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00:31Hello, everybody. It's Tuesday, February the 13th.
00:35Welcome to Countdown. Maybe you're making pancakes.
00:38It's Pancake Tuesday. Maybe you're celebrating World Radio Day.
00:42Very important indeed.
00:43But, Rachel Riley, I'd like to start by wishing you a happy Fat Tuesday.
00:47Mardi Gras.
00:48Yes, well done. French for Mardi Gras.
00:50Yeah.
00:51Now, this is really important.
00:53So there's Mardi Gras everywhere, but I think very famous in New Orleans.
00:57There's about 80 of them.
00:58And most of them are family-friendly and great.
01:02But tonight, on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter, it's more about surviving it than anything else.
01:07I mean, it's party central.
01:09Yeah.
01:09And it is something else. Not for the faint-hearted.
01:13What about New Orleans?
01:14Because when I went, I fell in love with it straight away.
01:17Yeah.
01:18Well, I didn't know anything about it before I went, so I wasn't excited to go.
01:20But my ex was working there.
01:22He had a work trip so we could go.
01:23I loved the place.
01:25I'd go back in a heartbeat.
01:26Absolutely.
01:26Right.
01:27Well, listen, let's get over to Dictionary Corner alongside Susie Dent all this week.
01:32Tim Rice is back.
01:33It's going to be a Jack Harvey becoming octo-champ yesterday, our third of season 89.
01:41So we got two new friends today.
01:43And Shabir Hussein from Bradford, just retired, freshly retired.
01:49But you recently started a curry house with your brothers.
01:52Is that right?
01:53That's right, yeah.
01:54Come on, come on, come on, come on, make our mouth's water even more.
01:57What are you cooking for us?
01:59So I recommend the rice is one of the best curry rice from the restaurant.
02:04It's the chicken tikka masala, one of the best rice in the Indian rice restaurant,
02:08which has been served in more than anything else.
02:11Yes.
02:11Yes.
02:12I would take anything.
02:13The hotter the better as well.
02:15Can you do proper hot curries?
02:17Hot rice, I recommend rice windaloo.
02:21Yeah.
02:22It's really, really hot.
02:23Extra chilies in the air.
02:24I'll risk it next time.
02:26I'm not sure.
02:26Thank you, Shabir.
02:27Best of luck to you today.
02:28Nice to have you here.
02:30You're up against Michael Calder, who works for the Trussell Trust.
02:33Welcome, Michael.
02:35Now, you work for them up in Scotland, right?
02:37East of Scotland.
02:38Yeah.
02:38I remember interviewing someone from the Trussell Trust and saying,
02:42well, your aim is to provide food for people through food banks.
02:45And he said, no, our aim is to get to the stage where people don't need to use food banks.
02:50Yeah, we want to end the need for food banks.
02:52Obviously, it's a very difficult situation people are in, so we'll continue to provide emergency food as long as is needed.
03:00But we shouldn't have food banks in one of the wealthiest nations in the world.
03:03So we want to do as much as we can to support people so they don't have to use a food bank in the future.
03:07Yeah, absolutely great charity, great work that they do.
03:11So food very much a theme.
03:13On an unscripted show, you just never know how the top of countdown is going to be.
03:17But food turning into a bit of a theme.
03:19So, listen, good luck to both of you.
03:21Lovely to have you here.
03:22Michael and Shabir.
03:22APPLAUSE
03:23Now, listen, you haven't earned that chair, Shabir.
03:27It's just a toss of a coin put you in the champion's chair.
03:30Off you go.
03:31All right, can I start with the consonant, please?
03:34Start today with N.
03:36Another one.
03:38T.
03:39One more.
03:41L.
03:41And a vowel, please.
03:44A.
03:45One more.
03:47O.
03:48Consonant, please.
03:50R.
03:51Another vowel.
03:53E.
03:56A final with a vowel, please.
03:59O.
04:01And the final go with the consonant, please.
04:06And lastly, F.
04:07At home and in the studio, let's play Kankang.
04:40Shabir, how many?
04:42Seven.
04:42Well done.
04:43And Michael?
04:44Seven.
04:44Good start.
04:45What's the words?
04:46Floater.
04:46Floater.
04:48Floater as well.
04:49Excellent.
04:50Well done.
04:51Both keeping our heads above water with seven points each.
04:54Tim Rice, anything else?
04:55I think floater is about as good as it gets.
04:57Floater it is.
04:59So, let's get on to the second letters round today.
05:01Michael, your choosing.
05:03Good afternoon, Rachel.
05:03Afternoon, Michael.
05:04May I have a consonant, please?
05:05You may indeed.
05:07S.
05:07And another.
05:10K.
05:11And another.
05:13N.
05:15And a vowel.
05:16E.
05:18And another.
05:19A.
05:20And a consonant.
05:25M.
05:28Another consonant.
05:30C.
05:31And a final consonant, please.
05:36And a final.
05:37N.
05:3830 seconds.
05:39This is fantic.
05:40That's free.
05:41Michael, how many?
06:10Seven. Sevens again. Shabir?
06:13A risk of the eight.
06:14You're going to risk an eight. OK, Michael, the seven.
06:17Menaces.
06:18I thought you were struggling there, but Shabir, the eight.
06:20Snake men.
06:21Snake men. Oh, it's a beautiful word.
06:24It is, and it's not in, sadly.
06:28Tim, snake men. Yes.
06:30Should be a word, should be a word.
06:33Anything else?
06:34No, we're just matching.
06:35Yeah, we had menaces as well, no more than that.
06:38Good. Well done for going for it.
06:39Let's get to the numbers for the first time today.
06:42Shabir, you're choosing.
06:43One large, please.
06:45And five little. Thank you, Shabir.
06:46One large five.
06:47Some more coming up for you.
06:49And the first one of the day is seven, six, one, nine, five.
06:56And a large one, 50.
06:57And the target?
06:59719.
07:00Seven, one, nine.
07:01Number's up.
07:02The first one, nine, nine.
07:03Maybe one, nine, ten.
07:08Maybe one, nine, ten.
07:10We'll follow it.
07:11All'm up.
07:13Let's go.
07:14Bye.
07:15mythology and happiness.
07:15What do you ever offer?
07:17Mm.
07:18dataset ofengmen.
07:18You may trust.
07:19Some of the powerful ones.
07:21May break the first.
07:21You may concern us.
07:22We'll use many answers.
07:23Let's see through you all.
07:24And we're doing to church.
07:24Two, three, fours.
07:25You may boast.
07:25We live andysz.
07:26You may feel you possibility.
07:267-1-9 is the target that matters.
07:36Shabir? 7-1-4.
07:38Ooh, five away. Michael?
07:407-2-0. One away. Off you go for seven points.
07:44So, nine plus five is 14.
07:47Yep. 50 plus one.
07:5051. Times the two together.
07:52714. And add six.
07:54Lovely. One away. 720.
07:56Yeah. Frustrating. 7-1-9.
07:59C'est possible? It is possible.
08:01If you say nine plus six is 15,
08:05seven minus five is two.
08:08Take the two away from the 50 for 48.
08:11Times it by the 15 and you get 720.
08:14And you have a friendly one left over.
08:16Nice. Well done.
08:20Seven points for Shabir. 21 points for Michael.
08:23As we get our first tea time teaser of today.
08:27This is a bit of a countdown mantra, this.
08:29No cheats.
08:31No cheats.
08:31They think it's all over.
08:33Well, it is, according to this.
08:34They think it's all over.
08:35Well, it is, according to this.
08:37Welcome back.
08:54That's got to be up there with one of the hardest tea time teasers in history.
08:58So, it was no cheats.
09:00The clue was they think it's all over.
09:02Well, it is, according to this.
09:03And this is going to need a little bit of explaining,
09:05because the answer is spelt E-S-C-H-A-T-O-N,
09:10but thankfully it's pronounced eschaton.
09:12And Susie, what does that mean?
09:14Something to do with it being all over?
09:15Football?
09:16Well, yes.
09:17It's from the Greek meaning last.
09:20OK.
09:20And in the divine plans and theology,
09:23it is the final event.
09:24So, it's essentially the end of the world.
09:26All right.
09:26Nice and cheery for this Tuesday afternoon.
09:29Right.
09:29So, basically Armageddon.
09:30Well, but it's, you get eternal life.
09:33In certain doctrines, you will get eternal life at the end of it.
09:36So, it's actually a very positive thing.
09:38But the end of the world.
09:39Yes.
09:39Yeah.
09:40Well done for turning that into a positive.
09:41As we get back to the game, Michael, letters.
09:45May I get a consonant, please?
09:47Thank you, Michael.
09:48G.
09:49And another.
09:51D.
09:52And another.
09:54S.
09:55And a vowel.
09:56And a final vowel, please.
10:17And a final A.
10:20And here we go again.
10:51Time's up.
10:52Michael?
10:52Five.
10:53Five for you.
10:54Shabir?
10:55Five.
10:55Five.
10:56Okay, Michael, what's the word?
10:57Gusto.
10:58And to match it?
10:59Goats.
11:00Goats and gusto.
11:01Five points each.
11:03But could we do any better than that, Mr Rice?
11:06Well, we can.
11:07I'm not sure that I could, but as a team.
11:10Yes.
11:11Fugatos, which I thought was a kind of pasta, but in fact it's a musical term.
11:17It is.
11:18It describes a piece of music that has the style of a fugue, but not strictly.
11:24And a fugue is where there's a short melody or phrase that's picked up by others and it's interwoven all the way through.
11:31There you are.
11:31Right, well done both of you then for the five points each as we get more letters from you, Shabir.
11:37Start with a consonant, please.
11:38Thank you, Shabir.
11:39L.
11:40One more.
11:42V.
11:42And a wolf.
11:44U.
11:45Another one.
11:46I.
11:47Consonant, please.
11:49R.
11:50Another one.
11:52H.
11:53Wolf.
11:55A.
11:58Consonant, please.
12:01G.
12:02And a wolf.
12:03And a final I.
12:05In half a minute.
12:07In half a minute.
12:35Shabir.
12:39I'm going to do the four.
12:40The four, no worries.
12:41Michael.
12:41A six.
12:42And a six.
12:43What's the four, Shabir?
12:44Huh?
12:45Yeah?
12:45And Michael?
12:46Vulgar.
12:47And Vulgar's been spotted for a six, which gets you six more points.
12:51Susie and Tim, talk to me.
12:53Vulgar's as far as we go.
12:55Yeah.
12:55A lot of people at home sitting in fours and fives.
12:57Yeah, absolutely.
12:58Yeah, all in the same boat as Shabir.
13:00OK, 12 plays, 32 second numbers round of the day.
13:03And Michael, you're choosing.
13:04One large five, small, please.
13:06Thank you, Michael.
13:06Popular choice of late.
13:07One large five, little.
13:09Coming up once more.
13:10And this time, the selection is two.
13:13Seven, five, one, four, and 25.
13:18And the target, 266.
13:20Nice and low, 266.
13:22Numbers up.
13:53Two, six, six, Michael.
13:56Two, six, seven.
13:57One away.
13:58Shabir?
13:59Two, six, six.
14:00You think you've got it?
14:01Big ten points.
14:02This would be Shabir.
14:03Off you go.
14:04Seven at four.
14:06Eleven.
14:07Times 25.
14:08Two hundred and seventy-five.
14:10Seventy-five.
14:11Five times two.
14:13Is ten.
14:13Ten.
14:15Take away.
14:15Two, six, five.
14:17And add one.
14:18Well done, 266.
14:20Yes.
14:22It's great.
14:24There you go.
14:24You're back within ten points.
14:26Well done to you.
14:27Pull that one out.
14:28As we break, have a chat with Tim Rice again.
14:31You know, Tim, it's interesting because I was talking to the crew before you came in today,
14:35and there was four different generations who had all been in a school production of Joseph.
14:43I'm one of them.
14:44I was a brother.
14:45That's where they put all the rowdy kids, because you could scream that part.
14:48And I used to struggle so much to remember all the colours.
14:53But tell us about that.
14:53I mean, it has such a legacy to this day, doesn't it?
14:56Well, the whole of Joseph began with a school production, and we were asked to write something for one particular school.
15:04And we had no commercial thoughts at all.
15:06It was just something to see how our work sounded when it was done live.
15:10We'd never had anything performed.
15:11That's me and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
15:13And we went for the Bible story of Joseph and his coat of many colours, and the kids loved it.
15:20And every week we would give them one new song.
15:24And originally the piece was only about 25 minutes long.
15:27And the song they loved most was the coat of many colours song.
15:30And the teacher came back to us the following day and said,
15:33the kids loved it, but would you mind we've added some more colours at the end?
15:37Because I'd just written at the end of the song, it was red and yellow and green and brown and blue.
15:41And the kids added another 24 colours.
15:45Wow.
15:46So there are now 29 colours, and experts can recite them all in the right order.
15:52I struggle.
15:53But the thing is that the kids wrote those 24 extra colours.
15:58I'm afraid they don't get a royalty.
16:01Although once...
16:03And I do think the 24 extra colours changed the song into something really different.
16:08It really worked.
16:09And it worked all right before, but it worked beautifully with these extra colours.
16:13And every so often I meet a 60-year-old bloke in the street who says,
16:17I was in the school that did it first.
16:19And I think, blimey, you know, what must I look like?
16:22And I was once reviewed for that very song,
16:27quite early on, actually, in my career,
16:30and the critics said,
16:32the best thing about Tim Rice's lyrics are the brilliant list of colours.
16:36LAUGHTER
16:3724 colours in the song.
16:39And I felt a bit guilty about that,
16:41but I'm afraid I did not ring him up and say,
16:43actually, I didn't write them.
16:44Oh.
16:44No, the kids did a great job.
16:46And there was one other occasion in Jesus Christ Superstar
16:49when King Herod's song,
16:52the great Mike Darbo, who sang the original version,
16:54he ad-libbed at the end of it,
16:57get out of my life!
16:58King Herod says, you're the Christ, and he mocks Jesus.
17:01And it's a sinister song.
17:03It is funny, but it's meant to be sinister.
17:05And at the end, Mike, having recorded the song beautifully,
17:08he's just said, get out of my life!
17:10And that was Herod talking to Jesus.
17:13And one of the New York critics said,
17:16that wonderful line that Tim Rice wrote,
17:18get out of my life,
17:19sums up what we all try to say and we shouldn't.
17:22And it was...
17:23He almost read a whole essay on that one line,
17:25for which, I'm afraid, Mike Darbo got no credit whatsoever.
17:28LAUGHTER
17:29That's fantastic.
17:31Always those to help along the way.
17:33Yeah.
17:33Love that, Tim. Thank you.
17:34APPLAUSE
17:35APPLAUSE
17:36Ten points, edit.
17:39As we get back to the game, Shabir, you're up.
17:44Shall we the wall, please?
17:45Thank you, Shabir.
17:46A.
17:47One more.
17:48I.
17:49And a consonant, please.
17:52L.
17:52Another one.
17:54D.
17:55One more.
17:56N.
17:58Another one.
18:00S.
18:01And a wall, please.
18:03E.
18:05One more consonant.
18:07N.
18:07And a final wall, please.
18:11And a final O.
18:13Nice one.
18:14Start the clock.
18:14CLUCK
18:14TH
18:30Second wall, please.
18:37Close to the wall.
18:38That's a fire.
18:39It's well phrased.
18:40Yeah.
18:40Thesehen
18:40and the way.
18:41It looks like a fire.
18:42THEY CONFER
18:45Shabir?
18:46Seven.
18:47Nice. And Michael?
18:48Seven.
18:49Seven. Yes, go ahead, Shabir.
18:50Loansed.
18:51And Michael?
18:52Denials.
18:53Denials.
18:54Yeah, denials is great.
18:56And Shabir, how are you spelling loansed?
18:58L-O-A-N-S-E-D.
19:00Oh, this is not there, so no S, unfortunately,
19:03so I have to disallow that one, but denials is great for seven.
19:06Tim, how did you fare?
19:08Well, we got analids, which I would like Susie to explain.
19:13Well, it's a segmented worm, such as an earthworm or a leech.
19:18Analids, brilliant.
19:19Let's move on to the next segment of the show,
19:21which is more letters, Michael?
19:23A coincident, please.
19:24Thank you, Michael.
19:25P.
19:26And another.
19:28T.
19:29And another.
19:31B.
19:32And a vowel.
19:34I.
19:35And another.
19:37E.
19:38And a consonant.
19:39N.
19:40Vowel.
19:41I.
19:42And a consonant, please.
19:44And lastly, N.
19:45Thanks, Rachel.
19:46.
19:55.
19:56.
20:02.
20:04.
20:05Time's up, Michael.
20:27Five.
20:28Five, and Shabir?
20:29Five.
20:29Five, okay, for five points each, what did you get, Michael?
20:32Point.
20:33Yeah.
20:33Point.
20:33And five points, there you go.
20:34Let's have a look.
20:36I don't know.
20:39Tricky round, how did we fare in Dictionary Corner?
20:42Yeah, we managed an eight, actually.
20:44Yeah, we got pimiento, which is a kind of pepper.
20:48Exactly, red and sweet.
20:50That's a big one, that's a big eight to get out of those letters.
20:53A lot of us scrambling about in the basement there,
20:55trying to find anything.
20:57Sensational.
20:58Right, 44 plays 27 as we get our third numbers round of the day.
21:03Shabir?
21:04Oh, Rachel, bottom row, please.
21:06Bottom row, then, you're gambling.
21:08Good move, Shabir.
21:09Good ten points last time.
21:11Let's see if we can find some more.
21:12All the little ones, and they are five, three, seven, nine, four, and one.
21:19And the target to reach for them.
21:21Oh, 962.
21:25962.
21:26I'll give you half an hour for this one.
21:27Numbers up.
21:499-6-2 was the target, Shabir Hussain?
22:01Lost.
22:01Yeah, I mean, joined the club.
22:03Michael Calder?
22:03Nothing.
22:04Now, she's clutching the clipboard.
22:07The clipboard of destiny for 9-6-2.
22:11I'm...
22:12I think she might pull this one out of the bag, guys.
22:14I think you think it's there.
22:17I think I do think it's there.
22:18I'm just... I'm holding the clipboard.
22:20If you say 7 times 3 is 21, 21 add 5 is 26,
22:27and then 4 times 9 is 36, add 1 is 37.
22:32If you get your calculators out, times them together,
22:35I think you get 9-6-2.
22:36Yes!
22:39Wow.
22:41Sensational.
22:42Well gone.
22:43Sensational stuff.
22:44My goodness me.
22:45Brain hurts just watching it being worked out.
22:48Let's get a second tea-time teaser.
22:50Goodness knows what this is.
22:51Bat cream.
22:52Bat cream.
22:54It was dressed immaculately, but not wearing clothes.
22:57It was dressed immaculately, but not wearing clothes.
23:00In other words, it was missing its shell.
23:27Crab meat.
23:2827 plus 44.
23:30So, Michael, all to play for your letters.
23:32Coincident, please.
23:33Thank you, Michael.
23:34R.
23:35And another.
23:37M.
23:39And another.
23:40H.
23:42And another.
23:44S.
23:45And the vowel.
23:47A.
23:48And another.
23:49I.
23:51I.
23:51And another.
23:55E.
23:57And another.
23:59I.
24:00And a consonant, please.
24:02And a final.
24:03T.
24:04Let's play.
24:05Okay.
24:06And a consonant.
24:27MUSIC
24:36Time's up.
24:37Michael.
24:38An eight.
24:39An eight for you. Shabir.
24:40Seven.
24:41Seven for you.
24:42Very reputable indeed.
24:43What's the seven?
24:44Mishare.
24:45Mishare.
24:46And what about you, Michael?
24:47Hairiest.
24:48And hairiest.
24:49Well spotted.
24:50Excellent.
24:53Hairiest, Tim Rice.
24:54I'm afraid that's the best we could do.
24:56Well done indeed.
24:57Eight points for Michael.
24:59And Shabir, you're in charge of these letters.
25:01I'll start with the consonant, please.
25:03Thank you, Shabir.
25:04D.
25:05One more.
25:06T.
25:07Another one.
25:09R.
25:10A vowel.
25:11E.
25:12One more.
25:13U.
25:14Another vowel, please.
25:16I.
25:17Consonant.
25:19B.
25:21A vowel, please.
25:24E.
25:25Final consonant.
25:26And a final L.
25:27Kind time.
25:29And a final L.
25:30Kind time.
25:31Time time.
25:32Music.
25:33Transcription by CastingWords
26:03That's it, Shabir?
26:04An eight.
26:06And Michael?
26:06Seven.
26:07He's unpredictable, isn't he?
26:08He is unpredictable.
26:09The seven?
26:10Rebuilt.
26:11Rebuilt.
26:12And what have you seen?
26:12Troubled.
26:13Troubled.
26:14You need O-U, so T-R-O-U-B-L-E-D.
26:18Oh, you've written an O down.
26:19You've written an O down, Shabir.
26:21Oh, dear.
26:22Oh, dear.
26:23So, no troubled.
26:24Dictionary corner?
26:25Well, we had rebuild, but as builder.
26:28And troubled.
26:30Yeah.
26:30Yes.
26:31And blurted.
26:32Susie, I rather like that one.
26:33I like that one, too.
26:34Just to blurt out.
26:35Yes.
26:36Blurted.
26:36Yes.
26:37And troubled, very good indeed.
26:38One for the darters out there.
26:40All right, at 59.27, we've got four rounds left to enjoy together
26:45as we get our origins of words today.
26:48Well, thanks really to Jim Curtin, which is a good name.
26:51Where does the word loo come from instead of toilet?
26:54I have covered this one on the show before, but I thought it's worth returning to because
26:58a lot of people have very set ideas as to where loo comes from.
27:03It's really one of the most celebrated word puzzles that we have.
27:08We think it's French in origin, or at least has French connections, but I'll take you through
27:12some of the theories.
27:14So a lot of them are based on the fact that it comes from centuries ago, when in fact the
27:19Oxford English Dictionary's first proper entry is from 1940, so pretty late, which really
27:25gets rid of possibly the most famous story behind it, which is that it comes from the
27:31cry, Gardilou, which was said to be shouted out from windows, particularly in Edinburgh,
27:37from people who were, or maids really, who were emptying chamber pots of the people that
27:42they worked for from high windows.
27:43So they were saying, Gardilou, beware of the water.
27:46Gardilou.
27:47So it's a corruption of the French.
27:50Not true, but a lovely story.
27:52Well, not lovely at all.
27:54Below.
27:54So, some writers think it goes back to Waterloo, not the railway station, nor the battle, but
28:02apparently a trade name for a type of toilet many centuries ago.
28:07And we think that comes possibly from a joke that was in James Joyce's Ulysses.
28:13So we can leave that one out as well.
28:15But the most plausible solution does actually take us to France, and that is a euphemism,
28:20which you can still see if you're driving around France today, places of ease, which is the
28:25ultimate euphemism for a toilet, may have been picked up by British servicemen who were fighting
28:30in France and then brought back over here.
28:32And because famously we struggle with other languages, lieu became loo.
28:36Nice.
28:40Dictionary corner flush with stories today, with four rounds still to play, and Michael, your letters.
28:46May I have a continent, please?
28:48Thank you, Michael.
28:49And a final consonant, please.
29:16And a final V.
29:18Good luck, everybody.
29:18Good luck, everybody.
29:20Good luck, everybody.
29:21Good luck, everybody.
29:30Bye.
29:31Bye.
29:31Bye.
29:33Bye.
29:39Bye.
29:40Bye.
29:44Bye.
29:47Bye.
29:47Bye.
29:48Bye.
29:48Time's up. Michael? Eight. Shabir? Seven. The seventh usually would score. What's the seven?
29:54Loveyest. Loveyest. And Michael? Violates. Violates, violates. Violates is absolutely brilliant.
30:01Big eight points. Big eight points. Yeah, absolutely. I was just checking loveyest, but it's not in with that spelling, sadly.
30:06With the Q there, that's got to be it, then. Violates is any seven. That's much prettier, yes.
30:11That's all done. Nice. All right, that puts you out of sight, Michael, so you will be changing chairs.
30:16But let's enjoy the last three rounds. Shabir, you're picking the last letters.
30:21I'll start with a consonant, please. Thank you, Shabir.
30:23S. Another one.
30:26G. One more.
30:29D. A vowel, please.
30:31I. Another one.
30:33U. One more.
30:35A. Another one.
30:38U. Consonant, please.
30:41W. Final vowel, please.
30:44And a final E.
30:45And last letters.
30:47And last letters.
30:47I.
31:05A. A. A. A. A. A.
31:12That'll do, Shabir.
31:19Six, well done. And Michael?
31:21Six, not written down.
31:23What have you not written down? Guides.
31:25Guides and guide us to your six. Guides, yeah.
31:27And guides as well. Let's have a look.
31:30There you go. I can even see that from here.
31:32Not a problem. Six points each.
31:35Deepened discussion, Susie and Tim. So what have you seen?
31:38Well, Gordies, which is a reunion of people usually from a college or a school.
31:44That would have been for a seven.
31:47Shabir and Michael take five points each.
31:49And Michael, lead us into our last numbers, please.
31:52One large five small, please.
31:54Back to one from the top this time. A bit safer territory.
31:56And the five little ones to finish us off today.
31:59Ten, nine, seven, six, seven.
32:04And the large one, 100.
32:07And the target, 640.
32:09Six, four, zero. Numbers up.
32:10Two, zero.
32:22So.
32:24Time's up. Mr Calder?
32:42No, I've messed up.
32:44He's missed it. Mr Hussain?
32:456-4-1.
32:46Yes, for seven points. Off you go.
32:486 times 100.
32:496 times 100 is 600.
32:517 times 6.
32:527. Oh, you've used the 6.
32:56Oh, unlucky.
32:57Sorry.
32:58Rich!
32:58You could have said 7 times 9 is 63.
33:02The other 7 minus 6 is 1.
33:04That's 10.
33:05Add them for 64 and times by 10.
33:08Yeah, well done.
33:12Loads of points at home if you're playing along.
33:14That might just get you back into it.
33:15It might be a crucial countdown conundrum from your sofa,
33:18but it isn't here in the studio.
33:20But let's enjoy it anyway.
33:21Shabir, finger on the buzzer.
33:23Michael, same for you,
33:24as we reveal this Tuesday afternoon's countdown conundrum.
33:32Go on, Michael.
33:33Chiropity.
33:34Let's have a look.
33:35Yes, well done.
33:36APPLAUSE
33:37Well done, Michael.
33:39Your feet are going to take you over to that champions chair tomorrow.
33:42We'll see you then.
33:43Thank you, mate.
33:43Well done.
33:44Shabir, as happy a loser as I think we've had on countdown.
33:48It's been a delight to have you.
33:49Yeah, I'm very happy to be here.
33:51I enjoyed myself anyway.
33:53Yeah, good day.
33:54We had a lovely experience last year because Eliza, your niece, was here.
33:59And I remember because she scored 83 and lost, which is a rare thing.
34:04Who's coming next?
34:05It's younger.
34:06My grandson, called Harun.
34:08And he's very good.
34:10He always beat me when we try together.
34:13At least like Michael beat me, right?
34:15That distant.
34:16Yes.
34:17That's pretty.
34:17We've got to get a teapot into the house.
34:19We have to get a teapot into the house.
34:21Thank you, mate.
34:22Well done.
34:22You were right.
34:22Good day.
34:24And that's all we've done for today.
34:25Tim, Susie, see you tomorrow.
34:27See you then.
34:27And all done, Rach.
34:28And you'll have some lovely pancakes if you're tossing today.
34:30Absolutely.
34:31Enjoy your tossing.
34:32We'll see you back here tomorrow, Rachel, Susie and I.
34:35You can flip and count on us.
34:38You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com.
34:42You can also find our webpage at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
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