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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30Good afternoon, good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:33Now our mighty research department has been at it again, drilling down and coming up with some interesting facts.
00:38And today they tell us that 75 years ago, on this very day, a film was launched right across America.
00:45A film whose sort of verbal, short verbal description might have raised a few eyebrows.
00:53Because it was about a very beautiful young woman who had chosen to live with seven men.
01:00Name that film, Rachel.
01:03Beautiful woman, seven men.
01:05Yes.
01:05Could it possibly be Snow White and the Seven Dwarves?
01:08Smart as a whip.
01:09Smart as a whip.
01:10And of course, each of those dwarves had a name that, I guess, emphasised their qualities.
01:17And I'm going to ask whether you actually match any of those dwarves.
01:20Are you dopey?
01:21I don't think so.
01:22I don't know.
01:23No.
01:24Grumpy, yes.
01:25Grumpy?
01:26In the mornings, possibly.
01:27Yes.
01:28Have you ever seen me?
01:29Sleepy, exactly.
01:30Yep.
01:31Bashful?
01:32Check out my bruises, yes.
01:33Happy, certainly.
01:35Sleepy and Sneezy occasionally.
01:37Yes?
01:38Yes.
01:39Brilliant.
01:40We're off to work now.
01:41We're off to work.
01:42Who are we off to work with?
01:43We're off to work with David O'Donnell.
01:45Welcome back, David, from Northern Ireland, but now you've chosen to live in Cardiff.
01:50Cardiff chose me.
01:51Oh, did they?
01:52Why?
01:53Well, it was just one of those things.
01:54You know, I just went with what felt right at the time.
01:56Where are you from in the north?
01:57Um, Oma.
01:58Oma, okay.
01:59All right.
02:00A series winner of Countdown back in 2008, and apparently, once upon a time, you borrowed,
02:05in inverted commas, a six-foot Indian totem pole from your local pub.
02:09Went, took it home with you to bed, and woke up with it in the morning.
02:14I've woke up beside worse.
02:16Oh, really?
02:17That's probably why you're in Cardiff.
02:19I hope you took it back to the pub anyway.
02:22I did, yeah.
02:23It was only a brief liberation.
02:24All right.
02:25And you're joined this afternoon by Tom Hargreaves, a recruitment consultant from Reading,
02:30who was a beaten finalist back in 2002.
02:33Yeah?
02:34And your opponent, David, had a buy-in to this round, but you had to overcome Nicky Sellers
02:39at the start of the year to get here.
02:41What was it like coming back here again?
02:43It was great to be back.
02:45I enjoyed meeting yourself and Rachel, and the fact I got a win was a bonus.
02:48Excellent stuff.
02:49Excellent stuff.
02:50Well, good luck to you both.
02:51I must tell you that in this competition, we have had some extraordinary performances,
02:56really.
02:57So, good luck to you both, and you're going to be fighting for a place in the last 16.
03:00Okay?
03:01Good.
03:02Big round of applause.
03:03David and Tom.
03:04David and Tom.
03:08And welcome back on this Monday afternoon, of course, to Susie.
03:13Welcome back.
03:15David is joined once again by one of our great favourites, actually.
03:18None other than the great Kate Adie.
03:21One of the great journalists from, you know, many years.
03:24And I think you're now in your 12th year of presenting from our own correspondent.
03:28Is that right?
03:29On Radio 4.
03:30It's a lovely show.
03:31Very fond of it.
03:32I started off in radio, in local radio, more years than I care to mention.
03:36I think I'd better say as a child broadcaster, really.
03:39There are so many decades involved.
03:41And I loved radio right then.
03:43It's changed hugely, but it's still the same thing as just talking intimately to people.
03:48Lovely.
03:49Lovely.
03:50We'll catch up with you.
03:51Lots more to talk about.
03:52But now, it's time to kick off with our Monday game, David and Tom.
03:56David, why not you?
03:58Hello again, Rachel.
03:59Hi, David.
04:00May I have a vowel, please?
04:02Of course, thank you.
04:03Start the week with E.
04:05And another.
04:06A.
04:07And a third.
04:09O.
04:10And a consonant, please.
04:12N.
04:13A consonant.
04:15V.
04:16Another consonant, please.
04:18V.
04:19And a fourth consonant.
04:22T.
04:23And can I have a consonant again?
04:27D.
04:28D.
04:29And a vowel.
04:30And the last one.
04:31E.
04:32And here's the countdown clock.
04:34T.
04:35T.
04:36T.
04:37T.
04:38T.
04:39T.
04:40T.
04:41T.
04:42T.
04:43T.
04:44T.
04:45T.
04:49T.
04:50T.
04:51T.
04:52T.
04:53Well, David.
05:06Seven.
05:07Seven. Tom?
05:07Seven as well.
05:08All right, David.
05:09Novated.
05:10Novated. Thank you.
05:12Tom?
05:13Same word.
05:14It is me.
05:15Same here.
05:16And in the corner, Kate, Susie, anything else?
05:20No. Novated is excellent.
05:22It's a term from law, and it means substituting a new contract in place of an old one.
05:27Very, very good.
05:28Very good indeed.
05:29In fact, Margaret, who was here the other week, she went on and on about this, didn't she?
05:33Do you remember?
05:34Novation.
05:35Novation.
05:35She should know.
05:36Indeed.
05:36Seven all.
05:37Well done.
05:38Tom?
05:39Hi again, Rachel.
05:40Hi again, Tom.
05:41Can I start with A consonant, please?
05:43Starts with M.
05:44And another one?
05:47D.
05:48And another one?
05:50S.
05:51And one more, please.
05:53Q.
05:54And a vowel?
05:56I.
05:57And another one?
05:59A.
06:00And another one?
06:02U.
06:04And one more vowel, please.
06:07E.
06:08And another consonant, please.
06:11And the last one?
06:12T.
06:12And here's the clock.
06:14T.
06:15Oh, yeah.
06:16And one more.
06:28Tom?
06:45Seven.
06:46A seven.
06:46David?
06:47A seven as well.
06:48OK.
06:48Tom, seven.
06:49Mistake.
06:51Oh, look at this.
06:52Look at this.
06:53Twins we've got.
06:55And in the corner.
06:56Anything interesting there?
06:58Not really.
06:59I was trying a verb.
07:00Quiet.
07:01Quiet somebody.
07:02Yeah.
07:02Quiet.
07:03Can you do that?
07:04You can.
07:05I think it means exactly the same as quieting.
07:08And so that would be absolutely fine.
07:10Well done.
07:11That's good.
07:12Yeah.
07:12Excellent.
07:13Now then, David.
07:1314 all.
07:14Are you going to make a break for it?
07:16Off you go.
07:17Let's see.
07:17A file, please.
07:18Thank you, David.
07:20E.
07:20And another.
07:22O.
07:23And a third, please.
07:25A.
07:26Consonant.
07:27D.
07:29Consonant.
07:32S.
07:33A third consonant.
07:35M.
07:36And another consonant, please.
07:38P.
07:40And can I have a consonant?
07:42Let's go.
07:43N.
07:45And a consonant.
07:46And the last one.
07:48K.
07:49Done by.
07:49There.
07:57Let's go.
07:58Later.
08:01Yes, David.
08:22Seven.
08:22Seven, Tom?
08:23Seven as well.
08:24David?
08:25Demons.
08:26Demons.
08:28Spanked.
08:29Spanked?
08:30Yeah.
08:31Happy about that, Susie?
08:33Yes, I'm happy.
08:34Very good.
08:35Anything else?
08:37We had a couple of other sevens.
08:40Dapsone, which is an ointment used in the treatment of leprosy,
08:43and also Mopanis, which are trees native to southern Africa.
08:47Thank you very much.
08:4821 all clinging to each other here.
08:50Tom?
08:52A consonant, please?
08:53Thank you, Tom.
08:54R.
08:55And another one?
08:57V.
08:58And another one?
09:01M.
09:01And one more, please.
09:04T.
09:05And a vowel?
09:07E.
09:07And another one?
09:10I.
09:11And another one?
09:13A.
09:14And a consonant?
09:16C.
09:19And another consonant, please.
09:21And the last one?
09:23R.
09:23Bebham.
09:24Canto.
09:25T.
09:26Let's go.
09:27Canto.
09:28T.
09:29Hasін.
09:30T.
09:35T.
09:35T.
09:35T.
09:37T.
09:37T.
09:40T.
09:41T.
09:42T.
09:45T.
09:46Yes.
09:56Seven.
09:57A seven.
09:58David?
09:58Seven.
09:59All right.
10:00Tom?
10:01Erratic.
10:02Oh, no.
10:04This is going to be a fairly brisket race here.
10:07And in the corner, Kate and Susie?
10:11Six with metric and erratic with seven.
10:14Very good.
10:14All right.
10:15Very good.
10:16Now then, we come to the first numbers game with the score standing inevitably at 28 all.
10:22And David, it's down to you.
10:25Four large numbers and any two you like.
10:27Thank you, David.
10:28Four from the top row and two little ones.
10:31Wake us all up this week.
10:32So for the first time, the numbers are four and six.
10:36And the large four, 75, 25, 50 and 100.
10:42And the target, 586.
10:44Five, five, eight, six.
11:15Now then, David.
11:17586.
11:18586.
11:18Tom?
11:19586.
11:19All right, David.
11:2175 over 25 is 3.
11:2375 over 25, 3.
11:25100 minus 3 is 97.
11:27Yep.
11:27Times 6.
11:28Times 6.
11:29582.
11:30Add the 4.
11:31Well done.
11:31586.
11:33Yep.
11:34Guess what?
11:36Of course.
11:38Send me to art.
11:42Well done.
11:4438 all.
11:44We're in for a humdinger here, I think, Rachel.
11:47Now then, it's time to turn to Kate Aideen.
11:50I was saying earlier, 12 years of presenting for my own correspondent, I recall 46 years
11:55ago when I got interested, Michael Elkins reporting from Jerusalem.
11:59Do you remember that sort of voice he had?
12:01Wonderful.
12:01One of those voices you couldn't miss.
12:03And one of the nice things about radio is, I think, that people instantly recognise and
12:08then conjure up an idea of what people look like and are normally completely wrong.
12:12The first time I saw you perform, as it were, you were addressing a girls' school in Somerset,
12:19and I was in the audience, not dressed, I hasten about it in a gym slip.
12:22It was my daughter's school down at Stoner, and you gave a wonderful speech, and you had
12:26those schoolgirls, I guess, sitting rigid in their chairs listening to you.
12:31Well, what has happened now is that it's fashionable to go into journalism.
12:36I think if you'd have said that to my old headmistress, she would have said, work in which involves
12:43going onto the street and addressing men you haven't been introduced to, it'd been a sort
12:48of horror.
12:49It was seen as a grubby job, very much so.
12:51Sort of, the image was blokes in Macintoshes with, you know, little pork pie hats, you know,
12:57creeping up on people and saying, have you got a story?
12:59It's only recently that it's actually become a trendy job one to aspire to, and luckily,
13:06huge numbers of girls are coming into it, which is jolly good.
13:09And foreign correspondents too, and it's a dangerous hell business too nowadays.
13:13There are dangers everywhere, and it's not without risk that you undertake going to, very obviously,
13:21something like a war zone, a battleground, somewhere where there's great difficulty.
13:25You've got to think whether you really are convinced you ought to do it.
13:32You should never go thinking, oh, well, I'll just make my name or, you know, just see what
13:37it's like.
13:37You need to go in order to be sort of inspired by the thought that people ought to know what's
13:44happening there.
13:45And it's that which sort of takes you through it, the feeling that you're doing a real job.
13:50But I think, I don't know, but I'm asking you, I think that foreign correspondents, they've
13:54got to do it.
13:55They've got to deliver that story because they can't exist without doing it every day.
14:00Well, there's a compulsion, even in local reporting, that we have it in all of us.
14:08You see something, you witness something which you think, that's amazing.
14:12I mean, everybody feels it.
14:14And you think, I've got to tell someone else about it.
14:18And that's really the kind of inner impetus which drives most journalists on.
14:25Yeah, but there's a bit of added spice when there are bullets whistling past your ear as
14:29well.
14:30Well, you try to actually get on the ground so they don't whistle so much.
14:32Very good.
14:33Very good indeed.
14:34Thank you so much.
14:35More to talk about later.
14:37But now it's time for a Tea Time teaser, which is more cops and the clue, he's not a policeman,
14:43but he works a beat.
14:44He's not a policeman, but he works a beat.
14:47Welcome back.
15:02I left you with the clue.
15:03He's not a policeman, but he works a beat.
15:06And the answer is a composer.
15:08He's a composer.
15:09Now then, 38 all.
15:11These two, not a piece of paper between them.
15:13Tom, off you go.
15:16Letters game.
15:16A consonant, please.
15:17Thank you, Tom.
15:19N.
15:19And another one.
15:22Z.
15:23And another one.
15:25S.
15:26And one more, please.
15:28P.
15:29And a vowel.
15:31O.
15:32And another one.
15:33E.
15:34And another one.
15:36A.
15:37And a consonant.
15:40Y.
15:41And a final consonant.
15:42And the last one.
15:44L.
15:44Down by.
15:45DARREN.
16:16Tom? Just six.
16:17Six? Yes, David. Seven.
16:20Aha. Tom?
16:21Openly. Openly, David.
16:23And Opalis. Thank you.
16:26How are you spelling that?
16:27N-O-P-A-L-E-S.
16:30Okay.
16:32It's just the level
16:33of the competition is
16:35phenomenal.
16:37I have no doubt that it will be in there.
16:39It is, yeah. They are the edible fleshy
16:41pads of a cactus
16:43that you will find in
16:45Mexico. It's used in Mexican cuisine.
16:48And you do that.
16:49Very good.
16:57Excellent.
16:58That springs you
16:59into first place, 45 to
17:0138. David.
17:03A vial, please. Thank you, David.
17:05U. And a vial.
17:08O. And a third.
17:09E. And a consonant.
17:14G. Another consonant.
17:16T. And another consonant.
17:19P. And a fourth consonant, please.
17:22S. And can I have a vial?
17:26E.
17:27And a final consonant, please.
17:29And the last one.
17:30B. Countdown.
17:32T. And a fourth consonant, please.
17:33And a fourth consonant, please.
17:34And a fourth consonant, please.
17:35And a fourth consonant, please.
17:36And a fourth consonant, please.
17:37And a fourth consonant, please.
17:38And a fourth consonant, please.
17:39And a fourth consonant, please.
17:40And a fourth consonant, please.
17:41And a fourth consonant, please.
17:42And a fourth consonant, please.
17:43And a fourth consonant, please.
17:44And a fourth consonant, please.
17:45And a fourth consonant, please.
17:46And a fourth consonant, please.
17:47And a fourth consonant, please.
17:48And a fourth consonant, please.
17:49And a fourth consonant, please.
17:50And a fourth consonant, please.
17:51And a fourth consonant, please.
17:52And a fourth consonant, please.
17:53And a fourth consonant, please.
17:54And a fourth consonant, please.
17:55And a fourth consonant, please.
17:56Thank you, Tom six again a six and you're six obtuse obtuse yes, David something that I need to pay
18:13That's one
18:15All right, very good any problems that no not at all and completely naturalized in English now
18:20No accents or anything in two pages all right very good anything else in the corner there
18:24Just six with begets begets to beget
18:29People begot very good
18:32Excellent 52 plays 38 Tom a consonant place. Thank you, Tom. Ah
18:39And another one
18:42N and another one
18:45W and one more place
18:48L and a vow
18:51a and another one I
18:54And another one
18:57Oh
18:59And one more vow please
19:02you
19:03And
19:05We'll have another vow please and the last one
19:08E
19:10Clock time
19:10Time
19:41Tom.
19:42Seven.
19:43And David?
19:44Just six.
19:45And you're six, David.
19:47Urinal.
19:48Urinal.
19:49Thank you very much.
19:49Tom.
19:50Hope this is in.
19:51Aileron?
19:52Aileron, why not?
19:53Yes, such a firm countdown word, that one.
19:55It's a hinged surface on the edge of an aeroplane wing, and it controls its roll.
20:00Very good.
20:01Very good.
20:02Definitely there for seven.
20:03All right, and we don't need to go into urinals.
20:05Anything else over in the corner?
20:08No.
20:08Any interesting?
20:09No?
20:10It's exactly the same word.
20:11Ailerons and urinals.
20:12Very good.
20:1352 plays 45, and we look to you, David.
20:17And my vial, please.
20:18Thank you, David.
20:19I.
20:20And another.
20:22A.
20:22And a third.
20:24O.
20:25And a consonant.
20:27F.
20:28Another consonant, please.
20:30C.
20:31Consonant, please.
20:32N.
20:33Consonant.
20:34D.
20:34D.
20:36D.
20:36File.
20:39E.
20:39And I'll finish with the consonant.
20:41And finish with S.
20:43And they're off.
20:44We'll see you now.
20:45Let's go.
20:46MUSIC
21:15Yes, David?
21:16Eight.
21:17Eight.
21:17Tom?
21:18Eight as well.
21:18All right.
21:19David?
21:20Confides.
21:22And Tom?
21:24You confide in?
21:24Good stuff.
21:25Very good.
21:26They're very good, these two.
21:29Very good.
21:31Anything in the corner?
21:33Anything interesting?
21:34I have to applaud Kate because she got confides as well.
21:37Confides and fancies?
21:38Yes.
21:39And deacons.
21:41Deacons.
21:42Very good.
21:42Couple of sevens.
21:43Very good indeed.
21:4460 to 53.
21:46But now it's time for us to concentrate, furrow our brows and listen carefully to what Susie's got to tell us about her origins of words.
21:54Well, I'm going to look at the origins of place names this week because I've been leafing through a lovely book by Caroline Taggart and it's the Book of English Place Names.
22:02So apologies for concentrating on England but I will progress, I'm sure.
22:06Many English towns and villages take their names from crossing places because of course water was incredibly important to transport before roads and so building a settlement near water made a lot of sense.
22:19But getting from one side to another could present a bit of a problem which is why so many places grew up alongside natural fords.
22:27Many, many English names have ford in the title.
22:31Up north it's ford and a few end in wade and all of those suffixes do mean a ford.
22:37It can be tacked onto the name of the river in question which is quite simple.
22:40So Lydford in Devon was originally a place for crossing the river Lyd and Lyd itself means a noisy stream.
22:47Sleaford sits on the river Slee and that's so named because of its muddiness.
22:52And the name may also tell us who owned the field.
22:55So Chelmsford was named after a man called Kale Mare and Biggleswade after a man called Bickle.
23:00Or it can tell us what the crossing was used for.
23:03So Oxford was used by oxen and Shefford by sheep.
23:07But the most colourful of names based on crossing places give you a wonderful description of the ford itself.
23:12So Burford was near a fortified village.
23:15Castleford near a Roman fort and Stafford near a landing place.
23:19Boxford was where box trees grew.
23:22Crawford was frequented by crows.
23:25That's how they remembered it.
23:26Buntingford by buntings or yellow hammers.
23:29Hartford by hart or stags.
23:32Bradford was broad.
23:33Romford was roomy.
23:34Literally it was quite large.
23:36Chingford was shingly.
23:38Cinderford was cindery thanks to nearby ironworks.
23:41And Stamford was stony.
23:43And finally Guildford was the ford by the Golden Hill.
23:46And the hill in question was called the Golden Hill for a very long time
23:48before it became the hog's back.
23:50Simply because that's what it reminded people of in its appearance.
23:54Very good.
23:55Glistering.
23:59Brilliant stuff.
24:00Thank you very much.
24:01Wonderful.
24:02Wonderful.
24:03So 60 to 53 says David's in the lead.
24:07And Tom.
24:08Numbers game.
24:09Just one and five please Rach.
24:10Thank you Tom.
24:11One from the top.
24:12And five little ones.
24:14And we'll see what we have.
24:16So for this round the five small are four.
24:18Four.
24:19Ten.
24:20Nine.
24:21And seven.
24:22And the large one.
24:23Twenty five.
24:25And the target.
24:25Nine hundred and twenty four.
24:27Nine to four.
24:27Nine to four.
24:27Nine to five.
24:28Nine to five.
24:29Nine to five.
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24:52Nine to five.
24:53Nine to five.
24:54Nine to five.
24:57Now then, Tom.
25:00Just 925.
25:01925 on a way.
25:02David?
25:03924, I think.
25:04All right.
25:05David?
25:0610 minus...
25:06Oh, sorry.
25:079 times 25 first.
25:089 times 25, 225.
25:1110 minus 4 is 6.
25:1210 minus 1 of the 4 is 6.
25:14Add it to the 225.
25:15231.
25:16Multiply by 4.
25:17Perfect.
25:18924.
25:18Very good indeed.
25:19Well done.
25:20Well done.
25:26Heading for a big score here.
25:2770 to 53.
25:29But now it's time for a Tea Time Teaser.
25:31And the teaser is Scott Can't.
25:33And the clue, Scott can't wear these.
25:36They hurt his eyes.
25:37Scott can't wear these.
25:39They hurt his eyes.
25:54Welcome back.
25:55I left you with the clue, Scott can't wear these.
25:57They hurt his eyes.
25:59What do contacts do?
26:01Contacts hurt his eyes.
26:03So, David.
26:0470 to Tom's 53.
26:05And it's your call again, David.
26:09Just a surprise.
26:10A vial.
26:11Thank you, David.
26:12I.
26:13Another vial, please.
26:15O.
26:16And a third.
26:17E.
26:18A consonant.
26:20G.
26:21And a consonant.
26:23L.
26:23And another consonant, please.
26:25X.
26:26And a consonant.
26:29T.
26:31I'll try a vial, please.
26:34U.
26:36And a consonant, please.
26:38Not the best selection.
26:39Last one.
26:40G.
26:41My feelings.
26:42I'm sorry.
26:43Tonds.
26:45Tondos.
26:47Tondos.
26:47Tonds.
26:47Tondos.
26:52Tonds.
26:53Tonds.
26:57Tonds.
26:57What have you got for us David? Six. And Tom? Six. David's six. Toggle. Toggle and two toggles.
27:20We have to do that. We've got two toggles over here. Any more toggles? Yeah, more toggles.
27:24Anything else other than the toggle? That was about the only one that leapt out, that one.
27:28All right. Very good. A leaping toggle. 76 to 59. Tom?
27:33That consonant, please. Thank you, Tom. R. And another one. T. And another one. L.
27:43And one more place. C. And a vowel. I. And another one. E. And another one.
27:54A. And a consonant. F. And another vowel, please.
28:03And the last one. O.
28:05Stand by.
28:06A consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a consonant. F. And a
28:36Tom eight I think yes David I'm gonna try nine right let's hear from Tom
28:43loricate loricate what about this nine of yours and then I have four dollars
28:48for to life what's left yes for to list absolutely brilliant it's about Fort
28:53Alice and it is a small fort fortified house or outwork of fortification
29:06stunning stuff stunning stuff 94 to 59 ending in the corner and then to beat
29:12Fort Alice well nothing to beat it but just to tell you what loricate is because
29:16that's also a brilliant m8 it's from zoology and it means having a protective
29:21covering such as plates or scales of an animal or an insect armadillo yeah
29:26exactly very good indeed excellent 94 to 59 my word David off you go again file
29:34place thank you David e and another a and a third I and a consonant place see
29:44and another consonant s and another consonant and and a fourth j and a
29:54consonant place see and another final constant place and the last one
30:01count on
30:02countdown
30:03yeah
30:04okay
30:05yeah
30:08okay
30:11Yes, David?
30:35Seven.
30:36Seven.
30:36Tom?
30:36Seven as well.
30:37OK, David?
30:39Pastime.
30:39Pastime.
30:40Tom?
30:41Stamped for me.
30:42Stamped?
30:43Very good.
30:44Nothing too controversial there in the corner.
30:46Anything else?
30:48Keep stealing our thunder.
30:49Powerful stuff from these two here.
30:51101 plays 66.
30:52Well done, David.
30:53Well done indeed.
30:54It's the last numbers game now.
30:57Tom?
30:59This is going to be my last selection, Rachel.
31:00Let you choose them.
31:01Let me choose?
31:02Shall I be nice or not?
31:04I'd rather you would be nice.
31:06Fine.
31:06OK, let's try two from the top this time.
31:09Instead of the one.
31:10And four small.
31:11No, six small.
31:12And for this round, the four little ones are nine, five.
31:16And six and three.
31:18And the two large ones, 50 and 100.
31:21Thanks for the choice, Tom.
31:23And the target, 495.
31:24495.
31:25495.
31:55Yes, Tom?
31:57495.
31:58495, David?
31:59495.
32:00Very good. Tom?
32:0250 plus 5.
32:0350 plus 5, 55.
32:06Times 9.
32:07Very easy. Yeah, 495.
32:10Yes?
32:11Same way.
32:11Not too much of a struggle there.
32:13All right, so...
32:15APPLAUSE
32:16As we come into the final round, David on 111.
32:22Tremendous score there.
32:24Tom, 76, no mean score.
32:25But it's conundrum time, gentlemen.
32:28Fingers on buzzers, please.
32:29Let's reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:34Tom?
32:35Is it irascible?
32:36Let's have a look.
32:37Irascible.
32:38Certainly pretty quick.
32:41Brilliant stuff.
32:42Well done.
32:42Well done, mate.
32:44APPLAUSE
32:44Brilliant.
32:45Well done, Tom.
32:51Absolutely excellent.
32:53But I'm afraid you've been beaten by David with 111, which is a great score.
32:59So we're sending you home with a teapot under one arm and some priceless Kryptonite under the other.
33:04And our very best wishes.
33:05Good luck to you.
33:06And we shall see you in the final 16.
33:08Well done, David.
33:09Thank you very much.
33:10Brilliant stuff.
33:10Leave the totem poles where they belong.
33:13And we'll see you soon.
33:14See you tomorrow, Susie.
33:16Yes.
33:17And, Kate, one thing that strikes me these days is that everyone's got a mobile phone
33:22and people are now sort of sending in their reports, ordinary people.
33:27And, of course, it's completely unqualified.
33:29It hasn't got the authority of a trained journalist from a proper sort of news organisation.
33:34How disruptive is that?
33:36How open to abuse is that?
33:37Well, I think journalists are having to fight for their lives.
33:40They're having to say, you know, there is a point in being trained and knowing a bit
33:43about everything from the law to libel to what you should or shouldn't say in the heat
33:47of the moment.
33:48Because, as we all know, the moment you're on the phone and something really extraordinary
33:52happens in front of you, ah, well, you're not usually doing it in the calmest of ways.
33:59And you may well exaggerate.
34:01And you may well be just believing your eyes when there might be a little bit more behind
34:06it.
34:06It's very difficult.
34:08Lots of challenges.
34:09Indeed.
34:10Indeed.
34:10Great stuff.
34:11More from you tomorrow, Kate.
34:12Lovely to see you again.
34:14Now then, who did we decide you were?
34:16You weren't grumpy, you weren't dopey, you weren't steepy, you were Miss Happy.
34:20We shall see you tomorrow.
34:21Can I not be Snow White?
34:22Of course you can.
34:24Of course you can.
34:24Where's my prince?
34:25What?
34:26Where's my prince?
34:27They're on their way.
34:27OK.
34:28Thank you very much.
34:29Well done.
34:30See you tomorrow.
34:31And we look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
34:32Same time, same place.
34:34You be sure of it.
34:34Good afternoon.
34:35APPLAUSE
34:36A giraffe capture is by no means a one-man job.
34:50The entire team are out playing their parts and work on the wild side to day four.
34:55Next, we're on the Spanish Costa Blanca, as two friends set their sights on a new home
35:00and a place in the sun.
35:01Thank you very much.