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00:30Well, good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio. It's time to pick up your trials and your brushes. Why?
00:36Because tomorrow is the start of the two-week Festival of Archaeology. It's a fortnight-long initiative coordinated by the
00:43Council for British Archaeology. It's encouraging everybody, particularly the young perhaps, to explore archaeology in their local area. Over 1
00:52,000 events will take place over the next couple of weeks right across the UK where you can see experts
00:58at work.
00:59Have I ever discovered anything whilst digging? Not really, but I did go to Egypt a few years ago and
01:05was blown away. I went to Karnak, the great temple at Karnak, and it's fantastic. And I went on my
01:11own down one of the steps right down into the tomb.
01:13Really? But all the paintings on the walls as you go down, but when you're alone and you suddenly think,
01:20oh, no, something could have dropped the stone door.
01:22You start hearing things.
01:23Yeah. How about you? Have you dug anything up interesting?
01:25No, I haven't. I've never been to Egypt, actually. I'd love to go. But in South End, where I'm from,
01:30they've found all kinds of Anglo-Saxon burial grounds, and they've found all these artefacts. It's one of the biggest
01:35burial tombs they've ever found, and hundreds of metal objects and all sorts of stuff.
01:40I think there's a pub called the Saxon King or something there now, making the most of it.
01:45Amazing. Amazing. Well, good luck on the Fortnite dig.
01:50Now, we haven't dug up Stephen Fuller, actually, because he was here yesterday.
01:54A three-time winner from Chinam, is that right?
01:57Chinam.
01:57In Basingstoke.
01:58Chinam.
01:58Chinam.
01:59Chinam. Brilliant. Father to Samantha, George, and Louis, and once performed at the 0-2 in the national final of
02:05an open mic competition.
02:06Now, what was all that about, Stephen?
02:08It was mainly pressure from friends. They said, you should go on this, you should go on that, do karaoke.
02:12After three or four rounds, I got through to the regional final down in Portsmouth, and I won that and
02:16got through to the national final at the 0-2.
02:18Well, if you've become an Octa-Champ, we may well ask you to step out onto our little stage here
02:22and give us a rendition of something or other.
02:25Maybe you can hum to the countdown tune, I don't know.
02:27But first of all, you've got to get past Andrew Cripps, a financial analyst from Wimbledon, another sportsman.
02:33He loves playing cricket, squash, and competing in triathlons.
02:37But what fascinates me is that the research department has dug up the fact that you spent some time in
02:42Sri Lanka living in a Buddhist monastery.
02:45Now, what was that like?
02:47Before university, I volunteered for an educational charity and spent a year in Sri Lanka teaching in a Buddhist monastery
02:54school.
02:55And teaching the student monks or the monks or what?
02:57Yeah, the small monks, yeah, while they were still training.
03:00Excellent stuff. All right, big round of applause then for Andrew and Stephen.
03:11And Susie, welcome back.
03:13And our great guest, a real favourite of the show, none other, of course, than Chris Packham, TV presenter, but
03:20wildlife expert by excellence, as we've said before.
03:24Welcome back.
03:25Welcome back.
03:25This book of yours, it's interesting, you see, because it's a book for youngsters, maybe, I don't know, up to
03:30the age of seven.
03:31But what's fascinating, and it's called Amazing Animal Journeys, it's a charming book for children.
03:37But you've slipped in a lot of science. That's clever.
03:41It's my vocation. I mean, I think most kids that have any interest in this subject, or any other subject,
03:46actually, they're tremendously absorbent.
03:47They love it, don't they?
03:48They do.
03:48Kids love facts.
03:50Good for you, Chris.
03:51Now then, Stephen Fuller, your letters go.
03:54Afternoon, Rachel.
03:55Afternoon, Stephen.
03:56I'll have a consonant, please.
03:57Start today with D.
04:00And another.
04:02B.
04:03And a third.
04:06V.
04:07And a fourth.
04:10T.
04:11Vowel.
04:13E.
04:16And another vowel.
04:18O.
04:21And a third vowel.
04:23A.
04:25And a consonant.
04:27N.
04:30And a final vowel, please.
04:32And a final I.
04:35And here is the countdown clock.
05:07Stephen.
05:09Just a six.
05:10Andrew? Try seven. Stephen? Voted. Andrew? Novated. Chris, what have we got? A couple of
05:19eights. Obtained and obviated. Very good. Thank you. Will that do us, Susie? Yes, just to explain,
05:31obviated, if you obviate the need for something, you remove it. Yeah, right. Thank you. Seven
05:38points to Andrew and it's Andrew's letters game. Afternoon, Rachel. Afternoon, Andrew. Can I have a
05:42consonant, please? Thank you. Starts with R. And another. G. And a third. R. Vol. O. And another. E.
05:58T. And another. U. A consonant. T. Another consonant. P. And a final consonant. And a final
06:13Z. Stand by.
06:16popular letter B other than a F quote, I thought it would be a
06:48Yes, Andrew?
06:49Seven.
06:50A seven, Stephen?
06:51Seven.
06:52Andrew?
06:53A trooper with a U.
06:54OK.
06:55And?
06:56Grouter.
06:57And a grouter?
06:58Yes, very good.
06:59He who grouts?
07:00Yes.
07:02At the weekend.
07:02Such fun, yeah.
07:03Chris?
07:04Also, grouper, a large fish.
07:07Yes.
07:07It can be a very large fish, actually.
07:09Mm-hmm.
07:10All right.
07:11So, 14 plays seven, and it's Stephen's numbers game.
07:14Stephen?
07:15One large, five small, please, Rachel.
07:18Thank you, Stephen.
07:18We've got five little ones coming up for you.
07:20And for the first time today, the selection is four, six, five, three, eight, and 50.
07:30And the target, 434.
07:32Four, three, four.
07:35Four, three, four, five, five, five, six, five, six, five, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six,
07:49six, six, six, six, six, six, six, seven, six, six, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven,
07:49seven, seven, seven, seven, eight, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven,
07:49seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven,
07:50seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven,
07:50seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven,
08:03Stephen 434 434 Andrew yeah 434 Stephen 8 times 50 is 400 yep 5 times 6 is 30 it is
08:18434 lovely Andrew oh yeah different way 50 add 4 54 times 8 is 432 and 5 minus 3 is
08:28the
08:282 and add on perfect well done there we go so 24 plays Stephen 17 as we turn to our
08:38first
08:38tea time teaser which is old clues and the clue he conspires with his friend to
08:44get the answer to this he conspires with his friend to get the answer to this
09:05welcome back I left with the clue he conspires with his friend to get the answer to this in
09:11fact he colludes with him collusion he colludes 17 plays up 24 and you on 24
09:18letters game Andrew consonant please thank you Andrew s and another g and a third s
09:31a vowel I another vowel A and a third vowel O consonant B consonant T and a final vowel and
09:52a final E
09:53stand by
09:57so
09:58so
10:01so
10:06so
10:08so
10:08so
10:11so
10:11so
10:23so
10:25so
10:25so
10:27so
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10:55see that one oh and it's a verb to bagsy say bags you I bags that back see I
11:02always had got it wrong then no I think you can say backs it's probably short
11:06the back seat but it's been hours arguing over this bagsy I bagsy we move
11:12on 30 plays 23 Andrew on 30 Stephen's letters game I'll have a consonant
11:18please Rachel thank you Stephen L and another D and a third L and a fourth V and
11:33consonant ah and a vowel I and another a and another oh and another and the last
11:54one E countdown
12:29Yes, Stephen?
12:30Seven.
12:30A seven. Andrew?
12:32Yeah, also a seven.
12:33Stephen?
12:34Dahlia.
12:35And Andrew?
12:36Vollied.
12:38Now then, chaps, what can we do in the corner?
12:41A couple of eights. Overlaid and rivaled.
12:43Rivaled, indeed, yeah.
12:46What's a dahlia? Somebody who dallies?
12:48Yes, somebody who dallies a bad.
12:51Just checking that in. It is in the dictionary.
12:53But for a volley...
12:56It's E-Y-E-D, isn't it?
12:57Yes, it is.
13:00Sorry about that. I just allowed that one.
13:02That's OK.
13:02Dahlia. Don't dilly-dally on the way. Dahlia.
13:05OK. 30 apiece. Well done.
13:08And now, Andrew, it's your numbers game.
13:10One large, five small, please, Rachel.
13:12Same again. Thank you, Andrew.
13:13One from the top and five little ones.
13:15And for this round, your little numbers are two, seven, four, five, and three.
13:22And the big one, 50.
13:24And this target's...
13:26436.
13:27436.
13:30536.
13:30636.
13:30636.
13:31636.
13:31736.
13:49636.
13:59Andrew?
14:00435.
14:01435.
14:03Stephen, 435.
14:05Both of you, yeah.
14:06Andrew?
14:077 add 2 is 9.
14:099.
14:10Times 50 is 450.
14:12And then 5 times 3, you can take it away.
14:155 times 3 for 15.
14:17Yeah, and 1 away.
14:20And Stephen?
14:21Same way.
14:22There we go.
14:23Yeah.
14:24All right.
14:25And so it is that we turn to Rachel.
14:27Rachel, rescue us.
14:29A few ways for this one.
14:31You might kick yourselves if you say 5 plus 4 is 9.
14:35And then times that by 50 for 450.
14:38And then kicking into use with 14 to take away.
14:42There we go.
14:43Well done, Rachel.
14:46Well done indeed.
14:47And now we turn to Chris, Chris Packham.
14:50Chris, what are you going to talk to us about now?
14:53Well, we've been on birds this week and relative, you know, recent discoveries.
14:57And one thing that we thought about birds for a long time is that they had a very poor sense
15:01of taste.
15:02Now we have in our mouths about 10,000 taste buds.
15:07That's not a lot.
15:08It sounds a lot.
15:08But some species of fish, things like catfish, for instance, have 100,000 taste buds.
15:14But we've recently discovered that birds do indeed have taste buds inside their mouths as part of their beak and
15:21on their tongue.
15:21But only about 300 or 400.
15:23But they nevertheless can taste the same things that we can.
15:26And there were five essential tastes.
15:28Sweet, sour, salty, bitter and something called umami, which is meaty.
15:35So they can taste those.
15:37And obviously birds which are interested in sweet things, hummingbirds, sugarbirds, so on and so forth, they have evolved a
15:42greater, sweeter sense of taste.
15:44But what's really interesting is that penguins, which live, as you know, in the southern hemisphere, principally, but not all,
15:52in the colder parts of that hemisphere,
15:54have lost the ability to taste sweet, bitter and essentially umami, the meaty taste.
16:01And this is because the proteins that are required to work on the surface of the taste bud won't work
16:08where it's cold.
16:09So in fact, it's not only penguins that have lost the ability to taste these things.
16:12It's seals, dolphins and whales too.
16:15So the rather paradoxical thing is that when a penguin catches a fish, it can't taste the fish that it's
16:22eating.
16:22But where the bittersweet paradox really comes to a conclusion is that fish, on the other hand, have taste buds
16:30all over the outside of their body,
16:32particularly on their gills and in a line running down the sides of their body.
16:36And they can taste all five of those senses, sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami.
16:42So when a penguin is swallowing a fish live, which they do, it can't taste it, but the fish can
16:50taste the penguin swallowing it.
16:53Yeah, just for a couple of seconds before it goes down.
16:57Indeed, indeed.
16:57What a clever thing.
16:59Yeah.
16:59Thank you, Chris.
17:00Brilliant.
17:00That was wonderful.
17:05Oh, how funny.
17:06All right, Stephen, letters game.
17:09I'll start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
17:11Thank you, Stephen.
17:12Y.
17:12And another.
17:15N.
17:17And a third.
17:19C.
17:21And a fourth.
17:23D.
17:25And a vowel.
17:27A.
17:28And another.
17:30I.
17:32And another.
17:34A.
17:36And a fourth.
17:39U.
17:42And a consonant, please.
17:44And lastly, R.
17:47Stand by.
17:48And a consonant, please.
17:50And a consonant, please.
17:51And a consonant, please.
17:55And a consonant, please.
17:58And a consonant, please.
18:00And a consonant, please.
18:00And a consonant, please.
18:01And a consonant, please.
18:05And a consonant, please.
18:06And a consonant, please.
18:06And a consonant, please.
18:07And a consonant, please.
18:08And a consonant, please.
18:08And a consonant, please.
18:08And a consonant, please.
18:08And a consonant, please.
18:09And a consonant, please.
18:09And a consonant, please.
18:10And a consonant, please.
18:11And a consonant, please.
18:12And a consonant, please.
18:17yes Stephen only five five Andrew six so Steven candy candy Andrew rancid what can we do about
18:30this rancid and canary canary canary canary it's another one for you accurate it's from the large
18:39order of small arachnids so mites and ticks it's a sort of sub order of that I think hmm very
18:45good
18:45all right rancid 37 plays 43 Andrew in the lead and it's Andrew's latest game go Andrew can I have
18:52a
18:52consonant please thank you Andrew n and another m and another j a vowel please e and another i and
19:08another e consonant p consonant l and foul please and last one you count down
19:24so
19:52Andrew just a five Nick a five
19:55six and a six the other way around now Andrew plume plume and pie men pie men plume there we
20:07are we're
20:07back with with Chris again plume we had and lupine lupine the wolf wolf like yeah lupine very good
20:16thank you 43 apiece now we've got a fight on our hands Stephen numbers one large five small please
20:24same as usual thank you Stephen one large one five little ones and for this round the numbers are 10
20:305 5 2 9 and 50 and the target 441 441
20:43so
20:54so
20:55so
21:18nine times 50
21:20nine fifties are 450 five divided by five is one
21:25Ten, take away the one, is nine, and deduct that.
21:28Lovely, four for one.
21:29Well done.
21:31Well done.
21:33And that, young man, gives you a ten-point lead.
21:36Very well done indeed.
21:3753 to our champs.
21:3943.
21:40Let's have a tea-time teaser.
21:42It's mint note, and the clue, it's not a note from the Royal Mint,
21:46it's a liquid from the chemist.
21:48It's not a note from the Royal Mint, it's a liquid from the chemist.
22:08Welcome back, I left you with a clue.
22:09It's not a note from the Royal Mint, it's a liquid from the chemist.
22:13It's in fact an ointment.
22:15Ointment is the answer.
22:1843 to 53.
22:20Andrew, I'm 53.
22:22And it's your letters came now, Andrew.
22:24Consonant, please.
22:25Thank you, Andrew.
22:27G.
22:28And another.
22:30N.
22:31And a third.
22:33T.
22:35Vowel.
22:36O.
22:37Another vowel.
22:39E.
22:40And a third vowel.
22:42A.
22:43Consonant.
22:45R.
22:46Consonant.
22:48T.
22:48And a final vowel.
22:50And a final vowel.
22:52And a final O.
22:53And the clock starts now.
22:54And a final vowel.
23:12And a final vowel.
23:12And a final vowel.
23:14And a final vowel.
23:14And a final vowel.
23:15And a final vowel.
23:15And a final vowel.
23:15And a final vowel.
23:16And a final vowel.
23:22And a final vowel.
23:25andrew just six a six steven seven andrew target and steven oregano oregano very nice
23:37our old spicy friend what have you got in the corner there well amongst it is gen two which
23:43is the name of a penguin one of those things which can't taste what it's swallowing but also
23:49we had a toner natter and negator negator very good very good there little gen two there 50 plays 53
23:59andrew's uh lead eroded there only three points in it now steven and it's your letters game thank
24:06you nick uh consonant please rachel thank you steven s another c and a third s and a fourth
24:17m and a vowel u and another i and another o and another e and a final consonant and a
24:40final f
24:41countdown
24:42so
25:12steven
25:14i'll stick with a safe seven seven andrew i'm only a five your five music now steven focuses
25:23focuses well done well done 57 out of 53 careful andrew and in the corner can't beat focuses have
25:33mouse but that's it um there is a last minute one actually you can have mouses uh because uh the
25:40computer mouse in the floor can be nice or mouses yeah but uh very last minute miscues is on is
25:46there
25:46for seven as well miscues do something yeah very good thank you 57 as i say to andrew's 53
25:53so let them rest for a second steven and andrew as we turn to susie and her wonderful origins of
26:00words
26:00what have you got for us today susie i have lots of gods and uh spirits which lie behind so
26:07many english words i've talked about them before on countdown fascinate uh meant to be uh literally
26:13captivated the idea was that you were entranced or enthralled to uh some sort of spirit fanatic
26:19likewise uh enthuse itself has got theos the god uh within it and a ventriloquist somebody who um was
26:27a talker from their stomach uh said to be possessed by a demon and somebody who who literally spoke
26:33from uh their stomach because the demon was was residing there um but two words that you really
26:39wouldn't put together that also have this idea of uh spirits behind them and that's genius and
26:45demon and i'll start with a genius genius in latin meant a good spirit an attendant spirit who looked
26:51after you a bit like a guardian angel really in christian uh theology uh from it we get genial
26:57uh and genie of course the same idea of um of a spirit who would help you out uh in
27:04certain
27:04situations um but it comes from a very old word meaning to beget or to give birth to uh so
27:11it's
27:11rooted in very very ancient beliefs and a demon when it first set out uh in ancient greek was also
27:18a very
27:18good spirit uh somebody who again looked after you and it wasn't until demonology came about again
27:25sort of christian theology but lots of other religions as well that it took on the idea of
27:29a fallen angel uh so one who'd fallen from the grace of god and had sided with the the devil
27:35it's always been a surprise to me that geniuses and demons are so intricately linked in language
27:40at least and as i say they were originally both very very good things very good thank you
27:49thank you susie thank you susie now 57 to andrew's 53 andrew's lost the lead maybe now you can
27:58recapture it try it it's a letters game consonant please thank you andrew ah and another
28:03n and a third g vol a and another u and another i and a fourth o consonant t and
28:25another consonant
28:25and the last one s countdown
28:28so
28:58yes andrew seven a seven seven eight andrew storing now steven arousing arousing yeah
29:10can't argue with that what can we have we got anything to beat it organist with eight yeah
29:22and rain outs rain outs yes events cancelled through rain oh it's milk america yeah well
29:28done uh 65 to 53 steven off you go letters game uh consonant please rachel thank you steven n
29:37and another one p and a third s and a fourth l and a fifth s and a vowel a
29:57and another e and another
30:04other i and a consonant and the last one m
30:12countdown.
30:45Yeah. Stephen?
30:48I'll stick with an eight.
30:50And Andrew?
30:51Just a seven.
30:52And that seven?
30:53Samples.
30:55Sampled and?
30:56Painless.
30:58Painless.
30:59Very good.
31:00Yeah.
31:00That's it.
31:05Anything else in the corner?
31:06Susie and Chris?
31:08Can't beat it.
31:09We have impales on a seven and maniples, which I didn't know, but Susie will tell us.
31:15Two very different meanings.
31:16A subdivision of a Roman legion in the Christian church can be a vestment worn by a priest celebrating
31:22Eucharist.
31:23It's the strip of cloth that hangs down from the arm.
31:25That's a maniple.
31:26Yeah.
31:27Indeed.
31:28Well done, Susie.
31:2973 to 53.
31:30Oh, Stephen's run away now.
31:33Andrew, it's a numbers game.
31:34Six more, please, Rachel.
31:35Six more.
31:36He's gambling.
31:37That's what we all wanted to hear.
31:38Six little ones for the last one of the week.
31:40And these numbers are five, two, seven, eight, three, and nine.
31:50And the target, 290.
31:53Two, nine, zero.
31:54Two, nine, zero.
31:59And the target.
31:59Two, nine.
32:16Two, nine, zero.
32:17Two, nine, zero.
32:19Two, nine, zero.
32:26Stephen?
32:27No.
32:28And Andrew?
32:29Yeah, 290.
32:30Let's go, Andrew.
32:327 out of 3 is 10.
32:347 out of 3, 10.
32:368 fives are 40.
32:38Yep.
32:39Minus the 9 minus the 2 is 29.
32:42It is 29.
32:42And times the 2 together.
32:43And you're still in it.
32:44Good gamble.
32:45Well done.
32:49You carved back a chance there.
32:51Just 10 points in it now.
32:5363 to 73.
32:55Which takes us to the final round.
32:56Conundrum time.
32:57Crucial conundrum time.
32:59Let's roll that crucial conundrum.
33:09Stephen?
33:10Unwatered.
33:11Unwatered.
33:12Let's see whether you're right.
33:14You're so good at this.
33:16Unwatered.
33:16There you go.
33:24Well done, Stephen.
33:26Well done.
33:26Well done indeed.
33:27Four wins on your belt now.
33:29Well done indeed.
33:30Andrew, bad luck.
33:31Because you had him there.
33:32Yep.
33:33And then he's cruised past.
33:35You fought back into a crucial conundrum.
33:38And he pipped you at the post.
33:41So well done.
33:41You played brilliantly well.
33:43And back to Wimbledon with you.
33:46And take this goodie bag with you.
33:47And our very best wishes.
33:49Cheers.
33:50All right.
33:50Well done indeed.
33:51We shall see you on Monday.
33:53See you on Monday.
33:54Have a peaceful and restful weekend.
33:56I will.
33:56I'll try.
33:56Well done.
33:57All right.
33:57You're after five on Monday.
33:59Whoa.
33:59Next week we'll see you at Octochamp.
34:01Who knows.
34:02We never know.
34:03All right.
34:03See you then.
34:04And over in the corner.
34:06Have a very restful weekend.
34:08Chris, you'll be back with us on Monday.
34:09Please.
34:10Excellent stuff.
34:11We'll see you then.
34:12And Rachel.
34:13Well, what do you reckon?
34:14He's a strong contender.
34:15Yeah.
34:16Stephen Sennins is a crucial conundrum specialist over this week.
34:19He is indeed.
34:20Yeah.
34:20Have a peaceful weekend.
34:21So live on the edge.
34:22Exactly.
34:23Peaceful weekend.
34:24All right.
34:25Same time on Monday.
34:26Same place.
34:26You'll be sure of it.
34:27A very good afternoon.
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34:46It's the last leg tonight at five past ten, and it really is the last leg for this series.
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