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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30Good afternoon. Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio. Here we are, July. Fantastic.
00:37And we can spend the evenings outside in the balmy, balmy dusk and then you hear that terrible
00:45as the mosquito approaches. Rachel, you know the sound? And you say, oh no.
00:51But the solution is dubstep music. Dubstep. You familiar with it? It's up and down.
00:58No, but apparently the mosquitoes, they shy away. They don't care for it. Right.
01:04And actually it staunches their bloodthirsty nature apparently and their bloodfeeding activity.
01:09So it's a toss up then. It's either be bitten or listen to the dubstep. I've got no idea
01:15what dubstep is. Are you familiar with it? I think the dubstep will keep me as well as
01:20the mosquitoes away actually. Is that right? It's not my favourite genre.
01:23Let's turn to our contestants and see whether they've heard of it. Tom Silverlock is back.
01:29Seven wins under your belt. Do you know about this dubstep business?
01:32I haven't got a clue, Nick. Sorry. You haven't heard it?
01:35No, I've never heard of it.
01:36All right. Let's ask your co-competitor here, Amy McClemmond from Glasgow. Are you familiar
01:44with dubstep? Similar to Rachel. I know of it, but not a dubstep fan.
01:48Who's listening to this dubstep then? Nobody here apparently. Amy, you're in Glasgow. You work
01:56as a disability communications manager for a big financial services outfit. How does it work?
02:02What's your job actually? That's right. So the team that I work in looks after the disability
02:08strategy for the company and I do the communications. So internal articles, awareness days, events,
02:14things like that. Good. And for employees as well as customers of that organisation.
02:19Yes. Yep. That's right. Good for you. Good for you. Have a lot of fun. Good luck to you
02:23both. Big round of applause for Tom and Amy. And over in Dictionary Corner, Susie Denton. Next
02:34to her, Springwatch presenter, Michaela Strachan. Welcome back, Michaela.
02:38Thank you. Okay. Tom, it's the big day today. Here we are. It's a Monday. It could be an
02:49octochamp at the end of it. I could be, yeah. Or not. Or not, yeah. There we are. Have
02:54a go. See what happens. Have a go. It's a letters game. Hi, Rachel. Hi, Tom. Can I have a
02:59consonant, please? Thank you. Start the week with T. And another one. C. And a vowel. A. And
03:10a consonant. D. And a vowel. E. And a consonant. G. And a vowel. O. And a consonant. L. And
03:26a
03:26foul. And the last one. You. And here's the countdown clock.
04:01Well, Tom? I've got a seven. A seven. Amy? Just a five. And your five is? Acted. Acted. Tom?
04:11Gloated. And gloated. Yes. Nice seven. And what of the corner? Michaela? I don't think we've
04:19got anything more than seven. Located. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Um, Kigal is there. And a gel coat.
04:26The smooth, uh, polyester resin surface that you'll find on fiberglass. Gel coat. Gel coat?
04:32Mm. Good for you. Sound like a DIYer there. Seven points for Tom. Amy, it's your letters
04:39game. Hi, Rachel. Hi, Amy. Start with a consonant, please. Thank you. Start with S. And another.
04:47M. And another. M. And a vowel, please. I. Another vowel. E. And a consonant, please. K. Consonant. N. And
05:07a
05:07vowel, please. A. And a consonant. And the last one. M. Standby.
05:16M. And a vowel, please.
05:20Okay.
05:25Okay.
05:45Let's do the same.
05:47Amy?
05:48Five.
05:49And Tom?
05:50Five.
05:52Amy?
05:52Sneak.
05:54Yes, Tom?
05:55Makes.
05:56Thank you very much.
05:56OK, and over in the corner, Susie, Michaela?
05:59Well, sticking to the wildlife theme, I got snake.
06:02Well done.
06:03But we did actually get one with seven, which was kinsman.
06:06Kinsman, yeah.
06:0712 plays, five.
06:09Tom in the lead at the moment.
06:11And now, Tom, it's your numbers game.
06:13Can I have one large and five small plays?
06:15You can indeed.
06:17Thank you, Tom.
06:17One from the top five.
06:18Little, start the week with nine, six, one, three, seven, and 50.
06:27And the target, 427.
06:30427.
07:01Yes, Tom?
07:02426, not written down.
07:04426.
07:06Amy?
07:07428.
07:07And 428.
07:10So, Tom?
07:11That's nine times 50.
07:13Nine, 50 is 450.
07:16And, which is 4 for 6 times 3 is 18.
07:20Yep.
07:23Minus 7.
07:25From the 18?
07:27Sorry, add them to, take the 18 off to 450.
07:30For 4, 3, 2, minus 7, 4, 4, 2, 5.
07:35And then add the 1.
07:37And that's 1 away, yep.
07:40Amy?
07:41So, 9 times 50.
07:44950 is 450.
07:467 times 3.
07:4721.
07:49Take that from the 450.
07:514, 2, 9.
07:52And minus the 1.
07:53And that's 1 the other way.
07:54Well done.
07:55What we've got here, Rachel, is a straddler.
07:58Yes.
07:58Can you get in the middle of it?
08:00I can hit the spot.
08:01If you say 7 plus 1 is 8, times 50 is 400.
08:08And then 3 times 9 gives you 27 to add on for 427.
08:12Ah, super.
08:13Thank you, Rachel.
08:18Perfect.
08:19Perfect.
08:20Now it's time for our first two-time teaser, which is macro ring.
08:24And the clue, this semi-precious stone sounds like it's come from the mountains.
08:28This semi-precious stone sounds like it's come from the mountains.
08:48Well, welcome back.
08:49I left you with a clue.
08:50This semi-precious stone sounds like it's come from the mountains.
08:54And they are true.
08:56It's Cairngorm.
08:58Susie, Cairngorm.
08:59Tell us a little bit about this.
09:01It's another term for, it sounds beautiful, smoky quartz, which is a semi-precious variety
09:07of quartz.
09:07And the colour is anything from light greyish brown to nearly black.
09:12Cairngorm.
09:12Named after the mountains.
09:14Exactly.
09:15We'll look out for that.
09:1719 plays 12.
09:18Amy on 12.
09:19Well done.
09:20Amy, your letters game.
09:22Consonant, please, Rachel.
09:24Thank you, Amy.
09:24V.
09:25And another.
09:27T.
09:28And another.
09:31N.
09:32And a vowel, please.
09:34O.
09:35And a consonant, please.
09:38C.
09:40A vowel.
09:41E.
09:44Another consonant, please.
09:46R.
09:48A vowel.
09:50I.
09:52And a consonant, please.
09:54And lastly, S.
09:57Stand by.
09:59And a consonant, please.
10:28And a consonant, please.
10:28And a consonant, please.
10:29Well, Amy?
10:30Risky eight.
10:32A risky eight.
10:34Tom?
10:34I've got an eight.
10:36A firm eight?
10:37Yep.
10:38Amy?
10:39Evictors.
10:40Evictors and?
10:42Converts.
10:43And converts.
10:45Er, converts definitely there, as are.
10:48Evictors, somebody who expels someone else from a property.
10:51Yep, very good.
10:52Well done.
10:54APPLAUSE
10:57That was a bit of a win, wasn't it?
10:59Well done, Amy.
11:01What about the eight from the corner, then?
11:04We managed to get it up to nine.
11:06No.
11:07Yes.
11:07We've done contrives.
11:10Contrives?
11:11Contrives.
11:12Very good.
11:15Contrives.
11:16Contrives to make a nine.
11:18Yes, exactly.
11:19Seven points in it.
11:2027 to 20.
11:21Well done, Amy.
11:22Now then, Tom.
11:24You might have a fight on your hands.
11:25Can I have a consonant, please?
11:28Thank you, Tom.
11:29R.
11:30And a vowel?
11:32U.
11:33And a consonant?
11:35Z.
11:36And a vowel?
11:38I.
11:39And a consonant?
11:41G.
11:43And a vowel?
11:45A.
11:46And a consonant?
11:48R.
11:49And a vowel?
11:52E.
11:53And a consonant?
11:55And lastly, T.
11:57And it's Countdown.
11:59You're the one.
12:28You're the one.
12:29Well done, ma'am.
12:29yes Tom six Amy six Tom six gutter and gyrate and gyrate oh okay um gyrate
12:42needs a Y unfortunately and there's only one two for gutter yeah so I have to
12:48disallow both sorry but that was a bit of a flop then what's the corner good we
12:55did get grazier grazier yeah so we finally we did yes we started with grazer
13:02and then put an eye in it and a grazier is a person who rears cattle sheep for
13:06market thank you all right so 27 plays 20 no movement there and it's Amy's
13:12numbers game Amy two large and four small please thank you me two from the
13:17top row and four not and for this round we have two five six another two and
13:25the large ones one hundred and fifty and the target three hundred and forty one
13:30three four one
13:33so
13:35so
14:02well Amy three four two and Tom three four one
14:07three four two both of you okay Amy off we go five minus two is three times a
14:14hundred three hundred add the fifty three fifty and then minus the six and the
14:19remaining two yep one away well done and Tom I've got fifty plus five plus two times
14:25six yeah fifty plus five plus two fifty seven times six same result well done not
14:32quite there though Rachel what you reckon three four one I found a way if you say six divided
14:38by two is three 100 minus three is ninety seven five minus the other two is another three times
14:46those together for two hundred and ninety one and add on the fifty for three four one
14:50oh perfect
14:51thank you
14:54that's wonderful
14:56so thirty forty twenty seven
14:59Tom just in the lead as we turn to Michaela Michaela spring watch
15:04it's a lovely show
15:05what's the sort of
15:06what's most frequently asked of you
15:09what question pops up more than any other
15:12yeah I think the thing is um spring watch by the second week always turns into death watch
15:18you know we're watching all these great animals and by week two everything's eaten everything else
15:22and so um one of the things we get asked a lot is you know why don't we do anything
15:28to save the wildlife
15:29and it's a question that a lot of people in natural history filmmaking get asked and it's a really difficult
15:34one
15:34because we always say we you know we're not Disney fine nature we don't we can't change what is happening
15:41and you can feel very empathetic towards the the predator and the prey but you can't interfere with it
15:49and there have been times where we have been sitting in meetings
15:53and we have taken you know an hour to discuss should we help that creature
15:59and I think we've only done it once
16:01and it was when we had and I can't remember I think they were blue tits
16:05and they were in a cone one of those traffic cones
16:09and it was a sweet little nest and they were nesting in the bottom of this traffic cone
16:12and then we obviously realized we put a little camera inside that there was no way those chicks
16:17were going to be able to fly up and out of the cone
16:20and we thought this is a man-made thing
16:24and a predator is unlikely to be able to get into that cone
16:29and actually make use of those dead chicks
16:31because that's what you've got to think
16:32those dead chicks are going to feed something else that will help their young
16:35and so we actually did put a little hole a bit further down
16:39and something in there so those chicks could get out
16:42but as I say we discussed it for an hour this dilemma
16:45and it's always a big dilemma
16:48you know it's the circle of life
16:49and it's when you put cameras on it that you see it
16:52that sort of thing goes on every spring
16:54it's going on all the time
16:56and as I say you can feel very empathetic
16:58towards anything that's being eaten and doesn't make it
17:01but you think of the benefit that has to the animal that it's being fed to
17:05that's perfectly put
17:11I'm very wise
17:13and I'm glad you drilled a little hole in that traffic cone
17:16because you're right otherwise for what
17:19you know
17:19yeah
17:2034 to 27 Tom in the lead
17:22Tom your letters game
17:24can I have a consonant please
17:26thank you Tom
17:26D
17:28and another one
17:31L
17:31and a vowel
17:32O
17:34and a consonant
17:36T
17:37and a vowel
17:38I
17:40and a consonant
17:41D
17:43and a vowel
17:44A
17:46and a vowel
17:47O
17:49and a consonant
17:51and lastly H
17:53standby
17:54and a vowel
18:22B
18:23and aевой
18:24and a vowel
18:25Yes, Tom?
18:26Five.
18:27A five. Amy?
18:29Just a four.
18:30And your four?
18:31Halt.
18:33Yes, sir?
18:34Tidal.
18:35Happy enough?
18:35Yes.
18:36Can we match it?
18:37Michaela, Susie, match it?
18:39Well, we came up with a bit of an odd one.
18:42Duda.
18:43Duda?
18:44When you can't name something precisely, like thingamajig, you might call it a doodah.
18:49Duda.
18:5039 plays 27.
18:52Tom on 39.
18:53Amy, your letters came.
18:55I'll start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
18:57Thank you, Amy.
18:58T.
18:58And another.
19:01L.
19:02And another.
19:04C.
19:05And a vowel, please.
19:07E.
19:09And another.
19:10U.
19:11And another.
19:13A.
19:14And a consonant, please.
19:16Y.
19:18Another consonant.
19:20D.
19:21And a final consonant, please.
19:25A final.
19:27H.
19:29Stand by.
19:29doctor,л.
19:31And another.
19:45Here's your star.
19:46And aéré.
19:53I.
19:55Dolar.
19:55Are you?
19:57Dolar.
19:58Here we go.
20:00Amy?
20:01Seven.
20:02A seven, Tom?
20:03Six.
20:05And your six?
20:06Halted.
20:07Amy?
20:08Latched.
20:10Very nice.
20:10And latched.
20:11Yes.
20:12Over in the corner?
20:13I would say, from Tom, there might be a deathly silence coming up.
20:18Deathly, well done.
20:19Deathly, yeah.
20:20And, Susie, anything else?
20:22No, that's brilliant.
20:23Deathly, a seven.
20:24Well done.
20:25And now, Tom, it's your numbers game.
20:27Can I have one large and five small, please?
20:29You can indeed.
20:30The last time from you for a while.
20:32Thank you, Tom.
20:32One large, five, little.
20:33And these numbers are nine, ten, three, five.
20:39Another ten, and a large one, 100.
20:42And this target, 902.
20:45902.
21:16Well, Tom?
21:18900 and so.
21:20902, Amy?
21:21902.
21:23Okay, then.
21:24Tom?
21:26Nine times 100.
21:28900.
21:28Plus five, minus three.
21:29Yeah, I'll save the income on this one.
21:31And, Amy, do you struggle with that one?
21:32Same way.
21:33Yeah, thank you.
21:3849 to 44, as we turn to our second Tea Time teaser, which is Willful Stye.
21:46And the clue.
21:47He played a game of cards with a feeling of regretful longing.
21:51He played a game of cards with a feeling of regretful longing.
22:12Welcome back.
22:13I left with a clue.
22:14He played a game of cards with a feeling of regretful longing.
22:18And the answer to that is...
22:22Wistfully.
22:23Wistfully.
22:23So, 49 to 44, wow, close to one thing.
22:28Tom on 49, it's Amy's letters game.
22:30Amy.
22:31Can I have a consonant, please?
22:32Thank you, Amy.
22:34T.
22:34And another.
22:36N.
22:37And a vowel, please.
22:39E.
22:40And another.
22:42I.
22:43And another.
22:45O.
22:46Another vowel, please.
22:48A.
22:49And a consonant.
22:51L.
22:52And another.
22:54S.
22:55And a final consonant, please.
22:58And a final N.
23:00Stand by.
23:01The.
23:02And another.
23:03And another.
23:32Amy?
23:33Seven.
23:34A seven.
23:35Tom?
23:37I'll go with a seven, yeah.
23:39Amy?
23:40Elation.
23:42Elation.
23:42And?
23:43I've got a sign.
23:44And elation.
23:46Michaela and Susie?
23:47Yes.
23:48What have you got?
23:49We were hoping for tonalise.
23:51That wasn't there for eight.
23:52But there is a nine.
23:54There, in fact.
23:56Yes?
23:56Which is tensional.
23:59Tensional?
23:59Mm.
24:00Oh, the tensional strength of steel.
24:02Yes, exactly.
24:03Or you might talk about tensional cracks in steel.
24:07Or tensional stresses.
24:09OK.
24:10Yeah, that kind of thing.
24:12Oh, good.
24:15Tension.
24:1756 to 51.
24:20Tom, your letters again.
24:22Can I have a foul, please?
24:24Thank you, Tom.
24:25E.
24:26And a consonant.
24:29S.
24:30And a vowel.
24:31U.
24:32And a consonant.
24:34S.
24:35And a vowel.
24:37I.
24:39And a consonant.
24:41M.
24:42And a consonant.
24:44D.
24:45And a consonant.
24:47R.
24:49And a vowel.
24:50And a vowel.
24:51And a last one.
24:52A.
24:53And here's the countdown clock.
24:55Like,
24:56And a vowel.
24:58And a vowel.
25:24We'll be shopping.
25:25well Tom seven Amy seven yes Tom misused and the same word and misused
25:38excellent players and in the corner we got a couple of eights we got misreads
25:45yes and surmised yes surmised thank you for that 63 to 58 they're clinging on to
25:55each other these two as we break for Susie and her wonderful origins of words
26:00yes Susie well I will often say that one of my favorite etymologies favorite word
26:05origins is that of toadying up to somebody so being incredibly obsequious
26:11and servile and a little bit slimy so you might think that sliminess is where the
26:16connection comes in with the toad but actually it's not it goes back to quacks
26:21or charlatans who would hope to sell their medicinal their wonderful potions
26:26at fairgrounds in medieval market towns and they would gather a huge crowd and
26:31they would get their assistant to swallow a toad that at that point was supposed to
26:35be poisonous or believed to be poisonous and then he would cure cure his assistant
26:42by giving him one of his medicinal wares and he would be miraculously recovered
26:46and all would be fine so it was a way of sort of selling these supposedly fantastic
26:51medicines and because the assistant was seen as being completely fawning to the charlatan himself
26:56to toady up to somebody came from that routine that toad eating routine so I was remembering that the
27:02other day as it happens and I was thinking about other expressions that we get from carnivals and
27:07fairgrounds because there are many in English if you knock the spots off someone again you might think that
27:13comes from the animal world or the animal kingdom it doesn't actually began in the
27:17America in the mid-1800s and carnivals commonplace really popular all over the
27:22country and the most popular sideshow was the shooting gallery and all comers
27:27would test their skills of markmanship and the most used target for this was a
27:33playing card which of course has got sort of spots on so to speak to mark the suit of the
27:37card and so the
27:38object was to shoot through all the spots and remove as many of them as possible so they could
27:43knock all all the spots off the card that way they would win a prize and that's where we get
27:47that
27:47expression from and also that's where we get close but no cigar from as well goes back to those side
27:53shows and those American carnivals and quite often a big fat cigar was the desirable prize if you
27:59managed to knock the spots off the cards or win a prize and indeed in any of the other side
28:03shows
28:04and if you didn't manage it you might have been close but you didn't get the cigar
28:1463 plays 58 Tom on 63 Amy Amy you're giving him a real run for his money it's your letters
28:22game
28:22a consonant please thank you Amy n and another c and a third ah and a vowel please oh and
28:34if I will you
28:36and another I and a consonant please w and another ah and a vowel please and the last one e
28:49standby
28:51you
29:06so
29:22Amy. Just a five. A five. Tom. Seven. And Amy? Ounce. Tom. Cornea. Yes, very nice. Cornea, well done.
29:33Yeah. Well done. Michaela, Susie? We also got Cornea, but courier. As in deliver the parcels? Yeah, seven. Anything else?
29:44No, that's it. Thank you. 70 to 58. Tom. Tom, your letters came. Can I have a consonant, please? Thank
29:52you, Tom. P. And another one? R. And a vowel? A. And a consonant?
30:03W. And a vowel? O. And a consonant? R. And a vowel? I. And a consonant? S. And a vowel?
30:18And the last one? A. Stand by.
30:52We'll see you next time.
30:53Yes, Tom? I've got a seven not written down. Amy? Just a four. And you're four, Amy? Rasp. Now then,
31:04Tom? Sparrow.
31:07Very well spotted. Yeah, really nice. Sparrow, well done. One for Michaela, that. And in the corner?
31:14There was another seven, not nearly as nice as Sparrow. Aporias. A-P-O-R-I-A-S. Irresolvable internal
31:21contradictions in text, arguments, or a theory.
31:25Oh, right. Aporias. Well, thanks for that. And now it's the final numbers game. Amy?
31:31Can I have two large and four small, please? Is that the gamble? You're 19 behind. You can still spoil
31:36Tom's fun.
31:36I'll go for it. I'll go for two large. Go for two large. Give it a try. See what we
31:40end up with. Tom's glaring at me.
31:42Let's see. The final numbers are five, two, seven, ten. And the large one's 50 and 25. And the target,
31:52168.
31:53One, six, eight.
32:21One, six, eight.
32:25Amy?
32:26One, seven, two.
32:28One, seven, two. Tom?
32:30I've got one, six, eight.
32:32Have you, by Jove? Off we go.
32:35Five minus two times 50.
32:37Five minus two, three times 50, 150.
32:4025 minus seven.
32:42Is 18.
32:43Add them together.
32:44And that guarantees your octochampton. Well done.
32:46Look at that.
32:47Well done.
32:49Well done.
32:52Well done, Tom.
32:5487 plays 58.
32:56As we go into the final round, it's conundrum time, chaps.
33:00Fingers on buzzers.
33:01Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:14Tom.
33:16Overreach.
33:18Overreach.
33:19Let's see.
33:20Here we go.
33:21Overreach.
33:2297.
33:22Well done.
33:28Well done, Tom.
33:29Good man.
33:29Well done.
33:30I'll come back to you in a second.
33:31Amy, you gave him the closest run he's had for a long, long time.
33:34So well done.
33:35Well done for that.
33:36But on the day, he came through and he's an octocham.
33:39So thanks for pressing him so hard.
33:42He looked a bit worried at times there, you know.
33:44You take this goodie bag back to Glasgow and the great work you're doing.
33:48Thank you very much.
33:49Thank you very much for the great time.
33:50So there we are, Tom.
33:52An octochamp.
33:53You're coming back in the final.
33:54That's fantastic.
33:55You're going to have to put it up with me again.
33:56I know.
33:57I know.
33:58Well, it's been a pleasure.
33:59Anyway, more to come from you.
34:01Congratulations, Tom.
34:02Brilliant stuff.
34:04All right.
34:06Now, Michaela, we'll see you tomorrow.
34:08We'll see you tomorrow.
34:10And Susie, too.
34:11Yeah.
34:11All right.
34:12Brilliant stuff.
34:12And we'll see Tom at Christmas.
34:14Isn't that great?
34:15It was a while away, wasn't it?
34:17A long while away, yeah.
34:19He's good fun.
34:20Don't tell him I said that.
34:22Listen, we'll see you tomorrow.
34:23Two new contestants.
34:24See you then.
34:25That's the way.
34:26Join us then.
34:26Same time, same place.
34:28You be sure of it.
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