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00:23thank you welcome welcome to countdown you know sometimes I like to kid myself
00:29perhaps fool myself that applause is for me but I know really it's not for me at all it's
00:33for our regular champion now Liz Wilcox and well she deserves it she started this series in
00:44magnificent style back here for the fourth time marvelous scores 62 41 and yesterday 62 again a
00:5019-point victory so it's marvelous Liz Wilcox just to remind you comes from
00:58the West Midlands she works part-time for a credit card company and she's certainly doing
01:04herself a great deal of credit so Liz good luck to you and good luck to your competitor today
01:10Stephen Levin
01:19there's his name written down you couldn't really blame me yesterday when I saw it and thought it
01:23was Stephen Levin and I thought it was too good to be true when I saw it we had a
01:28lot of fun with
01:28Stephen Levin even Steven what sort of thing but his name is Stephen Levin he comes from Harrow and
01:33Middlesex but he's studying modern European history at East Anglia University's mad keen on sports being
01:38a fervent supporter of Fulham Football Club and Middlesex County Cricket Club he's also the Harrow
01:44men's under 21 table tennis champion so that's fantastic he's got one championship under his belt
01:50the other big passion of his life is railways so he's hoping to express himself rather well today
01:56and deliver the goods on time mind you I expect you've been in training haven't you
02:02so good luck to Stephen Levin
02:11now one of the words on offer from our guardian of the dictionaries yesterday was
02:15Mose M-A-U-V-E-S he's obviously hit a purple patch and since he's looking in the pink
02:21again today
02:22he'll probably have our contestants green with envy welcome to John Junkie
02:33who is back on this show because he found himself in the red
02:38talking of odd opposites as I have been from time to time I got another lovely letter from someone
02:43in Rudgley in Staffordshire Mr Cavallo who apart from sending all of us here his best wishes and
02:49congratulations and expressing his delight about the program says he got thinking about the word
02:54unravel and he wondered if the opposite of unravel which was ravel meant to weave so he looked it up
03:05and I have to tell you this it was in Chambers Dictionary and he says that the opposite the definition
03:12of ravel in Chambers Dictionary is unravel
03:19I pass
03:22what I would like is for you my dear to look it up our expert from the Oxford Dictionary where
03:27I'm sure it will make sense
03:28and that is Julia Swallow
03:35while it while Julie gets on unraveling that little conundrum we will start our little game here
03:40Stephen Levin challenging Liz Wilcox
03:44it's you first to go Steve yes it is
03:46a consonant please Cathy thank you D and another consonant
03:50consonant
03:53J consonant
03:55J consonant
03:56W
03:56consonant
03:58G
04:00vowel
04:02A
04:04vowel
04:06E
04:08vowel
04:11O
04:12consonant
04:16D
04:17D
04:18and a consonant
04:19D
04:20and a consonant please
04:22and a K
04:23thank you
04:24we go on round one
04:25D
04:26D
04:27D
04:27D
04:28D
04:28D
04:29D
04:30D
04:32D
04:32D
04:33D
04:33D
04:34D
04:35D
04:36D
04:36D
04:36D
04:36D
04:37D
04:37D
04:37D
04:39D
04:39D
04:39D
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04:40D
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04:41D
04:41D
04:56Right, now that, Stephen.
04:58Five.
04:59Five.
05:00Liz?
05:01And only five for me as well.
05:02Both on five.
05:03OK, let's have them both lit.
05:05Jaded.
05:06Jaded.
05:07Yes, jaded and Stephen.
05:09Weighted.
05:10Weighted and jaded.
05:11Five apiece there.
05:12John?
05:13Yes, there was jaded and waded and waged and jawed, but there was one six-letter word.
05:19Goaded.
05:20G-O-A-D-E-D.
05:22Goaded.
05:23Goaded.
05:24Goaded for six.
05:25Everyone, of course, sees it now, but we only saw five in our end.
05:28Never mind, it's round two.
05:30Liz.
05:31Consonant, please, Cathy.
05:33S.
05:34And a consonant.
05:36S.
05:37Consonant.
05:39S.
05:41Consonant.
05:42Got any more in there.
05:45Vowel.
05:47I.
05:48Vowel.
05:50O.
05:52Vowel.
05:54A.
05:55Consonant.
05:57M.
05:58And a consonant.
06:01And a D.
06:04Come on, it's easy.
06:07Come on, it's easy.
06:37Yes, Liz.
06:38Six.
06:39That's Liz.
06:39Good.
06:40Six as well.
06:40Six as well.
06:41Here's Stevens.
06:42Drains.
06:43Drains.
06:44Yes, drains and...
06:45And drains.
06:46Yes.
06:47You didn't say, was it drains or trains you were interested in?
06:49Oh.
06:51Anyway, he's got drains, four, six, John.
06:55Yes, there's a nice anagram of drains, which is nardiers, N-A-D-I-R-S, but there are also
07:00two seven, in the words.
07:03Inroads, and an anagram of that, which is ordains, both seven.
07:08So there you have it, the Holy Writ there, ordains, 11, 11, legs 11 we've got, and we
07:14have Stevens choice of letters.
07:17Consonant, please, Kathy.
07:18P.
07:19Another consonant.
07:21T.
07:23Consonant.
07:24N.
07:26And a consonant, please.
07:28L.
07:29Vowel.
07:31I.
07:34Vowel.
07:36E.
07:38Consonant.
07:39T.
07:41Consonant.
07:43N.
07:45And a vowel, please.
07:49And an O.
07:52Over, off, and off we go.
08:23Yep.
08:25Steve.
08:25Six.
08:26Six again, Liz?
08:27And six.
08:28Really?
08:29What's Liz's six?
08:30Intent.
08:31Intent?
08:32Yes.
08:32Yes, intent.
08:35Polite.
08:35Polite.
08:36Polite and intent for six.
08:38John?
08:38A few sixes.
08:39There's a nice sixth one, which is a legal word, I think.
08:41Tontine.
08:42T-O-N-T-I-N-E.
08:44Sorry, seven letters.
08:45Yes, it's an annuity shared by subscribers to a loan.
08:49Well, that's right.
08:50Everyone subscribes money, and there's a lot of money in there.
08:53And as you die off, the people that are left get more and more and more, so you keep looking
08:56over your shoulder rather a lot.
08:57That's a Tom tie, isn't it?
09:00Okay, we're looking at the scoreboard.
09:01I see 17 there.
09:0217 for both of these, Stephen and Liz.
09:05I see the numbers game looming, and I see Liz about to choose.
09:09One from the top, please, Keke.
09:11Two from the second, two from the third, and one from the bottom, please.
09:18That's eight, seven, eight, three, seven, and 75.
09:27And I also see Cecil coming at the figure of?
09:30759.
09:33759.
09:34Here we go.
10:06Okay, 759, Liz.
10:11758.
10:12758, that's one away, Stephen.
10:14759.
10:15Really?
10:16On the dot.
10:17Okay, so let's hear it for you now.
10:19759, Stephen and Carol.
10:207 plus 3 is 10.
10:227 plus the 3 gives us 10.
10:25Multiply by the 75.
10:27Multiply by the 75 to give 750.
10:30Add 8 and 8.
10:32Yep.
10:3216.
10:338 plus the 8 to give 16.
10:34And take away the 7.
10:35Take away the 7 to give the 9.
10:37And add the 2.
10:38Add the 2 together to give exactly the right answer.
10:48Well done.
10:49Well, that's the breakthrough you're looking for, Stephen.
10:5127 and 17 there.
10:52A clear 10 points ahead there with that numbers game.
10:55So, well done to you.
10:55You can just relax for a couple of minutes now as we go over to John.
10:58Well, we haven't actually solved the mystery of ravel because I now quote from the Oxford.
11:05Ravel means to entangle or become entangled or knotted or confuse.
11:10Or it has an alternative meaning, which is to disentangle, to unravel and to distinguish the separate threads.
11:16So, it means both.
11:17I can only plead.
11:18Julia's given me a saying that she's heard here.
11:21Now, the accuracy of it, I won't vouch for, but it does help to explain ravelets.
11:26All Arabic words have five meanings.
11:30The meaning, the opposite of the meaning, something obscene, something to do with God, and something to do with a
11:39camel.
11:41So, think about that for a couple of minutes.
11:45Okay, and we will see you, of course, in part two of Canter.
12:07Yes, and our challenger is being very successful here.
12:12Ten points ahead, 27 points.
12:14Liz Wilcox, our champion.
12:1617, it is round five, it's this is two.
12:21Consonant, please.
12:22W.
12:23Consonant.
12:26B.
12:27Consonant.
12:29M.
12:30Vowel.
12:33I.
12:34Vowel.
12:35A.
12:37Consonant.
12:39Y.
12:40Consonant.
12:41D.
12:43Vowel.
12:45I.
12:49And a consonant, please.
12:53And an L.
12:55There you are, just what you wanted.
12:56L for Liz, so let's get L for leather and get on with the clock.
12:59Vowel.
13:00Vowel.
13:31Round five now, Liz. What have you got?
13:33I'll risk a seven. Very risky seven.
13:35Well, OK, that's good fun, having a risk.
13:37So you're risking a seven, did you say?
13:39Now, Stephen, what are you going to do to that?
13:40I'll go for seven, too.
13:41Ah. Are you risking it?
13:43Moderately.
13:44All right. Well, I'll go to Liz's very risky seven.
13:48Can somebody who is bandy-legged be said to be walking bandily?
13:54I'm not going to have a premonition you were going to ask me that.
13:56I've just looked up bandy, and I'm afraid not.
13:59I'm sorry.
14:00No.
14:01It's worth a try.
14:02Yes.
14:03Well, Stephen, what have you put down?
14:05I've got windily.
14:07Windily. Now, what's the verdict on that?
14:08Interesting. I would have thought bandily would have been there.
14:11It's all a matter of etymology.
14:13Whether these things are formed or not.
14:16Yes, windily is fine. There it is.
14:18There you are. It doesn't seem fair, but windily is and bandily isn't.
14:21Sorry.
14:2634 and 17 is the score.
14:28So we go to round six, and I see Stephen.
14:31Consonant, please, Kathy.
14:33Z?
14:35Another one, please.
14:36Another Z?
14:36S?
14:39Consonant.
14:40N?
14:43Consonant.
14:44G?
14:46Vowel.
14:48U?
14:49Vowel.
14:51E?
14:53Vowel.
14:56U again.
14:58Consonant.
15:00T?
15:02Vowel.
15:06And an A.
15:09We've got Z to A on that line-up, haven't we?
15:11Z to A.
15:12And we've got 30 seconds to make a word out of it.
15:15s?
15:16So we've got 50?
15:18Or that line-up, haven't we?
15:25Oh.
15:26So.
15:29So.
15:43So we're going to tell you a little bit about 50.
15:45yes steve six six steve and liz and six and six let's say this is six august august
15:52yes august and steve gauzes gauzes use the z well done i presume you use the z yes gauzes
15:59and august three more rounds to go last letters game please consonant please why consonant
16:08f consonant r consonant and t vowel i vowel o vowel e consonant g and a consonant please
16:35and an s yes your favorite letter liz here we go
17:09yes liz
17:12six six good steven seven seven he says seven right here the six
17:18forges forges forges but steven could uh forging ahead here with his seven forties
17:25forties just spell it out f-o-r-t-i-e-s okay now to the numbers we go and
17:31steven see how you do on
17:32the numbers please choose your six numbers from kathy one from the top row please kathy thank you
17:37two from the second row and three from the third
17:44and that gives you six and seven one and seven nine and fifty okay and settle the roar off and
17:53say
17:54two hundred and seventy nine two hundred and seventy nine here we go
18:30okay team two hundred and seventy nine steven two seven four two seven four five away liz
18:37and i've got two seven one right well that's eight away so
18:42steven is the closer of the two five away so fire away with your five away steven steven and carol
18:49well i think it should be two seven three anyway so i think i've declared wrong we'll try
18:53anyway five times fifty six minus one is five okay six minus one gives us five multiplied by the
19:0050 gives us 250 and then add the seven the seven and the nine so that's seven plus seven gives
19:07us
19:0714 plus the nine gives us 23 and up those two together it's yeah 273 yeah i added the one
19:15on again
19:17i'm afraid you declared two seven five so you declared wrong so we have to disqualify you on
19:22that round give you no points you knew that obviously so that's no points for you
19:25so you have a chance of some points here liz because you were eight away weren't you what did
19:30you get two seven one two seven one can we look at two seven one 50 minus one multiplied by
19:37the six
19:38this minus one gives us 49 multiplied by the six is 294 yes it is 294 and seven plus seven
19:45plus nine is
19:4623 take the 23 take the 23 away right to give us 271 eight yes good so you've managed to
19:59get five
19:59points out of that good for you however 279 was required how do we get on yeah 279 50 subtract
20:09the
20:09nine from that to give us 41 if you multiplied the 41 by one of the sevens you get 287
20:17and if you
20:17subtract the other seven and the one you do get 279 somewhere down there
20:32well that's quite a difficult one wasn't it so the scores are 47 and 28 so the conundrum is i
20:40suppose really not as exciting as some of them are often in the countdown but just if you've been
20:45watching the last few days steven that liz wilcox has this tendency of pressing the button within three
20:50seconds sometimes she's right sometimes she's wrong but she always presses it within three seconds
20:53although mainly i have to say she is right let's see what happens now as we look at today's countdown
21:06conundrum oh yes i told you within three seconds she presses the button and she says evolution evolution
21:11okay evolution let's have a look it's evolution
21:25well i would say you are a remarkable lady this is fantastic are you are you very good at these
21:30at home
21:31i either always get them in three seconds or not at all really yeah well normally i mean sometimes you
21:38can sit for a while and work them out but normally i see it or i don't it's simple well
21:45this is
21:45fantastic all your all your uh appearances you've always press the clock within uh within three
21:50seconds however with 38 points i'm afraid you are no longer the champion your chair has been taken
21:55taken by steven levin congratulations to steven
22:07so well done speaking a very good score of 47. now liz what can i say to you what i
22:12can say is that
22:13here of course your dictionaries for being a very good champion a defeated champion gets these dictionaries
22:18but looking at my score sheet here you started off the series in marvelous form and your scores are so
22:23high with 62 41 62 and a losing 38 there that i would i mean at this stage of the
22:30series even be
22:31bold enough to say that we're bound to see you back pretty certainly baby permitting baby permitting yes
22:35baby permitting uh and it's about christmas time in our quarterfinals so we very much forward look
22:40forward to seeing you back there in those quarterfinals i'm sure we will because there's a marvelous
22:44scores you've got our series off to a great start so thanks very much indeed and good luck and farewell
22:48to
22:48liz wilcox
22:58and say for you john i'd just like to leave you with one more definition from mr burton's alternative
23:04dictionary and the word is dialogue and his meaning is staining wood
23:14very very classy stuff
23:18okay well that is it for the time being thank you very much indeed we hope you enjoyed today's
23:23program we've seen the end of a very good champion perhaps the emergence of an equally good one so we
23:27look forward to seeing steven again next time and steven your challenger uh is a gentleman by the name of
23:33paul robson and like you he is a university student so uh we look forward to a very exciting match
23:39then so
23:40steve and paul next time on countdown look forward to seeing you all then until then goodbye
23:44thank you
24:05so
24:06so
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