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00:00Thank you very much.
00:31Good afternoon and welcome to The Countdown Studio.
00:34It was on this day, 80 years ago, way back in 1937, that the first official major outside broadcast took place.
00:43Why was that? Because it was the coronation of George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
00:49And apparently only 10,000 people had televisions at the time to watch it.
00:55Today, of course, the world would watch it, but that was the first big outside broadcast.
01:00I mean, I was only ever once, I think quite recently, actually, I went to Wallasey to take part in Question Time.
01:07And that's the outside broadcast and they have all the trucks outside.
01:10And there was absolute panic for a moment before going on there because they have to send the signal to Scotland for some reason.
01:18And then from Scotland, it gets bounced off somewhere else and the signal went down.
01:23What can you do?
01:24Well, they got it right, of course they did, because they're absolute pros.
01:28But there was a little bit of anxiety creeping in.
01:32But you've done a lot, a lot of television.
01:34Do you get involved in outside broadcast stuff?
01:36Some stuff, yeah.
01:37But like you said, when you're out of a studio, it's a bit more interesting, and especially when you're interacting with the public.
01:42I don't know if you've found it, but I found going around different parts of the country and doing filming, the people are quite different.
01:47So in London, I find people mostly kind of, they look away.
01:50And if you see them or catch their eye, they kind of look away as if it's impolite.
01:53Like Manchester, everyone's kind of interested but respectful and kind of having a look and saying hello but, you know, keeping out of the way.
02:00But in Birmingham, because I filmed the Gadget Show in Birmingham, and they will literally come up as you're talking to camera and look down the lens and say, what are you doing?
02:09And I don't know whether it's because it was kind of a Monday, Tuesday lunchtime or what.
02:13But we met a lot of bonkers people in Birmingham.
02:16They're right.
02:17And they're all watching now.
02:20Possibly.
02:21No offence, you know, not a bad thing, but they're just different around the country.
02:24They're just, yeah.
02:25My observation.
02:25Curious, yeah.
02:26Now, who have we got?
02:27We've got Stephen Reid, Rachel.
02:29He's back, Matthew, from Lim in Cheshire.
02:31No stopping, this chap.
02:32Five great wins, ending up with the highest total this series of 131.
02:39Welcome back.
02:40And you're joined by Mark Rainey, local government officer from Lincoln, and a big Bruce Springsteen fan.
02:47Why wouldn't you be?
02:48Yes, he's very good.
02:50Fantastic.
02:50You've seen him live, I think.
02:53Yes, I've seen him twice in London.
02:55One occasion in Hyde Park, which was quite infamous, in that Paul McCartney joined him on stage for an encore around about 10.30.
03:03And I think the organisers have an arrangement with the local residents that there will be no noise after 10.30.
03:08So after they've done a couple of numbers of Beatles covers with Bruce and Paul McCartney, and they're getting ready to play some more,
03:17I think the organisers literally pulled the plug and took the electrical equipment off.
03:23But Bruce Springsteen is great.
03:24I saw him years ago at the old Wembley, years and years, in the 80s, maybe even around 83.
03:31He's a fantastic guy.
03:32Nice man.
03:33Yes.
03:33Big round of applause for Mark and Stephen.
03:40And then in the corner, of course, Susie, joined once again by television journalist and presenter Mark Hostin.
03:46Welcome.
03:51Stephen, how about the letters again?
03:53Thanks, Nick.
03:53Hi, Rachel.
03:54Hi, Stephen.
03:55Start with the consonant, please.
03:56And here's the countdown clock.
04:26Yes, Stephen?
04:56Seven.
04:57A seven.
04:57Mark?
04:58Just a five.
04:59And that five?
05:00Ruins.
05:01Ruins and?
05:03Orisons.
05:04Yes.
05:05Susie?
05:06Yes.
05:06Excellent.
05:07Orisons are prayers.
05:09It's a slightly archaic term for prayers.
05:13Aura pro nobis.
05:15Aura is Latin for prayer.
05:17Same deal.
05:17Related to oratio oratio, a speech, which gives orator, etc.
05:21All right.
05:23Mark, your first letters game.
05:26Good afternoon, Rachel.
05:27Good afternoon, Mark.
05:28Could I have a consonant to start, please?
05:30Start with T.
05:31And another.
05:32R.
05:34And another, please?
05:37T.
05:38And a vowel?
05:40E.
05:42And another.
05:44I.
05:45And a consonant?
05:48S.
05:50And another?
05:52N.
05:54And another?
05:57G.
05:58And a final consonant, please.
06:04We need the third vowel, actually, so I'll overrule with an E.
06:08Stand by.
06:21mark seven a seven nine and a nine you did that yesterday mark resting and resetting
06:51and over in the corner any other nines retesting yes a little bit that would give you another nine
07:05if you are well done well done you're matching steven there and it's uh he's on 25 as we turn
07:11to him for today's first numbers game steven too large please rachel the usual thank you steven
07:17too large for little and the first numbers game of the day is six seven one three and a large one
07:2675 and 25 and the target 485 485
07:32so
07:41steven 485 485 and mark 485 thank you steven
07:56steven 485 485 and mark 485 thank you steven uh 75 times six is 450 yep uh plus 25
08:15475 plus 7 plus 3 485 lovely and mark uh same way there we go thank you very much
08:23well done 35 plays 10 as we go into our first uh cheat time teaser which is a tandoori and the clue
08:32he just had so much love for the taste of indian food he had just so much love for the taste of indian
08:40food
08:41welcome back i left with the clue he just had so much love for the taste of indian food and the answer
09:00to that is adoration he had so much adoration he adored it 35 plays 10 steven in the lead and
09:07it's mark's letters game mark uh start with the consonant again please thank you mark p
09:12and another
09:15r
09:17and another
09:19c
09:21and can have a vowel please
09:24a
09:25and another
09:26e
09:28and the third
09:30e
09:32e
09:33and
09:34and a consonant please
09:35h
09:36h
09:37and another
09:39w
09:41and finish with a vowel please
09:45and finish with i
09:47count down
09:49the
09:52h
09:53and i
09:54would
09:55be
09:56you
09:58and
09:59and
10:00in
10:02that
10:03the
10:04and
10:05even
10:06the
10:07and
10:08the
10:17Mark?
10:20Six.
10:21Six, thank you.
10:22Eight.
10:23And an eight.
10:24Mark?
10:24Pacier.
10:25And?
10:26Peachier.
10:27Peachier.
10:28Peachier.
10:29Very good.
10:30Well done.
10:31Well done.
10:32Any advances?
10:34No.
10:34Anything there?
10:35No.
10:35Susie?
10:36No, peachier for me as well.
10:38The nature of appearance of a peach, obviously, or meaning attractive or excellent.
10:42Yeah.
10:43Just peachy.
10:44Absolutely.
10:4543 plays ten.
10:46Stephen, your letters game.
10:49A consonant, please, Rachel.
10:50Thank you, Stephen.
10:51M.
10:52And again.
10:54T.
10:56A vowel.
10:58A.
10:59And again.
11:00I.
11:01Consonant.
11:03H.
11:04Vowel.
11:06E.
11:08Consonant.
11:09D.
11:11A vowel.
11:14A.
11:14And a consonant.
11:17And the last one.
11:19K.
11:20And the clock starts now.
11:21The.
11:22The other one.
11:50Stephen?
11:53I'll try a six.
11:54A six mark.
11:55Just a five.
11:56And that five?
11:57Hated.
11:58Hated?
11:59Adiate.
12:00Adiate?
12:03Yes, very specific or specialised, this one.
12:08Comes from law, but chiefly South African law.
12:11To accept an inheritance as an heir or as a beneficiary of a will is to adiate it.
12:18That's pretty arcane, that is.
12:20Amazing.
12:22What has the corner got for us?
12:23Anything there, Mark and Susie?
12:24Hated, but we've got that, so nothing.
12:27Do you have anything else?
12:28There's an anatomical six there.
12:31Hamate, H-A-M-A-T-E, a carpal bone situated on the lower outside edge of the hand.
12:37Hamate, down here somewhere?
12:38Yes.
12:39OK.
12:4049 players turn.
12:41And Mark, it's your numbers game.
12:44Can I have one from the top, please, Rachel, and any five small ones?
12:47You can indeed, thank you, Mark.
12:48One large, five, little.
12:49And for the second time, they are ten, one, two, six, one, and one hundred.
13:00And the target, one hundred and thirty-six.
13:02One, three, six.
13:04One, three, six.
13:18Two, three, six.
13:20Yes, Mark.
13:351, 3, 6.
13:361, 3, 6.
13:37And Stephen.
13:381, 3, 6.
13:39Thank you, Mark.
13:402 plus 1 is 3.
13:42Times 10 is 30.
13:4430.
13:45Add the 6 and add the 100.
13:48Very easy.
13:49And Stephen.
13:5010 over 2 is 5.
13:51Yep.
13:52Plus 1 is 6.
13:54It is indeed.
13:55Times 6.
13:56Then add 100.
13:57Lovely.
13:58Well done.
14:00Thanks.
14:00That.
14:02Put it to bed.
14:03Well done.
14:03All right.
14:0459 for Stephen.
14:05Mark on 20.
14:06And now we turn to Mark Austin.
14:08We talked at the top of the show about live broadcasting.
14:11Sometimes it can go terribly wrong.
14:13Ever happen to you?
14:14Well, it can.
14:15If something is going to go wrong, it normally will go wrong.
14:17But, of course, a lot of news programmes can be now presented from the scene of whatever news story or presenting.
14:25I remember once, though, that we'd been planning for weeks and weeks to get into China to present a live News at 10 programme from Beijing.
14:33We finally got permission and we set up the camera on the roof of a hotel overlooking Tiananmen Square.
14:41There was a really good spot, a nice backdrop, and everything was good until the actual music, News at 10 music, was in my ear.
14:52And I was about to say, good evening from Beijing.
14:57And the laptop that was driving the little teleprompter we have blew up, basically.
15:04And so the teleprompter went blank.
15:08We hadn't been able to print any scripts before the programme because the printer wasn't working.
15:14This had been three or four weeks in the planning.
15:16Yes.
15:17Anyway, so I garbled my way through the intro and then told the producer who was standing next to me to start writing, handwriting the script, which he duly did.
15:27He handed them to me and he had the worst handwriting I've ever seen, so I couldn't read them.
15:33Then it started raining and the paper scripts disintegrated in my hands.
15:37And all the time we were on air with News at 10.
15:39Now, I mean, it was one of the most tricky, hairy News at 10s I've ever done.
15:45I'm sure the viewer must have noticed.
15:47But even if they didn't, it's quite nice for them to know now the sort of thing that can go wrong in live television.
15:54Absolutely.
15:54But that's when you earn your money because you've got to get through it.
15:58But you carried it off?
15:59I wouldn't say we carried it off.
16:02I mean, we got through it.
16:02It started and it ended.
16:04Let's put it that way.
16:05All right.
16:06Pretty much on time.
16:07Funny.
16:08I can imagine your heart was beating.
16:10Yeah.
16:11Beating indeed.
16:12All right.
16:13Thank you very much.
16:17Very good.
16:17So 59 to 20.
16:20Mark on 20.
16:21And it's Stephen's letters game.
16:23Consonant, please, Rachel.
16:24Thank you, Stephen.
16:25L.
16:26And again.
16:29F.
16:30A vowel.
16:32E.
16:32And again.
16:34I.
16:35A consonant.
16:37T.
16:38A vowel.
16:40O.
16:42A consonant.
16:44T.
16:45Vowel.
16:46A.
16:46A.
16:47And another vowel.
16:52And lastly, O.
16:56Stand by.
16:56Vowel.
16:57And Ty.
16:58A consonant.
16:58And a vowel.
17:00stronger.
17:00And another vowel.
17:01And another vowel.
17:02Is it?
17:04Do the thorns.
17:05And anotherê² ì–´ìš”?
17:07And a German follower.
17:08I'll never get you.
17:11Dump in your daughter.
17:11And anotherodus.
17:14And another generation.
17:15And another vowel,
17:16a vowel.
17:17Loneondern spit.
17:17Even more suppose.
17:18And another vowel.
17:18And another voice.
17:19And another one brings Switch on a vowel.
17:19Stephen, seven.
17:29A seven mark.
17:30Just a five.
17:32And that five?
17:33Latte.
17:34And Stephen, foliate.
17:37A foliate.
17:38Foliate, yes, there is an adjective and a verb meaning
17:41to decorate with leaves or leaf-like motifs
17:45or to be decorated with those motifs.
17:47Foliate.
17:48Yeah.
17:48Yeah.
17:51Anything else there, I wonder?
17:52Mark and Susie?
17:53It was a six.
17:54Fetal.
17:55Fetal, yeah.
17:57Yeah.
17:58Anything else?
17:59No.
17:59Thank you, Susie.
18:00All right, six, six.
18:01Place 20.
18:02Mark, you're back.
18:03And it's a letters game.
18:05Continent, please.
18:06Thank you, Mark.
18:07C.
18:08And another?
18:10M.
18:12And a third?
18:15L.
18:17And a vowel, please.
18:19U.
18:20And another?
18:22A.
18:23And a third?
18:25U.
18:28And a consonant?
18:30G.
18:32Another vowel?
18:33O.
18:34And finish with a consonant, please.
18:41And finish with another L.
18:43And the clock starts now.
18:45Yeah.
19:16Mark, six. Stephen? I'll try six. Mark? Cagoule? Cagoule and both of you. It's a cowl, is it? A cagoule? A cagoule, yes, or a waterproof jacket we think of nowadays. It is either with a K, in which case you don't need the E, but with the E it has to be with a C. So that's spelling with a C and without the E is not allowable.
19:45So we're not having that one then? No. What can we have, I wonder? Mark and Susie? Can't help you really. No. Nor can I actually. I was literally at fours. I was hoping for glaucoma, but that wasn't there.
19:58Not something you should look for. Locum and local will give you five, but it was a really tricky one.
20:02Thank you. All right. 66 therefore remains, as does 20, and it's Stephen's numbers game. Now Stephen, too large please, Rachel.
20:12Same as usual. Thank you, Stephen. Too large, four little. And this time they are nine, seven, two, ten, and the large two, 25, and 75, and the target, 142.
20:28One, four, two.
20:29One, three.
20:47Stephen.
21:011.42.
21:011.42, Mark.
21:031.42.
21:04Thank you, Stephen.
21:0575 times 2.
21:07150.
21:08Minus 10.
21:09140.
21:10Then 9 minus 7 is 2.
21:12Lovely. Well done, 1.42.
21:13And Mark Rainey.
21:15More or less the same, but the 9 minus 7 equals 2 first.
21:19And then that's 150.
21:21Take away the 10 and add the 2.
21:23So you just switch the 2.
21:24Yes.
21:24Perfect.
21:25Lovely.
21:29Well done.
21:29So 76 to 30.
21:31As we turn to our second tea time teaser, which is strict one.
21:36And the clue, he can play his instrument and have an ice cream at the same time.
21:41He can play his instrument and have an ice cream at the same time.
21:46Welcome back.
22:02I left you with a clue.
22:03He can play his instrument and have an ice cream at the same time.
22:07Because he's a cornetist.
22:11A cornetist.
22:13There we go.
22:1376 playing 30.
22:15And it's Mark's letters game.
22:17Mark.
22:18Consonant, please.
22:19Thank you, Mark.
22:20R.
22:22And another.
22:24S.
22:26And a third.
22:28B.
22:30And a vowel, please.
22:32E.
22:33And another.
22:35I.
22:38And another.
22:40O.
22:42And a consonant.
22:44N.
22:46And another consonant.
22:49Q.
22:52And another consonant, please.
22:54And lastly, L.
22:57Stand by.
23:03Yes, Mark?
23:30A seven.
23:31A seven.
23:31Seven.
23:32Two sevens.
23:33Mark?
23:33Boilers.
23:34Boilers?
23:35Boilers.
23:36Boilers.
23:37Any more boilers?
23:39Reboils.
23:42Reboil.
23:43Anything else?
23:45Lesion.
23:47Yeah.
23:47I don't know.
23:48Yeah.
23:49Lesion.
23:49Yeah.
23:50Should be avoided.
23:51That's absolutely fine.
23:5183 to 37.
23:53And Stephen.
23:54Here we go.
23:55Your letters game.
23:56Consonant, please, Rachel.
23:57Thank you, Stephen.
23:59M.
24:00And again.
24:01Vowel.
24:02D.
24:03Vowel.
24:06A.
24:07And again.
24:09I.
24:10Consonant.
24:11D.
24:13Vowel.
24:16E.
24:17Consonant.
24:18M.
24:20Vowel.
24:23A.
24:23And a consonant.
24:27And lastly, S.
24:29Stand by.
24:30Consonant.
24:42Yes, Stephen.
25:01Seven.
25:02Seven.
25:03And Mark?
25:04Seven.
25:06Stephen?
25:06Demands.
25:07And?
25:09Maidens.
25:10Maidens.
25:11Any advance on the maidens?
25:13Maddens.
25:14Maddens.
25:15So it's another seven.
25:16Yeah.
25:16All right.
25:17Anything else?
25:18Diadems we have for another seven.
25:19Diadems.
25:20Yes.
25:2190 plays 44.
25:23And Susie, it's your origins of words, please.
25:28Well, I've been looking at colours recently,
25:31and today I'm going to look at two colours,
25:33which are literally both in the same spectrum,
25:37but have very, very different results
25:38when it comes to English expressions
25:41and their fate.
25:43I'm going to start with gold,
25:45because gold is, within English,
25:47always held up as the sort of benchmark,
25:49if you like, to which we should aspire.
25:51Something that's very good,
25:52you can be as good as gold,
25:53heart of gold,
25:54the golden touch.
25:56Now, some of that has shifted into yellow,
26:00which is, you know, very, very similar to gold,
26:02and in fact it shares the same ancestry
26:04in terms of language.
26:06So to be blonde, for example,
26:08has always been held up as being slightly better
26:10than being a brunette.
26:12So yellow, from that point of view,
26:14is a good thing.
26:14But for the most part, in English,
26:16yellow is not good.
26:17And I say it shares an ancestry with gold.
26:20That word actually gave us gall,
26:22meaning bitterness,
26:23the contents of the gallbladder,
26:24if you like,
26:25bile, that also goes back to the same thing,
26:28and cowardice.
26:28If somebody is cowardly,
26:29we say they have a yellow belly.
26:32And that sort of fate, if you like,
26:33was distilled in one particular incident
26:36involving Oscar Wilde.
26:37So when Oscar Wilde was arrested
26:39outside the Cadogan Hotel in London,
26:41this is April 1895,
26:43the Westminster Gazette, the following day,
26:45ran the headline,
26:46Arrest of Oscar Wilde's Yellow Book Under His Arm.
26:51And that's because yellow in those days,
26:53particularly when it came to literature,
26:54had all sorts of sinful implications.
26:57And sensationalist literature,
26:59sometimes not particularly chaste literature,
27:03shall we say,
27:03would be pressed between vivid yellow colours.
27:07And in fact,
27:07it was a completely innocent book.
27:09It was a copy of Aphrodite,
27:10and he had absolutely no involvement in it whatsoever.
27:13But for me,
27:15that just is the perfect distillation,
27:17if you like,
27:17of yellow's fate in English,
27:19which has never been particularly good.
27:21Fabulous.
27:21Very good.
27:22Very good.
27:2390 plays.
27:2744, as I say,
27:28and now it's Mark's letters game.
27:31Mark.
27:32A consonant, please.
27:33Thank you, Mark.
27:34N.
27:35And another.
27:38P.
27:39And a third, please.
27:42X.
27:43And a vowel.
27:44I.
27:47And another.
27:49A.
27:51And another.
27:53E.
27:55And a consonant, please.
27:58S.
28:00And another consonant.
28:03V.
28:06And finish with a consonant, please, Rachel.
28:08And finish with R.
28:11Stand by.
28:12And another consonant, please.
28:29mark a seven a seven seven two sevens mark ravines yep there we go well done and over in the corner
28:54mark and susie a couple of fives vixen fixings fixings oh vixens yeah plural is always a good idea
29:04on countdown yeah it's a good idea and susie anything else ravines also for seven ravines
29:09yeah and vixens very good 97 to 51 steven your letters go a consonant please rachel thank you
29:18steven d and again r a vowel o and again e a consonant l vowel you a consonant y a vowel
29:40e and a consonant and lastly j stand by
29:49so
29:59so
30:01steven seven a seven mark just a five and that five lured and you're a deal you r o d e l e
30:30um it is there is a zoological term an amphibian of the order urodilla i.e a newt or a salamander
30:43what have you got in the corner i wonder mark and susie moving on
30:48louder not nearly louder all right thank you 104 plays 51 mark final numbers game
30:55um last chance to say it so inverted t please bang mark inverted t the old favorite one from the top
31:02five little ones and the last numbers game of the week one
31:05and the target eight hundred and fifty four eight five four
31:18so
31:26so
31:30so
31:32mark 854 854 854 for steven also mark 7 minus 1 is 6 yep add that to the 100 106 times that by
32:01eight eight four eight and add the six perfect well done very neat steven uh 100 times eight
32:10800 uh 10 minus one is nine yeah uh times six is 54 it is indeed 854 again
32:21thank you so 114 look he's done it again to um mark 61 solid score there mark as we go into the final
32:29round conundrum time gentlemen you know the rules let's roll today's countdown conundrum
32:46taking your time my boom swall let's see whether you're right nope down to you mark
32:53take your time
33:07surprisingly we're fox actually even steven reed so who in the audience will take on steven reed here
33:25do i see any hands i see no hands let's roll it down this is going to be a tricky one
33:31what is it i wonder lamb's wool there we go for the groan from the audience now then well mark
33:40that was a great performance actually because you held him back a bit so thank you very much for
33:44coming so back to lincoln that beautiful city that beautiful cathedral city with your goodie bag thank
33:50you very much for coming travel safely thank you well done and we shall see you young man after a restful
33:57weekend same time on monday yes i see that we're running away all right and we'll see mark on monday
34:04i hope and susie too of course see you then have a peaceful weekend here we are yep i'll have my head
34:11down as i pass through burning my way down south i should probably go and hide in the loo if i were
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