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00:00Welcome to the Countdown studio and the second time of our Champion of Champions series.
00:28Yesterday, he had a fantastic competition. Young Tom Kappelman got 133. I mean, he was within an ace, really, of getting the highest possible score.
00:37And today, I expect no less fantastic. But anyway, here we are, early January. Most of us are back to work.
00:43I read an extraordinary article, not extraordinary, but an interesting article about apps. Apps. Do they make us more productive?
00:51It's claimed that with apps being at, you know, at our fingertips all the time, that we're doing so much more on the move when we're commuting or whatever it is that we're doing, but on the move that normally we would have done at home.
01:04The ones that I often use are maps, train times, the radio. I love my radio app. You think, hmm, I can't sleep. It's 4.30 in the morning.
01:14I wonder whether they're playing any decent jazz in Cincinnati. I love that one. And the weather. And sky view. Do you know sky view?
01:22Oh, when you point anywhere and it shows you all the constellations. Brilliant. Yeah.
01:26You've got a clear sky. You've pointed up there. Incredible.
01:29And it's, it's a beautiful thing, actually. Especially when you're somewhere else in the world, and they're all different. It's lovely. Exactly.
01:35Yeah, it's brilliant. And all these kind of things are free. It's incredible what you can get on your own now.
01:39It is. It's wonderful. I love it. Anything is possible these days.
01:42Now, Heather Stiles, welcome back. Wearing our Christmas jersey. I hope you'll be taking that off tomorrow. I mean, not because we don't know.
01:52It's sad because tomorrow is the 12th day after Christmas. You'll be obliged to take it off.
02:03Oh, absolutely. We've run that too. In the primacy of your own home.
02:06A runner-up in 2012. Good luck to you now, Heather. You're joined by Giles Hutchings, one of our younger contestants way back in 2013, came out on top as champion. Welcome back, Giles.
02:20Thanks. Yeah.
02:20Big fan of Wes Anderson films and an astronomy expert and enthusiast. Yeah. And studying maths at the University of Warwick. How's it going?
02:29Yeah, it's final year. It's getting quite tense. And what, what do you think you'll do with this, with this degree of yours?
02:35Oh, I still haven't decided. It could be kind of consulting or something financial in the city.
02:40You're heading towards the city, do you think? Possibly, yeah.
02:42Very good. Well, let's have a big round of applause then for Giles and Heather.
02:45Very good. And over in the corner, Susie, of course, once again joined by the wonderful Gloria Harniford, as I said yesterday.
02:57You know, truly one of the most celebrated broadcasters in Britain.
03:00Thank you. No wonder I come here again and again, eh?
03:02You come whenever you like. We love seeing you.
03:05Now, Heather, take us away on a lessons game, would you?
03:09Hello, Rachel. Hi again, Heather.
03:11Can I start with a consonant, please?
03:13Oh, of course, thank you. Start today with R.
03:17And another one.
03:19T.
03:20And a third.
03:23K.
03:24And a fourth.
03:27S.
03:29Switch to vowel, please.
03:31U.
03:33And another.
03:35A.
03:36Another.
03:39O.
03:40And another one.
03:43A.
03:44And finish with a final vowel, please.
03:47And finish with E.
03:49And here's the countdown clock.
03:51MUSIC PLAYS
03:52E.
03:53And after,
03:53there's the countdown clock.
04:02It's easy to download.
04:04And finish with E.
04:04I'll see you next week.
04:06E.
04:06I'll see you next week.
04:12E.
04:13E.
04:15E.
04:15E.
04:15E.
04:16E.
04:16E.
04:17E.
04:18E.
04:18E.
04:19E.
04:19E.
04:20E.
04:20Yes, Heather.
04:23Seven.
04:24Seven, Giles.
04:25Eight.
04:26And an eight.
04:28Heather.
04:29An ostraca.
04:32Giles.
04:34Outrakes.
04:35I think it's a Dutch word.
04:39It is, what says it, Scottish and English regional, but outrakes brilliant.
04:45It's an outrake is an extensive open pasture or a path leading to such a pasture, especially from enclosed fields.
04:51Brilliant.
04:51Oh, very good.
04:52Well done.
04:55And just to pick up on Heather's ostraca, Nick, an ostraca, ostracon, which is the singular, was a broken bit of pottery.
05:03It was used as a writing surface, and in fact, if the ancient Greeks wanted to banish somebody, send them into exile,
05:08they would write their name on one of these ostracons, or ostraca, indeed, and send them off into the wilderness.
05:14Well done.
05:15Well done.
05:16Eight points to Giles, and Giles' letters game now.
05:19Hi again, Rachel.
05:20Hi again, Giles.
05:21Can I have a consonant, please?
05:22You can indeed, thank you.
05:23Start with Y.
05:25And another one.
05:27C.
05:29And another.
05:31M.
05:32And a vowel.
05:33I.
05:34And a vowel.
05:36A.
05:37And a consonant.
05:39H.
05:41And a consonant, please.
05:43N.
05:44And a vowel.
05:47I.
05:48And a final vowel, please.
05:50And a final O.
05:54Countdown.
05:54Âm.
06:05And a vowel.
06:09And a vowel.
06:11The wind makes a 실패.
06:13And a vowel.
06:16Now.
06:17And a vowel, please.
06:18Sometimes.
06:20Well, Giles?
06:26I think it's five.
06:27Heather?
06:28Five.
06:30Two fives, Giles.
06:32Manic.
06:33Manic and you're both manic?
06:35I'm also manic.
06:36I don't think Laurie's ever been manic.
06:39You've got to believe it.
06:40But then, have you ever been really, really macho?
06:43Because macho's a good word out of this.
06:45I'd like to think so.
06:46I'd like to think so, but I'm exaggerating.
06:48And Susie has six.
06:49There is six, manioc, M-A-N-I-O-C, which is another name for cassava.
06:56And that's the, you know, the starchy root of a tropical tree.
06:59It's used as a food, embarrassing starchy, anyway.
07:02All right.
07:03So, 13 plays, Heather's five, Giles in the lead, and it's Heather's numbers game.
07:08Heather?
07:09Can I have two large and four small, please?
07:11You can, indeed.
07:12Thank you, Heather.
07:12Two from the top row and four little ones coming up.
07:15And the first numbers of the day are two, one, seven, another one.
07:21And the large two, 50 and 25.
07:24And the target, 520.
07:27Five, two, zero.
07:28Five, two, zero.
07:58Heather?
08:00I've got 520, but not fully written down.
08:03Right.
08:04What about Giles?
08:05We've got 520.
08:06520.
08:07Heather?
08:0950 plus 25.
08:1275.
08:13Minus 1 is 74.
08:15Yep.
08:16By 7 is...
08:17518.
08:18518, and I have 2.
08:19Perfect.
08:19520.
08:20Well done.
08:21Very good.
08:21Giles?
08:22Yeah, did it the same way.
08:23Just check that out, Heather.
08:25Are we happy?
08:26Yeah.
08:26All right.
08:27So, 15 plays Giles is 23, as we go into a tea-time teaser.
08:32First of the day, it's all sugar.
08:34And the clue, it's not all sugar.
08:36There's a bit of cheese in it as well.
08:38It's not all sugar.
08:40There's a bit of cheese in it as well.
08:57Warm welcome back.
08:58I left you with the clue.
08:59It's not all sugar.
09:00There's a bit of cheese in it as well.
09:03And the answer is, it's rasgulla, Susie Dent.
09:08Rasgulla?
09:08You can probably think this sounds horrible, but I think it sounds delicious.
09:11It's an Indian sweet, so I think you probably might have it as pudding, consisting of a ball
09:16of paneer, which is that curd cheese, and it's cooked in syrup.
09:20And our very ever-witty producer just said I could talk about the origin of curds.
09:26So, no calories in it.
09:29Yeah, heavily calorific, but it sounds very good.
09:32Very good.
09:33I'll happily have a little ball of rasgulla.
09:3623 plays Heather's 15.
09:38Giles, let us game now.
09:41Can I have a consonant, please?
09:42Thank you, Giles.
09:43R.
09:44And another one.
09:47C.
09:47And a vowel.
09:49E.
09:50And another vowel.
09:52A.
09:53Consonant.
09:55S.
09:56Vowel.
09:58E.
09:59Vowel.
10:01O.
10:02Consonant.
10:04T.
10:05And a final consonant, please.
10:07And a final R.
10:09Stand by.
10:09Stand by.
10:10E.
10:21asshole.
10:23And a final vowel.
10:23And a finalfu.
10:24And a final coupon table.
10:26And a final 표현 photograph.
10:27And this one.
10:27We'll see as now.
10:29And a final collagen.
10:30And a final temas behind it.
10:31And a final gost middle one.
10:33And a final emoji.
10:34And a final ATP.
10:35And a final texture.
10:36And a final Kommentar somewhere.
10:37Yes, Charles?
10:42Eight.
10:42An eight.
10:44Heather?
10:45Seven.
10:46Heather?
10:47Rosiate.
10:48And Charles?
10:50Arrested.
10:52What was all Heather say?
10:53Rosiate, R-O-S-E-A-T-E.
10:56Absolutely fine, yeah.
10:57Rosiate Hugh?
10:58Yes.
10:59What have you got in the corner?
11:00Well, we have an eight.
11:02Resorted.
11:03Very good.
11:04Which I think is a good result.
11:05Anything else, Susie?
11:06You can have a Roadster as well.
11:08I can imagine Nick riding a Roadster.
11:09It's an open-top car with two seats.
11:11Of course.
11:12Roadster.
11:12You couldn't have Treaders, could you?
11:15Or just throw it in idly?
11:18You certainly could.
11:19Could you?
11:20Yeah, excellent.
11:21Good eight, in fact.
11:23Right, so 31 to 15.
11:25Charles is in the lead, and it's Heather's chance to catch up.
11:29Heather?
11:30I'll start with a consonant, please.
11:32Thank you, Heather.
11:34V.
11:35And another one.
11:37S.
11:38Another one.
11:40Z.
11:41Same again, please.
11:44C.
11:45Vowel, please.
11:47A.
11:49Another.
11:50U.
11:51Another.
11:53E.
11:56Another vowel.
11:58I.
11:58And a consonant, please, Rachel.
12:05And lastly, P.
12:07Countdown.
12:07And another one.
12:13The L anyone.
12:23I'm going.
12:24I'm going.
12:25What?
12:26I'm going.
12:27Ay.
12:28I'm going.
12:28I'm going.
12:28I'm going.
12:29I'm going.
12:29Hello?
12:39Six.
12:41Six, Giles?
12:42Six as well.
12:43Heather?
12:44Er, topes.
12:46Thank you, Giles.
12:47A pasty.
12:49And a pasty.
12:51Erm, topes.
12:53The question is whether you can put an S on it.
12:55The dictionary says very clearly that it is a mass noun,
12:59so you can't pluralise it.
13:00Grey with a tinge of brown.
13:02Erm, and I think taupe is already quite a specific colour.
13:05It's not, like, brown or purple.
13:08So I'm going to have to say no, Heather.
13:09Apologies.
13:10Taupe's taupe.
13:11Yes, I think so.
13:13For the purposes of the game, sorry.
13:14We want a dark taupe.
13:1637 plays 15.
13:18And where shall we go?
13:19Let's go to the numbers game, shall we?
13:21Giles?
13:22I think I'll go back to my usual pick of one large, please.
13:25Thank you, Giles.
13:26One large and five little ones.
13:28Coming up, and for this round,
13:30your little ones are four, two, three, six, and eight.
13:36And the big one, 50.
13:38And the target, 331.
13:41Three, three, one.
13:43Three, two, three, four, three, four, three, four, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five
14:13Yes, Giles.
14:153, 3, 1.
14:163, 3, 1, Heather.
14:173, 30, not written down.
14:193, 30.
14:20So, Giles.
14:2150 plus 4, 54 times that by 6.
14:25Times by 6, 4, 324.
14:28Plus 8.
14:293, 3, 2.
14:30And then 3 minus 2 is a 1.
14:31Perfect.
14:32Well done.
14:33Well done indeed.
14:35Well done, Giles.
14:38There you go.
14:3847 plays.
14:3915.
14:40As we turn to our dictionary corner guest.
14:43Gloria Harniford.
14:44Gloria, you're always giving us good ideas on the rip-off programmes that you present.
14:50I believe you're focusing on what we eat and drink in a new series.
14:54I am.
14:55I mean, the Rip-Off Britain series has sort of grown its own brand because we got in just at the time of recession.
15:00And, for example, we're doing 60 of those this year.
15:03So, we have straightforward consumer programme, Rip-Off Britain.
15:06Then we have Rip-Off Britain Food.
15:08Then we have Rip-Off Britain Holidays.
15:10But I'm doing a new programme with the lovely guy, Chris, the fruit and veg man, I call him.
15:15And it's really the correlation between food and your health.
15:19For example, diabetes and sugar, etc.
15:22Or it could be heart disease or it could be arthritis.
15:24So, it's a subtle blend to talk about food in relation to health.
15:29But we were doing sugar recently.
15:32I mean, sugar is a big, big subject for the last couple of years anyway.
15:35Headlines from America, sugar is poison.
15:37And there seems to be more emphasis now on sugar than there is actually on fat content.
15:41But when we looked at sugary drinks, I mean, what you would classify as an energy drink that you would have taken your granny or anybody to hospital, one small bottle of that energy drink has got 17 spoonfuls of sugar in it.
15:55And our allowance is seven teaspoons for 24 hours.
15:58So, therefore, one drink and you're way, way over twice your limit, three times your limit.
16:03And then the little blackcurrant juices that I, for example, would have given my children, we now know that that causes tooth decay, of course.
16:11But just a little carton of that blackcurrant juice has got 14 spoonfuls of sugar in it.
16:17And even water.
16:18You would lift a bottle of water and you'd say, oh, well, it's got a bit of strawberry and raspberry in it or a bit of lime and lemon.
16:24Even those bottles of water have sometimes up to seven teaspoons of sugar added.
16:29So, it's horrific.
16:31So, if you're trying to keep your sugar levels down and say, for health, we should all have seven teaspoons a day.
16:38So, it's pretty horrific when you start looking into it.
16:41So, I'm really enjoying that aspect of food in relation to metabolic diseases and so on.
16:46Yeah.
16:47Fascinating.
16:48It is fascinating.
16:49Brilliant stuff.
16:49Thank you very much.
16:51Very good.
16:54End of the lesson.
16:56Well done.
16:58Well done.
16:58Now then, 47 plays 15.
17:01Giles on 47 and it's Heather's letters game now.
17:04Heather.
17:05I'll start with a vowel, please.
17:06Thank you, Heather.
17:07A.
17:08And another.
17:10O.
17:11And a third.
17:13E.
17:14Er, and a fourth.
17:17A.
17:18And a consonant.
17:22F.
17:23Another one, please.
17:24N.
17:25And again.
17:27R.
17:27And another.
17:29M.
17:31And off.
17:33Another consonant, please, Rachel.
17:35And the last one, B.
17:37Countdown.
17:37Thorem.
17:45Yohm's.
17:53Again.
17:54M.
17:55Heather?
18:09Seven.
18:10Seven, Giles?
18:11Seven.
18:13Heather?
18:14Foreman.
18:15And Giles?
18:16I've got the same foreman.
18:17There we go, just Heather.
18:19Check.
18:20And to be a copycat, I've got the same.
18:21Another one there.
18:23And Susie?
18:24Yes.
18:25Exactly the same here.
18:26Nothing else?
18:26No, amoeba's there again for six, but that was the best seven that we could get.
18:29The foreman.
18:30Well done.
18:3154 to 22.
18:33Giles, off you go.
18:35Let us go.
18:36Can I have a consonant, please?
18:37Thank you, Giles.
18:38P.
18:39And another one.
18:41T.
18:42And a third.
18:45D.
18:45And a vowel.
18:47I.
18:48And another.
18:49E.
18:50And another.
18:52A.
18:52And a consonant.
18:54L.
18:56And a vowel.
18:58O.
18:59And a consonant, please.
19:02And the last one.
19:03G.
19:04Countdown.
19:05And a consonant, please.
19:06And a consonant, please.
19:06And a consonant, please.
19:07And a consonant, please.
19:08And a consonant, please.
19:08And a consonant, please.
19:09And a consonant, please.
19:10And a consonant, please.
19:10And a consonant, please.
19:10And a consonant, please.
19:11And a consonant, please.
19:12And a consonant, please.
19:12And a consonant, please.
19:12And a consonant, please.
19:13And a consonant, please.
19:14And a consonant, please.
19:14And a consonant, please.
19:15And a consonant, please.
19:16And a consonant, please.
19:17And a consonant, please.
19:18And a consonant, please.
19:19And a consonant, please.
19:20And a consonant, please.
19:21And a consonant, please.
19:22And a consonant, please.
19:23And a consonant, please.
19:24And a consonant, please.
19:25Yes, Giles.
19:38Eight.
19:39An eight.
19:40Eight.
19:40Two eights.
19:41Giles.
19:42Pilotage.
19:43And Heather.
19:44Same.
19:46Yeah, it's fine, yeah.
19:47Pilotage.
19:48Well done.
19:52Susie.
19:52Quite a few sevens, yes.
19:54Eskidesha, of course.
19:56A gallipot, which is resin deposited on the maritime pine.
20:00Yeah.
20:00As one does.
20:02But, yeah, as you encounter a lot.
20:04But Pilotage was really excellent, yes.
20:06Very good.
20:06All right, chaps.
20:0762 to 30.
20:09Jiles in the lead, and it's Heather's numbers game.
20:11Heather, address yourself to Rachel.
20:14I'll try six small.
20:16Why not?
20:17Thank you, Heather.
20:17Six little ones.
20:18Try and get some points back.
20:20Hopefully, I've picked a good one.
20:22This selection is eight.
20:23Six, seven, nine, ten, six, and four.
20:30And the target, 423.
20:33Four, two, three.
20:34Two, three.
20:35Three, three, four, three.
20:48Three, four, three.
20:52One, one, two, three.
20:55Heather?
21:06I've got it, but not fully written down again.
21:09How about Giles?
21:1043, yeah.
21:11So, Heather?
21:137 times 6 times 10 is 420.
21:167 times 6, yep, 420.
21:19Plus 4 for 424.
21:21Yep.
21:22And then 9 minus 8 for the 1, and take that away.
21:2743, lovely.
21:28And Giles?
21:29Yeah, did it the same way.
21:31There we go, well done.
21:36All right, tea time teaser time, which is scampies.
21:40And the clue, for the prisoner, it's all about getting away from it all.
21:45For the prisoner, it's all about getting away from it all.
21:52Welcome back.
22:05Welcome back.
22:06I left you with the clue.
22:07For the prisoner, it's all about getting away from it all.
22:10And the answer, therefore, is escapism.
22:13Escapism.
22:14Now, if you'd like to become a Countdown contestant, you can email countdown at channel4.com to request an application form, or write to us at contestantsapplications, countdown leads, LS31JS.
22:30Now, Giles, 72, Heather on 40, and Giles, take it away.
22:36Can I have a consonant, please?
22:38Thank you, Giles.
22:39S.
22:40And another one.
22:42N.
22:43And another.
22:45L.
22:46And a vowel.
22:47E.
22:51And a consonant.
22:53R.
22:54And a vowel.
22:56U.
22:57One more vowel.
22:59A.
23:00And a consonant, please.
23:01And the last one.
23:03T.
23:04Stand by.
23:04T.
23:06T.
23:07T.
23:07T.
23:09And a vowel.
23:18No more vowel.
23:19T.
23:21intuition.
23:22T.
23:22T.
23:23T.
23:24wh
23:25T.
23:25T.
23:26T.
23:26T.
23:26T.
23:27T.
23:27T.
23:29T.
23:31T.
23:33T.
23:33T.
23:34yes Charles and nine and nine Heather nine nine Charles retinulus I'm really
23:45not sure about mine I'm unrealist okay it sounds really unlikely it sounds
23:54unrealistic but it is in yes the person whose expectation or outlook is
23:59unrealistic that's very good and I'll put my house up and say that I've never
24:04had your chance but it's a zoological term retinular in the eyes of various
24:09invertebrates are neuronal cells that basically make up the light sensitive
24:13part of the retina it's absolutely brilliant yes I thought I had a big word
24:24of insulate of course it was only eight yeah very good anything else Susie ten
24:29Uriel is there for another eight and dozens of sevens but that is really
24:34brilliant but two wonderful yeah well done well done 90 Giles against 58 90 so
24:40soon my word Heather let us go to consonant please thank you Heather M and another
24:51W another please S a vowel E another one I a third vowel O a consonant please R consonant M I'll finish with a consonant please
25:16and finish with Jay countdown
25:21yeah
25:24yeah so
25:26yeah so
25:28Yes, Heather?
25:52Six.
25:53Giles?
25:53Seven.
25:54So, Heather?
25:56Um, emojis.
25:57Giles?
25:58Swim.
25:59Very good.
26:00Very good.
26:01Very good.
26:01Very smart.
26:02All right, so Giles just nudging 100 there.
26:0597 and Heather 58 as we look over to the corner.
26:09What have you got there?
26:09Well, Giles, we also had Swimmer, so I was quite proud of myself.
26:12But then we also had Memoirs, which I thought was a nice word out of that collection of letters.
26:15I agree.
26:16Well done.
26:1797 to 58, what should we do?
26:20Susie?
26:20Nick.
26:21Are we with you for your wonderful origins of words?
26:24I think so.
26:26Well, I had a question from Jude Simmons, who asks where bats in the belfry come from.
26:33It's a slightly old-fashioned term now, if you call somebody.
26:35If you say somebody's got bats in the belfry, it means that they are a little bit ditzy or a little bit mad.
26:41And I use that in the loose sense of the term.
26:45As you can imagine, because it's such a colourful phrase, there are lots of stories attached to it.
26:50And there was a Victorian inventor called George Batson.
26:53And at that time, people were absolutely terrified of being buried alive.
26:57And so he invented a foolproof coffin with a little bell inside, so that if the terrible thing happened, the deceased, or thought to be deceased, would ring a bell.
27:09And they would be saved.
27:10Saved by the bell, in fact, which is also attached to that expression.
27:14His coffin apparently was called the Batson Belfry.
27:17And eventually, so the story will go, that became bats in the belfry.
27:22In fact, and you knew I was going to say this, the straightforward answer is the right one.
27:27And it's simply that someone who acts as though they are slightly not with it, slightly foggy-brained, it's almost conjuring up the idea of having bats swarming around the head.
27:38It's funny you talk about the bell in the coffin, because I want to be buried with my phone, just in case.
27:42Just in case I have to ring out and say, hey, you're still alive.
27:46You might not get reception.
27:47Oh, well, that's true.
27:48I've run out of battery power.
27:49Don't you worry, Gloria will get reception.
27:52Well done.
27:54Well done.
27:5497 to 58, as I say.
27:56And now, Giles, it's the penultimate letters game for you.
28:02A consonant, please.
28:03Thank you, Giles.
28:04D.
28:05And another one.
28:08S.
28:09And a vowel.
28:10E.
28:11And another vowel.
28:13U.
28:14And a consonant.
28:16Q.
28:17And another.
28:19R.
28:20And a vowel.
28:22I.
28:23And another vowel.
28:26E.
28:27And a consonant, please.
28:29And the last one.
28:30T.
28:32Countdown.
28:32So, we'll see.
28:38And a consonant, please.
28:47And a consonant,izione, could you listen to me?
28:50Giles?
29:05Eight.
29:06Eight, Heather?
29:07Probably the same eight.
29:09Yes.
29:10And requites?
29:11Oh.
29:12Requites and...
29:13Oh, squirted.
29:16There we go.
29:17And the girls?
29:18You were looking up my page, weren't you?
29:20You were copying, I know.
29:21Requites and squirted.
29:22Very good.
29:23Very good.
29:24Anything else?
29:24That's it?
29:25No, just to say, requites is to make return.
29:27We talk about unrequited love, obviously, but it's to make return for something, for favour
29:30or service.
29:31It's to pay somebody back, in other words.
29:33Yeah.
29:34Quieted, you could have.
29:35But that's a seven.
29:35Yes, that's a seven.
29:36Seven, sadly.
29:38All right.
29:39105 to 66.
29:40Well done.
29:41Heather, letters game.
29:43Can I have a continent, please?
29:44Thank you, Heather.
29:46G.
29:47And another?
29:48L.
29:51Another?
29:53S.
29:55Another?
29:57V.
29:59Vowel?
30:01A.
30:02Another?
30:04O.
30:05A third vowel, please.
30:07E.
30:09Erm.
30:11Vowel?
30:13I.
30:13Oh.
30:17It's got the consonant, I think.
30:19And the last one.
30:20F.
30:22Tanta.
30:22Vowel.
30:30��ther.
30:32Vowel?
30:34J.
30:34I.
30:35I.
30:35I.
30:36I.
30:38I.
30:39I.
30:39I.
30:39I.
30:39I.
30:40I.
30:41I.
30:42I.
30:43I.
30:46I.
30:47Oh
30:53Hello
30:56Seven a seven chance. I'll stick with seven
31:00Heather goalies goalies and foliage and foliage
31:07Yes
31:08You would think you're putting yes on at you can't say you did the right thing
31:13And what have you got? I had was footage so
31:16Good guys and I are on a good plane see
31:20And Susie anything else love ages staying with foliage and that sort of thing
31:25It's a large edible white flowered plant the lovage of the parsley family
31:28Yeah, so with the score standing Giles on 112 to Heather 73 we turn to you Giles for the final numbers game Giles
31:36A safe one large please thank you does hopefully say if you never know one large and five little ones for the final numbers game today
31:43And there you are nine four six
31:47Another six five and the big one 50 and
31:52the target
31:54669
31:56So
32:00You
32:02You
32:04You
32:06You
32:10You
32:12You
32:14You
32:20You
32:22Yes, Giles?
32:296, 6, 9.
32:296, 6, 9, Heather.
32:31And 6, 6, 8, not written down.
32:34Oh, dear.
32:35Never mind, Giles.
32:3750 plus 6 minus 5, 51.
32:40Yep, 51.
32:41And 9 plus 4 is 13.
32:43Times in together for 6, 6, 3.
32:45And you have a 6 left over at 1.
32:47You do indeed.
32:48Very well done.
32:486, 6, 9.
32:49Matching.
32:50Well done.
32:52So, as we go into the final round, it's Giles on 122, Heather 73.
33:00Heather and Giles, fingers on buzzers.
33:02Let's reveal today's countdown conundrum.
33:07Is it my word, Giles?
33:08Repetage.
33:09Let's see whether you're right.
33:13Amazing.
33:14So quick.
33:15Well done.
33:20Very, very good.
33:21132.
33:23Tremendous.
33:23So quick.
33:24My word.
33:25The clock didn't really move.
33:28Bad luck there, Heather Stiles.
33:30You came up against a tremendously young champion.
33:34Fantastic player.
33:35Yeah, brilliant stuff.
33:36But you don't go home empty-handed.
33:39You go back with this kryptonite and our very best wishes.
33:41And you come and see us again.
33:44Whether you're wearing that Christmas jumper or not.
33:46We look forward.
33:47I thought you were saying that you would whip it off.
33:49No, no.
33:50No, no, no.
33:52Far too off.
33:53Are you almost a married man?
33:55Exactly.
33:55Almost.
33:56Now then.
33:58Gloria, you come and see us tomorrow.
34:00I will.
34:01And Susie too, of course.
34:02See you tomorrow, Nick.
34:04Tremendous young player.
34:05You've been telling Heather all day she can't wear her Christmas jumper.
34:07So no more mistletoe for you for another year.
34:09Indeed.
34:10Indeed.
34:11And what a win Giles had.
34:13Yeah, fantastic.
34:14Tremendous.
34:14Yeah, these champions are showing their mental.
34:16Brilliant.
34:16See you tomorrow.
34:17See you tomorrow.
34:18Another wonderful competition tomorrow.
34:21Same time, same place.
34:22You be sure of it.
34:23Don't you dare miss it.
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