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00:00Thank you
00:56Thank you
01:27Thank you
01:57Thank you
02:22Thank you
02:25How did you manage to run into her then?
02:27I was over there last year and met her on a road trip, went to the same party and she
02:33joined me on the rest of it
02:34Good for you. And where is she now?
02:36She's in the audience
02:37Oh, you've brought her back with you?
02:40I have
02:40Brilliant. Well done, I like the look of that. And also we've got Captain McClurg with us from Kilmores in
02:47Kilmarnock in Ayrshire. Welcome.
02:50He's quite a tough competitor, you know.
02:52Yes.
02:52And he's got a girlfriend from Nashville, something that we all want. Hobbies football refereeing, tennis and poker. And you're
02:59also wondering whether to start your own business or become a professional poker player.
03:04Yeah.
03:05Huh? Which way is it going at the moment?
03:07Well, as I teach business management, I think I'm thinking more that the business one is more likely to happen.
03:12Yeah. Yeah. You're in a risky seat here. This is more difficult than poker. You've got to beat Mark Murphy.
03:18Let's welcome them both.
03:24And who have we got over there with Susie? We've got the great Michael Vaughan. Welcome.
03:34Now, Michael, this isn't the first time you've been sitting over there, so you're more experienced than I am. So
03:39you're going to have to hold my hand. You're going to have to hold the monkey's hand today.
03:45And Manchester-born.
03:47That's right.
03:47And went off and played cricket for Yorkshire.
03:50That's right.
03:50How did that go down?
03:51My father's job took me to Sheffield when I was eight.
03:54Eight.
03:55So I hate to say to all Mancunians, but I kind of adopted Yorkshiremen now.
04:00All right. And of course, one of your outstanding achievements, one of your greatest triumphs, really, was staunching that series
04:07of defeats by Australia by leading England to a great win in the Ashes. Is that right?
04:11That's right. 2005.
04:122005. But there's no leader or manager in football or captain in cricket that can do anything like that without
04:18good players. So I was fortunate to have a very, very strong set of players.
04:22Yeah. But that's exactly the sort of comment I would expect from a great leader. Generous to the team. Very
04:27important, I think.
04:28So, marvellous. Anyway, Mark, the incumbent, you're off. Go on. Letters.
04:34Hi, Rachel.
04:35Hi, Mark.
04:36Can I start with a consonant, please?
04:37You can, thank you. Start the week with N.
04:39And another.
04:42And another.
04:43And another.
04:45N.
04:47And a vowel.
04:49E.
04:50And another.
04:52A.
04:53And one more.
04:56I.
04:57A consonant.
04:59R.
05:01A vowel.
05:03E.
05:04And a final consonant, please.
05:06And a final D.
05:08OK, here's the clock.
05:10OK, here's the clock.
05:11OK, here's the clock.
05:41OK, Mark, what have you got for us?
05:44A seven.
05:44A seven.
05:45And Cameron?
05:46A seven.
05:47All right.
05:47Mark, what's yours?
05:48A drainer.
05:49Drainer.
05:50Cameron?
05:50Redrain.
05:52Redrain.
05:53You happy with that, Susie?
05:54I'm just going to check redrain.
05:57Um, oh, it's not there.
05:59Drain, obviously, fine, but not redrain, I'm afraid.
06:02All right.
06:03Bad luck.
06:03And, uh, Michael?
06:05Uh, I've got Randier.
06:07Well, you would have.
06:08Well done.
06:09We're counting on you.
06:11Anything else?
06:12Uh, nerdier.
06:13I've got nerdier.
06:14Nerdier and Randier.
06:15Yeah.
06:15Well, there we are.
06:16So where does that leave us?
06:17Mark, our incoming champ, he's off for a flying start with seven.
06:20And Cameron, off you go.
06:22It's a letters game.
06:24Uh, consonant, please, Rachel.
06:25Thank you, Cameron.
06:27V.
06:28And another.
06:30P.
06:31And another.
06:34N.
06:35Uh, a vowel, please.
06:37A.
06:39And another.
06:40U.
06:42And another.
06:44E.
06:45Uh, consonant, please.
06:48C.
06:49Uh, a vowel.
06:50And another.
06:52Q.
06:54And another consonant, please.
06:56And lastly, G.
06:58And we're off.
06:59C.
07:29Cameron, just a four.
07:31Four?
07:34Mark?
07:35Four as well.
07:36Four?
07:36Uh-huh.
07:37Now, come along, Mark.
07:38I can't have this.
07:38We don't do fours here.
07:41So, Cameron, what's yours?
07:43Tip.
07:44Tape?
07:45Tip.
07:45All right.
07:46Pete.
07:47Pete.
07:47Pete.
07:48No.
07:48Right.
07:49Michael and Susie, what's happening over there?
07:51Uh, we've got a couple of sixes.
07:52Yes.
07:53We've got a teacup and a peanut.
07:56A peanut.
07:56Yeah.
07:57Susie, are you happy?
07:58If you're very happy.
07:59If you want to use the queue, you could have quant, which is a pole for propelling a barge
08:03or a punt.
08:04But, uh, yeah, it was a tough one.
08:05Okay.
08:07All right.
08:07Well, that sees us with, uh, Cameron off the starting blocks with four and Mark at eleven.
08:13And, Mark, you're away for a letters game.
08:16Okay.
08:16Uh, consonant, please, Rachel.
08:17Thank you, Mark.
08:19M.
08:20And another.
08:22V.
08:24And a vowel.
08:26I.
08:27Another.
08:29O.
08:31And another.
08:33U.
08:34A consonant.
08:36N.
08:38Another consonant.
08:40T.
08:41A vowel.
08:44A.
08:45And a consonant, please.
08:47And the last one.
08:48S.
08:49Stand by.
08:51Okay.
09:21Off you go, Mark.
09:22A seven.
09:23A seven.
09:24Good.
09:24That's better.
09:25And Cameron.
09:26Seven also.
09:27All right.
09:28Good.
09:29Mark.
09:30Amounts.
09:31Amounts.
09:31And Cameron.
09:32Same one.
09:33Same.
09:33Indeed.
09:35Well, we see the surge in, uh, the number of letters.
09:38Well, I've got a seven.
09:40Tsunami.
09:40Perfect.
09:41Yeah, that's great.
09:42That's an excellent one.
09:43I've got a lot of names for harbour waves, that.
09:45Um, and there's an eight there.
09:47Manitous.
09:47M-A-N-I-T-O-U-S.
09:49Which, among certain North American Indians, are good or evil spirits, as an object to the
09:54record.
09:54Oh.
09:55Right, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right.
09:59Well done.
10:00So that's, uh, Mark's in the lead at 18, to Cameron's 11.
10:05Well in touch.
10:05And Cameron, it's your letters game.
10:08Off you go.
10:09Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:10Thank you, Cameron.
10:11N.
10:12And another.
10:15R.
10:16And another.
10:18S.
10:19A vowel, please.
10:21E.
10:22And another.
10:23O.
10:25And another.
10:27I.
10:29A consonant, please.
10:31N.
10:33And another.
10:36S.
10:37Eh, and a final vowel, please.
10:39And a final E.
10:42The clock.
10:44The clock.
11:14Cameron.
11:15A six.
11:15A six.
11:16And Mark.
11:17A seven.
11:17A seven.
11:19All right, Cameron.
11:20Rensis.
11:21Right.
11:22Eh, sinners.
11:23Sinners.
11:24Michael.
11:25Um.
11:25We've got seniors.
11:27Right.
11:28Yeah, almost had nosiness, but we need another S, so seven was our best.
11:32All right.
11:33So with Mark in the lead at 25 to Cameron's 11, it's the first numbers game.
11:38And Mark, you're off.
11:40Go on.
11:41Mark, they have two large and four small, please.
11:43Indeed, thank you, Mark, to you big ones, four small ones, for the first numbers game this
11:47week.
11:48And they are five, one, three, and nine, and the large ones, 50, and 100.
11:57And the target, five hundred and ninety-two.
11:59Five ninety-two.
12:32So, Mark, how did you do?
12:34Five, nine, one.
12:36Five, nine, one.
12:37Cameron?
12:37Five, nine, one.
12:38Right.
12:39So, Mark, speak to Rachel.
12:42Five plus one is six.
12:44Yep.
12:45Times by a hundred.
12:46Six hundred.
12:47Minus nine.
12:48And one away.
12:49Five, nine, one.
12:50And Cameron?
12:51Exactly the same.
12:52Come on.
12:53Now then, Rachel.
12:54A nation turns its loving eyes to you.
12:57Can you do better?
12:58You could have said, 100 plus nine, 109.
13:03Times five, five hundred and forty-five.
13:07At the fifty, five nine five.
13:09And take the three, five nine two.
13:11Brilliant.
13:11Well done.
13:14So, we've now turned to Michael.
13:17Michael, what have you been up to?
13:19What have you got to tell us?
13:20Well, talking of the Chinese New Year, I was in China last year, walking the Great Wall
13:24for my charity, Sheffield Children's Hospital.
13:27So, 23 of us set out.
13:28A lot of mums from school.
13:30The challenge was to raise 250,000 pounds to buy a new neurosurgery sat-nav equipment for
13:38the surgeons in the hospital.
13:39And we achieved that.
13:40So, China's very fond in my heart.
13:42Brilliant.
13:43And how long did that take?
13:44Well, we didn't walk the whole wall.
13:46It's a ridiculous amount of miles long.
13:48But we walked for a week.
13:50So, we did about 120 miles over four or five days.
13:53And the legs were tied.
13:54We ate a lot of food that I honestly don't know what was going in my mouth.
13:58But it tasted okay.
13:59And we survived.
14:00And we raised all the money.
14:01So, it was a great achievement.
14:02And how many of you?
14:0423.
14:0423.
14:05And you led them?
14:06I wasn't at the front all the time, if I'm totally honest.
14:09But it was my idea.
14:11And we managed to drag along 23 people to China to achieve the target.
14:16And we had a lot of fun along the way as well.
14:18And we sampled a little bit of the red wine variety on the wall.
14:23It was called the Great Wall Red.
14:25I don't think it's going to win any awards.
14:27How wide is the wall?
14:30I mean, the renovated sections is pretty wide.
14:33You feel very secure on there.
14:34But the roof around the edges sections that haven't been renovated are quite scary.
14:39There's a lot of rough edges.
14:40You've got to have decent balance.
14:42And the old knees held up?
14:44The knee was okay.
14:45Yeah, it was more the head.
14:47The morning after the Great Wall Red, to be honest.
14:50Well, I think that's brilliant.
14:52Such a quarter of a million.
14:53Brilliant.
14:53I think it's worth a big round of applause.
14:59And our tea-time teaser is three bits.
15:02And the clue, the cheese celebration didn't last very long.
15:22Welcome back.
15:23And the clue, the cheese celebration didn't last very long.
15:27And the answer, as you all know at home, briefest.
15:31Briefest.
15:32Now, Cameron.
15:34Yep.
15:34Letters game.
15:35Off you go.
15:36Consonant, please, Rachel.
15:37Thank you, Cameron.
15:39T.
15:40And a vowel, please.
15:42E.
15:43Another vowel.
15:45A.
15:46A consonant, please.
15:49F.
15:50And another.
15:52T.
15:53And another.
15:56R.
15:58A vowel, please.
16:00O.
16:01And another vowel.
16:04A.
16:06And a consonant, please.
16:08And a consonant, please.
16:08And lastly, L.
16:10And we're off.
16:11We're here.
16:13And another vowel.
16:22Yeah.
16:38But there's me, Tiffany.
16:41So Cameron, seven, seven and Mark? Also seven. All right, Cameron? Flutter. Right. And flatter. Flatter. Michael, Susie? You happy?
16:54Very good, yes. Yep, good sevens. Can't take it any further than that. Yeah, refloat we had. Reflow. Reflow, okay,
17:00good. Well, you're well in touch there, Cameron, 25. Mark's still ahead, slightly at 39. And Mark, off you go.
17:09A consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Mark. W. And another. P. And one more. C. And a vowel. E. Another
17:23vowel. I. And again. E. A consonant. L. A vowel. U. And a final consonant, please.
17:38And a final Y. Here we go.
18:10Mark.
18:12Mark.
18:13A seven. A seven. And Cameron? Just a five. A five. Let's hear your five. Peace. Peace. Mark. Weepily. Weepily.
18:23I was just checking that. Yes, it is there as an adverb under weepy. So you can talk about something
18:28weepily. All right. Very good. Well done.
18:32Michael. Michael. Michael, have you two got anything special over there? No, I can't add to that. Very good.
18:38Because you're a big tweeter. You're a big tweeter, Michael, aren't you? I am a tweeter, yeah. That's fun in
18:43terms of getting, you know, language, isn't it? Condensing language into the 140 characters.
18:48There's some language on there. It's not quite what you'd use on this show. No, I'm sure not. But nonetheless,
18:53I think you've got 200,000 followers, isn't it? It's the first time I've ever got to a double century.
18:59Well, I'm going to do a bit more research. I'll come back to you on that. In the meantime, what
19:03have we got here? Mark at 46 and Cameron at 25. And Cameron, it's a letters game. Away you go.
19:10A consonant, please. Thank you, Cameron. H. And another. D. And another, please. R. A vowel. I. And another.
19:27E. And another. I. A consonant, please. P. And another. F. And a final vowel, please. And a final A.
19:44Stand by.
20:15Cameron. A risky seven. A risky seven. Mark? Just a six. A six. Right. What's your six, Mark? A pad.
20:25All right. All right. And Cameron? Fraped. What was that? Fraped. How are you spelling that? F-R-A-I
20:33-P-E-D.
20:35Fraped? Okay. What a strange Scottish word is it, Cameron? I think it's using a social networking site. I'm sure
20:39I've came across it.
20:40Ah. Not there, I'm afraid. It is. It's a great word. It does sound like a dialect word, but not
20:47in. Sorry.
20:48Okay. So anything else? Michael, Susie? Go on, Susie.
20:52There is a seven there, a botanical one. Rayphide, R-A-P-H-I-D-E, a needle-shaped crystal
20:59of calcium oxalate, which you'll find in clusters in the tissues of certain plants.
21:04Wow.
21:09I'll talk to my wife about that. She's the gardener. But, Mark, it's a letters game. You're away.
21:16Constance, please, Rachel. Thank you, Mark. X.
21:20And another.
21:22R.
21:23And another.
21:25W.
21:27Powell, please.
21:29I.
21:30And another.
21:31O.
21:33And one more.
21:35U.
21:37A consonant.
21:38G.
21:40A consonant.
21:43D.
21:44And a vowel, please.
21:47And a final O.
21:50Here we go.
21:51Here we go.
22:22So, Mark.
22:23Five.
22:24Five.
22:25And Cameron.
22:26Just four.
22:27A four.
22:28And your four would be?
22:29Good.
22:30Good.
22:31All right, Mark.
22:32A good.
22:33Good.
22:34Right.
22:35Michael and Susie, what have you got over there?
22:36We've got that.
22:38Yeah?
22:38We just had to stick with that. It was a nasty selection.
22:40A good.
22:42All right, now, Susie, over to you for our origins of words section.
22:46Well, I was going to talk about money, because it's a fairly pedestrian word, but it's something
22:51we talk and think about every day, so it's no surprising that English is just packed
22:55full of expressions that deal with it, and particularly slang terms, which we've taken
22:59from right across the world.
23:00From Spanish, we have De Niro's.
23:02We talk about Baksheesh, which is Persian, Gelt, which is German.
23:06We talk about having some Wonga, which is a Romany word.
23:09Shekels is Hebrew, and Mizuma, which is Yiddish.
23:13But money is also important if you don't have any.
23:16Skint comes from skinned.
23:18It's simply a variation on skinned.
23:20And brassic, as in I'm brassic, comes from rhyming slang, brassic lint, which is a type
23:25of medical dressing, and is rhyming slang for skint.
23:28And to be broke comes simply from being financially ruined and broken.
23:32Perhaps going back to the cellar's wooden tables, which in medieval times were broken
23:35as a sign of bankruptcy.
23:37And can I throw one in?
23:38Yes.
23:38If you're in Queer Street, you're in Carey Street, which is where the bankruptcy court
23:44was.
23:44Absolutely right.
23:45Is that right?
23:45You'll find that, Samuel Johnson.
23:46Good.
23:47So, Mark, you're running ahead of 57 to Cameron's 25, but Cameron, your chance now to do a numbers
23:52game and over to Rachel.
23:54One large and five small, please.
23:56One large and five small.
23:57And this should be a piece of cake with all your mathematical poker skills, I'm sure.
24:01Thank you, Cameron.
24:02So, for this round, the five small are two, three, six, and four, and eight, and the large one,
24:1025, and the target, 370.
24:13370.
24:15370.
24:16370.
24:42370.
24:46So, Cameron.
24:47370.
24:48Well done.
24:49And Mark?
24:50370, but not written down.
24:52Right.
24:52Shall we have yours first, then?
24:54Indeed.
24:5525 minus 4 is 21.
24:58Yep.
24:592 times 8 is 16.
25:012 times 8 is 16.
25:03Multiply those.
25:05Multiply them for 336.
25:08And I've gone completely wrong.
25:11Not easy.
25:12Cameron, the poker player.
25:148 plus 6 is 14.
25:168 plus 6 is 14.
25:18Multiply by 25 is 350.
25:20It is indeed.
25:212 plus 3 is 5.
25:23Yep.
25:24Times 4 is 20.
25:25And add it on.
25:26Didn't even need to bluff.
25:27Not done.
25:28370.
25:28Excellent.
25:29Well done.
25:30Well done.
25:32And that brings you up to 35 against Mark's still 57.
25:37And it's time for the Tea Time Teaser, which is Vice Call.
25:40And the clue, you'll know it's there if you've had your collar felt.
26:01Welcome back.
26:02And the clue, you'll remember, you'll know it's there if you've had your collar felt.
26:07And the answer, clavicle.
26:10Clavicle.
26:11So, Mark, you're off for a letters game.
26:15Okay.
26:15A consonant, please, Rachel.
26:17Thank you, Mark.
26:18L.
26:19And another.
26:21R.
26:22And another.
26:24D.
26:26A vowel.
26:28U.
26:29And another.
26:30A.
26:32One more.
26:34O.
26:35A consonant.
26:37L.
26:38A vowel.
26:41Another A.
26:43And a final consonant, please.
26:44And a final S.
26:47Countdown clock.
26:50R.
26:50A vowel.
26:51A vowel.
26:56One more.
27:00A vowel.
27:01One more.
27:20so mark a seven seven and Cameron just a five all right let's have the five Cameron
27:26Lloyd's loads mark dollars dollars you know all about dollars with your trips to Nashville
27:34Susie well we've got a six but just rather unusual one which is radula r-a-d-u-l-a
27:40can't
27:40put the s on unfortunately but it's a zoological term and it's a ras black structure of tiny teeth
27:46in a mollusk used for scraping food particles really really so mark 64 Cameron's 35 and Cameron
27:55it's your shout on a letters game yeah constant please thank you Cameron g and another b and
28:04another please d a vowel o and another a and another another o consonant please s and another t
28:23d and a vowel please and lastly e and we're away
28:33so
29:03so
29:04a six off you go then mark a goost goost
29:09mm-hmm Cameron boosted boosted yeah good well done well done Michael and Susie what's happening
29:18over there we have a seven as well yes bodega wine shops in Spain sure yeah I know all about
29:26them
29:28so do I also stooged is also there for 97 stooged stooged yeah I like goost I like the sound
29:35of that
29:36so that sees mark at 64 and Cameron at 42 and mark you're away for a letters game a consonant
29:44please
29:44Rachel thank you mark n and another t and another k a vowel
29:56i and another o one more a a consonant m a vowel e and a final consonant please and a
30:15final t there we go
30:40it's fine
30:42I'm
30:43I'm
30:44I'm
30:46I'm
30:48I'm
30:48I'm
30:49So Mark. Just a five. A five. Cameron. Just a four. Four. Right. Tell us about it. Time. Time. Mark.
31:02Taken. Taken. No arguments over there. None. None. Michael. What have we got? Susie has an eight. I'll let her
31:10describe it. Which is what?
31:13Tomatine. T-O-M-A-T-I-N-E. It's a compound found in the stems and leaves of the
31:18tomato and other related plants.
31:21Very good. As though we didn't know that already. So Cameron, you did well in the last numbers game and
31:31you're off again on the numbers game. So discuss things with Rachel. One large and five small please again.
31:38One large and five small. Thank you, Cameron. And for the last numbers game, the selection is two. Another two.
31:46Ten. Six. Nine. And the large one. Seventy-five. And your target. Nine hundred and eighty-three.
31:54Nine-eighth-three.
32:27So Cameron, how did we do? Nine-eighth-five. Nine-eighth-five. Mark?
32:32And nine-eighth-four. Right. So I think that we've turned to Mark first. Six divided by two is three.
32:40Yep.
32:41Plus ten.
32:42Plus ten.
32:43Thirteen.
32:44Times by seventy-five.
32:46Times seventy-five. Nine-seven-five.
32:47And plus nine.
32:49And plus nine. Nine-eighth-four. One away.
32:52And Rachel, could you take us to the proper answer?
32:54Yep. If you say seventy-five plus six is eighty-one. Ten plus one of the twos is twelve. Times
33:02them together for nine-hundred and seventy-two. And add the nine and the remaining two.
33:08For nine-eighth-four.
33:09Well done. Well done.
33:14So, with the scores standing at seventy-six to Mark and forty-two to Cameron, it's conundrum time and its
33:21fingers on buzzers, please. And please reveal today's countdown conundrum.
33:57Nope.
33:58Well, it's Fox, Cameron and the Champ. So let's see whether that particularly bright-looking audience has got the answer.
34:04Anybody there? I see a hand up. Yes, sir. What is it?
34:08Deludedly.
34:09Deludedly. Let's have a little look and see whether that's anywhere near it. Deludedly. Well done. Well done. That's excellent.
34:21Cameron, it's back to Kilmarnock with our blessing and a goodie bag. Well done.
34:26Well done. Fourth win. See you tomorrow. Brilliant. And, uh, Michael, thank you so much for being with us today.
34:35And we're going to dig deeper into your cricketing career tomorrow.
34:39Susie, thank you so much. Thank you. And, uh, over to Tiger.
34:43Yeah, well, because it's Chinese New Year, I've actually got your fortune cookie over here. So I thought I'd have
34:47a look and see what lies ahead in the air.
34:50I don't like the sound of this.
34:50I can get this open. This is your one. So it says, he who is nice to frogs and buys
34:58round in bar will be cured of all ills.
35:02Brilliant. Amazing.
35:04Isn't that extraordinary?
35:05Isn't that extraordinary? Do you see the Chinese? I've got one.
35:09Right.
35:09Let's see what this says. If I can, uh, break open this. Let's see what we've got here.
35:20Hello, Tiger. Don't give up the day job.
35:26Anyway, there we are. We hope you've enjoyed today's countdown. We have. And we're going to see you again tomorrow.
35:32Same time. Good afternoon.
35:45Better than a macaroni necklace. Channel four is doing it all on a tight budget tonight. A new series of
35:50super scrimpers begins at eight, but going for the big win next this afternoon. Deal or no deal on the
35:56way.