- 7 weeks ago
Category
📺
TVTranscript
00:28MUSIC CONTINUES
00:29Welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:31Now, last year, superstar singer and songwriter Dolly Parton
00:35had an amazing time, Rachel, as you will recall,
00:38at Glastonbury, headlining there, and she was extraordinary.
00:42Now, she's a...
00:42We all know her as a singer of some repute
00:47and some longevity, really,
00:49because she's been at it quite a long time.
00:51But she's also got some other extraordinary attributes,
00:54and some of those attributes would include her wise words.
00:58Ah, those attributes.
00:59Yes, she can whip out a quote at the drop of a hat.
01:04Quotes with...
01:05Let me try this.
01:07For instance, we cannot direct the wind,
01:10which we can adjust the sails,
01:12which is, of course, very handy for any sailor,
01:14and dealing, presumably, with whatever's thrown at you.
01:17And she also said,
01:19I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes,
01:22because I know I'm not dumb, she said,
01:24and also, I know I'm not blonde.
01:28She's taking a little bit of a poke at herself.
01:31But here's something that did catch my eye.
01:34Don't get so busy making a living
01:37that you forget to make a life,
01:39and that's all about work-life balance.
01:42Something about which I've been very poor for over 70 years.
01:46You have? We keep telling you.
01:46That's just the point.
01:47What about you?
01:48So, you're going to have a break one of these days?
01:51No, this year now, 2015, absolutely.
01:54I've cast myself adrift from some very demanding things.
01:58So, we're going to hold you to that?
01:59Yeah.
01:59We're going to have a holiday?
02:00Big holidays.
02:01Good.
02:01Big holidays, because time.
02:03But you, I think you're smart,
02:06in that you know when you want to work,
02:08but you also play quite hard.
02:12No, I do.
02:13I like working.
02:13It's fun.
02:14But it is nice to switch off,
02:15and especially not check your emails,
02:17and not check Twitter,
02:18and the outside world for a little while.
02:20That's always good for the soul.
02:21Indeed.
02:21Well, at the age of 70,
02:22I finally learnt the word no,
02:25and I'm going to stick with it.
02:26Right now, then, Tracy Mills.
02:29You haven't heard the word no, have you?
02:31You had such a big win yesterday.
02:33Fabulous.
02:34You're up to four wins now.
02:36What was your score yesterday?
02:37109 from memory.
02:38Yes, that's right, yes.
02:39Ah, it's brilliant stuff.
02:40Well done.
02:40And you're joined today by Gary Coroner,
02:43a taxi driver from Ballyfermaton, Dublin.
02:46Big Coldplay fan.
02:48You once saw them twice in a week.
02:49I did.
02:51Yeah?
02:51What is it about them that particularly...
02:53Erm, I think they produce so...
02:56Their sound is so diverse, each album,
03:00and even when you think they can't get any better, they do.
03:03Yeah.
03:03And they're brilliant in life.
03:04Absolutely brilliant.
03:06You love them? Brilliant stuff.
03:06Now, then, good luck to you both.
03:08Gary, Tracy, big round of applause.
03:17And Susie's back.
03:18Of course she is, as is Helen Skelton,
03:20that wonderful presenter and action lady,
03:23and just a great sport
03:25and a very popular, popular Dictionary Corner guest
03:29on this show, I might tell you, Helen.
03:31Now, then, let's get down to business.
03:33Tracy Mills, off you go.
03:35Could I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
03:36Thank you, Tracy.
03:37Start today with R.
03:39And another one.
03:42H.
03:43And another one.
03:45D.
03:46And another one.
04:04And here is the Countdown Clock.
04:33The Countdown Clock.
04:39Yes, Tracy?
04:41Eight.
04:41And Gary?
04:42A.
04:43Tracy?
04:44Hideouts.
04:45Yes, Gary?
04:46Outsider.
04:47Outsider.
04:48Nothing to squabble about?
04:49No, hideouts is all one word.
04:51No hyphen in there, so it's absolutely fine.
04:53Now, then, Helen?
04:55Outsider was our longest with eight.
04:57We had shirted, suited.
05:00Yep, rousted.
05:02American verb meaning sort of get people moving.
05:04Roust about, yeah.
05:05Yeah, but Outsider was the best fate.
05:08Thank you very much.
05:08Thank you, Susie.
05:09Eight apiece.
05:10And Gary, your next mistake.
05:13Can I get a consonant, please?
05:15Thank you, Gary.
05:15Start with R.
05:18And another one.
05:38And I'll finish with a consonant, please.
05:47And finish with L.
05:49Stand by.
05:50Okay.
06:21Yes, Gary a trainee and eight Tracy eight so Gary remodeled remodel. Yes smolder
06:30Smolder
06:31Smolder is but yes molder is an absolutely fantastic word remodels is in the dictionary Gary, but you need to
06:37ease
06:37And you've only got one. I'm afraid
06:40Now then what have we got there?
06:44Helen we had remolds
06:47Yes, and we had slumlord a slum landlord you can have a slumlord you can particularly in North American English
06:55a landlord a slum property
06:57Typically one who charges extortionate rents slumlord well, I'm dashed 16 to 8
07:02Tracy's in the lead and Tracy's back with a numbers game Tracy
07:06Could I have one from the top please Rachel and any other five of your choice? Thank you Tracy your
07:11usual
07:11One large five little and for this round they are one three nine
07:17Seven six and the large one 25 and the target
07:23751 751
07:25So
07:26You
07:26You
07:26You
07:26You
07:54You
07:54You
07:54You
07:54You
07:54You
07:56Yes
07:57Tracy
07:57751
07:58Gary
07:59Yeah
08:00Okay, Tracy
08:019 minus 7 is 2
08:03Yep
08:03Plus the 3 is 5
08:055 times 6 is 30
08:0930
08:09Times by 25
08:11750
08:12Another 1
08:13751
08:13Lovely
08:14And Gary
08:15And seven times three seven three is twenty one plus nine plus nine for the 30 times twenty-five and
08:22then the same for seven fifty
08:23Plus one lovely seven five one
08:30So 26 Gary's 18 as we turn to a tea-time teaser which is toy chase and the clue
08:36They may sound like wild dogs, but they're tasty little fruits
08:41They may sound like wild dogs, but they're tasty little fruits
08:55Welcome back electric coup they may sound like wild dogs, but they're tasty little fruits
09:02And they're chayotes. What is this chayote coyote chayote chayote and they aren't succulent green
09:10Pear-shaped tropical fruit, and they resemble cucumber in flavor. So it's like a curious flavor
09:15But refreshing well done 26 plays Gary's 18 Gary don't let her get away
09:21Letters game can a stack of a constant please Rachel. Thank you Gary H
09:29Zed an avell
09:32e a constant
09:35s
09:36s
09:36and avell
09:38u
09:39and a constant
09:41l
09:43and a little
09:44n
09:47em avell please
09:49i
09:50em consonant
09:53and the last one
09:54r
09:55countdown
09:57don't
09:58ve
09:58Physics
09:58showed
09:58a
09:59notes
09:59and
09:59they
09:59just
09:59ha
09:59it
09:59i
10:26have
10:27Well, Gary?
10:28Just a five.
10:29And Tracy?
10:30Six.
10:31So, Gary?
10:32Lions.
10:33Tracy?
10:34Shiner.
10:35A shiner.
10:36Look who gave me this shiner.
10:39Surely not.
10:41We had shiner, but we had it in shore as well.
10:44Yes.
10:45Susie?
10:46Yeah, just those two sixes, actually, and it couldn't get better than that, I'm afraid.
10:50Thank you very much.
10:5132, place 18.
10:53And Tracy, you're back.
10:55Letters.
10:56Could I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
10:58Thank you, Tracy.
10:59T.
11:00And another one.
11:02K.
11:03And another one.
11:05G.
11:06And another one.
11:08W.
11:09A vowel, please.
11:11E.
11:12Another vowel.
11:13I.
11:14Another vowel.
11:16A.
11:17A consonant, please.
11:19N.
11:20And finish with A, consonant.
11:23And finish with S.
11:25Stand by.
11:57Yes, Tracy.
11:58Eight.
11:59An eight.
12:00Gary.
12:01Tracy.
12:02Sweating.
12:03Both of you.
12:04Yeah, that's fine.
12:05Any more in the corner?
12:08We have tweaking.
12:10Tweaking.
12:10Very good.
12:11Yes.
12:11Anything else, Susie?
12:12No, that was our top for eight.
12:13An eight, indeed.
12:14All right.
12:1440 plays, 26.
12:16Now then, Gary, to numbers.
12:18Numbers game for you.
12:20Can I have two from the top and far from anywhere else, please?
12:23You can indeed.
12:24Thank you, Gary.
12:24Two large, four little.
12:26And for this round, the four little ones are 10, 7, 2 and 6.
12:32And the two large ones, 75 and 50.
12:35And the target, 461.
12:384, 6, 1.
12:39New York.
12:39New York.
12:41New York.
12:43New York.
12:50New York.
13:08And the three large ones, New York.
13:10Well Gary 460 not written down 460 and Tracy 460
13:16Right Gary 75 times 6
13:1975 times 6 450 plus 10 before 61 away and Tracy done the same way
13:25Let's have a little look Gary. We're happy now then 461. We're very
13:32Adamant about getting the right score if we can you could have said 10 minus 6 is 4 times 50
13:39200 minus 7 for
13:42193 times by 2 for 386 and add on the 75
13:54Caution Rachel now then 47 plays Gary's 33 as we turn to
14:01Helen Skelton and Helen your presenting takes you to all sorts of places including
14:07horse racing and sometimes
14:09They think you're there for reasons other than
14:13Presentings that right? Yeah, I'm gonna get in trouble now because this is a confession that I'm sharing with you
14:17But I get to all manner of random places and I do a lot of live sports
14:22So I do Wimbledon and the boat race and all the rest of it and in the last couple of
14:25years
14:26I've been asked to quite a lot of the racing so Epsom and Cheltenham and everything and I had horses
14:31as a kid
14:32So I thought yeah, this would be a great thing to do
14:34And I couldn't understand why the first couple of days when I was at Cheltenham people kept asking me
14:40How Harry was and how Dan was and then I realized that everybody thinks I'm related to the famous
14:47Equestrian family Nick Skelton who is the showjumper father of the two horse racers Dan and Harry and
14:54To be honest by that point I'd gone along with it so long
14:56You know when you've been polite and you just go yeah
14:58Yeah by the end of it
14:59I just caught sort of got swept up in it myself and so when people were asking me why Harry
15:04wasn't race and I just kept saying oh
15:05You know how it is
15:08Heaven forbid I have actually run into Dan Harry or Nick because everybody thinks we're cousins and all really close
15:13and I
15:13Wouldn't know them if I fell over them. I don't know who they are, but I've never met them
15:17Funny but you had horses as a girl. Yeah. Yeah, I always yeah
15:21I have wintered horses looked after them for local riding schools and had little Shetlands that I used to walk
15:26around as if they were dogs
15:27But yeah, I wasn't very good
15:29I had a lot of falls but so by the time I was 16 my dad said right
15:33That's enough enough horses for you now because they just I used to end up with all the wild ones
15:37So they'd take off over the fells and they wouldn't see me for a few miles
15:40That's a dangerous business these days. Oh
15:42Yeah, no it made my mom really nervous, but so you didn't go into a venting and all that sort
15:46of thing
15:46No, no, I had too many falls. I had a really bad fall didn't ride for ten years
15:51Took it up again loved it. Oh, it got a bit too confident went for one of the big jumps
15:57Of course went straight over the front landed on landed on the jump luckily. I was fine
16:02I just had some sprains and things but of course there are about 30 kids waiting for their riding lesson
16:07to the side
16:07So you know when you can't cry you're just like
16:11Funny and those Shetlands they've got a nasty temper
16:16Put them into as a companion to a bigger horse and they're sort of they're bossy little things aren't they
16:21yeah
16:22And they're kind of little and stubborn and they can nip a bit
16:26But then my brother said that was just like me like on a light horse
16:30I'm sure I can imagine a bit of a nipper when you were a nipper 47 to Gary's 33
16:37Tracy there you are in the lead again letters game now
16:42Consonant please Rachel. Thank you Tracy. Ah
16:44And another one
16:46C
16:48And another one
16:49N
16:51And another one
16:53X
16:54Vowel please
16:56E
16:57Another vowel
16:58A
16:59And another vowel
17:01I
17:03Consonant please
17:04N
17:07And finish with another consonant please
17:10And finish with R
17:11Countdown
17:13I
17:14I
17:26I
17:28I
17:28I
17:30I
17:31I
17:41I
17:47I
17:48I
17:56I
17:58I
17:58I
17:59I
18:06I
18:09I
18:25I
18:28I
18:29I
18:29I
18:29I
18:29I
18:29I
18:30I
18:32I
18:32I
18:32I
18:34I
18:35I
18:35I
18:36I
18:37I
18:38I
18:38I
18:38I
18:39I
18:39I
18:39I
18:39I
18:39I
18:39I
18:39I
18:39I
18:41I
18:47I
18:49I
18:55I
19:00I
19:02I
19:06I
19:06I
19:06I
19:07I
19:12I
19:13I
19:13I
19:13I
19:13I
19:13I
19:13I
19:13I
19:14I
19:14I
19:16I
19:17I
19:18I
19:18I
19:23I
19:25I
19:31I
19:42I
19:44I
19:45I
19:45I
19:57I
19:59I
20:12I
20:13I
20:32I
20:33I
20:33I
20:33I
20:34I
20:34I
20:35I
20:38I
20:39I
20:39I
20:39I
20:46I
21:11I
21:12I
21:12I
21:13I
21:13I
21:13I
21:13I
21:13I
21:13I
21:13I
21:13I
21:13I
21:13I
21:15I
21:16I
21:16I
21:16I
21:31I
21:31I
21:32I
21:33I
21:33I
21:33I
21:34I
21:34I
21:36I
21:37I
21:38I
21:47I
22:02I
22:03I
22:04I
22:04I
22:04I
22:04I
22:04I
22:04I
22:06I
22:07I
22:07I
22:12I
22:13I
22:19I
22:23I
22:24I
22:26I
22:27I
22:32I
22:34I
22:35I
22:36I
22:36I
22:36I
22:36I
22:37I
22:38I
22:38I
22:40I
22:42I
22:42I
22:42I
22:43I
22:43I
22:43I
22:43I
22:46I
22:47I
22:47I
22:47I
22:49I
22:49I
22:49I
22:50I
22:51I
22:51I
22:51I
22:57I
22:58I
22:58I
23:11I
23:12I
23:12I
23:12I
23:14I
23:16I
23:16I
23:30I
23:41I
23:47I
23:53I
23:54I
23:55I
23:55I
24:09I
24:10I
24:13I
24:14I
24:14I
24:14I
24:14I
24:15I
24:15I
24:17I
24:17I
24:25I
24:43I
24:45I
24:49I
24:49I
25:01I
25:01I
25:01I
25:01I
25:01I
25:01I
25:01I
25:01I
25:02I
25:02I
25:02I
25:02I
25:04I
25:10I
25:16I
25:18I
25:19I
25:19I
25:23I
25:27I
25:30I
25:31I
25:32I
25:32I
25:32I
25:34I
25:34I
25:38I
25:44I
25:45I
25:53I
25:55I
25:58I
25:59I
25:59I
26:01I
26:01I
26:01I
26:02I
26:03I
26:05I
26:16I
26:17I
26:25I
26:25I
26:25I
26:25I
26:26I
26:26I
26:26I
26:26I
26:28I
26:30I
26:30I
26:40I
26:42I
26:43I
26:46I
26:48I
26:48I
26:51I
26:52I
27:01I
27:02I
27:04I
27:04I
27:05I
27:05I
27:05I
27:17I
27:18I
27:23I
27:23I
27:23I
27:47I
27:47I
27:47I
27:47I
27:47I
27:48I
27:48I
27:49I
27:51I
27:53I
28:01I
28:02I
28:04I
28:05I
28:05I
28:14I
28:15I
28:15I
28:17I
28:18I
28:20I
28:20I
28:21I
28:23I
28:23I
28:25I
28:26I
28:28I
28:28I
28:29I
28:30I
28:30I
28:30I
28:30I
28:30I
28:30I
28:38I
28:39I
28:46I
28:46I
28:46I
29:00I
29:02I
29:05I
29:07I
29:10I
29:11I
29:11I
29:12I
29:13I
29:13I
29:13I
29:13I
29:13I
29:22I
29:26I
29:28I
29:30I
29:31I
29:38I
29:40I
29:40I
29:40I
29:40I
29:40I
29:41I
29:41I
29:42I
29:42I
29:44I
29:45I
29:45I
29:47I
29:47I
29:54I
30:01I
30:01I
30:14I
30:14I
30:14I
30:14I
30:14I
30:16I
30:17I
30:17I
30:17I
30:18I
30:18I
30:18I
30:18I
30:21I
30:21I
30:22I
30:22I
30:22I
30:22I
30:22I
30:22I
30:22I
30:22I
30:22I
30:22I
30:23I
30:23I
30:24I
30:25I
30:26I
30:26I
30:39I
30:41I
30:52I
30:53I
30:56I
30:58I
31:03I
31:04I
31:05I
31:06I
31:06I
31:06I
31:21I
31:23I
31:25I
31:26I
31:33I
31:42I
31:43I
31:46I
31:46I
31:51I
31:53I
31:53I
31:55I
32:07I
32:08I
32:15I
32:15I
32:24I
32:24I
32:24I
32:25I
32:25I
32:25I
32:25I
32:28I
32:28I
32:36I
32:37I
32:54I
32:55I
32:55I
32:58I
32:58I
32:59I
33:04I
33:22I
33:25I
33:25I
33:25I
33:25I
33:25I
33:25I
33:27I
33:28I
33:28I
33:41I
33:42I
33:46I
33:47I
33:47I
33:47I
33:47I
33:47I
33:47I
33:47I
33:49I
33:49I
33:58I
33:59I
33:59I
33:59I
34:02I
34:08I
34:09I
34:09I
34:09I
34:09I
34:10I
34:12you can contact the program by email at countdown at channel 4.com by twitter at c4 countdown or
34:19write to us at countdown leads ls3 1js you can also find our webpage at channel 4.com forward
34:26slash countdown nine o'clock tonight the link between alcohol and domestic abuse a familiar
34:36tale in brand new 24 hours in police custody deal next time for