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04:53Three five.
04:54Yeah.
04:54A banjo.
04:56Yeah.
04:57You don't see many of them around these days.
04:59Five points apiece.
05:01Now then, Sean, your letters game.
05:03Hi, Rachel.
05:04Hi, Sean.
05:04Hello.
05:04Could I have a consonant, please?
05:06Starts with V.
05:09Another, please.
05:09S. And another. D. Vowel. I. Another. O. Another. A. A consonant. G. Another. L. And another one please. And
05:34the last one. P. Countdown.
05:39P. Countdown.
05:53P. Countdown.
05:55D. Yeah, Sean. Just five.
06:10Rod. Six. And a six. So, Sean. Valid.
06:13And? Plaid. Thank you.
06:16Yes, or plaids, long pieces of tartan sworn over the shoulder as part of Scottish Highland dress.
06:22I see, but a plaid also, isn't that a tartan?
06:26It is. In the dictionary it says mass noun, although I'm sure you can have different patterns of plaids.
06:31But yes, chequered or tartan twirl cloth.
06:33OK, very good. Anything else? What have you got there, Grant?
06:36Avoids, which is six.
06:39And the Steve Martin film, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.
06:42Ah, yes.
06:43Oh, is that right?
06:44Very good film, worth watching.
06:45But he's funny, isn't he?
06:47Very funny.
06:47He is brilliant.
06:49Rachel, lap dogs, look at this.
06:51Is that one more?
06:52You were busy last week and you've been practising again.
06:55Lap dogs.
06:55Yeah, I just thought I'd show Susie up one more time.
06:58Lap dogs.
06:59Well done.
07:00Now then, what shall we do?
07:01Rod on 11, Sean 5.
07:03Rod, numbers time.
07:05Two from the top and any other four, please, Rachel.
07:08Thank you, Rod.
07:08Two large, four little.
07:10And the first numbers game of the week is 9, 3, 6, 1.
07:16And the large, 250 and 25.
07:19And the target, 980.
07:219, 8, 0.
07:22Hoo corner.
07:36Hilary, yeah.
07:373, 6, 1.
07:469, 8, 0.
07:517, 0.
07:53Yes, Rod.
07:54I think I've got 975.
07:57Five away. How about Sean?
07:58No any.
07:59So, Rod Stainsby.
08:01Six times three plus one.
08:04Six times three is 18, plus one is 19.
08:0719 times 50.
08:09Times 50 for 950.
08:11Plus 25.
08:13975. Five away.
08:15Not bad, but not perfect.
08:17980 is really what's required, Rachel, right?
08:21Yeah, not the easiest, but you could have said 25 minus 6 is 19.
08:25Times by 50 for 950 again.
08:29And then 9 plus 1 is 10.
08:31Times 3 is 30 to add on for 980.
08:34Oh, well done.
08:35Well done, Rachel.
08:38And now it's time for a tea time teaser, which is Ina's time.
08:42And the clue, Ina's got time this afternoon to watch a few films.
08:46Ina's got time this afternoon to watch a few films.
09:06Welcome back.
09:07I'm left with a clue.
09:07Ina's got time this afternoon to watch a few films.
09:10And the answer is matinaise.
09:14Matinaise.
09:15Now then, Rod on 18.
09:17Sean on 5.
09:17Sean, letters.
09:19Could I have a consonant, please?
09:21Thank you, Sean.
09:23C.
09:24Another.
09:26R.
09:27Vowel.
09:29I.
09:30Another one.
09:32O.
09:33A consonant, please.
09:34F.
09:37Another one, please.
09:39B.
09:41A vowel.
09:42E.
09:44Another one.
09:47U.
09:48And another vowel, please.
09:51And the last one.
09:52A.
09:53Stand by.
09:54A vowel.
09:56A vowel.
09:58A vowel.
10:02A vowel.
10:10A vowel.
10:11A vowel.
10:11A vowel.
10:11A vowel.
10:11A vowel.
10:18A vowel.
10:22A vowel.
10:25yes Sean a six rod five and that five force force and fabric very good anything any improvements
10:36on that caribou the caribou the reindeer indeed creature yeah caribou very good yeah that's it
10:43yes I like it it comes from a Canadian French from Mick back the language and it means snow
10:48shoveler because it shovels under the snow to get to its food very good thank you 18 plays Sean's
10:5311 and it's Rod's turn Rod's letters game um constant again please thank you Rod T and another one W
11:04vowel I consonant N vowel E another vowel a consonant M
11:21another consonant and the final vowel T and the final O
11:27town town
11:32so
11:58yes Rod
12:00five again on the front five again Sean yes six so Rod meant meant and mitten mitten
12:09mitten yes what do we got in the corner there Graham Susie tomatine tomatine I suppose I should know
12:16that should I Susie and it's a compound that you will find in tomato plants etc so chemicals home really
12:22thank you 18 to 17 now Rod just one point in the lead and it's Sean's crack at the numbers
12:31could I have two from the top and four from the bottom please thank you Sean two from the top
12:36four
12:36from the bottom two large four small again and this time they are nine ten three and five and a
12:43large one
12:43one seventy five and fifty and the target six hundred and ninety six six nine six
12:52so
13:05so
13:06so
13:20so Sean six nine seven six nine seven one away how about Rod I'm six nine zero six nine zero
13:27so
13:27Sean nine plus five is 14 yeah multiply that by 50 for 700 700 and then take away the three
13:36yet for one
13:36away six nine seven but Rachel I trust will be able to take us to six nine six one way
13:43you could
13:44have said 75 plus 50 minus nine is 116 and then three times ten is 30 divided by five is
13:54six and
13:54times the two together for six nine six well done well done so Sean's now in the lead 24 points
14:03to
14:0318 as we turn to Graham and Graham Rachel and I were stumbling over the names of players long gone
14:10great players from the past but I guess you've played with some great ones who would you pick
14:15out as especially great well it's a question I get asked a lot and very fortunately I was able to
14:20play
14:20against some of the best players in the world of my generation the player that stands out to me
14:25not just for his ability on the pitch but also the way he was as a character was Gianfranco Zola
14:29little Sardinian legend that he was and he came to Chelsea as part of this sort of you know foreign
14:35group that started coming over of huge talent and really helped change and develop the Premier League
14:40into the spectacle it is now and he's a wonderful guy and he's still held with that sort of esteem
14:46at Chelsea the thing is with Franco as nice a guy as he is as brilliant a player as he
14:52was
14:53he is the worst driver car driver you could ever see in your life and and I was the club
14:59captain at
14:59the time so I felt it was my responsibility to basically tell any new player that came to the
15:03club that you know do not get in a car with Gianfranco so we used to train near Heathrow and
15:10he lived in
15:11London so I used to tell the new players this story which was a complete lie but it sort of
15:15served a
15:15purpose because it protected them from imminent death basically so it was okay to tell a white
15:19lie in this situation and the story goes we'd be in the canteen having lunch and I would say to
15:24the
15:24new player for goodness sake don't drive in the car with Franco I said he's such a bad driver his
15:28wife
15:28has to phone him every day when he's in the car just to make sure he's okay and this one
15:32particular
15:33day he was in the car his wife Franca her name is so Franco and Franca she uh she found
15:39him and
15:39Franco are you okay and and he said yes darling I'm okay why he said well I'm listening to the
15:45radio
15:45and there's some nutter driving the wrong way down the M4 and he replied darling there's hundreds of
15:51them so by this by this stage Franco's obviously going crazy because he knows that uh that I'm lying
15:58but you never saw the new player get in the car with him and subsequently spent all his Chelsea career
16:03driving himself and just himself to and from the training ground well a lovely story and a lot
16:08more to come very good stuff thank you Graham now then Rod's got a bit of work to do 24
16:17to where
16:17you're 18 Rod and now it's a letters game start with a consonant again please thank you Rod G and
16:24another one P and another F vowel E another vowel A consonant X vowel O consonant L and a vowel
16:44to finish
16:45and the last one I stand by
16:48so
16:50so
16:57so
17:06so
17:07so
17:09so
17:10so
17:19yes Rod
17:20yes Rod
17:20seven
17:21seven Sean
17:22four
17:23and that four
17:24actually Rod
17:26foilage
17:28foliage
17:28foliage
17:30foliage
17:30foliage
17:31foliage
17:31foliage
17:33oh
17:33you probably will kick yourself because foliage is there but not foliage I'm afraid Rod sorry
17:39it's bad luck
17:40it's bad luck and I think Graham is going to tell us about foliage
17:43yes foliage is the word that we've got for seven
17:46very good
17:47anything else
17:48no I was looking for poleax but you have to have the two E's in British English
17:52yes indeed 28 to 18 now then let's go to Sean for a letters game Sean
17:58can I have a consonant please
18:00thank you Sean
18:01thank you Sean
18:01R
18:03another one
18:05N
18:05another one
18:08M
18:09a vowel
18:11E
18:12another
18:13A
18:14a
18:16a consonant
18:16V
18:19another
18:19another
18:20S
18:21S
18:22a vowel
18:24U
18:25and
18:26a
18:27vowel please
18:28and the last one
18:29E
18:30stand by
18:32a vowel
18:33a
18:33a
18:33a
18:42a
18:43a
19:03Yes, Sean?
19:04Yes, seven.
19:05A seven rod?
19:06Seven.
19:06Sean?
19:07Measure.
19:08Measure four?
19:09Avenues.
19:10Avenues.
19:11Not bad?
19:12No, good sevens.
19:12What else have we got there?
19:13Graham?
19:14We've got a surname.
19:16Yes.
19:16So I'm a bit disappointed when you were talking about names ending in O, although mine doesn't
19:21technically end in O. It sounds like it does when you say Lassau, so I'm a bit disappointed
19:26when you said Kino Robbo, you should have said Lassau.
19:30Spelling's a very important part of this show, though.
19:32Clearly, on this pad, it isn't.
19:36What else have we got there?
19:38No, that was it. Just a host of sevens for us, Nick.
19:40Very good. Thank you, Graham.
19:42Good contribution there.
19:43And now, 35 to 25, and it's numbers time for Rod.
19:47One from the top, please.
19:49Two from the second row, and three from the next row.
19:52Thank you, Rod.
19:53One large and five small this time.
19:55And these five small ones are three, seven, one, eight, and six.
20:01And the large one, 100.
20:02And the target, 148.
20:05One, four, eight.
20:07One, four, eight, and six, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven,
20:15seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven,
20:16seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven,
20:16seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven,
20:16seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven,
20:16seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven,
20:37Yes, Rod, 148.
20:39No surprise, Sean?
20:41148.
20:42So, Rod.
20:44100 plus 6 times 8.
20:466 times 8 for the 48.
20:47Very easy.
20:48And I think you'll probably be sticking to that, Sean?
20:50Yeah, exactly the same way.
20:51All right, so there we go.
20:53So, well done, Sean.
20:54Ten points ahead, 45 to 35.
20:56But now, let's have a tea time teaser,
20:58which is lashed deck.
21:00And the clue,
21:01the prisoners were lashed to the deck
21:03with their feet chained together.
21:04The prisoners were lashed to the deck
21:06with their feet chained together.
21:10MUSIC
21:24Welcome back.
21:25I left with the clue.
21:27The prisoners were lashed to the deck
21:28with their feet chained together.
21:30In fact, they were shackled.
21:32Shackled.
21:33Now then,
21:35Sean,
21:36ten points ahead, looking good.
21:37Your letters game.
21:38Could I have a consonant, please?
21:40Thank you, Sean.
21:41D
21:42Another
21:43Z
21:45Another
21:46L
21:49And another, please.
21:51T
21:51A vowel
21:52A
21:54Another
21:55U
21:57Another
21:59E
22:01A consonant
22:03P
22:04And another consonant, please.
22:08And lastly, T
22:09Stand by.
22:11Stand by.
22:38MUSIC
22:41Now then, Sean?
22:43Six.
22:44And Rod?
22:44Six.
22:45Sean?
22:46Pallet.
22:47Pallet and?
22:48Patted.
22:49Thank you, Rod.
22:51Susie?
22:51No pallet, I'm afraid. You need two L's for that. Sorry, Sean.
22:56OK.
22:56What else have we got there now then? Graham?
22:58We've got two T's, the new canews, and we have platted.
23:03Platted?
23:03Yes, not the normal census one. To platt, in this census, to plan out or make a map of an
23:08area of land.
23:08So if it's a proposed site for construction, you can platt it, or somebody platted it with a double T.
23:13Really? I've not come across that before.
23:15So thank you for that. 45, please. Rod's 41 now, and it's Rod's letters game. Rod?
23:21Consonant, please.
23:22Thank you, Rod.
23:23G.
23:24And a vowel.
23:26I.
23:27Consonant.
23:29S.
23:30Consonant.
23:31N.
23:33Consonant.
23:35R.
23:35Vowel.
23:37U.
23:38Consonant.
23:40C.
23:41Vowel.
23:43E.
23:44Consonant.
23:45And lastly, L.
23:48Stand by.
23:48C.
23:50C.
23:50Escidan.
23:50C.
24:19Yes, Rod?
24:20A seven.
24:21A seven short.
24:23A seven.
24:23Rod?
24:24Curling.
24:25Curling and?
24:26Cringes.
24:27Cringes.
24:28Yes, both good.
24:29Good sevens.
24:30Happy enough?
24:30Any advances there?
24:32We have.
24:33We have, yeah.
24:33We managed to get a nine.
24:35The Sur-Single, sounds like something out of Blackadder, but it's S-U-R-C-I-N-G-L-E.
24:41It's a wide strap running over the back and under the belly of a horse.
24:46It keeps a rug in place, for example.
24:48Oh, all right.
24:49It comes from Latin for girth, and succinct is related to that, because succinct used
24:54to mean tucked up and tucked under, so sort of nice and compact.
24:59A wide girth, really.
25:01When I was a kid, there was a wonderful man called Dirty Dudley that ran a pub called
25:09Dirty Dudley's on the Oxford Road, and he was so fat that he wore a horse's girth to
25:16keep his trousers up.
25:18And one day, he and his wife, who was equally large, came through the ceiling of the pub,
25:25together with their four-poster bed.
25:27A word of a lie.
25:29Dirty Dudley.
25:30He was wonderful.
25:32It's a true story.
25:3452 to 48, Sean in the lead, and Susie, we're back with you.
25:38Nick.
25:39Regale us with your origin of words.
25:41Well, I often talk about words and expressions in English that go back to fables, often ancient
25:46fables, because they have actually made quite a big impression on our language.
25:50So, just a couple of expressions today that come from fables.
25:54One is naked truth.
25:56That goes actually back to a story from the Roman poet Horace.
26:00And it tells the story of truth and falsehood, both capital letters, going bathing together.
26:06And falsehood got out first and stole truth's clothes.
26:11But truth preferred to go naked.
26:13In fact, he insisted on going naked rather than wearing the clothes of falsehood.
26:17So, the expression naked truth has been around in English since the Middle Ages.
26:21But it all goes back to that lovely story.
26:23To add insult to injury goes back to the Latin fables of Phaedrus.
26:28And that was written in the first century AD.
26:30And it's the story of a bald man bothered by a fly.
26:33The fly bites him on the head.
26:34The man swats at the fly and hits himself quite hard at the same time.
26:39And so the fly says, you wished to kill me for a touch.
26:42What will you do to yourself since you have added insult to injury?
26:47That's a lovely one.
26:48But one of my favorites is To Blow Hot and Cold.
26:52And that goes back to one of Aesop's fables.
26:55Aesop, of course, the famous fabulist.
26:57And it's about a man who goes walking in the woods and gets completely lost.
27:02This deep, dark forest.
27:03And he meets a satyr.
27:05And a satyr in most of the myths was a sort of greedy, lustful, woodland god.
27:09But in this one, he's quite nice.
27:10He offers the man lodgings for the night and says he'll lead him out to the wood in the morning.
27:15And as they're walking back, the man blows on his hands because he's quite cold.
27:19And the satyr says, what are you doing?
27:21And he says, my breath warms my hands.
27:23And when they get back, the satyr makes him a bowl of steaming porridge.
27:28The man takes a spoonful and blows on it to cool it down.
27:32And the satyr says, why are you doing that?
27:33And he said, my breath cools the porridge.
27:35And the satyr at this point orders the man out of the lodging and says, I cannot deal with a
27:40man who blows hot and cold at the same time.
27:43Isn't that good?
27:45Brilliant.
27:48That's lovely stuff, Susan.
27:50Sweet story.
27:50There's another expression, I don't know where it came from, but it is true.
27:53And it's also about truth and falsehood.
27:55And it is that a lie is halfway around the world before the truth has got its boots on.
28:01Yeah, lovely.
28:02It's good, isn't it?
28:03And it's true.
28:03Very true.
28:04Lies travel so fast.
28:0652 to 48.
28:08Sean in the lead.
28:09And where shall we go?
28:09We'll go to you, Sean, for a letters game.
28:11Could I have a consonant, please?
28:14Thank you, Sean.
28:15S.
28:16Another one.
28:18D.
28:20Another one.
28:22H.
28:23Vowel, please.
28:25O.
28:26Another.
28:27A.
28:29Another.
28:31I.
28:32A consonant.
28:34R.
28:35Another one.
28:37S.
28:39And the final consonant, please.
28:41And a final why.
28:43Countdown.
28:45Countdown.
28:46T.
28:49And the.
29:01We'll be back.
29:03T.
29:14T.
29:15Yes, Sean.
29:16A, six.
29:17Roger.
29:18Six.
29:19Sean.
29:20Hordes.
29:20Hordes and?
29:22Shards.
29:23Shards.
29:24Yes.
29:24Very good.
29:25We have a seven.
29:26Yes.
29:27Hairdo's.
29:28Hairdo's.
29:28I was a bit worried about the end of it.
29:30It looks strange.
29:30Yes, it doesn't look right.
29:31No, it doesn't.
29:32You're absolutely right.
29:33Hairdos, it looks like, but it's in the dictionary.
29:35Very good.
29:36Anything else, Susie?
29:37No.
29:38Hairdo's.
29:39Offer a hairdo.
29:40Only four points in it now.
29:42Sean and Rod, 58, 54.
29:44Rod, final letters game.
29:48Consonant, please.
29:49Thank you, Rod.
29:51T.
29:51Second one.
29:53Another T.
29:54Third.
29:57Q.
29:58Vowel.
29:59U.
30:00Consonant.
30:02S.
30:03Vowel.
30:04E.
30:05Consonant.
30:06D.
30:08Another vowel, please.
30:11A.
30:12And another consonant.
30:15And lastly, N.
30:17Stand by.
30:18OK.
30:33And another vowel, please.
30:33And another vowel, please.
30:34And another vowel, please.
30:34And another vowel, please.
30:35And another vowel, please.
30:35And another vowel, please.
30:35And another vowel, please.
30:36And another vowel, please.
30:36And another vowel, please.
30:36And another vowel, please.
30:37And another vowel, please.
30:37And another vowel, please.
30:37And another vowel, please.
30:39And another vowel, please.
30:40And another vowel, please.
30:44And another vowel, please.
30:48Yes, Sean?
30:49Six.
30:50Six. How about Rod?
30:52Six.
30:52So, Sean?
30:54Nutted.
30:55Yes?
30:56Stated.
30:57Stated. Nutted.
30:58Absolutely fine. To butt someone with one's head is to nut them.
31:03I think it's probably just as dangerous for the nutter, isn't it?
31:07I like the way you're looking at me.
31:09Look at the sportsman when there's a nutting.
31:10You've never been responsible for that sort of thing.
31:12What else have we got, Graham?
31:14We have squatted.
31:15Yep.
31:16Yeah, that's a great eight.
31:17And tetanus for seven, Nick.
31:19Tetanus.
31:20All right.
31:21All right.
31:22So, well done, Sean.
31:2364 to Rod's 60.
31:24And now, final numbers game view, Sean.
31:27And could I have one from the top and five from the bottom, please?
31:31Thank you, Sean.
31:32One large and five little ones and a possible crucial conundrum.
31:37For the last time today, the numbers are five, six, three, four, one, and a large one, 75.
31:43And the target, 936.
31:46936.
31:4924, two, three, six, three, six.
32:19Well, Sean?
32:209, 3, 1.
32:22Five away. How about Rod?
32:249, 3, 1. Sean?
32:264 times 3 to make 12.
32:284 times 3 is 12.
32:30Multiply that by 75 for...
32:32900. 900.
32:33And then 6 times 5 is 30.
32:36Yep. Add that on and then add the 1.
32:389, 3, 1. Five away.
32:39And Rod? Exactly the same.
32:42There we go. Fine, thanks.
32:43But Rachel will have a different way to get there.
32:46Will you, Rachel?
32:46Yes. If you say 75 times 4 is 300.
32:52Add 6, add 5, and add the 1 for 312
32:56and times it by 3 for 9, 3, 6.
32:58Perfect.
33:00Perfect. Thank you, Rachel.
33:02So still that elusive gap.
33:04So it is indeed a crucial conundrum.
33:0771 to 67.
33:08So, Rod and Sean, fingers on buzzers.
33:10Let's reveal today's crucial countdown conundrum.
33:44Well, we're foxed up here.
33:45We are foxed, but I know that in the audience...
33:48Look at a forest of hands.
33:50Yes, sir?
33:51Is it grouchier, Nick?
33:53Let's see whether you're right.
33:56Grouchier. Well done.
33:57Very good.
33:59Grouchier.
34:01Excellent stuff.
34:03So, Sean carries the day, 71 points to 67.
34:07So, Rod, it's back to Warrington with you.
34:09Not too far to go.
34:10No.
34:11With your goodie bag and our very best wishes.
34:13And, Sean, we shall see you tomorrow.
34:15Well done.
34:15Well done indeed.
34:17So, Susie, Graham, we'll see you tomorrow.
34:19See you tomorrow.
34:19More stories from the pitch tomorrow.
34:21Rachel, well done.
34:22They made you work.
34:23And you worked perfectly.
34:24I had something to do.
34:24I had a week off last week, so it's nice to have some maths.
34:28Indeed.
34:28Join us tomorrow, same time, same place.
34:30We'll be waiting for you.
34:32You'll be sure of it.
34:32Good afternoon.
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34:53Going down roads familiar.
34:55Shipping wars land in the UK in just over an hour.
34:58Six transporters going head to head for the crown of Transporter of the Week.
35:02That's at four.
35:03Deal or no deal is on the next.