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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:34Household appliances.
00:35How long could one reasonably expect a household appliance to last?
00:385, 10, 15 years?
00:40How about 60 years?
00:42Because that's what happened to a couple down in Exeter.
00:45This is something that the research department has dragged up.
00:48And they've only recently stopped using a tumble dryer cooker and a washing machine
00:53that they bought when they first got married back in the 50s.
00:56It's fantastic.
00:56The cook, apparently, cost £19 in 1956.
01:01Brilliant, isn't it?
01:02I guess if you look after things, Rachel, they will last as long as you don't exhaust them.
01:06What's your view?
01:07I don't know.
01:08I think companies, they don't benefit from things lasting anymore, do they?
01:11So I'm a little bit cynical about the inbuilt obsolescence.
01:14And even if you buy expensive stuff, it doesn't necessarily last.
01:16I think my parents were the same.
01:17They had a dishwasher for 20-odd years and it was fine.
01:20But they thought, oh, we'll upgrade and the next one lasts six months.
01:24Yeah, there is that sort of suggestion, isn't there?
01:27Now, who's with us, Rachel?
01:29Ted Anscombe is back from Boltsall Common.
01:33Very calm win yesterday.
01:35Good win yesterday.
01:35Was it calm?
01:37It was quite calm.
01:38It's just so here, actually.
01:39And you've now got bragging rights over your son, of course.
01:42Oh, I don't think so, really.
01:44He's much cleverer than him.
01:45You got a teapot.
01:46Yeah.
01:47He hasn't got a win and he didn't get a teapot.
01:50So you have bragging rights.
01:51Take it from me.
01:52You're joined by Maria Frizzell and the council assistant from New Ross in County Wexford.
01:58Welcome.
01:59Lovely corner of Ireland.
02:00Very sunny.
02:01Lovely.
02:02And you're a voracious reader.
02:04And you love Declan Coyle's The Green Platform.
02:08Tell us a little bit about this, Declan Coyle.
02:11It's a book about positive living.
02:14Yes?
02:14It's about you can't argue with reality, but you can make the best of every situation.
02:20Okay.
02:21So this is really a way of conducting oneself and thinking about life, is that?
02:26Pretty good.
02:27Well, welcome to the Countdown Studio, Maria.
02:30And Ted, welcome to you both.
02:32Let's have a big round of applause for our contestants.
02:39Susie's over in the corner, joined by the other Susie, the wonderful Susie Perry, TV and radio presenter.
02:45The girl on two wheels, as it were.
02:51Now, Ted Anscombe.
02:53Off we go.
02:55A vowel, please, Rachel.
02:56Thank you, Ted.
02:57Start today with O.
02:59And another.
03:01U.
03:02And another vowel.
03:04A.
03:05Consonant.
03:07C.
03:09Consonant.
03:11L.
03:12Another consonant.
03:14M.
03:15Another consonant.
03:17L.
03:19A vowel, please.
03:21E.
03:23And a consonant.
03:24And lastly, P.
03:27And here's the Countdown Clock.
03:59And here's the Countdown Clock.
04:01Yes, Ted.
04:02Six.
04:03Maria.
04:04Five.
04:05And that five?
04:06Place.
04:08Couple.
04:10Nice.
04:10Yes.
04:12Now, Susie, looking very studious there.
04:15It was quite a tricky bunch of letters, that, wasn't it?
04:18We've got ampoule for seven.
04:20Yes.
04:21But nothing more than that.
04:23No.
04:24Ampoule being a small seal glass capsule containing a liquid, so you'll often have an ampoule of liquid prior to
04:29an injection, for example.
04:31That's right.
04:32It's a medicine.
04:32Now, Ted, six points.
04:35Maria, your letters go.
04:37Afternoon, Rachel.
04:38Afternoon, Maria.
04:39Could I start with a consonant, please?
04:41Start with D.
04:43And another.
04:45Z.
04:47And another.
04:49T.
04:51And a vowel.
04:52I.
04:54And another.
04:56A.
04:57And another.
04:59E.
05:00And a vowel.
05:03A.
05:05A consonant.
05:07N.
05:09And a final consonant, please.
05:11And a final M.
05:13And it's candor.
05:47Maria.
05:48Six.
05:49A six.
05:49And?
05:50A seven.
05:51And a seven.
05:52Maria.
05:52Median.
05:55And?
05:55Did you say median?
05:57Mediant, with a T on the end.
05:58Yes.
05:59Musical tone.
06:00Musical term for the third note in any diatonic scale.
06:04Very good.
06:05Now, can we match that, I wonder.
06:07Susie?
06:08You could have diamante for eight jewellery.
06:12The costume jewellery.
06:13Yeah.
06:14Very nice.
06:15Decorated with glass cut to resemble diamonds.
06:21Now, Ted.
06:22Numbers have come round.
06:24Off we go.
06:25Four large and two small, please.
06:27Thank you, Ted.
06:27Your preference.
06:29Four from the top, too little.
06:31And for the first time today, the two small ones are six and nine.
06:34And then the large four.
06:35Seventy-five, fifty, one hundred and twenty-five.
06:40The first target, two hundred and ten.
06:42Two, one, zero.
06:43Two, one, zero.
07:14Yes, Ted?
07:16209.
07:17209, Maria.
07:19209.
07:21Ted?
07:2275 plus 25 plus 100.
07:2575 plus 25 plus 100, 200.
07:28Plus the nine.
07:29Plus the nine for one away, yep.
07:31And Maria?
07:32Same way.
07:33Same way.
07:35Now, is it possible even, I wonder, Rachel?
07:39I would have thought it was, but leave it with me, Nick.
07:41Certainly will.
07:4220 plays 7, Maria, on 7.
07:44And we turn to our first tea time teaser, which is I, lateness.
07:48And the clue, I won't tolerate lateness.
07:50It's vital that you get there on time.
07:53I won't tolerate lateness.
07:55It's vital that you get there on time.
08:14Welcome back.
08:15Welcome back.
08:16I left you with the clue.
08:17I won't tolerate lateness.
08:19It's vital that you get there on time.
08:21And the answer to that one is essential.
08:25It's essential you get there on time.
08:27Now, Rachel, 210?
08:28Well, I didn't get there on time.
08:30I've been a bit blonde with this one.
08:31Tried loads of blind alleys.
08:33And all you had to do was say, 100 plus 75 plus 50 is 225.
08:39And then take the nine and the six, as I'm sure many people were shouting at the TV.
08:43Thank you, Rachel.
08:48Thank you indeed.
08:50All right.
08:51So 20 plays 7, Maria, letters game.
08:53Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
08:55Thank you, Maria.
08:56P.
08:57And a vowel.
08:59U.
09:00And a consonant.
09:02R.
09:03And a vowel.
09:05A.
09:06And a consonant.
09:08N.
09:09And a vowel.
09:11O.
09:12A consonant.
09:14W.
09:16Vowel.
09:19E.
09:20And a consonant.
09:22Finish, please.
09:22And a finish.
09:23R.
09:25Stand by.
09:57Maria.
09:58Six.
09:59A six and six.
10:01Maria.
10:02Uproar.
10:03Uproar, yeah.
10:05Weapon.
10:06And weapon from Ted.
10:08Yes.
10:10What else have we got there?
10:11Um, yep, there's a prawner, a boat used for fishing for prawns.
10:16A prawner.
10:1726 to 13.
10:19Ted in the lead.
10:20Ted, your letters game.
10:23A vowel, please.
10:24Thank you, Ted.
10:25I.
10:25And another.
10:27O.
10:28And another vowel.
10:29E.
10:31Consonant.
10:32S.
10:33A consonant.
10:35D.
10:36A consonant.
10:38S.
10:39Consonant.
10:41L.
10:43Another consonant.
10:45R.
10:47And another consonant, please.
10:49And the last one, H.
10:51Stand by.
10:52Bye.
11:03Bye.
11:05Bye.
11:10Bye.
11:13Bye.
11:22Well, Ted. Seven. And Maria? Seven. Ted. Sliders. And Maria? Holders. Holders. Yeah. Thank you. Sliders are absolutely fine. They're
11:39in.
11:40For Susie's? We have got an eight. Soldiers. 33 to 20. And now, Maria, it's your numbers game. Could I
11:52have two large and four small, please? You can, indeed. Thank you, Maria. Two large, four little, and our chance
11:56to redeem ourselves.
11:57This next numbers game is six, three, nine, two, and the large, two, fifty, and one hundred. And this target,
12:08three hundred and fifty-three.
12:09Three, five, three.
12:41Well, Maria? Three, five, three. Thank you, Ted. Three, five, three. Maria? Nine minus two is seven. Yep. Times fifty
12:51for three hundred and fifty, and add on the three. Simple. Three, five, three. Well done.
12:56There we go. And Ted? I did three times a hundred. Three hundred. Plus fifty. Three hundred and fifty. And
13:03six over two. Well done. Three. Lovely. There we are.
13:10Not the most testing, I guess. Forty-three to thirty. Ted maintains his lead, and we turn to Susie. Susie,
13:19you travel the world. You have a great job.
13:21But it's work. But sometimes you get away from the work.
13:26Well, I don't want you to think that I'm going away on holiday all of the time, but I do
13:30think it's a privileged position to be in when you get to, as you say, travel the world for sport,
13:35which I have done over the last twenty or so years.
13:40And occasionally we do get a day free. So I think I told you in the last series last year
13:47that I used to live in Japan when I was young, so I have a kind of thing about it.
13:51And it's really lovely to see the lights of Tokyo in the business or go to the Gion district down
13:57in Kyoto. It's beautiful culture down there.
13:59But I'd never climbed Mount Fuji. And it's just one of those arrogant mountains, I think. You see pictures of
14:06it. It always looks so beautiful, doesn't it? Kind of rising out of the mist.
14:09And I always wondered what it would be like to climb it. So when I was covering Formula One, I
14:14decided with some journalist friends to go and have a go and go and do it.
14:18So we travelled to the town and we stayed in the traditional Japanese hotel, slept on the floor the night
14:23before, you know, got up at four o'clock in the morning before the sun came up and went off.
14:27And it was slightly out of season. So everyone said to us, oh, it's always cloudy. You know, you climb
14:32up there and you don't see anything.
14:34You're climbing for five hours and you get there and it's just fog. And we thought, well, we'll risk it.
14:38And actually that day we were so lucky because it was sunny and it's it's almost 4000 metres high.
14:44So it's it's a pretty, you know, it's a steep walk up and you feel the altitude.
14:49You sort of get about halfway up and you can feel the shortness of breath and you just just stop
14:53for a few, you know, a minute or so.
14:55And then you just keep trudging up, keep going. And we saw, you know, a few other people and we
15:00got to the top.
15:00And honestly, Nick, it was just glorious. It took us about four and a half hours to do it and
15:05about an hour and a half to get back down again.
15:07Afterwards, of course, it was much quicker going the other way, but took a few photographs and we could see
15:12clearly, you know.
15:13And I've got it on my on my laptop, you know, as my screen saver.
15:17And every time I look at it, I think, oh, yeah, I've been up there.
15:19It's just it was just a really lovely thing to do.
15:21A lovely story. Thank you.
15:29Now, 43 to 30, Ted in the lead. Ted, your letters game now.
15:33A vowel, please.
15:35Thank you, Ted. I.
15:36And another.
15:38U.
15:39And another vowel.
15:41E.
15:42Consonant.
15:44F.
15:45A consonant.
15:47G.
15:48Consonant.
15:49D.
15:51Consonant.
15:52S.
15:55A vowel.
15:58O.
15:59And a consonant, please.
16:00And lastly, D.
16:03Stand by.
16:04Here.
16:04One.
16:33One.
16:33One.
16:33Three.
16:35Well, Ted, six.
16:37And Maria, six.
16:39Thanks.
16:40Ted, fudges.
16:41Maria, fudged.
16:43And fudged.
16:45Yes, fudge is the issue.
16:47Absolutely fine.
16:48Yeah.
16:49Now, Susie's?
16:50Hard to get more than six, though.
16:52We didn't manage it either, did we?
16:53No, we had one more dodges.
16:56But, yeah, we fudged it.
16:58That's it.
17:00So, Maria, off we go.
17:02Let us go.
17:03Could I have a consonant, please?
17:06Thank you, Maria.
17:07P.
17:08And a vowel.
17:10I.
17:11And a consonant.
17:12T.
17:14And a vowel.
17:16O.
17:17And a consonant.
17:19V.
17:20And a vowel.
17:22A.
17:24And a consonant.
17:26T.
17:27A vowel.
17:30E.
17:31And a final consonant, please.
17:34And a final M.
17:36Stand by.
17:38And a vowel.
17:58And a vowel.
17:59And a vowel.
17:59And a vowel.
17:59And a vowel.
17:59And a vowel.
17:59and a vowel.
17:59And a vowel.
18:08Maria.
18:09Eight.
18:11And Ted.
18:12Eight.
18:13Two eights.
18:13Same eight.
18:14Maria.
18:15Motivate.
18:16Motivate and?
18:17Motivate.
18:20Motivate for eight.
18:25And in the corner, Susie.
18:28Motivate.
18:29We got that as well.
18:31Optimate.
18:32Optimate, yeah.
18:33We'll give you another eight.
18:34A member of the patrician order in ancient Rome.
18:37So they're nobles or aristocrats who were thought to be better than other people.
18:41Optimus meaning best.
18:43Yeah.
18:43But yeah, optimate for eight.
18:4657 to 44.
18:48It's a numbers game for Ted.
18:49Yes, Ted.
18:51Four large.
18:52Two small, please.
18:52Thank you, Ted.
18:53Four from the top again.
18:54And two little.
18:55So we have this time around.
18:57These two small ones are four and five.
19:00And then the big ones.
19:0175, 50, 25 and 100.
19:05And the target, 363.
19:08Three, six, three.
19:10We'll see you.
19:13We'll see you.
19:35We'll see you.
19:38We'll see you.
19:40Well, Ted?
19:413-5-9.
19:433-5-9.
19:44Maria?
19:453-7-0.
19:463-7-0.
19:49So we stick with Ted.
19:52Yes, Ted?
19:5275 divided by 25.
19:5575 over 25 is 3.
19:57Times 100.
19:58Times 100, 300.
20:00And then 50 plus 4 plus 5.
20:0250, 4 and 5, 3, 5, 9.
20:05Well done.
20:06Mmm.
20:08Well done, Ted.
20:09But not quite what we wanted.
20:11Rachel?
20:12Can you help?
20:14One away again.
20:15Leave it with me.
20:16Certainly will.
20:1764 to 44.
20:1820 points in it.
20:19And we turn now to our second Tea Time teaser, which is Canny Tree.
20:23And the clue.
20:24It might take you a while to get this.
20:27Possibly 100 years.
20:29It might take you a while to get this.
20:32Possibly 100 years.
20:50Welcome back.
20:50I left you with the clue.
20:51It might take you a while to get this.
20:53Possibly 100 years.
20:55And the answer to that one is centenary.
20:59Centenary.
21:01Didn't take Rachel nearly that length of time.
21:05Now that Rachel, 363?
21:06Longer than it should have.
21:08But if you say 100 minus 4 is 96.
21:1350 divided by 25 is 2.
21:165 minus 2 is 3.
21:18Times them together for 288.
21:20And add on the 75.
21:22Maxim.
21:23360.
21:27So, 64 plays 44.
21:30Maria on 44.
21:31It's Maria's letters game.
21:32Yes, ma'am.
21:33Could I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
21:35Thank you, Maria.
21:36D.
21:36And another.
21:39S.
21:40And another.
21:42C.
21:44And a vowel.
21:45U.
21:47And another.
21:48I.
21:49And another.
21:52O.
21:53Consonant.
21:55B.
21:57Vowel.
21:59A.
22:00And a final consonant, please.
22:03And a final D.
22:05Stand by.
22:06What?
22:08What?
22:25Let's see.
22:26When we reach out, it's ominous.
22:26And a final saint, please.
22:26Bye.
22:29Bye.
22:30Bye.
22:31Bye.
22:32Bye.
22:34Bye.
22:34Bye.
22:36Bye.
22:37Maria five five Ted six and a six Maria basic thank you and audios she says
22:52this is mass noun mass noun usually uses a modifier I think in the radio
22:57industry it is used as a countable now but I have to go with what's in the
23:00dictionary I'm afraid which at the moment is mass noun can't put a plural on
23:05it so cruel Ted she said now then Susie you could have for seven cuboids cuboids
23:13yes come from geometry and also dacoits the armed robbers yeah in Burma mostly
23:20thank you 64 to 49 and now Ted it's your letters game a vowel please thank you Ted
23:30E and another oh and another you constant K consonant F consonant L consonant are a
23:49vowel a and a consonant please and lastly L countdown
23:56countdown
23:57so
24:02so
24:28now then Ted just six Maria six Ted
24:33floral and same word same word just show it to Ted yeah thank you
24:40floral and the else another six allure allure good word isn't it yeah she was so alluring
24:48thank you 55 place 70 and it's Susie we turn to now for her wonderful origins of
24:55words now then Susie well I have to thank Tim Hunt Nick who emailed in and gave me the
25:00opportunity to go over one of my favorite word origins and he says I wonder if you could tell
25:06me the meaning of the phrase to lick into shape I heard that it has something to do with giant
25:10pandas
25:11but not sure thanks in advance and it sprang from a belief which was held for a very long time
25:17in
25:17medieval Europe and actually beyond the Middle Ages that bear calves were born completely shapeless
25:24so they were born as blobs had to be made into bear form by their mothers who would lick them
25:31in to the shape of a bear
25:33it seems incredible to us now doesn't it that whole idea but it isn't surprising when you take the context
25:39of the Middle Ages because
25:40uh the general population really weren't educated at all in um zoology they'd know how could they be they'd never
25:47seen quite a lot of the animals that we know about today
25:50and so they believed stories of fabulous animals from myth and fable and actually believed that they walked the earth
25:56and to them a zebra was no more real than a unicorn
25:58really and that went on these beliefs were just repeated ad infinitum and so it was with the bear licking
26:04um and you'll find that kind of mentality when you look at uh the first name really for the giraffe
26:11it was a camel leopard
26:12uh because they believed it was a cross between a camel and a leopard and um an ostrich with a
26:18struthio camel struthio meaning sparrow
26:21sparrow because they thought it was a cross between a sparrow and a camel again incredible now to us today
26:26but the belief about bears was absolutely everywhere and in France they had the most fantastic uh version of it
26:32at this time it was a reference to somebody who'd been really badly brought up and was a bit spoiled
26:38and it was
26:39an urs mal lecher that is a bear badly licked i love that one really that's very good
26:45yeah very good
26:52wonderful i don't know when jura lived the the the german artist but he was drawing sort of rhinoceroses but
27:01somebody had explained what they looked like and they didn't quite get it right yeah so his early drawings
27:06were extraordinary looking things we're so lucky today aren't we knowing what we do
27:10indeed seeing all these things 75 55 ted in the lead still and it's maria's letters game now then maria
27:17consonant please rachel thank you maria s a vowel i consonant t vowel o consonant l vowel u consonant n
27:39a vowel a final consonant please and a final r stand by
27:54so
28:06so
28:06so
28:06so
28:06so
28:09so
28:09so
28:09so
28:22so
28:22so
28:22so
28:33so
28:34so
28:34so
28:35so
28:39so
28:41so
28:41so
28:43so
28:46so
28:48i'm sorry
28:50what can we have i wonder
28:51well for nine yes
28:54insulator
28:55oh perfect
29:03well done that'll do great
29:06oh thanks very much nick
29:09excellent
29:10and i'll tell you what's happened here is that maria's clambered to be only eight points behind
29:16touching distance 62 to 10 70
29:18ted
29:20have a care
29:21letters game
29:22a vowel please rachel
29:24thank you ted
29:25e
29:25and another
29:28o
29:28and a third
29:30i
29:31consonant
29:32n
29:34consonant
29:35r
29:36consonant
29:36consonant
29:38consonant
29:39y
29:41a consonant
29:42r
29:46and another consonant please
29:48and lastly n
29:50standby
29:52at
29:53sp
29:53the
29:53the
29:53the
29:53the
29:53the
30:00the
30:22Well, Ted?
30:24Just a six.
30:25Maria?
30:26Six.
30:27Ted?
30:28Senior.
30:29Now then, Maria.
30:29Same word.
30:31There we go.
30:32OK, thank you.
30:34Mm-hmm.
30:36And the Susies?
30:38Um, something that I'm not.
30:41Ironers.
30:42You're not an ironer?
30:44Oh, I hate ironing.
30:45Susie?
30:46Um, yes, that was really good to get that one for seven.
30:49No, see, otherwise for six.
30:50We're right.
30:5268 to 76, and it's Maria's numbers game.
30:57Good luck, Maria.
30:58Can I have one large of five smile, please?
31:00You can indeed, in this last numbers round.
31:02Can turn the tables.
31:03You can go ahead.
31:04Good luck, Maria.
31:05This final numbers round is five, seven, two, eight, another five, and 75.
31:14And the target to reach 406.
31:164-0-6.
31:18And the least is going to do for six.
31:345-0-6.
31:345-0-6.
31:355-0-6.
31:355-0.
31:355-0.
31:357-0.
31:415-0.
31:436-0.
31:50Maria, 406, 405, 405, this is very interesting, Maria, 75 times 5 is 375, yep, 7 times the other
32:035 is 35, add that on for 410, yep, 410, 8 divided by 2 is 4 and take that away,
32:12you haven't used
32:12any of those, very well done, whoa, whoa, oh Maria, that's 3 good rounds you've had, popping
32:25you 2 points ahead of Ted now as we go into the final round, that'll be a crucial conundrum
32:33round, won't it, crucial conundrum, good luck to you both, fingers on buzzers, let's roll
32:38today's crucial countdown conundrum, yes Ted, no, I've got it wrong, I've got it wrong,
32:54wow, down to you Maria, take your time
33:22nope, it doesn't matter really does it, it doesn't matter
33:27who in the audience will take on these two fine players, do I see a show of hands anywhere,
33:33yes ma'am, parenting, parenting, let's see whether you're right, parenting, well done,
33:45I pregnant, very witty, well, Ted, you did a lot better than your nipper,
33:54so you've got your teapot, your goodie bag, thank you, well done indeed, Maria, that was
34:00fantastic, it was nerve wracking, well, it was actually, you were trailing, and then suddenly
34:08you scored three in a row, brilliant, well done, we'll see you tomorrow, thank you very
34:22very good contest, yeah, very, very close, all right, we'll see you tomorrow, see you then,
34:27see you tomorrow, all right, same time, same place, you be sure of it, a very good afternoon to you,
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34:52tonight on channel4, my baby's live, who decides, an ethical, complex question, is it ever right
34:58to let a child die, and that's at nine o'clock, place in the sun, up next.
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