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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30Welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:3320 years, it's been 20 years since we lost the great Ernie Wise on this very day, 20 years ago.
00:41He's a wonderful character. Half of one of the great enduring comedy duos, I guess.
00:47He appeared here in Dictionary Corner back in 1919.
00:50Just thinking about those two, thinking about Ernie and those great comedy sketches, they were fantastic.
00:56And in fact, I watched some of them this morning. I watched the great breakfast show when Eric and Ernie pranced around the kitchen in their dressing gowns preparing breakfast.
01:05It was hilarious. The timing was absolutely exquisite. They were just wonderful.
01:11People would have said, well, Ernie was a bit of a straight man to Eric. I don't know. He was a great comedian in his own right.
01:16They'll stay with us all the time. They're on the television, aren't they, Rachel? And they were wonderful.
01:21I wonder if there's anybody to match them these days. I don't think there is in terms of comedy. What do you think?
01:26I don't know. I think it's about nostalgia and what you watched when you were growing up.
01:29So obviously I missed them the first time around and I've seen them in, you know, the history of comedy sketches and things like that.
01:34And they were great. But I guess for me, maybe the Little Britain, David Walliams, Matt Lucas combo, some of those sketches.
01:40You can still quote some of the catchphrases that came up and years and years and years afterwards, you still remember a lot of what they did.
01:47And that was, yeah, that was that was my youth. Yeah, you're right. I think, you know, comedy changes, progresses, goes backwards.
01:54And maybe in those days, Eric and Ernie were, it was softer comedy, maybe not quite as sharp, not quite as sharp.
02:01I'll tell you who's sharp. That's Jane Bathford. She's sharp. She's back again.
02:05She's got a teapot first time out. Now she's got two good wins, one on a crucial conundrum.
02:10Look at you over there. How are you feeling? Good. Thank you. Excellent.
02:14Well, now you're joined by Stephen Turnbull, a learning support assistant from Ivory in Buckinghamshire, singer, guitarist, performs in bars and clubs.
02:22That's wonderful. It's very enjoyable. I've done it, I guess, since the age of 16.
02:27In the last few years, I've discovered Irish roots. I had Irish grandparents.
02:32OK. And so a lot of my set lists features heavy Irish material mixed with as many different genres as possible, ranging from old to new.
02:43What were your what was your your grandparents family name?
02:47So it was Drury on the mother's side and Turnbull on the father's side.
02:52So it's Roscommon and Dublin and Tipperary. Excellent.
02:55You're very welcome. Have a lot of fun. Both of you. Good luck to Jane and Stephen.
02:59Big round of applause now.
03:02And over in the corner, Susie, of course, sitting next to radio and TV sports presenter, Mark Pugach.
03:10Welcome back, Mark.
03:14All right. Jane, you know how it goes. It's a letters game. Off we go.
03:19Good afternoon, Rachel. Afternoon, Jane.
03:21Could I start with a consonant, please? Thank you.
03:22Start with T. And another, please.
03:25R. And a vowel.
03:28U. And another.
03:31A. And a consonant, please.
03:34P. And another.
03:37N. And a vowel.
03:40E. And another vowel, please.
03:44I. And a final consonant.
03:46A final S.
03:47And it's Countdown.
03:50MUSIC PLAYS
03:53J.N.
03:59J.N.
03:59MUSIC CONTINUES
04:29MUSIC CONTINUES
04:59PRUINATE
04:59PRUINATE, INDEED
05:01ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU
05:02STEPHEN
05:03YOUR LETTERS GAME
05:04GOOD AFTERNOON, RACHEL
05:06AFTERNOON, STEPHEN
05:07CAN I HAVE A CONTINENT, PLEASE?
05:08YOU CAN, INDEED
05:08H
05:10AND ANOTHER ONE
05:11R
05:14AND A THIRD
05:16N
05:17AND A VOWEL
05:19E
05:21AND A SECOND VOWEL
05:22A
05:24AND A THIRD
05:26E
05:27AND A CONSONANT
05:30B
05:31ANOTHER CONSONANT
05:33P
05:34AND FINISH WITH A VOWEL, PLEASE
05:37AND FINISH WITH O
05:39STANDBY
05:40MUSIC CONTINUES
05:41MUSIC CONTINUES
05:42MUSIC CONTINUES
05:43MUSIC CONTINUES
05:45MUSIC CONTINUES
05:46STEVE
06:13STEVE
06:13Six. A six. Jane? I've got a six, but not written down.
06:17What is it, Jane? Phoner. A phoner.
06:20Stephen? An orphan. And an orphan.
06:23Yeah. Now, the corner. What have we got in the corner there?
06:27Another six. A peahen. Yes.
06:30As opposed to a peacock. Obviously a peahen. But there is an eight in there.
06:33You're a phoner. You're most of the way there with the eight.
06:36Yes. Earphone is their fate.
06:38Well done. Thanks, Mark. Thank you.
06:41Fourteen. Fourteen plays six in Stephen's favour.
06:45Jane, first numbers game for you.
06:48OK. Can I have the usual one large and five small, please, Rachel?
06:51You can indeed. OK, for this side.
06:53Four. One large five. Little which are...
06:55Seven. Five. Four. Two. Two. And fifty.
07:04And the target, seven hundred and twenty-nine.
07:06Seven to nine.
07:11Yes, Jane?
07:40Seven-thirty, Nick. One away. Stephen?
07:44I think I have seven-two-nine.
07:45Thank you. Off we go.
07:47So, fifty plus two is fifty-two.
07:50Fifty-two.
07:51Seven times the other two is fourteen.
07:54Yep.
07:55Times them together. It should be seven-two-eight.
07:57It is seven-two-eight.
07:58And then you've got five minus four is the one.
08:02It is indeed. Well done.
08:03Seven-two-nine.
08:03Well done.
08:06Well done, Stephen.
08:08All right.
08:09So, it's twenty-four plays six.
08:11Jane on six as we turn to our first tea-time teaser, which is Deck-A-Wash.
08:15And the clue.
08:16The decking was awash with little bits of wood when he used his tool.
08:21The decking was awash with little bits of wood when he used his tool.
08:25Welcome back.
08:41I left you with the clue that Deck-A-Wash was awash with little bits of wood when he used his tool.
08:46And the answer to that one is hack-sword.
08:49Hack-sword.
08:52Now then, twenty-four plays six.
08:54Stephen?
08:55Better skin.
08:56I'll start with the consonant, please, Rachel.
08:58Thank you, Stephen.
08:59M.
09:00And a second one.
09:02G.
09:03And a third.
09:06D.
09:07And a vowel.
09:09I.
09:10Another vowel, please.
09:12U.
09:13And a third.
09:16I.
09:17And a consonant.
09:20S.
09:21A consonant.
09:23N.
09:24And finish with a vowel, please.
09:28Finish with O.
09:29Stand by.
09:30.
09:37Never mind.
09:41Maybe.
09:43I don't know.
09:44I don't know.
09:45I don't know.
09:47We may see here.
09:50That may be.
09:56I'm doing it.
09:57I'm doing it.
09:58Stephen.
10:03Seven, Nick.
10:05And?
10:06Six.
10:07And a six.
10:08Jane.
10:08Dowsing.
10:10Yes, Stephen.
10:11Dowsing?
10:12Yes.
10:13Could be you in.
10:14Absolutely fine.
10:14Well done.
10:15Good man.
10:16Now, Mark and Susie.
10:18Well, you've got...
10:19Mousing, is that?
10:20Mousing, yes, what a cat does.
10:22That will give you another seven.
10:23Mousing, yeah.
10:24That's it?
10:24Yeah.
10:2631 to six.
10:27My word.
10:27Big impression there, Stephen.
10:29And it's Jane we look to now then, Jane.
10:32Can I start with a consonant, please?
10:33Thank you, Jane.
10:34R.
10:35And a vowel, please.
10:37A.
10:38And a consonant.
10:40M.
10:41And a vowel.
10:42I.
10:44And a consonant.
10:45L.
10:46And a vowel.
10:48E.
10:49And a consonant.
10:51N.
10:51And a vowel.
10:54I.
10:54And finish with a consonant, please.
10:57Finish with D.
10:59Stand by.
11:29Well, Jane? Seven. A seven. Stephen? Just six. Your six? That would be remain. Yes. Relined? Relined. Oh, you need to ease, I'm afraid. No. Sorry. Never mind. It's a shock. Sorry, everybody. Don't worry. Mark and Susie, what have we got? Mark? Eight. Meridian. Meridian. Meridian. Well done. Well done. Thank you, Mark. Thank you, Susie. Bad luck there, Jane. Stephen, your numbers came.
12:00Rachel, can I have one larger and five small, please? You can, indeed. Popular choice lately. One large, five, little. And for the second time today, they are seven, one, ten, six, five, and fifty. And this time the target, six hundred and seventy.
12:16Six, seven, zero.
12:18One, ten, zero.
12:19One, ten, zero.
12:20One, ten, zero.
12:21One, ten, zero.
12:22One, ten, zero.
12:23One, ten, zero.
12:24One, ten, zero.
12:25One, ten, zero.
12:26One, ten, zero.
12:27One, ten, zero.
12:28One, ten, zero.
12:29One, ten, zero.
12:30One, ten, zero.
12:31One, ten, zero.
12:32One, ten, zero.
12:33One, ten, zero.
12:34One, ten, zero.
12:35One, ten, zero.
12:36One, ten, zero.
12:37One, ten, zero.
12:38One, ten, zero.
12:39One, ten, zero.
12:40One, ten, zero.
12:41One, ten, zero.
12:42One, ten, zero.
12:43One, ten, zero.
12:45Stephen.
12:50That's 6, 7, 0.
12:526, 7, 0, but not written down.
12:54Jane, help us.
12:55I did 50 plus 10 plus 7.
12:5867.
12:59And then I did 6 minus 1 is 5.
13:01Yep.
13:01Add the other 5.
13:0310.
13:04And then multiply.
13:05Magic.
13:05And Stephen.
13:06I did 7 plus 6 plus 5.
13:107 plus 6 plus 5 is 18.
13:12Minus 1 is 17.
13:14Yep.
13:14Plus the 50.
13:1667 again.
13:17Times the 10.
13:17Lovely.
13:18Well done.
13:19Well done.
13:22Let's have another break now.
13:2447 plays 16.
13:25Jane on 16 as we turn to Mark.
13:27And Mark, today, Mark, sir, an anniversary that's very close to your heart.
13:32Yes.
13:33Last November, of course, we commemorated 100 years since the end of the First World War.
13:38And I'd always known that my great-uncle, my grandfather's younger brother,
13:42had died in the First World War.
13:44But I only discovered in the run-up to the armistice last November that the date on which
13:49he died was today, 21st of March.
13:52And that the 21st of March 1918, the day that he was killed, was the second bloodiest day
13:57in British military history.
13:59The first day of the Somme is the bloodiest.
14:01But this day, the 21st of March, was the start of the German spring offensive.
14:06The Germans knew that time was running out because the Americans had come in on the Allies' side,
14:11and the Germans were thinking, it's now or never, one big last push.
14:16And he was killed at Freecore on this day.
14:20He was 19.
14:21He was a rifleman from Kent.
14:23He was called Dudley Clifton.
14:24He'd been in France for two and a half months, that's all.
14:28And my mum, my late mum, his niece, said that the only way they, he was in a tank, apparently,
14:34the only way, and obviously the tanks were in the war by then, the only way that they
14:37identified him was the gold watch his parents had given him for his 18th birthday.
14:41That's the only way that they identified him.
14:44And it was, when I was reading this story, it's such a sliding doors moment for a generation,
14:48because his brother, my grandfather, was called Reggie.
14:52He lived into his 90s, lived a full life into his 90s.
14:55And I said to my mum one day, does, does he ever talk about the war?
15:00Does he ever talk about his brother?
15:01Does he ever talk about the war?
15:03And she said, no, he's never mentioned it, ever.
15:05Which I think is very common for that generation.
15:08As we know, the horrors that befell them, that they wouldn't want to talk about it.
15:12And his very last Christmas, his very last Christmas, I was having a drink with him before lunch.
15:17And he turned to me, and he always called me boy.
15:20That's what he called me.
15:21And my cousin he called boy as well.
15:23And he said, I just had my first term at university.
15:26And he said, boy, you like gambling, don't you?
15:30And I said, yes, I like a bet.
15:33Why do you ask?
15:35And he said, we used to gamble every single night in the trenches.
15:40And everyone's looking at him and going, you're talking about the war.
15:44You've never done this before.
15:45And it was quite a good early example for me doing the business I do about this is good.
15:51This is going to be a good interview.
15:52You've got to you've got to learn to keep this interview going.
15:54And I said, why did you why did you do that?
15:57Why did you gamble every night in the trenches?
16:00And he said, we assumed we'd be killed the next day.
16:04Might as well gamble everything you've got.
16:05It didn't matter.
16:06And that was it.
16:08Another drink, boy.
16:09And that was it.
16:10But I think when you look at that sliding doors moment between a 19 year old, his brother killed and him living to his 90s.
16:17We don't know these people that were killed, really, do we, our generation.
16:20But 100 years last year, 101 years to this day, 102 years.
16:25I just feel there's something within us that while we can remember, we must remember.
16:29Absolutely.
16:30Absolutely.
16:34I was in Gideford, a little market town in Dorset.
16:37But what amazed me was that the war memorial had 148 names on it.
16:43And a lot of them were brothers.
16:45Yes.
16:46Extraordinary.
16:47Absolutely.
16:47Amazing.
16:48Terrifying.
16:5047th place, 16.
16:52Stephen on 47.
16:54Jane, your letters came.
16:55Could I start with a consonant, please, Rachel?
16:57Thank you, Jane.
16:58T.
16:58And a consonant.
17:00S.
17:01And a vowel.
17:03O.
17:04And another.
17:05E.
17:06And a consonant.
17:08D.
17:10And another.
17:12R.
17:13And another.
17:14G.
17:16And a vowel.
17:19U.
17:21And another vowel, please.
17:22And lastly, A.
17:25Stand by.
17:26And another vowel, please.
17:27And another vowel, please.
17:28And another vowel, please.
17:29And another vowel, please.
17:29And another vowel, please.
17:31And another vowel, please.
17:31And another vowel, please.
17:31And another vowel, please.
17:32And another vowel, please.
17:32And another vowel, please.
17:33And another vowel, please.
17:33And another vowel, please.
17:34And another vowel, please.
17:35And another vowel, please.
17:36And another vowel, please.
17:37And another vowel, please.
17:38And another vowel, please.
17:39And another vowel, please.
17:40And another vowel, please.
17:41And another vowel, please.
17:42And another vowel, please.
17:43And another vowel, please.
17:44And another vowel, please.
17:45And another vowel, please.
17:46And another vowel, please.
17:47And another vowel, please.
17:48And another vowel, please.
17:49Well, Jane?
17:58A seven, Nick.
17:59And Stephen?
18:00Eight.
18:02Jane?
18:02Sugared.
18:03Sugared and Stephen?
18:05Outrages?
18:06Yeah, excellent, well done.
18:07Outrages.
18:08Well done.
18:10Well done, Stephen.
18:12And over in the corner there, Susie and Mark.
18:14Mark?
18:14Outrages, obviously, eight.
18:16Outrages, seven.
18:17Put the S on.
18:17You've got a couple of other sevens in there.
18:20Roasted and groused, but Outrages was our best.
18:24All right, 55 to 16.
18:26Stephen, well played.
18:28Try this letters game.
18:30Have a consonant, please, Rachel.
18:31Thank you, Stephen.
18:32L.
18:34And a second?
18:36F.
18:37And a third?
18:39S.
18:40And a vowel?
18:42O.
18:43And another vowel, please.
18:44E.
18:46And a third?
18:47A.
18:49And a consonant?
18:51J.
18:53And another consonant?
18:55B.
18:56And a vowel, please.
18:59And a final O.
19:02Countdown.
19:02A.
19:04And a vowel, please.
19:31Stephen.
19:34Six, Nick.
19:35A six, and Jane?
19:36A very risky seven.
19:38Right.
19:39Let's hear from Stephen first.
19:41Fables.
19:42Now then, Jane.
19:43Jalouse.
19:45Ah.
19:46Sounds like it should exist.
19:47Yes, but I think I might have made it up.
19:49I think Jalousey would be in there, which is a blind or a shutter.
19:52That's straight from the French, but not without the eye.
19:54No, that's OK.
19:55Yeah, that's really bad luck.
19:57Now, Susie and Mark.
19:58To dupe or to deceive somebody is to befool them, so befools would give you a second.
20:04Befools.
20:04Yeah.
20:04All right.
20:0661, 16.
20:07Look at this, Jane.
20:08Numbers game.
20:09Now then, Jane.
20:10Could I have one large and five small, please?
20:12Can indeed, thank you, Jane.
20:13One from the top again, and five not from the top again, and this time around they are one,
20:18seven, ten, another one, three, and fifty, and this target, nine hundred and seventy.
20:26Nine, seven, zero.
20:28Two, three.
20:38One, four.
20:47Two, three.
20:48Jane.
21:00No, I've got nothing. Sorry. Went wrong then.
21:03Stephen?
21:03I can't declare either. Sorry.
21:06Right.
21:09Rachel.
21:10Can you untangle this for us?
21:11I think you might kick yourselves, because there was one way.
21:14If you say 1 plus 1 is 2, times 50 is 100.
21:19Take the 3, 4, 97, and times it by 10, 900.
21:23Oh, well done.
21:24Yeah, I've got 50 minus 3, and I've got to slip to 940.
21:29Very well done there, Rachel.
21:31Now, 61 plays 16 as we turn to our second tea-time teaser,
21:36which is mine graph.
21:38And the clue.
21:39The box of luxury food was really starting to get in our way.
21:42The box of luxury food was really starting to get in her way.
22:02Welcome back. Welcome back.
22:04I left you with the clue.
22:05The box of luxury food was really starting to get in her way.
22:09In fact, it was hampering her. Hampering.
22:12Very good.
22:1361 to 16.
22:15Stephen, let's escape.
22:17Constance, please, Rachel.
22:18Thank you, Stephen.
22:19X.
22:21And the second one.
22:23V.
22:25A third.
22:27S.
22:28And a fourth.
22:30D.
22:32And a vowel.
22:34I.
22:34And another vowel.
22:37A.
22:39A third vowel, please.
22:41I.
22:43A fourth vowel.
22:45E.
22:47And finish with a consonant, please.
22:49Finish with H.
22:51Stand by.
22:52A third
22:52and a vowel.
23:19A key.
23:21Stephen.
23:24Six.
23:25A six and Jane.
23:26A six, Nick.
23:26Now then, Stephen.
23:28Something I haven't done.
23:29Shaved.
23:30Not for a while, actually.
23:32Jane.
23:32Shaved as well.
23:33There we go.
23:35Now, Mark and Susie.
23:37No advance on six.
23:38Advise.
23:39Yes.
23:40We couldn't find anything beyond six.
23:41No, we really couldn't.
23:42I'm afraid, sorry.
23:43It'll do.
23:45Jane, your letters game.
23:47Could I have a consonant, please?
23:49Thank you, Jane.
23:49T.
23:50And another.
23:52Q.
23:53And a vowel.
23:55E.
23:56And another.
23:57U.
23:58And a consonant.
24:00L.
24:01And another.
24:03S.
24:03And a vowel.
24:05E.
24:06And another.
24:08O.
24:10And a final consonant, please.
24:11Final D.
24:13And here's the countdown clock.
24:14S.
24:16And another.
24:17T defense.
24:17And another.
24:18To be continued.
24:18T
24:36And a coalition.
24:36Well, Jane?
24:46Six, Nick.
24:48A six. Stephen?
24:49Seven.
24:50Jane?
24:51Outled.
24:51And Stephen?
24:53Loudest.
24:54Loudest?
24:55Yes.
24:56How does that sound in the corner?
24:58There's a few sevens, something we all had to do to our children occasionally, de-louse.
25:03I've got the nits.
25:05Yes.
25:06Yeah.
25:06Anything else?
25:07Quested, talsals, lots of sevens there.
25:10And de-louse.
25:12Oh, dear.
25:1374 to 22.
25:15Stephen, strongly in the lead.
25:16Susie, it's your origins of words.
25:18What have you got there?
25:20I'm going to try and tackle a question which I am asked very, very often.
25:25And this time it comes from Jasna.
25:27I hope Jasna, I've pronounced that properly.
25:29Halsey, who emailed to say she'd love to know the origin of reigning cats and dogs because she's a foreigner.
25:35And she says, it just doesn't make sense to me.
25:37I picture lots of puppies and kittens flying in the air.
25:40Please, can you explain?
25:42Well, I'll just get this out of the way right from the beginning.
25:46We don't know the precise source of it.
25:48It goes back to the 17th century, so it's pretty old.
25:51But as I often say, that hasn't stopped people trying to guess.
25:56I'm going to start with a poem by Jonathan Swift.
26:00It was a satirical poem, and it described the streets being awash with the dead bodies of animals.
26:08It was called A Description of a City Shower.
26:10It was first published in the Tatler magazine.
26:12This was in 1710.
26:14And he writes of sweeping from butcher's stools, dung, guts and blood, drowned puppies, stinking sprats, all drenched in mud.
26:22Dead cats and turnip tops come tumbling down the flood.
26:26And lots of people take this as a sort of example of the fact that there were lots of dead animals washing around the streets.
26:32And if you look further in all the sort of references to the place names that he mentions in his poem, you can see that he's referring to the river Fleet, which at the time, and like London's other rivers, was an open sewer, essentially.
26:47Dead animals would have been thrown into there, as well as all sorts of debris.
26:52And possibly, as I say, cats and dogs.
26:55They could have been washed down in heavy weather.
26:57So it's plausible that some cats may have been seen, and dogs, in rivers during rainstorms.
27:02But they would have been seen there just any time, really.
27:05It doesn't necessarily have to coincide with rain, so it doesn't quite make sense.
27:09There's another theory that links the phrase to mythology, because dogs and wolves were a tendency to Odin, the god of storms.
27:16And sailors definitely associated them with rain.
27:19And witches, who often took the forms of their familiars, which were cats, were said to have ridden the wind.
27:24So, again, another storm association.
27:27It's also been suggested, and there's an email that consistently does the rounds, which people send to me all the time, which suggests that cats and dogs were washed from roofs during heavy weather.
27:37But that assumes that dogs and cats like to live in thatched roofs, and there's absolutely no evidence for that whatsoever.
27:43So, essentially, we think it's just a figurative expression, really, because in the north of England, they talk about raining stair rods.
27:51And, of course, nobody expects literal stair rods to be sort of coming down in any way at all.
27:55So we think it's possibly to do with the traditional fighting that cats and dogs, you know, often indulge in.
28:02And the idea that it was just an intensifier, really.
28:04It was raining in a really bad and loud way, just as when cats and dogs come together.
28:09So I'm sorry I can't give a definitive answer, but, as I say, it's fun trying to guess.
28:14Very good.
28:18Raining stair rods.
28:19Is that northern?
28:19I thought everybody used that.
28:21Oh, I associate it with the north of England.
28:22Just the intensity of it, sort of solid rain.
28:26Yeah.
28:26Stair rods.
28:27Great expression.
28:2874 to 22.
28:30Stephen, 74.
28:32Stephen, you're back.
28:33Off we go.
28:34Letters game.
28:35Consonant, please, Rachel.
28:36Thank you, Stephen.
28:37T.
28:38And another one.
28:40D.
28:42And a vowel, please.
28:44E.
28:45And another vowel.
28:46I.
28:48And a third.
28:49A.
28:50And a consonant.
28:51R.
28:54Another consonant, please.
28:55Z.
28:58Another consonant, please.
29:00F.
29:01And finish with a vowel.
29:03Finish with E.
29:06Counter.
29:06Counter.
29:06uto.
29:16A rol.
29:29A i.
29:29A i.
29:30A i.
29:30A i.
29:31A i.
29:31Yes, Stephen.
29:37Six.
29:38A six, Jane.
29:39Also a six.
29:41Stephen.
29:42Tirade.
29:43And Jane.
29:44Dafter.
29:45Yes.
29:46They're pretty fine.
29:47Those are sixes.
29:48Any advance, Mark, Susie?
29:50Well, seven.
29:52Yeah.
29:52Wouldn't have it now, but of course, going back in time.
29:56Draftee.
29:57A draftee, yeah.
29:58Yes.
29:59Conscripted for military service.
30:00Mmm.
30:01Nothing else?
30:02No.
30:0280 plays 28.
30:04Stephen on 80.
30:05Great score.
30:06Jane, your letters game.
30:07Final one of the day.
30:08Could I have a consonant, please?
30:10Thank you, Jane.
30:11Y.
30:12And another.
30:14L.
30:15And another.
30:16T.
30:17And a vowel.
30:19O.
30:20And another.
30:21I.
30:22And another.
30:24A.
30:25And a consonant.
30:27N.
30:28And another.
30:29W.
30:31And finish with a vowel, I think, please.
30:34And finish with O.
30:36Stand by.
30:36P tramad.
30:45T송.
30:45Melodex.
30:46And this reason has been so good.
30:47I know this has been aization.
30:56I know this had been a navigation issue.
30:58I know this is the math.
30:58I now have a goat, but I'm sure.
31:00I know that.
31:00I know that.
31:01If you need aTeam.
31:02And one of the首 one has been used.
31:03And if you need a microphone.
31:06Yes, Jen?
31:08Just a six, Nick.
31:09A six, Stephen.
31:10Six also.
31:11Jen?
31:12Lotion.
31:13And?
31:14Lotion also.
31:15Lotion.
31:16Good, right.
31:17In the corner?
31:18One of those group of letters where there wasn't much in there.
31:21I don't think we could find anything else, could we?
31:23No, that was a single one that came to our minds.
31:24That was it?
31:25Yeah.
31:26All right.
31:2786 to 34.
31:28Final numbers game.
31:29Stephen?
31:30One large and five small, please, Rachel.
31:32Same again.
31:33Fourth time today.
31:34One large, five little, and the final numbers are three, six, four, ten, one, and one hundred.
31:45And the target, five hundred and seventy-seven.
31:47Five, seven, seven.
32:04Five, seven, seven.
32:22And?
32:23Jane?
32:24Five, seven, six.
32:25All right.
32:26Down to you, Stephen.
32:27So, one hundred times six is six hundred?
32:30Six hundred.
32:31Four times three is twelve?
32:33Yep.
32:34Plus one is thirteen?
32:36Yep.
32:36Plus ten?
32:37Twenty-three.
32:38Take it off.
32:39Perfect.
32:39Five, seven, seven.
32:40Well done.
32:40Well done.
32:44Good score, Stephen.
32:45Ninety-six plays teapot-owning Jane, 34, as we go into the final round.
32:52Fingers on buzzers.
32:54Good luck to you.
32:55Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:57Good luck to you.
33:27No.
33:30We've drawn a blank there.
33:31Drawn a blank.
33:32Let's see what it is.
33:33And what have we got?
33:35Anthology.
33:36Anthology.
33:36All right.
33:37Now then, I'm going to say, listen, you survived a crucial conundrum yesterday, all right?
33:43And you had a win.
33:44That's two wins.
33:44You've got your teapot.
33:45I have, and I've had a lovely time.
33:46Are you happy?
33:47Yeah, I've had a lovely time.
33:48Excellent.
33:48Well, we've enjoyed having you here.
33:50So, take this back to Cardiff, back to the pharmacy.
33:54Yes.
33:55And with your teapot, you can put that on the counter?
33:58Yes.
33:58Brilliant.
33:59Well done.
33:59Thank you very much for coming.
34:01And we shall see Stephen Turnbull tomorrow.
34:04That's a good start, isn't it?
34:0596.
34:06Excellent.
34:07Well done.
34:07Thank you very much.
34:08It's a good win.
34:09See you tomorrow.
34:10With Mark.
34:11You'll be back tomorrow, Mark, I hope.
34:12I'm counting on it.
34:14And Susie, too.
34:15See you both tomorrow.
34:16See you then.
34:16It's a good start, wasn't it?
34:18Very good start.
34:18Just shy of the century, so something to aim for.
34:21Absolutely.
34:22We'll see you tomorrow.
34:23See how it gets on then.
34:24All right.
34:25Join us then.
34:25Same time, same place.
34:27You be sure of it.
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