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00:30Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:34Now, modern life has got many problems, but may I just have a moan?
00:37And I'm sure that my moan will be reverberating around the country and a lot of people will be chiming in.
00:43Because I found myself in the middle of the desert with a satellite phone.
00:49And I could speak to anybody with absolutely perfect, you know, voice and reception.
00:56And yet in Northamptonshire, I can't.
01:00What's going on?
01:00Well, same in central London.
01:02Really?
01:03Yeah, my boyfriend and I rarely have signal in my own flat.
01:05Come on, give me an explanation, please.
01:08Give the nation an explanation.
01:10Well, I'm no expert in it, but it seems to be it's thick walls, isn't it, in London that stops the signal getting through.
01:13Or is it just a lot?
01:14You think the Brits, you think we're moaning enough, but clearly we need to moan more.
01:18It is maddening.
01:19I'm absolutely 100% with you.
01:20That's my moan for the day.
01:22Now, who have we got with us, Rachel?
01:23We've got James Slater, student at the LSE.
01:25You got any explanations for this?
01:28Any explanations?
01:29Yes.
01:29You guys are the geniuses at all this sort of stuff, you young guys.
01:32What's the explanation, please?
01:34I'm not sure, but I do suffer with it in central London like Rachel.
01:37You do too.
01:38And you won your first game on Friday with a very, very quick, crucial conundrum.
01:42Well done.
01:43Well done.
01:44You're joined by Ellen Guy, a sales administrator from New Malden in Surrey, who has a degree in fine art.
01:51And you're using that degree for some good purposes, I think.
01:55Tell us about them.
01:56Well, at the moment, about once a month, I'm involved with running a group in my church to go out drawing.
02:02And we visit various locations and draw on location, and it sort of exercises your drawing muscles.
02:09That's very good.
02:10Well, our guest, actually, who's a very talented man in many respects, drew that.
02:15And as a fine art graduate, I would like you to assess it.
02:20Mark that out of ten.
02:22Oh, I don't think you can put a number on it.
02:25It's unique.
02:26That'll be a ten.
02:29Let's have a big round of applause, then, shall we?
02:32Big round of applause for Ellen and James.
02:37All right.
02:37And over in the corner, Susie.
02:39And apart from being an artist, whether it be as a solo artist or collectively with his family, he's produced 56 gold and platinum records.
02:48It's Jimmy Osmond.
02:49Jimmy!
02:51And Jimmy did a lovely little, I guess, little cartoon, really.
02:56Caricature.
02:57You thought I was over here working the numbers.
02:59I did.
02:59Yeah, I was just drawing pictures.
03:00I want you to sign that for me.
03:02I'm happy to do it.
03:03I brought the charm by that.
03:04Now then, James, let's get down to business, shall we?
03:07Afternoon, Rachel.
03:08Afternoon, James.
03:09Can I start with a consonant, please?
03:10You can start with Y.
03:12And a second.
03:15H.
03:15And a third.
03:17M.
03:19Vowel, please.
03:21I.
03:22And a second.
03:23O.
03:24And a third.
03:26U.
03:28Consonant.
03:30L.
03:31Another.
03:33R.
03:34And finish with a vowel, please.
03:36Finish with O.
03:37And here's the canton talk.
04:11Yes, James.
04:12I'm going to try a five.
04:14Ellen.
04:14A six.
04:16James.
04:17Humour.
04:19Yes, Ellen.
04:20Homily.
04:21Homily.
04:22Homily.
04:23Excellent.
04:24Is spelling humour the American way?
04:26Yes.
04:27We're not allowed American spellings, I'm afraid.
04:29I'm so sorry.
04:29I have to say that.
04:30Feeling very bad about this now.
04:32But American words, we can have.
04:33Oh, that's good.
04:34American spellings.
04:34That's good.
04:35Yes.
04:36All right.
04:37And Jimmy and Susie.
04:39And actually, yes.
04:40There is an adverb there from Rumi.
04:43Roomily would give you a seven.
04:45Roomily.
04:46Roomily.
04:46But not spelled the American way.
04:48No, of course not.
04:49Can't have that.
04:52Heaven forbid.
04:53Six points to Ellen.
04:55And it's Ellen's letters game.
04:57Hi, Rachel.
04:57Hi, Ellen.
04:58Could I have a consonant, please?
04:59You can indeed.
05:00You can have.
05:01A D and a vowel.
05:04A and a vowel.
05:07U and a consonant.
05:09R and a consonant.
05:13V and a vowel.
05:16I and a consonant.
05:19L and a consonant.
05:23C and a vowel, please.
05:27And a final E.
05:30Stand by.
05:30C and a vowel.
05:32C and a vowel.
05:33C and a vowel.
05:33C and a vowel.
05:34C and a vowel.
05:34C and a vowel.
05:35C and a vowel.
05:35C and a vowel.
05:36C and a vowel.
05:36C and a vowel.
05:36C and a vowel.
05:36C and a vowel.
05:37C and a vowel.
05:37C and a vowel.
05:37C and a vowel.
05:37C and a vowel.
05:38C and a vowel.
05:38C and a vowel.
05:38C and a vowel.
05:39Ellen.
06:02A six.
06:03A six, James.
06:04And a six.
06:05Ellen.
06:06Varied.
06:07And valued.
06:09Very good.
06:09Varied and valued, yeah.
06:10Yeah.
06:11Strong words.
06:12And Jimmy and Susie?
06:14A clavier or clavier.
06:15A keyboard musical instrument.
06:17A seven.
06:18A seven.
06:18Wow.
06:19Not bad.
06:20Clavier.
06:21Twelve plays six.
06:22And James, we're with numbers now.
06:25Can I have a one, two, one, two, please?
06:26You can indeed.
06:27Thank you, James.
06:28One, two, one, and a two.
06:30And the first one of the week is two, three, ten, another ten, six.
06:36And the large one, seventy-five.
06:38And your target, three hundred and fifty-seven.
06:41Three, five, seven.
06:42One, two, one, and a two.
06:43One, two, one, and a two.
06:44One, two, one, and a two.
06:44One, two, one, and a two.
06:45One, two, one, and a two.
06:46One, two, one, and a two.
06:47One, two, one, and a two.
06:48One, two, one, and a two.
06:49One, two, one, and a two.
06:50One, two, one, and a two.
06:51One, two, one, and a two.
06:52One, two, one, and a two.
06:53One, two, one, and a two.
06:54One, two, one, and a two.
06:55One, two, one, and a two.
06:56One, two, one, and a two.
06:57One, two, one, two, one, and a two.
06:58Yes, James?
07:133, 5, 7.
07:153, 5, 7.
07:16Ellen?
07:163, 5, 7.
07:18James?
07:1910 divided by 2 is 5.
07:21Here it is.
07:22Times 75.
07:233, 7, 5.
07:24And 6 times 3 is 18.
07:26And take that away.
07:28Perfect.
07:283, 5, 7.
07:29And Ellen?
07:3075.
07:32And then 6 minus 2 is 4.
07:35Yep.
07:36Times those together to get 300.
07:39And then 6 times 10, 60.
07:41And unfortunately, you've used your 6 twice.
07:44I'm sorry, Ellen.
07:46Bad luck.
07:46That happens.
07:47Now then, 12 plays James' 16 as we turn to our first tea time teaser,
07:53which is feast diet.
07:54And the clue.
07:55With this attitude, you're never going to win anything.
07:58With this attitude, you're never going to win anything.
08:01Welcome back.
08:20I left you with a clue.
08:21With this attitude, you're never going to win anything.
08:24And the answer to that is defeatist.
08:27A defeatist attitude.
08:29Shame on you.
08:30Now, if you'd like to become a Countdown contestant,
08:34you can email Countdown at Channel4.com to request an application form
08:38or write to us at Contestants Applications.
08:41Countdown leads Ls 3-1-J-S.
08:47Now then, 16 plays 12.
08:49James on 16.
08:50Ellen's letters game.
08:52Could I have a vowel, please?
08:53Thank you, Ellen.
08:54I.
08:55And a consonant.
08:57S.
08:58And a consonant.
09:00V.
09:01And another.
09:04G.
09:04And a vowel, please.
09:08A.
09:09And a consonant.
09:11B.
09:13And a vowel.
09:15E.
09:19And a vowel, please.
09:21A.
09:22And a consonant.
09:23And the last one.
09:25N.
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09:46Yes, Ellen?
10:01Seven.
10:02A seven and?
10:03A six.
10:04And a six.
10:04Your six?
10:05A visage.
10:07Visage, yep.
10:08And Ellen?
10:09A vaginas.
10:12And that's 19 now to James's 16.
10:15He sprung ahead.
10:17Anything else in the corner?
10:20I think that about does it.
10:25I think I'll be going now.
10:28No, it's easy.
10:29We have saving.
10:32Not nearly as interesting, yes.
10:35I think we're happy enough now.
10:37We'll move on.
10:3819 plays James's 16.
10:40And it's James's letters game.
10:42James.
10:42A consonant, please.
10:44Thank you, James.
10:45T.
10:46And a second.
10:48R.
10:49And a third.
10:52W.
10:53A vowel, please.
10:55O.
10:56A second.
10:58A.
10:59A third.
11:02O.
11:03A consonant, please.
11:05D.
11:07A second.
11:07R.
11:10And a final vowel, please.
11:12And a final E.
11:14Dead by.
11:15A forty-four.
11:22A fourth.
11:24A second.
11:26And a third.
11:26A meantime.
11:33A Québec.
11:34A Québec.
11:34And a fourth.
11:36For a while.
11:36A cię capacité.
11:37A fourth.
11:39A punch.
11:40A ROB.
11:41타 dónde.
11:42James?
11:46A six.
11:47A six.
11:48Ellen?
11:49A six.
11:50Thank you, James.
11:51A rater.
11:52Now, Ellen?
11:54A drawer.
11:55Yes.
11:56Orator?
11:57Orator, absolutely fine.
11:58Two O's.
11:59Anything else there, Jimmy?
12:01Wood rat.
12:02Wood rat.
12:03What's a wood rat?
12:05Well, I don't know.
12:06They always are called pack rats.
12:07I don't know if you've come across one of these, Jimmy,
12:08but they are native to North America
12:10and they are rat-like rodents
12:12that accumulate lots of sticks in their nest.
12:16And that's a wood rat?
12:17Hence the wood rat, yes.
12:18Okay.
12:18It's like the Osmonds, wood rats,
12:20which are like a lot of sticks.
12:23There's a lot of you.
12:24All right.
12:25And there is an ape there, actually, Nick, as well.
12:27Yeah.
12:28Toreador, a bullfighter.
12:30Indeed.
12:30Same as a matador, I guess.
12:32Toreador.
12:33Toreador.
12:36Well done.
12:3725 to 22.
12:38Ellen, just in the lead,
12:40and it's your numbers game.
12:42Ellen.
12:43And could I have one large, Rachel?
12:46And five small.
12:47Of course you can.
12:48Thank you, Ellen.
12:48One big one, five little ones,
12:50and this time they are four, nine, ten, eight, five,
12:56and a large one, 50.
12:59And the target, 501.
13:01501.
13:13Every time you're.
13:14Bye.
13:16Bye.
13:17Bye.
13:28Bye.
13:29Bye.
13:30Bye.
13:30Bye.
13:31Bye.
13:32Ellen.
13:33501.
13:33Thank you, James.
13:34501.
13:35Ellen.
13:3650 times 10.
13:38500.
13:39Plus, well, 9 minus 8.
13:41Yeah, we don't need to write that down.
13:43James, we happy about that?
13:45The same, but 5 minus 4 for the Wednesday.
13:47There we go.
13:47All right.
13:49So, still that same difference, 35 days, 32, as we turn to Jimmy.
13:54And, Jimmy, what are you going to share with us today?
13:57Well, you know, we've been talking about you have to be careful what you ask for.
14:00And I've always fancied cooking.
14:03So, I went on this program, MasterChef, and I thought for sure I'd be kicked off, you know,
14:08because I've been a singer my whole life and we don't really cook.
14:11And so, I ended up going all the way to the finalists, being one of the last three finalists.
14:16And it changed everything.
14:18I mean, I go around, I still do 150 shows a year, and nobody wants me to sing anymore.
14:23They want me to cook.
14:24I mean, even at home, it's quite bizarre.
14:27My wife is a fantastic cook, and I've always, you know, had a dinner like a king, you know.
14:32But ever since I've done that show, she says, honey, what's for dinner?
14:36You know, it's nuts.
14:38It's crazy.
14:38But we had a lot of fun on that show.
14:40So, I started the tent on fire, and I've learned a lot of lessons of what not to do.
14:46But it has its drawbacks now, because they all turn to you.
14:50They do.
14:51I'm never going to get involved in that sort of thing.
14:53Don't start cooking.
14:54No, I, I, um, what I tend to do, I use the tactic of making a mess of everything the first time, and never get asked again.
15:03That's genius.
15:04Again, it is.
15:05That's genius.
15:05That's brilliant.
15:06Yeah.
15:06Mind you, my, uh, my wonderful Catherine is a dreadful cook, too.
15:11Really?
15:13She cooked something the other day.
15:15It was, it was shoulder of lamb.
15:17I have never encountered such a tough piece of gristle in my life as a poet.
15:23It's unfair to say she's a bad cook, but she does tend to overcook things.
15:28Are you sure she's not doing that on purpose so that you cook it?
15:32She's been doing it for 20 years.
15:34Yeah.
15:35Pretty stuff.
15:41Very good.
15:42All right.
15:43Thanks, Jimmy.
15:4435 plays 32.
15:45James on 32.
15:46James's letters game.
15:48A consonant, please.
15:50Thank you, James.
15:51D.
15:52And a second.
15:54S.
15:55And a third.
15:57D.
15:59And a vowel.
16:01I.
16:02And a second.
16:03E.
16:05And a third.
16:07I.
16:08A consonant.
16:10G.
16:11And a second.
16:13N.
16:14And finish with a vowel, please.
16:17And finish with E.
16:20Stand by.
16:21And a third.
16:21A scholar.
16:30Paris.
16:35And a fourth.
16:40A eighth.
16:43A fourth.
16:43A fifth.
16:48A fourth.
16:49James.
16:53A seven.
16:54A seven.
16:54Ellen.
16:55An eight.
16:57James.
16:58Endings.
16:59Nalan.
17:00Ellen.
17:01Designed.
17:03Designed.
17:04Good, strong eight.
17:06Well done.
17:08A good, strong eight, yeah.
17:10Now, Jimmy and Susie, what have you...
17:13We had Designed as well, but Susie came up with a couple others.
17:17Yeah, just to say, unfortunately, there's not two Ns for endings, James.
17:21Oh, really?
17:22But just the seven, actually, Giddies is there as well.
17:25To Giddy someone is to make them feel excited to the point of disorientation.
17:31Yeah.
17:3143 plays 32.
17:34Ellen, let us go.
17:36Could I have a vowel, please?
17:38Thank you, Ellen.
17:39O.
17:40And a consonant.
17:42T.
17:43And a consonant.
17:45N.
17:45And a vowel.
17:48U.
17:50And another.
17:52I.
17:53And a consonant.
17:55M.
17:57And a consonant.
17:59P.
18:02And a vowel.
18:04E.
18:06And a consonant, please.
18:07And lastly, R.
18:10Stand by.
18:10This is the same.
18:17And a piston.
18:29And a consonant.
18:30And a consonant.
18:32Ellen.
18:43A dodgy six.
18:45James.
18:45A seven.
18:46And a seven.
18:48Now then, Ellen.
18:49Impute.
18:51Impute, James.
18:52Remount.
18:53Remount also, fine.
18:55Yes, very good.
18:55Anything else there, Jimmy?
18:57We've got a big one.
18:58Nine.
18:59Not a nine.
19:00A nine.
19:02Importune.
19:03Very good.
19:04Hey.
19:05There you go, Ben.
19:08Fantastic.
19:10Importune.
19:10Very good.
19:10Susie, anything else?
19:11No, just as I say, it means to harass someone persistently to do something,
19:15to nag them, really, to importune, but a little bit stronger than nagging.
19:19Yeah, I'm constantly being importuned, actually,
19:21particularly by the people in the gallery out there.
19:24Yeah, they say, there we are, get on with that, they say.
19:2743 plays, 39.
19:29James on 39.
19:30James, numbers.
19:31And another one, two, one, two, please.
19:33Thank you, James.
19:34Another one, two, one, two, one big five little, and these five little ones of seven, nine,
19:40three.
19:41Another three, four, and the big N, 25.
19:44And the target, 727.
19:47Seven to seven.
19:48One, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one
20:18James?
20:19727.
20:21And Ellen?
20:22727.
20:24Sir James?
20:254 times 7 is 28.
20:27Yep.
20:28Times 25.
20:29700.
20:30And 9 times 3 is 27.
20:32Fell out quite nicely, this one.
20:33727.
20:34Oh, well.
20:35And Ellen?
20:373 times 4.
20:3912.
20:40Plus the 3.
20:4215.
20:43Times 25.
20:44Times 25, 375.
20:47And then 9 minus 7.
20:50Oh.
20:51We're a bit off.
20:53That's 375.
20:55Oh, sorry.
20:56So I've gone wrong somewhere.
20:57Sorry, Ellen.
20:58Bad luck.
21:00So James has just sort of lurched ahead of you.
21:0249 to your 43.
21:04As we go to our second Tea Time Teaser, which is clean copy.
21:07And the clue?
21:09No I's in the clue, but there's definitely one in the answer.
21:12No I's in the clue, but there's definitely one in the answer.
21:17Welcome back.
21:34I left you with the clue.
21:35No I's in the clue, but there's definitely one in the answer.
21:39And the answer is Cyclopean, Susie.
21:43Cyclopean?
21:44Yes, of or resembling a Cyclops.
21:47Not sure you'd want a Cyclopean eye, but there you go.
21:51All right.
21:5249 plays 43.
21:54James on 49.
21:55Ellen, you're back.
21:57Could I have a consonant, please?
21:58Thank you, Ellen.
22:00G.
22:01And a vowel.
22:03I.
22:04And a consonant.
22:06P.
22:08And a consonant.
22:09N.
22:11And a consonant.
22:14S.
22:15And a vowel.
22:18U.
22:19And another vowel.
22:22E.
22:23And a consonant.
22:25H.
22:28And a consonant, please.
22:30And the last one.
22:31T.
22:32Stand by.
22:32And a consonant.
22:49And a vowel.
22:51And a consonant.
22:56And a consonant.
22:57And a consonant.
22:57Ellen?
23:04Seven.
23:05A seven, James?
23:05On a seven.
23:07Ellen?
23:07Pushing.
23:08Pushing and?
23:09Puneist.
23:10Puneist.
23:12Very good.
23:12Not bad.
23:13Can we make a seven, Jimmy, Susie?
23:17Gunship.
23:17How many is that?
23:18I have that seven.
23:19Seven.
23:20Excellent.
23:20A gunship, yeah.
23:22Susie?
23:23Yeah, that was our best for seven.
23:25I was looking to see if you could have one hustling rather than hustings,
23:27but you can't, so gunship's excellent.
23:29Very good.
23:30Very good.
23:3156 plays 50.
23:33James still in the lead.
23:35You're back.
23:35James?
23:36Can I have a consonant, please?
23:38Thank you, James.
23:39B.
23:40And a second.
23:42R.
23:43And a vowel, please.
23:46A.
23:47And a second.
23:49E.
23:50And a third.
23:52I.
23:54And a consonant.
23:56T.
23:58And a second.
24:00S.
24:02A vowel, please.
24:05A.
24:07And a final consonant.
24:09And a final R.
24:12Countdown.
24:13E.
24:13E.
24:26James, a seven.
24:45Ellen? Six.
24:47And you're six? Tribes.
24:49Tribes. And barters.
24:52And barters. Yes.
24:53Tribes and barters. Any advances, Jimmy?
24:56Yes. A good one I learned on that cooking show we were talking about.
25:00Yes. Rarebit.
25:02Yes. I learned how to make rarebit.
25:04Well done. Yes.
25:06All right. Rarebit. And? Susie?
25:10There isn't eight. They're arbiters.
25:12Arbiters. All right. Very good. 63 to 50. What should we do? Susie.
25:18Let's have more of Susie's origins of words, please.
25:21Well, I'm going to take you back to the 15th century, first of all, and to a German physician
25:28who had the most wonderful name. It was Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim.
25:35A real mouthful. He was best known under his assumed name, though, which was Paracelsus.
25:40And Paracelsus was way ahead of his time. He was the first, really, to recognize that health,
25:47human health, wasn't determined by bodily humors being out of thought, but actually caused by external viruses, etc.,
25:55could attack the body. And so when things went wrong, there were external causes often to blame.
26:00And as I say, that was quite enlightened for his time.
26:04But apparently Paracelsus, as well as being very clever, was also a great talker, especially about himself.
26:09He was renowned for his vanity and his arrogance.
26:12And because of that, people thought he was a bit of a charlatan and a quack.
26:16Didn't serve him very well.
26:17And if you remember, in that name was Bombastus.
26:21And for a long time, it was thought that our adjective bombastic,
26:24which is used to describe talk that's empty, very inflated, but usually a bit meaningless.
26:31It was thought that it went back to this man, otherwise known as Paracelsus.
26:34But actually, it goes back further in the Middle Ages,
26:38when the use of cotton for padding was extremely useful when men wore armour.
26:43So if there was a very sort of hard metal joint against the skin,
26:47the padding would be put in to stop it chafing.
26:50And in the 16th century, it was used for that purpose,
26:53but it was also used to flatter the king, namely Henry VIII,
26:56who was incredibly broad-shouldered, very fit, loved football, as we know,
27:00because a pair of football boots belonging to the king has been found in recent years.
27:05And so men of court would stuff padding into their doublets
27:08in order to copy the king and to look slightly larger
27:11than they actually were.
27:13And that padding was called bombas, comes from the Latin bombax,
27:17which meant cotton.
27:19And it didn't take long before it became very fashionable, as I say,
27:23but before the word came to be applied to anything, really,
27:26that was overly padded, overly full, and, of course, then to flattery,
27:31which, as I say, was incredibly inflated,
27:33but didn't really mean very much in the end.
27:35So clever.
27:36There we go.
27:4063 plays 50.
27:43James on 63.
27:44And it's Ellen's letters game.
27:46Could I have a consonant, please?
27:48Thank you, Ellen.
27:49L.
27:49And a vowel.
27:51And a vowel.
27:52U.
27:54And a vowel.
27:56E.
27:57And a consonant.
27:59T.
28:00And another.
28:02X.
28:04And another.
28:06N.
28:07And a vowel.
28:10O.
28:13And a consonant, please.
28:16F.
28:17And another.
28:17And the last one.
28:19P.
28:20Stand by.
28:20Stand by.
28:47Ellen.
28:52Five.
28:53A five, James.
28:54And a five.
28:55Ellen.
28:56Extol.
28:57Extol and flute.
29:01Flute.
29:03Yes.
29:03Now, what have we conjured up in the corner, I wonder?
29:07Jimmy.
29:07We have two sevens.
29:08Yeah.
29:09One is noteful.
29:11And one is opulent.
29:12Very good.
29:14Opulent.
29:14Yeah.
29:1568 to 55.
29:17James.
29:18Final letters game for you.
29:21I'll start with a consonant, please.
29:22Thank you, James.
29:23L.
29:24And a second.
29:26R.
29:28And a third.
29:30Q.
29:31And a vowel.
29:33I.
29:34And a second.
29:36O.
29:37And a third.
29:39I.
29:40Consonant.
29:44Z.
29:46A better one.
29:49S.
29:51And finish with a vowel, please.
29:54And the last one.
29:55A.
29:57And the clock starts now.
29:58We'll see you next time.
29:59We'll see you next time.
29:59We'll see you next time.
30:00Bye-bye.
30:00Bye-bye.
30:01Bye-bye.
30:01Bye-bye.
30:02Bye-bye.
30:02Bye-bye.
30:03Bye-bye.
30:03Bye-bye.
30:03Bye-bye.
30:04Bye-bye.
30:04Bye-bye.
30:04Bye-bye.
30:04Bye-bye.
30:05Bye-bye.
30:05Bye-bye.
30:06Bye-bye.
30:06Bye-bye.
30:07Bye-bye.
30:07Bye-bye.
30:08Bye-bye.
30:08Bye-bye.
30:09Bye-bye.
30:09Bye-bye.
30:10Bye-bye.
30:10Bye-bye.
30:11Bye-bye.
30:11Bye-bye.
30:12Bye-bye.
30:12Bye-bye.
30:13Bye-bye.
30:14Bye-bye.
30:15Bye-bye.
30:16What do you make of it, James?
30:30A five.
30:31And Ellen?
30:32A six.
30:34Now then, James.
30:35Liars.
30:36And?
30:37Sailor.
30:38And sailor.
30:40Sorry.
30:40Closing things up here.
30:42And in the corner?
30:44Japanese flip-flops.
30:46Zoras.
30:47Really?
30:48Yeah.
30:48Very good.
30:49Because you travel all over the world all the time.
30:51Are you touring?
30:51I used to live in Japan, yeah.
30:52Did you?
30:53Yeah.
30:54Well, I'm done.
30:54Yeah, it's kind of cool.
30:55How long were you living there for?
30:56A couple of months or whatever?
30:57Yeah, I had a series there.
30:58Nicho Wadai Gekijo was the name of it,
31:00which is kind of a laughing Sunday kind of a translation.
31:03Fantastic.
31:03And I lived there off and on for years.
31:06Extraordinary career you've had.
31:08Amazing.
31:08No, I don't know about that.
31:09It is amazing.
31:10But we've had a lot of fun.
31:11Yeah.
31:11All right.
31:12Anything else, Susie?
31:13Another one using the Zed, a saizar,
31:14which was once an undergraduate at Cambridge or Trinity
31:17who received funding, so a bursary.
31:20Well done.
31:21So, 68 to 61.
31:24Ellen, this is very important now.
31:26Your numbers game.
31:28Could I have one large win and five small wins, please?
31:30You can indeed,
31:31and a possible crucial conundrum coming our way.
31:33Thank you, Ellen.
31:34Last numbers game today is 8, 10, 1, 9, 5.
31:417, the big one, 25 again.
31:44And the target, 347.
31:463, 4, 7.
32:18Ellen.
32:19350.
32:21350.
32:22James.
32:233, 4, 7.
32:243, 4, 7.
32:25Now then.
32:269 plus the 5 is 14.
32:28Yep.
32:29Times 25.
32:30350.
32:32And 10 plus 1.
32:3411.
32:35Take away the 8.
32:36For the 3.
32:37For the 3 and take away.
32:38Grand.
32:39Well done.
32:40APPLAUSE
32:40Well done.
32:46Important score there.
32:4878 playing Ellen.
32:4961 now.
32:50As we go into the final round.
32:53Fingers on buzzers.
32:53Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:56Ellen.
33:13Ellen.
33:14Disgraced.
33:15Let's see whether you're right.
33:17Here we go.
33:18Disgraced.
33:18Well done.
33:19APPLAUSE
33:19Just pipped at the end there.
33:2778 to your 71.
33:29Well played.
33:30Thank you very much for coming.
33:31Take this goodie bag back to New Malden.
33:34And good luck with your art activities in the church.
33:37That's a great thing to do.
33:39All right.
33:39We shall see young James later tomorrow.
33:41Well done.
33:42Jamie, see you tomorrow.
33:43I'll see you tomorrow.
33:44It's been so much fun just being around such smart people.
33:47So I hope you'll have me back.
33:48When you're back tomorrow.
33:49Oh, good.
33:50All right.
33:51Susie, see you tomorrow.
33:52See you tomorrow.
33:53And Rachel too, of course.
33:53I'm coming back for Jimmy's stories.
33:55Aren't they good?
33:56Yeah.
33:57Amazing.
33:57Incredible.
33:58Love it.
33:59All right.
33:59Join us then.
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