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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30Well, good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studios and it's a happy birthday. It's a happy 75th birthday, would you believe, to the legendary Motown singer Diana Ross.
00:42She started singing when she was just 15 years old. I remember as a kid, when I was about 20, 21, she and the Supremes, because she, I guess, was in the middle of the Supremes, she was the powerful one, I think, and they were fantastic, fantastic singers.
00:57Remember Baby Love and Stop in the name of the... They were great. And there she is, 75, still banging them out.
01:05Do you have a favourite Motown song? A favourite Diana Ross song?
01:09I think Ain't No Mountain High Enough is one of her classics, especially having been brought up on Sister Act with My Mum as a Kid. That's a classic tune.
01:18Excellent stuff. All right. Well, let's turn now to our competitors here. Stephen Turnbull, Learning Support Assistant from Ivory in Buckinghamshire.
01:26A great hard-fought victory yesterday. You're third. You do like a scrap, don't you?
01:33I do. Probably a bit closer than I would have liked, but...
01:35Well, you came through. Well done. And you're joined by David Elliott, a travel writer from Newcastle.
01:40Travels all over the place, but he doesn't get taken hostage everywhere. But you did in China. What was all that about?
01:47Um, yes. I got on a SUV. It turned out they, uh, wanted some money, uh, in exchange for letting me go. But a bit more than the usual, right? Uh...
01:58This was presenting itself as a taxi, was it?
02:02Yes, but it actually was just an SUV full of family in a parking lot in the airport, which, uh, yeah, in retrospect, probably wasn't the best thing to get.
02:11Popped in, and they said, welcome. Yes. And they closed the door, locked it, drove off. Right.
02:17What did they want? How much? A hundred dollars. Is that all? Yes.
02:22You're not worth more than that. And what happened? So you got away with a hundred dollars?
02:28Uh, well, five hundred RBN or whatever it was. Whatever it was, yeah.
02:32Yes, and then they dropped me off at the wrong hotel.
02:35Because you've travelled widely, I think, haven't you? Yeah, yes, sir.
02:38South America and wherever.
02:39Uh, everywhere but, uh, like, Antarctica.
02:43Oh.
02:44Which is next on the list.
02:45Good. Well, you, you be careful.
02:47Mind you, he's a bit of a bandit. This one over here, Stephen, he's a dangerous character.
02:51He's an attacker. He lets himself slide behind slightly, and then he comes roaring back.
02:55I'm just going to let him win the whole thing until the very last second.
02:58All right. Do what you like. Let's have a big round of applause for Stephen and David. Good luck to you both.
03:03And Susie's in the corner. For the last time until we can get him back, he's a good guy. TV and radio sports broadcaster Mark Pugach. Welcome back. Welcome back.
03:16Now then, Stephen, it's your letter's game.
03:24Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:25Afternoon, Stephen.
03:26I'll have a consonant, please.
03:27Thank you. Start today with D.
03:29And a second.
03:31M.
03:32And a third.
03:35B.
03:36And a vowel, please.
03:38E.
03:39And a second vowel.
03:41O.
03:42And a third.
03:43A.
03:45And a consonant, please.
03:48R.
03:50Another consonant.
03:52S.
03:53And finish with a vowel, please.
03:55And finish with E.
03:57And here's the countdown clock.
03:59And here's the countdown clock.
04:27Stephen, seven.
04:33David, seven.
04:34All right, Stephen, boredom.
04:36And David.
04:38Bieders.
04:40OK, boredom needs two O's, unfortunately, Stephen.
04:44I'm sorry.
04:47And Bieder is not in either.
04:49So, no point.
04:52We have to rely on the corner for this one, then.
04:54Now, Mark and Susie, what have you got?
04:55Mark?
04:56For six dreams.
04:58Yes.
04:59But is a seven in there?
05:00Smeared is there.
05:02Yes.
05:03It's our best seven.
05:04All right.
05:05Let's start again, then, shall we, chaps?
05:07David.
05:08There we go.
05:09Your letters game.
05:09Sure.
05:10Hello, Rachel.
05:11Hi, David.
05:12Hey.
05:12Could I have a vowel, please?
05:14You can.
05:15You can have an E.
05:15May I get a consonant?
05:20C.
05:21Another consonant?
05:22M.
05:23And another?
05:26R.
05:27And a vowel?
05:30I.
05:31And another vowel?
05:33A.
05:33One more?
05:35O.
05:36Consonant, please.
05:38J.
05:39Another consonant?
05:41T.
05:42Stand by.
05:45Yes, David.
06:15A five.
06:16A five.
06:17Stephen?
06:17Six.
06:19David?
06:20Crime.
06:21No, Stephen.
06:22Metric.
06:23Yeah.
06:23Very good.
06:24There we go.
06:26Now, Mark and Susie?
06:28Mark?
06:28There's another five, cream, but there's a couple of sevens.
06:31Yes.
06:31Erotica?
06:32Yes, please.
06:34And another one there?
06:35Mortis, as well.
06:36Mortis.
06:37Thank you, Susie.
06:38Stephen on six.
06:40Now it's Stephen's numbers game.
06:43Yes, sir?
06:44One large and five small, please, Rachel.
06:46Thank you, Stephen.
06:46One from the top and five not from the top.
06:49And the first one of the day is seven, six, three, ten.
06:55Another ten and one hundred.
06:58And the target?
06:59Four hundred and forty-seven.
07:00Four four seven.
07:01One hundred and three.
07:05One hundred, two, ten.
07:07One hundred and forty-seven.
07:27One hundred and forty-seven.
07:28Stephen.
07:334, 4, 6.
07:35Not completely written down.
07:36One way.
07:37David.
07:38I've completely lost it.
07:39Let's try Stephen then.
07:41Yes, Stephen.
07:42OK.
07:42100 plus 10.
07:44It's 110.
07:44110.
07:467 minus 3 is 4.
07:48Yep.
07:49Times them together.
07:51440.
07:55No, I've gone wrong.
07:56We're away.
07:57Oh.
07:58OK.
07:59Over to you, Rachel.
08:014, 4, 7.
08:02You wanted to add your 6 there.
08:04Yes.
08:05But if you start the same way, 100 plus 10, 110, and instead 10 minus 6 is 4,
08:13times those together for 440, and your 7's left over to add on.
08:174, 4, 7.
08:18That's the way.
08:20Well done.
08:22Thank you, Rachel.
08:23Stephen on 6.
08:24David, you've got to score.
08:25Plenty of time for that.
08:27It's time for our first tee-time teaser, which is Arne Duvet.
08:30And the clue, his opponent's got the better of him on the road and on the golf course.
08:35His opponent's got the better of him on the road and on the golf course.
08:38Welcome back.
08:54I left with the clue.
08:55I left with the clue his opponent's got the better of him on the road and on the golf course.
08:59He was, in fact, outdriven.
09:03Outdriven is the answer.
09:04Now, if you'd like to become a Countdown contestant, you can email countdown at channel4.com to request an application form,
09:12or write to us at contestant's applications, countdown leads LS31JS.
09:21Now, David.
09:22Letters came for you.
09:23Oh, sure.
09:24Could I get a consonant, please?
09:27Thank you, David.
09:27And lastly, A.
09:52Stand by.
09:54Stand by.
09:54Stand by.
09:54Stand by.
10:00Stand by.
10:00Stand by.
10:13Stand by.
10:19Stand by.
10:24David.
10:26Seven.
10:28Stephen?
10:28Seven.
10:29Thank you, David.
10:30Now, whalers.
10:32Whalers and...
10:33In the same word.
10:35We had whalers as well.
10:36There is another seven.
10:38Yes.
10:38In Wales, which are structural pieces on the inside of a boat in Wales.
10:44That's it?
10:45No, there's one that we both enjoy.
10:47Oh, yes.
10:47No, it doesn't count.
10:48Arsenal's in there as well.
10:49Arsenal's there.
10:51Big smiles all around.
10:53Thirteen plays seven.
10:54Stephen, your letters game.
10:56Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:57Thank you, Stephen.
10:58T.
10:59And a second.
11:01C.
11:02And a third.
11:04M.
11:06And a vowel, please.
11:07O.
11:08Second vowel.
11:09A.
11:10A third.
11:12U.
11:13And a consonant.
11:15S.
11:17A consonant.
11:19C.
11:20And a vowel to finish, please.
11:23And finish, I.
11:25And here's the countdown clock.
11:27I love it.
11:27I love it.
11:33No.
11:34I love it.
11:41I love it.
11:44Stephen.
12:00Six.
12:01Six, David.
12:01Seven.
12:03Stephen.
12:04Autism.
12:06No, then, David.
12:07Caustic.
12:08Caustic, yeah.
12:09Very good, very good.
12:11No, Mark.
12:12Mark and Susie?
12:12You could have got Cactus for six, but there are a couple of eights in there.
12:16Yes.
12:18Acoustic.
12:18Yep.
12:19And Accustom.
12:22Very good.
12:23Well done.
12:23Good selection.
12:26And there's just a point in it, 14 to 13.
12:29David in the lead.
12:30David's numbers game.
12:32Yes, sir.
12:33Could I have two from the top, please?
12:36You can, indeed, and four little ones.
12:38Thank you, David.
12:39This time, the selection is four.
12:42Nine, one, ten, fifty, and twenty-five.
12:49And the target, 996.
12:52Nine, nine, six.
12:53One, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten.
13:04Well, David?
13:25Blank there again.
13:27Stephen?
13:28996.
13:30Thank you. Off we go.
13:3210 plus 9 plus 1.
13:3410 plus 9 plus 1, 20.
13:35Times 50.
13:361,000.
13:37Minus the 4.
13:38996. Marvellous.
13:40Well done.
13:42Well done.
13:45And now let's turn to Mark.
13:48Mark, what have you got for us today?
13:50I thought I'd finish with a story about the Russian World Cup,
13:53because it wasn't a side of England doing well.
13:55It was a great success in terms of how the people enjoyed themselves
13:59and the people were welcomed.
14:01Before it started, my son, who's a student, said,
14:03I really want to come to the World Cup because I can come.
14:05I've got the time.
14:06I went, no, you're not coming.
14:07We've all seen the documentaries.
14:08We've all seen how dangerous it's going to be.
14:11No, end of.
14:12Anyway, about a week in, he texted me and said,
14:14come on, it's fine, isn't it?
14:15I went, yeah, it's absolutely fine.
14:16Come over.
14:17So he came over, which means, you know, dad's got a floor.
14:20Dad's, you know, dad's got to, you know, can buy me lunch, et cetera.
14:24When England played the quarterfinal in Samara, he said to me,
14:29well, it's an hour by plane or it's 20 hours on a train.
14:33I said, well, you're paying, Sunshine.
14:35Which do you think you want to do?
14:36He went, well, I better go by train.
14:38So he took a 20-hour journey there and he texted me after an hour and he went,
14:42I'm in a cabin with a Russian family of four for 20 hours.
14:45I went, well, that's called travelling as a student.
14:48And he texted me an hour later and he went,
14:50I'm playing battleships with a 12-year-old Russian boy.
14:53I said, well, you've got no hurry then in the games.
14:56On the way back, he was with his friend Harry.
14:59And Harry's a soldier and Harry can eat anything.
15:02And he texted me and he went, dad, we're with three babushkas.
15:05Yeah.
15:05Russian grannies and they won't stop feeding us.
15:09They're so friendly and they're so welcoming and we're eating bread and cheese and pickles and ham and everything.
15:15And obviously I'm having this conversation by text.
15:17I said, what are you talking about?
15:19He said, well, we're using what anybody uses now when they can't speak the language.
15:24We're using Google Translate.
15:25This is how we're having a conversation.
15:27I said, well, what are you talking about?
15:28He said, well, we've got three topics of conversation.
15:30The first is Roman Abramovich, pretty self-explanatory.
15:33He said, the second is Margaret Thatcher.
15:37These babushkas are obsessed with Margaret Thatcher.
15:39So I looked it up a little bit.
15:41And of course, if you think back to the 80s, Margaret Thatcher and Reagan and Gorbachev had a lot of meetings,
15:47which ultimately, after Thatcher left power, led to, you know, the Soviet Union broke up.
15:53And I was just reading into it a little bit because she was so whatever people think about Thatcher's politics was incredible,
15:58incredibly patriotic.
16:00And that rang a bell with the Russians.
16:02So she was very steely.
16:03That rang a bell with the Russians.
16:06And as I saw this quote, she will remain in our the Russian memories and in our history.
16:11OK, I can understand that.
16:13But the third one I was really astonished about.
16:15The third topic was Sherlock Holmes.
16:17The Russians are obsessed with Sherlock Holmes.
16:21And what they loved about it was, I think it's they said it just played into the sense of of Anglophilia,
16:27of protocol, of self-deprecation.
16:30So you would have him having tea and you would have God save the Queen in the background.
16:34This is on Russian television.
16:35And they apparently they just loved all this.
16:37And my son said to me, those are the three topics of conversation.
16:40And he finished by saying, maybe instinctively human beings are welcoming and hospitable.
16:46Yes.
16:47And it's the politicians who mess it up for everybody.
16:49I'll drink to that.
16:50Oh, well done.
16:53Absolutely.
16:57But you're right.
16:58Remember Thatcher meeting Gorbachev and saying, I can do business with this man.
17:02Yes, absolutely.
17:03Resonates through the years.
17:05Thank you, Mark.
17:0623 plays 14.
17:07Stephen on 23.
17:09Stephen, your letters came.
17:10Constantly, please, Rachel.
17:11Thank you, Stephen.
17:13Tea.
17:14And a second.
17:14And a third.
17:19S.
17:20And a vowel, please.
17:22E.
17:22And another vowel.
17:24O.
17:25And a third.
17:27I.
17:29And a consonant.
17:31C.
17:32Another consonant.
17:34R.
17:35And finish with a vowel, please.
17:38Finish with U.
17:40Standby.
17:41Túsica
17:48Let's say it.
17:50To your right.
18:00Each time.
18:02T 엄마.
18:02Teleg Piano.
18:04T embankats on her Wreck.
18:06And a consonant.
18:07Elegant feels happy.
18:08And a consonant.
18:09And a consonant.
18:09Yeah, Stephen.
18:13Eight.
18:14David.
18:14Six.
18:15And your six is?
18:17Egoist.
18:18Yeah.
18:19Stephen, outcries.
18:20Yes, well-spisted.
18:21There we go.
18:22Well done.
18:27And in the corner there, Mark and Susie, Mark?
18:29No, no improvement on that.
18:31That's ours, too, yes.
18:32That's it?
18:3331 plays 14.
18:35David, your letters game.
18:37Could I get a vowel, please?
18:38Thank you, David.
18:40E.
18:41Consonant.
18:42S.
18:43Consonant.
18:45S.
18:47Vowel.
18:48O.
18:49Vowel.
18:51E.
18:53Consonant.
18:54P.
18:55Consonant.
18:57V.
18:58Vowel.
19:00U.
19:02Consonant, please.
19:03And the last one, G.
19:06Stand by.
19:08David.
19:25Vowel.
19:26David.
19:26David.
19:38A six.
19:39A six, Stephen?
19:41Six also.
19:42David.
19:42A vogue.
19:44And?
19:45And the same word.
19:47Two vogue.
19:48Any more vogue?
19:49Yes, we were voguing as well.
19:52Anything else, Mark?
19:53Well, you could have spouse for six,
19:54but then, of course, there's the extra E in there
19:57to espouse for seven.
20:00Very good.
20:02To espouse something.
20:0437 to 20.
20:05Stephen, your numbers game now?
20:07One large and five small, please, Rachel.
20:09Yeah, sticking to the plan.
20:10One large, five little.
20:11Thank you, Stephen.
20:12And this time they are one, five, seven, four, nine.
20:20And the large one, 50.
20:21And the target, 998.
20:25Nine, nine, eight.
20:30MUSIC CONTINUES
21:009, 9, 8
21:01Off we go, Stephen
21:024 times 5 is 20
21:04Yep
21:05Times the 50
21:06Back to 1,000
21:089 minus 7 is 2
21:10Lovely
21:10And take it off
21:119, 9, 8
21:12And David
21:12Say away
21:13There we go
21:15APPLAUSE
21:16OK, so it's 47 plays 30
21:22Stephen in the lead at the moment as we turn to our second tea time teaser
21:26which is Cry Heater
21:27And the clue, Betrayal of Trust and Deception feature highly in this answer
21:33Betrayal of Trust and Deception feature highly in this answer
21:38APPLAUSE
21:42Well, welcome back. I left you with the clue, Betrayal of Trust and Deception
21:57feature highly in this answer and the answer is treachery, treachery
22:0347 to 30, Stephen in the lead and it's David's letters game. David
22:07Could I have a vowel, please?
22:11Thank you, David
22:12O
22:12And another
22:14E
22:16And a third
22:17E
22:18Could I have a consonant, please?
22:21S
22:21A consonant
22:23N
22:24Consonant
22:25L
22:26Consonant
22:28B
22:29Consonant
22:31D
22:32Uh, vowel, please
22:34And lastly, A
22:36Stand by
22:38B
22:39And lastly, A
22:40To be continued...
22:40...
22:44To be continued...
22:45...
22:46To be continued...
22:47...
22:47...
22:48...
22:48...
22:49...
22:50Yes, David?
23:10Six.
23:11Six, Stephen?
23:12Seven.
23:14So, David?
23:15Bland's.
23:16Now, then.
23:17Low knees?
23:18Low knees, absolutely fine.
23:21Now, what have we got?
23:22Mark?
23:23You had another seven, didn't you?
23:24Yes, Beatles.
23:26Beatles, yeah.
23:26Yes.
23:27And for age, you can have sendable.
23:31Very good.
23:32If something's sendable by post.
23:35Yeah.
23:35All right.
23:36Fifty-four to thirty.
23:37Stephen?
23:38Stephen?
23:39Lessons came.
23:41Constantly, please, Rachel.
23:41Thank you, Stephen.
23:43K.
23:44And a second.
23:47M.
23:47And a third.
23:49P.
23:50And a vowel, please.
23:53E.
23:54And another vowel.
23:56A.
23:57And a third.
23:59I.
24:00And a consonant, please.
24:02G.
24:03Another consonant.
24:05T.
24:07And a vowel, please.
24:09And lastly, E.
24:12Stand by.
24:12And lastly, E.
24:21And lastly, E.
24:22.
24:23Yeah, Stephen?
24:45Six, I think.
24:47David?
24:47And unlikely seven.
24:50Now then, Stephen?
24:52Gimped.
24:54Gimped.
24:55David, what do you think?
24:56Pigmate.
25:00There's no D.
25:04Saves me that one.
25:06Pigmate.
25:07Love the idea of that.
25:08It's not in, I'm afraid.
25:09I think we're pleased that I'm wrong with that.
25:11Mark, what have you got?
25:14Gamete.
25:15The six.
25:15Yes.
25:16Yes, which is a germ cell involved in sexual reproduction,
25:20but we just stopped at six.
25:22Thank you so much.
25:2454 to 30.
25:25Now, Susie, come along.
25:27Take us away on your wonderful origins of words.
25:31Well, it's my final hat tip, at least for now,
25:33to my friend Paul Anthony Jones,
25:35who has been looking into the words that are associated with particular areas.
25:39And this one I really like, because it's a word that we use fairly often,
25:44but perhaps don't question in terms of its origin.
25:47I'm going to take you back to Germany's Neander Valley in the mid-19th century,
25:52which was a site of a discovery that would earn its place forever in our language and in our history as well.
25:59And this particular story begins 20 metres up the wall of a gorge in the Neander Valley.
26:06And there was a small cave there that was known as the Kleine Feldhofer Grotte.
26:10And one morning in August, this is 1856,
26:14two quarrymen climbed the side of the gorge and began to excavate the cave's floor.
26:19There was a thick deposit of clay there over the limestone.
26:22As they worked, their axes struck something that didn't really feel like rock,
26:28and they investigated further, and it turned out to be bone.
26:32So, first of all, they found the top of the skull,
26:35then a pair of thigh bones, and then fragments of ribs, etc.,
26:39and more and more emerged from the earth.
26:42It seemed like quite a find, but in those days,
26:44the discovery, and probably still in archaeology today,
26:48the discovery of bones was actually nothing too uncommon.
26:51Quite often, they would belong to an animal,
26:53and it was thought perhaps these belonged to a cave bear, for example.
26:57So, they tossed the bones aside and didn't really think more of them,
27:01but news spread to a local naturalist.
27:04He was an amateur naturalist called Johann Karl Fühlroth,
27:08and he visited the site to investigate.
27:11He undertook a year of painstaking research and analysis
27:14and came to an astonishing conclusion.
27:17Also, it seemed that these bones must have belonged
27:18to some ancient race of early humans.
27:22who roamed Europe, it was thought, sometime during the last ice age.
27:26So, really extraordinary.
27:27This was two years before the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species,
27:31so quite amazing.
27:32More and more similarities emerged.
27:34Some people really didn't want to believe it.
27:36Those who were creationists, of course,
27:38just thought this couldn't possibly be right.
27:40But then an influential Irish geologist called William King proposed that once and for all,
27:46these were, in fact, the bones of an ancient human and not an animal species,
27:53and it was one that was entirely distinct from anyone else.
27:56And that species, King gave the name Homo neanderthalinus.
28:00So, the man of the neanderthal valley.
28:03The valley in German is tall, and that is where we get neanderthal.
28:07Fabulous.
28:08Well done.
28:14Thank you for that.
28:1654, please.
28:1630.
28:17David, your letters came.
28:19Could I have a vowel, please?
28:22Thank you, David.
28:23I.
28:23Another vowel.
28:25E.
28:26Another vowel.
28:28U.
28:29Consonant.
28:31V.
28:32Consonant.
28:34L.
28:35Consonant.
28:36N.
28:38Consonant.
28:40H.
28:41Vowel.
28:43O.
28:45Consonant.
28:46And lastly, R.
28:47Stand by.
28:49COOD B
28:51COY
28:57COY
29:10COOP
29:11GU
29:12COY
29:15COY
29:16COY
29:16COY
29:17COY
29:17COY
29:17Well, David?
29:21Uh, six.
29:23Stephen?
29:24Six.
29:25So, David?
29:27Unlove.
29:29And Stephen?
29:31The same.
29:31Oh, both unloved.
29:34Yeah, you would think it would be unloved,
29:36but actually unlove in the infinitive is there,
29:39but actually it's a noun, a lack of love, a hatred or dislike.
29:43Mark and Susie? Mark?
29:44Well, you might look at that and go for holier,
29:47but actually you can extend it, couldn't you?
29:49You can. Unholier. An unholier alliance.
29:52Unholier.
29:56Thank you, Susie.
29:5960 plays 36.
30:00Stephen, final letters game.
30:02Off you go.
30:03Consonant, please, Rachel.
30:04Thank you, Stephen.
30:05X.
30:07And a second.
30:08T.
30:09And a third.
30:12F.
30:13And a vowel, please.
30:14A.
30:15And another vowel.
30:17E.
30:18And a third.
30:21I.
30:22And a consonant, please.
30:24T.
30:25Another consonant.
30:27R.
30:29And a vowel, please.
30:32And the last one.
30:33U.
30:35Stand by.
30:35The Moth
30:56And a vowel, please.
30:58Stephen?
31:08Seven.
31:08A seven, David?
31:10A six.
31:11And your six?
31:12Fix eight.
31:14Stephen?
31:14Fatia.
31:15Yeah, very good.
31:17Seven.
31:18And in the corner?
31:20Fixtia, seven.
31:21Another seven.
31:21OK.
31:22Susie?
31:22That was a lot.
31:23That'll do.
31:23All right, so here we go.
31:25Running into the final numbers game with score standing 67 to 36 in Stephen's favour.
31:31David, your numbers game.
31:32Could I have two big and far small, please?
31:35You can indeed.
31:36Thank you, David.
31:37Two large four little for the final one of the day.
31:39And they are 10, 3, 6, 5, 75 and 50.
31:47And the final target, 559.
31:50Five, five, nine.
31:55Five, five, nine.
32:25I think I'm going to call it wrong.
32:28Yeah, I don't know.
32:30I have something, but...
32:32We'll move over.
32:33Yes.
32:33All right, thanks, David.
32:34Stephen?
32:35A 5-5-9 not written down.
32:38That's OK.
32:38Off we go.
32:40I think I've actually made a mistake, so...
32:42Oh, bad luck.
32:43Now, Rachel, can you help us?
32:46Just the one way I could find lots of dead ends,
32:49but if you say 50 plus 5 is 55,
32:52and then you can times it by 10 for 550,
32:56and then 6 plus 3 gets you there.
32:59But as I say, lots of dead ends.
33:02Very good.
33:02Well done.
33:06So, 67 plays 36 as we go into the final round.
33:11Conundrum time, gentlemen.
33:13Fingers on buzzers.
33:14David?
33:15David?
33:15Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:22Stephen?
33:26Naturally.
33:27Naturally.
33:28Let's see whether you're right.
33:29Said with confidence, and here it comes.
33:31Well done.
33:32Well done.
33:32APPLAUSE
33:33Well done, Stephen.
33:3877.
33:38Good score, David.
33:3936.
33:40That's not bad.
33:41Thanks for coming.
33:42But he's been...
33:43He takes risks to Stephen.
33:46He's up and down.
33:47But anyway, he keeps coming through.
33:49Four wins.
33:50Am I right?
33:51Amazing.
33:52Fantastic.
33:53You take this goodie bag back to Newcastle, David.
33:56You keep...
33:57Don't get into strange cars with strange families.
34:00It works better than this, apparently.
34:02It gives you good stories, I'll tell you that much.
34:05All right.
34:05Well done.
34:06And we shall see...
34:07Stephen, we'll see you tomorrow.
34:09Well played.
34:10Well played.
34:10Thank you very much.
34:11We won't be seeing you.
34:13But please come back again.
34:14Your stories are crackers, too.
34:16They really are.
34:16It's a pleasure to have you here.
34:18I will be.
34:19Please come back soon again.
34:20Absolutely.
34:20Thank you, Mark.
34:22Susie, until tomorrow.
34:24See you, then.
34:24All right.
34:25And Rachel, too, of course.
34:26See you tomorrow.
34:26See you tomorrow.
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