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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio on the second day, as it were, of our champion of champions,
00:39the second match.
00:40Here we are. It's only the 3rd of January, Rachel. Many, many people are already calling it damp January.
00:48Some are still calling it dry January. And apparently, Rachel, I don't understand all this, last year over 3.1
00:54million people in the UK abstained for drinking for the whole month.
00:58I'm not a heavy drinker, and I don't believe you are either, but I wouldn't dream of giving it up.
01:02Why would you give up something that's so enjoyable?
01:05Well, last year I did Veganuary for January and ended up sticking with it because I felt a lot better.
01:09And I guess it's even with alcohol. And I wanted to talk to you, actually, because Dr. Phil, who was
01:13on back at the back end of last year,
01:15he recommended this sleep book, and it talks about what alcohol does, even one little bit of alcohol. It stops
01:21you sleeping properly.
01:22So I'm the person who loves my bed. So now I do have a little think twice before I have
01:27a glass of wine before I call it a night.
01:30It's a funny thing, but when we're, you know, filming here, and I normally don't, well, I do have a
01:35glass of wine at supper time.
01:37Yes, I certainly do. And in fact, it's a very rare time when I don't have a glass of beer
01:42or a glass of wine.
01:42But when I'm filming here, because, you know, one's head spinning around, I always, and on the advice of our
01:48wardrobe master, Lee Joseph,
01:50she says you must have a glass of brandy before you go to bed, which is what I do.
01:55Well, you can listen to Mr. Lee from Wardrobe, or you can listen to a sleep scientist and Dr. Phil.
02:00I'm sticking with Lee. I'm not giving up my brandy before I go to bed. I must say, it does
02:06put me away.
02:09Well, I might rephrase that somehow. Rachel, we've got Anne Dibbenback, company secretary from Hazelmere,
02:17was Series 74 runner-up back in 2016, and it was that Paul Uddenas who put a stop to it.
02:25But it's great to have you back. It's lovely to be back. Thank you.
02:28Good to see you. Let's see whether John Cowan is going to let you through or overcome you.
02:34Let's have a look. John's a maths graduate from Morecambe, an octave jump back in Series 77.
02:40That's 2018, I think, just last year, wasn't it? Brilliant.
02:44But your run ended at the hands of Bradley Horrocks in the semi-final.
02:48Yes.
02:49So we've got two people here who've got something to prove. Good luck to you both.
02:52Big round of applause there for Anne and John.
02:58Anne and John. All right.
03:01And over in the corner, Susie, of course, with presenter and author Kate Humble.
03:05Welcome back, Kate. Welcome back.
03:06Thank you very much.
03:11Wonderful lady. Anne, it's your letters game.
03:15Hi, Rachel.
03:16Hi again, Anne.
03:17Could I have a consonant, please?
03:19Thank you. Start today with G.
03:22And another.
03:24R.
03:26And a vowel.
03:27A.
03:29And another vowel, please.
03:31E.
03:32And a consonant.
03:34F.
03:36And a consonant.
03:38S.
03:39And another vowel, please.
03:43A.
03:44Another vowel.
03:46I.
03:49And a final consonant, please.
03:54And a final H.
03:56And here's the countdown clock.
03:57F.
03:58Orford?
03:59V.
04:07And a fantasia.
04:10And a vowel, please.
04:19And a consonant.
04:19And a consonant.
04:23And a tiếng.ced
04:28Anne.
04:29Seven.
04:30John.
04:30Seven, also.
04:32Now.
04:33Hajira's.
04:34Hello.
04:36Yes.
04:37There we are.
04:39Now then, Susie.
04:41Yes, a Hajira is an exodus or migration.
04:44Goes back to the original one, which was Muhammad's departure from Mecca.
04:48Well, well.
04:49But what else have we got there?
04:51Kate and Susie.
04:53Well, I got Faraj.
04:57Yeah, and Susie said we could put an S on the end, but no-one wants more than one.
05:05Very good.
05:06But Garfish there for seven.
05:09A Garfish, indeed.
05:10Seven points apiece.
05:11Now then, John, off we go.
05:13Good afternoon, Rachel.
05:15Afternoon, John.
05:16Can I start with a consonant, please?
05:18You can, indeed.
05:18Start with W.
05:20And a vowel.
05:22U.
05:23And a consonant.
05:25N.
05:26And another.
05:28M.
05:29And another.
05:31G.
05:33And a vowel.
05:35E.
05:36And another.
05:38O.
05:39And a consonant.
05:42R.
05:43And a final vowel, please.
05:46And a final U.
05:47And it's Countdown.
05:50And it's Countdown.
06:21John.
06:22Six.
06:23Now then, Anne.
06:25I've got a six, but I don't think it's a six.
06:28Are you going to stick with it?
06:29Yeah.
06:29Now then, John.
06:30I've got monger.
06:32I've got monger.
06:32I've got monger.
06:33Is that what Anne's got?
06:34I've got that, but I didn't think you could have it alone.
06:37Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:38Susie?
06:40Well, once upon a time, I think that probably would have been fine.
06:42We're talking about cheesemonger, fishmonger, that kind of thing.
06:44But now, it's very much only used as a combining form.
06:47And in the dictionary, it's got a hyphen in front of it.
06:50So, it means I can't allow it, I'm afraid.
06:51I'm really sorry.
06:53I'd like.
06:53Yeah.
06:54So, Anne was right all along, then.
06:55Now, Kate and Susie?
06:57Well, there's morgue for six.
07:00Oh.
07:01I know, not very cheery.
07:03And a couple of fives, women, rogue.
07:07Yeah.
07:07Susie, anything else?
07:08No, morgue our best.
07:10Now, seven apiece.
07:11What should we do?
07:12Anne, numbers again?
07:13Thanks, Nick.
07:14Hi, Rachel, again.
07:15Can I have one from the top, please?
07:17You can, indeed.
07:19Keep it as straightforward as possible to start with.
07:21Thank you, Anne.
07:22The five little ones are seven, two, one, six, four.
07:27And the big one, 50.
07:29And the target, 491.
07:32Four, nine, one.
08:04Anne?
08:05Four, nine, one.
08:06John?
08:07Four, nine, one.
08:08Off we go.
08:09Anne?
08:09Six plus four.
08:11Ten.
08:11Times 50.
08:12500.
08:13Minus seven, minus two.
08:15491.
08:15Lovely.
08:16John?
08:17Have them the same?
08:18I'm sure.
08:19There we go.
08:24Nothing in it.
08:2517 apiece as we turn to our first Tea Time Teaser, which is Once I Sum and the Clue.
08:33Once I get some work, we can slacken the purse strings, but until then, we need to cut back.
08:39Once I get some work, we can slacken the purse strings, but until then, we need to cut back.
09:01We need to economize.
09:09Economize.
09:09How often have I told her that?
09:12Economize.
09:1217 apiece.
09:14John, your letters again.
09:16Can I start with a consonant, please, Rachel?
09:18Thank you, John.
09:19C.
09:20And another.
09:22R.
09:23And a vowel.
09:25E.
09:26And another.
09:28O.
09:29And a consonant.
09:31T.
09:32And a vowel.
09:34E.
09:35And a consonant.
09:37S.
09:38And another.
09:40T.
09:40And a final consonant, please.
09:45And a final L.
09:46Stand by.
09:49I'll see you later.
09:51I'm a nossa.
09:57Next time.
10:07Bye.
10:08Bye.
10:10Bye.
10:12Bye.
10:12Bye.
10:15Bye.
10:17Well, John?
10:18Eight.
10:19Anne?
10:20Eight.
10:21Thank you, John.
10:22Electors.
10:24And Anne?
10:25Porseted.
10:26Any more eights, Kate?
10:28There were some more eights.
10:29There was a scorted as well.
10:32Yep, and there was a corselet,
10:35and that was a piece of body armour that covered their trunk.
10:39Perfect.
10:43Corselet.
10:44OK.
10:4525 apiece.
10:46Anne, your letters, Jane.
10:48Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:50Thank you, Anne.
10:51S.
10:52And another.
10:54B.
10:55And a vowel.
10:57I.
10:58And another vowel.
11:01O.
11:02And a consonant.
11:04N.
11:06And another consonant, please.
11:09M.
11:11And a vowel.
11:13E.
11:15And a consonant.
11:17M.
11:19And a final vowel.
11:21And a final I.
11:23Stand by.
11:24We know.
11:25Lолодj bro.
11:26We know.
11:53And a consonant.
11:54and seven thank you John seven and bunnies now then John minions and what
12:04is the corner produced for us now nothing better than though those two
12:08words as well so that's it yeah thank you 32 a piece now then John the the
12:15maths graduate from Morecambe it's numbers time please can I have six
12:19small six small in minion style you're being despicable six little ones tricky
12:24one coming up and they are nine four seven another seven one five and the
12:33target 288 288
13:08John 288 Ann 288 not written down so Ann no sorry I've gone wrong no no over to John
13:20seven times five is 35 yep the other seven minus four is three it is 35 minus
13:28three is 32 and times nine perfect 288 well that is good
13:32well done there John pops you into a lead ten points 42 to 32 as we turn to to Kate
13:44and Kate you're gonna be talking to us now about a new trend in water sports what's
13:48this all about well it's sort of a water sport and sort of a foot sport I was
13:55working in Snowdonia last year a very beautiful part of the country have you
14:00ever been I haven't well it's a it is mountains it's rivers it's woodland it's a
14:08very dramatic countryside and one of the best ways to see it is of course to be out
14:14there on foot but often when you're walking in landscapes like that you get
14:19scuppered because there's a river in the way and not always a bridge and there is a
14:24couple who have brought to sport that is actually quite big in New Zealand but
14:29very few people are doing it in the UK and they've brought it to Wales and they
14:34told me it was called pack rafting and I said well what does that mean and they
14:39said well it means that you can walk you carry a boat on your back and then when
14:44you get to a river you can put your boat on the river and paddle down you said
14:47well that sounds marvelous but there's nothing worse than walking with a wallop
14:51you know I had sort of envisaged this enormous sort of canoe kind of half on my
14:55head anyway it's the most brilliant thing it is you'd love it it's a proper
15:00invention so it is a a proper canoe but it rolls up and it's absolutely tiny it
15:09weighs just over a kilo and you so you can just put it in into a little backpack
15:15or something like that into a day pack and it's it's sort of you know
15:19pleasingly boat shaped so you think well that's a good start but how on earth are
15:24we going to blow it up and I was expecting there'd be a foot pump or
15:29something like that no no foot pump just a bag made out of very lightweight
15:35material like the sort of material you might have on a fly sheet on a tent and
15:39what you did was you would just fill the bag with air and then squeeze it and
15:43that's how you inflated the boat isn't that brilliant absolutely nothing
15:48absolutely nothing at all and I thought this is going to take like two hours to do
15:52it but it was amazingly quick and it filled the boat that was very stable and we
15:59had little paddles that just all screwed together and it was the most wonderful
16:03sort of contrast of seeing the landscape from a kind of different perspective and
16:09we paddled down the river right out to the estuary and to the sea and it was just I
16:15just thought what a wonderful idea what a wonderful way of really being able to
16:20appreciate our countryside in two completely different ways
16:23that's genius isn't it absolutely it's one of those things you want to kind of
16:27phone everybody and tell them so I'm telling you but I love this idea and it's
16:31called it's called rafting pack rafting yeah absolutely brilliant idea and as I say a very
16:37special way of seeing a very good 42 to 32 John on 42 and you'll let us go a
16:52consonant please Rachel thank you and L and another ah and another T and a vowel a and a consonant
17:06and a
17:18consonant please and final T stand by
17:26so
17:38so
17:53Anne.
17:55Nine.
17:55And nine, John.
17:57Nine also.
17:58Here we go.
17:59Same nine, Anne.
18:01Tolerates.
18:02And?
18:03I've also got tolerate.
18:04Tolerates.
18:05Well done.
18:10Well, it's good to get a nine tucked away.
18:13Kate and Susie?
18:14Couldn't beat that.
18:15Got letters.
18:18Yeah.
18:19But you got it.
18:20Letters and rattles.
18:22Well done.
18:23So, still ten points.
18:24Sixty plays fifty.
18:25John in the lead.
18:26John, your letters game.
18:28Can I start with a consonant, please?
18:30Thank you, John.
18:31D.
18:32And a vowel.
18:34U.
18:35And another.
18:37E.
18:38And a consonant.
18:40V.
18:41And a vowel.
18:42O.
18:44And another.
18:46E.
18:47And a consonant.
18:49Q.
18:50And a consonant.
18:52P.
18:53And a final vowel, please.
18:57And a final A.
18:59Stand by.
19:01And a consonant.
19:14And a consonant.
19:18And a consonant.
19:19And a consonant.
19:19And a consonant.
19:20And a consonant.
19:20And a consonant.
19:22and a consonant.
19:22And a consonant.
19:30Well, John?
19:31Five.
19:32Anne?
19:33Six.
19:33John?
19:35Vaped.
19:36Now then, Anne?
19:37Opaque.
19:38What have we got in the corner, Kate and Susie?
19:41Well, I had never heard of this, but this is Susie's command,
19:45such as Susie's command of the dictionary,
19:48that you can have opaque, Anne, but you can put a D on the end of it
19:51and have opaqued.
19:53So you can opaque a window, for instance?
19:55Yeah, it just means blacked out.
19:56Yeah, OK.
19:57Yeah, made opaque.
19:59Indeed.
20:00So, 60 to 56, only four points in it, Anne,
20:05and it's your numbers game now.
20:07One large game, please, Rachel.
20:09Stick with what?
20:10You know one large five little coming up.
20:13See if this one's safe.
20:14They are six.
20:15One.
20:16Three.
20:17Another one.
20:18Two.
20:19And a large one, 50.
20:20And the target, 709.
20:24709.
20:55Just 7.10.
20:577.10.
20:57And, John?
20:59Just 7.11.
21:017.11.
21:02Anne?
21:0450 times 2.
21:06100.
21:08Add 1.
21:09101.
21:106 plus 1.
21:116 plus the other one is 7.
21:13And times them.
21:147.07.
21:15Add the 3.
21:167.10.
21:177.10.
21:171 above.
21:18Well done.
21:19Well done.
21:20Well done.
21:20Where's it got to, Rachel?
21:22Well, this is a rather rare, impossible one large selection.
21:26So, that's the best you could have done.
21:27So, well done, Anne.
21:27Oh, well done.
21:28Yeah.
21:28Excellent stuff.
21:2963 now to John's 60.
21:33Right.
21:34Let's have a tea time teaser.
21:35Give them a little bit of a rest.
21:37It's Laid Mince and the clue.
21:38He'd have a few snifters before bedtime, purely for these purposes.
21:43He'd have a few snifters before bedtime, purely for these purposes.
22:03Welcome back.
22:04I left with the clue he'd have a few snifters before bedtime, purely for these purposes.
22:09Purely for medicinal purposes, of course.
22:12Medicinal.
22:14So, Anne.
22:1563 points to John's 60.
22:18Now then, John, what are we going to do?
22:21Can I start with a consonant, please?
22:23Thank you, John.
22:24D.
22:25And a vowel.
22:27O.
22:28And another.
22:30E.
22:31And a consonant.
22:33V.
22:34And another.
22:36T.
22:37And a vowel.
22:39U.
22:40And a consonant.
22:42D.
22:43And a vowel.
22:45E.
22:46And a final consonant.
22:48And a final G.
22:50Stand by.
23:10And a vowel.
23:11And a vowel.
23:11And a vowel.
23:11And a vowel.
23:11And a vowel.
23:11And a vowel.
23:11And a vowel.
23:11And a vowel.
23:13And a vowel.
23:21Yes, John?
23:22Seven.
23:23Anne?
23:24Seven.
23:26John?
23:27Devoted.
23:29And you're both devoted?
23:32Yes.
23:3470 to 67, still Anne preserving that three-point lead.
23:38Your letters came out.
23:40Consonant, please, Rachel.
23:42Thank you, Anne.
23:42S?
23:43And another.
23:45F?
23:46And another.
23:48R?
23:49And a vowel?
23:51O?
23:52And another vowel, please.
23:54A?
23:55And a consonant?
23:57Z?
23:58And a vowel?
24:01U?
24:03Another vowel?
24:06E?
24:07And a final consonant, please.
24:10And a final D?
24:11Countdown.
24:11A informal worker can be saved.
24:14Yeah.
24:29Good look.
24:33Bothu do.
24:36While you've come through, third.
24:37Do you want to be found in your way?
24:40Come on out.
24:40I'll never call this one.
24:41No, don't call me good.
24:41You don't need your hands.
24:41and 7 7 John 7 and fedoras yes same same word fedoras nice Susie Kate one other
24:59seven we found was aroused aroused very good 74 to 77 Susie you're on it's your
25:10origins of words we're waiting for well thanks to Susan Robertson from Ipswich and she's asked an
25:17interesting question and she says suffrage is a strange word and we use it only when talking
25:22about women historically campaigning to have votes in respect of governance but is there a word
25:26journey for suffrage as he puts it and there is and it's quite a long one actually and to begin
25:33it
25:33we have to go back to Latin as so often and the word suffragem suffragem which meant a right
25:40to vote essentially in a kind of democratic society but it then took on a different meaning
25:48which was to say prayers for a departed soul and the idea of sort of casting something in favour of
25:56somebody whether it's a prayer or a vote then settled into the language but as we know the
26:01history is a lot more complicated than simply that particularly in the form suffragette which
26:07was a female campaigner for suffrage as we know and that et suffix is French and it became absorbed
26:14in English to to suggest something diminutive something sort of smaller than the normal size
26:20if you like so cigarette is a small cigar a realet a small wheel etc so when newspaper reporters were
26:28tasked with describing a militant shift in the women's movement which was around 1906 away from the sort of
26:36normal polite requests for votes and more towards breaking windows etc the suffix et was added on to
26:43suffrage to denote what one newspaper described as hysterical agitators and violent cranks
26:50now something sort of happened then because while in America they kept suffragist to mean a woman who was
26:58campaigning to get a vote um in English the suffragette movement they the sort of women actively
27:05reclaimed the word they knew it had been used against them but they thought it's so widely used in the
27:10media that actually why don't we appropriate it and it will be it will do us a favour because it's
27:14already very well known and that's quite common in English when people reclaim an adjective or a noun
27:19that's been used against them and the women's social and political union decided to um name their journal the
27:26suffragette and they described uh this in 1914 this is the note that they published we've all heard of the
27:31girl who
27:32asked what was the difference between a suffragist and a suffragette and the answer made to her was that the
27:38suffragist just wants the vote while the suffragette means to get it so what started out as a really insulting
27:45term as I say for these
27:46sort of hysterical women uh who were going around doing what was seen to be quite violent things
27:50actually became a really positive uh note and and it stayed that way in history thankfully
27:55oh well done yeah
28:00thank you thank you all right 77 to 74 and still in the lead John your letters game
28:07thanks Nick can I start with a vowel please Rachel
28:10thank you John A and another E and a consonant P and another T and another B and another J
28:26and a vowel A and a consonant R and a final consonant
28:36and a final W
28:37stand by
29:08Well, John? Risky six. Anne? Five. And your five is? Apart. Now then, John? I'll try abater. I think you
29:21might be in luck. Yes, you are. A person who or thing which abates, especially in law, one that abates
29:27a nuisance. Very, very good indeed.
29:30All right. Well done there. Well done. Pops you back into the lead, but only by three points. Let's see
29:35now. Kate and Susie?
29:38No, we didn't get a six. Water we got for five. Yeah, it's a tough one, that one.
29:43That's it? Yep. Well done, John. John Cowan there. Anne, final letters came for you. Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you,
29:51Anne. S.
29:52And another. H. And another. L. And a vowel. I. And another vowel, please. A. And a consonant. S. And
30:09another consonant.
30:10K. And a vowel. E. And a final consonant, please. And a final D. Stand by.
30:24K. And a vowel.
30:54Anne. Seven. Yes, John. Seven. Anne. Slashed. Both of you? Same word.
31:06Slashed. Kate Humble? I got Shields also for seven. Yeah? Yeah. Susie, anything else? Seven was our best.
31:14Thank you. So, still three points. 87 plays 84 into the final numbers game. Yes, John?
31:20Can I have six more, please? You can indeed. Thank you, John. And your last chance to avoid a crucial
31:27conundrum. Let's see if you can do it.
31:28The final numbers are two, six, nine, ten, five, and seven.
31:34And the final target, 572.
31:37Five, seven, two.
31:39One, three, four, six, nine, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, two.
32:09John?
32:10Sorry, I completely blanked there.
32:13Anne?
32:145, 7, 2.
32:16Yes, Anne?
32:189 times 10.
32:209 times 10 is 90.
32:22Plus 5.
32:23Plus 5, 95.
32:25Times 6.
32:26Times by 6, 570.
32:29Add the 2.
32:30And you have the 2 left over.
32:31Very well done.
32:33APPLAUSE
32:39Well, well, look at that.
32:41Now we go into the final round.
32:43It's conundrum time.
32:44Let's roll today's countdown conundrum.
32:50Yes, John?
32:52Hybrid eyes.
32:53Let's see where they're right.
32:55Anne is nodding.
32:56And it's hybrid eyes.
33:00Oh!
33:07That was a great game, you guys.
33:09That was a terrific game.
33:10Gosh, John, you must have thought, look at this Anne.
33:13And you were maths graduate.
33:14You collapsed and she came through.
33:16And then you got that in about a second and a half.
33:20Remarkable.
33:21Really, really terrific.
33:23Anne, I'm so sorry.
33:25Oh, it's been lovely to be there.
33:26I'm so sorry.
33:27It's sorry to see you go.
33:28You're not going alone, though, because you're taking this kryptonite.
33:30So thank you very much for coming.
33:32It's been fantastic to be back.
33:34It was great to have you.
33:35It really was.
33:36It really was.
33:36John, we'll see you in the quarterfinals.
33:39My word.
33:39Thank you very much.
33:40I'd just like to say that Anne is a player I really respect.
33:43And when I watched her in the final against Paul Hurd and asked, I really felt respect for doing so
33:50well in her series.
33:52Well, that's very generous.
33:53We will see you in the quarterfinals.
33:59Well done.
34:00All right.
34:01And over in the corner, back tomorrow, chaps.
34:03More fun and games.
34:03Kate and Susie.
34:05Wow.
34:05I know.
34:06It's great having these champions back, showing their mettle, the pressure on that numbers game.
34:09And then for the conundrum.
34:11Yeah.
34:11Yeah.
34:11They're really showing the next lot of contestants how it's done.
34:14That was a good game.
34:15That was great.
34:15Very good.
34:16Well done, both of you.
34:17Yeah.
34:17See you tomorrow.
34:18See you tomorrow.
34:19Same time, same place.
34:20You'll be sure of it.
34:21A very good afternoon.
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