32:17as we go into the final round.
32:19Gentlemen, fingers on buzzers,
32:21let's reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:31Stephen?
32:32Terrarium.
32:33Let's see whether you're right.
32:35Here we go.
32:36Terrarium.
32:39That's brilliant, isn't it?
32:40I mean, I think that, you know,
32:44Tim, you applauded that too.
32:46I'm not even sure what a terrarium is, actually.
32:49What is a terrarium?
32:50It's a vivarium.
32:51It's a place where you keep reptiles, etc.
32:53A terrarium?
32:54Yeah.
32:54Not only, you know,
32:56did most people not know what it is,
32:57but you got it as well.
32:59I mean, that's a bit much, isn't it, Tim?
33:00Don't you think?
33:01To the bit.
33:01Listen, well done.
33:03Thanks for coming.
33:04You know, you're up against a formidable player.
33:06I won't go into it,
33:07but you did pretty well.
33:09Thank you very much.
33:10I think I peaked early.
33:14You and me both.
33:15Take this back to Malvern,
33:17the beautiful county of Worcestershire with us.
33:19Thank you very much.
33:19All right.
33:20Thanks very much for coming.
33:21And my word.
33:22Stephen Reed, you really are extraordinary.
33:24Look at that.
33:25111 this time.
33:26I think 119, 110, 111.
33:28You're climbing back again.
33:30Well done.
33:30And we shall, we'll see you tomorrow.
33:33Fantastic performance.
33:34Thanks.
33:35We'll see you tomorrow.
33:36We won't be seeing John Linfordale tomorrow.
33:38No.
33:38It's been a joy having you here.
33:40Well, it's been great fun.
33:41And you have a great French Open.
33:43I will.
33:43And you come back and see us soon,
33:45because your stories,
33:46I mean, that tennis story you told us was brilliant.
33:49Can you remember, can you recite it there?
33:50No.
33:51But I've got little snatches of it, sort of thing.
33:53Anyway, you have a great summer.
33:56All right.
33:58Susie, see you tomorrow.
33:59See you then.
33:59All right.
34:00Now then, Rachel, this maths tutor of yours, of ours, is fabulous.
34:07He's not bad, is he?
34:07There's more pressure as a tutor as well,
34:09because if your students are watching,
34:11they could rip it into you if you don't do too well,
34:14but you've done brilliantly.
34:14I think he's passed that mark, actually.
34:16Yeah, they've got nothing they can say.
34:18See you tomorrow when Mark Austin will be with us.
34:20Absolutely.
34:21All right.
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