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00:30Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:33It's a Friday, it's January, and for many of us, our thoughts begin to turn to getting away, to having
00:41fun, vacations, travel.
00:43Well, if you're feeling adventurous, you like the water, why don't you head down to Excel and the London Boat
00:50Show.
00:51They're all there from dinghies to super yachts, from eight foot to huge to huge.
00:57There's surely something there for everybody who fancies setting sail. Ship ahoy!
01:03Some people, Rachel, crave a life on the ocean wave, and I'm not one of them. Do you fancy sailing?
01:09I would, actually, especially what you did over the summer with my friend's dad.
01:14Yes!
01:15You had my friend's dad as your captain, didn't you?
01:18Well, not my captain. I was on a big super yacht as a guest, and your pal's dad was the
01:25captain.
01:26What a good guy he was.
01:27Captain Jekylls. I'm jealous, I've never been out with them. I love looking at the big yachts in Portofino and
01:33Cannes.
01:34So, I was over the summer, I was just staring at them, and you were on them.
01:37Absolutely.
01:38Next time, I'll go in your suitcase.
01:40I'm staying on shore.
01:42Now, who have we got with us? We've got Andy Noden back with us again.
01:46Another big victory yesterday. Well done, although you lost the conundrum.
01:50But, um, hoping to finish off the week with a sixth win.
01:54Awful.
01:54Well, Godspeed to you, and, uh, you're joined by Basia Foster, a hospice worker, originally from Birmingham, now living in
02:02Leicester.
02:03And your favourite, uh, place in the whole world is Krakow, and you own an apartment in Krakow.
02:09How did this come about? Have you got Polish antecedents?
02:13I have. Both my parents are from Poland, and my mum's actually from Krakow.
02:17Yeah.
02:17So I've still got family there.
02:18It's a beautiful city, and you bought an apartment. How clever of you.
02:22Mm-hmm.
02:22Well, good luck to you both, to Basia and to Andy. Big round of applause for today's contestants.
02:32And in the corner, as ever, the wonderful Susie Dent, and joined for the last time, until we can persuade
02:37them to come back, which will not be too long, I trust, the wonderful John Culshaw, comedian and impressionist.
02:44It's been a gorgeous week. It always is, when I have the chance to spend a little time here.
02:49It's a pleasure to have you, and you've kept us enthralled. But now it's time for Andy to amaze us.
02:56A letters game. Andy.
02:57Hi, Rachel.
02:58Hi, Andy.
02:58A consonant, please, to start.
03:00Thank you. Start today with R.
03:02And a vowel.
03:04U.
03:05Another vowel.
03:06E.
03:07Another vowel.
03:08I.
03:09Another vowel.
03:11A.
03:12A consonant.
03:14T.
03:15Another consonant.
03:16C.
03:17Another one, please.
03:18M.
03:19And a final consonant.
03:20And a final K.
03:22And here comes the countdown clock.
03:25E.
03:27E.
03:27E.
03:35E.
03:57Andy?
03:58Seven.
03:59And Bashar?
04:00Seven.
04:01Andy?
04:02Muriate.
04:03Yes, Bashar?
04:05Mokia.
04:06Mokia.
04:07Now, take your pick.
04:08Well, I like both of them.
04:11Muriate comes from muriatic acid.
04:13It's a salt or ester of muriatic acid, which is another term for hydrochloric acid.
04:18And mokia just sounds great, I think.
04:22And in the corner?
04:24No, we were with those, actually.
04:25We were looking at muriates just then.
04:26All right.
04:27Well done.
04:27So, seven apiece and Bashar, letters?
04:32I'll start with a consonant, please.
04:34Thank you, Bashar.
04:35T.
04:36And another one.
04:38R.
04:39And another one.
04:41L.
04:43And a vowel.
04:45E.
04:46And another one.
04:48O.
04:49And a consonant.
04:51V.
04:53And a vowel.
04:55I.
04:58Consonant.
04:59M.
05:01And there's a consonant.
05:04And finally, F.
05:05Stand by.
05:08Theme man in the fertilizer space.
05:10C.
05:11And now you're.
05:11There's a consonant.
05:12And a vowel.
05:30And a vowel.
05:30And a vowel.
05:31And a vowel.
05:32And a vowel.
05:35Yeah, yeah.
05:37Yes, Bershaw?
05:39A seven.
05:40A seven. Andy?
05:41A seven, yes. Bershaw?
05:43Trefoil.
05:45Trefoil, wow. And, Andy?
05:47Vomitor.
05:49A vomitor, okay.
05:51That is there.
05:53That's absolutely fine.
05:55Derivative of vomit, obviously.
05:56And trefoil is fantastic.
05:57It's a small plant of the pea family.
06:00And it has yellow flowers and three lobes, just like clover.
06:04Very good.
06:04Trey being three, please.
06:06Now then, what have we got? John?
06:08There's another seven in there and...
06:11Overlit. Overlit.
06:13Seven, yes.
06:13You could be overlit by a bad photographer, for instance.
06:16That was it.
06:17You could be.
06:18Heaven for fun. That should have happened.
06:2014 points apiece. Andy, first numbers game.
06:23Can I have one large, please?
06:26You can. You're useful.
06:27Quick. One large and five little ones.
06:30Thank you, Andy.
06:31Andy, and for the first time today, the numbers are 10, 4, 2, 3, 7, and 25.
06:39And the target, 627.
06:42627.
06:43The number by 327 is the 1st, 4, 3, 3, and 25.
06:45The number by 328 was the 1st, 5, 2, 3, and 25.
06:45The number by 328 was the 1st, 5, 3, and 25.
06:46The number by 428 was Heath kız, 0, 3, 3, and 25.
07:11MUSIC CONTINUES
07:14Andy, 627.
07:17Thank you, Bashar.
07:19Oh, I didn't get it.
07:21No?
07:21No.
07:22Down to Andy then.
07:23Yeah.
07:23It was 7 times 3, 21.
07:267 times 3 is 21.
07:28Plus the 4.
07:29Plus the 4 for 25.
07:31Times by the 25.
07:32Times by the 25, 625.
07:35And you got there.
07:36Well done, 627.
07:38Smartly done, Andy.
07:39Well done.
07:43Very good indeed.
07:44So you've sprung a 10-point lead there, 24.
07:47Tabash is 14 as we go into a tea-time teaser,
07:49which is Tom issue.
07:51And the clue, Tom has an issue with Jerry because he's this.
07:56Tom has an issue with Jerry because he's this.
08:17Welcome back.
08:18I left with a clue, Tom has an issue with Jerry because he's this.
08:21Because he's the mousiest.
08:26Mousiest.
08:27Seems a bit unfair.
08:29Andy on 24.
08:30Bashar, 14.
08:31Bashar, your letters game.
08:34OK, Rachel.
08:35I'll start with the consonant, please.
08:36Thank you, Bashar.
08:39And another one, please.
08:42N.
08:42And another one.
08:45X.
08:46I'll try a vowel.
08:48E.
08:50And another vowel.
08:52A.
08:54And another vowel.
08:55I.
08:57And a consonant.
09:00H.
09:02Another consonant.
09:05C.
09:07Another consonant.
09:08And the last one.
09:10N.
09:11Countdown.
09:12Countdown.
09:43Yes, Bashar.
09:45Seven.
09:46Seven.
09:47Andy.
09:47Seven as well.
09:48Bashar.
09:49Chained.
09:50Chained and?
09:51Echidna.
09:53Yes, thank you.
09:55Susie.
09:56Well, for once we anticipated, Andy.
09:58Echidna is absolutely brilliant.
10:00It's another name, in fact, for the spiny anteater.
10:03Very good.
10:05Excellent word.
10:06John.
10:07Those were the words that appeared over here in that order.
10:10Chained and Echidna.
10:11And there were no others.
10:13Well done.
10:14Well done, Andy.
10:15That's a sparkly one.
10:1631 to 21.
10:17Andy in the lead.
10:18Andy's back on with the letters game.
10:20Andy.
10:21Vowel, please.
10:21Thank you, Andy.
10:23E.
10:23Another vowel, please.
10:25A.
10:26Consonant.
10:27R.
10:28Consonant.
10:31M.
10:31Vowel.
10:33I.
10:34Vowel.
10:36O.
10:37Consonant.
10:39D.
10:40Consonant.
10:41W.
10:42And another consonant, please.
10:44And lastly, T.
10:46And the clock starts now.
11:16We'll be right back now.
11:18yes Andy seven Basha six and that six admire admire we admit to readmit very
11:29nice very nice very good yeah what else have we got there John
11:34Susie there's a rather nice eight mediator yes is there for eight and oh
11:40yes another eight so Susie just has some news just in midwater yeah so whales
11:50and seals feed in midwater or on the seabed is the example given oh it's a
11:54depth issue 38 to 21 Andy in the lead basher numbers for you I'll have one from
12:05the top and then years of five please thank you Basha one big five little again
12:10and this time the little ones are 10 3 7 another 7 8 and a large one 100 and the
12:21target 848 8 4 8
12:27the
12:30the
12:32the
12:36the
12:38the
12:40the
12:42the
12:42the
12:44the
12:44the
12:45the
12:55yes Basha 8 4 9 84 9 and it 848 come on
13:02um seven minus three seven minus three is four is four uh ten minus four is six yeah
13:10hundred plus six one hundred and six ah sounds about the eight perfect eight four eight
13:22very impressive 48 to uh 21 but now we turn to john now then john it's general election year
13:30it is 2015 the general election looming and i think last time the political characters were
13:40a little bit often described as being a bit gray and uninteresting uh you know we did have gordon
13:46brown with his vast array of hand gestures uh some in this direction and some by way of a contrast
13:51in this direction over here in this manner um but i think there's quite a nice little mix of
13:58characters now and it's shaping up rather nicely you know david cameron very posh with his repeated
14:02hand gesture as though he's having a very busy game of hungry hippos like that michael farage
14:08paint myself yellow i'll become a proper simpson waiter mine's a bottle of wine in fact forget
14:11the bottle just tie me down and water bottle me with it and of course the dead ringers writers
14:16gave nick clegg a very simple catchphrase hello i'm nick clegg sorry about that
14:24and of course you know to uh sort of bailers out uh of course uh we have the uh beautiful
14:29uh skilled
14:29uh buffoonery of uh boris johnson the only fellow outside the beano who says cripes and stone the crows
14:35and by golly gosh blah it's just before he goes off to have a shampoo with a water cannon blah
14:42but i think perhaps my favorite in terms of comedy
14:45is the sort of pleading sense that comes from ed milliband and look you know viewers of
14:53canada what i say to people when i go up and down the country and i talk to the hard
14:59-working people
15:00of great britain on their doorstep what they say to me when i'm on their doorstep when i'm going up
15:05and down the country talking to the hard-working people of great britain on the doorstep look what
15:12they say to me is who are you what are you doing on my voice so he sort of evokes
15:18a slight bit of
15:18sympathy but i think for comedy ed milliband might be the favorite i think yeah that's unusual you did
15:24it beautifully beautifully big round of applause always spot on is our john culture now then
15:35andy on 48 basher 21 and andy's back start with a consonant please thank you andy p another consonant
15:45please l and a vowel a another one please i another vowel o consonant n consonant s final consonant
16:03and n and the final vowel please and the last one a cantan
16:38please let's see you next time
16:40now Andy seven I think basher I've only got six and you're six planes now then
16:49Andy supping in supping in yeah it is a toxic compound which is present in soap
16:57port I believe it or not it makes foam when shaken with water in other words I
17:00think it's what we use the soap very very good very good now in the corner
17:05what use um there is an eight letter word yes line up a musical one I believe yes
17:12pianola's are there the pianola it's a piano but you put in a sort of a
17:18mechanical disc piano roll and it looks as though you're playing it but you had
17:22nothing to do with no funny lovely lovely sound very good 55 plays 21 Andy on 55
17:29and bashes back with a letters game I'll start with a consonant please thank you
17:35Asha D and another one T and another one G a vowel E another vowel O a consonant
17:53consonant please N another one P a vowel E and another vowel please and lastly U stand by
18:11two in the other one T and another one T and it sounds good to work well I'll start with
18:36you
18:36I want to take a moment at the lowest one T and another
18:38Your index innecese is a correspondsites to the lowest one from the yet-by-run bar you know I'm
18:40yes passion seven seven Andy a seven fashion tongues thank you both of you
18:48tongue tongue and in the corner yeah that that appeared over here as well a
18:54couple of sixes also did punted and opened was there all right 62 plays 28
19:04and it's numbers time with Andy one large please thank you Andy one large five
19:11small and you're on a roll here so we see if you can make it three in a row for
19:14this game don't jinx me I'll try not to write these little ones are two five
19:20nine one and seven and the big one 75 and the target 200 200
19:58Andy 200 basher
20:02no one nine nine so let's start with Andy then 75 times 275 times 250 nine plus
20:11one nine plus one is ten times by five times by five
20:15and have them together well done 200 three out of three well done well done
20:22well done Andy 72 place 28 as we go to a tea time teaser which is nap sleep and the
20:29clue he never has a nap or a sleep he's too busy being mischievous he never has a nap or
20:36sleep he's too busy being mischievous
20:54welcome back I left with the clue he never has a nap or a sleep he's too busy being mischievous
20:59why
21:00because he's Susie a spalpeen yeah what is this and it it's an Irish word actually
21:07Nick a friend a rascal I love the word rascal late 18th century and it originally meant a migratory farm
21:15worker
21:17a spalpeen yeah never heard it okay well then dashed you can use it now but well yeah spalpeen now
21:25then 72 place basher's 28 basher how about a letters game a consonant please thank you basher t and another
21:34one
21:34s and another one d and another one y a vowel e and another one o and another one e
21:53and another one a
21:58and a consonant and lastly m stand by
22:02uh
22:29so
22:34yes pressure seven a seven Andy seven pressure steamed and nose eat mosey'd be mosey'd in yes
22:47Susie um how are you spelling that one Andy um m o s e y e d absolutely correct spelling
22:54yes very
22:55good so John anything else I don't know why but I want to say this is Richard Osman for some
23:00reason
23:01so um yep many other sevens that you could have had in there demotes was there for a very good
23:06seven you
23:07could have that one uh modesty also there for another very good seven so well done if you went
23:12for any of those very good answers well done if you got that at home yeah very good well done
23:19John
23:19any more no quite a few sevens that's a cracker very good 79 plays 35 now Andy letters game
23:28vowel please thank you Andy oh another vowel e consonant n another consonant b consonant r vowel
23:43vowel u consonant q vowel i and the final consonant please and a final l
23:55stand by
23:56so
24:27MUSIC
24:27Andy?
24:28Seven.
24:30Basher?
24:30Six.
24:31And your six?
24:32Boiler.
24:34Andy?
24:35Ronquil.
24:37Ronquil.
24:38Goodness.
24:39It's not a plant this time, because Andy's amazing at his plants,
24:42but he's good at fish as well.
24:43This is a slender, bottom-dwelling fish.
24:45It lives in cold coastal waters of the North Pacific.
24:49Very good.
24:55Extraordinary.
24:56Now then, John.
24:58Well, in the face of all these brilliant words, you know, we've got a six,
25:02and maybe we need it.
25:03Some liquor.
25:04Liquor.
25:0786th place, 35.
25:08But now we revert to Susie and her wonderful origins of words.
25:14Now then, Susie.
25:16Well, just a little bit of history to bless you,
25:20which people will say when you sneeze, if you're lucky.
25:23Lots of stories behind this expression, but there is a common theme that underpins all of them,
25:28and that was the belief in the Middle Ages that when you sneezed,
25:33you basically expelled your soul from your body.
25:37And in doing so, you would make room for an evil spirit, or even worse, the devil himself.
25:43And the only way of bringing the soul back to the person who had sneezed was by blessing them,
25:49and thus bestowing grace upon them, and they would regain their soul.
25:54And as you might expect, it did become a daily expression during the Great Plague of London in 1665,
26:01when sneezing obviously was a symptom of the Black Death,
26:04in which case the blessing seemed all the more appropriate.
26:08So that was bless you, but the Black Death is also often said to be behind the nursery rhyme,
26:12ring-a-ring-a-roses, pocket full of poses, a tissue, a tissue we all fall down.
26:16And many people believe that the nosegays that were carried to escape the stench of death,
26:23they were the poses, and that sneezing obviously was a symptom,
26:25as well as red sores around the mouth, and that was the ring of roses.
26:30So it was all said to be the symptoms of the plague.
26:33And I mentioned the word nosegay, and we talked about this on count number four.
26:36It meant a nose ornament, the gays was ornament.
26:38And again, it was intended to mask the smell of unsavoury things,
26:41particularly in the days of poor sanitation.
26:44But they were also named, when I was researching these, in Victorian times,
26:47as tussie-mussies, believe it or not.
26:49And that is a word that comes from the French,
26:51and it might be related to tousse, meaning to cough,
26:54which brings us right back again to the Great Plague.
26:56Well, well, well. How extraordinary.
27:04Pepys wrote a wonderful account of the plague.
27:07It came from Holland.
27:09It came from Holland, yeah.
27:11And it came in on the ships coming in from Holland.
27:13And they sort of saw it coming.
27:16And he recounted the number of deaths per day and how it grew and grew.
27:22It was extraordinary.
27:23Extraordinary.
27:25Very frightening.
27:2686 to Bash's 35.
27:29And Bashir, you're back on.
27:31Penultimate letters game.
27:33I'll start with a consonant.
27:35Thank you, Bashir.
27:36S.
27:37And another one.
27:39R.
27:41And another one.
27:42G.
27:44And another one.
27:46P.
27:47A vowel.
27:49O.
27:50And another one.
27:52E.
27:53And another one.
27:55U.
27:58A consonant.
28:01L.
28:04And another consonant.
28:05And lastly, C.
28:07Stand by.
28:17Bye.
28:23Hello.
28:28Bye.
28:29Bye.
28:31Bye.
28:33Bye.
28:34Bye.
28:35Bye.
28:36Bye.
28:40yes basher six a six eight and eight basher groups and couplers couplers yes fantastic
28:52I was just looking at that and lots of senses the main one of says it's something that connects two
28:57things you can get them in music in organs for example connecting notes in photography
29:01acoustic couplers lots of senses but they're in the dictionary very good and trains carriages
29:07I think okay that's coupled right final letters game for Andy then Andy a vowel please thank you
29:15Andy a another vowel please e a consonants b consonant s consonant g consonant t another one
29:30please s a vowel oh and another vowel please and lastly a count down
29:39so
29:42so
29:44so
30:10Andy a six a six basher six andy
30:16sable's sabo and stages stages yes sabo's sabo's long slogs Andy might kick himself
30:26though oh yeah what good sabotages sabotages yes there yes it was there for a full nine and of
30:37course they're related
30:43of course they was throwing the clog into the machinery to break it that was known as sabotage
30:49yeah we're destroying things well done so 100 plays basher's very respectable 41 as we go into the last
30:56numbers game basher one from the top and then you have a five thank you basher one large five little
31:02ones to finish the week and for the final time the numbers are six eight seven two another six and
31:12a large one 50 and the target
31:14five hundred and seventy seven five seven seven
31:17four and ninety four seven minus eight five
31:22seven seven six and eight six and twenty seven turns into the conduct of an Clinton Nevertheless
31:46limitable of itsorrhe Allahñapea
31:47MalcolmRahmani
31:49Basher 576 one away Andy 579 right Basher right so did 50 plus 7 50 plus 7 57 8 plus
32:042 is 10
32:05yep multiply them together 570 and I did the 6 and at the 6 the one below well done 576
32:12well done indeed but 577 how tricky is that can you unravel it for us you could have said 50
32:21times
32:216 is 300 minus 8 292 times by 2 for 584 and take away the 7 for 577 oh yes
32:37thank you Rachel so 100 plays 48 as we go to the final round conundrum time so Andy Basher
32:44fingers on buzzers please let's reveal today's countdown conundrum
32:52Andy can't be reasonable marketing marketing
33:07I don't know whether that was under a second or just on a second was extraordinary look at that 110
33:13points well done Basher I'm sorry you should have to come up against there's Andy Noden because
33:19he's a formidable player that's six straight wins for you it is excellent stuff Basher you've played
33:25very well back to Leicester with our very best wishes and next time you're in Krakow pop into
33:31the the cathedral there and light a candle for me it's a beautiful cathedral I will brilliant stuff
33:37Andy we shall see you on Monday we will great stuff you'll be going for seven wins who knows you
33:42might
33:42be an Octa Chapnick hopefully yeah brilliant stuff well done and Susie have a peaceful weekend and to
33:48you too John will you please come and see us again soon it's always such a great pleasure to have
33:53you
33:53here it can't come soon enough oh I always love my week here so thank you for having me come
33:59again soon
33:59brilliant stuff have a good weekend I will it's my birthday I'll try and come back on Monday but no
34:05promises please do so when it wins your birthday really on Sunday on Sunday happy birthday on Sunday
34:12well thank you I'll try not to be too bad a state on Monday I'm sure you'll manage it perfectly
34:17well
34:17anyway happy birthday thank you happy birthday to Rachel from all of you at home and until Monday
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