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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:34Our research department tells us that it is exactly 500 years ago since the great Michelangelo finished his great work,
00:44the painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
00:4712,000 square feet, I'm told, it took him four years to do it.
00:51And why not? It's a masterpiece.
00:53My masterpiece took less time, about 20 minutes as far as I remember.
00:58It was much admired when I was at a small chapel of about nine.
01:02In fact, applause broke out whenever anybody saw it.
01:06Until they discovered that one tiny portion had not been covered in paint and it had a number in it.
01:12It was in fact a masterpiece painting by numbers.
01:16I was never able to live it down.
01:18Why? Because I didn't own up in the first place.
01:20So there we are.
01:22That's sloppy work, not colouring them all in.
01:26No, but the Vatican, wonderful.
01:28Rome is a great city.
01:29Have you been to Rome?
01:30I've been to Rome, yeah, a few years ago.
01:32And what do you reckon?
01:34Um, I wasn't, I don't know, I didn't like it as much as when I went to Florence.
01:38I thought Florence was a lot prettier and less tourists, fewer tourists.
01:42Well, that's true, but Rome is a small city and the history of Rome is extraordinary.
01:47Even the Pantheon, you get to the Pantheon and it's in a nice square and there's a McDonald's in the
01:51corner.
01:51I know.
01:52It's just a bit disappointing.
01:53It's in the Piazza della Rotunda, it's called.
01:56Yeah, you don't see that in the tourist photos, do you?
01:58Not the McDonald's, but we stayed in a hotel right in the Piazza and when you opened the window, there
02:05was the Rotunda, 2,000 years old.
02:08It's beautiful and it's got an Oculus in this wonderful dome, which was a miracle 2,000 years ago.
02:15So, on particular Sundays, they pour rose petals through the Oculus into the interior of the church.
02:24Beautiful.
02:25That sounds nice.
02:26Oh, it's beautiful, it's wonderful.
02:28Now, Lucy, you're back again and you've done terribly well.
02:31What was your last score?
02:32What was your score yesterday?
02:33Remind me.
02:34I think it was 83.
02:3683, well done.
02:37And something's been puzzling me, Lucy, you've got two miniature Dachshunds.
02:41I thought Dachshunds were small enough already, but they come even smaller?
02:44Yeah, they're just, their legs are a lot shorter, basically.
02:47Shorter?
02:48Yes.
02:49And you are joined by Philip Jackson, a retired teacher from Ascot in Berkshire, who used to teach English as
02:54a foreign language and you've worked in lots of places.
02:57In France, I'm told, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Abu Dhabi.
03:03That's very rewarding and you got to travel too.
03:05It probably sounds more exotic than it was actually in real life.
03:08It was a bit of a grind, particularly out in the Gulf.
03:11Why particularly?
03:13You don't like a glass of beer, do you occasionally?
03:15Occasionally, yes.
03:16And you can't have that, I suppose, in places like Abu Dhabi?
03:19Part of the Gulf you can.
03:20Yeah, okay.
03:21Some are more tolerant than others.
03:23Very good.
03:23And you completed a round-the-world trip in 82.
03:26It was a long summer holiday and then one of the religious holidays followed, so I had seven consecutive weeks
03:31off and went to New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii, flew into Los Angeles, hired a car and drove across to Miami
03:40and flew back from there.
03:42What a wonderful trip.
03:44Yeah, it was good.
03:44Fabulous.
03:45Anyway, well done.
03:46So let's have a warm and vigorous round of applause for Lucy and Philip.
03:58Welcome back, Susie, and of course, sitting next to you is the joyous Joe Brand, who's been terrorising the studio
04:04all week.
04:05I have not.
04:06You've terrorised me.
04:07I'm always wondering what on earth's going to come next.
04:11So far, I've clung on and held on bravely.
04:15I've been knocking you off today, then.
04:20Something else to look forward to.
04:22Yes, that's...
04:23I don't know why that's a promise or a threat.
04:26Now then, let's carry on with the game here.
04:30Lucy, would you be good enough to open the proceedings?
04:33Afternoon, Rachel.
04:34Afternoon again, Lucy.
04:35Can I start with a continent, please?
04:36Start today with G.
04:38Another one.
04:40R.
04:42Another.
04:44N.
04:45Vowel.
04:47E.
04:48Another.
04:49I.
04:50Another.
04:53U.
04:54Consonant.
04:55C.
04:56Consonant.
04:59N.
05:00A final vowel, please.
05:02And a final I.
05:04And here's the countdown clock.
05:06The.
05:08The.
05:37MUSIC CONTINUES
05:51MUSIC CONTINUES
06:36MUSIC CONTINUES
06:39Er, consonant, please.
06:41And the last one.
06:42Oh, dear, J.
06:44And here's the clock.
06:45Here's the clock.
07:16Yes, Philip?
07:17Five.
07:18Five.
07:19And Lucy?
07:20Five.
07:21Philip's five.
07:22Dimes.
07:23Dimes.
07:24Yes, Lucy?
07:25Modes.
07:26Modes, yes.
07:28Jo, have you got anything to offer us?
07:29I've got seven.
07:30Good.
07:31Something that Harry Potter often does, gets into whiz mode.
07:37Whiz mode.
07:38Very good.
07:39Are you in whiz mode, Susie?
07:40Well, you can have wisdom.
07:42Yes.
07:42Which is a nice spin-off from there.
07:43And for six, and also quite a nice five is a zowie.
07:48A zowie?
07:48Yes, an American exclamation.
07:50Very good.
07:51I'll have it all.
07:51Well done.
07:52Lucy, let us go.
07:53Can I have a consonant, please?
07:55Thank you, Lucy.
07:56N.
07:56Another one.
07:59Another one.
08:00Another.
08:02F.
08:03Fourth.
08:05N.
08:06Vowel.
08:08U.
08:09Vowel.
08:10A.
08:11Another one.
08:13O.
08:14Consonant.
08:16R.
08:18And a final vowel, please.
08:19And a final...
08:21U.
08:22Stand by.
08:38And a final vowel, please.
08:38And a final vowel, please.
08:39And a final vowel, please.
08:39And a final vowel, please.
08:40And a final vowel, please.
08:41And a final vowel, please.
08:41And a final vowel, please.
08:44And a final vowel, please.
08:44And a final vowel, please.
08:54Lucy just a far and Philip five
08:58Lucy paw paw
09:01Philip apron apron. That's the way we do it. Yes. Happy about that. Yes. Very good in this
09:08Anything else Susie? Oh, no, it was very hard an apron used to be a napron and because people were
09:14saying an apron an apron
09:15It became an apron. Yes
09:17and Joe
09:19Um, well, I saw Tim vine recently and doing a charity run and it wasn't a fun run. It was
09:27a pun run
09:31A pun run very good. Ah
09:34Now then Philip in the lead at 16 to 11
09:37And we call on you for lip constantly Rachel. Thank you, Philip
09:42T and another
09:45And another
09:47T and another
09:49L and another
09:52T
09:53A vowel, please
09:55E
09:56And another
09:58A
09:59And another
10:02Another E
10:04And another vowel, please
10:06And the last one
10:07I
10:08Here's the clock
10:37Here's the clock
10:40What news Philip seven seven seven well done Lucy seven philip seven patty's patty's Lucy
10:48epistle epistle
10:50Thank you. Yep. Very nice. Very good indeed. Yeah, and now then Joe
10:56I've got a six. I don't even know it's a word, but I hope it is it's one of those
11:00ones you see in a comic coming out of
11:04Batman's
11:05Mouth or off one of Batman's enemies when he hits them splat
11:09Yes, is that a word splats in I think it's only got one T, but splat is in
11:14Yeah, not two T's two T's okay, but still there's Susie there is a note there Nick epilates to remove
11:21the hair from
11:23something
11:24nasal hair
11:2623 to 18 so Lucy trailing slightly
11:30But it's your numbers game chance to catch up can I have six more food you can indeed
11:36Thank you Lucy six small ones again
11:38All the little ones and for this round they are three two
11:43six
11:45five
11:46Another three and seven and the target
11:50446 four four six
12:24four four seven four four seven one away and Philip four four five
12:30Interesting now, then Lucy
12:33Six times seven six times seven forty two add three add three
12:39Three forty five two times five is ten two times five is ten times them together
12:46450 then take away the other three and you've got one more three left over for one away. Yeah, well
12:51done
12:51Very good and Philip five plus three is eight five plus three is eight six plus two is another eight
12:59Six plus two another eight multiply together sixty-four. Yep times seven four four eight it is minus three
13:05Four four eight and yep one below four four five very good not perfect
13:11Is it possible? I don't think so a few different ways to get one away, but I think this one
13:16is impossible
13:17All right, so you've done very well very good indeed
13:19But still five ahead Philip still five ahead well done my eyes aren't actually that great Joe and every time
13:25I peer across at you in
13:27That outfit. I see a prince of the church. I see a cardinal
13:32And then suddenly I realize it's you Joe
13:35I know it is a bit strict. I don't actually like this top much, but my my
13:41Criterion for what I wear is I look in the wardrobe, and if it hasn't got curry on it. I
13:46bring it with me
13:48I know I'm terrible. I am a terrible proper woman
13:51I just can't be one so this was in the back of the wardrobe with a small six stain on
13:57the back
13:59No, but certainly my children are past that and I wish my husband was
14:02but
14:06Anyone I'm talking about words that I that I either overused or if I'm rather inappropriate
14:12Or you know um just annoying me and today's word is passionate
14:18I'm really passionate about Nick hewer. Oh, I mean have you noticed how everyone is?
14:26Over-emphasizing the word passionate Rachel's passionate about cat litter
14:31Susie's is passionate about drains. I'm passionate about psoriasis
14:36Well, of course none of us are we may well have a passing interest in something
14:41But particularly if you see people in for interviewed on television now forced into the position of saying they're passionate
14:48About the most banal thing and it just drives me mad because as as British people we're famous for
14:56Understating things and for for having a sort of stiff upper lip. We're not passionate about anything
15:02I wouldn't even be passionate if my legs fell off about it. I would just go. Oh, okay
15:09So I think to rephrase what I said at the beginning I quite like Nick hewer
15:15Oh, thank you
15:22My praise indeed
15:24But now it's time for tea time teaser which is arc layered and the clue this helps you get a
15:31bit off when you get on
15:33This helps you get a bit off when you get on
15:51Welcome back I left you with the clue this helps you get a bit off when you get on I
15:57Know about this. It's called rail card. I've got a senior rail card. I love it
16:03Now then 30 points pays 25 and Philip. It's your letters game. Consonant please Rachel. Thank you, Philip
16:10Okay, and another
16:13D another
16:16P and another
16:18L and another
16:21S
16:22Vowel please
16:24O and another
16:27A and another
16:30I
16:31I
16:32And another vowel please and to finish a
16:37Here's the clock
17:09Yes, Philip seven well done Lucy six six a six and your six spiked
17:15Philip pulls it pulls it
17:19Oh
17:21No, I think that's probably going to be okay
17:26Yes, you can be affected with palsy and say palsy'd yeah, okay anything else?
17:34Polkered as in Nick polkered all night
17:37And that's p-o-l-k-a-e-d
17:39Those are the days
17:41And that's f7
17:42All right
17:4337 is 25 and Lucy
17:46What are you going to do about this now? Letters game
17:48Consonant please
17:50Thank you, Lucy
17:51M
17:52Another one
17:54T
17:55Another
17:57B
17:58Another
17:59T
18:01Vowel
18:02U
18:03Another one
18:05A
18:06Another
18:07E
18:09Consonant
18:12H
18:13And a
18:14Consonant please
18:16And a last one
18:17T
18:18Clock time
18:20Clock time
18:49Well, Lucy five and Philip five Lucy's five some
18:57To thumpers
18:59Susie
19:01Yes
19:03Really hard these ones Matt for five
19:06M a double T and mutate for six and mutate yes, very good and
19:11Any improvement from Joe? Well, um I was feel very sorry for
19:17Homeless people in America who live
19:21In areas where it's kind of really scorching hot and take any shade
19:26Which is why I'd like to give them all a bum hat
19:30Very good 42 to 30 Philip off you go let us go constant place. Thank you, Philip D and another
19:40T and another
19:43F and another
19:44ah and another
19:48D file I
19:52and another oh
19:55And another
19:57E
20:01And a consonant please and lastly Q
20:05Countdown
20:06Thank you
20:07And a
20:08I
20:08And a
20:35Do
20:37Yes, Philip?
20:38Seven.
20:39Seven. Lucy?
20:40Seven.
20:41Well done. Philip?
20:42Drifted.
20:43Drifted. Both drifted?
20:45Yeah.
20:46Very good.
20:47Very nice.
20:48And in the corner, Jo?
20:50I got dot.
20:52Good.
20:53Sorry.
20:54We're delighted with dot.
20:56And, um, Susie?
20:58Um, drifted. Very good.
21:00Otherwise, just sixes.
21:01Triode, which is a valve with three electrodes.
21:04Fodder, Thetid, the O-E, but, um, couldn't do better than drifted.
21:09Brilliant.
21:10So, still in the lead, 49 to 37, Lucy.
21:14Can I have a consonant, please?
21:15Thank you, Lucy.
21:17F.
21:18Another one.
21:20R.
21:21Another.
21:23P.
21:24Another.
21:26T.
21:27A vowel.
21:29I.
21:30Vowel.
21:32U.
21:33Another one.
21:35O.
21:37Consonant.
21:39W.
21:40Um, a final vowel, please.
21:43And a final.
21:44A.
21:46And here's the clock.
21:47A.
21:48A.
21:50A.
22:00MUSIC PLAYS
22:17Lucy? Six. Six. And Philip? Six.
22:21Lucy? Sprout. Yes, Philip? Patios.
22:24Patios. Happy enough? Very happy.
22:27Anything else, Susie? Upstair, as in the upstairs room.
22:32And Sautoir, which is a necklace. That's S-A-U-T-O-I-R.
22:37A long necklace, fine gold chain and set with jewels.
22:40OK. Now then.
22:42And I have Spot War and Sour Pit.
22:45I don't know what they are, but I have them.
22:47Thank you. We shall cherish them.
22:49Thank you very much indeed.
22:50So, there we are.
22:52Now, 55 plays 43, but now it's a time of contemplation and learning for Susie's origins of words.
23:00Well, we had Halloween yesterday and I'm sorry to linger on ghouls and monsters, but I did get an email
23:08from Ian Tallyman, which is a good name, in Jersey, who asked where the word zombie comes from because it's
23:13such a strange-looking word.
23:15Well, in the West Indies and southern states of America, and of course for us too now, a zombie was
23:20always a soulless corpse that was said to have been revived by witchcraft.
23:24But it used to be the name of a snake god, a snake deity, in voodoo cults.
23:28And it probably comes from a West African word zombie, which meant fetish.
23:32And for all our modern zomcoms and rom-zomcoms, the word actually goes back to at least the early 1800s,
23:38so very old.
23:39A few more monsters for you.
23:41And actually, monster comes from the Latin meaning to show or to warn.
23:45And the original monsters were actually warning signs or omens.
23:48The wizard itself once meant a wise man.
23:51The wiz was wise.
23:53A poltergeist is from German, as you would think, and it means a spirit that makes a disturbance.
23:58And a manticore, which was a monster with the body of a lion, the head of a man, and the
24:02sting of a scorpion.
24:04And that comes from an old Persian word for man-eater.
24:08Bit spooky.
24:09Terrifying.
24:12Excellent stuff.
24:1455 plays 43.
24:16And Philip, it's a numbers game, your numbers game.
24:19One large and five small, please.
24:21Thank you, Philip.
24:22One from the top row.
24:23And five out of the rest of them.
24:25And for this round, the numbers are six, two, ten, nine, seven.
24:32And a large one this time, 75.
24:34And the target, 900.
24:37900.
24:39900.
24:40900.
25:11All right, Lucy.
25:13900.
25:13OK, take it away, Philip.
25:1510 plus 2, 12.
25:1610 plus 2 is 12.
25:18Times 75.
25:20And you're straight to 900, nice and easy.
25:22Lucy.
25:23I just did six times two for the 12.
25:25Great.
25:26Very good.
25:26All right.
25:27That deals with VAT.
25:28Very sounds naturally.
25:3065 to 53 as we go into a T-time teaser, which is scare her.
25:37And the clue, look again before doing the background work.
25:40Look again before doing the background work.
25:59Welcome back.
26:00I left you with the clue, look again before doing the background work.
26:03And the answer is research, research.
26:0865, Philip, well done.
26:10Lucy, 53.
26:11Not so far adrift as you go into a letters game, Lucy.
26:15Continent, please.
26:16Thank you, Lucy.
26:17H.
26:18Another one.
26:20D.
26:21Another.
26:23R.
26:25Another.
26:27S.
26:28Wow.
26:30E.
26:31Wow.
26:34A.
26:35Another one.
26:36I.
26:38Consonant.
26:40M.
26:42And another consonant, please.
26:44And lastly, R.
26:46Stand by.
26:47What?
26:48What?
27:10Hey, buddy, can I miss a big right?
27:13Yeah.
27:15Yeah.
27:16Yeah.
27:17so Lucy seven and Philip seven Lucy married married Philip Miss Reed Miss
27:27Reed no problems there no nothing else you could add to Miss Reed and turn it
27:33around a little bit and have misheard that would give you one extra letter
27:37there's also married so you could have been added an S there Lucy so as we need
27:42to talk about young marrieds yeah I collected now and admirers very good
27:46it's Joe if you it's quite hot and you want to keep the Sun off your face but
27:51you don't want to wear a proper hat you could just wear a head rim they sort of
27:58have them don't they not the go all the way around the back there no that's true
28:02what are they called those things not visors I don't know like a visor yeah
28:07yeah but you've stumbled on a brilliant invention you must market it
28:11immediately are you being sarcastic no not at all 70 to 60 Philip what we can do
28:20about this let's go consonant please thank you Philip s and another V and another
28:28C and another H and another ah and a vowel E and another oh another a and another vowel please
28:48and
28:48the last one another oh oh
29:22Philip 7 7 Lucy 7 good stuff Philip roaches roaches Lucy Hoover's Hoover's Hoover's it's
29:34fine it was proprietary trademark but it is lost its well lost its status in English
29:40it's small h now okay okay and the essence well I've got something sort of that relates to that
29:46in a way but it's not for your house it's for your your animals it's a horseback that's another thing
29:54that you've just invented I'm wheeling you into Dragon's Den have you ever had anything to do with
30:00Dragon's Den or do you not talk to them because they're rivals I have met a couple of very nice
30:05people offset we'll leave it there 79 67 and Lucy off you go can I have a continent please thank
30:14you Lucy s another n another s another ah vowel a vowel I another one e consonant l consonant please
30:39and the last one G
30:40stand by
30:45so
30:57so
30:59so
30:59so
31:13Lucy?
31:14Seven.
31:15Seven.
31:15Philip?
31:16Seven.
31:17Lucy?
31:18Singles.
31:19Singles.
31:20Philip?
31:21Airless.
31:22Airless.
31:23Very nice.
31:24Are you happy?
31:24Yes.
31:25Anything else there?
31:27Anglers for seven.
31:28And realigns for eight, and possibly more to be had.
31:32It was a good selection.
31:33No, very good.
31:34And, Jo, do you have any improvement on that?
31:37Grandless, if not having a grand.
31:38Oh.
31:39I'm grandless, sadly.
31:41I'm grandless.
31:41That's because I'm 170 years old.
31:45All right.
31:46So, 86 to 74.
31:49So, Philip, last numbers game of the day.
31:51So, discuss your requirements with Rachel.
31:54Discuss?
31:54What do you think, Rachel?
31:56What do you like to do, Philip?
31:57One large and five small, please.
31:59One large and five.
31:59Good.
31:59Yeah.
31:59Discussion over.
32:00One large, five small.
32:02And the last time today.
32:04The selection is eight, six, four, nine.
32:09And five and a large one, 100.
32:12And the target this time, 883.
32:15883.
32:15893.
32:46Philip?
32:478, 8, 3.
32:498, 8, 3. Lucy?
32:508, 8, 3.
32:51Well done, you two.
32:52And, Philip?
32:53Nine times 100.
32:55Nine times 100, 900.
32:57Five plus four plus eight is 17.
33:00It is.
33:01And take it away.
33:01Well done.
33:02Ten points.
33:03Very good.
33:04And Lucy?
33:05Added 100 plus nine.
33:07100 plus nine, 109.
33:10Times by eight.
33:11Eight, seven, two.
33:12And then add the six and the five.
33:13Well done.
33:14Again, same result.
33:148, 8, 3.
33:16Very good indeed.
33:17Well done.
33:21Two high-scoring competitors here.
33:24Philip on 96.
33:26Lucy 84.
33:27As we go into the final round, it's conundrum time.
33:29So, fingers on buzzers.
33:31Let's reveal today's countdown conundrum.
33:35Let's do it.
33:36Let's do it.
33:37Now we'll see you next time.
33:45MUSIC PLAYS
34:04Nothing here? No.
34:07Two good contestants, completely foxed.
34:10Any bright sparks in the audience?
34:12Yes, madam?
34:14Immigrant.
34:15Immigrant. Let's see whether you're right.
34:18Yes, you are. Well done.
34:21Well done.
34:23Well done.
34:25Well, you've beaten two very good competitors here,
34:27Philip and Lucy, who's going home sadly,
34:30but you're taking a teapot with you and a goodie bag.
34:33And back to Mum, with our best wishes.
34:36And let's trust that she's enjoyed your appearance here.
34:38Great stuff.
34:39Good to see you.
34:40Philip, we shall see you tomorrow.
34:42Yes?
34:42Mm-hm.
34:43Friday tomorrow.
34:44A difficult day for us,
34:45because we have to say farewell to Joe tomorrow.
34:48And there will indeed be gnashing of teeth in the studio here,
34:50if I've got anything to do with it.
34:52But let's enjoy tomorrow as best we can,
34:55in the sure knowledge that you won't be here.
34:57I can go early if you want.
34:58No.
35:01Anyway, we shall see you both tomorrow.
35:03Rachel?
35:04Nick?
35:04Let's be brave about tomorrow,
35:06as we say cheerio to Joe at the end of Friday.
35:08OK.
35:09And you join us,
35:10because we need your support tomorrow.
35:12Same time, same place.
35:14You'll be sure of it.
35:25Phil and Kirsty catch up with a postcode picky pair
35:28who've been on a family house hunt in Hitchin.
35:30Location, location, location is at eight.
35:33And this afternoon, Noel says,
35:35Show me the mummy.
35:36Deal or no deal is next.
35:39APPLAUSE
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