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00:30Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown.
00:33At the beginning of a week that will see us welcome back
00:37the first of our eight best Countdowners from the series.
00:40Thursday and Friday, our first two quarterfinals,
00:43and then next week, the run all the way through
00:45to crowning the champion of Series 90.
00:48Calm down. Three more regular shows first.
00:51Hi, Rachel.
00:52Are you speaking to yourself when you say calm down?
00:53It's just, you know, I...
00:55Do you know what? I was going to say I love this week more,
00:57but I don't, because we're the test match
00:59of quiz shows.
01:00We're not the one-dayer.
01:02We're not the 20-20.
01:03We take our time.
01:04We meet hundreds of people.
01:06Eventually, we get a winner.
01:07We're the fine wine of quiz shows.
01:09So I'll enjoy today as much as the quarterfinals.
01:12Yeah, I like fine wine versus cricket analogies.
01:14You know my preference.
01:16Well, listen, if we're going to go way back
01:17to the MCC of television, then it's Carnation Street,
01:20the world's longest-running TV soap opera,
01:24and in this day, 1960, the first episode.
01:27And we're both...
01:28You just about me very comfortably
01:29from the era pre-A Million Channels to watch,
01:33when so many people watched.
01:35And I remember when Deirdre had an affair
01:38with Mike Baldwin when I was a kid.
01:40It was a huge moment in our family.
01:42It was all they talked about.
01:43Well, I remember Mavis Riley, for obvious reasons.
01:46Well, if only Les Dennis was here,
01:49we'd have somebody in Dictionary Corner
01:50who could do a half-decent impression, you know?
01:52And on that note, let's cross over there, then,
01:55and welcome our guardian of the Dictionary, Susie Dent.
01:58And there you go.
01:59We got the dig in early, Rory Bremner!
02:03Happy days.
02:04Well, listen, on the last show on Friday,
02:06not only did Chris Kirby sneak in as an octo-champ
02:10to our end-of-series finals,
02:12he'll be here on Thursday's number-one seed.
02:15So this is a little preview of next season.
02:18There's not time for anyone to make the finals,
02:20but we could be making the next series champion right here.
02:23Two new friends.
02:25One of them, believe it or not,
02:26is called Michael Caine from Manchester.
02:27How are you, sir?
02:28I'm fine. Thanks, Colin.
02:29I will not stoop as low as to make any Michael Caine jokes.
02:33Can't say the same for Rory Bremner,
02:35who is just itching to bring the impression out.
02:38We'll see.
02:39But you were telling me
02:40that you're the third Michael Caine in a row in your family,
02:43so go through the order.
02:44Yeah, my grandad, Michael Caine,
02:46and my father as well, Michael Caine.
02:49So I'm number three, yes.
02:50If you had a kid,
02:51would you call your kid Michael Caine?
02:54Yes.
02:55You deserve everything you get, then.
02:57It's an open house now.
02:59We can do all we want,
03:00presence of Michael Caine.
03:01Well, best of luck to you.
03:02You're going up against Jill Russell,
03:05who, even though she lives in the Wirral,
03:06she's originally from St Helens.
03:08Let's talk Japan because part of your heart is there.
03:12And did you teach there?
03:13Tell me about it.
03:14I did.
03:16Initially, my husband volunteered me for that.
03:19And when I went to meet the head teacher,
03:21he said,
03:22oh, how do you feel like coming and teaching with us?
03:25And I took a contract there and, yeah.
03:28So can you speak Japanese?
03:31It's a hard language to learn.
03:33I can speak a little,
03:34but I'll never be fluent.
03:35Yeah.
03:35The only thing I know is that karaoke means empty orchestra.
03:41That's it.
03:42That's it.
03:42But still not bad.
03:43Michael, not a lot of people know that.
03:44It's your fault.
03:46It's your fault.
03:48Best of luck to you both,
03:49Jill and Michael.
03:52Had to get it in early.
03:53It would have happened.
03:54Either way.
03:55Michael, you're picking the letters today.
03:56Good luck to you both.
03:57Hi, Rachel.
03:57Hi, Michael.
03:59Can I have a consonant, please?
04:01Start today with C.
04:03And another.
04:04A vowel, please.
04:11And another.
04:13A consonant.
04:16A consonant.
04:20A vowel.
04:26And a consonant, please.
04:28Lastly, D.
04:30At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
04:34A consonant.
04:38A node.
04:50AowiÄ….
04:51A consonant.
04:51A consonant.
04:51A consonant.
04:52MUSIC
05:03Michael, give me a number.
05:05Seven.
05:06And our Jill?
05:06Seven.
05:07Seven as well.
05:08What a good start.
05:08Michael?
05:09Crumbed.
05:10Jill?
05:10Scoured.
05:11And scoured.
05:13Yes.
05:13I've struggled to say that word, Jill.
05:15Scoured, as in like what you do with a pan?
05:18Yes, exactly.
05:19With a scourer.
05:20A scourer.
05:20I never swallow my tongue.
05:22I'm saying that word, Rory, me and Ian Paisley, both of us.
05:25What have you got?
05:26We've got eight, haven't we?
05:27We've got obscured is there.
05:28Yes.
05:29I think there are a few sevens, but yeah, lots of them,
05:32because we didn't get your two.
05:33But obscured is there for eight.
05:34Yeah, brilliant.
05:35Well done, eight.
05:36But I think not having the pressure of a champion beside you
05:38means a really good start.
05:39Seven points each.
05:40Well done, Jill.
05:41You're up for the first time.
05:42Good luck.
05:43I'll start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
05:45Thank you, Jill.
05:46Start with G.
05:48And another one.
05:50R.
05:50And another.
05:53F.
05:54Vowel, please.
05:55I.
05:56And another.
05:57O.
05:59And another.
06:00A.
06:02Another vowel, please.
06:05E.
06:06And a consonant, please.
06:09S.
06:09And we'll end with a consonant, please.
06:13A final N.
06:15And 30 seconds.
06:17Let's do it.
06:18Let's do it.
06:31A consonant, please.
06:32MUSIC PLAYS
06:46That's it. Jill?
06:48Seven. Michael? Seven.
06:50OK, what have you got, Jill? Forages.
06:53Michael? Soaring.
06:54Soaring and forages. Absolutely fine.
06:57Rory, did you manage another eight?
06:58Yeah, we got... Well, there was another seven regains, probably lots,
07:01but organise was eight.
07:04Yeah, that was in there, if you organise the letters correctly.
07:0816 metaphorical points for you so far as we get on to the numbers
07:11for the first time this week.
07:14And, Michael, we're going to need six.
07:15Could I have one large and five small, please?
07:19You can indeed. Thank you, Michael.
07:20One large, five little first numbers of the week,
07:23and they are eight, nine, six, one, four,
07:28and a large one, 50.
07:29And the target, 342.
07:333-4-2. Numbers up.
07:34One large, four.
07:37Michael, 3-4-2.
08:06Yeah, 3-4-2, not written down.
08:08And Jill? 3-4-2.
08:10Excellent. Off you go, Michael.
08:12I've got 6 plus 1 is 7.
08:14Yep. Times by 50.
08:16350. And minus the 8.
08:18Well done. 3-4-2.
08:20And Jill? Exactly the same.
08:22Pass it on over there.
08:24OK, yep, that's fine. Thank you.
08:26Excellent.
08:28We're all tied here in the studio with two challengers.
08:31And here's your tea time teaser.
08:33I rate cut.
08:35I rate cut.
08:36Catherine was distressed by a nettle.
08:39Catherine was distressed by a nettle.
08:41I don't mind saying it.
08:43National TV.
08:44Haven't got a scooby.
08:45It is to cause a stinging sensation.
08:49like that given by a nettle.
08:51So, it causes something called urticaria.
08:53But it is to cause a stinging sensation like that given by a nettle.
08:55It causes something called urticaria which is a nettle rash essentially.
08:59And we've all been there.
09:01don't know what it is. Catherine was distressed by a nettle urticate. I don't mind saying it,
09:08national TV, haven't got a scooby. It is to cause a stinging sensation like that given by a nettle,
09:16so it causes something called urticaria, which is nettle rash, essentially, and we've all been there.
09:22Look at that, 24 points each already, so the pressure's now up both of you. Let's get more
09:26letters, Jill. Start with a consonant again, please. Thank you, Jill. K. And another. G. And another. S.
09:36One more, please. N. Vowel, please. U. And another. A. And another. E. And a consonant, please. L.
09:56And a vowel to finish. Thank you. A final I. Yay. Thanks, Rich.
10:15What are you going to do, Jill?
10:337. And for you, Michael? 7. 7-2. OK, interesting. Jill?
10:39Leaking. Leaking. And for Michael?
10:43Yep, same word.
10:45So, we definitely don't have two gamblers here, do we? With the S left over there, you could maybe have
10:51leakings. I don't know. Let's find out. No. Just check that. You can't.
10:55Ha-ha!
10:56Ha-ha! We had slaking, as in slaking your first, guineas. Oh, nice.
11:01Ceiling, that kind of thing, but couldn't get beyond the seventh. Brilliant. Look at these two, Michael and Jill. Brilliant. Let's go again. Michael.
11:07A consonant, please. Thank you, Michael. D.
11:11And another. T.
11:14And another. G.
11:17A vowel. O.
11:20And another. A.
11:23A consonant. P.
11:27A consonant. S.
11:30A vowel. I.
11:35And another vowel, please.
11:38Lastly, E.
11:40And half a minute.
11:42A consonant.
11:43A consonant.
11:44A consonant.
11:44A consonant.
11:45A consonant.
11:45A consonant.
11:46A consonant.
11:47A consonant.
11:47A consonant.
11:48A consonant.
11:48A consonant.
11:49A consonant.
11:49A consonant.
11:50A consonant.
11:51A consonant.
11:51A consonant.
11:52A consonant.
11:52A consonant.
11:52A consonant.
11:53A consonant.
11:53A consonant.
11:54A consonant.
11:54A consonant.
11:55A consonant.
11:55A consonant.
11:56A consonant.
11:56A consonant.
11:56A consonant.
11:57A consonant.
11:58A consonant.
11:58A consonant.
11:59A consonant.
12:00A consonant.
12:00A consonant.
12:01A consonant.
12:01A consonant.
12:02A consonant.
12:02A consonant.
12:04A consonant.
12:04A consonant.
12:05A consonant.
12:06A consonant.
12:06A consonant.
12:08A consonant.
12:08And that is time. Michael.
12:14Seven. And for you, Jill.
12:17Seven. Michael.
12:18Hostage. Jill. Adipose.
12:21And over to Susie. Yes. Adipose is all about fatty tissue.
12:25It's about tissue used for the storage of fat. Very good.
12:27Excellent. So, seventh heaven again, Rory?
12:29There is an eighth again.
12:32Dioptase. Dioptase.
12:34Yes. Which is... It sounds very chemical,
12:36but actually it's a rare mineral that occurs as emerald green
12:40or blue-green crystal.
12:42So, it's got a slightly exotic touch to it.
12:44It's a very clinical word for a beautiful thing, isn't it?
12:47Well, if you want something beautiful, you could have gadishas for eight.
12:51They are the North American plants with the really showy trumpet-shaped flowers.
12:55Much better. Much better.
12:56All right, back to the numbers.
12:59And Jill, it's your choice.
13:01One large and five small, please.
13:03Thank you, Jill. Another one from the top and another five.
13:06If not, let's see if we can find another ten points for you both.
13:08Here we have eight, six, one, six, ten.
13:14And the large one, 50 again.
13:16And this time you need to reach 710.
13:187-1-0. Numbers up.
13:20710.
13:3310-50.
13:37MUSIC PLAYS
13:51Jill? 7.10. Well done. And Michael? Yes, 7.10.
13:55Off you go, Jill. 8 plus 6 is 14. 14.
13:59Multiplied by 50. Is 700.
14:03And add the 10. 7.10, lovely. Nice. And for you, Michael?
14:06Exactly the same. Ah.
14:09Very good. 10 points each. APPLAUSE
14:12And, Rachel, obviously, you add everything together and multiply it by 10.
14:15It's the perfect round. I thought you'd find that satisfying.
14:18So beautiful. Not Rory Bremner, who didn't get that.
14:22I'm hopeless with numbers. Honestly, it's just...
14:25Ah, no point getting all these eights and not being able to do the numbers.
14:29As Rachel will tell you, that's not an octochamp, let me tell you.
14:32Let's have our first chat of the week.
14:35Since you were last here, we've had yet again another churn of government.
14:38Yes.
14:39And we had the chat last time about keeping up just...
14:41Yeah.
14:42Like, politicians lasting long enough to establish an impression of them.
14:45We've got a new voice. We've got a new prime minister.
14:48And with a new voice, it's all very back of the throat.
14:51It's going to take time. It's going to get worse before it gets better.
14:57But we owe it to the country.
15:00So it's all that. And also...
15:01It's hard, that.
15:03Well, it's at the back of the throat. It's all that.
15:06And it's all about managing expectations.
15:08If he was Robbie Williams, he wouldn't say,
15:10let me entertain you. Let me manage your expectations.
15:13The great speech is, can we do it?
15:15Probably not.
15:16So we've got him. We've said goodbye to David Cameron.
15:21Of course, he's gone.
15:22Just a little bit of cameo, because Rishi rang me up and he said,
15:25you know, I feel like I'm standing on the edge of the cliff,
15:27staring into the abyss.
15:28And I said, well, I'm right behind you.
15:30And also, we've lost Jacob Rees-Mogg, who's gone to GB News,
15:35doesn't have an autocue.
15:36He has a monk who illustrates...
15:38He's gone back to the 19th century, where he began.
15:43And I always see him as a Gilbert and Sullivan character.
15:46Here's a list of all the countries in Europe I can't stand.
15:49There's Portugal and Italy and Poland and Romania,
15:52the Netherlands and Germany and France and Lithuania,
15:54Sweden, Spain and Hungary and Finland and Estonia,
15:56Slovenia and Slovakia and maybe Macedonia.
15:58There's Malta, Belgium, Greece and Czech Republic and Croatia
16:01and Luxembourg and Cyprus, which is practically in Asia,
16:03and Austria and Latvia and Denmark and Bulgaria and Ireland.
16:06And if Turkey joins, the whole thing gets much scarier.
16:08But now we're out of Europe, we'll no longer be inferior.
16:11We're even doing trade deals with Burundi and Liberia.
16:14They've tried to stop us leaving, which is perfectly absurd of them.
16:17It's what the British public voted for, at least a third of them.
16:20Thank you very much.
16:21APPLAUSE
16:24Let's keep going. More letters. And Mr Cain.
16:27A consonant, please, Rachel.
16:29Thank you, Michael. W.
16:31And another?
16:33T.
16:34G.
16:35And one more, please.
16:36G.
16:37A vowel.
16:38A.
16:39Another?
16:40O.
16:41Consonant.
16:42H.
16:43A consonant.
16:44R.
16:45Vowel.
16:46E.
16:47And a consonant, please.
16:48Lastly, N.
16:49And here we go again.
16:51T.
17:01T.
17:02T.
17:03O.
17:04T.
17:05O.
17:10T.
17:11T.
17:12vitamin C,
17:13T.
17:14T.
17:15E.
17:16T.
17:17T.
17:21T.
17:22T.
17:23T.
17:24T.
17:26T.
17:29That's time. Michael?
17:35Six.
17:36Jill?
17:36Seven.
17:38Michael?
17:38Java.
17:39Jill?
17:40Another.
17:41Another.
17:42Well spotted.
17:42Fantastic. But was there another eight for Susie and Rory?
17:47Couldn't find one. There was another seven. There was Warthog.
17:50Yes.
17:51But, yes, another was one we came up with. Well done.
17:56Fantastic work. Fantastic work. What a standard.
17:58And, Jill, you're on these letters.
18:00Consonant, please.
18:02Thank you, Jill.
18:03J.
18:04And another.
18:06L.
18:07A vowel, please.
18:09O.
18:10And another.
18:12E.
18:13And another.
18:15A.
18:16A consonant.
18:18Q.
18:20And another consonant.
18:22R.
18:24A vowel.
18:27I.
18:28And the consonants.
18:30Lastly, T.
18:31And start the clock.
18:32A vowel, please.
18:33A vowel, please.
18:34A vowel, please.
18:34A vowel, please.
18:35A vowel, please.
18:35A vowel, please.
18:36A vowel, please.
18:36A vowel, please.
18:37A vowel, please.
18:37A vowel, please.
18:38A vowel, please.
18:38A vowel, please.
18:38A vowel, please.
18:38A vowel, please.
18:39A vowel, please.
18:39A vowel, please.
18:39A vowel, please.
18:40A vowel, please.
18:40A vowel, please.
18:41A vowel, please.
18:41A vowel, please.
18:42A vowel, please.
18:42A vowel, please.
18:43A vowel, please.
18:43A vowel, please.
18:44A vowel, please.
18:45A vowel, please.
18:46A vowel, please.
18:47A vowel, please.
18:48A vowel, please.
18:49A vowel, please.
18:50MUSIC PLAYS
19:03Jill. Six. Six from you. Michael?
19:06I'm going to try a seven. Going to try a seven to redress that balance.
19:10Sounds risky, though. Jill, what's the six?
19:12Jailer. What are we going for? Joltier.
19:16Joltier. Yes, I'm looking at it. Right, yeah, well done.
19:19There we go. 55 points each.
19:22Is it tied to electricity or is it tied to maybe a joltier dance move?
19:28Whatever you like, Carl.
19:30I think here it gives the examples of lifts, a car, very bumpy car ride.
19:37Yeah, it doesn't mention dancing, but why not?
19:40Anything else to add? No, that was ours, actually.
19:43The only one we had. So your match in Dictionary Corner,
19:45both of you alternately in the last two rounds,
19:47worth 55 points each. Let's get back to the numbers.
19:51Michael, third time.
19:52One large and five small, please, Rachel.
19:54Thank you, Michael. One large, five little for the most important round.
19:58And count down the numbers round.
19:59And here we go. They are four,
20:01five,
20:02six,
20:03ten,
20:04nine,
20:04and a large one,
20:0525.
20:06And your target,
20:07807.
20:09Oh, 807.
20:10Numbers up.
20:10There are five,
20:11three,
20:12five,
20:13You okay?
20:14Sorry.
20:15I'll miss you if you just got everything all you think.
20:16Love you.
20:16There are six.
20:17Three,
20:17and five,
20:18a large array of하는 world that you are not,
20:20why you are not the only one.
20:25Oh,
20:26two,
20:27and two,
20:27you know,
20:28a large major,
20:29and two,
20:30one.
20:31Super big,
20:32one.
20:40it oh seven Michael 805 okay two away Jill I lost it you lost it so Michael
20:49coming from behind to draw even could take a seven-point lead off you go 10
20:54minus 46 yes times by the other six 36 times by 25 900 oh I've gone wrong
21:04sorry 807 rich well if you say 25 times five is 125 add 10 for 135 times that
21:15by six for 810 you can take away four but one away but this is a lesser spotted
21:20impossible one so one away is the best you could have done Wow brilliant what
21:26drama what drama and this is just a lovely tea time teaser to get you the
21:30other side of our last break said Peter said Peter said and Peter with a
21:37daftest people I'd ever met said and Peter with the daftest people I'd ever met
21:42hello again what a lovely tea time teaser but did you get it said and Peter with the daftest
22:03people I'd ever met derpiest which I don't know whether this is a really old word we don't use
22:08are a more modern word but I love derp as just being a bit daft yes and that's exactly where
22:15it comes to me it's an extension of derp which is from the 1990s and it's all about the sound
22:20and derpy a bit later so beginning of this century one of the most modern words we've had there yeah
22:26yeah certainly for tea time teaser right six more rounds to go Jill you're up again
22:30consonant please thank you Jill F and another fall and another M vowel a and another a and another please oh
22:46consonant V vowel I consonant lastly n and good luck
22:58so
23:01so
23:07so
23:13so
23:19MUSIC CONTINUES
23:28Jill. Seven. And Michael. Six. Six. What's the six, Michael?
23:34In form. Can you take the lead again, Jill?
23:37Fireman. Oh, look at that. Well done. Yes, well spotted.
23:41What else, Rory? There was overman. Yeah.
23:44There, four, seven, or... What did you go?
23:47Fermion, which is a subatomic particle, but still just a seven.
23:52All right. Well, look at these sevens, non-stop sevens.
23:56And that's the difference between the both of you, as we get back to it.
23:59Michael. Consonant, please. Thank you, Michael.
24:02P. And another.
24:06N. And another.
24:09M. A vowel.
24:11A. And another.
24:14A. And a consonant, please.
24:33Final T.
24:34And let's play.
24:35MUSIC CONTINUES
24:37MUSIC CONTINUES
25:07GEL. Six.
25:09Here we go, Michael.
25:11Upbeat. Upbeat and gel.
25:14Batten. Batten down the hatches.
25:16Absolutely. Yes, very good.
25:17It's what you need to do right now with a seven-point lead.
25:20All the sixes then. Anything better, Rory?
25:23Yeah, there was. I hadn't come across this before.
25:25Is it putamen?
25:27Yes. Putamen.
25:27Putamen, the outer part of the lentiform nucleus of the brain.
25:32So let's pause, cos that's what you two need now.
25:35We drink a water, calm your nerves down.
25:37Let's get our origins of words.
25:38Yeah.
25:39Thank you to Audrey, who has written in from County Antrim.
25:43And she's wondering about the word plaque.
25:46She says it can be a memorial stone or it can be a condition of the teeth.
25:51And she's wondering if there's any connection between the two.
25:53And weirdly, there is a connection between what the dentist tells you you have too much of and the blue plaques, the wonderful plaques that commemorate people up and down the land.
26:05So the word comes from French, or it came from French to us, but actually originated with the Dutch word plaque, with a K, meaning a tablet.
26:15And that goes back to another Dutch word, plaquen, which meant to stick.
26:20And that idea of sticking is at the heart of the word in all its different meanings.
26:25So the ornamental plaque, as I say, commemorating an important individual, it's stuck onto a wall.
26:31It's attached to a wall.
26:33That sense emerged in the mid-19th century.
26:35And the plaque that we have in our mouths that we don't want is actually clinging to our teeth, which is why it's quite difficult to get rid of.
26:44And one other thing, another word for dental plaque is calculus, which dentists also call tartar.
26:51And most of us know calculus as a system in maths, whereby you use it for calculation or for reasoning.
26:58But it takes its name from a pebble used as a reckoning counter.
27:03So, again, the kind of mathematical numeracy idea.
27:06And that word comes from the Latin for limestone or chalk, because the pebble was used almost as a chalk in order to scratch sums onto the sand or onto stones, the nearest available surface.
27:18So that's calculus.
27:19But plaque itself, yeah, is all about being stuck down.
27:21Brilliant.
27:22Thank you, Susie.
27:25And thank you, Audrey.
27:27That was absolutely fantastic.
27:28Thank you for sending that in from County Antrim.
27:31Seven points in it.
27:32Three rounds to go.
27:34My goodness me.
27:35Off we go, Jill.
27:36Vowel, please.
27:37Thank you, Jill.
27:38A.
27:39And another.
27:40I.
27:41A consonant.
27:43D.
27:44And another.
27:45R.
27:46And another.
27:48G.
27:49A vowel.
27:51E.
27:52Vowel.
27:54O.
27:56Consonant.
27:57T.
27:57T.
27:57Another consonant, please.
28:00Lastly, S.
28:02Cone down.
28:14MUSIC PLAYS
28:34Jill.
28:35I lost it. I've used a letter twice.
28:37And Michael.
28:38Seven.
28:39Well, this would draw you level.
28:41No surprise to me at all that we're still neck and neck.
28:44Michael.
28:44Storage.
28:45Excellent. Straightforward as that.
28:48And that strikes at any time, Jill, when you're a challenger.
28:51There's usually one round and that is that round out of the way for you,
28:55which is the good news.
28:56Rory.
28:57We had a couple of eights.
28:59Stodgier.
29:00Yes.
29:00And also Asteroid was there as well.
29:03Asteroid. Lovely.
29:05Here we go. Last letters.
29:07You're picking, Michael.
29:08Consonant, please.
29:10Thank you, Michael.
29:10N.
29:12And another.
29:14S.
29:15One more, please.
29:17C.
29:19Vowel.
29:20E.
29:22Vowel.
29:23O.
29:26Consonant.
29:28T.
29:31Consonant.
29:32W.
29:34Vowel.
29:34Lastly, U.
29:42And last letters.
29:44We're going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be going to be
30:14Huge round, this. Michael? Seven. And Gillian? Six.
30:19The six is? Counts. Counts. Seven.
30:23Toucans? Very nice. Yeah.
30:26Rory, how did you get on? Um, well, we had toucans,
30:29so toucan played that game. Um, contuse, you had.
30:33Yes, to bruise, to cause a contusion.
30:36That was there. And also...
30:39There was a wonderful nine-letter word which I realised
30:42that Susie had just written those nine down in a different order.
30:45I thought astrigiot was going to be some Huguenot word,
30:48but it's not.
30:51We also had sutan, which is a catech worn by a Roman Catholic priest.
30:55Beautiful. Beautiful. Right. Here we go.
30:58Last numbers. Jill? I'll stay with one large and five small, please.
31:02OK. Important times. One from the top, five little.
31:05I will choose carefully for you. And the final numbers.
31:09Two, six, five, three, one. Fairly small.
31:14And the large one, 75. And with them, you need to make 816.
31:18Eight, one, six. Last numbers.
31:2010, seven, six, seven.
31:3212, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven.
31:3712, 15, 24, 15, 27.
31:428-1-6, Jill.
31:53I've not finished it.
31:55So, you could steal this, Michael.
31:578-1-7.
31:588-1-7 for seven points in the teapot.
32:016 plus 5 is 11.
32:06Times by the 75.
32:07Is 825.
32:10And then 3 plus 1 is 2.
32:12It's 4, sorry.
32:13Yes.
32:14Times by the 2.
32:15Times 2 is 8.
32:17And that does secure you the teapot.
32:18Well done.
32:19Yeah.
32:20APPLAUSE
32:20Well done.
32:22Wait till though.
32:238-1-6.
32:24Well, not that it mattered, but if Michael had had one extra second,
32:27he could have changed the brackets and said 1 plus 2 is 3,
32:30times by the 3, and had 9 to take away here for spot on.
32:34Well, what a programme today.
32:36Not done yet, though.
32:37Michael and Jill, let's get your fingers on those buzzers.
32:4010 points up for grabs.
32:41Let's reveal today's countdown conundrum.
32:57Here's our marking.
32:59Let me look around.
33:16Yeah.
33:17Oh, my goodness.
33:18Go, Rachel.
33:18I mean, that was when I had to check that it wasn't actually spelled out.
33:21It just looked like schnitzel.
33:23Oh, my...
33:24Let's take a look.
33:27Oh, brilliant.
33:31Jill, it was probably just that round where you wrote down the wrong letters,
33:35little moments.
33:36Are you happy with that?
33:37Yes, very.
33:38Really good today.
33:39So many top scores from Michael.
33:41Happy?
33:42Yes, very.
33:42Good.
33:43Teapot in the bag, but you're back tomorrow, as is Rory, as is Susie.
33:47Thank you very much.
33:48And I have a Coronation Street-themed trivia question for you, Rachel,
33:52before you go.
33:53Which is safer to live in?
33:56Albert Square, Coronation Street.
33:57I'd choose Corrie.
34:00Well, you're absolutely right.
34:01Only one member of the Corrie cast is bumped off every two years and a bit.
34:07Whereas in EastEnders, the writers like the novel of character about once a year.
34:11Well, that's the north versus the south for you.
34:14We'll be right here tomorrow, don't worry.
34:16In fact, literally behind our studio is Coronation Street.
34:20We're filming exactly the same place.
34:22There you go.
34:22We'll see you tomorrow.
34:23You can count on us.
34:24You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com.
34:30You can also find our webpage at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
34:34We'll see you tomorrow.
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