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00:00Thank you
00:32Good afternoon and welcome on this brisk January day to the Countdown studio and those of you at home who
00:38have hobbies I guess, are working away to your heart's content. The trouble is my hobby is a sort of
00:44an outdoors hobby, tinkering with my old tractors. Nothing, nothing pleases me more than to just smell the petrol as
00:53it drips slowly from an old Solex carburetor onto the floor. Is that the sort of thing that might appeal
00:59to Rachel?
01:01What are your hobbies Rachel? Not tractors, why tractors? Do you plow stuff?
01:06I love the clatter of old machinery, I love the, I mean frankly nothing quickens the pulse greater than to
01:12look at the clattering old machinery and the spinning power take off at the back. So dangerous, it excites me
01:20enormously.
01:21So do you have a field?
01:23I've got a few fields actually, yeah.
01:24And do you, so do you plow, do you actually use them to do stuff?
01:26I don't do any plowing, no, but I mow them a lot and I've got an old bin on the
01:30back and you go around and collect rubbish and put logs in and just generally sort of you know think
01:35that you're actually working but actually you're just having fun.
01:38Okay.
01:39You're getting married in August, aren't you?
01:42Er, yes.
01:43If you haven't fixed your transport to the church, I could offer you one of two tractors, a little grey
01:52Fergie or a lovely shiny red Massey 35, which would you like?
01:57They're not, you haven't got a Lamborghini tractor then?
01:59No, they do make them, but they're a little bit out of my price range. I could put you and
02:03your beloved in the bin at the back and take you to the church, I won't charge you.
02:08Well luckily we're not having a church and we don't need any transport.
02:11Can I take you to the registry office or wherever it is you're getting married?
02:14Er, not really, but thanks for the offer.
02:16I'm going to leave, you think about it, you think it's the first time I've ever made such an offer,
02:20so just have a word with Jamie, will you?
02:23Okay, I'll ask.
02:24And let me know. Let me know. And while you're doing that, we've got our champ back again. How many
02:29times is this?
02:30Er, this is number five.
02:31Yeah, going for the season ticket. Well done. Name on the back of the chair.
02:34And you're joined by Robert Coyne from Motherwell in Scotland, a stockroom manager who supports both Celtic and Arsenal.
02:42Yeah.
02:43When they clash, where do your loyalties lie?
02:47Er, Celtic, definitely.
02:48Yeah?
02:49Mm-hmm.
02:49Okay. Home team?
02:51Eh, well, nah, this team I've grew up. The Arsenal's more like I can result a bit with my dad.
02:56Good luck to you. Anyway, welcome to our contestants, our champ and Robert.
03:05And being put to the test, he said rather cleverly, in Dictionary Corner, let's welcome Susie Dent and the great
03:12cricketing legend that is Michael Vaughan.
03:14Welcome back.
03:17Hello, Susie.
03:18Hello.
03:18Are you well?
03:19Very well, thank you.
03:20Excellent. And Michael?
03:21Afternoon.
03:22Have you got a love of things mechanical?
03:23Er, certainly not into tractors in any way, shape or form.
03:27Er, indoor helicopter.
03:29Oh really?
03:29Yeah, that's what I've got.
03:30And you can fly that round the room without wrecking the...
03:33Well, it's only had one, one kind of expedition at the minute, it broke, I smashed it into the wall.
03:38Well done. Well done. You weren't in it.
03:40I'm getting better though.
03:42Well, how big is this thing?
03:43It's only small.
03:44They're clever, aren't they?
03:45Yes.
03:46Yeah? Do you think you get the hang of it?
03:48Er, I hope so, because it's going to be very expensive, because I've got to replace the one that I've
03:52broken.
03:52Exactly.
03:53And all those light fittings.
03:54Anyway, we're going to kick off, Mark, with you.
03:57It's a letters game.
03:58Away you go.
04:00Okay.
04:01Hi Rachel.
04:01Hi again Mark.
04:02Can I get a consonant please?
04:04Start today with L.
04:07And another.
04:09S.
04:10And another.
04:13H.
04:13H.
04:14A vowel.
04:16A.
04:18And another.
04:19U.
04:21One more.
04:23E.
04:25A consonant.
04:27B.
04:29A vowel.
04:31A.
04:33And a final consonant please.
04:35And a final S.
04:37Here we go.
04:38Fernandez.
04:39H doen.
04:39H.
04:47H味cile.
04:59So.
05:07H friends.
05:09So, Mark?
05:11A seven.
05:11A seven.
05:12And Robert?
05:13I think I've got seven.
05:15Good game.
05:16Mark?
05:17Blushes.
05:18Blushes.
05:20Well done.
05:22And over in the corner, Michael?
05:24Yeah, very good.
05:24We've got blushes and bushels.
05:26Bushels.
05:27Good.
05:27Well, it's seven all.
05:28And we look to Robert from Motherwell.
05:30It's a letters game.
05:31Off you go.
05:32Hi, Rachel.
05:33Hi, Robert.
05:34Coincident, please.
05:35T.
05:38Vowel.
05:41I.
05:42Consonant.
05:44G.
05:46Consonant.
05:48R.
05:50Vowel.
05:52U.
05:54Consonant.
05:56T.
05:57Another consonant.
05:59M.
06:01Vowel.
06:03E.
06:06And...
06:06Of an R vowel, please.
06:08And lastly...
06:09I.
06:10Here's the countdown.
06:12Clock.
06:12T.
06:13Vowel.
06:13Cint Oooooh.
06:24OK.
06:30Very cool.
06:40Property.
06:41Time to buy.
06:42Really good.
06:43Robert?
06:45Six.
06:46Six. Mark?
06:47Just a five. And a five.
06:50Mark, what's your five?
06:51Mitre. Mitre.
06:53Okay, Robert? Gutter.
06:55Gutter. So, Michael and Susie,
06:58are you happy with those two? Yes, absolutely.
07:00And can you take it further?
07:01We actually have a seven, Guttier.
07:03It's the American way of saying gutsy.
07:06Yes. One dash. Guttier is gutsy.
07:08Really? Very good.
07:10All right. Well, Robert, you've
07:12leapt ahead of the champ. That's thirteen to
07:14seven. Mark, you're on.
07:16Try harder. Consonant, please, Rachel.
07:18Thank you, Mark.
07:20S. And another.
07:23X.
07:25Another.
07:27C.
07:28A vowel.
07:30O. And another.
07:33I.
07:34One more.
07:36E.
07:37A consonant.
07:40R.
07:42Another consonant.
07:44J.
07:46And another consonant, please.
07:48And lastly, S.
07:50Here we go.
07:51Do you know the word?
07:55Yes.
08:00Then.
08:15Are we sure?
08:16Do.
08:20And二.
08:23so mark just five five and mr. Coyne sex a six mark at sixes sixes and Robert
08:35cozier cozier very nice Michael yeah we got that and six is like that I didn't
08:41hit many of those in my career and scores as well which is thanks of which
08:46you did a lot that's very good a shudder for the champ because you're seven
08:52against the contenders 19 so we're Robert off you go see if you can extend
08:58your lead a constant thank you Robert D well a constant G a vowel a constant M no
09:20a constant P though I a vowel e and a constant and lastly N off we go
10:09Robert stank my sex a six mm-hmm right mark there's seven fire away Robert
10:15there Mike pie okay not dumping dumping says are you happy Michael you're happy
10:23very happy very we've got a seven in endgame final move in chess mm-hmm all
10:29right that sees mark closing the gap 14 to 19 and it's numbers game mark first one
10:36of the day over to you and two large four small please the usual two from the top
10:42and four small thank you mark and for this round the numbers are nine six five
10:50and four and a large one's one hundred and seventy-five and the first target of
10:56the day two hundred and five two oh five
10:59yeah
11:12yeah
11:13yeah
11:30so mark at 205 205 yep 205 all right 205 mark off you go okay i have six minus four
11:38is two six
11:39minus four for two times by a hundred yeah then it's easier 200 plus five 205 well done
11:46robert a 100 plus 75 175 six teams five is 30 add them together well done again 205
11:57very good well done and that takes um you to 29 robert against marks 24 and we now look towards
12:07uh michael vaughan and michael i was reading that um back in those yorkshire cricket days
12:12the discipline was tremendous and you had to really turn out very well and shave every morning
12:16and so forth and that presumably is why you're looking so immaculate today discipline was a big
12:21deal and turning up on time yeah that was always installed at yorkshire from an early age that you
12:27had to be smart uh on time i wouldn't say that i abided by those rules all the time throughout
12:32my
12:32career to be honest particularly in the early days it was more of a a hobby cricket and everywhere we
12:38used to travel it was more about the activities at night when we were kids rather than the actual
12:44playing side so the afternoon in the field it was more about asking the opposition and the umpires who
12:49were around that region where the best bars were unfortunately and it really started to become a
12:53professional until i was about 23 and i played for him when i was 25 i would have done it
12:57earlier maybe
12:58i've achieved a little bit more earlier as well listen you didn't do bad did you i did okay yeah
13:04but we need a bit more discipline around here people turn up late i mean look at rachel always
13:09late look at the state of her so i want you to have a word with her later on about
13:13that sort of thing
13:15i read that really your career was foreshortened because of knee problems but you're a batsman
13:23why the batsmen get badly it's always just you uh just me um i i just had a chronic knee
13:28problem
13:29which was with me all my career i had to have lots of injections and uh the game became a
13:34lot faster
13:34and a lot more agile i think anyone that saw me field would realize that i dropped a number of
13:39balls
13:40down to the fact that i couldn't move and very much my hands would shuffle around and the younger guys
13:45were coming through and it's uh all sports now very fast and you need to be very agile fit strong
13:50um and i just wasn't in those last few years so it's time for the youngsters to come through
13:55and i think that you know one of the great heroes of that uh that series was freddy flintoff and
14:02i
14:02think his knees and and uh generally you know fast bowlers take a hammering don't they yes i mean
14:09freddy had bad knees he had uh bad backs bad ankles uh bad hips uh bad arms you name it
14:17freddy had
14:17something wrong with his body uh it was difficult to manage at times i must admit but the best way
14:22to manage him and unfortunately you have to go with him you have to abide by him and we talked
14:28about discipline and times but spending every evening in the bar till 4am took its toll on me
14:33eventually i bet it did because you're a great golfer i had a golf lesson one i wouldn't say great
14:38come on i think you're pretty good i had a golf lesson once the golf pro said no he said
14:43you'll be
14:43no good you've got stagnant hips i thought it was a bit of an extraordinary thing to say anyway
14:48it's a tea time teaser which is many ride and the clue many of them ride around on floats
15:12welcome back and the clue to the tea time teaser was many of them ride around on floats
15:20and the answer is dairyman dairyman so on with the game with uh mark at 24 and robert at 29
15:30everything
15:30to play for champ and it's a letters game and robert it's your turn to kick off a consonant please
15:37thank
15:38thank you robert r vowel o consonant n uh vowel a consonant s another consonant n uh vowel e uh
16:03consonant
16:08and bo and the last one o off we go
16:46So, Robert.
16:48Sex.
16:49Six.
16:50Mark?
16:51Seven.
16:52Seven.
16:53Okay.
16:54Robert?
16:54Season.
16:55Season.
16:56And Mark?
16:57Reasons.
16:58Reasons.
16:59Okay.
17:00Michael, Susie.
17:02Yeah, we had reasons.
17:03We've also got nooners, which is the afternoon for a bit of activity.
17:09A bit of activity, a bit of rumpy-pumpy.
17:14I dimly remember that sort of thing.
17:17I dimly remember that sort of thing.
17:19So, where does that leave us?
17:2131 to 29.
17:22Well done, Mark.
17:23You'll go again.
17:24Letters game.
17:26Constant, please, Rachel.
17:27Thank you, Mark.
17:29L.
17:30And another.
17:33P.
17:34And another.
17:36F.
17:37A vowel.
17:39E.
17:41And another.
17:43A.
17:44One more.
17:46U.
17:48A consonant.
17:50R.
17:51A vowel.
17:53O.
17:55And a final consonant, please.
17:57And a final L.
17:58Stand by.
18:01Stand by.
18:32Okay, Mark, let's have it.
18:34A six.
18:34A six.
18:35And Robert?
18:36Yeah, a six as well.
18:38All right.
18:38Mark?
18:39Laurel.
18:40Laurel.
18:41Robert?
18:41Fuller.
18:42Fuller, okay.
18:45And Susie, Michael?
18:46The six is for us too.
18:48A plural.
18:50All right.
18:51So, with the scores at 37 for Mark and 35 for Robert, Robert, it's your game.
18:57It's a letters game.
18:58Away you go.
18:59We'll start with a bell.
19:01Let's do it.
19:01Thank you, Robert.
19:03U.
19:03Consonant.
19:05S.
19:07Vowel.
19:09E.
19:11Consonant.
19:13D.
19:15Consonant.
19:16G.
19:18Consonant.
19:20M.
19:22Vowel.
19:24I.
19:26Consonant.
19:27Consonant.
19:28V.
19:32And an R vowel.
19:34And the last one.
19:35A.
19:37Here we go.
19:38Consonant.
20:09So, Robert.
20:11Sex.
20:12Okay.
20:13Mark?
20:13Six as well.
20:15So, Robert.
20:16Medges.
20:17Medges and Mark?
20:20Smudge.
20:21Smudge.
20:22It's really good.
20:23Any contentious issues there?
20:26None at all.
20:27No?
20:27No.
20:27We've got a couple of sevens.
20:29I've got Miss Gave.
20:31Miss Gave's very nice.
20:32And Visaged is there as in a stern, visaged old man.
20:36Ooh.
20:37Gulp.
20:38Robert?
20:38Two behind at 41.
20:40Mark, 43.
20:41Clinging on there, Mark.
20:43And it's your go.
20:44It's a letters game.
20:45Okay.
20:46A consonant, please, Rachel.
20:47Thank you, Mark.
20:48D.
20:49And another.
20:52N.
20:53Another.
20:55R.
20:56And a vowel.
20:58O.
20:59Another.
21:01E.
21:02One more.
21:04A.
21:06A consonant.
21:08Y.
21:10A consonant.
21:12C.
21:13And a final vowel, please.
21:15And a final I.
21:18Clock time.
21:18Tch.
21:20Tch.
21:21Tch.
21:26Tch.
21:27I'm going to take a while.
21:27And a sorry.
21:40Manya.
21:40And a Wi-fi.
21:48And aVO.
21:50so mark i'll try and eight try and eight all right and robert yeah i'll go for the years
21:55well okay mark a crayon crayon good are you happy yes we were just discussing that very
22:05thing it's the sort of thing our little kids would be doing as drawing with crayons good
22:09well done and anything further nothing more than that or more interesting all right all
22:18right so susie what have you got for us today um i was going to continue uh chatting about money
22:24um because as i said it's entered our language in so many uh different quite obvious ways and
22:29we're talking about slang terms for money yesterday but they're actually um quite a number of words
22:33where money is present in a hidden fashion as well um if you take the word era that was the
22:39plural
22:39originally for a latin term which meant a counter used in calculation just as calculus was in fact
22:45a small pebble used in sand for addition and subtraction a long time ago a bogus comes from
22:52a late 18th century uh term for a machine that made counterfeit money and corollary it comes from
22:59the latin corollarium which was money paid for a garland or a chaplet to be worn and it was um
23:04used or paid for by romans who used to wear these garlands at festivals and weddings and so would pay
23:11a corollary brilliant brilliant can you help me with filthy lucre filthy lucre that comes from the bible
23:22brilliant filthy lucre anyway it's a numbers game robert off you go uh i'll go for one from the top
23:29five five small please thank you robert one from the top five little ones coming up and for this round
23:35the little ones a seven six five two and eight and the large one twenty five and your target four
23:45hundred
23:45four sixty-four four sixty four
24:18So, Robert, 4, 7, 2, not endo. Mark?
24:234, 6, 4, I think.
24:25Right. So, let's hear from Mark.
24:296 minus 5 is 1.
24:31Yep.
24:31Plus 7 is 8.
24:352 times 25 is 50.
24:38It is, indeed.
24:39Add that to the 8.
24:4158.
24:42Multiply by 8, yeah.
24:45Yeah, that way.
24:46It is.
24:47Yeah.
24:47It is right.
24:48Well done.
24:54Well done.
24:55Well done, Mark.
24:56Yes, you got there.
24:57Which means that you've reasserted your leadership.
25:0061 to 49.
25:01And we go into the tea time teaser.
25:04Made fish.
25:06Two words.
25:07And the clue was ravenous, so made lots of fish for tea.
25:26Welcome back, and you'll remember the clue was ravenous, so made lots of fish for tea.
25:32And the answer, famished.
25:36And the answer, famished.
25:37Famished.
25:38Famished.
25:38Now then, Mark.
25:39Leading by 61 to 49.
25:41It's a letters game.
25:43Away you go.
25:44Okay.
25:45A consonant, please, Rachel.
25:46Thank you, Mark.
25:47P.
25:48And a vowel.
25:50E.
25:52Another one.
25:52O.
25:54A consonant.
25:57R.
25:58Another consonant.
26:00W.
26:01A vowel.
26:03E.
26:05Another vowel.
26:07U.
26:08A consonant.
26:11T.
26:12And another consonant, please.
26:15And lastly, N.
26:17Very good.
26:17Here we go.
26:19Here we go.
26:22Here we go.
26:23Here we go.
26:27Here we go.
26:32Here we go.
26:49Mark.
26:50A six.
26:51A six.
26:52And Robert.
26:53Yep, six as well.
26:54And six is, what's yours, Mark?
26:56Pewter.
26:57Pewter.
26:58A poutre.
26:59Poutre?
27:00Yeah.
27:01A poutre is a pigeon that can inflate its crop at the sort of neck thing down here.
27:06A strange thing.
27:07Yep.
27:08And do you have anything else for us?
27:11No, we had pewter as well.
27:13Pewter.
27:13Yes, one more six.
27:14It's a lovely metal.
27:15I love pewter, actually.
27:16Old pewter is fabulous.
27:18Expensive these days.
27:19Yeah.
27:20So, where does that take us?
27:21Robert, off you go.
27:24It's a letters game.
27:25Vowel, please.
27:26Thank you, Robert.
27:28A.
27:29Coincident.
27:31R.
27:34Coincident.
27:36P.
27:37Vowel.
27:39I.
27:40Coincident.
27:43Q.
27:46Coincident.
27:48T.
27:49Vowel.
27:52O.
27:56Vowel.
27:58Another A.
28:00Coincident.
28:02And a final N.
28:04Really good?
28:36so Robert and I'll try our seven a seven mark they're just six a six so what would your six
28:43be mark a kintar kintar Robert a portain portain portain don't think we'll find portain pertain
28:54you would I don't think we'll find portain not there I'm afraid what did you say kintar
29:01how are you spelling that q-i-n-t-a-r yeah kintar's great and it's a monastery unit of
29:06Albania equal
29:07to one hundredth of a lek yeah a few of those would be very handy at the moment 73 mark
29:14you're
29:14establishing yourself in your rightful place Robert 55 but you can still pull this off and mark it's a
29:22letters game off you go I had constant please Rachel thank you mark s and another t a vowel
29:31e and another i a consonant f and another l a vowel a and another o and a final consonant
29:53please
29:53and a final h really good
29:59so
30:09so
30:10so
30:10so
30:27mark just five five and robert eight eight well i like the sound of this mark a flash flash all
30:39right and i'm concentrating now of it off you go therefore it's fantastic words very well done
30:45brilliant well done well done rob that's excellent delivered with a flourish what does it mean susie
30:56well to foliate is to decorate with leaves or leaf like motifs it has the same root as folio for
31:02example okay so exfoliate is to strip the leaves away yes as we remember from vietnam and
31:09agent orange terrible insult to the world that was well done so mark 73 robert you've clambered up
31:17to 63 well done and it's your numbers game i'll go for two from the top and four small please
31:22two from
31:23the top big decision with ten points in it i know we will see if it was the right one
31:27thank you so four
31:28small for this round are six one two and four and the two large ones 50 and 75 and the
31:38target
31:38four hundred and ninety five four nine five
31:44so
31:54so
31:54so
31:54so
31:54so
31:54so
32:12Robert.
32:13495.
32:14495.
32:16495.
32:17496.
32:18Right, Robert, this is looking powerful.
32:2375 times 6 is 450.
32:26Yep.
32:26Add 50.
32:27500.
32:28Take away the 4 and the 1.
32:29Well done, good decision with the 2 large.
32:32Brilliant.
32:36Well done, Robert, what did I tell you?
32:38So, level pegging, 73 all, and guess what?
32:42It's down to the conundrum, yeah?
32:44So, fingers on buzzers, please, and let's reveal today's countdown conundrum.
32:53Wow.
32:53Wow.
32:53Wow.
33:21Yes, Robert.
33:22Probably wrong.
33:23Percival.
33:25I'm going to start the clock again because that was not right.
33:29We're drawn.
33:31You know what happens now?
33:32Another one goes down.
33:33Sudden death.
33:34We're going to do it all over again.
33:36But let's see what it actually was that you failed to spot.
33:41Fireplace.
33:42There we go.
33:43Fireplace.
33:44Grown from the audience, which clearly indicates that they didn't know either.
33:47So, what we're going to do now is do it all over again.
33:51This is what we call countdown torture.
33:54So, fingers on buzzers, please, and let's see what the second conundrum is.
34:08Yes, Mark?
34:09Befitting.
34:11Befitting.
34:11Let's have a little look here.
34:22Well done.
34:23Your reign continues.
34:25You live to fight another day.
34:27Well done indeed.
34:28And bad luck to Robert.
34:30You put up a good old fight there.
34:31Hmm?
34:32Yeah.
34:32You did well.
34:33You had him on the ropes.
34:34I will.
34:35But you don't go back to Motherwell empty-handed.
34:37You take your goodie bag, pack for the goodies.
34:39And thank you so much, Susie.
34:41See you again tomorrow.
34:42Yeah, thank you.
34:42Michael, let's talk about the West Indies triumph when we see you tomorrow.
34:46And Rachel, I've put in an instruction to home to get my tractors serviced and polished,
34:52because I'm bringing a photograph to show you, so that you can send that to Jamie, and
34:57between you, you can make the right decision.
34:59So, on the day, I was planning on wearing high heels.
35:01I don't know, have you had much practice climbing into the tractor in high heels?
35:05I can quite honestly answer that by saying no.
35:09Okay.
35:09We're going to have to test that out.
35:11But I'll try it for you, and I'll report back.
35:13Brilliant.
35:14Okay?
35:14So, cheerio for the Countdown Studio.
35:17See you tomorrow.
35:29The families who just can't stop.
35:3215 kids and counting.
35:33There must be a register every single morning, 9 o'clock tonight, Channel 4.
35:37Well, next up, question is, did you catch the cat?