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00:30Hello everybody, how you doing? Midweek countdown, always a good reason to just pop the kettle on and turn off the day for 45 minutes or so, especially at this time of the year.
00:40So thank you very much for tuning in. How you doing, Rachel?
00:42I'm very well, how are you?
00:43Yeah, good. On this day in 2013, Bon Jovi's Living on a Prayer was back in the charts in the US and this often happens because of a viral video.
00:52So this was a Boston Celtics fan dancing to it, watched by millions, all of a sudden the band are going, how come we're back in the charts?
01:00Now, every day, now a viral video pops up on our phones or whatever, but in all the years of the viral phenomenon, what's top of your list?
01:08What have you watched the most?
01:09It's probably, I can still quote it now, I think it was, I don't know, 2007 or something. Do you remember Miss Teen USA with Miss South Carolina?
01:18Oh, what did she say?
01:19Well, they asked her why a large number of Americans can't locate America on a world map and she just had a complete brain freeze and said that, you know, I personally believe that some people out there in our nation don't have maps and then continued to say, talk about education in the South Africa, in the Iraq and such as.
01:39And it was one of those where you just felt so bad for her. The more you watch it, the less it made any sense.
01:45Who was that? I remember that viral. Who was that dodgy bloke that came up with a sauce on Dragon's Den and millions watched him singing a song about the sauce?
01:54Dr. Roots, something like that.
01:55Something like that. Yeah, he's a doctor now, I feel like he's a steam doctor now, I think that's what it is.
02:01Oh, he's here, look there he is.
02:02Oh, here you go, Carl.
02:04Alongside Susie Dent all this week, it's Levi Roots.
02:10And all this week so far, we've had Helen McGifford with us. How's Hell's Bells today?
02:14I'm good, thank you.
02:15Listen, I think your letters are of the standard of a series champion. The numbers.
02:23Yeah.
02:23That's probably the one bit, how have you felt, especially yesterday, thinking, OK, I can do a bit better there.
02:28Yeah, it's a lot harder when you're here, I think. Yeah, time just goes so fast.
02:33Yes.
02:33Yeah.
02:33But doing brilliant so far, three wins. And you're up against Mickey Haymes from Guernsey.
02:38Hiya, Mickey.
02:39Hello.
02:39Excellent. You, so much we could talk about. So, so much.
02:43But I'm drawn to the fact that he won the Guernsey Dancefloor Challenge. Now, that's what I'm...
02:49Forget all these ultra-marathons that you've managed to run. The great job that you do at nine to five.
02:55Tell me, what is that?
02:57So, it's like the Guernsey equivalent to Strictly Come Dancing.
03:00Come on.
03:01Yeah. And I'm lucky. My mum's a dance teacher.
03:04Oh.
03:05So, yeah, I got entered into that. And you train up a local personality.
03:11Nice.
03:11Do some dancing. And then you put on a show.
03:14Brilliant. Excellent. All right, Twinkle Toes. Let's see how you get on today. Good luck to Mickey and Helen.
03:19APPLAUSE
03:20Off you go, MacGivern.
03:23Hi, Rachel.
03:23Hi, Helen.
03:24Consonant, please.
03:25Thank you. Start today with...
03:27N.
03:28And another?
03:30L.
03:31And a third?
03:33R.
03:34And a vowel, please.
03:35A.
03:37And another?
03:38U.
03:39And a consonant?
03:41D.
03:43Another consonant?
03:44S.
03:46And a vowel?
03:47E.
03:50And a final consonant, please.
03:53Final?
03:54T.
03:55At Holm London, the studio, let's play Kinkdine.
04:28Helen?
04:29Eight.
04:30Mickey?
04:30Seven.
04:31What's the seven?
04:32Launders.
04:33Oh, Mickey, bombshell for you here. That's an eight. Oh, my goodness me. So, maybe Helen was on the money and counted eight?
04:42Launders.
04:43Yeah. Well done. Congratulations.
04:45APPLAUSE
04:46Well, it's a little glimpse of how good Mickey is, even though a little bit of early show nerves. How did you get on Dictionary Corners?
04:52Sorry, Mickey. Yeah. Just another eight. Trundles.
04:56Trundles.
04:56Trundles, yeah.
04:57Trundles and Launders. And Mickey, you're in charge of these letters.
05:00Hi, Rachel.
05:00Hi, Mickey.
05:01I'll start with a consonant, please.
05:03Thank you. Start with N.
05:05And another?
05:07S.
05:08And one more.
05:09T.
05:11And a vowel, please.
05:13And another?
05:15And a consonant, please.
05:18N.
05:20A consonant.
05:22Y.
05:24A vowel, please.
05:26A.
05:28And a final vowel.
05:30And a vowel.
05:31And a final E.
05:32Ah, let's play.
05:34A vowel, please.
05:35And a vowel, please.
05:35And a vowel, please.
05:36And a vowel, please.
05:36And a vowel, please.
05:37And a vowel, please.
05:37And a vowel, please.
05:38And a vowel, please.
05:39And a vowel, please.
05:39And a vowel, please.
05:40And a vowel, please.
05:41And a vowel, please.
05:41And a vowel, please.
05:41And a vowel, please.
05:42And a vowel, please.
05:43And a vowel, please.
05:43And a vowel, please.
05:43And a vowel, please.
05:44And a vowel, please.
05:45And a vowel, please.
05:46And a vowel, please.
05:46And a vowel, please.
05:47And a vowel, please.
05:48And a vowel, please.
05:49And a vowel, please.
05:50And a vowel, please.
05:51And a vowel, please.
05:52ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
06:04Mickey. Just a five.
06:06And for you, Helen? Try a six.
06:08Going to try a six, taking a risk early. Doors, Mickey, the five?
06:12Tunes. She does this a bit.
06:14Helen, what have you got? Zontan.
06:16Ooh, let's just check if it's one word. It is. Yes, well done.
06:19APPLAUSE
06:22Very good indeed. Another six points for you. Levi.
06:27Seven. Innates. Innates.
06:30Yes, very specific term, this one.
06:32Innates represents a year's revenue for a Roman Catholic benefit
06:37paid to the Pope by a bishop or other cleric.
06:40What a start from Helen. Numbers now, though.
06:43Helen, you're choosing. I'll have one large and five small players.
06:46Thank you, Helen. One from the top row, five from the others.
06:49And the first numbers of the day are ten, six, eight, five, eight.
06:56And the large one, 100.
06:58And the target, 903.
07:01903. Numbers up.
07:03unconscious we three, 20th.
07:04RC-C ngày 3, 30.
07:05ě�ה-rileіт
07:06M.C
07:17m.m.m.m.m.m.m.m.m.m.m.m.m.m.m.m.m.m.m.mt.
07:209.03. Helen?
07:359.05. Two away. Mickey?
07:389.10, not written down. So, a bit further away, so, Helen,
07:42seven points here. So, I did eight over eight is one.
07:45Eight over eight is one.
07:47Ten minus the one is nine. Yep.
07:50Times 100. 900.
07:53And then at the five.
07:549.05. Two away.
07:579.03.
07:58I mean, loads of ways for one away. Just leave it with me, Cole.
08:00All right, we'll see a little bit later.
08:02Let's get the tea time teaser. Superkid. Superkid.
08:05He was a super climber and often did this.
08:08He was a super climber and often did this.
08:12Right, a lot to do before we get back to the game.
08:30Welcome back, first of all. That's my manners.
08:31She was a super climber and often did this. So, let's head over to Susie Dent.
08:37Prusicht?
08:39Yes. Prusicht?
08:40Prusicht, yes.
08:41Um, climbers will know all about this.
08:44Um, it, uh, the Prusicht method is, um, a method of ascending or descending a rope by means of two
08:50loops and it's all to do with special knots, etc.
08:53So, obviously, climbing that way is, um, proof sticking.
08:55Goodness me. Very difficult tea time teaser.
08:57It might have been a break for you at home not here.
09:00Because while Susie was working that out, Rachel, 9.03.
09:03Well, apparently, there's only one correct solution for this.
09:06So, all other routes were dead ends.
09:07But if you go the route of 100 times 8 is 800,
09:12the second 8 plus 10 is 18, times that by 6 for 108,
09:17and then you can add them together and take the remaining 5 for 9.03.
09:20Wow.
09:21APPLAUSE
09:23That's like finding the only nine-letter word.
09:25Wonderful. Right.
09:26Really good start for Helen, but plenty of road left for a challenger.
09:30Mickey, and you're choosing these letters.
09:32I'll start with that consonant, please.
09:33Thank you, Mickey.
09:34G.
09:35And a... another.
09:38S.
09:38And a vowel, please.
09:40I.
09:42Another.
09:43A.
09:44A consonant, please.
09:46P.
09:47Another.
09:49T.
09:50And a vowel.
09:52U.
09:53And a consonant.
09:55S.
09:57And a final vowel, please.
09:59Final O.
10:01And here we go.
10:02I.
10:03indications
10:05C.
10:05The
10:06American
10:20line.
10:20It's the name of the character of a jedes were The brawn, your head.
10:22The brain is a
10:28MUSIC
10:33Mickey?
10:34A six.
10:35A six for you.
10:36Helen?
10:37A six.
10:38A six too.
10:39All right, Mickey, let's get you on the board.
10:40Patios.
10:41Excellent.
10:42Lovely.
10:43And Helen?
10:44Spouts.
10:45Yep, it's absolutely fine.
10:46Spouts and patios.
10:47Six apiece, Levi?
10:49Yeah, a couple of sevens here.
10:51Best one, nice word, spigots.
10:53Spigots.
10:54Spigots.
10:55I hate the sound of that word.
10:56It's too sharp, Levi.
10:58I don't like a word that's sharp.
10:59No me.
11:00No.
11:01No.
11:02We like agoutis though, they're there as well.
11:03The burrowing rodents.
11:05Right.
11:0627.
11:07Six is the score as we get more letters now from our champion in pole position at the moment.
11:12A continent, please.
11:13Thank you, Helen.
11:14R.
11:15And another.
11:17F.
11:18And a third.
11:20W.
11:21And a vowel.
11:23E.
11:24And another.
11:25O.
11:26And a third.
11:27A.
11:28And a consonant.
11:29N.
11:30Another consonant.
11:31S.
11:32Finish with a consonant, please.
11:33Finish with R.
11:34And half a minute.
11:35S.
11:36Another consonant.
11:37S.
11:38Finish with a consonant, please.
11:39Finish with R.
11:40And half a minute.
11:41And a half a minute.
11:42Finish with a consonant, please.
11:43Finish with a consonant, please.
11:44And a half a minute.
11:45And a half a minute.
11:46After that, please Außerdem.
11:47Bye.
11:48We'll see you soon.
11:49Ditating.
11:50I'm so sorry.
11:51I'll laugh again.
11:52Bye.
11:53aggressively, Steph.
11:54Step out to the throat now.
11:55Hello, Mr.
11:55Easy.
11:56As well, self.
11:57Fastly without a consonant chamber, not below the seat of the probe.
11:58Tangerine on earth and off a trumpet.
11:59And a mini warrior, not below the textbook.
12:00And a community group means several different of the Voices of the facilitate group.
12:01Well, and we've seen more thoughts about anything else about the profession and although our current-known Therene even more installed,
12:02me drying too good for a Somersetimes.
12:05Now that we go ahead and effectively underneath it's HIM,
12:06seems to be mentioned to be Santa forいた.
12:07Helen?
12:15I'm going to try a nine.
12:17OK, Mickey?
12:18Six.
12:19Yeah, I have no idea.
12:21Usually you get an inkling working in this show, it's on the way.
12:24Mickey, what's the six?
12:25Answer.
12:26Helen?
12:27Forewarns.
12:28Forewarns is in the dictionary.
12:29Well done.
12:32And we were not forewarned about that.
12:35Another nine.
12:37From Helen?
12:38We have a nice seven, if you'd like, for litters of pigs.
12:40They're called farrows.
12:41Sensational stuff.
12:42Lost for words, so we'll move on to the numbers.
12:45Mickey?
12:45I'll go one big, the rest little, please.
12:47Thank you, Mickey.
12:48One from the top, five little.
12:50No big gambles just yet.
12:52And your little numbers are seven, ten, nine, two, and two.
12:58And the large one's 75.
13:00And you need to reach 238.
13:03238 numbers up.
13:04And I'm out of nine.
13:07Bye-bye.
13:11And now you're going to move on to the markets.
13:14Yeah.
13:15Hey, let's do it.
13:15And I'm out of the Avec 어차 in the business.
13:20Cause it's going to be soño to the Lukas.
13:222, 3, 8.
13:36Mickey?
13:37I lost it.
13:38Oh, don't worry.
13:39Helen?
13:40I think I've got 2, 3, 8.
13:41Off you go.
13:4210 minus 7 is 3.
13:4310 minus 7 is 3.
13:45Times 75.
13:46Times 75 is 2, 2, 5.
13:48And then 9 plus 2 plus 2.
13:50Plus 2.
13:519 plus the 2.
13:522 is for 13 to add on for 2, 3, 8.
13:54Well done.
13:55Nice.
13:56We're just about halfway so that's the time to sit back and relax and have another chat with Levi Roots.
14:01You know, funny enough, you think of like the thing that somebody's most known for, that's what we talk about a lot.
14:06But with you, we rarely talk about food.
14:08So I thought I would ask you today, when you look at all the other chefs out there, who's top of your list?
14:15Who do you really enjoy either watching or reading their food or reading their books?
14:19Yeah, well there's been some inspirational chefs that I've met, you know, during my time since I came out of Dragon's Den.
14:26But I think there has been 4 or 5 of really special ones that's really inspired me or taught me a few things.
14:33If you remember when I came on the scene, it's not like I'd gone to school to study chefing or food or anything like that.
14:39It was just my grandmother's cooking.
14:41Yeah.
14:42So obviously, you know, lots of TV opportunities came to and I had to learn a lot from the get-go.
14:48And I think the first one that I'd like to mention that was really inspirational to me was good ol' Ainsley Harriet.
14:54Yeah.
14:55Because the first show that I actually went on after coming out of Dragon's Den was on his Ready Steady Cook.
15:00Yeah.
15:01And ol' Ainsley kind of saw that I was a bit green.
15:04Basically, I was like a rabbit lost in a headlight when it comes to cooking on TV.
15:08And I think he spotted that and came over to me just before I made a fool of myself and gave me one of his nice beer hugs as Ainsley always does, you know.
15:16And it just makes you feel so warm and it's just been fantastic.
15:20Relaxed me.
15:21I did the show and then moved on.
15:23So I'd like to say big respect to Ainsley.
15:26My other main one that I'd like to talk about also is Jamie Oliver.
15:30Yeah.
15:31Jamie inspired me before I came on this scene by when he was the naked chef on TV.
15:36Jamie was a bit like the lads from the corner of Brixton Frontline in the way that he was.
15:42Just a natural kid that was just doing his thing and just like, you know, just wasn't being anybody special at all.
15:48He was just cooking and enjoying himself.
15:50So it really inspired me that, well, if Jamie can do it, being himself, then someone like me who likes to be myself and not to be manufactured, you know, could be able to do it as well.
16:01And I remember he offered me to cook with him on Clapham Common many, many years ago.
16:07He wanted me to show him how to do chicken in, you know, in this original way.
16:12But I got to mention one other chef, which, you know, is so inspirational to me.
16:17I love this guy.
16:18Absolutely.
16:19I love this guy.
16:20What a guy.
16:21What an amazing guy.
16:22And I think we have lots in common.
16:23But the main thing is that he's a musician.
16:25And I don't think a lot of people know that.
16:27He plays a main guitar.
16:28Yes.
16:29And it's always fun when I'm cooking with him.
16:32But by the way, he's got an amazing house that he does all his, you know, his TV series from his house.
16:37And so we're always sort of going back and forth banter and me throwing in a few lyrics here and there while we're cooking together.
16:44And of course, I think he's got a winery on his farm.
16:49James always gives you a nice bag when you're leaving, you know, with his wines in there and everything.
16:53So you go and you go home and get back in the mood when you crack open his wines and things.
16:58So, yes.
16:59James Martin, Ainslie Ariot and Jamie Oliver, my three heroes.
17:02Yeah, I'm not sure whether you like him or he just bribes you.
17:05But either way.
17:06Exactly, yeah.
17:07But either way it works.
17:08Love that.
17:09We'll raise a glass to that.
17:10Thank you very much.
17:11APPLAUSE
17:13All right, here we go.
17:14Let's get back to it.
17:15It's going to be letters and it's going to be Helen.
17:17A consonant, please, Rachel.
17:18Thank you, Helen.
17:19C.
17:20And another, please.
17:22N.
17:23And a third.
17:25G.
17:26And a vowel.
17:28O.
17:29And another.
17:30I.
17:31Add another.
17:32E.
17:33And a consonant.
17:34D.
17:35And a consonant.
17:36R.
17:37And finish with a vowel, please.
17:38Finish with E.
17:39Let's play.
17:40E.
17:41E.
17:42E.
17:43E.
17:44E.
17:45E.
17:46E.
17:47E.
17:48E.
17:49E.
17:50E.
17:51E.
17:53E.
17:54E.
17:55E.
17:56E.
17:58E.
17:59E.
18:00E.
18:02MUSIC PLAYS
18:19Helen. A seven. And Mickie. A seven.
18:22A seven, OK. What have you got over there, Helen?
18:25Eroding. Eroding. And for Mickie?
18:28Cringed. Cringed. Yes, good word.
18:31Cringer was the name of He-Man's cat before he turned him into
18:37Battle Cat as well, cos he was just quite timid.
18:40These are all things you don't need to know. Levi.
18:42Yeah, couple of eights, Colin. Best one is recoding.
18:46Yes. Yes. There's also genocide. Not so nice.
18:49But that's F8. Thank you very much. OK.
18:5162, 13. And more letters now from Mickie.
18:55I'll start with a vowel, please. Thank you, Mickie.
18:58I. And a consonant.
19:01X. Another one.
19:05H. And another one.
19:09K. A vowel, please.
19:11O. And a consonant.
19:14T. And a vowel.
19:18I. A consonant.
19:22N. And a vowel, please.
19:27A final O. And let's play.
19:29N. And a vowel, please.
19:35MUSIC PLAYS
20:00Ooh. Mickey? Five.
20:02And Helen? Same five.
20:04Mickey? Think. Helen?
20:06And think.
20:07Right.
20:09Well, let's see if Susie and Levi thought a little bit more than we did.
20:13We've all got fives.
20:14Yeah, none at all. Yeah, fives is the best we can do.
20:17Yeah, toxins there as well, but not easy.
20:20OK, maybe someone at home spotted something.
20:23There you go. Lop around your street if you did.
20:2667-18. Back to the numbers, please.
20:30And they will be chosen by Helen.
20:33I'll stick with one large and five small, please.
20:35Thank you, Helen. One from the top.
20:36Five not coming up once more.
20:38This time the selection is five.
20:41Ten.
20:42Two.
20:43One.
20:44Three.
20:45And the large one, 75.
20:46And you need to reach 322.
20:49322.
20:50322.
20:51Numbers up.
20:521.
20:53Whom.
20:57Two.
20:59Two.
21:00Seven.
21:02Three.
21:03Three.
21:04Two.
21:05One.
21:06Piece.
21:07Two.
21:10Two.
21:11Three.
21:13Two.
21:14Two.
21:16Two.
21:183-2-2, Helen.
21:243-2-2, not written down.
21:25And Mickey?
21:263-20.
21:273-20. Off you go, Helen.
21:2975 plus 5...
21:3180.
21:31..is 80.
21:333 plus 1 is 4.
21:35Yep.
21:35Times them together.
21:36320.
21:37And add the two.
21:38Well done. 3-2-2.
21:41Second Tea Town teaser of the day is creed pun.
21:45Creed pun.
21:46Show caution, dear, but come out to play.
21:49Show caution, dear, but come out to play.
22:07Hello again.
22:08Prudence was the Tea Town teaser and the clue, of course,
22:11was a reference to the Beatles song, Dear Prudence.
22:13Show caution, dear, but come out to play.
22:16Taken from the lyrics.
22:17Mickey has joined us from Guernsey, a learning support mentor,
22:21does great work over there, and is here enjoying his afternoon with us.
22:26Lot of catching up to do, Mickey, but let's see what happens.
22:28Let's get more letters.
22:29I'll start with a consonant, please.
22:31Thank you, Mickey.
22:31And another one.
22:33And another one.
22:34D.
22:35And a third.
22:36M.
22:38And a vowel.
22:39E.
22:40And another.
22:41I.
22:42And another.
22:44E.
22:45Consonant.
22:46R.
22:47Consonant.
22:49P.
22:51And a final vowel, please.
22:54A final I.
22:55And good luck, everybody.
22:57And good luck, everybody.
22:57We'll see you next time.
23:28Time's up.
23:29Mickey.
23:30Seven.
23:31And for Helen?
23:32Just a six.
23:33The six is?
23:34Primed.
23:35And for you, Mickey?
23:36Retimed.
23:37Retimed.
23:40Yes.
23:41Excellent.
23:41Yes, you can retime something.
23:42Well done.
23:43Great seven.
23:43Anything else, Levi?
23:45Yeah, just another seven here, Colin.
23:46Merited for seven.
23:48Merited.
23:49Well done.
23:49See, Mickey, you just never know, do you?
23:51Helen, let's get more letters.
23:53Consonant, please, Rachel.
23:54Thank you, Helen.
23:55S.
23:56And another.
23:58R.
24:00And a third.
24:01P.
24:03And a vowel, please.
24:04U.
24:05And another.
24:06E.
24:07And a consonant, please.
24:24Lastly, N.
24:25And kind down.
24:56Helen, how many?
24:58A seven.
24:58And Mickey?
24:59Seven.
24:59OK, here we go.
25:00More points for both of you.
25:01Helen?
25:02Pandas.
25:03Yeah, and Mickey?
25:04Dancers.
25:04Dancers.
25:06Oh, no.
25:08Oh.
25:09Oh.
25:10I'm sorry.
25:10Oh, no.
25:11But Helen gets the seven points.
25:13And Levi, what can we say?
25:14Yeah, we've got a nine, Colin.
25:16What are you talking about?
25:17It's been an amazing.
25:19Yeah.
25:20Underpass.
25:21Underpass.
25:22There you go.
25:23Brilliant.
25:24And I hate to rub salt in Mickey's wound, but I don't know if you were thinking of, because
25:30of Guernsey French, Danseurs, D-A-N-S-E-U-R-S, they would have been in there for eight.
25:36They're male ballet dancers.
25:37So, sorry about that.
25:38There you go.
25:39Yeah.
25:40Right.
25:40Four rounds to go on today's countdown, but more origins of words now.
25:44Susie, where are we going today?
25:46I want to talk about the weather, thanks to Graham and Marjorie Offord, who wrote in to
25:52say, we use a plethora of words to describe our weather, most of them very obvious, warm, cloudy,
25:57damp, muggy, nippy.
25:58But what's the derivation of muggy, meaning hot, sticky and generally uncomfortable?
26:03I think many of us would long to be in muggy weather right now.
26:08But I was tickled by a fairly recent survey that found that Britain spend about nine minutes
26:14a day talking about the weather.
26:15That actually seemed quite little to me.
26:18They'll check the forecast 11 times a week, and the average adult spends the equivalent
26:22of five months of their entire lifetime talking about the weather.
26:26You look very puzzled by this.
26:27Nine minutes a day?
26:29Yes.
26:29Right.
26:30This is why when we go to the bar, Rachel and I go to the other end.
26:34Oh, no, Susie.
26:35I don't talk about it that much.
26:37But we are fairly obsessed by the weather, it has to be said, and our lexicon of weather
26:42terms is pretty huge.
26:45And Graham and Marjorie are right.
26:46Most of them, I suppose, are fairly obvious, but some of them are not.
26:50I mean, we have baltic, we have bitter, we have nithered, which is a wonderful word
26:54from Scots, shrammed in the south and southwest, and even hunched.
26:59She, in Cambridgeshire, which I think is brilliant.
27:02And a lot of them derive from words meaning to shrivel or to make numb, which, of course,
27:09you know, we're so used to the cold.
27:11But what about heat?
27:13Well, muggy seems to have begun as something very far away from being swelteringly humid,
27:18because it first appeared in the 17th century, and it wasn't about hot weather at all.
27:23It probably was a borrowing from Old Norse and the Vikings, and it meant mist or drizzle.
27:28So something quite different.
27:30And it even probably has a relative in an Icelandic word, mugga, which was to snow in calm weather.
27:36They have very specific weather terms there.
27:38So how did it turn to heat?
27:40Well, probably because the weather is so humid, we become damp.
27:43So if you think of those little droplets of moisture when you have foggy weather,
27:47and so you can feel the droplets of humidity in the air in our modern sense of muggy as well.
27:52Excellent.
27:54APPLAUSE
27:55All right, 84-25, our champion, Helen McGifford, putting up a monster score as it stands.
28:04Mickey, we've got four more rounds left.
28:07I want to see you get up to that half century.
28:09I think it can happen.
28:10Let's get these letters from you.
28:12I'll start with their continent, please.
28:13Thank you, Mickey.
28:14G.
28:15And another.
28:17V.
28:18A third.
28:20G.
28:21A vowel.
28:23E.
28:23Another.
28:25O.
28:26A consonant.
28:28L.
28:30A vowel.
28:32A.
28:33A consonant.
28:35C.
28:37And a final vowel, please.
28:41A final E.
28:42And kind dine.
28:43A enters.
28:49Okay.
28:49A vowel.
28:51A sound.
28:55A vowel.
28:57Stan.
28:58A vowel.
29:09A vowel.
29:09Mickey?
29:16Um, just a five.
29:17And for you, Helen?
29:19A six.
29:19The five, Mickey?
29:21Glove.
29:22And the six?
29:23Alcove.
29:24Oh, very well-spotted.
29:25Yeah, I haven't seen that one.
29:26Very nice.
29:27Well done to you.
29:28Levi, I want the word lovage to exist, as in, ah, the love they are carrying there.
29:35That's heavy lovage.
29:36You're absolutely right, Colin.
29:37It's there for six lovage.
29:39No.
29:39Yeah, not in the sense you mean it, though.
29:41Although that would be lovely.
29:42It's actually an edible plant of the parsley family.
29:47Right, 90 plays, 25 last letters, Helen.
29:51Consonant, please, Rachel.
29:52Thank you, Helen.
29:53B.
29:55And another.
29:57S.
29:58And a third.
30:00R.
30:01And a vowel, please.
30:03U.
30:04And another.
30:05I.
30:06And a consonant.
30:07And a consonant.
30:09M.
30:10Another consonant.
30:12T.
30:14And a final vowel, please.
30:16A final E.
30:17And last letters.
30:22And last letters.
30:24S.
30:42Helen?
30:56A seven.
30:56A seven from you and Mickey?
30:58Just a six.
30:59Just a six is good enough for those letters.
31:01What's a six?
31:01Bruise.
31:02Bruise.
31:03I'm for you, Helen.
31:04Mustier.
31:05Hey.
31:05Well done.
31:06Well spotted.
31:07Mustier.
31:08Goodness me.
31:09Levi, what did you get?
31:10Yeah, we got an eight-year call.
31:12Resubmit.
31:13To resubmit.
31:13Simple as that.
31:14Yeah, simple as that.
31:15A form, whatever it is.
31:16All right, 97.25.
31:19Can Helen reach the century before our final round?
31:23That's up to you, Mickey.
31:24You could be cruel here.
31:26What are you going to do?
31:27I'll give her a chance.
31:28One big and the rest.
31:30Let's all please, Rachel.
31:30You're being kind with the gentlest of selections.
31:35But is it?
31:35Let's find out.
31:36Final numbers, seven, five, four, five, three, and 25.
31:43And the target, 755.
31:46Seven, five, five, numbers up.
31:49We're going to take it now.
31:50We're going to take that moment.
31:51Have you doing this?
31:52Excellent.
31:53We'll take it now.
31:54Let me know.
31:54Let's do it.
31:54It's also...
31:55Listen.
31:57Take it down.
32:07Go.
32:10Bye.
32:11Bye.
32:11Bye.
32:12Bye.
32:12Bye.
32:12Bye.
32:12Bye.
32:15Bye.
32:15Bye.
32:15Bye.
32:18Bye.
32:187-5-5. Mickie?
32:22I've lost it again. Helen?
32:24Yeah, 7-5-5. Off you go.
32:275 times 4 is 20. Yes.
32:30And then 7 plus 3 is 10.
32:33Add them together. 30.
32:35Times 25. 750.
32:37And add the 5. Nicely done.
32:39APPLAUSE
32:42Well, look at that. Helen already home and dry.
32:44107. Colossal score could get better.
32:47But, Mickie, let's see if we can send you back to Guernsey
32:50with a Countdown Conundrum under your belt.
32:51So fingers on the buzzers.
32:53It's Wednesday afternoon and here is today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:17And that is time.
33:28Helen, Mickie, both true blanks on that.
33:31I love it. I love everyone looks away from me.
33:34Don't make eye contact with Colin.
33:36And it's the whole studio this time.
33:39Let's reveal the answer to the Countdown Conundrum.
33:42Macchiato.
33:44Well, you see, you don't even really see it anymore in the menus.
33:48Well, listen, Mickie, it wasn't a bee.
33:50It's been lovely to have you here, though.
33:52Thank you. Thank you so much.
33:53And Helen, halfway to becoming an Octo Champ.
33:57How are you feeling?
33:58I don't know what's going on. I just, yeah.
34:01I'll tell you what's going on. You're brilliant.
34:04The dark horse of Series 90 as well and truly getting into gallop.
34:09Right, Levi, Susie, see you tomorrow.
34:12See you then.
34:12Same with you, Rach. Thanks so much.
34:14Is it time now that you start thinking of the nicknames?
34:16Just in case we get another Octo Champ?
34:18Oh, it's something about a wig and kebab.
34:20We'll have to work it out at some stage.
34:22Right, we are back tomorrow.
34:23Same time, same place. You can count on us.
34:25You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com.
34:31You can also find our webpage at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
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