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00:31Well, good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studios.
00:34There's a pretty odd story I read recently about a Canadian woman.
00:38She was a granny and she wrote her own obituary.
00:41When she died, it was published in the local paper.
00:44She had a sense of humour, although her family may have taken it rather differently.
00:48For instance, her name, just that you know, is Sybil Marie Hicks from Ontario.
00:54All right.
00:55And this is what she wrote.
00:57These are little excerpts from the obituary that was published in the local paper.
01:01I leave behind my husband a horse's ass.
01:05My children, whom I tolerated over the years.
01:08Bob, my oldest, was also my favourite, which really hacked off the others, obviously.
01:13And finally, I have, finally, the smoking hot body I always wanted.
01:20Mainly because I've been cremated.
01:24Quite funny, isn't it?
01:25But, of course, there's a huge department at the Times, for instance, writing obituaries.
01:29And I think I'm right in saying that if one is sort of moderately famous,
01:37people will ring up and say, I'd quite like to write the obituary so that it's ready for Mr. Bloggs,
01:43for instance.
01:44And you could sort of commission somebody to ring up, to write it.
01:47You could check it out and say, yeah, that's okay, that'll do.
01:49And then file it, sort of thing.
01:51Mind you, you know, I've only got about four or five years to go.
01:54Could you write my obituary?
01:57Yeah, I'll get you to read it.
01:59I'll tell you what.
02:00Ring him up.
02:01Yeah.
02:01Say he's not looking good.
02:03Right.
02:03Can I pay a short one?
02:05And if they say yes, but we're only paying you a fiver, I'll give you 30 quid, and we'll write
02:10it together.
02:10You file it, and that's it.
02:12Yes.
02:13Done?
02:13Your final act of defiance.
02:15Exactly.
02:16Now then, we've got somebody here that is an extraordinary competitor.
02:22That'll be Elliot Mellor.
02:24And you played so well on Friday, and you got that record, 150.
02:28The previous one, at 150, was only around for about five months.
02:31Before that, 17 years.
02:33Oh.
02:34Yeah, amazing.
02:35So, it's great to see you.
02:36How are you feeling?
02:37Confident and full of bans, yeah?
02:40All right.
02:41Three nines, not bad.
02:43And you're up against Dave Trotter, so be careful.
02:47And Dave is a retired headteacher from Leicester, a Francophile who loves caravanning with Mrs. Trotter,
02:53who was a competitor here not that long ago.
02:56A few days ago, yeah.
02:57Yeah, retired kindergarten teacher.
03:00Delightful lady.
03:02Delightful lady.
03:02That's what I say, though.
03:03All right.
03:04Anyway, you're very welcome.
03:05Don't be fazed by this genius over there.
03:07You'll be fine.
03:08I am already.
03:09Big round of applause now for Dave and Elliot.
03:17And Susie's over in the corner looking after one of our all-time favourites.
03:21It's the final time in his current of residency until we get him back.
03:25Until we get him back on the ward.
03:27It's Dr. Phil Hammond.
03:29Dr. Phil.
03:33I'm thinking I could add some medical secrets to your obituary.
03:37He's stiff and this time it's not just his neck.
03:44I've got some medical little tales I could tell you, but I'll leave that until later.
03:50Elliot.
03:51Mr. Mellor.
03:53Off we go.
03:53Let us go.
03:54Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:55Afternoon, Elliot.
03:55Start with a vowel, please.
03:57Start the week with I.
03:58And another.
04:00E.
04:01And a third.
04:03A.
04:03And a consonant.
04:05R.
04:06A second.
04:08M.
04:08Another consonant.
04:10T.
04:10And another.
04:11Y.
04:13A vowel.
04:15O.
04:16And a final consonant, please.
04:19A final D.
04:20Stand by.
04:53Elliot.
04:54Nine.
04:57That's the way he starts it on Friday.
05:00Dave, what have you got?
05:01Five.
05:02And your five is?
05:04Erm, timed.
05:06Thank you, Dave.
05:08Come on, Elliot.
05:09Mediatory.
05:11Absolutely brilliant, yes.
05:12You can act in a mediatory capacity, for example, as a mediator.
05:16Very, very good.
05:24You're a caution, Elliot.
05:26That's what you are.
05:26Now, what's happening over in the corner?
05:28Pass.
05:29No, we did get mediatory, to be fair, but nothing else.
05:33That was, yeah.
05:34Well, that's pretty, that's pretty extraordinary.
05:36All right.
05:36So, Dave, off we go.
05:38Your letters came.
05:39Good luck.
05:39Hi, Rachel.
05:40Hi, Dave.
05:41Erm, consonant, please.
05:44We're going to start with T.
05:46And a vowel.
05:47I.
05:49Consonant.
05:50B.
05:52Vowel.
05:54U.
05:56Consonant.
05:58R.
06:01Consonant.
06:02S.
06:04Vowel.
06:05O.
06:09Another vowel.
06:11A.
06:13And a final consonant, please.
06:16Final W.
06:18Stand by.
06:19H.
06:20Vowel.
06:21.
06:22.
06:34.
06:51Well, Dave?
06:52A mere five.
06:53A five, and Elliot?
06:55Seven.
06:57Yes, Dave?
06:58Burst.
06:59And?
07:00Sortois.
07:02Yes, you know your countdown, Elliot.
07:04Yes, so twire is a long necklace consisting of a fine gold chain,
07:07typically set with jewels.
07:09Very, very good.
07:09Indeed.
07:10Very good, well done.
07:12And in the corner?
07:13We've got another seven.
07:14Bio Wars is there, but we can't beat seven.
07:17Thank you for that.
07:19All right.
07:21Elliot, your numbers came now.
07:23One large and five small, please, Rachel.
07:25Thank you, Elliot.
07:26One from the top.
07:26And five little ones.
07:28And the first one of the week is two, four, one, four,
07:34ten and...
07:35Seventy-five.
07:36And the target, seven hundred and thirty-eight.
07:39Seven, three, eight.
07:40One, four, three, eight.
08:11Elliot?
08:12738.
08:13Mm-hm. Dave?
08:14738.
08:16Yes, Elliot?
08:1775 minus 1.
08:1974.
08:20Times by 10.
08:22740.
08:23Take away the 2.
08:24Straightforward 10 points.
08:26And Dave?
08:27An easier way.
08:2910 times 75, 750.
08:31750.
08:324 minus 1 is 3.
08:33Yep.
08:34Multiply by the 4.
08:354 or 12.
08:37Subtract.
08:37Same result.
08:39Well done.
08:40APPLAUSE
08:42So, 35 pays.
08:4410, as we turn to our first Tea Time teaser,
08:47which is since a lot and the clue.
08:50Since he bought his metal detector,
08:52he's found a lot of coins along here.
08:55Since he bought his metal detector,
08:57he's found a lot of coins along here.
09:03APPLAUSE
09:16Welcome back.
09:17I left her with a clue.
09:18Since he bought his metal detector,
09:20he's found a lot of coins along here,
09:23along the coastline.
09:26Coastline.
09:2735 pays 10.
09:29Elliot in the lead.
09:31Dave?
09:32Letters game.
09:36Consonant, please.
09:37Thank you, Dave.
09:38R.
09:38Vowel.
09:40Vowel.
09:42Consonant.
09:44F.
09:46Vowel.
09:47O.
09:49Consonant.
09:51L.
09:53Vowel, please.
09:55I.
09:57Consonant.
09:59R.
10:03Vowel, please.
10:05E.
10:06And a final consonant, please.
10:09A final S.
10:11Stand by.
10:13Vowel.'S
10:14TES Vowel.
10:34You're welcome.
10:35Bye. Bye.
10:36Bye.
10:36Bye.
10:38Bye.
10:39Bye.
10:41Bye.
10:44Well, Dave.
10:45Seven.
10:46Seven and?
10:47Seven.
10:48Dave.
10:49Relief.
10:50Now, Elliot.
10:52Lorries.
10:54Lorries, absolutely fine.
10:55Yes.
10:56Happy enough?
10:57Yeah, we can't beat seven.
10:58We've got fairies and re-fires, but that's it.
11:02Re-fires.
11:03Yes, quite a few sevens, but that was it.
11:06Thanks, Uzi.
11:0742 to 17.
11:08Elliot, off we go again.
11:10Letters game.
11:11Start with a vowel.
11:11Vowel, please, Rachel.
11:12Thank you, Elliot.
11:13A.
11:13And a second.
11:15U.
11:16And a third.
11:17O.
11:18A consonant.
11:20V.
11:20And another.
11:22M.
11:23And a third.
11:25T.
11:26And a fourth.
11:28N.
11:28And a vowel.
11:31I.
11:32And a final vowel, please.
11:35Final U.
11:38And here's the countdown clock.
12:10Elliot, I think you have a seven.
12:12Mm-hmm.
12:13Seven.
12:14Elliot.
12:15Manitou?
12:17Yeah.
12:18Dave.
12:19Tinamu.
12:20Excellent words, both.
12:22Tinamu is a ground-dwelling, tropical American bird.
12:24It looks a bit like a grouse, apparently,
12:27and a manitou is among certain North American Indian peoples
12:31and they're good or evil spirits who are revered or feared, I guess.
12:37Thank you for that.
12:38And in the corner?
12:39No, as soon as you've got both of those, quick as a flash,
12:41but nothing more than seven.
12:42No.
12:44So 49 to 24.
12:47Dave, it's your numbers game.
12:48Off we go.
12:49Let's go to the easy option, please, Rachel.
12:51One big, five small, please.
12:53Only potentially easy.
12:55Let's see what we have.
12:56Thank you, Dave.
12:57Five little ones are seven.
12:59Three.
13:00One.
13:01Two.
13:02Eight.
13:03And the large one, 50.
13:04And the target, 255.
13:07Two, five, five.
13:08Two, five.
13:10Two, five.
13:16All.
13:17Blue.
13:17Two, five.
13:18Three.
13:25Two, five.
13:32Three.
13:39Well, Dave, 2, 5, 7, 2 away, and Elliot?
13:432, 5, 5.
13:44Yes, sir.
13:4650 add 1.
13:4750 add 1, 51.
13:493 add 2.
13:515.
13:52Multiply them.
13:532, 5, 5, yep.
13:54That's it. Well done.
13:57Thanks, Elliot.
13:58We've been down 59, face 24, as we turn to Dr Phil.
14:03Phil. Dr Phil Hammond, what's up?
14:05Thank you. It's my final outing.
14:07It's been an absolute privilege to be here, particularly to see Elliot flourish and bloom.
14:12I'm rounding this up and looking a bit at the future of health care.
14:15One of the things I do in my Edinburgh shows is throw forward to the future,
14:19which, of course, will be all artificial intelligence and robots.
14:22We're using them already.
14:23I work in a clinic for young people with severe fatigue,
14:26and some of these kids who aren't well enough to go to school
14:28have a robot in the middle sitting on their desk who interacts with the others.
14:32Here's the teacher, here's the other kids, and they can be present in the lesson.
14:36I was talking to an eye surgeon recently,
14:38and there's good evidence now that these artificial intelligence
14:40can diagnose most eye conditions and scans better than humans.
14:44So they can see your macular degeneration,
14:46they can see your diabetic retinopathy,
14:48and they're also working on them to actually treat these conditions.
14:52Now, the future will be you will have your eye surgery
14:55without seeing a human at all.
14:57You will walk in there, they'll stick this thing on your head,
15:00it'll tell you what's wrong with the back of your retina,
15:01and then it'll go zing, zing, zing, zing, bing, bing, bing, bing,
15:04and sort it all out, is the theory.
15:06So somebody would have to be that very brave person
15:09who does the first ever eye operation without seeing a single human being.
15:13And they put the thing on, and you can just imagine if it went slightly wrong,
15:15it'd come up and one eye would be there and the other one would be there.
15:18But in that stoical British way, you'd say,
15:20well, it's marvellous what they get, you've got to learn somehow,
15:22you've got to learn somehow.
15:23That's what all those old patients used to do.
15:25So someone's got to do that, but that is the future.
15:28I would still argue that the fundamentals of health,
15:31whether we have AR or not, will still be my clangers.
15:33And I've talked about my clangers before.
15:35Connect, learn, be active, notice, give back, eat well, relax, sleep.
15:39There is nothing on this planet that can outdo clangers in terms of treatment.
15:43It doesn't need any computation at all.
15:45And the most important thing I'd put, particularly my kids with chronic fatigue,
15:48I'd say try to have five portions of fun a day.
15:50The fruit and veg are important,
15:51but no matter how much juice you've got in your battery,
15:54try and do little things every day that give your life joy and meaning.
15:57But also, it's taking responsibility to try and make yourself better
16:00and make the world a better place.
16:01And I think that's what we need to do,
16:03not just in healthcare, but in our politics.
16:05If we all took that responsibility to be intelligent, to be kind,
16:08to make the world a better place, we'd all be much happier.
16:12Yeah, yeah.
16:12Well done.
16:19And try to find beauty in all things is another way to learn.
16:22Well, it's not hard with you in that pink tie, Nick, I can tell you.
16:25Seldom have I seen an object of beauty.
16:27I wore it especially for you.
16:3059, page 24.
16:31Elliot on 59, and it's Elliot's letters game.
16:34Yes, Elliot.
16:35Start with a vowel, please, Rachel.
16:36Thank you, Elliot.
16:37And the second?
16:39A.
16:40And the third?
16:41O.
16:42A consonant?
16:43T.
16:44A second?
16:45D.
16:46And the third?
16:47C.
16:48And the fourth?
16:49N.
16:50And the vowel?
16:52E.
16:54Final consonant, please.
16:56Final T.
16:58Stand by.
17:30Elliot.
17:31Eight.
17:31Thank you, Dave.
17:33Six.
17:34And your six?
17:35Deacon.
17:36No.
17:38Anecdote.
17:39Anecdote, indeed.
17:40Anecdote, certainly there.
17:41Eight.
17:41Well done.
17:43Well done.
17:47Dr. Phil?
17:48Detonate.
17:49Detonate that anecdote.
17:50That's what comedians do.
17:51They take an anecdote and they detonate it.
17:53And the S.
17:54Susie?
17:55Those are two eights.
17:5767, page 24.
17:58Dave, your letters game?
18:01Consonant, please.
18:02Thank you, Dave.
18:03M.
18:04Vowel?
18:05A.
18:06Consonant.
18:08S.
18:10Vowel?
18:11E.
18:13Consonant.
18:15Q.
18:16Better consonant.
18:18D.
18:19Vowel?
18:21A.
18:23Consonant.
18:25S.
18:27The final consonant, please.
18:30Final N.
18:32Stand by.
18:33The final consonant.
18:51The final consonant.
18:55Come in.
18:57Come in.
19:04Well, Dave?
19:05A seven.
19:06A seven and?
19:07Seven.
19:08Dave?
19:09What I'm feeling now, madness.
19:11And Elliot?
19:13A must.
19:14Yes, good sevens, babe.
19:17Anything else?
19:18No, we got those two.
19:19That was it.
19:20That's it?
19:20Yeah.
19:21Finished.
19:22Moving on.
19:23Elliot, it's your numbers game.
19:25One large and five small, please, Rachel.
19:27Thank you, Elliot.
19:27Going for points over glory, possibly.
19:30Let's see what we have here.
19:31The five little ones are one, six, one, seven, two, and the large one, 100.
19:39And the target, 183.
19:42One, eight, three.
19:42One, eight, three, two, and the large one, nine, ten, five, ten, five, ten, five, ten, seven, eleven, ten, ten,
20:01nine, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten.
20:14Elliot.
20:15Yes, 183.
20:16Dave.
20:17Lost it, I'm afraid.
20:19Never mind.
20:19Elliot.
20:20100 minus 7 minus 1.
20:22100 minus 7 minus 1, 92.
20:25Multiply by 2.
20:26Multiply by 2, 184.
20:28And then take the remaining 1 off.
20:30183.
20:31Lovely.
20:32There it is.
20:33APPLAUSE
20:37Very good.
20:3884 plays 31 as we turn to our second Teatime teaser,
20:42which is Gail Nerve and the clue.
20:44Gail had some nerve wearing that blouse.
20:47You could see everything.
20:48Gail had some nerve wearing that blouse.
20:51You could see everything.
21:00APPLAUSE
21:08Welcome back.
21:09I left with the clue.
21:10Gail had some nerve wearing that blouse.
21:12You could see everything.
21:13That's because it was perhaps revealing.
21:16Revealing.
21:1784 plays 31.
21:19Elliot in the lead.
21:20Now then, Dave, your letters game.
21:23Consonant, please.
21:24Thank you, Dave.
21:25G.
21:26Vowel.
21:28O.
21:30Consonant.
21:30C.
21:32Vowel.
21:35E.
21:36Consonant.
21:38L.
21:39Another consonant.
21:41S.
21:43Vowel.
21:45O.
21:47Another vowel, please.
21:50E.
21:52And final consonant, please.
21:54Final T.
21:56Stand by.
22:28Yes, Dave?
22:29Seven.
22:30Seven and?
22:31Seven.
22:33Dave?
22:33Coolest.
22:35Yes?
22:36Same.
22:37There we go.
22:37Happy, Dave?
22:39And in the corner, we've discovered the coolest ocelots in town.
22:43And the ocelots are there for seven, but we can't beat seven.
22:46No.
22:47Lovely little thing, an ocelot.
22:49Yes.
22:50Wildcats, orange-yellow coat marked with black stripes and spots.
22:54They are cool.
22:55Yeah.
22:56Excellent.
22:56Ninety-one, please.
22:58Thirty-eight.
22:59Elliot, let us game.
23:00Start with a vowel, please, Rachel.
23:02Thank you, Elliot.
23:02A.
23:03And a second.
23:05I.
23:06And a third.
23:06E.
23:07And a consonant.
23:08W.
23:09A second.
23:10T.
23:11A third.
23:13S.
23:14A fourth.
23:15R.
23:16A vowel.
23:18A.
23:19And a final vowel, please.
23:22Final I.
23:24Stand by.
23:26Now, I'll discuss it.
23:27In fact, let's do it.
23:41All right.
23:42In fact, I'llyeon.
23:51You'll find it.
23:51Go.
23:54And whatever, whoa.
23:54You're going to go away.
23:55Elliot? Eight. An eight, Dave? Seven. And your seven is? Wariest. Yes, thank you. Wisteria? Yes, the beautiful Wisteria, the
24:08climbing shrug. Very good.
24:11Well done. Wisteria. Now, the corner. Dr. Phil? No, Wisteria was our top. Waiters are in there, but Wisteria was
24:23our best.
24:23Okay. Beautiful plant, actually. 99 to 38. Susie, what have you for us today? Who's written in?
24:32That's the right question. Rick Allen has written from Carnforth in beautiful Lancashire, and he says,
24:39it crossed my mind the other day that the word etc could have an interesting history along with its abbreviation,
24:46ETC or the Ambersound NSC. Also, what is the correct pronunciation for this,
24:50which often seems to get spoken as etc, which is exactly what I was about to say at the beginning.
24:56First of all, I'll give you the straight etymology for it. It is from the Latin et, meaning and,
25:00and then setera, which means the rest. That's the plural of seterus, which meant left over for the Romans.
25:07As for that common mispronunciation, it's really difficult, actually, to pronounce the Latin as it was written,
25:13and that's why it has changed to a K. It's a process in linguistics that's called assimilation.
25:19It becomes easier for our tongue to get round at the new sound, and so it changes over time.
25:24And you'll see that in espresso as well. How many people actually ask for an espresso these days?
25:29Most just ask for an espresso. Same sort of thing.
25:33Anyway, that's been around, et cetera, for, since the 1400s, so a very long time.
25:37But one that we, or an abbreviation that we associate much more with modern times is the hash tag.
25:43So I thought I'd tell you a little bit about the hash tag.
25:45Otherwise known as the hash, pound, number, octothor, grid, crunch, diamond, sharp, mesh, mesh,
25:51crosshatch, third thumps, blat, scratch, mark, square, hex, flash, tic-tac-toe, and pig pen.
25:56Again, who knew? It's got so many different names, and that just about outnumbers the functions
26:02that the hash tag has performed over the centuries, and it has been around for centuries.
26:07Where did it begin? Well, its roots were in the Latin Libra Ponda, which meant a pound in weight,
26:13which they abbreviated to LB, and of course we use LB still today for a pound.
26:17But when English speakers started writing this abbreviation, they put a little cross at the top
26:22to indicate that it was, in fact, an abbreviation.
26:25Then Isaac Newton was writing the LB contraction, and English printers started because of him
26:31to use it a lot more. How it came to be, to have those two parallel lines, we're not completely
26:37sure,
26:37but it could be simply that one typesetter was careless enough to put another one in,
26:41and the rest was history. It's been really versatile.
26:44It's been used to indicate numbers and weight, checkmate in chess, a sharp musical note,
26:51even the end of press releases to sort of mark the end.
26:54But, of course, it's on Twitter, really, that it has its kind of alternative and incredibly popular use.
27:00The inventor of the hashtag for Twitter was someone called Chris Messina,
27:03and at first, apparently, it really wasn't popular with the Twitterverse.
27:08It was said that it was for nerds and would never catch on.
27:13255 million tweeters there are, and most of us use it.
27:16And as the final confirmation that the hashtag has really, really made it,
27:19some people use the word in conversation, as in hashtag annoying, which is what it is.
27:26But it's been around for a very, very long time,
27:28and no doubt we'll stick around for a little bit more to come.
27:31Oh, wonderful.
27:38Very good. Thank you, Susie.
27:4099 plays 38.
27:43Dave, your letters game. Good luck.
27:46Consonant, please.
27:47Thank you, Dave.
27:49M.
27:50Vowel.
27:51U.
27:52Consonant.
27:54R.
27:56Consonant.
27:56D.
27:58Vowel.
28:00I.
28:02Vowel.
28:03E.
28:05Another vowel, please.
28:07I.
28:09Consonant.
28:10G.
28:12And another consonant, please.
28:14And lastly, H.
28:16Stand by.
28:17OK.
28:47Well, Dave.
28:48Five.
28:50Elliot.
28:51Six.
28:52And a six.
28:53Dave.
28:54Hired.
28:55Yes, Elliot.
28:56Midgie.
28:59Midgie.
28:59M-I-D-G-I-E.
29:02Er...
29:03Yes, you know what you're talking about, Elliot.
29:05Yes, it's simply a sweet dialect name for a midge,
29:08if you can call a midge a sweet thing.
29:10Yes.
29:10A midge.
29:12Now, can we match or beat that, I wonder?
29:15We can match six.
29:16Guider.
29:17Yeah.
29:17What's this word you've got there?
29:18Grind.
29:18Grind.
29:19As in made dirty.
29:20Made dirty.
29:20Grind.
29:21And Guider are in there.
29:22Well done.
29:22105 to 38.
29:24Elliot, final letters game.
29:25Vowel, please, Rachel.
29:27Thank you, Elliot.
29:27A.
29:28And a second.
29:29E.
29:30And another.
29:31O.
29:32A consonant.
29:33C.
29:34A second.
29:36R.
29:36And a third.
29:38P.
29:38And a fourth.
29:40N.
29:40And a vowel.
29:42E.
29:43And a final vowel, please.
29:47Final E.
29:49Stand by.
29:50.
29:51C.
29:51C.
29:51C.
29:53C.
29:55C.
29:56C.
30:21Elliot.
30:22Eight.
30:23And Dave?
30:25Six.
30:26You're six.
30:27Prance.
30:28Now, Elliot.
30:29Operance.
30:30Brilliant.
30:31The quality or fact of being operant or in operation.
30:34Very, very good.
30:35Strong.
30:36Very strong.
30:38113 points.
30:41So far.
30:43No.
30:43No, Susie got operance immediately, so she was temporarily in the same Venn diagram.
30:49Anything else?
30:50Nothing else, no.
30:52One, one, three to 38.
30:54And it's Dave's numbers game.
30:56One big, five small, please, Rachel.
30:58Thank you, Dave.
30:59One from the top, bro.
30:59Five knots.
31:01And the final numbers of today's competition are seven, seven, two, ten, eight.
31:09And the large one, 25.
31:11And the target, 993.
31:13Nine, nine, three.
31:15one, two, three.
31:32One, one, two, three.
31:33One, two, ten, ten, ten, ten.
31:33Two, ten, ten.
31:33Four.
31:33And the thrive, they should eat.
31:34Two, ten, two, ten.
31:36Somebody said two.
31:37We'll see you in the first two.
31:37One, two, ten, ten.
31:38One, ten, tres, the three.
31:38One, three, seven, och- consulting.
31:47well Dave nowhere near it I'm afraid no no Elliot 993 tell us how you got 25 times 8 25
31:58times 8
31:59200 7 minus 2 7 minus 2 is 5 multiply them together 1000 subtract the 7 and the other 7
32:07perfect 993 well done well done so here we go into the final round Elliot 1 2 3 excellent once
32:18again
32:18Dave on a brave 38 fingers on buzzers yes let's roll today's countdown conundrum
32:29Elliot tormentor tormentor tormentor
32:35well done well done Elliot what can I say 133 oh dear golly brilliant I think Dave Trotter
32:49deserves a round of applause too getting 38 is not bad well done well done Dave thank you very much
32:59and our best wishes to Mrs Trotter and you get back to uh to that you take now you'll have
33:04two uh
33:05goodie bags back there but so fun do you mind if I donate one to a charity you can do
33:10whatever you
33:11like which charity would you like to give it to uh cancer research of course of course you can do
33:15that thank you very much and Elliot Mellor you're terrific and we look forward to seeing you
33:25tomorrow well done well done thank you we won't be seeing you tomorrow sadly but have a great great
33:30success in Edinburgh I have seen the Usain Bolt of countdown I can I can die happy now but yeah
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33:44a people's plan for the NHS and the great health con a double bill and when you wrote when you've
33:49done it you come back and see us it's it's always a real pleasure no no well as long as
33:54you promise
33:54to stay alive until then I can only go when she's written my obituary oh of course thank you very
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34:06Coleshaw in tomorrow so maybe he can give us a doctor full impression indeed he's such a good
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