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00:30Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown. It is Tuesday, July 23rd, and that glint in my eyes is there for any
00:39Olympic nerd this week. Friday's the opening ceremony of Paris 2024. We cannot wait, but the Countdown marathon is well
00:46underway. Series 90. Hiya, Rachel. Hi, Cole.
00:49Now, on this day in 1984, a particular record was released that became synonymous with a huge British artist, and
00:58I think you'll know what it is from one lyric.
01:01Guilty feet ain't got no rhythm.
01:04That is the best of all the George Michael lyrics, in my opinion. It's Curliss Whisper.
01:08It is Curliss Whisper. Now, let me ask you a question. Is Curliss Whisper a single by Wham, or is
01:14Curliss Whisper a single by George Michael?
01:16I mean, this feels like a trick question, so if I was going to, you know, logic you, I would
01:21go for Wham, but I would have said George Michael had you not asked the question in that way.
01:26You're too darn smart. That is a trick question. In America, it was released under Wham, featuring George Michael, and
01:33here in the UK, it was released as just George Michael, but written by both.
01:37He covered quite a breadth of different styles of music, didn't he?
01:40Yeah, he did, back from when Wham first burst onto the scene, and, you know, from the absolute pop-as
01:44-to-pop music to the ballads to the more club-oriented anthems.
01:48I could see you in a kind of stars-in-their-eyes George Michael bit. I'm up for seeing this.
01:53Get the policeman's outfit on. Let's go. Let's go. I know what song I'm doing.
01:58Right, let's get over to Dictionary Corner. Our Susie Dent, alongside an Olympian and a voice of athletics now.
02:06But on top of that, a huge, proper, born and bred Aston Villa fan. So I'm guessing, Kat Mary, you're
02:13loving this.
02:14It was noted, as soon as the titles were rolling, that you've got the claret of blue on, which I'm
02:19appreciating and a big fan of, obviously, after such an amazing season that the mighty Aston Villa had.
02:25Yeah, that's a surprise it took you more than a show to mention that. But if you were to see
02:29after the closing titles today, just as the closing titles end, there'll be a shot for all right in the
02:34night of Katz wrestling this off my back.
02:37And I'll give it to you. Don't worry about that.
02:38Well, top of our Champions League right now is Fiona Wood. Five wins so far, averaging north of 100. Our
02:47forensic accountant. How are you actually feeling inside now?
02:50Completely churning inside. It just doesn't get any easier with each game.
02:55Well, listen, you could be your first Octo Champ of this series. Three more wins needed.
03:01And you're going up against Helen Bell, who's originally from Coventry. I'm not going to say where you live now,
03:05because once you're from Coventry, you're always from Coventry, right?
03:08Yes. Come on, we know that's the case. You're a retired primary school teacher. So beware, Fiona. That's maths, that's
03:15English, that's a good place. Good place to be.
03:18But we're actually going to talk about line dancing. She did for 12 hours solid. No offence, it would kill
03:25me to do it for 12 minutes, let alone 12 hours.
03:27But why was that? It was to raise money for Grey Ormond Street Hospital when I lived in London. And
03:34I wasn't on the floor for 12 hours. We used to make sure there was at least three people on,
03:38so it would count.
03:40Yeah, but it was quite a marathon.
03:41Oh, how many cut-night Joes is that?
03:44That is a lot. Quite a few.
03:46All right, well, there you go. We'll keep you in line today. Helen and Fiona, best of luck.
03:52And Fiona, you're picking the first round of others.
03:54Afternoon, Rachel.
03:55Afternoon, Fiona.
03:56Start with a consonant, please.
03:58Thank you. Start today with W.
04:00And another one.
04:02N.
04:02And another.
04:05G.
04:06And another.
04:08T.
04:09And a vowel.
04:12I.
04:13And another.
04:15U.
04:16And another.
04:18A.
04:19And a consonant.
04:21C.
04:23And a final consonant, please.
04:25And a final T.
04:27At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
05:00Fiona.
05:01Seven.
05:01And Helen.
05:02Seven.
05:03Yeah.
05:03Off you go, Fiona.
05:04Cutting.
05:05Helen.
05:05Cutting.
05:06Yeah.
05:08Yeah.
05:09There you go.
05:09Anything I cut above that, or just the sevens?
05:12Just another seven, didn't we?
05:14Yeah.
05:14Cutting.
05:16Cutting, yes.
05:17Nautical slang, this.
05:18It's to raise an anchor from the surface of the water, because the cat head is the beam that helps
05:23you raise the anchor.
05:24There you go.
05:24Seven points.
05:25It's a really good start.
05:26Helen, let's get your letters.
05:28Hi, Rachel.
05:29Hi, Helen.
05:30Can I have a consonant, please?
05:31You can, indeed.
05:31G.
05:33And another one.
05:35V.
05:36And a vowel.
05:38O.
05:39Vowel, please.
05:40U.
05:42Consonant.
05:43S.
05:44Consonant.
05:46P.
05:48Vowel.
05:49E.
05:52Consonant.
05:53R.
05:54And a vowel, please.
05:56And lastly, O.
05:58And 30 seconds.
06:0130 seconds.
06:02And a vowel, please.
06:06And a vowel, please.
06:09And a vowel, please.
06:12And a vowel, please.
06:14And a vowel, please.
06:17And a vowel, please.
06:17And a vowel, please.
06:19And a vowel, please.
06:20And a vowel, please.
06:20And a vowel, please.
06:21And a vowel, please.
06:21And a vowel, please.
06:23And a vowel, please.
06:31That's time, Helen. How many?
06:33Just a six. A six there. And Fiona?
06:35Seven. The six is?
06:37A porous. And the seven?
06:39Grooves. Oh, she's in her groove right now.
06:41Well done. Well done.
06:44Goddard didn't spot that.
06:45Goddard didn't spot my groups who could be in a groove.
06:48But I missed that. Cass, did you see it?
06:50Grooves? That was the only one on my list.
06:53Yeah. You used that my...
06:55You were feeling a bit guilty when you said my there.
06:58Yeah. It's a team here, you see.
06:59But that was great. That was well spotted.
07:02Yeah. 14-7 then.
07:04Let's get the numbers in, Fiona.
07:07One from the top and any other five? Thank you.
07:09Thank you, Fiona. One large, five little coming up.
07:12First one of the day.
07:14Eight, six, seven, ten, eight, and 100.
07:21And the target, 661.
07:246-6-1. Numbers up.
07:56Six, six, one.
07:57The target, Fiona.
07:58Yes, 6-6-1. Well done. And Helen? 6-6-1. Look at this. What a contest today. Off you
08:03go, Fiona.
08:04100 plus 10. 110. Times 6. 6-60. And then 8 minus 7 is 1 and add it on. Well
08:11done. 6-6-1.
08:12Helen? Exactly the same way.
08:1924-17 in our first part of Countdown today. As we get our tea time teaser, short let. Short let.
08:25Forget about accommodation. Focus on a couple of wings.
08:29Forget about accommodation. Focus on a couple of wings.
08:46Welcome back. Forget about accommodation. Focus on a couple of wings.
08:50Short let becomes thrustle. The song thrush. Gorgeous.
08:54Beautiful. Beautiful bird. 24-17. Let's get back to it, Helen.
08:58Consonant, please. Thank you, Helen.
09:01T. Consonant.
09:04Y. Vowel.
09:07O. Vowel.
09:10E. Consonant.
09:13R. Consonant.
09:15P.
09:17Consonant.
09:18R. Consonant.
09:21Vowel.
09:23Vowel.
09:24O.
09:26And another consonant, please.
09:29And lastly, T.
09:31Thank you, Rachel.
09:33T.
09:33T.
09:34T.
09:34T.
09:34T.
09:34T.
09:34T.
09:35T.
10:30Thank you, Fiona.
10:56And a final consonant, please.
10:57And a final B.
11:00In half a minute.
11:29We'll see you next time.
11:31Fiona?
11:32Five.
11:33Yeah.
11:33Helen?
11:34Five.
11:35They were awful, weren't they?
11:36Fiona?
11:37Be fit.
11:38Be fit.
11:39What?
11:40Goodness me.
11:41I'm beginning to wonder what's going on here.
11:43They keep having the same word every time.
11:45Right, yeah.
11:45To be fit.
11:47I couldn't spot anything better than that.
11:49You have baguette, which is also quite old-fashioned, isn't it?
11:52But we just have a lovely seven.
11:53Well, we know about Bigfoot, the elusive Bigfoot, capital B. But with a small b, a Bigfoot is a prominent
12:00or well-known journalist. And of course the plural would be big feet.
12:03No.
12:04No.
12:04Yes.
12:04Right.
12:05Never heard that.
12:06It's great, though, isn't it? It's a great one.
12:08Feet. Nice.
12:09All right, let's get back to the numbers. Second numbers round today. Helen?
12:14I can have one large and the other small, please.
12:18Thank you, Helen. One from the top. And five little ands. And this time the small numbers are three, six,
12:25one, eight and three. And the large one, 100. And the target, 406.
12:33406 numbers up.
13:06406 is the target, Helen.
13:08406.
13:08Yeah.
13:08Fiona?
13:09Yes, 406.
13:10Yeah, I don't know why I'm building it up. Off you go, Helen.
13:12Three at one is four, multiplied by 100 at six.
13:16Ten points.
13:16Just trying to make it interesting, Fiona.
13:18Yeah, same.
13:19What a surprise they have the same thing again.
13:21May as well just have the one contestant today. You keep matching each other. Bar that one round, of course.
13:26So it's 46-39.
13:28And this Olympic week opening ceremony on Friday. And great to have Kath Mary with us. You'll be there. You'll
13:36be commentating on it all for BBC Radio. So, so exciting.
13:40It's about much more than athletics, though. Of course, that's what I love about it. You know, from nine in
13:46the morning, right through until you go to bed. It's a smorgasbord of sports. But I always say the phrase,
13:51once an Olympian, always an Olympian.
13:54Oh, 100 percent. I think you can really annoy an Olympian by calling them a former Olympian or a former
14:02Olympic medalist. I know it sounds like really small and not much, but you're never former. You kind of are.
14:08Yeah.
14:09But no, it never leaves you. It never leaves you. To reach an Olympic Games in any sport is when
14:16it's the pinnacle of what you do. It's what you aim for. And it's what I aim for from the
14:20age of nine years old, from being inspired by Los Angeles in 1984 and Daley Thompson and Sebastian Cohen, Kathy
14:27Cook, who was a 400 metre runner who won a bronze medal. It's pretty special. So no, it never leaves
14:32you. The memories, the memories never fade. The body does, but the memories never fade.
14:37So 1984 inspired you. And in fact, without 1984, we may not likely wouldn't be having this conversation now. And
14:45you would not be an Olympian because the Olympics on its knees going into that we'd had Moscow and the
14:51boycotts, Montreal lost what was a billion and a half.
14:54And the rest. And the rest. Yeah. In 1976. Yeah. And then along came the jetpacks and Ronald Reagan. And
15:01that was the first time they had commercial sponsorship. That's what changed.
15:04It was huge. I don't think it's an overstatement to say that what Los Angeles did in 1984 did save
15:10the Olympic movement.
15:12I think Montreal of 1976, they were still paying that off some 30 years after the closing ceremony.
15:17Yeah. It was really going down and with the boycott, as you say, but L.A. was just amazing because
15:22all these new technologies were coming out.
15:24And you say the opening ceremony, it's embedded on my mind, the man on the jetpack.
15:30If no one's seen the opening ceremony, the Los Angeles 84 games, watch it back because it's amazing.
15:34But they were so far advanced and then they started making money and then everybody thought, actually, that's the way
15:40to do it.
15:40And then all the subsequent Olympics since, including London, which was superb in 2012 and what we've got to come
15:46has been pretty, pretty special ever since.
15:49There's a little bit of me, like, really just I love it. I can't wait.
15:53I've got so many days off to just sit and watch the Olympics.
15:56And, you know, I watch everything.
15:58And, you know, even the horse dancing.
16:00I mean, I'm all in. I am all in.
16:02Right. I'll be a part-time expert in all of it.
16:04And I want Paris to be great, just slightly not as good as London.
16:09Do you know what I mean?
16:10Yeah, well, in my life, I went to a couple of Olympics and I did Atlanta in 1996, which was
16:16nigh on a just a disaster because we got lost on the way from the Olympic village to the track.
16:21Bus drivers didn't know where they were going.
16:23They were abandoning vehicles.
16:24Athletes were missing their cool room.
16:25It was an absolute mess in Atlanta.
16:27But I think of my era, most people will say London 2012, Sydney 2000 were two of the best ones
16:33put on.
16:34Paris is, in a few days, we'll get going.
16:37It's going to be great.
16:37It is going to be great.
16:39It's got a chance.
16:39It has a chance.
16:41Yeah.
16:42Kath, it's just great to have a former Olympian here.
16:44Thank you so much.
16:44Oh, you're very welcome.
16:49You know, they say that once an Olympian, always an Olympian.
16:51There's that other phrase we all know.
16:53Once an octochamp, always an octochamp.
16:56No one ever talks about seven wins or six wins or five wins.
17:00Just putting a little bit more pressure on our Fiona.
17:03Five wins in the bag.
17:04Let's get more letters.
17:06A consonant, please.
17:08Thank you, Fiona.
17:09S.
17:11And another.
17:12T.
17:13And another.
17:15M.
17:17And another.
17:18R.
17:20And a vowel.
17:21U.
17:22And another.
17:24A.
17:25And another.
17:28A.
17:29And another.
17:32I.
17:33And a consonant, please.
17:35Lastly, K.
17:37Honey, here we go.
17:38Here we go.
17:39Here we go.
17:47Here we go.
17:48Here we go.
17:48Here we go.
17:49Here we go.
17:49Here we go.
17:53Here we go.
17:53Here we go.
17:54Here we go.
17:54Here we go.
17:54Here we go.
17:54Here we go.
17:54Here we go.
17:54Here we go.
17:55Here we go.
17:56Here we go.
17:56Here we go.
17:57Here we go.
17:58Here we go.
17:59Here we go.
18:08Fiona?
18:09A risky seven.
18:11And Helen?
18:12Six.
18:13A six from you is?
18:15Autism.
18:16Autism.
18:17And for you, Fiona?
18:19Atriums.
18:20Yes, I know what you're thinking, is it A-3-R?
18:22It can be either.
18:23So, atriums is in the dictionary.
18:25Well done, good rest.
18:27APPLAUSE
18:29What do we get in the dictionary corner?
18:30Do we have a couple of sevens? Traumas?
18:33Yes.
18:33And also a nice one.
18:35Yeah, from Japanese Matsuri,
18:37which is a festival celebrated at Shinto Shrines across Japan.
18:41Thank you so much.
18:43Let's move on, get more letters.
18:44Helen, let's go again.
18:46Consonant, please.
18:47Thank you, Helen.
18:48T.
18:49And another.
18:50D.
18:51And a vowel.
18:53E.
18:53And a vowel.
18:55A.
18:56Consonant.
18:58N.
18:59Another.
19:00C.
19:01Another.
19:03L.
19:05Vowel.
19:06I.
19:08And another consonant.
19:10And lastly, Q.
19:12Goodness me, start the clock.
19:13C.
19:14C.
19:15C.
19:16C.
19:17C.
19:21C.
19:44That's time, Helen.
19:46Six.
19:47Six from you and Fiona.
19:48Six.
19:48And a six to Helen.
19:50Candle.
19:50Candle.
19:51Decant.
19:52And decant.
19:53Very nice indeed.
19:54I could get your line and I could get your dance, but we couldn't put them together, Helen.
19:58We didn't have both.
20:00It's a really good maximum to get, would it?
20:02Over the dictionary corner, Susie and Kath, talk to me.
20:05Well, we were struggling on the sixth.
20:06Little voice to my right, well, a big voice to my right, was saying Citadel, which is a brilliant seven.
20:12And there is also Landtie, which is a bit of masonry that supports the house.
20:16Let's get more numbers now.
20:18Talk to the voice to the right, will you, Fiona?
20:20Four large and two small, please.
20:22Four large, two small.
20:24Up in the end, see for this one.
20:26Let's see if we've got a tricky one.
20:27The two little ones.
20:28One and three.
20:30And the big ones.
20:31One hundred, fifty, seventy-five, twenty-five.
20:35And the target you need to reach with them.
20:37One hundred and ninety-five.
20:38One ninety-five.
20:39Numbers up.
20:39One hundred, fifty, seventy-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty
20:52-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty
20:54-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty
20:54-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty
20:54-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty
20:54-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five,
21:11One, nine, five, Fiona.
21:13Yes, I think I've got one, nine, five.
21:15Helen?
21:15One, nine, six.
21:16One, nine, six, one away.
21:17One, nine, five, Fiona.
21:1975 minus one is 74 times three.
21:23Two, two, two.
21:25And take off 25.
21:26One, nine, seven.
21:27And then 100 over 50 is two.
21:31Yeah.
21:31And take that away.
21:32Yeah, well done, one, nine, five.
21:33Nice.
21:34APPLAUSE
21:36Might take a computer debate.
21:39Fiona, because Helen's as close as you can get to it.
21:41You're doing so well.
21:42But that lead's growing.
21:4369 plus 45.
21:45Second tea time teaser this Tuesday afternoon.
21:48Solves me.
21:49Solves me.
21:50I love the way you can't play a turn.
21:53I love the way you can't play a turn.
22:02MUSIC PLAYS
22:11Welcome back.
22:12I love the way you can't play a turn.
22:14Moveless.
22:15You're moveless.
22:16That's the tea time teaser.
22:17Still many moves left for Helen.
22:19That gap is not insurmountable.
22:21And it's your letters.
22:21Consonant, please.
22:23Thank you, Helen.
22:24D.
22:25Consonant.
22:26R.
22:28Another one.
22:29S.
22:31A vowel.
22:33O.
22:34Another, please.
22:35E.
22:37And another.
22:37O.
22:39Consonant.
22:40M.
22:42Consonant.
22:43L.
22:45And another consonant.
22:47Lastly, R.
22:48Good luck.
22:50Good luck.
22:51Good luck.
23:20Helen.
23:21Eight.
23:22And eight.
23:23And Fiona?
23:23Just six.
23:24Just the six.
23:25The six, Fiona?
23:26Roomed.
23:27This would be a big eight points, Hell's Bells.
23:29Oh, no, I've gone wrong, because I thought there was two E's.
23:31Oh, no.
23:32I had remodels, yes.
23:33The false dawn.
23:35The false dawn.
23:36Yeah.
23:36You must get Hell's Bells a lot, right?
23:38With a second name being Bell.
23:40Sorry it took me so long, the cock not.
23:43Right, dictionary corner, then.
23:45Anything better than a six?
23:46Yes, just one more.
23:47Yeah?
23:47Yeah, seven rumours.
23:50Rumours?
23:50Yes, as in someone who rents a room without board.
23:55So, just a lodger.
23:56Ah, right, that's why.
23:57And now it makes sense when you say it that way.
23:59Rumours.
23:59OK, more letters, Fiona.
24:02A consonant, please.
24:03Thank you, Fiona.
24:04W.
24:05And another.
24:07D.
24:08And another.
24:09B.
24:11And a vowel.
24:13E.
24:14And another.
24:15I.
24:16And another.
24:18A.
24:19And a consonant.
24:21R.
24:23And another.
24:24G.
24:27And a final consonant, please.
24:29Final V.
24:31Let's play.
24:31And another.
25:04And for Helen?
25:05Six.
25:05What's the six, Helen?
25:07Barged.
25:08Yes, barged.
25:09And for Fiona?
25:10A bridge.
25:11A bridge.
25:12Very nice indeed.
25:13Well done.
25:14Yeah, you had the barge, she had the bridge.
25:15God, give her the points.
25:16Right.
25:17Cass and Suze?
25:19One more seven.
25:21Yep.
25:21Brigade.
25:22And a brigade.
25:23There you go.
25:24Yep.
25:24Fantastic.
25:2582, 45.
25:28As we get our origins of words for today, Susie, what we do?
25:32So we are going to Hugh Lambert, who has asked us whether I could give the origin of two
25:40expressions which sound quite similar, but which have very different meanings.
25:45Nonetheless, Hugh is wondering if they have any connection at all.
25:48And that is hunky-dory and hanky-panky.
25:50Which is so quintessentially British.
25:53Both of them, really.
25:55And in their stories, they are slightly related, but not in language, and I'll explain.
26:01So we've been talking about hanky-panky since the 1830s.
26:05And in its beginnings, it meant sort of trickery, slightly kind of dishonest behaviour.
26:11But obviously, since the 1930s, it's taken on slightly sort of sexual connotations as
26:16well, albeit in a slightly mischievous way.
26:19And the word might be an alteration of hocus-pocus, which, of course, is a magician's kind of
26:26exclamation, a bit like abracadabra.
26:28And often hankies are involved, which probably found its way into the story.
26:33But in the early 17th century, when this emerged, there was also a pseudo-Latin phrase
26:39that the same magicians and conjurers would say, which was hax, pax, max, deus, adi, max.
26:45And that was used as a magic formula, but it was complete pseudo-Latin, as they say.
26:49It was just not, you know, it wasn't real Latin, but it was nonetheless quite impressive
26:54when they said this.
26:55And hoax, actually, is a shortening of that, as is the hocus-pocus, the hanky-panky.
27:02So hanky-panky is probably just a development from there.
27:04And again, it was like a magic trick, but moved over slightly to the dark side.
27:08What about hunky-dory?
27:10Well, there is a Dutch word hunk, which is not in the term, the way that we use it.
27:15It actually means home in a game.
27:17So if you're playing a game, you know, much as we might say, safe or truce or whatever,
27:22if you were hunk in Dutch, you were at home.
27:26So it meant in a safe position, all right, which led to its use, really, to be something
27:32which was good and approving.
27:34The dory part is a little bit more puzzling, but there is one theory that it's said to have
27:38been sailor's slang for a street in Yokohama in Japan, which was called honky-dory.
27:45And obviously entertainment, shall we say, even mystically, was to be had there,
27:49probably a bit of hanky-panky, which is where the two stories collide.
27:53So the idea, again, is of something kind of pleasing, satisfactory, probably.
27:57We're not completely sure about that, but that's certainly one of the theories put forward.
28:01But they are examples, or it's hanky-panky is, of what we call the reduplicative compound,
28:07which is a bit of a mouthful for things like shilly-shally, willy-nilly, et cetera, et cetera.
28:11Absolutely. Thank you.
28:15Well, everything looking honky-dory for Fiona Wood at the moment.
28:2082 plays 45. Really fun game, though, Hells Bells, and it's your letters.
28:25I'll get a consonant, please.
28:26Thank you, Helen.
28:28D.
28:28Vowel.
28:30I.
28:31Consonant.
28:32G.
28:33Consonant.
28:35L.
28:36Consonant.
28:38R.
28:39Vowel.
28:41E.
28:41Vowel, please.
28:44U.
28:45Consonant.
28:47S.
28:48And another consonant, please.
28:50And lastly, H.
28:52And kind of.
28:52We'll see you next time.
29:22We'll see you next time.
29:23Helen?
29:25Seven.
29:25You're counting it feverishly, that was a late seven.
29:29And Fiona?
29:29Eight.
29:30Oh, my goodness, wait, she's thwarted you.
29:32Helen, what was the feverish seven?
29:34Gliders.
29:35Yes, gliders.
29:36And what was the eight?
29:37Guilders.
29:38Guilders, yes.
29:41Right, Dictionary Corner, we're just hanging on here, I'm guessing, again.
29:45Absolutely, yeah, that was the best we can do.
29:47So, obviously, former monetary unit of the Netherlands,
29:49but also gold coins used long ago.
29:51Right, last letters round, Fiona.
29:53A consonant, please.
29:55Thank you, Fiona.
29:56N.
29:57And another.
29:58D.
30:00And another.
30:02R.
30:04And a vowel.
30:05A.
30:07And another.
30:08I.
30:09And another.
30:11U.
30:12And a consonant.
30:15S.
30:16And another consonant.
30:18N.
30:20And a final vowel, please.
30:22And a final A.
30:24On last letters.
30:25D.
30:54Time is a consonant.d
30:55Fiona? Seven. Seven from Fiona. And what have you got, Hal? Seven. Seven as well. Brilliant. Right, Fiona.
31:03Durians. Durians. And for you, Helen? Innards. Innards and durians. Yeah, I like innards. We haven't seen that one.
31:10Durians, never tried one. They're very sweet, but foul-smelling fruits. Have you tried one, Fiona? No.
31:17Well, has anyone ever had a durian? Richard Whiteley, once upon a time. He talks about it lots. Yeah.
31:23But they're banned from aircraft and things. Right, 97.52. Helen, let's get some numbers.
31:29One large, five small, please. Thank you, Helen. One from the top five, little, to finish the day off with
31:34the numbers.
31:35And this final selection. Three, seven, nine, seven, ten and 25. And the target this time, 843.
31:45843. Numbers up.
32:17843, Helen. No, no, we're there. Don't worry about it, Fiona.
32:20840. 840, which would be seven points, which would be another century. Let's hear it.
32:26Three times 25 is 75. Yep.
32:31Plus nine is 84 times 10. 843 away.
32:36Yes, there it is. 104 on the board. What about 843?
32:40Yeah, it was there with nine times three for 27. Add seven for 34. And then you can times that
32:48by the 25 for 850. And you have a spare seven. 843.
32:52Of course you do.
32:54Great. Another ten points up for grabs. Hell's Bells. I don't have a favourite, but as it's over as a
33:00competition, I hope you get there.
33:02Fingers on the buzzers. Let's reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:09Fiona.
33:10Cambering.
33:11Let's have a look.
33:13No. Helen, rest the time to you.
33:26Come on, Helen.
33:27Embracing.
33:28Let's embrace it.
33:30Yes.
33:35That threw me. I saw Cambering.
33:37And I was thinking in my head, because I'm not as clever as you, Fiona, I was like, I don't
33:41know what that word means, but I think it's Cambering.
33:43Does it exist as a word?
33:45It's not there as a verb, so you couldn't have Cambering.
33:48Right. But does Cambering exist?
33:50Camber exists.
33:51Yeah, the road to Camber, the sort of side of the road, but not Cambering.
33:55There you go. Brilliant. Embracing it is, Helen. And we've really embraced you today. It's been really good to have
34:00you here.
34:01But your guilty feet ain't got no rhythm anymore. No more line dancing for you.
34:06Well done. Thanks for coming in.
34:08Thanks for having me. It's been lovely.
34:09What a champion we have here. What a champion. Six wins, averaging over 100 by far. And we will see
34:15you tomorrow.
34:16All done. Thank you.
34:18Kath, Susie?
34:19Yes.
34:19All right.
34:20See you tomorrow.
34:20This is exciting, isn't it? It's exciting to have someone like Fiona this early on in the series, Rich.
34:24We'll have our first Oxlade Chamber of the season.
34:26Yeah. Two more wins, and we will be there Monday to Friday. Don't forget, same time, same place.
34:31See you tomorrow. You can count on us.
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