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00:31Good afternoon, good afternoon. Now, if, like me, you're a bit of a film buff and you like sort of
00:37film memorabilia throughout the ages, get yourself down to Westfield in London because yesterday a huge exhibition opened and on
00:47the 16th of this month more than 300 pieces of that very same film memorabilia, Rachel, will be auctioned off.
00:56Now, what would I like? Got to thinking about this and I would love the Maltese Falcon from the film
01:04of that name with the great Sydney Green Street. I don't know, it was made in the 40s. It was
01:07a great sort of film noir thing. The Maltese Falcon or any cigarette once smoked by the wonderful Lauren Bacall.
01:17She knew how to smoke a cigarette, that kind of thing. What do you fancy?
01:23Um, I think you can keep your cigarette butts, actually. Maybe something like the Batmobile from one of the latest...
01:30Oh, that's big!
01:31Well, it's kind of Lamborghini, souped-up Lamborghini that can go up walls and, you know, that's something useful rather
01:36than a used cigarette stud.
01:37No, it wasn't going to be a used one. It'll be just sort of long. Oh, I didn't realise you
01:41were allowed big things. I'll have the Titanic model then.
01:44Well, you have the Titanic and I'll have the necklace from the Titanic.
01:47Perfect. There we go. Done.
01:48All right. Done deal. Now, who's with us today, Rachel? We've got Paul Talmy back, of course, who did so
01:54well yesterday after beating Michael McDool after his four wins who came storming in and sent him packing.
02:00Excellent stuff. You're joined today by Ellen Baker, a graduate from Basingstoke who works for an organic food magazine. What's
02:09this called?
02:09It's called Jelly Deal. Not strictly concerning Jelly Deals, but...
02:16And it's all about cooking or what? Sustainable produce and what Britain has to offer in that department and good
02:24things that people are doing, largely London-based.
02:26Excellent. And read avidly by allotment keepers, I guess.
02:29And people further afield, I'm reliably informed.
02:32Excellent. Let's have a big round of applause for Ellen Baker and Paul Talmy.
02:43And in the corner, of course, the wonderful Susie Dent, joined yet again this week by Margaret Mountford, our old
02:50friend, regular here, lawyer and TV personality.
02:54Programmes on Pompeii, The Apprentice, of course, and you and I have done a few things together on immigration benefits
03:01and working into world age, a subject about which we know quite a lot.
03:05Well, you probably know more than I do, but yes.
03:09All right, let's get down to business here. Paul Talmy, lead us away.
03:14Afternoon, Rachel.
03:15Afternoon, Paul.
03:15Can I start the consonant, please?
03:16Thank you. Start today with Y.
03:18Add another.
03:21R.
03:23Add a third.
03:25L.
03:26Add a fourth.
03:28P.
03:30A vowel.
03:32E.
03:33Add another.
03:34I.
03:36Consonant.
03:38J.
03:39A vowel.
03:42A.
03:43A.
03:43And a final consonant, please.
03:45And a final S.
03:47And here's the countdown clock.
03:48A vowel.
03:52A vowel.
03:53A vowel.
03:58A vowel.
04:05A vowel.
04:07A vowel.
04:08A vowel.
04:09A vowel.
04:10A vowel.
04:12A vowel.
04:12A vowel.
04:13A vowel.
04:13A vowel.
04:14A vowel.
04:15A vowel.
04:17A vowel.
04:18A vowel.
04:18A vowel.
04:19Now then, Paul?
04:21Seven.
04:21A seven.
04:22Ellen?
04:23Six.
04:24And that six?
04:25Jasper.
04:26Thank you, Paul.
04:27Palers.
04:29Well, what does the corner think about that?
04:31How are you spelling that, Paul?
04:33P-A-I-L-E-R-S.
04:37Um, not there, I'm afraid.
04:40Um, there's balers, wailers, all sorts of things, but not palers, I'm afraid.
04:44Sorry.
04:45I'd like all to Ellen's benefit, but what has the corner got to offer?
04:50Any improvements, anything interesting over there?
04:52No, I only had pearls and pearly.
04:55Oh, but that's six, six, isn't it?
04:58Yeah.
04:59Um, if you go just one further, a couple of sevens, replays and parsley.
05:04Parsley.
05:05Parsley.
05:06I like pearly better, even though it's only one letter less.
05:10So then, Ellen, letters game.
05:13Hello.
05:13Can I add a consonant, please?
05:15Of course, thank you.
05:16Start with W.
05:18And another.
05:20L.
05:21And a vowel.
05:23I.
05:24And another.
05:25A.
05:27Another vowel.
05:29E.
05:30And a consonant.
05:32H.
05:33Another consonant.
05:34P.
05:35Another consonant.
05:37F.
05:39And a vowel.
05:42And the last one.
05:43A.
05:44And it's countdown.
05:47It drops out of one another.
05:48MUSIC
05:48And a vowel.
05:49And a vowel.
05:53Again.
05:59And a vowel lid.
06:02And a vowel.
06:03And a vowel lid.
06:08And a vowel.
06:09A vowel.
06:11And a vowel.
06:12And a vowel.
06:13And a vowel.
06:15There's some way together, the vowel lid.
06:17now then Ellen six a six points as well Ellen files yes and Wales Wales Wales and files with
06:29the pH is absolutely fine anything else of interest there Margaret Susie Susie's got a
06:36very interesting looking word yes it's an astronomical one Nick it's ap helia a p h e
06:43l i a and they are the plural of ap helion which is the point in the orbit of a
06:48planet or asteroid
06:50at which it is furthest from the Sun absolutely spot on well done Susie very good as though we
07:00didn't know that so Ellen on 12 and Paul on six so let's have a numbers game for you Paul
07:06invest two please Rachel thank you for inverted T one from the top pro and five little ones and
07:12the first numbers game today is six one five ten another six and a large one 100 and the target
07:22two hundred and forty eight two four eight
07:56yes Paul no I've got I've completely lost it sorry drifted away Ellen and 250 250 to away so Ellen
08:06um so six divided by six is one yep I hope um plus one plus the actual one is two
08:15two um times a
08:17hundred there's two hundred two hundred five tens of fifty and add that on yep for two away but still
08:25two away not many but enough to make a difference Rachel and this is a hard one let's wait one
08:31away
08:31so I'll have another look all right all right we'll come back to you in a minute so 19 plays
08:37Paul's six
08:38my word as we turn to a tea time teaser which is goose ref and the clue refrains from having
08:46more than
08:46three attempts perhaps refrains from having more than three attempts perhaps
09:08welcome back I left with the clue refrains from having more than three attempts perhaps and the
09:13answer very wittily is foregoes foregoes indeed Ellen on 19 Paul on six and which we go let's go to
09:21Ellen for a letters game uh could I please start with a vowel thank you Ellen E and a consonant
09:28D and another
09:33Zed and another D and a vowel please a and another one E and another consonant C and another consonant
09:48G and a final vowel please and a final a
09:53stand by
09:54stand by
10:00THE END
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12:09Yes, Paul?
12:10This is five.
12:11And Ellen?
12:12Also five.
12:13Two fives.
12:14Paul?
12:14Sound.
12:15Ellen?
12:16Squid.
12:17A squid.
12:19A nice squid.
12:21What news from the corner?
12:23Quinns.
12:24Yes.
12:27Sevens, otherwise infused, and coined.
12:32A coin, with Q-U-O-I-N, is an external angle of a building,
12:35so to coin one, if you're building it, is to give it back.
12:38Oh, I see.
12:39External angles.
12:40Very good.
12:41All right, coined.
12:43Coined.
12:4430th place, 17.
12:45Ellen, your numbers game.
12:46Can I have one from the top, please, and any other five?
12:49You can, thank you, Ellen.
12:50One from the top row, and...
12:52Five from the other ones, and this time around, they are 10, 3, 2, 8.
12:59Another 8, and 100.
13:02And the target, 927.
13:04927.
13:06927.
13:07927.
13:33927.
13:37Ellen.
13:399, 2, 2.
13:419, 2, 2.
13:43Paul.
13:449, 2, 7, but not written down.
13:45Let's hear from you.
13:47100 plus 3.
13:49100 plus 3, 103.
13:51103, and then 8 over 8 is 1.
13:54Yes.
13:54Take that from the 10.
13:5610 minus 1.
13:56It's 9 and multiply.
13:57Well done, 9, 2, 7.
13:58Very good.
14:00Well done, Paul.
14:03Now just three behind.
14:05Now just three behind.
14:06Ellen, 32, you're 27.
14:09But now we turn to Margaret.
14:11And Margaret, we've been chatting,
14:13or you've been teaching us, really,
14:14this week about the Greek myths.
14:16And the thing is, they still pop up
14:19in films and all the rest of it.
14:21What is it that fascinates people so much?
14:23Well, I think they're wonderful stories, aren't they?
14:25And, I mean, you mentioned films earlier,
14:27and there are two films about Hercules out this year.
14:29One the complete dog, and the other not quite such a dog, I think.
14:33But, you know, these subjects keep coming back.
14:36And I think Hercules is a very interesting character.
14:38And we, of course, talk about something being a Herculean task,
14:42meaning it's a big, heavy task.
14:44It's very difficult to do.
14:45And that expression comes about because he had 12 labors to do,
14:50because he'd done some bad things,
14:51and he was required to perform 12 tasks for a king.
14:56And most of them were killing dangerous animals,
14:59like a lion or man-eating birds and that sort of thing.
15:03But one of the nastiest was cleaning out the Orgean stables,
15:07and we still talk about that today when it's a big task,
15:09which was a filthy cattle yard.
15:11And King Orgeus had this huge herd of cows,
15:14and he'd never cleaned out the yard.
15:16And the whole land around was covered with dung,
15:19and so nothing would grow on it.
15:21And you could smell this, apparently, over the whole of southern Greece.
15:24It must have been pretty pongy.
15:25And Eurystheus thought this is a jolly nasty task
15:28for Hercules to have to do,
15:30because he'd have to fill basket after basket
15:32and carry it out, you know, one at a time.
15:34And it'll take him ages, and it'll be horrible.
15:37But Hercules was no fool.
15:39So first of all, he agreed with King Orgeus
15:41to pay him for clearing out the yard,
15:44even though he already was contracted to do it to somebody else.
15:47And then he very simply made holes in the walls
15:51at either side of the yard
15:52and diverted a couple of rivers, as one does.
15:55And they swept through the yard,
15:57cleaned all the dung away, cleaned all the fields and everything.
16:00So he'd done it all in less than a day
16:01without exerting himself at all.
16:05So I think perhaps he gets a bit of a bad press nowadays,
16:08because we think of him as a bit of a sort of lumpish yokel
16:11with a big bloke wearing a lion's skin over his head
16:14and carrying a club.
16:15But actually, there were probably a few brains as well as brawn there.
16:19Absolutely.
16:19Hosed down the audience tables, indeed.
16:22Yes.
16:22There's a pub in Charing Cross Road
16:24called the Pillars of Hercules.
16:27Was that another one?
16:29That's the Straits of Gibraltar, isn't it?
16:31Is it?
16:31Yes, yes.
16:33I thought you were going to say
16:34there's a pub in Charing Cross Road
16:35called the Audience Tables,
16:36and I might have believed that, actually.
16:43You're welcome.
16:43Thank you very much.
16:45Oh, this is exhausting.
16:4630 points to Ellen and Paul on 27.
16:49And Paul, let us gain.
16:51Consolant, please, Rachel.
16:52Thank you, Paul.
16:54R.
16:54And another.
16:57B.
16:57And a third.
17:00L.
17:01And a fourth.
17:03X.
17:04A vowel.
17:05O.
17:07And another.
17:09A.
17:10Consonant.
17:12M.
17:14Vowel.
17:16I.
17:18And a final consonant, please.
17:20And a final C.
17:21Stand by.
17:39And a final consonant, please.
17:40And a final consonant, please.
17:40And a final consonant, please.
17:40And a final consonant, please.
17:40And a final consonant, please.
17:41And a final consonant, please.
17:41And a final consonant, please.
17:42And a final consonant, please.
17:42And a final consonant, please.
17:43And a final consonant, please.
17:43And a final consonant, please.
17:43And a final consonant, please.
17:43And a final consonant, please.
17:43And a final consonant, please.
17:44And a final consonant, please.
17:45And a final consonant, please.
17:49And a final consonant, please.
17:53now then Paul just five a five Ellen just a five Paul moral moral and claim thank you
18:04no arguments no it's really any improvements tricky not for me I couldn't get anything at
18:11all I think my brains gone on strike you're worrying about told their Hercules again and
18:17Susie just a five and a six axiom is another five and climax is a six climax all right 35
18:25plays 32 Ellen
18:26just three points in the lead Ellen you're back on letters game okay and I start with their
18:32consonant please thank you Ellen T and another consonant P and a vowel please oh and another
18:42consonant R and vowel E and another vowel I and consonant C and another consonant N and a final
19:01vowel please and a final E count down
19:10so
19:38yes Ellen a seven a seven
19:41all seven as well thank you Ellen important and Paul and points are pointer our old friend the
19:50pointer dog now then the corner nope Susie portent is nice a sort of omen of misfortune usually apart
20:02from point to this protein repoint the usual suspects for seven very good all right 42 to 39 numbers for
20:11Paul one last please Rachel thank you Paul one from the top again and five more little ones and for
20:19this
20:19round your little numbers are seven nine five eight and ten and the large one 50 and the target
20:28eight eight eight eight hundred and fourteen eight one four
20:38so
20:47so
21:02yes Paul no I messed up again how about Ellen completely lost both of you how could you Rachel
21:11show them show them um for this one you could have said 50 times eight is 400 and then add
21:20on the seven
21:20four four hundred and seven and ten divided by five is two and times them together there we go
21:30thank you Rachel so scores stand still 42 to 39 as we move to a tea time teaser which is
21:39deep prep and the clue the cartoon pig was covered in seasoning the cartoon pig was covered in seasoning
22:07indeed it was peppered
22:10pepper pig was peppered 39 for paul ellen on 42 ellen your letters came
22:17a vowel please thank you ellen a and consonant h and another d and another
22:29r and a vowel e and a consonant t and another s and another vowel i and a final consonant
22:47please and a final m stand by
22:50the
22:58so
23:22Yes, Ellen?
23:23An eight.
23:24An eight?
23:24Paul?
23:25Just seven.
23:26And your seven?
23:27Threads.
23:28Threads.
23:28Now then, Ellen.
23:30Hardiest.
23:31The hardiest.
23:32Very good.
23:34Very good.
23:34Excellent.
23:35Eight.
23:35Hardiest.
23:36Well done.
23:36Yeah.
23:41And what have we got in the corner?
23:43Anything interesting there?
23:44No eights for me, anyway, that's for sure.
23:47Well, you could be the hardiest or you could be the mardiest, the sulkiest person.
23:51The mardiest.
23:52The mardiest.
23:53All right.
23:54Yeah, that's another eight.
23:55And misheard as well.
23:56Misheard.
23:56All right.
23:57Fifty past.
23:58Thirty-nine.
23:58Paul, don't let her get away.
24:01Let us go.
24:03A consonant, please, Rachel.
24:04Thank you, Paul.
24:05C.
24:07And another.
24:09V.
24:10And a third.
24:11S.
24:13And a fourth.
24:15T.
24:17A vowel.
24:19E.
24:20And another.
24:21O.
24:23A consonant.
24:25R.
24:26A vowel.
24:29E.
24:30And a final consonant, please.
24:32And a final G.
24:34Countdown.
24:35A vowel.
24:36Like.
24:37concrete.
24:38And another.
24:56Thanks for listening.
24:56And a fourth.
24:56And another.
24:57R suspensory.
24:57Bye bye.
24:57Bye bye.
24:57Bye bye.
25:00Bye bye.
25:06Yes, Paul?
25:07A dodgy eight.
25:09A dodgy eight. How about Ellen?
25:10Seven.
25:11And that's seven?
25:13Vectors.
25:14Now then, Paul.
25:16Corteges.
25:17Absolutely brilliant.
25:19A cortege is a solemn procession, like a funeral procession.
25:22So, well done.
25:24Excellent stuff. Well done.
25:29And it does the world for your score, too.
25:31Just three behind now, Paul.
25:33So, you took my advice to heart.
25:36But now it's time to turn to Susie and her wonderful origins of words.
25:41Now, what have you got for us today, Susie?
25:43Well, one of the disadvantages of having a name like Susie
25:46is that it rhymes with all the wrong things.
25:48So, you will be called Boozy Susie.
25:50And all the Susies out there will know this.
25:52But also, Floozy.
25:53And so, I thought I'd tell you a little bit about...
25:55Not that I've been called one recently.
25:56But I thought I'd tell you a little bit about the history of Floozy
26:00because it has quite a long history.
26:02It's actually based on Flossie, believe it or not,
26:05which, of course, comes from floss,
26:06being the fine filaments originally that surrounded the cocoon of the silkworm.
26:11It's incredibly fine.
26:13And by extension, it was anything made of glossy filaments, fine fibres.
26:18And in the mid-19th century, so the mid-1800s,
26:22Flossie originally meant simply floss-like,
26:25but then also, by extension, fancy or showy,
26:28so decked out in incredibly flossy, shiny, fashionable, finery.
26:32But also saucy or impertinent,
26:34because it picks up that idea of kind of fashionable shine, if you like,
26:39and translated it then into brash and gaudy.
26:42And so, in the early 20th century, and this was very much in the States,
26:46Floozy, with a Z, became a slang form of flossy,
26:51and it was most often used in the first sense of elegant or attractive,
26:55because it took that finery idea and equated it with elegance,
26:59especially with reference to young women.
27:02But it didn't take long, probably about 20 years,
27:04before the saucy element had crept in,
27:06and a floozy became, in popular slang,
27:09a wild and probably quite disreputable party girl,
27:12if not actually a prostitute,
27:13because there was that sort of added dimension as well.
27:15There's a great line in a book by Truman Capote,
27:19The Grass Harp,
27:20who says,
27:21He brought a red, racy car and went skidding around with every floozy in town.
27:24The only nice girls you ever saw in that car were his sisters,
27:29which pretty much sums it up.
27:30And that kind of downgrading of terms that were originally quite nice,
27:33or were quite positive at least,
27:36is quite common when it applies to women, I have to say, in English,
27:39because hussy goes all the way back to housewife simply.
27:43It was the wife of the hoose, the H-U-S.
27:46So it was a very, very neutral thing.
27:49And housewife and hussy meant exactly the same thing.
27:51Hussy went one way, and housewife went the other.
27:54Indeed.
27:54Excellent.
27:55Well done.
28:00Wonderful.
28:01Thank you, Susie.
28:01Wonderful.
28:02Now, 50 to Ellen.
28:05Paul just three points behind.
28:07Ellen, penultimate letters game.
28:09Will you see him off?
28:12Can I start with a consonant, please?
28:14Thank you, Ellen.
28:15S.
28:16And another.
28:18R.
28:19And a vowel.
28:21I.
28:22And another vowel.
28:24A.
28:26A consonant, please.
28:28N.
28:29And another consonant.
28:31T.
28:33Another consonant.
28:35K.
28:36And a vowel.
28:38E.
28:39And a final consonant, please.
28:42And a final N.
28:44Stand by.
28:47The, the last consonant, please.
29:04And p fan of Wednesday.
29:04Hi.
29:04And a vowel.
29:08And a vowel.
29:08And a vowel.
29:09And a vowel.
29:10And a vowel.
29:16Yes, Ellen?
29:18Seven.
29:19Paul?
29:20Seven as well.
29:21Ellen.
29:22Tinkers.
29:24Retains.
29:26Very good.
29:27Two good words.
29:28Any improvements?
29:28Anything running alongside?
29:31Trannies are there.
29:32As transistor radios, photographic transparencies, transvestites, lots of different meanings.
29:37Trannies, yeah.
29:38But little transparencies for photographs of those friends, yeah.
29:4257 plays 54.
29:43Last letters game, Paul.
29:45Consonant plays Rachel.
29:46Thank you, Paul.
29:48T.
29:49And another.
29:51V.
29:52And a third.
29:54W.
29:55And a fourth.
29:57S.
29:58A vowel.
30:00I.
30:01And another.
30:03O.
30:05Consonant.
30:07M.
30:08A vowel.
30:11U.
30:12And a final consonant, please.
30:14And a final R.
30:16And here comes the countdown clock.
30:19We'll see you next Monday.
30:21We'll see you next Monday.
30:21Bye.
30:25Bye.
30:31Bye.
30:34Bye.
30:49Now then, Paul.
30:51Just five.
30:52Five, how about Ellen?
30:53I'll say five.
30:55Paul.
30:55Worst.
30:57Worst and?
30:58Storm.
30:59Storm.
31:01Storm, not easy though.
31:03No, it was tough.
31:04What news from the corner?
31:07We just had fives too, I think.
31:10Yeah.
31:11Wrist.
31:11Wrist, very good.
31:13Yes.
31:13Moist, horrible moist.
31:15And visor as well for five.
31:18Yeah.
31:19And Rachel.
31:21I'm surprised Boozy Susie didn't get that.
31:24Absolutely.
31:25Thank you, Rachel.
31:27Vomits from Rachel.
31:2962 to 59 to Paul.
31:31And Ellen, final numbers game.
31:34One from the top.
31:35Any other five, please, Rachel?
31:36Thank you, Ellen.
31:37One large, five little ones.
31:39And a possible crucial conundrum coming up.
31:41Right.
31:41The last numbers game today is five, six, four, seven, two.
31:47And the large one, 75.
31:49And the target, 592.
31:51592.
31:54592.
31:55592.
31:55592.
32:04592.
32:25Ellen 595
32:283 away
32:29592
32:32Right, let's hear from you
32:3475 times, sorry, 6 plus 2 is 8
32:386 plus 2 is 8
32:40Times 75
32:41Times 75 for 600
32:435 minus 4 is 1
32:45Yep
32:46Take that from this
32:48Add that to the 7 is 8
32:50Lovely, 592
32:52Well done, well done Paul
32:58So as Rachel says, we are indeed
33:00In a crucial conundrum time
33:02Paul, Ellen, fingers on buzzers
33:04Please, let's reveal today's
33:05Crucial countdown conundrum
33:11Ellen Baker
33:12Butchered
33:15Butchered
33:15My word, let's see whether you're right
33:20Yeah
33:21Fantastic
33:22Whoa
33:30Ellen Baker, they don't come any quicker than that
33:32My word, look at it
33:33Fantastic
33:34So you take the day 72 to Paul's 69
33:37Paul, I guess you must have thought you had it
33:39Just at the last minute
33:40No, fair play
33:41Fair play indeed
33:42Very fast fair play
33:44So Paul, you're back to Crawley in West Sussex
33:47To your weekly radio show
33:50Hospital radio show
33:51With a goodie bag and a teapot
33:54Lovely
33:55That was a great game
33:56You're a good player
33:56Thank you
33:57Thank you very much for coming
33:58And Ellen Baker, we shall see you tomorrow
33:59That was a terrific contest
34:00Well done
34:01Thanks
34:01You're pleased with yourself
34:03Surprised more than anything
34:05You look a little bit surprised
34:06And flushed if I don't mind me saying it
34:08See you tomorrow
34:09See you tomorrow Susie
34:10And Margaret too
34:11Final day tomorrow
34:12It is
34:13It's been great fun having you
34:15These stories are something else
34:16Delivered with such panache
34:18Great stuff
34:18See you tomorrow
34:19See you tomorrow
34:20Rachel
34:20Adema
34:21Adema indeed
34:22Same time, same place
34:23You be sure of it
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