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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio and I guess the bubbles will be flowing in the Buble household
00:37today. Why? Because the fresh-faced Canadian crooner Michael Buble celebrates his 40th birthday today. Happy birthday Michael if you
00:47happen to be watching. He sung with them all, Van Morrison, Barbara Streisand and Brian Adams. So he's quite a
00:54character this chap but he also just loves his ice hockey.
00:57And apparently whenever he's singing in any Canadian city he asks for a puck from the local team and he's
01:05also co-owner apparently of the Vancouver Giants.
01:09Oh really?
01:09Yeah apparently a big chap so I think he's obviously got to be a passionate chap then to actually have
01:16invested so much money in buying a nice hockey team or even just a hockey team as they call it
01:22in Canada.
01:22I thought well what would I love? If money was no object what would I buy? And I'm afraid it's
01:27a selfish thing. I just love cars. I just love cars. And I get these beautiful brochures from people like
01:34Bonham's car auctions for old cars.
01:37And I just drool and wish. So what would you just collect them or would you drive them or would
01:42you make them?
01:42Oh no you've got to drive them. You've got to drive them. But you can drive one this day and
01:46another one. They're such things of, for me strangely you might think, things of such beauty.
01:52The smell of petrol dripping from a Solex carburettor onto the asphalt. No better smell than that. The grinding of
01:59a gearbox. I love it.
02:01What would you do? If money was no object what would you invest in?
02:05I would buy something like an animal sanctuary and let my brother run it. Then I could just go and
02:11play with all the animals.
02:12Well that's a good thing to do.
02:14Yeah I think that would be lovely. My mum would enjoy it as well. Yeah.
02:16I think you're right. Anyway, who's here? Matty Artel. He's steaming on with four good winds under his belt looking
02:22for a fifth today.
02:23And he's joined by David Crafter, company director of a mental health charity in Granite Shoe from Plumstead.
02:30What is this charity? What does it do?
02:33Well our aim is to eventually to help people get back into employment.
02:37Of course in current economic circumstances it's getting even harder than it used to be.
02:42Alright. Well well done. You're not keen on heights apparently but you managed to upsell down the side of a
02:46seven story building for charity.
02:48I did so.
02:49Good for you. Which charity was that?
02:51That was the mayor's charity. The mayor of Greenwich, my borough.
02:54Alright. Very good indeed. Let's have a big round of applause then for David and Matty Artel.
03:03Very good. And over in the corner of course Susie joined once again by a really popular guest I've got
03:11to say.
03:11I don't embarrass you Dr. Phil Hammond but you're a great performer there.
03:15Doctor, journalist, broadcaster, comedian and a sound man.
03:19That's very kind of you. Do you want something from my black bag? Isn't that why you're being so kind
03:22to me?
03:23Anyway, there we are. Thank you very much Phil. Now Matt Artel, good luck to you. You're off to a
03:28fifth. Let's see how you get on.
03:30Do you have a consonant please?
03:31Thank you Matty. Start today with...
03:34And another one.
03:37And another one.
03:38And a vowel please.
03:40A.
03:41And another.
03:42I.
03:43And another.
03:45E.
03:46And a consonant.
03:48F.
03:49And another.
03:51D.
03:53And a vowel.
03:56O.
03:57And a vowel.
03:58And a vowel consonant please.
03:58And the last one.
04:00W.
04:00And here's the countdown clock.
04:03And a vowel David humbler.
04:30And a vowel всё is here for you.
04:33Well Matty? Seven. Thank you David. Seven. Thank you Matty. Down here. And David? Frowned. Frowned. Very good. Solid start
04:45bird. Dr. Phil? Can't beat it. We've got aneroid. Aneroid, which is also a seven. Yes, Susie? Yes, aneroid barometer.
04:53Of course. Yes. Anything else? No, just sevens, actually.
04:56All right. Seven apiece and it's David Crafter's first game on Countdown. Hello Rachel. Hi David. I'll start with a
05:05consonant please. Thank you. Start with N. Another one. R. A vowel. U. A consonant. S. Another vowel. E. A
05:24consonant.
05:25B. Another consonant. V. A vowel. O. And finish with a consonant, I think. And finish with T. Stand by.
05:39Okay.
05:40Okay.
05:52Okay.
06:11Yes David? Only a five. A five? How about Matty? Seven. Right. David? Burst. Burst and? Nervous.
06:23Nervous.
06:25Pretty good?
06:26Yeah.
06:26All right. Well done Matty. Well done. Now, in the corner. Dr. Phil? Only sevens. Only sevens.
06:31Abverts is there?
06:32Yeah, which is a term from logic. And the example given is, no men are immortal. If that is changed
06:41to all men are mortal, that's abverting it.
06:44I see.
06:45Um, yep. So that's there for a seven. That's it? That's it? That's it. All right.
06:50Fourteen plays David. Seven and it's Matty's numbers game. Matty? Do I have one from the top?
06:55You can indeed. Thank you Matty. One large and a five. A little coming up. And the first
07:00numbers game of today is four, eight, seven, five, four and the large one 100. And the target
07:09two hundred and forty-five. Two, four, five.
07:12Two, five.
07:14Two, five.
07:23Two, five.
07:30Two, five.
07:33Two, five.
07:34Two, five.
07:35Two, five.
07:36Two, five.
07:37Two, five.
07:38Two, five.
07:40Two, five.
07:41Two, five.
07:41Two, five.
07:41Two, five.
07:42Now then Matty two four five two four five and David two four six two four six Matty
07:48Have a go four over four is one four over four is one take that from the eight eight minus
07:54one is seven
07:54multiply that by the seven forty nine
07:56Um then
07:59Multiply by five yep perfect well done
08:01Two four five good man well done Matty Artel very good indeed
08:06So the score
08:09Matty's taking an early lead 24 today with seven as we turn to a tea time teaser which is fleas
08:15dig
08:15And the clue the fleas might have a dig at you but these guys take a real bite
08:21The fleas might have a dig at you but these guys take a real bite
08:47They're gadflies gadflies gadflies yeah they're miserable so scores Matty 24 and David seven and David is your letters game
08:57A continent please let's jump thank you David
09:00B
09:03Another consonant
09:05G
09:06A vowel
09:07A
09:09Consonant
09:10R
09:12Another one
09:14P
09:16E
09:17Another vowel
09:17E
09:19E
09:20Consonant
09:21L
09:24Another vowel please
09:25O
09:27And a final consonant
09:29And a final S
09:31Stand by
09:32Any
09:34You
09:34What
09:34You
09:36And
10:00You
10:03yes David six a six Matty seven David grapes grapes and garbles yep very good
10:15garbles yep nice all right Dr. Phil I've just seen Susie's got a very pleasant eight
10:21pergolas pergolas how about that yes very good a pergola anything else no those are the arched
10:28structures that you find in nice gardens all right thirty one to seven now then Matty let us
10:33game I could have a consonant please Rachel thank you Matty J and another one H and another okay and
10:43and about a and another I and another oh and another a and a consonant s a consonant please
10:59and the last one W stand by
11:03so
11:32yes Matty I'll try us
11:34a seven and David only a five again and that five jokes yes Matty weakish
11:44I guess weakish very very very good now they'd love to fill no couldn't beat weakish well done
11:51that was good yes very good well done 38 plays seven and David numbers time for you thank you
11:58um two large and four small please Rachel thank you David two from the top and four little ones this
12:05time and for this round your little numbers are four eight one and nine and a large to 25 and
12:13100
12:14and this target 415
12:16415
12:46515
12:50David 415 415 Mattie 415 so David four times a hundred four hundred twenty five minus nine
13:00minus one I hope it's 15 it is indeed yes 415 lovely thank you and Mattie yeah the same way
13:08there we are David you happy yes all right so 48 plays 17 as we turn for the final time
13:19in dr. Phil's appearance with us as a guest in dictionary corner what advice have you got for
13:24us today I've said previously on this program that I think the greatest gift society and we as
13:29individuals can give to the ones we love is a gentle death it's quite a tough thing I think of
13:33death as the most grown-up thing we're going to do one of the lovely things about my stepdad Stan
13:38is
13:38that he was a very brave man but he said I've lived a good life and once you live a
13:42good life you're
13:43not frightened of death and because he had a cancer he didn't die suddenly he had lots of time to
13:47talk
13:47about what his wishes were and yes he wanted to die at home he wanted to die upstairs he wanted
13:52to die with the window open and the sound of the country air coming in he was a country man
13:56but he
13:57was also a very fit man and one of things I learned which surprised me is that if you have
14:02a death at
14:02home it can take a very very long time he had six good months where he saw all his friends
14:07went to
14:07parties put on weight life and soul of the party and the last two months were tough and there were
14:12eight weeks without eating anything at all so the cancer took its hold he had no appetite at all he
14:17thought ugly I'll stop eating thinking he might die quickly he carried on having fluids it took
14:21eight weeks the other thing you need to know is you need to get the entire NHS and social care
14:26system
14:26around you so he had a special hospital bed to stop him getting pressure sores he had the district
14:31nurses coming in he had the hospice nurses and the GP coming in but all those bits of the jigsaw
14:35including the out-of-house team had to be coordinated and he had to do not resuscitation
14:41resuscitate order put up because if the paramedics turn up in the middle of the night you don't have one
14:45they'll take you off to hospital and he did have a gentle decent humane death but I think people need
14:50to understand sometimes it can take an awful long time but the lovely thing is when it came to his
14:54funeral we thought 50 people would turn up 150 people turn up it was standing room only and that
14:58was the measure of the man that everyone said golly I look forward to seeing Stan why a he was
15:03always
15:03happy he enjoyed the little things in life and b he was always helpful and I think that's one of
15:08the
15:08things that made him not frightened about death because he felt his life had been well lived and then happy
15:12to
15:12plan and talk about his death so whatever age you are I guess you'll mid-fifties now Nick I wish
15:1970 make a plan tell people what you want because stuff happens to people at any time in their life
15:24falling ill is like falling in a river you can have a stroke you can it can just suddenly hit
15:28you but
15:28if you've talked about what your wishes are if you should end up in that situation it makes it so
15:32so
15:33much easier for the NHS and for your loved ones I didn't need to use any guidelines at all there
15:38are
15:38all sorts of guidelines about caring for people who we didn't need to do it we did it on humanity
15:41compassion and communication and we're able to give Stan a good good death at the end of it so
15:46you've got to talk about it it's never too late to talk about death that's my lead parting message
15:50today thank you great advice well done wonderful thank you so much dr. Phil now 48 plays that David 17
16:01and we turn to
16:02Mattie for letters game don't make a consonant please thank you Mattie Zed and a long T and another Y
16:12and fourth ah and vowel oh another I and another oh and a consonant N and final consonant please and
16:30a final D
16:31stand by
16:32and
16:34and
16:47and
16:48and
16:48and
16:48and
17:04Matty. Six. For six, David? A very risky five. And that five? Rooty. Right, well, we'll come to that in
17:13second, Matty.
17:14Toroid. Yep, Rooty is absolutely fine, it's in the dictionary, and toroid means a ring-shaped like a donut.
17:2254 plays 17. Matty winning at the minute. David, it's your letters game. A consonant, please, Rachel.
17:30Thank you, David. P. Another one. T. A vowel. E. Consonant. N. Another consonant. M. A vowel. A. Consonant. R.
17:52A vowel. U. A consonant.
17:56And the last one. T. Countdown.
17:59T. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A
18:14vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A
18:14vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A
18:14vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A
18:14vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A
18:14vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A
18:16vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A
18:20vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel
18:31yes David seven a seven Matty seven David pattern pattern and trumpet and
18:39trumpet very good excellent now what is the corner got to offer dr. Phil can't
18:46beat seven pewterman which is part of the brain I can't quite remember where
18:49it is but it's in there somewhere pewterman right it's the outer part of
18:54the lentiform nucleus which is one of the two great yes is the corpus right and
19:02one of the two great nuclear definitely totally good I was asleep in that lecture
19:07obviously tempura is in there as well isn't it that's nice yes you can eat
19:11that can you yeah I thought that was part of the brain as well what is it it is
19:18vegetables for example in Japanese cookery that are fried all right 61 place 24
19:24Matty numbers please one large and five small please thank you Matty one from
19:29the top and five little ones and for this round your little ones are five three
19:35four six and eight and the big 175 and the target four hundred and twenty eight four
19:43two eight
19:45so
20:16Mattie?
20:174 to 8.
20:184 to 8.
20:19David?
20:194 to 30.
20:204 to 30.
20:21Let's go with Mattie first then.
20:2375 minus 4.
20:2475 minus 4, 71.
20:27Times 6.
20:28Times by 6 for 426.
20:30And then 5 minus 3.
20:31And 5 minus 3 for the 2.
20:33Well done.
20:34Well done.
20:34Well done.
20:37Well done, Mattie.
20:39Always strong on the maths.
20:41Let's have a tea time teaser.
20:43It's ran by duo.
20:44And the clue, the runs weren't ran by the duo, the ball flew over the rope.
20:51The runs weren't ran by the duo, the ball flew over the rope.
21:11Welcome back.
21:12I left with the clue, the runs weren't ran by the duo, the ball flew over the rope.
21:17And the answer is boundary, boundary.
21:22So 71 plays 24 and David, it's your letters game now.
21:27David?
21:27Consonant, please.
21:28Thank you, David.
21:30S.
21:31Another one.
21:33D.
21:34Consonant again.
21:56And a final consonant, please.
21:59And a final N.
22:01Stand by.
22:02The other one.
22:39And Matty?
22:40I'll stick with a seven.
22:41David?
22:43Slider?
22:45Yes.
22:45Matty?
22:46Minders.
22:48Both absolutely fine.
22:51What's a slider?
22:51What was your wrist going to be?
22:54Nurdles.
22:54That's a good old gum word.
22:57Nurdles.
22:58There we are.
23:00They're in actually.
23:01No.
23:01Yeah.
23:02Oh, sorry.
23:05Never mind.
23:05What are they?
23:06They're small pellets of plastic which serve as raw material in the manufactured plastic
23:10products.
23:11It's also the name for the perfect swish of toothpaste that you get in toothpaste ads.
23:16I thought nurdling was a crickety term.
23:18You only just sort of nurdle the ball down the long leg or something.
23:21Slider I thought was one as well.
23:22That's when the ball slides out of the side of it.
23:24That sounds like a cricket though, is it?
23:25It's usually the, you know when you've got on old fashioned radios you've got the slider
23:28to tune in and out.
23:30Yeah.
23:31Well enough of all that.
23:32Dr Phil.
23:33We have an eight.
23:34Misruled.
23:35Misruled isn't there for eight.
23:36Very good.
23:37Susie.
23:38That's it.
23:39Alright.
23:41Well done.
23:42Now then Matty.
23:43Letters game.
23:44Could I have a consonant please, Richard?
23:47Thank you Matty.
23:48R.
23:50And another one.
23:52L.
23:53And another.
23:55F.
23:56And a vowel.
23:58I.
23:58I.
23:59And another.
24:00O.
24:01And another.
24:02E.
24:04And a consonant.
24:05N.
24:07And another one.
24:09D.
24:11And a vowel please.
24:13And the last one.
24:14O.
24:16Countdown.
24:17E.
24:18The coalition.
24:18We will spend more.
24:19In 4.
24:23And one.
24:30And one.
24:31And the two.
24:38One.
24:40One.
24:47Matty? Seven. A seven. David? Seven. Matty? Flawed. Flawed and? Flawed. You're both flawed.
24:55Well done. And anybody else flawed? We didn't get that, actually. There's a fondler hiding
25:00in there for seven. Fondler, but you've got even better than that. Yes, a roof line is
25:06there, all one word. The design of proportions of a vehicle's roof, believe it or not. A
25:10roof line. Yeah, I can understand that. Very good. All right. 85 to 31. Susie, speak to us,
25:18speak to us of your origins of words. Well, if you remember a while back, I talked about
25:24how the word sleazy may possibly come from Silesia, the country, because they produced a cloth which
25:34over time, a little bit like tawdry, St. Audrey's lace, that's another story, became seen
25:40as being rather cheap and coarse. That's possibly, possibly, the origin of our word sleaze. And
25:46I've certainly mentioned how the cravat comes from Croatian, so it was a corruption, if you
25:53like, of Croatian, because Croatian mercenaries used to wear these scarves around their necks,
25:58which became our cravats. Well, there's another one, which is slightly similar. It's a word that
26:03comes from a particular part of the world, and that is slave. Because in the Middle Ages,
26:08the warring Germanic peoples, they conquered a great part of the Slavic population of Eastern
26:14Europe. And conquered Slavs were sold, handled pretty much as merchandise, and basically exchanged
26:22throughout Europe. Not a very nice time. And from the Slavs' own name from themselves came the term
26:28Sclavus, and that was used, because Latin was the tongue spoken across medieval Europe,
26:33that was the general term for these Slavs, as I say, that were pretty much a cheap commodity.
26:38And this Sclavus is at the root of our modern English slave, and it became used for any human
26:43servant, whatever their origin. And he used servant there, because slavery is a word,
26:47was a fairly late arrival into English. And of course, the concept of slavery has existed
26:51for millennia. And the word in classical Latin was service, and that is at the heart of servant,
26:58and also serf. And a serf was somebody who belonged to the land, and was brought along
27:02with the land, rather than a servant who travelled with his master. But there's another word that
27:07you might never guess has slavery behind it, and that's in the breezy word, ciao. Italian
27:13for farewell, used by some people in English as well. Ciao, ciao, goodbye. But actually,
27:19that's a dialect version in Italian of the Latin Sclavus, and it was used pretty much
27:23in the same way as a sign-off in formal letters as your slave. That was the idea. Ciao was
27:28your servant. I am your servant. And finally, service is also hidden behind the concierge of
27:34the modern hotel, or apartment block, and that comes from the Latin con-service, who was
27:40a fellow slave. Very good. Very good. Ciao, how interesting. And the concierge, your servant.
27:51Well, well, well, 85 plays 31. David, penultimate letters came for you. A consonant to start with,
27:59please. Thank you, David. C. Another one. X. Another one. S. A vowel. A. Consonant. M. Another
28:15consonant. L. A vowel. E. Another vowel. I. And a final consonant, please. And a final D. And
28:28here's the countdown clock.
28:31.
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29:01a six and eight and eight my word David smiled which is what I'm not doing
29:07smiled and decimals decimals very good very good indeed and if you shift
29:16around decimals you can get medicals yes another eight exclaims explain explain
29:24very good 93 plays 31 and Matt here I think it's your game let's is economic
29:32consonant please thank you Matty and another one s and another D and the
29:43vowel you and another B another oh and the consonant please ah and another P and a
30:00consonant please and lastly T stand by
30:36now then Matthew I'll stick with the safety thank you David seven and your
30:42seven prudent prudent seven and Matty pounders yep pounders actually find a
30:48personal thing weighing a specified number of pounds but Matthew did you have a
30:52risky nine unsported unsported not there unsporting but not unsported
30:59all right and dr. Phil but the quite a few eights that proudest is there isn't
31:05it yes proudest is that's nice and postured as well postured all right 101
31:10look at this Matty you've cracked through 100 101 very good indeed as we turn to
31:16the final numbers game David the traditional one big five small piece
31:22thanks David keeping with tradition one large and five little for the final time
31:27today and these numbers are two another two seven ten four and a large 175 and the
31:36last target of the day 353 353
31:44so
31:56so
31:57so
31:57so
32:11Well, David.
32:12Not new enough, I'm afraid, Nick.
32:14No, how about Matty?
32:15I think I've got 3.52.
32:18Let's hear from you.
32:19So, 75 plus 7.
32:2482.
32:26No, I've got an answer.
32:29Rachel.
32:31Down to you.
32:32Rachel, how does it look?
32:33Yes, it was there.
32:35If you say 10 plus 2 is 12, plus 75 for 87, times that by 4 for 348,
32:44and then 7 minus the other 2 is 5, and you get 353 when you add them together.
32:49Oh, smashing.
32:49Well done.
32:50Thank you, Rachel.
32:53Very good indeed.
32:54So, Fox, both of you there by that, but Rachel cracked it.
32:59Of course she did.
33:00So, we're the final round now, champs.
33:02Fingers on buzzers.
33:03Let's reveal today's countdown conundrum.
33:18David.
33:20Liberally?
33:21Liberally.
33:22Let's see whether you're right.
33:24Liberally.
33:25Well done, David.
33:26Well done.
33:28Well done.
33:29Late surge there, David, but Matty's cracked through 101.
33:33It's also his fifth win, so no shame in getting beaten by Matty today, David.
33:40Indeed not.
33:42But here's a goodie bag for you.
33:43And back to Plumstead Common and your great work with those charities.
33:49Very well done.
33:50Matty, we shall see you on Monday.
33:52Well done.
33:53Well done.
33:53Susie, have a pleasant weekend.
33:55We're off racing now.
33:57And Phil, Dr. Phil, thank you so much for another, you know, great five shows.
34:03It's been an absolute pleasure.
34:04Can I just say I'm at the Beaudley Festival on the 15th of October and Stratford Arts Centre
34:08on the 28th doing a charity thing for Kissing It Better.
34:11Wonderful charity.
34:12You come and see us very soon again.
34:14It's always a great pleasure to have you here.
34:15Rachel?
34:16Yeah.
34:16My parents went to see Dr. Phil recently.
34:19What did they think?
34:19They thought it was brilliant and they're both still alive, so it obviously works.
34:22There you are.
34:23Cause and effect.
34:24Cause and effect.
34:24That's proper science, that is.
34:25All right.
34:26See you on Monday, Rachel.
34:27See you then.
34:28Join us then.
34:28We're racing for the rest of the week, but join us Monday.
34:31Same time.
34:31You'll be sure of it.
34:32A very good afternoon to you.
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