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00:31Well, good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:34And Wimbledon kicks off, well, hardly kicks off, today.
00:39New balls, please.
00:40Did you read that debate earlier in the year, Rachel, about are tennis balls green or yellow?
00:47Huge debate about it.
00:48People are arguing on Twitter and all the rest of it until Roger Federer, blessed be his name,
00:55stepped forward and said, actually, they're yellow.
00:57Right.
00:58And once he had spoken, of course, that was it, they're yellow.
01:01But isn't it amazing, the things that people argue about?
01:03I mean, on Twitter, I tend to sort of glide over them if it's altogether too stupid.
01:09But what about you?
01:10Have you stumbled across any arguments on Twitter that you think are ridiculous?
01:14Well, if you don't use logic to form an argument, then you can't use logic to get rid of it.
01:19So my number one rule is don't argue with an idiot.
01:21Quite right.
01:21But this, I've been told that I look like a tennis ball in this dress, so I'm wearing my tennis
01:24ball dress today.
01:25You look like a glorious tennis ball, don't you?
01:27Thank you, Nick.
01:28All right.
01:29Now, Rachel, we've got Jodine back.
01:32Jodine Lawrence from Birmingham.
01:34Last Thursday, of course, you had your third solid win.
01:38You played like a champ, actually.
01:40Fantastic.
01:40So you're on three.
01:41How are you feeling?
01:43Shocked.
01:44Are you shocked?
01:44Yeah.
01:45You're a good player.
01:47Let me tell you, young lady, you're a very good player.
01:49And you're up against Lewis Carson, a trade union official from Bristol.
01:53Which union are you with?
01:55Unison.
01:56And they represent?
01:58Public sector workers, mainly.
02:00So NHS, local government, school support staff.
02:03So your union really was involved in the negotiation for the NHS pay rise.
02:07Yeah, that's right.
02:08And they deserve it.
02:09Yeah, they did a good job.
02:10I tell you, anybody who's come across the NHS when they really need it is just full
02:14of praise for them.
02:15They deserve everything they can get.
02:17So well done on that one.
02:18Good luck to you both.
02:19Big round of applause now for Jodine and Lewis Carson.
02:26I know we're going to call her Susie, of course, and comedian and impressionist and
02:30a man on tour with his very own show.
02:32It's the wonderful John Culshaw.
02:34Welcome back, John.
02:40Fabulous.
02:41All right, Jodine, down to business.
02:43Letters go.
02:44Hello, Rachel.
02:45Hi, Jodine.
02:46Can I start with a consonant, please?
02:48Start the week with P.
02:49And another one.
02:52And another one.
02:53A vowel.
02:55I.
02:56Another vowel.
02:58O.
02:59A consonant.
03:01D.
03:02A vowel.
03:05E.
03:06Another vowel.
03:08O.
03:09A consonant.
03:12G.
03:13And a final vowel, please.
03:15And a final A.
03:18And here's the countdown clock.
03:20G.
03:21G.
03:21G.
03:50Well, Jodine?
03:52Six.
03:52A six, Lewis?
03:54Six.
03:54Thank you, Jodine.
03:56Period.
03:57And Lewis, repaid.
04:01I'm pretty fine.
04:01Happy enough?
04:02Yes.
04:03And what of the corner, John and Susie?
04:06Another six.
04:07Diaper.
04:08You can only say that in an American accent.
04:11Diaper.
04:12Diaper.
04:14But also there's a seven in there.
04:17Poggia.
04:18Poggia.
04:19Poggia than thou.
04:20Yes, it was there for a seven.
04:24Susie, anything else?
04:25No, that was the best we could do.
04:26Poggia and diaper.
04:28Six apiece.
04:30Lewis, your letters game.
04:31Hi, Rachel.
04:32Hi, Lewis.
04:32May I have a consonant, please?
04:35Start with D.
04:37And another.
04:39B.
04:40And a third.
04:43M.
04:44And a vowel, please.
04:46O.
04:47And another.
04:49I.
04:51And another vowel.
04:52A.
04:53And a consonant.
04:56R.
04:58And another consonant.
05:00T.
05:02And a final vowel.
05:04And a final E.
05:07Stand by.
05:08B.
05:09Justin cál.
05:14I.
05:19I.
05:22I.
05:24I.
05:26I.
05:31I.
05:38well Lewis got a seven Jodine seven Lewis aborted and same web and aborted 13 a piece and John a
05:53few
05:53more sevens across here bromide also bromates for a couple of sevens yeah but a rather lovely eight
06:01but in the form of mediator the mediator yeah
06:11that'll do Susie yep thank you the mediator 13 a piece and Jodine your numbers go can have two large
06:19and four small please you can indeed two from the top four little to start the week and this first
06:25selection is two eight ten eight twenty five and seventy five and the target eight hundred and sixty eight six
06:36zero
06:40so
06:44so
07:07well Jodine eight sixty eight sixty and Lewis just eight five nine let's start with Jodine shall we
07:15Jodine 75 plus 25 100 times the eight 800 and the other eight take away the two six times by
07:24the ten
07:25sixty and add it on perfect eight sixty well done oh very good very solid well done Jodine 23 now
07:34to
07:34Lewis is uh 13 10 ahead as we turn to our first tea time teaser which is summon bad and
07:40the clue
07:41he'll often summon people to a meeting to explain their bad practices
07:45he'll often summon people to a meeting to explain their bad practices
08:06welcome back i left with the clue he'll often summon people to a meeting to explain their bad practices because
08:12he is
08:13he is the ombudsman ombudsman ombudsman so 23 plays 13 lewis on 13 and it's lewis's letters game
08:21a constant please rachel thank you lewis g and another t and another y and another s and about o
08:39and another e
08:46a and a consonant d and another consonant please and the last one r stand by
09:00so
09:12so
09:14so
09:14so
09:27Yes, Lewis?
09:29I'll try a seven.
09:30Jodine?
09:31Seven.
09:33And a Godus?
09:36Now then, Jodine.
09:37Storage.
09:38Storage.
09:40Storage is absolutely fine.
09:41You can't put the D on there, unfortunately.
09:43But you can't be a Goda.
09:45Not in the dictionary, I'm afraid.
09:47But you can be.
09:48Just obviously not used often enough.
09:50Sorry about that.
09:50Now, what can we have?
09:52John and Susie?
09:54Gyrated was there for a seven.
09:56Yes.
09:56That's storage.
09:59Also.
10:00Grades for a six.
10:01But gyrated a rather nice seven in that mix.
10:05Perfect.
10:0730 plays.
10:0713.
10:09And Jodine.
10:10Off we go.
10:11Let us go.
10:12Can we start with a consonant, please?
10:13Thank you, Jodine.
10:14C.
10:15And a vowel?
10:17I.
10:18Another vowel?
10:20E.
10:21Consonant?
10:23T.
10:24Another consonant?
10:26L.
10:28A vowel?
10:30A.
10:31A consonant?
10:33M.
10:34A consonant?
10:37V.
10:39And a final consonant, please.
10:42And a final J.
10:45Stand by.
10:46Tität trabajar.
10:47Tatro mı?
11:06A composer?
11:07T conflicts?
11:07I?
11:07I?
11:08I?
11:08I?
11:10I?
11:11I?
11:14I?
11:15I?
11:15I?
11:15I?
11:17Jodine?
11:18Seven.
11:18A seven, Lewis?
11:20Seven.
11:21Thank you, Jodine.
11:22Climate.
11:23And?
11:23Same word.
11:25Yeah.
11:27Any more sevens in the corner there, John?
11:29Yeah, the same over here.
11:30We've created a climate of the same word.
11:33Between all of us.
11:34Nothing more than that?
11:36We have malice.
11:37Oh, yes, malice.
11:37I'm going to have a full sort for six.
11:39Malice.
11:40Yeah.
11:4037 to 20.
11:41Now, Lewis, your numbers game.
11:44I'll try four large and two small, please.
11:47Oh, a change of tack.
11:48Four large and two little.
11:49The big guns.
11:50And these little ones are ten and eight.
11:54And then the big four.
11:5575, 25, 100 and 50.
11:59And the target, 146.
12:02One, four, six.
12:35Well, Lewis?
12:36One, four, six.
12:37And, Jodine?
12:38One, four, eight.
12:39One, four, eight.
12:40Down to you, Lewis.
12:42So, I did ten minus eight is two.
12:45Here it is.
12:46And 75, take that two.
12:4875, take away the two, rather, for 73.
12:51Yep.
12:51And 50 over 25 is two.
12:54Yep, lovely.
12:54And multiply together.
12:56Well done.
12:57One, four, six.
12:58Well done.
13:03So, Claude, you're way back there, Lewis.
13:05Well done.
13:0530 to Jodine's 37 as we turn to Mr. Coleshaw.
13:09John.
13:10You can tell us about that radio play about David Bowie.
13:14Oh, yes.
13:15And you were David Bowie.
13:16Indeed, it was such a privilege to have been asked to portray David Bowie, the great, great
13:24David Bowie, genius is an insufficient word, during the time that he was recording his
13:31final album, Black Star.
13:32And it was so interesting what that brought out of him.
13:37He was really at the top of his game.
13:40And the sense of defiance and even greater genius at that time.
13:45And it was a very intimidating thing to be asked to take on somebody as iconic and amazing
13:53as David Bowie.
13:54And the first thing you do when you try to learn someone's character and prepare to just
14:00absorb their personality as much as you can, first place you look is some YouTube clips.
14:06Have a look at some interviews.
14:10And fortuitously, the first video that came up was David Bowie speaking this most incredible
14:17piece of wisdom.
14:18And I remember it word for word, and it stays with you.
14:22And he said, if you feel safe in the area that you're working in, you're probably not
14:28working in the right area.
14:30Always go a little further into the water than you feel you're capable of being.
14:34Go a little bit out of your depth.
14:35And when you feel your feet aren't quite such in the bottom, then you're just about in the
14:39right place to do something exciting.
14:41And isn't that the most incredible piece of wisdom and a thing to live by?
14:45And it was exactly how I felt at the time of trying to take on a role such as that.
14:51But very, very lucky that that should be the first clip you see, you know, advice from
14:57the great man himself.
14:58And so absolutely just right.
14:59And his voice is now traveling across the universe, of course.
15:02Yes.
15:03In the Tesla car.
15:04Of all people to be, you know, the ambassador for planet Earth.
15:08That's the signal that we want creatures from Gallifrey or from wherever else.
15:13Exactly.
15:13We would want them to hear David Bowie.
15:15That's a good example of the planet to offer, I think.
15:18Indeed.
15:24Thank you, John.
15:26As ever.
15:2737 to 30 sees Jodine in the lead.
15:30Jodine, your letters go.
15:31Can I have a consonant, please?
15:34Thank you, Jodine.
15:35D.
15:36And another one.
15:38R.
15:39And another one.
15:42N.
15:43A vowel.
15:44E.
15:45Another vowel.
15:47I.
15:48Another vowel.
15:50U.
15:52Consonant.
15:53H.
15:56Consonant.
15:57N.
15:58And a final vowel, please.
16:00And a final O.
16:03Stand by.
16:34Well, Jodine.
16:35I'll try a seven.
16:37A seven and Lewis.
16:38A seven.
16:39Jodine.
16:40Hounder.
16:41And?
16:42Same word.
16:44And in the corner.
16:46No matter how much you hound somebody, hounder isn't yet in the dictionary, I'm afraid.
16:52It's not there.
16:53It's actually this labo, sorry.
16:55That's a standstill.
16:56What can we have, John?
16:57It sort of feels like it should be in there, doesn't it?
17:00There was a couple of sixes, Hinder and Enduro for a couple of sixes.
17:07That's a long-distance race for motor vehicles or bikes over rough terrain.
17:11Enduro.
17:12Very good.
17:14But, Rachel's been up to something.
17:16Housework.
17:17No, what I'm never up to, that's why.
17:20Unirrined.
17:21Well done.
17:24Unirrined.
17:25So, 37 to 30, only seven points in it.
17:28Anybody's game.
17:29Lewis, your letters again.
17:31A consonant, please.
17:32Thank you, Lewis.
17:34R.
17:35And an ever.
17:36W.
17:38And an ever.
17:40G.
17:41And a fourth.
17:44Z.
17:45And a vowel, please.
17:47E.
17:48And an ever.
17:50A.
17:51And a never.
17:53O.
17:55And a consonant.
17:57F.
17:59And a final vowel.
18:01And a final E.
18:04Stand by.
18:05And a vowel.
18:24And a vowel.
18:24And a vowel.
18:24And a vowel.
18:24And a vowel.
18:24And a vowel.
18:25And a vowel.
18:25And a vowel.
18:25And a vowel.
18:27And a vowel.
18:35Well, Lewis?
18:36A seven.
18:37A seven.
18:38Jodine?
18:39Six.
18:40And your six is?
18:41Weaver.
18:42Now, Lewis, overage?
18:45Um, you are in...
18:49Oh, actually, I thought that overage as in you are overage,
18:53you know, in terms of years,
18:56would be hyphenated, but actually it's not.
18:57So you can have it in that sense,
18:59and you can also have overage, which is in excess or surplus.
19:02So however you pronounce it, it's absolutely fine.
19:03Draws you level with the excellent Jodine.
19:07Now, what have we got?
19:08John and Susie?
19:09One more seven in there.
19:13Forgave for seven.
19:14Ah, forgiveness.
19:15So important.
19:16There we are.
19:1737 apiece.
19:18And, Jodine, it's your numbers game.
19:21Can I have six more, please?
19:22Yeah.
19:23Mixing it up a lot today.
19:24We've had four large, now we've got six little ones coming up.
19:27See how tricky this is.
19:28The selection is three, ten, five, eight, seven,
19:33and six, and the target, 121.
19:38One, two, one.
19:40See you soon.
19:42You're finishing the game.
19:421, two, one.
19:48Have a nice day.
19:57Bye-bye.
19:57One, two, one.
20:00I'll be at the end of the game here.
20:03Bye-bye.
20:03Bye-bye.
20:04Bye-bye.
20:04Bye-bye.
20:04Bye-bye.
20:06Bye-bye.
20:11Well, Jodine.
20:12One, two, one.
20:14And Lewis.
20:15One, two, one.
20:16Jodine.
20:17Eight times a five is 40.
20:19Yep.
20:20Times three for 120.
20:21120.
20:22And then the seven take away six is one.
20:24Yep.
20:25And add it on.
20:25One, two, one.
20:26Lovely.
20:26And Lewis.
20:27Added eight plus three makes 11.
20:30Yep.
20:31Times up by ten.
20:33110.
20:34And add six and five.
20:35Lovely.
20:36One, two, one again.
20:37Well done.
20:41So, with the score standing 47 apiece.
20:45Interesting.
20:46We turn to our second Tea Time teaser, which is Beryl said.
20:50Beryl said yes to his offer of marriage, and they looked at each other this way.
20:55Beryl said yes to his offer of marriage, and they looked at each other this way.
21:18Beryl said yes to his offer of marriage, and they looked at each other this way.
21:21They looked at each other, and they looked at each other, and they looked at each other desirably, desirably.
21:2647 apiece, and it's Lewis's letters game.
21:29Lewis.
21:29A consonant, please.
21:31Thank you, Lewis.
21:32S.
21:32And another.
21:34T.
21:36And a third.
21:38R.
21:40And a fourth.
21:43N.
21:44And a vowel, please.
21:47U.
21:49And another.
21:51I.
21:52And another U.
21:58And a consonant.
22:01Z.
22:02And a final vowel.
22:05A final E.
22:07Stand by.
22:09And a vowel.
22:28And a vowel.
22:28And a vowel.
22:29And a vowel.
22:29And a vowel.
22:29And a vowel.
22:30and a vowel.
22:31And a vowel.
22:40Lewis?
22:41I've got a seven.
22:43Jodine?
22:44A six.
22:45And that six is?
22:47Urines.
22:48No, what's this seven you're talking about, Lewis?
22:50Oh, sorry, I made a mistake, it was a six.
22:54Oh, bad luck.
22:56So, we're with Jodine.
22:58I don't think you can have urine in the plural,
23:02no matter how many specimens you have.
23:04I think it's always a maths noun, I'm afraid.
23:06Sorry.
23:07Bad luck.
23:07Anything else?
23:08Erm, yeah, there was six in sure.
23:14Yeah.
23:14A six was there, but, erm...
23:17Unitas.
23:19Unitas for a seven.
23:20Very good.
23:2247 apiece, and Jodine, your letters game.
23:26Can I have a consonant, please?
23:27Thank you, Jodine.
23:28S.
23:29And the vowel?
23:32A.
23:33Another vowel?
23:34I.
23:36Consonant?
23:36L.
23:39Another consonant?
23:40B.
23:42Consonant?
23:44N.
23:45A vowel?
23:47A.
23:48Another vowel?
23:51O.
23:53And a final consonant, please.
23:55And a final C.
23:58Stand by.
23:59T.
24:00C.
24:00A C.
24:01T.
24:08Only one.
24:08Fine.
24:09T.
24:10C.
24:10C.
24:10D.
24:30Jodine.
24:31Six.
24:32And Lewis.
24:33Six.
24:34Jodine.
24:35Social.
24:35And same word.
24:37There we are.
24:39Yeah.
24:39Can we beat six in that wonderful little countdown method?
24:45You can have asocial for seven.
24:49That was the first one that Susie wrote down.
24:52Another seven albinos also there for a seven.
24:55Very good.
24:56Albinos.
24:57Thanks, Susie.
24:5853 apiece.
24:59And it's Susie we turn to.
25:01Back to you, Susie, for your wonderful origins of words.
25:04And today?
25:05Today I have an email from Colin Buckler,
25:07who asks for the origins of in the pink.
25:12And the general use of this phrase has changed a little bit since it first appeared.
25:17And now we see it as being in the pink of condition.
25:20And it's very tempting to think of it as meaning flushed cheeks due to being in great health.
25:26It's actually slightly different.
25:28You have to go back to the 16th century when the first records of in the pink start to appear.
25:33And in those days it meant in the, it meant the pinnacle of something.
25:38So the very peak of perfection.
25:40Usually something excellent.
25:42And not necessarily health.
25:43So in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet you'll find Mercurio declaring why I am the very pink of courtesy.
25:49In other words, I couldn't be more polite.
25:52But why pink was chosen to epitomise this pinnacle of quality or health is, I think, an interesting story.
25:58And it's all related to the colours.
26:01And when we think of the colour pink today, you know, we think of it as something being as old
26:06as yellow or black or white, etc.
26:07In fact, it was fairly late in terms of a colour that was named.
26:10It's the mid-17th century.
26:13So only in the sort of early 1800s did it really come to the fore.
26:16And pink before that actually meant the flowers of a family called the deanthus, which were small blossoms with little
26:24notched petals on a bright pink background.
26:27So very, very beautiful.
26:29They were incredibly popular in 16th century Europe.
26:32So much so that it came to mean something that was so beautiful, it was exquisite, something that was the
26:39absolute, again, pinnacle of perfection.
26:41We know that Elizabeth I really admired the flowers, which certainly meant that they became incredibly popular with people.
26:47And so the idea of this beauty then gave us both the colour pink, so that colour came after the
26:54flowers, and also this idea of something being the peak of perfection.
26:58But just to go back to the colour pink itself and the name and where that came from, we think
27:03it comes from a very, very old verb, meaning to cut or to notch.
27:07And if you think about that, the only surviving remnant that we have of that original verb is in pinking
27:13shears that we still use today.
27:16Interesting.
27:17Thank you, sir.
27:24Very good.
27:25Pinking shears indeed.
27:2653 apiece.
27:27Lewis, letters game.
27:30A consonant, please.
27:32Thank you, Lewis.
27:33R.
27:34And another.
27:36W.
27:37And another.
27:39P.
27:41And a vowel.
27:43E.
27:44And another.
27:46O.
27:47And another.
27:49O.
27:51And a consonant.
27:53Q.
27:54And another consonant.
27:57D.
27:59And a final consonant.
28:01And a final S.
28:03Stand by.
28:06We'll be right behind her.
28:07The other.
28:18O.
28:18And a consonant.
28:33The other.
28:35yes Lewis a seven a seven Jadine seven Lewis powders and same work same here now Susie and
28:48John um another seven uh swooped yes swooped was there for seven also a spurred yes
28:56for another seven to score is to follow the track or center of an animal or indeed a person
29:01so if you're on a manhunt you are scoring at the man concerned indeed indeed 60 apiece no sign of
29:09a
29:09breakaway Jodine letters came final one of the day can I have a consonant please thank you Jodine n
29:16and another one g a vowel e another vowel i consonant n
29:29another consonant s a vowel a
29:36a consonant t and a final consonant please and a final r stand by
29:50so
30:18well Jodine I'll try at eight
30:21now Lewis seven will this be it Lewis your seven seating
30:31what else have we got in the corner a few more eights over here um ingrates uh for eight
30:40tasering and grannies tasering grannies the grannies were tasering particularly if they're
30:49ingrates it brings to mind the monty python sketch of hell's grannies doesn't it tasering people
30:55lovely so
30:57Lewis has sprung into the lead and it's Lewis's numbers game now they lose
31:01uh four large again please four large and your last chance to avoid a crucial conundrum
31:05let's see how this goes final numbers are ten
31:09seven and then the four large twenty five fifty one hundred and seventy five and this target
31:16four hundred and five four zero five
31:23so
31:49Lewis I got poor old
31:54four four one away how about Jodine sorry I've lost it that is bad luck Lewis
32:00so they're fifty times by ten
32:03five hundred and minus a hundred
32:07four hundred and seventy five over twenty five is three
32:10yep seven minus three is the four
32:14four and you're out there for uh for one away yeah well done not quite there is it possible to
32:19be uh
32:20to reach four oh five Rachel yes
32:22it is if you say seventy five times seven is five hundred and twenty five take away the hundred and
32:30the twenty five for four hundred and then fifty divided by ten is your five
32:35the four hundred and forty five
32:36wow beautiful lovely
32:41thanks Rachel
32:42so seventy four to sixty
32:44Look at that, Lewis takes it as we go into the final round.
32:48Fingers on buzzers.
32:49Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:58Lewis, womanised?
33:00Let's see whether you're right.
33:02Well done.
33:09Well done, Lewis.
33:11You came through.
33:12I know, strong player.
33:14It was a great contest.
33:16Jadine, you played so well.
33:19And it came to an end.
33:20I'm so sorry because you were a terrific player.
33:22Three great wins.
33:24Thank you so much.
33:25But you're going home, back to Birmingham with a goodie bag and a teapot.
33:29And congratulations too.
33:31You're a great player.
33:32Thank you so much for coming.
33:34Thanks for having me.
33:35Indeed.
33:35We've enjoyed it very much and we've admired you.
33:38Now, Lewis, tremendous.
33:40You've been a good player.
33:41It's a bit of a struggle, wasn't it?
33:43A tough one.
33:43A very strong player I was up against.
33:45It was.
33:45Anyway, we shall see you tomorrow.
33:47Well done.
33:48Thank you very much.
33:48Well done indeed.
33:49And we shall see you both tomorrow.
33:51John and Susie too.
33:53A great game.
33:53Bravo.
33:54Bravo.
33:55Wasn't he good?
33:55Brilliant.
33:56Yeah.
33:57That was a...
33:58Yeah.
33:58Oh, I thought Jodie was going to be an octo champ.
34:01I had it in mind too.
34:02Yeah, I think we should do a rematch someday.
34:04All right.
34:05We could go either way, but well done, Lewis.
34:06Indeed.
34:07See you tomorrow.
34:08See you tomorrow.
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