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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:35You one of those tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people who are suffering from email overload, particularly people
00:42in business.
00:45Unread emails apparently is causing people to get ill, according to a psychology professor at Manchester University.
00:53People that don't read them and they build up and they build up like this great dark cloud and they
00:58don't know what to do.
00:59And, you know, because so many people are just sort of copied in on things that they don't need to
01:02be copied in on.
01:04And people are fretting. Oh, my. Is there something in there that I should have read?
01:07And yet they can't do it anymore because they've got thousands of emails.
01:11I imagine you have a huge email traffic. You disciplined about it?
01:15Oh, it causes me loads of stress, actually, Nick. You're absolutely right on what you just said.
01:20Because I used to have about 50 and I kept the ones unread of the ones I needed to respond
01:24to.
01:24And then I thought, I'll have a holiday. When I went away, I thought I won't check them for a
01:27week.
01:28And that was the start of the year and I haven't caught up. I've got about four or five hundred
01:31at least.
01:32And you just can't get down there. You just can't get to them.
01:35And then they sit there and you think, well, if someone hasn't prodded me or called me or, you know,
01:38turned up and bashed me on the head, then it's probably OK.
01:42I think you're right. That's it. You can't suddenly you can't get on top of it.
01:45My Catherine, she's extraordinary. She has none.
01:48That's brilliant.
01:48That's what happened. She's like, I file this and I file that. I know where everything is.
01:52Yeah.
01:52I think she's a control freak.
01:54I need to get Catherine around to my email box.
01:57Be careful what you dream about.
01:59Who's here? We've got the Irish back again.
02:01And we've got Piers Walsh, back account manager from Randall in Dublin.
02:05Three good wins. How are you feeling? You good?
02:07Yes, feeling good.
02:08You weren't on the razzle last night, I hope.
02:10Just a few.
02:11Really?
02:12Well, we've got just a man to take you on now.
02:15Tony Norris, a GP manager, practice manager from North Allerton in North Yorkshire.
02:20Yeah.
02:20Brilliant stuff. And loves keeping fit.
02:22You belong to the Neon Lights running group.
02:25Neon Nights. I'm sorry. Neon Nights. Why?
02:28We wear neon shirts and run at night.
02:32Well, you've nailed it in one then. Well done.
02:35And you're a founder of the North Allerton Park run. Excellent.
02:39Well, you're very welcome here. Both of you. Good luck to you both.
02:42Have fun. Relax.
02:44Up to a point.
02:45Big round of applause for Piers and Tony.
02:53And over the corner, Susie.
02:54And Susie has the great good fortune to be sitting next to one of our best-loved broadcasters
03:01and one of our favourite Dixie Corner guests.
03:04You are such a smoothie. I love you.
03:07That's Gloria.
03:08I love it.
03:14I was just going to say about computers. You have another person. I don't do any of them.
03:19I have a computer and I receive the information and then I get the telephone number and I call
03:23everybody back. But I never return an email.
03:25All right. Piers, let's go. Letters go.
03:29Afternoon, Rachel.
03:30Afternoon, Piers.
03:31Consonant, please.
03:32Thank you. Start today with B.
03:55And here's the countdown clock.
04:30Piers.
04:30Seven.
04:31A seven.
04:32Tony.
04:33Six.
04:33And your six is?
04:35Porter.
04:36Pivoter.
04:39You happy, Susie?
04:40Yes, you can be a pivoter. Somebody who pivots. Very good.
04:43And what about Gloria?
04:45Yes, I had exactly the same word, which I'm stroking off, so well done.
04:49And overtip is another one for seven.
04:52And Susie?
04:53No, seven was the best for us.
04:56Okay. So, Tony, your letters came now.
05:00Hi, Rachel.
05:01Hi, Tony.
05:02Consonant, please.
05:03Thank you, sir.
05:03We'll start with M.
05:05And another one.
05:07F.
05:08And another.
05:10S.
05:10And again.
05:12M.
05:14Vowel, please.
05:15I.
05:16And another.
05:18A.
05:19And another.
05:21E.
05:23And a consonant, please.
05:28And the last one, S.
05:30Stand by.
05:31Thank you, sir.
05:34I'm going to be right back.
05:38Bye.
05:43Bye.
06:02Tony?
06:03Seven.
06:04A seven. Yes, Pierce?
06:05A five.
06:06And your five is what?
06:08Fuses.
06:09No, Tony.
06:11Surmise.
06:12Surmise.
06:13How are you spelling, Dad?
06:15S-U-M-M-I-S-E.
06:18Oh, it's got an R in it rather than a double M, so it's S-U-R-M-I-S
06:21-E.
06:23Surmise.
06:24Gloria?
06:25I'm not very good on this one at all.
06:28Misuse?
06:28Yes.
06:30But Susie can go higher than that.
06:32I'm quite sure.
06:33Go high with an Australian sandwich, or two of them.
06:37Sammy's.
06:37I love it.
06:38Ham Sammy.
06:39Twelve points to miss.
06:40Well done.
06:41And it's Pierce's numbers game now.
06:43Pierce?
06:44Two large and four small, please.
06:45Thank you, Pierce.
06:46Two from the top four.
06:47Little first one of the day.
06:48And there you are.
06:50Seven.
06:51Seven.
06:52One.
06:53Three.
06:54And the large one's 50 and 25.
06:56And the target, 792.
07:00792.
07:02792.
07:02And the second one's 50.benist,
07:04And the wholeize
07:06to the big one. And the third.
07:21The large one's
07:21In the victory. And
07:22the moon's 50
07:32Yes?
07:33No.
07:33No?
07:34No idea.
07:35All right, then.
07:37This has got to be tricky.
07:397-9-2.
07:42What do you think, Rachel?
07:45I think you might have to leave it with me, Nick.
07:47Certainly will.
07:48Certainly will.
07:487-9-2.
07:49But now it's time for our first Tea Time Teaser,
07:52which is Heady Woes.
07:54And the clue?
07:55You spot Hank Marvin.
07:57It must be something in your make-up.
07:59You spot Hank Marvin.
08:01It must be something in your make-up.
08:18Welcome back.
08:19Welcome back.
08:20I left you with a clue.
08:21You spot Hank Marvin.
08:22It must be something in your make-up.
08:25And the clever answer to that is eye shadow.
08:28Eye shadow.
08:31Rachel, you've done it?
08:32Yeah, I found it, Nick.
08:33If you say 25 times 3 is 75.
08:37Add 50 for 125 and 7 for 132.
08:42And then the other 7 minus 1 is 6.
08:44And times them together for 7-9-2.
08:51That's the way, guys.
08:53That's the way.
08:54Tony, it's your letters, Kim.
08:55Consonant, please.
08:57Thank you, Tony.
08:57N.
08:58And another.
09:00Q.
09:02And again.
09:03D.
09:04And again.
09:06W.
09:07Vowel, please.
09:09O.
09:10And another.
09:12E.
09:13And another.
09:15A.
09:17Consonant, please.
09:19N.
09:20And another consonant.
09:22And the last one, S.
09:24Stand by.
09:25Vowel, please.
09:26Vowel, please.
09:29Vowel, please.
09:33Vowel, please.
09:40Vowel, please.
09:40Vowel, please.
09:41Vowel, please.
09:43Vowel, please.
09:50Vowel, please.
09:55Well, Tony?
09:57A six.
09:58A six and?
09:59Seven.
09:59And a seven.
10:00Tony?
10:01Snored.
10:02And?
10:03Swanned.
10:04Swanned.
10:05Swanned about.
10:06Very, very good indeed.
10:08Yes, really good, son.
10:09Well done.
10:10Now, Gloria, what have you cooked up?
10:12Very little does the answer.
10:14Susie's the bright one here.
10:15I think it's A-N-O-D-E-S.
10:18Is that it?
10:19Anodes.
10:19Yes, opposite of cathodes.
10:20Positively charged electrodes, anodes.
10:23That will give you a six.
10:24Well done, Gloria.
10:25Positively charged.
10:26Perfect.
10:27As it should be.
10:2819 points.
10:29Pierce, your letters came now.
10:31Consonant, please.
10:32Thank you, Pierce.
10:33L.
10:35Vowel.
10:36E.
10:37Consonant.
10:39T.
10:40Consonant.
10:42H.
10:43Vowel.
10:45I.
10:46Vowel.
10:47A.
10:48Consonant.
10:50R.
10:51Consonant.
10:53Z.
10:54And a consonant, please.
10:56And the last one, T.
10:58Stand by.
10:59Vowel.
11:00Cone.
11:29Pish?
11:30Six.
11:31And Tony?
11:32And six.
11:33Yes, Piers?
11:34Rattle.
11:35Tony?
11:36Same word.
11:38Yep.
11:39I thought I was doing well with tether.
11:41Yeah.
11:42Until you said that was wrong.
11:43You need two E's for that one, unfortunately.
11:46But just six is otherwise for glory and me.
11:48We had larger, lazier, that kind of thing.
11:5225 plays six and it's Tony's numbers game.
11:55Now then, Tony.
11:57Can I have one larger fives more, please?
11:59You can indeed.
12:00Thank you, Tony.
12:00One from the top this time.
12:01And your five little ones are six, nine, nine, three and one and the big one, 75.
12:11And this time the target 854.
12:14854.
12:16All right.
12:27Yeah,
12:44we'll be right back.
12:46Tony.
12:498, 5, 2.
12:508, 5, 2. What about Pearce?
12:538, 5, 2.
12:55Hmm, pretty hesitant here. Tony.
12:58Um, 9 plus 3 is 12.
13:009 plus 3 is 12.
13:02Times 75.
13:03Times 75, 900.
13:06Um, 9 minus 1.
13:08The other 9 minus 1 is 8.
13:11Times 6.
13:1248.
13:13And take that from the 900.
13:158, 5, 2. Two away.
13:17Pearce?
13:18Same way.
13:19Same way?
13:19Just, uh, there we are.
13:21Let's see if we can find that, uh, missing 2, Rachel.
13:26What do you think?
13:27Well, 9, 95s can get you to 8, 5, 5, but this one's actually impossible.
13:31They did well?
13:32They did very well.
13:3432 plays at 13.
13:36Tony on 13.
13:37Lots of time left as we gaze expectantly towards Gloria.
13:42Gloria, Gloria, one of your heroes left us earlier this year, but you had a chance one
13:47day in the past to have interviewed her.
13:50Yes, we're talking about Doris Day, and, and peers will know this, in, in Ireland, that
13:54women, actually, I'm much older than you are, but in my town in the north of Ireland, there
13:59was nothing to do but to go to the cinema, or the pictures as we called it, and when I
14:03was young, I mean, I wanted to be Doris Day, I could sing like Doris Day, I could slap
14:07my thigh like Doris Day, as I got older, I wanted the clothes of Doris Day, I wanted the
14:12men that Doris Day actually acted with.
14:15Um, and eventually, I mean, you may know, by the way, that Doris Day, when her husband,
14:20Marty, died in 1969, she never really gave another interview, and the only time she appeared
14:26in public, was when she did a tribute to Rock Hudson, when he died, and so in 1993, when
14:32I was working for Radio 2, a record friend of mine rang up and said, how would you like
14:36to interview Doris Day, and I go, yeah, she hasn't given an interview since 1968, no, she
14:40said, I'm being serious.
14:42So it turned out that Doris had made a record in the year that her husband died, and it
14:46had never been released, so her son had found it, so it was called The Lost Record, obviously,
14:51and so, cut the story, I was on the plane the next day to Pebble Beach in California, I
14:57read everything in sight in that long journey, and got to her hotel, she had a hotel called
15:02Cyprus Inn at Pebble Beach, and anyway, we went to the bar when we arrived off the plane,
15:08and her son was there with one of the Bee Gees, I thought that was good enough, you know,
15:12they were hanging out, and I thought, great, but then he said, look, if my mum's original
15:17makeup artist from Hollywood, going back all those years, doesn't arrive, she won't
15:21do the interview, and I'm thinking, I have flown all this way, I'm so excited, anyway,
15:27she did, she turned up in the morning, and apart from being a bit thicker in the middle,
15:31and I'm there myself, she looked exactly the same, she always wore that white polar neck,
15:35you know, which took away all the wrinkles here, etc., hair the same way, and she was
15:39absolutely delightful, people called her a recluse, but she wasn't really, she just fell
15:45in love with her animal foundation, and at that point, not that she would tell me too much,
15:49but she had 21 dogs, and the thing that intrigued me, because I've got a lovely King Charles
15:54Cavalier, and I love her like a baby, but they had a special kitchen for the dogs, they had
15:59a special cook for the dogs, they had ging placemats for the dogs, and so she said, well,
16:05I mean, if I have a nice placemat, why shouldn't my dogs? So at the end, we were kicking sand
16:10on
16:10the beach for a bit of overlay for the film, and I thought, if I had known, when I was
16:15watching
16:15her endlessly on the screen, that one day, I'd kick sand with Doris Day and her grandson,
16:21yes, that was one of the pinnacles, so I was very sad to hear that she'd gone.
16:25Amazing thing.
16:27She was great.
16:3232, plays 13, and it's Piers we turn to. Piers, off we go.
16:38Consonant, please.
16:39Thank you, Piers.
16:41S.
16:41Vowel.
16:43E.
16:44Consonant.
16:45L.
16:47Consonant.
16:48S.
16:49Vowel.
16:51U.
16:52Consonant.
16:54M.
16:55Consonant.
16:57R.
16:58Vowel.
17:00E.
17:02And a consonant, please.
17:03And the last one, N.
17:05Stand by.
17:08Vowel.
17:09Vowel.
17:20Vowel.
17:22Vowel.
17:25Vowel.
17:26Vowel.
17:27Vowel.
17:28Vowel.
17:29Vowel.
17:29Vowel.
17:30Vowel.
17:31Vowel.
17:31Vowel.
17:34Vowel.
17:35Vowel.
17:35Vowel.
17:37Vowel.
17:38Yes, only five Tony a seven
17:43Piers slums slums and Tony resumes
17:47Very nice resumes. Well done
17:50And what about Gloria? Well, I too had slums
17:53We didn't really go too far and then insurers. E n s u r e s. Yes
17:59I smell good seven and and there's another unusual one, but I quite like this one rumless without any rum
18:08I definitely don't want to be there. That's a bad night if you're a rumbler so 32 to 20 Tony
18:13clambering up there
18:14And it's Tony we turn to now. Letters game Tony
18:17Consonant please. Thank you, Tony
18:20G and another
18:23R and another one
18:26S and again
18:29N vowel I and again O and a third
18:38And another one
18:40A
18:42And a final consonant, please and a final R
18:48Countdown
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29:03Tony.
29:05Only five.
29:06Five and?
29:07A six.
29:07And a six.
29:08Just one point ahead.
29:09Yes, Tony.
29:11Actor.
29:12And?
29:12Taylor.
29:13And Taylor.
29:15Yes.
29:16What?
29:17Lucy, Taylor.
29:18Yes.
29:19Susie?
29:20Really tough.
29:21I couldn't do more than six either, I'm afraid.
29:22That's it.
29:25Pierce, final letters game for you.
29:28Consonant, please.
29:29Thank you, Pierce.
29:30T.
29:31Vowel.
29:33E.
29:34Consonant.
29:36N.
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29:53And a consonant, please.
29:55And the last one.
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29:58Stand by.
29:59Vowel.
30:00Vowel.
30:20D 놀라ść.
30:20Cami.
30:21Cami.
30:21Cami.
30:21Cami.
30:23Cami.
30:24Cami.
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30:30Yes, Piers?
30:31Six.
30:32Tony?
30:32Seven.
30:34Interesting.
30:35Piers?
30:36Diffuse.
30:37Tony?
30:38Deafens.
30:39I'm deaf.
30:40Yes, very good.
30:42And we have an eight.
30:43We do.
30:44Fastened.
30:45Fastened.
30:46Excellent.
30:47Fastened.
30:47That's a magic trick.
30:52And Emiya, Susie?
30:53Feasted will give you a seven.
30:55Another seven.
30:56Well done.
30:56Thanks, Gloria.
30:5768 to 50.
30:59And, Tony, it's the final numbers game for you.
31:02Can I have two large and four small, please?
31:03You can, indeed.
31:04You know what I'm going to ask, though?
31:05You're 18 behind.
31:06You definitely want to sit with two large.
31:09Yes.
31:09This is the gamble, right?
31:10Let's see how it plays out.
31:12Thank you, Tony.
31:13The four little ones are...
31:15Ten, one, seven, and four.
31:18And the large two, one hundred and fifty.
31:21We need something tricky-ish.
31:22The target, 947.
31:25Nine for seven.
31:57Yes, Tony.
31:59No.
32:00No?
32:01Nine for seven.
32:02Yes.
32:03Yes, please.
32:04Hundred times ten.
32:05One hundred times ten.
32:06One thousand.
32:08Nine is fifty.
32:08Nine is fifty for nine hundred and fifty.
32:10Seven minus four is three.
32:11Yeah.
32:12Take it away.
32:12And that's you over the line, nine for seven.
32:14Well done.
32:19All right.
32:20So here we are, seventy-eight to fifty, and it's the final round.
32:24Fingers on buzzers, chaps.
32:26Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:31Piers.
32:32Enamoured.
32:33Enamoured, and I can see Tony shaking his head furiously.
32:38But he's wrong.
32:39The rest of the time, to Tony.
33:00Is it Tony?
33:02Demeanour.
33:03Demeanour?
33:05Let's see whether you're right.
33:08No?
33:10No?
33:11They both had a good shot at it.
33:12Two good players.
33:13Who in the audience is going to take this on?
33:16Somebody will take this on.
33:19No?
33:21Let's roll it and see.
33:23Here it comes.
33:25Memoranda.
33:26There we are.
33:27Memoranda.
33:28All right.
33:31So well done, Piers.
33:33Your fourth win.
33:34I'll come back to you in a second.
33:36Well played, Tony.
33:37Bit of a slow start, but then you clambered up.
33:40But in the end, you have to submit to Mr. Walsh.
33:44But thank you very much indeed for coming.
33:46You take this goodie bag back to North Allerton with our very best wishes.
33:50Thanks for coming.
33:51Travel safely.
33:52Thanks.
33:54Good man.
33:55Four wins.
33:56Yeah.
33:57You're on your way.
33:58Getting there.
33:58We'll see you tomorrow.
33:59Yes.
34:00Well done.
34:00All right.
34:01And we'll see Gloria tomorrow too.
34:03It's the black stuff that he drinks, you know, that gives him that extra.
34:07Never fails, does it?
34:09Yes, look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
34:11Absolutely.
34:12And Susie too.
34:13Yes.
34:13All right.
34:14Rachel, see you tomorrow.
34:15I used to drink the black stuff.
34:18Gotcha, you're pregnant.
34:21We'll see you tomorrow.
34:22See you tomorrow.
34:23See you tomorrow.
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