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00:00To be continued...
00:30Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:33Now, I guess, wherever you are, you may well be heading north up to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
00:40Fantastic event that's been running for years and produces all the sort of stars of the future
00:45and also showcases those stars of the present too.
00:49But if you're down south, perhaps you will be heading for the London Craft Beer Festival.
00:53I think London, or rather, craft beer is one of the great success stories, Rachel, of recent years
00:59because there was a time, in your dad's time, when there were a few big breweries that owned everything
01:05and they punched out the same beer.
01:07I think there was something called the Red Revolution.
01:10Named by some was the Red Revolution, which was brewed by Watneys in the old days
01:15and people got sick of it and they'd bought up all the little breweries
01:22and suddenly now there's a renaissance in that
01:25and there are lots of little microbreweries popping up all over the country.
01:29It's fantastic.
01:30And if you don't like beer, you can go for a cocktail.
01:33And I was recently introduced to something called the Espresso Martini.
01:36I had to, and it's an experience I shall never repeat.
01:40Are you a fan of the Espresso Martini?
01:42The Espresso Martini, yes.
01:44That's legendary in my circles.
01:46It's her, isn't it?
01:47The girls like that, yeah.
01:48Pick me up at the end of the night.
01:50Whoa, I should say.
01:51My goodness me.
01:53I've carried Pasha home many a time after a couple of those.
01:56What other cocktails take your fancy?
02:00Well, quite a few, but you mentioned beer.
02:02If I told you about, they do artificial intelligence beer now where they collect all the information
02:07and mathematically they're trying to brew the perfect pint.
02:11Oh, really?
02:11And it's supposed to be coming along really quickly.
02:13It's always got lots of different things that they're tempering with depending on people's tastes.
02:19It's quite an interesting process you can go to Google.
02:21I guess it is, as long as it doesn't produce a sort of world taste, which is what's happening with wine these days.
02:27Once you've had a bottle, they all taste the same.
02:29I guess so.
02:30All right.
02:31Now, who have we got with us?
02:32Michael Pfeiffer's back with four wins under his belt.
02:36High score, 119.
02:38Fantastic.
02:39Well done.
02:39Brought the family in again today?
02:41They've got nothing else to do.
02:43They literally have nothing else to do.
02:47They've come to cheer you on, and why wouldn't they?
02:50And you're joined by Emma Higginbottom, a freelance journalist from Cambridge,
02:54who's a singer, loves singing, has sung all her life.
02:58In choirs, and what else?
02:59On the stage as well.
03:01But I'm not allowed to sing at home.
03:02My children hate it.
03:03That's a bad laugh.
03:04They would tell me off.
03:05Is that because little kids are always embarrassed about mums and dads and what they do?
03:09Or it could just be that I'm terrible.
03:11No.
03:12I warble.
03:12I think that's the problem.
03:13Is that what it is?
03:14Yeah.
03:14Are you teaching them to sing?
03:15No.
03:16No, no, no, no, no, no.
03:17No?
03:18Well done.
03:19Let's have a big round of applause to Emma.
03:21Emma and Michael.
03:26And now, over in the corner, of course, we have Susie, as ever.
03:30And with a new book out, in paperback, Friend for Life, all about dogs and their partnerships
03:37with humans.
03:38It's the wonderful Kate Humble.
03:39Welcome back, Kate.
03:40Lovely to be back.
03:41More from you a little bit later on, but now we turn to you, Michael, for the first
03:49letters game of the day.
03:50Afternoon, Rachel.
03:51Afternoon, Michael.
03:52Can I have a vowel, please?
03:53Start with A.
03:54And another.
03:56O.
03:57And the consonant.
03:59S.
04:00And another.
04:01B.
04:02And another.
04:04D.
04:05And the vowel.
04:07A.
04:09And the consonant.
04:10F.
04:12And the vowel.
04:14E.
04:15And a consonant, please.
04:17And lastly, G.
04:20Stand by.
04:21OK.
04:21OK.
04:40Yes, Michael?
04:52Six.
04:53A six.
04:54Emma?
04:54Six.
04:56Michael?
04:57Budges.
04:58And Emma?
04:59D.
04:59Bags.
05:00D.
05:00Bags, indeed.
05:02D.
05:03Bags.
05:03Yes, Susie.
05:04Yes.
05:05With a big grin on her face.
05:07No, it's absolutely fine.
05:08Anything else?
05:09Kate?
05:10Adages.
05:11Could you have a plural of adages?
05:13Yes.
05:14Same.
05:15Yeah, so that was a six.
05:17And there's one seven there that we could find.
05:21Bodegas.
05:22B-O-D-E-G-A-S.
05:24Sellers or shops selling wine and food in Spanish-speaking countries.
05:27Indeed.
05:28Down with the bodega.
05:29Six apiece.
05:31Emma, your letters game.
05:32Could I start with a vowel, please?
05:34Thank you, Emma.
05:35Start with I.
05:37And another?
05:38U.
05:39And another?
05:41E.
05:42And a consonant, please.
05:44Z.
05:46And another?
05:47P.
05:49And another?
05:50J.
05:52And another?
05:54L.
05:55And another?
05:57M.
05:58And a final vowel, please.
06:02And a final I.
06:05Stand by.
06:06I'll see you next week.
06:07I'll see you next week.
06:08Bye.
06:12Bye.
06:14Emma.
06:37Five.
06:39Yes, Michael?
06:40Five as well.
06:41Emma.
06:42Plume.
06:43Plume.
06:43Same word.
06:45And plume.
06:47Any more plumes?
06:48Yes, I got a plume too.
06:50Susie?
06:52There's an anatomical term there, the ileum.
06:55The ileum is the large bone forming the upper part of each half of your pelvis.
07:00Ileum.
07:00OK.
07:02Ileum.
07:04Eleven apiece, and it's Michael's numbers game now.
07:07Michael.
07:07Now, four from the top, please.
07:09You can indeed mix it up.
07:10Thank you, Michael.
07:11Four large and two little.
07:12And the two little ones are ten and six.
07:16And then the four bigs.
07:17Fifty, twenty-five.
07:19One hundred and seventy-five.
07:21And this target.
07:23Two hundred and fifty-eight.
07:24Two, five, eight.
07:25We're out.
07:26We're out.
07:27We're out.
07:44We're out.
07:45Michael.
07:582, 5, 8.
07:59And Emma.
08:00No, 2, 6, 5.
08:022, 6, 5, so we're with you, Michael.
08:04Did 25 times 10.
08:06250.
08:07Add the 6.
08:082, 5, 6.
08:09And then 100 over 50.
08:11Yeah, is your 2.
08:12Yeah.
08:12And 2, 5, 8.
08:15Well done.
08:17Well done.
08:18A little bit of a lead there.
08:2021 to Emma's 11 as we turn to our first Tea Time teaser, which is flexation.
08:26And the clue.
08:27It won't help you flex those muscles, but it'll help smoothen the skin.
08:32It won't help you flex those muscles, but it'll help smoothen the skin.
08:36And the answer to all that is that it's an exfoliant.
09:03Exfoliant.
09:03So, 21 plays 11.
09:06Emma on 11, and it's Emma's letters game.
09:09Could I have a vowel, please?
09:11Thank you, Emma.
09:12E.
09:13And another?
09:15I.
09:16And another one, please.
09:18O.
09:19And a consonant?
09:20T.
09:22And another?
09:24V.
09:25And another?
09:27S.
09:28And another?
09:30L.
09:32And another?
09:34R.
09:36And a final consonant, please.
09:38And a final T.
09:40Stand by.
09:41T.
09:42T.
09:42T.
09:43T.
09:44T.
09:45T.
09:45T.
09:46Emma.
10:13Seven.
10:15Michael.
10:15A seven.
10:17Emma.
10:17Litters.
10:18Yes, Michael.
10:19Revolts.
10:20And revolts.
10:22Any more sevens?
10:23Kate.
10:25There's an eight, and I have to confess it's a word I've never heard, so you're going to
10:30have to tell me about it, Susie.
10:31Triolets.
10:32Triolets, yes.
10:33They are poems of eight lines, and they get their name triolet because they tend to rhyme
10:38every third line, if you see what I mean.
10:41And very last minute, slightly obscure at nine there, over tilts.
10:48And to over tilt is simply to tip a person over to upset or overturn something.
10:52Yeah, sure.
10:53Over tilt.
10:5828 plays 18.
10:59Michael on 28, and it's Michael's letters of game.
11:02I'll have a vowel, please, Rachel.
11:03Thank you, Michael.
11:04E.
11:04And a consonant.
11:05And a consonant.
11:06R.
11:08And a vowel.
11:09U.
11:10And a consonant.
11:12N.
11:13And another.
11:15T.
11:16And another.
11:18N.
11:19And a vowel.
11:21E.
11:22And a consonant.
11:24R.
11:26And a consonant, please.
11:28And the last one, another T.
11:31Stand by.
11:32Anger.
11:48An vowel.
11:49And a consonant.
11:49Safe.
11:50Cold.
11:58Oh, beautiful.
11:59Oh, so beautiful.
12:00Oh, tutti.
12:01Oh, so beautiful.
12:02Michael.
12:04Six.
12:05Emma.
12:05Six.
12:06Michael.
12:07Nutter.
12:09And Emma.
12:11Return.
12:12And return.
12:13Yep.
12:13Very good.
12:15Nutter.
12:15Nutter.
12:16What else have you got there?
12:19Kate.
12:20I got Nutter, and I was trying to do something with inure,
12:25which sounds like a word, but I'm sure it isn't.
12:27So what have you got that's properly a word?
12:29Turner.
12:29Turner is simply there for six, but we couldn't get beyond that, Nick.
12:34All right.
12:35Ten points in it.
12:3634 to 24.
12:37And it's Emma's numbers game now.
12:40Emma, it's your numbers game.
12:41Could I have two from the top and any others, please?
12:44Thank you, Emma.
12:44Two large, four little.
12:47And this time, the little ones are nine, four, five, and seven.
12:53And the large one, 75 and 25.
12:57And the target, 487.
13:00Four, eight, seven.
13:31Emma.
13:33487.
13:34And Michael.
13:36I think 487, but not very well written down at all.
13:39Let's hear from you, Michael.
13:41It's 75 times 7.
13:44525.
13:45Minus 25.
13:46500.
13:47And minus the 9 and the 4.
13:48487, lovely.
13:50Well done.
13:50Emma.
13:51I did 75 plus 25 is 100.
13:54Yep.
13:54Multiplied by 5 for the 500.
13:58Minus the 9 and the 4.
13:59Perfect, well done.
14:01Well done.
14:05Well done indeed.
14:08Now, Kate, you talked earlier over the week about your book, Friend for Life and your love of dogs.
14:15Particularly your dog.
14:17She is.
14:17Well, she's a very special dog.
14:19We did a series.
14:21Such was the success of this series starring Teg.
14:24And it absolutely was starring Teg.
14:27We've been asked, well, she's been asked to do another one.
14:29I just sort of tag along behind.
14:30She's a Welsh sheep dog.
14:33And they're an interesting breed because they're actually not classed as a breed.
14:38They're not recognised by the kennel club, which I think is actually quite a good thing.
14:41And what we discovered when we were looking into the history of these dogs was that actually what sets them apart is the way they work.
14:50And it's all the neurological.
14:51They've got sort of very distinct neurological DNA, which makes them work in a very particular way.
14:57So they work very differently from collies.
14:59And so we've been filming all year throughout Wales and really looking at the beautiful landscapes of Wales and how people use those landscapes and appreciate them in different ways.
15:13We went to meet an amazing woman, an artist, a gardener and a filmmaker called Natasha Brooks.
15:21And her way of really connecting with the landscape is she swims in mountain lakes all year round with no clothes on.
15:33So the day that we were filming with her, it was about six degrees outside.
15:38I was wearing about five layers on the top, three layers on the bottom, very thick socks, bobble hat, gloves.
15:44And with Teg, we walked up the mountain to this beautiful mountain lake.
15:50And she said, Natasha told me just as we got to the top, she said, oh, I just thought I ought to warn you.
15:55It did snow here a couple of days ago, so the water is going to be a little bit chilly.
15:58Anyway, we duly stripped off because I thought, well, if she's going to do it naked, I've got to do it naked, too.
16:05So we stripped off and got into this lake and I lasted longer than I thought, probably three or four minutes.
16:11And it was just I mean, it was so cold.
16:14Your skin is actually kind of burning.
16:17And I got to the point where I said, I've just got to get out now.
16:19And you come out feeling about 20 years younger, completely invigorated.
16:24And so I think the endorphins are rushing around just going, you've done something so crazy, kind of well done.
16:31Did my dog join me?
16:32No.
16:33She stood on the side looking at me like you're absolutely bad.
16:37I'm not going in there.
16:38So that is the only time that I got any screen time at all without being upstaged by my dog.
16:44Oh, brilliant.
16:45What a lovely story.
16:4944 to 34.
16:51Michael's in the lead.
16:52And Michael, we're back with you.
16:54Let us go.
16:55Consonant, please, Rachel.
16:56Thank you, Michael.
16:57R.
16:57And another, please.
16:59L.
17:00And the vowel.
17:02I.
17:03And another.
17:04A.
17:05A consonant.
17:07S.
17:07And a vowel.
17:10O.
17:11And a consonant.
17:13D.
17:14And a consonant.
17:15S.
17:16And a vowel, please.
17:17And the last one.
17:18A.
17:20Stand by.
17:22R.
17:22marriages Julis.
17:23And a vowel.
17:23And there are reasons for being released now.
17:31And açek reverberate.
17:31And a vowel.
17:33And a vowel.
17:34And a vowel.
17:34And a vowel.
17:35And a vowel.
17:37And a vowel.
17:39And a vowel.
17:40And a vowel.
17:40And a vowel.
17:41And a vowel.
17:42And a vowel.
17:44And a vowel.
17:45This아니ology.
17:48And a vowel.
17:49The tiếng Discovery.
17:50Michael.
17:53Seven.
17:54Emma.
17:55Six.
17:56And that's six.
17:57Radios.
17:58Radios and?
17:59Sailors.
18:01Now, can we match a seven, I wonder?
18:05Kate, Susie?
18:06There is another seven there, radials.
18:09Yep, as in a radial engine or tyre, even.
18:13Indeed.
18:14Anything else, Susie?
18:14No, we had radials, sailors, and for six, dorsal, as in a dorsal fin.
18:19Indeed.
18:20Yeah.
18:20That's a fright.
18:2151 to 34.
18:23And Emma, your letters game.
18:25A vowel, please, Rachel.
18:26Thank you, Emma.
18:28I.
18:29And another.
18:30A.
18:32And another.
18:33E.
18:35And a consonant, please.
18:37D.
18:38And another.
18:39R.
18:40And another.
18:42G.
18:42And another.
18:45R.
18:46And another consonant.
18:49T.
18:49And a final consonant, please.
18:52And a final L.
18:55And here comes the count, count clock.
18:57And a final consonant, please.
18:58And a final consonant, please.
18:58And a final consonant, please.
18:59And a final consonant, please.
19:00And a final consonant, please.
19:01And a final consonant, please.
19:02And a final consonant, please.
19:03And a final consonant, please.
19:04And a final consonant, please.
19:05And a final consonant, please.
19:06And a final consonant, please.
19:07And a final consonant, please.
19:08And a final consonant, please.
19:09And a final consonant, please.
19:10And a final consonant, please.
19:11And a final consonant, please.
19:12And a final consonant, please.
19:13And a final consonant, please.
19:14And a final consonant, please.
19:15And a final consonant, please.
19:16And a final consonant, please.
19:17And a final consonant, please.
19:18And a final consonant, please.
19:19And a final consonant, please.
19:20Emma.
19:28Seven.
19:30A seven, Michael?
19:31Seven.
19:32Emma?
19:33Trailed.
19:34And?
19:34Same word.
19:36Trailed.
19:38Can we beat seven, I wonder?
19:41I couldn't.
19:42I got trailer rather than trailed.
19:45Trailer and Susie?
19:47Dilated, yeah, and the same.
19:48Just sevens for us.
19:49Sevens for us.
19:50Yeah.
19:5158, 41, as I say, and it's Michael.
19:55We turn to you now for the next numbers game.
19:57Michael.
19:58Main your hands, Rachel.
20:00Let's go for another treble then.
20:02Three from the top and three little ones.
20:05Just for a change.
20:06And this time they are five, nine, ten, and then the big three.
20:11One hundred, twenty-five, and fifty.
20:15And this target, 292.
20:18Two, nine, two.
20:19Two, nine, ten, and ten.
20:51Michael.
20:52No, it's 291.
20:54291.
20:54Emma.
20:55291 as well.
20:56Michael.
20:57Did 25 times 10.
20:5925 times 10, 250.
21:02Add the 50.
21:03300.
21:04Take away the nine.
21:05For one away.
21:07Emma.
21:08Exactly the same way.
21:10There we are.
21:12So we turn to you, Rachel.
21:13292.
21:15Is that tricky?
21:17Leave it with me.
21:18Certainly will.
21:19Certainly will.
21:2065 plays 48 as we turn to our second tea time teaser, which is I call dent.
21:29And the clue, I call Susie and invite her to a very posh dinner.
21:32I call Susie and invite her to a very posh dinner.
21:36warm welcome back.
21:52I left you with a clue.
21:53I call Susie and invite her to a very posh dinner.
21:56And the answer to that is candle lit.
21:59Candle lit.
22:02She'll turn me down again, of course she will.
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22:15Countdown leads LS31JS.
22:20Emma, your letters game.
22:22Could I have a vowel please, Rachel?
22:24Thank you, Emma.
22:24I
22:25And another
22:26E
22:27And another
22:29U
22:30And a consonant please
22:33W
22:34And another
22:36L
22:37And another
22:38T
22:40And another
22:41N
22:43And another
22:45H
22:46And a final vowel please
22:49And a final A
22:50Stand by
22:52R
23:11And
23:22Emma.
23:25Five.
23:26Michael.
23:27Yeah, I'll stick with a five.
23:29Emma.
23:30Unite.
23:31And?
23:32Alien.
23:33Can we get beyond?
23:34Can we clamber beyond five?
23:36Kate.
23:38Walnut is there for six.
23:40I don't know whether...
23:41Can you unwilt something?
23:43Sadly not when it comes to my gardening skills.
23:46No, I don't think so.
23:48Whiten is there.
23:49Halite as well, which is a sodium chloride, is a mineral.
23:52A few sixes.
23:53Tough, but you did it.
23:55You got there.
23:5570 plays, 53.
23:57Michael, let us go.
23:59Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
24:01Thank you, Michael.
24:02R.
24:02And another one, please.
24:05N.
24:06And a vowel.
24:07O.
24:08And a consonant.
24:10S.
24:11And a vowel.
24:13I.
24:14And another vowel.
24:16E.
24:17And a consonant.
24:19N.
24:20And a consonant.
24:22H.
24:23And a vowel, please.
24:25And lastly, A.
24:28Stand by.
24:29knowingly, by the end,ается now.
24:30He's going to ask for ahead.
24:30And I'm going to go to that.
24:32Hang on.
24:33See you next time.
24:34Bye-bye.
24:35Amen.
24:35And a vowel in to a vowel.
24:36Yeesh.
24:37I'll hear you next time.
24:39And a vowel.
24:39And a vowel.
24:40beat,Son, yeesh.
24:40I'll hear you next time.
24:43All right.
24:43We're going to play.
24:44I'm going to hope you next time.
24:46Not yet.
24:47Not yet.
24:48Shreshing.
24:49Not yet.
24:49Just the vowel.
24:50All right.
24:50And a vowel.
24:51All right.
24:51And a vowel.
24:51Michael.
25:01I'll stick with a six.
25:03A six, Emma.
25:05Six.
25:06Michael.
25:07Shiner.
25:07A shiner and...
25:09Same word, shiner.
25:10Two shiners.
25:11Bad luck.
25:13And in the corner there.
25:15I got shiner two, but there is inshore for seven.
25:19Inshore.
25:20Inshore.
25:20An inshore boat.
25:21Absolutely.
25:22Okay.
25:22Anything else, Susie?
25:23And there's also horsen.
25:25Your voice might horsen if you use it too much.
25:28Yes, I know that feeling.
25:30All right.
25:3076 to 59.
25:32Susie, your origins of words.
25:35What have you for us today?
25:37Well, I just thought I would look back to the nakedness theme that Kate's introduced to us this week.
25:44Just briefly, because we were chatting before the show about stark naked and where the stark comes from.
25:50And it sort of makes sense, I suppose, that you are completely white stark from that point of view.
25:56But it actually began as stark naked, in which the stark was the tail of an animal or bird, as in the red stark that has a very red rump, if you like.
26:06So the idea was being naked to the tail.
26:08But one thing that some of us do naked is sleep.
26:13As I was just talking today, I would look at why we represent sleep, particularly in cartoons, but also in text messages, etc., as a row of zeds and where that comes from.
26:23And that's because Jane Thomas emailed in to ask me, why zed?
26:26According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of zeds to represent a sound is in reference to the buzzing of locusts.
26:36And that's in the 1800s.
26:37And then in the early 1900s, it came to represent snoring as it's stayed today.
26:43It goes back, perhaps unsurprisingly, to comic strips.
26:46And there's one theory, because before depicting someone snoring with a series of letters, cartoons would often have the image of someone soaring wood.
26:56So you imagine a sleeping figure, and then there'd be this little bubble with someone soaring wood above them.
27:01And if you think about the action of a saw, it goes sort of up and across and then up again.
27:05It's almost making the letter zed.
27:07And so the theory goes, eventually, the figure soaring was dispensed with altogether, and you were simply left with that zed shape that you might have on a piece of wood.
27:17I really like that theory, and it's as good as any.
27:20To solve the mystery as to why, we say, I'm just going to have some zeds.
27:31I've never seen that until bubble, with the sawing of the wood.
27:34I don't know, I think it's probably talking about 1920s, 30s, that kind of thing.
27:38Lovely.
27:38All right.
27:3976 to 59.
27:41Emma, how about the letters game?
27:44Can I have a vowel, please?
27:45Thank you, Emma.
27:46E.
27:47And another.
27:49A.
27:50And another.
27:52O.
27:53And a consonant, please.
27:55P.
27:56And another.
27:57M.
27:58And another.
28:00C.
28:01And another.
28:03S.
28:04And another.
28:07R.
28:08And a final vowel, please.
28:10And a final E.
28:13Tone tone.
28:14I.
28:21I.
28:21I.
28:22I.
28:23I.
28:24I.
28:24I.
28:24Emma.
28:46Six.
28:47Michael.
28:48Seven.
28:49Emma.
28:50Capers.
28:52Now then, Michael.
28:53Pronces.
28:54Pronces.
28:55Yes.
28:56Very good.
28:59Anything else?
29:01You can have openers for seven.
29:03That's for openers.
29:04So we're with seven too.
29:06Pronces.
29:07The prancing horse of Ferrari, of course.
29:09That's lovely.
29:10Prancing horses.
29:1183 to 59.
29:13Michael.
29:15Let us go.
29:15Continent, please, Rachel.
29:16Thank you, Michael.
29:18P.
29:19And another one, please.
29:21S.
29:22And about.
29:24O.
29:25And another.
29:26A.
29:27And a consonant.
29:29V.
29:30And a consonant.
29:32N.
29:33And a consonant.
29:36Y.
29:37A vowel.
29:39E.
29:40And a consonant, please.
29:42And the last one, C.
29:45Stand by.
29:45The, or the SEMI NSC unpie.
30:04And a consonant.
30:12Yes, Michael.
30:18Six.
30:20Emma?
30:20Six.
30:21Michael, you've only been a doubtful.
30:23Ponces.
30:24I think you're pardoned.
30:25Ponces, unfortunately.
30:27Ponces.
30:28Emma?
30:28I've got the same word, ponces.
30:32Ponces.
30:32I hope Susie's not going to get in a lather about this.
30:38Susie?
30:39No, it is offensive.
30:41Obviously, in some uses.
30:43But you can also use it as a verb to seek to obtain something without paying for it or doing something in return.
30:48Oh, he's poncing on somebody.
30:49Yeah.
30:50Kate?
30:51There is a seven there.
30:53Conveys.
30:55Conveys.
30:55Very good.
30:56Susie, anything else?
30:57That was our best.
30:58It'll do.
30:5989 to 65 into the final numbers game.
31:03Emma?
31:04Can I have two from the top again, please?
31:06You can indeed, thank you, Emma.
31:07Two large, four little for the final one of the week.
31:09And this selection is 9, 5, 10, 8, 25 and 100.
31:16And the target?
31:19340.
31:213-4-0.
31:222-0.
31:23340.
31:242-3.
31:252-0.
31:282-0.
31:282-0.
31:303-0.
31:30Tthere.
31:313-0.
31:341-2.
31:34What?
31:352-0.
31:351.
31:382-0.
31:442-0.
31:45OK.
31:462-0.
31:46vida.
31:483-0.
31:48Emma.
31:53No, I've lost it, sorry.
31:55Michael, 340.
31:57340, yes.
31:59Did 9 plus 5.
32:019 plus 5, 14.
32:03Times 25.
32:04Times 25, 350.
32:06And take away a 10.
32:07340, lovely.
32:09Well done, well done, well done, Michael.
32:1399.
32:14Look at you, 99, nearly 100 there.
32:17One more point as we go into the final round.
32:20Emma, Michael, fingers on buzzers.
32:24Here's today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:47Well, we're stumped here.
32:59Even Michael is stumped here.
33:01But who in the audience?
33:02Yes, yes, ma'am.
33:04Brutality.
33:05Brutality.
33:06Let's see whether you're right.
33:07Brutality.
33:10Well done.
33:14Brutality.
33:15So not quite 100 today then, Michael.
33:17But nonetheless, a good, solid win again.
33:21Five in a row now.
33:22So Emma, back to Cambridge with you and your singing.
33:27What about your children?
33:27Do any of those sing?
33:29Well, my son was actually a chorister in King's College Choir.
33:31Oh, wonderful.
33:32He's very good.
33:33So he is indeed, yeah.
33:34Well, listen, take this goodie bag back to Cambridge with our best, best wishes.
33:40Well done.
33:41We'll see you on Monday.
33:42Have a rest.
33:43Have a good weekend.
33:44That's great.
33:45So three more and you're really in business.
33:47That's right.
33:48See you on Monday.
33:49All right.
33:49And see you on Monday too.
33:50You'll come back, won't you?
33:51Absolutely.
33:52Please do.
33:53Please do.
33:53And Susie, you as well?
33:54I will.
33:55See you then.
33:55See you then.
33:56Okay.
33:56So what do you reckon then, Rachel?
33:58Well, I think the lady that got the conundrum is actually Michael's sister.
34:01So she's won the bragging rights for the weekend.
34:03And she gets a mug.
34:04She wins a mug and he is a mug on that weekend.
34:08All right.
34:09We'll see you on Monday.
34:09See you then.
34:10You'll be back.
34:11Join us then.
34:11Same time, same place.
34:12You'll be very, very sure of it.
34:14And a very good afternoon, Rachel.
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