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00:31Well, good afternoon. Welcome to the Countdown studio. Here we are, 9th of August. And down in London, there's something
00:37called... It's a convention, actually. It's called Summer in the City. I thought, Summer in the City? What's all that
00:42about? And it's got nothing to do with Summer in the City, really. It's a convention of people who want
00:48to create their own videos, basically YouTubers. And apparently, some of them travelling from all over the world to London.
00:55And these youngsters in the main, you know, lots in their 20s, they've got millions of followers. It's extraordinary. But
01:03the thing is, YouTube, if you're ever confused about something or how to do something, just get onto YouTube. It's
01:10there.
01:10You know, how to roll a Panama hat before travelling. How to change the gearbox on an Austin 7. Amazing.
01:18I think it's for the kids. I think I'm definitely too old for the YouTube generation. It's missing me. It's
01:23passing me by.
01:24If it's missing you, my word, what do you think it's done for me? Amazing.
01:28Now, who have we got? Colin's back. Colin's back. You got your teapot yesterday. Well done. Thank you.
01:34Yeah. I don't know to what extent that was down to that incredible shirt you were wearing.
01:39But anyway, you've got a teapot and you're back. Excellent. Well, have fun today.
01:43You're joined by Margaret Dixon. Welcome, Margaret. You're from Doncaster. And you just opened a wine bar.
01:50Yes, it's only been open a few months. So it's going well so far.
01:54OK. Another new venture is that you got married last year.
01:57Yeah. That's right. Yeah. And you had met a young chap when you were both 17 and you both went
02:02your separate ways.
02:03And, you know, how wonderful you came back together and you got married last year.
02:07And he's in the audience. He is. Yeah. Oh, brilliant.
02:10Well, listen, have a lot of fun today, both of you.
02:13Let's have a big round of applause for Colin and Margaret.
02:20And Susie's in the corner looking after that brilliant comedian, writer and actor Charlie Higgs.
02:27Welcome back, Charlie.
02:32Now, Colin, your letters go.
02:35Start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
02:38Thank you, Colin. Start today with S.
02:39And another.
02:43And another.
02:45A third.
02:47D.
02:48A vowel.
02:50E.
02:51Another.
02:53A.
02:54Another.
02:55O.
02:57And a consonant.
02:59M.
03:01Consonant.
03:02G.
03:04And a final vowel, please.
03:06A final U.
03:08And here's the countdown clock.
03:11BELL RINGS
03:12BELL RINGS
03:24MUSIC PLAYS
03:41Yes, Colin? Six.
03:44Margaret? Five.
03:46And you're five, Margaret?
03:48Drums.
03:51Colin? Goods.
03:53That's a great word.
03:54What about Charlie and Susie?
03:56Well, I got groused.
03:58Yes.
03:59As in complained, which should be a word.
04:03Yes, very good.
04:04To mither on about things.
04:05I've got a couple of slightly naughty words for you.
04:08Aroused for seven and orgasmed for eight.
04:11OK.
04:13Six points to Colin.
04:14Well done.
04:15And Margaret.
04:16Margaret, your letters game.
04:18Could I have a consonant, please?
04:20Thank you, Margaret.
04:22S.
04:23And another one, please.
04:25Z.
04:25And another.
04:29D.
04:32And a vowel.
04:34E.
04:36And another vowel.
04:38I.
04:40And a consonant.
04:43M.
04:45And a vowel.
04:48A.
04:50Another consonant.
04:53C.
04:55And a vowel, please.
04:57And the last one.
04:59U.
05:01Stand by.
05:02And a vowel.
05:03zweiten game.
05:13T frasepiration.
05:16T Netherlands.
05:16Good.
05:21Good.
05:24Good.
05:25Know.
05:30Good.
05:30weird.
05:33Margaret.
05:34A six.
05:35A six, Colin?
05:36Six for me.
05:37Margaret.
05:39Amused.
05:40And caused.
05:42And caused?
05:43Yes.
05:44And the corner?
05:45A couple of sevens.
05:47Miss Cued is there, and also a chemical element, cesium,
05:52which is soft, silvery and extremely reactive.
05:56That's right, cesium, yeah.
05:57It plays its part in atomic bombs and things.
06:00OK.
06:01I think.
06:03OK.
06:0312th plays, six.
06:05And now, Colin, it's your numbers game.
06:07Could I have one large and five small, please, Rachel?
06:10You can indeed.
06:11Thank you, Colin.
06:11One from the top.
06:12And five little-uns.
06:13And the first one of the day is seven, nine, six, one, five.
06:19And the big one, 25.
06:21And your target, 849.
06:24849.
06:30And the last one.
06:31And the time.
06:31And you can see it.
06:59Eight-fifty.
07:00One away.
07:01How about Margaret?
07:03Forced it, sorry.
07:04No.
07:05Over to you, Colin.
07:08Seven times five is 35.
07:12Yep.
07:12Take away the one, it's 34.
07:16And multiply that by the 25.
07:19Perfect.
07:20I think that's eight-fifty, is it?
07:21It is, eight-fifty.
07:22Well done.
07:23So, eight-four-nine.
07:24Rachel, can you unpick that for us?
07:26Yes, I found one way.
07:28If you say five plus one is six, times 25 is 150, minus seven is 143, times the six
07:38is 858, and take away the nine.
07:42Eight-four-nine.
07:43Well done.
07:44Perfect.
07:46Thank you, Rachel.
07:48That's the way it's done.
07:49So, 19 plays six, Margaret on six, as we turn to our first Tea Time teaser, which is Judy
07:55Dance, and the clue.
07:57Suzy grew tired of people getting her name wrong.
08:00It turned her yellow.
08:02Suzy grew tired of people getting her name wrong.
08:05It turned her yellow.
08:28She became sort of jaundiced.
08:31Jaundiced is the word we're after there.
08:3319 plays six.
08:35Colin, in the lead.
08:36Margaret, your letters game.
08:38Can I have a consonant, please?
08:40Thank you, Margaret.
08:41B.
08:42And another.
08:44S.
08:46And another.
08:48H.
08:50And a vowel.
08:52E.
08:53And another.
08:55O.
08:55And a consonant.
08:59S.
09:02And a vowel.
09:05A.
09:07And a consonant.
09:09Y.
09:12And a consonant, please.
09:14And the last one, R.
09:16Stand by.
09:17And a consonant.
09:32And a consonant.
09:33And a consonant.
09:36And a consonant.
09:36And a consonant.
09:36And a consonant.
09:36And a consonant.
09:36And a consonant.
09:36And a consonant.
09:36And a consonant.
09:37And a consonant.
09:37And a consonant.
09:38And a consonant.
09:48Margaret?
09:49There's seven.
09:51Colin? Six.
09:52And your six is? Shares.
09:54Margaret?
09:56Bashers.
09:58Yes, bashers are in.
10:00Anything else in the corner there, Susie?
10:01Yes, there is an eight.
10:03Rose bays.
10:04And a rose bay is a tall willow herb, pink flowers,
10:07and it often spreads on burnt ground,
10:10so it brings ground back to life, I guess.
10:12Well, well.
10:12Yeah.
10:13Thanks for that.
10:1419 plays 13, close together.
10:16Colin, your letters came.
10:19Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:20Thank you, Colin.
10:21S.
10:22And another.
10:24T.
10:25A third.
10:27D.
10:28A vowel.
10:30U.
10:31Another.
10:32I.
10:33And another.
10:35E.
10:36A consonant.
10:38T.
10:40Another.
10:42S.
10:43And a final vowel, please.
10:45And.
10:46A final O.
10:48Stand by.
11:19Well, Colin, I'll try an eight. Margaret? Six. And your six is? Suited. Suited. Yes. Outsides? Yes. The outsides of
11:33the building, for example, were very shabby. Yes, very good. Excellent. Well done. Building up a bit of a lead
11:42there, too. Charlie? Well, certainly beating me, yes. I got suited as well, yeah.
11:49Susie? Dustiest is there. That will give you another eight. And also testudos, which in ancient Rome were screens with
11:59an arched roof used to protect troops. But nowadays is a protective screen formed by troops who hold their shields
12:06above their heads so that the shields overlap. It's like a giant roof over their heads.
12:10Interesting. 27 to 13. Margaret, your numbers game. Can I have one large and the rest small, please?
12:19You can indeed. Thank you, Margaret. One from the top. And five little ones. And for this round, they are
12:25four, ten, three, six, one. And the large one, 25.
12:30And the target, 259. 259.
12:37So, that's all. And the target, 259.
13:05It's like a giant roof over the top. And a lot of people. And the target, 259.
13:05It's like a giant roof over the top. And maybe it's like a giant roof over the top. And the
13:05target, 259.
13:06Margaret?
13:07259.
13:08Thank you. Colin?
13:10259. So, Margaret, how did you get there?
13:14I did 25 times 10 is 250.
13:18Yep.
13:206 plus 3 is 9.
13:22Nice and straightforward.
13:23And I did it on.
13:24Lovely.
13:25And, Colin, I did it the same way.
13:27Same way. So share that with Margaret.
13:30Well done.
13:31Yep.
13:32APPLAUSE
13:35So, 37 plays 23.
13:37In Colin's favour, we turn to Charlie.
13:40Charlie, before your comedy writing career, you used to be a painter and decorator.
13:45Yeah, well, actually, when I left university, I was a singer in a band for six years.
13:49Yep.
13:49We played all over. We played up here in Manchester many times.
13:53And, but the bass player and myself, we started doing some decorating on the side to make a bit of
13:58extra money.
13:59And we figured out if we ditched the band and stuck to decorating, we'd actually make quite a good living.
14:04Uh, so that was the end of the band.
14:06Right.
14:06Uh, and, uh, also, I, at university, I'd met Paul Whitehouse, and he ended up, he was working as a
14:13plasterer.
14:13So we would often work together, uh, and we worked on some interesting people's houses, uh, one of which was
14:20Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
14:22Right.
14:22Paul and I would, would sort of do funny voices and characters and, and, and lark about in the hopes
14:27that Stephen and Hugh would say,
14:28Oh, you're really funny, you should come on the television with us.
14:32And actually, it did work in the end.
14:34Because, uh, they were doing a sketch on Saturday Night Live.
14:38Mm-hmm.
14:39And, uh, Hugh, as you know, is, is a very good blues pianist.
14:44Sure.
14:44And I was doing it.
14:44So they'd written this sketch, which ended with him, he was teaching Stephen how to sing rock and roll, I
14:50think.
14:51Uh, so it ended with him playing, playing on the piano and Stephen singing, and they needed a band.
14:56So, me and the bass player, and Paul, who's a very good musician as well, we became their band, and
15:02that was the first ever TV that, that I did, was, was a backing band for Stephen and Hugh on
15:08Saturday Night Live.
15:08And that spun out of doing their hallway, as it were.
15:11It did, yes.
15:12And that led to our career in television, which took off.
15:15And when Stephen and Hugh moved on, uh, when they became fabulously wealthy, Paul and I bought the house off
15:21them.
15:21Could continue the comedy heritage.
15:23Absolutely.
15:24I'd love to say that when we left, we sold it to Mitchell and Webb or someone, but, uh, a
15:28bloke called Daryl lives there now.
15:31Well done.
15:37Lovely.
15:3937 plays 23.
15:42Colin, let us go.
15:44Uh, start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
15:46Thank you, Colin.
15:47L.
15:48And another.
15:50N.
15:51A third.
15:53L.
15:54Vowel.
15:56I.
15:58Another.
16:00U.
16:01Another.
16:03A.
16:05Consonant.
16:07N.
16:11Consonant.
16:12H.
16:14And a final vowel, please.
16:17A final E.
16:18Stand by.
16:19A final E.
16:21A final E.
16:28A final E.
16:35A final E.
16:36A final E.
16:36A final E.
16:36A final E.
16:36A final E.
16:42A final E.
16:47A final E.
16:51Colin.
16:52No, I've lost this one, I've heard, sorry.
16:55Margaret.
16:55Five.
16:56A five, your five.
16:58Henna.
17:00Mm-hm.
17:01Henna.
17:02Yes, the henna, colour for your hair, the dye that's used, for example, on skin as well.
17:06What else have you got there?
17:07Susie.
17:08Um, unnail is there, not a very nice word, but it is there for six,
17:12just to simply remove nails from something in carpentry.
17:18Margaret, your letter's going.
17:21Can I have a consonant, please?
17:23Thank you, Margaret.
17:24T.
17:25And another.
17:27C.
17:29And another.
17:31X.
17:34And a vowel, please.
17:37O.
17:37And another.
17:39A.
17:41And a consonant.
17:44S.
17:45And a vowel.
17:49E.
17:51And a consonant.
17:53S.
17:56And a vowel.
17:57And the last one, I.
18:00And here's the countdown clock.
18:03And a vowel.
18:20And a vowel.
18:21And a vowel.
18:24And a vowel.
18:24And a vowel.
18:24And a vowel.
18:24And a vowel.
18:24And a vowel.
18:24And a vowel.
18:24And a vowel.
18:24And a vowel.
18:28And a vowel.
18:34Margaret?
18:35Six.
18:36That's six. Colin? Six.
18:39Margaret?
18:40Corksers.
18:42Now then. Costs?
18:44Yes, both absolutely fine.
18:46You happy? Yes.
18:47What's the corner produced for us, Charlie?
18:49Well, exotics.
18:51Yes.
18:52As in a number of exotic plants?
18:56Yes.
18:57I think that should be fine.
18:58Yep, exotic plants or animals.
19:00You can have exotica as well.
19:02And coziest is there for seven as well.
19:04Coziest?
19:05Yeah.
19:0643 to 34, Colin.
19:09Here we go.
19:10Your numbers came, Colin.
19:12The usual, please.
19:14One large and five small.
19:16Got it. Thank you, Colin.
19:17One from the top five.
19:18A little coming up.
19:19And they are two, six, seven, one, five.
19:24And the large on 100.
19:27And the target, 443.
19:29443.
19:32Two.
19:33Three.
19:52Two.
20:00Colin.
20:03444.
20:05Margaret.
20:06442.
20:08442, all right.
20:10Let's try Colin first, shall we?
20:13Right, 100 plus 7 plus 2.
20:17109.
20:18Multiply by the 5.
20:20545.
20:22Oops.
20:23Should have been 445, no, sorry.
20:27Sorry, definitely.
20:28Margaret.
20:305 minus 1 is 4.
20:325 minus 1, 4.
20:344 times 100 is 400.
20:37Yep.
20:387, 6 is 42.
20:40And add that on.
20:43One away.
20:44Well done, well done.
20:45It does you the world of good as well.
20:47You're only two adrift now, but let's deal with this 443.
20:50Rachel.
20:51Well, you could say 6 minus 1 is 5, times 2 is 10, 100 minus 10 is 90, times the
21:015 for 450, and take away the 7 for 443.
21:05Oh, wonderful.
21:06Thank you, Richard.
21:11Spot on as ever.
21:12So there we are.
21:13Time for our second Tea Time teaser, which is pig on tour.
21:18And the clue.
21:19Joe's having a pig of a time on tour.
21:22The bowlers kept doing this to his stumps.
21:24Joe's having a pig of a time on tour.
21:27The bowlers kept doing this to his stumps.
21:56Uprooting is the answer to that one.
21:59So 43 to 41, Colin, just in the lead.
22:02Margaret, your letters came now.
22:07Can I have a consonant, please?
22:09Thank you, Margaret.
22:10P.
22:11And another.
22:13N.
22:15And another.
22:17R.
22:22And the last one.
22:42A.
22:43Stand by.
22:46Stand by.
23:16Yes, Margaret.
23:18Five.
23:20Colin.
23:20Six.
23:22So, Margaret.
23:23Proud.
23:24Colin.
23:25Around.
23:27Yes.
23:29Stretch your lead a bit by eight points.
23:31Charlie and Susie.
23:32I was wondering if there was a word Panduria, but there probably isn't.
23:35Not with the I-8, Liam.
23:37Is that the I-8?
23:37But there is a word Pandur.
23:38OK.
23:39What does that mean?
23:40It's a historical term, really.
23:41It's a member of a military force, originally organised in Croatia, but now in Hungary and
23:46other parts of Eastern Europe.
23:47Of course, yes.
23:48That's where I got it from.
23:51Well done, Charlie.
23:53Susie, anything else?
23:54No, that was really good for Sandy.
23:55It'll do.
23:5649, please.
23:5741.
23:58Colin, your letters game.
24:00Off we go.
24:00Consonant, please.
24:02R.
24:03R.
24:04Another.
24:05T.
24:07A third.
24:09M.
24:10A vowel, please.
24:12E.
24:13Another.
24:14A.
24:16A third.
24:18O.
24:19A consonant.
24:21F.
24:22Another.
24:24T.
24:25And a final vowel, please.
24:27And a final I.
24:31Countdown.
24:33A vowel, please.
25:03Colin.
25:03Six.
25:05Margaret.
25:06Six.
25:07And Colin, six.
25:08Mutter.
25:09Margaret.
25:11Mentor.
25:12And mentor.
25:13There's no N, unfortunately.
25:15Sorry, Margaret.
25:17That's bad luck.
25:18Sorry.
25:19Easily done.
25:20Charlie and Susie.
25:21There is formate as well, the chemical derivative of formic acid.
25:26All right.
25:27Pops up from time to time, 55 to 41.
25:29Susie, it's your origins of words.
25:33We wait with bated breath.
25:36Well, Pete Watson emailed to ask about the origin of ragamuffin.
25:40It's such a strange looking word.
25:43Let's go back to the early Middle Ages and words like ragman, ragamuffin and ragged.
25:48And they all appeared within 100 years of each other, more or less.
25:52And all of them were used as nicknames for quite a surprising character, the devil.
25:57It was used to describe the devil in a number of literary works.
26:01They actually go back to the sort of 1300s.
26:03Why they were applied to the devil is probably just because of his kind of shabby appearance
26:09or perhaps having cloven hooves and tatty matted fur.
26:14So that's the sort of ragged part.
26:16The muffin part is a little bit harder to explain.
26:19And one theory is that it might be a mixture of English and French.
26:22Mal felon or mal felon, again, a sort of evil, person of evil intent, a criminal, if you like.
26:29But what we do know is that an Isabella ragamuffin lived in Oxford in 1344.
26:36She was listed on a legal document there.
26:37One of the best names ever, Isabella ragamuffin.
26:41Perhaps she was really unpleasant.
26:42Who knows?
26:43And that's how she got her surname.
26:45But anyway, ragamuffin survived in the English.
26:48And gradually it kind of came to mean someone who was pretty tatty,
26:52often an orphan on the streets of London,
26:54somebody who was a fairly shabby appearance.
26:57Yeah.
26:58Oh, wonderful.
27:02Super.
27:03Thanks, Susie.
27:04Excellent.
27:05Now, Margaret.
27:08Penultimate letters game.
27:09Off we go.
27:11Can I start with the consonant, please?
27:13Thank you, Margaret.
27:15R.
27:15And another one, please.
27:18V.
27:19And another.
27:21L.
27:23And a vowel.
27:25O.
27:26And a vowel.
27:29A.
27:31And a consonant.
27:33T.
27:36And a vowel.
27:38I.
27:41And a consonant.
27:43C.
27:45And a vowel.
27:47And lastly, E.
27:50Stand by.
27:51And a vowel.
27:53And a vowel.
28:20And a vowel.
28:21And a vowel.
28:22Margaret.
28:23A five.
28:24A five.
28:25Colin?
28:26I think I've got an eight.
28:29Yes?
28:30Margaret.
28:31Trace.
28:32Now, Colin.
28:34Violator.
28:36Erm, I think you're absolutely right.
28:39Well done.
28:40Good score.
28:41Well done.
28:42APPLAUSE
28:46And over in the corner there, Charlie, Susie?
28:49I only got sixes.
28:51I've got clover and revolt.
28:53There is a nine there, in fact.
28:56Vectorial is there.
28:57It means relating to a vector in mathematics
29:00or also relating to something that carries disease
29:03from sort of animal to plant, so transmits disease.
29:06So mosquitoes are said to be vectorial in the way that they work.
29:11Vectorial.
29:12Brilliant.
29:12Susie.
29:14No holding you back.
29:15Vectorial.
29:16Amazing.
29:1763 to 41.
29:18Colin?
29:19Last letters game.
29:21Er, start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
29:24Thank you, Colin.
29:25N.
29:25And another.
29:27G.
29:28A third.
29:30N.
29:31A vowel.
29:33A.
29:35Vowel.
29:36O.
29:37Another.
29:39E.
29:41A consonant.
29:42G.
29:44Another.
29:46P.
29:47And a final vowel, please.
29:50A final I.
29:52A final I.
29:53Stand by.
29:53A碎.
29:55A
29:57A.
30:22A worthwhile.
30:22A continues.
30:24Colin for Margaret and six Colin pong pong Margaret gaping thank you yes nice and Charlie
30:41Charlie and Susie well I would go out on a limb and say ponging be it to pong is a
30:47verb okay yeah
30:48that's a seven then Susie anything else yeah I'd prefer ponging to opening that's another seven
30:54thank you 63 plays 47 Margaret your numbers game now can I have one large and the rest small please
31:02you can you don't fancy gambling 16 points left 20 on the cards no I'll stick with those okay let's
31:10see how that plays out thank you Margaret don't say I didn't ask one large by a little final numbers
31:15are four eight three two seven and the large on 100 and the target 935 935
31:29so
31:58Margaret
31:59uh nine three two nine three two Colin nine three six and nine three six Colin uh right uh 100
32:10plus four is 104 yep seven plus two is nine multiply them nine three six it does indeed well done
32:20well
32:21but 935 Rachel well 100 plus three is 103 again seven plus two is nine times those together for 927
32:32and add the eight for 935 perfect thanks Rachel absolutely spot on of course 70 plays 47 as we go
32:44into the final round
32:46fingers on buses let's roll today's countdown conundrum
32:58Colin it's wrong sorry I was going to say shapeless but there's a why there so down to you Margaret
33:03Margaret
33:04bing
33:29Nope. Nope. Stumpf.
33:32Two good players. Colin's normally so quick.
33:34Who in the audience will take this on? Anybody? Tom. No? All right. Rachel, come on then.
33:40It's like I am to you, Nick. Haplessly devoted.
33:45Sweet of you. Haplessly devoted. Let's see whether you're right.
33:50Haplessly. Look at that.
33:52Very good. Well done, Rachel. All right.
33:56So what happens? Colin is coming back on Monday.
34:00Well done. Well done. I'll come back to you in a second. Margaret, well played.
34:04Thank you. But he took the day in the end.
34:06He did. So it's been good to have you here.
34:08Thank you. Well done. And as I say, we'll see you on Monday. Take it easy over the weekend, will
34:13you?
34:13I'll do my best.
34:14See you Monday afternoon. Well done.
34:16And Charlie, too. Are you coming back on Monday?
34:18I think I will, unless I get a better offer over the weekend.
34:21Don't answer the phone. We'll see you on Monday. And Susie, too, of course.
34:26See you then.
34:27See you both then. And Rachel.
34:28See you then.
34:28Join us then. Same time, same place. You'll be sure of it. A very good afternoon to you.
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