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00:31Well, good afternoon. Welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:33We do, from time to time, dream about getting a dream job.
00:38Well, how about this one, then?
00:40It doesn't involve any exotic locations.
00:43No, in fact, all it requires you to do is to sit at home for a year
00:49and watch telly all the time, all the time.
00:52And somebody called Mary Birkinshaw got this job.
00:56She won it, in a sense.
00:57She had to present.
00:58She had to bid for it.
01:00And she won it.
01:01And it's called a box set sabbatical.
01:03And she gets 35 grand a year for sitting at home, watching telly non-stop.
01:07It's sort of a promotional item for a television company.
01:10I don't know.
01:12In her entry video, apparently, she sort of had to present herself on a, you know,
01:17a little video clip.
01:19So she dressed up as some character and got it.
01:2135 grand to sit at home and watch television box sets.
01:24Oh, dear.
01:54Could you do it?
01:55Who had done so well?
01:56But anyway, you're here.
01:57Well done.
01:58How are you feeling?
01:59Comfortable?
02:00A bit better than yesterday.
02:01Yeah, well, you've got your teapot.
02:03And all being well, as it were, you're off to Switzerland at the weekend to compete in the Everest?
02:10No, it's a stair race up.
02:13It's a Nessun Loof stair race.
02:16How many steps is that, can you remember?
02:17Just under 12,000.
02:19Good heavens.
02:20Relax, because you're going to be, you know, exhausted over the weekend.
02:23You're joined by Stephen Troop, a customer insight analyst from Burry.
02:28Now, just give us a sort of snapshot of what that involves.
02:32So my particular role involves investigating what people are doing on the website of our company.
02:37Okay.
02:37Making sure that the layout and the way people get around the site is as efficient as possible.
02:42So it's making websites as efficient as possible.
02:45Yeah, using data and statistics.
02:47Well, that's sort of interesting.
02:48But what's much more interesting is that you're a cracking pool player.
02:52You play for several local pool teams, but you play for the county, and you represented England.
02:57That's amazing.
02:58Yes, it was a very good experience at the time, a few years ago.
03:01And it's a very competitive time.
03:03Fantastic.
03:04It's in the family, you were saying?
03:05Yes, my mum and my dad more so now plays a lot of pool.
03:09My brother also does, so, yeah, you kind of have to be good at pool growing up.
03:13Playing for England's not bad.
03:14Yes, very good experience.
03:16Excellent.
03:16Well, well done.
03:17Congratulations on that.
03:19Big round of applause to Ian and Stephen.
03:22Good luck to you both.
03:28And over the corner, Susie, of course, joined once again by that wonderful Adrian Charles,
03:33radio and TV presenter.
03:34Welcome back, Adrian.
03:35Thank you very much.
03:40Now, Ian, Ian, we've got a letters game for you.
03:43Off we go.
03:44Afternoon, Rachel.
03:45Can I have a consonant, please?
03:47Thank you, Ian.
03:47You can start with T.
03:49And a second one.
03:51S.
03:52And a third one.
03:55T.
03:56And a fourth one, please.
03:58R.
03:59Can I have a vowel?
04:02E.
04:03Vowel.
04:03I.
04:06Another vowel.
04:08A.
04:09Consonant.
04:11P.
04:12And another vowel, please.
04:14And lastly, E.
04:17And here's the countdown clock.
04:19The first one.
04:21The first one.
04:25And this one.
04:40And that's why we're going to have a vowel group.
04:41And a second one.
04:42And this one.
04:44And that's why we're going to have a vowel group.
04:50Yes, Ian?
04:51Eight.
04:52And eight, Stephen?
04:53Also eight, but not written down.
04:55And Stephen?
04:57Iterate.
04:59Ian?
04:59Peatest.
05:02Iterate is absolutely brilliant,
05:03and peatest is also in the dictionary.
05:06Very, very good.
05:07Yeah, excellent.
05:08Very good.
05:11We might talk about the peatest single malt, I suppose.
05:14Is that how it works?
05:15Yeah.
05:16We've got pastier patters and tripes.
05:20Yeah.
05:21Me a seven.
05:22There is one more eight.
05:23Is that what's that?
05:23We can add it.
05:24Last minute.
05:25Pretties, as in hello my pretties,
05:28ought to make pretty or attractive.
05:29She pretties herself up or he pretties himself up.
05:32Indeed.
05:33Eight apiece now.
05:34Stephen, off we go.
05:35Letters go.
05:36Hi, Rachel.
05:36Hi, Stephen.
05:37Start with a consonant, please.
05:39Start with C.
05:40And another.
05:43F.
05:44And a vowel.
05:45I.
05:46And another vowel.
05:48E.
05:50A consonant.
05:51M.
05:53Consonant.
05:54R.
05:56Vowel.
05:58O.
06:00Consonant.
06:01J.
06:03Another consonant, please.
06:04And the last one, S.
06:07Stand by.
06:08J.
06:09T
06:11Cайн.
06:12A consonant.
06:12A consonant.
06:24A consonant.
06:26A consonant.
06:26A Mongoose.
06:39Stephen?
06:40Seven.
06:41Ian?
06:42Only a six.
06:43And you're a six?
06:44Forces.
06:45No.
06:46Stephen?
06:46Comfier.
06:48Yes, comfier.
06:49Comfier.
06:50Yeah.
06:50Excellent.
06:51Can't do any better than that.
06:52Emojis is another one.
06:54The difference between an emoji and an emoticon, somebody asked me that the other day.
06:59Emoticons tend to be typographical, so you've got semi-colon and a bracket for a smile,
07:04whereas emojis tend to be pictorial.
07:07Yeah.
07:08Fifteen plays eight, and Ian, it's your numbers game.
07:11Can I have two from the top and four from the bottom, please?
07:15Thank you, Ian.
07:15Two from the top for little, and the first numbers of the day are eight, four, two, ten,
07:23one hundred and seventy-five, a lot of evens, and the target, nine hundred and sixty.
07:29Nine six zero.
07:30Nine six zero.
07:41MUSIC
08:01Ian.
08:03960.
08:03Yes.
08:04And Stephen?
08:05Yes.
08:05960.
08:06Take it away, Ian.
08:08100 less 4.
08:10100 plus 4?
08:11No, less 4.
08:12Less 4, sorry.
08:1396 times 10.
08:1496 times 10, 960.
08:17There you go.
08:18And Stephen?
08:18Yes, same way.
08:19All right.
08:22So, 25 plays 18.
08:25Shall we go into our first Tea Time teaser?
08:27Which is minted one.
08:29And the clue, he had lots of money.
08:31It was something he referred to a lot.
08:33He had lots of money.
08:35It was something he referred to a lot.
08:38It was something he referred to a lot.
08:58And the answer to that is that he mentioned it.
09:01Not mentioned.
09:03So 25 to 18.
09:05Stephen in the lead.
09:06Stephen, off we go again.
09:08Consonant, please.
09:09Thank you, Stephen.
09:11N.
09:12And another.
09:13D.
09:15And a vowel.
09:16A.
09:17And another.
09:19E.
09:20And a consonant.
09:21N.
09:22And another.
09:24D.
09:25And another.
09:27L.
09:28And a vowel.
09:31A.
09:32And a final consonant, please.
09:34A final G.
09:36Stand by.
09:37A.
09:38A.
09:38A.
09:52A.
10:08Stephen.
10:09Seven.
10:10Seven.
10:11Ian.
10:11And also seven.
10:14So, Stephen.
10:15Dangled.
10:16Dangled.
10:17Same word as well.
10:18Are you dangling?
10:19Yeah.
10:21Adrian.
10:23Ian, I can please you with Gladden, with seven letters.
10:27Gladden, thank you.
10:28Anything else, Susie?
10:29No, that was our best.
10:30That'll do.
10:3132 to 25.
10:33Ian, let us go.
10:35Can I have a consonant, please?
10:37Thank you, Ian.
10:39S.
10:39And a second.
10:42Q.
10:42And a third.
10:45R.
10:46And can I have a fourth as well, please?
10:49N.
10:50A vowel.
10:51O.
10:52Vowel.
10:53E.
10:54Another vowel.
10:56O.
10:57One more vowel.
10:59A.
11:00And can I have a consonant, please?
11:02And the last one, L.
11:04Stand by.
11:06One of the other, L.
11:08S.
11:08One more than one.
11:34Go to W.
11:35One more.
11:36in seven and seven and seven in seven loners steven aerosol yeah excellent again how do we
11:47do in the corner we've got we got no better than that we got loaners and aerosol thank you all
11:52right 39 to 32 seven points in it steven how are you on the numbers let's try it's your numbers
11:59game uh just one from the top and five small please thank you steven one from the top bro
12:03and let's go with these five little ones and for this round we have 10 9 6 5 3 and
12:13a large one 25
12:14and the target 376 376
12:22so
12:48steven yeah 376 ian 376
12:53as well off we go steven uh so 10 plus 5 15 times by 25 375 and then 6 plus
13:033 is 9
13:04yep uh divided by river 9 to give a 1 and adrian will be pleased you've used all the numbers
13:10well done ian uh likewise same way there we go
13:21nothing in it well seven points in it but uh plenty of time steven on 49 ian 42 as we
13:29swivel around and concentrate on adrian what have you got for us adrian earlier this year the great
13:35fashion designer uh carl lagerfeld died uh now oddly i've got a i've got a story concerning him so
13:44bizarre that i was always telling it in the uh in the aftermath of his death i had to ring
13:50the person
13:50i was with just to check i hadn't dreamt it because it was so surreal but i was making a
13:54documentary
13:55about chanel we used the the head manager about chanel about 15 years ago and i went to paris
14:02to interview him we were shown round by by the all the pr staff and everything around coco chanel's
14:10apartment near the place vandong in paris and he was hours late for this interview and he was about
14:18seven hours late he turned up so i was fed up i don't think he'd ever been interviewed by a
14:22large
14:23brummie type before who knew nothing about fashion but we got on sort of incredibly well it was
14:27incredibly rude about coco chanel so half the pr staff passed out in a dead faint but anyway we had
14:35a
14:35bit of a laugh that was fine finished about six or seven and then i went back i went back
14:40to my hotel
14:41room a tiny little hotel somewhere in north paris before getting the eurostar the following morning
14:47and then i was just getting into bed at 11 o'clock there was a knock on the door and
14:52there was a smart
14:53young man like bellboy type figure with a hundred with a hundred red roses it's a two adrian love car
15:01kiss well i honestly thought well i thought it was one of my bbc colleagues just taking the mickey out
15:09of
15:09me but they would never have they wouldn't care enough to spend it on a hundred red roses so i
15:13knew it
15:13couldn't be them but anyway so i got into bed put them in the room and i woke up at
15:19like four in the
15:20morning just gagging and all the pollen was on the back of my throat so i had to put them
15:24outside the
15:25door and then my producer said she'll never forget me coming down in the morning with a hundred red
15:29roses going i can't take this on the eurostar what do i do so i went across the road there
15:35was a little
15:36patisserie and there was a woman in there and i handed them to her and she goes for what and
15:40i went
15:41she looked so happy and i don't know whether it was the piazza who did it or the great man
15:46himself
15:47but carl and i will always have paris i know that really well you're obviously hit one with the
15:59other my word what a great story lovely 49 plays 42 steven in the lead and it's ian we turn
16:07to yes
16:07can i have a consonant please rachel thank you ian p and a second one m and the third one
16:15please
16:15w a vowel e another vowel a vowel again o consonant t another consonant k and one more vowel please
16:31and the last one a stand by
16:38so
17:07yes ian uh just five
17:09of five steven just five as well
17:12ian
17:14awoke
17:15steven awake
17:16and awake
17:19adrian
17:20uh
17:20we've got the opposite of unkempt
17:22which unfortunately
17:24is two fewer letters than the seven of unkempt
17:26it's just kempt
17:27kempt
17:28it is the opposite of unkempt isn't it
17:29it certainly is yes
17:30neat and clean
17:31he was very kempt
17:32yeah
17:33unlikely isn't it
17:34fifty four to forty seven
17:36steven
17:38your letters came now
17:40consonant please rachel
17:42thank you steven
17:43m
17:43and another
17:46s
17:47and a vowel
17:48e
17:49and another vowel
17:51a
17:53consonant
17:54x
17:55consonant
17:57h
17:59thou
18:00i
18:02consonant
18:03d
18:05and final
18:08consonant please
18:09a final t
18:10stand by
18:12jì ˆ
18:13i
18:13and
18:14i
18:29i
18:33i
18:40i
18:41i
18:42well Steven just six in likewise just six Steven mashed and mashy mashy yes the
18:52golf club yes used for medium distance yeah now the corner agent we've got a
19:00couple of sevens atheism and miss date dare I ask what my mistake doesn't
19:06indicate the wrong person it means to mistake the document put the wrong date
19:09on it shows how my mind works you and Carl I don't know 60 page 53 in your
19:18numbers game too large and four foot in the second row please two from the top
19:22and four from this row and this next round is 6 3 8 10 25 and 75 and the target
19:34five hundred and seven five oh seven
19:39so
20:11away. Stephen? 5A3. And 503. Ian, now's your chance? 75 plus 25 is 100. Yep. 8 minus 3 is 5.
20:22It is. Times them together. 500. And add 6. And 6, 1 away. Yeah, well done. Well done indeed. Draws
20:31you level with Stephen, but let's put that to one side for the moment, because we have work to do.
20:36Rachel?
20:36Mm-hmm. If you say 75 plus 10 is 85. Times that by 6 for 510. And take away the
20:463. 5.07. Wonderful. Thank you.
20:53Spot on, as always. 60 apiece now. We've got a game, but we've also got a tea-time teaser, which
21:00is hinted pie. And the clue? This isn't for conservative males. It's for the
21:05women in labour. This isn't for conservative males. It's for the women in labour.
21:26Welcome back. I left you with the clue. This isn't for conservative males. It's for the women in labour.
21:32And the answer to that, Susie Dent, is pethidine. What's that? It's a pain reliever. Quite a strong one.
21:40Often given to women in labour, but used for other things as well.
21:44Pethidine. There we are. Stephen, your letters game.
21:47Consonant, please. Thank you, Stephen.
21:49S. And another.
21:53H. And a vowel.
21:56E. And another.
22:01A. And a final consonant, please.
22:16A final C.
22:18Stand by.
22:19A. And a vowel.
22:21A. And a vowel.
22:38A. And a vowel.
22:38A. And a vowel.
22:39A. And a vowel.
22:39A. And a vowel.
22:41A. And a vowel.
22:50Stephen at seven in seven as well. Stephen. Ranchers and likewise right anyway.
23:00Now how many sevens will come pouring out of the corner I wonder. We've got a whole eight letters
23:05here on crease. Very good. Anything else? No that's it just simply to remove the creases from. To
23:12uncrease something. Or even iron it. Yeah we put it in a trouser press. Fewer letters though so we'll
23:18leave them. If you want to crease things then you put them in a trouser press don't you? If you're
23:22a bloke. 67 plays 67. Ian your letters game. Can I have a consonant please? Thank you Ian. B. And
23:29a second. P. And a third. T. And a fourth please. D. Vowel. I. Second vowel. E. Third vowel. A.
23:46Consonant. G.
23:48And a final consonant please. Final Y. Standby.
23:53So.
24:22All but he is here.
24:23Ian? Just six. Stephen? Only five. Your five is? Paged. Paged and? Bated. Bated is absolutely fine, yes. They baited
24:36him about his love of literature, that kind of thing. Absolutely fine.
24:40Mmm. Now, Adrian, I don't think we've got much more to add, have we? No, we have Gaiety. That's another
24:47six. We'd like that one. Gaiety. Good word, isn't it? The Gaiety Theatre. 73 to 67. Look at this. Ian
24:55has clambered over Stephen to lead. Let's give them a rest. Susie, it's your origins of words. What have you
25:03worked up for us today?
25:07I have some eponyms for you today. I talk about eponyms from time to time because we have so many
25:13of them in English. So an eponym is a word that's named after a person or a character from fiction,
25:20etc. I'm going to start with talking about pethidine with the T time T's. I'm going to start with the
25:25term caesarean. I'm not sure if you have pethidine with the caesarean section.
25:30But it's obvious that Julius Caesar has some kind of connection with the caesarean section, and we're not quite sure
25:36what it is. But most reports will say that either he or one of his ancestors had a surgical birth
25:42in this way. Hence, we talk about it now, which seems astonishing all these centuries later.
25:48But there are some more obscure in their origin. In other words, you might not realise that they are actually
25:53eponyms.
25:54I'm going to start with decibel. We talk about decibels, meaning the intensity of sound. Decibel is one-tenth of
26:01a bell, and that bell was named after Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the Scottish Scientist, of course, and
26:08he is very much the name behind the modern telephone.
26:12We have Maverick. Samuel Maverick, one of my favourites. Maverick, somebody who sort of doesn't tread the beaten path, goes
26:18off a little bit.
26:20And Samuel Maverick famously did not brand his calves at his ranch in Texas, in America.
26:26And so, because he didn't follow the pattern of all his neighbours and was slightly derided for this, his name
26:32became an eponym for somebody who's just slightly unorthodox, if you like.
26:37And finally, the word Derek, not our wonderful director, but Derek, D-E-R-R-I-C-K, which is,
26:46you know, a hoist, if you like, a crane with a movable arm that's used on oil wells particularly.
26:50This was the name of a once-notorious Elizabethan hangman.
26:55He loomed large in the public imagination, and his name became slang for a hangman generically, then a gallows, and
27:03then by extension for various kinds of hoist.
27:07Well, I'm dashed.
27:08Derek.
27:16That's brilliant. Thanks, Susie.
27:19Derek, there may be a connection with our director. 73 to 67. Stephen, let's just go.
27:26Consonant, please.
27:28Thank you, Stephen.
27:28S.
27:29And another.
27:31R.
27:32And a vowel.
27:34E.
27:35And another.
27:37E.
27:38And a consonant.
27:39C.
27:40And a consonant.
27:42R.
27:43And a vowel.
27:45O.
27:46And a consonant.
27:49F.
27:50And a final consonant, please.
27:54A final S.
27:56Stand by.
28:19And a consonant.
28:20Let's move.
28:26And another.
28:27And another.
28:27Stephen at seven seven and Ian I'll try and eat
28:33Okay, Stephen that's scorers now Ian the forces
28:39Don't think you can
28:41Reforce unfortunately it can be a force here, but you can't be force. Sorry bad luck bad luck
28:47Bad luck Stephen's one point ahead now Adrian. What have you cooked up?
28:52We've got for eight re scores which is nothing to do with having a rethink about the the football result
28:58No, it's to revise the score of a piece of music
29:01Okay, to re score it. Yeah 74 to 73 Stephen one point in the lead in
29:08Final letters game off we go. I can have a consonant please Rachel. Thank you in D and the second
29:14one
29:16M and a third please
29:19V
29:19A consonant again
29:21G a vowel please
29:23I and another
29:26You and another vowel a one more vowel
29:33E and a consonant please and lastly are
29:38Stand by
30:10Ian I've traced six
30:13Stephen at six and Ian six and Vega
30:17Stephen
30:19Admire and admire
30:21Both absolutely fine
30:24No
30:26Adrian yes
30:27We've got a seven yes
30:29Miraged
30:31Miraged
30:31Yes with a D
30:32Seen in a mirage or having the nature of a mirage
30:35Okay, yeah
30:36Thank you one point 80 plays 79 into the final
30:41Game numbers game Stephen off we go one large and five small again, please
30:46Thank you Stephen last chance to avoid the crucial conundrum at the end. Let's see how this pans out final
30:52numbers
30:52Are seven
30:54Eight
30:55Five
30:56Ten
30:57And 50
30:58And the target
31:00277
31:02277
31:0228
31:0925
31:1125
31:1115
31:3126
31:3200
31:33Yeah, Stephen.
31:35No, just 270.
31:37270, Ian.
31:40277.
31:41Don't sound so sad about it.
31:43Sorry.
31:44Off we go.
31:4550 plus 7 is 57.
31:4850 plus 7, 57.
31:50Times 5.
31:51Times 5 is 285.
31:54Less 8.
31:55Very well done.
31:56Well done, indeed.
32:02Steve takes you ahead of Stephen, 89 to his 80.
32:07But we've got something coming up called a crucial countdown conundrum.
32:13So fingers on buzzers, guys.
32:15Let's roll that crucial countdown conundrum.
32:24Ian.
32:25Is it patchiest?
32:28Patchiest.
32:28Let's see whether you're right.
32:30Look at you.
32:32Patchiest.
32:37Well done, Ian.
32:39Whoa.
32:40That's what's known as the late surge.
32:4399 to Stephen's.
32:44Very brave 80 points.
32:47So, well done.
32:49That's bad luck.
32:50That's the way it goes.
32:51He came up in the final furlong, didn't he?
32:53Yeah, played very well.
32:54He did.
32:54Listen, you played very well.
32:55Thank you very much for coming.
32:57Take this goodie bag back to Bury.
32:59Great good luck with the pool.
33:01Thank you very much.
33:02That's fantastic.
33:02What an achievement.
33:03Playing for England.
33:04That's not bad, is it?
33:05Yeah, it's not bad.
33:06Excellent.
33:06All right.
33:07We will see you tomorrow.
33:08Well done, indeed.
33:09Well done.
33:10We'll see Adrian tomorrow, too.
33:12Tell me this, Adrian.
33:13I mean, sport.
33:14You and sport embrace each other.
33:16But now you also present Question Time Extra.
33:19So, you're getting stuck into the political fray, I guess.
33:23Yeah.
33:23And I've just been, obviously, we've been through a very turbulent, supposedly angry time.
33:27And I just wondered how angry people are actually out there about everything.
33:32Because, on the airwaves and on social media, the only thing that works is anger.
33:38Talk of betrayal, fury and everything.
33:40But if you go out and speak to people, I don't think it's quite like that.
33:43Somebody very mild comes on my radio show.
33:46I think, well, what good is this?
33:48Give me somebody angry.
33:49And I just think we've got to stop winding each other up so much and just all calm down.
33:54That's my message of peace this summer.
33:56Listen, good news, you know, if you want good news, take it out.
34:01That's the other thing.
34:02See you tomorrow.
34:04See you tomorrow.
34:04And Susie, too, of course.
34:05See you tomorrow.
34:06See you tomorrow.
34:07And Rachel.
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