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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:35Now, do you fancy spicing up your life?
00:38If you do, get yourself down to Essex,
00:40because apparently for the first time in more than 200 years,
00:44saffron is being grown in the county.
00:47Where? Why?
00:48In Saffron Walden, of course.
00:50Saffron growing thrived furiously in the 1500s
00:54until, of course, imports drove that trade out of saffron.
01:00Walden, it's still very expensive.
01:02Do you know how much a gram is, Rachel?
01:04A lot. More than gold, isn't it?
01:05More than gold.
01:07£75 a gram, and it takes apparently 150 saffron crocuses.
01:12Now, this is all news to me.
01:12I'm a stranger to the kitchen.
01:14It comes from crocuses, apparently.
01:17It's 150 of them to produce one gram,
01:20so I won't be sprinkling on anything that I eat,
01:22not on my porridge anyway.
01:23But I do quite like a spicy thing,
01:26and here in Media City, the great Media City,
01:30there is a restaurant that produces for us,
01:32or for me at lunchtime,
01:33something called a ramen,
01:35which I think is sort of Thai, is it?
01:37Ramen?
01:38Is it like the Japanese noodles?
01:40Yeah, and it's very spicy,
01:42and with duck it's fantastic.
01:43And in fact, I had it for lunchtime today,
01:46and it's brilliant.
01:47Now, what do you like that's spicy?
01:50I like the...
01:51Have you ever had a Thai papaya salad?
01:53I'm not sure.
01:54You think salad is going to be nice and sedate,
01:55but they take your head off.
01:57Is that right?
01:58And the first time I tried it,
01:59I didn't know there was any chilli in it,
02:00because it just looks like...
02:01The Thai papayas are kind of green,
02:03and a bit like cucumber chopped up,
02:05but they get the seeds,
02:07and they mash them up,
02:08and then they put lemon in,
02:09and mix it all up,
02:10and then add more chilli,
02:11and then a little bit more, you know, fire.
02:13It just takes your head off.
02:15You need gallons and gallons of water after that.
02:17Why do we punish ourselves in this way?
02:19Well, it's good for the metabolism,
02:20and it's kind of a challenge, isn't it?
02:22I certainly enjoyed my ramen.
02:24Now then, who have we got?
02:26Sean Gill is back.
02:27Sean from Appley Bridge near Wigan,
02:30and it was a closely won,
02:32closely wrought victory yesterday, wasn't it?
02:34Yeah, it was, yeah.
02:35I was just praying that he didn't buzz in for the conundrum.
02:39Turned into a crucial conundrum,
02:41which neither of you got.
02:42Yeah.
02:42No, indeed it didn't.
02:44All right, so you're joined by Vikram Macalsey,
02:47a marketing manager from Wokingham,
02:49whose work has taken him all over the world.
02:52You've lived, I think, in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Singapore, Gibraltar,
02:55but the most daring thing you've ever done was to do what?
03:00Probably answer my mother back, in all honesty,
03:02would be the most daring thing.
03:04Is she a formidable mum?
03:06Indeed she is, very much so.
03:07Very strong character.
03:08Big round of applause then for Vikram and Sean Gill.
03:14And in the corner, of course,
03:16life wouldn't be the same if Susie Dent wasn't there,
03:19and for his second time, Graham the So,
03:21one of the great footballers of his generation.
03:23Welcome back, Graham.
03:25Welcome back, indeed.
03:25Now then, let's get down to business here.
03:27Sean, how about a letters game?
03:29Hi, Rachel.
03:30Hi, Sean.
03:30Could I have a consonant, please?
03:32Start today with S.
03:34Another one.
03:37T.
03:38Another one.
03:40R.
03:42Vowel.
03:43O.
03:44Consonant.
03:46P.
03:48A vowel.
03:50E.
03:52A vowel.
03:55O.
03:56Another one.
03:58A.
04:00And a consonant, please.
04:01And lastly, R.
04:03And here's the countdown clock.
04:06And here's the countdown clock.
04:36Yes, Sean.
04:37A seven.
04:38A seven.
04:39Vikram.
04:40Six.
04:41And your six?
04:42Repost.
04:43Repost.
04:44Yes, Sean.
04:44Parrots.
04:45Parrots.
04:46Yes, repost is in the dictionary as well.
04:49And Graham and Susie.
04:50We've got an eight.
04:51Troopers.
04:52Yeah.
04:53Very good.
04:54And a nine.
04:55Yes, we have got a nine.
04:57Operators are there.
04:59Fast operators.
05:00Very good.
05:02That's not a bad start.
05:03Well done, Graham.
05:05Well done.
05:05Now, Sean, seven points.
05:07And Vikram, your letters game.
05:09Hi, Rachel.
05:10Can I get a consonant, please?
05:11Starts with L.
05:13And another.
05:15M.
05:16And a third.
05:19T.
05:20And a vowel.
05:22U.
05:23And another.
05:24E.
05:25A third.
05:27A.
05:29Consonant, please.
05:30L.
05:32Consonant.
05:34T.
05:35Consonant.
05:36And the last one.
05:37B.
05:38Stand by.
06:10Nick Graham.
06:11Risky, seven.
06:12And Sean.
06:13That's six.
06:14And your six.
06:15Bullet.
06:16Now then, Vikram.
06:17Tablo?
06:18How are you spelling it?
06:19T.
06:20A.
06:20B.
06:20L.
06:20E.
06:21A.
06:21U.
06:21I don't know if we've got both A's here, have we?
06:23And that is absolutely how you spell, Tablo.
06:26But you need the two A's.
06:27Sorry, Vikram.
06:28Bad luck.
06:29It's a good word as well.
06:30What have we got, Graham's with you?
06:32We've got mutate.
06:33Yes.
06:34And throw back to football to the 1980s, the most common haircut in football, mullet.
06:40Oh, well done.
06:41You never had a mullet, actually.
06:42No, I didn't.
06:42No, my dad wouldn't let me.
06:43Thankfully.
06:44Who had the best mullet of all?
06:46Was it Keegan?
06:47No, Chris Waddle.
06:48Waddle was the mullet, wasn't he?
06:49He was the man of three haircuts.
06:51It was crazy to get back on, yeah.
06:54I think even he'd be embarrassed now.
06:56Brilliant.
06:56And we've got a seven, haven't we?
06:58Yes, there's mutable, meaning able to change.
07:02All right.
07:02Well done with the mullet there.
07:0413 points to Sean.
07:05Well done.
07:06Now then, it's numbers time for Sean.
07:09Could I have two from the top and four from the bottom, please?
07:12Thank you, Sean.
07:13Two big, four little.
07:15And the first numbers game of the day is one, eight, three, nine.
07:20And the big two, 75 and 25.
07:23And the target, 449.
07:26449.
07:26549.
07:28549.
07:54549.
07:58Yes, Sean?
08:00450, not quite written down.
08:02Right. How about Vikram?
08:04No, no, no.
08:05So, Sean?
08:06I did 3 minus 1 to make 2.
08:093 minus 1, 2.
08:10Multiply that by 9 for 18.
08:11Yes.
08:12Then times that by 25 for 450.
08:16450, yeah.
08:16So, 450, very good, but not quite perfect.
08:19Rachel?
08:20You could have said 9 minus 3 is 6,
08:22times 75 is 450,
08:26and then take away the 1.
08:27There you go.
08:284, 4, 1.
08:29Perfect.
08:31Well done.
08:32Well done indeed.
08:34Now then, let's have a tea time teaser,
08:35which is test card and the clue,
08:38no addition or division, it simply takes away.
08:40No addition or division,
08:42it simply takes away.
09:03It simply detracts, detracts.
09:09With Sean on 20,
09:11Vikram yet to kick off,
09:12but plenty of time.
09:13Now's your chance,
09:15where the letters came.
09:15Vikram.
09:16All right, if we get a consonant again, please.
09:18Thank you, Vikram.
09:19L.
09:20And another.
09:22H.
09:23And a third.
09:25C.
09:26And a vowel, please.
09:27I.
09:28Consonant.
09:30Y.
09:31Vowel.
09:32O.
09:33Consonant.
09:34N.
09:35Consonant.
09:37S.
09:39And a final vowel, please.
09:41And a final E.
09:43Stand by.
10:15Vikram.
10:16Just a five.
10:17A five, how about Sean?
10:19Yes, six.
10:20So Vikram, slice.
10:22Nah, then Sean.
10:23Clones.
10:24Clones?
10:24Yes, absolutely fine.
10:25Yeah.
10:26What else have you got?
10:27Gramps?
10:27Got lichens.
10:28Very good.
10:29It's not a mould, is it?
10:30No.
10:31It's an organism that lives on...
10:33On trees?
10:34Trees, rocks and walls,
10:35cemetery, grey stones,
10:36that sort of thing.
10:37Thank you for being so morbid about it.
10:39And the L. Suzy?
10:40No, that was our one, sir.
10:41All right, well done.
10:42Now then, Sean, let us again.
10:46Can I have a consonant, please?
10:48Thank you, Sean.
10:49N.
10:50Another one.
10:52R.
10:53Another.
10:55S.
10:56A vowel.
10:56I.
10:59Another one.
11:01E.
11:03Consonant.
11:04P.
11:06Vowel.
11:08A.
11:10Consonant.
11:12N.
11:13And a final consonant, please.
11:16And a final P.
11:17Stand by.
11:19A vowel.
11:20A vowel.
11:25A vowel.
11:30A vowel.
11:32A vowel.
11:35A vowel.
11:36A vowel.
11:36A vowel.
11:36A vowel.
11:36A vowel.
11:36A vowel.
11:36A vowel.
11:36A vowel.
11:47A vowel.
11:49Yes, Sean?
11:50A six.
11:51A six.
11:51Vikram?
11:52Six as well.
11:53Sean?
11:54A sniper.
11:55Sniper.
11:56Vikram?
11:57Praise.
11:57Praise, yes.
11:58Happy enough?
11:59Absolutely fine.
12:00All right.
12:00Graham?
12:01We've got an eight.
12:02Panniers?
12:02Yep.
12:03Yes, you might have on the back of your bike a good basket.
12:06Yes.
12:06Snappier is an anagram of that, and we had parsnip for seven.
12:11Very good.
12:12Now then, Vikram, six points, Sean on 32, and we turn now to Rachel's numbers.
12:17Vikram.
12:18All right, can we get one large, five small, please?
12:20You can indeed.
12:21One large, five little ones coming up, and this time around, they are eight, nine, another
12:27eight, four, three, and 100.
12:31And the target, 133.
12:34One, three, three.
13:07Yes, Vikram?
13:08One, three, three.
13:09And Sean?
13:10No, one, three, three.
13:11Thank you very much, Vikram.
13:13Nine times four.
13:14Nine times four, 36.
13:16Take away the three.
13:1733.
13:19Add the 100.
13:20133.
13:21And Sean?
13:22Slightly different.
13:23Added eight times four.
13:24Eight times four, 32.
13:26Nine minus eight is one.
13:28Add them together, and then added the 100 on.
13:30Perfect.
13:32Well done.
13:35So, well done.
13:36Sean, 42, Vikram on 16, but plenty of time.
13:39But now let's talk to Graham.
13:40And Graham, you're an ambassador for WWF, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature, and you've
13:45been out to Rwanda.
13:46Yes, in 2007, so it's a little while ago now, I had the pleasure and privilege of going
13:52out to Rwanda to go and do a programme on mountain gorillas.
13:55So my background, growing up in Jersey, I used to work for Gerald Dorrell, who was a very
13:59famous conservationist.
14:01So I always had a passion for conservation.
14:03So, sort of fast forward to the end of my football career, had the opportunity to go
14:06out to Rwanda, which was the most incredible experience.
14:08The people, the sort of the environment, the habitat was incredible.
14:12And actually, coming round the corner and seeing your first mountain gorilla is just
14:17so overwhelming.
14:18And, you know, I had tears in my eyes.
14:20It was just such an incredibly overwhelming experience.
14:23So the camera crew, obviously, are practical about these situations.
14:26So they're like, right, we've got a gorilla.
14:28He's sitting there.
14:28He's eating away.
14:29He looks happy.
14:30We need to set up the camera and start filming.
14:32So they set the camera up.
14:33They get me in position, sort of slightly uphill, with my back, obviously, to this beautiful,
14:37huge creature who's munching away in the sort of the salad bowl of his sort of existence.
14:43And so I started saying, well, behind me is my first gorilla that I've seen.
14:48And this, that and the other.
14:49And as I was talking, suddenly the cameraman and the sound guy and the director went from
14:54being very relaxed, calm, to actually starting to get a little bit twitchy.
14:58And before I knew it, this gorilla, about 15 yards away, decided to stand up.
15:04He'd had enough.
15:05Stood up.
15:06I turned, obviously stopped talking for once, turned and looked and saw him sort of rising
15:11to his full height.
15:13I turned back to the camera.
15:14They'd all gone.
15:15It was me and the poor guide who'd taken us up there.
15:18It was this very small, random man, lovely guy.
15:20As I turned back, the gorilla beat his chest and he came charging down the hill at us.
15:26So I went from being, you know, this sort of quite sort of tough, thought he was tough,
15:31former footballer who could look after himself to this cowering sort of, you know, boy holding
15:37on to the guide's leg.
15:38And he got in the way in between us, myself and the gorillas.
15:42He came rampaging down the hill and went charging into the undergrowth and crashed around in there.
15:47And it was all a front.
15:48Now, basically, the options I had was to either sort of stand where I was, which obviously
15:52wasn't an option, or hold on to this guy's leg and move out of the way, which meant I
15:57was in these incredibly overdeveloped stinging nettles.
16:02And the needles on these stinging nettles were like syringes.
16:05But in the sort of the fear of the moment, I didn't notice any of it.
16:09But afterwards, I had to take about 20 of these things out my leg.
16:12I mean, obviously, we lived to tell the tale.
16:15It wasn't, we were never in danger.
16:17But when I recount the story and I say to people, well, I got charged by this mountain
16:20gorilla, I've had many people say, well, they, I didn't realise they were that clever.
16:24They charge you to go and see them.
16:27No.
16:28Lovely you to see them.
16:30Wonderful.
16:32A wonderful story.
16:35Wonderful story.
16:36Now, Sean, letters time.
16:39Could I have a consonant, please?
16:41Thank you, Sean.
16:42T.
16:43Another one.
16:44Another one.
16:46Another one.
16:49P.
16:50Another one.
16:52S.
16:54Vowel, please.
16:55I.
16:56Another vowel.
16:58A.
16:59Another one.
17:01I.
17:03And another one.
17:06E.
17:07And a consonant, please.
17:08And lastly, X.
17:10Stand by.
17:12I.
17:42Yes, Sean.
17:43Risky six.
17:44How about Vikram?
17:45Risky six.
17:46Two risky chaps here.
17:47Sean?
17:48Ex-pats.
17:49Ex-pats and Vikram.
17:51Pasty?
17:53Aye.
17:54Well, you could just make it a pasty and you'll be fine.
17:57Or a pasty?
17:58Yes, absolutely fine for six.
18:00Well done.
18:01All right.
18:02What have we got in the corner there?
18:03Graham, Susie?
18:04No, expats.
18:05Yes, expats, pasty and taxis in the verb sense,
18:09so they're the plain taxis down the runway.
18:11Okay.
18:11Thank you very much.
18:1348 plays 22.
18:15And Vikram's back.
18:17Letters time.
18:17Vikram.
18:18All right, Rachel, another consonant, please, to start.
18:21Thank you, Vikram.
18:22L.
18:23And another.
18:25N.
18:26A vowel.
18:28I.
18:29Another vowel.
18:31U.
18:32Consonant.
18:34T.
18:34Consonant.
18:37M.
18:38Consonant.
18:39L.
18:41A vowel.
18:43O.
18:45And a final consonant, please.
18:47And a final D.
18:49Countdown.
18:50A vowel.
18:52A vowel.
18:56A vowel.
18:58.
18:59A vowel.
19:01B E ve r o d s a v a i k r a h ll.
19:01B A o d s a
19:02V 씨.
19:03B tile.
19:03B E r o d s a v a d a d a o b h a r a d
19:05m h a r a c.
19:06C o l e r a d a av K r a r a m a r a r a
19:08h r t a a r
19:08d h h l a r a b a w a b a l a r R p.
19:20Yes, Vikram.
19:22Four.
19:23And Sean.
19:24Four.
19:24Vikram.
19:25Mint.
19:26Sean.
19:26Mild.
19:27What else have we got over in the corner?
19:30Well, we've got a five, which is mould.
19:32Yes.
19:33And mullion.
19:35Seven.
19:35A mullion window?
19:37Yes.
19:37What does mullion mean?
19:38A mullion is the vertical bar between the panes of glass, and the transom is the horizontal
19:44one.
19:45Oh, I see.
19:46So you can have a modern mullion window.
19:48You can, yeah.
19:49Old style, made of wood.
19:50I think it's something to do with stone.
19:52It's the line, yeah?
19:54Interesting.
19:55Exactly, the vertical line.
19:56Thank you very much.
19:58All right, 52 place, 26, and now it's numbers time with Rachel.
20:02Sean, your shout.
20:03Could I have two from the top and four from the bottom, please?
20:07You can indeed.
20:07Thank you, Sean.
20:08Two large and four more little ones.
20:11And this time, the little numbers are one, three, six, and four, and the large ones are
20:1825 and 75.
20:20And the target, 809.
20:23809.
20:23And the target, 809.
20:42And the target, 809.
20:42And the target, 809.
20:43And the target, 809.
20:44And the target, 809.
20:45And the target, 809.
20:45And the target, 809.
20:46And the target, 809.
20:49And the target, 809.
20:54Yes, Sean.
20:558.03.
20:578.03.
20:58Six away, Vikram.
20:59800.
21:01800?
21:02So, Sean.
21:03I did 4 plus 6 plus 1 to make 11.
21:064 plus 6 plus 1 is 11.
21:09Times by 75 for 825.
21:11Times by 75 for 825.
21:13Took the 25 away.
21:15800.
21:15And then added the 3.
21:16And that's 8.03.
21:18Yeah.
21:198.03.
21:20But really, 8.09.
21:21Rachel, show us how it's done.
21:22Um, I think it's not actually possible, this one.
21:25You can get to 1 away.
21:271 away.
21:27All right.
21:28Impossible, yeah.
21:28All right.
21:29So, uh, Sean didn't do a bad job in that sense.
21:32Good job.
21:32All right.
21:3357 plays 26.
21:35Let's have a tea time teaser now, which is Bob yells.
21:39And the clue, Bob yells at the hotel staff to bring his luggage.
21:43Bob yells at the hotel staff to bring his luggage.
22:01A warm welcome back.
22:03I left with the clue.
22:04Bob yells at the hotel staff to bring his luggage.
22:07And the answer is bellboys.
22:11Bellboys.
22:12Now, 57 to 26.
22:13Sean looking strong.
22:15Vikram's chance now to stall him.
22:17Vikram, letters game.
22:18All right, Rachel, consonant, please.
22:20Thank you, Vikram.
22:21S.
22:22Vowel.
22:24E.
22:25Consonant.
22:27N.
22:29Consonant.
22:30D.
22:32A vowel, please.
22:34O.
22:36Another vowel.
22:38A.
22:39Consonant.
22:41R.
22:42And a vowel, please.
22:43E.
22:46Sorry, and a final consonant.
22:48And a final F.
22:50Stand by.
22:52BELL RINGS
22:53BELL RINGS
23:04MUSIC
23:22Vickram?
23:23Seven.
23:24A seven.
23:24Sean?
23:25Eight.
23:26And an eight.
23:27Vickram?
23:27Ordains.
23:29Ordains.
23:29Sean?
23:30Reasoned.
23:31And reasoned.
23:32Pretty strong offerings there.
23:33What else have we got there, Susie?
23:34Well, I have to disallow ordains, Nick, I'm afraid, because there's no I.
23:39So you need an I for ordains.
23:41Bad luck.
23:42Yeah.
23:42Graham?
23:43We've got a few sevens.
23:44Yes.
23:45Endorse.
23:47Deafens.
23:47And fedoras.
23:49And then you found an eight.
23:50Yes, reasoned.
23:52Reasoned.
23:53Reasoned.
23:53A well-reasoned argument.
23:55Thank you very much.
23:5665 plays.
23:5726.
23:58Sean?
23:58Letters time.
23:59Could I have a consonant, please?
24:02Thank you, Sean.
24:03Q.
24:03Another one, please.
24:06R.
24:07Another.
24:10D.
24:11Another one.
24:14W.
24:15Vowel.
24:17I.
24:18Another one.
24:19E.
24:21Another.
24:22A.
24:24Consonant.
24:26G.
24:27And a consonant, please.
24:30And the last one, N.
24:32Stand by.
24:33And a consonant, please.
24:39And a consonant, please.
24:39And a consonant, please.
24:40And a consonant, please.
24:41And a consonant, please.
24:43And a consonant, please.
24:46And a consonant, please.
24:49And a consonant, please.
24:50And a consonant, please.
24:51And a consonant, please.
24:52And a consonant, please.
24:52And a consonant, please.
24:53And a consonant, please.
24:53And a consonant, please.
24:53And a consonant, please.
24:54And a consonant, please.
24:54And a consonant, please.
24:54And a consonant, please.
24:54And a consonant, please.
24:57And a consonant, please.
24:58And a consonant, please.
25:04Sean?
25:05Six.
25:06Six.
25:06How about Vikram?
25:07Seven.
25:08Sean?
25:09Regain.
25:10Regain.
25:11Now then, Vikram.
25:12Drawing?
25:14Drawing.
25:14Very good.
25:15Very good.
25:15Yes.
25:16Well spotted.
25:16And what has the corner got for us?
25:18There's a bird called a redwing.
25:20Yes.
25:20Which is seven.
25:22And wearing.
25:23Very good.
25:24A redwing.
25:25A redwing.
25:26It's a small thrush that breeds in northern Europe and if you look at it when it's in flight
25:31it has beautiful reds under wings.
25:33Very good.
25:34We have red wings in this country, do we?
25:36Yes.
25:36They're migratory.
25:40Now then Susie, we're with you for your wonderful origins of words.
25:46What have you got for us today?
25:47Well, I've mentioned a few times that there are quite a lot of personal names in the dictionary
25:53and quite often they're used as references back to one particular person but quite often
25:58they are unrelated as in the case of Rachel which means it's light tan colour.
26:05It was also the name of a very, very popular face powder because of its colour in the 1960s.
26:11Nick.
26:11There are lots and lots and lots of senses of Nick in the dictionary.
26:15I'll tell you a few of them.
26:17To Nick originally meant to make a notch or a cut in a tally stick.
26:21And a tally stick was how people kept count either of money or in games for example.
26:27And sports.
26:28And out of all Nick meant out of account, all accounts.
26:31In other words you could no longer put anything on the tab.
26:34You were too indebted to buy any more.
26:37So that was out of all Nick.
26:38A Nick was also the indentation, we talk about a Nick to make a Nick a notch.
26:42But it was also an indentation made in the base of a tankard to reduce its capacity.
26:47This is something that dishonest landlords in medieval times used to do.
26:51Things were called, a cup was called filled with Nick and froth.
26:54Which meant you were getting a very short deal if you like on your beer.
26:59To a Nick meant to a nicety.
27:01We have of course Old Nick, the devil.
27:04And no one quite knows where that one comes from.
27:06But it might go back to Machiavelli, whose first name was Nicolau.
27:11Or it might go back to Iniquity and the idea in the early morality plays.
27:16Iniquity may have got shortened to Nick.
27:17Upon the very Nick was the nick of time.
27:20But there is one more modern one which I quite like.
27:23And that's to Josh.
27:24If you Josh around, you're joking around.
27:26Or you're teasing somebody, you're joshing them.
27:29And it is usually at someone else's expense.
27:31And it comes back to the writings of a very, very popular American humorist.
27:36Who was called Josh Billings.
27:37Who always used to take the Mickey, if you like, out of the establishment.
27:42Some lovely quotes from him actually that you can find.
27:45One of his lovely sayings was,
27:47Love looks through a telescope and envy looks through a microscope.
27:51Which I think is perfect.
27:52And also, the greatest revenge you can ever take is forgiveness.
27:56He became a best-selling author in his day.
27:58And as I say, so widely read, mocking the establishment,
28:02that his name crept into the dictionary to Josh around.
28:05But very, very rarely do you find one particular person
28:07that's given their name in that way.
28:09Very good.
28:09Well done.
28:12Thank you very much.
28:13Susie, 65, plays Vikram's 33.
28:17And we're with Vikram now.
28:19Letters time.
28:20Rachel, consonant please.
28:21Thank you Vikram.
28:23G.
28:23And another.
28:26T.
28:27And a vowel.
28:28A.
28:30And a consonant.
28:32D.
28:33And another.
28:36N.
28:37A vowel please.
28:39A.
28:40And another.
28:42U.
28:43Consonant.
28:45R.
28:47And a final vowel please.
28:48And...
28:49Final E.
28:51And the clock starts now.
28:52...
29:06The.
29:07You can, you can know.
29:21The.
29:23Vikram.
29:24Six.
29:26A six for Vikram, Sean?
29:27A six.
29:28So Vikram.
29:29Garden.
29:30Sean.
29:31Donate.
29:32And donate.
29:33Happy enough?
29:33Very happy.
29:34Anything interesting?
29:35An eight is outraged.
29:38Yes.
29:39And then Susie came out with adding another letter in to create a nine.
29:44Yes, just put the N in and you can have outrage and put the D on for the nine,
29:49which is when a gun has or a similar weapon has a greater range than another.
29:53As ranged by, yeah.
29:56Well done, Susie.
29:58Well done indeed.
29:5971 plays 39 and Sean takes the final letters game.
30:03Sean.
30:04Could I have a consonant, please?
30:06Thank you, Sean.
30:07F.
30:08Another one.
30:10Z.
30:11Another.
30:13T.
30:15Vowel.
30:16A.
30:18Consonant.
30:20R.
30:21A vowel.
30:23O.
30:24Another vowel.
30:26E.
30:28A consonant.
30:30C.
30:31And another consonant.
30:33And the last one.
30:34M.
30:36Countdown.
30:37C.
30:38ANDERSON.
30:38C.
31:08Just a five.
31:09A five for Vikram. Sean?
31:11A five.
31:12So Vikram?
31:13Craft.
31:14Craft and?
31:15Trace.
31:16Trace.
31:17Rem?
31:18We've managed to find a seven, which is formate.
31:21Formate. Very good.
31:22Susie?
31:23Popular countdown with that one.
31:24It's a derivative of formic acid, which you will find, if you're looking, in the fluid emitted by ants.
31:30Yes, of course. I spend most of my time doing that.
31:33Very good. All right.
31:35All right. Well done. 76 plays 44, and we come now to the numbers game for Vikram.
31:40Vikram.
31:41All right. So one large, five small, please.
31:44Thank you. One large, five little for the final time today.
31:48And these small ones are two, seven, eight.
31:51Another seven, and three, and the large one, 100.
31:55And the target, 121.
31:58One.
31:59One twenty-one.
32:32One, two, one.
32:34Yes, Sean.
32:34One, two, one.
32:35All right, Vikram.
32:37Seven times three.
32:38I thought you might say that.
32:39Plus the hundreds.
32:40121, easy.
32:41Yeah.
32:42There we go.
32:42Just for good manners.
32:44There we are.
32:45Happy on that.
32:46No doubts about that.
32:47All right.
32:48Well done.
32:48So age six plays 54 as we come into the final round.
32:51That is conundrum time.
32:52Gentlemen, Sean and Vikram, fingers on buzzers.
32:55Let's reveal today's countdown conundrum.
33:29No joy here, but I know that in our audience there will be...
33:34Yes, sir.
33:35Is it endorsing?
33:37Endorsing.
33:37Let's see whether you're right.
33:40Endorsing.
33:40Well done.
33:44So there we are then.
33:46Well done, Sean.
33:47Two wins in a row.
33:4886 to 54.
33:50Well played, Vikram.
33:51But I think he's got a bit of a future, this one.
33:53So it's back to Wokingham.
33:56It is indeed.
33:57With your goodie bag and our very best wishes.
33:59Thank you very much.
33:59Very best wishes indeed.
34:00And we shall see you again tomorrow.
34:02Well done.
34:02See you both tomorrow, Susie and Graham.
34:05Great story about gorillas, by the way.
34:07Lovely stuff.
34:08Rachel, see you tomorrow.
34:09See you tomorrow, Nick.
34:11Thank you very much.
34:13And we look forward to seeing you tomorrow, same time, same place.
34:15You be sure of it.
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