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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:34Let's talk poetry.
00:35Why?
00:36Because this week is the start of the Ledbury Poetry Festival.
00:39It's a big deal in the poetry world.
00:41And it reminded me, prompted me to think, Rachel, of a story not too long ago of an airline
00:46passenger who had to complain.
00:48He was fed up.
00:49So he decided to complain in poetry form.
00:53And this is what he wrote.
00:55He said, the issue apparently, and it's so common with these budget airlines, no frills
01:02airlines, that they charge you for everything.
01:04If you don't print off your boarding card at home, you have to do it at the airport.
01:09That'll be, Lord knows how much.
01:11And so it goes on.
01:12Well, he had a problem because he wanted to change the name of the passenger that he was
01:15taking with him.
01:16And that cost whatever it was.
01:17So he wrote and he said, 120 euros for what?
01:21Two minutes of typing.
01:23That's rather a lot.
01:25Hardly, hardly Coleridge, is it?
01:27Anyway, the airline waived the fee and replied, you love this, sorry for any inconvenience that
01:34may have occurred.
01:35Our vision is sometimes blurred.
01:38Oh, dear.
01:39So I don't resort to poetry.
01:42I go straight on to Twitter.
01:43It works so fast and so well.
01:45What about you?
01:45Do you resort to rhyming couplets?
01:48I haven't complained in poetry form, but I am now a published poet.
01:52I don't know if you know, recently, the Premier League Primary Stars, so I've been doing some
01:55stuff with them for their numeracy campaign, and they've done a literacy campaign as well.
01:59So they had a poetry competition.
02:01Yeah.
02:01And they had so many entries, 25,000, that they've actually made a book of them.
02:05Amazing.
02:05And one of mine has made it in.
02:07And it is?
02:07The book's called Try, Try Again, so all the poems are about resilience in one form or
02:11another, and you can find all the winning kids entries online.
02:13So, yeah, it's a lovely little competition.
02:15Oh, it's perfect.
02:16What a clever idea.
02:17What a good thing to do.
02:18Poetry isn't dead.
02:19Well done.
02:20Well done.
02:20Now, I'll tell you who's very much alive, and that's our Jodine Lawrence, reception supervisor
02:25from Birmingham.
02:26Welcome back, Jodine.
02:27Hello.
02:28Two great wins under your belt.
02:29Yeah.
02:30Fantastic.
02:30Well done.
02:31And you're joined by Derek Marner.
02:33Come down from Grenwick in Scotland, where he is a dentist in practice.
02:37And he also, when he's not drilling, he's with the Scottish Tartan Army.
02:45How many times has your heart been broken?
02:48Far too many times to talk about it, repeatedly.
02:51What is it that, you know, denies you taking part in the, you know, in Russia at the moment,
02:56for instance?
02:56In the last 20 years as well.
02:58Just not get the players for the last 20 years.
03:00Getting better.
03:01Things are moving in the right direction.
03:02Grassroots is picking up.
03:04So, yeah, I think the future looks...
03:05Excellent.
03:06Right.
03:06Looks rosy.
03:07Let's hope so.
03:08Big round of applause, then, for Derek and Jodine.
03:16And Susie.
03:17Oh, wonderful Susie's over in the corner, of course.
03:19Joined once again by the wonderful John Cultural.
03:23Fantastic impressions.
03:24The best, I reckon.
03:25The best.
03:26Welcome back, John.
03:27Lovely to be here.
03:28Lovely to be here.
03:32I was enjoying all this lovely poetry talk, and it brought to mind the voice of Giles
03:36Brandreth, who might say, my afternoon is heaven sent, here in Dictionary Corner with
03:42Susie Dent.
03:44Well done.
03:45That's a big one to get us going.
03:46Well done, John.
03:47Now then, Jodine, let's have a letter to go, shall we?
03:50Hi, Rachel.
03:50Hi, Jodine.
03:51Can I start with a consonant, please?
03:53Start today with T.
03:56A vowel.
03:57E.
03:58Consonant.
04:01S.
04:02Another consonant.
04:05P.
04:06A vowel.
04:08A.
04:10Another vowel.
04:12I.
04:13A consonant.
04:16T.
04:17A consonant.
04:20D.
04:21And final vowel, please.
04:23And final O.
04:26And here's the countdown clock.
04:28D täll enjoyed.
04:56If you have one of those, I know.
04:58Well, Jodine.
04:59Seven.
05:00Seven.
05:01Derek?
05:01Seven.
05:02Jodine?
05:03Deposit.
05:03And parties?
05:05Yes.
05:06Absolutely fine, both.
05:07Any more sevens, John, Susie?
05:09It was amazing watching Susie across here.
05:11There's about seven, seven-letter words that Susie's generated,
05:15amongst them posited, adipose, opiated, tiptoed.
05:20A plethora of sevens over here.
05:22Can we beat seven?
05:24We can't.
05:24Couldn't get to an eight in that one, I'm afraid.
05:26Just a handful of sevens.
05:28Yeah.
05:29Seven apiece here, and it's Derek we turn to.
05:32Derek?
05:32Hi, Rachel.
05:33I'll start with a consonant, please.
05:35Thank you, Derek.
05:36Start with S.
05:38And another.
05:41R.
05:42And a vowel, please.
05:44I.
05:46And a consonant.
05:47N.
05:49Another consonant.
05:52L.
05:53And a vowel.
05:55O.
05:55Consonant.
05:57T.
05:59Vowel.
06:01I.
06:02And one more of vowel, please.
06:04And the last one.
06:05A.
06:06Stand by.
06:23And a vowel, please.
06:26And a vowel, please.
06:26And a vowel, please.
06:26And a vowel, please.
06:26And a vowel, please.
06:26And a vowel, please.
06:26And a vowel, please.
06:26And a vowel, please.
06:27And a vowel, please.
06:28And a vowel, please.
06:31And a vowel, please.
06:33And a vowel, please.
06:38Well, Derek?
06:39Six.
06:40Six, Jodine.
06:41Seven.
06:42Derek?
06:43Treans.
06:44Now, Jodine.
06:45Rations.
06:45Rations.
06:46Yes, they're certainly there.
06:48Well done.
06:49And in the corner, what have we got?
06:51Yes, nothing more than seven,
06:53but there was a couple of other alternative sevens there.
06:55Tailors.
06:56Yeah.
06:56Also sirloin.
06:58Some more sevens.
07:0014 points, plays seven.
07:02Derek on seven, and it's Jodine's numbers.
07:05Can I have two large and four small, please?
07:07You can indeed.
07:08Thank you, Jodine.
07:09Two from the top four, little.
07:10And the first one of the day is six, one, eight, two,
07:1625, and 50.
07:18And the target, 382.
07:21Three, eight, two.
07:53Yes, Jodine?
07:54382.
07:55And?
07:56382, not written down.
07:58Tell us about it, Derek.
08:0050 plus 25.
08:0275.
08:04Plus one.
08:0576.
08:07Times?
08:09Nah, I went wrong.
08:11Ah.
08:11Sorry.
08:12Over to you, Jodine.
08:13Um, 50 times eight is 400.
08:16Yeah.
08:18Six plus the one is seven.
08:21Six plus one is seven.
08:22Take that off from the 25 or 18, and take it from the 400.
08:26Perfect.
08:27382.
08:27Well done.
08:31Well done.
08:3224 plays seven.
08:33Jodine on 24, as we turn to our first Tea Time teaser,
08:37which is I acted bad.
08:39And the clue, I acted in a bad way
08:41and didn't fulfil my responsibilities.
08:45I acted in a bad way and didn't fulfil my responsibilities.
09:08in fact, I abdicated them, abdicated.
09:16Now, if you'd like to become a Countdown contestant,
09:20you can email countdown at channel4.com to request an application form
09:24or write to us at Contestants Applications,
09:28Countdown Leads, LS 3, 1, J, S.
09:33So, 24 to 7, Derek on 7, and it's Derek's letters game.
09:37Yes, sir.
09:38I have a consonant, please, Rachel.
09:39Thank you, Derek.
09:40N.
09:41And another.
09:44S.
09:45And a vowel.
09:48U.
09:49And another vowel.
09:50O.
09:51And a consonant.
09:54R.
09:56And another.
09:58T.
09:59And another consonant.
10:01S.
10:02And a vowel.
10:05I.
10:06And another vowel, please.
10:08And lastly, U.
10:11Countdown.
10:12Thanks for the Manners.
10:14Thanks for the Manners.
10:43Yes, Derek?
10:45Just a five.
10:46A five.
10:46And Jodine?
10:47I'll try a seven.
10:49Derek?
10:49Just stars.
10:51And Jodine?
10:52Outruns.
10:52Absolutely fine.
10:53Yep, you can certainly outrun someone.
10:55Very good.
10:56Susie and John?
10:58Ruinous was there for another seven.
11:01But nothing more than that.
11:02That's it.
11:03Ruinous deaths.
11:04Yeah.
11:0531 plays seven.
11:06Jodine, letters game for you.
11:08Can I start with a consonant, please?
11:10Thank you, Jodine.
11:11K?
11:12And another one.
11:15L.
11:16A vowel.
11:18E.
11:19Another vowel.
11:21A.
11:22A consonant.
11:24X.
11:25A consonant.
11:28D.
11:29Another consonant.
11:31T.
11:33A vowel.
11:35E.
11:37A final consonant, please.
11:39And a final N.
11:41Stand by.
11:43Stand by.
11:45Stand by.
11:45Aeron.
11:46A revedoor.
11:47A Hat.
11:54A艦.
12:01A confian.
12:01Awright.
12:01A Lol.
12:01A θ麴.
12:07A 500.
12:07Aowych.
12:07A testimony.
12:08A making.
12:11Anek.
12:12Aabling.
12:12A million.
12:13A for.
12:13Aaisia.
12:14Jodine?
12:15Seven.
12:16Now then, six.
12:17And that six is?
12:18Sight.
12:19Jodine?
12:20Exalted.
12:22Exalted.
12:23Very good.
12:24Pretty good.
12:24Yeah.
12:25Now, John and Susie?
12:27Yes, we feel exalted over here.
12:29Nothing better than that.
12:31An alternative six was there.
12:32Anklet was there for another six.
12:35An anklet.
12:36That's it?
12:37Yes.
12:3838 plays seven, and it's a numbers game.
12:41For you, Derek.
12:42Thank you, George.
12:43I have just one from the top and five from anywhere else.
12:46Thank you, Derek.
12:46One large, five, little.
12:48And this second numbers round is five, five, six, one, nine, and 100.
12:57And the target, 228.
12:59228.
13:34Now, Jodine?
13:37Nine of five plus the hundred is 114.
13:41114.
13:42And then six take away five plus the one is two.
13:46Perfect.
13:47Times them together.
13:48Very well done.
13:48228.
13:49Very strong.
13:50Very strong.
13:53Well done.
13:54Well done.
13:55Well done.
13:55And now we turn to John.
13:57John, you're touring your show, The Great British Takeoff.
14:01Yes.
14:01You've been on the road.
14:03Yes, exactly.
14:05We're performing at the Henley Festival, as a matter of fact, on the 15th of July and
14:09the last two weeks of the Edinburgh Festival at the Gilded Balloon.
14:13And one of my favourite parts about the show is recalling some early memories of characters
14:19that I used to know, just locally.
14:22Impressions of people who aren't necessarily famous.
14:25I had a Saturday job in the mid-80s, and the head of the car washing place was called
14:30Stan, and he spoke like that.
14:32You know, a very high-pitched voice like that.
14:34He said, I love the way you've washed that car, son.
14:36You've put 700 notes on the value of that car.
14:39And he was so proud of his Liverpool heritage.
14:41He said, I couldn't be more scouts if I deep-brived me tracksuit.
14:46And it's nice to recount, I can remember the early days of when I used to work on the
14:51local radio station, Red Rose Radio in Preston.
14:54And I used to do the overnight show, two till six in the morning, in a haunted church.
14:59You know, you heard some very strange sounds going on.
15:02And quite often I used to use impersonation characters just to sprinkle through the show.
15:08And it was very useful.
15:09A favourite of that time, I used to love the deep voice of Frank Bruno.
15:13So I'd do the travel reports as Frank Bruno.
15:15I'd keep up the M55 if I was you, because a lot of serious traffic going down there.
15:19A lot of body popping.
15:20I'd keep away if I was you.
15:23It just seemed to liven up otherwise quite ordinary things.
15:26And I remember that a great voice for the weather forecast was always Bob Geldof.
15:33Because you could say, right, OK, let's take a look at what we have here.
15:36OK, a strong westerly wind persisting, bringing with it several heavy showers, top temperatures,
15:4210 Celsius, 50 Fahrenheit.
15:44This is August.
15:45That is a disgrace.
15:49So memories such as that form part of the show.
15:51Oh, lovely.
15:52Lovely stuff.
15:58I love it.
15:59And lots more to come during your stay with us this week.
16:02Brilliant stuff.
16:04So 48 plays 7.
16:06Jodine on 48.
16:07And it's Jodine we turn to now.
16:09Letters game.
16:10Let's start with a consonant, please.
16:11Thank you, Jodine.
16:12M.
16:13And another one.
16:15S.
16:17And another one.
16:19N.
16:20A vowel.
16:22O.
16:23Another vowel.
16:25E.
16:26Consonant.
16:28R.
16:30Consonant.
16:31J.
16:32A vowel.
16:35A.
16:37A.
16:37And a final consonant, please.
16:39And a final C.
16:41Stand by.
17:13Well, Jodine?
17:14Eight.
17:15And Derek?
17:16Seven.
17:16And that seven is?
17:17Mourners.
17:19Jodine?
17:19Romances.
17:21Romances.
17:27And over in the corner there, John?
17:30Yes, no more eights, but there was an alternative seven, oarsmen.
17:33You're sitting next to a very good oarswoman, you know.
17:36Ah.
17:37Yeah.
17:38Are you still rowing a lot?
17:40Not really, no.
17:42On the rowing machine, on the ergs, but not so much.
17:45Not on the river.
17:46Sadly, not much time.
17:48All right.
17:4956 to 7, and it's Derek we turn to.
17:51Yes, Derek.
17:52A continent, please.
17:53Thank you, Derek.
17:55F.
17:56And a vowel.
17:58O.
17:59And a consonant.
18:01N.
18:02And a vowel.
18:05I.
18:05And another vowel, please.
18:08E.
18:09And the consonant.
18:11D.
18:13Consonant.
18:15L.
18:16Another consonant, please.
18:19R.
18:20And another consonant, please.
18:22And the last one.
18:24Z.
18:24And here's the countdown clock.
18:27And here's the countdown clock.
18:58Yes, Derek.
18:59A 7.
19:00A 7.
19:01Jodine.
19:017.
19:02And Derek.
19:03A fondle.
19:04Jodine.
19:05Same word.
19:06Same again.
19:08And over in the corner there.
19:09Yeah, the same word over here as well.
19:11We didn't find too many others.
19:13We thought Eidolon might have been there, but we were short of a few letters for that.
19:18But it was a nice theory for a moment.
19:20We'll stay with Fonda.
19:21All right.
19:2214 plays.
19:2363.
19:23And it's Jodine we turn to.
19:25Jodine, the numbers have come round.
19:27Can I have two large and four small again, please?
19:30Thank you, Jodine.
19:30Same again for you.
19:32Two big ones, four little ones.
19:33And this time, the four small ones are 5, 4, 2, and 7.
19:39And the large two, 50, and 100.
19:42And the target, 986.
19:449, 8, 6.
19:479, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9,
19:539, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9,
19:549, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9,
19:589, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9,
19:599, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9,
19:599, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9
20:17Well, Jodine?
20:18No, I've lost it, sorry.
20:19And Derek?
20:209, 8, 9.
20:21Off we go, Derek.
20:235 times 2.
20:25Is 10.
20:26Multiply by 100.
20:271,000.
20:28And take it either, 7 and 4.
20:30Yeah, 3 away.
20:32Lovely.
20:33Pretty good, but not quite as perfect as we'd like.
20:35Is it possible to be perfect?
20:37Yes, it is.
20:38If you say 4 times 5 is 20, times 50 is 1,000,
20:44and then 2 times 7 is 14, and you can take it away for 9, 8, 6.
20:49Oh, smashing.
20:54Thanks, Rachel.
20:55And now it's time for our second Tea Time teaser, which is Salted Her.
21:00And the clue, she's salted her chips for what seemed like an eternity.
21:04She's salted her chips for what seemed like an eternity.
21:24Welcome back.
21:25Welcome back.
21:26I left her with a clue.
21:26She's salted her chips for what seemed like an eternity.
21:29In fact, she slathered her chips.
21:31She slathered it.
21:33Just smeared and covered it.
21:35Slathered.
21:3763 to 21.
21:38Jodine in the lead.
21:39Derek, letters came for you.
21:41I'll start with a consonant again, please.
21:43Thank you, Derek.
21:44L.
21:44And a vowel.
21:47A.
21:48And a consonant, please.
21:51R.
21:52And a vowel.
21:54E.
21:55And a consonant.
21:57G.
21:58Another consonant.
22:00W.
22:02One more consonant.
22:04N.
22:06A vowel.
22:08A.
22:10And a consonant, please.
22:12And the last one, P.
22:14Stand by.
22:17BEEPING
22:46What, Eric?
22:46I'll try a seven.
22:49A seven.
22:49And Jodine?
22:50I'll try a seven as well.
22:52Derek.
22:53Pawnage.
22:55Pawnage.
22:56Jodine, what do you think?
22:57Wrangle.
22:59They're both in the dictionary, yes.
23:00Pawnage is the action of pawning something, or the fact or condition of being a pawn.
23:06Either way, it's in the dictionary, very good.
23:07You can be a wrangle horses in the old days.
23:10These days, you wrangle data, I understand.
23:13Yes, or you wrangle a deal, that sort of thing.
23:16Anything else, chaps?
23:17Well, there was a last minute eight uncovered by Susie at Warplane.
23:23Warplane for eight.
23:25What a lovely one.
23:26Yeah.
23:30So, 28 plays 70.
23:32Derek coming back.
23:34Jodine, your letters go.
23:36Can I have a consonant, please?
23:37Thank you, Jodine.
23:39B.
23:40And another one.
23:42S.
23:44And another one.
23:46R.
23:47A vowel.
23:48O.
23:50Another vowel.
23:51E.
23:53Consonant.
23:55S.
23:56Another consonant.
23:58D.
24:00A vowel.
24:02I.
24:04And a final vowel, please.
24:07And a final E.
24:09Countdown.
24:09I.
24:11And a final vowel.
24:33Oh.
24:33Oh.
24:34Oh.
24:34Oh.
24:35Oh.
24:36Oh.
24:37Oh.
24:40Well, Jodine?
24:42Seven.
24:43And Derek?
24:43Seven.
24:44Two sevens.
24:45Jodine?
24:46Resides.
24:47And Borsia?
24:48Absolutely fine.
24:50Yeah.
24:50And in the corner, what have we got?
24:52Well, there was a sort of a carry-on film theme emerging over here.
24:56We also found the seven, no, desires.
24:59Yes.
25:00Followed by an eight, disrobes by Joe.
25:05It's a disrobe.
25:06Robes.
25:09It can lead to all sorts of trouble.
25:13Now, 77 to 35, and Susie, we're there.
25:19It's your wonderful Origins of Words time.
25:21I had a nice tweet in, Nick, from Thomas Bartlett.
25:25He says, hi, Susie, my friend and I are wondering,
25:27is the word ink linked at all to inkling?
25:31Inkling being one of my favourite words, in fact.
25:33And it's a lovely idea that there is some connection between the two,
25:36but sadly, they both have very separate histories.
25:39So I'll take ink first.
25:41We look back to Roman emperors who used a purple fluid for writing their signatures.
25:47Purple, of course, being the colour of imperial robes and insignia, etc.
25:50And that, in the Roman tongue of Latin, was called encostum.
25:55And that, in turn, came from a Greek word meaning to burn in, which seems quite curious on the face
26:00of it.
26:01But, in fact, this expensive and quite exotic purple dye was obtained from the ground remains of mollusks,
26:08who were called porphura, that's where we get purple from,
26:11and then formed into writing fluid by the application of fire or heat, hence this idea of burning in.
26:17So, eventually, the Roman's words moved into French and then reached English as ink in the Middle Ages.
26:24As for inkling, as I say, I love that word, and that's partly because it comes from a really rarely
26:29used verb
26:30that I think we should bring back, and that's to inkle.
26:32And to inkle is to whisper or mutter something in an undertone.
26:37So you could say, John inkled a word to me, for example, and I just love it.
26:42And an inkling, in turn, is the faintest suggestion of something, the faintest murmur from that verb, to inkle.
26:48But I say there's no connection between writing in ink and inkling, but there is one, really.
26:55If you look back to the 1930s and the 1940s in Oxford, when the Inklings were an informal literary circle
27:02who would meet in the Eagle and Child pub on St. Giles in Oxford and read to each other their
27:08works,
27:08read out loud and receive criticism.
27:10And in this circle were C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, amongst other literary giants,
27:16who, as I say, would recite their works for each other.
27:19In fact, apparently C.S. Lewis has such a phenomenal memory
27:22that he could quote verbatim from books that he had heard in the inkling group two years earlier,
27:28which is amazing.
27:29They were called inklings, of course, because their work was penned in ink.
27:34But also, perhaps I like to think that they sound like a race that stepped straight out of Middle Earth,
27:39the inklings.
27:40But either way, they probably knew all about the verb to inkle, to utter something in an undertone.
27:45Super wonderful.
27:51It's an inkl.
27:52Oh, lovely.
27:5477 to 35, Jodine the lead, and it's Derek we turn to now.
27:58Derek, let us go.
28:00A consonant, please, Rachel.
28:02Thank you, Derek.
28:03V.
28:04And a vowel.
28:06U.
28:07And a consonant.
28:10M.
28:11And another consonant.
28:13W.
28:13And a vowel.
28:16E.
28:18And a vowel.
28:20O.
28:21Consonant.
28:23S.
28:25Another consonant.
28:27T.
28:29And a vowel, please.
28:31And the last one.
28:32E.
28:34Stand by.
28:34And a vowel.
28:59And a vowel.
29:03And a vowel.
29:05Well, Derek?
29:06Six.
29:07A six.
29:07Jodine?
29:08Just a five.
29:09And your five?
29:11Moves.
29:11Now, Derek.
29:13Immorts?
29:13Very good.
29:15Can we match it?
29:16John?
29:16Susie?
29:17We've got another six over here.
29:19Out sea.
29:21Yeah.
29:21But nothing more than that.
29:22Quite a tricky little line-up, that one.
29:24That's it?
29:24Yes.
29:25Well, good.
29:25Well done there, Derek.
29:26You've got up to 41 now, so it was a slow start, but my word, you're coming back now.
29:31Jodine, letters came.
29:33Can I have a consonant, please?
29:35Thank you, Jodine.
29:37H.
29:37And another one.
29:40M.
29:41A vowel.
29:43A.
29:44Another vowel.
29:47E.
29:48A consonant.
29:50F.
29:52Another consonant.
29:54L.
29:55A vowel.
29:57A.
29:59Consonant.
30:01T.
30:03And a final consonant, please.
30:05And a final Q.
30:07And it's countdown.
30:08The.
30:09T hold.
30:37A.
30:39Well, Jodine?
30:40Five.
30:41So, Derek?
30:42Five.
30:43Yes.
30:44Flame.
30:45And Derek?
30:46Flame.
30:48Both are flame.
30:49John and Susie?
30:50Well, there's six over here, a flame.
30:53Yeah.
30:54Stick an A in front of it.
30:56And there's a type of chemical salt called malate for another six.
31:02Oh, well done.
31:03What's this chemical?
31:05Malate.
31:05Malate.
31:05Yeah, malate is a salt of malic acid,
31:08which you'll find in unripe apples, malic acid.
31:11Oh, yeah.
31:12Cooking apples, that sort of thing as well.
31:13Cookers, as we used to call them.
31:16Malate indeed.
31:17And it's 82 to 46.
31:19Derek, the final numbers game is yours.
31:23One from the top and five small ones, please, Rachel.
31:25Thank you, Derek.
31:26One large five, little for the final one of the week.
31:29And these numbers are five, nine, ten, three, one, and 50.
31:36And the target, nine hundred and ten.
31:39Nine, one, zero.
31:40One large, ten, one, one, go.
31:48All right.
31:57Bye.
32:11Well, Derek?
32:129, 10.
32:139, 10.
32:14And Jodine?
32:159, 10.
32:16So, Derek?
32:183 minus 1 as 2?
32:20Yep.
32:21Times the 50?
32:22100.
32:23Take away the 9?
32:24Take away the 9 for 91.
32:26And times by the 10?
32:27910, lovely.
32:29And Jodine?
32:31I think I've gone wrong, actually.
32:34Oh, bad luck.
32:34Bad luck.
32:36Now, that takes Derek up to 56 points to Jodine's 82.
32:41Still a good score there, Jodine, as we go into the final round.
32:44So, fingers on buzzers.
32:47Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:53BELL RINGS
32:57Derek?
32:58Dejection.
33:00Let's have a look and see whether you're right.
33:03Here we go.
33:04Dejection.
33:08APPLAUSE
33:1166 to 82.
33:13No need for you to feel dejected.
33:15You might have done earlier on, because it was a bit of a slow start, wasn't it?
33:19But you came back.
33:19You came back.
33:20But I think Jodine got away early on, and she stayed there until the very end.
33:24Although she was slowing down a bit there.
33:2682 to 66.
33:27So, it's Jodine's day, but thank you very much for coming.
33:32You take your goodie bag back to Greenwich.
33:34Yep.
33:35And good luck to Scotland.
33:36Yes, hoping.
33:37All right.
33:38Well done.
33:38And we shall see you not tomorrow, because we're off to the Austrian Grand Prix, but we
33:42shall see you on Monday.
33:43We look forward to that.
33:44Have a lovely weekend.
33:46All right.
33:47And we'll see you both.
33:49John, coming back on Monday?
33:50Yes, indeed.
33:51Yes, please.
33:51And Susie too, of course.
33:53Have a good weekend.
33:53All right.
33:54And, Rachel, see you on Monday.
33:56See you in a few days.
33:57See you then.
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