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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio and here we are in Salford Quays, just a cockstride of course
00:38from the Lowry Centre, the Lowry Theatre and of course named after the great L.S. Lowry who passed away
00:4440 years ago today.
00:46A very iconic painter of course, one of the great painters, British painters of the 20th century, famous I suppose
00:53for his distinctive landscapes and those matchstick men.
00:56But Lowry holds the record, apparently, for having rejected, turned down, declined more honours than anybody else.
01:06I don't know how they found this out, but apparently he turned down five invitations.
01:10An OBE, fine, a CBE and a knighthood back in 68.
01:14So he decided that actually he was a man of the people, did not wish to be recognised for his
01:20great work.
01:21Let his work speak for itself, I suppose is what he was saying to himself.
01:25Who would you like to see honoured, knighted, for doing really truly good work?
01:29I don't think, you know, it's all about the celebrities, it's all about people that do charity work or good
01:33work in communities.
01:34Good work.
01:35At my old school, there's a brilliant maths teacher called Sarah Inbush and she's made maths really fun and everyone
01:40gets on really well and she helps other schools in the community as well.
01:44That's it.
01:44And she set up loads of good schemes.
01:45When I was at school, I was the only one doing further maths and now in the girls' school there's
01:49about, I don't know, 30 or something.
01:51Good.
01:51She's really changed it around in not very long and she's very enthusiastic and she's brilliant.
01:54How about that?
01:55All right.
01:55Now, who's here?
01:56Paul, our wonderful young player, you're setting a blazing trail here, tremendous performance.
02:04But you've got to get past Julie Hall, the language tutor and writer of historical children's fiction from Bristol who
02:11lived in that glorious city of Toulouse for almost 20 years.
02:14I think your husband's in the aircraft industry?
02:16That's right, yes.
02:17And you had the joy of living in that pink city, the rose city made of red brick.
02:22Loved the climate, loved the people.
02:25The only thing that I can say against living there is that I still find people, even after 20 years,
02:30who would look at you and think,
02:31I can see your lips are moving but I've no idea what you're saying.
02:35Whereas I think British people are far more likely to be helpful when somebody's struggling with a language.
02:41I've often heard that said of, you know, people living in Paris, but Toulouse, I think, in the south, they're
02:47more gentle and more helpful.
02:49Well, their accent's more difficult to cope with because it's quite thick.
02:53Mmm. The accent is, yeah. Yeah, I know it well.
02:57Thank you very much.
02:58Julie and Paul, let's have a big round of applause for today's contestants.
03:05And over in a corner, of course, joined once again by Julia Bradbury, TV presenter, and who's currently got this
03:11wonderful show, Britain's Best Walks with a View, and it's doing very well, I hear.
03:17It's great fun. I really like it. And people have warmed to the walk, so that's lovely.
03:20That's good. Because we first met, strangely, in the market, in Almaty, in Kazakhstan.
03:27Kazakhstan, that's right, yeah.
03:28On that wonderful...
03:28As you do.
03:30...children in need thing.
03:31That's right.
03:32And you set off then with Matt and careered off to the Japanese sea, I think, from memory.
03:36Yeah, Matt Baker and I were doing our leg of around the world in 80 days.
03:40You had just finished your leg, and we then went on the Trans-Siberian Express in Capsbury, Russia, and we
03:46were meant to get to China, but for political reasons, we were not allowed in.
03:49Oh, be naughty again.
03:51It was nice.
03:52All right, let's see. Paul, let's have a letters game. Let's get this underway.
03:56Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:58Afternoon, Paul.
03:58Consonant, please.
03:59Thank you. Start today with D.
04:02And another.
04:05W.
04:06And a vowel.
04:08U.
04:09And another.
04:10A.
04:11And a consonant.
04:13C.
04:14And another.
04:16G.
04:17And a vowel.
04:19O.
04:20And another.
04:23I.
04:25And a final vowel, please.
04:29And a final O.
04:31And here's the countdown clock.
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05:03now then paul four and julie five paul good julie audio thank you all right well done yeah well
05:15spotted can we beat that we can beat four uh no we can't we had audio but that was our
05:22best
05:22that was it all right tougher than i thought so five to julie and it's julie's first letters game
05:30now julie uh could i have a consonant please rachel thank you julie s and another r and another t
05:41and a vowel e and another u and another i and a consonant n and another d and a final
05:59vowel please and a final e stand by
06:07so
06:34julie eight an eight paul eight
06:38yes julie interest thank you paul reunited we are reunited uh reunited uh is brilliant um julie you
06:50need to tease yeah unfortunately um easy mistake to make but yeah it was a it was a quite a
06:56nice round
06:56to that one in terms of eight yeah now what have we got julia no nothing reunited was was our
07:01best
07:02that's it yep united there was nerdiest uh as well and intrudes well done paul on eight and judy five
07:09and it's a numbers game for you paul one large please thank you for one from the top row
07:15and five little ones and the first numbers game of the day is four six one three ten and the
07:24big one 100
07:26and the target six hundred and seventy nine six seven nine
07:33so
07:46so
07:46so
07:46so
07:46so
07:46so
08:01now then Paul six seven nine six seven nine do you know I'm not close enough I'm afraid no all
08:08right let's let's try Paul first shall we on a hundred plus ten one hundred plus ten hundred
08:13and ten plus three one hundred and thirteen and then times it by six times it by six for 678
08:21at the
08:21one and at the one six seven nine well done well done indeed all right propels you up to 18
08:28points
08:29Julian five as we go into our first tea time teaser which is real fish and the clue you try
08:37to reel in
08:37the biggest fish it's not as bony as the rest you try to reel in the biggest fish it's not
08:42as
08:43bony as the rest welcome back I left with the clue you try to reel in the biggest fish it's
09:07not as
09:08bony as the rest and the answer is fleshier fleshier so there we are 18 to five Paul in the
09:17lead and
09:17it's Julie's letters game Julie can I have a constant please thank you Julie oh and another
09:24p and another t and a vowel a and another you and another oh and a consonant x and another
09:43g and a final vowel please
09:47and a final a stand by
09:52so
09:53so
10:20yes Julie
10:22just a five a five a five Paul six Julie a part a part and record or I do
10:31lovely lovely it's not gonna win any prizes but perhaps always a good one
10:38yeah
10:40and the girl Susie let's be like Pratt a grout is there for five but ragu is the only six
10:45we could find
10:45grouting the bathroom all right thank you 24 please five and it's Paul's letters game Paul
10:51consonant please Rachel thank you all and and another t and a vowel I and another a and a consonant
11:05m and another s and a vowel e and another i and a final
11:20consonant please and a final R
11:23count down
11:25and
11:30and
11:31and
11:35and
11:55yes Julie
11:57uh seven a seven Paul eight and eight Julie remains remains and rainiest
12:06rainiest
12:07rainiest
12:07yes
12:08we're happy though very happy
12:10very good now then Julia and Susie what have you got
12:14minarets
12:15is another eight
12:16yeah good
12:16and raiments as well an old term for garments
12:19mmm
12:19raiment many colored raiment yeah
12:21um and we're still looking so we think there's probably a nine there possibly
12:25but
12:25but we're still looking to leave it with us
12:27yeah we'll get back to you on that one
12:28thank you all right so 32 plays five and now Julie here we go numbers time
12:34I'd like an inverted T please
12:36thank you Julie one from the top and five little ones coming up and for this round your numbers are
12:42six three
12:43three
12:43one
12:45two
12:46another two and the big one one hundred and the target six hundred and seventy six seven zero
12:52and
12:53the
12:53one
12:53and
13:04and
13:05and
13:06and
13:07and
13:23Now then, Julie.
13:25No, I'm sorry, I'm nowhere near again.
13:27Do you fire Paul?
13:286, 7, 1, not written down.
13:30Don't worry about that.
13:326, 7, 1, let's try it.
13:34OK, 3 times 2.
13:363 times 2 is 6.
13:37Times 2.
13:38Times 2 is 12.
13:39Add to the 100.
13:41112.
13:42Times by 6.
13:43Times by the actual 6 is 672.
13:47You take the 1.
13:48And you've got 1 left over for 1 away.
13:50Rachel, what can we do?
13:51Well, if you do things in a bit of a different order,
13:53so 6 times 2 is 12.
13:56Add to 100 for 112.
13:59Times that by 3 for 336.
14:02Then take the 1 for 335,
14:04and then times it by 2, you get 670.
14:07Well done, Rachel.
14:08Well done.
14:09As ever.
14:12Now, what should we do?
14:14Should we have a little chat with our dictionary corner guest, Julia?
14:18Julia, you and the family dared to go on Family Fortunes.
14:26How did it work out?
14:27I'm ashamed that we strayed.
14:29I'm so sorry.
14:29I feel disloyal to all of you.
14:31It's the one and only time I'll ever go on another game show.
14:33And I have to say, it was a pretty dismal outing as well.
14:36I think a little bit like Countdown, you have to think a certain way, don't you?
14:40You need to be in the groove with certain game shows.
14:43I can honestly say that me and my family did not make a stunning performance on Family Fortunes.
14:49It's all about thinking the question through and working out what the potential answer could be.
14:54So, for example, name something that you smoke.
14:57What are your top answers, people?
15:00Smoke?
15:00Cigarette.
15:01Cigarettes, yeah.
15:02Cigarette, yeah.
15:03Kippers.
15:04Ah.
15:04You see, he's got it.
15:06The number one answer was fish.
15:09Number one?
15:10Yes, number one was fish.
15:11We did not get that.
15:12I went through cigarettes, pipes, you know, cigarillos, you name it.
15:17So, no points for us for the Bradberries on that score.
15:20And another weird one was name something that the Queen wears on her head.
15:25So, you're coming up with the things that you think would be the top answers of everyone else.
15:29Hair.
15:30Hair.
15:30You see, you got it as well.
15:32That was answer number five.
15:34Yeah, you have to think like a weird person that comes up with the bottom answer.
15:37Yeah, it wears.
15:38But you don't wear hair.
15:39You don't wear...
15:41Anyway, I'm never straying again.
15:43That's it.
15:43It's Countdown Forever for me now.
15:44I love you all.
15:46Not easy, actually, is it?
15:47No.
15:48I mean, heaven forbid that I should ever find myself sitting over here.
15:52Because that, with the lights on that big clog, the pressure is horrendous.
15:56And I guess in Family Fortunes, a bit of pressure there, too.
15:59And then you have a competitor such as Paul as well.
16:02And it all stacks up.
16:04Not quite the same pressure on Family Fortunes.
16:05It's a bit more light-hearted and fun, but nevertheless.
16:09Well, you're forewarned now.
16:10Yes, that's right.
16:11Next time.
16:12All right.
16:13Well done, Julia.
16:1439 points to Julie's five.
16:16Plenty of time, Julie.
16:17But let's now turn to Paul for another letters game.
16:20Paul.
16:22Consonant, please, Rachel.
16:23Thank you, Paul.
16:24S.
16:25And another.
16:28N.
16:29And a vowel.
16:31O.
16:32And another.
16:34E.
16:35And a consonant.
16:37P.
16:38And another.
16:40F.
16:41And another.
16:44D.
16:45And a vowel.
16:47I.
16:49And a final vowel, please.
16:52And a final U.
16:55Stand by.
16:56And a vowel.
17:15And a vowel.
17:16And a vowel.
17:16And a vowel.
17:16And a vowel.
17:17And a vowel.
17:17And a vowel.
17:22And a vowel.
17:27Yes, Paul?
17:28Eight.
17:29Eight.
17:29Julie?
17:30Just a six.
17:31And that six?
17:33Pounds.
17:34Yes, Paul.
17:36Unpoised.
17:37Yeah.
17:38Mm, I know.
17:39I think Paul's learned to stick with me.
17:41Lacking in poise.
17:41Very good.
17:42Now, unpoised is in, I guess, all the way back to the early 17th century,
17:47lacking composure or self-assurance or simply unbalanced.
17:50Yeah.
17:51Makes the numbers, though, doesn't it?
17:53Unpoised.
17:56Well done, Julia.
17:58Susie?
17:59I'm partial to a fondue myself, so awesome fondues.
18:04Very good.
18:04Fondues.
18:04Anything else?
18:05No, we were happily fonduing.
18:07Yeah, that was it.
18:08We were too busy with our cheesy fondue.
18:10All right.
18:11Chocolate.
18:12Now then, Julie, your letters came.
18:15A consonant, please.
18:17Thank you, Julie.
18:18V.
18:19And another.
18:22Fee.
18:23And another.
18:25G.
18:26And a vowel.
18:28E.
18:29And another.
18:31E.
18:32And another.
18:34A.
18:35And a consonant.
18:37T.
18:38And another.
18:41D.
18:41And a final consonant, please.
18:46And a final R.
18:49Stand by.
18:49The.
19:10And a consonant.
19:15Going to another.
19:17The.
19:22yes seven and Julie just a six and that six trader mm-hmm Paul treats it thank
19:32you yep very good and no trader unfortunately you need two R's for that
19:37indeed there's an eight tucked away in there targeted yeah very good that's it Susie yes
19:49otherwise a virtue to the seven but that was our best all right well done all
19:53right so 54 plays five and we turn now to a numbers game with Paul one big five
19:59little please thank you Paul same as usual one large five small and this time
20:04the small ones are four one two five and ten and the big one 100 and the target 794 794
20:47yes Paul seven nine four seven nine four Julie seven nine four well done and Paul okay so 10 take
20:56two is
20:57eight ten minus two eight times a hundred eight hundred and then take the five and
21:03take the one well done yep 794 very good and Julie four times two is eight times a
21:12hundred is eight hundred and then five plus one and then take it away perfect well
21:22so here we go it's a tea time teaser which is nice idle and the clue you will have your
21:29work cut out
21:30trying to teach someone like this you'll have your work cut out trying to teach someone like this
21:52and the answer is Indos I'll an Indos so what exactly is an Indos I'll it's an adjective describing somebody
22:06in
22:06means difficult to teach or discipline and I'll be coming back to docile later
22:10so it all will be revealed thank you so 64 plays a 15 and Julie your letters
22:16game now consonant please Rachel thank you Julie and and another okay and
22:24another ah and a vowel e and another hi and another a and a consonant y and another h and
22:45a final
22:46consonant please and a final R stand by
23:22well Julie six a six ball seven Julie can you be a yanker no oh it seems a shame yeah
23:35that is a shame
23:35isn't it um it's very evocative word but it's not there I'm afraid sorry Julie nearly Paul
23:42narkia narkia yes yeah that is in um again it's quite um the sound of it is quite good isn't
23:49it
23:49bad tempered or irritable if you're narky what else we got in the corner there do you know it narkia
23:54was the best I mean I was hoping that I'd find a kia royale somewhere in there but it was
23:58just the
23:58kia unfortunately yeah all right thank you very much 71 plays 15 and Paul Paul take it away let
24:05us go consonant please Rachel thank you Paul m and another l and a vowel o and another i and
24:18the
24:18consonant g and another t and a vowel a and another e and a final vowel please and a final
24:35countdown
24:36countdown
25:08Paul.
25:08Seven.
25:09A seven.
25:10Julie.
25:11Seven.
25:12Paul.
25:13Alley goat.
25:15Alley goat.
25:16Yes, Julie.
25:18Mileage.
25:20Mileage.
25:21No mileage, Mick, I'm afraid.
25:23It's M-I-L-E-A-G-E.
25:25Oh, bad luck.
25:26Bad luck.
25:27Now, this alley goat.
25:29It's a grape, actually.
25:31Okay.
25:32Yeah, it's a variety of grape grown in Burgundy, or a white wine made from that grape.
25:36Very good.
25:37Now then, Julia and Susie, what have you got?
25:40Gimlet was there, either the tool or the cocktail.
25:45Legato, music played in a smooth, flowing manner.
25:48Yes.
25:49But alley goat was excellent.
25:51All right.
25:5278 plays 15, and we're back with you, Susie.
25:57Susie, and your origins of words.
26:00And today?
26:01Well, I had an email from Helena Green, who asked how the verb to doctor something went
26:07from its medical meaning to its sort of negative application of falsifying or tampering with
26:13something.
26:14And for that, we need to go back to the old English word for a medical doctor, which was
26:19leech.
26:20And despite the belief, it had nothing to do with the blood-sucking worm, but another
26:25sense of the word leech, which meant to heal.
26:29And a doctor was not a leech in those days.
26:33A doctor was originally any learned person who was able to give an authoritative, knowledgeable
26:38opinion on something, particularly the early Christian theologians.
26:42And a doctor comes from the Latin docere.
26:45And we talked about indocile or indocile earlier.
26:49That docere, Latin, to teach, is behind docile, which meant willing to learn, hence
26:54somebody who's indocile is not very apt for learning.
26:57And document, which is a written instruction, many, many other words in English.
27:02And a doctor only later started to refer to a medical expert or a teacher.
27:07And similarly, that earlier sense of the verb doctor was to confer a doctorate on somebody
27:12because of their huge amount of knowledge and learning.
27:15And the administering of medicine came about a century later, but it was also used more
27:19loosely to mean patching something up or putting it to rights in some way.
27:23And this idea of treating someone, changing the character of something, the nature of it,
27:29had negative possibilities right from the start.
27:31So you could treat somebody and make them well, or you could treat them and tamper around
27:35with it, so that you alter their state, but perhaps not in a very honest or good way.
27:39Very good.
27:41Well done.
27:44Thank you, Susie.
27:4678 plays, 15.
27:48And we turn now to Julie.
27:49Julie, your letters game.
27:52Consonant, please, Rachel.
27:53Thank you, Julie.
27:54M.
27:56And another.
27:58R.
28:00And another.
28:01T.
28:03And another.
28:05L.
28:07And a vowel.
28:08I.
28:09And another.
28:11E.
28:12And another.
28:14A.
28:16And a consonant.
28:18N.
28:20And another vowel, please.
28:23And the last one.
28:24I.
28:25Countdown.
28:27I.
28:28I.
28:35I.
28:43I.
28:47I.
28:49I.
28:51I.
28:51I.
28:52I.
28:57julie seven a seven paul eight and an eight from paul julie and i've completely forgotten what it
29:06was no nevermind blank paul mylarite i'm gonna throw that carelessly towards susie
29:16how are you spelling that one paul m-i-l-a-r-i-t-e another new one on me
29:24you have learned your
29:25dictionary very very well uh yeah it's a mineral a term for mineralogy and it's a hexagonal
29:30silicate uh and it's colorless to pale green um has prismatic crystals uh sounds quite a beautiful
29:38mineral but it's very very good for eight well done yeah super well done paul well done paul now
29:47what has the corner got to beat that anything can you match i just don't pull do you read a
29:52dictionary
29:52every night is that your time reading yes um terminal yeah not not exciting at all but but an eight
30:00yes and tramline another eight oh two good aids well then julia 86 plays 15 and paul final letters
30:08game for you consonant please rachel thank you paul p and another q and a vowel a and another o
30:22and a
30:23consonant n and another c and a vowel i and another e and the final consonant please and a final
30:38l stand by
31:11well paul seven a seven julie six and that's six police paul pelican pelican our old friend the
31:22pelican yes yes and what have we got there now then julia nothing uh to beat the pelican a little
31:29pencil a six yeah um and there is a botanical term which is a panicle a loose branching cluster of
31:38flowers panicle oh nice all right 93 look at this paul 93 well in the lead there as we turn
31:46to judy for
31:47the last numbers game and there's rachel waiting for you i'd like another inverted t please thank you
31:52julie another one from the top and five little one special and this time the last time today the numbers
31:58are six three eight one ten and the big one one hundred and your target four hundred and fifty one
32:08four
32:08five one
32:09uh
32:13and
32:25uh
32:26uh
32:27uh
32:29uh
32:31uh
32:32uh
32:41Julian no I'd just like to go home please now Paul four five one four five one all right tell
32:49us
32:50about that okay six plus three is nine six plus three nine times the hundred times one hundred
32:56nine hundred ten over ten sorry ten take eight is two yeah divide them 450 and then at the one
33:05four
33:05five one more done well done and so we move on to the the final round it's the conundrum round
33:17of
33:17course fingers on buzzers please let's let's reveal today's countdown conundrum
33:29quick some some stroke some stroke let's see whether you're right I have little doubt that
33:34you will have got it correctly as ever some stroke there it is well done
33:45don't be don't don't feel anxious about that because you know he's a terrific player but
33:51actually that's his lowest score so you've done some good you've you've held him back a bit
33:55hundred and thirteen good score Paul we shall see you tomorrow and Julie back to Bristol with
34:01your with your goodie back and our very best wishes and good luck with your historical writing
34:06thanks very well done indeed Paul tomorrow well done thanks have a good night's sleep Julia we
34:13shall see you tomorrow we will indeed yes good to be back and Susie too all right more fun and
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34:18tomorrow see you tomorrow Rachel more words we've never heard of before from Paul join us then same
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