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00:00Thank you
00:30Good afternoon, it's Friday and welcome to Countdown, the end of my second week
00:36and every day that passes I learn something different
00:40like where does Susie keep that extraordinary little camera of hers
00:44and Rachel, are those letters magnetic?
00:48Yeah, yeah, they are. I'll sit at home, just take them on my fridge.
00:52So how many, you know, words can you get out of that?
00:54What's the longest word you can get out of Countdown?
00:57I think apart from Countdown, it's probably Woodcut.
01:00Woodcut, all right, here's a test. Put it up and I'm timing you from now.
01:04Right, okay, here we go.
01:10There we go.
01:11Not bad, four seconds.
01:14Well done.
01:16Well done.
01:17I didn't drop any.
01:19That's because they're magnetic, Rachel.
01:20So, who have we got?
01:23He's back again, yes?
01:25Uh-huh.
01:26Third time.
01:27Yep.
01:27Five to go if you come away here with a victory.
01:30Indeed.
01:31Very good. Excellent.
01:32Last time you told us about your website
01:35and the fact that you cook 80,000 chickens.
01:39This was where again, Mark?
01:41It was on Wigan Market quite a long time ago when I was a student.
01:46I used to work there every Saturday and cook about 500.
01:49Really?
01:49What, grill 500 in a day?
01:51Yep.
01:52Do you still have chicken occasionally to eat?
01:54Yeah, actually, when I worked there,
01:56every time I got home, my mum would make me chicken.
01:58It was fantastic.
02:00Good, all right.
02:01Never get bored of the old bird, do we?
02:04And who have we got here with us today?
02:05We've got Terry Moore.
02:07Welcome.
02:08Oh, retired wages, Clark, is that right?
02:11From Bristol?
02:11Semi-retired.
02:12Semi-retired.
02:13Are you a Bristolian?
02:15No.
02:16Where are you from then?
02:17Um, I'm a mongrel.
02:18I was born in London, brought up in Lancashire.
02:21All right, and now you've picked up in Bristol.
02:24Actually, I love the West Country, and Bristol's a good town.
02:27It is.
02:28Apparently, according to my notes here,
02:30that you were selected for flying training with the Royal Navy,
02:34but you rather carelessly crashed the aircraft.
02:39It was a joint effort, really.
02:41My instructor told me that I was too high.
02:44I insisted that I was too low,
02:46and we ended up both trying to land the thing,
02:48and it just went boom, like that.
02:51Spun around, broke off the undercarriage.
02:53Oh.
02:54And we just walked away.
02:56Well, I'm glad...
02:56It's on the grass, a little fag, as though nothing had happened.
02:58Yeah, I bet you're positive that nothing had happened, by the way.
03:01When you got the bill.
03:02What sort of aircraft was it?
03:04Percival promised.
03:05A trainer.
03:06Trainer.
03:07So they said, I'm sorry, Terry.
03:09Goodbye.
03:10Cheerio.
03:10Don't mind.
03:11Anyway, listen, one crash is enough.
03:13At least you'll never crash another one.
03:15I hope you won't.
03:16Anyway, here we are.
03:18Welcome to our contestants,
03:20our incumbent, Champ and Terry.
03:23APPLAUSE
03:27In talking about Rachel's magnetic letters,
03:31we have two magnetic figures.
03:33We've got Susie Dent, of course,
03:36and the award-winning journalist and broadcaster,
03:39John Suchet.
03:40Welcome back.
03:41Thank you, Mark.
03:46It's been a great week having you here, John.
03:48Thank you, Mark.
03:48It really has been an absolute pleasure,
03:50and it won't be long, I hope,
03:52before we see you sitting there next to Susie Dent.
03:55So, it's time for the game,
03:57and we're going to kick off, Mark, with you.
04:00It's a letters game.
04:01Away you go.
04:03Hi, Rachel.
04:04Afternoon, Mark.
04:04Consonant, please.
04:06Start today with W.
04:08And another.
04:10G.
04:12And another.
04:13T.
04:15A vowel.
04:17U.
04:18And another.
04:20E.
04:22And one more.
04:24A.
04:25A consonant.
04:27L.
04:29And another.
04:31C.
04:33And a vowel, please.
04:35And to finish, O.
04:38Clock time.
04:38M.
04:40And another.
04:41D.
04:48Okay.
05:02All right.
05:10Mark a six a six and Terry five of five so what would your five be towel towel
05:19mark locate locate nothing too confusing there Susie not still no they're fine what about our
05:27magnetic duo over there well here's a word I know I know but I don't know what it means
05:32cagoule oh a cagoule yes it's a little bit like an anorak it's a waterproof jacket that you can put
05:39on and comes from a French word yeah very good well done and that's six up for mark our incumbent
05:47champ as we move on to the second that is game with Terry consonant please Rachel thank you Terry s
05:55and
05:56another n and another s vowel please oh another vowel u another vowel e consonants m consonants g
06:21another vowel please and to finish o stand by
06:35so
07:00so Terry six and mark a six as well as six and Terry moses
07:06right and mouses as well right do I have a little look at that good Susie yes absolutely
07:16fine plural of um the mouse that you use for your computer yes all right okay I was worried about
07:21that and um John and so we couldn't get a seven but uh Susie's come up with an amazing word
07:27mongos
07:28mongos are the military unit of Mongolia so um yeah mongo really use any mongos I took I took dollars
07:37the police in Mongolia who stop you and ask for a bribe they prefer dollars I'm sure good well done
07:44so where is that mark um you're 12 and Terry's six and mark away you go letters game
07:51uh consonant please thank you mark f and another l another one d and a vowel i and another o
08:08and one
08:09one more i a consonant t a vowel a and a consonant please and lastly r and they're off
08:27so
08:37so
08:38so
08:38so
08:38so
08:55right mark and possible six possible six a hesitant possible six and Terry six a firm six
09:05well done all right hesitator altoid altoid Terry florid florid yeah why not florid is fine I think
09:17altoid um you might find other peppermint tin but not in the dictionary not there where can you take
09:24us John um we've got a seven letter one airlift is that one yes it is a one word an
09:29airlift good
09:30all right so even Steven 12 all Terry it's a letters game away you go consonant please thank
09:39you Terry T and another one H and another one why a vowel please oh and another a consonant
09:58N vowel E consonant V and another vowel please and lastly a here's the clock
10:21so
10:48Terry five five from Terry and Mark five as well
10:52go on Terry honey honey and honey oh we can't argue with that either no we can't argue with that
11:01at all
11:01can you take us further down the track we've got it is an ovator word yes it is it's a
11:07legal term and it
11:08means to replace an old contract with a new one excellent that's six letters very good well done
11:13so 17 all level pegging so our first numbers game pencils out at home if you wouldn't mind and Mark
11:23off you go all right Rachel I'll take two large and four small please thank you Mark your usual now
11:29two from the top and four little ones and for the first time today the numbers are ten eight nine
11:37and two
11:38and the large two and a large two one hundred and twenty five and your target five hundred and fourteen
11:44five one four
11:52so
12:16Mark, what news?
12:17Nothing at all, though.
12:19Nothing?
12:19No.
12:21Terry, wages clerk.
12:23516.
12:25516, that's suit and shoot at that.
12:28Tell Rachel all about it.
12:3010 times 25 is 250.
12:3310 times 25, yep, 250.
12:36250 times 2 is 500.
12:39Yep.
12:40Ah, no, sorry.
12:42Messed it up.
12:44I've used 2 twice.
12:45I think if you'd have added 8 there, you'd have got to 516.
12:48Okay, Rachel, come on, show us how it's done properly.
12:51It was quite a tricky one, but if you say 25 minus 2 is 23,
12:5710 plus 8 is 18,
13:00multiply them together for 414,
13:02and then add on the 100 for 514.
13:06Well done, well done.
13:10We always count on Rachel to crack the most difficult nut.
13:16And talking about difficult nuts, we're going across to John Suchet,
13:21who's not a difficult nut, he's a charming chap.
13:23Right, John, over to you.
13:25Well, actually, you mentioned my great hero earlier in the week, Nick, Beethoven,
13:28and I thought I'd tell you a little story about, as an answer to people who say,
13:32what is the relevance today of this man and what have you,
13:35I give a little talk about the man,
13:37and I tell the story in it about how he fell in love with a young lady,
13:40and he wrote a piece of music that he dedicated to her,
13:43which happens to be the Moonlight Sonata,
13:45but she turned him down and so on.
13:47And after one talk, an elderly, very elegant lady came up to me and said,
13:52I was fascinated by your story about that young woman, Julieta,
13:56that Beethoven dedicated the Moonlight to and proposed marriage to.
14:01She turned him down.
14:02Did you know that she went on to marry a musician by the name of Count Gallenberg?
14:07And I said, yes, I did.
14:08She said, did you know that they went to live in Italy?
14:10And I said, yes, I did.
14:12She said, did you know that Gallenberg was impotent?
14:15I said, no, tell me more.
14:17She said, well, Gallenberg was impotent,
14:19so she allowed Julieta to take a lover by the name of Count von Schulenburg.
14:25With Count von Schulenburg, Julieta had one illegitimate son
14:29and three illegitimate daughters.
14:31And I, she said, am the great-great-granddaughter
14:35of the illegitimate son of the woman with whom Beethoven fell in love
14:40to whom he dedicated the Moonlight Sonata
14:42and who turned down his hand in marriage.
14:45And she's living today in East Sussex.
14:47What a wonderful story.
14:52Who would have believed it?
14:53Brilliant.
14:54Brilliant.
14:54But now it's time for a tea-time teaser,
14:58which is, is around,
15:00and the clue is not around any longer,
15:03apart from in museums.
15:20And welcome back.
15:22The clue is not around any longer,
15:24apart from in museums.
15:26And the answer, dinosaur.
15:29Dinosaur.
15:30And so we move swiftly on.
15:33Terry, it's letters, you're on, away you go.
15:36A consonant, please.
15:37Thank you, Terry.
15:39Z.
15:40A better one, please.
15:42Guaranteed.
15:43R.
15:44And another, please.
15:46N.
15:48And another.
15:50T.
15:51Vowel.
15:53I.
15:54Another vowel.
15:55Vowel.
15:56E.
15:58Another vowel.
16:00O.
16:04Consonance.
16:06R.
16:07Another consonant.
16:09And finish.
16:10D.
16:11Good.
16:12Here's the clock.
16:13Good.
16:14Good.
16:16Good.
16:27Good.
16:29Good.
16:30Good.
16:32Good.
16:33Good.
16:34Good.
16:35Good.
16:36Good.
16:37Good.
16:37Good.
16:38Good.
16:39Good.
16:39Good.
16:39Good.
16:40Good.
16:40Good.
16:41Good.
16:41Good.
16:42Good.
16:43Good.
16:44Terry. Five. Five. And Mark? Six. Okay. So, Terry. Inter. Inter. And Mark? Orient. Orient.
16:56Are you happy, Susie? I am. Yes, you can have Orient with a small O. Okay. John. John and
17:02Susie, what have you got there? Torrid. Yes. Torrid for six. Couldn't do any better than
17:08the six, Nick. It was a horrible one. Yeah, not easy. Twenty-three plays, Terry on seventeen.
17:14And Mark? It's a lettuce game. Away you go. A consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Mark.
17:20R. And another. P. And another. G. And a vowel. E. And another. I. A consonant. W.
17:37U. And another. H. And a vowel. U. And another vowel, please. And a final A. Clock time.
17:50G.
17:51G.
17:52G.
18:27All right.
18:29Mark?
18:29Wager.
18:30Wager.
18:32Terry?
18:32Argue.
18:33Okay.
18:35So, anything else over there in the corner?
18:37Earwig.
18:38Yes, earwig.
18:39Lovely.
18:39So cool because they really were thought to crawl into the human ear.
18:44That's where it comes from.
18:45Yes.
18:45Didn't know that.
18:46And Gawper is another six.
18:49All right.
18:49Well, Mark at 28.
18:51And Terry well in touch on 22.
18:54Terry, you're away.
18:56Consonant please, Rachel.
18:57Thank you, Terry.
18:59M.
18:59And another one.
19:01P.
19:02And a vowel.
19:04I.
19:05And another vowel.
19:08A.
19:08And a consonant.
19:11N.
19:13Consonant.
19:14K.
19:16Vowl.
19:19U.
19:22Consonant.
19:24S.
19:27Consonant.
19:29And lastly, J.
19:30A.
19:3230 seconds starts now.
20:04What news, Terry?
20:06Five.
20:07Five.
20:08And Mark?
20:08Yep, five.
20:10All right.
20:10And what is Terry's five?
20:12Spank.
20:14Spank.
20:15Mark.
20:16Is that a spank?
20:17You're both spanks.
20:19Spanking.
20:20Matron.
20:23Spanking as well.
20:24And mains.
20:26That's better.
20:27Good.
20:28Brilliant.
20:28And 33 to 27, it stands.
20:31And Mark, off you go.
20:33Letters.
20:34Consonant please, Rachel.
20:36Thank you, Mark.
20:37D.
20:38And another.
20:40N.
20:42And one more.
20:44B.
20:45And a vowel.
20:47O.
20:48Another.
20:49E.
20:51Another vowel.
20:53A.
20:55Consonant.
20:57S.
20:57A vowel.
21:01E.
21:02And a final consonant, please.
21:04And a final R.
21:07Here we go.
21:08One,
21:09On to another.
21:10Two,
21:13And the vowel.
21:32is a haunting,
21:32There's a lead that underline.
21:33One,
21:39So, Mark, what news from the Rialto?
21:43A seven.
21:44A seven?
21:45That's an advance.
21:46Terry?
21:47Six.
21:48A six.
21:49All right.
21:49Terry, what's your six?
21:51Boards.
21:52Mark?
21:53De-bones.
21:54All right.
21:55Yes, you can de-bones.
21:56Susie, are you happy with those?
21:57I am, yes.
21:58Okay, and can you advance the cause at all?
22:01You've got an eight here.
22:03Seaborne, so S-E-A-B-O-R-N-E, which means transported by sea, simply.
22:09Right, right, right, right.
22:14So, 40 to 27, Terry, don't lose heart on that, you're well within touch.
22:20And Susie, the nation turns to you.
22:24I hope not.
22:25Well, we had Paul Zenon on last week, if you remember, and he had decided to go on the wagon
22:32for a little while.
22:33So, with lots of time on his hands, he texted me a whole lot of idioms related to being drunk
22:39and drunkenness, and asked me where they came from.
22:41The first is one over the eight.
22:44And there's a great book called Soldier and Sailor Words, which dates back to 1925,
22:49which gives the first reference to it in print.
22:51And it defines it as one over the eight, one drink too many, slightly intoxicated,
22:56the presumption being that an average, moderate man can safely drink eight glasses of beer.
23:02And slightly intoxicated seems a little bit of an understatement after a gallon of beer,
23:06until you remember that beer was much weaker in the 1920s than it is now.
23:10And small beer was originally beer meant for children.
23:13And it was considered to be a very important food source, particularly when poor hygiene
23:17meant that water, in fact, could be far more lethal.
23:21Interesting.
23:22Very interesting.
23:24Very interesting.
23:26But the thought of eight pints fills me with terror.
23:30John, you couldn't sink eight pints, could you?
23:31Absolutely not.
23:32Not even on a good day.
23:34Not even on an extended and long and hot day.
23:37So, Terry, it's a numbers game.
23:41Off you go.
23:43One large and five small, please, Rachel.
23:45Thank you, Terry.
23:47Much more standard for countdown.
23:48One large and five small.
23:49And this round, the five small are ten, seven, another seven, one and four,
23:56and the large one this time, seventy-five.
23:59And your target, nine hundred and ninety-four.
24:02Nine, nine, four.
24:03How?
24:34Terry.
24:36I think I've got 994.
24:39All right.
24:40Just 988.
24:42988.
24:44So, Terry.
24:467 plus 7 is 14.
24:477 plus 7 is 14.
24:49Time is 75.
24:51Time 75 is 1050.
24:54Yes.
24:58No, I've messed it up again.
25:00Oh, I'm lucky, Terry.
25:02All right.
25:03988, Mark.
25:05Yeah, I think.
25:0610 plus 7 minus 4.
25:0910 plus 7 minus 4, 13.
25:11And 75 plus 1 is 76.
25:16Yeah.
25:16And multiply.
25:17And, yes, you get 988.
25:20Well done.
25:21And now we're going to see how it should be done.
25:23Rachel.
25:24If you say 75 minus 4 is 71.
25:30And then 7 plus 7 is 14.
25:32And times them together.
25:349, 9, 4.
25:35Well done.
25:36Well done.
25:37Bad luck.
25:38Bad luck, Terry.
25:39Anyway, there we are.
25:40It's time for a tea time teaser.
25:43And the teaser is sit space.
25:46And the clue, he won't sit in the same space for too long.
25:50He needs to get away from it all.
26:08And welcome back.
26:10The clue, you'll remember, was he won't sit in the same space for too long.
26:14He needs to get away from it all.
26:16And the answer, as you all know at home, and indeed in our audience, is escapist.
26:22Escapist.
26:23And so we go on to round 11.
26:25Mark, take it away.
26:27Start with the constant, please.
26:29Thank you, Mark.
26:30Q.
26:32And another.
26:34B.
26:36And another.
26:38P.
26:39And vowel.
26:41I.
26:42And another.
26:44O.
26:44And one more.
26:47E.
26:48A consonant.
26:51S.
26:52Another consonant.
26:55M.
26:56And a vowel, please.
26:58And lastly.
27:00U.
27:01Clock time.
27:02And this.
27:03And.
27:27All right.
27:30And.
27:30You.
27:31It.
27:32so mark a six a six and terry six all right come on mark let's have it equips equips terry
27:42and equips equips okay very good any advance on that there are only six letters here mosque
27:52bisque is this bisque yes bisque as in register bisque yes yeah super thick soup imbues quite
27:58a few sixes but couldn't get beyond okay it's uh game twelve and terry you to choose consonant
28:05please rachel thank you terry c and another s and another c vowel e vowel o consonant t
28:25another vowel e another vowel a consonant and the last one t
28:40lock time
28:46so
29:13so terry eight eight good man
29:17not just seven seven all right so mark your seven is what uh coasted coasted and terry
29:24accosted accosted excellent welcome very good
29:32well done terry and i hope your ten grandchildren and one great grandchild are watching to see that
29:39triumphant eight scores at fifty one to forty one keep pushing on there terry and mark off you go
29:47it's a letters game okay a consonant please rachel thank you mark s and another l a vowel e and
29:59another i
30:01a consonant m and another l a vowel o and another a and a final consonant please and final n
30:20here's the clock
30:25so
30:38so
30:38so
30:38so
30:38so
30:38so
30:52so mark a six a six and terry six all right mark come on monies monies terry melons melons
31:04mm-hmm susie yes they fine yeah john how about semolina is that a real is that a name or
31:14is it
31:14no it's a it's a generic term for a type of pudding that we all used to hate yes hold
31:20on a minute
31:20chaps what's wrong with semolina no i quite liked it with jam but the school for art is not so
31:27good
31:27nick as you and i will remember maybe but you know i don't know frog's eggs you used to call
31:33them
31:33say again frog's eggs remember that frog spawn frog spawn frog spawn that's right i like some
31:38i had a rotten lunch um so there we are 57 to 47 10 adrift and we go into terry
31:46with the numbers game
31:47go on terry give it hell um one large and five small again please rachel thank you terry
31:53one big one five small ones and the last numbers game this week is three eight nine
32:02another three and ten and the large one 75 and the last target of the week 114 114
32:12okay
32:17i
32:42So, Terry, how did we do?
32:44One, one, four.
32:45Mark?
32:46One, one, four.
32:47So, off you go, Terry.
32:49Discuss.
32:50Three times ten.
32:52Three tens of thirty.
32:54Plus nine.
32:55Plus nine.
32:55Plus seventy-five.
32:57And there you are.
32:57It is one, one, four.
32:58It is one, one, four.
32:59Well done.
33:00Well done.
33:01Mark?
33:01Same.
33:03That's very, very good.
33:09Excellent.
33:10So, this ten-point gap is being maintained.
33:14As we go into the final round, it's the conundrum round, so it's fingers on buzzers, please.
33:20And please reveal today's crucial countdown conundrum.
33:52So, let's go.
33:56It's Fox the professionals. I turn to you in the audience
34:01nothing
34:02People are bouncing up and down on their sofas at home because they've got the answer and nobody here's got
34:08it
34:09So let's have a look at it. What is it?
34:12threesome
34:16So
34:18Mark you're staying on we're letting you stay on why thank you and Terry
34:22We're letting you go, but we're letting you go proudly and not empty-handed because you're taking them a goodie
34:28bag with you
34:29All right, thank you. Yeah, well done back to Bristol. No more flying for you
34:34No, but say hello to the grandchildren and the great-grandchild life
34:38And so we say farewell to John has been a great week a great pleasure
34:41And I want to come and listen to one of your lectures about time
34:45I started growing up and taking things seriously, so I want to know about Beethoven. Yes
34:50Will you tell me when you're next doing it? Yes, I will actually make I will you'd love it. You'd
34:55love it
34:55I know I will if you're doing it now Susie see you on Monday
34:59Yeah, mind I have a great weekend and you and what does the weekend hold for Rachel?
35:07Sleeping football probably drinking as same as I do every weekend
35:12I will see I can do do some of them more than once yeah with the end of my second
35:17week
35:18I'm going home to do a bit of worrying and I want you to be back on Monday same time
35:24back here in the countdown studio
35:26Have a nice weekend
35:38The million pound drop tonight a bit of live excitement stay in with Davina for Friday night the action gets
35:45going at nine o'clock
35:46But next up deal it no
35:58You