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00:30Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown this Tuesday afternoon.
00:34I am happy that you are here.
00:36I got a feeling it's going to be a good show.
00:39And I hope that both our champion and challenger don't stop believing right through until the final Countdown round.
00:47Hi, Rachel.
00:48I mean, there's loads of easter eggs in that one.
00:50Well, they're all songs that I think, whether you love them or hate them, all qualify as being overplayed.
00:57So, Happy by Pharrell Williams is often number one on that list right now.
01:02I got a feeling, Don't Stop Believing, Final Countdown.
01:05So there was an official survey done of the most overplayed songs ever.
01:09They were all on that.
01:10I bring it up because the song that was at number one for 16 weeks back in 1991 was released
01:15on this day, which was Brian Adams.
01:18Everything I do, I do it for you.
01:20And that was, oh, my, it was a terrible time to be alive.
01:24If you're going back to most overplayed, if yours is Brian Adams, mine, I'm sorry, Celine.
01:28But my heart will go on and on and on and on and on.
01:32How long was that number one or in the charts for?
01:35You just don't need to hear it again.
01:36But there you go.
01:37Music is in the ear of the beholder.
01:39But even the best tunes have a limit to how many times we want to hear it.
01:43Let's head over to Dictionary Corner.
01:45It's the shape of you again.
01:47Susie Dent, of course, our J of the D.
01:50I'm working nine to five every day this week.
01:53What a way to make a living.
01:54It's the former Tennessee-ish turn pundit.
01:57It's Greg Rizetzky.
02:01Right.
02:01We have a new champion in Phil Campbell.
02:03How are you?
02:04Very good, thank you.
02:05Good.
02:05Stranger, united with your new friend, our challenger.
02:07Strangers become friends in this show every afternoon.
02:10By cats.
02:11You're both cat lovers.
02:12How many have you got?
02:13What are they called?
02:13We've got four Maine Coons.
02:17Peppermint and Rollo are the older ones.
02:19And then two younger ones called Elspeth and Eliza.
02:22Well, you're taking on Laura Terry today, who lives in Sheffield, originally from Grantham.
02:27Just the one cat, but I love your cat's name.
02:29Go ahead.
02:29Arthur-itis.
02:31Arthur-itis.
02:32Now, you might think, why would you call the cat that?
02:34It's because it's the business you work in.
02:36You're a senior clinical coder.
02:38That's right.
02:39That sounds like you work for MI6, but it's not.
02:41What is it?
02:41I work for the NHS.
02:43I read patients' hospital records once they've been discharged and the doctor has made all
02:47the notes.
02:48I take the diagnoses they've got, any other conditions they've got, any operations they've
02:52had.
02:53And every one of those corresponds to a four-digit code.
02:57So that makes it easy to track disease worldwide.
03:02It's a World Health Organization code for the diagnoses.
03:05It tells you how much money the hospital should get because of what operations they've performed,
03:09for example.
03:10Wow.
03:11So I work in the children's hospital, so I only deal with diseases of children.
03:16You know, the NHS is the biggest non-military company in the world.
03:23It's something to be so proud of.
03:24About 1.6 million employees in the UK in the health profession.
03:29And Laura, just one of them.
03:30And we appreciate that so much.
03:31Good luck to Laura.
03:32And good luck to Phil.
03:36And Phil, you're choosing the first letters.
03:38Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
03:40Thank you, Phil.
03:41Start today with N.
03:43And another one, please.
03:44C.
03:45And a third.
03:47M.
03:48And a vowel, please.
03:50E.
03:51And another vowel, please.
03:53O.
03:54And another one, please.
03:56E.
03:58A consonant, please.
04:00S.
04:02And another consonant.
04:04N.
04:05And a vowel, please.
04:07And lastly, A.
04:09At home and in this studio, let's play Countdown.
04:23MUSIC PLAYS
04:42That's time. Phil...
04:44Eight. Wow. And, Laura?
04:46Seven. A seven from you. What is it?
04:48Menaces. Menaces, and this is eight.
04:50I think...anemones.
04:55I think that was 14.
04:57Susie? It's so hard to pronounce.
04:59Yes, anemones are in the dictionary for eight. Well done.
05:02Surely you've got nothing to add to that.
05:04No, we had actually the exact two as they did.
05:06Yeah. Let's get more letters. Laura.
05:08Hi, Rachel. Hi, Laura.
05:10Please may I have a consonant? You may indeed.
05:13G. And another one?
05:16R. And another one?
05:18W. And a vowel, please.
05:21O. And another?
05:24I. And another?
05:26E. And a consonant?
05:29T. Another consonant?
05:32D. And a vowel, please.
05:35And lastly, A.
05:37And 30 seconds.
05:39H.
05:39H.
05:40H.
05:49N Π½Π΅Π»ΡΠ·Ρ oprahams.
05:50D.
05:56Before you run into...
05:57oj
05:57E.
06:08minor
06:09Laura.
06:10Six.
06:11Six from you.
06:12Phil.
06:13Six.
06:13Yes, well done, both of you.
06:14Laura.
06:15Weighted.
06:15Difficult letters.
06:16Phil.
06:17Widget.
06:18A widget.
06:18I think beer, but I'm guessing it goes further back.
06:22Yeah, 1920s US.
06:23But it introduces nitrogen into the beer, doesn't it?
06:26Or it can be a remote control.
06:28There you go.
06:30Right.
06:31What have we got there, Greg Rosetsky?
06:33We managed to get one for a water dog.
06:35A water dog, which sounds like a name of some amateur Montreal CFL team or something.
06:42Montreal water dogs.
06:44No idea.
06:44What is a water dog?
06:45It's not a poodle, which does mean splash hound, but it's not.
06:49It's actually a salamander that you will find in flowing water.
06:54Wow.
06:54A water dog.
06:56I love that.
06:57For eight, the water dog.
06:59Phil, you've got a slight lead to start, but we're only on the first numbers in your choosing.
07:03Two large and four small, please, Rachel.
07:05Two large, four small.
07:07Coming up, first one is ten.
07:10One, six, three.
07:13And the large two, 150.
07:15And the target to reach 946.
07:18946.
07:19Numbers up.
07:19Number one.
07:21Number two.
07:30Number three.
07:509-4-6 the target, Phil.
07:529-4-6.
07:53Bit of pressure, Laura, always in your first numbers.
07:56Did you see it?
07:56Yes.
07:57Good, well done.
07:58Phil, off you go.
07:5910 times 100 is 1,000.
08:011.
08:011,000.
08:02And then take away 50 and 3 and 1.
08:05Perfect, 9-4-6.
08:06Laura, same way?
08:07Yeah.
08:08There you go.
08:10Well done.
08:13Fairly easy, that, but never take it for granted,
08:15your first one on national TV, so well done.
08:17On Course is our first tea time teaser of the day.
08:20On Course.
08:21If you need some leads, think of rhinos and take the Elland Road.
08:27Great clue.
08:28If you need some leads, think of rhinos and take the Elland Road.
08:48Welcome back.
08:49If you need some leads, think of rhinos, that's the rugby league team.
08:52We mentioned rugby league yesterday.
08:54Leeds rhinos take the Elland Road.
08:55Of course, Elland Road in Leeds has two Ls, but with one L,
08:59Elland is a type of antelope, which takes us to corneus.
09:03Corneus is a word for a horny animal, so a rhino would be corneus.
09:08Let's move on with the game, and let's get some letters now from Laura.
09:11Can I have a consonant, please?
09:13Thank you, Laura.
09:15And another one?
09:17And a vowel?
09:20E
09:21And a consonant?
09:23M
09:24And a vowel, please.
09:27U
09:28And another one?
09:31O
09:31And a consonant?
09:34D
09:35And another consonant?
09:37L
09:39And a vowel, please.
09:41And lastly, A.
09:43Thank you, Rich.
09:44And a vowel, please.
10:15Laura?
10:16Seven.
10:17And Phil?
10:17Eight.
10:18The seven is?
10:19Modular.
10:20And here we go again, another eight.
10:22Remoulds?
10:23Remoulds.
10:24Yes, remoulds you can have on your tyre,
10:28or you can remould something, obviously.
10:30Very good.
10:31Any other eights, Dad?
10:32I think you had one, Susie.
10:33Yeah, we had earldoms.
10:35Right.
10:35Well, listen, 32-16, that's not a gap at all yet,
10:38so no need to panic, Laura, as Phil gets us more letters.
10:42Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:43Thank you, Phil.
10:44H
10:45And another, please.
10:47S
10:48And another?
10:50R
10:51A vowel, please.
10:53I
10:54And another?
10:55A
10:56And another?
10:59I
11:00A consonant, please.
11:03W
11:03And a consonant, please.
11:07Another R
11:08And a final vowel.
11:11A final O.
11:13And half a minute.
11:14T
11:14A
11:43Transcription by CastingWords
11:45Time's up. Phil?
11:46Five. Laura? Just five.
11:48Just the five as well. No worries. Phil?
11:50Hairs. Hairs. And Laura?
11:52Hairs. Let's have a look.
11:55So a chance for Greg Rosetsky
11:57to be absolutely covered
11:58in glory here. Oh, if only that
12:01was the case. I have to say Susie did help me with
12:03this one. Wurs.
12:04Wurs. As in Wurs interaction.
12:07And I think there is also
12:09warishi, which in
12:11Guyana is a type of basket that you carry on the
12:13back. Nice. I'll give you seven.
12:14Alright. At 37.21
12:16every round is an event. We go back
12:18to the numbers now and Laura, it's
12:20your choice. So how many large, if any at all?
12:23Two large, please. Two
12:24from the top and four
12:26not coming up. And this time
12:28the little numbers are four, five,
12:31five and two.
12:32And the big one's 75 and 25.
12:35And the target
12:36to reach 179.
12:38One seven nine. Numbers up.
12:44five and six.
12:45Both of the
13:04You're welcome.
13:05You're welcome.
13:05Woo!
13:09I'm
13:10I'm
13:10I'm
13:10I'm
13:10low target good numbers of every faith in Laura and Phil Laura yeah 179 yeah and Phil 179 yes take
13:18the easy ones where you can get them because they'll be a stinker coming up around the corner
13:22you can guarantee that Laura off you go 75 times 2 150 5 times 5 5 5 so 25 add
13:30them together 175
13:31plus 4 179 yeah and Phil same way but I use the 25 instead of the 5 by 5 lovely
13:39done well done
13:4316 points still the difference as we cross over for our second chat this week with Greg Rosetsky
13:49we're really challenging him this week because we're throwing things at you with Wimbledon now
13:53less than two weeks away and you told us all yesterday about junior Wimbledon and meeting
13:58your hero so I want to take you all the way from that moment when you met John McEnroe to
14:03playing
14:04in centre court as a senior for the first time could you take me to that yeah I just want
14:09to go back a
14:09little bit in history before that because May 1995 I started to represent Britain so my first tournament
14:15I played before Wimbledon was the Queen's Club event and the event in Nottingham and during that period
14:20we didn't have so many great British tennis players at the time we had Jeremy Bates who was 50 in
14:25the
14:25world we didn't have this generation now we have Andy Murray's been world number one myself and Tim
14:29Henman and all the young generation that's coming through and I lost my opening first two matches
14:34the first two weeks on grass as a British player and they said he's definitely British he can't win
14:38a tennis match so what a start I had there then I got to the Wimbledon championships a lot of
14:44expectation being the British number one so walking on to that centre court I was like a deer in
14:48headlights lost the first set 6-1 in 18 minutes dead silence on centre court you don't want to go
14:56on to centre court with that sort of mood then all of a sudden I said I'm not losing my
14:59serve the next
15:00three sets I'm not going to lose serve won the next three sets in tiebreakers got my first ever win
15:05on the historic centre court and it was such an amazing moment I took off my shirt my shoes I
15:10was
15:10throwing everything in the crowd as if I won the tournament so it's a moment I'll never forget in
15:14my life oh what a day what a day for you thank you for reliving it thank you thank you
15:21all right 47 31 back to the letters mr. combo consonant please thank you Phil P and another
15:31G and a third please n and a vowel please e another vowel oh and another vowel please e
15:44a consonant please j a consonant please j a consonant please c and a vowel please lastly o and here
15:58we go
15:58again
15:58so
16:27MUSIC
16:29Phil?
16:31Five. Laura? Six.
16:32Oh, there you go. Phil?
16:34Pence. Pence. And what's your penny's worth?
16:37Congee. Well done. Yes, excellent.
16:40In Chinese cooking, it's a sort of broth made with rice,
16:43slightly porridge-y sometimes.
16:45Laura collects ramen packets.
16:48Ah, thank you.
16:50This was perfect for you.
16:52Made for me.
16:53Yeah, what a chance of that coming out when you love your ramen.
16:56Anything else?
16:57We had another one, which was pongee.
17:00Yes, we have congee and we have pongee, which is Chinese.
17:03Again, it's a really soft type of fabric.
17:05Great. OK, you're back within ten and you're choosing these letters, Lorna.
17:10Consonant, please, Rachel.
17:11Thank you, Laura.
17:12F.
17:13And another one.
17:15T.
17:16And another one.
17:18S.
17:19And a vowel.
17:21E.
17:22Another vowel.
17:24U.
17:25And another one.
17:28I.
17:29And a consonant, please.
17:31N.
17:32And another.
17:34R.
17:36And a consonant, please.
17:39Lastly, T.
17:40And start the clock.
18:09And start the clock.
18:13Laura.
18:14Seven.
18:15Phil.
18:15Seven.
18:16Well done.
18:17Laura.
18:17Fitters.
18:18And Phil.
18:20Infuser.
18:21Both in, both fine?
18:22Both absolutely fine.
18:23What did you find, Greg?
18:24Well, we had one other one.
18:25What was this one?
18:26No, it's very odd.
18:27A lawn apparently can be the turfiest in the neighbourhood.
18:30I know.
18:31So bizarre.
18:31You ever heard that in all your time playing on grass courts?
18:34No, they never called it the turfiest at the All England Club,
18:36but I don't think that would go well with Wimbledon.
18:38Court one's playing a bit turfy.
18:40I wouldn't want to be a nut today.
18:41It's the turfiest court I've played on the majors.
18:42It's only a football term.
18:45Right.
18:46Ten remains the difference.
18:47And look at this.
18:47Ten points up for grabs as he takes a nervous swill of his water.
18:51Mr. Campbell, here we go again.
18:53Two large and four small, please.
18:55Thank you, Phil.
18:56Nobody's blinking.
18:57No one's making any sudden moves.
18:59Let's see if this is a run-of-the-mill one or not.
19:01Little numbers.
19:02Three, ten, five, seven.
19:05And the big ones.
19:0675 and 100.
19:08And the target to reach 752.
19:12752.
19:12Numbers up.
19:45752.
19:46Phil.
19:47752.
19:47Laura.
19:48752.
19:49These numbers have been kind to you today.
19:52OK, Phil.
19:5375 times 10.
19:5575 times 10.
19:57750.
19:58And five minus three.
19:59Yeah.
20:00Nice and straightforward.
20:02Same way.
20:02There you go.
20:03Well done.
20:04APPLAUSE
20:05Ten points each again on the numbers.
20:07Just ten points in it.
20:08Why would you go anywhere?
20:09Let's get our second tea time teaser of the day.
20:12It's estimate.
20:13Estimate.
20:14As an estimate, we should live through 29,000 of these.
20:18As an estimate, we should live through 29,000 of these.
20:43There you go.
20:50Well, ten points in it.
20:52This game very much still alive.
20:55With six rounds to go.
20:56Laura Terry, what a job you're doing so far.
20:58And it's your letters.
20:59A consonant, please, Rachel.
21:01Thank you, Laura.
21:02L.
21:03Another one.
21:04M.
21:06And another.
21:07D.
21:08And a vowel.
21:10E.
21:12Another.
21:13U.
21:15A consonant, please.
21:17G.
21:18And a vowel.
21:19A.
21:22A consonant.
21:24N.
21:26And a vowel, please.
21:28And lastly, I.
21:30Good luck, everybody.
21:33And a vowel.
22:01Transcription by CastingWords
22:038
22:04Phil
22:057
22:05What a time to get an 8, Phil. Well, you started it early on in the programme with your 8s.
22:10What's your 7, Phil?
22:11Mangled.
22:12Oh, and Laura bites back.
22:13Maligned.
22:14Maligned!
22:15I'm so glad you said that one. I thought you were going to try for meddling, where it needs 2Ls
22:19for British English. That's absolutely brilliant. Well done.
22:24Within two points. Wow. Greg?
22:27We got the exact two, actually, to be honest with you. Mangled and maligned.
22:31And we are done.
22:32Well, nerves are mangled at this stage. Let's just keep going. Phil.
22:35Can I have a consonant, please?
22:37Thank you, Phil.
22:38C
22:39And another consonant.
22:41S
22:42And another consonant, please.
22:44G
22:45And a vowel, please.
22:47O
22:48And another one.
22:50E
22:56A consonant, please.
22:59D
23:00And a consonant, please.
23:03L
23:04And a vowel, please.
23:08And, lastly, I.
23:09And kind of a
23:10And a vessel, please.
23:41Every round important now, Phil.
23:44Seven. Laura. Six.
23:45And a six. Look at this seesaw battle. Laura, the six.
23:48Clouds. And they get seven points back.
23:51Cudjules. Cudjules. Very good indeed. Well done.
23:54Anything better than a seven, Greg? We got a nine, actually.
23:58Glucozide. Glucozide. Fantastic. But what does that mean?
24:01Yeah, it is a glycoside derived from glucose.
24:04And a glycoside is a compound.
24:07You'll find it in many medicines and it poisons as well.
24:11Fantastic nine. Well done.
24:14Right, let's take a little break and head over to Dictionary Corner,
24:19Origins of Words, Susie, this Tuesday afternoon. Let's do it.
24:22OK, well, thanks to Sharon Welch from Greenford in London.
24:27And I love this kind of question.
24:29She asks whether the words char, as in charlady, character, charisma
24:33and charlatan share a common root.
24:37And the reason I love these questions is that they often signal a really strange family in English.
24:44And there are lots of them, you know, that include members that you would never think would belong together.
24:50So I went to delving.
24:52And I'm going to start with char as in charlady.
24:53We don't really talk about charladies anymore.
24:56But they used to often bring tea in the offices.
24:59Or you might have a charlady doing cleaning, etc.
25:03But believe it or not, it's linked to a jar, which is another strange connection, really.
25:10So when a door's a jar, it's slightly open.
25:13Does a jar come into it?
25:15No, because the original form of the word was actually on char.
25:19And char came from an Old English word which meant a turning.
25:23So you will find that, believe it or not, with a different pronunciation in the London place named Charing Cross.
25:29Because charring is a variation on charring, which meant a turning.
25:34Because this memorial to Eleanor of Castile, the beloved wife of Edward I, who erected lots of crosses to commemorate
25:43his late wife, was erected at a turning, or a bend, of the River Thames.
25:48So it was all about turning here.
25:50And so when a door is on char, or ajar as it came to be, it's kind of turned slightly
25:57because it's not fully closed.
26:00Where does the charlady come in?
26:01Well, she, and it was normally she, wasn't it, would take on a turn of work, or a chore.
26:08A chore and char are related.
26:10Nothing to do, by the way, with the char that we drink in the afternoon.
26:12That comes with a Chinese word for tea.
26:15So you've got char and chore and Charing Cross so far.
26:21That's one stable, that's one family.
26:22And I have to say, sadly, charlatan and the others are outside it.
26:27Because charlatan is from Italian dialect, where charlare, meaning to babble, because charlatans often were full of hot air.
26:34Charisma comes from a Greek word meaning favour or grace.
26:38And character.
26:39I love this one.
26:40This two is from Greek, and it meant an engraved mark, and it was like an imprint upon you, if
26:47you like.
26:48And it's just a lovely metaphor that your character, your personality, is engraved upon your soul.
26:54But all of those, not all parts of the same family, but I love the fact, delving into it, I
26:58found different families that you would not expect.
27:01Thank you, Sharon, and thank you, Susie.
27:05OK.
27:06As if the show could get any better, we have quite the climax.
27:09Four rounds to go, and both Phil and Laura's stomachs must be churning.
27:14Here we go.
27:15Laura, your letters.
27:16Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
27:18Thank you, Laura.
27:19D.
27:20And another.
27:21S.
27:22And another.
27:24X.
27:25And a vowel.
27:27U.
27:28Another vowel.
27:30E.
27:31And another vowel.
27:33I.
27:34And a consonant.
27:37R.
27:38Another consonant.
27:40T.
27:42And a vowel, please.
27:44And lastly.
27:45O.
27:46Let's play.
27:48Let's do it.
27:48Try.
28:17And a vowel.
28:17juicy.
28:17And a vowel.
28:18Laura?
28:20I think an eight.
28:21I think I know what you might be thinking.
28:23Phil? Eight. Eight as well.
28:25Let's see if it's the same word. Laura? Dexterous.
28:27Dexterous. And Phil?
28:30Outsider. Outsider.
28:31The dictionary corner? Both absolutely brilliant.
28:33Well done.
28:36Are you ambidextrous or are you all left-hand?
28:39I wish I was ambidextrous.
28:41There was only one tennis player who was actually
28:43ambidextrous, but it's quite a hard thing to do.
28:45You can't leave that land there.
28:46There's only one ambidextrous.
28:47Well, they had this guy, Luke Jensen, who won the doubles
28:50at the French Open in a few majors, and he could play
28:52with his right and left hand just as well, but still
28:54couldn't do it in the singles game, so it's quite hard
28:56to be ambidextrous. Absolutely.
28:58Right, anything else on hand?
29:00No, dexterous actually means right-handed,
29:03because we favoured right-handed,
29:05so it's a bit mean. But no,
29:06those were exactly our two. Wonderful.
29:08Look at that. Look how high the standard is.
29:10Under pressure, you both match the dictionary corner.
29:1379-70
29:14do our champion last letters round, and Phil, you're choosing.
29:18Consonant, please. Thank you, Phil.
29:20V.
29:22A consonant, please.
29:24L.
29:25And another one, please.
29:27N.
29:28A vowel.
29:29E.
29:32Another vowel.
29:33O.
29:35And a third, please.
29:37E.
29:39A consonant, please.
29:41T.
29:43A consonant.
29:45G.
29:48And a vowel, please.
29:50Lastly, A.
29:52Last letters.
29:53E.
29:54A consonant.
30:14ΒΆΒΆ
30:20ΒΆΒΆ
30:24Phil? Six. And Laura? Six.
30:27Phil? Eleven.
30:29OK, more bread for you. And Laura?
30:32Valent. Valent? Valent.
30:34Yeah, all to do with valency and values.
30:39Oh! It's in the dictionary, but it has a big hyphen in front of it
30:45because it's only used in a combining form, in combinations like trivalent.
30:49Oh, Laura, I'm so sorry.
30:51Yes. What a hammer blow that was.
30:55Greg, finish that round off for us. Anything to add?
30:58We got an eight with elongate. Nice.
31:01All right, well, listen, I'll not elongate this any longer.
31:03Two rounds to go. Laura, all is not lost
31:06because this is why the challenger always picks the last number.
31:11So you're in control. Too large, please.
31:13Too large? You're not going to gamble? Is this the gamble?
31:15Too large, please. Too large.
31:16We want something tricky enough to fox Phil and force that conundrum.
31:21Let's see if we get a crucial, the little ones.
31:23So one, ten, nine, three...
31:26And the large one's 25, 100.
31:29And the target? 570.
31:32570. Numbers up.
31:33One, two, four.
31:37And we'll get real on...
31:41Another four.
31:42One, two, three...
31:44Come on.
31:44No.
31:52Two, three.
31:53No.
31:57No.
32:02Three, two, three.
32:03Two, three.
32:03Time's up. Pens down. 5-7-0. Not as easy. Laura?
32:08Nothing. So, fell, open goal? 5-7-4.
32:12That'll do for seven points in your second win.
32:15Nine minus three is six. Yep.
32:18Times 100. 600.
32:20And then take away the 25 and the one.
32:24Yep, four away. Very good. Second win in the bag.
32:27You were made to work for that. But how do we get to 5-7-0, Rachel?
32:32Well, there were lots of dead ends, but one non-dead end.
32:36Nine times ten is 90.
32:39Add it to the 100 for 190 and times it by three. 5-7-2.
32:44Well done.
32:48Tricky. Tricky to get there, as you say. Loads of dead ends.
32:51So, 92-70. What a standard it has been today.
32:55And ten more points to hand out.
32:57For you, Phil, you can get your first century on the board.
32:59Or, Laura, you can go home with 80 as a losing score, which is sensational.
33:04So, let's find out what happens as we reveal Tuesday's Countdown Conundrum.
33:28Go on, Phil.
33:29Rocketing.
33:30Ah, you're the rocket man today. Let's have a look.
33:34APPLAUSE
33:36102 plays, 70.
33:39And I'm going to just quickly have a word with Susie.
33:42Today's show is a microcosm of this series.
33:45How many times have we had losing scores of 60, 70, 80?
33:49And it's not in our minds. The standard has been unbelievable.
33:52Yeah, this one really stands out, actually, as exceptional quality.
33:57And I'm so sorry, Laura.
33:58It's just that one hyphen.
34:00But listen, fantastic.
34:02You weren't able to uncode Countdown, but I hope you've really enjoyed the day.
34:05I've had a lovely day, Colin. Thanks.
34:07Good crack, isn't it? Right.
34:08Phil, you've only got to win once more, and then you get to be in Series 90 as well.
34:12Look at that, eh?
34:14Superstardom.
34:15Two series.
34:16See you tomorrow.
34:17Excellent.
34:18Greg, Susie, thank you.
34:20And, Rachel, see you tomorrow as well.
34:22I want you back here tomorrow.
34:24Another overplayed song.
34:27Final show of the regular season tomorrow.
34:29We'll be here.
34:30You can count on us.
34:32You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com.
34:37You can also find our webpage at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
34:42APPLAUSE
34:43And, Rachel, thank you.
35:08You