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00:30Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:33Now our irreplaceable research department has been at it again and they've tagged up the fact that 125 years ago
00:41the Financial Times newspaper launched itself as a reliable stockbroker's bible.
00:47It was originally called the London Financial Guide and it described itself as follows, and you'll like this, the friend
00:54of the honest financier and the respectable broker.
00:58Is that an oxymoron, Rachel, do you think?
01:01You wouldn't get those adjectives with bankers anymore, would you?
01:03I don't think you would.
01:04What surprised me about this, Rachel, and you were in the city once upon a time, their circulation is only
01:0959,000.
01:11I'm staggered.
01:12It used to be called the pinken in my day.
01:14But you just think with instant news now and Bloomberg and everything, they're getting it like that as soon as
01:19it happens and then the market's moved.
01:20They're getting the facts, but they're not getting behind the facts, though.
01:24Maybe for longer term investments you might want the paper.
01:27Maybe.
01:27Well, actually, I had a lovely letter from a viewer who won the Financial Times crossword 50-odd years ago,
01:34and he sent me, he won a pen that he doesn't use, a beautiful fountain pen.
01:38Really?
01:38So he sent me that.
01:39I have to say thank you to him.
01:41What a sweet thing to do.
01:42Very nice.
01:42It's the Rolls-Royce of fountain pens.
01:44Oh, blast.
01:45Yeah, and very impressive being able to fill in the Financial Times crossword as well.
01:49And what were you doing in the city, Rachel, all those years ago?
01:52I did an internship at a prop desk, which turned into a hedge fund, and I had to get the
01:595.29 a.m. train every morning, and that was enough to put me off, never mind the banking.
02:04Well, I'm glad you eschewed the city and became a stalwart, a pillar of Countdown.
02:12Yeah, well, there was a better clothes budget with Countdown, let's be honest.
02:15Absolutely.
02:16Well done.
02:17Now, who have we got with us today?
02:18We've got Mark Deeks, an international justice student at the University of Warwick from Braffing in Hertfordshire, and you're a
02:25big basketball fan, is that right?
02:27I think you're right about it, do you?
02:29Yeah, I'm one of about 12 basketball fans in this country.
02:32It's a great game, but no-one ever gives it a chance.
02:34Oh, no.
02:35It's a great game.
02:35You were saying, you've been to see it.
02:36It's great, isn't it?
02:37Yeah, we were sat courtside.
02:38There you go.
02:39The Oklahoma Thunder against the New Jersey Nets.
02:41Really?
02:42It was brilliant.
02:43Yeah, she's got more money than I do.
02:44Very good.
02:45Well, you were a series semi-finalist in 2011, so you met Rachel then, I guess.
02:50Yeah, yeah.
02:51Yeah.
02:52It was good?
02:53Both.
02:54We've got two very strong, very cocky contenders today.
02:56Yeah, I think so.
02:57Because the other cocky one is called Jack Hurst from Cambridge Reading.
03:02Maths.
03:03I'm not cocky, though.
03:04Good.
03:05Nice and polite.
03:06Only Mark is cocky.
03:07Modest hat.
03:07Fine.
03:08Family home in Leicester, and you were a Countdown champion back in 2010.
03:13How did it feel to win back then?
03:15Um, I don't know.
03:18I was so zoned out that, like, it didn't really hit me, so.
03:21All right.
03:22Well, good luck to you both.
03:23Big round of applause for Mark and Jack.
03:27APPLAUSE
03:31Now, we've got two hot contestants here, both known to Rachel, is that right?
03:35Yes.
03:35They're very good?
03:36They are very, very good.
03:37Are we putting bets on?
03:39Well, Mark, Mark's still got a bone to pick with me because I had his opponent in the sweepstake.
03:45She openly rooted against me, so, frankly...
03:47Oh, that's not right.
03:48It's not right.
03:49There's two pounds resting on that game.
03:51Is that sort of insider trading or something?
03:54Anyway, good stuff today.
03:56Susie, yeah?
03:57Very wonderful.
03:57And, of course, you've got the wonderful Dave Myers back with us.
04:00Hello, Nick.
04:00We're going to have to concentrate a bit, you and I, Dave.
04:03Yes.
04:04Because these guys are known to everybody else apart from you and I.
04:07I know, I know.
04:08Well, I've seen them through the other side of the box.
04:10And?
04:11Very impressive.
04:12They're dynamite.
04:13They are, aren't they?
04:13They're dynamite.
04:14OK, well, listen, let's get things underway.
04:17Mark, would you do the honours?
04:19OK, Constance, please.
04:20Thank you, Mark.
04:21Start with R.
04:23And a vowel.
04:25U.
04:27Consonant.
04:29T.
04:30A vowel.
04:32O.
04:33Consonant.
04:35P.
04:37Another consonant.
04:39L.
04:40Vowel.
04:43E.
04:44Another vowel.
04:47A.
04:48And consonant, please.
04:50And the last one.
04:51T.
04:52And here's the countdown clock.
04:54Backup.
04:56Nice.
05:09Good morning.
05:22Thanks.
05:24Thanks for your time.
05:24down in mark I think eight you think and Jack seven jack seven pro late thank
05:32you and what he was gonna say a outlet outlet okay can you out leap what you
05:41can't I'm afraid I could try much so anything else in the corner there Dave
05:50we've got platter and plotter and portlet portlet yes it's a computing term it's an
05:58application used by a portal website to receive requests from clients and return
06:02information very good I thought it was a little harbour not a little up Jack your
06:09word was prolate wasn't it yes just to explain that it's time from geometry it
06:13means lengthened in the direction of a polar diameter bet you're glad I told you
06:16that I'm delighted and Rachel's nodding vigorously all right Jack seven and
06:23it's your shout Jack hi Rachel hi Jack um can I have a consonant of course thank
06:28you start with F and a vowel I consonant H vowel O consonant S vowel
06:46a consonant N vowel O and another vowel please and lastly E stand by
07:04E mix-up
07:06Em
07:06Em
07:06Em
07:06Em
07:07Em
07:08Em
07:09Em
07:17Em
07:35Now then Jack seven seven mark seven seven right Jack seven fashion fashion mark
07:43Yeah, fashion fashionistas here and in the corner Dave just fashion fashion here to nothing else
07:51There's a five from Australia if you want it, which is hoons, which are louts or hooligans
07:56Especially that those who drive recklessly really those hoons. Yes
08:02Really very strange. Otherwise, it's fashion all around all right 14 to 7 Jack leads mark your shout constant, please.
08:11Thank you mark
08:11B and a vowel o constant
08:19R another constant
08:22D vowel a
08:25constant
08:28s
08:29Vowel I
08:33Consonant
08:35L
08:37Vowel
08:39Vowel please and lastly e
08:42Clock time
08:43Vowel
08:45vowel
08:45vowel
08:46vowel
08:46vowel
09:14Yes, Mark?
09:15I'm a little worried by Jack's body language because I've got eight.
09:18Eight. Thank you.
09:20Yeah, I've got eight too.
09:21Two eights. All right. And Mark's eight?
09:24Okay. Dario's. All right. And Jack?
09:26Yeah, same one.
09:28Oh, good.
09:28What are you doing to me, man?
09:29Okay.
09:30Right.
09:31Very good.
09:33Dave?
09:33Well, we've just got two sevens, soldier and braised.
09:38Braised.
09:39All right.
09:40And Dario's a good one for Dave because there's more flowerpot-shaped moulds in which you can serve sweet or
09:44savoury dishes.
09:45If you state little steak and kidney puddings in your Dario moulds, well, I'm dashed.
09:49Now then, Jack, it's a letters game.
09:52Let's do it similarly to before. Consonant, please.
09:55Thank you, Jack.
09:56N.
09:57And a vowel.
09:57O.
10:00And a consonant.
10:02G.
10:03Vowel.
10:05I.
10:06Consonant.
10:08P.
10:10Vowel.
10:12U.
10:13Consonant.
10:15N.
10:17Erm.
10:18Vowel, please.
10:21O.
10:22Another vowel, please.
10:24And lastly, A.
10:26Tick tock.
10:27Third Ч
10:56New
10:57New
10:58Here's Jack six and mark six. Yep. Jack panino panino mark pooing
11:07Pooing yeah, sorry about that. You're happy about pooing. I'm not happy, but it's fine. It's in the dictionary
11:12Is that right and Jack's okay? Yes, that's really fine. Very good day
11:17Susie's got a seven which is interesting. I don't yes, and we can add an end to your webmark and
11:22have pooning
11:23And to pooning back to Australia actually is to dress in such a way as to attract attention
11:27Typically with sexual success in view with the pooning shirt
11:33All right 28 says
11:37Jackson the lead to mark 21, and it's numbers game. He's reading maths at Cambridge. We'll have one large
11:44Thank you mark he does have two numbers choices later on though
11:47So watch out for those but anyway for the first one we have five little ones which are
11:52five one eight
11:55Three and six and a large 150 and your target
12:01431 four three one
12:34Mark four three one four three one and Jack yeah four three one. Okay, so mark
12:40Uh eight times 50 eight 50s 400 and six times five is 30 add that and the 400 and the
12:48one four three one
12:49Not much of a test for you two. Not really and Jack
12:52Different sorry 50 at five 50 at five 55
12:57Multiply by eight four 40. Yeah six and three. It's nice. Take off. Well done
13:02Very good well done
13:07In the lead
13:08Jack in the lead 38 to marks 31, but now it's time to swivel around and pay attention to Dave
13:16now then Dave
13:17Well, we've been just finishing a series called the best of British two
13:21We did a series
13:23Last year which is a celebration of British food and where we are today
13:27We would think we're probably in the best place in the world for food with chefs and ingredients
13:31And we had an unfortunate incident whilst we were filming
13:34On the last series there's a Geordie farmer and we were filming about wagyu beef you know the japanese beef
13:40That's the most precious expensive in the world
13:42Well, I kid you not there's a Geordie farmer who's bought a wagyu bull
13:46And he's crossbreeding it with an aberdeen angus cow and is producing why I wagyu
13:54We were filming this why I wagyu and it's you know, it's affordable wagyu beef it's stunning
13:58So we had the bull and sai and I were trying the
14:01Feeding techniques the japanese would use so we're feeding it corn and lots of beer and i'm singing love songs
14:08and massaging the bull
14:09Yes, and i was trying to be like a barry white and you know when you're in love with a
14:15beautiful like this next thing
14:17I knew i turned round and the bull battered me against a five-barred gate
14:22Climbed onto my shoulders. I think i didn't know what its motives were yeah, but obviously my song singing was
14:27very successful
14:29But i greatly enjoyed eating its offspring later on
14:38Normally the cow when you were taking the role of the cow has its head pinched in the gate so
14:44that it can't sort of escape that didn't have
14:46It was a five-barred gate so i think that was its intention yes it was on the way then
14:50i felt vulnerable
14:52Very good reason with very good reason but we'll move swiftly on i think to a tea time teaser which
14:57is ivy trees
14:58And the clue the answer explains just how bad things really are the answer explains just how bad things really
15:06are
15:22And the answer is severity
15:30The severity of it now then 38 to 31 says jack's in the lead and it's your letters game jake
15:37Consonant please rachel thank you jack
15:40r
15:41another consonant
15:43d and another
15:47g and one more
15:50p
15:51now a vowel please
15:54i
15:55and another
15:57u
15:57and another
16:01e
16:04consonant please
16:07l
16:07and another consonant please and the last one
16:11d stand by
16:19l
16:19dot com
16:43and importante
16:45and that's the last one
16:45that's the last one
16:47one up
16:49Jack. Pudgier. Pudgier. Two Pudgies. Yes. Pudgier than thou. And David. Sevens. We have Pudgier and also Griddle. Griddle. Yeah.
17:01You get Pudgier if you spend too much time with the Griddle, I suppose. Anything else? Piddler is there for
17:07something trifling. Trifling. A piddler? Yes, a piddler. Not tiddler, then. A piddler. I would have thought it meant something
17:15entirely different. Well, it can mean that, too. Thank you.
17:1745 plays 38. Jack in the lead. Mark, your letters game. Consonant, please. Thank you, Mark. S. Anabelle. O. Consonant.
17:30G. Vowel. E. Consonant. C. Another consonant. R. Vowel. A.
17:48Consonant. T. And a consonant, please. And the last one. C. Countdown.
18:28Uh, eight.
18:29And eight.
18:30Jack?
18:31Yeah, probably the same eight as well.
18:33Possibly, quite possibly.
18:34Mark?
18:35Escargot.
18:36Yes.
18:39Snail-like there.
18:41And Dave?
18:42Escargot.
18:42Escargot as well, Nick.
18:44Inevitably.
18:44Anything else?
18:45No, that was really good.
18:46Three snails.
18:47Four snails.
18:48All right.
18:4953 plays, 46.
18:51Jack's still in the lead, and it's Jack's letters game.
18:54Um, consonant, please, Rachel.
18:56Thank you, Jack.
18:58V.
18:59And another.
19:01M.
19:03And another.
19:05L.
19:06And another.
19:09Q.
19:10And vowel.
19:12I.
19:13And another.
19:15E.
19:17And another.
19:19A.
19:21And, um, another vowel, please.
19:26O.
19:28And, um, another vowel, please.
19:32And to finish, A.
19:34And here's the big hand.
19:37And, um, another vowel, please.
19:40And, um, another vowel, please.
19:53And, um, another vowel, please.
19:53And, um, another vowel, please.
19:53And, um, another vowel, please.
19:54And, um, another vowel, please.
19:54And, um, another vowel, please.
19:55And, um, another vowel, please.
19:55And, um, another vowel, please.
19:55And, um, another vowel, please.
19:55And, um, another vowel, please.
19:55And, um, another vowel, please.
19:56And, um, another vowel, please.
19:56And, um, another vowel, please.
19:57And, um, another vowel, please.
19:58And, um, another vowel, please.
20:01And, um, another vowel, please.
20:04And, um, another vowel, please.
20:07Now then Jack five five mark. Yep five all right Jack
20:12I'm alive alive my Viola happy very happy with those very happy Dave and another five olive
20:20Good old olive 58 plays 51 mark your shout constant, please. Thank you mark
20:27Jay and another
20:31See a vowel
20:33You constant
20:36are
20:39Val oh
20:44Consonants
20:46N
20:48Val please
20:50E
20:51Consonant
20:53S and a constant place and a final M clock time
21:31Mark
21:33After last time I'll say seven seven jack eight mark should have said seven
21:40Joneses
21:41Right and Jack and consumer consumer
21:45Oh, yeah
21:47Consumers excellent. Yeah
21:48Very good
21:52Jolt or bounce
21:54I've been a car quite
21:56Yes, anything else there Dave
21:58Um
21:59Susie's got conjures
22:01Yeah
22:02Yeah, that's another eight
22:03Conjures
22:05Very good
22:0566 plays 51
22:07But now it's time for Susie's origins of words
22:10Susie
22:11Well, I'm sticking with my food theme at this week and we've had food named after body parts and weapons
22:17and
22:18Today I'm going to talk about food named after animals
22:21Um
22:21I've mentioned before I think on the program that the tiny pasta vermicelli are named after their appearance little worms
22:28and another pasta shape farfalle means little butterflies
22:32But less appetizingly
22:34Coriander may come from the Greek word for bed bug because the tiny horned seeds of the coriander flower look
22:41a little bit like insects with antennae
22:43The Swedish smorgasbord which is that feast of open sandwiches and other delicacies that goes back to an old Viking
22:50word that meant goose table because the original smorgasbords had lumps of butter that resembled pretty birds
22:57And speaking of birds our traditional British pies are named after the magpie probably because of the
23:03Um curious miscellany of fillings that they tend to have because magpies are renowned for hoarding all sorts of items
23:09that they come across
23:10The burrito means a little donkey because they're laden with so many ingredients
23:14Porcini mushrooms mean little pigs because they plump up when they're immersed in liquid
23:19And the short and stubby herrings wrapped around a gherkin that are roll mops translate literally as pug dogs
23:27Wonderful
23:27Wonderful
23:31Very good Susie as ever
23:34So Jack 66 to Mark 51 and its numbers game talk numbers with Rachel Jack
23:40Um three
23:42No, um can I have one large please?
23:46That was a fail Jack
23:49That's how mathematicians talk to each other isn't it?
23:52Oh okay fair enough
23:53You talk however you like
23:55Right we have five small ones
23:57One
23:58Nine
23:58Two
23:59Four
24:01Six
24:02And the large one
24:03Fifty
24:03And your target
24:05Seven hundred and ninety five
24:07Seven nine five
24:08One
24:08One
24:08One
24:09Eight
24:16One
24:21One
24:22Two
24:24One
24:24Two
24:26One
24:31One
24:31One
24:31Two
24:31One
24:38how was it jack 795 and mark 795 all right jack um okay i've spotted a simpler method but i'll
24:47go
24:47with my original one um 50 times 4 is this payback 50 times 4 200 200 add 1 add 1
24:55201
24:56um 6 minus 2 is 4 6 yeah minus 2 is 4 multiply for 804 804 and subtract the 9
25:04yeah well done
25:06795 very good indeed now then mark same thing different order
25:19well done and now it's time for tea time teaser and the teaser is hastings and the clue secretly
25:25putting money away for life's future battles secretly putting money away for life's future battles
25:47welcome back i left you with the clue secretly putting money away for life's future battles
25:52and the answer is stashing stashing the cash now then jack 76 to mark 61 still in touch there mark
26:00and
26:00it's your letters game uh constant please thank you mark s and vowel a consonant
26:23indiana
26:24f
26:26band
26:27tribules
26:31and the last one d and it's the countdown clock
27:07Now then, Mark.
27:09And Jack.
27:10Eight also.
27:11Very good, Mark.
27:12There's a lot of food in this game.
27:13We've got sardines.
27:15Very good.
27:16And Jack.
27:18Yeah, same one.
27:19Same frame of mind.
27:21Dave.
27:21Well, we've got another fish, a zander.
27:23A zander?
27:24Yeah, it's very popular in Austria, and it's almost tastes like sea bass, so it's a freshwater fish.
27:30It's a good fish, yeah.
27:31All right, very good.
27:3284 plays, 69.
27:33Jack, take it away.
27:35Confident, please.
27:36Thank you, Jack.
27:37M.
27:38Vowel.
27:40A.
27:41Consonant.
27:44S.
27:45Vowel.
27:47E.
27:48Consonant.
27:49P.
27:51Vowel.
27:53I.
27:56Consonant, please.
27:58S.
27:59Vowel.
28:00Vowel.
28:02E.
28:04Vowel.
28:05Vowel.
28:06And another vowel, please.
28:08And lastly, A.
28:11Countdown.
28:12Vowel.
28:13C.
28:14Vowel.
28:14Vowel.
28:16Vowel.
28:18H.
28:21Vowel.
28:43Yes, Jack?
28:44Just a seven.
28:45A seven. Mark?
28:46Seven.
28:48Mm-hmm. Jack?
28:49Um, in passe.
28:52Not both of you, again.
28:53Yeah, in passe.
28:55Yeah, nice.
28:55On passe.
28:57Dave?
28:58Are you happy with that?
28:59Yes, that was ours at in passe.
29:01Come from in passe.
29:02Too fast, pies and peas.
29:05What else have we got?
29:06Anything else?
29:07No, we were just setting in passe as well.
29:09All right, very good.
29:10Very good.
29:1091 plays 76 as we go into a letters game.
29:13Last one of the contest.
29:15Mark?
29:16Consonant, please.
29:17Thank you, Mark.
29:19R.
29:20Uh, Val?
29:20Vowel.
29:22I.
29:23Consonant.
29:25T.
29:27Consonant.
29:28N.
29:29Vowel.
29:31E.
29:32Consonant.
29:34R.
29:35Vowel.
29:38O.
29:40Uh, consonant.
29:43B.
29:46And consonant, please.
29:49And the last one.
29:50N.
29:51Stand by.
30:23mark seven a seven jack yeah just a seven all right mark seven uh orbiter orbiter good one
30:31yes jack four night how are you spelling that b-o-r-n-i-t-e born it's a mineral
30:38or something
30:40um it does sound like it is a mineral yes it's a brittle reddish brown crystalline mineral with
30:45an iridescent purple tarnish i've got pretty well done very good indeed 98 plays 83 as we go in
30:53to the final numbers game of the day um one large please one large i think we need a steward's
30:59inquiry we've got mark trying to pay jack to pick a hard one we've got jack jack trying to pay
31:04me to
31:05pick an easy one anyways good job it's random let's see the last numbers game today the five
31:09small ones are nine seven four three five and the large one 75 and the target 581 581
31:24so
31:53jack yeah i think i've got it
31:54five eight one five eight one and mark yep all right take it away jack um so i want to
32:00make eight
32:00so nine take four add three nine take four add three is eight eight and then you add that to
32:07the
32:0775 add 75 83 multiply by seven five eight one very good and mark no different 75 plus nine
32:16is it 75 plus nine 84 times seven times seven is five hundred and eighty eight eight thank you very
32:25much and take off the four and the three and then you've got the four and the three yeah well
32:28done
32:29very good well done
32:34and well done jack you've uh crested the 100 as we come into the final uh game it's the conundrum
32:40game
32:40so fingers on buzzers let's reveal today's countdown conundrum
32:48mark that was quick embargoed embargoed let's see whether you're right
32:53yeah bravo well done well done hey they don't come any quicker than that mark excellent 103 but
33:05jack takes it 108 well done jack well done we'll see you soon soon hopefully yeah and you know thank
33:12you very much for that good close game well done indeed well done mark and you take your uh trophy
33:17with you and our very best wishes sweet we get trophy that's cool yeah a little
33:23finalist trophy well if this is the end of my countdown career it's been great fun so um
33:27thank you for having me it's been great fun i mean i've lost uh apparently the best player of all
33:31times this is nice excellent he's pretty good too so back to um college what you can do when you
33:36finish your master's there at warwick that is a valid question nick next question
33:42no not really really no i just chose the degree that most makes me sound like a superhero
33:47you know international justice yeah there'll be a slot for you somewhere thank you possibly quite far
33:54away see you tomorrow susie now tell me dave what fascinates me every time you come into this
34:01building and you go into makeup a swarm of makeup artists surround you why is this because you started
34:07life i think after studying i think fine arts at goldsmiths fine arts at goldsmiths and i did a
34:12postgraduate in art history yeah and then i joined the bbc as a trainee makeup artist right and after
34:18about five years i i worked on a thing the lives and loves for she devil i did the prosthetics
34:23then
34:23for that and i went freelance one of my first jobs at granada was alfa roberts's election on
34:29coronation street right and then actually for a while i was in charge of training the makeup artist
34:34here and it was interesting there was there's two of the last makeup artist i trained were in the
34:39building today brilliant and they told me it's 15 years ago yeah oh boy brilliant on time you were
34:45good on prosthetics yes that was my thing yeah i i i worked here on the foresight saga the one
34:51where
34:52everybody was middle-aged damien lewis became in his fifties it's quite a hard age to to hit with
34:56makeup and lots of bits and pieces which is a dentist to make false teeth i made faces bags and
35:01bits and
35:02really too long fascinating anyway we see you tomorrow thank you look forward to it two great
35:07contestants here they are and they kept it clean today which hasn't always been the case with these
35:11two in the past oh i'm lucky though some of the words they've come up with you're not pooing remember
35:16very good anyway more tomorrow see you tomorrow excellent stuff same time same place you'll be sure of it
35:34on channel for tonight first-hand accounts from doctors and nurses working on the frontline during
35:39the covid crisis nhs heroes fighting to save our lives at nine escaping to spain next this afternoon
35:47in search of a place in the sun
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