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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio on Valentine's Day.
00:36So it's hearts and roses and love-shaped chocolates and all the rest of it.
00:41Unless, of course, you've forgotten.
00:43But never mind. Don't fret.
00:45It's always possible to scribble out some brilliant little love message for your loved one.
00:54You know, he or she actually won't, you know, they won't swallow it, but never mind.
00:58But wouldn't it be the ultimate thing if somebody actually wrote a song about you?
01:04And that actually happened to the wonderful, the beautiful Patty Boyd, way back, a photographer.
01:09And George Harrison, the Beatles, wrote for her the most beautiful song, Something.
01:15And then, of course, Eric Clapton went on to pen.
01:18Two beautiful songs, Layla and Wonderful Tonight About Her.
01:22So three great songs, how flattered she must have been.
01:25Now, what about you, Rachel?
01:26Any songs that would tug your heartstrings on today's wonderful Valentine's Day?
01:32Oh, I guess the modern equivalent.
01:33So maybe anything by Michael Bublé or Ed Sheeran.
01:37Thinking Out Loud.
01:38All right.
01:38Yeah, it was played over and over last year.
01:40I didn't get bored of it.
01:41Lovely love song.
01:42All right.
01:43Now, who have we got?
01:44Ashwin Abinashi's back after a great win yesterday.
01:47Beat Willie Brazil from Dublin.
01:49Well done.
01:50How are you feeling?
01:52Still nervous.
01:53You told me earlier you've been up most of the day.
01:56I have.
01:58Practicing.
01:58So I hope you haven't worn yourself out there, Ashwin.
02:01You're joined by Wesley Jardine, a freelance sales representative from Darlington,
02:06a man with a lifelong passion for heraldry.
02:09And your brother Jamie pitched up here some time ago, sat in that chair.
02:14And how did he do?
02:15Yeah, two years ago.
02:16He won a teapot, which was his ambition to do.
02:20Yeah, quite right.
02:20And he's been pressed for me to go on ever since.
02:22Well, here you are.
02:23Good luck to you.
02:24Good luck to you, Wesley.
02:25And good luck to Ashwin.
02:27Big round of applause.
02:33And over in the corner, Susie, as ever, and for the first time on Countdown,
02:37and over 40 million records sold.
02:39He had the biggest selling single back in 187.
02:43Last year, his album, 50, shot to number one.
02:46That's tremendous stuff.
02:47We're never going to give you up.
02:49It's Rick Astley.
02:50We're so pleased to have you here.
02:52I'm so glad to be here.
02:57So pleased to have you here.
02:59Tremendous.
03:00We can hear a lot of great stories from you a little bit later on.
03:03Looking forward to it.
03:04But now, Ashwin, let's have a letterscape, shall we?
03:06Sure.
03:07Hi, Rachel.
03:08Hi, Ashwin.
03:08Can I have a consonant, please?
03:10Start today with N.
03:12And another one?
03:14D.
03:15And another one?
03:18F.
03:19And another one?
03:21S.
03:22A vowel?
03:24A.
03:25And another?
03:27E.
03:28And a consonant?
03:30Y.
03:31And a vowel?
03:33I.
03:34And final vowel, please.
03:36And a final?
03:37U.
03:39Here's the countdown clock.
03:40E.
03:42E.
03:42E.
03:44E.
03:45E.
03:47E.
03:49E.
04:09Er, Schwinn, I have a six.
04:13A six, Wesley.
04:14I have a 16.
04:16Er, Schwinn.
04:17Unsaid.
04:17And unsafe.
04:20And unsafe.
04:21There we go.
04:23What about the corner?
04:24Rick?
04:25Susie?
04:26Um, should we go with that one?
04:27Yeah.
04:27Yeah, uh, infused.
04:30Infused.
04:30Mmm.
04:31All right.
04:32Anything else?
04:33Er, there's snafude.
04:35Oh, yeah.
04:35A situation is snafude.
04:37It's been thrown into chaos.
04:39Acronym for situation normal or fouled up or something similar.
04:43Yeah.
04:43Which is an Americanism, I think.
04:45Military.
04:45I've never heard of that once we were on second.
04:46I like it, though.
04:48Snafude.
04:48All right.
04:49It happens all the time here.
04:51Six apiece.
04:52And it's Wesley's Letters game.
04:54Wesley.
04:54Hi, Rachel.
04:55Hi, Wesley.
04:55Can I have a consonant, please?
04:57Start with T.
04:58And another.
05:00S.
05:01And a vowel.
05:03A.
05:04And another.
05:06E.
05:07And a consonant.
05:09D.
05:10And another.
05:12H.
05:13And a vowel.
05:17I.
05:18I.
05:19And a consonant.
05:21R.
05:24And another consonant, please.
05:26And lastly, N.
05:28Stand by.
05:28I'll see you in the next two, man.
05:29Thanks a lot.
05:43I'll see you in the next two.
05:44Bye.
05:45Bye.
05:45Bye.
05:48Bye.
05:59Wesley.
06:00Eight.
06:02Yes, Ashwin.
06:03Eight.
06:04Wesley.
06:06Strained.
06:07Strained and?
06:08Strained.
06:08You're both strained.
06:10Join the clan.
06:15Anybody else strained?
06:17We were.
06:18We were.
06:19But there is a nine there, which we just got to at the last minute, which is tarnished.
06:24Tarnished.
06:25Tarnished.
06:25Well done.
06:30Well done.
06:30Well done, you two.
06:3114 apiece, and we move to the numbers, the zone of numbers.
06:36Ashwin.
06:37Just have one large and five small, please, Rachel.
06:39Thank you, Ashwin.
06:39One from the top row.
06:40Five Littlands coming up, and the first numbers game of the day is two.
06:45Ten.
06:46Another ten.
06:47Nine, one, and the large one, 100.
06:50And your target, 449.
06:53Four four nine.
07:26Ashwin.
07:274-5-4 but not written down.
07:29Right. Wesley?
07:314-4-9.
07:32Good man. Let's go.
07:35100 over 2.
07:3650.
07:37Times 9.
07:384-150.
07:39And take them on.
07:40Perfect. Well done. 4-4-9.
07:42Well done. Well done.
07:46Ten point breakaways.
07:4924 to 14.
07:50We turn to our first tea time teaser, which is Hot Candle.
07:54And the clue.
07:55It's not something you've seen daily, but when you have seen it, you might have seen daily.
08:01It's not something you've seen daily, but when you have seen it, you might have seen daily.
08:24Welcome back. I left you with the clue.
08:25It's not something you've seen daily, but when you have seen it, you might have seen daily.
08:31Tongue twister there.
08:33For decathlon.
08:35Decathlon.
08:36There we go.
08:3814 plays 24.
08:39Ashwin.
08:40This is a strange place to find yourself.
08:42Let's have a letters game from Wesley, shall we?
08:47Hi.
08:48Consonant, please.
08:49Thank you, Wesley.
08:50G.
08:51And another.
08:51D.
08:54D.
08:54And a vowel.
08:55O.
08:57And another.
08:58I.
08:59And a consonant.
09:01Q.
09:05And another.
09:06N.
09:08And a vowel.
09:11U.
09:13And a consonant.
09:16S.
09:21And lastly, a consonant, please.
09:23And lastly, D.
09:25And here's the countdown clock.
09:58Yes, Wesley.
10:00S7.
10:01And Ashwin?
10:02Dodgy six.
10:03Your six?
10:04Bingoes.
10:06Wesley?
10:07Dowsing.
10:08Dowsing.
10:09Very good.
10:10Yeah, not bad.
10:12Not bad at all.
10:14Yeah.
10:14And Rick and Susie?
10:16Rick?
10:17Well, dowsing we had, but I like the next one.
10:20I think you should say that.
10:22Sodding.
10:23I beg your pardon?
10:24Sodding is there.
10:26Used as an adjective of contempt, but it also comes from the verb to sod, to cover with pieces of
10:31turf.
10:31So you can use it in an innocent way as well.
10:33A lot of people would say turfing.
10:35Yes.
10:36No, I'd definitely say sodding, I think.
10:39When you've got the opportunity, why not?
10:41All right.
10:41All right.
10:42So 31 playing 14, Wesley on 31, and it's Ashwin's letters game.
10:47Can I have a vowel, please, Rachel?
10:48Thank you, Ashwin.
10:49E.
10:50And a consonant?
10:52T.
10:53And another?
10:55P.
10:56And another?
10:58N.
10:58And a vowel?
11:00O.
11:01And another one?
11:03A.
11:04Consonant?
11:06V.
11:07And another one?
11:09L.
11:10And a final consonant, please.
11:13And a final G.
11:16Countdown.
11:16All right.
11:24I caninal the ground.
11:38It's not that far.
11:38So I can't do it.
11:38You know, I canlui an貴,
11:46Ashwin I'll stick with the safe six six Wesley I go for seven thank you Ashwin
11:53planets and voltage very good excellent seven yep very very good so terrific
12:02start there 38 to Ashwin's 14 my word and in the corner now Rick and Susie yeah
12:09that one's interesting this will probably be new to you but not to our very
12:13regular countdown views tangelo is a fruit it's a cross between a grapefruit
12:19and a tangerine great one of the great countdown words I've never had one to
12:24this day no no I've never tested we'll get some in later on to change 38 page 14 as
12:31I say now it's numbers for you Wesley out of the bottom row please Rachel six
12:35little ones thank you Wesley and for this round the small ones are seven ten five
12:43eight another ten and two and the target to reach nine hundred and thirty eight
12:50nine three eight
12:54so
13:22Wesley
13:23Wesley nine forty two away Ashwin nine forty but not very well written down
13:29let's hear from Ashwin then shall we um ten by ten is a hundred ten by ten yep one
13:37hundred seven add two is nine yep times them together for nine hundred nine hundred
13:43and eight times five for forty and you haven't used any of those yet for two away well done
13:48well done and Wesley completely different eight times ten is eighty eight times ten eighty seven
13:56times two is fourteen yeah add them together ninety four and multiply by the remaining ten yep nine hundred and
14:03forty two away
14:04well done two away but Rachel can you take us to nine three eight um leave it with me
14:11certainly will certainly will I'll come back to you because now with the score standing 45 to 21
14:17we turn to Rick and Rick in the 80s between your debut single and the fifth single release you pretty
14:23much outsold everybody in the world in last year up comes Rick Astley with his uh album 50 which shot
14:31straight to number one yeah it did yeah yeah we had an amazing time to be honest it was pretty
14:35incredible
14:36I wasn't really expecting that um I'd made the record really um for myself and a few fans on the
14:42internet and
14:43just to mark my 50th birthday which was coming up and uh yeah we had a great time with it
14:47amazing yeah
14:47brilliant but you must have found yourself in some interesting situations over those years
14:51I did yeah I mean um one of the kind of craziest things back in the early days was that
14:56I was a massive fan of
14:57the smiths um and um I was at top of the pops and somebody said uh Morrissey is is in
15:04the dressing room
15:04down the way from you and he wants to have his photographs taken with you and I'm thinking
15:07out of all the people in the world who I would have possibly imagined would have said that Morrissey
15:11would have not been it yeah and um I thought well I'm going I'm definitely going so I went to
15:17his room
15:17and um we had a photograph and we chatted for a minute and I kind of I kind of forgot
15:21about it I just
15:22thought it was one of those moments you know and then about 25 years later somebody emailed me something I
15:26was a
15:27away somewhere I think in Asia doing gigs and somebody um emailed me this thing of a of a single
15:32cover and he'd actually used that photograph um for a single of a reissue of a song of his and
15:39uh I was
15:40just kind of like this is just really freaky it's the weirdest thing because as a kid I idolized the
15:44smiths yeah yeah um so to have that photograph anyway was amazing but then to see it actually go public
15:48as
15:49well was pretty freaky yeah so it's amazing yeah but um no I've had a really good 10 years to
15:54be honest
15:54it's been pretty amazing and obviously with this new album it's nice to sing some new songs as well
15:58but I love singing the old ones you know it brings back memories for me like I say
16:01fantastic yeah
16:09lovely now Rachel's been busy what have you produced for us 938 I found the answer if you say 10
16:16plus 5 is 15 times the other 10 is 150 8 times 2 is 16 take that away for 134
16:25and times it by 7
16:27well done well done well done now then Ashwin time to step on the gas here it's a letters game
16:41for you
16:41have a consonant please Rachel thank you Ashwin S and another one R and another M and another P a
16:54vowel
16:55you and another E and another I consonant K and a final vowel please and a final A
17:09stand by
17:42Ashwin?
17:43A seven.
17:43A seven.
17:45Wesley?
17:46A risky seven not written down.
17:48Mm-hmm.
17:49Let's hear from you.
17:50Parkies.
17:51Parkies.
17:52Ashwin?
17:53Umpires.
17:54Umpires.
17:56Parkies, I think, works, doesn't it?
17:57It certainly does.
17:58We were just talking about this and having a giggle.
18:01But, yeah, in the dictionary, parkkeepers are parkies.
18:03And the us?
18:04Exactly those two.
18:06Is that it?
18:06Yes.
18:06All right.
18:07All right.
18:0752 plays 28.
18:09Wesley, letters game.
18:10Consulate, please.
18:11Thank you, Wesley.
18:12R.
18:14And another.
18:16D.
18:17And a vowel.
18:19U.
18:20And another.
18:21O.
18:23And a consonant.
18:25S.
18:26And another.
18:28P.
18:30And a vowel.
18:32E.
18:35Consonant.
18:36Consonant.
18:37L.
18:39I'll finish with a consonant, please.
18:41And finish with M.
18:44Stand by.
18:45I'll see you next week.
18:45Bye.
18:46Bye.
18:57Bye.
18:57Bye.
19:02Bye.
19:05Bye.
19:11Bye.
19:13Bye.
19:16Wesley?
19:17I'll stick with an eight.
19:19Yes, Ashwin.
19:20I'm going to risk an eight.
19:22Well done.
19:22All right, brave boys.
19:24Wesley?
19:25Smolder.
19:25And I was going to say molders.
19:29OK.
19:30Molders, yeah.
19:32Both absolutely fine.
19:34Yes, molder we know about.
19:36Molders to slowly decay or disintegrate.
19:39There is a verb, so...
19:40Moldering away.
19:42Moldering away.
19:47And what about the corner?
19:49We had smolder, didn't we?
19:50We had smolder for eight.
19:52And there's polders for seven, which you'll find in the Netherlands,
19:56particularly pieces of low-lying land reclaimed from the sea or a river
19:59and protected by dikes.
20:01Mm-hm.
20:0360 plays 36.
20:04And it's numbers for Ashwin.
20:06Good luck, Ashwin.
20:08I'll go four large and two small again, please.
20:10Let, Rachel.
20:10We've just had six little now, the other end of the hard ones.
20:14Two little, which are one and two.
20:17This could be very hard.
20:18And the four big ones, 25, 50, 75, 100.
20:23And the target, 546.
20:25Five, four, six.
20:26One, two, three.
20:30Two, three.
20:57Ashwin, £5.50.
21:00£5.50. Wesley?
21:02£5.45.
21:05One away. Let's try.
21:06I've just realised I've made a mistake.
21:09Bad luck. This is Ashwin's opportunity. Ashwin?
21:12I did. 100 plus 75 is 175.
21:16175.
21:172 plus 1 is 3.
21:18Yep.
21:19I times them together to make 525.
21:21Indeed.
21:22And I added on the 25.
21:24550. Yep, four away.
21:27There we are, four away.
21:28Not a million miles, but far enough.
21:31Rachel, help us out.
21:32Yeah, I found one way.
21:33If you say 75 times 2 is 150,
21:38minus 1 for 149,
21:41and then 100 divided by 25 is 4.
21:45Times them together for 596
21:47and then take away the 50.
21:49Well done.
21:52Well done.
21:54Well done.
21:55So, the score's standing, 60 to 43.
21:57Ashwin on 43,
21:58we turn to our second tea time teaser,
22:00which is Rotten Pig.
22:03And the clue, Harry's not doing anything really significant.
22:06Harry's not doing anything really significant.
22:27Welcome back.
22:28After the clue, Harry's not doing anything really significant,
22:32and the answer to that is,
22:33he's just pottering.
22:36Pottering.
22:37Well done.
22:3760 plays 43,
22:39and it's Wesley's letters game.
22:41Wesley.
22:42Start with a consonant, please.
22:43Thank you, Wesley.
22:45T.
22:45And another.
22:47N.
22:49And a vowel.
22:50I.
22:52And another.
22:54U.
22:55A consonant.
22:57V.
22:59And another.
23:01T.
23:03A vowel.
23:05E.
23:08A consonant.
23:10W.
23:15Finish off with a vowel, please.
23:16And finish with A.
23:19Countdown.
23:20A vowel.
23:21A vowel.
23:28A vowel.
23:30A vowel.
23:35A vowel.
23:36A vowel.
23:37A vowel.
23:37A vowel.
23:50Yes, Wesley.
23:52A six.
23:53A six.
23:54Ashwin.
23:55Dodgy six.
23:56Thank you, Wesley.
23:58Auntie.
23:59Auntie.
24:00Yeah.
24:01Ashwin.
24:02Unwave.
24:04Unwave.
24:07No, not there.
24:08We can talk about something being unwavering, but not unwave, I'm afraid, Ashwin.
24:12Sorry.
24:12Bad luck.
24:13Bad luck.
24:14What have we got?
24:15Rick, Susie?
24:16Um, native, I think, was the best one, wasn't it?
24:19That was our best for six.
24:20It's tough, wasn't it?
24:21Yes, it was a difficult one.
24:2266 to 43.
24:24And now, Ashwin, it's your letters game.
24:26Could I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
24:27Thank you, Ashwin.
24:28R.
24:30And a vowel.
24:31O.
24:32And a consonant.
24:35T.
24:36And a consonant.
24:38S.
24:39And a consonant.
24:42C.
24:43And a vowel.
24:45I.
24:46And a vowel.
24:48E.
24:49And a consonant.
24:51L.
24:52And a final consonant, please.
24:55And a final R.
24:57And the clock starts now.
25:30Ashwin.
25:30Eight not written down.
25:32Risky eight not written down.
25:33All right.
25:34How about Wesley?
25:35Eight written down.
25:37Ashwin.
25:38I'm sorry.
25:38I've used the C twice.
25:39I was going to say so close.
25:40Oh.
25:41Oh, yeah.
25:42Bad luck.
25:42Wesley.
25:43Cloister.
25:44Very good.
25:46Yes.
25:46Yeah.
25:47Wesley's a crisp player, isn't he?
25:49My word.
25:50Now, Rick and Susie.
25:52We had Cloister, didn't we?
25:54We did.
25:55Which I just like the sound of.
25:56Yeah.
25:57And then we had Costlier.
25:59Costlier.
25:59Costlier.
26:00Yeah, for another eight.
26:00All right.
26:01Very good.
26:0174 to 43.
26:04And we go to Susie now.
26:05Rick, you like this?
26:06Because it's Susie's Origins of Words.
26:08Perfectly formed essay.
26:10And what have you got for us today?
26:12Well, we're going to look back to the era of British rule in India.
26:17And numerous words of Indian origin crept into the English language at exactly that time.
26:23Blighty actually goes back to the Hindi word, actually an Urdu word, bilhyati, which simply meant foreign.
26:29And the troops picked that up because Britain seemed so far from home.
26:33And bilhyati became blighty.
26:35But we're going to talk about one more of those borrowings today.
26:38And that's the word dulali.
26:41One of the loveliest stories, really, of the English language, although that had a slightly sad beginning.
26:46In 1861, the British Army established a military base at a place called Dio Lali, which was about 100 miles
26:54north of Mumbai.
26:55And it was here that soldiers went as a transit camp, really, where they waited for their boat home.
27:01And often they were stuck there for months and months on end.
27:04They'd obviously just had absolutely nothing to do.
27:07They went stir crazy, had a little bit of cabin fever.
27:10And they were just joking amongst themselves, really, that they got a touch of the dulali tap.
27:16And tap was an Urdu word for fever.
27:18So in other words, they had the Dio Lali fever.
27:20Dio Lali, again, as it rolled around the tongue, became dulali.
27:24And today, we use it to describe somebody who behaves rather strangely.
27:28Fantastic.
27:29Brilliant.
27:35Definitely forward to 43.
27:37Wesley in the lead, and it's Wesley's letters game.
27:41Start with a consonant again, please, Rachel.
27:43Thank you, Wesley.
27:43F.
27:44And another.
27:46M.
27:48And a vowel.
27:49I.
27:50And another.
27:52O.
27:52And a consonant.
27:55T.
27:56And another.
27:58L.
28:00A vowel.
28:02A.
28:05Consonant.
28:06Z.
28:07Cheers.
28:10I'll finish with a consonant, please.
28:12And the last one.
28:13R.
28:15Countdown.
28:30I'll see you next time.
28:30I'll see you next time.
28:30I'll see you next time.
28:30I'll see you next time.
28:30I'll see you next time.
28:31I'll see you next time.
28:31I'll see you next time.
28:32I'll see you next time.
28:33I'll see you next time.
28:33I'll see you next time.
28:34I'll see you next time.
28:34I'll see you next time.
28:35I'll see you next time.
28:35I'll see you next time.
28:35I'll see you next time.
28:35I'll see you next time.
28:36I'll see you next time.
28:37I'll see you next time.
28:37I'll see you next time.
28:40I'll see you next time.
28:44I'll see you next time.
28:46Wesley?
28:47Six.
28:49Yes, Ashwin?
28:50I'll stick with a five.
28:52And that five?
28:52Float.
28:53Float.
28:54And Wesley Jardine?
28:55Mortal.
28:56Mortal.
28:58Yes.
28:59Happy?
29:00Good to get a six out of this one, actually.
29:01So, yes, happy with that.
29:02Can you match it?
29:04Just, yes.
29:05Well, we've had mortal, didn't we?
29:06Which I think is a great word as well, but formal.
29:09Formal.
29:10All right.
29:11That's it?
29:11That's it.
29:13Six is rule.
29:13A.T. plays 43.
29:16Ashwin, final letters game of the day.
29:18Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
29:20Thank you, Ashwin.
29:22S.
29:23And a vowel.
29:25O.
29:26A consonant.
29:28R.
29:28A vowel.
29:30I.
29:31A consonant.
29:32P.
29:33A vowel.
29:35E.
29:36A consonant.
29:38T.
29:39A vowel.
29:41A.
29:41And a final vowel, please.
29:45And a final U.
29:48Stand by.
29:49A vowel.
30:02A vowel.
30:03A vowel.
30:04A vowel.
30:05A vowel.
30:05A vowel.
30:05A vowel.
30:05A vowel.
30:17A vowel.
30:20Ashwin?
30:20I've got nothing to lose, so I'm going to go for a dodgy nine.
30:24Well done. Wesley?
30:25I'll just stick with my seven, because I've got everything to lose.
30:30Now then, your seven.
30:32Parties.
30:33Now, Ashwin, how dodgy is this?
30:36Aptirious.
30:38Aptirious.
30:39Oh, Aptirious, but not Aptirious.
30:41I'm so sorry, Ashwin.
30:43Bad luck.
30:43Wingless is Aptirious, but yes, no I.
30:46Worth a shot.
30:47Bad luck.
30:47Worth a shot.
30:49What can we have, I wonder?
30:50Rick and Susie?
30:53Pastory?
30:53Yes, Pastory would give you an A, P-A-S-T-O-R-I-E.
30:57In South Africa, it's the residence of a minister of one of the Dutch Reformed churches.
31:01Oh, yeah, Pastor, yeah.
31:04Well done.
31:07All right.
31:08So we lurch into the final numbers game.
31:10It's for Wesley, with the score standing 87 to Ashwin's 43.
31:15So, Wesley?
31:16Yes, I'll keep you on your tails and have six more ones again, please.
31:20Wesley, seeing as it's Valentine's Day, something lovely like six little ones.
31:24Right, they are three, four.
31:26Everyone agrees in the audience.
31:28One.
31:29Another four.
31:30Six.
31:31And ten.
31:33Five.
31:33And the target?
31:34Five hundred and thirty-nine.
31:35Five three nine.
31:36Five.
31:38Four.
31:39Five.
31:57And the other.
31:59Five.
31:59Five.
31:59Five.
32:01Five.
32:07Wesley?
32:095, 4, 0.
32:11One away.
32:13Ashwin?
32:14I was halfway there, 2, 4, 9.
32:17Can we leave it there, then?
32:18Let's go to Wesley.
32:204 plus 4 plus 1 is 9.
32:234 plus 4 plus 1, 9.
32:26Times 6 times 10.
32:28Yep, for one away.
32:31540.
32:31Very good.
32:33Can you find the missing one?
32:34Lots of ways for one away, so leave it with me.
32:37Shall do.
32:38All right, so Wesley, 94.
32:39Look at this, nudging 100.
32:41First time out.
32:42Ashwin's 43.
32:43I think, Ashwin, you practised too hard this morning, maybe.
32:48It's the final round.
32:49Fingers on buzzers.
32:50We're revealing now today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:57Wow, that's fast, Wesley.
32:59Go on.
32:59Adjourned.
33:01Let's have a look and see whether you're right.
33:05Fantastic.
33:08Fantastic.
33:11I would say that's within the second.
33:13That's brilliant.
33:15104.
33:16Fantastic.
33:17So you've got a teapot too, then?
33:19You can go and, you know...
33:21Clunk it with the brother.
33:22Look at your brother in the eye, can't you?
33:24Ashwin, bad luck.
33:25You had such a good time last time out.
33:28But, you know, this happens, really.
33:30And you came up against Wesley Jardin, who looks like a cracking player.
33:35So thanks for coming.
33:36Take your goodie bag and your teapot back to Amersham with our very best wishes.
33:42Brilliant stuff.
33:44Tremendous stuff, Wesley.
33:45See you tomorrow.
33:46All right.
33:47We'll see you tomorrow, Susie.
33:48And, Rick, what a pleasure it's been.
33:50I've really enjoyed myself.
33:52It's been an education.
33:53I've loved it.
33:54Excellent.
33:55We'll talk to you tomorrow about your tour, your UK tour.
33:57All right.
33:58We'll see you both tomorrow.
34:00See you both tomorrow.
34:01Now, Rachel, have you cracked it?
34:03Finally.
34:04You're a wonder.
34:04If you say four times four is 16, times three is 48, add the six for the 54, and then
34:13you
34:13can times it by ten, and you've got one left over.
34:16Fantastic.
34:18Well done.
34:18Well done.
34:24Well done, Rachel.
34:25See you tomorrow.
34:26See you tomorrow.
34:26Join us then.
34:27Rick Astley will be here.
34:28Same time, same place.
34:30You be sure of it.
34:30A very good afternoon to you all.
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