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00:31Hello, everybody. This is The Hour.
00:33I still believe The Countdown is the greatest quiz show on television.
00:38Why, God, why would you watch something else and leave me on my own?
00:43And anyway, now that they've seen her, I'll introduce her.
00:46It's Rachel Riley.
00:47Hi, Colin.
00:48As somebody who hates musicals and has never seen and never will see Miss Saigon,
00:53which you love, give me credit for getting five or six song titles into the intro.
00:58So, 1989 on this day.
01:01Yes, it premiered in London, then on Broadway, then it went away, then it came back twice.
01:07So you would have, I'm guessing, you would have went to see it on its reboot.
01:11Yeah, maybe just a bit over ten years ago, I think I went to see it.
01:14My friends took me and it's so emotional.
01:17What's great about it when you go and see it?
01:18What is it that sort of makes the hair stand on your neck, sort of draws you in?
01:22Because I understand the magic of it.
01:23Well, I love musicals in general, but that's just so emotional.
01:26I mean, you'd be crying in your seat just with everyone around you just going,
01:30what the hell's wrong with you?
01:31Because it's just, it's gorgeous.
01:33And some of the staging in Miss Saigon, there's famously a helicopter that takes her away.
01:36And there's a song, The American Dream, signed by The Engineer.
01:40And just the staging of it and the pomp and the, you know, brash Americanism.
01:45It's just, it really hits you when you're sitting in the audience.
01:47Excellent stuff.
01:48All right, well, let's get over to Dictionary Corner.
01:50Waiting in the wings, no longer a guardian of the dictionary, Susie Dent.
01:54And, well, he's just been great company, as we know, all week.
01:56So wonderful to have him back.
01:57Richard Osmond.
01:58Oh, yeah.
02:00We're determined to get a nine-letter word for you today.
02:02Whether it's English or American, dreams can come true.
02:07Well, they have for David Burgess, our champion, three times so far.
02:10Three close encounters.
02:12How are you feeling today?
02:14Hopefully I can make it four in a row.
02:15Yeah, nothing should phase, you know, after the last three days.
02:19You're up against Jamie Dutton.
02:20How are you today, mate?
02:21I'm really good, thank you.
02:22Excellent.
02:22Right, so let's get this right.
02:23You're the physics teacher.
02:24I am.
02:25Your wife's the maths teacher.
02:26She is.
02:27And you're in a band together called Burning Bouquet.
02:31Burning Bouquet, that's it.
02:32Where'd the name come from?
02:33It's actually sort of inspired by the lyrics from a band called Holding Absence.
02:38They're a Welsh sort of modern rock band.
02:41Yeah, so they've got one of their lyrics is to do with burning bouquets.
02:45So, yeah, we stole it from that, basically.
02:47Excellent.
02:47Well, listen, let's see how you get on today.
02:49Jamie and David, best of luck this Friday.
02:51APPLAUSE
02:54David, nine letters, please.
02:56Hello, Rachel.
02:57Hi, David.
02:57Can I have a consonant, please?
02:58You can indeed start today with R.
03:01And a vowel, please.
03:03E.
03:03And a consonant.
03:06N.
03:06A vowel.
03:07I.
03:09A consonant.
03:10M.
03:11And a vowel.
03:14U.
03:15And a consonant.
03:16D.
03:17And a consonant, please.
03:20T.
03:21And a final vowel.
03:23And a final O.
03:25At home and in the studio.
03:26Let's play Countdown.
03:58And this time, David.
03:59Seven.
04:00And for Jamie.
04:01Seven.
04:02Strong start, David.
04:03Mounted.
04:04And Jamie.
04:05Mounter.
04:06And Mounter and Mounted.
04:07Both very good indeed.
04:09All sorted.
04:10Right, anything beyond that?
04:11No, we've got intrude out mind.
04:13It's not going to be there, is it?
04:16With an E, obviously.
04:17Yeah, no.
04:18Sadly, not.
04:19Not there.
04:20I get it.
04:21There's a lot of pressure on you to get that nine today,
04:23so I get that.
04:24I know.
04:24I think Rachel has a word.
04:26Yes.
04:27Yeah, well, Dancer has been routined.
04:29Routined.
04:29Very good indeed.
04:30Excellent.
04:31If anything, that piles more pressure on you.
04:34More letters, please.
04:35Jamie.
04:36Hi there, Rachel.
04:37Hi, Jamie.
04:37Can I have a consonant, please?
04:38You can indeed.
04:39S.
04:40S.
04:41And another.
04:42P.
04:43And another.
04:45L.
04:46And another.
04:48T.
04:49And a vowel.
04:52I.
04:53And another.
04:55A.
04:56And another.
04:58I.
05:04And a consonant, please.
05:06And a final C.
05:08In 30 seconds.
05:09And another.
05:11I.
05:25I.
05:38I.
05:39I.
05:39I.
05:40And that's time. Jamie? Six.
05:43Six from you. David? Seven.
05:44And a seven. The six, Jamie? Patios.
05:47And for you, David? Plastic.
05:50And plastic. Yes.
05:52Nice. Interesting letters. How do we get on?
05:54Is opticals there? It is, yeah.
05:57It means a pair of glasses. Not a nine, but it's an eight.
05:59It is an eight. We know it's an eight, painfully.
06:02You're so close. You're right there. Anything else?
06:04Yeah, we're moving up. Yeah, politics is there as well.
06:06The rest is, right? OK, 14-7.
06:10First numbers round, David?
06:11Can I get one large and the rest small, please, Rachel?
06:13Your favourite pick. Thank you, David.
06:15One large, five little. First numbers of the day are eight.
06:19One, nine, three, four.
06:22And the large one, 50.
06:24And the target, 721.
06:26Seven, two, one. Numbers up.
06:59Seven, two, one. David?
07:03Seven, two, six. Not written down.
07:04Just got in there on time. Five away, Jimmy.
07:07Seven, 11. Not written down.
07:09Ten away. So, David?
07:11Can I do four plus three?
07:13You can. Three, seven.
07:15Add eight.
07:1615.
07:1850 minus one.
07:2050 minus one, 49.
07:22Times them together.
07:237, 3, 5.
07:24And then minus the nine.
07:26And minus the nine.
07:27Seven, two, six. Five away.
07:29Well done, champ. Seven points for you.
07:31Seven, two, one, Rachel.
07:33A scrolling away is for one away, but this one was impossible.
07:36Even better, isn't it? Well done.
07:40Now, there is not a Hall of Fame for Tea Time teasers.
07:43There have been thousands of these things.
07:45This would make my Hall of Fame.
07:47This is so good.
07:48Bloom Acre.
07:49Bloom Acre.
07:51Billy Joel's talking about a new breed of garlic,
07:53but it's still this to me.
07:55Billy Joel's talking about a new breed of garlic,
07:58but it's still this to me.
08:15Welcome back.
08:16Sensational stuff.
08:17This is worth the admission fee alone.
08:19Billy Joel's talking about a new breed of garlic,
08:21but it's still this to me.
08:23It refers to it's still rock and roll to me.
08:26Everybody's talking about a new sign, funny,
08:29but it's still rock and roll to me.
08:31And the answer is rock and roll.
08:33I know, it's super, this.
08:34And that is a plant that's very closely related to garlic
08:37and used to flavour food in the same way.
08:41There's chefs watching this going,
08:42we make that joke all the time.
08:45God gave rock and roll to you.
08:47I love rock and roll.
08:49We've opened up a whole world, haven't we, of this?
08:52Fantastic.
08:5321-7.
08:56Letters, Jamie.
08:57Can I have a consonant, please?
08:58Thank you, Jamie.
09:00R.
09:01And another.
09:03N.
09:04And another.
09:06R.
09:07And another.
09:09N.
09:11And another.
09:23And a final vowel, please.
09:25And a final O.
09:26Thanks, Rich.
09:27.
09:27.
09:27.
09:29.
09:31.
09:32.
09:32.
09:58Right, here we go then.
09:59Jamie, how many?
10:00Six.
10:01And for you, David?
10:01Also six.
10:02Excellent, Jamie.
10:03Funner?
10:04Oh, and David?
10:06Runner.
10:06Yeah.
10:07Runner, we know, but funner.
10:10Funner, yeah, I will have to allow it.
10:12I'm not sure how often it would be used,
10:14but it's a single syllable we can put on the E-R
10:17because of that without it being in the dictionary.
10:19It got you the points, as did runner.
10:21Six points each, Richard Osman.
10:24Yeah, and runner, you can, of course, for run,
10:28and you can have for ran.
10:30Yes.
10:30Both for sevens.
10:31Get you the sevens.
10:32Get you the sevens.
10:33All right, 27, 13.
10:35Off we go, champ.
10:35Can I have a consonant, please?
10:37Thank you, David.
10:38M.
10:39And a vowel?
10:41I.
10:42A consonant, please.
10:44D.
10:44A vowel.
10:46E.
10:46A consonant.
10:49B.
10:50A vowel.
10:52O.
10:53A consonant.
10:54S.
10:55A vowel.
10:57E.
10:58And a final consonant.
11:00A final T.
11:02T.
11:03All right, start the clock.
11:30All right, start the clock.
11:35That's all we've got time for, David.
11:37Er, just six.
11:39Jamie? Eight.
11:40An eight, the six.
11:41Beside. What's the eight?
11:43Embodies. Embodies.
11:44Superb, well done. Yes.
11:49Richard?
11:50We have another eight, which is a rather lovely one, which is bedtimes.
11:53Ah, nice.
11:54And of course, any kid, if it's bedtime, oh, bedtimes, which is nine.
11:58HE LAUGHS Oh, my goodness.
12:02I think I see a bit of sweat coming to your forehead now.
12:05We're back within six points.
12:07Nobody's surprised when David's in town that it's close.
12:10And, Jamie, we're on to those numbers again.
12:13Can I have one large, please?
12:14Another one large.
12:15And another five small.
12:18Thank you, Jamie. This time, your number selection.
12:21Six, ten, seven, two, eight, and 50.
12:26And this target, 507.
12:305-0-7, numbers up.
12:44I'll talk about that else.
12:44the Woohoo Bridge.
12:44Well, what are the stories to do?
12:44Ooh, man is here.
12:52So, let me go to the store in the forest.
12:52Ifajo is aの, I may go to the city bed,
12:52like, where did that.
12:52The film is playing.
12:53Maybe there were some of the stories to donate.
12:53so it's liquid.
12:53So it's important to the square withった friends that don't hire.
12:53It's really important to the conversation right until the airport.
12:54Where did that have 100% all and the fool fav Šfl awards and
12:59on.
13:03Rubbish.
13:05How did you get on there, Jimmy?
13:065.07.
13:07And for you, David?
13:085.07.
13:095.07. Off you go, just sort it out, Jimmy.
13:1150 times 10, and add a seven.
13:14No pen needed.
13:15David?
13:16Yeah, same way.
13:17And done. Thank you.
13:20And the perfect time, because it's what we're going to talk about now
13:24with Richard Osman.
13:24And I have to tell you, you know, day five in Dictionary Corner,
13:27and it was just last week, the first of your epic new series
13:30of books came out, and, you know, we're having to force them
13:34to talk about it.
13:35So, We Solved Murders, the first thing I've noticed
13:38is it's a way different cover, because after Thursday Murder Club
13:43came out, there was like a million books with the same cover.
13:45Yes. Yeah, a lot of copycat books, which is fine,
13:48but, yeah, we thought maybe for this one, Richard Bravery,
13:51who's the guy who did the cover, who's a genius,
13:52we sat down and said, let's try and do a different one,
13:55and we were thinking all those lovely Len Dayton kind of spy novels
13:58and, like, 80s airport thrillers and stuff like that.
14:00And then he goes away and he gives me a cover,
14:02which says a cat sitting on the barrel of a gun,
14:05which essentially is, if you want to sum up my writing in any way
14:08whatsoever, it's a cat on a gun.
14:10Take me through the chronology.
14:13So when was the seed for this planted?
14:15Was it sort of, oh, my goodness, Thursday Murder Club
14:18is a runaway success, I'm going to do it again?
14:21Or this could have even predated it.
14:23Where has this come from?
14:24No, it's funny because, obviously, you know,
14:25Thursday Murder Club, it's so dear to me
14:27and, as I say, it is coming back.
14:29So writing something new at first was quite scary,
14:31but then, for me, books are just about characters,
14:34it's not about plot or anything like that.
14:35It's all characters and do we like these characters?
14:37Yeah.
14:37And the response to this has been so lovely.
14:39And so you find me a very relieved man this week.
14:42Yeah.
14:43You're absolutely right, you know,
14:45and I think there's a huge body of people,
14:46and I include myself in it.
14:48I can excuse just about anything
14:50if I fall in love with the characters.
14:52My rule, really, people talk about plot all the time.
14:54It's the question you get asked most at book festivals,
14:56you know, how do you come up with plots?
14:58And for me, the plot is not the important thing.
15:00It's not what happens in the book,
15:01it's why do I care what happens in the book.
15:02Yeah.
15:03So always, always, always start with character
15:04and hook people in, because if it's people you care about,
15:07then whatever you put them through,
15:08people are going to keep reading.
15:10Yeah.
15:10Well, we solve conundrums, you solve murders.
15:13It's just perfect.
15:13Thank you, mate.
15:17And this is a bit of a mystery today.
15:20David Burgess, her champion, got off to a really good start.
15:22Just six points in it.
15:24Now, Jamie Dutton right in it.
15:26Mr Burgess, you're at letters.
15:28Can I get a consonant, please, Rachel?
15:30Thank you, David.
15:31W.
15:32And a vowel.
15:34U.
15:35And a consonant.
15:37S.
15:38A vowel.
15:39E.
15:40A consonant.
15:42A consonant.
15:43A vowel.
15:45A.
15:47A consonant.
15:48T.
15:49A consonant.
15:51P.
15:52And a final vowel.
15:55And a final U.
15:57And start the clock.
15:58зв angek.
16:01S.
16:02A
16:03consonant. A
16:18consonant. A
16:19consonant. contained
16:20in it. A
16:20consonant.
16:29All right, David?
16:30Just five.
16:31Just the five.
16:33Jimmy?
16:33Five.
16:34And a five, two.
16:35David?
16:35Pause.
16:36Pause.
16:37And Jimmy?
16:37Paste.
16:38Paste.
16:39And over to Dictionary Corner for more.
16:42This is not what we're here for, but we have the word upstage, I'm afraid.
16:46Upstage.
16:47That's what you've managed to do.
16:49Excellent stuff.
16:49That would have been for a seven in terms of the competition, five points each.
16:53So it remains on the knife edge.
16:54So, Jimmy, let's get straight into it.
16:56No point wasting time.
16:57We'll go again.
16:58Can I have a consonant, please?
16:59Thank you, Jimmy.
17:00N.
17:01And another.
17:03G.
17:04And another.
17:06X.
17:07And another.
17:09L.
17:10And a vowel.
17:11I.
17:13And another.
17:14E.
17:15And another.
17:18O.
17:19And a consonants.
17:25Lastly, T.
17:26Goodness me.
17:27Here we go again.
17:51MUSIC PLAYS
17:58Jamie?
18:00No, I've gone wrong, sorry.
18:01Don't worry, David?
18:02Six.
18:03OK, there's six, a big six points.
18:05Tee-ing.
18:06Tee-ing.
18:07Yes, teeing off. Very good.
18:09Dictionary corner, the X is there, so you're snookered.
18:12Yeah, we are a bit, but Gentile is there for seven.
18:15OK, 12 points in it, third numbers round of the day.
18:19David, are you going to play it safe,
18:20or are you going to try and push forward your advantage?
18:23Apologies, Rachel, it's still going to be one large five stall.
18:26Right, we need something better than that first one, though.
18:29One large, five little, coming up once more.
18:31No need to apologise.
18:32This time they are five, ten, nine, five.
18:37Another ten and the large one, 25 this time.
18:40And the target, 982.
18:43982, numbers up.
18:44MUSIC PLAYS
19:14Big target, 982.
19:16982 with just the 25.
19:18David?
19:20980.
19:22Two away.
19:22Jimmy?
19:23980 not written down.
19:25Off you go first, Jimmy.
19:26So, nine minus five is four.
19:29Nine minus five, four.
19:31Times the ten is 40.
19:34Yep.
19:35Times the 40 by the 25.
19:371,000.
19:39And then take away 25.
19:44No, sorry, I've had the 25.
19:46Sorry, yep, gone wrong.
19:48Sorry, Jamie.
19:48Right at the end as well.
19:50Off you go, David.
19:51So, nine times 25.
19:53It's 175.
19:55Nine times, sorry.
19:56Nine times 25.
19:58225.
19:59Ooh, I may also have gone wrong.
20:02Yes, I have.
20:03Indeed.
20:04Wow, both of you are spluttering throughout that.
20:07Let's see if Rachel can bring some cohesion to this round.
20:10Well, this was another impossible one.
20:12Wow.
20:13Quite rare for the one large to be impossible, but you could have got to one away.
20:16Nine, eight, one.
20:17Nine, eight, two, impossible.
20:19Then 48 plays 36.
20:20A close encounter as we give you another brilliant Tea Time teaser.
20:24Track Jaws.
20:26Track Jaws.
20:27You're not looking for a shark.
20:28You're looking for a game played by a former foreign secretary.
20:32You're not looking for a shark.
20:33You're looking for a game played by a former foreign secretary.
20:52Now, I got this, Susie, because of the Jack Straw, because track Jaws wasn't hard to get there.
21:04No, I never played it.
21:05It was some old-fashioned game.
21:07Yeah, well, I think I only know the shortened name Jacks, which used to play as a child.
21:11Do you remember those, where you would just throw down shapes, throw up a ball,
21:14and you had to pick up each jack before the ball bounced?
21:17It was brilliant.
21:18So, anyway, Jack Straw, that's a good one.
21:19Something like that.
21:21It's been that long.
21:21It's been that long, like marbles and all sorts of those wonderful things.
21:24Yeah.
21:25But times do move on, and our time moves on now to another letters round.
21:29And Jamie.
21:30Have a consonant, please.
21:31Thank you, Jamie.
21:32N.
21:33And another.
21:35P.
21:36And another.
21:37L.
21:39And another.
21:40S.
21:42And a vowel.
21:43I.
21:44And another.
21:46U.
21:47And another.
21:49E.
21:50And another.
21:52I.
21:54And consonant.
21:56Lastly, H.
21:57And kind time.
22:29Jamie?
22:30Risky seven.
22:31And David?
22:32Also a risky seven, not rent down.
22:34OK, what's yours, David?
22:35A plushie.
22:36Is yours the same risk?
22:38Pass it over there.
22:39Right.
22:41Yeah.
22:41Excellent.
22:42OK, plushie.
22:43Mm.
22:44Yeah, yeah, soft toys.
22:45Rich and I got this within seconds, I think, because our kids had plushies, probably.
22:48Yeah, they're just soft, lovely toys.
22:51Anything else?
22:52One more seven, didn't we?
22:54Mm.
22:55And plenish.
22:56Plenish.
22:56Which means the same as replenish.
22:57Yeah.
22:58There you go, 55, 43, and you're picking these letters.
23:02David?
23:03A consonant, please, Rachel.
23:05Thank you, David.
23:05N.
23:07A vowel.
23:08E.
23:09A consonant.
23:10S.
23:11A vowel.
23:13A.
23:14A consonant, please.
23:15K.
23:16A vowel.
23:18I.
23:19A consonant.
23:20T.
23:21Another consonant, please.
23:23Another consonant, please.
23:25And a final consonant.
23:27A final P.
23:28All right, let's play.
23:30A nonetheless.
23:31A vowel.
23:49A vowel.
23:50A vowel.
23:50A vowel.
23:55A Teams.
23:55A travelers.
23:56A vowel.
23:59A ans.
24:01INVITING LETTERS.
24:03David? Six. Six from you, Jamie? Seven.
24:06And a seven, the six? Spanx. Spanx.
24:09And Jamie? Pasties. Pasties.
24:12Yes. Absolutely fine. Sorry, we're gutted over here, that's why.
24:17Right, because I'm looking at those letters and I'm thinking,
24:20if there's going to be a maximum this week, it's going to come in this round.
24:23Yes. I think I might have an eight, that's it. How did you get on?
24:26Well, we got an eight, snakiest, and we tried out two nines,
24:30one of which we have more confidence with than the other.
24:33Come on. One of them was spankiest, which is not there,
24:37but the one we tried out was snake pits.
24:40Oh, two words, can you believe? No!
24:44Oh, I mean, that'll be one word within the next five years.
24:47It will. Oh, my goodness, mate. Yeah, so close yet so far.
24:51Oh, my heart breaks, my heart breaks. 55-55 points in it.
24:55We're not surprised at all.
24:57Our champion David's really, really good, but close contests every day.
25:02Jamie, you're right in this with four rounds left,
25:04as we break for Origins of Words, our final one of the week.
25:07What's the email saying?
25:08Well, it's a cruel irony, in fact, as it turns out.
25:12This is from Christine Jones, who says she was doing
25:15her usual early morning puzzles, Wordle, Cordle, Waffle,
25:18which I didn't know about, et cetera.
25:20And she was showing her husband something and said,
25:23sometimes you come up trumps.
25:25Yeah.
25:25And she was wondering where the expression originated,
25:28and that's what we haven't done, I'm afraid, today, come up trumps.
25:31Yes.
25:32But Trump is quite an interesting word, all in.
25:35So we know it quite often, apart from the politician of the same name,
25:40as a playing card which outranks other cards in the deck.
25:46And it is actually an alteration of the word triumph.
25:49So Trump comes from triumph.
25:51And, in fact, that was used in the same sense.
25:54So those cards were called triumph cards for a while.
25:57And triumph itself goes back to a Greek word,
26:00which is a hymn to the god Bacchus.
26:02But in Roman times, it was used very specifically
26:05for the grand entry of this incredibly victorious general
26:09into the city to be celebrated and to be honoured
26:13and to have laurel weeds put around him.
26:16And it was always a hymn.
26:17It was one notch up from an ovation, which was also a big procession.
26:22And, anyway, so that was...
26:24It was huge.
26:25And so these cards took on the idea of being the victorious cards
26:29because they outranked the others.
26:31And, of course, the card with a lot of trumps
26:32is most likely to be a winning hand.
26:35But, yeah, coming up trumps is all to do with a triumph
26:38and a magnificent card.
26:39Yes.
26:40APPLAUSE
26:4355-50.
26:44Four rounds to go.
26:46Jamie, letters, please.
26:48Can I have a consonant, please?
26:49Thank you, Jamie.
26:50D.
26:51And another.
26:53B.
26:54And another.
26:55M.
26:57And another.
26:59T.
27:00And a vowel.
27:02O.
27:03And another.
27:04A.
27:05And another.
27:06E.
27:06And a consonant.
27:12Lastly, S.
27:14Good luck.
27:14wohlfنock up on The New York Times.
27:30Well apologic,
27:33If you've just Joan защits
27:33It looks a bit of a mess.
27:34The thing покrás is a great influence...
27:35you don't know who you're serious,
27:35And that means it's fun.
27:37In this film for the next 3 Nations and
27:39dream of чудo are,
27:39you want to get rid of your twin selector Helen
27:46Jamie?
27:47Seven not written down.
27:49And for you, David?
27:50Seven.
27:51Jamie, the word?
27:52Boasted.
27:52And for you, David?
27:54Also boasted.
27:57And there it is, two sevens.
27:59Keeps it so, so close.
28:01Richard?
28:01What a week of games we've had.
28:03It's amazing, isn't it?
28:04But I'm still not sure we're going to get to the crucial,
28:06because we've been teased all week.
28:08Every day he does the same thing, doesn't he?
28:10We've got boasted as well, but there's another seven letter there,
28:13which is amoebas.
28:15Thank you very, very much.
28:19One letters round left this week.
28:21We haven't had a single maximum Monday to Friday.
28:25I mean, I don't want to use the word shame, but, you know, some would.
28:29David, let's see.
28:30Let's hope for no Zs.
28:31A consonant, please, Rachel.
28:33Thank you, David.
28:34D.
28:35A vowel.
28:36I.
28:37A consonant.
28:39S.
28:40A vowel.
28:41A.
28:42A consonant.
28:44Q.
28:45A vowel.
28:47U.
28:48A consonant, please.
28:50T.
28:51Another consonant.
28:53R.
28:54And a final vowel.
28:56An important final E.
28:58It's not out of the question.
29:00Let's go.
29:27It's not out of the question.
29:43A vowel.
29:49It's not out of the question.
29:50It's not out of the question.
29:58But we've all been to the equator, of course,
30:01but very occasionally, in the lunar cycle, the equator moves.
30:06It wobbles on a sort of axis, and that is called a dis-quator.
30:09It's not really.
30:11You had me, though. You had me.
30:14I thought you got it there, I thought you got that.
30:16No, it's brilliant work, brilliant work for Squirtle.
30:18Not to be this week, and you know what?
30:20Loads of weeks go by without a maximum,
30:22but it's good to yank Richard's chain, it really is.
30:25Right, here we go, let's get down.
30:27So, if you haven't watched this week, and Friday's your day,
30:31maybe you get off work, we keep getting to the stage with David.
30:34Going into the last numbers round, we think we're definitely on
30:37for a crucial countdown conundrum, and it hasn't happened.
30:40But for you, David, it's different today.
30:42You want it to happen, because if it doesn't happen,
30:45mathematically, that means you've lost.
30:46Jamie, final numbers.
30:49Four large, please.
30:50Four large. You're going big or going home.
30:53Four large, too little. Potential challenge.
30:55Let's see if this is possible to start with.
30:58The little one's one and three, and we know the big one's 50,
31:0225, 75 and 100.
31:04And the final target, 649.
31:086, 4, 9. Last numbers.
31:10The little two are a white shirt.
31:11The little one is in the red shirt.
31:39This is 1, it's Jake, 45 and 51.
31:39Stay��'s in the flesh.
31:39Thank you very much, Josh.
31:40We believe we're doing Teenage lista, and Daniel Ch stanie.
31:40So it is the index служ Ranger in queens.
31:416-4-9. Jamie?
31:43No way, no.
31:44You chose him. David?
31:456-4-9.
31:46For 10 points, still beyond a crucial no matter what here,
31:50but wow, you can get your nose in front again. Go ahead, champ.
31:5375 divided by 25.
31:5475 over 25 is 3.
31:56Add the other three.
31:586.
31:59Times by the 100.
32:01600.
32:02Add the 50 minus the 1.
32:03Wow, under the pressure. Very well done.
32:066-4-9.
32:09What a week, what a day, what a show, what a programme.
32:13Get your fingers on the buzzers, guys, because this is the moment.
32:17Jamie Dutton does not need his mass teacher wife to work this one out.
32:22Get the conundrum, get the teapot.
32:24Don't, and you're going home.
32:27Let's reveal today's crucial countdown conundrum.
33:01Oh, he's stopped the buzzer, Jimmy.
33:04Go.
33:05Epithelium, Lily.
33:07I don't even know what you said, so I'm just going to say no.
33:10There's a millisecond left.
33:12David, put your finger on that buzzer.
33:14And that's all you have.
33:15Oh, we have to do it right.
33:17What an entertainer this man is.
33:19David Burgess, champion again.
33:21Four wins.
33:25First things first.
33:26You haven't had a nine all week.
33:27I'm going to count this.
33:29Did you get it, Richard?
33:30Yeah.
33:31No.
33:31Go.
33:32They always say, philately will get you nowhere.
33:35Let's take a look.
33:37Well done.
33:40Usually at this stage we're like, oh, it's all nice Friday afternoon.
33:43Go lie down, David.
33:45Rest.
33:46You're 48 hours of bed for you coming back here on Monday.
33:49You've been through the ringer and you don't realise how good a champion you are.
33:53We'll see you Monday, yeah?
33:54Yeah.
33:55Excellent.
33:55Jamie, lots of love to you and wow, you've just given us a great day.
33:59Unlucky.
34:00I've had a great day anyway.
34:01It's been great.
34:02I loved your guess at the end.
34:03You have to.
34:04You have to.
34:05What a week to be here, Richard.
34:06Hope you've enjoyed it.
34:07I've absolutely loved it.
34:08Congratulations, David.
34:09It's been a brilliant week to watch.
34:11It's like Paul Scholes, isn't it?
34:12You don't quite see how he's doing it, but he always does it.
34:14Exactly.
34:15Truly underrated as it stands at the moment.
34:17Susie, have a great weekend.
34:18Thank you, and you.
34:19And you, Rich.
34:20What a week.
34:20Have a great one.
34:21And I can't wait for Thursday Murder Club, the musical.
34:24Yeah.
34:24After the film, that's what we need.
34:26Don't put ideas in his head.
34:27It'll happen.
34:28Back here on Monday on the subject of all things musical,
34:31Whispering, Bob Harris in Dictionary Corner.
34:33Enjoy your weekend.
34:34See you Monday.
34:35You can count on us.
34:37You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com.
34:42You can also find our webpage at channel4.com forward slash countdown.