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00:28Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:34On the day that two great big movies are being launched,
00:38Wonder Woman and Baywatch.
00:40Of course, they both started off as TV shows
00:42and I can remember Linda Carter.
00:45If I half close my eyes, I can see her in that extraordinary outfit.
00:49I never really did watch Wonder Woman or really Baywatch,
00:52although I do remember admiring Pamela Anderson
00:57as many young men did at the time, I suppose.
01:01And, of course, all the young girls were watching The Hoth.
01:03Were they?
01:04Were they not?
01:05I don't know. I don't think it's consensus.
01:08All right.
01:09But if I thought about which great shows that I watched as a young person
01:12would I love to bring back?
01:13And I remember that was the week that was,
01:16which was a very satirical weekly programme.
01:19And also, of course, Monty Python.
01:20It was a sort of appointment viewing, I think, and I love those things.
01:23So I'd like to hear those back.
01:24What about you? How about you?
01:26I'm with you. I didn't watch Baywatch, but I used to watch Friends.
01:29And in Friends, they used to watch Baywatch all the time.
01:31That was one of my favourites, Friends.
01:32But it's dangerous, isn't it, when you bring something so nostalgic back?
01:35Because there's always the comparison.
01:36It's never the same.
01:37No, it's a dangerous thing, as you say.
01:39However, with the world in a slightly precarious situation
01:43and spying being on everybody's lips,
01:45how about something like The Man from UNCLE?
01:48I think they did it in the last couple of years.
01:50What, as a film?
01:51Just for you.
01:53Yes.
01:53Did they bring it back then?
01:54They did. You can watch it now.
01:56Your dreams have come true.
01:58Chloe's back.
01:59Chloe Hutton, a physics student at the University of Manchester
02:02from West Dumbarton.
02:04Shall we talk yesterday about your dogs that sing
02:06as you play the piano?
02:08We talked about them quite a lot, actually.
02:10Yeah?
02:10Yeah.
02:10So we won't do any more of that then.
02:13I've kind of run out of things to say about my dogs that sing.
02:15All right.
02:16Well, you're joined by James Slater today,
02:18student at the LSE from Bradford,
02:20and used to run his own business as a local magazine editor.
02:25Now, I like the sound of this.
02:27What's it all about?
02:28So it was a project I started with a couple of friends at school
02:31as a kind of enterprise project there,
02:33and then turned it into our own business when I became 16.
02:37Excellent.
02:37Yeah, really just ran along with that through the city.
02:40Excellent.
02:40And now you're at the LSE.
02:41What are you studying at the LSE?
02:43Social policy.
02:44It's a variation of politics.
02:46Okay.
02:46Studying what decisions are made by the government
02:49and how they affect people.
02:51Very relevant.
02:52Very relevant.
02:53And what do you hope to do?
02:54Will you go into politics, do you think?
02:56Either that or the civil service, probably.
02:58Yeah.
02:59Good man.
03:00Lovely.
03:00Big round of applause then for James and Chloe.
03:02And over in the corner, Susie, of course.
03:06And for the first time, it's singer, actor, quite frankly, a music legend.
03:11It's Jimmy Osmond.
03:12We are so proud to have you here.
03:14Good to be here with you, Nick.
03:15Thank you so much.
03:19I'm a good fan of this show, you know, and it's so cool to actually be on it.
03:23We're saying it's cool to have you here.
03:25Oh, bless your heart.
03:26I've got my pad and pencil ready here.
03:29All right.
03:30Any minute now.
03:31Now, Chloe, take us away.
03:34Hi, Rachel.
03:34Hi, Chloe.
03:35Can we have a vowel, please?
03:36Start today with O.
03:39And a consonant.
03:41R.
03:42And another consonant.
03:45N.
03:46A vowel.
03:48I.
03:49A vowel.
03:52O.
03:52A consonant.
03:53A consonant.
03:56S.
03:57Another consonant.
03:59W.
04:01Another vowel.
04:04E.
04:05And a consonant.
04:06And lastly, L.
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04:28Chloe? A seven. A seven, James? A six. And your six? A slower. Slower. Chloe? Erosion.
04:50Seven? Very good. Erosion. Now, we turn to the corner. Jimmy and Susie? Seven. I feel like
05:01I should hold up a seven. Is it the same seven? What is your seven? Lunar. Yes. Very good.
05:10Very good. All right. Excellent. Lunar for seven. And you could take it one letter further
05:15for an eight. Swoonier. Really? Something swoonie induces a state of rapture. Really?
05:21Very good. All right. Could you put that into a sentence for us? Swoonier. How would you
05:29deliver that? The example here for Swoonie on its own is he gave me a big swoonie kiss.
05:34So I suppose one man's kiss could be swoonier than the next. Oh, you naughty girl. Under a
05:40moon. Under a moon. Under a moon. Well done. All right. Seven points to Chloe. James. Letters
05:46came. Afternoon, Rachel. Afternoon, James. Start with a consonant, please. Thank you. Start
05:50with P. And a second. L. And a vowel, please. U. And another, please. I. And a consonant.
06:02C. And a consonant. C. And a vowel. O. And another. U. And a consonant. R. And a final
06:17D. And a consonant. And a final D. Stand by.
06:47James. Just a four. A four. Chloe. A five. And a five. Tough enough then. James. A curd.
07:00Yes. Ways and curd. And? Lurid. Very good. Lurid colours. Yes. Excellent. Lurid. Lurid.
07:07Could we match or beat that, Jimmy? A five. Yes. Lucid. Very good. Yeah. Lucid. Susie, anything else?
07:16No. No. That's excellent. From Jimmy. That was as good as it got, actually, for us.
07:20Thank you. Yeah. All right. So, 12 points to Chloe. And it's Chloe's numbers game. Chloe.
07:26Can I have one from the top and five small, please? You can, indeed. Thank you, Chloe. One
07:29large and five little. And for the first time today, small numbers are ten. Seven. Three.
07:36Six. And five. And the big one, 50. And the target, 617. 617.
07:46Yes, Chloe. 616. And?
08:16And James. 617. 617. James.
08:2050 plus the six plus the five. 50 plus six plus five, 61.
08:25Times the ten. 610. Another seven. Lovely. Well done. Caught up.
08:29Good man. So, James on ten and Chloe on twelve. Just two points in it as we turn to our first
08:35tea time teaser, which is hired gent. And the clue, the workman corrected all the things that
08:41were wrong. The workman corrected all the things that were wrong.
08:44Ah, they were rightened. Rightened is the answer to that. So, Chloe on twelve. James on ten. James.
08:49Can I start with a vowel, please? Thank you, James. A.
08:54And another. I. And a third. O.
09:01And a consonant, please. T. And a second. S. And a third.
09:06Y. And a vowel, please. E.
09:36A consonant. N. And a final consonant, please. And a final T. Stand by.
09:45T. All right.
10:07Yes, James?
10:17A seven.
10:18A seven.
10:18Chloe?
10:19A six.
10:20You're six?
10:21Sanity.
10:22Now then, a toasty.
10:25Yes, we'll have a toasty.
10:27A toasty.
10:28Yes.
10:28Now, Jimmy and Susie, what have you been up to?
10:33What have we been up to?
10:34We have a couple of options, don't we?
10:36Yes.
10:36We have two sevens.
10:38One's no tates.
10:40Yes.
10:40And one is station.
10:42But Susie has a cool one.
10:43Well, I had toasty as well.
10:45Oh, you had toasty as well, yes.
10:45Toasty.
10:46I thought it was tootsie, but it's toasty.
10:50Well done, Jimmy.
10:52And James has taken a narrow lead.
10:54Five leads, 17, two, what?
10:5512.
10:56Chloe?
10:57Can I have a vowel, please?
10:58Thank you, Chloe.
10:59O.
11:00Another vowel.
11:02E.
11:03A consonant.
11:05K.
11:07Another consonant.
11:09Z.
11:10Another consonant.
11:13T.
11:14A vowel.
11:16O.
11:18Another vowel.
11:20A.
11:22A consonant.
11:24R.
11:25R.
11:25And another consonant.
11:27And lastly, T.
11:30Countdown.
11:31A consonant.
11:31Another noun,
11:32A consonant.
11:45Get a consonant.
11:45A consonant.
11:45A boyfriend.
11:46Auso.
11:46A폰.
11:47A związ.
11:48A consonant.
11:48A consonant.
11:49A ozone.
11:49A consonant.
11:50A consonant.
11:50A KRá ár.
11:51A eaten.
11:51Aeremiah.
11:52A 등 돼 zero.
11:53Aöh.
11:53Aakte.
11:53A floating.
11:54A entend.
11:55A bir année.
11:55A hope.
11:56A fungi.
11:56James?
12:02A six.
12:03A six, Chloe?
12:05A risky six.
12:07Yes, James?
12:08Rotate.
12:09And?
12:10Tutor.
12:12Yes.
12:13Yay!
12:14Wow.
12:14Yes.
12:15It's a horn.
12:17Might be a tutor.
12:18Very good.
12:19A tutor?
12:19Yes.
12:20Tutor.
12:20A proper tutor.
12:23Now then, Jimmy.
12:24Well, we had rotate as well.
12:26Yeah.
12:26But we also have a five for a kazoo.
12:29Kazoo.
12:30Kazoo.
12:31What's a kazoo?
12:32That's a musical instrument, isn't it?
12:34It's a proper tooter.
12:37Is it?
12:38You blow the kazoo.
12:39Yeah, you blow the kazoo.
12:40And you get a toot.
12:41Yeah.
12:41Brilliant.
12:42All right.
12:43Kazoo.
12:4523 plays.
12:4618.
12:46And it's James's numbers game, James.
12:48And can I have a one, two, one, two, please?
12:50You can indeed.
12:51Thank you, James.
12:51One from the top.
12:53Two, one, and five little ones.
12:55And this round is two, five, nine, another five, three, and 75.
13:03And your target, 111.
13:06One, one, one.
13:07One, two, one, two, three.
13:17One, two, three.
13:19Yes, James?
13:391, 1, 1.
13:41And...
13:411, 1, 1.
13:42OK, James.
13:445 divided by 5 is 1.
13:46Yep.
13:47Add on the 3.
13:49The 4.
13:50Times 9.
13:51Yep, 36.
13:52And add on the 75.
13:531, 1, 1.
13:53Lovely.
13:55Well done.
13:56And...
13:56Have the same way.
13:57Same way?
13:58Yeah.
13:59Well done.
14:01Thanks.
14:02And so James, 33, and Chloe on 28.
14:05And now we turn to Jim.
14:07And Jim, you've had an extraordinary career.
14:09And it's rolling on.
14:10I think you're going to be touring in October in this country.
14:13I am.
14:13The last big arena tour with my brothers and David Essex and Hot Chocolate and arenas.
14:18All across the country.
14:20Fantastic.
14:20Well, I've read your biography, which is like this.
14:24You've done so many things.
14:25So I'm going to ask, what would you like to talk about today?
14:28You.
14:29I drew your picture.
14:30Do you see?
14:32I can't see.
14:33You thought I was over here doing numbers, but I was talking about you.
14:37No, we were talking about embarrassing moments.
14:39Yeah.
14:40And, you know, one of the most embarrassing moments of my life, I kind of grew up in a very
14:44bizarre way, kind of that old Hollywood way.
14:46And we worked with a lot of people that became legends, but we just knew them as regular people.
14:51And we shared a schedule once with Elvis.
14:54And, you know, we were all a bit nervous being, you know, in the same kind of venue as Elvis.
14:59And my family thought it would be cute to dress me up in one of a suit just like his.
15:04And back then, food was free to all the entertainers.
15:07So I was this precocious little kid, pick up the phone, and I'd order grilled cheese
15:11sandwiches and ice cream freezes, orange freezes.
15:15And I was drinking them and eating them like it was going out of style, you know.
15:19And so I went out and did my part of the show.
15:22And I would sing this song, I want y'all to know that.
15:25And it goes into I Got a Woman.
15:27I was really sick, really sick.
15:30So I said, I want y'all to know that.
15:32And I stared at this lady.
15:33It was during dinner theater.
15:34And I threw up all over the front row.
15:37I slipped and fell.
15:38My brother came out, pulled me back up.
15:40And I kept going.
15:41I got a woman.
15:42I kept singing, you know.
15:43And I looked up into the light booth.
15:45And Elvis was sitting in the light booth up there laughing his head off.
15:50And I felt so bad.
15:52I felt like I let everybody down.
15:54But it ended up being quite funny.
15:55You know, tragedy plus time equals humor.
15:58And that's what happened.
15:59And you had a huge hit, of course.
16:01You were under 10.
16:02You were 9-something.
16:03Yeah, here in this country, it put me in the record book, I guess,
16:08as being the youngest to have a number one record.
16:10Long-haired lover from Liverpool.
16:12You know it.
16:12Everybody knows it.
16:14I'll leave you alone.
16:15Come on.
16:15No, I'm teasing.
16:17Tell us about Presley.
16:18So you met Elvis Presley, I guess, when you were in Vegas, yeah?
16:22Yeah.
16:22What was your sort of impression?
16:24He was so cool.
16:25And I can remember, actually, I always had sore feet,
16:28because we would do this tap dance number in our show.
16:30And I was soaking my feet.
16:32And there was my little Elvis costume next to the real Elvis costume.
16:35And he walked in with his bodyguards, and he goes,
16:38how are you doing, little buddy?
16:40I mean, bizarre way to grow up.
16:43He would always send flowers, not just to us, but to any entertainer that played the Hilton.
16:47He would always have this massive guitar bouquet, and just a real genuine, nice guy.
16:54Yeah.
16:56Wonderful.
16:59Great story.
17:00Great story.
17:02So 33 plays 28.
17:04Chloe on 28.
17:05Chloe, let us go.
17:07Can I have a vowel, please, Rachel?
17:08Thank you, Chloe.
17:09E.
17:10And another vowel.
17:12I.
17:13And another vowel.
17:15E.
17:16A consonant.
17:19R.
17:20A consonant.
17:22M.
17:24Another vowel.
17:26I.
17:28A consonant.
17:30R.
17:32A consonant.
17:35T.
17:36And another consonant.
17:38And lastly, P.
17:41Stand by.
17:46Chloe.
18:13A seven.
18:14A seven, James.
18:15A six.
18:17And that six?
18:18Temper.
18:19Now then, Chloe.
18:20Rip time.
18:21How are you spelling it?
18:23Rip and time.
18:24Rip time.
18:26Er.
18:27No.
18:27Re-time, but not rep time, I'm afraid.
18:29Sorry.
18:30Bad luck.
18:31What can we have, I wonder?
18:33Jimmy and Susie.
18:35We have two.
18:36Of course, Susie got the good one.
18:38Yeah.
18:39But there's an eight.
18:41Re-permit.
18:43Very good.
18:44Very good.
18:46Anything else?
18:48Er.
18:48Premier for seven, but no, that was our only eight.
18:51Well done.
18:5239 plays 28.
18:54James, start with a vowel, please.
18:56Thank you, James.
18:57E.
18:58And another.
18:59And another.
18:59And another.
19:00I.
19:01And a consonant, please.
19:04M.
19:05And another.
19:07S.
19:09And a third.
19:10H.
19:11And a fourth.
19:14N.
19:15And a vowel, please.
19:17E.
19:18And another.
19:19And another.
19:21I.
19:23And finish with a consonant, please.
19:25And finish with R.
19:27And here's the countdown clock.
19:28I.
19:30And a second.
19:31And a fourth.
19:32And a half.
19:32And another.
19:39And a third.
19:42And a fourth.
19:43And a fourth.
19:46And a pair with the one.
19:47And a third.
19:49James.
20:00A seven.
20:01Chloe.
20:02A seven.
20:03James.
20:04A shinier.
20:05And?
20:06The same one.
20:08Shinier.
20:10What do you reckon, Jimmy?
20:12I had shinier.
20:13You got it?
20:13Well, but Susie has an amazing one that I don't even know what it is.
20:17Oh.
20:17Well, one of my favourites, still a seven, but menhirs, M-E-N-H-I-R-S.
20:23And what is it?
20:24The tall, upright, prehistoric stones.
20:27She does it all the time, Julie.
20:28How does she do that?
20:29It's amazing.
20:29Every day.
20:31Wow.
20:32She is extraordinary, but there we are.
20:35Menhirs, 46 to 35, and it's numbers.
20:40Chloe.
20:40Can I have one from the top and five small ones, please?
20:43You can indeed.
20:44Thank you, Chloe.
20:45One large five, little coming up.
20:46And this time, little ones are six, seven, ten, another ten, and two, and the big one,
20:5375.
20:55And your target, 660.
20:57Six, six, zero.
20:58One large five, little ones are six, seven, ten, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big one, and the big
21:28Chloe?
21:30Um, 660.
21:32Yes, James?
21:33660.
21:34Let's try it out, then.
21:35Chloe?
21:36Um, 75 minus 2.
21:3973 minus 7.
21:4066.
21:41And times twice to 10.
21:42Perfect, 660.
21:43James?
21:44Yes, same way.
21:44Same way.
21:45All right.
21:48So there we are, 56 to 45, time for our second tea time teaser,
21:52which is nice roses and the clue.
21:55You'd buy her some nice roses,
21:57but you've got no spare cash.
21:59Times are really hard.
22:00You'd buy her some nice roses,
22:02but you've got no spare cash.
22:04Times are really hard.
22:21Welcome back.
22:23Welcome back.
22:24Very noisy audience today.
22:25Welcome back.
22:27I left with the clue you'd buy her some nice roses,
22:29but you've got no spare cash.
22:30Times are really hard.
22:32Why's that?
22:33Because there's a recession on.
22:35A recession.
22:37Recession indeed.
22:3856 plays 45.
22:40James on 56.
22:41And it's James' letters game.
22:44All right.
22:44Can I have a consonant, please?
22:45Thank you, James.
22:47B.
22:47And a second.
22:50N.
22:51And a third.
22:53T.
22:54And a vowel.
22:57A.
22:57And a second.
22:59O.
23:00And a third.
23:02A.
23:03And a consonant.
23:05B.
23:08Another consonant, please.
23:10Q.
23:11And finish with a vowel.
23:12And finish with E.
23:15Stand by.
23:15C.
23:17A.
23:47Yes, Chloe?
23:49Five.
23:50A five and?
23:51Five.
23:52Two fives.
23:53Yes, Chloe?
23:54A baton.
23:55And a bet.
23:57A bait.
23:58Very good.
23:59Yes.
24:01And the corner.
24:02What have you dredged up there?
24:03Jimmy and Susie?
24:04I did the baton thing, but he got that one.
24:07James got that one.
24:08What did you come up with?
24:09Abbott for five.
24:11What's that?
24:11It was very tough.
24:12And the abbot of a monastery, for example.
24:14Oh, yeah.
24:14So not easy, Nick, at all, that one.
24:16Very tough.
24:17All right.
24:18So now we're back with you, Chloe, for a letters game.
24:23Can I have a vowel, please?
24:24Thank you, Chloe.
24:25A.
24:26And a consonant.
24:28T.
24:29Another consonant.
24:32D.
24:33A vowel.
24:35E.
24:36Another vowel.
24:37O.
24:37A consonant.
24:43R.
24:44Another consonant.
24:46M.
24:48A vowel.
24:50I.
24:52And another consonant.
24:54And the last one.
24:55G.
24:55And the clock starts now.
24:57And the clock starts now.
24:57cheering Space 꽃.
24:58T кот's name.
24:59T.
25:01One things.
25:01D حَن creed.
25:02Do you know Alex?
25:03What, yeah.
25:04Do you know Alex?
25:05Uh, yes.
25:06Of course.
25:07There you go.
25:07Where are you?
25:08Are you?
25:08I Juve.
25:10Are you waiting.
25:12I know Alex?
25:17You know Alex.
25:18I do.
25:18You're waiting for it.
25:19Another thing.
25:20I know Alex.
25:21Great.
25:21Here I know Alex.
25:23We are over.
25:23Theẹ.
25:25Yeah.
25:25Oh.
25:25What day?
25:29An eight.
25:30An eight.
25:31James?
25:31An eight.
25:32Mm-hmm.
25:33Alan and Chloe?
25:34Migrated.
25:35Migrated and...
25:36And the same.
25:38Both migrated.
25:39Very good.
25:39All right.
25:42And in that hard-working corner of ours...
25:45Yeah, you see the steam coming off of us.
25:47I do?
25:47Yes, we have seven and an eight.
25:49Excellent.
25:50Yes.
25:50And?
25:51Ragtime.
25:51Yep.
25:52As in the music.
25:53And?
25:54And a mediator.
25:56A mediator.
25:57A mediator.
25:57Well done.
25:58Ragtime.
26:00All right.
26:01It's now...
26:01And actually, Jimmy, you love this.
26:03Because this is Susie's Origins of Words spot.
26:07Oh, wow.
26:08And it's very exciting.
26:09Susie.
26:10Thank you, Nick.
26:11Well, few of us are lucky enough to have a winter residence and a summer residence these
26:16days.
26:17But if we do, we would be able to get from one to the other in a matter of hours.
26:23It's very, very easy, very simple with modern transport.
26:27And we don't normally have to take too much with us.
26:29But four or five centuries ago, it was very, very different.
26:33And even the king, if he had to move residences, would have a huge retinue to take with him.
26:39He was compelled to do this, as they say, to move to his summer or winter retinue.
26:44And the more important members of his household would go ahead on horseback.
26:49They were the vanguard.
26:50Vanguard actually began as a military term, avant-garde.
26:53So they were the people, the foremost part of an army that would go ahead and check that
26:57everything was OK.
26:58But bringing up the rear were the more necessary people, but slightly more unsightly.
27:03They were the men and women of the kitchen.
27:05So they were the lowest menials of the household, the scullions, as they were called, because
27:10they lived in the scullery, and they performed the needful, dirty work of the household with
27:17equipment that was inevitably black and sooty over time.
27:21Now, they usually had one very large wagon to themselves.
27:24They travelled on foot very often.
27:26If they couldn't fit on the wagon, that wasn't a particularly nice time for them, moving from
27:31one place to another.
27:33And in perhaps playful allusion to their equipment and the sight of these people, they were called
27:38the Black Guard.
27:40So they were the people who the king had to have but, you know, didn't really want to
27:44be seen.
27:45And in later years, whether or not they ever got up to criminal activities was slightly
27:51unfair, really.
27:52A black guard or a blaggard became somebody who usually got up to no good.
27:57That was the idea.
27:58They were the varmints of the household.
28:00And eventually it crept into mainstream English as a general term of abuse.
28:04A blaggard, a varmint, you know, all that sort of string of insults.
28:08But originally it started with poor kitchen menials who simply looked after their pots and
28:12pans.
28:13Very good.
28:14Very good.
28:18Now then, James, a little bit of lead there.
28:22It's your letters game.
28:23Can I have a consonant, please?
28:25Thank you, James.
28:26L.
28:27And another.
28:28S.
28:30And a third.
28:33S.
28:34A vowel, please.
28:36A.
28:37And a second.
28:39E.
28:40And a third.
28:42A.
28:44A consonant, please.
28:46S.
28:47A second.
28:50D.
28:51And a vowel, please.
28:53And finish.
28:54E.
28:55Stand by.
28:58Yes, James.
29:27A six.
29:29A six.
29:29Now then, Chloe Hutton.
29:30Also a six.
29:31A six.
29:32Tens.
29:33Least.
29:34Least and?
29:35Lasses.
29:37Absolutely fine.
29:38Any advances from the corner?
29:40I have a six, but you have a seven, right?
29:42Yeah.
29:43Then you go first.
29:44Oh, well, I was wondering if you could, excuse me, have salad.
29:50You know, we have a French salad, whether it might be in the dictionary.
29:54And you can actually add the E to salad, but for a very different reason, because a salad
29:58was a light helmet in historical times with an outward curve that went over the back of
30:03the neck.
30:04So it was a helmet.
30:06That's a salad.
30:07Yeah.
30:07Yeah.
30:08Well done.
30:08All right.
30:0975 to 64.
30:11And now, Chloe Hutton, what have you got for us?
30:15A vowel, please, Rachel.
30:16Thank you, Chloe.
30:17A.
30:18A consonant.
30:19A consonant.
30:21H.
30:22Another consonant.
30:24V.
30:26A vowel.
30:28O.
30:29A consonant.
30:31J.
30:33A vowel.
30:35E.
30:38Another vowel.
30:40U.
30:41Consonant.
30:43G.
30:45And a consonant.
30:47And to finish, L.
30:48And here's the Countdown Talk.
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31:26Your five?
31:27Luff.
31:28Now then, Chloe.
31:29Lovage.
31:30Very good.
31:31Yes.
31:32Very good, lovage.
31:33I forgot what lovage means.
31:35Oh, it's a vegetable.
31:36Plant, isn't it?
31:36It is.
31:37It's what?
31:37It's a plant.
31:38You cook with it.
31:40I don't.
31:40You don't?
31:42I put it in my lovage.
31:44No, I'm teasing.
31:47Anything else?
31:48No, that was our best as well.
31:49Well done.
31:49All right.
31:50So, only five in it.
31:52Well done, Chloe.
31:5375 plays 70.
31:55As we go into the final numbers game.
31:57James.
31:58Can I have a 1-2-1-2 again, please?
31:59You can indeed.
32:00Thank you, James.
32:001-2-1-2 for your last chance to avoid a crucial conundrum.
32:04The final numbers game of the week is 4, 5, 7, 9, 10.
32:10And the large one, 25.
32:13And the target, 876.
32:158-7-6.
32:165, 6, 6, 6, 7, 10.
32:31The five Voice.
32:336, 6, 7, 10.
32:35Yes, James.
32:478, 7, 6.
32:49Yes, Chloe.
32:508, 7, 6.
32:51Thank you, James.
32:527 times 5.
32:5435.
32:55Times 25.
32:56875.
32:57And 10 minus the 1 for the...
32:5910 minus the 9, sorry, for the 1.
33:01Perfect.
33:01And Adam.
33:02And Chloe.
33:02I had the same way.
33:03Same way.
33:04There we are.
33:05Well done.
33:11So there we are.
33:13We find ourselves in the teeth of a crucial conundrum.
33:18Fingers on buzzers, please.
33:20Let's roll today's crucial countdown conundrum.
33:27James.
33:28Amazingly.
33:30Amazingly.
33:31Look, Chloe is nodding along.
33:34Oh, dear.
33:35There we are.
33:37Well done.
33:39That was fast.
33:40And I think you're only a nanosecond ahead of Chloe.
33:42Am I right?
33:43So we shall see James on Monday.
33:45So have a quiet weekend.
33:46Chloe, it's been a real pleasure having you here.
33:48Thank you so much.
33:48And you played so well.
33:50And you were there, or thereabouts, all the time.
33:52And you take this teapot and this goodie bag back to, well, wherever you want, actually.
33:59Back to the dogs in Dumbartonshire or back to College in Manchester, whichever you like.
34:03Well done.
34:04All right.
34:05See you Monday.
34:05Yeah.
34:07And we shall see Jamie on Monday, too.
34:09I'll see you.
34:09I'll be back again.
34:10Please.
34:11Yes.
34:11Please.
34:12And Susie, too, of course.
34:13All right.
34:14See you both on Monday.
34:16Rachel?
34:16Well, the way James spoke at the top of the show, I feel like they're going to be playing this back when he's Prime Minister.
34:20When our Prime Minister was on Countdown.
34:22So, well done.
34:23Excellent stuff.
34:24See you on Monday.
34:25See you Monday.
34:25Pleasant weekend.
34:27Join us then.
34:27Same time, same place.
34:28You'll be sure of it.
34:29A very good afternoon, you all.
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