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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:34I don't know whether you read the same report that I did recently about teenagers needing a lie-in in
00:40the mornings.
00:40Apparently there's evidence that people's natural sleep patterns vary with age.
00:45And it says here, a 9am school start for young children is absolutely fine.
00:52But teenagers would be better suited to a 10 o'clock in the morning school start.
00:57And also, many more people would benefit from a later alarm call.
01:01That's certainly true, my point.
01:03It's only when you get to the age of about 55, the report suggests, that people revert to an earlier
01:09start.
01:10So, young children and the more mature are able to get up early in the morning, except me.
01:17Except me.
01:18When I was a teenager, I lay around in bed and, given half a chance, I do today.
01:23How about you?
01:24Oh, yeah, me too.
01:24Are you an early riser?
01:25No?
01:25Absolutely not.
01:26Never.
01:27Night owl.
01:27I think that's a scientifically proven thing as well.
01:29But my nan is 88 and she still sleeps like a teenager.
01:33So, yeah, between me and her, don't ring either of us before noon because you won't get an answer.
01:37Very good.
01:37Nothing wrong with that, though.
01:39I think country people tend to get up very early.
01:42My Catherine, she's out of bed like a shot of 5.30.
01:45That's crazy.
01:45I don't understand it.
01:46I would much rather go to bed at half past five than even think about opening my eyes at that
01:50kind of time.
01:51Yeah, I know.
01:52There we are.
01:53I still lie around in bed unless I have to get up and then I'm moaning and groaning.
01:58Now then, who have we got with us, Rachel?
02:00We've got James Richards back again, vocalist, rapper, music producer from Tottenham.
02:04Two great wins.
02:05Well done, James.
02:06And you're joined today by David Tucker, a pricing manager from Wokingham, a trumpeter in the local orchestra and enjoys
02:14taking part in swim-a-thons.
02:17That's right.
02:18What's the sort of distance would a swim-a-thon be?
02:21So, the swim-a-thon I do is 5K, which is 200 lengths of the pool.
02:27It takes sort of between an hour and a half, two hours.
02:30And you're doing the crawl or breaststroke?
02:33I'm doing the crawl and that, yes.
02:35Basically, each year I get very unfit and then I spend ten weeks training for this thing, raise a bit
02:40of money for charity.
02:41Yeah, good for you.
02:42Let's have a round of applause for David and James.
02:51And in the corner, on this Wednesday, of course, Susie Dent and the wonderful Deborah Meaden.
02:56I guess for many, the face of business on television with your extraordinary career in Dragon's Den.
03:03You've been on it since, I think, about, what, 2006?
03:062006, absolutely.
03:07Brilliant.
03:07Ten years, nearly.
03:08Yeah.
03:09And it's good for you, too, because not only is it great fun, but also you're investing in companies, but
03:15also you can pick up the phone to anybody in business and they'll take the call sort of thing.
03:20Absolutely.
03:20Even if I have just sheer curiosity, what's she calling me for?
03:24Yeah, yeah.
03:25Great stuff.
03:25All right.
03:26More stories from the Dragon's Den a little bit later on, perhaps.
03:29But right now, it's James Richards and a letters game.
03:33James.
03:34Hello, Rachel.
03:35Hi again, James.
03:35Let me start with a consonant, please.
03:38Start today with M.
03:40And another one, please.
03:42D.
03:44And a vowel.
03:46I.
03:46And another.
03:48U.
03:50And another.
03:51O.
03:53And a consonant.
03:55P.
03:56And another.
03:58T.
04:00And one more, please.
04:02D.
04:05And a vowel, please.
04:07And the last one.
04:08E.
04:09And here's the countdown clock.
04:11The.
04:12And a vowel.
04:13And a vowel, please.
04:40And a vowel, please.
04:41well James 6 David 6 James pouted pouted and David tedium tedium very good now
04:54what news from the corner Deborah Susie well we had tedium yeah yes and there
05:01is a seven that imputed if a crime is imputed to somebody it's attributed to
05:08them it's to represent something usually not very good has been done by somebody
05:12else imputation all right so David how about you
05:16letters hi Rachel hi David hi could I start with a consonant please you can
05:21indeed thank you start with our and a vowel a another vowel a consonant please
05:31T consonant K consonant R vowel U consonant T and another consonant please and lastly D
05:52stand by
06:24Well, David.
06:25A six.
06:26A six, James?
06:28Six.
06:29David?
06:30Ratted.
06:31You ratted on me.
06:33James?
06:33The same word.
06:34James, too.
06:35All right.
06:37Now then, Deborah?
06:38So, tarred.
06:40Yep.
06:42Rutted.
06:43Yes.
06:44Was it?
06:45Yes, that was it.
06:46That's it?
06:46Six is for us, yes.
06:47Arred and rutted.
06:48Tarred and feathered.
06:50Twelve apiece, and James.
06:52Numbers time has come around.
06:54Try the inverted T, please.
06:55Thank you, James.
06:56It's inverted T.
06:57One from the top, and five little ones.
06:59And the first numbers game of the day is seven, nine, nine, two, three, and the big one, 100.
07:07And the target, 757.
07:10Seven, five, seven.
07:13Manybacks play with Brazil with guts.
07:14And the leading consåž‹ of the day is eight, nine, one, 100.
07:26We've got amarried – the kind of wave of spur, and that boy, 100.
07:27But it's a little bit of a wave of interest.
07:28The most active, the world a wave of never boasts, the acho that even ahead of you may believe it
07:28was just 10-15.
07:28Susan, from the topwain, one of the topwain, the big ones.
07:29D version of the amazon.
07:30We've got a rakaman, one of the topwain, one of the topwain, one of the topwain, one of the topwain
07:33.��á,
07:34two, one, five, ten, six, five. The most 알�ード
07:37map surprise is 89, seven, seven, nine, seven, seven, seven.
07:42yes James 757 757 David 756 756 so James let's see um 100 plus 9 109 times 7 is 763
07:59minus 9
08:01yep 754 and add the three well done 757 well done well done James early lead 22 to 12 as
08:13we turn to our
08:14first tea time teaser which is plum fads and the clue might these help keep your tiger feet clean
08:21might these help keep your tiger feet clean
08:39welcome back I left with the clue might these help keep your tiger feet clean and the answer
08:45is mud flaps mud flaps remember mud all those years ago mud flaps 22 plays uh David's 12 James in
08:54the
08:54lead and it's David's letters game David I'll start with a consonant please thank you David
09:01n another consonant b a third r a vowel please e another vowel a another vowel
09:15o a consonant d a consonant m and a consonant and the last one g stand by
09:31holding on ish
09:33I'm on".
09:35I'm on.
09:36I'm on.
10:08MUSIC CONTINUES
10:09Baged and James Broaden
10:13Broaden
10:13Excellent
10:14Indeed
10:14Well done
10:16Now what have we got?
10:18Deborah and Susie
10:19So we've got embargo
10:21There's seven
10:22And abdomen
10:23Seven
10:24Ah the old abdomen
10:25A punch in the abdomen
10:27And anything else Susie?
10:30There is an eight
10:30It's like the unusual eight
10:31Dragomen
10:32Or dragomen
10:33D-R-A-G-O-M-E-N
10:35They're interpreters or guides
10:37In country speaking Arabic
10:38Turkish or Persian
10:40Really?
10:41Dragomen
10:41Very good
10:45Thank you
10:4629 plays 12
10:48And James
10:49It's your letters game now
10:50James
10:50Um
10:51Consonant please
10:52Thank you James
10:53T
10:54And another one
10:57S
10:58And another
10:59W
11:01And a vowel please
11:03U
11:04And another
11:05A
11:06And another
11:08I
11:10And a consonant
11:12S
11:14And a consonant
11:16J
11:20And a vowel please
11:23And to finish
11:25O
11:25And here's the countdown clock
11:56Walk
11:59James?
12:01Six.
12:02And David?
12:03Also six.
12:04Thank you, James.
12:05Jousts.
12:06And both of you jousting?
12:08Yeah, jousts.
12:08You are jousting, I suppose, really.
12:11Intellectual jousting.
12:12And in the corner, Deborah?
12:15Jousts.
12:15I think Susie had some.
12:17Yes, just another six.
12:19Tawais, or Tawais, T-O-W-A-I-S.
12:22They're large New Zealand timber trees.
12:25All right, thank you.
12:2635 plays 18.
12:28David, it's your numbers game now.
12:31Can I have the one from the top, please, Rachel, and any other five?
12:34You can indeed.
12:35Thank you, David.
12:35Another one large five, a little one selection.
12:38And for this round, the little ones are six, two, four, two, eight.
12:44All the evens.
12:45And the large one, 50.
12:47And the target odd, 455.
12:51455.
13:23David.
13:24A four, five, four.
13:25One away, James.
13:27454.
13:28Both of you.
13:29So, David.
13:31I did two over two is one.
13:36Two over two, one.
13:37Plus eight.
13:38Nine.
13:39Times 50.
13:41450.
13:42And add the four.
13:43Yep.
13:43Well done.
13:44One away, 454.
13:45And James?
13:46I did 50 minus four.
13:5050 minus 4, 46.
13:53Eight plus two is ten.
13:54Yep.
13:55Multiply them together.
13:56460.
13:57And minus the six.
13:59And take away the six.
14:00454.
14:01There we are.
14:01But can you make 455?
14:03That's the issue.
14:04Buckets away to get one away.
14:06But with all the evens, it was impossible.
14:08Impossible.
14:08Yep.
14:08All right.
14:09All right.
14:10So, 42 plays.
14:11David's 25 as we turn to Deborah.
14:14And Deborah, Dragon's Den has been so popular for so long with so many really great success stories.
14:20It must be amazing to see these businesses grow.
14:23It is.
14:24I mean, for me, that's the point of Dragon's Den.
14:26You know, it's to see these things that start as often ideas and end up being, you know, world beaters.
14:32And I've got one.
14:34It's just the story of dragons.
14:35A 13-year-old putting his blinds up with his grandfather in his bedroom.
14:40And he can't get the blinds to stay up.
14:42So, his granddad, who's an engineer, says, let's go and make something.
14:45And they make this thing.
14:45And they sit with it.
14:46And then they think, oh, maybe we've got something here.
14:48And they come on to Dragon's Den.
14:49And he's only 18 when he comes on to Dragon's Den.
14:52He's done nothing with it for five years.
14:54And pitches it.
14:56And it all goes horribly wrong when the thing fails.
14:59You know, Peter pulls the radiator off the wall.
15:01And everybody goes, oh, it'll never work.
15:04And what it is, it's the simplest thing.
15:06It's a plasterboard fixing.
15:07It's not, you know, nobody.
15:09You wouldn't get overexcited about it.
15:11But it's the strongest plasterboard fixing in the world he has invented.
15:15And we are now throughout the world.
15:19And we're now doing a deal with the U.S.
15:23With 21,000 stores in the U.S.
15:26And he is still only 21 years old.
15:28And to me, that's what Dragon's Den is all about.
15:31Fantastic.
15:31Amazing.
15:32Fantastic.
15:32Amazing.
15:33Well done.
15:33And good for you, because you got him off the ground.
15:35Well, absolutely.
15:36Well, that's my best moment, of course.
15:37You know what?
15:38I know when I've done well, when the other dragons never mention it again.
15:43They have not mentioned Grip It from the day I invest it.
15:46So I know I've done well.
15:47Brilliant.
15:47Lovely.
15:48Thank you very much.
15:53You're an angel, as it were, as well as a dragon.
15:55I like that.
15:56All right.
15:57Well done.
15:58Now then, James, how about a letters game?
16:00All right.
16:01Consonant, please.
16:02Thank you, James.
16:04T.
16:05And another.
16:08Vowel, please.
16:11A.
16:12Another vowel.
16:14E.
16:16Consonant, please.
16:18D.
16:18Consonant.
16:21R.
16:23Consonant.
16:25S.
16:27One more, please.
16:29M.
16:32And a vowel, please.
16:33And the last one.
16:35O.
16:36And here's the countdown clock.
17:08Yes, James?
17:10Um, seven.
17:12Seven.
17:13David?
17:14Seven as well.
17:15All right, so James?
17:16Sported.
17:18Sported and David Tucker?
17:19Stomped.
17:20Stomped.
17:21Very happy with stomped.
17:22Yep, good sevens.
17:23All right, anything else?
17:25Ray domes are there for seven.
17:27Yes.
17:28And there is an eight there.
17:30Re-adopt.
17:31Re-adopt.
17:32Very well done.
17:33All right.
17:34And so, David, you're a little bit behind.
17:3749 to, um, you're 32.
17:40And now it's letters came for you.
17:42I'll have a vowel to start, please.
17:44Thank you, David.
17:45I.
17:45And consonant.
17:48T.
17:49And a consonant.
17:51R.
17:52Another consonant.
17:54V.
17:55A consonant.
17:58C.
17:58Vowel, please.
18:00E.
18:01Another vowel.
18:03A.
18:05A consonant.
18:07D.
18:08And a vowel, please.
18:11And lastly, I.
18:14Stand by.
18:14And a vowel.
18:42A consonant.
18:43Bye-bye.
18:44A consonant.
18:44David six six and James six David craved now then James advice advice and what
18:59else have we got Deborah and the interesting I was fives rivet trice
19:05tread yeah yeah traced but it's a tricky one that six was the best that we had
19:10very well all right so it's James and numbers oh I'll go with one from the top
19:17please thank you James one large and five more little ones and this time the
19:23little ones are four five ten four and six and the big one seventy five and the
19:32target two hundred and seventy two seven zero
19:37so
19:50so
20:04well James I have two seven one one away down and David no come on so we revert to James
20:16James
20:17right four times seventy five is three hundred yep four times ten is forty the
20:27other four times ten is forty I think I did six plus five is eleven yeah forty
20:37minus eleven is twenty nine and three hundred minus the twenty nine is two seven
20:42one two seven one yes neat enough but not perfect two seventy Rachel do that again
20:50four seventy fives for your three hundred and six fives a thirty there we go well done
20:58well done so sixty two plays uh David's thirty eight as we go to a tea time teaser which is
21:06snap lies and the clue it sounds like the damaged window never felt a thing it sounds like the
21:12damaged window never felt a thing
21:30one welcome back left with the clue it sounds like the damaged window never felt a thing it was painless
21:39painless painless so sixty two plays David's thirty eight David I'll have a consonant please thank
21:46you David T and a vowel U and a vowel O consonant C a consonant R a consonant H a
22:04vowel I another vowel
22:08E and a consonant please and lastly S stand by
22:15for the note here
22:16down Mario
22:20it's okay
22:20I'm you see you as the Kimber
22:46Yes, David?
22:47An eight.
22:48An eight, James.
22:50Eight.
22:51Two eights.
22:52David?
22:53Outcries.
22:54And James?
22:55Same word.
22:58Just pass it there.
22:59And did we have that in the corner?
23:02We had that, and we had touchier.
23:05Touchier.
23:06As an eight.
23:06Well done.
23:07Seventy plays forty-six.
23:08James, your letters game.
23:10I'll start with a vowel, please.
23:11Thank you, James.
23:13O.
23:13And another one?
23:15I.
23:16And a consonant?
23:17Z.
23:19And another one, please.
23:22H.
23:23And another?
23:25N.
23:27And another?
23:29L.
23:30And one more, please.
23:33Another N.
23:36And a vowel, please.
23:38A.
23:42And a consonant, please.
23:43And the last one?
23:45S.
23:46Countdown.
23:48Countdown.
23:48T minds of tribal!
23:50T going to trump!
24:16You won the last one.
24:18We'll leave.
24:18well james um seven a seven david just five and your five zonal zonal james um shaolin
24:31how are you spelling that s-h-a-o-l-i-n i'm just worried about it being yeah it's
24:39in but it's
24:40capital yes uh school of chinese martial arts developed by the monks of the shaolin temple
24:45uh brilliant words just capitalized sorry sorry bad luck bad luck so 70 plays 51 now but what have
24:54we got in the corner there well i only got a five with slain slain susie uh if you just
25:00push it one
25:00further to six halons are uh any of a number of unreactive gaseous compounds uh used in fire
25:07extinguishers yeah yeah indeed now what have we got susie in your origins of words today i've had a
25:14nice email from brian lewis in leicester he says why when we've had a few too many drinks are we
25:19described as being drunk as a lord uh what's so special about being a lord well there are lots of
25:26phrases if you look in the um in the big oxford english dictionary associating particular types
25:30of behavior not all of it good with aristocratic lords there's living like a lord which implies
25:37a bit of luxury but perhaps a bit of arrogance in there as well swearing like a lord has also
25:43uh been around for a while but the most popular by far is drunk as a lord and during the
25:4918th and 19th
25:50century alcohol fueled usually riotous behavior was particularly associated with the aristocracy
25:56aristocracy they were the people who had the money to go out and have these big big nights out on
26:01the
26:02town and it's one one particularly riotous spree has possibly and i say possibly given us the phrase to
26:07paint the town red and if you go to melton mowbray in leicestershire they will claim that that is where
26:13the term originated and the marquis of waterford was a particularly notorious lord in fact he may have
26:20been the slightly mythological figure of spring-heeled jack who would go around the town doing all sorts
26:25of things we know that the marquis of waterford was at oxford where he was politely invited to leave
26:30but apparently one night in i think it was 1847 he went out with his friends more bloods and they
26:37did
26:37quite literally paint the town red they took paint and they painted the toll house and various other
26:43buildings in the in the town bright red i would love to be able to prove one day that that's
26:50where
26:50it all started painting the town red but to go back to brian's question being drunk as a lord
26:55is they're just one of the things that they used to get up to in the 18th and 19th century
26:59when
27:00alcohol featured large well done very good
27:0570 plays 51. david your letters game now uh let's have a consonant please thank you david r and a
27:14vowel
27:14e and another van you and consonant s a consonant
27:25f consonant n a vowel o a consonant t and a consonant and lastly w countdown
28:11yes david
28:15um
28:15seven james just six a six yeah and what is it france now then david a towners
28:26oh no not that there's new towner in there but not towners townies we normally say
28:33sorry david and in the corner deborah so we have fortunes which is an eight an eight and susie
28:40um nice seven they're tonsia which is the part of a monk's head which is left bare on top they
28:45shave
28:46the hair all right 76 plays 51 and james final letters game for you all right um consonant please thank
28:54you
29:24james james r and a vowel
29:24and a vowel please and the last one a stand by
29:29so
29:31MUSIC PLAYS
30:01An eight.
30:02An eight.
30:03David?
30:04An eight.
30:05Two eights.
30:05Well done, James.
30:07Outrages.
30:08Both of you?
30:09Yep.
30:10There we go.
30:10Just compare notes.
30:12Well done.
30:13Outrages.
30:15A good eight.
30:1784 to 59.
30:20And, David, final numbers game.
30:22I'll stick with one from the top and five from anywhere else, please.
30:25Thank you, David.
30:25One from the top row, five little ones calming up.
30:27And the final selection of the day is seven, eight, six, one, seven, and 50.
30:36And the target to reach 526.
30:39Five, two, six.
31:09One, two, six.
31:11David?
31:125, 2, 4.
31:165, 2, 4, two away, James?
31:19Nowhere near.
31:20No? No.
31:21So David, what can you do for us?
31:26I think it's going to go wrong.
31:2850 plus 7.
31:2957.
31:31Times by the 8 plus the 1.
31:358 plus 1 is 9.
31:37Times them together for 513.
31:42And then I...
31:44No, sorry, I've gone wrong now.
31:46So we have to turn to you, Rachel.
31:48Rachel, rescuers, 5, 2, 6.
31:50Well, I got there a different way,
31:52but with this method you have a 7 and a 6 left over,
31:56and you can actually get spot on.
31:575, 2, 6.
31:59I just didn't have it written down.
32:01Bad luck, David, bad luck.
32:02Listen, with that lights and the clock and all the rest of it,
32:04it's not easy.
32:05But you got there another way.
32:07To prove I'm not lying.
32:08Yeah, you could have said,
32:097 plus 7 plus 1 is 15,
32:12plus 50, 65.
32:14Times it by 8 for 520,
32:17and then you've got 6 left over for 526.
32:19Actually, there we are.
32:20Two ways to do it.
32:20Well done.
32:23Well done.
32:25So, James fell over on that one,
32:27but nonetheless, he's 84, David's 59.
32:29as we go into the final round,
32:31which, of course, as we all know,
32:32is the conundrum round.
32:34So, David and James, fingers on buzzers,
32:37let's reveal today's countdown conundrum.
32:42David?
32:43Yes.
32:44Clobbered?
32:45Clobbered.
32:46My word, that's quick.
32:47Let's see whether you're right.
32:49Fantastic.
32:51Fantastic.
32:52My word, David.
32:54They don't come any quicker than that.
32:56That's extraordinary.
32:59Two seconds at most.
33:00Well done.
33:00But a little bit too late, unfortunately.
33:03You go down 69 to James' 84,
33:05and so it is, with regret, I guess,
33:09that you take this goodie bag back to Wokingham
33:12and your company.
33:13You're a pricing manager.
33:14What sort of industry are you in?
33:16I hesitate to say I'm in energy.
33:19Energy.
33:19All right.
33:20Okay.
33:21I was just thinking I could introduce you to Deborah
33:24and see whether she's got the pricing right on her
33:28Blasterboard product, but perhaps not.
33:30Anyway, James Richards, terrific stuff.
33:33Three good wins.
33:34Brilliant stuff.
33:35See you tomorrow.
33:36See you tomorrow.
33:37All right.
33:37Deborah, we won't be seeing you tomorrow.
33:39I know.
33:40I've had a lovely time.
33:41Well, we've enjoyed having you.
33:43Always good stories and a delightful person.
33:46And great good fortune with that product,
33:48the Blasterboard product.
33:50Fantastic.
33:51We shall see you tomorrow, Susie.
33:52See you tomorrow.
33:53Well, we'll have Richard Madeley with us.
33:55Excellent.
33:55The great Richard Madeley.
33:56That'll be fun.
33:57He's always good fun.
33:59So tomorrow, Richard Madeley.
34:01Yeah.
34:01The United fans got his treble three in a row.
34:03See if he can do better than United and get four.
34:05Exactly.
34:06All right.
34:06See that tomorrow.
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