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00:30Hello, everybody. It's Thursday afternoon. It's Countdown, so what you're waiting for as we get stuck in this spiderwebs full
00:37of 15 rounds of letters and numbers.
00:40And while it's a good thing that I don't speak, she's just a girl. So let's say hello. How are
00:44you doing, Rachel?
00:45How many songs did you get into that?
00:47Just the four.
00:48Oh, that's not bad. It's not bad. We're talking about Gwen Stefani. Happy birthday, Gwen. She's 55 today.
00:55I think it's about a 99% chance she's watching, so happy birthday to you.
00:59Now, this brings around those songs. Not an artist, but you know the song that you just, for a period
01:04of time, you just rinse it.
01:07You can't stop listening to it. And I know for a fact that don't speak is near the top of
01:12your all-time list.
01:14I remember being at junior school, and I remember my parents took me to one of those industrial estates, and
01:18I bought my first Walkman for $29.99.
01:21I got a good one. And I had Gwen Stefani, Don't Speak, or No Doubt was the group she was
01:27in, over and over and over.
01:28And it was the time you obviously have to rewind and play, rewind and play, and you're not going to
01:32carry around the whole load of...
01:35It was just one cassette, and that was it. That was fine for me.
01:37Great memories. What about with streaming? You can do it even more now. What's your most modern infatuation track?
01:45Well, now it's all the kids' songs, but before I had to listen to all that kind of stuff.
01:49Maybe Cheerleader, over and over. You know that one?
01:52Yes.
01:53About 10 years ago now, but it's just a tune.
01:55And it reminds you of when you had a life, which is good, which is good.
01:58I used to have a life.
02:00Mine's always Whatever is my favourite song at the Eurovision, because for three weeks in that year, in the run
02:05-up, I'll listen to that on repeat.
02:06So, Laureen Tattoo, Sam Ryder, Spaceman, so that's what I love once a year, the infatuation with Eurovision.
02:13But it's great when a track takes us away.
02:16Let's get over to Dictionary Corner then, as we holler back at our J the D, Susie Dent,
02:21and with her all this week, and delighting us every step of the way.
02:25Yes, Rachel, that was two more Gwen Stefani songs.
02:28It's Debbie McGee.
02:32And you've gotten well used to the company of Terence Newnham, who's won three now.
02:37That's correct.
02:38What a battle yesterday against Elizabeth.
02:39Oh, it was so close.
02:40Ah.
02:41But listen, you're used to battles, because you do the triathlons, and for people that don't know, that's the swimming
02:45in the open water.
02:47Get out of that, soaking, you've got to cycle, then you've got to throw the bike.
02:51Then you've got to run after that.
02:53So where are you doing it, and, you know, what's the...
02:55Yeah, I don't know why I'm doing it.
02:56That's a good question.
02:56No, it's a really...
02:59I mean, I liked all the individual disciplines, and I had a friend who is a captain of our local
03:03triathlon club.
03:04She said, well, why don't you put them all together?
03:05And so I was like, OK, and it's a great way to meet people.
03:07And, yeah, I just really enjoy the camaraderie.
03:11Love it.
03:11Well done to you, Terence.
03:12You're up against Dave Moran from Carlisle, who I think, rather than be a person with a job from days
03:20gone by, has a job that I think is resurgent right now.
03:25Because you're a milkman.
03:26I am, yeah.
03:27Are you seeing an increase?
03:29Yeah, definitely.
03:31We do upwards of 300 dollars a night.
03:33Wow.
03:34So it keeps us busy.
03:36It lets us out of the house.
03:36And are there people, milkmen and milkwomen, coming into the profession?
03:40Is it something that you'd see younger people take up?
03:43Yeah.
03:43I think you need to be young to do it, because you're doing so many jobs a night now, you
03:47need to have a good level of fitness to be able to do that, yeah.
03:51Do you have a little helper?
03:52Because I used to, for a short period of time, help my local milkman four hours in a Saturday morning.
03:58I was terrible at it.
03:59I think he sacked me after three weeks.
04:01But do you have a wee helper?
04:03No, nothing like that.
04:04Just myself.
04:04Just myself and the radio.
04:05You don't want to part with a fiver?
04:07No.
04:08No.
04:08Absolutely not.
04:08You keep it in your back pocket.
04:09I want to keep all the Christmas tips for myself.
04:11Yes.
04:11Best of luck to Dave.
04:12Let's see if you've got the bottle for Countdown.
04:14And Terrence, looking for a fourth win.
04:18Terrence, up you go.
04:20Good afternoon.
04:21Can I start with a consonant, please?
04:23Start today with C.
04:25And another.
04:27M.
04:28And a third.
04:31G.
04:31And a vowel, please.
04:33O.
04:34And another.
04:35E.
04:36And a third.
04:38I.
04:39And a consonant.
04:40N.
04:41And another.
04:43G.
04:44And a final consonant, please.
04:47A final D.
04:48At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
04:50I.
04:51I.
05:192,-3-1-4,-1-4,-1.
05:20I.
05:21Terence? I'm going to try a seven.
05:24And Dave? Six. Yeah? What's a six?
05:27Doming. It might score. Let's find out. Terence?
05:30Demo-ing? Oh, yeah.
05:33Doming is absolutely fine, just to confirm that, as is demo-ing.
05:37Well done. That's great. It's great.
05:39APPLAUSE
05:41Good stuff. Anything else? Yeah, we had a couple of sevens too.
05:45We did. In fact, we've got demonic and genomic.
05:51Genomic? Yes. All to do with the human genome.
05:53So you could have demonic, genomics. Yes. That's true.
05:56Seven-nil. Off you go, Dave.
05:58Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Dave. R.
06:02And another. R.
06:05And a better one, please.
06:07Better than R? Getting fussy these days.
06:10K, that's what you get. And a vowel.
06:13U. And another vowel.
06:18E. And a consonant.
06:21S. Another consonant.
06:25N. And a vowel.
06:29O. And a final consonant, please.
06:34A final T. And 30 seconds.
06:36.
07:05Transcription by CastingWords
07:07Time's up. Dave. Seven. Seven from you. And Terence. Yeah, seven. Seven as well. Dave. Trouser. Trouser. Another trouser. There
07:17you go. Yep, spot on. Both legs. Seven points each. Dexterity corner. Yes. Trouser's good for seven. We had a
07:24couple more sevens. We did. We've got returns. There's another one. Yeah. And tonsure. Shaved part of a monk's head.
07:32Good team. Dexterity corner this week. 14-7. Let's do the numbers for the first time today.
07:37And Terence. Two large and four from anywhere else, please. Thank you, Terence. Two from the top row. Four from
07:42the other abble. And the first numbers of the day.
07:45Five. Six. Ten. Eight. Seventy-five. And one hundred. And your target. Nine hundred and ninety-one. Nine, nine, one.
07:55Numbers up.
07:55Ten. Nine, nine, the two.
08:00Ten and nine, one.
08:01Ten and nine, the two.
08:03Ten and nine.
08:06Ten and nine.
08:18Ten and nine.
08:21Ten and nine, see this coming together.
08:26That's time, Terence.
08:289.83.
08:29Oh, he's missed it by eight. Dave Moran?
08:329.91.
08:33Yeah, off you go.
08:37Erm...
08:37Ten times a hundred.
08:38Terence busy kicking himself already.
08:401,000.
08:42Minus ten.
08:43Minus ten.
08:45Dave, you still tend to kick yourself.
08:47Oh, what have you done?
08:49What have you done, son?
08:50Yeah, I don't even know what you are.
08:52I don't even remember because you were so far away,
08:54but you can get five points.
08:55Oh, I can, can't I?
08:57You don't deserve it, but you can.
09:00Right, OK, so ten minus six minus five gives you nine.
09:05So ten minus six minus five, yeah, is nine.
09:09Times a hundred.
09:10900.
09:11Plus 75 and eight.
09:12Yep, that gets you five points.
09:14If you had any respect, you'd give those points back.
09:17Rachel?
09:18And the rest of the country is saying six minus five plus eight is nine
09:23nine to take away.
09:24Yeah, nine, nine.
09:25Exactly.
09:29Tea Time teaser.
09:31First of this Thursday afternoon.
09:33Cash trice.
09:35Cash trice.
09:36He lost all his cash in a trice, having bought this.
09:39He lost all his cash in a trice, having bought this.
10:00Cash trice becomes scratchy with an IE. I mean, what's going on here?
10:08Yeah, well, we often put IE at the end of nouns.
10:09We've been doing that in British English for a long time.
10:11But this is from Australian and New Zealand English, where they love it.
10:15Barbies and tinnies.
10:16Excellent.
10:17And scratchies.
10:17So we're pleasing all the New Zealand and Australian viewers.
10:20No, English is this wonderful whole.
10:22It's made up of different, many different varieties of English.
10:25So...
10:25And can I just add in Debbie?
10:28Yes.
10:29There's nothing wrong with IE.
10:30I spell your name with a Y.
10:32Let's get back to it.
10:36Letters, Dave.
10:37Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:38Thank you, Dave.
10:39R.
10:40And a vowel.
10:42I.
10:44And a consonant, please.
10:48M.
10:49Another consonant.
10:50S.
10:52And a vowel.
10:54A.
10:56And a consonant.
10:59V.
11:00Another consonant.
11:02T.
11:04And a vowel.
11:06E.
11:09G.
11:10And finally, G.
11:12Thanks, Rich.
11:14.
11:14.
11:14.
11:14.
11:14.
11:14.
11:15.
11:44Time's up there, Dave.
11:45I'll try a seven.
11:46And for Terence? Seven, yeah.
11:48What are you going to try, Dave? Gravest.
11:51Gravest. And Terence?
11:53Triage's.
11:55Triage's. Two lovely words.
11:56Yeah, very good. Yeah, most grave.
11:59Gravest. Absolutely fine.
12:00How did you get on, Debbie, with an IE?
12:02I didn't get any IEs this time,
12:05but I got a Migrate.
12:07Yeah. And we got a...
12:08Migrate's a brilliant A.
12:10Virgate's also there. It's an old measurement
12:13of land, about 30 acres. Thank you.
12:15Thank you very much. Just 12 points
12:17in it. More letters, Terence.
12:19Thank you. A consonant, please.
12:20Thank you, Terence. H.
12:23And another.
12:25S. And a vowel.
12:28U. And another.
12:29O. And a consonant.
12:33L. And another.
12:35N. And a vowel.
12:38A. And a consonant.
12:41L. And another vowel, please.
12:44And...
12:46Final E.
12:48And half a minute.
12:49B.
12:51And a consonant.
13:02It won't be worded.
13:02All right.
13:06And a vowel.
13:13THEY CONFER
13:20Terence? Seven.
13:21And Dave? Seven.
13:23Very good indeed. Terence? Unleash.
13:25And what are you unleashing? Same thing?
13:28Yep. Yes, seven points each.
13:30Good battle again, right.
13:31Debbie? That was my top one.
13:34Your top one as well.
13:36Seven. Unleash.
13:37Salon for six. Salon for six.
13:39Salon for six, yeah.
13:4012 points in it, then ten up for grabs, Dave.
13:42Numbers? Two big and four small,
13:44please, Rachel. No messing about.
13:46Two big, four small coming up, Dave.
13:47This time the four small ones.
13:49Four, eight, nine,
13:52six, and a large two.
13:5450, 25.
13:55Concentrate, boys. The target.
13:58527.
13:59527. Numbers up.
14:31And that's time up. So we're looking for 527, Dave.
14:36526.
14:37One away, Terence?
14:38Yeah, 526.
14:39Both the same, then. Dave, off you go.
14:41Six plus four is ten.
14:43Six plus four is ten.
14:44Times 50.
14:46500.
14:47Should be 500.
14:47Plus 25.
14:48525.
14:50Nine minus eight is one.
14:51Yep.
14:51Add that on.
14:52Lovely. One away.
14:53Terence?
14:54Yeah, exactly the same weight.
14:56Yep, spot on.
14:57Seven points each.
14:59527, Rachel.
15:01Yes, you can be forgiven for not getting this,
15:03but if you say 25 times six is 150,
15:07take away eight for 142,
15:10times that by four,
15:12and you should get 568,
15:15and then you can take away the 50,
15:18and finally add the nine.
15:19Great.
15:20527.
15:22It's really obvious when you say it like that.
15:25Let's get over to the dictionary corner.
15:26Debbie McGee.
15:27Debbie McGee.
15:27We were saying earlier, right, off air,
15:31that Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee
15:33were like royal family.
15:36Right?
15:37We were saying that.
15:37And actually, it probably wasn't that far wrong,
15:40because you used to have all the royal varieties
15:42and all of that.
15:43So you probably have met more royalty than most,
15:46I guess.
15:47Yeah, probably.
15:49And around the world royalty as well,
15:51because they used to send videos in those days
15:54to different countries, like Monaco.
15:57So we used to go as guests of Prince Rainier,
15:59because he used to have a magic weekend every other year and things.
16:02I know.
16:03I know.
16:03I've lived the life.
16:05But one story was years ago,
16:08there was a programme called A Royal It's A Knockout.
16:11Oh, yes.
16:11Where four of the royals were team captains,
16:14you know, based on a programme that was shown through the 80s.
16:18And...
16:18But it was all celebrities.
16:20The teams were celebrities.
16:21And Paul was the judge.
16:23And I just went with him.
16:25And at the end of it, it overran by about four hours.
16:30And we were due...
16:31Well, Paul was particularly due on stage that night
16:33at the Savoy Hotel doing a private show.
16:36Yeah.
16:37So he quickly ran to Princess Anne,
16:40who was sort of in charge of the day,
16:42and said,
16:43really sorry, I can't stay for the party
16:45because I'm meant to be on stage at the Savoy
16:47in whatever it was.
16:49It's a couple of hours.
16:50And she said,
16:51have you got somebody to drive your car home?
16:53And he said, yes.
16:55Muggins here.
16:57And she went,
16:58Edward, get me the Queen's pilot.
17:01So the pilot of the red helicopter came over.
17:05And she said,
17:05have you still got the Queen's helicopter?
17:07And he said, yes.
17:08She said, get it ready.
17:09You're flying Mr. Daniels back to Windsor.
17:11I'll call ahead and have the Daimler ready
17:13to drive him, you know, along the M4 to the Savoy.
17:17So that is what happened.
17:19Wow.
17:19But along the M4,
17:22because he was running so late,
17:23he got changed into his tuxedo along the M4
17:28in the Queen's Daimler.
17:30Wow.
17:30I mean, hey-ho.
17:31So, yeah.
17:32So that's one of the funny stories of the Royals.
17:34It doesn't get any more pinch yourself, does it?
17:37No, it doesn't.
17:38When you have those moments.
17:39Yeah.
17:39Brilliant.
17:40Although I didn't get to fly in the Queen's helicopter,
17:42I drove the car back to London.
17:44Hold on here, McGee.
17:45You got to go to the party.
17:46I did, yeah.
17:47That's a better daylight thing
17:49than being in any car on the motorway.
17:51So that's pretty good.
17:52Thank you, Debbie.
17:53Aw, thank you.
17:54APPLAUSE
17:56All right, Terence, a princely score of 40.
18:00Looking to dethrone him is Dave on 28.
18:03Close enough.
18:04Terence, off you go.
18:05A consonant, please, Rachel.
18:06Thank you, Terence.
18:07N.
18:08And another.
18:10S.
18:11And a third.
18:13L.
18:14And a vowel, please.
18:15U.
18:16And another.
18:17A.
18:19And another.
18:20O.
18:21And a consonant.
18:22C.
18:24And another.
18:25Q.
18:27And another consonant, please.
18:30A final T.
18:32Here we go again.
18:33Here we go again.
18:34T.
18:35What's the noise?
18:39There's an echo.
18:41Topt Pulitzer.
18:57Go.
19:03Newimmele,
19:04All right, then. Terence?
19:06Six. And for you, Dave?
19:08I'll try a six.
19:09I'm going to try a six. Terence?
19:11Quotas.
19:12Quotas. And for you, Dave?
19:14Uncost.
19:15To un-cost.
19:16I think something can be un-costed.
19:18Yes, but you can't un-cost it, I'm afraid. Sorry, Dave.
19:22OK.
19:24Unlucky Dave. Debbie?
19:27Consult. Yes.
19:29Two cans? Two cans, yeah. And what do you have?
19:31Yes, loquats. Have you ever tasted these?
19:33They're small little egg-shaped fruits.
19:36I've had two cans before, but I've never had that, no.
19:39They're quite nice. Anyway, that will give you another seven.
19:41Yeah, all done.
19:42Nice, right. 46, 28. Let's go, Dave. Keep your faith. Keep your faith.
19:46Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Dave.
19:49R. And another.
19:53B. And another.
19:55D.
19:56Another vowel.
19:59E. Another vowel.
20:00O.
20:02And a third.
20:05E.
20:06And a consonant.
20:09T.
20:11And another consonant.
20:13S.
20:14And another vowel.
20:16And lastly, I.
20:19Let's start the clock.
20:20A,
20:21The Oct.
20:22And a consonant.
20:23E. A.
20:24And a runner with other strong state alues and teachers.
20:42They load theigh.
20:42It's unknown.
20:45And also.
20:48Coolie.
20:49That's the end of it.
20:51Dave?
20:52Six.
20:53And Terence?
20:54Seven.
20:55And a seven, the six, Dave?
20:57Leads.
20:58And for you, Terence?
20:59Orbited.
21:00And for Dictionary Corner?
21:01Very nice, yes.
21:02A few sevens from us as well.
21:04Yeah.
21:05Editors.
21:06Yeah.
21:07Yes, strobed.
21:08A few of them hiding there.
21:09Quite a lot in there, yeah.
21:10It's a nice little boost for Terence at the moment,
21:13going it along well.
21:14It's just grinding these rounds out, Dave.
21:16It'll make the comeback all the sweeter.
21:18Terence, let's get numbers.
21:19Just one large five anywhere else, please.
21:22One and five.
21:23The old one and five coming up.
21:25And the five smalls.
21:26Ten.
21:27Three.
21:28Four.
21:30Six.
21:31Seven.
21:31And the large one, 25.
21:33And the target, 112.
21:36One, one, two.
21:37Numbers up.
21:37One, two, three.
21:41One, two, three.
21:42One, two, three.
21:46One, two, three.
21:53One, two, three.
21:55One, two, three.
21:56One, two, three.
21:56One, two, three.
21:56One, two, three.
22:00One, two, three.
22:081-1-2. Dave?
22:101-1-2. Yeah, Terence?
22:12Yeah, 1-1-2. Dave, off you go.
22:14Four times 25 is 100.
22:16Four 25s, yep.
22:18Plus 10...
22:21..plus 3.
22:23And the 70 over 6 is a 1-2 minus off.
22:25Lovely. That'll do. I got you there. Terence?
22:2825 plus 3... 28.
22:3028 and then times by 4. Straight there. Well done.
22:3310.6.
22:34APPLAUSE
22:36T-Time Teaser is Macho News,
22:39as in Muscles Macho News.
22:41And the clue is, Fred and Audrey had this.
22:44I say, Fred and Audrey had this.
22:46Fred and Audrey had this.
22:48I say, Fred and Audrey had this.
22:51I say, Fred and Audrey had this.
22:58APPLAUSE
23:06Although, again, Macho News becomes showmance, which, as the clue says,
23:10is what Fred and Audrey had in Coronation Street.
23:13Well, I wouldn't say it's a cliffhanger at the moment, but it's not a story told yet.
23:18Six rounds to go. Dave, you need a little run and it can happen.
23:21So, here's your letters.
23:22Consonant, please, Rachel.
23:24Thank you, Dave.
23:25P.
23:25And another.
23:27N.
23:28And another.
23:30S.
23:31And a fourth.
23:32T.
23:34T.
23:35Vowel.
23:36E.
23:38Another vowel.
23:40I.
23:41Another vowel.
23:43O.
23:44And a consonant.
23:46D.
23:48And another consonant.
23:49And lastly.
23:51T.
23:52Kind down.
23:53The
23:53Now,
23:53rada.
23:54With that,
23:54soon.
24:21All right,
24:22please,
24:22so.
24:23Dave? Try an eight. Why not? Terence? Yeah, I'll try an eight.
24:28OK. Dave? Pistoned. Pistoned. And for you, Terence? Also, pistoned.
24:33Yes.
24:34Yeah. So, the engine, pistoned...
24:37It is, unfortunately, only there is a noun.
24:40There's no verb or adjective, pistoned, I'm afraid. Sorry.
24:44OK, what was in the dictionary?
24:46We just had sevens, didn't we? Yeah. Topside, potties.
24:49Yeah. Yeah, stipend. Loads of them. Quite a few.
24:54Pointed. The point is, you've both got nothing in that round.
24:57So, let's go again, Terence.
24:59Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Terence.
25:01G. And another.
25:04L. And a third.
25:06D. And a vowel.
25:09E. And another.
25:11O. And another.
25:15E. Consonant, please.
25:17Y. And another.
25:20G. And another consonant, please.
25:25Final S. And good luck.
25:27.
25:58All righty, all righty. How many there? Terence? Seven. And Dave? Six. The sixes? Ledges. Yes. And for you, Terence?
26:07Slogged. Well spotted. Well spotted. You did have to slog away to get that one, though. It was hidden. Very
26:14good. Anything beyond that or slim pickings? Yes, that was ours. Yeah, slogged. A few sixes. 70-38. 32 points
26:23in it. Four rounds to go. Origins of Words for this Thursday afternoon.
26:27Susie, are we going to the emails? We're not actually. We're going to one of my favourite subjects that actually
26:33Rachel introduced to me a while ago.
26:35And it goes by a very alienating word or name, malifors. Remember, I've mentioned them before on the show. And
26:43essentially, these are slips of the ear that you don't sometimes automatically notice because they just sound right.
26:52And it crucially involves putting two expressions together and mangling them quite considerably. So malifor itself is a blend of
27:01the two words, metaphor and malapropism.
27:04But what you need to know is that it's something like, and these are the ones I've shared with you
27:08before, when I will burn that bridge when I get to it.
27:13Or famously, it's not rocket surgery. That's the other one too. Anyway, here's some more. And these were inspired, I
27:18have to say, by my hairdresser who was cutting my hair and she's got a very small toddler who will
27:23not sleep.
27:23And she was reading him a bedtime story. And she fell asleep herself and she said, I was out like
27:28a log, which I thought was great. So you get the idea. You're out like a light, slept like a
27:34log, put them together.
27:35And it kind of makes sense. Don't put all your chickens in one basket. That's one. Another one that is
27:44gaining a little bit of ground, actually, believe it or not, is I can read you like the back of
27:48my book.
27:51So I've said it's not rocket surgery. Oh, the ducks are aligning. So that is, I've got my ducks in
27:57a row and the stars are aligning.
28:00I don't know if you think the ducks are in a row, so it makes sense. How about, they were
28:04like lemmings to the slaughter.
28:07And I think if anyone remembers, you know, one of those really early video games, lemmings, do you remember that
28:12when they all fell off cliffs and off obstacles and things?
28:15So obviously it should be lambs, but we've made it lemmings. Rachel's absolute favourite, you can't teach an old leopard
28:22new spots.
28:23Oh, my goodness.
28:25And finally, just like the creation of manifolds, really, because they are surprisingly easy to, you know, to generate because
28:32we all get things wrong. It's like a walk in the cake.
28:35Love it.
28:36There you go, Mark.
28:39OK, four rounds left in today's countdown. Our challenger, Dave, is 32 points behind. It's not unheard of, but you're
28:47going to have to rise like a phoenix from the oven. And it's your letters.
28:52Consonant, please, Rachel.
28:54Thank you, Dave.
28:55N.
28:56And a vowel.
28:58A.
28:59And a consonant.
29:01P.
29:03And another consonant.
29:04P.
29:07And another consonant.
29:09P.
29:11Vowel.
29:12O.
29:14Another vowel.
29:16E.
29:18And a consonant.
29:19M.
29:21And a final consonant.
29:23Final N.
29:24And contact.
29:25One.
29:28The.
29:29The.
29:35And.
29:39The.
29:39And.
29:52And.
29:54We.
29:55And.
29:57BUZZER
29:57All right, Dave?
29:59Six.
30:00Terence?
30:01Four.
30:02Yeah, really difficult. What have you got?
30:03Poem.
30:04And what have you got there, Dave?
30:06You have pen man.
30:08Always use the man.
30:09You can.
30:11Yes.
30:11Absolutely.
30:12A clerk or somebody who writes on behalf of others.
30:14Well done.
30:15Well done.
30:17That's better than mine, because we've been a milkman,
30:19that was in my head, and I thought you were the lemonade man.
30:22Could he be a pop man?
30:23Yeah, you've got a lemonade pop.
30:25Don't look it up, Susie, please.
30:26Debbie?
30:27I didn't get any that time, but...
30:30Susie did.
30:30Yeah, just a countdown regular, the mapani tree.
30:33Yeah.
30:34And that's there for another six.
30:35Fantastic.
30:36Well done, Dave.
30:37That was heroic.
30:38Let's get on.
30:39Terence, not done yet.
30:40Nope.
30:41Consonant, please.
30:43Thank you, Terence.
30:44R.
30:45And another.
30:47N.
30:48And a third.
30:50W.
30:51Vowel, please.
30:52A.
30:53And another.
30:54I.
30:55And another.
30:56E.
30:58Consonant.
31:00R.
31:01And another.
31:03T.
31:04And a final consonant.
31:05S.
31:08Last letters.
31:09P.
31:09Hallmark.
31:10I'm Bruce.
31:11I am position.
31:14T.
31:37He plans.
31:39We're measuring signs,
31:40Terence? Eight. And Dave? Eight.
31:43And eight for you, great, but this would end as a competition.
31:46Terence? Trainers. And for you, Dave? Retrains.
31:49Yeah. Retrains. Excellent, thank you.
31:51Eight points, eight. Well done, both of you.
31:53APPLAUSE
31:54As Terence sees his fourth win, Debbie, an eight with a W left over.
32:00Indeed. Yes, we had terrains, that was another one.
32:03Yeah. That's all we've got. Well done to Terence.
32:06Well done, Dave, it's been a good battle. Let's do our last numbers.
32:09Two big, four small, please, Rachel. Two from the top.
32:12Four not. Final numbers of this contest.
32:16Three, seven, ten, three,
32:20fifty and seventy-five.
32:22And the target you need to reach? One hundred and ninety-nine.
32:24One-nine-nine. Last numbers.
32:26One-nine-nine.
32:27One-nine-nine.
32:31One-nine.
32:38One-nine.
32:45One-nine.
32:47One-nine.
32:49One-nine.
32:50One-nine.
32:51One-nine.
32:52One-nine.
32:53One-nine.
32:54One-nine.
32:54One-nine.
32:55One-nine.
32:56One-nine.
32:561-9-9, Dave. 200.
33:00One away. And for you, Terence? Yeah, 200.
33:03200 as well. Yeah. Dave?
33:05Seven minus three is four. Yeah.
33:07Times five of 50. Easy seven points.
33:10Same way? Unsurprisingly the same way, yeah.
33:12All right. Seven points each.
33:15What have we missed? Because you didn't even use your clipboard.
33:18Well, for the ten, if you say three times 50 is 150,
33:22ten minus the other three is seven, times seven is 49,
33:27and add them together. Oops.
33:29APPLAUSE
33:32Been a long day, hasn't it? We've all had a drink.
33:3685, 59. 85, 59.
33:38Here we go. Fingers on buzzers.
33:41Thursday afternoon, not over yet for Countdown.
33:43Let's reveal our Countdown conundrum.
33:47Go on, Terence. Hilarious.
33:50Hey, let's have a look.
33:52APPLAUSE
33:54Another really good score after your turn yesterday.
33:57Terence hits 95.
34:00Usually, Dave, we would say, you know,
34:02you have to get up early in the morning to beat somebody,
34:04but the fact that you had to get up early in the morning
34:06might be why you didn't win.
34:08So there you go. But it's been good crack, hasn't it?
34:10Spot on, yeah. It's been a pleasure. Good day out.
34:12Good day out. Exactly that.
34:14And you've got at least one more ahead of you, Terence,
34:15so we'll see you tomorrow. Thank you.
34:17Well done. Bye, Debbie. Bye. Bye.
34:20This is quite a big studio. Bye.
34:22Bye.
34:23See you later, Suze.
34:24Yeah, see you then.
34:24See you tomorrow, Rachel.
34:25See you tomorrow, Carl.
34:26Thank you. Last show of the week tomorrow,
34:27Friday, same time, same place.
34:29We'll be waiting for you.
34:31You can count on us.
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