00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio on what this evening will be Burns Night.
00:38And whenever I am given the keys to the kitchen and do a bit of cooking, it's Burns Night every
00:44time.
00:45Fortunately, I'm something of a stranger to the kitchen.
00:48So, Rachel, tonight's Burns Night. Does that mean anything in your household?
00:53Do you have any Scottish roots or your fiancée?
00:58No. In a way. We've got most of everything else.
01:01I think he goes all the way back to Sir Walter Raleigh. It's a long line of Englishmen.
01:06And I've got some Russians and some Poles and probably some Welsh, but no Scots.
01:13So he had a sort of a pirate background.
01:17He's actually a big fan of pirates. He keeps threatening to wear pirate wizard robes to our wedding.
01:23Oh, well.
01:24So possibly that's where it's come from.
01:26He'd look good in a pirate outfit in the bin on the back of my tractor with you.
01:32He's captured, princess.
01:34Lovely.
01:35It's interesting. When I was a boy, when I didn't know any better, I used to smoke, and I used
01:41to smoke Sweet Afton cigarettes, which I guess don't exist anymore.
01:46And I always remember it had a snatch of Burns poetry, flow gently Sweet Afton, ye banks and ye braes.
01:53So I thought I'd just sort of toss that in to appear in some sort of way educated with a
01:58Scottish sort of little...
01:59In fact, in fact, my great-grandmother was Scottish.
02:03Right.
02:04Good enough?
02:04There we go. You definitely deserve some whiskey later.
02:07Thank you very much.
02:08And you're back again.
02:11I'm getting rather sick of the sight of you, actually.
02:14What number is this?
02:16This is number six.
02:17Six. And you always sort of squeeze in, don't you?
02:20Well, certainly the last game.
02:22Yeah. Well, I want to see either you disappearing back to Edinburgh for Burns night, or a convincing win.
02:32And who are you up against? You're up against Sri Guta, a strategy manager from Crawley.
02:37Yeah?
02:38You've got two bachelor's degrees, a master's degree, and you're about to complete an MBA.
02:43I've just finished my MBA, yeah.
02:45Brilliant. Just finished?
02:46Yeah.
02:47Excellent.
02:47A dual MBA.
02:48And where did you take that?
02:49London Business School and Columbia University.
02:51Excellent. And your degrees were where?
02:53My bachelor's.
02:55There's one from India, and others from Oxford Brookes Accountancy, which I did with my
02:59Chartered Accountancy, ACCA.
03:01Brilliant.
03:01And a master's is from Sweden.
03:03From Sweden?
03:05And whereabouts?
03:05LuleĂĄ.
03:06God, we'd better watch our step here, Mark.
03:09Excellent.
03:09Well, I think it's a big round of applause for our contestants.
03:12Mark and Sri.
03:17And over in Dictionary Corner, the Bonnie, Susie Dent, and, of course, the inspirational cricketer
03:24turned commentator, Michael Vaughan.
03:30And, Michael, if my researches are correct, I think you took over the captaincy from Nasser
03:36Hussein back in 2003.
03:38The following year, you took the series against the West Indies where we hadn't done anything
03:45like it for 30 years.
03:47Is that right?
03:48That's very true.
03:50I wouldn't say the West Indies team that we beat were anything like the West Indies
03:54team that the old England teams had to play against in the 80s.
03:57We had good times in the Caribbean.
03:59Yeah, good.
03:59When we win, you had the odd jet ski ride, the odd day or two on the beach because we
04:04won in three days.
04:06And we sampled a little bit of the local rum.
04:10Often.
04:10Every time I talk to you, we get on to alcohol, Michael.
04:14You weren't famous.
04:15Is that not?
04:16Not at all, no.
04:16I had a few players who were there.
04:19Yeah, okay, okay.
04:20Say no.
04:20Anyway, and so it is that we move on to our first game, and that's Mark, the champion.
04:26Yeah, I'm watching you, Mark, now.
04:27It's a letters game.
04:28Off you go.
04:29Hi, Rachel.
04:30Hi again, Mark.
04:31Consonant, please.
04:32Start today with N.
04:35And another.
04:37S.
04:38And a vowel.
04:40E.
04:42And another.
04:44A.
04:57And the consonant, please.
05:03And lastly, N.
05:05And here's the clock.
05:29I'll see you next time.
05:31Bye-bye.
05:37So, Mark.
05:38Six.
05:39Six and three?
05:40Six.
05:41All right, Mark.
05:43Stance.
05:44Stance and three?
05:45Senate.
05:46Senate.
05:47All right.
05:49Does that lead to any confusion?
05:51They're both absolutely fine.
05:52You're happy?
05:53Yep.
05:53Michael?
05:54They're happy.
05:55Happy.
05:55We have a seven and an eight.
05:57A fellow cricket guy who sits in this position often, David Lloyd.
06:02We have Nookcase.
06:04But we have canteens for eight.
06:07Good.
06:08Good.
06:09Well done.
06:12So, six all and three.
06:14It's a letters game.
06:15Away you go.
06:16A wobble, please, Rachel.
06:18Thank you, Sri.
06:19I.
06:19Another.
06:21E.
06:22Another.
06:24I.
06:25Consonant.
06:27V.
06:28One more.
06:30M.
06:31And again.
06:31T.
06:34One more.
06:37N.
06:38Rural, please.
06:41Another E.
06:43Er, consonant, please.
06:44And lastly, L.
06:47Here we go.
06:48Here we go.
07:01Here we go.
07:03Here we go.
07:03Here we go.
07:04Here we go.
07:05Here we go.
07:05Here we go.
07:15Here we go.
07:18So three seven a seven and for you mark not just four
07:24Come on then mark. What is this poultry for and vile?
07:28vile vile mmm three in yp
07:34Invitee you can be an invitee
07:40Consider yourself invited into the lead now open the corner Michael's Susie we have an eight timeline
07:48timeline very good
07:52Timeline Susie yes, it's defined as a graphical representation of a period of time on which important events are marked
07:59So you have chronological time mark timelines in history textbooks for example. Yeah, so mark who slipped six
08:0713 off you go
08:10Constant please Rachel. Thank you mark T and another
08:14Oh
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08:19you and another a
08:23a consonant
08:26G and another s
08:30a vowel
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08:34and another
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08:38and the final consonant piece and lastly n
08:42Here's the countdown clock
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