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00:30Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown on Wednesday, July the 17th.
00:35We're in the proper throes of summer.
00:37A lot of people lucky enough to go away on the holidays,
00:39but you still find time for Countdown.
00:42We really, really appreciate that. Thank you.
00:43Hi, Rachel. Hi, Colin.
00:45Speaking of holidays, and this one is all yours because I have never been,
00:49but I know you have.
00:501955, on this day, the first Disneyland opened its doors in Anaheim, of course.
00:56California, the original. Some would say best.
00:58And you've been.
01:00I have. I mean, it's the best place on the planet if you're a kid.
01:03And I went as a kid. I'm not taking mine yet,
01:05because I think they're probably slightly too young.
01:07But I have seen videos. I'm so excited when I get to take them.
01:10Apparently there's a rule. I don't know if it's true,
01:12but they say there's a rule that the Disney characters aren't allowed to break the hug.
01:16Listen, when your kids are hugging some random dude dressed as Goofy,
01:22you never know who's going to be inside,
01:23because they have a history of, like, you know, future famous people work at Disney World
01:28when they go to California.
01:30So Michelle Pfeiffer was Alice in Wonderland when she worked there,
01:34and the legendary Steve Martin.
01:35Yeah, I've just seen on the documentary he started in one of the comedy magic shows over there.
01:40Did indeed.
01:41Look at that. Brilliant.
01:42Right? Let's head over to the dictionary corner.
01:44No Dumbos to be found, but some would say Beauty and the Beast.
01:48Not me, but some would say Beauty and the Beast.
01:50Sorry about that, Susie.
01:52Our guardian in the dictionary, and alongside of the comedian and actor,
01:56maybe a future dancer you never know, Chris McCausland!
02:00Our champion is Fiona Wood.
02:02What a performance yesterday,
02:03because we did think John Stitcher was going to be our first octo-champ of Series 90,
02:08but maybe that's Fiona. Now pressure's on you. Welcome back.
02:13This is a weird thing to say. I love your top.
02:16Oh, thank you.
02:16It really is stunning. I think it's beautiful.
02:18I feel like I'm being over-personal with you,
02:20because we talked about you building a house yesterday.
02:23Now I'm talking about your fashion sense, which is great.
02:25And now I want to ask you about a holiday,
02:27because you've been on the Orient Express,
02:29and I haven't,
02:30because when I ask someone and they tell me it's great,
02:33and then they ask someone else and they tell me,
02:35oh, no, I didn't enjoy it.
02:36It seems to be an acquired taste.
02:37What was your experience like?
02:39It was probably the worst night's sleep I've ever had.
02:44But it's amazing, you know,
02:46the whole ambience of the train,
02:48getting dressed up for dinner in the evening,
02:50and it's just like being in an Agatha Christie movie, really.
02:53Well, listen, your train's left the station, Fiona.
02:56One win in the bag.
02:58And look who you're up against.
03:00James Train.
03:01How you doing, mate?
03:02I'm all right, thank you.
03:03That was not intended at all.
03:06You're just a recent graduate from the University of Hull.
03:08What did you study?
03:09I did computer science.
03:10Look at that.
03:11Proper brain.
03:12Proper egghead we've got in the studio here.
03:14And a big snooker fan.
03:15So you're going to be great at the maths.
03:16Who's your favourite player?
03:17Growing up, it was probably Paul Hunter,
03:19but you've got to say Ronnie,
03:21or Judd Trump was watching them,
03:22compared to other players.
03:24Yeah.
03:24You love the flair players.
03:27You know, gone obviously way too soon,
03:29but the late, great Paul Hunter,
03:31and obviously the Masters Trophy named after him.
03:33Great to get him mentioned.
03:35I love the fact he's top of your list there.
03:37That's beautiful.
03:38Love it.
03:38Well, good luck to James.
03:39Good luck to Fiona.
03:43And here we go.
03:44First time as champion, picking letters.
03:46Hi, Rachel.
03:47Hi, Fiona.
03:48A consonant, please.
03:49We start today with S.
03:52And another.
03:53F.
03:55And another.
03:57M.
03:59And a vowel, please.
04:01U.
04:03And another.
04:04E.
04:05And another.
04:07I.
04:09And a consonant.
04:11T.
04:13And another consonant.
04:15P.
04:17And a final consonant, please.
04:20And a final N.
04:21At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
04:26We'll see you next time.
04:27We'll see you next time.
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04:47We'll see you next time.
04:52We'll see you next time.
04:54And there it is, Fiona.
04:56Eight.
04:56What a start, James?
04:57Just a seven.
04:58The seven is?
04:59Punnets.
04:59Never say just.
05:00What a start that is with a seven, but the eight?
05:03Funniest.
05:03Funniest is there.
05:04Well spotted.
05:05Well spotted.
05:06There you go.
05:06Anything to add to that, Chris McCausland?
05:08No, funniest is something we all strive to be, isn't it, in this business?
05:12But no, that's it, mate.
05:14You can have punniest as well.
05:16Really?
05:16Believe it or not, that would give you an eight.
05:17The punniest and the funniest.
05:19Yeah.
05:20James, let's get your letters.
05:21Hi, Rachel.
05:22Can I have a concert?
05:22Can I have a consonant, please?
05:23You can, indeed.
05:25W.
05:25Can I have another one?
05:28F.
05:28A consonant.
05:30R.
05:31A vowel.
05:32E.
05:33Vowel.
05:35E.
05:36Vowel.
05:37A.
05:38Consonant.
05:40V.
05:41Consonant.
05:43P.
05:44And a consonant, please.
05:46And lastly, Y.
05:48And 30 seconds.
05:49And, finally, our brand ärisu.
06:20All righty, all righty, James?
06:21Just a four.
06:22A four there, and Fiona?
06:24Seven.
06:24A seven.
06:26All right, James?
06:27A wavy.
06:28Right, I wonder, is it this word?
06:29Fiona?
06:29Freeway.
06:30Yes, well spotted.
06:32Freeway, the American highway.
06:34Exactly right.
06:35Yes, and the dictionary's absolutely fine, and a really good seven.
06:38The only one we could see.
06:40Right, numbers for the first time today.
06:41Fiona?
06:42I'll have one from the top, and any other five, please.
06:45Thank you, Fiona, one large five little coming up, and for the first time today, the numbers
06:50are six, ten, five, five, nine, and the large one, 25.
06:57And the target, 566.
07:00Ooh, 566, numbers up.
07:32566, the target for you now.
07:34Oh, I've completely messed it up.
07:36Oh, it's a difficult one, James.
07:385, 7, 6, not written down.
07:41That's OK, because it would get you five points, James.
07:43Off you go.
07:44Um, five times five.
07:46Five fives, 25.
07:48Multiply that by 25.
07:50625.
07:51Uh, six times ten.
07:53Six tens of 60.
07:55Uh, take that off.
07:58For five...
07:59Oh, no, I've done it wrong.
08:00You would have got closer than you wanted to.
08:03Yeah.
08:03Five, six, five, one away.
08:05What a shame, that would have been for seven points, but still, still, very good.
08:09What about yourself, Rich?
08:09Um, yes, well, if you say nine times six is 54, times that by ten for 540, then you can
08:18add on the 25, and you have five over five left over for one.
08:23Five, six, six.
08:24Brilliant.
08:26There you go.
08:28You thwarted chartered accountancy and computer science.
08:31Well done, Rachel.
08:31Uh, first Tea Town teaser of the day is Ace Mould.
08:35Ace Mould.
08:37If you get this, it'll be down to muscle memory.
08:40If you get this, it'll be down to muscle memory.
08:51APPLAUSE
08:58Welcome back.
08:59If you get this, it'll be down to muscle memory, but it's M-U-S-S-E-L,
09:03cos it's a muclade.
09:05A muclade?
09:06A muclade.
09:07A muclade.
09:08Uh, it was straight from, uh, French, and it is muscles in cream.
09:12Simple as that.
09:13Yeah.
09:13I like it.
09:14I'm going to have muscles.
09:15I like the, uh...
09:17Marinier.
09:17..the white wine and the garlic.
09:20Beautiful.
09:20Really nice.
09:21What about you?
09:22I don't...
09:22I'm veggie, so I don't have them.
09:25Good point.
09:26But I like the chips.
09:27I like the chips that often go with milk.
09:29You're not having any more chips.
09:30Isn't there a loophole with muscles where they're not considered a living thing or something?
09:34I think there's a loophole I've heard used by a vegetarian in the past.
09:38OK.
09:40No, I'll just stick with the fruit.
09:41I love the fact there might be vegetarian loopholes.
09:44Oh, they use them all the time, Colin.
09:47I'm sure it's a pretty hard and fast rule in the vegetarian.
09:51Right.
09:53James, let's get more letters.
09:54Can I have a consonant, please?
09:56Thank you, James.
09:57S.
09:58And another, please.
09:58N.
10:00Another.
10:02H.
10:03A vowel, please.
10:05I.
10:06Vowel.
10:07E.
10:08A vowel.
10:09A.
10:10Consonant.
10:12R.
10:14Consonant.
10:15G.
10:16And a vowel, please.
10:18And lastly, I.
10:21All right, thank you, Rachel.
10:53Time's up.
10:54James.
10:55At eight.
10:55Well done.
10:56And Fiona?
10:56Eight.
10:57What have you got?
10:58Sharing.
10:58Sharing, yes.
10:59And the same.
11:00And sharing.
11:01That's what we're hearing.
11:03And we've got eight points.
11:05Well done.
11:05Dictionary corner.
11:06I got lost in that.
11:07Oh, hearings.
11:09Yeah.
11:09You can have it for another eight.
11:10But I couldn't get to the magic nine.
11:12OK.
11:1223 plays eight.
11:14Well done, James.
11:15Champ, you're picking these letters.
11:16I'll have a consonant, please.
11:18Thank you, Fiona.
11:19K.
11:20And another.
11:22S.
11:23And a vowel, please.
11:25O.
11:26And another.
11:28U.
11:29And a consonant.
11:30R.
11:33And another.
11:35G.
11:37And a vowel, please.
11:39A.
11:41And a consonant.
11:43B.
11:44And a final consonant.
11:47And a final D.
11:49And start the clap.
11:50And a vowel, please.
12:08And a vowel, please.
12:08And a vowel, please.
12:08And a vowel, please.
12:08And a vowel, please.
12:09And a vowel, please.
12:09And a vowel, please.
12:10And a vowel, please.
12:21And that is time. Fiona?
12:23Seven. Well done. And James?
12:25I'll risk a seven, then. Yeah, you gotta.
12:27Fiona? Brogues. And James?
12:29I've gone for brogued.
12:30Ooh, brogues and then brogued?
12:33Yes, you can make it be broad brogued, have a strong accent,
12:36but you can't actually have brogued on its own,
12:39which I'm really surprised by.
12:40I would have thought it'd be there, so bad luck, James.
12:43Chris McCausland, apart from brogues?
12:45Well, I have been on a podcast this year
12:49by a wonderful human being and friend of Susie's
12:52and this show, Giles Brandreth,
12:53who's got a podcast called Rosebud.
12:56And that's up there.
12:57Beautiful word as well. It is.
12:59Great stuff, great stuff.
13:0030 plays eight, back to the numbers, James.
13:03Can I have one larger and five small, please?
13:05You can indeed, one from the top.
13:07Once more and five more.
13:09And this time around, the selection goes.
13:12One, two, six, five, four,
13:17and a large one, 100 this time.
13:19And you need to reach 427.
13:22427. Numbers up.
13:26527. 밀키
13:26...
13:54527.
13:54626.
13:54626.
13:54727.
13:55James Train.
13:56427.
13:57And Fiona Wood.
13:58427.
13:59Yes. Off you go, James.
14:00100 plus 5.
14:02105.
14:03Multiply that by the 4.
14:05420.
14:06Add the 6 and the 1.
14:07Lovely. 427.
14:09There it is, Fiona.
14:10Exactly the same.
14:11Yes.
14:12APPLAUSE
14:14Let's take a little break and head over to Dictionary Corner,
14:16have a chat with Chris McCausen, same time every day.
14:21Now, we could probably nerd out for about an hour and a half,
14:25two hours, just talking about vinyl.
14:27Because I know you're a big fan.
14:29So, come on, give me just the highlights of your collection.
14:32Do you know what?
14:33It's a bit of a paradox in my life, Colin,
14:35because I'm a geek and I love technology.
14:38And as well as loving technology and new things,
14:42you know, we're moving into the future and it excites me.
14:45I also strive for things to be as accessible as they can in my life.
14:49And streaming music is one of the most accessible things you can have,
14:53where you can just ask for the music you want and it just plays.
14:56But I have this obsession with vinyl, which is antiquated
15:00and really quite inaccessible.
15:03When you've got hundreds and hundreds of records,
15:05you don't know what any of them are.
15:06LAUGHTER
15:07What I've done is I've introduced complication into my life
15:09when I don't need it, but it's...
15:11It's romantic, isn't it? And it's...
15:13I just love... I love music so much.
15:15And just having that physical thing that you have to look after
15:21and putting it on, it makes music an active experience
15:25rather than this passive experience that streaming has made it,
15:30where it's quite disposable, isn't it?
15:31And it doesn't have a value and a physical presence.
15:35And, yeah, I mean, this is the excuse to tell me why,
15:37but it takes up loads of space.
15:38But my argument is music should take up space.
15:40Yeah.
15:41And, erm, I mean, you're a vinyl fan yourself, are you?
15:44Yeah, and people are going back to it.
15:46We always underestimate young people.
15:48There's a lot of young people going back to it.
15:49And saying that James may never have put a needle on a record,
15:52should we ask him, James?
15:53I haven't.
15:54LAUGHTER
15:55Glad you're losing, though, you've said that.
15:57LAUGHTER
15:58It's wonderful, though, isn't it?
15:59And the thing is, as well, is this is the kind of...
16:01You'd think that a lot of the most expensive records...
16:04Now, when I talk expensive, I mean, like,
16:05within reasonable kind of things that you could afford,
16:09you'd think that older records will be more expensive
16:11than newer records, but they make a lot of newer records
16:13in such small quantities...
16:15Yeah. ..that you'd think anything in the 70s or 80s,
16:19there was, like, five million of them made,
16:20and there's loads of them knocking around,
16:22whereas a lot of stuff now they're doing batches of 1,000,
16:25and there's a...you know, they've become quite...
16:27..quite sought after, you know?
16:30It's, erm, it's an expensive game, Colin.
16:33You'll get no needle from me. Thank you very much, mate.
16:35APPLAUSE
16:38OK, well, the A side's been very good for Fiona so far,
16:42so let's flip to the B side and see how it goes.
16:44Your letters, champion.
16:45A consonant, please. Thank you, Fiona.
16:48M.
16:49And another one.
16:51H.
16:53And another.
16:54G.
16:56And a vowel.
16:57O.
16:59And another.
17:00A.
17:01I.
17:02And another.
17:03I.
17:04And a consonant.
17:06P.
17:08Another vowel.
17:11E.
17:12And a consonant, please.
17:14And lastly, R.
17:16And here we go again.
17:17T.
17:18And another one.
17:19Bvana has been one month,
17:21And here we go again.
17:25GENE,
17:47So one of our infamous main forks
17:48Fiona? Seven, I think. James? A five.
17:51Might count. What's the five? A grope. And what do you think?
17:54Epigram. An epigram. Yes, in the dictionary it's absolutely fine.
17:58Give us the meaning. It's a pithy saying or a witticism.
18:02Chris, anything you like to add? No, just another living six, which is magpie.
18:06Beautiful. Beautiful. 47, 18. Let's get back to it, James. Off we go.
18:10Can I have a consonant, please? Thank you, James.
18:12N. And a vowel, please. E. A vowel. A. Consonant. Q. Vowel, please.
18:22E. Consonant. L. Consonant. D. Consonant. C. And a vowel, please.
18:32And lastly, A. And start the clock.
18:35A vowel, please.
19:06All right, time's up. James? Seven. Seven, well done. Fiona? Yes, seven. Well done. James?
19:12Cleaned. Cleaned. And for... Yes. It's going to be a clean break here, isn't it? Because
19:17that jumped out. Chris, you want to throw anything else in? No, another seven. Like
19:21epigram, I don't know what this means either, but candela? Candela, yes. It is a unit of
19:25luminous intensity. So all about light. Right. You'd think it was a small candle, wouldn't
19:31you, candela? A little candela, wouldn't that? Very good, though, with the
19:35cue there. Fantastic work. Well done to both. James and Fiona, as we get back to
19:40the numbers, and you are picking them, Fiona. I'll have four large and two small,
19:45please. Thank you, Fiona. Four from the top, two little. Let's see if we get a fun
19:49little challenge here. The little ones, ten and five. And then we have the big
19:54ones. 25, 100, 75 and 50. And you need to reach... 210. 210. Number's up.
20:0206.
20:1207.
20:14So
20:15so
20:33Ticket where you can get it. Fiona?
20:34Yeah, 210. James? Yeah, 210.
20:37Pile on those points. Off you go, Fiona.
20:39100 plus 75 plus 25 plus 10.
20:42One of the easiest ever. Yeah, James?
20:44Same way. Yeah. Done.
20:50Done and done.
20:51Well, we were talking about Disneyland,
20:52so this kind of fits as a tea time teaser.
20:55A fat goof. A fat goof.
20:57I couldn't remember the fourth vial when I had my dessert.
21:00I couldn't remember the fourth vial when I had my dessert.
21:09MUSIC PLAYS
21:18Hello again. What a tea time teaser.
21:20I couldn't remember the fourth vial when I had my dessert.
21:23Affogato. Affogato.
21:27Very good.
21:28Susie, is this where you get your espresso and you pour it over the top of your ice cream?
21:33Yeah, exactly that.
21:34And it's from the Italian for drowned, because you drown the ice cream in coffee.
21:37And it was never a thing, but recently it seems to be in vogue, doesn't it?
21:41Yeah.
21:42More than tiramisu.
21:43Oh, never.
21:44That's my favourite too.
21:46It's mad in it how you'd never have a coffee at 10 o'clock at night at home.
21:50But when you're in a restaurant, all the rules go out the window, don't they?
21:53It's the way it should be.
21:55It's the way it should be.
21:56OK, let's get back to it.
21:57Six rounds still to play.
21:59So keep the faith, James.
22:00Let's get some letters.
22:01Can I have a consonant, please?
22:02Thank you, James.
22:03V.
22:04Another.
22:06D.
22:06And another one.
22:08And a vowel, please.
22:11O.
22:11And another.
22:12E.
22:14And another.
22:15A.
22:16Consonant.
22:17R.
22:19Consonant.
22:20B.
22:21And vowel, please.
22:23And lastly, I.
22:25And good luck, everybody.
22:26And lastly, I'll see you next time.
22:57All right, OK.
22:58How many, James?
22:59Six.
23:00Yes, Fiona?
23:01Seven.
23:02OK, excellent.
23:02James, what have you got?
23:03Bids.
23:04And for you, Fiona?
23:06Braised.
23:06Braised.
23:07Well spotted.
23:08Yes, about your cooking terms.
23:09Very good.
23:10Any other sevens to throw in or dare I even suggest it?
23:12Any better?
23:13Got an eight, haven't we?
23:14Yes.
23:15Just two fours put together.
23:18Over bids.
23:19Over bids.
23:20Yes.
23:21Is that just like auctions?
23:22Yes, to over bid for something when you shouldn't pay quite that much.
23:26Sidebar is another seven if you would like one.
23:29Very good.
23:29Very good.
23:3071, 35.
23:33Fiona picks us nine more letters and we do it again.
23:36I'll have a consonant, please.
23:38Thank you, Fiona.
23:38N.
23:40And another.
23:42S.
23:43And another.
23:45G.
23:46And a vowel.
23:48A.
23:50And another.
23:51I.
23:52And another, please.
23:54E.
23:56And a consonant.
23:58M.
23:59And another consonant.
24:01T.
24:04And another vowel, please.
24:06This looks promising.
24:07A final A.
24:09Indeed.
24:09Let's play.
24:10Bye.
24:10Bye.
24:25Bye.
24:40Fiona?
24:41Eat.
24:42Yeah, James.
24:43Well done.
24:44See if it's the same word.
24:45Steaming.
24:46Steaming.
24:47Yeah, steaming.
24:48Yeah.
24:48Dictionary Corner.
24:50Can we add anything to steaming?
24:52No, there were a few eights in their animates.
24:56Magnesia.
24:57Do you remember Milk of Magnesia?
24:58We, I don't want to speak ill of a matron at school,
25:03but didn't matter what you had,
25:05a cold, a ragnail, a broken ankle from rugby,
25:09Milk of Magnesia.
25:10That's what you got.
25:11That's all she had.
25:13Mangiest.
25:14Oh, yeah.
25:15There's a weird one.
25:16That's a good name.
25:16Mangy dog.
25:17Yeah.
25:1979.43.
25:20It's the joy of a show.
25:21Yeah, again today, four more rounds to go
25:23and an origins of words from Susie Down.
25:25Yeah, well, a question from Penny Hadley,
25:28who has emailed us to us.
25:30Why do we quit cold turkey?
25:34And I start with the serious side.
25:37Obviously, it's often used with the quitting of drugs
25:41and the really physical symptoms of withdrawal,
25:45particularly, you know, really highly addictive drugs.
25:47But it can be used more lightheartedly,
25:49as in, oh, I was addicted to coffee,
25:52so I quit cold turkey, that kind of thing.
25:54But why a turkey and why a cold one?
25:58Well, the expression first appeared in the 1920s
26:02in British Columbia, actually,
26:03when it was to do with that meaning of rehabilitation
26:06from drugs, and the most popular theory
26:09is that it comes from the combination
26:11of goose pimples, which we get on our skin,
26:15and the kind of cold burn, as you described it,
26:18that addicts suffer when they're in withdrawal.
26:21And it's that kind of cold, clammy skin,
26:24if you like, that resembles a turkey,
26:26particularly sort of one, maybe one
26:27that's been refrigerated, et cetera.
26:29Goose pimples, the same idea.
26:30The skin looks like that of a plucked turkey,
26:33so a bit grim, really.
26:34But the problem with those theories
26:36is that cold turkey was used
26:39before it was applied to drug addiction.
26:41It meant something very different,
26:43and a few years before.
26:45So in the 1920s, there was a cartoon
26:47that appeared in a newspaper,
26:49and it was used to mean straight talking.
26:51It said, now, tell me on the square,
26:52don't string me, tell me cold turkey.
26:55And that was probably a combination of cold,
26:57meaning kind of straightforward, matter of fact,
27:00and a phrase to talk turkey,
27:02which sounds quite odd.
27:04But that just means to speak plainly.
27:06Talk turkey with me.
27:07You know, just be blunt.
27:09So it's quite possible
27:11that it's got something to do with that,
27:13but we're not completely sure
27:14why then it was transferred to drug withdrawal,
27:18albeit that it is, you know, pretty brutal.
27:21But it is still probably the most vivid metaphor
27:25that we have for capturing that kind of dread
27:27and discomfort that comes from quitting anything
27:29that is really addictive.
27:31Brilliant.
27:34And thank you to Penny Hadley.
27:36That literally was a penny for Susie's thoughts.
27:39And if you would like to send an email in
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27:51There it is, countdown at channel4.com.
27:53That's also how you apply.
27:54We're very straightforward here.
27:56If you want to come in, spend an afternoon with us,
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28:01Right, back to our game.
28:02Four rounds to go.
28:04James, let's see if you can pull something special
28:06out of the bag.
28:06Your letters.
28:07Can I have a consonant, please?
28:09Thank you, James.
28:10R.
28:11Consonant.
28:13C.
28:14Consonant.
28:16L.
28:16Vowel, please.
28:18E.
28:19Another one.
28:20O.
28:21Another one.
28:22E.
28:23Consonant, please.
28:24N.
28:25Consonant.
28:26S.
28:27And a final vowel, please.
28:30And a final O.
28:32And let's play.
28:33Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick.
28:35Tick, Tick, Tick.
28:39Tick, Tick.
28:41Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick.
29:04All right. James? Seven.
29:06Seven from you. And for Fiona?
29:08I'll try and eat.
29:09Got to try and eat. OK, James.
29:11Coolers.
29:11Fiona? Encloser.
29:14Enclosed, definitely, and obviously, but not an encloser, I'm afraid, sorry.
29:18Chris, anything you'd like to add?
29:19Well, you know, something we all strive for in comedy, encores.
29:23Yes! Bravo, bravo.
29:26Excellent. Look at that.
29:27Never over, it's over, still a long way back, James.
29:29But you've got those seven points in the bag.
29:31Three rounds to go 29 points in it.
29:35And Fiona, you're choosing.
29:36A consonant, please.
29:38Thank you, Fiona.
29:39M.
29:40And another.
29:42T.
29:44And another.
29:45D.
29:46And another, please.
29:49G.
29:50And a vowel.
29:52A.
29:53And another.
29:55I.
29:56And another.
29:58E.
30:00And a consonant.
30:02D.
30:04And a final consonant, please.
30:06And a final.
30:07N.
30:08All right, countdown.
30:09And a consonant, please.
30:12And a consonant, please.
30:13And a consonant, please.
30:14And a consonant, please.
30:17And a consonant, please.
30:18And a consonant, please.
30:20And a consonant, please.
30:21And a consonant, please.
30:25And a consonant, please.
30:27And a consonant, please.
30:28And a consonant, please.
30:28And a consonant, please.
30:28And a consonant, please.
30:29And a consonant, please.
30:29And a consonant, please.
30:29And a consonant, please.
30:30And a consonant, please.
30:30And a consonant, please.
30:31And a consonant, please.
30:32And a consonant, please.
30:34And a consonant, please.
30:35And a consonant, please.
30:36And a consonant, please.
30:39Fiona.
30:41Seven.
30:41James.
30:42Six.
30:43The six is?
30:44Gated.
30:44And for you, Fiona?
30:47Mediant.
30:48Oh, mediant.
30:50Yes, just on gated, are you spelling it with the I?
30:52Yeah.
30:53Yeah, it's not in on its own, I don't think.
30:57No, it's just there is fast gated.
30:59So I have to dislike that one, I'm sorry.
31:01Mediant, I do know, is in there,
31:03and that is the third note of a musical scale.
31:06There you go. Well spotted.
31:07Anything else, Chris McCausland?
31:09No, we've got madding.
31:10Yeah.
31:11As in that, far from the madding crowd.
31:13I'm not sure what it means in that context.
31:15It's the only, straight away, you think of that sentence, don't you?
31:19Yeah.
31:20Great novel.
31:21It's frenzied, or acting sort of slightly chaotically.
31:25Right, 86 players at 50.
31:26Look at that, James.
31:27You've got the half century, can't get the win,
31:29but that's brilliant against the trampoline Fiona,
31:31and it's your number, so let's enjoy it.
31:33Can I have one large and five small, please?
31:35You can indeed, thank you, James.
31:36One large, five little to finish the day.
31:38And the final selection is one, two, four, eight, ten,
31:44and the big one, 50.
31:46And the target, 933.
31:49933, last numbers.
31:51And one, no, and the big one's for us.
31:52Put your kans.
32:19All I can see.
32:20We'll see you later.
32:20Take the next step.
32:21And I'll see you later.
32:23933, James.
32:24No, I got 900.
32:26And for you, Fiona?
32:27933.
32:28Wow, off you go.
32:2950 plus 2 is 52.
32:3250 plus 2 is 52.
32:3310 plus 8 is 18.
32:35Yep.
32:36Multiply for 936.
32:37Yep.
32:38And 4 minus 1 is 3 and take it away.
32:41Very nicely done, 933.
32:4596 plus 50.
32:47The train will depart, but let's see if you can go out on a high, mate.
32:49James, finger on buzzer.
32:51You too, Fiona.
32:52Let's reveal today's kind-down conundrum.
33:28James didn't get it.
33:30Is it heart-sick?
33:31Oh, hold on a second.
33:32We have a late shout from Rachel Riley, which is, what is it?
33:36Is it heart-sick?
33:37Let's have a look.
33:38It is!
33:40APPLAUSE
33:42Just means the same as love-sick?
33:44Exactly.
33:44My goodness.
33:45Yeah, heart-broken, heart-sick, pining.
33:47Nothing to do with needing a triple bypass.
33:50Can be that.
33:51Can be that.
33:52I like the dictionary of Chris McCausland.
33:55It's very good indeed.
33:56James, I hope you're not heart-broken, because you did really well, mate.
33:58Well done.
33:59I'm happy with that, yeah.
34:00And you're a special champ, Fiona.
34:01You didn't see heart-sick, but we will see you tomorrow.
34:04Chris, all the best, Susie.
34:05All the best.
34:06And we'll be here tomorrow unless I forgot-o!
34:08LAUGHTER
34:11Now, Disneyland.
34:12Yeah.
34:13Best-selling bit of merchandise in the history of Disneyland.
34:16Do you want to have a guess?
34:17Mickey Mouse ears.
34:18Ed, he's stolen your thunder.
34:20It absolutely is.
34:22Mickey Mouse ears.
34:23Cost of fortune.
34:24Well, it cost a fortune for just under 90 million people in counting.
34:28Very special indeed.
34:30We will be here tomorrow.
34:31With bells on, not ears, but we will still be here.
34:33You can count on us.
34:35You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com.
34:40You can also find our webpage at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
34:46APPLAUSE
34:46And we'll see you next time.
34:58And we'll see you next time.
35:06That's a real wave.
35:11Half premiers.