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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio on this bonus leap year, or indeed as we call them, leapers.
00:38Happy birthday to leapers and leaplings who celebrate, of course, today. Good luck to anybody planning on popping the question
00:45too.
00:45There are lots of superstitions, of course, Rachel, attached to leap years. The Italians, particularly, they have several proverbs warning
00:53against planning important events on a leap year. One translates to leap year, doom year.
01:01OK. And how about, have you seen Catherine? It's normally the ladies' chance to propose.
01:04I'm staying well away from home. I'm staying well away from home today and I'm not answering any phone calls.
01:09So you don't think she wants to make an honest man out of you?
01:11She may well do, but she's not going to be able to reach me.
01:14Perfect. All right. Now, Paul, welcome back. I trust that you had a restful weekend.
01:20Absolutely. I certainly hope so, because, Paul, today is very important for you. You've had seven great wins. I think,
01:26have you scored over 100 every time or did you fall slightly shorter on Friday?
01:30Indeed. Slightly shorter on Friday.
01:32Oh, dear. Oh, dear. Anyway, I think that you've had a rest. You may well do again today.
01:38But, first of all, you've got to scramble past Dave Higgins, a technology manager from Ashford in Kent, who enjoys
01:45brewing craft beer.
01:47Correct.
01:48That's brilliant. Well, you've got a special room in the house or in the garage or what?
01:51No. Well, everything I do is on a very small scale. So I make everything on my stovetop at home
01:56and I only make sort of a gallon at a time because that way it's easier to prototype and just
02:01to come up with ideas and make them faster.
02:03So if you do a gallon a day and drink it that night, I suppose you can sort of keep
02:08up with your production.
02:10Absolutely. If nothing else, it means I don't have to buy more bottles.
02:12Indeed. All right. Let's have a big round of applause then for Dave and Paul.
02:21Dave and Paul. And over in the corner, of course, Susie, who I trust have a lovely weekend.
02:25And, of course, Julia Bradbury is back, having spent the weekend with her family, her two young, ten-month-old
02:32girl twins.
02:33Isn't that lovely?
02:34A little boy who's four and a half and two little ten-month-old girls.
02:37Yes.
02:37Fantastic. I bet you're missing them. But they're watching you, Julia.
02:40Now then, let's get down to business here. Paul, how about a letters game?
02:45Good afternoon, Rachel.
02:46Afternoon, Paul.
02:47Consonant, please.
02:48Thank you. Start the week with C.
02:50And another.
02:53L.
02:54And a vowel.
02:56I.
02:56And another.
02:58A.
02:59And a consonant.
03:01S.
03:03And another.
03:04R.
03:06And a vowel.
03:08O.
03:09And another.
03:12I.
03:14And a final consonant, please.
03:18And a final M.
03:20And here's the countdown clock.
03:32�로 lo've related to the Pokémon podcast.
03:35And a vowel.
03:36And a vowel.
03:40And a vowel.
03:43And a vowel.
03:45The Brutiler.
03:45And a vowel.
03:45And a vowel.
03:45And a vowel.
03:46And a vowel.
03:48And a vowel.
03:52Yes, Paul?
03:53Seven.
03:54Dave?
03:55Six.
03:55And that's six.
03:57Corals.
03:58Corals and?
03:59Auralism.
04:01Auralism, Susie.
04:02Yes.
04:03This one actually used to come up quite frequently on the programme.
04:07It's the system of teaching profoundly deaf people to communicate by lip reading rather than sign language.
04:13Oh, I see.
04:14Auralism.
04:15Yeah.
04:15And speaking.
04:15Auralism.
04:16All right.
04:17And what else have we got?
04:19Julia?
04:20A seven.
04:21Laicism.
04:22Yes.
04:23Laicism.
04:24Laicism, yes.
04:24Quite hard to pronounce.
04:26It's linked to laicise, which is a verb meaning to withdraw clerical control from something.
04:33Sounds painful, doesn't it?
04:34Laicism is the act of doing that, yeah.
04:36Very good indeed.
04:37All right.
04:38Seven points to Paul.
04:39Dave, your chance.
04:41Let us go.
04:41Hello, Rachel.
04:41Hi, Dave.
04:42Let's start with a consonant, please.
04:44Start with P.
04:46And a consonant.
04:48W.
04:50And a vowel.
04:52A.
04:53And a consonant.
04:56S.
04:57Another consonant, please.
04:59N.
05:01And a vowel.
05:03I.
05:04Consonant.
05:06S.
05:08Consonant, please.
05:11T.
05:13And a vowel.
05:14And lastly, E.
05:17Stand by.
05:18S.
05:19And a vowel.
05:20Mман.
05:21And a vowel.
05:48Well, Dave? Eight. An eight. Paul? No, just seven. You're seven? Panties. Panties? Thank you. Dave Higgins? Waspiest. Why not?
06:01Why not? Susie?
06:02I wish I could say yes. Waspy and waspier, waspiest is in, but with a capital W. It's all about
06:11the wasp, which is the upper American middle class person. If you're feeling slightly petulant and you think that would
06:19be waspy, it's actually waspish. So that's slightly different.
06:23What about a corset? Being the waspiest corset in the town? Waspy is the noun rather than the adjective. So
06:31the waspy accentuates a wasp waist, but there is no adjective from that. But what can we have? There is
06:38a noun actually, sapient. We talk about somebody who is sapient being wise, but a sapient is simply a human
06:45of the species homo sapiens. So you can put yes at the end for that, for eight sapiens or sapiens.
06:50Well done. Thank you, Julia. Thank you, Susie. Thank you. All right, 14 points. And Paul, numbers. Go, Paul.
07:00One large, please. Thank you, Paul. Keeping to what you know best. One large, five small, your favourite. And the
07:06first numbers game of the week is three, six, ten, two, four, and the big one, fifty. And the target,
07:16six hundred and six.
07:18Six oh six.
07:20Six oh six.
07:22Six oh six.
07:50Paul?
07:51Yes, 606.
07:53Thank you, Dave. 606.
07:55Thank you, Paul.
07:574 times 3.
07:584 threes are 12.
08:00Times 50.
08:01Times 50, 600.
08:02Plus 6.
08:03606.
08:04And Dave?
08:05I did 2 threes are 6.
08:072 threes are 6.
08:08We'll come back to that in a minute.
08:0950 plus 10 is 60.
08:11Yep.
08:12Multiply by the 10 and add the 6.
08:14Sorry, you just used this to me.
08:17Yep.
08:19Was it the same 10?
08:20Yes, it was.
08:21Sorry, Dave.
08:22That's all right.
08:23Oh, bad luck.
08:24Oh, dear.
08:25You'll get into the swing of it, though.
08:26Don't worry about that.
08:27So it's 24 points to Paul.
08:29Bags of time for Dave.
08:31Let's have a tea time cheese then, shall we?
08:34It's sad that he's really harmonic.
08:36And the clue, he enjoyed using his voice in a harmonic way.
08:40He enjoyed using his voice in a harmonic way.
08:59Welcome back.
09:00I left you with the clue.
09:00He enjoyed using his voice in a harmonic way.
09:04Why?
09:04Because he was a choir man.
09:07Choir man.
09:08There we are.
09:09Paul on 24.
09:10Dave, now what are we going to do?
09:12Letters game for you.
09:13Sure.
09:13A consonant, please.
09:15Thank you, Dave.
09:17X.
09:18And a better consonant, please.
09:20You can work with X.
09:22D.
09:22And a vowel.
09:24U.
09:26Consonant, please.
09:28M.
09:30Consonant.
09:31D.
09:33And a vowel.
09:34E.
09:36Another vowel.
09:39A.
09:41Consonant.
09:43T.
09:45And a vowel, please.
09:47And the last one.
09:48E.
09:50Stand by.
09:51And a vowel.
09:51E.
09:52B комнат.
10:13And a vowel.
10:13E.
10:22Not so easy. Dave?
10:25Six.
10:26Six, well done. Paul?
10:28I'll skip with seven.
10:30Right.
10:31That's good of you.
10:34Mr Higgins, what are you going to go for?
10:36Teamed.
10:37Thank you, Paul.
10:39Ex-U-date.
10:41Ex-U-date.
10:42Susie Dent, please.
10:43Yes, it is, in medicine, a mass of cells and fluids
10:48that have seeped out of blood vessels or an organ.
10:51So that's what happens when the body is inflamed in some way.
10:54Yeah.
10:55Ex-U-date.
10:56Well done.
11:01Well done, Paul. Well done.
11:02Now, it's back with you, actually, for a letters game.
11:06Consonant, please, Rachel.
11:07Thank you, Paul.
11:08R.
11:09And another.
11:12G.
11:12And a vowel.
11:15O.
11:16And another.
11:17U.
11:18And a consonant.
11:21T.
11:22And another.
11:24N.
11:25And a vowel.
11:27O.
11:29And another.
11:31A.
11:32And a final consonant, please.
11:35And a final R.
11:38Countdown.
11:41One more.
11:42And a vowel.
12:09Yes, Paul?
12:09Seven not written down.
12:12Seven and, Dave? Five.
12:14And your five? Grout.
12:16Grout. Now then, Paul.
12:17Outroar. Outroar.
12:20You sound confident about this one, Paul,
12:22and you'd be right to.
12:24It's another one that's come in fairly recently
12:27from the 19th century.
12:28A loud noise or cry, as in come into the dictionary quite recently.
12:31Very good. To outroar.
12:33It's actually a noun, so it's like an uproar.
12:36Oh, I see.
12:37Not one lion outroaring the next.
12:39It does mean also to roar louder than someone else.
12:42Well, thank you.
12:43All right. 38 points, my word, Paul.
12:45And it's Dave's numbers game.
12:48Good luck, Dave.
12:49Thank you. One from the top, please, Rachel.
12:50Thank you, Dave. One from the top.
12:51And five little ones again.
12:54And this time, they are seven,
12:57two, three,
12:59one, five.
13:00And the big one, 50.
13:03And the target?
13:05653.
13:05653.
13:07653.
13:08MUSIC PLAYS
13:37Yes, Dave?
13:40I...
13:41650.
13:44Paul.
13:45653.
13:47653. So let's hear it, Paul.
13:48OK, 7 plus 5 plus 1.
13:507 plus 5 plus 1, 13.
13:53Times 50.
13:54650.
13:55And you got the 3.
13:56Yeah, well done. 653.
13:58Well done. OK.
14:00Very good.
14:03Where shall we go?
14:05We'll go to Julia.
14:06Now, Julia, they say TV can be very glamorous,
14:09but I think that you probably know.
14:10Otherwise, it's not all glamour.
14:13But when you're on location on your best walk shows,
14:16sometimes things don't go to plan.
14:18Well, it's not really things don't go to plan.
14:20I don't want to spoil the glamour of television for anyone
14:22and the magic of TV,
14:24but how many people at home know that Susie's sitting next to me
14:27with a hot water bottle on her leg to keep her warm?
14:30And, in fact, Rachel...
14:31Mine's under there.
14:32Yours is tucked away under there.
14:34So things are not always as they seem on television,
14:36but people are obviously enamoured by the whole process
14:38and want to take part.
14:40And I had one particularly ardent fan,
14:43a very lovely lady called Debbie,
14:44who paid quite a lot of money to a charity,
14:47a hospice, St Luke's Hospice in Sheffield,
14:49to come on location while we were filming the walks.
14:52And we were at Kinder Scout in the beautiful Peak District.
14:54So she came for the day with a friend
14:56and she wanted to sort of be a part of it.
14:58And then we thought, well, let's make it even more exciting for her.
15:00Let's get her actually on the telly
15:01and we'll give her a role within the walks.
15:04But what she didn't realise is that we were going to throw her in a ditch
15:07and get the mountain rescue dog to sniff her out.
15:10Which is exactly what we did.
15:12And bless her, she was very game
15:13and she stayed in the ditch for a good 25 minutes.
15:15I checked on her to, you know, see that she was all OK.
15:18And she was, oh, yeah, I'm fine, thanks, Julia.
15:19She was from up north, good, tough lass.
15:22And she left quite shortly after that.
15:25Flash did a sterling job.
15:27And really, this is an opportunity to say a big thumbs up
15:30and a thanks to all the mountain rescue teams out there,
15:32including Kinder Scout Rescue Team that day who helped us
15:35and were demonstrating what a great job they do.
15:38But we are incredibly lucky in this country
15:39that we have mountain rescue teams
15:40because it is not the case all over the world.
15:43And if we get lost or take a fall or, you know, twist an ankle,
15:47then we have these incredible volunteers
15:49who do it all for nothing.
15:51They train their dogs, they're on call,
15:52and they will come and literally save the day for you.
15:56So, yeah, it was a good day.
15:58And she enjoyed herself despite being chucked in a hole.
16:00Well done. Let's have a round of applause, then.
16:02Julia and the mountain rescue team.
16:05Well done. Thanks, Julia.
16:07Thanks indeed.
16:08Paul, we're back with you. Letters game now.
16:11Consonant, please, Rachel.
16:12Thank you, Paul.
16:13P.
16:14And another.
16:16K.
16:17And a vowel.
16:18I.
16:20And another.
16:21E.
16:23And a consonant.
16:25M.
16:26And another.
16:29R.
16:30And a vowel.
16:32I.
16:34And another.
16:36A.
16:37And a final consonant, please.
16:40And lastly, M.
16:42Stand by.
17:14Yes, Paul?
17:15Seven.
17:15A seven, Dave?
17:17Six.
17:18And that's six?
17:19Pinker.
17:20Thank you, Paul.
17:21Mankier.
17:23Mankier.
17:23Yes.
17:24We love that?
17:25We are.
17:26Not a great word, but it's in the region.
17:28I like it.
17:29Manky.
17:29Mankier.
17:30Mankier.
17:31Anything else there?
17:32Well, my mum was in the fashion business,
17:35so she'll be very familiar with the pin maker.
17:38Yes, yes.
17:39People make pins?
17:41Exactly right.
17:41Pins or nails.
17:42Thank you very much.
17:44And, Dave, your letters game.
17:46Consonant, please.
17:48Thank you, Dave.
17:50T.
17:51And a consonant.
17:53Y.
17:55Vowel.
17:56U.
17:58Consonant.
18:00N.
18:02Consonant.
18:04T.
18:05Vowel.
18:07A.
18:10Consonant, please.
18:12R.
18:15Vowel.
18:17O.
18:20And a consonant, please.
18:21And the last one.
18:23F.
18:24Countdown.
18:25T.
18:26T.
18:26T.
18:28T.
18:28T.
18:29ORCHESTRA PLAYS
18:59A five, Paul?
19:00Seven.
19:01And a seven. Relentless. Dave?
19:03Tarot.
19:05Yes, why not? Tarot. And Dave?
19:07Tartuffo.
19:08Oh, hello. Tartuffo.
19:11Yes.
19:12Isn't that the name of a playwright? Tartuffo or is that Tartuffe?
19:14That's Tartuffe.
19:16This is one I do know because it's a pudding made of chocolate
19:20and it's kind of creamy and mousse-like,
19:22but it can also mean an edible fungus, not so sweet.
19:24Ooh.
19:25Mmm. Well done.
19:27Now then, Paul, we're back with you
19:30and we're looking at Rachel and waiting for a numbers game.
19:34Paul.
19:35One large, please.
19:36One large.
19:37And this is another ten for both of you. I can feel it.
19:39Right.
19:40Five little ones.
19:41And this round is five, four, one, ten.
19:46Another ten.
19:47And the large one, 25.
19:48And the target, 280.
19:52280.
19:52two.
19:53Okay.
20:08Alright.
20:10Bye.
20:23Yes, Paul?
20:24280.
20:25Thank you very much.
20:26And, uh, Dave?
20:28280.
20:29Well done.
20:29All right.
20:30Paul?
20:31Um, OK, so, uh, four take one.
20:34Four take one, three.
20:35Plus 25.
20:3628.
20:37Times 10.
20:38Straightforward, 280.
20:40There we go.
20:40And, Dave?
20:41Same method.
20:42Very nice one.
20:42Well done.
20:43All right.
20:47As we turn to a tea time teaser, which is tries ski.
20:52And the clue, he tries to ski, it's the most daring thing he's ever done.
20:57He tries to ski, it's the most daring thing he's ever done.
21:07In fact, it's the riskiest thing he's ever done.
21:26Riskiest.
21:27Riskiest.
21:28There we are.
21:2972 to, uh, Dave's 10.
21:30And it's Dave's letters game.
21:32Take it away, Dave.
21:34Consonant, please.
21:35Thank you, Dave.
21:36D.
21:38And a consonant.
21:40And a consonant.
21:42And a vowel.
21:44A.
21:45I'm going to go for it.
21:46Vowel.
21:47Oh, so close to Dave.
21:49I'm going to get there.
21:51A consonant.
21:52Consonant.
21:53S.
21:54Consonant.
21:57M.
21:59Vowel.
22:01I.
22:04Consonant.
22:06N.
22:08And a vowel.
22:10And the last one.
22:11E.
22:13Stand by.
22:15And a vowel.
22:33And a vowel.
22:34And a vowel.
22:34And a vowel.
22:35And a vowel.
22:35And a vowel.
22:35And a vowel.
22:45Yes, Dave.
22:46Six.
22:47A six. Well done. And, Paul?
22:48Seven.
22:49Dave?
22:51Mavens.
22:52A maven. Yeah. And?
22:54Magusan.
22:56Yes. How does Susie feel about that?
22:59It is absolutely fine.
23:01It is not to do with the Gorgon Magusa, because that would be a capital M,
23:06but it's the one resembling a jellyfish, you know, that type of Medusa.
23:10Ah, OK.
23:11So it's the adjective from that.
23:13Well done, Medusan.
23:15And the corner.
23:17What have we got there, Julia?
23:18Another seven. Medians.
23:20Yes. And, Susie, anything else?
23:23Maidens you can have as well.
23:25But I have to say, I love the word maven.
23:26I know it wasn't quite as long as you would have liked, but it's a lovely word.
23:30It is indeed.
23:30Commissar.
23:31Yeah. Thank you very much.
23:3479 plays 10, and we go now to Paul.
23:37Letters again, Paul.
23:38Consonant, please, Rachel.
23:39Thank you, Paul.
23:40B.
23:41And another.
23:44S.
23:44And a vowel.
23:46E.
23:47And another.
23:49I.
23:50And a consonant.
23:52G.
23:53And another.
23:55T.
23:56And a vowel.
23:59A.
24:01And a consonant.
24:02N.
24:04And a final consonant.
24:06And a final W.
24:09Here's the clock.
24:11And a vowel.
24:25And a vowel.
24:30And a vowel.
24:31And a vowel.
24:31And a vowel.
24:31And a vowel.
24:31And a vowel.
24:31And a vowel.
24:31And a vowel.
24:41Yes, Paul?
24:42Eight.
24:43An eight, Dave?
24:44Eight.
24:45Two eights.
24:46Paul?
24:46Sweating.
24:47And Dave?
24:48Beatings.
24:50Beatings.
24:51Very good, yeah.
24:52Can we match it?
24:52Very nice.
24:53Can we match it?
24:53Can we beat it?
24:54Yeah, Susie's got a good one.
24:57Well, there is a nine there.
24:59Yes.
24:59The theme of beatings, it's wing beats, which is a complete set of motions of a wing when
25:05it's flying, so the up and downward motion of a wing is a wing beat.
25:08A wing beat, in one word.
25:09Yes.
25:10Wing beats.
25:10Lovely word, actually.
25:11Nice word.
25:11Lovely word.
25:12Very good.
25:16Well done.
25:17Anything else?
25:18That's it.
25:18That was it.
25:19Let's stick with that nine, shall we, as we turn now to Susie and her origins of words.
25:24Susie?
25:26Well, I'm sitting here with my hot water bottle, and for comfort, because I'm going
25:31to talk about the devil today, and the devil as he appears in many, many English expressions,
25:37always seen as the antithesis of good, and so you can imagine it's a very evocative word,
25:42devil.
25:43So I'm going to start with talk of the devil, which comes from the superstition that if you
25:47speak the devil's name out loud, he will suddenly appear.
25:51And that was a very widespread belief, and deep belief, for a very long time.
25:56Shakespeare used the proverb, needs must, but the full expression was, needs must when
26:01the devil drives, and that's how Shakespeare used it.
26:04In other words, sometimes you have to do something, you don't really want to, you do it with reluctance,
26:07but you have to.
26:09But Shakespeare didn't invent it.
26:10It was around some time before then, and it simply means you have to do it.
26:15But needs must when the devil drives, I quite like that, is the full, quite powerful expression.
26:20And finally, to play devil's advocate, is to express an opinion, you don't really believe
26:24in it, but you're doing it as a mock counter-argument to another person, to encourage debate.
26:31The devil's advocate was a real person, was an official appointed by the Roman Catholic
26:35Church to challenge a proposal to make somebody who'd been deceased into a saint.
26:40So, the devil's advocate would recount all the good things about a person, but also the
26:45bad things, which might stop that, that process.
26:49And the position actually still exists in the Vatican, but it's now known as the promoter
26:53of the faith.
26:55And I might return to the devil, so to speak, another day, because there are many, many other
26:58expressions with his name in the title.
27:01Yeah, very good.
27:05A-D-7 plays 18, Paul's certainly in the lead, and we're with Dave.
27:10Good luck, Dave, it's a letters game.
27:13Start with the consonant, please.
27:14Thank you, Dave.
27:15F.
27:17And a consonant.
27:19H.
27:21And a vowel.
27:23I.
27:24Consonant.
27:26S.
27:28Consonant.
27:31D.
27:32Vowel.
27:34O.
27:36Consonant.
27:38R.
27:40Consonant.
27:42J.
27:43And a vowel.
27:45And lastly, A.
27:48And it's clock time.
27:50And a vowels.
27:53I.
27:54And a vowel.
28:20Yes, Dave?
28:21Six.
28:22Six, Paul?
28:23Seven.
28:24And the inevitable seven.
28:26Dave?
28:26Hordes.
28:27Hordes and?
28:28Awefish.
28:30Brilliant.
28:30Susie?
28:31Yes, an awefish is incredibly long.
28:33I think sometimes they reach seven feet in length.
28:36They're narrow silvery marine fish of deep water,
28:39and they've got a deep fin running through the length of the body.
28:42An awefish.
28:43Yeah.
28:44Thank you very much.
28:45Anything there, Julia?
28:46We were on the fishies as well.
28:47That's it.
28:48All right, let's go with that.
28:4994 points, nudging 100 for Paul, and it's Paul's letters game.
28:54Will you break through this time?
28:55Consonant, please, Rachel.
28:57Thank you, Paul.
28:58N.
28:59And another.
29:01D.
29:02And a vowel.
29:04E.
29:04And another.
29:06A.
29:07And a consonant.
29:09L.
29:10And another.
29:12B.
29:14And a vowel.
29:15U.
29:17And another.
29:20O.
29:21And a final consonant.
29:23And a final G.
29:26Stand by.
29:26And a vowel.
29:45And a vowel.
29:46And a vowel.
29:46And a vowel.
29:47And a vowel.
29:47And a vowel.
29:47And a vowel.
29:47And a vowel.
29:48And a vowel.
29:58Paul? A seven. A seven. Dave? Eight. Thank you very much, Paul. Bungled. Dave? Bludgeon. Good man. Very good. Good
30:11man. A bludgeon. Well done. And in the corner, Julia and Susie.
30:16There is an eight there, actually, Nick. Undoable. Undoable. Yes. All right. I'm sorry to return to the oarfish, but
30:22I've just done a bit more research. They reach up to 50 feet. Not just seven, but 50 feet. They're
30:27enormous things. 50 feet long, my word. 26 points. Well done, Dave. And Paul failed to get to the 100.
30:33Will he do it now in Dave's numbers game? Dave?
30:37Um, this point is academic. Four from the top. Four from the top. Why not? Oh, there's a grain from
30:43the audience. That's not the last. Huge four from the top. Two little ones. Thank you, Dave.
30:47For the last one today, the little ones are four and five. And the big ones, 75, 25, 100 and
30:5550. And the target, 635. 635.
31:31Uh, yes, Dave? Nowhere near.
31:33Okay. No too far. How about Paul? 634, not written down. Go ahead. Okay. So, 100 minus 75 is 25.
31:42It is? Times by the 25.
31:45You're going to kick yourself. 65. Okay. And add the 5 and the 4? And add the 5 and the
31:514. Yes, for one below.
31:54How will he kick himself? Because if you say 50 divided by 5 is 10, you can add it there,
32:00and you get there.
32:01Well done. Are you kicking yourself?
32:10Are you kicking yourself? I suppose so.
32:13All right. Well, you've gone through 100, anyway. 101 to Dave's 26. Well done, Dave. You've held him back a
32:19bit, because now we go into the final round. It's the conundrum round. Gentlemen, fingers on buzzers. Let's reveal. Let's
32:25see how quick Paul gets it. That countdown conundrum.
32:32Very quick indeed. Yes, sir. Unhappily. Unhappily? I have little doubt about it. Let's roll it. Unhappily. Brilliant. Well done.
32:44Well done.
32:50Stunning performance. These, I mean, the last conundrum took forever. This one took no time at all. I would have
32:57thought just about a second, actually. Brilliant. Well done.
32:59You're an octachamp, young man. You are our number one seed, and we'll see you back here in June. I'll
33:05come back to you in a second.
33:06Anyway, Dave, listen, you've just got the wrong day, my friend. It's like running into a meat grinder. It is.
33:12Listen, you weren't the only one who got hit by the truck. But anyway, well done. Here's a goodie bag
33:19for you. And back to Ashford in Kent. And have a good old beer tonight.
33:24If I have a gallon, why don't you? All right. Well done. Well done. And we shall see you. Well
33:29done again, Paul. Tremendous performance.
33:31We look forward very much to seeing you in June. And good luck with your work at the Hackney Law
33:37Centre, too. It's a good night.
33:39Thank you. I can't wait to come back. Good thing to do. Well done indeed. Now, Julia, listen, thanks for
33:44coming.
33:44It's been a great joy having you. It's always lovely to be with the Countdown family. Indeed. You come back
33:48and see us soon.
33:49And our very best wishes to your young family. Thank you. Your little twins waiting for you at home. Brilliant
33:54stuff. See you tomorrow, Susie. See you tomorrow, Nick.
33:57Indeed. And Dan Walker, all six foot five of them, whatever it is, will be sitting next to you tomorrow.
34:03Anyway, let's see you then.
34:05And we say farewell to young Paul. We did. He did absolutely brilliantly. I was just going to wish you
34:10best of luck avoiding Catherine. Otherwise, we'll expect to see the diamond in the morning.
34:15Indeed. Yeah. I'm going to ground. See you tomorrow. Same time, same place. You be sure of it. A very
34:22good afternoon.
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