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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30Thank you very much.
01:00I don't know. What do you think?
01:01He's definitely a national treasure, but I'm going to pass this to the experts.
01:04We've got Colin Murray in the studio. He's Mr Sports Stats over there.
01:08Yes, sir.
01:09I'm an Olympic nerd. I'm obsessed with it. And I don't think you can. How can you say this modern pentathlete is better than a cyclist or a rower is better than a runner?
01:19Favourite. She mentioned the London Marathon. Hard to look past. Well, she's now Baroness Tanny Gray Thompson. Double figures of Paralympic gold medals. Six London Marathons. More records than you'd ever imagine. And a fire brand for disabled rights. She is wonderful. Great sense of humour.
01:36I'd have to put Daley Thompson in there as well. He won two Olympic golds. And he says himself, I wasn't better than some of my competitors. I just had more bottle. Psychologically, he was amazing. Absolutely sensational mindset.
01:50He had. But there's just so many grits. Yeah. Brilliant stuff. Now then, who have we got, Rachel? With Fiona back. Oh, yes. Fiona. Survived a crucial conundrum, too.
02:00Yes. You're back and you've got five tucked safely away.
02:02I was skinning my teeth, I think, on the last one.
02:04Just about. She gave you a bit of a scare. But you've got five. You're after your sixth. And you've been a joy to have here as well.
02:11Well done. And you're joined now by Aset Bejambayev from Kazakhstan, from Astana.
02:17Yes.
02:17You're a film and TV student at the University of Hertfordshire. And in your spare time, you help translate texts and videos from English into Russian. You're a natural Russian speaker at home, I guess, are you?
02:28Yes. Yeah. Okay. Well, you're very welcome here, both of you. Have a lot of fun, Aset. Enjoy yourself. Let's have a big round of applause for Aset and Fiona.
02:41And Susan's there. And we know that the wonderful Colin's there. Good to have you back, Colin.
02:46With my spirit. Wonderful.
02:48Now, Fiona, take it away.
02:51Hello, Rachel.
02:51Hi, Fiona.
02:52Could we start with a consonant, please?
02:54Can indeed. Start with T.
02:56And another.
02:58C.
02:59And another.
03:01T.
03:03And another.
03:05H.
03:07And another.
03:09M.
03:10And another.
03:14T.
03:15And a vowel, please.
03:18E.
03:19And another.
03:21I.
03:22And another.
03:23And lastly, E.
03:26And here's the countdown clock.
03:27E.
03:49E.
03:51Fiona a six a six asset yes I'll stick with six thank you Fiona itched and assets chained
04:07chimed okay now what have you got Colin well Fiona with the five wins and counting probably was too
04:15good at school to do this but if you put a name in front of your rich Mitch we used to
04:19Mitch off school go and play pool down the taxi Ryan well done and the SSG and emitted and also
04:26there and admitted all right six apiece now asset your letters game off you go thanks
04:32привет Rachel please thank you F consonant M consonant L vowel A vowel please O vowel A consonant F consonant A
04:59R and well thanks and lastly I stand by
05:06so
05:13asset nine a nine and Fiona I've got a nine well done
05:19asset nine and nine and Fiona I've got a nine well done asset is it moralisers and say a word
05:47well done
05:54both of you that's terrific and your nine Colin yeah moralisers yeah we all got that
06:04and Susie that's it yes that's the only one we could find quite enough thank you very much 24
06:10apiece brilliant Fiona it's your numbers game now could I have one large and five small please
06:16can indeed game on between you two first one of this contest is nine four one three three and a large
06:27one fifty and the target nine hundred and forty two nine four two
06:33so
06:39so
06:43so
06:50so
06:57so
07:01so
07:07so
07:09so
07:11so
07:20so
07:22so
07:24so
07:26so
07:41so
07:43so
07:45and then I do have a spare three so I can say nine minus three is six
07:48and times them together
07:50oh super
07:51so
07:58Fiona 29 to assets 24 time I think for tea time teaser first of the day it's macho
08:04rain and the clue cause pain to miscellies over an instrument perhaps cause pain to miscellies
08:11miscellies over an instrument perhaps
08:28welcome back welcome back I left with the clue cause pain to miscellies over an instrument perhaps
08:34and the answer to that one is harmonica harmonica
08:4129 to 24 Fiona on 29 asset your letters game
08:45consonant thank you asset
08:48n
08:49wow
08:51u
08:52gongson please
08:55w
08:56wow
08:58e
08:59consonant
09:00t
09:01t
09:01vowel
09:03a
09:04vowel
09:06u
09:08consonant
09:11f
09:13and
09:14consonant please
09:15and lastly
09:16b
09:17stand by
09:30as
09:34as
09:50it
09:51six
09:51a six
09:53just a five for me
09:54and you're five waste
09:57asset
09:57unstep
10:00unstep
10:03no it's not there i'm afraid sorry
10:05what can we have in the corner there
10:07colin get up butane for six yeah
10:12yeah six is all the way beach and butane what are six thank you all right 34 to 24
10:17fiona off we go letters game
10:20uh consonant verse please thank you fiona g and another v and another n
10:31and another d and a vowel e and another a and another i
10:45and a consonant c and a final vowel please and a phonel e
10:54count count
10:57fiona
11:26A seven. A seven. Asset? Risk, six. A six? Yes, sir. Vading. And? Avenged. And avenged. Colin? Yeah, I had avenged as well for seven. There's an eight in there, which is deviance.
11:43Yeah. Very good. OK, 41 to 24. It's numbers now. Asset, your numbers game. Three light and three small, please. Thank you, Asset. Three from the top, three not from the top. And this time they are six, six, one, fifty, one hundred and twenty-five. And the target, five hundred and twenty-one.
12:12Five, two, one.
12:42Acid. Five, nineteen. Five, nineteen, Fiona. Five, twenty. And five, twenty. Fiona.
12:54A hundred times six. One hundred times six, six hundred. Less than fifty. Five, fifty. Less than twenty-five.
13:02Five, two, five. And then six minus one for the other five and take that up. Yep. Four, one below.
13:10Mm-hmm. Is it possible to clip it perfectly to five, two, one? It is not. This is as good as you could have done. Well done.
13:17All right. Thank you. 48 plays, 24. And Colin. Colin. Colin. What have you got for us now?
13:26Well, Nick, I've recently made my first music programme for a long time. It's been fantastic to get back to kind of where I started my broadcasting career.
13:35It's a podcast called Blood in the Tracks, if anyone wants to give it a go.
13:38It's mainly getting people in a room that just tell stories about the music that they love.
13:42And it's brought a lot of memories back in the Leeds Festival, the Leeds and Reading Festival, one of the biggest festivals in Britain.
13:48When I was younger and much cooler, I compared the main stage at Leeds.
13:53Closest anyone without any musical talent will get to being sort of the fantasy of being a rock star.
13:58You'd DJ in between the bands and you'd go out and you'd introduce, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the stage, muse!
14:04You know, never go crazy. It was great. Some bands are great to work with. Others, not so easy.
14:09So some would demand more space than others because they were the headliners.
14:12True story. One band wouldn't go on stage until they had the exact size bottle of water and brand that they asked for.
14:20Yeah. But let me tell you my favourite story. It's a positive one.
14:23I don't know whether we call this story or folklore because it happened on a day.
14:27It spread around everyone. It was amazing. It's a band called Rage Against the Machine.
14:30Nick will have the album. Susie won't.
14:34So millions of records. Very shouty, very sweary, very heavy, very politicised.
14:41And there's an army of young people that work at festivals.
14:44And their job is the worst. Empty the bins, clean the toilets.
14:49And if you're lucky on a day, your job might be to run after the band.
14:54Peel their grapes, get them their blue M&M's, whatever it is they ask for.
14:58A bottle of tequila at a minute's notice and you have to go and get it.
15:00And then you also pick them up in a golf buggy and drive them to the stage.
15:05So the lead singer of Rage Against the Machine, this massive, just reformed, angry, shouty, sweary band is Zach De La Roche.
15:11And this kid's a huge fan and he goes to pick them up and drive them up the hill to the main stage.
15:16And the only people in this golf buggy is this kid, Zach De La Roche and Zach De La Roche's mother,
15:21who he's decided to bring to this big festival.
15:25So they're driving up the hill and Zach's asking them, are you a fan?
15:28The kid's like this. Yes, sir, I'm a massive fan. I forget every album you've ever made.
15:32Cut a long story short, they get to the top of the hill and out gets Zach De La Roche and Zach De La Roche's mum.
15:38And he turns around to this super fan and says, what are you doing there?
15:42And he says, well, I'm off to do my next chore. And he says, no, you're not.
15:46You radio through right now and you tell them for the next two hours, you're Zach De La Roche's mother's bodyguard.
15:54He took the kid out of the buggy, he walked him up the stairs and stood him right beside the amps with his mum,
16:02best seat in the house, to watch his favourite band.
16:04So while some people questioned the water on the stage, other bands were absolutely fantastic.
16:09And that is my favourite story from those 10 years.
16:12Yeah, it's good to hear.
16:19That's wonderful. Thanks, Colin.
16:2248 to 24. Now then, Fiona, off we go. Letters game.
16:27Could I have a consonant, please?
16:28Thank you, Fiona.
16:29K.
16:31And another.
16:32T.
16:34And another.
16:36V.
16:37And another.
16:39R.
16:40A vowel, please.
16:41A.
16:43And another.
16:44E.
16:46And another.
16:49I.
16:51And another.
16:53A.
16:54And a final consonant, please.
16:56And a final T.
16:58Stand by.
16:59A.
16:59A.
17:01A.
17:04A.
17:04B.
17:05A.
17:05A.
17:06A.
17:06A.
17:07B.
17:09A.
17:09A.
17:09Viena.
17:31Just a five.
17:32Acid.
17:32Yeah, also five.
17:35Viena.
17:35Rivet.
17:36Acid.
17:37Taker.
17:38Can we beat it?
17:39Call in, Susie.
17:40Well, Karate will give you a six.
17:42It means empty hand in Japanese.
17:44It does indeed, yeah.
17:45And there is a seven there.
17:46It's a noun from statistics, in fact, and it's variate.
17:50Well done.
17:51Fifty-three, please.
17:52Twenty-nine.
17:53Acid, your letters game.
17:54Good luck.
17:55Consonant, please.
17:56Thank you, Acid.
17:57P.
17:59Consonant.
18:00S.
18:02Consonant.
18:04D.
18:05One more.
18:07B.
18:08Vowel, please.
18:10O.
18:11Vowel.
18:13I.
18:15Vowel.
18:17E.
18:18Consonant.
18:20J.
18:21And lastly, vowel.
18:24Lastly, A.
18:27Stand by.
18:27One more.
18:51You.
18:51Go.
18:52acid six or six Fiona and six acid bodies and same word there we go Susie anything else Colin
19:08we have bodies we have poised as well yeah and there is a seven there a medical one this time
19:14is adipose and it describes body tissue that's used for the storage of fat adipose thanks for
19:22that so Fiona 59 asset 35 and now it's numbers numbers for you Fiona one large and five small
19:29please perhaps the more popular one large and for this round your five small ones are six four two
19:37six and five and a large one 25 and the target 458 four five eight
19:46so
19:53Fiona four five nine not written down acid four five eight good man
20:23how does it work six times four six times four is 24 minus five minus five is 19 times 25 times 25
20:35and you're adding six and two um so times 25 is four hundred and seventy five okay yeah sorry sorry so
20:47your drift our bad luck Fiona six times two is 12 six times two is 12 add six add six is 18 multiply by 25
20:59is 450 add on the five and the four and the five and the four one above yes
21:05well done Rachel can you cap that off for us yes Nick if you say 25 times four is 100 minus six is 94 times that by five for 470 and then the other six times two is 12 and take it off
21:25fabulous perfect
21:32so 66 plays 35 Fiona in the lead as we turn to our second tea time teaser which is nil cement and the clue you shouldn't have any problems pouring concrete in bad weather you shouldn't have any
21:45problems pouring concrete in bad weather
21:52you shouldn't have any problems pouring concrete in bad weather
22:04bad weather
22:11bad weather being inclement weather inclement is the answer to that
22:1466 to 35 asset your letters game
22:18constant please
22:19thank you asset
22:20R
22:21vowel
22:22O
22:23consonant
22:25N
22:26vowel
22:27I
22:28N
22:29vowel
22:30I
22:31vowel
22:32I
22:33vowel
22:34A
22:35A
22:36one more
22:37E
22:39consonant
22:40X
22:41X
22:42better one
22:43F
22:45another consonant
22:47and the last one C
22:50standby
22:51T
22:52과륫
23:07A
23:08T
23:12A
23:14A
23:15A
23:17F
23:18A
23:18F
23:19E
23:20that's it six a six Fiona also six that's it axioms now then
23:29cranes and over in the corner Colin you're looking happy with yourself oh
23:34well I was happy because I better than six with corn ears but then Susie put me
23:40in my place with a nine Susie and well anorexics people who are anorexic
23:50so 72 plays 41 as we turn now to Fiona and your letter game Fiona a consonant
24:03please thank you Fiona L and another F another H and another yes and a vowel
24:19I and another oh and another e and a consonant D and a final vowel and a
24:35final I and here's the countdown clock
25:10six L66 acid all right Fiona fished fished and sealed happy enough Susie yeah we
25:20did take one further didn't we you did yeah we were in the fish area for a while
25:25and there's a type of fish that's seven yes it's an oil fish it's a predatory fish
25:31large violet purple brown unpalaceful apparently so don't eat it or hope to be
25:38eaten by it indeed no all right that's it guys yes thank you 78 to 47 Susie it's time
25:45for your origins of words what have you been preparing for it's what lovely dish well I'm
25:51not sure about a dish but it's an attempt to answer the query from Tanya Bailey so
25:56thanks to Tanya for asking why we talk about a cockpit on a plane and you might
26:02wonder you know was cockfighting ever involved because cockpit we tend to
26:06associate with olden days where that cruel sport did take place and the answer is
26:10yes there is a link and because the first cockpits were indeed that there were
26:14circles dug into the earth in which fighting cocks would attack each other
26:17the spectators would gather around place their bets etc the next step of the
26:22journey takes us to the waters because cockpit became the term for the junior
26:27officers quarter on on board a ship on the ship's lowest deck and it doubled up as a
26:32military hospital during times of war the link may again have been the idea of
26:37something situated below or perhaps sailors sometimes will get into scraps because
26:41these were really confined quite claustrophobic quarters so perhaps it came from
26:45that idea of fighting and squabbling but all we know is that from there on towards
26:50the end of the first world war cockpit moved to describe the enclosed compartment
26:54again enclosed and on a plane so that was a slightly strange journey that cockpit has
26:59taken and while I'm on it I thought I would talk about cocktail as well because
27:03that's one of the great mysteries for anyone studying word origins where exactly does
27:07cocktail come from and perhaps the most commonly told tale is that it's from the
27:12french cockatier which is an egg cup and according to this story it was the
27:17cocktail was invented in New Orleans by a man called Antoine Patial who would serve
27:23brandy toddies and he would serve them in egg cups and he would add his own bitters
27:27etc and they became known as cockatier as cocktail now it all seems really
27:33plausible just can't quite find the missing link of the jigsaw puzzle to say yes this is
27:37where it comes from but anyway who knows about cocktail as I say the answer is still out there we just
27:41haven't quite found it yet
27:4878 to 47 fear and on 78 asset your letters game constant thank you asset L another one
27:58please T and another s vowel you vowel I vowel E vowel O consonant and and consonant and lastly G
28:22Lastly, G.
28:23Stand by.
28:52Acid.
28:56Six.
28:57A six, Fiona.
28:58A seven.
29:00Acid.
29:00Untice.
29:01Thank you, Fiona.
29:03Outings.
29:05And outings.
29:06Yes, absolutely fine.
29:07That's a seven.
29:08Can we match it, Colin?
29:10Yeah, there's a few in there.
29:10There's lusting, lusting for a cocktail.
29:13That's there.
29:14There I am right now.
29:15I had igneous, as in rock, and then you turned it into wood and got us up another letter.
29:20Yes, you can.
29:22Lignous.
29:23Exactly that.
29:23Made, consisting of, or resembling wood.
29:26Excellent.
29:27Excellent.
29:27Thank you, Susie.
29:2885 to 47.
29:30Here we go.
29:30Final letters came for Fiona Titcombe.
29:33Fiona.
29:34Consolant, please.
29:35Thank you, Fiona.
29:36R.
29:38And another.
29:40M.
29:41And another.
29:44N.
29:46And a vowel.
29:48E.
29:49And another.
29:50A.
29:53And another.
29:54E.
29:56And a consonant.
29:58R.
30:00And another.
30:02D.
30:04And a final consonant, please.
30:07Final N.
30:09Stand by.
30:10And a insulation, please.
30:22I.
30:23I.
30:23I.
30:24And a остан.
30:29And a年前.
30:30Fiona?
30:43Seven.
30:44Asset?
30:45Seven.
30:45Two sevens.
30:46Fiona?
30:47Meander.
30:48Meander and?
30:49Dreamer.
30:50Dreamer.
30:51Very good.
30:55Colin?
30:56Beautiful words.
30:57I'm glad you got meander.
30:57It's such a wonderful word for seven.
30:59That was our favourite word.
31:01Slightly longer.
31:02Mannered.
31:03Yes.
31:05Susie, anything else?
31:06I'll give you an eight.
31:06No, and as I always say,
31:08Meander is the name of a river,
31:10a winding, winding river in southwest Turkey.
31:13It really exists.
31:14Okay.
31:15To Meander.
31:1792 to 54.
31:19And now, Asset, final numbers game.
31:21Good luck.
31:21Thanks.
31:22Let's go for a big and two from left side.
31:25Let's go for it.
31:26Four large and two little to wake us up for the weekend.
31:29Thank you, Asset.
31:30The final numbers are five and seven.
31:33And then the big ones.
31:34One hundred, seventy-five, twenty-five, and fifty.
31:39And the target, eight hundred and forty.
31:41Eight, four, zero.
31:42One hundred, seventy-three, nine.
32:04One hundred, ninety-five, and thirty-one, meet you.
32:06ACID
32:15850, not written down
32:17And Fiona?
32:19835
32:20Fiona?
32:22100 plus 5
32:23105
32:24Times 7
32:26735
32:27Plus 75, plus 25
32:30Plus 75 and 25
32:33835, 5 away
32:35Well done
32:36Still 5 away though
32:38For that we turn to Rachel
32:39Can you unpick it for us?
32:41You might kick yourselves
32:43If you say 100 plus 25
32:46Minus 5 is 120
32:48And times it by 7
32:50800
32:51Thanks Rachel
32:53So there we are
32:58Going into the final round
33:0099 to 54
33:01Cracking score there Fiona
33:03Fingers on buzzers
33:04Let's roll today's Countdown
33:07Conundrum
33:08Fienna
33:16Embalming
33:17Let's see whether you're right
33:19Here he comes
33:22And Barney
33:23Oh yes
33:24Well done
33:28Asset
33:30You played really well
33:31Asset
33:31You're a very
33:32Extraordinary young man
33:34Yeah
33:35You've only been here 4 years
33:36Am I right?
33:37In the UK?
33:38Well yeah
33:38It's my 4th year
33:39And your grasp of English
33:41And your ability to play
33:42Countdown
33:43Is amazing
33:44Thanks
33:44Anyway thank you very much
33:46For coming
33:46This you're going to take
33:47Back to the University
33:49Of Hertfordshire
33:50With our thanks and admiration
33:52Thank you
33:53Thank you
33:53Well done
33:54And we'll see you on Monday
33:55This 109
33:57Yes thank you
33:58Well done
33:58Well done
33:59See you Monday
34:00Yeah
34:00Staying at Susie's house
34:01For the weekend
34:02Yeah well you keep her
34:03Well away from flamethrowers
34:05You'll be good you two
34:09Alright
34:09See you Monday
34:10And Rachel too
34:12Well that's amazing
34:13Because I've been learning Russian
34:14About the same amount of time
34:14That Asset's been in this country
34:16And my Russian version
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34:19Would be far far far far
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