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00:30Hello, everybody. Welcome to another week of Countdown, the first show to grace the screen on Channel 4 and over four decades later. Still in rude health and loving life, but nothing without you tuning in. So thank you very much. Hi, Rachel. Hello, Colin.
00:45Before every show, we have a chat. Let's talk about this type of stuff, roughly. No script or anything. We just have a little chat. So on this day, many moons ago, 204 years ago, a farmer was plucking through some stones.
01:03He was looking to build a wall and he was digging them up. And all of a sudden, he came across something else. And it was a sculpture and it's missing arms. And it was the Venus de Milo.
01:13And ever since, the story behind it has been sensational. And I've been totally taken by it. My uneducated brain has been reading a lot.
01:22Now, I wrote this down, so I want to get it exactly right. So there is no ancient source can be securely identified as discussing the Venus de Milo.
01:33So that's where all the mystery comes from. There's no source of discussing it. There's nothing that was ever written down to say whether it was regarded as a great piece of work or not.
01:43And then there was all the debate about who it was.
01:46OK.
01:47So many more things that tell you about it, but I can tell by your face you'd like me to move on.
01:53So let's move from no arms to a really big hand because we have another Dictionary Corner debutante alongside our guardian of the dictionary, Susie Dent.
02:02The NHS GP specialising in women's health issues. And the medical broadcaster with us always, Dr. Nagat Arif.
02:13Hi.
02:16That was riveting chat, wasn't it?
02:19That was a very... I've learnt something and I love learning new things. So I'm not an artsy person, so I'm just going to put it out there straight away.
02:25I like you. You're ganging up against Colin already. This is going to be fun.
02:28Yeah, you'll fit in well.
02:29Sorry.
02:29Well, fitting in very well is our champion, Jessica Pratese, whose three wins so far, two centuries and a hard-fought 83 on Friday.
02:41So if you can run this whole week, you'll become our seventh octo-champ of the series.
02:45We'll hope in to win his own teapot is David Long, who's from Northern Ireland, actually from my part of Belfast, near enough, which is lovely.
02:52And a qualified football coach, and it's something you've done on and off your whole life.
02:57Yeah, I got my IFA Grade 1 badges way back in the 80s.
03:03Yeah.
03:03And since then have coached pretty much round the world.
03:07And at the ripe old age of going on 76, I'm back answering an emergency call coaching the club that I first played for 55 years ago.
03:18So, yes.
03:19Well, let's see if you can find a goal today. We will see. David and Jessica, best of luck.
03:26Hey, Jessica, letters, please.
03:29Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:30Good afternoon, Jessica.
03:31Let's start with the consonant, please.
03:33Start the week with R.
03:35And another.
03:37N.
03:38And another.
03:38P.
03:40And a vowel.
03:43E.
03:44Another.
03:46U.
03:47And another.
03:48E.
03:49A consonant.
03:50Y.
03:52Another, please.
03:54S.
03:56And a final consonant.
03:59A final B.
04:00At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
04:33Jessica.
04:34Seven.
04:34Seven from you and David.
04:36Six, I'm afraid.
04:37What's the six, mate?
04:39Prunes.
04:39Prunes, yes.
04:40And Jessica?
04:41Burpees.
04:42As in the old exercise?
04:45The old exercise.
04:46I always have to check to see whether it's a capital B for some reason, because I know that they were named after Royal H Burpee, who was an American psychologist.
04:54But, yeah, absolutely fine.
04:55Small b.
04:56Very good indeed.
04:56And the gut, is that your best natural remedy to get a little bit of movement going?
05:01The prunes?
05:02That's what I was always told.
05:03Prunes and burpees, yeah, to get that old gut going.
05:06Definitely.
05:06I mean, both of them put together.
05:09Anything else for me?
05:10For six, we had superb, so prunes, burpees, superb behaviour.
05:15Lovely.
05:16Let's get more letters.
05:17David.
05:18May I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
05:20Thank you, David.
05:21H.
05:22And another.
05:24L.
05:26And another.
05:28D.
05:29And a vowel.
05:31I.
05:32And another vowel, please.
05:34O.
05:36And another vowel.
05:38U.
05:40And a consonant.
05:42K.
05:45And another consonant.
05:47R.
05:49And a vowel, please.
05:50And lastly, E.
05:52There it is.
05:5330 seconds.
05:5430 seconds.
06:20David.
06:26I'm afraid just a five.
06:28A five here, and Jessica.
06:29A six.
06:30Six from you.
06:30The five, David.
06:32Ruled.
06:32And the six.
06:34Louder.
06:34Yeah, usual strong start from a champion, Jessica.
06:38And Susie.
06:40Oh, we got seven.
06:41Rod-like.
06:42Sounds very odd.
06:43I know.
06:43Shaped like a rod, cotton fibres, apparently, and also I was talking recently about bacteria
06:49because they're like little sticks, little rods in shape.
06:52Let's switch to the numbers for the first time this week, and it's Jessica Bertese picking
06:57them.
06:58Can I have two large, please?
06:59You can indeed.
07:01Just the two large ones, four little ones, to start the week off numbers-wise.
07:05And this first selection is ten.
07:07Six.
07:08Six.
07:09Two.
07:1075.
07:11And 50.
07:12And you need to reach the target.
07:15749.
07:16Seven, four, nine.
07:17Numbers on.
07:18Seven, five.
07:37Six.
07:38Five.
07:43Five.
07:46Jessica, 749.
07:50Yeah, 749.
07:51And David?
07:52749.
07:52Nice, off you go, Jessica.
07:5475 times 10 is 750.
07:566 over 6 is your one.
07:58And David?
07:58Same way.
08:01Nice.
08:04That's what you want, David.
08:06Get the feed under the table, get 10 points on the board
08:09as we get our first Tea Time teaser of the week,
08:11which is Good Chloe.
08:13C-L-O-Y.
08:14Good Chloe.
08:14The study of fish, what a load of nonsense.
08:17The study of fish, what a load of nonsense.
08:35Welcome back.
08:36The study of fish, what a load of nonsense.
08:38Good Chloe becomes codology, Susie.
08:41I like a bit of pronology, a bit of salmonology,
08:43but codology.
08:45Yeah, it's from Irish English,
08:47and it means foolish talk or nonsense, in other words.
08:50And this sense of cod, nothing to do with a fish,
08:53we're not quite sure where it comes from.
08:54Every word's a mystery, I love it.
08:5623, 10.
08:57David, let's get another nine letters on the hook.
09:01May I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
09:03You may, thank you, David.
09:04T.
09:05And another, please.
09:06And another, please.
09:08D.
09:09And another.
09:11G.
09:13And the vowel.
09:15I.
09:17And another vowel, please.
09:18A.
09:20And another vowel.
09:22O.
09:24And a consonant.
09:26M.
09:26And a vowel, please.
09:36And a final, A.
09:38Thank you, Rich.
09:39Thank you, Rich.
10:09How many, David?
10:11Just a four, I'm afraid.
10:13And Jessica?
10:14Six.
10:14Six from you, the four, David?
10:16Goad.
10:17And for Jessica?
10:18Diatom.
10:20And let's go over to Susie.
10:21Yes, diatom, absolutely fine, all to do with plankton.
10:25Yeah, planktonic algae, I think.
10:28It's a lot of just keeping up the gat today with Jessica being champion.
10:32How did you get on?
10:33Well, I got glioma, which is, this is turning into a very medical theme to the programme, isn't it?
10:40I'm just speaking at medical terms, a malignant tumour of the glial tissue.
10:45But gliomata was another word that we were debating?
10:49Well, same thing, actually.
10:50So, glioma can be pluralised as gliomas or gliomata.
10:55So, yes, these are tumours of the connective tissue in the nervous system.
10:59We absolutely missed that.
11:00It's not a surprise.
11:01More letters, Jessica.
11:02Let's start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
11:04Thank you, Jessica.
11:05S.
11:06And a vowel.
11:08O.
11:09A consonant.
11:11D.
11:13Vowel.
11:14E.
11:15A consonant.
11:17C.
11:18A vowel.
11:20A.
11:21A consonant.
11:23T.
11:25A consonant.
11:27S.
11:28And a final consonant.
11:31A final V.
11:32And half a minute.
11:33A consonant.
11:35A consonant.
11:46A consonant.
11:53A consonant.
11:58A consonant.
11:59MUSIC PLAYS
12:04Jessica? Seven. Seven from you. And David?
12:07Six, I'm afraid. Oh, David, so close. What's the six?
12:11Costed. Costed. You're going to kick yourself. Jessica?
12:14Coasted. Yeah, pop the A in there. To Dictionary Corner?
12:18We spotted octaves. Oh, music to my ears. Well done.
12:21Yeah, that will give you a seven. Lovely.
12:24At 36, plays ten. We're back to the numbers.
12:27David, that's where you got your ten points.
12:29Let's see if we can do it again.
12:32Rachel, I'll have one large and five small, please.
12:35Thank you, David. We'll go for one from the top and these five little ones.
12:40And for this next round, we have five, nine, five, three,
12:46another nine, and the large one, 50.
12:49And the target, 854.
12:52854 numbers up.
12:578-5-4, David Long.
13:25Um, 8-5-5.
13:28One away, Jessica Pratisi.
13:308-5-3.
13:31Ooh, on the other way.
13:33David, off you go.
13:34Nine plus three plus five is 17.
13:39Yes.
13:40Multiplied by 50.
13:41850.
13:43Plus five.
13:44Then plus the five, the one away.
13:46Jessica, off you go.
13:47I did nine plus nine.
13:49Um, and five over five.
13:5318 minus the one for the 17.
13:5617.
13:56Times by 50 and add the three.
13:58Yeah.
13:59853.
14:01David, you had a nine left over here.
14:04So if you'd have said nine minus five is four, you could have added that on for 854.
14:10But you still get yourself seven points.
14:13So well done, David.
14:14More points for you.
14:14More points for Jessica.
14:16As we break and have our first chat with Nagat this week, um, I want to get to know you a little bit better.
14:22And that's what we said to you before today's show.
14:24And you said, well, let's, let's do that, but let's connect it to words.
14:27And that's where we're going to start our conversation this week.
14:30Yeah, because I'm a huge fan of Countdown.
14:32In fact, at university, this is always the staple because I'm dyslexic.
14:36And people go, you're a doctor, but you're dyslexic.
14:38How does that work?
14:39And I've had to work extra hard.
14:41So I came to the UK when I was nine years old.
14:44And I actually learned English, uh, without realizing it, that I was learning English this way through EastEnders and watching BBC News.
14:51And there were so many words on EastEnders or Coronation Street that I saw that just didn't make any sense.
14:58I, for ages, I didn't know the word fella, like, or duck, or, you know, have a dosh, or this is a dosh of money.
15:06I just never, there were so many colloquial words that just didn't make any sense because they would never use them on the BBC when the news was being done by Fiona Bruce.
15:14I mean, she was just so eloquent all the time.
15:17So when you first moved to the UK, the first thing you were fluent in was pub fights.
15:24I was.
15:25I was.
15:26I was.
15:27I was literally, you know, it was always like, get off my fella.
15:30Get out of my pub.
15:33Having a pony.
15:34Those were the things that, yeah, nine-year-old Nagat learned, because the other language is Punjabi.
15:40It's an unfluent in Punjabi.
15:42And I'd never been to school until I came to the UK.
15:45So when I sort of started learning English, and I was the first person, you know, as an immigrant family is, the first child is usually the person to learn English.
15:53Yeah.
15:53And my dad said, go, go to school.
15:55You can learn something.
15:56It was like the world was my oyster.
15:58And language was my way of starting to find ways to communicate.
16:03And then riding the two languages was so much fun.
16:06Brilliant.
16:06Thank you so much, Nagat.
16:11Right.
16:11I'm not sure we're going to get the do-do-do-do-do-do-do unless David starts picking up the points.
16:17We shall see.
16:18Jessica, your letters.
16:19Let's start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
16:21Thank you, Jessica.
16:22R.
16:23And another.
16:25N.
16:26And another.
16:28P.
16:29And another.
16:32L.
16:33And a vowel, please.
16:34I.
16:36And another.
16:37E.
16:38And another.
16:40U.
16:41I have another vowel.
16:45E.
16:46And we'll go for a final vowel, please.
16:48And a final O.
16:51And here we go again.
16:52I.
16:54And a vowel.
16:55And a vowel, please.
16:56E.
16:57And a58.
16:58And a vowel.
16:58And a vowel, please.
17:02All right, Jessica.
17:24Just a six.
17:24Six from you and David?
17:26I've lost it.
17:27Ah, don't worry about it.
17:28What's the six?
17:29Opener.
17:29Opener will get you six more points
17:32as we head over the dictionary corner.
17:34Well, why isn't the gat looking like
17:36it's her birthday?
17:38I'm very happy.
17:39We've got a nine neuropile,
17:42a dense network of interwoven nerve fibres
17:45and their branches and synapses
17:47together with glial filaments.
17:49It's all about the nerves today, isn't it?
17:50I feel like I'm in the doctor's surgery today
17:53rather than a countdown.
17:54It's very easy to get long words in medicine.
17:56Yeah, this is perfect so far,
17:59but the medical words often get you
18:00the best points in countdown.
18:02I certainly do.
18:02A brilliant eye.
18:03Well done.
18:08And more letters now.
18:09David.
18:09May I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
18:11Thank you, David.
18:12N.
18:13And another consonant.
18:15L.
18:16And another.
18:18G.
18:20And a vowel, please.
18:23A.
18:23And start the clock.
18:46And a vowel, please.
18:47And a vowel, please.
18:48And a vowel, please.
18:48And a vowel, please.
18:48And a vowel, please.
18:49And a vowel, please.
18:49And a vowel, please.
18:50And a vowel, please.
18:51And a vowel, please.
18:51And a vowel, please.
18:52And a vowel, please.
18:52And a vowel, please.
18:53And a vowel, please.
18:53And a vowel, please.
18:54And a vowel, please.
18:55And a vowel, please.
18:55And a vowel, please.
18:56And a vowel, please.
18:57And a vowel, please.
18:57And a vowel, please.
18:58And a vowel, please.
18:59And a vowel, please.
18:59And a vowel, please.
19:00And a vowel, please.
19:01And a vowel, please.
19:01And a vowel, please.
19:02And a vowel, please.
19:02Time's up, David.
19:19Seven.
19:19Seven from you, Jessica.
19:21Nine.
19:22My goodness, she's hit the max, David.
19:24What's the seven?
19:25Leasing.
19:26Jessica.
19:27Legations.
19:27And over to Dictionary Corner.
19:29They are diplomatic ministers or their residences.
19:32Well done.
19:36Absolutely sensational.
19:37What a champion.
19:38What a champion.
19:38Back to the numbers now.
19:40David scored on both numbers rounds so far.
19:43So hoping to make it three in a row.
19:44Jessica, you're going to try and stop them.
19:46We'll have six more, please, Rachel.
19:47Yay!
19:48Just for a little bit of fun.
19:50Six small numbers coming up.
19:52Let's see if we can find a fun one.
19:54They are five, seven, eight, two, four, and one.
20:00And the target, 973.
20:03Good luck.
20:05973.
20:05Numbers up.
20:06The title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title of the title.
20:179-7-3, Jessica.
20:38Yeah, I'm not close enough.
20:39Yeah, it's a good time to do something else for 30 seconds.
20:42David?
20:42Nowhere near it.
20:43OK, right.
20:44So, well, listen, the clipboard is still in hand
20:47at the moment for Rachel Riley.
20:49Would success be getting within 100?
20:52I think it would be.
20:53Well, you can actually get to 972.
20:56No.
20:57But this was impossible.
20:58We looked it and it was.
20:5967-17, wrong mud is your tea time teaser.
21:02Wrong mud.
21:03You'd be wrong to think this creature likes to crawl in mud.
21:07You'd be wrong to think this creature likes to crawl in mud.
21:10Welcome back.
21:28You'd be wrong to think this creature likes to crawl in mud, right?
21:30To think it likes to crawl in something else, though.
21:32Dungworm.
21:33Dungworm.
21:34Was the tea time teaser.
21:36All right, 50 points in it.
21:37Six rounds to go.
21:39David, let's get you some points on the letters here.
21:43I may have a consonant, please, Rachel.
21:46Thank you, David.
21:47R.
21:47And another consonant.
21:49M.
21:51And another consonant.
21:53S.
21:54And a vowel.
21:56I.
21:57And another vowel.
21:59A.
22:01And another vowel.
22:03I.
22:03And a final vowel, please.
22:22And a final O.
22:24Good luck, everybody.
22:25Good luck, everybody.
22:25Good luck.
22:25I.
22:26Good luck, ladies and gentlemen.
22:44Good luck, everybody.
22:44David?
22:57Six.
22:57Six from you.
22:58Jessica?
22:59Yeah, six.
22:59Six as well.
23:00David, what have you got?
23:01Orgasm.
23:02And Jessica?
23:03Amigos.
23:04Amigos and orgasm.
23:06There you go, friends with benefits.
23:08Anything else?
23:08So we went to orgasm straight away.
23:11Susie was saying that's because you advocate for them.
23:13Yeah.
23:13And I do.
23:14They're very good for your health, actually, orgasms.
23:16For seven, origami.
23:18Nice.
23:19Can't put the S on, sadly.
23:20But, yeah, the art of folding paper.
23:22Beautiful.
23:23Right.
23:2473, 23.
23:25There you go, David.
23:26I knew those points were coming on the letters.
23:28Jessica?
23:29We'll have a consonant, please, Rachel.
23:31Thank you, Jessica.
23:32T.
23:33And a vowel.
23:35E.
23:36Consonant.
23:38C.
23:40Consonant.
23:41B.
23:42Vowel.
23:43I.
23:45Another vowel.
23:47A.
23:49Consonant.
23:50N.
23:52A consonant.
23:54Q.
23:56And a final consonant.
23:58A final S.
24:00Let's play.
24:01Let's play.
24:01Let's play.
24:01Let's play.
24:03MUSIC CONTINUES
24:33An eight from you, yes. You had a mischievous look on your face there.
24:36And David?
24:38Just a six.
24:38The six is?
24:39An act.
24:40And the eight, Jessica?
24:42Cabinets.
24:43Cabinets.
24:44Cabinets.
24:44Well built.
24:45Very well done.
24:46That just leaves the queue out, so unless there's some obscure medical term that Nagat's spotted, I think we're done, aren't we?
24:52No, I can make up a word, though.
24:53So, cabinets with a Q, and then we're done.
24:56And then that's it, yeah.
24:57No such luck, no such luck.
24:59Love it.
25:00Thank you very much.
25:01OK, let's stay in Dictionary Corner.
25:02First Origins of Words of the Week.
25:06Yeah, turning to some viewers' emails today from Anne Wade.
25:10This one comes from Keithley.
25:13And she asks where the saying Scot-free comes from.
25:17If you go Scot-free, you go without consequences.
25:19And it's actually nothing to do with the Scots, and everything to do with Scandinavians, because that's where the word Scot began.
25:29And an Old Norse word, so Old Norse being the language of the Vikings, Scot with a K meant payment.
25:34And particularly taxes, because Scots were levied upon household owners in the form of taxes, and they were means tested, much as they are today.
25:45And so the peasantry, having no or little money, were considered to be exempt from the tax.
25:51In the 13th century, it's when Scot came over into English as Scot with a C.
25:56And it meant the same thing, but it also meant a sort of reckoning, if you like.
26:01So it could be almost the consequences of your actions, or in very literal terms, again, it could be money given as a local tax for poor relief, etc., etc.
26:11And you will find that used particularly in Kent and Sussex.
26:14But again, those on low incomes weren't required to pay.
26:18They were means tested, and so they went Scot-free.
26:21And over time, it was particularly applied to the consequences of wrongdoing or evildoing.
26:28If you go Scot-free, you get away with it, if you like.
26:31And actually, Scot, the tax, persisted right into the 19th century, which is pretty extraordinary.
26:37It was only abolished then.
26:38And it made me think about blackmail, because this is all to do with the Scots.
26:41Not in any horrible way, but it was a protection racket, originally, amongst chiefs in the 16th century, Scottish chiefs,
26:51along the towns on the border, counties between Scotland and England.
26:56And they would demand money in return for letting people go without harm, if you like.
27:04And the mal here means agreement, which obviously wasn't in those days.
27:09It was more extortion.
27:10And we think that the blackmail was just a riff on white mail, which was legitimate money.
27:15It was particularly silver coins.
27:17So blackmail was the kind of illegitimate kind, if you like.
27:20So that one did originate with the Scots, but Scot-free had nothing to do with them.
27:24Nice. Thank you very much.
27:29OK, Monday afternoon, four rounds still to go.
27:32And David, you're picking these letters.
27:33May I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
27:35Thank you, David.
27:35G.
27:37And another.
27:39M.
27:40And another.
27:42F.
27:44And the vowel.
27:46E.
27:48And another vowel.
27:49I.
27:51And another vowel, please.
27:53A.
27:54And lastly, E.
28:07Countdown.
28:08C.
28:12E.
28:13T.
28:14T.
28:14T.
28:15T.
28:16T.
28:25T.
28:26MUSIC
28:40David? Just a five, I'm afraid.
28:42Don't be afraid. And Jessica?
28:44Seven. Seven from you.
28:46David? Fears.
28:48And a fear this is going to be in the dictionary.
28:50What is it? Mirages. Yes.
28:52Mirages. Very nice indeed.
28:54Beautiful. Beautiful.
28:55Right, seven points for our champion, Jessica.
28:58Nagat, how did you get on with those letters?
29:00We, yeah, freesia and mirages as well.
29:04Yeah. That's what we got here at this end.
29:06Also, meagres, believe it or not,
29:08so we know the adjective meagre, sort of scarce,
29:10but meagres are also large predatory marine fish
29:13found in the Mediterranean.
29:14Good. Last letters round, and it's Jessica choosing these.
29:18We'll have an old consonant, please, Rachel.
29:20Thank you, Jessica.
29:21P. And another.
29:24T.
29:25And another.
29:26And another.
29:26And another.
29:26And another.
29:27N.
29:28A vowel.
29:30O.
29:31And another.
29:33E.
29:33And another.
29:35U.
29:36A consonant.
29:38D.
29:40A consonant.
29:42C.
29:44And a final consonant.
29:46And a final T.
29:48And last letters.
29:49A consonant.
29:49Within a Terminal Trophy.
29:53E ako.
30:06A consonant.
30:06A consonant.
30:07A incident.
30:07A consonant.
30:08A consonant.
30:09A consonant.
30:09A slot.
30:09Aublik.
30:10A leak.
30:10A MARISHA.
30:11Aשל.
30:11One.
30:12A packed.
30:12ASet.
30:12A household.
30:13A perceber.
30:13A person.
30:14A payer.
30:14A company.
30:15A questão.
30:15Avoy.
30:16Ahistynn.
30:16A ήそうそう.
30:18Jessica, give me a number.
30:21I'm going to try an eight.
30:23Yeah, may as well. David?
30:25Just a seven. A seven might count.
30:27She's showboating now. What's the seven?
30:29Counted. Brilliant.
30:30Will it count, though? Jessica?
30:32Unpotted. Oh, to unpot a plant.
30:35Absolutely fine. I thought Jess would go there
30:36in the dictionary to remove a seedling from a pot.
30:38Nice. Well, listen, numbers have been your friend, David,
30:40today, and thankfully, it's the last numbers now
30:43in your choosing. May I have
30:44one large and four small?
30:47Five small. You can have five.
30:48We can have an extra one. I'm feeling generous.
30:51Final one of the day. Thank you, David.
30:53This time we have one,
30:54eight, two,
30:57six, three,
30:59and 100.
31:00And this target, 681.
31:03681. Numbers up.
31:04MUSIC PLAYS
31:06MUSIC PLAYS
31:08MUSIC PLAYS
31:12MUSIC PLAYS
31:16Six, eight, one, our final target of the day, David?
31:37Six, eight, one.
31:38And for Jessica?
31:40Yeah, six, eight, one.
31:40Six, eight, one. That'll clock you up another century.
31:43But David, you go first there.
31:45Six plus one is seven.
31:47Yep.
31:47Times a hundred.
31:48700.
31:51Two times eight is 16.
31:53Plus three is 19.
31:56Take it away.
31:57Perfect.
31:57Six, eight, one. Well done.
31:58If I'm feeling Jessica, maybe it went the same way.
32:01Yeah, it is.
32:03Well done.
32:06Fairly straight forward that.
32:07Another ten points in the bank.
32:10And Jessica, there's always a target.
32:13There's always something to talk about when we get to the conundrum.
32:15This would high score for you, if you get this.
32:18It would take you to 1-1-6, which would be sensational.
32:21And for you, David, never turn down ten points.
32:24Fingers on the buzzers, please, as we get today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:00That'll do us.
33:01Time is up.
33:02My suspicion is it might be medical, right?
33:05With Nagat in Dictionary Corner on her debut.
33:08And you can see medic in there.
33:10Endemic in there.
33:11But we didn't get it.
33:12Anyone else get it?
33:14My goodness.
33:14Well, let's reveal it.
33:15Let's see what it is.
33:17Oh.
33:17Impudence.
33:19There you go.
33:20After all of that.
33:21Right.
33:22Jessica, congratulations.
33:24You've come roaring back after the weekend off.
33:27Halfway to being an Octo Champ.
33:28We will see you tomorrow.
33:30And, David, shame to lose you.
33:32I think if you had a 1-8, we still wouldn't have run out of things to talk about.
33:36So, I hope you've enjoyed your day.
33:37Nonetheless, you came up against a great champion.
33:39It's been a great day out.
33:40Thanks, Colin.
33:41It's a good crack, isn't it?
33:42Yeah, a great crack.
33:42Absolutely.
33:44And, Nagat, lovely to have you as part of the Countdown family now.
33:46We'll see you tomorrow.
33:47Thank you for having me.
33:48Susie, see you tomorrow.
33:49Yeah, see you then.
33:50But, Rachel, the interesting thing about the Venus de Milo is they thought it was originally
33:54from 400 BC, but then now, like most common consensus is it's 150 BC to 50.
34:00Can you do a voice note?
34:01I'm having trouble sleeping at the moment.
34:02I'll listen to it later.
34:03Message me.
34:04We'll go for dinner.
34:05Great.
34:05Alexandros has said, I'll tell you about it later.
34:07That's all from us, though.
34:08Susie, Rachel and I, back tomorrow.
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