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00:30Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio on the day that way back in 2003, Britain sweltered in record-breaking temperatures.
00:40It was the hottest day ever. Apparently, Gravesend, Gravesend was hit by 100.6 Fahrenheit.
00:48That's 38.1 degrees centigrade. My word. Incredibly hot.
00:53And I guess we all remember those hot, hot summer days when the asphalt melted under the car, which didn't have air conditioning or all sitting in this tin can, sitting on the beach, getting burnt and the rest of it.
01:06But apparently, Rachel, according to the scientists, that's nothing compared to what's coming.
01:14Spain is going to be bleached white with heat and it's coming north. And how will we cope with all that?
01:20Now, can you remember any one hot summer day in this country when it was intolerable?
01:26Not that hot. I mean, it's hard to remember, isn't it? Especially with the summer we've had, it's been rubbish.
01:30Yeah.
01:31And you go abroad and it's kind of 35 and you just, you forgot what that was like and don't own any clothing suitable at all.
01:37Even, I think it was in their late 20s this summer, my friend sat in the garden for two hours in England and everyone was burnt to a crisp.
01:42I know.
01:43You just don't expect it, but still just as potent.
01:46Now, Annie Humphries is back, a retired teacher from Basildon. And you've done so well. One more and you're halfway to becoming an octo champ, Annie.
01:57We look forward to hearing from you later. You're joined by Paul Emmett, a musician from Grantham in Lincolnshire.
02:04You once played a trombone solo whilst abseiling down a church.
02:08Yes.
02:08Was this for money?
02:09It was for charity, yes. Someone said they'd double their sponsorship if I played a trombone halfway down. And so I did.
02:16And you abseiled down a church what? Spire? Or a tower?
02:20Yes, down the tower. Yeah. One of the highest in the UK.
02:23Excellent. Not wearing that shirt, I hope.
02:25No, no. Something a little brighter, probably.
02:28Good for you. Well, let's have a big round of applause then for Annie Humphries and Paul Emmett.
02:32And over in the corner there on this Wednesday, Susie Dent, of course, joined once again by the wonderful Charlie State, BBC Breakfast presenter and journalist.
02:47Welcome back, Charlie.
02:49Thank you very much.
02:49Welcome back. And you didn't have to get up at three in the morning to be here either.
02:52No, it's like a lion.
02:53Exactly.
02:53A lion.
02:54All right. Well, we'll make it difficult for you as we go along. But more stories from the studio from you a little later.
03:01But now we turn to you, Annie Humphries, for a letters game. Annie.
03:06Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:07Afternoon, Annie.
03:08May I start with consonant, please?
03:10You may. Thank you. Start today with P.
03:14Consonant.
03:15S.
03:17Consonant.
03:19N.
03:20A vowel, please.
03:21O.
03:24A vowel, please.
03:25U.
03:27Consonant.
03:29L.
03:31A vowel, please.
03:33I.
03:35A vowel, please.
03:37E.
03:39A consonant, please.
03:40And lastly, H.
03:43And here's the countdown clock.
03:44We'll be the continued players.
03:45We'll be who.
03:46Bye.
03:48Bye.
03:50Bye.
03:51Bye.
03:51Bye.
03:54Bye.
03:56Bye.
04:00Bye.
04:02Bye.
04:03Bye.
04:04Bye.
04:04Bye.
04:07Bye.
04:12Bye.
04:12Bye.
04:13Annie.
04:17A six.
04:18A six.
04:19And Paul?
04:19Just a five.
04:20Your five?
04:21House.
04:22Annie?
04:24Supine.
04:25Supine.
04:26Supine.
04:26Supine position, yes.
04:27Very good.
04:28Indeed.
04:29Very good.
04:30What news, Charlie and Susie?
04:32Well, I went for a simple house.
04:35Yeah.
04:36Which is fairly obvious as far as I got.
04:38You've got some other ones here.
04:40Yep, there's an insole for six.
04:43And pinholes are there for eight.
04:45Simply very small holes.
04:46Pinholes.
04:47A pin.
04:52So, Annie Way, six points, and it's Paul's letters game.
04:55Paul?
04:56Consonant, please.
04:57Thank you, Paul.
04:58T.
05:00Consonant.
05:02S.
05:03Vowel.
05:05A.
05:06Vowel, please.
05:08I.
05:09Consonant.
05:11N.
05:11Consonant.
05:14J.
05:16Consonant, please.
05:18F.
05:19Vowel, please.
05:21O.
05:23And a consonant, please.
05:24And lastly, S.
05:27Countdown.
05:28Vowel, please.
05:44Pull.
06:00Four.
06:01A four. Annie?
06:02Six.
06:04A six.
06:05The other pull.
06:06Uh, tins.
06:07Tins. Annie?
06:08Fouse.
06:12Yes.
06:12Can you match a six?
06:16Charlie and Susie?
06:18I've written down stains here.
06:20Very good.
06:21Whenever I do this, I'm thinking, have I just made up a letter in the middle of it?
06:24But that does exist, right? I'm OK with that?
06:27Stains?
06:27Absolutely.
06:27Sure.
06:28Yes.
06:28Yep, very good.
06:29And?
06:29That's good.
06:30And they have, Susie?
06:31Other sixes, saints, joints.
06:34Still looking for a longer.
06:35Longer word there.
06:36All right.
06:37Twelve points, and it's Annie's numbers game.
06:40I want to finish up, please, Rachel.
06:42Only five, Mr. Ones.
06:44Thank you, Annie.
06:44One large five.
06:45Little coming up.
06:47And for the first time today, the numbers are five, seven, nine, ten, four, and 75.
06:56And the target, 438.
06:58Four, three, eight.
06:59Two, three, eight.
07:18Annie.
07:31438.
07:34438. Well done, Paul.
07:35432.
07:36432. We can stick with you, Annie, for the moment.
07:40OK, 75 times 3.
07:4375 times...
07:4475 times 5, a bit of part.
07:4775, 375.
07:497 times 9, 63.
07:5263.
07:54Excellent.
07:55Yep, lovely. 438.
07:57Well done, Annie Humphries.
08:01Well done indeed. 22 good, solid points there
08:04as we turn to our first tea-time teaser, which is Lardy Egg.
08:08And the clue.
08:09He was lardy, egg-shaped and dressed very untidily.
08:13He was lardy, egg-shaped and dressed very untidily.
08:17One welcome back.
08:35I left you with a clue.
08:36He was lardy, egg-shaped and dressed very untidily.
08:39And the answer is raggedly.
08:42Raggedly.
08:43There we go.
08:44Annie, 22 points, but it's early days and it's Paul's letters game.
08:49Paul.
08:50A consonant, please.
08:51Thank you, Paul.
08:52R.
08:53And a vowel.
08:55U.
08:56A consonant, please.
08:58V.
08:59A consonant.
09:00D.
09:03Vowel.
09:05I.
09:06And another vowel.
09:08E.
09:09A consonant.
09:11S.
09:13And a consonant.
09:15G.
09:17And another vowel, please.
09:19And the last one.
09:21A.
09:22Countdown.
09:23A consonant.
09:24A consonant.
09:25A consonant.
09:26A consonant.
09:26A consonant.
09:27A consonant.
09:27A consonant.
09:28A consonant.
09:28A consonant.
09:29A consonant.
09:29A consonant.
09:30A consonant.
09:30A consonant.
09:31A consonant.
09:32A consonant.
09:33A consonant.
09:33A consonant.
09:34A consonant.
09:34A consonant.
09:35A consonant.
09:36A consonant.
09:37A consonant.
09:38A consonant.
09:39A consonant.
09:40A consonant.
09:41A consonant.
09:42A consonant.
09:43A consonant.
09:44A consonant.
09:45A consonant.
09:46A consonant.
09:47A consonant.
09:48A consonant.
09:49A consonant.
09:50A consonant.
09:51A consonant.
09:52Paul?
09:55A five.
09:56A five.
09:56Annie?
09:57A seven.
09:58A seven.
09:59Paul?
10:00Gears.
10:01Now then, Miss Humphreys.
10:03Gordia.
10:05Excellent.
10:06Gordia's very, very good.
10:08Yep.
10:09Well done.
10:09Can we match that?
10:11Charlie?
10:11Susie?
10:12Well, I couldn't.
10:13I came up with a hopeless four, but I'm looking at Susie's got a few.
10:16Visaged?
10:17Yes, or visaged.
10:18Visaged.
10:19It could be stern visaged, for example.
10:21So, countenanced, you know.
10:23OK.
10:24Anything else?
10:25Otherwise, we were, with Annie, we had Gordia's instead of Gordia's.
10:29So, Gordia's, those celebratory dinners at universities, that kind of thing.
10:32All right.
10:33Well done.
10:3329 points, and it's Annie's letters game.
10:36Annie?
10:37A consonant, please, Rachel.
10:38Thank you, Annie.
10:40T?
10:41Consonant.
10:43P?
10:45Thou.
10:46O?
10:48Thou.
10:49U?
10:51Consonant.
10:53W?
10:55Thou.
10:57A?
10:59Consonant.
11:00T?
11:02Consonant.
11:04D?
11:07Thou.
11:08And the last one.
11:09E?
11:11Canta.
11:11Canta.
11:12Canta.
11:13Canta.
11:13Canta.
11:13Canta.
11:14Canta.
11:14Canta.
11:14Canta.
11:14Canta.
11:15Canta.
11:15Canta.
11:15Canta.
11:16Canta.
11:16Canta.
11:16Canta.
11:16Canta.
11:17Canta.
11:17Canta.
11:17Canta.
11:17Canta.
11:18Canta.
11:18Canta.
11:18Canta.
11:18MUSIC CONTINUES
11:48MUSIC CONTINUES
12:18So this technology outdates all others, for example.
12:21Other than that, pouted for six as well.
12:23All right.
12:24Now then, Paul, it's a numbers game.
12:28Two from the top and then four anywhere else.
12:30Thank you, Paul.
12:31Two large, four little.
12:32And your chance to get some points, definitely.
12:35Right, the four little ones are ten, four, six, one.
12:39And the big two, 150.
12:42And the target, 509.
12:45509.
12:46MUSIC CONTINUES
12:59Yes, Paul?
13:19509.
13:20509.
13:21Annie?
13:22509.
13:23All right, let's get this over with.
13:24Paul?
13:2550 divided by 10.
13:2750 over 10, 5.
13:285 times 100.
13:29500.
13:306 plus 4.
13:316 plus 4 is 10.
13:33Minus the 1.
13:334 the 9.
13:34Add.
13:35Lovely.
13:35Well done.
13:36Annie?
13:376 plus 4 is 10.
13:39Yep.
13:39Times 50.
13:40500.
13:4110 minus 1.
13:43Yep.
13:449, take it away.
13:45My parents are all lovely.
13:47Lovely.
13:49Well done.
13:50Well done.
13:5145, please, Ken.
13:53As we turn to Charlie.
13:55And Charlie, presenting BBC Breakfast, you know, things happen fast.
14:01You know, stories change.
14:03And research is sort of a key thing to get those facts.
14:07It certainly is.
14:08What I'd say about the research thing is that we're...
14:11I'm old enough to remember when, as a journalist,
14:13you used to have to go to a room which had drawers in,
14:16and you'd find clippings.
14:17Yeah.
14:18And that's what research was,
14:19because there was no internet, there was no...
14:21So, you know, that was a mechanism you had to do.
14:23It's the only way.
14:25Or you'd read books or it'd be knowledge you already had.
14:27But, of course, nowadays you have enormous resources.
14:31You're, you know, as soon as you're sitting there,
14:32you can find anything straight away, can't you?
14:34You can just find things out.
14:35One of our jobs is to sift out, if you like,
14:37the stuff that anyone could have put in.
14:39It's just nonsense.
14:40And if you're not very careful, you can get badly caught out.
14:42And, obviously, because we're live and that happens,
14:45it's very embarrassing.
14:46My worst was with former James Bond, George Lazenby.
14:52And we were talking to him about a recent movie he's in,
14:55and I'd done a stupid bit of research,
14:58and a little thing had stuck in my head, a fact,
15:00a little factoid.
15:01And I thought, well, I'll chuck it in.
15:03And I said to him,
15:04one of the interesting things about you, George,
15:07is that, of course, you used to be a member
15:09of the Australian SAS.
15:13And he looked completely blank.
15:15He just stared at me, and he said, no, I wasn't.
15:19And I went, oh, but, I mean,
15:22I just thought that you were once in the Australian SAS.
15:27And he went, no, I never was.
15:30And so, immediately, I'm thinking,
15:32you go into kind of recovery mode,
15:33and you're like, well, anyway,
15:34tell us about, you know, the next project or whatever.
15:36And he's still, he's kind of shaking his head,
15:38and he's going, why would you say that?
15:41Oh, I see.
15:42He wouldn't let the moment go,
15:43and I was like, oh, it doesn't matter anyway,
15:44tell us about it.
15:45And he just couldn't get over it.
15:46He was just sort of left there going,
15:48why has he come up with this nonsense that never happened?
15:51So it's a little lesson.
15:51Very extraordinary.
15:52It's a little lesson in just being careful
15:54what you think is fact.
15:55I thought your story was going to be that
15:57you thought when he said I wasn't in the SAS,
16:00that, well, of course, he'd say that,
16:01because you can never admit that you wouldn't get into one of those things.
16:04Well, that remains the case, of course.
16:06That could be true.
16:07It could be that he really was in the Australian SAS.
16:09As you say, he was sworn to secrecy,
16:11so, you know, he's forever...
16:13You were right all along.
16:14Yes.
16:15How funny.
16:16Lovely story.
16:17Thanks, Charlie.
16:23All right.
16:23Now, then, pause off the blocks,
16:25and it's Annie's Letters Game.
16:26Annie.
16:28Consider, please, Rachel.
16:29Thank you, Annie.
16:30And the last one.
16:59E.
17:02Stand by.
17:33Annie?
17:35A seven.
17:36A seven.
17:37Paul?
17:38Five.
17:38And your five?
17:39Minor.
17:40Minor.
17:41Annie?
17:42Very nice.
17:44Yes, both good.
17:46Very good.
17:46Yeah.
17:47And Susie?
17:48A couple of sevens.
17:50Proline, which is an amino acid, which you'll find in collagen, for example.
17:54And lumpia is there as well.
17:57Lumpia.
17:57Lumpia.
17:59My porridge was lumpier than normal.
18:02Paul, 52, plays 10.
18:04And Paul, it's your letters game.
18:06A consonant, please.
18:07Thank you, Paul.
18:08K.
18:10A consonant.
18:12T.
18:13A consonant.
18:15P.
18:17Vowel, please.
18:19O.
18:20Another vowel.
18:22A.
18:22Vowel, please.
18:34E.
18:36And a consonant, please.
18:38And lastly, S.
18:41Stand by.
18:41Vowel, please.
18:55Well, Paul?
19:13A six.
19:14A six. Annie?
19:15Eight.
19:16An age.
19:17Paul?
19:18Poster.
19:19Poster. Annie?
19:21Pronates.
19:22Pronates.
19:23Good old countdown word.
19:24Absolutely.
19:25Excellent.
19:26Very well.
19:29Clear evidence that Annie's a player, a countdown player.
19:34And Charlie?
19:35Well, I think I've got a record for me, which I think I've got a seven.
19:39Yes.
19:40Of patterns.
19:41It's patterns there.
19:43You need two Ts, unfortunately.
19:46Oh, sorry, Charlie.
19:47You see, I'm just crushed.
19:48I'm crushed now.
19:49I'm sorry.
19:51There's an eight there, operants, another countdown word.
19:54A term from psychology, all to do with the modification of behaviour, behavioural operants.
20:00And that will give you an eight.
20:01All right.
20:02Sixty plays ten.
20:03And it's Annie's numbers game.
20:05Annie?
20:06One for a little piece.
20:07Three, two, and five little ones.
20:09Your usual, thank you, Annie.
20:11One large, five little coming up again.
20:13And this time around, your five little ones are eight, nine, four, another nine, ten, and the large one, twenty-five.
20:22And the target, 762.
20:25Seven, six, two.
20:26One large, nine, ten, and many, and the large ones are eight.
20:29Finn.
21:00Seven, six, five. How about Paul?
21:04Nowhere near.
21:05No?
21:06No.
21:06Let's stick with you, Annie, for the second.
21:08Right.
21:09Four times eight is 32.
21:12Four, eight, 32.
21:15Nine over nine is one.
21:18Yep.
21:19Take that away, don't you?
21:20Sorry.
21:23I'm not a faintest idea what I've done.
21:25Sorry about that.
21:26It's absolute nonsense.
21:29Sorry.
21:29Bad luck.
21:30All right.
21:31Now then, Resurie, seven, six, two?
21:35Um, bit of a tricky one.
21:36Leave it with me.
21:37I'll leave that with you, certainly.
21:39It's 60, um, playing 10.
21:42Annie on 60 as we go into our second tea time teaser, which is Intercog.
21:46And the clue.
21:47It's all to do with getting on in life.
21:49It's all to do with getting on in life.
21:52It's all to do with getting on in life.
21:52It's all to do with getting on in life.
21:56Warm welcome back.
22:09I left you with a clue.
22:09It's all to do with getting on in life.
22:12And the answer is gerontic.
22:16Gerontic.
22:17Now then, Susie, it's anything to do with, um, the elderly.
22:22Absolutely, yes.
22:23Old age.
22:24Geriatrics.
22:25Elderly people.
22:25Same root, yes.
22:26From the Greek geron meaning old man originally.
22:29Really.
22:30Something I share with quite a lot of the audience today.
22:32There we are.
22:33Now, what shall we do?
22:3560 plays 10, and it's Paul's letters game.
22:38Paul.
22:39Consonant, please.
22:40Thank you, Paul.
22:41M.
22:42Another consonant.
22:44R.
22:46Consonant, please.
22:48N.
22:49Vowel, please.
22:51I.
22:52Another vowel.
22:53O.
22:55Consonant, please.
22:57D.
22:59Another consonant.
23:01S.
23:01Vowel.
23:05E.
23:06And, uh, a consonant, please.
23:09And the last one.
23:10H.
23:12Stand by.
23:12OK.
23:31Er, Paul.
23:44Six.
23:45Six.
23:46Any?
23:47A seven.
23:48And a seven.
23:49Paul.
23:49Demons.
23:51Demons.
23:51Mads.
23:54Moderns.
23:55OK.
23:57Absolutely fine.
23:58Er, people who advocate or practise a departure from traditional style or values.
24:02They are the moderns.
24:03Very good.
24:05Very good.
24:05And can we match that?
24:07Charlie and Susie.
24:08Well, I wrote down two things.
24:09I wrote modes.
24:11M-O-D-E-S.
24:12Yeah.
24:12And then I wrote down, if you're nearly a mod.
24:15Yeah.
24:16Are you moddish?
24:17You can be moddish.
24:19Yeah.
24:19Is that the same thing?
24:20Is that, well, yes, it means fashionable.
24:21Very good.
24:22There we go.
24:23Nice six.
24:24Very good.
24:25Susie?
24:25Er, there is hedonism.
24:28The pursuit of pleasure.
24:29Hedonism.
24:30Ah, yes.
24:30Sir, for eight.
24:34The pursuit of pleasure.
24:3667, please.
24:37Ten.
24:38Annie.
24:39Letters time.
24:41Consonant, please, Rachel.
24:42Thank you, Annie.
24:44N.
24:46Consonant.
24:47T.
24:49Consonant.
24:50R.
24:53Vowl.
24:54U.
24:56Vowl.
24:57A.
24:59Vowl.
25:01E.
25:03Consonant.
25:05L.
25:07Vowl.
25:09O.
25:12Vowl.
25:15U.
25:18Stand by.
25:18Vowl.
25:20Vowl.
25:20Vowl.
25:21Vowl.
25:21Vowl.
25:21Vowl.
25:21Vowl.
25:22Vowl.
25:22Vowl.
25:22Vowl.
25:22Vowl.
25:22Vowl.
25:23Vowl.
25:23Vowl.
25:24Vowl.
25:24Vowl.
25:24Vowl.
25:24Vowl.
25:24Vowl.
25:24Vowl.
25:24Vowl.
25:24Vowl.
25:25Vowl.
25:25Vowl.
25:25Vowl.
25:25Vowl.
25:26Vowl.
25:26Vowl.
25:26Vowl.
25:26Vowl.
25:27Vowl.
25:27Vowl.
25:28Vowl.
25:28Vowl.
25:28Vowl.
25:29Vowl.
25:29Vowl.
25:48Yes.
25:51Annie.
25:52Six.
25:53A six.
25:53Six.
25:54Two sixes.
25:55Annie.
25:55Or nature.
25:57And?
25:57Nature.
25:58And nature.
26:01Yes.
26:02Happy enough?
26:02Very happy.
26:03All right.
26:04Susie, anything else?
26:05Neutral is there for seven.
26:07Yeah.
26:07And there is an eight, actually, to out-learn, to outstrip somebody in learning, is to out-learn them.
26:13Out-learn.
26:15Really?
26:16I suppose so.
26:1773 plays 16.
26:19And Susie, we're back with you for your wonderful Origins of Words.
26:24What have you got for us today?
26:25I have some flowers, because our gardens have been looking beautiful.
26:29One benefit of not having a great summer is that the gardens still look absolutely lovely.
26:33So I thought I would whiz through the garden and talk about the origins of some of our flower names.
26:39I'm going to actually start with one that we see everywhere, probably not in our gardens, but outside, under hedgerows, etc.
26:45And that's Cowslip.
26:46Cowslip has a very unromantic origin.
26:50It goes back to cow slime.
26:53It's an old English word, or dung, because the plant grows especially well in pastures where cows do their business.
27:01So sorry to start with that one.
27:02A dandelion, lots of people will know, that's don de lion, the tooth of a lion, because of the shape of its leaves.
27:11Edelweiss is very nice.
27:12That just means noble white.
27:13A foxglove, also known as digitalis, used for heart disease.
27:20Digitalis is to do with fingers.
27:22But a foxglove itself is because the blossoms, the tubular blossoms of the flower, look a little bit like the empty fingers of a glove.
27:30The fox bit is a bit of a mystery, but some people think that it once was folks glove with reference to fairies, because it was believed that it was a popular haunt of fairies in the garden.
27:41A geranium, that comes from the Greek for crane, because the seed pod is said to look like the bill of a crane, the bird.
27:51Gladiolus, related to gladiators, because of the sword-like spikes of the flowers.
27:57Heliotrope means simply turns to the sun, as sunflowers do.
28:01Iris is beautiful, named after the Greek goddess of the rainbow.
28:05I love that.
28:05It's marigold, named after the Virgin Mary, and the colour gold, but its botanical name is calendula, and that goes back to the Romans' calend, the first of the month.
28:16Obviously, it gave its calendar as well, because the flowers, like a little calendar, bloom each month.
28:21I like that one.
28:22Fantastic.
28:22Very lovely.
28:27Candula, and I've never heard that before.
28:29Mind you, I've never heard of any of them.
28:30Yes, it has much ruder names in there.
28:32It had old English nicknames as well, which were a little bit ruder to do with its diuretic properties, but we'll pass over that.
28:38Well done.
28:39All right, thank you, Susie.
28:4073 plays 16, and it's Paul's letters game.
28:43Paul.
28:44Consonant, please.
28:45Thank you, Paul.
28:46D.
28:48Another consonant, please.
28:50G.
28:51Consonant.
28:53S.
28:55Another consonant.
28:57D.
28:59Vowel.
29:00E.
29:01Anna, Val.
29:03I.
29:04And a vowel.
29:06A.
29:08A consonant.
29:10L.
29:11And a consonant, please.
29:12And lastly, R.
29:15Stand by.
29:28Yes, Paul.
29:49Just a four.
29:50A four, Annie?
29:51Eight.
29:52An eight.
29:53A bruising eight.
29:55Paul.
29:56Ride.
29:57Now then, Annie.
29:58Griddles.
29:59Griddles.
30:00Excellent.
30:01Very, very good.
30:02Well done.
30:02Very good.
30:03Well played.
30:05Well played.
30:07And the corner.
30:09Yeah.
30:09Charlie and Susie?
30:10Sadly, I was down to four on that one.
30:12I just had a real.
30:13That was it.
30:14Yeah.
30:15Yeah, Griddles.
30:16Excellent eight.
30:1781 plays.
30:1816.
30:19And it's Annie's final letters game.
30:21Annie.
30:22Consonant plays, Rachel.
30:24Thank you, Annie.
30:25T.
30:26Consonant.
30:27And the last one, Y.
30:56Stand by.
30:57Stand by.
30:57You have a really good one.
30:58Bye-bye.
30:59Don't lose.
30:59Let them move.
31:00Bye-bye.
31:02Bye-bye.
31:15Bye-bye.
31:19Boom.
31:21Bye-bye.
31:22Bye-bye.
31:23Bye-bye.
31:24Bye-bye.
31:25Annie?
31:29A seven.
31:30A seven pull.
31:31I blanked and got nothing.
31:33Never mind.
31:33Annie?
31:34Maestro.
31:36Very good.
31:36Maestro.
31:37Indeed.
31:40Now then, Maestro.
31:42Charlie and Susie?
31:43What about roaster?
31:45You need two R's, but you can have toaster.
31:48Toaster?
31:48Yeah.
31:49Toasty.
31:49I had toasty as well.
31:50Very good.
31:51Yeah, toasty's nice.
31:52And mastery is another seven.
31:54Yep.
31:55All right.
31:56So 88, my word, Annie.
31:5788 plays 16, and it's Paul's numbers game.
32:00Paul?
32:01Two large and four from anywhere else, please.
32:04Well, too big for little to finish off the day.
32:07And these numbers are four.
32:09Three.
32:10Another three.
32:12Seven.
32:12And the large two, 50 and 100.
32:15And the target, 943.
32:18943.
32:32Bye.
32:35MUSIC PLAYS
32:49Paul? No. Didn't get that.
32:52No? Annie, how'd you get on?
32:54943. 943. Annie?
32:577 plus 3 is 10.
33:007 plus 3 is 10.
33:01Times 100 is 1,000.
33:03Yep.
33:04Minus 50. 950.
33:074 plus 3 is 7.
33:09And 4 and the other 3.
33:10Times 8. Perfect. Well done. 943.
33:12Tremendous. Well done.
33:15Well done. Just shy of 100.
33:1798 points there as we go into the final round.
33:2098 points for Annie.
33:22And it's fingers on buzzers.
33:23Annie and Paul, let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:27MUSIC PLAYS
33:33Annie Humphreys.
33:36Companion.
33:37Let's see whether you're right.
33:39Let's roll it and see whether you're right.
33:41I have little doubt.
33:42There it is. Companion. Well done.
33:44Well done.
33:45APPLAUSE
33:46108 points.
33:49Well done.
33:50And I'll come to you in a second, Annie.
33:51But Paul, you know, bad luck that you should come up against Annie Humphreys.
33:55Four great, great wins.
33:57You know, so no shame in being beaten by Annie Humphreys.
34:01So, Paul, back to Grantham.
34:03Yes.
34:03In Lincolnshire with a goodie bag.
34:05Good luck with the music.
34:06Well done.
34:07Good luck.
34:07Annie, that was fantastic.
34:09We'll see you tomorrow.
34:10Great win.
34:10Halfway there.
34:11I think I'm going to put some money on you.
34:13All right.
34:14See you tomorrow.
34:15And see Charlie tomorrow.
34:17And Susie, of course.
34:18See you tomorrow, Nick.
34:19Isn't she terrific?
34:20I think she's getting better and better as the run goes on.
34:22She is.
34:23She is terrific.
34:24Going to be here for a little bit longer.
34:26I'm sure of that.
34:27We'll see you tomorrow.
34:28See you tomorrow.
34:28Join us tomorrow.
34:29Annie Humphreys will be here.
34:31Same time, same place.
34:32You be sure of it.
34:33Good afternoon.
34:33You can contact the program by email at countdown at channel4.com, by Twitter at C4Countdown,
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34:52Later on tonight, private landlords, benefit tenants, and the agencies right in the middle
34:56exploring all the angles at 9.
34:57And then at 10, there's a bit of an adoption shocker for Dan as the brand new series of Man
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