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00:00Welcome to the countdown studio now if you happen to find yourself fun in London this weekend don't
00:28be too frightened there hasn't been a breakout from the zoo no all those gorillas actually contain
00:34humans inside those gorilla suits because of course it's the annual 8k gorilla run and that's
00:41run every year to save the species very worthwhile hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of gorillas
00:47roaring around the streets of London fancy dress do you know something Rachel I don't think I've
00:53ever been to a fancy dress party dressed up in anything although my son sorry to have to talk
00:59to him again did have an Ali G costume which caused a little bit of a stir I hope he's grown out of
01:07that what about you so you never fancied the mankini so much of a fancy dress well I suppose maybe it
01:14would have been fancy dress what about you fancy dress parties bit of fun well my mum used to dress
01:19us up as kids when we had no choice so I've been a bunch of grapes an egg salad sandwich yeah circus
01:25tent but um I quite enjoy it especially now you can go to um they have kind of theme nights so
01:30there's one under London bridge up into a couple of times where the first one was 1920s so all the
01:35girls wore flapper dresses and the headbands and the shoes and it was all the music and the food and
01:40the piano playing in that style it was great night that's great fun yeah I tell you what's excellent
01:45in a little village near us at home in Northamptonshire um every year there's a weekend when everybody
01:53dresses up in wartime costumes and people turn up in old cars and there's a spitfire fly over
01:59it's brilliant actually the whole village turns out makes everyone a lot friendlier as well when
02:04you're all dressed up with a common theme great sport all right now who's back why Ben Laban's back
02:11with a big win 114 previously 105 terrific performance from Silchester near Reading
02:18that's right and now you're joined by Ray Waddington a retired HTV mechanic from Plymouth
02:24hold on he's a supporter of Huddersfield Town you used to come from Huddersfield I've been all my life
02:31Nick yeah originally from Huddersfield so you had quite a big day back in May
02:37oh wonderful day Nick it's the best the best day in uh in Huddersfield history for the last 45 years
02:43that's right and it saw you propelled into the Premier League exactly and you've played
02:49we played Reading funny enough so you had a great day were you in tears at the end of it did you go
02:56to the match I did go to the match my first love is Arsenal and I can't bring myself to tears if
03:02Reading lose but I'd have preferred it if they'd won there were tears in our party the children were upset
03:07I bet I bet you know good luck to Huddersfield anyway it's fantastic thank you Nick let's have a big
03:12round of applause then for Ray and for Ben too
03:15indeed and over in the corner of course Susie as well as broadcaster and journalist
03:24Janet Street Porter welcome back Janet
03:26now Ben let's get down to business shall we let us game good afternoon Rachel afternoon Ben
03:36um can I start with the consonant please thank you start today with F uh Ann of L
03:42U Min
03:47and a consonant and a consonant L and a consonant G and a vowel E and a consonant T and a vowel I
04:06And a consonant, please.
04:09S.
04:11And a final consonant, please.
04:14And a final N.
04:16And here's the countdown clock.
04:36Yes, Ben?
04:49Seven.
04:50A seven.
04:51Ray?
04:51I think it's a seven, Nick.
04:53OK.
04:54Ben?
04:55Fluting.
04:56Fluting.
04:57Ray?
04:57Saying the word, floating.
04:59You're fluting, too.
05:00What does Susie think about fluting?
05:03Yes.
05:04I think that's absolutely fine.
05:05It's either a sound reminiscent of that of a flute or it's, you know, when you get a sort of decoration, sort of series of grooves, that's fluting as well.
05:13Thank you, Janet.
05:15I heard ugliest.
05:17Yeah.
05:17That'll do.
05:18You can actually put an F on the beginning of ugliest and have fugliest.
05:23All right.
05:24Seven apiece.
05:25And Ray, your first letters game.
05:28Good luck.
05:28Afternoon, Rachel.
05:29Afternoon, Ray.
05:30Consonant, please.
05:32Start with R.
05:34Consonant.
05:35D.
05:37Consonant.
05:38T.
05:40Vowel.
05:41O.
05:42Vowel.
05:43A.
05:44Vowel.
05:46E.
05:47Consonant.
05:49D.
05:51Consonant.
05:53Y.
05:55And a final vowel, please.
05:56And a final O.
05:59Stand by.
06:00Two.
06:02Unilen última.
06:13One.
06:14One.
06:17Y.
06:17Each.
06:18Two.
06:18Two.
06:19Five.
06:19Three.
06:19Two.
06:20Two.
06:20One.
06:21Two.
06:22Two.
06:23Two.
06:23One.
06:23Two.
06:24Three.
06:24Two.
06:26Q.
06:27Yes, Ray.
06:32Just six.
06:33Six.
06:34Six as well.
06:36Yes, Ray.
06:36Adored.
06:37Adored and rooted.
06:40Yes, very good.
06:41Now, Janet and Susie.
06:43I only had adored.
06:45Yeah, we can have a deodar, which is a cedar tree with drooping branches
06:49that you'll find in the Himalayas.
06:51Right.
06:52And toady for five, otherwise.
06:54Toady.
06:55Great, great word.
06:56And 13 apiece.
06:57Look at this.
06:58And now, Ben, it's your numbers game.
07:00Can I have two from the top and four from Emeralds, please?
07:03Thank you, Ben.
07:04Two large four, little.
07:05And the first one of the day is seven.
07:08Nine.
07:09Another nine.
07:10Ten.
07:11And the big one, 75.
07:13And 25.
07:15And the target, 649.
07:17Six.
07:18Four nine.
07:18Nine.
07:26Ben.
07:50Six, four, nine.
07:51Six, four, nine.
07:52Ray?
07:52No, I've lost it.
07:54Let's stick with Ben, then, shall we, for the moment, Ben?
07:56So, nine times 75.
07:59Six, seven, five.
07:59Six, seven, five.
08:00Take away 25.
08:02650.
08:03Then ten, take away nine.
08:04Yeah.
08:05Give you one.
08:06Take that away.
08:07Lovely.
08:07Six, four, nine.
08:08Well done.
08:09Well done, indeed.
08:12And, uh, propels you to a ten-point lead now, 23 to 13, as we turn to our first tea-time
08:18teaser, which is Merry Boat.
08:20And the clue?
08:21Thanks to this, the people on the boat knew they were in for a pleasant trip.
08:26Thanks to this, the people on the boat knew they were in for a pleasant trip.
08:30Welcome back.
08:47I left with the clue.
08:48Thanks to this, the people on the boat knew they were in for a pleasant trip.
08:52And the answer to that is barometry, I guess.
08:55Yeah, a favourable barometer, when the mercury's in the right place, I suppose.
09:02There we go.
09:0323 to 13, and it's Ray's letters game.
09:06Consonant, please.
09:07Thank you, Ray.
09:09H.
09:10Consonant.
09:12T.
09:13Consonant.
09:15N.
09:17Vowel.
09:18I.
09:20Vowel.
09:21A.
09:23Another vowel.
09:24E.
09:26Consonant.
09:28V.
09:29Consonant.
09:31R.
09:33And a final consonant, please.
09:35And a final N.
09:37Countdown.
09:38And a final consonant, please.
09:48Have a great week.
10:02Yes, Ray?
10:09Six.
10:10Six.
10:11Six as well.
10:12Six from Ben.
10:14Ray?
10:14Gavin.
10:15And?
10:16Thrive.
10:17Thrive.
10:19Janet, Susie?
10:20Vayner.
10:21Mm-hm.
10:22And there's a literary term for interring a body,
10:25so burying a body in a grave, which is in earth.
10:28It's interesting it's in, not in.
10:30Yeah.
10:32Twenty-nine to nineteen.
10:34Ben, let us go.
10:36Can I start with a consonant, please, Rachel?
10:37Thank you, Ben.
10:38R.
10:41And a vowel.
10:43O.
10:44And another vowel, please.
10:46U.
10:47And a consonant.
10:50P.
10:51And a vowel, please.
10:53E.
10:54And a consonant.
10:56N.
10:58And a vowel.
11:01I.
11:02And a consonant.
11:04J.
11:06And a consonant, please.
11:08And lastly, L.
11:10And here's the countdown clock.
11:12The, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the
11:42yes Ben I've got a six but it's not written down how about Ray seven and a
11:49seven yes Ben a lupine yes indeed and Ray juniper yes nice one and Janet's
11:58nothing as good as that a pine yeah there is a strange-looking eight then it
12:04which is a neuro pill with one L in anatomy and zoology it's a dense
12:08network of nerve fibers and synapses well I never
12:17certainly closed about now only three points in it 29 to his 26 as we turn to
12:24numbers game yesterday one large five small please Rachel thank you Ray one
12:30from the top row and the other five which are three two five another two
12:38four and the big one 100 and the target nine hundred and fifty six nine five six
12:46so
12:55well Ray no I've lost it again how about Ben I think I've got it nine five six yeah let's try
13:24so five plus four plus a hundred five plus four plus 100 is 109 109 times six
13:33where's your six oh when I get six from I've got a I've got a six on my pad so yeah no I made the six but I didn't write down I made
13:41I think you might go awry anyway yeah yeah sorry it's not gonna worry Ben yeah it was brilliant here then
13:50well done well done Ben but Rachel we turn to you now then nine five six um yes it was
13:58we say 100 minus four is 96 times by five is four hundred and eighty take away two for
14:07four seven eight and times by the other two
14:09well done so 29 to 26 stays the same as we turn now to uh to Janet what have you got for us today Janet
14:24well I want to talk about the importance of play but before I do that I want to just mention fancy dress
14:32well I grew up hating fancy dress but I got over it when I turned 50 because Elton John turned 50
14:41about three months later and he had a fancy dress party and I thought I've got to rise to the occasion
14:47so I went as Wonder Woman but I hadn't realized that going as Wonder Woman meant basically wearing a pair
14:54of navy blue knickers um which actually had to be double stitched Rachel was laughing she's obviously done the
15:00same costume Wonder Woman is basically a pair of pants a corset a massive wig and some gauntlets and
15:08that outfit drove men mad but that's something that I came to late in life but one thing I read in
15:16the paper the other day which really I found fascinating is that Cambridge University has appointed
15:21a professor of play um Cambridge University reckons that play is really really important and the
15:30study of play will tell us a lot about how to get the best out of children and also signal any
15:36problems they could be having now I don't have a problem with the concept of a professor of play
15:41I am bothered that it's sponsored by one of the world's leading toy manufacturers because I do think
15:46that play should be creative you can learn so much from it but it shouldn't be allied to buying a
15:53product that's my basic problem with that but I think over the next few years we're going to see
15:59increasingly universities turn to this kind of sponsorship to fund research because obviously
16:07uh whichever way Brexit goes uh with the negotiations our academic institutions are running out of funds
16:15and they're going to need sponsorship and this is just a very uh troubling example of it yeah and so
16:21your concern is that this toy company whoever they are having sponsored it will utilize the research
16:26that's you know comes out of it well it already reshape their clean air offering it's already
16:31happening with medical research when every single day in the newspapers we read stuff presented as
16:36fact yeah that is the result of academic study but that study will be funded by butter companies
16:43milk companies drug companies or so on and then you're supposed to believe that the results are not
16:48biased there's a mcdonald's university i think that's only for people who are going to go and work in
16:52mcdonald's i think well i'd fail that straight away yeah i don't think there's ever going to be a janet
16:57street porter university probably teach people how to be extremely stroppy as long as you've kept that
17:02that uh wonder woman uniform that's the main thing yeah i'll end it promise me it's an award
17:07any time you want to go to a party's wonder woman i've got the pants don't hold your breath on that
17:13one thank you very much very good thank you jack thank you and ben it's letters for you can i start
17:24the consonant please thank you ben n uh and a vowel a and another vowel please o and a consonant d
17:39and a consonant please l and a vowel e and a consonant r
17:48and a consonant r and a consonant h and a vowel please and the last one i stand by
18:00stand by
18:19so
18:30well ben uh seven seven ray seven then airhole and hamdia um airhole is two words oh i'm afraid
18:43ben sorry that's very bad luck they're working together eventually i'm sure quite important
18:48actually you can see drifts now behind ray but over in the corner janet handler uh and there is a nine
18:55there actually yes uh and it's a very rare but it's like a beautiful adjective ho diurnal which
19:01means relating to the present day very good thank you a nine my word so ray has taken the lead 33 to
19:14uh ben's 29 and it's ray's letters game yes ray uh consonant please rachel thank you ray t
19:21and a consonant and a consonant d and a vowel a consonant c consonant z
19:35vowel o vowel i consonant s and a final consonant and a final w
19:50and here's the countdown clock
20:04so
20:20yes ray seven a seven ben only a five your five waste now ray dacoits yes you know your countdown
20:35very very good the armed robbers in burma yeah yeah wow well we've got zodiacs that's pretty good
20:44yep those are seven along with dacoits thank you zodiac signs of the zodiac 40 to 29 now and now ben
20:50your numbers game uh should we try three from the top this time let's try three thank you ben three large
20:56three little and they are nine seven five 25 75 and 100 and your target 581 581
21:10and
21:12and
21:17and
21:20and
21:24and
21:28and
21:30and
21:32Ben.
21:42582.
21:43582, Ray.
21:45582.
21:46So, Ben.
21:485 times 100.
21:51500.
21:54Plus 75, plus 7.
21:58Yeah, one away.
22:00Ray.
22:01Exactly the same.
22:02There we go.
22:04Shall I share that to Ben?
22:05Yep.
22:06But, Rachel, 581?
22:08It was, though.
22:09If you say 100 divided by 25 is 4.
22:139 minus 5 is another 4.
22:15Add them together and add it to the 75 for 83 and times it by 7.
22:20581.
22:21581.
22:22Well done.
22:24Perfectly done.
22:27Let's give our contestants a break as we go into our second tea time teaser,
22:30which is dance goal.
22:32And the clue.
22:33There may be two sides to every story, but there are 10 to this.
22:37There may be two sides to every story, but there are 10 to this.
22:41Welcome back.
22:58I lived with a clue.
22:58So, there may be two sides to every story, but there are 10 to this.
23:03And the answer to that one is decaconal.
23:07Decaconal, as in 10.
23:09So, 47 plays 36.
23:11Ben on 36.
23:13And it's Ray's letters game.
23:14Well done, Ray.
23:15Consonant, please, Rachel.
23:17Thank you, Ray.
23:18S.
23:20A consonant.
23:22L.
23:23Consonant.
23:25P.
23:26Vowel.
23:28A.
23:29Vowel.
23:31E.
23:32Another vowel.
23:34U.
23:36Consonant.
23:38T.
23:40Consonant.
23:41S.
23:45And another consonant, please.
23:46And the last one.
23:48M.
23:49Stand by.
23:50C.
23:51B.
23:52A.
24:18B.
24:19Yes, Ray?
24:22Seven.
24:22A seven.
24:23Seven.
24:24Two sevens, Ray?
24:25Samples.
24:26Now then, Ben.
24:28Staples.
24:29Yeah.
24:30Susie?
24:31Janet?
24:31Well, we've got a seven.
24:33Pulsate.
24:34Yes.
24:35Put the S on it.
24:35Pulsates for eight.
24:37Yes.
24:38Very good.
24:39Pulsates.
24:40Yeah.
24:40Anything else?
24:41I don't know we like that one.
24:42I think you should.
24:43Pulsates, 54 to 43.
24:46Ben?
24:46Letters game.
24:47Can I start the consonant, please, Rachel?
24:49Thank you, Ben.
24:50R.
24:52And a vowel.
24:53A.
24:55And a consonant, please.
24:57P.
24:58And a vowel.
25:00I.
25:02And another vowel, please.
25:04O.
25:05And a consonant.
25:07G.
25:08And another consonant, please.
25:11F.
25:13And another consonant, please.
25:16P.
25:16And a vowel, please.
25:20And lastly, A.
25:23And the clock starts now.
25:24Please.
25:33And one.
25:33And another vowel.
25:35Bye-bye.
25:36Bye-bye.
25:37Bye-bye.
25:39Bye-bye.
25:45Bye-bye.
25:47Bye-bye.
25:49Bye-bye.
25:51Ben.
25:57Dodgy six.
25:59Ray? Only four.
26:00What's that four, Ray?
26:02Pear. And grappa.
26:04Grappa. Brilliant, yeah.
26:06The brandy distilled from the fermented
26:08residue of grapes. Very strong.
26:10Grappa. Good score. And Janet?
26:12Susie? We were well beaten by grappa.
26:14Let's have a grappa. Yeah. Let's have a grappa.
26:1654 plays 49.
26:18Ray's still in the lead.
26:19And it's Susie we turn to now.
26:22Yes, Susie. Well, I have to thank
26:23Pamela Smith, who emailed in
26:26to ask about the origin of redneck.
26:28She said, is it as obvious as
26:30it seems? Is it purely sun-burnt
26:32necks from people working
26:33in the fields? But there may be
26:35a little bit more to it than that
26:38because it was first applied
26:39during the Great Depression, which was during
26:41the 1930s, and food was
26:43very scarce, particularly in the rural south,
26:46southern states of America, and so many
26:47poor people subsisted almost entirely
26:49on maize. And they used to eat something
26:51called hominy grit, which I have eaten
26:53when I lived in the States. It's like a sort of porridge
26:56made of maize
26:58entirely. And that
27:00diet is very lacking in niacin.
27:02And severe niacin
27:04deficiency can cause a really
27:06harsh reddening of the skin. It's called
27:07pellagra. It was endemic during the
27:10Great Depression because of this real lack
27:12of food. Sunlight only made
27:14it worse. And so if you imagine these
27:16poor southerners working in the sun, they had
27:18rednecks like probably nobody
27:20else at the time. So quite a sad origin
27:22for that one. It made me also think
27:24about the word pommy, which is of course
27:26what the Australians like to nickname
27:28the Brits. And that
27:30derives from pomegranate.
27:32And pomegranate, with an Australian accent,
27:34was in turn wordplay for Jimmy Grant.
27:36And Jimmy Grant was
27:38rhyming slang for an immigrant,
27:40somebody who had just arrived
27:42on the shores of Australia. And very
27:44often, again, fair-skinned Brits
27:46would arrive on the shore and become completely
27:48sunburned from the blazing sun
27:50in Australia. And so pommies
27:52short for pomegranates because of these
27:54poor rednecked Brits
27:56arriving. Nothing to do with being
27:58a prisoner of Her Majesty, which is the famous
28:00acronym or a bacronym that's applied to
28:02POM. And everything to do
28:04with sunburned skin.
28:06That's brilliant. Very good.
28:07APPLAUSE
28:08Perfect. Thank you, Susie. 54, please.
28:1649. Ray on 54.
28:18And it's Ray's letters game. Yes, Ray.
28:20Uh, consonant, please, Ray.
28:21Thank you, Ray. R.
28:24Consonant.
28:26S.
28:27Consonant.
28:29M.
28:31Vowel.
28:32I.
28:34Vowel.
28:34Vowel.
28:35U.
28:36Vowel.
28:38E.
28:40Consonant.
28:42R.
28:45Consonant.
28:46T.
28:48And the final consonant, please.
28:50And the final S.
28:52Stand by.
28:53Sven.
29:10N.
29:11Vowel.
29:12Vowel.
29:12Nem政治.
29:13Vowel.
29:13Vowel.
29:14Z.
29:15Vowel.
29:17Vowel.
29:17S.
29:18Vowel.
29:18Vowel.
29:18Vowel.
29:19Vowel.
29:20Bye.
29:22Vowel.
29:23Will Ray? Seven. A seven and? I'll try a risky eight. Ray? Musters. Ben? Surmiser.
29:36Erm... It's not specified, I'm afraid. Yeah, bad luck, bad luck. Now, Janet, Susie?
29:42Well, we had muster and then you could have mustier. Mustier? Yes. Yeah, mustier.
29:48Quite a few sevens. Rustier was there and misuser as well. Thank you.
29:52All right. Ray on 61 and Ben on 49. So, Ray's really come surging in and it's Ben's letters game.
30:01Last one of the day. Ben? Can I sell the consonant, please? Thank you, Ben. L.
30:07And a vowel? I. And a vowel, please. A. And a consonant? T.
30:16Er... And a vowel, please. E. And a consonant? C. Er... And a consonant? G. Er...
30:29And a vowel, please. U. And a consonant, please. And lastly, S. Countdown.
30:39A vowel, please. E. And a vowel, please.
30:42Thank you, Ben.
30:44And a vowel, please.
30:47I. And a vowel, please.
30:52And a vowel, please.
30:57I. And pamięadem, please.
31:00Bye.
31:01Bye.
31:03Bye.
31:05depart.
31:05Ben?
31:10Seven.
31:11And Ray?
31:13Dodgy seven.
31:14Ben?
31:15It's probably the same one.
31:15I've got laciest.
31:17No, I've got ligate.
31:19Yeah, to ligate an artery, for example, is to tie it up,
31:24to tie up a wound or an artery with a ligature.
31:27So that's absolutely fine.
31:28And laciest is also in.
31:30Very good.
31:31Yeah.
31:31Janet and Susie?
31:32Elastic.
31:34Yes.
31:35On your blue serge knickers.
31:37And Susie?
31:40Cagiest is also there.
31:41Cagiest, indeed.
31:42Yeah.
31:42All right.
31:43So 68, playing 56.
31:45Ben's still behind as we go into the final numbers game.
31:48Ray?
31:49One large, five small, please, Rachel.
31:51Thank you, Ray.
31:52Well, from the top five, little.
31:54And the final one of the day is eight, four, nine, seven, three.
32:02And the last one, 100.
32:03And the target, 243.
32:07Two, four, three.
32:08Two, four, three.
32:08Two, three, four.
32:15Ray, 244. Ben?
32:41243.
32:43Right, Ben.
32:44So, 8 plus 4 plus 7.
32:478 plus 4 plus 7, 19.
32:4919. Take that away from the 100.
32:51100 minus 19, 81.
32:54Multiply that by 3.
32:55And you have a crucial conundrum. Well done.
33:01Well done, Ben.
33:03Well done, indeed.
33:05So, there we are.
33:0768 to 66.
33:09Two great players.
33:10Can't rake him, surging in.
33:11But now, fingers on buzzers.
33:14Let's reveal today's crucial countdown conundrum.
33:22Ben.
33:23Is it mothering?
33:25Mothering.
33:25Let's see whether you're right.
33:27Mothering.
33:27And is mothering.
33:29Oh, wow.
33:36So, Ben takes it.
33:38Ben takes it at the last.
33:40Ray, you were a wonder.
33:42Thanks, Nick.
33:42That was fantastic.
33:44Thank you so much for coming.
33:45And take yourself back to Plymouth with your goodie bag.
33:49And, you know, good luck to Huddersfield Town, anyway.
33:51Thank you very much for coming.
33:53Well done.
33:54That was a bit nerve-wracking, wasn't it?
33:55A little bit, yeah.
33:56I think it was.
33:57But, anyway, we'll see you tomorrow.
33:59It's good, wasn't it?
34:00Yeah.
34:00Great game.
34:01Great game.
34:01See you tomorrow?
34:02Both of you.
34:03Yeah, see you then.
34:04Rachel, what do you reckon?
34:04It was the numbers that did it.
34:06Well, Ray Bright in the studio, especially with his shirt.
34:08I was looking forward to seeing what you had tomorrow.
34:10You have to show me upstairs before you go.
34:12All right.
34:13And we'll see you tomorrow.
34:14See you tomorrow.
34:14Okay, jolly good.
34:15Join us then.
34:16Ben will be back.
34:17You'll be very, very, very sure of it.
34:19Very good afternoon.
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