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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio, or should I say, or welcome to the jungle.
00:36Why would I say that? Because 30 years ago, way back in 87, Guns N' Roses launched its biggest selling album, biggest selling debut album ever.
00:48And of course it was called Appetite for Destruction and Welcome to the Jungle, one of the big hits.
00:53And just for the hell of it, down in London, tomorrow the band will be playing at the London Stadium.
01:00And it's part of Not In This Lifetime tour. Guns N' Roses, amazing people.
01:05But I began to think, the summer of 87, go back 20 years, the summer of 67, the summer of love, when Hyte Ashbery was in full swing.
01:15And every week another great album would come out. The Beatles were running, the Beach Boys, the Stones, all of that lot.
01:22It was a great, great time. That summer, the summer of 67, the summer of love.
01:26And I was in London as a young chap. Did we have fun?
01:30I'm sure most of it's unbroadcastable.
01:32And what time of day you'd be broadcasting?
01:34Now, what about your summer album of all time? Do you have one?
01:38Oh, I don't know. I guess maybe 20 years ago, there was kind of Dookie by Green Day and some of the Blink-182 classics.
01:45But I was always late to the party, so I'd find a band and then there'd be already five albums out that I could catch up on.
01:50All right. Well, who have we got with us? We've got Len Lowe.
01:52And you're an engineer, of course, from Cradley Heath Inn, the West Midlands.
01:55And you've got your teapot, which is why you came.
01:57I knew that's all one, yeah.
01:58Yeah, well, tuck that under your arm, because now you're going to go for, you know, greater things.
02:02Let's go for a second win.
02:03But first of all, Len, you've got to get past John Truman, a retired IT project manager from Minehead in Somerset.
02:10Now, you spend a little bit of time in America.
02:12You love hiking and wildlife.
02:15And you brought two of them together and had the fright of your life, you were telling me earlier.
02:20Yeah, well, we've met lots of animals, bears, black bears, grizzly bears, skunks and so on.
02:25But perhaps the most frightening was when we were in Yellowstone and we're walking, had to walk through a big herd of buffalo.
02:32There was no way around them.
02:33And as we walked, they joined us and we were all walking together.
02:37So we had buffalo in front, buffalo behind, buffalo to the left and to the right.
02:40What on earth possessed you to get in amongst a herd of buffalo?
02:46The footpath we were on went through the herd of buffalo.
02:49Oh, so that made it all right, did it?
02:50Well, I didn't actually go and select it and say, there's some buffalo, we'll walk through them.
02:56No.
02:56You'd be more careful, John.
02:58You'd be more careful.
02:59Anyway, big round of applause for Len and John Truman.
03:03And over in the victory corner, Susie Dent, of course, and talking of rock music earlier, her dad was a music promoter, her godfather, a guitarist in Whitesnake, but she too loves life in the fast lane.
03:17It's motorsport presenter, Susie Perry.
03:20Welcome, Susie.
03:21Welcome.
03:21Thank you very much.
03:24Lots to talk about a little bit later, but now, Len, it's down to business.
03:29Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:30Afternoon, Len.
03:30Could I have a consonant, please?
03:33Start today with N.
03:35And a vowel.
03:37A.
03:39Consonant.
03:41B.
03:43A vowel.
03:45E.
03:47Vowel.
03:49O.
03:50Consonant.
03:52L.
03:53Consonant.
03:55W.
03:57Another vowel.
04:00A.
04:00And a final consonant, please.
04:03And a final T.
04:05And here's the countdown clock.
04:08B.
04:09A.
04:11B.
04:12A.
04:25B.
04:25A.
04:26B.
04:27A.
04:27A.
04:28A.
04:29B.
04:29C.
04:30A.
04:30B.
04:31B.
04:31A.
04:32B.
04:34B.
04:34B.
04:34B.
04:34B.
04:35Yes, Len?
04:40Just a five.
04:41A five.
04:42And John?
04:43I'll stick to a five, I think.
04:45Mm-hmm.
04:45Len?
04:46Table.
04:47And bleat.
04:49Bleat.
04:51Yes.
04:51There we go.
04:52Now, what in the corner, I wonder?
04:54Susie and Susie?
04:56Well, on the motorsport theme, a little bit.
04:59Towable.
05:00Yep, that's good.
05:01T-O-W-A-B-L-E.
05:02Yeah.
05:03And another seven is an edible mollusk of warm seas called an abalone.
05:08A-B-A-A-B-L-O-N-E.
05:08A-B-L-O-N-E, yeah.
05:10Very good.
05:10Two Susies over there, doing brilliant work.
05:13Five apiece.
05:14And it's John's letters game now.
05:16John?
05:16Good afternoon, Rachel.
05:17Afternoon, John.
05:18Could I have a consonant, please?
05:19Start with C.
05:21And a vowel.
05:23E.
05:24And a consonant.
05:27N.
05:28And a vowel.
05:30A.
05:31And a consonant.
05:34V.
05:35And a vowel.
05:37E.
05:38And a consonant.
05:41P.
05:41And a vowel.
05:44I.
05:45And a final consonant, please.
05:47And a final D.
05:49Stand by.
05:50And a vowel.
06:01Yes, John?
06:22Just six.
06:23A six.
06:24Len?
06:24And a six.
06:26John?
06:27Pained.
06:28Now then.
06:30Are you pained as well?
06:31Pain.
06:32That's right.
06:33Any more pain in the corner of the two Susies?
06:35One of my favourite words, diva, would have been a short one.
06:38Yes.
06:39Peavine and deviance.
06:42Yes.
06:43Yeah, deviance was our top one, but peavine, if you're wondering about that one, Nick, is
06:48a type of meadow vetch, and a vetch is a scrambling herbaceous plant of the pea family, hence the
06:54pea vine.
06:56All right.
06:56Eleven apiece, and we're with the numbers now.
06:58Len, your numbers game.
07:01Can I have one large and five small, please, Rachel?
07:04You can indeed.
07:04Thank you, Len.
07:05One from the top.
07:06Five little ones.
07:07And for the first time today, they are nine, one, six, two, ten, and the big one, 75.
07:14And your target, 888.
07:17Eight, eight, eight.
07:19Two, three, five, six, seven, seven, six, seven, six, say, you're the dog.
07:24Thank you, Len, Yourself.
07:28Yes, Len?
07:51Erm, I think I've got 888.
07:55All right. How about John?
07:568, 8, 0.
07:59So, Len?
08:00Erm, I think I've made a mistake here.
08:05Bad luck. Let's turn to John and his 880.
08:08John?
08:099 plus 6 minus 2 is 13.
08:12Yep.
08:12Plus 75 is 88.
08:14It is.
08:15Times 10.
08:16Lovely, 880.
08:17Well done. But where's that missing 8? Rachel?
08:20Erm, well, it was there if you say 2 times 6 is 12.
08:2475 minus 1 is 74 and just timed them together.
08:28Oh, well done. Thank you.
08:32Well done.
08:33So, John on 16, Len on 11, as we turn to our first tea time teaser,
08:38which is shop early.
08:40And the clue, does it involve fooling around at the theatre
08:43while watching Black Beauty?
08:45Does it involve fooling around at the theatre
08:47while watching Black Beauty?
08:49Welcome back.
09:07Warm welcome back.
09:08I left you with a clue.
09:09Does it involve fooling around at the theatre
09:10while watching Black Beauty?
09:13And the answer to that one is...
09:15horseplay.
09:16Horsing around.
09:17Horseplay.
09:18Now, if you'd like to become a Countdown contestant,
09:22you can email Countdown at Channel4.com
09:25to request an application form
09:26or write to us at Contestants Applications
09:30Countdown Leads LS 3 1 J S.
09:35Now then, Len on 11, John on 16,
09:38and it's another letters game for you, John.
09:41A consonant, please, Rachel.
09:42Thank you, John.
09:44R.
09:45And a vowel, please.
09:46E.
09:48Consonant.
09:50N.
09:52Vowel.
09:54O.
09:56Consonant.
09:58H.
10:00Vowel.
10:01A.
10:03Consonant.
10:05P.
10:07Vowel.
10:09E.
10:10And a final consonant, please.
10:12And a final S.
10:14Stand by.
10:15BELL RINGS
10:16Yes, John.
10:34Yes, John?
10:46Seven.
10:47Seven, Len?
10:48Six.
10:49And that's six?
10:50Phones.
10:52Now then, John?
10:53Peahens.
10:54Peahens.
10:55Very good, yep.
10:56Make a lot of noise, peahens.
10:58Now, the Susies?
11:00From gadget worlds, really.
11:02Phones, if you're added on ear.
11:04Earphones, nine.
11:06Why not?
11:07Very good.
11:12Sorry, I wasn't sufficiently enthusiastic.
11:14That's brilliant.
11:15Well done.
11:17Anything else, Susie Dent?
11:18Just some sevens, otherwise openers sharpened.
11:21But, yes, earphones we were quite pleased with.
11:24Great.
11:24So you should be.
11:25All right.
11:2523 plays 11, and it's Len's letters game.
11:29Len?
11:30Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
11:32Thank you, Len.
11:33G?
11:33And another.
11:36M.
11:37And another.
11:39D.
11:41A vowel.
11:43I.
11:44A vowel.
11:46A.
11:47A vowel.
11:49E.
11:51Consonant.
11:53N.
11:55Consonant.
11:55C.
11:58C.
11:58And a consonant.
12:00And lastly, L.
12:02Stand by.
12:03A vowel.
12:04C.
12:05C.
12:05C.
12:07C.
12:07C.
12:08C.
12:08C.
12:09C.
12:09C.
12:10C.
12:10Yes, Len?
12:34Seven.
12:35Seven, John.
12:36And seven.
12:37Len?
12:38Dealing.
12:39Dealing.
12:39And leading.
12:41And leading.
12:43Yes.
12:43Can we match seven?
12:44Can we beat it, I wonder?
12:46Um, a couple of sevens.
12:48Decimal, claimed.
12:50Yes.
12:50And an eight, maligned.
12:53Maligned.
12:54Very good.
12:57Maligned.
12:57Much maligned.
12:59Very good indeed.
13:00So, John on 30, Len on 18, and it's now a numbers game for John.
13:05All right, can I have one large and foe small again, please?
13:08You can indeed.
13:09Thank you, John.
13:10One big five little coming up for you, and they are 8, 3, 10, 9, another 8, and 25.
13:20And this target, 852.
13:23All right.
13:24All right.
13:24All right.
13:40Yes, John, nothing, I'm afraid?
13:56No, nothing.
13:57Neither?
13:58No.
13:59My word.
14:00Rachel, how tricky is this?
14:02Leave it with me.
14:04Certainly.
14:04We'll come back to you shortly.
14:06So with John on 30, Len on 18,
14:08we turn to Susie.
14:10And Susie, for the last 20 years,
14:12you've been flying in and out of the...
14:14In fact, you've been flying around the world
14:16as readily as we jump on a bus.
14:18How did it all kick off?
14:20Quite a bizarre story, I suppose, in a way.
14:23I've always been a huge fan of motorsport.
14:27But I used to find with bikes that
14:28when you used to watch the racing,
14:30and I used to go to the racing
14:30and I had friends that rode bikes,
14:32so I was kind of in that set.
14:34You never really found out much about
14:36the man behind the helmet, really.
14:39You know, it was all very technical
14:40and I was bedazzled by the actual racing on track,
14:44but I wanted to know more about their personality.
14:47So I rang the producer of the show,
14:50it used to be on Sky,
14:51and I got hold of him
14:52and I got chatting to him
14:54and I said,
14:54why don't we learn more about the riders?
14:57Why don't we know what they're thinking
14:58when they're on the start line?
14:59And he said, who are you?
15:01And I said, well, I'm nobody.
15:02I'm just a bike fan,
15:03but I love it
15:03and I just would like to know more.
15:05And he invited me to go to Sky
15:07to speak to him
15:08and I walked out with a job
15:10as a pit lane reporter.
15:11Not bad.
15:12It was extraordinary.
15:13Really, really unusual way in.
15:15So that was back in 97
15:17as we were going back to different years
15:19at the start of the show.
15:21Long time ago.
15:22And, yeah, since then,
15:23I've been going around the world
15:25with various different classes of bikes,
15:27but mainly the Formula One of bikes,
15:30if you like, the MotoGP.
15:31And, of course,
15:31I did cover Formula One as well
15:33for three years.
15:34So that's a little bit different
15:36being on four wheels.
15:37The racing is quite different.
15:38You gave personality, as it were,
15:41to the riders, didn't you?
15:42Because originally,
15:43I mean, there was Jeff Duke
15:44when I was a kid.
15:45I don't know what that name means
15:46or anything to you.
15:47But nowadays, I mean,
15:48these are, you know,
15:49the leading racers
15:51are household names.
15:53I mean, extraordinary characters.
15:54Yeah, they are extraordinary characters.
15:56Really great characters.
15:57And I always call them
15:58modern-day gladiators
16:00because what they do
16:01is exceptional.
16:02And you can see everything
16:03they're doing.
16:04Whereas in Formula One,
16:05they're in the car.
16:06So you're kind of taking a guess
16:07at what they're doing.
16:08But the guys are hanging off the bikes,
16:10you know,
16:10knee to the ground.
16:11Sometimes one of them
16:12can put his head to the ground
16:13when he's going around a corner.
16:14How he stays on,
16:15I have no idea.
16:16Brave guys.
16:17And they're so nonchalant.
16:18When they come off,
16:19they just all shoot across the track.
16:22Leather seems to be the thing.
16:23Are they still leather?
16:24Yes, yes, absolutely.
16:25It's extraordinary safety
16:27because obviously
16:28they do have airbags
16:29in their leathers now.
16:31So sometimes when you see them go off,
16:33they look a bit puffed up
16:34when they walk off the track.
16:35But great helmets
16:36and great safety.
16:38And usually 99 times out of 100,
16:40they can walk away from a crash.
16:42And great spectacle.
16:44Thank you, Susie.
16:46Very good.
16:49Brave guys.
16:50Exciting people.
16:51Great sport.
16:5230 plays 18.
16:54Len on 18.
16:55And it's Len's letters game.
16:57Len.
16:58Can I have a vowel, please, Rachel?
16:59Thank you, Len.
17:00O.
17:01And another.
17:03I.
17:05Another.
17:07E.
17:09Consonant.
17:11D.
17:12Consonant.
17:14P.
17:15Consonant.
17:16T.
17:19Another consonant.
17:21P.
17:23A vowel.
17:25I.
17:26And a consonant.
17:28And lastly, D.
17:30And the clock starts now.
17:32T.
17:33B.
17:34T.
17:34T.
17:35D.
17:36B.
17:38T.
17:39T.
17:41T.
17:43T.
17:43T.
17:44T.
17:45Yes, Len?
18:03Six.
18:03A six, John.
18:04And a six, Len.
18:06Dipped.
18:08And, John, topped and topped.
18:12Can we beat it?
18:13We got dipped and topped.
18:14I don't know whether Susie's managed to come up with anything better.
18:17Nothing better.
18:18Still six, but a useful one, possibly.
18:21I-D-I-O-P-T.
18:23Idiopt.
18:24It used to mean a person who was colourblind.
18:27Oh, really?
18:27Or an idiopt.
18:28Yes.
18:29Idiopt.
18:30Mm, thank you.
18:3236 plays 24, and it's John's letters game now.
18:34John, consonant, please.
18:36Thank you, John.
18:38X.
18:39And a vowel?
18:41A.
18:42Consonant?
18:43B.
18:45A vowel?
18:47O.
18:49A consonant?
18:51S.
18:52A vowel?
18:54A.
18:56A consonant?
18:58W.
18:59A vowel?
19:01E.
19:03And a final consonant, please.
19:05And a final Y.
19:07Stand by.
19:07A vowel?
19:22A vowel?
19:27A vowel?
19:28A vowel?
19:29John. A miserable five. A five and... Five. And two fives. John. Waxes. And Len. Aways.
19:49Yeah, absolutely fine. Well, those are the fives dealt with. Have the Susies got anything else about?
19:54Well, Susie came up with Seaway. Seaway, yeah. Yes, a channel connecting two areas of sea or a waterway that accommodates seagoing ships. And that was our best.
20:07All right. 41 plays 29. And now we're with the numbers for Len. Len. Can I have two large and four small, please, Rachel?
20:16You can indeed. Thank you, Len. Two big, four little. And the little ones this time are two, nine, six and five. And the big two, 75 and 25.
20:28And the target, 890.
20:30890.
20:31990.
20:32990.
20:331090.
20:341090.
20:351090.
20:361090.
20:371090.
20:381090.
20:391090.
20:401090.
20:411090.
20:421090.
20:431090.
20:441090.
20:451090.
20:461090.
20:471090.
20:481090.
20:491090.
20:501090.
20:511090.
20:521090.
20:531090.
20:541090.
20:561090.
20:571090.
20:581090.
20:591090.
21:001090.
21:01Yes, Len?
21:03890.
21:04And John?
21:05Not close enough, I'm afraid.
21:06No?
21:07All right, Len.
21:0825 plus 75.
21:10100.
21:11Times 9.
21:12900.
21:132 multiplied by 5.
21:15Is your 10.
21:179.
21:17890, perfect.
21:18There we go.
21:19Well done.
21:23And that clambers up to within a few points of John John 41,
21:27and you're on 39 as we turn to our second Tea Time teaser,
21:31which is Kim's beard.
21:33And the clue?
21:34It's been a long journey, but it's finally time to get off.
21:37It's been a long journey, but it's finally time to get off.
21:57Welcome back, welcome back.
21:58I left you with the clue.
21:59It's been a long journey, but it's finally time to get off.
22:02It's time to disembark.
22:06Disembark is what we're after.
22:07So, 41 plays 39.
22:09Len on 39, and it's John's Leathers game.
22:13Hello, Rachel.
22:14Consonant, please.
22:15Thank you, John.
22:16F.
22:18And a vowel?
22:20U.
22:22And a consonant, please.
22:24S.
22:25And a vowel?
22:29E.
22:30And a consonant?
22:32Q.
22:35And a vowel, please.
22:38U.
22:40And a consonant?
22:42M.
22:44And a vowel?
22:47A.
22:48And a final consonant, please.
22:50And a final S.
22:53And it's Countdown.
22:55And a vowel, please.
22:56And a vowel, please.
22:57And a vowel, please.
22:58And a vowel, please.
22:59And a vowel, please.
23:00And a vowel, please.
23:01And a vowel, please.
23:02And a vowel, please.
23:03And a vowel, please.
23:04And a vowel, please.
23:05And a vowel, please.
23:06And a vowel, please.
23:07And a vowel, please.
23:08And a vowel, please.
23:09And a vowel, please.
23:10And a vowel, please.
23:11And a vowel, please.
23:12And a vowel, please.
23:13And a vowel, please.
23:14And a vowel, please.
23:15And a vowel, please.
23:16And a vowel, please.
23:17And a vowel, please.
23:18And a vowel, please.
23:19And a vowel, please.
23:20And a vowel, please.
23:21And a vowel, please.
23:22Well, John?
23:26Six.
23:27A six.
23:28Len?
23:28Five.
23:29You're five?
23:30Fames.
23:31Now then, John.
23:33Amuses.
23:34Amuses.
23:35Very good.
23:36And with the Susies, what have we got?
23:38We got masks.
23:40Q-U-E-S.
23:42Yes.
23:42We did, yes.
23:43A mask is a form of amateur dramatic entertainment,
23:48so popular amongst the nobility in 16th and 17th century England.
23:52And I should just say,
23:53Fames with the S is a little bit dubious, I'm afraid.
23:56It's there as a mask now.
23:58So, not too happy about that one.
23:59Bad luck.
24:00All right.
24:01So, 47 plays 39, and it's Len's letters game.
24:06Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
24:08Thank you, Len.
24:09R.
24:10And another.
24:12T.
24:13Another.
24:15N.
24:17A vowel.
24:19E.
24:21A vowel.
24:22U.
24:24A vowel.
24:26O.
24:27Consonant.
24:29T.
24:31Consonant.
24:33K.
24:34And a consonant.
24:36And the last one.
24:37S.
24:38Stand by.
24:39Aō.
24:41A vowel.
24:44A vowel.
24:51Dial in.
24:53A vowel.
24:54A vowel.
24:55A vowel.
24:56A threads.
24:57A forma.
24:58A vowel.
24:59A jogo.
24:59Aüssel.
24:59A vowel.
25:00A vowel.
25:01A言.
25:02Agel.
25:02Aם.
25:03A valley.
25:04A88.
25:04A estáetten.
25:05A veterinarian.
25:06Aenge.
25:06A game.
25:06A deer.
25:07A human.
25:07A Operations.
25:08Yes, Len?
25:11Risky, seven.
25:13And John?
25:14Seven.
25:15Len?
25:16Tartars.
25:17And John Truman?
25:19Nutters.
25:21Indeed.
25:22All right.
25:23Now then, Miss Dent?
25:25Tartar, absolutely fine.
25:28Nutters, also fine.
25:30Yes.
25:31Nutters and notters.
25:33As in K-N-O-T-T-E-S.
25:35Very good.
25:36Yes.
25:36All right.
25:37Used in textile weaving.
25:38Yeah.
25:39Notters, indeed.
25:4154 plays 46, and now it's time for Susie's wonderful Origins of Words.
25:45Now, Susie Dent.
25:48Well, I'm going to relate one of the strangest stories in English etymology,
25:53from my point of view, anyway,
25:54and it involves a word that many of us use every single day.
25:58And it started a very long time ago with the last, or apocryphal,
26:03I don't know which, Gospel of Nicodemus.
26:05And that was an account said to contain, amongst other details, the record of Pontius Pilate and the crucifixion of Christ.
26:13So, according to this Gospel, the name of the centurion who pierced the side of Jesus with a spear as he hung upon the cross was called Longinus.
26:23The idea was that Longinus was a particularly long or tall man.
26:28And in casting the characters for the famous medieval mystery plays, the part of the centurion was almost always given to a particularly tall actor.
26:36And this character was also actually depicted quite often as being slender and sort of slightly languorous and a little bit lazy.
26:44And according to one wonderful account in 1611, and I love the vocabulary used here,
26:49Longinus was a slim, slow-back, dreaming lusk, a drowsy gangrille,
26:55which basically means a slim, indolent, dreaming sluggard, a drowsy toad,
26:59which is quite nice, that had no making to his height nor wit to his making,
27:05one that being sent on an errand is long in returning.
27:10And so these actors presumably were depicted as shown,
27:14were shown as leaning lazily on their spear or just simply sprawled along the grass, as I say, languorous and long.
27:22Anyway, I'm telling you this story because this is how we think we get the name lounge,
27:27because Longinus, that centurion, was depicted as, as I say, just lounging around lazily as though he had not a care in the world.
27:35Can't definitively be proved, but it's the etymology given in the Oxford English Dictionary,
27:39and that's the one that I would take.
27:41And it accounts for, I think, one of the most curious twists of fortune of any word in our language.
27:46It's amazing.
27:48Oh, lovely. Well done.
27:51Fabulous, Miss Dent.
27:57So, 54 plays, 46, and John, your letters game, penultimate letters game.
28:04Consonant again, please, Rachel.
28:06Thank you, John.
28:07T.
28:08And a vowel?
28:11I.
28:12And a consonant?
28:14S.
28:15And a vowel?
28:17E.
28:19A consonant?
28:20L.
28:22A vowel?
28:24I.
28:26A consonant?
28:28T.
28:30A vowel?
28:32E.
28:33And a phonal consonant, please.
28:35And a final D.
28:37And the clock starts now.
28:38A vowel?
28:39A vowel?
28:40A vowel?
28:40A vowel?
28:40A vowel?
28:41A vowel?
28:41A vowel?
28:41A vowel?
28:42A vowel?
28:42A vowel?
28:42A vowel?
28:43A vowel?
28:43A vowel?
28:44A vowel?
28:44A vowel?
28:44A vowel?
28:44A vowel?
28:44A vowel?
28:45A vowel?
28:45A vowel?
28:46A vowel?
28:46A vowel?
28:47A vowel?
28:47A vowel?
28:48A vowel?
28:48A vowel?
28:49A vowel?
28:49A vowel?
28:50A vowel?
28:51A vowel?
28:51A vowel?
28:52A vowel?
28:52A vowel?
28:53A vowel?
28:53A vowel?
28:54A vowel?
28:54A vowel?
28:55A vowel?
28:55A vowel?
28:56A vowel?
28:57A vowel?
28:57A vowel?
28:58A vowel?
28:59A vowel?
28:59Yes, John.
29:10Seven.
29:12And Len?
29:13Seven.
29:14John.
29:15Ditties.
29:16And Len?
29:17Dietist.
29:18Erm, not there, I'm afraid.
29:22Sorry, Len, it's a dietitian mostly rather than a dietist.
29:26I can see where you're coming from.
29:27Bad luck.
29:27Brave try, brave try.
29:29Now, the Susies.
29:31Erm, stilted.
29:33Yes.
29:35Very nice.
29:35And Susie Dent.
29:36A couple more, seven settled and elitist.
29:39Very good.
29:40Alright, so 61 plays 46 and it's the final letters game for Len.
29:46Vowel, please, Rachel.
29:48Thank you, Len.
29:49I.
29:50And another.
29:52O.
29:54Consonant.
29:56T.
29:57Consonant.
29:59R.
30:00Consonant.
30:02S.
30:03Vowel.
30:05E.
30:06Vowel.
30:08O.
30:10Consonant.
30:12R.
30:13And a final consonant, please.
30:15And a final L.
30:17Stand by.
30:18C.
30:33Well, thank you.
30:34I'll be right back.
30:34I'll be right back.
30:35Now.
30:36Am I right back.
30:38Bye.
30:39well then seven a seven and john and seven len looters both of you yes well done all right
30:59and in the corner now susie rooster lorries yep very good susie lots of sevens actually
31:08orioles the birds loiter's roister roister is to enjoy yourself in a very noisy way
31:14so quite a few sevens there well done all right so 68 plays 53 as we go into our final numbers game
31:21john thank you rachel i think i'll stick to one large and five small please thank you john one
31:27big one five little for the final one of the day and this selection is 10 8 4 another 10 9 and the
31:37big one fifty and the target two hundred and thirty two two three two
31:42so
31:44so
31:49yes john two three one two three one len two three two
31:54yes john two three one two three one len two three two so len four from nine
32:23nine is five all right nine uh five times fifty two hundred fifty eight plus ten is 18
32:33take it away and you have a crucial conundrum well done well done indeed
32:38so well done then it's 68 to john 63 to you and as rachel says we're in crucial conundrum territory
32:49fingers on buzzers good luck to you both let's roll today's crucial countdown conundrum
32:54so
32:56so
33:01so
33:06so
33:08Len Lowe.
33:22Is it qualified?
33:24Let's see whether you're right.
33:27Nope. Down to you, John.
33:35No, stump. Bad luck, Len. Bad luck.
33:37Let's see whether anyone in the audience...
33:40Yes, ma'am?
33:41Deceitful.
33:42Let's see whether you're right.
33:45Well done. Very good.
33:49So, John takes the day, but Len's got his teapot.
33:53Are you happy?
33:53I am, really.
33:54Are you delighted?
33:55Yep, I am.
33:56Well, you've been a good sport. We've enjoyed having you here.
33:58You take your teapot and your goodie bag back to Cradley Heath in the West Midlands
34:04with our, you know, best wishes.
34:07All right. Thank you very much. Well done. We shall see you on Monday. Have a restful weekend, John.
34:12Thank you very much.
34:12All right. Well done.
34:14And both of you, too. The two Susies. Have a restful weekend, and we shall see you on Monday.
34:19Well done. All right.
34:20See you then. Thank you.
34:20And Rachel, too.
34:21Yep. A couple more normal shows, and then I'll call to final star.
34:24Indeed.
34:25All right.
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