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00:31Well, good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio, 14th of February, Wednesday the 14th of February.
00:37What does that mean? It means that Valentine's Day or Valentine's Day has rolled around again.
00:44Well, according to this survey that I've recently read, there's some shocking statistics, Rachel, shocking statistics.
00:51Only 4% of Brits say they love Valentine's Day and 53% say that they're entirely indifferent to the
01:00whole thing.
01:02Furthermore, just 20% of those in relationships said they'll do anything romantic.
01:08And only 10% of singles have got a date lined up for tonight.
01:12This is appalling.
01:14There's one thing that most people agree on.
01:17In fact, it's 87% say the whole thing is far too commercial.
01:20I don't know.
01:21So what great romantic gesture have I got lined up?
01:25None.
01:26Now, what about your situation?
01:28Oh, I don't know.
01:29We have Valentine's Day every day.
01:31Oh, that's lovely.
01:32He is very romantic.
01:33And the Russians are very, very good gentlemen.
01:35And he buys me flowers all the time.
01:37He's very, very sweet.
01:38Oh, that's marvellous.
01:39Yes.
01:40That's enough.
01:41Oh, what a love.
01:41I've gone all wobbly.
01:44This is the antithesis of you, Nick.
01:46Exactly.
01:47Well, good for Pasha.
01:48Good for Pasha.
01:49And he's well-named, Pasha.
01:51All right.
01:51Who's here?
01:52Somebody who's seeking to become an octo-champ today.
01:54That'll be Phil Davis, postman, ex-policeman from Chelmsford.
01:57A relentless, inexorable run towards octo-championship.
02:02But, I'm not going to pour cold water on this,
02:06but you're sitting next door to somebody who's determined to get a teapot,
02:09which means that you're in trouble.
02:10Good luck to Heather Blackley.
02:13Welcome, Heather.
02:14Retired betting shop manager from London.
02:16Big darts player.
02:17Represents the Bricklayers Arms, which is where?
02:20It's in Sydenham, south-east London.
02:22All right.
02:23And you represent them a team of how many?
02:25There's six in a team, and we usually have a couple of reserves
02:29for if people are on holiday or...
02:31Good fun.
02:31And you're a keen countdowner, are you?
02:33Yes, yeah.
02:35Excellent.
02:35Well, look, good luck to you.
02:36Thank you, Heather.
02:37Good luck, Heather.
02:38And good luck, Phil, too.
02:39Big round of applause for our brave contestants.
02:45And Susie's over in the corner.
02:46Of course, she is.
02:48And impressionist, comic, and now pianist, Alistair McGowan.
02:52Welcome back, Alistair.
02:57Very good.
02:57Now, what shall we do?
02:59Phil, kick off this momentous St. Valentine's Day for us.
03:04Afternoon, Rachel.
03:05Afternoon, Phil.
03:06Can I start with a consonant, please?
03:08You can, indeed.
03:08Start with S.
03:11A consonant, please.
03:12M.
03:14A vowel.
03:16A.
03:17A consonant.
03:19Q.
03:20A consonant.
03:22M.
03:24A vowel, please.
03:26E.
03:28A consonant.
03:30B.
03:31A vowel.
03:34O.
03:35And a final consonant, please.
03:36And the last one, D.
03:38And here's the countdown clock.
03:41A consonant.
03:42I'll be here.
03:42ch baÅŸka putic here.ceks
04:02&
04:02as such. A synt
04:02cell. Vamos.
04:02Vamos.
04:03Come on.
04:03Vamos. Vamos.
04:03jeune.
04:03Let's
04:04Let's go.
04:09Vamos. Vamos.
04:11Yes, Phil?
04:12A seven.
04:13A seven, Heather?
04:14Just a five.
04:16And that five?
04:17Dones.
04:19And I'm going to try mamboed.
04:23Yes.
04:24He mamboed the night away.
04:25I'm absolutely fine.
04:26Dance the mambo is the verb.
04:28Yeah.
04:28OK.
04:30A mambo.
04:31Alistair?
04:32Maybe a few people mamboing the night away tonight with their partners.
04:35Indeed.
04:36Yeah, mamboes could have been an alternative to mamboed as well.
04:41Susie, anything else?
04:42No, it comes from a Haitian Creole word meaning to talk, which is what jive means as well, to chatter.
04:49Oh, jiving?
04:49Fast rhythm, yeah.
04:51Lovely.
04:52Seven points to fill.
04:53Now, Heather, your letters game.
04:55Hello, Rachel.
04:56Hi, Heather.
04:57Could I have a consonant, please?
04:59Start with L.
05:01And another?
05:03C.
05:04And a vowel?
05:06I.
05:08And a vowel?
05:09U.
05:11And a consonant?
05:13N.
05:15Consonant?
05:17G.
05:18Vowel?
05:20I.
05:22A vowel?
05:24E.
05:26And a consonant?
05:28And the last one, S.
05:30Stand by.
05:59And a consonant?
06:01I.
06:02Heather?
06:04At six.
06:05At six, Phil?
06:06Seven.
06:08Now, Heather.
06:09Single.
06:11I've gone for cluing with an E in the middle.
06:15OK.
06:17Cluing.
06:18It's absolutely fine about that way.
06:20Yes, very good.
06:22Good score.
06:23Well done.
06:24Alistair?
06:25I had an eight, which was ceilings.
06:28Ceilings, yeah.
06:28Ceilings, yeah.
06:31Thank you very much.
06:32Well done.
06:34And Susie, anything else?
06:35There's also sluicing.
06:37So, S-L-U-I-C-I-N-G-2.
06:40Sluice is to wash or rinse freely with a stream or a shower of water.
06:44Sluicing, indeed.
06:44So, Heather yet to score, but it's plenty of time, Heather.
06:47And Phil on 14.
06:49Now, Phil, numbers game.
06:51One large and five small, please.
06:53Thank you, Phil.
06:53One from the top, five little.
06:56And the first time today.
06:57The numbers are eight, six, two, one, nine, and the large one, 50.
07:05And the target to reach, 547.
07:08Five, four, seven.
07:09One, two, three, four.
07:17Oh, yeah.
07:19Ah, yeah.
07:38One, two, three.
07:41Yes, Phil?
07:41I've got 547.
07:44And Heather?
07:48Oh, sorry.
07:50547, no?
07:51No.
07:52All right.
07:53Let's stay with Phil for the moment.
07:55Yes, Phil?
07:55So 9 plus 2 is 11.
07:57Yeah.
07:58Times 50 is 550.
08:00It is.
08:00And then 8 minus 6 is 2.
08:03Plus 1 is 3.
08:05And take it away.
08:05Lovely.
08:06547.
08:10So we're still on 24 as we enter our first tea time teaser,
08:15which is nail event.
08:16And the clue, she had her nails done for the big event
08:18in an attempt to impress her partner.
08:21She had her nails done for the big event
08:24in an attempt to impress her partner.
08:42Welcome back.
08:43I left with a clue.
08:44She had her nails done for the big event
08:46in an attempt to impress her partner.
08:49And the answer to that is valentine.
08:52Valentine.
08:54Now, Heather, your letters go.
08:56A consonant, please.
08:59Thank you, Heather.
09:01F.
09:01And a vowel.
09:03A.
09:05A consonant.
09:07R.
09:09Another consonant.
09:12C.
09:13A vowel.
09:15O.
09:16A consonant.
09:20T.
09:21A vowel.
09:23E.
09:26A consonant.
09:28Y.
09:30And another consonant.
09:31And lastly, D.
09:34Come by.
09:34A consonant.
09:36A consonant.
09:49A consonant.
09:50A consonant.
09:51A consonant.
09:52A consonant.
09:52A consonant.
09:52A consonant.
09:52A consonant.
09:52A consonant.
09:52A consonant.
09:54A consonant.
09:56A consonant.
10:06Yes, Heather?
10:07A seven.
10:09A seven.
10:10Good night.
10:11Heather?
10:12I've got crofted.
10:14Now then, Mr Eighth.
10:15I've got factored.
10:17Excellent.
10:18Very, very good.
10:19Well done.
10:22Well done.
10:24Yeah, you factor a debt, I think, yeah.
10:27Alistair?
10:27Well, nothing as good as that.
10:28There were lots of sevens there.
10:29Factory was there, of course, as well, with facthood, factory.
10:32But, yeah, nothing to be that.
10:33That's it.
10:33Susie?
10:34No, factored and crafted.
10:36I've got to.
10:39Phil, off we go.
10:40Letters go.
10:42Let's start with a vowel, please.
10:43Thank you, Phil.
10:44I.
10:46Consonant, please.
10:48L.
10:49A consonant.
10:52N.
10:53A vowel.
10:55U.
10:56A consonant, please.
10:58K.
11:00A consonant.
11:02R.
11:04A vowel, please.
11:07E.
11:08A consonant.
11:11F.
11:13And a final consonant, please.
11:14And a final L.
11:17Stand by.
11:17A consonant.
11:45A Holland.
11:47A consonant.
11:49Phil?
11:50I'll try seven.
11:51A seven, Heather?
11:52I've got a seven.
11:55And, Phil?
11:55I'm going for flunker.
11:57Flunker.
11:57Heather?
11:58Funkier.
11:59And funkier.
12:00Um, yes, I had flunker, looked it up, and it's not there, I'm afraid, Phil, sorry.
12:05Um, funky is very good for a seven.
12:07Excellent.
12:08Now, Alistair?
12:09I fell into the flunker trap as well, but I didn't think for a while it was going to be
12:12Lineker.
12:13I thought Lineker was there, but obviously spelt incorrectly, which names like that often
12:17we are.
12:20Well done.
12:22Susie?
12:23Well, instead of flunker, you can have a lunker, which is a particularly large specimen of
12:28something, especially a fish.
12:30Lunker.
12:3032, please.
12:32Seven.
12:32Heather off the blocks.
12:33Now it is Heather's numbers game.
12:34Yes, Heather?
12:36OK, one big one and five little ones, please.
12:39Thank you, Heather.
12:40One large five little again, and this time around, they are eight, five, two, three.
12:47One, eight, and 50.
12:50And the target?
12:52One hundred and seventeen.
12:53One, one seven.
12:54One, two, three.
12:58One, two, three.
13:07And the following this is a good round, but the target is 951.
13:25Yes, Heather?
13:27117.
13:28117 and?
13:29Yeah, 117.
13:30Heather?
13:3250 times 2 is 100.
13:34100.
13:35Plus 8, plus 8, plus 1.
13:37Well done, 117.
13:40And Phil?
13:41I did 8 plus 5 is 13.
13:43Yep.
13:44And then the other 8 plus 1 is 9.
13:46And multiply together.
13:48Perfect.
13:49117 again.
13:53So, Heather, now 17 to Phil's 42 as we turn back to Alistair.
13:58Now, Alistair, we talked about your classical music career and more today, I think.
14:03Yes, well, to get this album together I had to really learn a lot of new words,
14:07a whole new language, the language of music, which a lot of it is Italian, of course.
14:12And I had to know my sforzando from my smorzando from my per d'induzzi.
14:17But I think the language of music can be quite obfuscating, if you like, for people when they come to
14:22it.
14:22Certainly in terms of the names of pieces, so many wonderful pieces just are called the prelude in C-sharp
14:27minor,
14:27the prelude in B-flat minor, and you think, which one is it?
14:30And this is a problem that obviously modern musicians don't have.
14:33They give names to pieces.
14:35There are classical pieces, the Moonlight, Claire de Lune, you remember those.
14:37But can you imagine if modern musicians, like, in their heyday, Pulp,
14:41if Jarvis Cocker, lead singer of Pulp, would have stood up to a big gig and said,
14:44right, now our next piece tonight is going to be our impromptu in B-flat minor, number six.
14:50Oh, no, I can hear what you're saying.
14:51All right, yeah, all right, we'll give you the barcarole in C-sharp minor.
14:55Wouldn't have been the same thing.
14:56But I didn't learn any Italian at school, and I wished I had, because Italian really is the language of
15:00music.
15:00And I wish I had done Italian at all, Latin.
15:02It would have been very useful for my understanding of music, if I'd gone into medicine, or gardening, or something
15:07like that.
15:08And Latin also, of course, would have been very useful,
15:09because it would have meant I could have understood more of what Boris Johnson is saying on a daily basis.
15:13And Latin, you know, is seen as some sort of erudite subject, but no.
15:17It even helps you understand the mottos of football clubs.
15:19You think about what are their badges and their crests underneath a little phrase in Latin.
15:24It's very interesting to translate them.
15:25Everton, for instance, nils, satis, mysai, optimum, only the best will do.
15:30Only the best will do, rather ironic, the way Everton are playing at the moment.
15:33Then, of course, you have Tottenham, or dare est facere, to dare us to do.
15:37To dare us to do, which they are doing very well at the moment, and they are daring to do.
15:40Blackburn Rovers, also very interesting, local club, of course, to hear.
15:43Arte et labore, or arte et labore, which, of course, means don't fund the arts, or labour will get in.
15:50So, very interesting.
15:52But, yeah, I wish I had done Latin, it would have helped with the language of music.
15:55Very good.
16:00Thank you, Alistair.
16:01Now, 42 to 17, Heather on 17.
16:05Phil, your letters go.
16:06OK, thank you.
16:07Start with a consonant, please.
16:08Thank you, Phil.
16:09D.
16:10A consonant.
16:12R.
16:13A vowel.
16:15A.
16:16A vowel.
16:18E.
16:19A consonant.
16:20W.
16:22A consonant, please.
16:23D.
16:25A consonant.
16:27R.
16:29A vowel, please.
16:31O.
16:33And a final vowel, please.
16:36And a final I.
16:38Done by.
16:39A vowel.
16:44A consonant.
16:50A vowel, please.
16:51In the name of F.
16:54A vowel.
16:54I.
16:55A vowel.
17:10Yes, Phil?
17:11I've got seven.
17:12Heather?
17:13Seven.
17:14And Phil?
17:15Mine is wordier.
17:17Heather?
17:18I've got the same words.
17:19There we go.
17:20Lovely.
17:21Thanks.
17:22Now, wordier?
17:24Like that one.
17:25Yeah, I just thought people got lots at home.
17:27They were a lovely bunch of letters.
17:29Nothing that big.
17:29Re-word, re-draw for sixes.
17:31But Dowdia was also there for seven.
17:34That's good.
17:35And Susie, anything else?
17:36Worried is also there.
17:37Worried?
17:38Wordier best, yes.
17:39Constantly worried.
17:4149 to 24.
17:43Heather, your letters again.
17:45Consonant, please.
17:47Thank you, Heather.
17:48V.
17:49And a vowel.
17:51A.
17:53And a consonant.
17:54P.
17:57And a vowel.
17:59E.
18:01A consonant.
18:03X.
18:04A consonant.
18:06R.
18:08A vowel.
18:10U.
18:12Another vowel.
18:15E.
18:16And a consonant.
18:18And the last one, T.
18:21Stand by.
18:22And a consonant.ess
18:51Thank
18:54What news, Heather?
18:55Er, six.
18:56Er, six, Phil?
18:57I've completely gone blank, sorry.
19:00Heather?
19:02Time to turn him in.
19:03Er, I've expert.
19:06Expert?
19:06Very good, yeah.
19:10That's unlike you, Phil.
19:12I had expert at the start, I just forgot about it.
19:15Don't do that again.
19:17Sorry.
19:17Now, Alistair, what have you got?
19:19I had expert as well, we were all experts.
19:21Over here.
19:21Mm-hmm.
19:22Yes.
19:22Nothing else, Izzy?
19:23Er, repeat is another six.
19:24Couldn't get to a seven.
19:26All right, so 30 to 49.
19:30Not bad, Heather.
19:32Catching up.
19:33Not bad at all.
19:34Now, Phil, it's your numbers game.
19:36Er, two large and four small, please.
19:38Thank you, Phil.
19:39Two from the top.
19:40Well, it'll last pick from you for a while.
19:42And this lot are six, four, nine, ten,
19:4750, and 25.
19:50And the target, 284.
19:53Two, eight, four.
19:55Two, eight, four, nine, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten,
20:07ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten,
20:07ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten,
20:07ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten,
20:07ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten,
20:07ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten
20:25Yes, Phil?
20:26I've got 284.
20:27284, Heather?
20:29Sorry, my brain just seized up again.
20:31You've had a brain freeze.
20:33How about, Phil?
20:34Right, OK, I did 25 minus 9 is 16.
20:38Yep.
20:396 times 50 is 300.
20:41It is.
20:42And 300 minus 16 is 284.
20:45Perfect.
20:45Well done.
20:46Well done indeed.
20:50Very good.
20:50So 59 now to Heather's 30.
20:53As we turn to our second tea time teaser, which is red petals and the clue.
20:58It was Valentine's Day, but he didn't buy red petals.
21:01He went to the pub instead.
21:03It was Valentine's Day, but he didn't buy red petals.
21:07He went to the pub instead.
21:25Welcome back.
21:26I left with a clue.
21:27It was Valentine's Day, but he didn't buy red petals.
21:29He went to the pub instead and got plastered.
21:34Plastered's the word we're looking for.
21:37Plastered.
21:38Didn't take her, obviously.
21:4059 to 30.
21:41Fill in the lead.
21:42Heather, your letters came.
21:44A consonant, please.
21:46Thank you, Heather.
21:47W.
21:48And a vowel.
21:50I.
21:52Consonant.
21:53N.
22:12And the last one.
22:16I.
22:18And the clock starts now.
22:50Heather.
22:51Six.
22:52And Phil.
22:53Six.
22:54Heather.
22:55Nation.
22:57Now, Phil.
22:58I've got Wapiti.
23:00Yes.
23:01Very good.
23:04Wapiti is a red deer of a large race native to North America.
23:08It's also called an elk.
23:09It's pretty much a byword for an elk.
23:11OK.
23:12Alistair.
23:13There was a very nice seven, which Susie will tell us about.
23:17Susie.
23:17Very appropriate to Alistair.
23:19It's a pianino.
23:21It's an upright piano, especially a small upright or a cottage piano.
23:26There we are.
23:26Interesting.
23:27So 65 to 36.
23:29Phil, letters go.
23:31OK.
23:32A consonant, please.
23:33Thank you, Phil.
23:34S.
23:35A consonant.
23:37D.
23:39A consonant, please.
23:51D.
24:04Stand by.
24:06A consonant, please.
24:08A consonant, please.
24:10A consonant, please.
24:21A consonant, please.
24:22A consonant, please.
24:22A consonant, please.
24:23A consonant, please.
24:23A consonant, please.
24:24A consonant, please.
24:24A consonant, please.
24:24A consonant, please.
24:24A consonant, please.
24:24A consonant, please.
24:25A consonant, please.
24:25A consonant, please.
24:26A consonant, please.
24:26A consonant, please.
24:27A consonant, please.
24:27A consonant, please.
24:28A consonant, please.
24:34A consonant, please.
24:37Yes, Phil?
24:38I've got a seven.
24:40A seven, Heather?
24:41A seven.
24:42Phil?
24:43I've got pedals.
24:45And Heather?
24:46Deposed.
24:47And deposed.
24:49Yes, absolutely fine, both.
24:52Any more sevens, Alistair, Susie?
24:54The two other sevens were speedos.
24:56Poddles?
24:57I like poddles.
24:58It's a dialect word meaning to dawdle, really,
25:00to walk with slow or unsteady steps
25:02in a dawdling or uncoordinated manner, the poddle.
25:06Home from the pub, probably.
25:08Possibly after you're plastered, yeah.
25:1272 to 43.
25:13Susie, what have you for us today
25:16and your wonderful origin of words?
25:18Well, I'm realising now that this may only appeal
25:21to 13% of our viewers,
25:23given the stats that you were giving
25:24about Valentine's Day at the beginning.
25:26I'm just going to talk a little bit about Valentine's
25:28and love as well.
25:30There were two early Italian martyrs
25:34whose feasts were celebrated on St. Valentine's Day
25:36and love didn't become associated with either of them
25:40until the Middle Ages.
25:41And two possible reasons for this.
25:43One is that there was a very old belief
25:45that birds mated on exactly this day,
25:48so they would find their life mate
25:50on St. Valentine's Day,
25:51the feast of St. Valentine, which is very sweet.
25:54Another is that it's linked to a pagan fertility festival.
25:58Now, that was called Lupercalia,
26:00and it's held in honour of the fertility god,
26:04the Roman fertility god, Lupercus.
26:06So those are the two reasons, possibly,
26:08why we associate love with,
26:10because it was a fertility day,
26:13with St. Valentine's Day.
26:14But to take love itself, unsurprisingly,
26:16it's a very, very ancient word.
26:18It's existed as long as humankind has existed.
26:20And if you go back to the most ancient language
26:23that we've traced, which is an Indo-European language,
26:26you will find it there.
26:28And it's shared by a Sanskrit word,
26:30lubiati, which means desire.
26:31And that, incidentally, also gave us libido,
26:34and the Latin word libet, meaning it is pleasing.
26:37It's related to other words in English,
26:39including leaf, an old-fashioned word,
26:42my leaf, which means dear or pleasant.
26:44But also, very appropriately,
26:46love is linked to life itself.
26:48It shares the same ancient roots,
26:49which I think is quite lovely.
26:51And just to flick briefly to tennis,
26:54because I think you love tennis,
26:54if I'm right, Alistair.
26:56Love in tennis, a lot of people think
26:58that it's got everything to do
26:59with the shape of leuf, the egg, in French.
27:02It's actually not.
27:03We think it goes back to the idea
27:04of playing for love rather than for money,
27:07which is behind one of the ancient rules of the game.
27:09So there you go.
27:10A quick whirlwind tour of love,
27:11and apologies to anybody
27:12who actually really hates Valentine's Day.
27:14I'll stop now.
27:15Well done.
27:16APPLAUSE
27:20Perfectly formed, as ever.
27:2372 to 43, fill in the lead.
27:25Heather, your letters go.
27:28A consonant, please.
27:30Aggie, Heather.
27:31L.
27:32And a vowel.
27:34U.
27:35And a consonant.
27:37M.
27:39Another consonant.
27:41R.
27:42A vowel.
27:44A.
27:45A vowel.
27:47U.
27:49Consonant.
27:51B.
27:53A consonant.
27:55R.
27:56And a vowel.
27:58And the last one.
27:59I.
28:01Stand by.
28:02A vowel.
28:04A vowel.
28:06A vowel.
28:13A vowel.
28:17A vowel.
28:20A vowel.
28:20A vowel.
28:20A vowel.
28:20A vowel.
28:28A vowel.
28:30A vowel.
28:34Heather?
28:35It's four.
28:37How about Phil?
28:38I've got a six.
28:39And a six.
28:40You're four, Heather.
28:42Rail.
28:42Rail and?
28:44Burial.
28:45And burial.
28:46Yeah.
28:47We're good.
28:48Can we go further?
28:49Alistair, Susie?
28:50No, I was working on fives.
28:52Rumba, mural.
28:53But Susie had two other sixes.
28:55Yes.
28:56Yes, there's barium, the white reactive metal.
28:59And there's also lumbar with the A, as in the lower part of the back.
29:03You're talking about lumbar, punctures, lumbar regions.
29:0778 to 43 into the final letters game for Phil Davies.
29:12Yes, Phil.
29:14I'll start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
29:16Thank you, Phil.
29:17M.
29:18A consonant.
29:21H.
29:22A vowel, please.
29:23O.
29:25A vowel.
29:26E.
29:28A consonant.
29:30S.
29:32A consonant, please.
29:34D.
29:35A vowel.
29:37I.
29:39A consonant.
29:41N.
29:43And a consonant, please.
29:44And the last one, G.
29:47Stand by.
29:49A consonant.
29:52A consonant.
30:04A consonant.
30:05A consonant.
30:05A consonant.
30:06A consonant.
30:06A consonant.
30:06A consonant.
30:06A consonant.
30:06A consonant.
30:06A consonant.
30:06A consonant.
30:06A consonant.
30:06A consonant.
30:19Well, Phil?
30:20A seven.
30:21A seven.
30:22Heather?
30:23Six.
30:24And a six.
30:25Your six?
30:26Hoping.
30:28Phil?
30:28Pigeons.
30:29Mm-hmm.
30:30Yeah.
30:30Pigeons.
30:31Pigeons.
30:32Alistair?
30:33I couldn't get beyond six, but Susie has several other seven.
30:37Yes.
30:37So, shooing.
30:39Phenoms.
30:40Short for a star.
30:41Somebody who's a phenomenon.
30:42Your favourite activity, Nick?
30:44Moshing.
30:45You mosh with abandon.
30:46So, a few sevens there.
30:48Now, then.
30:4985 to 43.
30:50Heather?
30:51Numbers game.
30:52OK.
30:53One big one and five little ones, please.
30:56Thank you, Heather.
30:57One from the top five little.
30:58And the final numbers game of this Valentine's Day is 10, 9, 4.
31:04Another four.
31:05Seven and 75.
31:08And the target?
31:09423.
31:11423.
31:12423.
31:13423.
31:42Yeah, Shabba.
31:43It's just gone.
31:44I can do this when I'm at home, but it's just gone.
31:48I'm sorry.
31:48Phil, what?
31:49You're doing OK.
31:50You're doing well.
31:51You're playing well.
31:51Phil?
31:52I think I've got 424.
31:56Let's find out.
31:57OK.
31:5810 minus 4 is 6.
32:00Yep.
32:0275 minus 4 is 71.
32:0475 minus the other 4 is 71.
32:06Multiply together is 426.
32:09Yep.
32:09I think I've got 9 and 7 left.
32:11And 9 minus 7 is 2.
32:13And take that away.
32:14Yep.
32:14For one away.
32:16Well done.
32:17But not quite perfect, Rachel.
32:19Is that possible?
32:20Um, yes.
32:21You could have said 4 times 10 is 40.
32:26Add on 7 for 47 and times that by 9.
32:30Well done.
32:32Thank you, Rachel.
32:35Always spot on there.
32:3692 to 43 as we go into the final round.
32:40So, Heather and Phil, fingers on buzzers.
32:43Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:17No.
33:19And Phil, this is your speciality.
33:22It must be tricky.
33:22Let's roll it and see just how difficult it was.
33:26Let's hear the groans.
33:27A deal maker.
33:28Deal maker.
33:29There we are.
33:30Now, I'll come back to you in a minute, Phil.
33:34Mr. Octochamp.
33:35But, Heather, well played.
33:37Well played.
33:38You go back to the bricklayer's arms.
33:40They'll give you a big cheer.
33:41Yeah.
33:42Hopefully.
33:43Get on the hockey.
33:44Score a bullseye.
33:45And take this goodie bag with you.
33:47Thanks for coming.
33:48You travel safely.
33:49Well done.
33:50Well done.
33:50And we shall see you, sir.
33:51A great player.
33:53Number two seed.
33:54We'll see you in June.
33:55Yeah?
33:56Lovely.
33:56It's been lovely.
33:57Brilliant stuff.
33:57Really enjoyed it.
33:58See you then.
33:58Well done.
34:00Now, we'll see you tomorrow.
34:02Alistair.
34:02Indeed, yes.
34:03I hope people enjoy their Valentine's night tonight.
34:05See you tomorrow.
34:06See you tomorrow.
34:07And Susie, too, of course.
34:08See you tomorrow.
34:08See you then.
34:09Lovely.
34:10Get home and find all those red roses all over the house.
34:13Brilliant stuff.
34:14All right.
34:14And Rachel, too.
34:15What will be waiting for you at home tonight?
34:18Oh.
34:21Big surprise, I'm sure.
34:22It'll be a lovely surprise.
34:24You tell us about it tomorrow.
34:26Will do.
34:26All right.
34:27Maybe.
34:28Join us tomorrow.
34:30Same time, same place.
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