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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. Let's head over to Dictionary Corner.
00:44Dealing with any faulty words, it's Susie Dent, of course.
00:48Goodness gracious me, Nina Wadia is back.
00:51And happy to tinker with the numbers as necessary is our Rachel Riley.
00:57Good afternoon. I didn't get the Easter eggs.
00:59Right. So many of them. Tinker is Alice. Faulty is Sybil. Nessa is Jenkins. Bucket is actually Bouquet.
01:08And that is Hyacinth. Because 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. Right. Rachel, who's yours?
01:22I mean, I'm going to just be predictable. You know what show I'm going to say.
01:25Yes. Friends. Which one, though?
01:28You've got to pick one out of three. I 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.
01:43What about you, Suze?
01:45I have two. So 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 it. But she was amazing. I think she was such a strong, independent woman.
01:55And also Lorelai Gilmore in The Gilmore Girls.
01:57Good.
01:57Which I've watched with my daughters, and she's brilliant. She's resilient, witty.
02:01Yeah. Lovely.
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.
02:20Oh, great shout.
02:22Amazing.
02:22Yes.
02:23Amazing.
02:24I thought you were going to say, I've 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.
02:59Yeah, 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 yet.
03:24English only today, all right?
03:25Yes, only today.
03:26Let's see what happens.
03:27Helen Patrick, best of luck.
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.
03:45And another.
03:47R.
03:48And a vowel.
03:49I.
03:50And another.
03:51E.
03:52And another.
03:54O.
03:55And a consonant, please.
03:57N.
03:58And one more consonant, please.
04:00Lastly, F.
04:02At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
04:35Patrick.
04:36Seven.
04:37Seven from you.
04:38And Helen.
04:38Five.
04:39The five is?
04:40A swing.
04:41Yes.
04:41And the seven, Patrick?
04:43A wingers.
04:44A wingers.
04:45Let's head over to Dictionary Corner, because I like these letters.
04:47I wonder, are you going to have a great start to the week?
04:49Possibly.
04:50Yes, we have got a nine, actually, to kick off.
04:53And four wings.
04:54Yes.
04:55And insects, four wings.
04:56That's amazing.
04:57APPLAUSE
04:59What a start for Dictionary Corner.
05:01Helen, let's get more letters from you.
05:03Hi, Rachel.
05:04Hi, Helen.
05:04Could I have a consonant, please?
05:06Can, indeed.
05:07R.
05:08And another, please.
05:11P.
05:11And another.
05:14And a vowel, please.
05:16I.
05:17And another vowel.
05:19O.
05:20And another vowel.
05:22U.
05:23And a consonant, please.
05:25T.
05:27And a vowel, please.
05:29E.
05:31And a consonant.
05:33Lastly, S.
05:34Perfect.
05:3530 seconds.
05:3730 seconds.
06:07Helen.
06:08An eight, I think.
06:09An eight.
06:10And Patrick?
06:10An eight as well.
06:12Helen.
06:12Precious.
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,
06:23which is kind of crackling.
06:25You can get crepitus in your lungs or in your joints.
06:26Yes, indeed.
06:27Yes.
06:28Again, flirting with back-to-back nines.
06:30You know, really nice letters.
06:32Yeah, really nice letters.
06:33Loads of endings and prefix.
06:34Fixes 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, you're 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.
06:55And you need to find 455.
06:57Four, five, five.
06:59Numbers up.
07:30Four, five, five, Patrick.
07:32Yeah, four, five, five.
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 six.
07:4050 minus 6, 44.
07:42Times the eight.
07:43Times the eight for 352.
07:48Add the 100.
07:50452.
07:50And then add the 75 over 25.
07:5275 over 25 is three.
07:54Ten 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 Stingray.
08:33Obviously sounds fishy to me.
08:35But you're going to try and work this out.
08:36Right.
08:37The copper with the kink.
08:39So.
08:40Sting.
08:41Sting.
08:42Brilliant.
08:42From the police.
08:43And what's the kink?
08:45Someone in the kinks.
08:46Ray Davies from the kinks.
08:48Brilliant.
08:49Very good.
08:49Oh.
08:50Excellent.
08:51Excellent.
08:51Right.
08:52Let's get back to it.
08:53Helen, I see these nine letters throw up.
08:56Consonant, please.
08:57Thank you, Helen.
08:57M.
08:59And another.
09:01D.
09:02And another, please.
09:04S.
09:04And a vowel, please.
09:07I.
09:08Another one.
09:10A.
09:12Another one.
09:14U.
09:16Consonant, please.
09:18T.
09:21Another vowel, please.
09:24O.
09:25And a consonant.
09:27Lastly, P.
09:29Here we go.
09:59We'll see you next time.
10:01Helen?
10:02Just a five.
10:03And for you, Patrick?
10:04Seven.
10:05The five, Helen?
10:05A maids.
10:06And the seven, Mr Thompson?
10:08Stadium.
10:09Stadium.
10:09There'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, utopias.
10:22You can say that?
10:23You can.
10:23That will give you a lovely seven.
10:26And podiums, as well.
10:27Oh, there you go, sport again.
10:28You would settle for one utopia, though, wouldn't you?
10:32Anyone will do.
10:33Two seems greedy to me.
10:35More letters, Patrick.
10:37Consonant, 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.
10:57Q.
10:58And a final consonant, please.
11:00And a final L.
11:02Let's do it.
11:04I'll see you next time.
11:05A.
11:05A.
11:05A.
11:17A.
11:32A.
11:33A.
11:34Patrick?
11:35Seven.
11:35Yep, and Helen?
11:36Yeah, I've got a seven.
11:38Yes.
11:38Patrick?
11:39Glowter.
11:40Yes.
11:40I've got the same.
11:41Pass it on over.
11:41Don'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,
12:01but, 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,
12:17and the larger one, 25.
12:19And the target to reach 839.
12:23839.
12:24Numbers up.
12:56The one large wasn't large at all.
12:58The 25, Helen.
12:59No, I didn't.
13:01810.
13:02Yeah.
13:02Always difficult with a high number in the 25.
13:05Patrick, our numbers, Wiz.
13:07840.
13:08Well, he's missed it by one.
13:09Off you go for seven points.
13:1025 times three.
13:1225 times three, 75.
13:14Two times four.
13:15Two times four, eight.
13:17Add that on.
13:1883.
13:18And the one.
13:2084.
13:21Times it by the ten.
13:22Yep.
13:23One away.
13:24Now, is that as good as it gets, Rachel,
13:26or can we get to 839?
13:28This one was possible.
13:29If you say 10 plus one is 11.
13:32Times 25, 275.
13:36Add four for 279.
13:38Times that by three for 837.
13:42And you have a two left over for 839.
13:43Magic.
13:46Lovely.
13:4846.15 as we get over to Nina for her first chat of the week.
13:52Do you enjoy doing Countdown in terms of, like,
13:55when you look at your diary, you go,
13:56oh, that's a little 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,
14:08she would have absolutely loved it.
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,
14:21and they always say, so how are you still relevant?
14:24Because you get to a certain point in your career,
14:26and people go, oh, she's been around for years, you know,
14:28why do we bother anymore?
14:29So I got offered a musical last year,
14:31and I've never done a musical before,
14:33so I took a chance and did it.
14:34And it was called Now That's What I Call a Musical,
14:37based on the Now CDs and things from the 80s.
14:39Craig Revel Horwood directed, which was hilarious.
14:43And then we had every single pop star that I grew up with,
14:46who I loved.
14:47So I had Sunita on one week, we had Carol Decker,
14:50Jay Osmond, can I just tell you, weirdest moment of my life,
14:54in a Bradford in Nando's with Jay Osmond,
14:57while we were up there sort of working for the week.
14:59And 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,
15:11because I've never been trained professionally.
15:13But I can hold the note, I love to sing.
15:14Yes.
15:15So, and I thought, it's my genre, it's the stuff I loved,
15:18you know, growing up with the 80s.
15:19So I thought, yeah, let's give that a go.
15:22I think when I got my first record player,
15:24I think it would have been like, I don't know,
15:26like 1979, 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.
15:35There was no, like, scene or, like, you didn't have to be cool.
15:39No.
15:39You know, and you'd take it out.
15:40And, oh, there's Boris Gardner.
15:43There's a whole mix of music in together.
15:45It'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,
16:00like in the 80s, like Stranger Things,
16:02one of the reasons it's successful is it was a time where
16:04you didn't have mobile phones dominating most of the storyline.
16:08You know, you didn't have that kind of communication.
16:09You had to wait till you got home to make a phone call
16:12or to communicate with other people.
16:14And so I just, I loved that era.
16:16I always have done.
16:17And also, 75 to sort of maybe, say, 95,
16:20there was just so many new genres of music.
16:22And music was reinvented so many times.
16:24Very much so.
16:25And it was so exciting.
16:27And I also think we never pay enough credit
16:29to what you were involved with,
16:31which is the now that's what I call music,
16:33which is in that musical, like,
16:35there was just such great pop music.
16:37Yes.
16:37That came out of the 80s as well.
16:39Whether it was manufactured or written by someone else
16:41or written by the band,
16:42it was a great era for pop as well.
16:43Yeah, very much so.
16:45And it was nice to actually work with these people,
16:47you 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.
16:54We, when we would work in different sort of cities
16:57all over the UK, wherever we walked down,
16:59people would go crazy, like absolutely crazy,
17:02going, oh my gosh, it's her.
17:03And we went to a little charity shop.
17:04And I said, hey, let's look through the records.
17:06And then she was going, there's me.
17:08There's me.
17:09And I'm going, this is wild.
17:11This is absolutely wild.
17:12Lovely.
17:13Thank you, Nina.
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.
17:26And another.
17:28M.
17:29And another.
17:30B.
17:32Um, a vowel, please.
17:35E.
17:35And another.
17:36A.
17:37And another.
17:38O.
17:39And another.
17:41E.
17:43Um, one more, please.
17:45Lastly, I.
17:47Start the clock.
17:48Music.
17:50Music.
17:58Music.
18:01Music.
18:03Music.
18:12Music.
18:19Patrick?
18:19Eight. And for you, Helen? I've got an eight.
18:22Excellent stuff. Patrick? Bohemian.
18:24Bohemian. 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?
18:43Yes, an inferior actor. Right, Helen, let's do the fandango again.
18:48Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Helen.
18:50N. And another.
18:53R. And another, please.
18:57T. Vowel.
19:00A. Another vowel.
19:03U. Consonant.
19:06D.
19:10Vowel, please.
19:11O.
19:13Consonant.
19:15G.
19:16And a final vowel, please.
19:18And a final...
19:19A.
19:20Half a minute.
19:21D.
19:22E.
19:22One.
19:51D.
19:51F.
19:52Helen? A six. Patrick? Eight. An eight.
19:55Where have you got an eight in there? Let's find out. Helen? Outran.
19:59And for you? Argonaut. Oh, my goodness me.
20:02It's a small floating octopus and the female has webbed sail-like arms
20:08and secretes its sort of shell in which she lays her eggs.
20:11Lovely. So, that's sensational. I'm guessing... Beat us.
20:15You're all at sea. We are.
20:17Great stuff. Patrick, let's get the numbers.
20:19Four lives, please, Rachel. Thank you, Patrick.
20:22Four from the top row and two others.
20:24This time your little numbers. Three and six.
20:28Big ones. One hundred, seventy-five, fifty and twenty-five.
20:34And the target, 963.
20:36Nine, six, three. Numbers up.
21:08Nine, six, three.
21:08At nine, six, three, Patrick?
21:11Nine, six, six.
21:12Three away. Helen?
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 100.
21:23Take off the 50.
21:258,100 minus 50.
21:27Divided by the 25.
21:28Divided by the 25 for three hundred and twenty-two.
21:35And then times that by the three for nine, six, six.
21:37Nine, six, six.
21:38Yeah.
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.
21:47I don't know that's going to help us, is it?
21:49Um, well, not with this one.
21:51But what you could have said is 100 divided by 25 is four.
21:5650 times six is three hundred.
21:59Take 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 75.
22:07Nine, six, three.
22:07Oh, yes!
22:09Come on!
22:10Oh!
22:11She's 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.
22:25It'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's 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.
22:59Consonant, 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.
23:12T.
23:12Another vowel.
23:14T.
23:15Another vowel.
23:17I.
23:18Consonant.
23:20T.
23:22A vowel.
23:25A.
23:26And a final consonant, please.
23:29Final R.
23:30female.
23:30Let's play.
23:31T.
23:58Let's play.
24:01Helen?
24:02Dodgy seven.
24:03Dodgy seven.
24:05Patrick?
24:05I'll try seven as well.
24:06OK, what's the word, Helen?
24:08Jupiter.
24:09Jupiter.
24:09Can you have a small j?
24:10We'll find out.
24:12Patrick?
24:13Apartheid.
24:14Yes.
24:15We were scurrying away on both those words, actually,
24:17because Nina asked about Jupiter.
24:18Sadly, it is just a capital J, so it's a proper noun.
24:21Sorry.
24:22Apartheid is in there.
24:24Back to insects' wings, actually,
24:25because it means divided nearly to the base.
24:28Apartheid.
24:28OK.
24:29Anything else?
24:30That was it.
24:30So, there you go.
24:31Helen, you and I cast adrift in that round.
24:34Patrick, let's get more letters from you.
24:36A consonant, please, Rachel.
24:37Thank you, Patrick.
24:38C.
24:39And another.
24:41S.
24:41And another.
24:43G.
24:43And another.
24:45P.
24:45And a vowel.
24:47O.
24:48And another.
24:49A.
24:49And another.
24:50E.
24:52A consonant.
24:54N.
24:56And final consonant, please.
24:59Final W.
25:00Kind dined.
25:32Patrick? A seven. A seven from you. And Helen? Risky seven. Let's throw caution to the wind. Patrick, what's yours?
25:38Cow peas. Spell that for me. C-O-W-P-E-A-S. Thank you. And what's dodgy, Helen? Snow
25:45cap. Oh, like a snow capped mountain. Wow. I like the sound of it. So do I. It's there. Yes.
25:54Very nice. Beautiful. Love that. Beautiful. There you go. So all good with Patrick as well? Very good indeed. Yes,
26:01both of them planted the pea family.
26:02A cow pea. Simple as that. And we have another plant. Cowridges. Yes. Cowridges there for seven. It's a climbing
26:09plant this time. But beware, as it causes stinging and itching.
26:12There you go. Sevens all round. If you've got one of them at home, well done. As we head over
26:16for Origins Awards, Susie.
26:18So let's start the week strong. Who's been emailing you? Graham Baker. Hello, Graham. From Norfolk. Just the other day,
26:25Graham writes, I used the expression, sent him off with a flea in his ear.
26:29Where does that expression come from? So to give someone a flea in their ear, it's to give them a
26:35sort of lecture and a right sort of talking to, if you like.
26:39And it's a really powerful image that goes back a very long way. And you'll find it in lots of
26:43European languages as well.
26:45So you'll find it in French. You'll find it in German. And it's a particular kind of discomfort if you
26:50have a fly or a flea in your ear.
26:51It's a kind of buzzing, irritating, inescapable and really persistent. And obviously also if you have a flea bite, that's
26:58incredibly painful as well.
27:00So someone who has received a kind of stinging rebuke, it's quite a nice metaphor for that because you just
27:07can't, you can'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.
27:18Lots and lots of different things. And it's always a nuisance. And the ear is the sort of the, you
27:25know, where you receive advice, often unwanted advice.
27:28You can lend someone an ear. You can have something whispered in your ear. It's something that is, again, stands
27:34for something that is very close and intimate, even if you don't want this particular advice.
27:38But it made me think also about how fleas pop up in unexpected places. So, Colin, you know famously that
27:44the ukulele is from the Hawaiian for jumping flea because of the sort of rapid sound of its notes.
27:50You can be as fit as a flea because the flea jumps around, looks very athletic. And also the adjective
27:56puce. If you go puce, you go a particular kind of red.
27:59And 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. So fleas actually have a pretty big role in language.
28:12Yeah, absolutely. A tiny, brilliant start to the week. Thank you.
28:18All right. Four rounds from now, we'll be fleeing the studio. 83.30. Patrick looking to hit his fourth century.
28:27In a row, not a single person in Britain is betting against that right now.
28:32Helen, 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. Consonant, please. Thank you, Helen.
28:42C. And another.
28:44T. And another.
28:47S. And another, please.
28:50R. Vowel, please.
28:53O. And another.
28:55E.
28:57And another, please.
28:59O.
29:01And a consonant, please.
29:04K.
29:05And a final vowel.
29:08Final I.
29:09Good luck.
29:39Helen.
29:41Very dodgy nine.
29:44Yeah.
29:45Patrick?
29:46I'll stick with an eight.
29:47Oh, he's not going for it.
29:48Oh, I would have went for it.
29:50We are going for it.
29:51Patrick?
29:52Rockiest.
29:53OK, he's stuck with rockiest.
29:54Just confirm, Helen.
29:56Crookiest.
29:56The most crooked person is the crookiest.
29:59Come on, come on, Sue.
30:01Oh, no.
30:02Oh, no.
30:04Crookiest, but not crookiest, Helen.
30:07I'm glad you went for it, though.
30:10Exactly that, Nina.
30:11Exactly that.
30:12Of course.
30:13You know, you're here, you go for it and have fun with it.
30:16Yeah, it felt dodgy as we wrote it down.
30:19Really good fun to go for it.
30:21So, at rockiest is the road taken,
30:24and that gets eight points for Patrick.
30:26Anything else?
30:27You can be corkiest.
30:28Well, something can be corkiest.
30:29A wine would be corkiest?
30:30Yes, that kind of thing.
30:31So, that's an alternative eight.
30:33Goodness me.
30:35Last letters, Patrick.
30:36Consonant, please, Rachel.
30:38Thank you, Patrick.
30:39L.
30:40And another.
30:41S.
30:42And another.
30:43L.
30:44And another.
30:45N.
30:46And a vowel.
30:47E.
30:48And another.
30:49I.
30:50And another.
30:51A.
30:53A consonant, please.
30:55D.
30:57And one more, please.
30:59Lastly, T.
31:01Lost letters.
31:02Lost letters.
31:02Lost letters.
31:02Lost letters.
31:09Lost letters.
31:10Lost letters.
31:11Lost letters.
31:13Lost letters.
31:13Lost letters.
31:14Lost letters.
31:14Lost letters.
31:15Lost letters.
31:15Lost letters.
31:15Lost letters.
31:16Lost letters.
31:17Lost letters.
31:18Lost letters.
31:18Lost letters.
31:18Lost letters.
31:19Lost letters.
31:19Lost letters.
31:20Lost letters.
31:21Lost letters.
31:29Lost letters.
31:32Time's up. Patrick? Nine. Yes. Helen? Six. The six is? Island. Patrick? Installed. All there. That's good. Yeah, very good.
31:44Any others? No other nines, no. Land ties for eight, et cetera, but installed is the only one that counts.
31:51Well, listen, Patrick, there's been some quite difficult rounds, and even with that, you could beat your top score so
31:57far of 124.
31:58Let's see how it pans out. Helen, you're in charge of these last numbers.
32:01I'll have one large and the rest small, please. Thank you, Helen. One large, five little.
32:07Final numbers today are seven, nine, seven, five, one, and 100. And the target? 899. Come on. 899. Last numbers.
32:52899, Helen? Even I can do that. What do you mean, Eve? Don't you say that. No, you're really good.
32:57Patrick?
32:57Yeah, 899. Off you go, Helen. Nine times 100 minus the one. Thought you might say that.
33:03Better be the same way, Patrick. Yeah, same way. Well done.
33:10Well, look at that. Patrick could post his highest score. He's on 119 at the moment.
33:14Helen could get her half-century up. There's still something to play for here.
33:17Fingers on the buzzers, please. Let's reveal today's countdown conundrum.
33:28Patrick? Collabbing? Let's find out. Yes.
33:34Collabbing's like collaboration and it's just, it's, I'm collabing with somebody. It's used a lot in PR, isn't it?
33:40Exactly right. Yeah, it's good stuff. Disappointed that it took Patrick nearly three seconds to get that one.
33:46He's slipping. He's slipping. Helen, listen, you've already seen Patrick at work. You knew what you were walking into today.
33:53I think you did great with Forde and did you enjoy the whole experience?
33:57Yeah, it's been wonderful. Thank you very much. It's been great. Thanks.
34:00You'd have beaten him in Spanish. Oh, yeah, without a doubt.
34:03Rubbish in Spanish. And then beyond hola, he's getting no chance.
34:06Yeah. Patrick, you're getting better and better. It's a joy to watch.
34:10Thank you very much. See you tomorrow. Well done. Back of the net again.
34:12Nina, Susie, see you tomorrow. See you then. See you.
34:15And we are all done, Rachel. Have a good night. See 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. You can count on us.
34:26You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com.
34:30You can also find our webpage at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
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