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04:03It's all right.
04:05There, Lord.
04:06It's all right.
04:10There, Lord.
04:36Yes, Tom?
04:37Eight.
04:38And eight, Sharon?
04:39Seven.
04:40And that's seven?
04:41Planets.
04:42Thank you, Tom.
04:43Palentas.
04:45Palentas.
04:45Excellent, yes.
04:46Very good.
04:47Very good.
04:51And in the corner, what have you got there?
04:53Well, I have palentas as well for eight, but there's a sutan for seven, which is the Roman
04:57Catholic priest's cassock.
04:59Yeah.
05:00Are they all called a sutan?
05:02I don't know whether they've got a modern term for them, but...
05:05I don't know.
05:06We'll investigate that if we may.
05:08We will.
05:08Thank you very much.
05:09Got to get these things right.
05:10Tom, eight points.
05:12Well done.
05:12Now then, Sharon, what are you going to do?
05:14Hi, Rachel.
05:15Hi, Sharon.
05:15Have a consonant, please.
05:16Start with M.
05:18And another.
05:20B.
05:21And another.
05:24S.
05:24And a vowel, please.
05:26I.
05:27And another.
05:27A.
05:29And another.
05:32And a consonant, please.
05:35R.
05:36And another.
05:38J.
05:39And another.
05:41And the last one.
05:42T.
05:43Stand by.
05:45I,
05:46who I thought you saw the name.
05:47Oh, this.
05:47And the vowel, please.
06:00Audrey.
06:00And another.
06:14I think you'll need to see this happening.
06:14It's actually a dot com.
06:14Yes, Sharon. A seven. Tom. A seven. Sharon. Timbers. Thank you. And maestri. Maestri. Maestri, yes. Plural of maestro. Is
06:29indeed maestri or maestros. Yeah, very good.
06:32Well done. Not come across that. Singular show. But not plural. Nicky. I love maestro. Nelson Riddle. Yes. The great
06:41arranger for Sinatra. Great maestro. Yeah. I mean, that was one of his secrets, wasn't it? He had the best
06:47arrangers in the business and the best songwriters. I've got a Cole Porter story for you later. Excellent. All right.
06:55Anything else in the corner? Susie. Well, there is an eight there. Barmiest. The barmiest person on the block.
07:02Yes, indeed. All right. Fifteen plays, Sharon. Seven. Tom, we're with you for a numbers game. Tom. Can I have
07:08four large and only too small, please?
07:10You can. Thank you, Tom. Four large ones and two little ones coming up. And these little ones are ten
07:15and six. And the big ones, twenty-five, one hundred, seventy-five and fifty. And the target, eight hundred and
07:24nine.
07:24Eight-oh-nine.
07:57Yes, Tom. Eight-ten. One away. Sharon.
08:01Eight-ten. Both of you. So, Tom.
08:04Seventy-five plus six is eighty-one. Eighty-one.
08:08Times ten. Times ten for one away. Eight-hundred and ten.
08:11Sharon. Oh, a bit more complicated than that.
08:14Seventy-five by ten.
08:16Seventy-five by ten.
08:17Seven-hundred and fifty.
08:19Plus fifty.
08:19Eight-hundred.
08:20Plus six.
08:21Eight-hundred and six.
08:22And a hundred divided by twenty-five.
08:24Yes.
08:25Same result, one away.
08:27Good, but not perfect.
08:29Rachel.
08:29Um, actually, that is perfect, because one away is the best you could possibly do on this one.
08:34Oh, right.
08:34So, bravo, you two.
08:36Well done.
08:36All right.
08:37Twenty-two plays up.
08:38Sharon's fourteen is returned to a tea-time teaser, which is Gershwin.
08:42And the clue, by George, these people never stop moaning.
08:45By George, these people never stop moaning.
09:03Welcome back.
09:05Welcome back.
09:05I left with the clue by George.
09:07These people never stop moaning, because they're whingers.
09:11Whingers.
09:12Twenty-two to Sharon's fourteen.
09:15Sharon, you're back.
09:15Letters time.
09:16Um, could I have a consonant, please?
09:18Thank you, Sharon.
09:20D.
09:20And another.
09:22G.
09:23And another.
09:25H.
09:27And a vowel.
09:28U.
09:29And another.
09:31E.
09:32And another.
09:34A.
09:35And another.
09:37I.
09:39And a consonant.
09:41M.
09:42And a final consonant, please.
09:44And a final P.
09:46Stand by.
09:48And a pronoun.
09:49E.
09:50And a consonant.
10:04A manage Señor.
10:05And a 모래.
10:07And a consonant.
10:07And a)].
10:10So.
10:18Sharon six six six as well two six is Sharon humped and Tom and humped there
10:26we go and in the corner what we got there Mickey and Susie imaged yes mm-hmm
10:34and slightly unusual and also six is a Gwimp or gimp G U I M P E it's a height
10:42what used to be a high
10:43necked undergarment showing beneath a low necked dress a quimp yes sad as that work sometimes in
10:50religious orders they have sort of white pull an extent they beneath the sort of v-neck account or
10:55whether it was yeah a lovely quimp all right 28 to 20 Tom still in lead and Tom's letters came
11:01now
11:01can have a consonant please thank you Tom V and another D and another C and another S and a
11:14vowel O and a
11:17vowel a and another I and a consonant T and consonant please and the last one Zed stand by
11:34so
11:46so
11:47so
12:01yes Tom seven a seven Sharon just six and that's six avoids avoids and decoy
12:09yes around all the time yes count downwards yeah and yes armed robbers in Burma probably alongside
12:19the thugs that also began there yes yeah Nicky ending their zodiac that's a great word signs
12:27of the zodiac yes and you can actually put the s on it oh there's s as well yeah so
12:33you can make it a
12:33seven my dad had a zodiac oh do you remember that the four zodiac capris nice yeah and the
12:41Azuzi no it's just a zodiac comes from the Greek a sculptured animal figure ultimately goes back to
12:47their word for animal all right thanks so much 35 to 20 now then Sharon numbers time there's Rachel
12:53hi Rachel and just one large please thank you one large one and five little ones and these numbers
13:01are seven one nine five four and the large one 25 and the target 588 588
13:49all right tell us how 25 times 4 is 100 25 times yep 4 100 add the seven and subtract
13:58the nine add the
13:59seven and take the nine for 98 5 plus one is six yep and modify them together well done 588
14:05well done
14:06very good thanks Tom I should tell you Sharon he spent time in Hungary in a maths camp so there's
14:16no
14:16surprise in him spinning through to 588 on that but now we turn to Nicky Nicky Rachel and I had
14:24a
14:24chat about Frank Sinatra and apparently in a little over a month's time you've got a fascinating musical
14:29documentary coming out those well yes it's called the great American love songs and it's about the
14:36great American song book I'm just fascinated with those songs how what what stories they can tell in
14:42in in in three minutes about the human heart and when I was making this documentary we did a section
14:49on
14:49Cole Porter and I I it was one of the greatest uh privileges I've ever had I got to play
14:55Cole
14:56Porter's piano in the Waldorf Astoria and uh we met one of the last people alive who was a friend
15:02of his
15:03um a wonderful elderly woman called Marty Stevens who'd gone on a European tour with him and a whole
15:08whole bunch of people and um she had also been Marlene Dietrich's lover and she was the most wonderful
15:17person and she sang Cole Porter's night and day and Sinatra was Cole Porter was notoriously touchy
15:24about Sinatra because Sinatra used to take massive liberties with uh Cole Porter's lyrics you know she
15:30loves the cool fresh knockout wonderful cuckoo wind in her hair and Cole just used to go like that
15:38that's not what I wrote you know but when he sings Sinatra something magical happens doesn't it
15:47extraordinary the other great sort of great songwriters of course George Gershwin George and Ira Gershwin
15:52and Dorothy Fields is interesting because she was the one of the the women rarely who was working in
15:59in songwriting she wrote the words to uh the way you look tonight and uh I had the another amazing
16:07thing I had the privilege of singing that with her son playing the piano and it's a great song the
16:14way
16:14you look tonight but that was maybe the great age of songwriting and that counts for pretty much
16:20everything and then the artist interprets it yeah yes I think so I mean Gary Barlow great songwriter
16:27really you know top class writer of pop songs if he wrote the way you look tonight
16:35the world would stop turning wouldn't it everyone would think he's not just great
16:39he's a genius we could spend all day talking to you marvelous
16:46thank you so much now then tom cattleman letters time can have a consonant please thank you tom
16:54d and another n and another l and another p and a vowel e and another a and another e
17:12and a consonant t
17:17and a vowel please and the last one i stand by
17:25so
17:38so
17:53Yes, Tom?
17:54Eight.
17:55An eight.
17:56Sharon?
17:56Eight.
17:57Tom?
17:58Entailed.
17:59Entailed?
18:00Pantiled.
18:02Pantiled.
18:02We certainly talk about pantiles on the show.
18:04Can it be pantiled?
18:05Yes, there is an adjective.
18:06Very good.
18:07Very good.
18:1153 plays 28.
18:13Tom in the lead.
18:14But in the corner, do we have any advances?
18:16Pleated.
18:17Yes?
18:18Yeah.
18:18Lots of sevens.
18:20Another eight is a date line.
18:23A line at the head of a dispatcher or newspaper article showing the date and place of writing.
18:28Date line.
18:29Date line.
18:29All right.
18:30So, Sharon, letters again.
18:33Could I have a consonant, please?
18:35Thank you, Sharon.
18:36D.
18:37And a vowel.
18:38O.
18:41And another.
18:43A.
18:44And another.
18:46I.
18:48And a consonant.
18:50R.
18:51And another.
18:53F.
18:55And a vowel.
18:57E.
18:58And a consonant.
19:00S.
19:02And a final consonant, please.
19:04And a final T.
19:05Countdown.
19:08Countdown.
19:39Sharon?
19:40Eight.
19:41Tom?
19:41Eight.
19:42Sir, Sharon?
19:43Asteroid.
19:44Asteroid.
19:45You're an asteroid author?
19:47We're in space here.
19:49Mickey?
19:50Well, strafed, as in machine-gunned.
19:54Well, yeah, or persistent bombing.
19:56Nasty business.
19:57Anything else?
19:58Good seven.
19:59Lots of sums, actually.
20:00Fairest was there, but really good to get asteroids.
20:03Great playing.
20:04Asteroids, yeah.
20:05All right.
20:0661 plays.
20:07Sharon's 36.
20:08Tom, numbers time.
20:09Can I have four large again, please?
20:11You can.
20:11You can have the whole top row.
20:12Thank you, Tom.
20:13And two little ones.
20:15And for this round, the little numbers are three and another three.
20:18This is going to be tricky.
20:20And the large one's 100, 75, 25 and 50.
20:24And the target, 318.
20:27318.
20:29318.
20:30318.
20:55318.
21:01318.
21:02318.
21:03318.
21:04318.
21:07So, Tom Kappelman.
21:09100 plus three, plus three, plus three.
21:11100 plus the two threes is 106.
21:1475 over 25.
21:16Is another three.
21:17And multiply that.
21:18Yes.
21:18318.
21:19There we go.
21:22Well done, Tom.
21:24A mathematician speaks, I think.
21:2671 to Sharon's 36.
21:28As we go into a tea time teaser, which is, is brainy.
21:31And the clue, he is brainy, it must be all the curries.
21:35He is brainy, it must be all the curries.
21:53Welcome back.
21:54I left you the clue, he is brainy, it must be all the curries.
21:57And the answer is biryanis.
22:00Biryanis.
22:00So, 71 to 36.
22:02Tom's there, OK.
22:04Sharon, what shall we do?
22:05Letters go.
22:07Consonant, please.
22:09Thank you, Sharon.
22:10C.
22:11And another.
22:13R.
22:14And another.
22:16M.
22:17And a vowel.
22:19O.
22:20And another.
22:21U.
22:22And another.
22:24I.
22:25And a consonant.
22:27N.
22:29And a vowel.
22:31E.
22:32And a consonant, please.
22:34And the last one.
22:35S.
22:36Stand by.
22:38Do you remember me?
22:44Bye.
22:59And a vowel.
23:01All right.
23:01Bye.
23:01Bye.
23:01Bye.
23:02Bye.
23:03Bye.
23:04Bye.
23:06Bye.
23:09Sharon?
23:09A seven not written down.
23:11Seven, Tom?
23:12Seven.
23:13So, Sharon?
23:14Murines?
23:15Yes, Tom?
23:17Mousier.
23:18Mousier?
23:18That's what he finds in the dictionary.
23:20You wouldn't want to be mousier.
23:22She's very mousier.
23:23Not a great compliment, is it, really?
23:25Unfortunately, I have to disallow murines
23:28because it's an adjective rather than a noun.
23:31It's all the adjective relating to mice, rodents, etc.
23:34Sorry.
23:34What else have we got over there?
23:36Erm, we had incomers for eight.
23:39Yes.
23:39Crimson for seven,
23:40and we were there with mousier as well, with Tom.
23:43Well done.
23:44All right.
23:44Thank you, Nicky.
23:45Thank you, Susie.
23:46Now, letters.
23:48Time with Tom.
23:50Can I have a consonant, please?
23:51Thank you, Tom.
23:52T.
23:53And another?
23:55G.
23:56And another?
23:58M.
23:59And another?
24:01R.
24:02And a vowel, please.
24:04A.
24:05And another?
24:06O.
24:07And another?
24:09E.
24:11And a consonant?
24:13H.
24:14And a vowel, please.
24:17And lastly, A.
24:19And here's the countdown clock.
24:22A lot of people.
24:25All right, people.
24:39And a barrel can drop a seat.
24:39So, oh.
24:39And another?
24:45A thousand, one.
24:47And a tower can get here, be it?
24:47Yeah.cych
24:51past where it is. So,
24:53Tom seven I think yes Sharon just six and that six homage homage Margate Margate yes not what
25:04you think it's a deep-bodied grayish fish which occurs in the warm waters of the Western Atlantic
25:10really very very good Nikki you got homage I got homage to and the else and I was there
25:20to Tom beat me that's it all right well done 85 place 36 now Susie what have you got for
25:27us today
25:27in your wonderful origins of words I have elephants because Nikki I know is an absolute
25:34animal lover as am I so I thought I would talk today about how elephants appear in some of our
25:39English expressions elephant in the room probably being the most modern one that's fairly transparent
25:44this is something that you can't possibly ignore but which nobody speaks about but elephants have
25:50long memory or an elephant never forgets that's something that we that we often say if you go
25:55back to the ancient Greeks it was camels they refer to not the elephants they had an expression that a
26:00camel never forgets an injury and later on possibly due to the author Saki who lived in Burma and wrote
26:08about elephants etc the idiom switched to the elephant he does memorize and elephants can memorize all the
26:14commands of the Mahut and also they live for 50 to 60 years so the shift seems quite natural but
26:20that's
26:20what I just there elephants never forgetting is absolutely true is it yeah but they have to for
26:26evolutionary purposes to remember the water holes to remember the roots migration routes to remember
26:30each other because the cohesion of the herd is all important if you get the chance there's some
26:34wonderful stuff on on the internet of of two circus elephants Jenny and Shirley who hadn't seen each
26:41other for 20 years and one is brought into the elephant sanctuary in Tennessee where they rescue
26:48elephants and let them live as elephants and their reunion is one of the most affecting and emotional
26:54things you'll ever see and they just held each other for the seven years before and played with each
26:59other and went around with each other and you know how they they joined trunks yeah and they're very
27:03tactile animals with each other story lovely I'm glad that it shifted in that case because it sounds like it
27:10was the right animal to choose well the white elephant is the the one I'm going to finish up
27:14with because to describe something as being a white elephant it's it's a burden really that you're not
27:18quite sure what to do with but you can't get rid of it and it goes back to a time
27:23when Thailand still
27:25known as Siam in those days had a very few white albino elephants who were so rare that they were
27:31very
27:32highly venerated in fact so highly revered that they were never put to work it was forbidden it was
27:39the law that they shouldn't be worked in any way so to to own a white elephant as you can
27:43imagine was a
27:44very expensive business you couldn't make a profit from it but you had to keep it and it said that
27:49the
27:49king of Siam whenever he encountered somebody he didn't like and he was particularly obnoxious would
27:53make them a royal gift of a white elephant knowing full well that they couldn't refuse it they had to
27:59keep
27:59it but they couldn't actually do anything with it they couldn't profit from it and the phrase was
28:04brought back to British shores probably during the Empire by soldiers returning but yes it all goes
28:09back to the king of Siam who if you didn't like someone particularly would give them the prized white
28:13elephant funny lovely very good lovely now then 85 plays 36 Sharon let us game um consonant please
28:26thank you Sharon G and another P and another N and a vowel U and another E and another A
28:40and a consonant
28:41M and a vowel U and a vowel U raise your copy of a vowel I and one vowel I
28:49count down
28:5017
28:5118
28:5218
28:5318
28:5418
29:0718
29:0918
29:0918
29:1119
29:1119
29:22Sharon. Dodgy eight. Dodgy eight. Tom? Try an eight as well.
29:27All right, Sharon. Purling. Purling?
29:29And purling as well. Yes. Purling.
29:33And it's absolutely fine. It's to form pearl-like drops.
29:36So the blood on the blade purled into droplets, for example.
29:40Oh, right. OK.
29:41APPLAUSE
29:4393. Two chance, 44. Tom, final. Letters game for you.
29:48Can I have a consonant, please?
29:49Thank you, Tom.
29:51D. And another.
29:53Q. And another.
29:56T. And another.
30:00L. And a vowel.
30:03O. And a vowel.
30:05E. And another.
30:08U.
30:09Q. And a consonant.
30:12F.
30:14And a consonant.
30:16And to finish, G.
30:19Can-can.
30:21It's time for me.
30:49You see, it's time for four.
30:49You see, it's a brought to you today.
30:50Yes, Tom?
30:51Seven.
30:52A seven, Sharon?
30:53And seven.
30:54Thank you, Tom.
30:56Flaunted.
30:57The same.
30:57Both of you, okay?
30:59Yep.
31:00So, Mickey, got quoted.
31:03I just got a six there.
31:05Quoted, and Susie?
31:06Flaunted for me as well, not to be confused with flaunted.
31:10No, indeed.
31:10Can't flaunt the rules.
31:11Flaunt the law.
31:13100 points, Tom, well done, well done.
31:16And we go into the final numbers game.
31:18Sharon.
31:19Your choice, please, Rachel.
31:21Let's go for two from the top this time.
31:23Thank you, Sharon.
31:24And four little ones for the final one of the week.
31:27And this numbers game is nine, two, four, seven.
31:32And the big one, 75 and 50.
31:34And hopefully I picked a nice one for you.
31:36The target, 860.
31:388-6-0.
31:39And the big one.
32:148, 5, 8, 2 away. Come on then.
32:1675 plus 7 minus 4.
32:1975 plus 7 minus 4, 78.
32:229 plus 2 is 11.
32:24Yes.
32:24And what do I have them together?
32:258, 5, 8, 2 away.
32:278, 5, 8. So that might be difficult. 8, 60. No?
32:32It was possible. You can say 50 plus 75 is 125, times by 7 is 875, and then take away
32:44the
32:44others, 9 and 4 and 2 for 16, 15 rather, take away an 860.
32:49Very good.
32:51Well done, Rachel.
32:55See, Tom, it was possible.
32:58Well done, Rachel.
32:59Lovely stuff.
33:00107 to 51 as we go into the final round.
33:02So, fingers on buzzers.
33:04Let's reveal today's countdown conundrum.
33:10Oh, Tom.
33:12Economise.
33:14Economise.
33:16There we go.
33:17Oh, well done.
33:18Tremendous.
33:21Tremendous.
33:22And not even maybe a second have gone.
33:26Incredible.
33:26Well done.
33:27117 points.
33:28Great, great score.
33:29Sharon, you did very well to hold me back.
33:32I mean, you really did.
33:33So, it's back to Wellingarden City with you.
33:35Do they still make Weetabix in Wellingarden City?
33:38No.
33:38They don't?
33:39No.
33:40Oh, no.
33:40Close the factory.
33:41Yeah.
33:42Oh, no.
33:42Never mind.
33:43Take your goodie bag, and maybe it'll come back one day.
33:46All right.
33:47So, well done.
33:48We shall see you on Monday.
33:49Have a restful weekend.
33:51We'll see you then.
33:51Well done.
33:52And we shall see Nicky and Susie on Monday.
33:56Have a good weekend.
33:57Great.
33:57So, I love your story about the Great American Songbook.
34:01It's wonderful.
34:01Maybe we'll get some more of that on Monday.
34:03I hope so.
34:04See you on Monday.
34:05Yep.
34:06We've got a bit of a mathematician on our hands, don't we?
34:08I think we have.
34:09Brilliant stuff.
34:10See you on Monday.
34:11See you then.
34:11Same time, same place.
34:12You'll be sure of it.
34:12A very good afternoon.
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34:37The suspect, King Richard III, Chief Prosecutor David Starkey,
34:41all part of the build-up to a king's reburial.
34:44Deal up next.