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00:00Thank you very much.
00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio on International Literacy Day.
00:36And of course here in the Countdown Studio, words are our lifeblood, our meaning, why are we here?
00:43But we're lucky to have an education and a sort of a...
00:47We live in a country where, generally speaking, pretty much everyone can read to one degree of literacy or another.
00:53But International Literacy Day was founded way back in 1946 by UNESCO, that's the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
01:03Organization, doing good work there.
01:05And reading and writing, I suppose, we just take for natural.
01:08But we sometimes find ourselves in situations where, no matter how hard we try, we find communication difficult.
01:15And may I just bore you for just a moment or two with an occasion when I happened to be
01:20trudging through Central Asia and I ran out of petrol.
01:22And I was surrounded by a group of Mongolians, as it happened, and I asked them where I could find
01:29benzene, which, as you know, is Russian for petrol.
01:32And their eyes widened in amazement.
01:37They had no idea what I was talking about.
01:39That's the only occasion when I've ever actually failed to get a message across.
01:45It was extraordinary.
01:46So, come on, then, we're talking about Russian.
01:49How is your Russian coming on?
01:51It's coming along.
01:52Are you communicating well?
01:54I'm communicating-ish.
01:55No, you haven't been at it very long.
01:57No, and I'm reading like a kid.
02:00You know, you look at the letters and you spell out each one and then you try and make it
02:04sound vaguely like a word might sound.
02:06Say something to us in Russian.
02:09Speak to the nation in Russian.
02:11Anything you like.
02:12Здравствуйте. Меня зовут Рachel.
02:15And that might mean?
02:17Hello, my name is Rachel.
02:19Well, it's more than I could say.
02:22Now, then, let's see who's called Matty Artel here, who's building up a bit of a run.
02:27Matty got 100 points in his last game.
02:30So, you know, it was 87, 90, now it's 100.
02:33But you've got to get past Jonathan Joyce, a warehouseman from Gould in East Yorkshire, big cricket enthusiast.
02:39Why wouldn't he be coming from Yorkshire?
02:41And he plays as well, but he once entered, is this right, Jonathan?
02:45A talent contest as a singer-impressionist, but lost to a contortionist.
02:49Yeah, a long time ago.
02:50Who were you impersonating?
02:53Good question.
02:54I used to do singers.
02:55I did Elton John and John Lennon singing them, and I think the best impression is probably Harry H. Corbett
03:01at Harold Steptoe.
03:04Come on, then.
03:06Oh, you dirty old man.
03:09I remember those days.
03:11Well, I'll tell you what, you watch and listen in next week, because we've got John Coleshaw coming in.
03:17Oh, brilliant.
03:17He's a wonderful chap, isn't he?
03:18Fantastic.
03:19Lovely man, too.
03:20Yeah.
03:20A great impressionist, yeah.
03:22Brilliant.
03:22Let's have a big round of applause, then, for Matty and Jonathan Joyce.
03:31And Susie's there, as ever, stalwart.
03:34Wonderful Susie Dent, joined once again by Dr. Phil Hammond, doctor, journalist, broadcast comedian, and all-round good guy.
03:41All right, now then, Matty, let's get cracking on this, shall we? Letters game?
03:44Hi, Rachel.
03:45Hi, Matty.
03:45Got a consonant, please.
03:46Start today with S.
03:49And another.
03:51X.
03:52And a vowel.
03:54E.
03:55And a consonant.
03:58C.
03:59And another.
04:01L.
04:02And a vowel.
04:04O.
04:05And another.
04:07I.
04:08And a consonant.
04:11N.
04:12And a final consonant, please.
04:13And a final M.
04:15And here's the countdown clock.
04:17I.
04:18And a vowel.
04:46I.
04:47And a vowel.
04:48Well now Matty. I'll stick with a six. A six Jonathan. Six. Two sixes Matty's six. Melons. Melons. And Jonathan.
04:57Clones. Very good. Very good. Yes. There's an eight in here that's made for countdown. Come on. Lexicons.
05:06Lexicons. Very good. So six apiece. Now then Jonathan. Off you go. Consonant please. Thank you Jonathan. D. Consonant. N.
05:23Consonant. S. Vowel. E. Vowel. U. Another vowel please. I.
05:36Consonant. R. Consonant. D. Another consonant please. And the last one. F. Countdown.
06:18Jonathan. Seven I think. A seven and? Seven. Two sevens. Now then. Finders. Matty. Unfired. Unfired. Yep. As in pottery.
06:29Yeah.
06:29Pretty sure that is in. And if it comes from Matty. You can be pretty confident it is. And it
06:35is. Yes. Not fired of clay or pottery. Very good. Unfired.
06:39Phil. I think refunds are in there aren't they. Yes. Lots of sevens actually. You've got a seven there.
06:44Yeah. Infused. Infused.
06:46Um. Couldn't get to an eight but there might be one there. Very good. All right. Thirteen apiece and it's
06:52numbers for Matty.
06:53Can I have three large and three small please? You can indeed. Thank you Matty. Three from the top and
06:58three little ones.
06:59And for the first time today the numbers are five, nine, ten and the big one 75, 100 and 50
07:07and the target 905.
07:10Nine and five.
07:12MUSIC PLAYS
07:43Well, Matty?
07:44Yeah, 9.05.
07:45And Jonathan?
07:46Just 9.05.
07:48Come on.
07:48Matty?
07:49So 9 times 100, and then that 5.
07:52Couldn't have been much easier.
07:53Jonathan?
07:54Happy enough?
07:55All right.
07:56There we go.
07:5723 apiece as we go, lurching into a tea-time teaser,
08:00which is yes, no gin.
08:02And the clue, it's not your business,
08:03but it can make you bad company.
08:06It's not your business, but it can make you bad company.
08:23MUSIC CONTINUES
08:24A warm welcome back.
08:26I left you with a clue, it's not your business,
08:27but it can make you bad company.
08:29And the answer is noseying.
08:33Being nosy.
08:35Noseying.
08:36So, Jonathan, how about the letters came from you?
08:39A consonant, please.
08:41Thank you, Jonathan.
08:42S.
08:43Another.
08:45T.
08:47And another.
08:49J.
08:51Another, please.
08:53T.
08:55A vowel.
08:57O.
08:58A vowel.
08:59E.
09:01A vowel.
09:03O.
09:04O.
09:05Another vowel, please.
09:07I.
09:08And a consonant, please.
09:10And the last one.
09:11M.
09:12Stand by.
09:14A vowel.
09:16A vowel.
09:20A vowel.
09:23A vowel.
09:30A vowel.
09:30A vowel.
09:30A vowel.
09:30A vowel.
09:30A vowel.
09:30A vowel.
09:30A vowel.
09:31A vowel.
09:31A vowel.
09:44Well, Jonathan.
09:46Five.
09:47Five.
09:48Matty?
09:49Five.
09:50Jonathan?
09:50Sorry, Susie.
09:51Moist.
09:53And Matty?
09:54Moose.
09:55There we go.
09:56Are we happy over there?
09:58Cool, sir.
09:58What has Dr. Phil got for us?
10:00I've got Mojitos.
10:02Oh, lucky you.
10:03I was hoping you'd have Mojitos Toes, but you can't.
10:06It's just Mojitos Toes.
10:07Yes.
10:08But that's a seven, is it?
10:09Yes, it is.
10:10It's a very good seven.
10:11Yes, please.
10:11Yes.
10:12And what have you got for it, Susie?
10:13You put Mottos with an E.
10:15You might have an E in Mottos?
10:16Yes.
10:16You can't put it.
10:17You might have an E in Mottos.
10:19Making it a seven again.
10:20Very good.
10:21Very good.
10:22Okay.
10:23Let's carry on.
10:2428 apiece, and it's Matty's letters game.
10:27Matty?
10:27Could I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
10:29Thank you, Matty.
10:31B.
10:31And another.
10:34Z.
10:35And another.
10:36H.
10:37And a vowel.
10:39E.
10:40And another.
10:42O.
10:43And a consonant, please.
10:45R.
10:46And another.
10:48N.
10:49And a vowel.
10:51A.
10:52And a final consonant, please.
10:55And a final key.
10:57Stand by.
10:58Stand by.
11:28Matty, I'll try a sixth.
11:29A sixth.
11:30Jonathan?
11:31Five.
11:33And that five?
11:34Heron.
11:35Ah, yes, the heron.
11:37Matty?
11:38Phoner.
11:40Um.
11:42Do you know, Matty, I think that's the first one you've tried that hasn't been in, actually.
11:45Phonier, but not a phoner, I'm afraid.
11:48Anything else?
11:49We have brazen.
11:51I bet.
11:51But it's only six.
11:53It is only six.
11:53Have you beaten six feet in brazen?
11:54I haven't.
11:54Nope.
11:55Stuck on brazen.
11:56Yep.
11:56All right, brazen huzzies.
11:5828 plays Jonathan's 33.
12:01As we go into numbers territory, Jonathan.
12:04One from the top and five from the bottom, please.
12:06Thank you, Jonathan.
12:07So one from the top and five from the bottom.
12:10And for this round, your numbers are nine, one, three, ten, another three, and a large
12:18one, fifty.
12:20And the target, one hundred and ninety-one.
12:23One nine one.
12:24And the target, one hundred and ninety-one.
12:55Yes, Jonathan.
12:56Yeah, one nine one.
12:57Thank you, Matty.
12:58One nine one.
12:58All right, let's go through the motions.
13:01Jonathan.
13:02Three plus one.
13:03Three plus one is four.
13:04Four fifties.
13:05Two hundred.
13:06Minus the nine.
13:07Well done, one nine one.
13:08Matty.
13:09Exactly the same.
13:09Same way.
13:10There we go.
13:11Yeah.
13:11All right.
13:12So, that brings the scores.
13:16Forty-three to Matty's thirty-eight as we turn to the good Dr. Phil.
13:21Now then, Phil, what advice today?
13:23What have you got for us?
13:24Well, I often play a game with my kids called If I Rule the World.
13:28Are you familiar with that?
13:30Yes.
13:31Well, it's always got a red button that you press.
13:33Well, it's sort of, yes.
13:33So, this is sort of a parlour game.
13:35What you're trying to do is to get your kids off the internet and to speak to human beings
13:38in person.
13:39So, if I rule the world, for example, one of my rules might be we turn off the internet
13:43for an hour every day and people be forced to go outside.
13:46Is that a good idea?
13:47I think it's an excellent idea.
13:48See, my son would argue he would like to have ultra-fast broadband in his pyjamas.
13:52So, there's sort of different...
13:53It tells you an awful lot about what's important in your life, if you say this.
13:56So, we do this and you're allowed five or so.
13:58My first one, if I rule the world, Love Train by the OJs would be every country's national
14:04anthem.
14:05What do you think?
14:06If people all over the world joined hands and started a Love Train, wouldn't that be
14:09fantastic?
14:10You'd only have to play one national anthem at every sporting event because it would be
14:12the same one.
14:13You wouldn't get all that horrible aggression.
14:15So, the poor old all-blacks trying to do the hacker, they'd have to do it to the OJs
14:19singing Love Train.
14:20But it gets across the point that we exist on this planet to love and be loved.
14:24I've talked about that previously.
14:25But love is actually central to everything we do.
14:27And we're part of one extended community.
14:29It's not just about nationalistic love.
14:30We extend our love beyond borders.
14:32Is that going through?
14:33Do you think it's a good one?
14:33I think it's excellent, that's why the EU is so important.
14:37It is, okay.
14:38So, my second, pets, books, music and films should be available on prescription on the
14:43NHS.
14:43What do you think?
14:44Excellent.
14:45If I could prescribe hamsters, would you have one?
14:48Dogs, I always talk about dogs, budgies, very, very good.
14:51But also books and art and music, stories are metaphors for our life.
14:55They both give us meaning and purpose.
14:56We call it social prescribing, but actually what people often need in their life is a bit
15:00of company, a bit of art, a bit of meaning.
15:02And you often get that through the arts more than you get it through medicine.
15:05So, I think if we could prescribe books and arts and art galleries and things on the NHS,
15:09that would be good.
15:10My third thing is that 51% of news should be good.
15:14Is that a pass?
15:15Yeah.
15:15The trouble is, you know, they say that bad news is news, the rest is advertising.
15:21That's the best strategy.
15:21Yeah, I don't agree.
15:22I think good news makes you happy.
15:24You're not honest.
15:24You lead by example.
15:25Okay?
15:26Everything in all, this is just for men, everything in all shops should be stacked in alphabetical
15:30order.
15:31There'd be a huge section called thingamie bobs.
15:33Yeah.
15:33Because you can't remember the thingamie bob you're looking for.
15:35But wouldn't that make life easy?
15:36Everything in a shop was in alphabetical order.
15:38And my final one, there should be a national tell the truth day.
15:42Okay?
15:42There should be a day where everybody tells the truth to each other.
15:45Because the thing about human beings is we've evolved to lie to each other.
15:48We lie all the time, all the better to deceive ourselves.
15:51Human beings beyond any other species lie.
15:53But wouldn't it be great if you had one day a year where doctors really told patients what
15:57they thought of them, and patients told doctors what they thought of them.
15:59We could tell politicians honestly what we thought of them instead of telling them one thing
16:02and then voting another.
16:03So, I think a national tell the truth day would be my final thing I'd bring in if I
16:07ruled the world.
16:08So, starting from today until countdown tomorrow, I want everybody watching to tell the absolute
16:12truth to everyone.
16:13Good idea.
16:14If you're still living in the same house in 24 hours, do let us know.
16:17I'm so amazed.
16:19Anyway, that's my top tips for today.
16:21Thank you very much.
16:22Perfect.
16:22Well done.
16:26Thank you very much, Dr. Phil.
16:28Jonathan on 43, Matty on 38.
16:31What should we do?
16:32Where should we go?
16:32Matty?
16:33Have a consonant, please.
16:34Thank you, Matty.
16:36Ah.
16:37And another.
16:39K.
16:40And another.
16:42R.
16:43And a vowel.
16:44E.
16:45And another.
16:47A.
16:48And another.
16:49E.
16:50And another.
16:53O.
16:54And a consonant.
16:56L.
16:57And a consonant, please.
16:58And the last one, R.
17:00Stand by.
17:01The.
17:02And a consonant.
17:03The.
17:13MUSIC PLAYS
17:30Yes, Matty?
17:31Six.
17:32A six for Matty.
17:33Jonathan?
17:34Six, I think.
17:35Matty?
17:36Areole.
17:38And Jonathan?
17:39Leaker.
17:40Yeah, Leaker's in there again.
17:43Yep, and how are you spelling areole?
17:45A-R-E-O-L-E.
17:46Yep, absolutely fine.
17:48That's interesting, because areola is the dark area around the nipple.
17:51Is it related at all?
17:52Yeah, it is, but it's biological, this one,
17:55and it's a small area bearing spines or hairs on a cactus.
17:58Hmm, very good.
17:59All right, well done.
18:00So, 49 plays 44.
18:04Where shall we go?
18:05Jonathan, that is game.
18:07A consonant, please.
18:08Thank you, Jonathan.
18:09L.
18:10And another.
18:12W.
18:13And another.
18:15R.
18:16And another.
18:18V.
18:20Vowel, please.
18:22U.
18:22Another, please.
18:24I.
18:25Another.
18:27U.
18:28Another.
18:31A.
18:32Final consonant, please.
18:33And the last one.
18:35D.
18:35And here's the countdown clock.
18:37I.
18:38I.
19:05I.
19:07I.
19:08Jonathan?
19:09Five, I think.
19:11Five.
19:11Mattie?
19:12Five.
19:13Okay, Jonathan?
19:14Drawl?
19:16A drawl, the American drawl.
19:18Mattie?
19:19Viral.
19:20And viral?
19:21Yep, absolutely fine.
19:22Very good.
19:23Dr. Phil?
19:24We've got a cheeky six.
19:25You know that bit that hangs down at the back of your throat?
19:28Or the dangly bit at the back of your throat?
19:29Yes.
19:29Known as the uvula.
19:31Oh, yes.
19:31Well, if you were to have a tonsillectomy or any sort of throat surgery,
19:34you would get uvular inflammation.
19:36So it's uvula with an R on the end.
19:38That's for six.
19:39Oh, that's pretty good.
19:39Thank you very much.
19:40Very good.
19:41Susie?
19:42It can also be the sound that is produced by that.
19:45Like the R in French.
19:47You said frère or something like that.
19:48Is that right?
19:49Yes.
19:50Very clever.
19:51Too clever for me.
19:5254 to 49.
19:54Jonathan's still in the lead.
19:55Mattie, what will you do with this numbers game?
19:58You can have three large, please.
20:00Thank you, Mattie.
20:00Three from the top and hopefully a trickier one than last time.
20:03And three little.
20:05And these ones are seven, six, and ten.
20:09And the big ones, 50, 100, and 75.
20:13And the target...
20:14Oh, no.
20:15Even easier.
20:17700.
20:17700.
20:19700.
20:2000.
20:2100.
20:2200.
20:51Well, Matty.
20:52Yeah, 700.
20:53All right.
20:54Jonathan.
20:54Yeah, 700.
20:55Well, there we are.
20:56Well done.
20:57Nothing to argue about there.
20:58So, score standing 64 to 59 as we go into a teatime teaser, which is Camp Edit.
21:05And the clue, it definitely had an effect on his wisdom teeth.
21:09It definitely had an effect on his wisdom teeth.
21:41Warm welcome back.
21:41Well done, Jonathan.
21:42Now, it's your letters game.
21:45Consonant, please.
21:46Thank you, Jonathan.
21:46S.
21:48Another.
21:50F.
21:52Another.
21:53N.
21:55Another.
21:57Y.
21:59Vowel.
22:01U.
22:02Another.
22:03Another.
22:03I.
22:05Another.
22:07O.
22:09Consonant.
22:10W.
22:11And another consonant.
22:13And lastly, N.
22:15Stand by.
22:16All right.
22:16All right.
22:26All right.
22:27All right.
22:47Jonathan. Six. Six, Matty. Six. Jonathan. Unions. Unions and fusion. Thank you. And what have we got in the corner
22:59there? Dr. Phil. Can't be six. Unison is another word, but I can't be six. How are you doing?
23:03No, likewise. Yes, exactly. Those three. In fact, then you identify us with funny. All right. Let's move on then
23:09to Matty. Let's see how you get on with this. Letters. Can I have a consonant, please? Thank you, Matty.
23:15S. And another one. R. And another. N. And a vowel. E. And another. O. And another. A. And a
23:30consonant. T.
23:34And a vowel. E. And a consonant. And the last one. B. And the clock starts now.
24:12Matty. Eight. And eight. Jonathan. Seven. And that's seven. Porters. Matty. Resonate. Resonate. Hmm. Well done. Excellent.
24:23Well done. And Dr. Phil? Susie? I think there are some baronets hiding in there. Baronets, but that's only eight,
24:30too, isn't it? Can't beat the eights.
24:31Yeah. And then lots and lots of seven. Senator, treason, banters, that kind of thing.
24:37All right. But Matty took it and gives them a three-point lead. We've got a close-run thing here.
24:42But now, whilst they rest, Susie will give us her wonderful origins of words. Susie?
24:48Well, I often recommend the Oxford Dictionaries blog. And Merriam-Webster does a very good blog on different aspects of
24:55English.
24:56And I was looking at one which was quite interesting the other day. It was words that we've acquired from
25:00trademarks that we don't always realise are trademarks.
25:03And I've spoken about this before. But there was one that surprised me, which was top of their list. And
25:08that was heroin.
25:09Heroin. Heroin as in the drug. Heroin. And I didn't realise that this actually had begun as a trademark by
25:17the German pharmaceutical company Bayer.
25:19And in 1898, they began marketing heroin. They took it from the German word heroish, meaning powerful, because people who
25:27take this drug feel sort of all-powerful and god-like almost.
25:32But the product was actually marketed as a cough remedy. And it was made from a supposedly non-addictive morphine
25:40derivative.
25:41And of course, that unfortunately caused large numbers of people to become completely addicted to heroin itself.
25:47And in part because of this growing population of junkies. And junkie itself possibly comes from the fact that some
25:54supported their addictions by literally selling scrap metal.
25:58Because of this sort of growing addiction, by eventually, understandably, ceased the trademark status or stopped the trademark status.
26:05But that was a surprise to me. So I thought I'd look at some other words that have started as
26:09trademarks.
26:10And that's granola. Perhaps not so much of a surprise, that one. But that actually began in the 1860s.
26:16And there was a doctor called Dr. James C. Jackson, and he created granular for his parents.
26:23And it was spelt granular like granules. And he broke up sheets of twice-baked whole-grain flour, which was
26:29called graham flour.
26:31I don't know if you've ever eaten graham crackers in America, spelt like graham cracker.
26:36It comes from graham flour because of the developer, Sylvester Graham.
26:40But anyway, he created this for his patients as a sort of health-giving property.
26:45And a decade later, Dr. Jackson sued Kellogg's, John Harvey Kellogg at that time, of the Battle Creek Sanitarium,
26:53because he called his own invention granular.
26:56So there was a big trademark fight going on, and eventually Kellogg renamed his version granola.
27:01And, of course, the rest is history today.
27:04And our final one today is the pogo stick.
27:07And in 1919, George Hansburg patented a metal version of what had already been around,
27:12sort of wooden jumping sticks that had been toys for kids.
27:16And he introduced it to the chorus girls of the Siegfeld Follies, who used the stick on stage.
27:21And apparently a couple even got married on pogo sticks at this point.
27:24It became a huge, huge craze.
27:26And by 1921, people were calling it pogo stick generically,
27:29and the trademark status eventually evaporated.
27:32But, yeah, pogo granola and the big surprise for me, heroin, all began as trademarks.
27:37Oh, brilliant. Well done.
27:40Thank you very much indeed.
27:4273 plays, 70.
27:43Matty is three points ahead, and it's Jonathan's letters game.
27:48Consonant, please.
27:49Thank you, Jonathan.
27:51S
27:51And another
27:53D
27:54And another
27:55L
27:57And another
27:58N
28:00Vowel, please.
28:03I
28:03Another
28:04E
28:05Another
28:08O
28:09Consonant
28:10D
28:11And another consonant, please.
28:14And lastly, p.
28:15Stand by.
28:16Two
28:26And another
28:29Bye.
28:29Bye.
28:31And another
28:39And another
28:39Bye.
28:41Bye.
28:42Bye.
28:44Bye.
28:45Bye.
28:47Jonathan.
28:49Risky seven.
28:50Matty? Seven.
28:52No, Jonathan.
28:53No, poddies.
28:55No, let's see what Matty's got.
28:57Dipoles.
29:00OK, I'll start with Jonathan's.
29:04Unexpectedly, poddies is in,
29:06because to poddy is a verb from Australian English,
29:09and it means to feed a young animal by hand.
29:11Nothing to do with podcasts. Yeah, they're both very good.
29:14Well done. Yeah. Now, what brilliance have we got in the corner?
29:17I've got a splendid eight. Go.
29:19Splendid.
29:21Three. And Susie.
29:24I missed that. That's it.
29:26Splendid. El Spendido.
29:2877 plays Matty's 80 as we go into the final letters game.
29:33Matty?
29:33Have a consonant, please. Thank you, Matty.
29:36R. And another.
29:39M. And another.
29:42D. And a vowel.
29:43A. And another.
29:46O. And another.
29:49I. And another.
29:52E. And a consonant.
29:55G. And another consonant, please.
29:58And lastly, T.
29:59Griffin looks at me.
30:00T.
30:01T.
30:31Thank you, Matty.
30:33A six.
30:34A six, Jonathan.
30:35Seven, I think.
30:36Right.
30:38Getting crunchy around here.
30:39Matty.
30:40Diatom.
30:41A diatom.
30:42Now then, Jonathan.
30:43Toadier.
30:44Toadier.
30:45I have a feeling that toadish is the adjective rather than toady.
30:52Yeah, toady is there as a verb and as a noun, but not there as an adjective.
30:56It has to be toadish.
30:57Sorry.
30:58Bad luck.
30:59Yeah.
30:59Bad luck.
31:00But we're happy with Matty.
31:02A diatom, yes, is absolutely fine.
31:05It's a term from biology as you might expect.
31:07Single-celled alga, which has a cell wall of silica.
31:10All right.
31:11And Dr. Phil?
31:13I've got a seven, which is a medical untriaged.
31:15But you've got an eight, I noticed.
31:17Yeah, an ideogram.
31:19And an ideogram is a character that symbolises the idea of a thing rather than the sound of it.
31:24Thank you very much.
31:26Well done.
31:27All right.
31:29So, let's have a numbers game.
31:31Jonathan, do your best.
31:33One from the top and five from the bottom again, please.
31:36Thank you, Jonathan.
31:37One from the top and five little ones.
31:39And hopefully we'll have a harder one this time.
31:41For the last round today, they are three, seven, eight, five, three.
31:48And a large on 100.
31:50And the target, 747.
31:52Seven, four, seven.
31:54One from the top and five.
32:01Seven, four, seven.
32:02Seven, four, seven.
32:24Jonathan.
32:25No, I've gone wrong, sorry.
32:28Matty.
32:28747.
32:29OK, so, Matty.
32:31100 minus 7.
32:32100 minus 7, 93.
32:34Times 8.
32:35Times by 8 for 744.
32:38Up for 3.
32:38Well done, 747.
32:40Well done.
32:41Well done.
32:43For a moment, I thought we were going to have a little crucial conundrum, but Matty slipped
32:47away 96 to Jonathan 77.
32:50But let's have that conundrum anyway.
32:52Fingers on buzzers.
32:53Let's reveal.
32:54Today's Countdown conundrum.
33:14Jonathan.
33:15Is it sentenced?
33:17Sentenced.
33:18Let's see whether you're right.
33:20Oh, good man.
33:22Good man.
33:27Well done.
33:2896 plays.
33:29You're 87.
33:30You had him on the run.
33:31You really had him on the run.
33:33And those two games prior to the...
33:36That did it for you.
33:37That's what I've got.
33:37What a shame for you.
33:39Anyway, you're a good player.
33:41Thank you very much indeed for coming.
33:42Get back there to Ghoul in East Yorkshire with your goodie bag.
33:46Thank you very much.
33:46Thanks very much.
33:48Good having you here.
33:49Matty.
33:50Thought I'd had it then.
33:51Yeah.
33:52He was nipping at your heels all right.
33:54We'll see you tomorrow.
33:55Well done.
33:56Well done.
33:57See you tomorrow, chaps.
33:58Yeah.
33:58Dr. Phil and Susie.
33:59See you tomorrow, Nick.
34:00See you tomorrow.
34:00It was an excellent fit.
34:01It's like he was coached by Jose Mourinho.
34:03He sort of came back right at the end.
34:05Fought till the final second.
34:06Very impressed with that.
34:07The resilience was admirable.
34:09Well done.
34:09All right.
34:10There's a true Chelsea fan.
34:13We'll see you tomorrow.
34:14See you tomorrow.
34:15See you tomorrow, Rachel.
34:15See you then.
34:16Join us then and see how Matty gets on.
34:17My word, he's got four wins.
34:19He's moving fast.
34:20Same time, same place.
34:21You'll be sure of it.
34:21A very good afternoon to you.
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