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00:32Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:35So it's Halloween.
00:38And our studio audience clearly are planning an evening of trick-or-treat,
00:43judging by their appearance, anyway.
00:45Or do they always look like this, I wonder?
00:49It's a pretty scary-looking crowd.
00:52And this evening, are you one for scary movies, a Halloween movie?
00:56Yeah, I do like a good scary movie.
00:59The Scream ones came out when I was a teenager, which were quite good fun.
01:02And we used to watch The Candyman.
01:04Did you?
01:05Have you seen The Candyman?
01:06No, I hate them.
01:07Saw.
01:08There was one called Saw.
01:09Oh, yeah, there's some horrible-sounding ones.
01:12Yeah, I don't much care for those.
01:13So they sew bits of people's bodies onto...
01:15Is that Caterpillar Man or...?
01:16Ghastly, ghastly.
01:17Anyway, there we are.
01:18And in fact, in France, of course, it is the tradition on Halloween, today,
01:23people go to the cemeteries to pay their respects to their loved ones,
01:28and they always carry, without exception, chrysanthemums.
01:33Isn't that strange?
01:34Why is that?
01:34And it's the flower of mourning.
01:36I don't know.
01:36Oh, right.
01:36Well, not lilies?
01:37No.
01:38Ah.
01:39Chrysanthemums.
01:40Now then, who are we joined by?
01:41Lucy!
01:41You had such a wonderful time yesterday.
01:44Yeah.
01:45And you beat off Amy, the chap, who the day before, it's called 111, I think.
01:49And you're caring for your mum.
01:50Yes.
01:50And you've been caring for her for some time.
01:52Erm, it'll be about four or five years now.
01:55Oh, good for you.
01:56Good for you.
01:56I hope she's watching you today.
01:58Yes, she will be.
01:58And you're a triumph of yesterday.
02:00Yes, she definitely will be.
02:01Good for you.
02:01And you're joined by Ivor Sorokin.
02:04Correct pronunciation?
02:06Absolutely.
02:06Very good.
02:07And you're from Hove, an administrative director.
02:11Between the 60s, I think from the 60s, in fact, up to 95, you've developed a chain of leather
02:16good shops and you've been playing table tennis in the local league for 64 years.
02:20You're a pretty active guy, aren't you?
02:22Well, I like to keep a bit active, yeah.
02:24And you're still hard at work?
02:26Yes, indeed.
02:26I hear your judgment wasn't always so brilliant because, of course, Anita Roddick started her
02:32first shop, her extraordinary successful body shop, Jane, in Hove, and you said it would
02:39only last ten minutes.
02:40Is that right?
02:41We said, actually, six months.
02:43Oh, all right, then, six months.
02:44And look at it, still booming away.
02:46Still going.
02:47Brilliant.
02:48What a woman she was.
02:49Gone now, sadly.
02:51Yeah, I met her once.
02:52She was pretty frenetic type, actually.
02:53Did you ever come across her?
02:54Only when she started her shop in Kensington Gardens, and that was when she'd just started.
03:01Okay, so a young woman, then, of course.
03:03Yeah.
03:04So, a warm round of applause for Lucy and Ivor.
03:12Well done.
03:14And Susie, who's blessed once again by the presence of the wonderful Joe Brand.
03:20And Joe, I hear that you're about to put on your big boots and go tramping around the country.
03:24What's this about?
03:25Well, it's a bit of a little tour, because I'm trying to crank up to a bigger tour next
03:30year, so I'm just practising on some poor people in small theatres.
03:35It is, you know, a great treat, and will be a great treat for them, and please let us
03:40know soon where you're going to be, so I can come and applaud the loudest.
03:45I will.
03:46Anyway, let's crack on here.
03:48Lucy, I call upon you to start the proceedings with a letters game.
03:52Afternoon, Rachel.
03:53Oh, dear Lucy.
03:53With a consonant, please.
03:54Start today with S.
03:57Another one.
04:00F.
04:01Third.
04:03T.
04:04Vowel.
04:06O.
04:07Vowel.
04:09I.
04:10Another vowel.
04:12E.
04:13Consonant.
04:15W.
04:16Another one.
04:18C.
04:19And a final consonant, please.
04:22And a final M.
04:24And it's the countdown clock.
04:29Any music?
04:30Two.
04:41Two.
04:42Two.
04:44Two.
04:46Two.
04:46Two.
04:49Three.
04:50Three.
04:51Two.
04:53One, two.
04:55Two.
04:55Two.
04:56And Lucy eight very good either six and your six either
05:02Miss finest finest Lucy come fierce that comfie we keen on comfy Joe
05:10Yes, very keen on comfy
05:13I've got a seven. I've started up so I think can farm animals don't really do enough exercise
05:20So I've started up a group once a week near where I live called fit cows
05:30In quite right quite right Susie. What have you got for us?
05:33I will first I just have to say I've run for there's no MN for finest. It's an M. He
05:37might misheard there
05:40So sorry about that comfiest as well this comforts remember licorice comforts. No, I love sweets. We love sweet
05:47Yeah, yeah, there's comforts were quite nice sugar-coated licorice comes from Pontefract. You know that I think I did
05:53All right, so well done Lucy quick start there and
05:57Ivor off you go letters game
06:00afternoon Rachel afternoon I
06:02Consonant please thank you start with n
06:06And a vowel I
06:10a consonant
06:13be a
06:15vowel
06:17oh
06:19consonant
06:20G
06:23vowel
06:26E
06:29consonant
06:31S
06:33And a vowel
06:36U
06:39And the consonant and the last one T and here's the clock
06:59that I've got a vowel and a vowel, like a vowel and the vowel is what I've said.
07:04You know, the learn but I've had a vowel and a vowel instead of a vowel, but I even went
07:05out to the Tel Aviv and I said, from that the Fireman, you know, it's going to be a vowel.
07:05But this one is probably a vowel and the vowel is going on the vowel.
07:06But this is, in all two of the vowel itself asmed like a vowel, which is a vowel, but not
07:09once you have to do a vowel.
07:09The vowel, would have used a vowel and a vowel and vowel and the vowel is not very거�ly, but now
07:10you have to say it anywhere in the mouth.
07:15Ivor, it seems like to say that, but I don't know.
07:17Seven. A seven. And Lucy?
07:19Just a six. And your six?
07:21Bogeys. Bogeys.
07:23Ivor?
07:25Outings. Outings.
07:27Joe? Big nuts.
07:31Hey, Lucy, in the lead, eight to seven.
07:34And it's your letters game, Lucy.
07:36Can I have a continent, please?
07:37Thank you, Lucy.
07:38C? Another one.
07:41V? Another.
07:45J?
07:47A fourth.
07:49R?
07:50A vowel.
07:52A?
07:52Another one.
07:54E?
07:56Another one.
07:58Another A?
08:00A consonant.
08:03G?
08:04And another consonant, please.
08:06And lastly, P.
08:09Stand by.
08:09T?
08:10A
08:11T?
08:37MUSIC CONTINUES
08:40Now then, Lucy. Just a five. A five. Ivor? A five. Lucy's five. Grape. Grape, Ivor? Grave. Grave. And in
08:51the corner, what have we got there?
08:54Um, I've got a seven. It's quite a serious problem that I see in the streets that affects a lot
09:01of schoolboys on their way to school, and that's cap rage.
09:06Great. Very good. And Susie? Just grave, following the Halloween theme and grace. So just fives. It was a tough
09:13one.
09:13It was, indeed. Well done. So, 13 to Lucy and Ivor. 12 as we turn to Ivor for a letters
09:21game.
09:22A consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Ivor. R. And a vowel. U. Consonant. L. And a vowel. E. A consonant.
09:39A consonant. R. And a vowel. I. A consonant. D. And a vowel. O. And a consonant.
09:56And lastly, N. Stand by.
09:59R. And a vowel.
10:31Ivor seven Lucy seven Ivor seven rounder rounder Lucy same
10:41Very good and in the court Susie. Can you help?
10:44Well, I have roundel which is a small decorative medallion and an oiled so I'm matching the seven oiled
10:52Yes, but I see a glint coming from Joe Brown's you don't because I got ruler
11:00Lucy still in the lead at 22. I was 19 as we come to the first numbers game of the
11:06day
11:06Lucy now six small please you can thank you Lucy six little ones coming up for you
11:14Could be a challenge and for the first numbers game today. The small ones are eight ten four
11:20one
11:21six and two and
11:24the target to reach
11:27382 382
11:32So
11:59Lucy 382 well done Ivor 382 not written down all right, let's hear from you first then Ivor um
12:07Eight fours eight fours are 32
12:11plus six
12:1338 by 10 by 10 380
12:17Very well done 382 well done indeed Lucy same way
12:20Yeah, jolly good of course all marks all round well done
12:29Pretty good Ivor only one point adrift there plenty of time as we
12:34clench and
12:36Look to Joe as we clench
12:41What ever next well don't be nervous
12:44Um unless you are the user of this word which really annoys me as I continue
12:51uh
12:52My uh journey through uh
12:55words that irritate me and the word is in fact journey because um
13:00If you watch reality shows um you'll hear a lot of people saying I've been on a journey
13:07No, you haven't I've been on a journey I got on the train in London and came to Manchester now
13:13that is a journey
13:15It's not it's the whole
13:17Thing that people do about emotional journeys is just kind of it's everywhere in our culture and it's absolutely
13:25Driving me nuts because I'm not a completely literal person. I do
13:30I do understand the use of a metaphor but if I hear one more person
13:36Using the word journey on television in that way I will go to their house and I will take them
13:41on a journey
13:43They don't want to go on
13:46Actually, we did hear quite a lot of uh journey talk during the olympics
13:51I have to say i'm sorry to the athletes but many of them had been on a journey
13:56And I had well been in a coma for quite a long time
14:01You listen to them you know a journey to me let me tell you about a journey
14:04I took once one of my favorite journeys in London. It was a proper journey
14:08I was in a cab coming home from hackney in east london and we were parked up at the traffic
14:14lights because they were red
14:16And uh our car was hit from behind by another car which subsequently drove off
14:22And the cab driver turned to me and said some words that i'd long to hear for a very long
14:27time
14:27He said do you mind if we chase him love
14:31Also, I don't mind so I went on a car chase in a cab through hackney for half an hour
14:37It was absolutely brilliant and after that half an hour
14:40We lost this guy uh up a very narrow street and the cabbie turned to me and said i'm sorry
14:45I'll have to take you back to south london 150 quid that cat test thing
14:58Brilliant stuff wonderful
15:00But now it's time for a tea time teaser and the teaser is medic nap
15:05And the clue medics won't have time for a nap during one of these medics won't have time for a
15:11nap during one of these
15:27Welcome back
15:28I left you with the clue medics won't have time for a nap during one of these
15:33And when is that it's during a pandemic during a pandemic
15:37Now then lucy 32 ivas
15:4229 you're not letting her run away with it are you you certainly are not either and it's your letters
15:46game
15:47um consonant please thank you iva
15:50p and a vowel
15:53a
15:54consonant
15:57n
15:59vowel
16:01o
16:02consonant
16:04t
16:06vowel
16:06e
16:08another vowel
16:10a
16:12a consonant
16:16n
16:17another consonant
16:19and the last one
16:20x
16:22coconut
16:23or
16:24o'
16:24a
16:24a
16:25a
16:34a
16:36a
16:36a
16:39a
16:46a
16:51a
16:52yes either seven seven Lucy completely lost it for four okay well it's here no
17:03and either panetta panetta how are you spelling that P a double n e t a oh it's
17:16not there so no panetta then but Susie what could we have very very tough an expat for
17:25five but really couldn't get beyond fives all right what can Joe do do you like Christmas
17:31shows very much for kids I think they're a bit boring and they should be kind of a bit
17:38more violence in them I'd like to see an axe panto excellent stuff 34 to 29 says Lucy
17:46has extended her lead and we look to you Lucy for a letters game now
17:50continent please thank you Lucy L another one p third one s foul e another I another one
18:07O consonant R consonant N and a final vowel please and a final e and here's the clock
18:25so
18:51Yes, Lucy seven a seven either seven
18:56Well done Lucy spoiler spoiler and either there's a spoiler for a spoiler
19:03And in the corner Joe I've got a nine actually excellent and
19:08Every time my husband keeps me awake at night. I make him put 10p on our snore pile
19:17And Susie those innate they're pioneers pioneers
19:25I
19:26Six either would you care to
19:29Choose some letters her consonant, please. Thank you either D and a vowel
19:36You a consonant
19:40S a vowel Oh
19:46Consonant L vowel
19:51A
19:53Consonant T
19:57Vowel
20:00You and a consonant please and the last one see
20:05Stand by
20:06Be
20:07Ty
20:08Did you want hmm b
20:13Yeah
20:18Do
20:19Yeah
20:23You
20:35You
20:37Ivo six and Lucy six Ivo clouds and Lucy Sam
20:46Very good. Yep. We've got clouds. What have we got in the corner when I've got seven? Yes
20:52And you know I'm talking earlier about making
20:55Cows keep fit so I've decided to try and organize their meal times a bit more
21:04Evenly, and I've given them each a cud slot
21:12Officially mad I'm sorry. I think that's brilliant
21:17Now then Susie nothing is nice as that just sixes again
21:22Ducats or ducats, but no better than six very good
21:2647 to 42 and we look to do see now for another letters game
21:30Consonant, please. Thank you, Lucy
21:32S and another one
21:35L another
21:38D
21:40A fourth
21:41G
21:44A vowel
21:45A
21:46And another one
21:48I
21:49Another
21:51E
21:54Consonant
21:56T
21:57And a final consonant, please
22:00And a final S
22:02And here's the clock
22:03G
22:04You
22:04And a änis
22:04And a haste
22:05Cap
22:06And a
22:18And a
22:34Yes, Lucy seven seven either. I'm sorry. I've lost it. The good Lucy glassed glassed
22:42apparently people smash glasses and poking people's faces and pubs that's being glassed
22:47apparently horrible things with glass in hunting it's to scan one's surroundings with binoculars
22:53or yes to hit someone in the face with a beer glass not you know horror no the joke I
22:58might
22:58try building like a small children's playground for the cows so that they can do something a bit
23:04different other than walking around but obviously because they're quite heavy I would stop them
23:09going down the slide quite as often as they may want I can't believe I'm saying this anyway but I
23:20do I
23:21would mark them by giving them a label which I call a slide tag I shall go and seek help
23:29after this
23:31we'll come with you actually well done Lucy 54 to I was 42 still in touch there I don't worry
23:37about
23:37thing as we calm ourselves for Susie's origins of words well it's Halloween as we know and so I
23:46thought I would read an appropriate email from a viewer called Margaret Thirlwell so thank you
23:50Margaret and she says I have quite a few nightmares so I know what they are but where did the
23:55word
23:55to come from and it is a nice story actually a mare in old English was a female spirit and
24:01believed
24:01to produce a feeling of suffocation in a sleeping person or an animal so it's not linked with the
24:06horse that is a mare but it's Germanic in origin and it may be connected with an old Irish word
24:12Morrigan who's the Queen of the Elves and in French the same idea continues at Cochmar which is the their
24:19word for nightmare comes from a word meaning to press and there's mare again in there so the
24:24images of a phantom pressing in and of course the nightmare is somebody who visits you while
24:28you're sleeping and according to superstition the nightmare lies on top of the sleeping victim
24:32who waits but who's unable to move or call for help so horrible so next time we say I'm having
24:38a
24:38mare we might like to conjure up that image of an evil spectre looming over the bed
24:42mm-hmm Ivor it's numbers game hello again Rachel can have two large and four small please you can
24:56indeed thank you Ivor two from the top and four little ones for you and for this round they are
25:02two
25:03one three and eight and the large to 75 and 100 and your target 814 814
25:13coloured sort of six polled ichiì…‹
25:18scherz
25:20scherz
25:20scherz
25:44Ivor?
25:45814.
25:46Well done, Lucy.
25:48814.
25:49Right, then.
25:50Take it away, Ivor.
25:52Um, 100 plus 2.
25:54100 plus 2, 102.
25:57By 8.
25:58By 8, 816.
26:00And 3 minus 1.
26:01Here's another 2.
26:03Well done, 814.
26:05And Lucy, same route.
26:07I'm sure I did.
26:07Exactly.
26:08Well done.
26:09All right.
26:13Very good.
26:15So, 64 plays Ivor's 52.
26:18As we go into a tea-time teaser, which is iron step.
26:20And the clue, a few tips that will help to show you the way.
26:25A few tips that will help to show you the way.
26:44Welcome back.
26:45I left you with a clue.
26:46A few tips that will help to show you the way.
26:48And the answer is pointers.
26:52Pointers.
26:53The score's down in 64 to Lucy.
26:56Ivor's 52.
26:58Plenty of time, Ivor.
26:59We turn to you, Lucy, for a letters game.
27:02I have a continent, please.
27:03Thank you, Lucy.
27:04T.
27:04And another one.
27:07D.
27:08Another.
27:11N.
27:12Vowel.
27:14A.
27:15Another one.
27:16U.
27:17A third.
27:19E.
27:20Consonant.
27:22R.
27:23Another.
27:24H.
27:26And a final vowel, please.
27:27And a final I.
27:30And here's the clock.
27:31H.
27:32H.
27:33H.
27:33H.
27:34H.
27:35H.
27:36H.
27:40H.
27:41H.
27:41H.
27:42H.
27:43H.
27:44H.
27:45Oh
28:02Lucy seven Iva seven all right Lucy haunted haunted both haunted
28:11Appropriate Joe urinated
28:16Inevitably, well, thank you 71 to 59 Iva and it's your letters game over
28:22Consonant please Rachel. Thank you either L and a vowel a
28:29Consonant
28:32ah
28:33vowel I
28:38Consonant V
28:42Vowel oh
28:43another vowel
28:47E
28:49Consonant
28:51S and another consonant and a final H done by
28:56Oh
28:58Oh
28:58Oh
28:59Oh
28:59Oh
29:00Oh
29:01Oh
29:03Oh
29:12Oh
29:14Oh
29:26Oh
29:31Oh
29:32Oh
29:33Oh
29:33Oh
29:39Or
29:40Oh
29:43Oh
29:45Oh
29:45Yes, they're there for seven.
29:46Oh, very good. There's a shovel in there somewhere, I think, too.
29:48And a shovel, yes.
29:49Now then.
29:49I'm sorry to lower the tone slightly further.
29:53Go on.
29:54But, you know, when you go...
29:56Well, not that I do often, but when you go into men's urinals,
29:59they're not the most pristine of areas, are they?
30:03They should be provided with lav shoes.
30:09Ah, 77.65.
30:11Lucy, would you care to carry us forward?
30:16Consonant, please.
30:17Thank you, Lucy.
30:18N.
30:20Another one.
30:22T.
30:23Another.
30:24S.
30:26Vowel.
30:28O.
30:29Vowel.
30:31E.
30:32Another vowel.
30:34O.
30:35Consonant.
30:37D.
30:38Consonant.
30:41H.
30:42And a final vowel, please.
30:44And a final.
30:46A.
30:47And it's countdown.
30:48Done.
30:49D.
30:49D.
30:50D.
30:50D.
31:18MUSIC CONTINUES
31:31MUSIC CONTINUES
31:54MUSIC CONTINUES
31:55MUSIC CONTINUES
31:55MUSIC CONTINUES
31:56MUSIC CONTINUES
31:58MUSIC CONTINUES
32:02MUSIC CONTINUES
32:03MUSIC CONTINUES
32:04MUSIC CONTINUES
32:14MUSIC CONTINUES
32:17Four, eight, and one, and the large two, 25, and 50.
32:22And the target to reach 860.
32:258, 6, 0.
32:58Ivor?
32:59I'm sorry, I've lost it.
33:00Lucy?
33:01I've lost it as well.
33:02Both of you?
33:04I'll know who won't have lost it.
33:06Rachel?
33:07Almost lost it.
33:09You could have said 25 plus 1 is 26,
33:13times by 8 is 208,
33:17add the 7 is 215,
33:20and times that by 4 for 860.
33:23Well done.
33:24Well done.
33:29That's massive.
33:30Well done.
33:31So, final round time, conundrum time.
33:34Fingers on buzzers, please.
33:35Let's reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
34:09So, our contestants are stumped and stymied.
34:13Anybody in the audience?
34:14Do I see a hand?
34:16I do indeed.
34:17Yes, madam?
34:19Disobeyed?
34:21Disobeyed.
34:21Yes.
34:22And, actually, Ivor's just told me that you're Gwenny, his wife.
34:26Is that right?
34:26That's right.
34:27Let's see whether you're right.
34:30Well done.
34:32Disobeyed.
34:33Quite right.
34:34So, brilliant.
34:35So, you're going to go home with Gwenny, your wife,
34:38who's just won the conundrum,
34:39and beat you to it.
34:41How could you let her beat you to it?
34:42But, well done, Gwenny, yes?
34:45Yes.
34:45And, no doubt, as you go home with your goodie bag,
34:47she'll be singing to you,
34:49because I understand that you love her to sing
34:51Wind Beneath My Wings,
34:53and I hope that you fly home safely.
34:55Thank you very much.
34:55With our very best wishes.
34:57So, we shall see you tomorrow, Lucy.
34:59Yes, we shall.
34:59Another good win.
35:00Well done.
35:01Well done.
35:01Susie and Joe, tomorrow, until tomorrow,
35:06behave yourself tonight on the Halloween.
35:08You know, knocking on doors there,
35:10Joe, it can be a dangerous business.
35:12I'm just going to take the sweets they leave outside.
35:15All right.
35:16Excellent.
35:17And have a good horror movie.
35:20Have a good horror movie.
35:20Take it carefully at home tonight,
35:23so that you're safe and with us tomorrow,
35:25same time, same place.
35:26You be sure of it.
35:28APPLAUSE
35:37A home to keep out the wind and the locals.
35:41Grand Designs heads to the Isle of Skye tonight at nine.
35:44But next, there's something spooky lurking.
35:47The Daddy Noel is ready for deal or no deal.
35:51APPLAUSE
35:56Do you have any scheduled notes?
35:57Go, go, go, go, go, go.
35:59Go, go, go.
35:59It's no hope of us, but I Celtic is coming along the way!
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