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00:30Good afternoon all.
00:32Welcome to Countdown Today.
00:33Lovely to have you.
00:35Over there, look, see our friend Susie F. Dent, lexicographer.
00:40Beside her all week, the presenter Ranveer Singh.
00:44There you are again.
00:45And our final stop, just right in front of Cecil, Rachel A. Riley.
00:51And a haiku to all of you because all of us...
00:54That's what that was.
00:55There was four haikus to start the show because we celebrated this last year.
01:00It was so much fun.
01:02Haiku Poetry Day.
01:04And we all...
01:04Do you remember you all made haikus up about each other?
01:06They were all very insulting and offensive.
01:09So we've all had a challenge this year
01:11to come up with a haiku about Countdown, the show.
01:15So a little bit of pressure, really.
01:17Do you want to go first, Rach?
01:18Go on, then.
01:19The clock tick-tocks down.
01:21Susie rifles through the words, Colin Witter's on.
01:24Yay, there you go.
01:25There you go.
01:26Technically, it was all about us again.
01:28We've got a Countdown.
01:29Come on.
01:30What about you, Sus?
01:33Rejoice in a world where the clock is our master,
01:36but time will stand still.
01:37Oh, look at that.
01:40Very nice.
01:41Well, you're always saying it's time out from the busyness of the day.
01:44Oh, it is indeed.
01:45It is indeed.
01:46Afternoon company, for sure.
01:47So mine's this.
01:49Whiteley first always.
01:52Carol Cornflakes company.
01:55Sentiment for nine.
01:57Oh, I love that last line.
02:00That's brilliant.
02:01Sentiment for nine.
02:01Let me just check.
02:02Yes, sentiment's nine.
02:03That's nice.
02:04Very nice.
02:05What are you doing?
02:05Tell you what, we're all right at this.
02:07I feel quite moved.
02:08A little tear.
02:09A little tear there.
02:10So there you go.
02:11Right, what a big day it is for Ian Kinsella,
02:14who has seven wins in the bag.
02:17And what is such a high standard,
02:19we have a number one seed in Luke Selway.
02:22008 is his nickname.
02:24He scored a massive 913 points,
02:26and we thought he's going to walk the series.
02:28In comes Daniel Face.
02:30He gets 854 points.
02:32And we think game on.
02:33So Ian, you've scored 726 so far.
02:37So you need to score today 128.
02:40Just one more than your highest score.
02:42You'll become the number two seed.
02:45So that is, that's a heck of a,
02:47a heck of achievement if you do it.
02:50First of all, you've just got to beat
02:51a very able challenger.
02:53Gareth Griffiths joins us from Shrewsbury.
02:56I pronounce it Shrewsbury.
02:57Are you Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury man?
02:58I am a Shrewsbury man, I'm afraid.
03:00With all due respect, I'm going to stick with Shrewsbury.
03:02That's fair enough.
03:04And you're a bit of an action man.
03:05I mean, I don't,
03:06I can't even do all the list of activities that you do.
03:09Run me through the things you like to do of a month.
03:12Ah, sorry, I'm big into target sports.
03:14I've got archery, target shooting.
03:16Yes.
03:16I also do taekwondo.
03:18Right.
03:19I recently started pickleball as well,
03:21which is my current thing.
03:22Why not?
03:23Yeah.
03:24But I hear you're taking flying lessons as well.
03:27Yeah, very slowly.
03:28Right.
03:29Yeah, I think I'm on hour number four at the moment,
03:32but that's over the course of about 18 months.
03:34How many hours do you have to be up with an instructor
03:35before they go,
03:36OK, take the wheel?
03:39Well, actually, on the first lesson,
03:40they let me just fly it myself, kind of thing,
03:43but obviously with their own tuition alongside.
03:46And you were telling me that was a commercial airline as well.
03:49I can't believe they do that.
03:50Oh, yeah, 737.
03:51It's fine.
03:52Right, Gigi, best of luck to you.
03:55We're at the races, up against Ian.
03:56Good luck to both of you.
03:57APPLAUSE
03:59OK, Ian, the last time for now.
04:02Let's get the letters.
04:03How are you, Rachel?
04:04Hi, Ian.
04:04Could I have a consonant, please?
04:06You can indeed.
04:06Start today with C.
04:07And again.
04:09T.
04:10And another one.
04:12W.
04:13Vowel.
04:14E.
04:15And again.
04:17I.
04:17And again.
04:19O.
04:20And a consonant.
04:22T.
04:24And a consonant.
04:25H.
04:28And a consonant, please.
04:30Final N.
04:32At home and in the studio, let's play kind of.
05:05Ian.
05:05Six.
05:06And Gareth.
05:07Just a six for me as well.
05:09Off you go, Ian.
05:09Twitch.
05:10Twitch.
05:11And for you, Gareth.
05:12Whiten.
05:12Whiten and Twitch.
05:13Nice.
05:14Nice.
05:15Yeah.
05:15So, listen, six is a little bit of an opening here, maybe.
05:18The upstage in the opening round.
05:20Would have been nice, but no, we had techno.
05:23Yeah.
05:23That's your kind of music.
05:25That's only a six anyway.
05:27Yeah, townie.
05:28Lots of townie.
05:29There you go.
05:30So both of you, as good as we can see.
05:31Let's go again.
05:32Gareth.
05:32Hi, Rachel.
05:33Could I get a consonant, please?
05:34Thank you, Gareth.
05:36L.
05:37And a vowel.
05:39E.
05:41And another vowel.
05:43O.
05:44A consonant.
05:46M.
05:49Another consonant.
05:50P.
05:53Vowel.
05:55E.
05:58Another consonant.
05:59N.
06:03Vowel.
06:05I.
06:07And we'll go for a consonant, please.
06:10Final R.
06:10Five-frying,
06:11Six-packing,
06:29seven-packing,
06:30seven-packing,
06:34nine-packing.
06:42Gareth.
06:43Just a six again.
06:44And Ian.
06:45Seven.
06:46Six for Gareth.
06:47Penile.
06:48Seven for Ian.
06:49Implore.
06:50Implore.
06:51Very nice.
06:52Yeah, no worries.
06:53No worries at all.
06:54Can we match it?
06:56Nay, go further.
06:57Well, we had pioneer for seven, didn't we, as well,
06:59but we also had an eight, epimeron.
07:02Yes.
07:03E-P-I-M-E-R-O-N.
07:05And in insects, this is the posterior part of the thoracic segment,
07:11so the thorax, in other words.
07:13So a very specific part of an insect.
07:15Indeed it is.
07:16Very hard to find, indeed, I find, anyway.
07:19Let's get our first numbers Friday afternoon.
07:22Mr One Large is back.
07:23Here we go.
07:24One large, please, Rachel.
07:26I should have guessed One Large and five little coming up.
07:30Let's see if it's easier or a challenge somewhere in between.
07:33We have ten, four, one, seven, seven, and 50.
07:38And the first target today, 436.
07:41436.
07:42Numbers up.
07:42What?
07:57How?
08:13Four, three, six, Ian? Four, three, six.
08:15And for you, Gareth?
08:16No, I didn't manage to get anything written down.
08:18The curse of the first numbers round. Yes, Ian, off you go.
08:22Ten minus one is nine. Yep.
08:24Times 50.
08:27450. And take off to two sevens. Lovely.
08:30Well done, four, three, six. Yes.
08:33So let's get this T time teaser, Friday afternoon.
08:36And we're talking about dots and, dots and, just the one T in dots.
08:41Second thoughts about Mr Laurel?
08:43It's really obvious.
08:45Second thoughts about Mr Laurel?
08:47It's really obvious.
09:04Welcome back, everyone.
09:06Hopefully this T time teaser wasn't another fine mess for you.
09:09A reference, of course, to Laurel is Stan Laurel.
09:12And what's obvious is Stand Out,
09:14which Ian has been on Countdown now for seven shows
09:17and counting into this eight.
09:18And a really good start as he tries to become an OctoChamp.
09:21Gareth's going to try and stop him already off the mark
09:23in choosing these letters.
09:24Can I get a consonant, please, Rachel?
09:26Thank you, Gareth.
09:27S.
09:28And a vowel, please.
09:30O.
09:30And another vowel.
09:32A.
09:34A consonant.
09:35C.
09:37Another consonant.
09:38T.
09:40A vowel, please.
09:42I.
09:44A consonant.
09:45S.
09:48Another vowel.
09:50O.
09:52And a final consonant, please.
09:53Final P.
09:54And here we go again.
09:55T.
09:57T.
09:57T.
09:57T.
09:58T.
09:58T.
09:59T.
09:59MUSIC PLAYS
10:26Gareth? Seven.
10:28Yes, some for you, Ian. Six.
10:30Really, the sixes? Costs.
10:32Oh, we expect so much from them every time.
10:35Gareth, the seven? Copitas.
10:36Copitas, Susie. Very nice, yes.
10:38Slim stemmed glasses, they narrow slightly towards the top
10:41and usually used for sherry.
10:43All right, excellent stuff. Can we add to that?
10:45Can't beat that one. Excellent work.
10:46Look, just ten points in it.
10:48No chickens counted here.
10:50Ian, let's get more letters. Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:53Thank you, Ian. T. And again.
10:56R. And again.
10:57G. And a vowel.
11:01E. And again.
11:03O. And again.
11:05U. And a consonant.
11:09R. And a vowel.
11:13O. And another vowel, please.
11:17And lastly, you.
11:19And half a minute.
11:20November 8th, on the side.
11:23That's Peter, thereof.
11:24It's not a thing.
11:25Sometimes, thereof.
11:34Sometimes, we can promote.
11:35lumines, as you go ahead.
11:37That's Peter than anyone else knows.
11:37dyst accomod strange.
11:38The key one known.
11:38One of the odd ones.
11:51How many, Ian?
11:52I'll just stick with a six.
11:53Sticking with a six? Is Gareth going to pull off another seven here?
11:57Let's find out.
11:57It's a risky seven.
11:58But he's going to try. Audacious. Right, Ian, what's the six?
12:02Router.
12:03Router. What about you, Gareth?
12:05I put a G on the front of it for grouter.
12:07Grouter!
12:08Could definitely be a grouter.
12:09Yes, very well done.
12:10APPLAUSE
12:13That's what we'd like to see.
12:15Anything else for me there, Ranvier?
12:16That was all we had.
12:17Yes, well done, Gareth.
12:19Very good.
12:19Back to within three, Gareth.
12:21And on these numbers, your choice, what are you going to do?
12:23Can I just get two big ones and four small ones, please, Rachel?
12:26Two big ones, four small ones.
12:29Coming up, four small ones are seven, five, seven and ten.
12:34And the large two, 50 and 75.
12:37And the target, 644.
12:40644, numbers up.
12:42There's half an under andOUR, close with us, isn't it?
12:46Yeah.
12:46Yeah.
13:11mixture is fully refined with power, and all.
13:11All right.
13:11If you were thinking about, Mitch.
13:12Can you get me 644, Gareth?
13:14I can't. I've had another shocker there. I can't get anywhere.
13:16Ian, what did you get? 643.
13:18643, off you go.
13:20So 7 minus 5 is 2.
13:217 minus 5 is 2.
13:2310 minus 2 is 8.
13:24It is.
13:2575 times 8.
13:27600.
13:28Add to 50.
13:30650.
13:30Take off to 7.
13:317 points.
13:33Lovely.
13:33And for 644, Rich.
13:35Well, this one's divisible by your favourite number.
13:377!
13:387!
13:38And you say 10 plus 7 is 17,
13:40plus 75 is 92,
13:43and times that by the second 7.
13:45644.
13:46There you go. Lovely.
13:50At 10 points in it, then.
13:52Ian really needed those seven points,
13:54and I wouldn't call it breathing space,
13:56but you both get a breather now,
13:58because it's our last chat of the week with Ranveer Singh.
14:01What do you want to talk about today, or Ranveer?
14:03Well, do you know, the one thing that people always ask
14:05when you do breakfast television,
14:07or you get up at sort of 2am, 3am,
14:09as a regular thing, is, you know,
14:10what's your work-life balance like?
14:12And I generally tend to say, there is none.
14:13You know, you sort of,
14:15you are very sort of upset by about 5pm,
14:17and you just want everyone to go away,
14:19but that is the time you've got to really kick in.
14:20But it's really interesting, because I've got older,
14:22because I've been doing Breakfast Telly for 13 years now,
14:25and journalists before that,
14:26but I now make really weird decisions about what I say no to,
14:32which, when I was younger, or even five years ago,
14:35I would have gone, don't be crazy.
14:36Like, why would you say no to that?
14:37And it just shows how, as you get older,
14:39you do make slightly different decisions in your career.
14:41So just very recently, I was asked,
14:44oh, they called me up from work,
14:46and they said, would you mind flying to New York
14:50to meet Jennifer Aniston and interview her about The Morning Show,
14:53which is one of my favourite shows on Apple TV.
14:55It's about breakfast television.
14:57And within a heartbeat, I just went,
14:59no, are you all right?
15:00And I just thought, what is going on?
15:02But it was because, you know, I've got a 13-year-old son,
15:05and I just thought, well, I've got to go away the following day,
15:08so if I go away then, then I won't see him for two days.
15:11And I just... And it was a very easy decision.
15:12But it's really remarkable to me, you know, you think...
15:15Sometimes you pinch yourself about meeting Cynthia Erivo,
15:17and then the very next day, you pinch yourself going,
15:19why am I turning that down?
15:21But it's just a weird way that your career turns out.
15:23You just say no to stuff that you have to...
15:25You have to have priorities,
15:26especially when you work so early in the morning for so long.
15:29Obviously, being a parent changes everything,
15:31cos you value that time.
15:32And, you know, being there for bedtimes,
15:34and being there in the morning,
15:35and all those different things,
15:35you try and get that balance right.
15:37But I also just find now,
15:38I'm approaching sort of 50 now, I'm 49,
15:43that all roads lead home.
15:45And that wasn't the case.
15:46When I was in my 20s and my teens,
15:47all roads led out.
15:49Anywhere but home.
15:51But now I find no matter what I do,
15:53before I look at the job,
15:54I'm looking at where's my road back home,
15:56and can I get home?
15:57I'd rather be in my own bed at 2 in the morning.
15:59And I bet everyone watching is like this.
16:01As you get older, you go,
16:02how do I get back home?
16:05I think that's probably not a bad mindset.
16:08Yeah.
16:09I think it's just even, like, nights out, you know.
16:11Me and all my friends now, we're just like,
16:13we think we're going to go out till 2.
16:15We're not, we're home by half 10.
16:17Yeah, absolutely.
16:18Hot water bottles and having a chat on the sofa,
16:21you know, it's just, things change.
16:22Wonderful.
16:23Thank you, Raphir.
16:26All right, well, Ian the champagne has been on ice,
16:29right, to become an octo-champ.
16:30He's got a 10-point lead at the moment.
16:33Champ, your letters.
16:35Consulant, please, Rachel.
16:36Thank you, Ian.
16:37V.
16:38And again.
16:39N.
16:40And again.
16:41G.
16:42And a vowel, please.
16:44E.
16:45And another one.
16:46O.
16:47And again.
16:48A.
16:50And a consonant.
16:51S.
16:54And a consonant.
16:56W.
16:57Consonant, please.
16:59Lastly, T.
17:00Start the clock.
17:32That's it, Ian.
17:34Seven.
17:34Seven from you, Gareth.
17:36Just a five for me.
17:37Yeah, tricky round, the five is?
17:39Waste.
17:40And the seven?
17:40Stowage.
17:41Stowage.
17:42All there, yes, very good.
17:43Yeah, very good.
17:44Seven points for Ian, anything else?
17:46Tangos.
17:47Yes.
17:47Nice, isn't it?
17:48Lovely.
17:49Nice for a Friday.
17:49A little shimmy there.
17:50We've had sherries, we've had tangos,
17:53we're definitely heading for a hangover around there.
17:55Friday.
17:56It's a Friday feeling.
17:57I'm sorry to keep you, we'll let you go.
17:59To wind things off, I've got a sherry and a tango waiting.
18:01Come on, Gareth, hurry up.
18:04Vowel, please, Rachel.
18:05Thank you, Gareth.
18:06U.
18:07A consonant.
18:08H.
18:10A consonant.
18:11G.
18:12Another vowel.
18:14A.
18:16A consonant.
18:17T.
18:18Consonant, please.
18:20L.
18:22Another vowel.
18:23E.
18:28I.
18:29And a final consonant, please.
18:31Final.
18:32M.
18:32Kite down.
19:02Gareth.
19:04A risky six.
19:05And Ian? Six.
19:07What have you got, Gareth? Gimlet.
19:09Gimlet. And for you, Ian?
19:11Amulet. An amulet.
19:12Yes, both absolutely fine.
19:14Gimlet is a tool used for boring.
19:17It's also a cocktail.
19:19Amulet is a talisman, yeah.
19:20And are we all done with those?
19:22No, we had an eight, actually.
19:23Yes. Come on.
19:25Megalith.
19:26Megalith, such good words.
19:27It's a stone in a prehistoric monument.
19:29Wonderful work.
19:30Wonderful work from dictionary corner Stenstrong
19:33until the end of Friday as we get our third numbers round of the day.
19:37But the last one Ian's picking for a while, so let's get it.
19:39One large, please, Rachel.
19:41For the road, one large, five little.
19:44Thank you, Ian.
19:45And this time we have seven, eight, nine, one, six and 100.
19:52And the target, 725.
19:54725. Numbers up.
19:56This time, please.
19:57Thanks, everyone.
20:00To-the-mill pop.
20:03But we'll be right back.
20:05Five, too.
20:19Bye-bye.
20:21Bye-bye.
20:22Bye-bye.
20:23Bye-bye.
20:24Bye-bye.
20:25Bye-bye.
20:25Bye-bye.
20:26Bye-bye.
20:267-2-5 the target, Ian? 7-2-4. Missed it by one. Gareth? I had 7-2-4 but
20:33I can't
20:33remember it. Ah, the pressure, the 30 seconds, yeah. Off you go, Ian, with your
20:39critical look. 100 times 7, Rachel. 700. And then I'm hoping plus the rest is 24. 9, 8, 1 and
20:476, yep.
20:49That's what Gareth could remember. Yeah. This was fiddly, wasn't it? A little annoying but I could
20:55say it wasn't a problem for you. Well, if you say 100 plus 6 is 106, times by a 7,
21:03the 7-4-2 and then take away the 8 and the 9. Ah, brilliant, brilliant. Lesson learnt as we
21:10get this
21:10Tea Town teaser, which is some iron, some iron. Creedence Clearwater saw a bad one. If you know
21:17your music, you've got it. Creedence Clearwater saw a bad one.
21:36Hello again. We wish we were on on Saturdays and Sundays, but we're into the last part of
21:40Countdown for this week. And the Creedence Clearwater reference, of course, was the bad
21:45moon rise. And Susie loves that song. Now, before the sun sets, well, we have a new octo-champ
21:50in Ian Kinselet. He's got a 24-point lead at the moment. We've six rounds to go. Gareth,
21:56you're putting up a good fist of it so far. Let's get more letters.
21:59Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Gareth. G. Vowel. U. And another vowel. E. Consonant, please. Z.
22:11Oof. Consonant, please. R. Another vowel. O. Consonant, please. N. Another vowel. I. And a final consonant,
22:29please. Final D. 30 seconds.
23:00Re-arr PS9 Taco
23:03Gareth. Just a six. And for you, Ian. Eight. An eight. Look, he's on fire again.
23:08Gareth. Dozing. What have you spotted? Groundy. Groundy. My goodness me, could it
23:14be connected to sport? Could it be connected to coffee? Probably none of the
23:18above. Tennis, absolutely. The first is correct. It's a stroke played after the
23:23ball has bounced as opposed to a volley. So what most shots are. Do we have
23:26anything else over in dictionary corner or is that the ace? That beat us, yes.
23:29Very good. Lovely. 58, 26 more letters, please, Ian. A consonant, please,
23:34Rachel. Thank you, Ian. T. And again. D. And again. N. And a vowel, please. A. And
23:44another. E. And another. I. And a consonant. L. And a vowel. A. And another.
23:59Vowel, please. And lastly. E. And let's play.
24:03Vowel, please.
24:04Vowel, please.
24:06Vowel, please.
24:30MUSIC PLAYS
24:33Ian, give me a number. Eight. And Gareth?
24:36Just a six for me. I know. What have you got there, Gareth?
24:40Linted. Yeah. It's all in the detail, isn't it, here?
24:43What have you got? Dentalia. Come on, Suze.
24:46Well, no linted, unfortunately.
24:50Dentalia... Yes, the plural of dentalium.
24:53And it's another term for a tusk shell,
24:57which is a burrowing mollusk, believe it or not.
24:59Goodness me. Amazing. Sensational.
25:01APPLAUSE
25:02What? Yes, yes.
25:05There was a nine in there. Come on.
25:09Susie's prowess can leave us all feeling a little bit alienated at times.
25:12Oh, what a spot.
25:13Because she's so clever. What a spot. Well done.
25:15APPLAUSE
25:17Alienated for nine as we stay in Dictionary Corner.
25:20What a one-two punch. That is a maximum from Dent
25:23and then Origins Awards.
25:26Vilhelmina Smith has asked about the expression close but no cigar.
25:31She said, it makes no sense to me, but then I am Dutch.
25:35Which is fair enough.
25:37So it originated in North America.
25:40Many of my origins in recent times have, actually.
25:43And obviously, close but no cigar, you've come so close,
25:46tantalisingly close to succeeding, but you haven't quite made it.
25:50And it emerged, as you probably guessed, from carnival culture
25:53in 20th century America.
25:55And it's a kind of vanished world, if you like.
25:57But if you go back to the carnival games, the fairgrounds, et cetera,
26:02you would find lots of games, as you would now,
26:05coconut fries, et cetera, and various prizes were offered.
26:10So candies, they would call it, were offered for.
26:13Ones that were sort of fairly easy, maybe the hoopless stalls.
26:17Then you would get the finest prizes of all,
26:19which would be the big stuffed animals.
26:21I think those are still the ones that we all want to get.
26:23And that sets for if you really, really excel at something.
26:25The ones in the middle were the cigars.
26:29But the crucial element was, of course,
26:30you had to actually win to get the cigar.
26:33Nothing to do with coming close.
26:36So you could knock down two bottles out of three,
26:38you would get close, but no cigar.
26:40So you get the idea.
26:42And then, of course, the cigars thankfully fell out of fashion.
26:46You know, the kind of image of it remained with us still,
26:49but the literal application didn't.
26:51So that's it, yeah, going back to all the carnival days,
26:54which actually, and I will do this on another occasion,
26:56has given us lots and lots of phrases in English.
26:58I'd love to do that, because that's really surprised me.
27:01And it's a beautiful origin,
27:02because I thought it would just be the cigars
27:04are very much old-fashioned celebratory thing, isn't it?
27:07Yeah.
27:07Imagine the fat cats sitting around,
27:09they've closed a business deal.
27:10Yeah, you have a cigar.
27:11Yeah.
27:11And you said North America.
27:13I assumed it was going to be a very sort of obvious definition,
27:16but completely wrong.
27:17So that was brilliant.
27:18Yeah, fairgrounds.
27:19Great.
27:19Good fairgrounds.
27:20Thank you so much.
27:21APPLAUSE
27:24OK, four rounds of Countdown left this week.
27:27We could be meeting two challengers on Monday,
27:30if Ian can get this over the line.
27:31Gareth, you're picking these letters.
27:33OK.
27:34Vowel, please, Rachel.
27:35Thank you, Gareth.
27:36O.
27:37A consonant.
27:39S.
27:41And another consonant, please.
27:42N.
27:44Another vowel.
27:46E.
27:48A consonant, please.
27:51Another consonant.
27:53J.
27:55Vowel, please.
27:57A.
27:59Another vowel.
28:02E.
28:03And a final consonant, please.
28:05And a final L.
28:06Good luck.
28:07MUSIC PLAYS
28:37GARETH
28:38Just a five for me this time.
28:40A five there.
28:41It's late in the day, Ian.
28:42I'll stick with a six.
28:43A six there, which will steal the points.
28:45Gareth.
28:46Just snore.
28:47Snore.
28:48And for you, Ian?
28:48Learns. Yes, that'll be a six, and we're going to go further in Dictionary Corner.
28:52Yeah, just by one, we've got sevens, haven't we? We've got loanees.
28:55Yes. And we've got loners.
28:58Yeah, there you go. And that comes up quite a lot, you two.
29:00Slap on the wrists. Slap on the wrists.
29:03Although we can confirm an octo-champ now in Ayn,
29:06but let's save the celebrations three more rounds.
29:08And Ayn, let's get your letters.
29:11Constantine, please, Rachel. Thank you, Ayn.
29:13P. And again.
29:16T. And again.
29:17And again.
29:18B. And a vowel.
29:20A. And again.
29:22U. And again.
29:24I. And a consonant, please.
29:28S.
29:30And a vowel, please.
29:33E.
29:36And a consonant, please.
29:39Lastly, L. Last letters.
29:41L. Last letters.
30:10V. Last letter there is a CSV.
30:12Ian? Seven. Gareth? Six.
30:15Yeah, what's the six? Pastel.
30:17And for you, Ian? Pulsate. Pulsate.
30:20Very nice. Nice final word for you to get.
30:2379-26 is seven as best as we have.
30:26We've got an eight. Look at this.
30:28You'd be winning today, you know, if we're keeping the scores across.
30:31We haven't said that this week, have we, with Ian's standard,
30:33but I think you might be winning today. What is it? Suitable.
30:37Suitable it is. A suitable eight.
30:38As we get on to the last numbers.
30:41And Gareth, you're going to choose them for us.
30:43Just two large and four small, please, Rachel.
30:45Two large, four small. Coming up for you, Gareth.
30:48Final one of the week.
30:50Five, six, one, ten, 150.
30:56And the final target, 538.
30:59Five, three, eight. Last numbers.
31:04So.
31:13So.
31:325-3-8, please, Gareth.
31:345-3-9.
31:355-3-9, one away in...
31:37Damn, yeah, 5-3-9.
31:385-3-9 as well. OK, 7.8. Off you go, Gareth.
31:416 times 100 is 600.
31:43It is...
31:4550 plus 6 is 56.
31:4756.
31:48And then take that away from the 600 and the 5.
31:51You've used the 6.
31:54Missed it, Ian, off you go.
31:56100 times 5.
31:58500.
31:58Plus 50.
31:595-50.
32:01Take away the 10 and the 1.
32:02That'll do it. Well done, 7 points.
32:04Well done, Erich. Big finish to the week.
32:065-3-8.
32:07It was there. If you say 10 divided by 5 is 2,
32:11take that 2 away from the 100 for 98.
32:1498 times 6 is 588.
32:17And take away the 50 for 5-3-8.
32:19Magic!
32:20APPLAUSE
32:22OK, let's get the final round out of the way.
32:26Our Gareth Griffiths, with his finger on the buzzer,
32:28Ian Kinsella, is going to hopefully wrap it up in style.
32:32Here's Friday's Countdown Conundrum.
32:38Gareth.
32:39Venerate.
32:40Stealing his thunder, but no rest of the time, Ian.
33:10Wow, time up.
33:11Nobody managed to get it.
33:14Did anyone in the studio get it?
33:15I think it's over-eaten.
33:17Over-eaten.
33:18Let's see if it is.
33:20Yes, well done.
33:21APPLAUSE
33:23So there you go, an 86 for Ian.
33:26But first of all, Gareth, you keep flying high.
33:29And thank you so much for coming on Countdown.
33:30Appreciate it.
33:31And you've been here to see a new OctoChamp anointed,
33:35Ian Kinsella.
33:36You moved to number three seed, 812 points.
33:40So congratulations to you.
33:42It's been a joy to have your smiling face here.
33:45APPLAUSE
33:47Two new challengers on Monday.
33:49New face at Dixonry Corner, of course.
33:51And always lovely to have you, Rambeer.
33:53Great to be here.
33:54Thank you so much.
33:55Friday night.
33:56Go partying, all right?
33:57Susie, enjoy your weekend.
33:59I will.
33:59You too.
33:59And you, Rich.
34:00Have a great one.
34:01Back on Monday.
34:01Yes, and that new face in Dictionary Corner
34:04on the week of the London Marathon
34:06is an absolute Paralympic and marathon-running legend.
34:10Richard Whitehead will be with us on Monday.
34:13So we cannot wait.
34:14Another week, another adventure.
34:15Hopefully you can be here for it.
34:17We'll be waiting for you.
34:18You can count on us.
34:20You can contact the programme by email
34:22at countdown at channel4.com.
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