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00:30Good afternoon. Welcome to the Countdown Studio. On the very day, 61 years ago, that Princess Elizabeth heard the very sad news of her father's death and became Queen Elizabeth II. I think she was with her husband, Rachel, in Kenya, at treetops on safari. Is that right?
00:51I think so. I watched quite a lot of documentaries last year. It's quite a fascinating scene. The secret life of the Queen, as it were, with all the home videos.
00:58Yeah, it's amazing.
00:59But I sense, I mean, she's been a staple of my life. I remember where we lived at home, there was a traffic island which said, welcome to Swindon. A very rare thing, actually.
01:10And she drove past it because she was on a tour of the country just when she had recently taken the throne. And so she's been there all my life, really.
01:19There was a massive portrait of the Queen in Oriel College and I think once in every ten years she has to go visit.
01:26Oh, is that right?
01:26I think so, yeah.
01:27Poor thing. She's dragged off there once in every ten years.
01:30Oh, it's a lovely place.
01:31Of course it is.
01:31She's got the beautiful portrait.
01:33But what a part of my life and yours too, I guess. She's been there since all of your life.
01:39Absolutely.
01:40And brought great stability and great affection, I think. She's viewed with extraordinary affection, particularly, I think, since the Jubilee. Don't you think?
01:48Yeah, yeah. I mean, she's seen so many world events. I was watching another documentary about the moon landing and there was some footage from the 60s of her meeting Neil Armstrong. It's just amazing to see how she's blossomed over the years.
02:02Absolutely. Well, on the 10th of September 2015, our own Queen will have reigned longer than her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, who reigned for 63 years and 216 days. So there we are. We look forward to that.
02:17Good excuse for another party and another national holiday, I think.
02:20Excellent excuse. Quite right, Rachel. Now, here's an excuse for a little bit of a punch-up here today.
02:25Connor Travers from St John's College, Cambridge, has come back. The youngest ever series winner.
02:31Aged just 14 when you won and you scored 117 in the last round against Ben Wilson.
02:37And you're a bit of a favourite, Connor. But were you watching yesterday?
02:42I was. I was watching, yes.
02:44Yeah, young Jack Hurst came in at 143. Second highest ever score.
02:49Quite good, yeah.
02:50Quite good?
02:50Yeah, that's pretty good.
02:51Hello.
02:52Confident here.
02:53Well done, Connor. And you're joined by Mark Turnoff from Horsham, who won back in 2004. Welcome back, Mark.
03:02Thank you, Nick.
03:02You had a nail-biting win in with the previous round, I think 101 points to 100 over Nick Deller. Is that right?
03:09That's right.
03:09But you're an old hand, I think. You've actually written and published a book.
03:13I have, yes.
03:14Where is it? Is that it?
03:15This is the book, yes.
03:15What's it called?
03:16It's called Crucial, after Crucial Conundrums.
03:19Yeah.
03:19As it recounts my experiences on the programme in 2004 and 2006.
03:23Excellent.
03:24So I brought a copy along, which I'd like you to have.
03:26Well, thank you very much.
03:27Thank you much. How much do you want for it?
03:29Nothing at all. It's free to be.
03:31Very generous of you. Thank you very much indeed.
03:34So, the generous Mark Turnoff and young, confident Connor Travers should now get a warm round of applause, don't you think?
03:41APPLAUSE
03:42Very good indeed. And on this bright Wednesday, Susie's back and indeed, great Kate Haley. Welcome back, Kate.
03:55And we'll be talking later on about not only all the wars that you've tramped through, but the one that you're now particularly interested in.
04:01We'll catch up with that in a few moments, because now we've got to crack on with the game.
04:08Confident Connor. Off you go.
04:10Hi, Rachel.
04:11Hi again, Connor.
04:12Can I start off with a consonant, please?
04:14Of course. Thank you. Start today with C.
04:16And another.
04:19G.
04:20And the third, please.
04:22D.
04:22A vowel.
04:24I.
04:25Another vowel.
04:26E.
04:27Another.
04:29U.
04:29A consonant.
04:31T.
04:32A vowel, please.
04:35A.
04:37And a final consonant, please.
04:39And a final J.
04:41And here's the countdown clock.
04:43And a final consonant, please.
04:44And a final consonant, please.
04:45And a final consonant, please.
04:45And a final consonant, please.
04:46And a final consonant, please.
04:46And a final consonant, please.
04:47And a final consonant, please.
04:47And a final consonant, please.
04:48And a final consonant, please.
04:48And a final consonant, please.
04:49And a final consonant, please.
04:50And a final consonant, please.
04:51And a final consonant, please.
04:52And a final consonant, please.
04:53And a final consonant, please.
04:54And a final consonant, please.
04:55And a final consonant, please.
04:56And a final consonant, please.
04:57And a final consonant, please.
04:58And a final consonant, please.
04:59And a final consonant, please.
05:00And a final consonant, please.
05:01And a final consonant, please.
05:02And a final consonant, please.
05:03Yes, Connor?
05:15Just six.
05:16A six and Mark?
05:17Just six.
05:18Connor?
05:19Orgite.
05:22Juiced.
05:22Juiced.
05:24We happy then?
05:25Connor, how are you spelling that?
05:26A-U-G-I-T-E.
05:28A-U-G-I-T-E.
05:31Sounds geological.
05:33Yes, it's fantastic.
05:35It's a dark green or black mineral that occurs in many igneous rocks.
05:40Well done.
05:41Well done, Connor.
05:42Very good.
05:42Six all.
05:44Anything else in the corner?
05:45Anything to beat?
05:47Juiced is it, I think.
05:48Juiced?
05:48Yes, that was ours.
05:49All right.
05:50Well done.
05:50Six all and Mark.
05:52Take it away.
05:53Hello, Rachel.
05:54Hi, Mark.
05:54Could I have a consonant to begin, please?
05:56Starts with L.
05:59And a vowel.
06:01E.
06:02And a consonant.
06:05N.
06:07And a vowel.
06:10O.
06:11And a consonant.
06:13T.
06:15And a vowel.
06:17I.
06:19And a consonant.
06:22Y.
06:22And another consonant, please.
06:26N.
06:28And one final consonant, please.
06:30And a final D.
06:32And here's the clock.
06:33There you go.
06:45There you go.
06:55Mark, I'll try an eight. An eight. Thank you. Connor. Ed. Mark. Indolent. Indolent. Yes, the same one. Two indolents, they're both indolent. Anything else over there? Very, very good.
07:17Anything else? Lentoid. A lentoid? Yes, it's the same meaning as lenticular, which means shaped like a lentil, but particularly relating to the lens of the eye. Really? Lentoid. Very good. 14 all. Now then, Connor. Letters game. Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel? Thank you, Connor. R. And a second. L. And a third, please.
07:47T. A vowel. A. Another vowel. E. Another. A. A consonant. P. A vowel, please. U. And a final vowel, please. And a final E. Countdown.
08:08T. A vowel, please.
08:39Connor. An eight. An eight. Yes, Mark. A seven. And your seven. P. A prelate. A prelate. Connor. A laureate. A laureate.
08:50A prelate. Very, very good. Very good. Any advances? A polette. Yes, well, I was hoping for a polette. One T or two Ts and an E.
08:58Oh, is there an American one? It is. Badly. And we're not allowed it. We're not allowed it, no. So there goes our trial. Bad luck. Bad luck, Kate.
09:05So, 22 plays 14. Mark, off you go.
09:09A consonant, please, Rachel? Thank you, Mark. S. And a vowel. I. And a consonant. N. And a vowel. O. And a consonant. G. And a vowel, please. E. And a consonant. M.
09:34And another consonant, please. S. And a vowel, please. And lastly, E. Stand by.
09:44E. Stand by.
10:14Mark.
10:16I'll try an eight.
10:17An eight, Connor.
10:19I'll try an eight as well.
10:20OK. Mark.
10:21Smidgens.
10:22Smidgens.
10:23Why not?
10:24Connor.
10:25Swagnes.
10:26I'm not sure how you say it.
10:28Could you pronounce it again?
10:30S-O-I-G-N-E-E-S.
10:34Ah, soignee.
10:35Yes, you can be soignee.
10:36You can be very elegantly, carefully dressed.
10:38But you wouldn't put the S on at the end.
10:40It's S-O-I-G-N-E-acute.
10:42And you can put the other E on if you're feminine.
10:44But not with the S, I'm afraid.
10:46And no can do on smidgen either, because you need a D, I'm afraid, Mark.
10:50So I have to disallow both.
10:52Very good.
10:52Bad luck for both of you.
10:53But anything else in the corner?
10:55Messing.
10:56Messing.
10:57Messing about.
10:58No arguments about that.
10:59And genomes.
11:01And genomes.
11:02Very good.
11:02Well done.
11:0322 still plays 14 as we go into the first numbers game of the day.
11:08Connor, would you help us out on this?
11:10Can I just have one large, please?
11:11You can indeed.
11:12Thank you, Connor.
11:13Well, I'm from the top row.
11:13And five little ones to start these numbers off.
11:18And for this round, they are three, nine, eight, one, another eight, and the large one, 100.
11:26And your target, 625.
11:28Six to five.
11:29Six to five.
11:29Six to five.
11:30One, two, three, nine, eight, and the large one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one,
12:00Yes Connor? 625. 625, Mark? No just 622. 62, right then Connor? 8 plus 8. 8 plus 8, 16. Plus 9. Plus 9, 25. And then 3 plus 1 is 4. 3 plus 1 is 4. 100 over 4. 100 over 4, 25. And multiply by the other 25. Yep, well done, 65. Very good, well done, well done Connor.
12:25Very good. 32 now plays 14. But now it's time to turn to Kate. And Kate, you've tramped through so many wars, but there's one particular war that's now taken your interest. The First World War, I think.
12:41Well, it's the war that the most has ever been written about. I mean, thousands and thousands of books. And even then, people are still discovering things about it.
12:50And it's also very difficult for anybody like me today to realise what it was really like. It was so very different.
13:00Extraordinary. And I think you're writing something now also about... Yes, yes. I'm about to add to that pile of books.
13:05And what is that book? I think it's something about... It's mainly about looking at the women, which right up until 30 years ago, 40 years ago, nobody bothered.
13:14Because all the memoirs are written by the men. Except, when you look into it, the extraordinary number of women who wrote their own memoirs, their diaries.
13:23And they make absolutely fascinating reading.
13:26I mean, it was a big war, too. I mean, I guess, mostly, deal with the Western Front, which was the sort of, you know, the Somme and the Marne and the Ypres and all of that.
13:34But, of course, there was a war going on way across in Mesopotamia, for instance, where my poor old grandpa...
13:40Absolutely. And where you had women in places like Serbia, right over on the east, and extraordinary stories of British heroines who were there.
13:49Wonderful things. And pretty well forgotten now.
13:52Extraordinary. It always surprised me that the Americans had such a loss.
13:55And I seem to remember reading, not so long ago, that the Americans actually lost something like 350,000 troops.
14:02The French, 2 million. Just slaughtered the poilus, I think they were called, the sweats in the Western Front.
14:09It's almost impossible for us, I think, to envisage what it was like.
14:13Because today, we look at casualties, and they are, thankfully, most of the wars we've been involved in, living memory, have been smallish numbers, except, of course, for World War II.
14:26Sure.
14:27And you look at these huge, huge casualty lists that everybody read every day.
14:31Yeah.
14:32Which had hundreds of names on them.
14:34Dreadful.
14:35Yes.
14:36Well, let's hope those days have long gone.
14:38But now it's time for a Tea Time teaser.
14:40What have we got for you?
14:41It's Neat Pole.
14:42And the clue, maybe the small creature wants to run away with the bigger one.
14:47Maybe the small creature wants to run away with the bigger one.
14:50And the answer is Antelope.
14:51Antelope.
14:52Now, if you'd like to become a Countdown contestant, you can email countdown at channel4.com to request an application.
14:55form, or write to us at contestantsapplications, countdown.com to request an application form,
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15:08countdown leads, LS3, 1J, S. 32, plays 14, Connor in the lead.
15:09Mark.
15:10I'll have a constant begin with, please, Rachel.
15:11Thank you, Mark.
15:12S.
15:13Thank you, Mark.
15:14S.
15:15And a vowel, please.
15:16I.
15:17And a consonant.
15:18And a consonant.
15:19Okay.
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15:21an application form, or write to us at contestantsapplications, countdown leads, LS3, 1J, S.
15:3032, plays 14, Connor in the lead.
15:33Mark.
15:34I'll have a constant begin with, please, Rachel.
15:36Thank you, Mark.
15:37S.
15:38And a vowel, please.
15:40I.
15:41And a consonant.
15:42And a consonant.
15:43L.
15:44And a vowel.
15:45O.
15:46And a consonant.
15:47Z.
15:48And a vowel, please.
15:49U.
15:50And a consonant.
15:51U.
15:52And a consonant.
15:53U.
15:54And a consonant.
15:55N.
15:56And a vowel, please.
15:57A.
15:58And a consonant, please.
15:59And the last one.
16:00G.
16:01Turn by.
16:02And a vowel, please.
16:03A.
16:04And a consonant, please.
16:05And the last one.
16:06G.
16:07Turn by.
16:08G.
16:09T.
16:10And a consonant.
16:11Y.
16:12And the last one.
16:13G.
16:14Turn by.
16:15I've got a seven-knot written down.
16:45Connor.
16:46I'll try seven.
16:47Okay.
16:48Mark.
16:49Lousing.
16:50Lousing.
16:51There we are, look.
16:52He wrote it down.
16:53Lousing.
16:54It's completely fine.
16:56You can louse something up or you can remove lice from something or somebody.
17:02Delicing.
17:03Yeah, it's the same thing.
17:04In terms of the verb, you can remove lice from.
17:06I forgive you.
17:07Anything else?
17:09We were lasing as well as lousing.
17:11That's much more attractive.
17:1329 plays 21.
17:14Connor, take it away.
17:15Could I have a consonant, please?
17:16Thank you, Connor.
17:17V.
17:18And another.
17:19D.
17:20And another.
17:21S.
17:22A vowel, please.
17:23I.
17:24Another vowel.
17:25E.
17:26Another.
17:27A consonant.
17:28Q.
17:29A consonant.
17:30T.
17:31T.
17:32And a final consonant, please.
17:33And a final R.
17:34Countdown.
17:35Countdown.
17:36A consonant.
17:37T.
17:38T.
17:39And a final consonant, please.
17:40And a final R.
17:41Countdown.
17:42T.
17:43You cut from...
17:44T.
17:45A shout out to the section.
18:08Conor?
18:15Seven.
18:16Mark?
18:17Seven.
18:18Conor?
18:18Adverts.
18:19Adverts.
18:20Mark?
18:20More adverts.
18:21More adverts, two adverts.
18:23And in the corner, Susie and Kate.
18:26Tirades.
18:27Tirades.
18:28Very good.
18:29Anything else?
18:29Yes, lots of sevens, actually.
18:31Starved, diverts, quite a few.
18:33Couldn't get more, though.
18:34Very good.
18:34All right.
18:3646 plays 28.
18:37Mark?
18:38Thank you, Nick.
18:39I'll have a consonant, please, Rachel.
18:41Thank you, Mark.
18:42F.
18:43And a vowel, please.
18:45U.
18:46And a consonant.
18:48M.
18:50And a vowel, please.
18:52A.
18:54And a consonant, please.
18:57P.
18:58And a vowel, please.
19:01O.
19:02And a consonant.
19:04H.
19:06And another consonant, please.
19:08R.
19:09And a vowel, please.
19:12And lastly, I.
19:14Time for the clock.
19:15B.
19:16All right.
19:17Oh, my.
19:25There we go.
19:27I'll go.
19:32澄ま.
19:33Tough-looking selection there. Mark?
19:47Just five.
19:48A five. Yes, Connor?
19:50I think I've got a seven.
19:51Right. Let's hear your five, Mark.
19:54Morph.
19:55Morph. And your seven, Connor?
19:58Morphia.
19:59Morphia.
20:01OK.
20:01The arms of Morphia.
20:04It is in, and it's an old-fashioned term for morphine.
20:07Well done, Connor.
20:07Very good indeed. Well done.
20:1053 plays 28. That was very good indeed.
20:13Connor, let us go.
20:14Could I have a consonant, please?
20:15Thank you, Connor.
20:17C.
20:17And another.
20:20T.
20:21And another.
20:23N.
20:24A vowel, please.
20:26E.
20:26And another.
20:29A.
20:29And another.
20:31O.
20:32A consonant.
20:34C.
20:35A vowel.
20:38E.
20:40And a final consonant, please.
20:42And a final S.
20:45Goodbye.
20:45nerveality.
20:46And a clot of rhythm.
20:50And that one time.
20:52Bye.
20:53Bye.
20:53Bye.
20:53Bye.
20:54You're free to run.
20:56Bye.
21:12Yes Connor? Eight. Eight, well done. Mark? Just seven. And the seven? Accents. Accents. Connor? Note case. Note case. Very good, well done. Yes, that's excellent. And the else? Ten aces as well. They are in bridge, whist and similar card games, a pair of cards in one hand, the rank of which are immediately above and below a card held by an opponent.
21:41So, for example, the ace and queen in a suit of which the opponent holds the king. Very good, thank you for that. And it's one word, is it? Yes. 61 plays 28. Very good. But now, Susie, after that little lecture on card games, what else have you got for us on your origins of words?
21:57Well, I'm sticking with English place names. I mentioned that I was reading a book by Caroline Taggart and it's fascinating. And she talks of one category of place names that we don't often think about.
22:08There are many interesting sounding place names that actually have quite disappointing origins and some very ordinary sounding names that turn out to be fascinating.
22:15But this category is one of places that have very sensible origins, but they just make us smile or snigger in some cases.
22:23Fry up in Yorkshire is one example. But the up here actually means valley and the dedication is probably to the Norse goddess Frigga rather than to bacon and eggs.
22:35So nothing to do with a good old English breakfast.
22:37Goonbell in Cornwall simply means distant open pasture.
22:42And great snoring in Norfolk is simply a village associated with the name of a man called Sneer.
22:49Loose in Kent doesn't mean quite what you think, but it's still not very elegant.
22:53It means placed by the pigsty.
22:56Nasty in Herefordshire. The N is a mistake in this one.
23:00The name should have been Asty, A-S-T-Y, meaning eastern enclosure.
23:04But the Middle English word for at the eastern enclosure was at an asty.
23:09And over time the N got attached to the asty and it became an asty.
23:13Pratt's bottom. The bottom refers to the bottom of a valley and it's been associated with a family called Pratt for many centuries.
23:20And six mile bottom in Cambridgeshire is simply six miles from Newmarket.
23:25And Kate told me of a wonderful one earlier.
23:28In fact, there are two places I think with the name of Pudding Bag Lane.
23:32One in the south west you mentioned.
23:33And up in Leicestershire as well and round in the Midlands.
23:36And a pudding bag, which was like that.
23:39And then you had a sort of long bit, which, you know, you tied with string.
23:43And that is in fact a cul-de-sac.
23:45It's a description of where you live.
23:46But because it was a French Norman word, they had to find a nice Anglo-Saxon description for it.
23:52A pudding bag.
23:53Very good indeed. Well done.
23:55And cul-de-sac actually means bottom of the sack or bottom of the bag.
23:58It's a term from anatomy for a vessel that was open at one end.
24:01But anyway, fascinating stuff in that book.
24:04Thank you very much. Very good. Well done.
24:10As enjoyable as ever.
24:12Now then, Mark, 28, trailing Connor a bit there.
24:16Your numbers game.
24:17Rachel, Rachel's waiting for you.
24:19Well, I've got to start taking some chances, Rachel.
24:21So I'll go for four large numbers.
24:23Yeah, he who dares win.
24:24I think that's a good ploy.
24:26But then again, it's Connor.
24:27So I might be pretty good at these.
24:28Thank you, Mark.
24:29So the two small here are one and three.
24:33And the four large ones, 25, 75, 50 and 100.
24:38And your target, 152.
24:41152.
25:11mark well 100 100 plus 50 plus three months oh so you've got it you've got it oh yes
25:20he didn't give me a chance to say i had written it down very good let's disqualify somebody
25:31all right same way thank you very much very good indeed so 71 plays 38 and now it's time for tea
25:40time teaser what have we got sago rise and the clue were these large merchant ships ordered from
25:47a catalogue were these large merchant ships ordered from a catalogue
25:52welcome back and the clue i left you with were these large merchant ships ordered from a catalogue
26:12and the answer no argosies is the word we're after argonauts argosies where does it come from
26:18i've been learning all about these from kate um they are large merchant ships especially ones
26:23from ragusa which is now dubrovnik or from venice really yes an argosy oh look here comes an argosy
26:31it comes in poetry quite often it's one of those sort of nicer words and lots of ships
26:36flows in the lines well i'm dashed 71 plays 38 and now it's connor's chance to extend his lead
26:45perhaps connor could i have a consonant please thank you connor g and another d and another s a vowel a and
26:59another e and another i a consonant b a vowel u and a final vowel please and a final i clock time
27:17i'll be right back to you
27:40i
27:47Connor seven seven mark six and your six patches badges Connor budgies budgies
27:58Slim pickings
28:00Budgies yes, yes, yes, but I just bungees
28:05Look at the origin of budgerigar, and it's an Aboriginal origin
28:09Well, they were Australian weren't they? Yeah mark off you go. I'll have a consonant. Thank you mark
28:16T and of our
28:19E and the consonant
28:23F and the vowel oh
28:28And the consonant
28:31And the vowel
28:33I
28:35and the consonant
28:37s and
28:39another consonant
28:41T and
28:43And another constant and last one
28:46P
28:47Cut down
29:18Mark?
29:19Eight.
29:20An eight.
29:21Very good.
29:21Connor?
29:21Eight.
29:22All right.
29:23Mark?
29:23Spottier.
29:24Spottier.
29:25Are you both spottier?
29:26Yeah.
29:27In the corner, what have you got there?
29:28Kate?
29:29In seven, riposte.
29:32Yep.
29:33Pretty good.
29:33And potters.
29:35And another one.
29:37Forties.
29:38Forties.
29:39Very good indeed.
29:4086 plays 46.
29:41Now then, Connor.
29:43Letters game.
29:44Can I start for a consonant, please?
29:46Thank you, Connor.
29:47L.
29:48And another.
29:50L.
29:51And another.
29:53W.
29:54A vowel.
29:56E.
29:57And a second.
29:58U.
29:59And a third.
30:01I.
30:02A consonant.
30:03T.
30:04A vowel.
30:06A.
30:07And a final consonant, please.
30:09And a final L.
30:12And they're off.
30:12And a seventh.
30:24A vowel.
30:25And a vowel.
30:30Aằngose.
30:31Yes, Connor?
30:44Just six.
30:46Six. Mark?
30:47Just six.
30:48Connor?
30:49Wallet.
30:50Oh, wallet.
30:51Mark?
30:51In whale.
30:53Yes.
30:55And the else over there in the corner, Susie?
30:57Kate, any offerings?
30:58Unwell.
31:00Pretty good.
31:01Yes.
31:02And you can have walnut as well, which meant a foreign nut.
31:06Why?
31:08Because that was, it was an exotic nut back in the old English days.
31:12And in fact, whales was also named because it's similar to walnut because they were foreigners.
31:18And just to tell you what an in whale is, it's a structural piece on the inside of a boat.
31:22Very good.
31:23Very good.
31:24But now it's numbers time.
31:25Last numbers game of the day, Mark.
31:27There's Rachel waiting for you.
31:29Well, it's about damage limitation, I think, now.
31:32Rachel, so I'll go for one large number.
31:34One large.
31:35You're doing very well.
31:35And this is Connor, who is known to be a bit of a champion, as you are as well.
31:40Anyway, so for some more points, the last numbers game is eight, eight, one, ten, another ten, and 75.
31:50And the target, 529.
31:54529.
31:54I'll go for one large number.
31:54I'll go for one large number.
31:55I'll go for one large number.
31:56I'll go for one large number.
31:56I'll go for one large number.
31:57I'll go for one large number.
31:58I'll go for one large number.
31:59I'll go for one large number.
32:00I'll go for one large number.
32:01I'll go for one large number.
32:02I'll go for one large number.
32:03I'll go for one large number.
32:04I'll go for one large number.
32:05I'll go for one large number.
32:06Well, Mark?
32:26Yes, 529.
32:27And Connor?
32:28529.
32:29OK, Mark?
32:3075 subtract 10.
32:3275 subtract 10, 65.
32:35Times 8.
32:35Times 8, 520.
32:37Add 10 subtract 9.
32:38Yeah, well done.
32:40And Connor?
32:41I started the same and then I added the 8 and the 1.
32:44Yeah, lovely.
32:45Well done, Mark.
32:46Very good.
32:47Well done.
32:50Well done.
32:51Nudged over the 100 there, Connor.
32:53Well done.
32:54102 to 62 as we get to the conundrum round.
32:58So, fingers on buzzers.
33:00Please, let's reveal today's countdown conundrum.
33:03Very fast, Connor.
33:07Emotively.
33:08Let's see whether you're right.
33:10My word.
33:13Emotively.
33:14Brilliant.
33:16Very, very, very good.
33:19Very, very good.
33:21So, we'll see you next week.
33:24Very good score.
33:25Keep an eye out for Jack, though.
33:27I will.
33:28Yes, 143.
33:30But still, Connor, you're up there with them.
33:32A contender.
33:33You certainly are a contender.
33:35Now then, Mark.
33:37Good luck.
33:38I mean, you're up against a pretty fearsome competitor there.
33:4262, no bad score.
33:43But you're taking home this priceless piece of kryptonite and a very heavy and valuable teapot.
33:51With our very best wishes.
33:52That's very kind of you.
33:53And thank you very much for the book.
33:54And I want you to sign it to me.
33:55Oh, I have already.
33:57Excellent stuff.
33:57Excellent stuff.
33:58We'll see you soon, Connor, next week.
34:00Well done.
34:01Now then, Susie.
34:02I tell you, the standard is extraordinary, isn't it?
34:05I know.
34:05I'm loving this.
34:06But it doesn't leave us with much work in this corner, apart from looking up very hard work.
34:09It's very tough for you guys.
34:10Very tough for you.
34:11Very tough for you and Kate.
34:12But we'll see you tomorrow.
34:13Have a restful evening and be ready again tomorrow.
34:16Yeah.
34:17For the brave fight.
34:19We'll see you tomorrow, Rachel.
34:20See you tomorrow.
34:20And of course, the thing is, you can't show off your wonderful prowess with the numbers,
34:25because they get them all.
34:26It's so unfair.
34:27No, they're fantastic.
34:28And it's interesting, because Kurt got a max game the other day.
34:31Yeah.
34:31We had the 143 yesterday, 112 today, but no big nines today.
34:35So it'll be interesting when they actually meet each other, see who comes out on top.
34:38Quite right.
34:39Excellent.
34:39Well, we'll see you tomorrow.
34:40And we look forward to seeing you tomorrow, same time, same place.
34:43You be sure of it.
34:44Good afternoon to you.
34:45Everyone seems to be running amok in the savannah at four o'clock, but we need to find a way
35:01to reel them back in, in brand new work on the wild side, right after a marriage of people
35:06with home.
35:07Hopefully.
35:08Channel 4 is finding a place in the Mijas sun.
35:10Next.
35:11Thanks.
35:12Thanks.
35:13There's a nice day.
35:14There's a nice day.
35:16Thanks.
35:17I've got to.
35:18Thanks.
35:18Take it.
35:19es.