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00:30Hello, everybody. It's Bank Holiday Monday.
00:33It's May the 4th and Countdown is here to deal with all the letters and numbers by the bucket load.
00:40Thank you very much for tuning in.
00:42Let's head over to the dictionary corner.
00:44Dealing with any faulty words, it's Susie Dent.
00:47Of course, goodness gracious me, Nina Wadia is back.
00:51And happy to tinker with the numbers as necessary is our Rachel Riley.
00:57Good afternoon.
00:58I didn't get the Easter eggs.
00:59Right. So many of them.
01:00Tinker is Alice.
01:03Faulty is Sybil.
01:05Nessa is Jenkins.
01:06Bucket is actually Bouquet.
01:09And that is Hyacinth.
01:10Because just a welcome back, Nina.
01:12We're talking today about your favourite female sitcom character ever.
01:18Now, Nina, that's so hard for you, so you're going last.
01:21Yes.
01:21Right, Rachel, who's yours?
01:22I mean, I'm going to just be predictable.
01:24You know what show I'm going to say.
01:25Yes.
01:26Friends.
01:27Which one, though?
01:28You've got to pick one out of three.
01:30I think it's got to be, for me, between Monica and Rachel.
01:33Monica, early days, is the best character.
01:36But I like how Rachel just kind of stayed normal, where some of them turned into caricatures.
01:40So, I've got to go with my namesake.
01:44What about you, Suze?
01:45I have two.
01:46So, old school would be Mary Richards in The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
01:49I'm probably the only one old enough to remember this.
01:51Love her.
01:51But she was amazing.
01:52I think she was such a strong, independent woman.
01:55And also, Lorelei Gilmore in The Gilmore Girls.
01:57Good.
01:58Which I've watched with my daughters, and she's brilliant.
02:00She's resilient, witty.
02:01Yeah.
02:02Lovely.
02:02Here's the definitive answer, Nina.
02:04I think I'm going to have to go with Patricia Ratlidge, Keeping Up Appearances, Mrs. Bouquet.
02:10I mean, what an incredible actress.
02:13And that character still stands true.
02:16You know, incredible.
02:18I mean, I did love Wendy Craig as well in Butterflies.
02:21Oh, great shot.
02:22Amazing.
02:22Yes.
02:23Amazing.
02:24I thought you were going to say, I thought about it.
02:26I'd probably go with Mrs. Hussain, because I'm brilliant.
02:30Well, I'll tell you who he is, absolutely stealing the show.
02:33Three in a row as our Patrick Thompson, our champion.
02:36Nina, you've arrived in the midst of a really special player.
02:41115, 105, and 124.
02:44What?
02:45Just very special indeed.
02:46And you're taking on the lovely Helen Humby, a Londoner by birth, living in Bournemouth now.
02:51But, well, travelled, Helen.
02:53And you worked out at a church in Spain, learned the language, everything.
02:56That must have been an amazing experience.
02:58Tell us about it.
02:59It was interesting.
03:00Yeah, we went out in the late 80s to early 90s, about six years.
03:05Kids were small then, and so they learnt Spanish in six months.
03:09Mum and Dad were struggling.
03:11But we stayed out there six years.
03:12We were working with the Protestant church out in a little town called Medina del Campo.
03:17No other English people.
03:19So it was a really wonderful time, really.
03:22So, yeah.
03:23Less than a morning, yeah.
03:24English only today, all right?
03:26Let's see what happens.
03:27Helen Patrick, best of luck.
03:29APPLAUSE
03:32OK, let's see if he is ab fab today.
03:35Patrick.
03:35Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:36Good afternoon, Patrick.
03:37Have a consonant, please.
03:38Start the week with S.
03:40And another.
03:42G.
03:43And another.
03:45W.
03:46And another.
03:47R.
03:48And a vowel.
03:49I.
03:50And another.
03:51E.
03:52And another.
03:54O.
03:55A consonant, please.
03:57N.
03:58And one more consonant, please.
04:00Lastly, F.
04:02Atom and in the studio.
04:04Let's play Countdown.
04:05O.
04:16Go.
04:33Vou.
04:35Like anxiety.
04:36Patrick? Seven. Seven from you. And Helen? Five.
04:39The five is? Swing. Yes. And the seven, Patrick?
04:43Wingers. Wingers! Let's head over to Dictionary Corner,
04:46because I like these letters. I wonder, are you going to have a great start to the week?
04:49Possibly. Yes, we have got a nine, actually, to kick off.
04:53Four wings. Wow. An insect's four wings.
04:56That's amazing.
05:00What a start for Dictionary Corner. Helen, let's get more letters from you.
05:03Hi, Rachel. Hi, Helen. Could I have a consonant, please?
05:06Indeed. R. And another, please.
05:10P. And another.
05:13C. And a vowel, please.
05:16I. And another vowel.
05:19O. And another vowel.
05:22U. And a consonant, please.
05:25T. And a vowel, please.
05:30E. And a consonant.
05:32Lastly, S.
05:35Perfect. 30 seconds.
05:37.
05:37.
05:37.
05:37.
05:37.
05:37.
05:37.
05:38.
05:40.
05:49MUSIC
06:07Helen.
06:08An eight, I think.
06:09An eight, and Patrick?
06:11An eight as well.
06:12Helen.
06:13Precious.
06:13Patrick.
06:14Pictures.
06:15A precious picture has been painted here.
06:17Perfect, perfect.
06:18Very good indeed.
06:20We have one more to add to the list, which is crepitus,
06:24which is kind of crackling.
06:25You can get crepitus in your lungs or in your joints.
06:27Yes, indeed.
06:27Yes.
06:28Again, flirting with back-to-back nines, you know,
06:31really nice letters.
06:32Yeah, really nice letters.
06:33Loads of endings and prefixes and all sorts going on again.
06:36What a lovely start.
06:36Well done, Helen.
06:38Eight points on the board this early is great.
06:40And, Patrick, are you choosing the first numbers?
06:42Four lives, please, Rachel.
06:43Thank you, Patrick.
06:43Don't need to ask.
06:44That's your favourite.
06:45You're an expert.
06:46You're a pro.
06:46You're practised.
06:47Two little ones to start the week.
06:49Eight and six.
06:50And the big ones.
06:5125, 75, 50, and 100.
06:54And you need to find 455.
06:58Four, five, five.
06:59Numbers up.
06:59Two, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five,
07:11five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five,
07:14five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five,
07:14five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five,
07:14five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five,
07:14five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five
07:304-5-5, Patrick.
07:32Yeah, 4-5-5.
07:33Helen?
07:34I haven't got anything.
07:35You and me both.
07:36I'm really intrigued.
07:37I wonder what he's going to do.
07:38Off you go.
07:3950 minus 6.
07:4050 minus 6, 44.
07:42Times the 8.
07:43Times the 8 for 352.
07:48Add the 100.
07:50452.
07:50And then add the 75 over 25.
07:52Add 75 over 25 is 3.
07:5410 points.
07:55Well done.
07:58Wonderful again in the numbers from Patrick.
08:00A joy to watch as we get this Tea Time teaser.
08:03Arty Sign.
08:04Arty Sign.
08:05The copper with the kink sounds fishy to me.
08:08The copper with the kink sounds fishy to me.
08:27Welcome back.
08:28Another one of those Tea Time teasers where the clue is much more fun than the answer.
08:32So we get to Sting Ray.
08:33Obviously sounds fishy to me.
08:35But you're going to try and work this out.
08:37The copper with the kink.
08:40So.
08:40Sting.
08:41Sting.
08:42Brilliant.
08:42From the police.
08:43And what's the kink?
08:45Someone in the kinks.
08:46Sting Davies from the kink.
08:48Brilliant.
08:49Very good.
08:50Oh.
08:50Excellent.
08:51Excellent.
08:52Right.
08:52Let's get back to it.
08:53Helen, let's see these nine letters throw up.
08:56Consonant, please.
08:57Thank you, Helen.
08:57M.
08:59And another.
09:00T.
09:02And another, please.
09:04S.
09:05And a vowel, please.
09:07I.
09:09Another one.
09:10A.
09:12Another one.
09:14U.
09:16A consonant, please.
09:19T.
09:21Another vowel, please.
09:24O.
09:25And a consonant.
09:27Lastly, P.
09:29Here we go.
09:31Here we go.
10:01Helen.
10:02Just a five.
10:03And for you, Patrick?
10:04Seven.
10:05The five, Helen?
10:06Maids.
10:06And the seven, Mr. Thompson?
10:08Stadium.
10:09Stadium.
10:10There's just wingers and stadiums and all sorts going on here.
10:14Inspired by the sport.
10:15Nina, what can we add to that, if anything?
10:18Is there a plural of utopia?
10:21Yes.
10:21Utopias.
10:22You can say that?
10:23You can.
10:24That will give you a lovely seven.
10:25Oh.
10:26And podiums as well.
10:27Oh, there you go, sport again.
10:29You would sell for one utopia, though, wouldn't you?
10:31That's great.
10:32Anyone will do.
10:33Two seems greedy to me.
10:36More letters, Patrick.
10:36Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:38Thank you, Patrick.
10:39G.
10:40And another.
10:42L.
10:43And another.
10:44T.
10:45And another.
10:47R.
10:48And a vowel.
10:49E.
10:50And another.
10:51O.
10:52And another.
10:54A.
10:56And a consonant.
10:58Q.
10:59And a final consonant, please.
11:00And a final L.
11:02Let's do it.
11:03Let's do it.
11:34Patrick?
11:35Seven.
11:35Yep.
11:36And Helen?
11:37Yeah, I've got a seven.
11:38Yes.
11:38Patrick?
11:39Glowter.
11:40Yes.
11:40I've got the same.
11:41Pass it on over.
11:42Don't gloat, just pass.
11:44There you go, two sevens, Nina?
11:45Same.
11:46I'm a gloater too.
11:47Right, yeah.
11:48Just jumped out, didn't it?
11:49And we're all very happy with ourselves for about 25 seconds.
11:53And nothing beyond it.
11:54The cue made it a lot more straightforward, didn't it?
11:57So let's get back to the numbers.
11:59I mean, Patrick likes his four large, but Helen, you do whatever you want.
12:03Let's find out.
12:04I'll have one large and the rest small, please.
12:07A more traditional choice.
12:08Yes, more popular, you might say.
12:10Let's have a look.
12:11Five little ones.
12:13Two, one, three, four, ten, and the larger one, 25.
12:19And the target to reach?
12:21839.
12:23839.
12:24Numbers up.
12:25One, five.
12:27Two, one.
12:30One, two, three.
12:31One, three.
12:40Two, three.
12:43Two, three, two.
12:56839, the one large wasn't large at all, the 25, Helen.
13:00No, I didn't, 810.
13:02Always difficult with a high number in the 25.
13:05Patrick, our numbers whiz.
13:07840.
13:08He's missed it by one, off you go for seven points.
13:1025 times 3.
13:1225 times 3, 75.
13:142 times 4.
13:152 times 4, 8.
13:17Add that on.
13:1883.
13:19And the one.
13:2084.
13:21Times it by the 10.
13:22Yep, one away.
13:24Now, is that as good as it gets, Rachel, or can we get to 839?
13:28This one was possible.
13:29If you say 10 plus 1 is 11, times 25, 275.
13:36Add 4 for 279.
13:39Times that by 3 for 837, and you have a 2 left over for 839.
13:44Magic.
13:46Lovely.
13:4746.15 as we get over to Nina for her first chat of the week.
13:52Do you enjoy doing Countdown in terms of, like, when you look at your diary, you go, oh, that's a
13:57little something different, isn't it?
13:58Yeah, it's fun.
13:59I like doing different things, you know.
14:02And this, I watched Countdown growing up as a kid.
14:05So when I got on this, I thought if my mum had still been around, she would have absolutely loved
14:10it.
14:10She'd be like, I can't believe it.
14:11She wouldn't have watched anything else I did.
14:13It would have just been Countdown.
14:15So, yeah, but I just like to do different things.
14:19And it's, you know, I do a lot of workshops with young people, and they always say, so how are
14:23you still relevant?
14:24Because you get to a certain point in your career and people go, oh, she's been around for years, you
14:28know, why do we bother anymore?
14:29So I got offered a musical last year, and I've never done a musical before, so I took a chance
14:34and did it.
14:35And it was called Now That's What I Call a Musical, based on the Now CDs and things from the
14:3980s.
14:40Oh, wow, yes.
14:40Craig Revelhall were directed, which was hilarious.
14:43And then we had every single pop star that I grew up with, who I loved.
14:47So I had Sunita on one week.
14:49We had Carol Decker, Jay Osmond.
14:51Can I just tell you, weirdest moment of my life.
14:54Inner Bradford in Nando's with Jay Osmond.
14:57While we were up there, instead of working for the week, and I just thought, what's happened to my life?
15:03It was very, very bizarre and strange.
15:05Did you sing before professionally?
15:08No, never sung professionally.
15:10And I've turned down musicals before because I've never been trained professionally.
15:13But I can hold a note.
15:14I love to sing.
15:15Yes.
15:15And I thought, it's my genre.
15:17It's the stuff I loved, you know, growing up with the 80s.
15:19So I thought, yeah, let's give that a go.
15:21I think when I got my first record player, I think it would have been, like, I don't know, like
15:261979, 1980.
15:28And then, like, the now albums were always part of the Christmas package.
15:33Completely.
15:33And, you know, taking it out.
15:34And just that whole mix.
15:36There was no, like, scene or, like, you didn't have to be cool.
15:39No.
15:39You know, and you'd take it out.
15:40Oh, there's Boris Gardner.
15:44There's an old mix of music in together.
15:46It's true.
15:46We used to have a fight about, like, why are they on there?
15:48No, they shouldn't be on there.
15:49No, they should be number one to all of that.
15:52But I absolutely love it.
15:53I still think the 80s were actually a really pure time.
15:57Yeah.
15:57You know, that's why I think TV shows that are also set, like in the 80s, like Stranger Things,
16:02one of the reasons they're successful is it was a time where you didn't have mobile phones dominating most of
16:07the storyline.
16:08You know, you didn't have that kind of communication.
16:10You had to wait till you got home to make a phone call or to communicate with other people.
16:14And so I just, I love that era.
16:17I always have done.
16:17And also, 75 to sort of maybe say 95, there was just so many new genres of music.
16:22And music was reinvented so many times.
16:25Very much so.
16:25And it was so exciting.
16:27And I also think we never pay enough credit to what you were involved with, which is the now that's
16:33what I call music,
16:33which is in that musical, like, there was just such great pop music that came out of the 80s as
16:38well.
16:39Whether it was manufactured or written by someone else or written by the band, it was a great era for
16:43pop as well.
16:43Yeah, very much so.
16:45And it was nice to actually work with these people, you know, being on stage with someone like Sonia,
16:49who, by the way, still looks 14.
16:51You know, she's, and she's so cute.
16:53She's so lovely.
16:55We would work in different sort of cities all over the UK.
16:58Wherever we walked down, people would go crazy, like absolutely crazy, going, oh, my gosh, sir.
17:03And we went to a little charity shop.
17:05And I said, hey, let's look through the records.
17:06And then she was going, there's me, there's me.
17:09And I'm going, this is wild.
17:11This is absolutely wild.
17:12Lovely.
17:13Thank you, Nina.
17:13No worries.
17:16Right back to the game.
17:17Patrick, that's what I call countdown.
17:19Off you go.
17:20A consonant, please, Rachel.
17:21Thank you, Patrick.
17:23H.
17:24And another.
17:26N.
17:27And another.
17:28M.
17:29And another.
17:31B.
17:33Vowel, please.
17:35E.
17:36And another.
17:37A.
17:37And another.
17:38O.
17:40And another.
17:42E.
17:43And one more, please.
17:45Lastly, I.
17:47Start the clock.
17:48And another.
17:58Bye.
18:00Bye.
18:03Bye.
18:09Bye.
18:10Bye.
18:19Patrick? Eight. And for you, Helen? I've got an eight.
18:22Excellent stuff. Patrick? Bohemian. Bohemian.
18:25Bohemian. Pass it on over there and then we'll be in Rhapsody.
18:28Excellent work. 8.8.
18:32And I can't remember Bohemian coming out in my time here, Susie.
18:35No, not me, actually. It's a lovely, lovely spot and we can't top that one.
18:39We just had one seven, otherwise.
18:42Hambone. Hambone? Yes, an inferior actor.
18:45Right. Helen, let's do the fandango again.
18:48Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Helen.
18:50N. And another.
18:53R. And another, please.
18:56T. Vowel.
18:59A. Another vowel.
19:03U. Consonant.
19:06D.
19:09A vowel, please.
19:12O. Consonant.
19:15G. And a final vowel, please.
19:18And a final A.
19:20Half a minute.
19:22.
19:51Helen,
19:52A six.
19:54Patrick?
19:54Eight.
19:55An eight.
19:55Where have you got an eight in there?
19:57Let's find out.
19:58Helen?
19:58Outran.
19:59And for you?
20:00Argonaut.
20:01Oh, my goodness me.
20:02It's a small floating octopus and the female has webbed sail-like arms
20:08and secretes this sort of shell in which she lays her eggs.
20:11Lovely.
20:12So, that's sensational.
20:13I'm guessing...
20:14Beat us.
20:15You're all at sea.
20:16We are.
20:17Great stuff.
20:18Patrick, let's get the numbers.
20:19Four large, please, Rachel.
20:21Thank you, Patrick.
20:23And two others.
20:24This time your little numbers.
20:26Three and six.
20:28Big ones.
20:29One hundred.
20:30Seventy-five.
20:32Fifty.
20:32And twenty-five.
20:33And the target?
20:35963.
20:36963.
20:37Numbers up.
21:12Three away.
21:13Helen?
21:14Nowhere near.
21:15Patrick, off you go.
21:16So, seventy-five plus the six.
21:19Eighty-one.
21:20Times that by the hundred.
21:22Times that by the one hundred.
21:23Take off the fifty.
21:258,100 minus fifty.
21:27Divide it by the twenty-five.
21:29Divide it by the twenty-five for three hundred and twenty-two.
21:34Two.
21:35And then times that by the three for nine-six-six.
21:37Nine-six-six.
21:39Seven points.
21:40I try to learn from Rachel every single day when she does the numbers.
21:44I know it's a multiple of nine and that's as far as I manage to get.
21:48I don't know if that's going to help us, is it?
21:49Um, well, not with this one.
21:51Um, but what you could have said is one hundred divided by twenty-five is four.
21:56Fifty times six is three hundred.
22:00Take away the four for two hundred and ninety-six.
22:02Times it by three for eight hundred and eighty-eight.
22:05And then add on the seventy-five.
22:07Nine-six-three.
22:08Ah, yes!
22:09Come on!
22:10Oh!
22:12Just had two belters today.
22:14Fantastic, Rachel.
22:15Let's get this Tea Time teaser.
22:17I love this one as well.
22:18Reclaims.
22:19Reclaims.
22:20We're going to jiggle that about.
22:21And the clue is they're beyond belief.
22:23It's getting smoky in here.
22:24They're beyond belief.
22:26It's getting smoky in here.
22:43Hello again.
22:44Yes, the smoky reference, of course, was Robinson and the miracles.
22:47The miracles.
22:48And I think a challenger is going to need a minor miracle to topple our Patrick Thompson.
22:53But there's six rounds left.
22:54You never know.
22:55And, Helen, we're just going to enjoy every single one.
22:57And you're picking these letters.
22:59A consonant, please, Rachel.
23:00Thank you, Helen.
23:02T.
23:03And another one.
23:05J.
23:06And another, please.
23:08P.
23:09And vowel, please.
23:11E.
23:12Another vowel.
23:14U.
23:15Another vowel.
23:17I.
23:19Consonant.
23:20T.
23:22A vowel.
23:25A.
23:26And a final consonant, please.
23:29Final R.
23:30A vowel.
23:30Let's play.
23:31A vowel.
23:32A vowel.
23:35A vowel.
23:48Oh.
24:01And a vowel.
24:03A vowel.
24:05Patrick? I'll try seven as well.
24:07OK, what's the word, Helen? Jupiter.
24:09Jupiter. Can you have a small j? We'll find out.
24:12Patrick? Apartheid.
24:14Yes, we were scurrying away on both those words, actually,
24:17because Nina asked about Jupiter.
24:19Sadly, it is just a capital J, so it's a proper noun.
24:22Sorry. Apartheid is in there.
24:24Back to insects' wings, actually,
24:25because it means divided nearly to the base, apartheid.
24:28OK. Anything else? That was it.
24:30There you go. Helen, you and I, cast adrift in that round.
24:33Patrick, let's get more letters from you.
24:36A consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Patrick.
24:38C. And another.
24:41S. And another.
24:43G. And another.
24:45P. And a vowel.
24:47O. And another.
24:49A. And another.
24:51E.
24:52A consonant.
24:54N.
24:56And final consonant, please.
24:59Final W.
25:01Countdown.
25:04Patrick?
25:04A consonant.
25:14MUSIC
25:32Patrick?
25:33A seven.
25:34A seven from you.
25:35And Helen?
25:35Risky seven.
25:36Let's throw caution to the wind.
25:38Patrick, what's yours?
25:39Cowpeas.
25:40Spell that for me.
25:41C-O-W-P-E-A-S.
25:43And what's dodgy, Helen?
25:45Snow cap.
25:46Oh, like a snow-capped mountain.
25:48Wow, I like the sound of it.
25:50So do I.
25:52It's there.
25:53Yes.
25:54Very nice.
25:55Beautiful.
25:56Love that.
25:56Beautiful.
25:57There you go.
25:58So, all good with Patrick as well?
26:00Very good indeed.
26:00Yes, both of them planted the pea family, a cowpea.
26:04Simple as that.
26:04And we had another plant.
26:06Cowages.
26:07Yes.
26:08Cowages there for seven.
26:09It's a climbing plant this time, but beware, because it causes stinging and itching.
26:12There you go.
26:13Sevens all round.
26:14If you've got one of them at home, well done.
26:15As we head over for Origins Awards, Susie.
26:18So, let's start the week strong.
26:20Who's been emailing you?
26:21Graham Baker.
26:22Hello, Graham.
26:22From Norfolk.
26:24Just the other day, Graham writes, I used the expression, sent him off with a flea in his ear.
26:29Where does that expression come from?
26:32So, to give someone a flea in their ear, it's to give them a sort of lecture and a right
26:36sort of talking to, if you like.
26:39And it's a really powerful image that goes back a very long way.
26:42And you'll find it in lots of European languages as well.
26:45So, you'll find it in French.
26:46You'll find it in German.
26:47And it's a particular kind of discomfort if you have a fly or a flea in your ear.
26:51It's a kind of buzzing, irritating, inescapable and really persistent.
26:56And obviously, also, if you have a flea bite, that's incredibly painful as well.
27:00So, someone who has received a kind of stinging rebuke is quite a nice metaphor for that, because you just
27:07can't shift it.
27:09And the flea, as a source of kind of really irritating closeness, is a sort of image that you'll find
27:17throughout medieval and Renaissance literature, actually.
27:19Lots and lots of different things.
27:20And it's always a nuisance.
27:23And the ear is the sort of the, you know, where you receive advice, often unwanted advice.
27:28You can lend someone an ear.
27:30You can have something whispered in your ear.
27:32It's something that is, again, stands for something that is very close and intimate, even if you don't want this
27:37particular advice.
27:38But it made me think also about how fleas pop up in unexpected places.
27:42So, Colin, you know famously that the ukulele is from the Hawaiian for jumping flea, because of the sort of
27:48rapid sound of its notes.
27:50You can be as fit as a flea, because the flea jumps around, looks very athletic.
27:55And also, the adjective puce.
27:57If you go puce, you go a particular kind of red.
28:00And actually, that goes all the way back to the French for a flea, because it's the colour of a
28:04flea, particularly after it has drawn blood, I hate to say.
28:07But we have flea pits and flea markets, et cetera.
28:10So, fleas actually have a pretty big role in language.
28:12Yeah, absolutely.
28:13A tiny, brilliant start to the week.
28:18All right.
28:19Four rounds from now, we'll be fleeing the studio.
28:2183.30.
28:23Patrick looking to hit his fourth century.
28:27In a row, not a single person in Britain is betting against that right now.
28:31Now, Helen, a really impressive 30 against the onslaught of our champion, Thompson.
28:37So, let's keep it up and let's get more letters from you.
28:40OK.
28:40Consonant, please.
28:41Thank you, Helen.
28:42C.
28:43And another.
28:44T.
28:46And another.
28:47S.
28:48And another, please.
28:50R.
28:52Vowel, please.
28:53O.
28:54And another.
28:55E.
29:01And a consonant, please.
29:04K.
29:05And a final vowel.
29:08Final I.
29:09Good luck.
29:10Bye.
29:21Bye.
29:23Bye.
29:26Bye.
29:28Bye.
29:31Bye.
29:32Bye.
29:33Bye.
29:35Bye.
29:36Bye.
29:39Bye.
29:41Helen very dodgy nine yeah Patrick I'll stick with a name oh he's not going for
29:48it oh I would have went for it we are going for it
29:51Patrick rockiest okay he stuck with Rockies just confirm Helen
29:55crookiest the most crooked person is the crookiest come on come on see exactly
30:10that leader exactly that of course you know you're here you go for it and have
30:15fun with it yeah it felt dodgy as we wrote it down really good fun to go go
30:21for it so at rockiest is the road taken and that gets eight points for Patrick
30:26anything else you can't be corkiest well something can be corkiest wine would be
30:30corkiest yes that kind of thing so that's an alternative eight goodness me last
30:35letters Patrick constantly Rachel thank you Patrick L and another s another L
30:43and another n a vowel e and another I and another a consonant please D and one more
30:58place lastly T lost letters
31:32time's up Patrick and nine yes Helen and six the six is island Patrick installed all that that's
31:41good yeah any others no other nines no um land ties for eight etc but installed is the only one
31:50that
31:50counts well listen Patrick there's been some quite difficult rounds and even with that you could beat
31:56your top score so far of 124 let's see how pans out Helen you're in charge of these last numbers
32:01I'll have one large and the rest small please thank you hello one large five little final numbers
32:08today are seven nine seven five one and 100 and the target 899 899 last numbers
32:25so
32:35so
32:35so
32:35so
32:35so
32:35so
32:35so
32:35so
32:35so
32:52899, Helen.
32:53Yeah, even I can do that.
32:54What do you mean, Eve? Don't you say that, no, you're really good.
32:57Patrick. Yeah, 899.
32:58Off you go, Helen.
33:00Nine times 100 minus the one.
33:03Thought you might say that.
33:04Better be the same way, Patrick.
33:05Same way.
33:06Well done.
33:10Well, look at that.
33:11Patrick could post his highest score.
33:13He's on 119 at the moment.
33:14Helen could get her half century up.
33:16There's still something to play for here.
33:17Fingers on the buzzers, please.
33:20Let's reveal today's countdown conundrum.
33:27Patrick.
33:28Collabbing?
33:29Let's find out.
33:31Yes.
33:34Collabbing's like collaboration.
33:36And it's just, it's, I'm collabing with somebody.
33:38It's used a lot in PR, isn't it?
33:40Exactly right.
33:41Yeah, it's good stuff.
33:42Disappointed that it took Patrick nearly three seconds to get that one.
33:46He's slipping.
33:46He's slipping.
33:48Helen, listen, you've already seen Patrick at work.
33:51You knew what you were walking into today.
33:53I think you did great with Fordy.
33:55And did you enjoy the whole experience?
33:57Yeah, it's been wonderful.
33:58Thank you very much.
33:58Love it.
33:59It's been great.
33:59Thanks.
34:00You'd have beaten him in Spanish.
34:01Oh, yeah.
34:02Without a doubt.
34:03Rubbish in Spanish.
34:04Anything beyond hola, he's got no chance.
34:08Patrick, you're getting better and better.
34:09It's a joy to watch.
34:10Thank you very much.
34:11Well done.
34:11Back of the net again.
34:12Nina, Susie, see you tomorrow.
34:14See you then.
34:15See you.
34:15And we are all done, Rachel.
34:16Have a good night.
34:17See you tomorrow.
34:17Listen, I wish we were open all hours, but we have to make do with Monday to Friday,
34:22same time, same place, back tomorrow.
34:24You can count on us.
34:26You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com.
34:31You can also find our webpage at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
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