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00:00Thank you
00:32Good afternoon and welcome on this brisk January day to the Countdown studio and those of you at home who
00:38have hobbies I guess and working away to your heart's content, the trouble is my hobby is a sort of
00:44an outdoors hobby, tinkering with my old tractors. Nothing, nothing pleases me more than to just smell the petrol as
00:53it drips slowly from an old Solex carburetor onto the floor. Is that the sort of thing that might appeal
00:58to Rachel?
01:01What are your hobbies Rachel? Not tractors, why tractors? Do you plough stuff?
01:06I love the clatter of old machinery, I love the, I mean frankly nothing quickens the pulse greater than to
01:12look at the clattering old machinery and the spinning power take off at the back. So dangerous, it excites me
01:20enormously.
01:20So do you have a field?
01:23I've got a few fields actually, yeah.
01:24And do you, so do you plough, do you actually use them to do something?
01:26I don't do any ploughing, no, but I mow them a lot and I've got an old bin on the
01:30back and you go around and collect rubbish and put logs in and just generally sort of you know think
01:35that you're actually working but actually you're just having fun.
01:37Okay.
01:39You're getting married in August don't you?
01:41Yes.
01:43If you haven't fixed your transport to the church, I could offer you one of two tractors, a little grey
01:52Fergie or a lovely shiny red Massey 35, which would you like?
01:56They're not, you haven't got a Lamborghini tractor then?
01:59No, they do make them but they're a little bit out of my price range. I could put you and
02:03your beloved in the bin at the back and take you to the church, I won't charge you.
02:08Well luckily we're not having a church and we don't need any transport.
02:11Can I take you to the registry office or wherever it is you're getting married?
02:14Um, not really, but thanks for the offer.
02:16I'm going to leave, you think about it, you think it's the first time I've ever made such an offer,
02:21so just have a word with Jamie, will you?
02:23Okay, I'll ask.
02:24And let me know, let me know. And while you're doing that, we've got our champ back again, how many
02:29times is this?
02:30This is number five.
02:31Yeah, going for the season ticket, well done, name on the back of the chair.
02:34And you're joined by Robert Coyne from Motherwell in Scotland, a stockroom manager who supports both Celtic and Arsenal.
02:42Yeah.
02:42When they clash, where do your loyalties lie?
02:47Celtic, definitely.
02:48Yeah?
02:49Mm-hmm.
02:49Okay, home team.
02:51Well, this team I've grew up, but Arsenal's more like a result of my dad.
02:56Good luck to you.
02:57Anyway, welcome to our contestants, our champ and Robert.
03:05And being put to the test, he said rather cleverly, in Dictionary Corner, let's welcome Susie Dent and the great
03:11cricketing legend that is Michael Vaughan.
03:14Welcome back.
03:16Hello, Susie.
03:18Hello.
03:18You well?
03:19Very well, thank you.
03:20Excellent.
03:20And Michael?
03:21Afternoon.
03:21Have you got a love of things mechanical?
03:23Certainly not into tractors in any way, shape or form.
03:27Fine.
03:27Uh, indoor helicopter.
03:28Oh really?
03:29Yeah, that's what I've got.
03:30Yeah, that's what I've got.
03:30And you can fly that round the room without wrecking the...
03:32Well, it's only had one, one kind of expedition at the minute, it broke, I smashed it into the wall.
03:38Well done.
03:39Well done.
03:39You weren't in it.
03:40I'm getting better though.
03:42Well, how big is this thing?
03:43It's only small.
03:43They're clever, aren't they?
03:46Yeah?
03:46Do you think you get the hang of it?
03:48Uh, I hope so because it's going to be very expensive because I've got to replace the one that I've
03:52broken.
03:52Exactly.
03:53And all those light fittings.
03:54Anyway, we're going to kick off, Mark, with you.
03:57It's a letters game.
03:58Away you go.
04:00Okay.
04:00Hi, Rachel.
04:01Hi again, Mark.
04:02Can I get a consonant please?
04:04Start today with L.
04:07And another.
04:09S.
04:10And another.
04:13H.
04:14A vowel.
04:16A.
04:18And another.
04:20U.
04:21One more.
04:24E.
04:25A consonant.
04:27B.
04:29A vowel.
04:31A.
04:33And a final consonant, please.
04:34And a final.
04:35S.
04:37Here we go.
04:39ister means no one towel.
04:58A vowel.
05:01Where do we forget?
05:01Mong exclusivity.
05:02And another.
05:02A moment.
05:03A vowel.
05:03ģęŗ.
05:04On an antidote.
05:04To learn.
05:05A vowel.
05:05A vowel.
05:05A vowel.
05:06O sen her.
05:07Okay.
05:08Is it still ede Š“Š¾Š»Š¶one?
05:09So, Mark?
05:11A seven.
05:11A seven.
05:12And Robert?
05:13I think I've got seven.
05:15Good game.
05:16Mark?
05:16Blushes.
05:18Blushes.
05:20Well done.
05:22And over in the corner, Michael?
05:24Yeah, very good.
05:24We've got blushes and bushels.
05:26Bushels.
05:27Good.
05:27Well, it's seven all, and we look to Robert from Motherwell.
05:30It's a letters game.
05:31Off you go.
05:32Hi, Rachel.
05:33Hi, Robert.
05:33Coincident, please.
05:36T.
05:38Vowel.
05:40I.
05:42Consonant.
05:44G.
05:46Consonant.
05:48R.
05:50Vowel.
05:52U.
05:54Consonant.
05:55T.
05:57Another consonant.
05:59M.
06:01Vowel.
06:03E.
06:05And.
06:05And.
06:06Of another vowel, please.
06:08And lastly.
06:09I.
06:10Here's the countdown clock.
06:12T.
06:13C.
06:13C.
06:14C.
06:14Vowel.
06:15Vowel.
06:15Vowel.
06:16T.
06:18C.
06:26T.
06:35Vowel.
06:43Robert.
06:44Sex.
06:45Six.
06:47Mark?
06:47Just a five.
06:49And a five.
06:50Mark, what's your five?
06:51Mitre.
06:52Mitre.
06:53Okay, Robert.
06:54A gutter.
06:55Gutter.
06:56So, Michael and Susie, are you happy with those two?
06:59Yes, absolutely.
07:00And can you take it further?
07:01We actually have a seven, guttier.
07:03It's the American way of saying gutsy.
07:06Yes.
07:06Well, I'm dashed.
07:07Gutty is gutsy.
07:08Really?
07:09Very good.
07:10All right.
07:10Well, Robert, you've leapt ahead of the champ.
07:13That's 13 to 7.
07:14Mark, you're on.
07:16Try harder.
07:17Consolant, please, Rachel.
07:18Thank you, Mark.
07:20S.
07:21And another.
07:23X.
07:24Another.
07:27C.
07:28A vowel.
07:30O.
07:31And another.
07:33I.
07:34One more.
07:35E.
07:37A consonant.
07:40R.
07:41Another consonant.
07:44J.
07:46And another consonant, please.
07:48And lastly, S.
07:50Here we go.
07:51Okay.
08:20Let's go.
08:21It's the other side, but we're not going to let it.
08:23So Mark, it's a five. A five. And Mr. Coyne? Six. A six, Mark. Sixes. Sixes. And Robert? Cozier. Cozier.
08:37Very nice.
08:39Michael? Yeah, we got that. Sixes like that. I didn't hit many of those in my career. Scores as well,
08:45which is six.
08:45Yes, of which you did a lot. That's very good. A shudder for the champ, because you're seven against the
08:53contenders, 19.
08:55So Robert, off you go. See if you can extend your lead.
08:59Consonant. Thank you, Robert. D. Vowel. A. Consonant. G. Vowel. E. Consonant.
09:15Consonant. M. No, a consonant. P. Vowel. I. Vowel. E. And a consonant. And lastly, N.
09:35Off we go.
09:37We go.
10:10Stagnar sex.
10:11A six?
10:12All right.
10:13Mark?
10:13A seven.
10:14Fire away, Robert.
10:15A magpie.
10:17Okay.
10:18Mark?
10:19Damping.
10:20Damping.
10:21Susan, are you happy?
10:22Michael?
10:22You happy?
10:23Very happy.
10:24We've got a seven in endgame, the final move in chess.
10:28Mm-hmm.
10:29All right.
10:30That sees Mark closing the gap, 14 to 19, and it's a numbers game.
10:35Mark, first one of the day.
10:37Over to you.
10:39And two large, four small, please.
10:40The usual.
10:41Two from the top.
10:42And four small.
10:43Thank you, Mark.
10:45And for this round, the numbers are nine, six, five, and four.
10:52And the large ones, one hundred and seventy-five.
10:55And the first target of the day, two hundred and five.
10:58Two-oh-five.
11:00Yeah, all right.
11:01Uh-oh.
11:30So, Mark.
11:30Mark.
11:31205.
11:32205.
11:33Yep, 205.
11:34Alright.
11:35205, Mark.
11:36Off you go.
11:36Okay.
11:376 minus 4 is 2.
11:386 minus 4 for 2.
11:40Times by 100.
11:41Yep.
11:42Then it's easier.
11:42200.
11:43Plus 5.
11:44205.
11:45Well done.
11:47Robert.
11:48100 plus 75.
11:49100.
11:50Yeah, 75.
11:526 times 5 is 30.
11:53Add them together.
11:54Well done.
11:55Again, 205.
11:57Very good.
11:57Well done.
11:59And that takes you to 29.
12:03Robert against Mark's 24.
12:05And we now look towards Michael Vaughan.
12:08Michael, I was reading that back in those Yorkshire cricket days, the discipline was tremendous.
12:13And you had to really turn out very well and shave every morning and so forth.
12:17And that presumably is why you're looking so immaculate today.
12:20Discipline was a big deal.
12:22And turning up on time.
12:24Yeah, that was always installed at Yorkshire from an early age that you had to be smart on time.
12:29I wouldn't say that I abided by those rules all the time throughout my career, to be honest.
12:33Particularly in the early days.
12:34It was more of a hobby cricket.
12:37And everywhere we used to travel, it was more about the activities at night when we were kids rather than
12:43the actual playing side.
12:44So the afternoon in the field, it was more about asking the opposition and the umpires who were around that
12:49region where the best bars were, unfortunately.
12:52And it really started to become a professional until I was about 23.
12:55And I played for England when I was 25.
12:57I would have done it earlier.
12:58Maybe I would have achieved a little bit more earlier as well.
13:00Listen, you didn't do bad, did you?
13:02I did okay.
13:03Yeah.
13:04But we need a bit more discipline around here.
13:06People turn up late.
13:07I mean, look at Rachel.
13:08Always late.
13:09Look at the state of her.
13:10So I want you to have a word with her later on about that sort of thing.
13:15I read that really your career was foreshortened because of knee problems.
13:21But you were a batsman.
13:23Why did batsmen get bad?
13:24And it was always just you.
13:25Just me.
13:27I just had a chronic knee problem which was with me all my career.
13:30I had to have lots of injections and the game became a lot faster and a lot more agile.
13:35I think anyone that saw me field would realize that I dropped a number of balls down to the
13:40fact that I couldn't move and pretty much my hands would shuffle around.
13:44And the younger guys were coming through and it's all sports now are very fast and you need
13:48to be very agile, fit, strong.
13:51And I just wasn't in those last few years.
13:53So it's time for the youngsters to come through.
13:55And I think that, you know, one of the great heroes of that series was Freddie Flintoff.
14:02And I think his knees and generally, you know, fast bowlers take a hammering don't they?
14:08Yes.
14:09I mean, Freddie had bad knees.
14:10He had bad backs, bad ankles, bad hips, bad arms.
14:16You name it, Freddie had something wrong with his body.
14:19It was difficult to manage at times, I must admit.
14:21But the best way to manage him, unfortunately, you have to go with him.
14:25You have to abide by him.
14:27And we talked about discipline in times.
14:29But spending every evening in the bar till 4am took its toll on me eventually.
14:34I bet it did.
14:35Because you're a great golfer.
14:36I had a golf lesson once.
14:37I wouldn't say great.
14:38Come on, I think you're pretty good.
14:40I had a golf lesson once.
14:41The golf pro said, no, he said, you'll be no good.
14:43You've got stagnant hips.
14:46I thought it was a bit of an extraordinary thing to say.
14:48Anyway, it's a tea time teaser, which is many ride.
14:53And the clue, many of them ride around on floats.
15:12Welcome back.
15:14And the clue to the tea time teaser was, many of them ride around on floats.
15:20And the answer is, dairyman, dairyman.
15:24So, on with the game with Mark at 24 and Robert at 29.
15:30Everything to play for, champ.
15:32And it's a letters game.
15:33And Robert, it's your turn to kick off.
15:36A consonant, please.
15:37Thank you, Robert.
15:39R.
15:40Vowel.
15:42O.
15:43Consonant.
15:45N.
15:47Vowel.
15:49A.
15:51Consonant.
15:53S.
15:56And...
15:57A...
15:59Vowel.
16:00A...
16:02A...
16:03Consonant.
16:04S.
16:07And...
16:09A...
16:10Vowel.
16:11And the last one.
16:12O.
16:13Off we go.
16:15A.
16:16A.
16:17A.
16:18A.
16:30A.
16:46So, Robert, sex, six, Mark, seven, seven, okay, Robert, season, season, and Mark, reasons,
16:57reasons, okay, Michael, Susie, yeah, we had reasons, we've also got nooners, which is the afternoon
17:07for a bit of activity, a bit of activity, a bit of rumpy-pumpy, I dimly remember that sort
17:16of thing, I dimly remember that sort of thing, so where does that leave us, 31 to 29, well
17:22done, Mark, you'll go again, letters game. Consolant please, Rachel. Thank you, Mark. L. And
17:30another. P. And another. F. A vowel. E. And another. A. One more. U. A consonant. R. A vowel.
17:54O. And a final consonant please. And a final L. Stand by.
18:01O. And a final consonant please.
18:26O. One more.
18:32Okay, Mark, let's have it.
18:33A six.
18:34A six.
18:35And Robert?
18:36Yeah, a six as well.
18:37All right.
18:38Mark?
18:39Laurel.
18:40Laurel.
18:41Robert?
18:41Faller.
18:42Faller, okay.
18:44And Susie, Michael?
18:46The six is for us, too.
18:48A plural.
18:50All right.
18:51So, with the scores at 37 for Mark and 35 for Robert,
18:55Robert, it's your game.
18:57It's a letters game.
18:58Away you go.
18:58I'll start with a vowel, let's do it.
19:01Thank you, Robert.
19:02U.
19:03Consonant.
19:05S.
19:07Vowel.
19:09E.
19:11Consonant.
19:13D.
19:15Consonant.
19:16G.
19:18Consonant.
19:20M.
19:22Vowel.
19:24I.
19:26Consonant.
19:28V.
19:32And then I'll roll.
19:34And the last one.
19:35A.
19:37Here we go.
19:38Viola.
19:39And.Õµylon.
19:41And. All right.
20:03I'll
20:03An. Oh. I'm.
20:07You. I.
20:09so Robert sex okay mark six as well so Robert midges midges and mark smudge smudge it's really
20:22good any contentious issues there not at all no no we've got a couple of sevens you know miss
20:29gave miss gave is very nice and visaged is there as in a stern visaged old man oh gulp Robert
20:38two
20:39behind a 41 mark 43 clinging on their mark and it's your go letters game constantly Rachel thank
20:47you mark see and another n another ah and a vowel oh another e one more a a consonant y
21:09a consonant
21:12c and a final vowel please and a final i got time
21:50so mark i'll try and eight try and eight all right and Robert yeah i'll go for the as well
21:55okay mark a crayon crayon good are you happy yes we were just discussing that very thing it's the
22:05sort of thing our little kids would be doing as drawing with crayons good well done and anything
22:13further nothing more than that or more interesting there all right for it so Susie what have you got
22:20for us today and I was going to continue chatting about money and because as I said it's entered
22:26our language in so many different quite obvious ways and we're talking about slang terms for money
22:31yesterday but they're actually and quite a number of words where money is present in a hidden
22:35fashion as well and if you take the word era that was the plural originally for a latin term which
22:41meant a counter used in calculation just as calculus was in fact a small pebble used in sand for addition
22:48and subtraction a long time ago bogus comes from a late 18th century term for a machine that made
22:55counterfeit money and corollary it comes from the latin corollarium which was money paid for a garland
23:02or a chaplet to be worn and it was used or paid for by Romans he used to wear these
23:08garlands at festivals
23:09and weddings and weddings and so would pay a corollary
23:12brilliant brilliant can you help me with filthy lucre filthy lucre that comes from the bible
23:21brilliant filthy lucre anyway it's a numbers game Robert off you go yeah I'll go for one from the top
23:29five small please thank you Robert one from the top five little ones coming up and for this round
23:35the little ones a seven six five two and eight and the large one twenty five and your target four
23:45hundred and sixty four
23:46four six four
24:18So, Robert, 4, 7, 2, no, I don't know. Mark?
24:234, 6, 4, I think.
24:25Right. So, let's hear from Mark.
24:286 minus 5 is 1.
24:31Yep.
24:31Plus 7 is 8.
24:352 times 25 is 50.
24:38It is, indeed.
24:39Add that to the 8.
24:4158.
24:42Multiply by 8, yeah.
24:44Yeah, that way.
24:46It is.
24:46Yeah, it's right.
24:48Well done.
24:54Well done.
24:55Well done, Mark.
24:56Yes, you got there.
24:57Which means that you've reasserted your leadership.
25:0061 to 49, and we go into the tea time teaser.
25:04Made fish.
25:06Two words, and the clue was ravenous, so made lots of fish for tea.
25:26Welcome back, and you'll remember the clue was ravenous, so made lots of fish for tea.
25:32And the answer, famished.
25:36Famished.
25:38Now then, Mark.
25:39Leading by 61 to 49, it's a letters game.
25:42Away you go.
25:43A consonant, please, Rachel.
25:46Thank you, Mark.
25:47P.
25:48And a vowel.
25:50E.
25:51Another one.
25:53O.
25:54A consonant.
25:56R.
25:58Another consonant.
26:00W.
26:01A vowel.
26:03A vowel.
26:05Another vowel.
26:07U.
26:09A consonant.
26:11T.
26:12And another consonant, please.
26:14And lastly, N.
26:16Very good.
26:17Here we go.
26:49Mark.
26:50A six.
26:51A six.
26:52And Robert.
26:53Yep, sex as well.
26:54A six is, what's yours Mark?
26:56Pewter.
26:57Pewter.
26:58A poter.
26:59Powder?
27:00Yeah.
27:01A poter is a pigeon that can inflate its crop, the sort of neck thing down here.
27:06A strange thing.
27:07Yep.
27:08And do you have anything else for us?
27:11Now we had pewter as well.
27:13Pewter.
27:13Yes, one more six.
27:14It's a lovely metal, I love pewter actually.
27:16Old pewter is fabulous.
27:18Expensive these days.
27:19Yeah.
27:20So, where does that take us?
27:21Robert, off you go, it's a lettuce game.
27:25Vowel, please.
27:26Thank you, Robert.
27:28A.
27:29Consonant.
27:31R.
27:33Consonant.
27:35P.
27:37Vowel.
27:39I.
27:40Consonant.
27:43Q.
27:43Q.
27:44Uh, coincident.
27:48T.
27:50Veil.
27:52O.
27:54Um, veil.
27:58Another A.
28:00Consonant.
28:02And a final N.
28:04Really good.
28:05T.
28:08I.
28:28Everything.
28:30I'll.
28:30I.
28:30I.
28:34I.
28:34AmThey.
28:35so Robert and I'll try our seven a seven mark they're just six six so what would your six be
28:43mark a kintar kintar Robert a port in portain portain don't think we'll find portain pertain
28:54you would I don't think we'll find portain not there I'm afraid what did you say kintar
29:01how are you spelling that q-i-n-t-a-r yeah kintar's great and it's a monastery unit of
29:06Albania equal
29:07to one hundredth of a lek yeah a few of those would be very handy at the moment 73 mark
29:14you're
29:14establishing yourself in your rightful place Robert 55 but you can still pull this off and mark it's a
29:21letters game off you go I had constant please Rachel thank you mark s and another t a vowel
29:31e and another i a consonant f and another l a vowel a and another o and a final consonant
29:53please
29:53and a final h it's really good
29:56so
30:11so
30:12so
30:27Mark? Just five. Five. And Robert? Eight. Eight? Oh, I like the sound of this. Mark? Flash. Flash.
30:38All right? And I'm concentrating now, Robert. Off you go. Four. Eight? Fantastic words. Very well done. Brilliant. Well done.
30:51Well done, Robert. That's excellent. Delivered with a flourish. What does it mean, Susie? Well, to foliate is to decorate
30:58with leaves or leaf-like motifs. It has the same root as folio, for example.
31:02Okay, so exfoliate is to strip the leaves away. Yes. As we remember from Vietnam and Agent Orange. Terrible insult
31:12to the world, that was. Well done. So, Mark 73, Robert, you've clambered up to 63. Well done. And it's
31:19your numbers game.
31:19I'll go for two from the top and four small, please. Two from the top. Big decision with ten points
31:24in it. I know. We will see if it was the right one. Thank you. So, four small for this
31:29round are six, one, two, and four, and the two large ones, 50 and 75. And the target, 495.
31:39495.
31:41495.
31:44595.
31:47595.
31:50595.
31:52595.
31:53595.
31:55595.
31:56595.
31:58595.
31:59695.
32:00695.
32:00795.
32:01795.
32:03795.
32:04795.
32:10895.
32:12Robert?
32:13495.
32:15495.
32:16496.
32:18Right, Robert, this is looking powerful.
32:2375 times 6 is 450.
32:25Yep.
32:26Add 50. 500.
32:28Take away the 4 and the 1.
32:29Well done, good decision with the 2 large.
32:32Brilliant.
32:36Well done Robert, what did I tell you?
32:38So, level pegging, 73 all.
32:40And guess what?
32:42It's down to the conundrum.
32:43So, fingers on buzzers please.
32:46And let's reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:20Wow.
33:21Yes Robert?
33:22Probably all Percival.
33:24I'm going to start the clock again because that was not right.
33:29We're drawn.
33:31You know what happens now?
33:32Another one goes down.
33:33Sudden death, we're going to do it all over again.
33:35But let's see what it actually was that you failed to spot.
33:41Fireplace.
33:42There we go.
33:43Fireplace.
33:44Grown from the audience, which clearly indicates that they didn't know either.
33:47So what we're going to do now is do it all over again.
33:50This is what we call Countdown Torture.
33:53So, fingers on buzzers please.
33:56And let's see what the second conundrum is.
34:08Yes Mark?
34:09Befitting.
34:10Befitting.
34:11Let's have a little look here.
34:22Well done.
34:23Your reign continues.
34:25You live to fight another day.
34:27Well done indeed.
34:28And bad luck to Robert.
34:30You put up a good old fight there.
34:31Hmm?
34:32Yeah.
34:32You did well.
34:33You had him on the ropes.
34:34Aye well.
34:35But you don't go back to Motherwell empty hands.
34:37You take your goodie bag, pack for the goodies.
34:39And thank you so much Susie.
34:41See you again tomorrow.
34:42Michael, let's talk about the West Indies triumph.
34:44When we see you tomorrow.
34:47And Rachel, I've put in an instruction to home to get my tractors serviced and polished.
34:52Because I'm bringing a photograph to show you.
34:54So that you can send that to Jamie.
34:57And between you, you can make the right decision.
34:59So on the day I was planning on wearing high heels.
35:01I don't know if you had much practice climbing into the tractor in high heels?
35:05I can quite honestly answer that.
35:07By saying no.
35:09Okay.
35:09We're going to have to test that out.
35:10Try it.
35:11Okay.
35:11For you and I'll report back.
35:13Brilliant.
35:14Okay.
35:14So cheerio for the countdown studio.
35:17See you tomorrow.
35:29The families who just can't stop.
35:32Fifteen kids and counting.
35:33There must be a register every single morning.
35:35Nine o'clock tonight.
35:36Channel four.
35:37Well next up question is, did you catch the cat?
35:39Yeah.
35:44I will see you tomorrow.
35:47I'll see you tomorrow.
35:48Bye goodbye.
35:49I'll see you tomorrow.
35:50Bye.
35:50Bye.
35:50Bye.
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