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00:31Well, good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:34And it seems to me that every time you turn the television on, there's yet another show that's been recreated.
00:43And the survey actually recently was run, Rachel.
00:46Which shows would people really like to come back?
00:49And number one is Blackadder.
00:51And that's followed closely, apparently, by Fools and Horses and Forty Towers.
00:54Blackadder, I love.
00:56So if you were going to bring it back, Nick, which era would you put them in this time?
00:59Well, they were all so wonderful.
01:00I love the First World War.
01:02I thought Melchert was brilliant.
01:04But of course, he was great in Elizabeth I's court.
01:08It's that whatever he was, the Duke of whatever he was, the conniving courtier.
01:13And I love them all.
01:15I love them all.
01:16But can you replicate it and get that strength of those characters?
01:20I don't know whether you can.
01:21I doubt it.
01:21It's the nostalgia, isn't it?
01:23And when you look back, it's kind of pristine and we can look that fondly.
01:26It's kind of like I love Friends from my generation.
01:29But when you watch the old ones, they were my favourite.
01:31And as they went on and they ran out of storylines or whatever, the characters got more and more kind
01:36of ridiculous.
01:37So if you brought it back, they were always talking about, you know, they're doing trailers for the new film
01:41or the new whatever.
01:42But I want to watch the old ones.
01:43They're the best ones.
01:44Exactly.
01:44Exactly.
01:45I think you're right.
01:46I think you're right.
01:47Leave them alone.
01:48Come up with something fresh.
01:49How about that?
01:50All right.
01:50Apart from Countdown.
01:52Absolutely right.
01:53Don't play around with that.
01:55And we've got Tony back with us.
01:57So welcome back.
01:59Welcome back, Tony Manwani.
02:00Great score of 105 yesterday.
02:02Well done.
02:03Training HR consultant from Reading.
02:05And you're joined today by Joe Sinclair, a writer and publisher from Bromley, who spent a long, long time in
02:12the shipping industry.
02:13Had a great career.
02:14Yes, I did.
02:15All over the world.
02:16All over the world.
02:17Yeah.
02:17But now you've had, I think, 15 works published.
02:20What are they about?
02:22What sort of genre have we got there?
02:23Nick, I like to tell people that I publish words.
02:26Yes.
02:28Because the variety of books that I've written, the subjects, are such that there's no single theme.
02:35But they all contain words.
02:37That's for sure.
02:38Which one was the most pleasurable in writing?
02:42Most pleasurable in terms of earnings, the first one I wrote, which was on containerization.
02:46It was called Refrigerated Transportation.
02:51That's a pretty niche market.
02:54Yeah.
02:55And I marketed it myself and I made a lot of money and I thought this is money for old
02:58rope.
02:59And so I started writing other books and they never sold.
03:02You keep going.
03:03You'll try to another one.
03:04But I've been writing, recently I've been writing poetry and published four books of poetry.
03:08Good for you.
03:08Well, well done.
03:09Well, listen, have a lot of fun here today.
03:11See whether you can test Tony Manwani.
03:14Good luck to you both.
03:15Big round of applause for Tony and Joe.
03:22And over there, sitting next to the wonderful Susie Dent, we have chaser and presenter Anne Hegarty.
03:28Welcome back, Anne.
03:29Welcome back.
03:33Now, Tony, off we go.
03:35Afternoon, Rachel.
03:36Afternoon, Tony.
03:36A consonant, please.
03:38Start today with T.
03:40And another.
03:42Y.
03:43And a third.
03:45P.
03:46And a vowel.
03:47E.
03:48And another one, please.
03:50I.
03:51And a consonant.
03:53G.
04:02And lastly, B.
04:04And here's the countdown clock.
04:06Thanks, sir.
04:09Bye.
04:16Bye.
04:17Bye.
04:22Bye.
04:24Bye.
04:26Bye.
04:29Bye.
04:32Bye.
04:34Bye.
04:35Bye.
04:37Yes, Tony?
04:38A six.
04:39A six.
04:40And six to six is Tony's six?
04:43Deputy.
04:43Joe?
04:44Budget.
04:45Yes.
04:46Are we happy?
04:46Very happy.
04:47Now, what have we got in the corner?
04:48Anne?
04:49We had ubiety, which is the quality of being everywhere.
04:54Am I right?
04:55Yes, we're in a definite place, a sort of awareness, if you like.
04:59Anything else?
05:00No.
05:00Budgie we had.
05:01We had budgie.
05:03Budgie.
05:04Six apiece.
05:05And Joe?
05:06Consonant, please.
05:08Thank you, Joe.
05:09H.
05:10Vowel.
05:11I.
05:13Consonant.
05:14D.
05:15Vowel.
05:17E.
05:18Consonant.
05:20Q.
05:22Consonant.
05:24N.
05:25Vowel.
05:26I.
05:28Vowel.
05:30U.
05:32Consonant.
05:32And lastly, G.
05:35Countdown.
05:37T продหม 쓰는 God.
05:54Vowel.
05:55Vowel.
05:55Vowel.
05:56Vowel.
05:56Vowel.
05:57Vowel.
05:57Vowel.
05:59Vowel.
06:00Vowel.
06:01Vowel.
06:02Vowel.
06:04Waiting.
06:07Yes, Joe. Six. A six and? Yep, six. Do sixes, Joe. Hinged. And? Hiding. And hiding, yeah. Yes, indeed.
06:18Now, anything in the corner? Anne? Susie? That's what we had. I've written,
06:25hideening should be a word, but isn't. And Miguel, Susie? No, those were definitely our best,
06:32I'm afraid. There we are. Twelve apiece. Tony, your numbers game. Six more ones, please, Rachel.
06:39Thank you, Tony. Your favourite. Six little ones coming up for you. And the first numbers of the day
06:45are one, eight, one, nine, two, and three. And the target, four hundred and sixty. Four, six, zero.
07:28Yes, Tony? Yeah, four sixty. And? No, four fifty.
07:33So, Tony. Okay, eight multiplied by two is sixteen. Eight by two, sixteen. Add the one.
07:39Seventeen. And then multiply by three. Multiply by three, fifty-one. Multiply by nine. Let's give
07:44four, five, nine, and add the one. Four, five, nine, and the remaining one for four sixty.
07:48Well done.
07:51Very good.
07:54So, twenty-two plays twelve. Tony on twenty-two, if we turn to our first
07:58tea-time teaser, which is Eve dining and the clue. Eve will be dining on king prawns once
08:04she's finished preparing them. Eve will be dining on king prawns once she's finished preparing them.
08:33Once she's finished
08:37de-veining them. That's what she's doing, de-veining is the answer. Twenty-two plays twelve. Tony on twenty-two.
08:44Joe, it's your letter scan. I'll start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
08:50Hi, Joe. R.
08:53And a vowel?
08:55E.
08:56E. And a consonant?
08:59P.
09:00And a consonant?
09:03N.
09:04A vowel?
09:05I.
09:07A consonant?
09:09R.
09:10A consonant?
09:12S.
09:13A vowel?
09:16O.
09:17And a consonant?
09:19And lastly, N.
09:22Countdown.
09:53Yes, Joe?
09:54Eight.
09:55An eight, Tony?
09:57Yes, eight.
09:58Joe?
09:59Prisoner.
10:00And?
10:00Yes, same prisoner.
10:01Two prisoners.
10:06And?
10:07And a third prisoner over here.
10:08Third prisoner.
10:09Susie?
10:10Yes, so we have pension otherwise for seven.
10:13Thirty plays twenty.
10:14Tony, your letters game.
10:16Yes, consonant, please, Rachel.
10:17Thank you, Tony.
10:18S.
10:19And another?
10:21G.
10:22And a third?
10:24P.
10:25And a vowel, please.
10:27E.
10:27And another?
10:28A.
10:29And a consonant?
10:31L.
10:32And another consonant?
10:34W.
10:35And a vowel?
10:37E.
10:38And a consonant, please.
10:40And lastly, L.
10:43Countdown.
10:43And a consonant.
11:10So, we are now.
11:15Tony?
11:16Just a six.
11:17A six.
11:17Joe?
11:18I only have a five.
11:19What is that five, Joe?
11:22And Tony?
11:23Weasel.
11:24Weasel.
11:25Yes.
11:26Weasels.
11:27Yep.
11:27And Susie?
11:29Um, the sixes.
11:30Pellage is there as well, of a mammal.
11:33Can't put yes on it, unfortunately, so stick with six.
11:37All right.
11:3736 plays 20.
11:39Joe, here we go.
11:40Your numbers game.
11:41Thank you, Nick.
11:42I'll have one large and five small, please, Rachel.
11:46Thank you, Joe.
11:47One from the top five.
11:48A little coming up for you.
11:49And for this round, the five small ones are eight, nine, three, six, and seven.
11:56And the large one, 100.
11:58And the target, 267.
12:01267.
12:03267.
12:33Well, Joe?
12:34267.
12:36Tony?
12:36Yeah, 267.
12:37Joe?
12:38Not written down too well, but three times 100 is 300.
12:44Yep.
12:44Six sevens are 42.
12:46They are.
12:48Take away nine from the 42.
12:5233.
12:53And take it away from the 300.
12:54Perfect.
12:55Well done.
12:56267.
12:56And Tony?
12:57Yep.
12:57Exactly the same.
12:57Same way.
12:58There we go.
13:04So, 46, phase 30, as we turn to Anne.
13:09Anne, we know you're a very intelligent woman.
13:13There's no doubt about that.
13:15And once upon a time, you took part in an intelligence test.
13:19Yes.
13:19And came second.
13:20What happened?
13:22Yeah.
13:23I was studying linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, and they were trying to work
13:28out ways of teaching languages to animals.
13:32And they figured out that they could teach a chimp to understand a sequence of playing
13:40cards if they were held up to them.
13:42It could sort of work out that there was a language.
13:45So, the idea was supposed to be that they would test a human doing the same thing and see
13:52how much better I was.
13:55Well, unfortunately, I kind of just didn't really get the hang of it.
13:58I wasn't sure why this man was suddenly showing me playing cards and expecting me to understand
14:05that they communicated something.
14:07So, I was constantly, I think, I was just holding up the wrong card, holding a card up
14:13at random.
14:14And, yeah, when they did the scores, I actually had been beaten by a chimp.
14:22My excuse is that the chimp and I were both given the same rewards for getting the answers
14:29right.
14:30Depending on how hard it was, it was a peanut, a raisin, or a smarty.
14:33And the way I see it, the chimp was more motivated about peanuts, raisins, and smarties
14:38than I was.
14:39I think that's a fair explanation.
14:41Oh, brilliant.
14:42Do you remember that great Bob Newhart?
14:44There was a sketch about the, um...
14:47Infinite number of monkeys.
14:48Exactly.
14:49With a typewriter.
14:51Yes.
14:51And after a while, somebody, one of them would come out with something really brilliant.
14:55And he typed up, he's done it!
14:57He's done it!
14:58To be or not to be.
14:59That is the...
15:00Gazilquip.
15:01Gazorkan class.
15:02Something like that.
15:03Brilliant, wasn't it?
15:04Anyway, they started all over again.
15:06Thanks so much, Dan.
15:13Excellent stuff.
15:13Now, Tony, off we go.
15:15Let us go.
15:16Consonant, please, Rachel.
15:18Tony.
15:19S.
15:20And another.
15:22T.
15:23And a third, please.
15:25B.
15:26And a vowel.
15:27A.
15:28And another.
15:29E.
15:30And a consonant.
15:32V.
15:33And another.
15:35T.
15:36And a vowel.
15:38I.
15:40And a consonant, please.
15:42And lastly, R.
15:44Stand by.
15:46And a vowel.
16:19And Joe?
16:20Seven.
16:21Tony?
16:22Bravest.
16:22And the same.
16:25Yeah, that's fine.
16:26And Susie?
16:27Susie and Anne.
16:29We had Tastier, which is seven.
16:32Yes.
16:33We also had Vibrates, which is eight.
16:35Very good.
16:36A good eight.
16:37Thank you for that.
16:3853 plays 37.
16:40Joe, good luck on this.
16:42Let us get them.
16:42Consonant, please.
16:45Thank you, Joe.
16:46L.
16:47Consonant.
16:49C.
16:51Vowel.
16:53O.
16:55Consonant.
16:56M.
16:58Vowel.
16:58A.
17:01Vowel.
17:03O.
17:05Consonant.
17:06S.
17:09Consonant.
17:10N.
17:14Vowel.
17:16And the last one, U.
17:17Are you...
17:18Stand by.
17:21Vowel.
17:33MUSIC CONTINUES
17:51Well, Joe?
17:52A risk of seven.
17:54Tony?
17:54I'll stick with a six.
17:56And your six is?
17:57Saloon.
17:58Now, Joe.
17:59Loco man.
18:00Wow, Joe, that's amazing.
18:02It is there, yes.
18:03In Surinam, it's a man regarded as a clairvoyant or a sorcerer.
18:07Well done.
18:08Well done.
18:12Very good.
18:14Now, Anne, anything there?
18:16Susie?
18:17We were just looking at exactly that entry.
18:19Well done, Joe.
18:19Okay, man.
18:20Very good.
18:20Was that a guess, or did you think there was something in there to do with locomotives?
18:25I think that's for me to know and you to find out.
18:28That's why I'm asking.
18:31All right.
18:32It's a closely guarded secret.
18:3453 to 44.
18:36Tony on 53.
18:37And now, Tony, it's your numbers game.
18:39Six-mull-one, please, Rachel.
18:40Six-mull.
18:41Just the one round between the score at the moment.
18:42See if this can change anything.
18:44Thank you, Tony.
18:45These little ones are nine, ten, six, three.
18:50Another three and one.
18:52And the target, 607.
18:55607.
19:23So we'll see you next time.
19:26well Tony 606 and Joe 606 Joe um so I 6 times 10 is 60 it is 9 plus 1
19:38is 10 60
19:40600 plus two threes lovely 606 one away well done and yes Tony the same yeah
19:47well done now 607 this one's actually impossible so 606 is the best they
19:53could have done well done to them all right excellent so it's 60 to 51 only
19:59nine points in it as we turn to our second tea time teaser which is picks loot
20:03and the clue he picks away at the loot strings he's so very brave he picks away
20:08at the loot strings he's so very brave
20:26welcome back welcome back I left with the clue he picks away at his loot strings he's so very brave
20:35he's the pluckiest that's the word we're after pluckiest so 60 to 51 Tony on that 60 Joe good
20:42luck with this let us go yes Rachel please I'll have a consonant thank you Joe
20:47V and a vowel E and a consonant R and a consonant M a vowel A a consonant T consonant
21:05S a vowel
21:08O and another vowel and lastly I counter
21:16was drawn to him so we can have no words I could have find any longer we have I have
21:17a c de
21:17T
21:17T
21:17T
22:22Good clutch from the corner there.
22:25So 67 to 51.
22:26Tony, your letters go.
22:27Consonant, please, Rachel.
22:29Thank you, Tony.
22:30H.
22:31And another.
22:32P.
22:33And a third.
22:36T.
22:36And a vowel, please.
22:38A.
22:39And a vowel.
22:40U.
22:41And a consonant.
22:43L.
22:43And a consonant.
22:46And a consonant.
22:47And a vowel.
22:50A.
22:51And another vowel, please.
22:53And the last one.
22:55O.
22:56And the clock starts now.
22:58A ë³´ì—´.
23:00And the one on.
23:00And a swallowed.
23:25And a vowel, please.
23:26And a vowel.
23:27well tony i'll try six a six joe i only have a five and that five is thank you tony
23:35a pool
23:36um apple is in the dictionary tony but you need to use unfortunately sorry bad luck indeed what
23:43can we have i'm gonna have hatful a hatful of yes six full of wickets yes um and a float
23:50as well
23:51thank you 67 to 56 susie it's your origins of words oh joy what have you got for us today
24:02i have an email from ward mconkey who emails from belfast to ask about the origin of a dark horse
24:11um it is a fairly simple this one in that it comes from racing as you might expect and dark
24:17is
24:17obviously meant secret and mysterious for a very long time you keep somebody in the dark for
24:22example and a dark horse was simply one that was unknown to punters so it was a newcomer and was
24:29very difficult to place betting odds upon them because as i say they were a complete unknown
24:35um the figurative use came about fairly soon after actually from the turf um it slipped in and thanks
24:41to benjamin disraeli who in one of his books was the first to mention a dark horse and we have
24:45kept
24:46that idea of somebody about whom very little is known ever since but it got me thinking about other
24:52horse idioms uh really first the word horse very ancient as you might expect and its root may be
24:57the latin word career which meant to run uh so that obviously uh makes sense it gave us cursa and
25:04lots
25:04and lots of different words in english but they're saying horses for courses is another one from uh the
25:09turf so different courses on the racetrack will suit different horses um it's straight from the
25:15horses mouth uh the joking idea that if you really want to get the best information you go straight
25:20to the horse again from the racing track and wild horses wouldn't that expression wild horses wouldn't
25:26drag that secret from me um fairly horrible that one it goes back to a method of executing criminals
25:32whereby um a criminal's limbs would be tied to um four horses and then the four horses would be urged
25:39on and of course the criminal then would be um literally torn apart fairly nasty that one um but
25:45there's an early form of the proverb you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink
25:50which
25:50i think is much nicer and more poetic than the one we use today and that was they can but
25:54bring horse to
25:55the water brink but horse may choose whether that horse will drink i like that one that goes back to
26:001602 and finally the horse chestnut the horse fly uh the horse radish the horse in there is all uh
26:07due to
26:08horse meaning large although the horse chestnut also was formerly said to be a remedy for chest
26:12conditions and chest diseases in horses themselves it goes all the way back to the ancient romans
26:17very good marvelous marvelous thanks susie terrific 67 to 56 tony in the lead joe a little bit of time
26:31left your letters again consonant please rachel thank you joe t and the consonant n and the vowel e
26:44and the vowel o consonant r consonant m vowel e consonant r vowel and lastly o countdown
27:37now then joe a six and tony six joe remote
27:44and mentor and mentor and mentor yes two sixes here ann and susie well we figure something can
27:53be a remote but it could be more remote or remoter indeed remoter anything else susie
27:59no that would get you to seven otherwise you've got moona for six a moona yes thank you for that
28:0473 to 62 tony final letters game for you consonant please rachel thank you tony d and another
28:14n and a third s and a vowel a and another e and a consonant d and another n and
28:30a vowel a and a vowel
28:34and the last one you stand up
28:38and the last one you
29:04stand by
29:10Yes, Tony?
29:11Six.
29:12A six.
29:13Joe?
29:13I'll try and eat.
29:14Well done.
29:15Now, Tony?
29:16Sudden.
29:17Joe?
29:18Unsanded.
29:20Oh, Joe, it's not there, unfortunately.
29:22Unlanded is there, not unsanded.
29:24Such a brilliant guess, that one.
29:26It was good.
29:27Yeah.
29:28But not there, sorry.
29:30Anne.
29:31Anne and Susie?
29:32We had Sunday for six, and we also had Nausea, also for six.
29:37Nausea.
29:3879 to 62 into the final numbers game.
29:41Yes, Joe?
29:42Yes.
29:44One big one, and the rest small, please.
29:47Don't fancy a gamble, Joe?
29:4817 behind, 20 points left.
29:50I am gambling.
29:50You are gambling.
29:52Fair enough.
29:53That's me told.
29:55I'll try and find a good one for you, then.
29:57Don't look, Tony.
29:57All right, these last numbers are 9, 3, 6, 8, 7, and the large one, 50.
30:06And the target, 670.
30:096, 7, 0.
30:10An unhealthy intro.
30:395, 3, 2, 3, 4, 1.
30:405, 3, 6, 6, 6, 6, 7, and the huge flight.
30:40Well, Jo?
30:42No, I haven't.
30:43No?
30:44Let's try Tony, then.
30:46Tony?
30:46670.
30:47You got it?
30:47Yeah.
30:48Well done.
30:48Let's find out how.
30:50OK, 7 plus 6 is 13.
30:527 plus 6 is 13.
30:54Multiply by the 50 to give 650.
30:56Yep.
30:56And add the 9, 8 and 3 on.
30:58Lovely.
30:58Well done.
31:01Well done.
31:05Well done, Tony.
31:0689 to Jo's 62 as we go into the final round.
31:11Fingers on buzzers.
31:12Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
31:29Farmhouse.
31:30Tony?
31:32Farmhouse.
31:33Yes.
31:34Oh, that was close, wasn't it?
31:36But I think that Tony got to the buzzer first.
31:39Am I right?
31:40Yeah.
31:40I forgot to press the thing.
31:42Yeah.
31:43Oh, dear.
31:44Never mind.
31:46Let's have a look and see whether you're right.
31:49Farmhouse.
31:50Well done.
31:51Well done, both of you.
31:54So, Tony on 99.
31:58Jo on a very good 62.
31:59Well done, Jo.
32:00Thanks very much.
32:01He's a hard man to beat, but you did very well.
32:04And just you were within an ace of that conundrum, too, as well.
32:07Right.
32:07So we're sending you back to Bromley with this book, which I hope will be very useful, too,
32:12in your publishing and writing exploits.
32:16So you're writing a bit of poetry these days.
32:18Yes.
32:19All right.
32:19And would it be very rude of me to ask how old you are?
32:24Yes, I am just a few grams short of two fat ladies, if you can work that out.
32:30I can, I think.
32:31That makes you about just too short of 90.
32:35No, just short of 88.
32:36Pleasure having you here.
32:37And we shall see you tomorrow, Tony.
32:39See you tomorrow.
32:41Brilliant stuff.
32:42Before we say farewell to you over in the corner, Anne, you were a journalist before you became
32:46this chaser.
32:48You interviewed anybody interesting?
32:50I once made a list of the five nicest people I'd ever interviewed.
32:54And right at the very top was, I don't know if people remember the musical star Edmund
33:01Hockridge, who, yes, you remember, he was utterly delightful.
33:05Right.
33:06I remember telling him that I was going to be on Mastermind, and he said, oh, I'm writing
33:09this down, I'm going to watch it in my dressing room.
33:11And he actually rang me afterwards to say how good I'd be.
33:14That was good of him.
33:15So that was utterly adorable of him.
33:17Eunice Stubbs was another one.
33:20The Duke of Westminster, very, very nice bloke.
33:22Not everybody thought so, but I thought so.
33:26Giles Brandress was unexpectedly delightful and charming.
33:30He's a favourite here, you know.
33:31Indeed.
33:32Good for him.
33:32He's a decent man.
33:34And my number five was, I can't even remember the guy's name, but he was an American Seventh-day
33:41Adventist pastor.
33:43And I got sent along to cover the opening of some Seventh-day Adventist church, if they
33:49probably do.
33:51And he was just utterly charming and delightful, and sort of seemed to be even more interested
33:55in me than I was in him, and he was lovely.
33:57It's good when you do meet people like that, actually.
33:59The Duke of Westminster, dying so young.
34:02I know, ridiculously so.
34:03Yeah.
34:04Sad.
34:05Sad.
34:06We'll see you tomorrow.
34:07See you tomorrow, and Susie, too.
34:08See you then.
34:09And, of course, Rachel.
34:10And Joe should be an inspiration to you, Nick.
34:11Now they're 14-odd years, and you'll have had enough practice to come on as contestant.
34:15I'm not sure about that.
34:17I'm fine as I am.
34:18Listen, I'll see you tomorrow.
34:19See you then.
34:20We'll see you tomorrow.
34:21Join us then, same time, same place.
34:22You be sure of it.
34:23A very good afternoon.
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