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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:34It's Monday the 5th of March and the start of my ninth week presenting Countdown.
00:39And I'd just like to say how grateful I am for the very many emails that have come flooding in,
00:46saying that I'm not doing a bad job.
00:49I know that Rachel and Susie have made me feel welcome
00:52and their generosity of spirit and their talent have made me feel extremely comfortable.
00:57But I had an amusing email the other day which said that,
01:01you know, Nick, you look so comfortable, you look as though you're pulling on an old boot,
01:07which I thought was rather interesting,
01:09because then somebody said you don't really know somebody
01:12until you've tried their shoes on and walked for a mile in them.
01:16And looking at Rachel's shoes, I've determined,
01:20although I don't make a habit of wearing women's shoes,
01:22I certainly couldn't walk 50 feet in those.
01:26What do you reckon?
01:27No, you'd give it a go.
01:28No, I wouldn't.
01:30Now, tell me this, Rachel.
01:32Apparently, 37% of women knowingly buy the wrong size shoes
01:36because they were a sales bargain.
01:40Do you fall for that one?
01:4137% of women?
01:42Where have they made this stuff up from?
01:44But also, isn't there something to be said that women like to believe they have small feet
01:51and therefore they will squeeze their feet into a smaller size shoe?
01:55No, I couldn't care less.
01:56I don't want to get blisters.
01:58All right.
01:58Well, there we are.
02:00Any shoes are fine by me.
02:01Any shoes?
02:02Listen, your shoes are not any shoes, young lady.
02:05Anyway, now I turn here to our contestants.
02:08Who have we got?
02:08Ben, you back again?
02:09I am back again, yep.
02:10And you did well on Friday, student from Berries and Edmonds, scored 87.
02:16That's pretty good.
02:18Yeah, I was pleased with that.
02:18You happy with that?
02:19Sports Business Management at Sheffield Hallam,
02:22and you're joined by Andy Russell, a university librarian from Brighton,
02:27whose hobbies are tennis and football.
02:29And I rather worryingly read here, Andy, that you're a full-time slave,
02:33and I read on to son Archie 8 and daughter Billy George 6.
02:38That's right, yeah.
02:39It's a full-time job.
02:40Really?
02:41Yeah.
02:41Are they demanding?
02:43They like me to make them breakfast in the morning, let's put it that way.
02:46Well, they should be making you breakfast at the age of eight.
02:49Yeah.
02:49Anyway, a warm welcome to our contestants.
02:57It's now my great pleasure and in the honour to welcome a national treasure
03:03and an international institution in the form of Pam Ayers, MBE.
03:08Pam, welcome.
03:09Thank you very much, Nick.
03:10Now, you've been here before.
03:11That makes me sound like a building.
03:13But I have been here before.
03:15Yes, I have.
03:16Excellent.
03:16And Susie, as ever, welcome.
03:18Well, we're now going to get right on to the game here.
03:21Ben, our incumbent champion.
03:24Off you go.
03:25Hello, Rachel.
03:25Hello, Ben.
03:26Could I have a consonant, please?
03:27You can indeed, thank you.
03:29Start the week with Y.
03:30And another one.
03:32M.
03:34Another one.
03:35D.
03:37A vowel, please.
03:39I.
03:40Another one.
03:43A.
03:44Another one.
03:46O.
03:48A consonant, please.
03:50N.
03:52Another consonant.
03:54C.
03:57And a vowel, please.
03:58And the last one.
04:00U.
04:01And here's the countdown clock.
04:03C.
04:03And here's the countdown clock.
04:33So, Ben.
04:35Go with a safe five, please, Nick.
04:38Safe five.
04:39And Andy?
04:39Oh, risk a six.
04:41Right.
04:42Let's hear the safe five.
04:44Mound.
04:45Right.
04:46And Andy?
04:48Maundy.
04:49Maundy.
04:51How are you spelling it?
04:52M-A-U-N-D-Y.
04:54It is there, but it is capitalised, I'm afraid.
04:57Maundy Thursday, public ceremony on the Thursday before Easter, but we're not allowed to capitalise
05:01now, so sorry.
05:03Right.
05:04Hard luck.
05:04Hard luck, Andy.
05:05Anything else over there?
05:06Pam?
05:06I've got dam.
05:10And we also came up with dynamic, being the dynamic duo that we are.
05:16Right.
05:16Very good.
05:18So, it's a letters game.
05:20Andy, off you go.
05:22Hi, Rachel.
05:23Hi, Andy.
05:23A consonant, please.
05:25Start with S.
05:27And another.
05:29T.
05:30And a vowel.
05:32E.
05:34Consonant.
05:36G.
05:38And another.
05:40D.
05:42A vowel, please.
05:44A.
05:45And another.
05:47E.
05:49And one more.
05:52O.
05:54And a consonant, please.
05:57And lastly, B.
05:58Stand by.
06:00Where do you want?
06:18What are your thoughts?
06:23Bye-bye.
06:24Bye-bye.
06:25Bye-bye.
06:27Bye-bye.
06:28Bye-bye.
06:28Bye-bye.
06:29Bye-bye.
06:29Now then, Andy.
06:31Seven.
06:32Seven.
06:33Ben?
06:33Seven.
06:34All right, Andy?
06:35Boasted.
06:37Boasted.
06:38And Ben?
06:39Debates.
06:40Debates.
06:41In the corner, you happy?
06:43Yes, very happy.
06:45Anything else?
06:45Can you take us further?
06:47Well, we can't take you any further, but we can offer something quite exotic with goatees.
06:55And there's also bodegas, B-O-D-E-G-A-S, which are food and wine shops in Spanish-speaking
07:01countries.
07:02Good.
07:03Now then, Ben, well done.
07:04Twelve to Andy.
07:05Seven.
07:06Plenty of time, Andy.
07:07Ben, take it away.
07:08I'll start with a consonant, please.
07:10Thank you, Ben.
07:11C.
07:13A vowel.
07:15A.
07:17A consonant.
07:19T.
07:21A consonant.
07:23D.
07:24A vowel.
07:26E.
07:28A vowel again.
07:30O.
07:32A consonant.
07:34V.
07:36A consonant.
07:38T.
07:40And a final vowel, please.
07:42And a final I.
07:45Here we go.
07:46Here we go.
08:16So, Ben.
08:18Seven.
08:20And Andy.
08:20Just a six.
08:22And your six would be?
08:23Caveat.
08:24Caveat.
08:25Ben.
08:26Dictate.
08:26Dictate.
08:27Oh, Andy, you need two A's for caveats, I'm afraid.
08:30Oh, dear.
08:32Bad luck.
08:33And we have Averset, the wading bird, with a long beak, I think.
08:37Yes, and long legs, very long legs.
08:39Right, so that extends Ben's lead, 19 to seven.
08:44And Andy, it's a letters game.
08:46Off you go.
08:47Consonant, please, Rachel.
08:49Thank you, Andy.
08:50K.
08:51And another.
08:53R.
08:54And one more.
08:56Q.
08:58Vowel.
08:59A.
09:01And another.
09:02E.
09:03And one more.
09:05O.
09:06Consonant.
09:08T.
09:09And another.
09:11P.
09:14And finish with a consonant.
09:17And lastly, N.
09:19Clock time.
09:22We'll see you next time.
09:24We'll see you next time.
09:28We'll see you next time.
09:28We'll see you next time.
09:29We'll see you next time.
09:32We'll see you next time.
09:33We'll see you next time.
09:35We'll see you next time.
09:37We'll see you next time.
09:39We'll see you next time.
09:47We'll see you next time.
09:50so Andy I'm gonna have to risk a seven and Ben six six what's your six men
09:58tanker tanker Andy Franker um you need to ask for prankers actually prankster
10:06anyway but um no can do on that one I'm afraid so anything else in the corner
10:11yes Nick we have a word which you often hear in shops that sell trainers and
10:18it's pronate it's about your foot rolling over I think and they say to you
10:22you're suffering from excess pronation brilliant really serious they go on
10:29training courses that you know how to sell a trainer so Ben 25 27 and Ben it's
10:35the first numbers game so would you kindly talk to Rachel hi Rachel could I
10:41have three big ones and three small ones please you can indeed thank you Ben three
10:46large three small to start the week off and for this numbers game the three
10:50small ones are one eight and three and the three large ones 25 100 and 75 and the
10:59target to reach 323 323
11:07so
11:19so
11:19so
11:19so
11:19so
11:19so
11:33so Ben three two four three two four Andy three two two but I haven't written it down
11:40right so Andy we'd better hear from you three plus one is four yep times 75 300
11:50plus the 25 35 oh I don't believe it no and I've used it now I've used to see again
11:58okay so let's have a
12:01look at Ben's three two four yeah it's a hundred times three 100 times three 300 plus 25 35 minus
12:13one
12:14yep three two four one away okay Rachel can you take us to the uh the promised land um yeah
12:19a couple
12:20of ways to do this one um you could have said 100 plus eight 108 times three three two four
12:27and then
12:27just take the one three two three very good well done now it's time to turn to panes thank you
12:39very
12:40much Nick well I had to get up at four o'clock this morning to come up here so I've
12:44been thinking
12:44about sleep and this is a little piece I wrote about not being able to get to sleep at all
12:50I just can't get to sleep tonight no matter what I do I'm restless in our bed I fuss and
12:57fidget next to
12:59you I rather think the problem is I fell into the trap of having quite a heavy lunch and then
13:06a little nap it wasn't very long a little doze the way you do and no way was it longer
13:13than about
13:14an hour or two and then when I woke up well it was supper time you see and I did
13:21eat quite a lot again
13:23between you and me I rather overdid it and I dined just like a toff and watching television later on
13:31I nodded off well it wasn't very long a little fade a little snooze my eyes were closed but I
13:38was
13:38concentrating on the news my husband doesn't understand my trials which is hard he has a low
13:46sarcastic humor which I try to disregard he recommends a remedy to overcome my plight
13:53stay awake by day and only go to sleep at night it's a dreadful thing insomnia I suffer every night
14:02the hours they go so slowly when you're waiting for the light I went to see the doctor to discover
14:09what he thinks but sitting in the waiting room I did have 40 winks well it wasn't very long but
14:18I was
14:18made to feel quite shaky when someone shouted in me ear you're snoring wakey wakey alas the doctor
14:27had no cure prescription or appliance it's clearly a condition quite unknown to modern science a medical
14:35phenomenon to make a doctor weep I'm such an enigmatic case I think I'll have a sleep
14:48but now it's time for the tea time teaser which is stoic car and the clue it's not an angry
14:56parasite
14:57it's a type of puzzle
15:14welcome back welcome back to the clue it's not an angry parasite it's a type of puzzle and the answer
15:20is acrostic acrostic I'm looking at you Susie what's this all about I like that acrostic
15:27um well an acrostic poem or word puzzle is one in which certain letters in each line form a word
15:33or different words uh it comes from greek so it's a type of puzzle but it also could be an
15:37angry tick
15:38an angry tick I've got a bit of an angry tick
15:41good excellent so ben solid leadership there ben 32 to andy's seven but there's plenty of time and
15:50you don't panic about this at all indeed andy it's your go it's letters game
15:55consonant please thank you andy start with j and another
16:00m and one more r and another m and a vowel i and another u and one more e and
16:20a consonant r
16:24and finish with a consonant please and finish with l
16:28pretty good
16:32so
16:42so
16:43so
17:00Andy? Just a five. A five. And Ben? Six. All right. Andy? Ruler. Ruler. Ben? Inja. Inja.
17:09And in the corner. Well, we've added a little on to that. We've got injurer. It's quite
17:16difficult to say. Yes. Somebody who injures? Yeah, the person who does the injuring. The
17:22assailant. Exactly. The assailant in American terms. Yeah, it's there for seven. Very good.
17:28So, 38 to seven. And Ben, it's a letters game. Can I start with a vowel, please? Thank
17:34you, Ben. A. Another vowel. Another A. A consonant. H. Another. G. Another one,
17:50please. M. A vowel. O. A consonant. T. A consonant. N. And a final vowel. And a final I.
18:09Tick-tock time.
18:11Tick-tock time.
18:42Ben?
18:43Six.
18:44Six. Andy?
18:45Six.
18:46All right. Ben?
18:47Mating.
18:48Mating?
18:49And hating.
18:50Hating. Right.
18:52Susie and Pam.
18:54Have you got anything else, Susie?
18:55There may be a seven if moat. Is there a verb? It is, yes.
18:58To surround a castle, for example, with a moat is to moat it.
19:02So moating would be fine for seven.
19:04Moating?
19:05Moating.
19:05Not one you've used very often.
19:07No.
19:08No.
19:08Your castle.
19:09Lovely.
19:0944 to 13. Well done, Andy. Building up, and it's your letters game.
19:15Consonant, please.
19:16Thank you, Andy.
19:17S.
19:18And another.
19:20R.
19:21And one more.
19:23Z.
19:25And a vowel.
19:26O.
19:28And another.
19:29A.
19:31Consonant.
19:33S.
19:35And a vowel.
19:37I.
19:40A consonant.
19:42T.
19:44And finish with a vowel.
19:47And finish with U.
19:50Here we go.
19:50A consonant.
19:52A consonant.
19:58A Salesforce.
19:59好.
20:07A consonant.
20:08Chapter 2.
20:08A ken.
20:21Yes, Andy?
20:23Six.
20:23Six. Ben?
20:24Six as well.
20:26Andy?
20:27Ratios.
20:28Ratios.
20:30And the same ratios.
20:31Same there. Have a look, Andy.
20:33And in the corner?
20:35There is actually an eight, slightly last-minute one.
20:37And it's Sautoirs, S-A-U-T-O-I-R-S,
20:41and they are long necklaces with fine gold chains
20:43and typically set with jewels to go with your moat.
20:46Very good.
20:51Very good.
20:52So, Ben, you've reached your half-century at 50.
20:55Andy, 19.
20:57And take it away, Ben.
20:59Letters game.
21:00Consonant, please.
21:02Thank you, Ben.
21:03L.
21:05Another one?
21:07N.
21:09Another one?
21:11T.
21:12A vowel.
21:14E.
21:16Another vowel.
21:18I.
21:20A consonant.
21:22M.
21:24Another consonant.
21:26S.
21:28A vowel.
21:30A.
21:33And another vowel, please.
21:35And the last one.
21:36E.
21:37Here we go.
21:38A vowel.
21:41A vowel.
21:42A vowel.
21:48A vowel.
21:54A vowel.
21:54A vowel.
21:55A vowel.
21:55A vowel.
21:55A vowel.
22:07A vowel.
22:08let's have it Ben seven seven Andy I'm gonna have to risk a nine good I like
22:17risks then entails entails and Andy mentalize
22:26mentalize it's not a bad guess at all sounds completely plausible oh there's
22:36mentalism a mentalist but not mentalize that's really bad luck a good lunge at the
22:42dictionary there Andy yeah very good anything else there we have me liest as
22:48in of all the boxes of muesli this was the me liest right good now Susie I'm
22:58shopping a pencil I love this part of the the day off you go oh well I have to
23:03thank viewers again this week for the queries that they've sent in Alan Miller
23:08emailed in and he asked why and when did we start calling men guys the the use of
23:15of guy to mean a generic man or a fellow probably does go back to the effigy of
23:19Guy Fawkes as you might have guessed paraded around towns on the anniversary
23:23of the gunpowder plot and the figure is usually accompanied by other effigies as
23:27well often of unpopular people in the town as well as of criminals and so the term
23:32guys given to this lot of effigies was probably over time transferred to the
23:38idea of somebody who was a man and usually criminal man in fact the first
23:42sense of guy was someone who was sly and committed dark deeds and then ran off
23:47over time the insult lessened but the use of a guy to mean a man or people
23:52remained and instantly the author Mark Forsyth has written really
23:57interestingly about how man as a term of address became popular particularly amongst black
24:01Americans after the Battle of Gettysburg freed slaves because they were sick of being called
24:06boy by their slave owners and so they greeted each other as man with real pride as a reaction
24:12to the boy that they've been treated with the years excellent so now Andy it's a numbers game but
24:23it's your numbers game talk to Rachel there hi can I have two large and four small please
24:28thank you can of course thank you Andy two from the top row four from the bottom rows and for
24:33this
24:33round the four small ones are four nine six and seven and the large two one hundred and twenty-five
24:42and the target to reach nine hundred and twenty-seven nine to seven
24:47first and that's why I'm talking about the call for this you know
24:53thanks for joining us
24:53thanks for joining us
24:53thanks for joining us
24:53and we'll see you next time
24:53and we'll see you next time
24:53Bum
24:57Bum
24:59Bum
25:17So, Andy?
25:18927.
25:19And Ben?
25:20927.
25:21All right, Andy?
25:247 minus 4 is 3.
25:26Yep.
25:26Plus 100.
25:27103.
25:28Times 9.
25:2997.
25:30Well done.
25:31All right.
25:32And Ben?
25:33I did 9 times 100.
25:35900.
25:36Plus 25.
25:38Yeah.
25:396 minus 4 for the 2.
25:40And another way to get 27.
25:42Yeah.
25:4297.
25:42Well done.
25:43Well done.
25:45And now it's time for our tea time teaser, which is Mini Boat.
25:49And the clue, it's all about the desire to achieve.
26:08Welcome back.
26:09I left you with the clue.
26:10It's all about the desire to achieve.
26:12And the answer, of course, ambition.
26:16Ambition.
26:17Ben, 67, to Andy's 29.
26:19And Ben, our champ, take it away.
26:22Letters game.
26:23A consonant, please.
26:26Thank you, Ben.
26:27R.
26:28Another one.
26:30L.
26:32Another one.
26:34S.
26:35A vowel.
26:37O.
26:39Another one.
26:40E.
26:42Another one.
26:45A.
26:46A consonant.
26:49D.
26:50Another one.
26:52W.
26:54And a final vowel.
26:55And a final I.
26:58Clock time.
26:59A consonant.
27:02W.
27:28Another one.
27:29A consonant.
27:30Champ?
27:33Eight, risky.
27:34A risky A's. And Andy?
27:36Six.
27:38And your six?
27:39Swords.
27:40Swords. And the risky one?
27:42Worldies.
27:45OK.
27:46What do you think about that?
27:47First of all, there's only one S, which Andy's just realised,
27:50so we can't have swords.
27:53I don't think you'll find worldies.
27:56Not there, as I know, and I'm afraid.
27:57Sorry, you knew it was risky.
27:59Well, we've got a blank there.
28:00What has the corner got to offer us?
28:02There is an eight there.
28:03Darioles, D-A-R-I-O-L-E-S,
28:06are small flowerpot-shaped moulds
28:08in which sweet or savoury dishes are cooked and served.
28:14Very good.
28:16Only Susie could come up with something like that.
28:19Very good.
28:1967 to 29.
28:21And Andy, kick off for a letters game.
28:24Consonant, please.
28:25Thank you, Andy.
28:26R.
28:27And another?
28:29P.
28:30And one more?
28:32C.
28:33And a vowel?
28:35O.
28:36And another?
28:37E.
28:39And one more?
28:41I.
28:42And a consonant?
28:44S.
28:47And another consonant?
28:49N.
28:51And a final consonant?
28:53And a final D.
28:56Here we go.
28:56Maybe.
28:58Maybe.
29:09Hi.
29:11Maybe.
29:23No, maybe.
29:27Andy
29:28Dodgy seven a dodgy seven Ben seven seven a seven
29:33So Andy, let's have the dodgy one coiners
29:37coiners and
29:39copiers
29:40copiers
29:41Okay, I'm pretty sure you can be a mint coiner as well as a word coiner you can be yeah
29:47Not risky well done. All right anything else Pamela. I've got prints as in one day my prints will come
29:55But I would like to impress you with the other one, which is a nine and it's conspired
30:04Okay, so Ben at 74 and yet 36 and Ben our champ off you go
30:13Consonant please. Thank you, Ben
30:15L
30:17a
30:18a
30:21consonant
30:24Val
30:26a
30:29consonant
30:30T
30:32another
30:33consonant
30:35B
30:36a
30:37vowel
30:39U
30:41consonant
30:43R
30:44and another one please and the last one P
30:48Tantan clock
31:16Tantan clock
31:21Ben.
31:23Six.
31:24Andy?
31:25Whiskey, seven.
31:27Ben?
31:28Brutal.
31:29Brutal.
31:30Andy?
31:31Blaster.
31:32A blaster.
31:33Oh, blaster's absolutely fine.
31:35Yeah.
31:36Very good.
31:37And in the corner?
31:38We have a seven, which is plaster,
31:41and then Susie's got something which I don't understand.
31:45Oh.
31:45So I will pass over to Susie.
31:48We had to do the tea time teaser quite recently.
31:50It's pubertal.
31:51It's the adjective from puberty.
31:53So a child could be pubertal, for example.
31:55Oh, I see.
31:56I remember that.
31:57Pubertal.
31:58I can barely remember it.
31:59Thank goodness.
32:01Thank goodness.
32:0274 to 43.
32:03Andy, the last numbers game of the day.
32:07We'll go out with two large and four small, please.
32:10Thank you, Andy.
32:11Same again.
32:11Two big ones, four little ones, four the last numbers game.
32:15And this time, the four small are one, six, nine, and seven.
32:20And the two large ones, 75 and 50.
32:24And the target to reach 266.
32:27266.
32:29quadruple,
32:38So much further back.
32:38project
32:38can be perfect.
32:57Thanks for listening to this morning.
32:59Andy 266 266 and Ben 266 Andy let's hear from you 6 minus 1 is 5 yep times 50 250
33:09and then 9
33:10plus 7 is 16 yep and Adam on 266 well done and Ben same way same way you happy Andy
33:17yeah well
33:19he's got it right I'm not happy but he's got it right 84 to 53 final round conundrum time so
33:31fingers on buzzers please to reveal today's countdown conundrum
33:49Andy musically let's have a look
33:56very good
33:59not a bad score 63 yeah that's fair that's fair but the champ retains the crown Andy you go home
34:09to Brighton with your uh goodie bag yeah for the children no no doubt tear it away from you
34:15good luck to you thank you good luck to you and we'll see you tomorrow do you know something Pamela
34:20I've been worrying about one of your great poems a lot of them but I've picked out I wish I
34:24looked
34:25after me teeth and I had our money-making scheme that you could sell the rights to it the British
34:31Dental Association worldwide make a fortune they could then have them on their waiting room walls
34:37how about that well it's sort of been done really except it we didn't sell it for a fortune but
34:43we
34:43did do a poster a jolly poster of it with tubes of toothpaste and licorice all sorts and such like
34:49on it and it was quite popular and lots of dentists have got it up on their their walls to
34:54lighten the
34:55gloom a little bit that's a lovely idea you know I was told as a child this is a medical
35:00poem that the
35:01worst rhyming couple in the English language was down the wire the message came she's not much better
35:07she's much the same about Queen Victoria when she was on her deathbed McGonagall I think it sounds a bit
35:13like McGonagall yeah he was the poet laureate I think anyway moving swiftly on Susie great to see
35:19you as ever thank you for all your wisdom and strange words Rachel as ever we'll be thinking
35:26about your shoes and we may get round to it you never know but I hope you'll get round to
35:31joining us
35:31tomorrow same time same place we're counting on it
35:4510 o'clock tonight the life of a limousine a chauffeur what that rear mirror has witnessed
35:51they've seen it all and they're telling it all next this afternoon though it's deal or no deal
35:57you
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