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00:31Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown on this Tuesday afternoon.
00:35Thank you so much for hanging out with us again.
00:38Hello, Rachel Riley. Hello, Colin Murray.
00:40If I said to you, surely you can't be serious, connected to films,
00:45if I said to you, surely you can't be serious,
00:48what would you say back to me?
00:50Don't call me Shirley.
00:51That's right. Which is crazy, because that girl takes back to 1980
00:55and this day, the spoof film Airplane with Leslie Nielsen starring in it
01:00was released.
01:01For me, still one of the funniest movies of all time.
01:04You know, I just, I know the quotes from it.
01:05I've got a friend called Al who just quotes it ad infinitum still to this day.
01:10I've still not seen it, but Naked Gun was what I was brought up with.
01:12Yes.
01:12I think that was probably more 90s,
01:14still Leslie Nielsen and Robin Hood, Men in Tights.
01:17Yes, great.
01:18I think it's just such a nice genre,
01:19because you can watch it as a kid and you just enjoy the city humour
01:22and then you can watch it as an adult with your kids
01:25and get a whole different load of jokes from it.
01:28Right, let's get over to Dictionary Corner.
01:29Don't worry, they had to fish for lunch.
01:32It's our captain of Countdown, Susie Dent,
01:35and beside her making her second trip,
01:36it's Ranveer Singh.
01:42And, well, you could get an octo-champ on your first week.
01:45He's halfway there, is our Phil Campbell.
01:48How are you today?
01:49Yes, good, thank you.
01:50Good, I was talking about all the clubs you're members of.
01:52So many clubs, I don't know where he finds the time.
01:55You've been in the same book club, is it, for 20 years?
01:57Almost, yeah, yeah.
01:58What do you do for 20 years in a book club?
02:00Don't say read books, that's the obvious answer, is it?
02:03Well, it's a bit of an excuse to go to a different pub every month, basically.
02:06So there's all these sort of six guys, similar age to me.
02:10We read a book a month and then, because we're all based in York,
02:14and York has got so many brilliant little pubs down alleyways
02:17and really old, lovely pubs, we pick a different pub every month.
02:21And even after 20 years, we're still finding new ones to go to.
02:24Wonderful.
02:25Well, listen, you're taking on Stacey Burke today,
02:28our postie, who lives in Sleaford in Lincolnshire.
02:31How are you?
02:32Good, thank you, yeah.
02:33Good.
02:33I want to talk about every female in your family.
02:35We're going to start with your grandmum.
02:37So that's why you watch Countdown.
02:39Tell me about those early days.
02:40That's right, yeah.
02:40So growing up, I'd come home from school and wait at my grandma's house
02:44for my mum to pick me up after work,
02:46and we'd always watch Countdown together.
02:47So it's like a nice little memory that we have.
02:49And that's why you applied, right?
02:51That's right, yeah.
02:52Not too long ago, my husband and I were watching,
02:54and you put out a call to women.
02:57So it does work, and keep it up, keep applying.
02:59Countdown at channel4.com.
03:02We want you to apply, and we've also got a place
03:05for your two daughters, Orla and Flo.
03:07That's right.
03:08We've got to wait a while.
03:09I mean, they're three and nine months old,
03:11but we're going to have them on the show.
03:13Yeah.
03:13OK, great.
03:14Listen, I just want to tell you both good luck.
03:17We're all counting on you.
03:18Stacey and Phil.
03:21Phil, you're choosing the letters.
03:23Consonant, please, Rachel.
03:25Thank you, Phil.
03:26Start today with S.
03:27And another one, please.
03:29F.
03:30And a third one, please.
03:32T.
03:33A vowel, please.
03:35I.
03:36And another vowel.
03:38E.
03:40And another vowel, please.
03:42U.
03:44Consonant.
03:45P.
03:47A consonant.
03:49S.
03:51And a vowel, please.
03:54And lastly, E.
03:56At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
04:29And that's time, Phil.
04:31Six.
04:32And for you, Stacey?
04:33I'll try a six.
04:34Try a six. Did you write it down?
04:36I did.
04:37Phil?
04:38Upsets.
04:39Upsets. And Stacey?
04:41Tie-ops.
04:42Tie-ops. Is there a hyphen in that?
04:44As a noun, it is there, but with a hyphen, I'm afraid. I'm so sorry.
04:49Ravi and Susie?
04:50We've got a big one to kick off the show, haven't we? We've got a nine.
04:53What is that?
04:54Stupefies.
04:56Stupefies. Well, you've stupefied us with that. Well done. Well done.
05:02A maximum. But hey, Phil, Stacey, didn't spot it.
05:05Join a very big club there and let's get more letters.
05:07Stacey, your first time choosing.
05:09Hi, Rachel.
05:10Can I have a consonant, please?
05:12You can indeed. Start with D.
05:15A consonant, please.
05:17N.
05:18A vowel.
05:18O.
05:21A vowel.
05:23A.
05:24Consonant.
05:25S.
05:27Consonant.
05:29M.
05:30A vowel.
05:32U.
05:34Consonant.
05:36R.
05:37And a consonant, please.
05:39Lastly, D.
05:41And 30 seconds.
05:43We'll see you next time.
05:46We'll see you next time.
05:47We'll see you next time.
05:51We'll see you next time.
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06:00We'll see you next time.
06:00We'll see you next time.
06:00We'll see you next time.
06:01We'll see you next time.
06:03We'll see you next time.
06:04We'll see you next time.
06:04We'll see you next time.
06:05We'll see you next time.
06:11We'll see you next time.
06:14Stacey?
06:14A six.
06:15A six from you, solid six.
06:17And Phil?
06:18I'll try a seven.
06:20He doesn't seem confident though, Stacey, so let's get the safe six in.
06:24Mounds.
06:25And Phil?
06:26Around.
06:27I thought you might be in luck there, Phil,
06:30but all around is in as a now gymnastic event,
06:33but not around itself, I'm sorry about that.
06:35The only way is down for you, Ramveer, after the first round,
06:38unless you've got another maximum.
06:40I'm afraid we haven't.
06:40We've got a seven though.
06:41Haven't we?
06:42A word that I don't know anything about.
06:44No, it's lovely.
06:46Osmunda.
06:47Or Osmunda.
06:48So O-S-M-U-N-D-A.
06:50And it's actually a plant of a genus that includes the royal and the cinnamon ferns.
06:55Isn't that nice?
06:55Stunning.
06:56Stunning.
06:56But agreed.
06:57Never heard of it before in my life.
06:59I haven't planted any of those.
07:00Right.
07:01First number round, Phil Campbell.
07:03Can I have two large and four small, please, Rachel?
07:05You can indeed.
07:06Thank you, Phil.
07:07Two large, four little first numbers of this contest.
07:10The last are four, eight, six, three, and the large one's 100, and 25, and the target 287.
07:19287.
07:20And numbers up.
07:44And numbers up.
07:51Two, eight, seven. Phil?
07:53Two, eight, eight. Missed it by one.
07:55Stacey? Two, eight, six.
07:57Two, eight, six. One the other way, so we're going to have to do both.
08:00Phil? Just three times a hundred.
08:02Three times one hundred, three hundred.
08:05And then take away the eight and the four.
08:07The eight and the four. Yep.
08:10One above. Stacey?
08:11The same, but eight and the six.
08:14Yep. One the other way.
08:15All right. Go ahead there, Rach.
08:17Well, a few different ways, but one of them,
08:19100 plus four, 104, times that by three for 312,
08:26and take away the 25.
08:27Yeah, well done.
08:29APPLAUSE
08:32Tea Time teaser is Forte Was.
08:36For those who are visually impaired, that's F-O-R-T-E, Forte Was.
08:40Their forte was writing computer programmes.
08:43Their forte was writing computer programmes.
09:05Software is the answer.
09:06Good old-fashioned pen and paper is all that Phil and Stacey are allowed.
09:11As we get more letters from you, Stace.
09:12Can I please have a consonant?
09:14Thank you, Stacey.
09:15P.
09:16A consonant.
09:18Z.
09:20Vowel.
09:21I.
09:22Another vowel.
09:24E.
09:25Another vowel.
09:26O.
09:27A consonant.
09:28R.
09:31A consonant.
09:33L.
09:34A consonant.
09:36G.
09:38And a vowel.
09:39And a final E.
09:42Thanks, Rich.
09:44Thank you very much.
09:45Thank you very much.
09:49Thank you very much.
09:51Thank you very much.
09:51Thank you very much.
09:53Thank you very much.
09:55Thank you very much.
09:57Thank you very much.
09:59Thank you very much.
10:00Thank you very much.
10:00Thank you very much.
10:01Thank you very much.
10:01Thank you very much.
10:01Thank you very much.
10:01Thank you very much.
10:02Thank you very much.
10:02Thank you very much.
10:04Thank you very much.
10:06Thank you very much.
10:09Thank you very much.
10:14Stacey?
10:15Just a five.
10:16Five there, and Phil?
10:18Erm, five.
10:20Can I stick with a nice save five, Stacey?
10:23A prize.
10:24And Phil?
10:25Grope.
10:26Grope and prize.
10:29Oh, yes. Really tough, this one.
10:30Can we add anything?
10:31Yes. A single letter.
10:33Yeah, just at the last second, we've sneaked one in, haven't we?
10:35Eloper.
10:36Oh, an eloper.
10:38Quite romantic, isn't it?
10:39You need two people to elope, surely, so you're elopers.
10:42I think you can have a single one.
10:44Yeah.
10:44An eloper.
10:45OK, Phil, you're choosing these letters, Chom.
10:47Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:49Thank you, Phil.
10:50K.
10:51And another one, please.
10:54R.
10:55And a third one, please.
10:57M.
10:58A vowel, please.
11:00I.
11:01And a vowel.
11:03A.
11:04And another vowel.
11:05I.
11:07Consonant, please.
11:09T.
11:11And another consonant.
11:13N.
11:14And a vowel, please.
11:16And lastly, U.
11:18And half a minute.
11:50Well, six six from you and Stacey six right what we got I think it's a word on mark on
11:56mark and Stacey
12:01on mark Susie unmarked unmarked police car for example but not unmarked on its own I'm afraid
12:08it could be though yes no points for Phil and Stacey what about dictionary corner well I think
12:13we may have peaked too soon at the top of the show I'm afraid we got Martin though yes the
12:17songbird
12:18the house Martin for example and martini in case anyone was wondering capital M I was definitely
12:24wondering about the martini thank you look just 18 points each but it's like a low-scoring football
12:29game is actually really fascinated with what's coming out so far second numbers round Stacey
12:34you're going to choose these can I have two large please you can indeed let's see if this can separate
12:40you see two large four little and the little one seven five ten and four and the big two 125
12:48and you
12:50need to reach 489 489 numbers up
12:54so
13:09so
13:10so
13:244.89 is the target here, Stacey?
13:28I think so.
13:29Yeah. And Phil?
13:30No, 4.90.
13:314.90 missed it by one.
13:33What a moment for Stacey. Here we go.
13:35Um, 100 times five.
13:37Phil's about to kick himself. 500.
13:40Uh, minus 25.
13:41Minus 25. 4.75.
13:44Um, add the 10 and the 4.
13:47Yep, that's one way to get there.
13:48Well done.
13:51OK, Andrew, it's time for another chat.
13:53I don't want to get a theme here of mistakes that you've made
13:58in an otherwise glittering career.
13:59Yes, you do.
14:00I do focus on them, though.
14:02I remember every mistake that I've made.
14:05And you're going to talk to us about a mistake with a certain...
14:08Shall we call him a politician? Let's do that.
14:10Let's do that.
14:10The thing is, with live TV or radio,
14:12is that your mistakes feel like they're going on forever.
14:16Uh, so I was political editor for Good Morning Britain,
14:19and it was probably my first big foray in the job.
14:23So I'd gone, uh, on the private plane with Theresa May
14:26out to the White House.
14:27It was all very exciting.
14:29Uh, she was going out to meet Donald Trump for the first time,
14:32the first international leader to do so.
14:33Big, big deal for me to go as well.
14:35You know, on the private plane and everything, we go out there.
14:37But the whole thing about breakfast telly when you travel abroad,
14:40of course, is that we're on air at 6am here,
14:42which is 1 in the morning...
14:44Yeah.
14:44..in Washington, D.C.
14:45So I've been travelling and working for 27 hours,
14:49non-stop, and I mean non-stop,
14:52by the time I'm stood on a crate on the top of the NBC building
14:55about to go live to the nation.
14:57And at the top of the show, all you have to do is one tease.
15:00OK?
15:00So it's like 10 seconds.
15:01All I have to say...
15:03..and by the way, it's January.
15:04I'm freezing cold, been awake for 27 hours,
15:08and I'm about to go live on TV,
15:09and I say, join me live in Washington, D.C.,
15:13as we follow Theresa May,
15:15the first international leader to meet Donald...
15:19..forgot his name.
15:21Literally forgot his name.
15:22And in a reach, I'm going, what's his name?
15:25Say his name.
15:26I can see my producer just crumbling behind.
15:28And I went, Trump!
15:29Like that, at the very last second.
15:31And my heart just...
15:33..and my heart just dropped into my feet.
15:36It was awful.
15:37And the thing is, the great thing about the show was, like,
15:40when we came back on air to do the item,
15:42I just went, can I just first of all say...
15:44Yeah.
15:44..I've been up for 27 hours here,
15:47and I'm so sorry I forgot the name of the president.
15:49I mean, can you imagine your first day in the job?
15:51Nightmare.
15:52What was the food like on the private plane of the...
15:55So does the British Prime Minister have, like,
15:57the equivalent of Air Force One?
15:59It's RAF Voyager.
16:01That's what they call it, so, yeah.
16:02Well, remembered.
16:03Yeah, exactly, exactly.
16:04Well, I remember it, partly because I did steal a blanket.
16:07What, did it have PM in the corner or something?
16:09Oh, no, it had the Royal Air Force badge.
16:11Maybe I'm going to get arrested after the show.
16:13I'm slightly worried about saying this.
16:15Well, I hope so.
16:16It'll be good for the ratings.
16:17OK, fine.
16:17Excellent.
16:17Thank you very much, Ranbir Singh.
16:20APPLAUSE
16:23I'm good to have a playing story
16:24as we started talking about the film we're playing.
16:26OK, our challenger, Stacey,
16:28well, she's not worried about being in national TV.
16:31She's ten points up on our film.
16:33And you're choosing these letters, champ.
16:35Can I have a consonant, please?
16:37Thank you, Phil.
16:38R.
16:38And the second one, please, Rachel.
16:41J.
16:42And the third one, please.
16:44S.
16:44A vowel, please.
16:46E.
16:46And another vowel.
16:49E.
16:49And a third vowel, please.
16:51A.
16:53Consonant, please.
16:54R.
16:56And a consonant.
16:57T.
16:59And a vowel, please.
17:02And a final I.
17:04And here we go again.
17:36Phil.
17:37Six.
17:38Oh, Stacey.
17:39Very dodgy eight.
17:41Phil.
17:41Arrest.
17:42And for Stacey.
17:43Jarius.
17:44Is that illegal?
17:46It is, I'm afraid.
17:48Jarring is in the dictionary, but not jari.
17:50I'm so sorry.
17:51Ranbir, what did you spot?
17:53It's what you have to do on live TV, which is re-arise.
17:56Once you've been sunken low, you have to re-arise.
17:59Absolutely.
18:00That's all seven, but you've got one better.
18:01Yeah, there is an eight there.
18:03Arteries.
18:04Arteries.
18:04Oh, wow.
18:05Very good.
18:06I spotted you.
18:06I got it.
18:07I didn't get that.
18:08Ah, yes.
18:09Arteries.
18:09Fantastic.
18:11OK.
18:11Let's get back to it.
18:13Stacey, your letters.
18:14Can I please have a consonant?
18:16Thank you, Stacey.
18:42And lastly, R.
18:44And start the clock.
19:14We'll see you next time.
19:14We'll see you next time.
19:16Stacey?
19:17Er, six, not written down.
19:19And Phil? Eight. And an eight. What's the six?
19:21Stacey? Tongue. Tongue is there.
19:24And Phil? Outgrown.
19:25Well-spotted, yeah. Well done, Phil. Excellent.
19:27Brilliant, brilliant.
19:29APPLAUSE
19:30Two rounds on the bounce to get your lead back.
19:33Just four points, though. Talk to me, Dick's Recorder.
19:36We can say no more, cos that was ours, too.
19:38Let's get more numbers, then. Phil?
19:40Two large and four small, please, Rachel.
19:42Thank you, Phil. Two large, four little coming up.
19:45And for this round, the small ones are one, two, five and six.
19:51And the large, 250 and 100.
19:54And the target, 635.
19:57635. Numbers up.
20:29635, Phil? 635.
20:32And Stacey? 635.
20:33You got it. Well done. Off you go, Phil.
20:356 times 100.
20:37600.
20:37Add the 50.
20:38650.
20:39And then 1 plus 2 is 3.
20:41Yeah.
20:41Multiply by the 5.
20:428 is 15.
20:44Is that right?
20:45Thanks.
20:47APPLAUSE
20:50Sensational tea time teaser for you now.
20:52Sore limb.
20:53Sore limb.
20:55And the clue is, becomes involved in conflict over how the Bond character cooks.
21:01Becomes involved in conflict over how the Bond character cooks.
21:25The character was Em, and Em broils, Em broils.
21:32I suppose if you did that, it would come out al dentia.
21:36Yeah, didn't deserve that laugh, thank you.
21:39Sympathy laughs I will take.
21:40More letters from Stacey.
21:42Can I please have a consonant?
21:44Thank you, Stacey.
21:46H.
21:47A vowel, please.
21:49E.
21:50A consonant.
21:52N.
21:53A consonant.
21:54R.
21:56A vowel.
21:57I.
21:58A consonant.
21:59S.
22:01A consonant.
22:03Y.
22:04I.
22:04A vowel.
22:06E.
22:08And a consonant, please.
22:10And lastly, D.
22:12Judy Dent.
22:13Oh, forget it.
22:14I.
22:15A consonant.
22:43E diaphragm.
22:44Pulled out all the Give Club.
22:45Stacey? Seven. Seven from you. Well done. Phil? Six.
22:49And a six. The six is? Shiner. Are you going to retake the lead
22:52and give Phil a black eye? Stacey? Shrined? Shrined.
22:55Brilliant. Fantastic. We've got another couple, haven't we? Yes.
22:59Henry's? Yes. Not hooray Henry's or anything, but in physics,
23:03Henry is the SI unit of inductance. There you go.
23:06And one more for you. Yeah, Hinders. And Hinders.
23:09Maybe Stacey is doing some of this, too. Yeah. Yeah, it's real.
23:12Hinders is up there. Very topsy-turvy, isn't it? It's all over the places.
23:15Fantastic letters, actually. It'll be good to get a crucial second show
23:18in the new series, wouldn't it? We'll see. Five rounds to go, Phil.
23:21Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel? Thank you, Phil. Pete?
23:25And another one, please. N. And a third one, please.
23:30S. And a vowel, please. A. And another vowel.
23:35I. And another one. U. A consonant, please. G.
23:41E. And another consonant. V. And a vowel, please. And lastly, O.
23:50Let's play.
23:51See you next time.
23:52Good evening.
24:14Hello.
24:14Bye-bye.
24:15Bye-bye.
24:16Bye-bye.
24:16Bye-bye.
24:17Bye-bye.
24:20Bye-bye.
24:22Phil?
24:22Seven.
24:23And for you, Stacey?
24:25Seven.
24:25Seven. What have we got, Phil?
24:26Pausing.
24:27Pausing and Stacey...
24:29Thanks.
24:31And what about Ranbir and Susie?
24:33We have pausing as well, vaping, lots of things there.
24:36Is souping there?
24:37Souping would be there, yeah, absolutely,
24:39to increase the power and efficiency of something.
24:41Why do we say that?
24:42It's almost like we need a feature called Origins of Words
24:45where we could write all of these down
24:47and then once a day Susie could inform us about it.
24:50Oh, here we go.
24:51OK, well, I'm adding it to my list.
24:54You won't get it today because today I'm going to try
24:56and answer an email from Ian Montgomery in High Wycombe
24:59who asked if I can investigate the various usages of the word nick.
25:04So, he continues,
25:05It would be good, for example, if I could nick into the queue of enquiries
25:08just in the nick of time in case there's a small nick in the connection
25:11or if someone has nicked the dictionary
25:13so the police will tell them you're nicked
25:15and they might end up in the nick.
25:17And they all do revolve around a central theme
25:21and they go back centuries.
25:23So, the sort of original sense of nick as a verb
25:26was to strike something or to hit a target.
25:29It's a relative of knock and similar words.
25:32And that gave us the idea of you're nicked
25:34because when you are nicked by the police
25:36they have got their target, if you like.
25:39It's very similar to cop, actually, in copper
25:41because cop comes from an old dialect word meaning to capture.
25:45It's a relative of capture.
25:46So, it's the same idea.
25:48And then a few decades later in Australian slang
25:50you get the idea of being in the nick
25:52because you have been nicked.
25:54So, that's the extension of that theme.
25:55And then the idea of a target
25:57also gave us nick as a groove or a cut
26:01probably because, and I talked about this quite recently,
26:05in sort of taverns and things centuries ago
26:07they would keep score of either like a tab, a bar tab
26:11or if they were playing games within the tavern,
26:14pub sports, that kind of thing.
26:15They would make a little notch on a tally stick.
26:18And so, here you've got the sort of targets
26:20literally scored into the tally stick
26:23is what gave us top notch, which is what I was talking about.
26:26So, that nick as a groove or a cut gave us
26:28I've nicked my finger.
26:30So, it seemed a long way off but that is connected.
26:34And also you get the idea of quality.
26:37Perhaps in the idea of the tally stick
26:38you get my car's in good nick, for example.
26:41In the nick of time you get the idea of the tiny cut,
26:45a really precise target
26:46so you get to something at a really critical moment.
26:50And then two more things for you.
26:51Old nick, name for the devil.
26:54Either goes back to Niccolo Machiavelli
26:56who was the Italian statesman who...
26:59I don't think he was maybe a little bit unscrupulous
27:01so perhaps a bit unfair to make him evil like the devil
27:05but that's maybe where it comes from.
27:07If not iniquity, which was a character in old morality plays
27:11and Nick became the abbreviation.
27:14And finally you get the nickname
27:15which has nothing to do with Nick whatsoever.
27:17It was an eke name, E-K-E,
27:20which means an additional name.
27:22But the N migrated to the eke
27:23and it became a nickname.
27:25Sensational.
27:29And what a game we have.
27:31We've handed out 101 points
27:33and there's just three points in it.
27:35Our challenger, Stacey Burke,
27:37our postie, is slightly ahead
27:40but will she deliver when it matters?
27:43Let's find out.
27:44A consonant, please.
27:45Thank you, Stacey.
27:46M.
27:47A consonant.
27:49D.
27:50A vowel.
27:51I.
27:52A consonant.
27:55N.
27:56A vowel.
27:57O.
27:59A vowel.
28:01A.
28:02A consonant.
28:04B.
28:05A consonant.
28:07H.
28:08And a vowel, please.
28:10And lastly, E.
28:13Kind time.
28:13A vowel.
28:15A vowel, please.
28:45Stacey?
28:45Six.
28:46Six from you, and Phil?
28:48Seven.
28:48Seven.
28:49Stacey, the six?
28:50Moaned.
28:51Moaned, and Phil?
28:53No, sorry, I've gone wrong.
28:54Oh, you've gone wrong.
28:55Well, you can moan about that.
28:57Six more points for Stacey to Dictionary Corner.
29:00Here we go.
29:00Yeah, we've got an eight.
29:02Bohemian.
29:03Bohemian?
29:03A lovely name word, that, isn't it, yeah.
29:05You've left us in rhapsody as we get back to the letters.
29:09And Phil, last letters round, you're nine behind now.
29:12Can I have a consonant, please?
29:14Thank you, Phil.
29:15N.
29:16And a consonant.
29:18F.
29:19And another one, please.
29:21D.
29:23And a vowel.
29:24A.
29:26And another vowel.
29:27O.
29:28And another vowel, please.
29:30A.
29:31A consonant, please.
29:33L.
29:34And a consonant.
29:36C.
29:37And a vowel, please.
29:39And the last one.
29:40I.
29:41And last letters.
29:43And a vowel, please.
29:46And a vowel, please.
29:47And a vowel, please.
30:00And a vowel, please.
30:01And a vowel, please.
30:02And a vowel, please.
30:02And a vowel, please.
30:02And a vowel, please.
30:02And a vowel, please.
30:02And a vowel, please.
30:03And a vowel, please.
30:04And a vowel, please.
30:11And a vowel, please.
30:13Phil Campbell? Six.
30:15Stacey Burke? Six. Six each.
30:17OK, Phil. Facial. And Stacey? Falcon.
30:21Falcon and facial. Very good indeed.
30:23Very nice. Very nice indeed. Is six as good as it gets?
30:26Yeah, it was for us. We had a flak on.
30:28You might have a flak on of perfume, one of those struppin' bottles.
30:32But six was the best. Yeah.
30:34All right. Well, I can smell a crucial countdown conundrum,
30:36but not quite yet. Nine points in at Stacey.
30:39Last numbers. What are you going to do?
30:43Too large, please. Too large.
30:46Four little. Potential crucial conundrum.
30:49Let's see. Final numbers of the day.
30:51Nine, two, one, four, 75 and 50.
30:57And the final target, 465.
31:00465. Numbers up.
31:31Time up. Pen's down.
31:33465. Stacey?
31:35I think I've got it, but I've not written it down.
31:37Phil? 465.
31:38Off you go, Stacey.
31:4050 times 9.
31:4250 times 9.
31:45450.
31:474 plus 1 is 5.
31:4975 divided by the 5 is your 15.
31:53And then add it on.
31:53You do have it indeed.
31:55And Phil?
31:56That's the way I did it.
31:57Yes.
32:00Well, there it is.
32:02It's 74.65 and you know what that means.
32:07It's time to find out if our postie Stacey Burke is the full package.
32:12Or will our champion, Robert Stamp, a famous fifth victory?
32:17Let's reveal this crucial countdown conundrum.
32:49And with that, we have a new champion.
32:52APPLAUSE
32:55But it was done and it was such stress, that one.
32:59Nobody gets it.
33:01Yes, here we go.
33:02Rachel?
33:03Well, today's show culminated in victory for Stacey.
33:05I think it's culminate.
33:07Culminate.
33:07Let's have a look.
33:09It is.
33:09Well done.
33:12Ah, culminate it is.
33:13My goodness.
33:14Phil, you're looking for anything to have a guess, aren't you?
33:15I know.
33:16I was nowhere near that.
33:18Yeah.
33:18No.
33:18Yeah, absolutely.
33:19Listen, four wins.
33:21A little disappointed, a little happy?
33:22No.
33:23It's gone much better than last time anyway, when I was only on once.
33:27So, yeah, I'm happy with the four.
33:29Stacey, you're at home.
33:31I say, come on, we're not getting enough women entering countdown.
33:34Your husband goes, come on, have a go.
33:36He dared you.
33:37Who's laughing now, eh, champion?
33:40Can't quite believe it, to be honest.
33:42Skin of my teeth.
33:42You've got to change chairs tomorrow.
33:44Why not?
33:44Why not octo-champ?
33:45Why not series champion?
33:47Oh, what a story that would be.
33:49Well done, Stacey.
33:51APPLAUSE
33:52An eventful first week of Series 90, and seeing it in with Ranveer Singh has been fantastic.
33:58See you tomorrow.
33:59Definitely.
34:00And you, Suze, all the best.
34:01Yes, you too.
34:02Right, there you go.
34:03All done for the day, Rich?
34:05Yep, Stacey certainly delivered today.
34:07Absolutely.
34:07Back tomorrow.
34:09And unlike some of Stacey's letters, we will be in time.
34:11Sorry, Stacey.
34:12You can count on us.
34:14You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com.
34:19You can also find our webpage at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
34:25APPLAUSE
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