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00:00Thank you very much.
00:31Good afternoon and welcome to SoundCloud Studio.
00:33Now, today is the 18th of July, the birth date of a very inspirational man.
00:39And since 2010, it has been officially recognised as Nelson Mandela Day.
00:44And because Mandela devoted his life to the service of humanity for 67 years,
00:49we're encouraged to spend 67 minutes, just 67 minutes, of our own time helping others,
00:56whether it's volunteering or at a nursing home perhaps, donating clothes,
01:01or actually just spending time with somebody who very rarely has anybody to speak to.
01:05That's what this is all about, Nelson Mandela Day.
01:09Who else, I thought, would be inspirational?
01:12I thought Gandhi, yes.
01:13And then I asked our audience, you know that you've got a lot of fans in the audience today
01:17from the maths faculty at Durham University.
01:19And I said to them, who do you think is inspirational?
01:23And they came back with some great people.
01:25Malala, they came back with the Dalai Lama, and Martin Luther King, who would be a favourite of mine.
01:30So thank you, Durham, over in the corner there.
01:33What, um, who would you think, who would you pick as the most inspirational person?
01:39Well, I just, on the Nelson Mandela theme, I think Eddie Izzard, what he's done this year,
01:43absolutely incredible.
01:44Yes.
01:44It was 27 marathons in 27 days for the 27 years Nelson Mandela spent in prison.
01:49Yeah.
01:49And did you see any of the documentary, or did you follow any of his progress?
01:53I saw him stumbling along.
01:54How he does it, I don't know.
01:56I know, and day after day, and with so many medical emergencies,
02:00and then having to pick up two marathons here, and in the sweltering heat,
02:04and sunburn, and kidneys shutting down, and all sorts.
02:06He's a good guy, isn't he?
02:07He's done a fantastic job, yeah, very inspirational.
02:09He's a good, good guy, yeah, good guy.
02:11Lots of money raised.
02:12Whether he's wearing his make-up or not, I don't care.
02:15And he had his nails done for the whole thing.
02:17Beautiful.
02:17Of course he did.
02:19Yeah, God bless Eddie, he's a good man.
02:20All right.
02:21Who have we got with us?
02:22Stephen Fuller's back, our reigning champ, now with four wins under his belt,
02:25another crucial conundrum, halfway to getting there.
02:29Well done.
02:30Well done, Stephen.
02:31You're joined today by David Huzzy Yeo, a retired IT project manager from Sheffield,
02:37who loves his architecture, Victorian and Georgian,
02:39but mostly you love the cathedrals and churches of the country,
02:43and you've visited most of them, apparently.
02:45Yeah, since I retired four years ago, I've had the opportunity to go around Scotland,
02:50Wales, and England, seeing all the major cathedrals.
02:53I haven't done them all yet.
02:54Beautiful things, yeah.
02:57Welcome.
02:58Welcome, David, and welcome, Stephen.
03:00Let's have a big round of applause for our contestants today.
03:09And, of course, Susie, as ever, is over in the corner,
03:13joined once again by Chris Packham, that wonderful wildlife expert.
03:17Brilliant.
03:18Now then, Stephen, let's have a letters game, shall we?
03:21Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:22Afternoon, Stephen.
03:23I'll have a consonant, please.
03:24Start the week with H.
03:27And another.
03:30P.
03:31And another.
03:34T.
03:35And another.
03:36R.
03:40And a fifth.
03:42F.
03:44And a vowel.
03:47Q.
03:49And another.
03:51I.
03:53And another.
03:56O.
03:58And another.
04:00And the last one.
04:02E.
04:02And here's the countdown clock.
04:05And here's the countdown clock.
04:35Stephen.
04:37A seven.
04:38A seven.
04:39Dave.
04:39A six.
04:40And your six.
04:41A pouter.
04:43A pouter, Stephen.
04:45Poutier.
04:45Um, can you be poutier?
04:47You can be poutier than the next person.
04:49Very good.
04:50Very good.
04:51Her mouth was poutier than Samantha's.
04:53Ha ha.
04:54Why not?
04:55Anything else?
04:56Chris?
04:57Um, pother.
04:59Pother.
05:00Mm.
05:00Stop making such a pother.
05:02It's like a fuss or commotion.
05:05All right.
05:05So it's seven points to Stephen.
05:07And it's Dave's letters game, Dave.
05:09Good afternoon, Rachel.
05:10Afternoon, Dave.
05:11Can I start with a consonant, please?
05:13Start with D.
05:15Another, please.
05:18S.
05:18A third.
05:21L.
05:22A fourth.
05:24T.
05:25A fifth.
05:27K.
05:28I have a vowel, please.
05:31A.
05:31Another vowel.
05:33I.
05:35Another vowel.
05:37A.
05:39Finish off with a final vowel, please.
05:41And finish with U.
05:44Stand by.
05:45I.
06:14I'm going to be a vowel.
06:15yes Dave six a six Steven six Dave audits audits and you're both auditing
06:27what does the corner think adults for six adults and dualist a dualist dualist
06:33for seven not somebody who enters a duel no the it's d-u-a-l-i-s-t which is
06:41someone who subscribes to the religious doctrine that the universe is made up of
06:44opposed powers of good and evil that's a dualist that's it yeah thank you very
06:49much all right 13 play six and it's Steven's numbers game thinking it I'll
06:54try too large please Rachel two largest time thank you Steven for little ones
06:58for the first numbers game of this week and they are eight three ten three and
07:06larger on seventy five and twenty five and the target six hundred ninety two six nine
07:40two
07:44Steven six ninety six ninety six ninety Dave yes six ninety six ninety so Steven uh
07:52seventy five minus the two threes minus the two three sixty nine times ten times ten
07:58six ninety six ninety two away thank you Dave at seventy five times the ten seventy five times ten seven
08:06fifty
08:06yeah three plus three three plus three six and abuse the ten twice ah bad luck bad luck we're with
08:16you
08:16Rachel six nine two um yes one way you could have said seventy five plus twenty five one hundred ten
08:25minus three seven times them together for seven hundred and take away the eight
08:30there we go there we go so twenty six as we turn to the tea time teaser it's he's heard
08:41and a clue he's heard the same tired old songs on the radio over and over again he's heard the
08:47same tired old songs on the radio over and over again
09:12because they've been rehashed rehashed now then Dave it's your letters game
09:20can I start with a constant please Rachel thank you Dave s another please
09:26m a third m fourth t fifth a vowel please i another vowel a another vowel please o and finish
09:49off with a vowel
09:50and finish off with a stand by
09:58so
10:09so
10:10so
10:10so
10:24well Dave
10:25well Dave
10:25a seven
10:26a seven
10:27a seven Stephen
10:28eight
10:28and an eight
10:30Dave
10:30uh
10:31Minster
10:31yes indeed
10:32well done
10:33and uh Stephen
10:34amortize
10:35amortize
10:37amortize
10:37very good
10:37excellent
10:39very good
10:42and
10:43what news from the corner
10:44the news from corner is
10:46raiments
10:46romanize
10:47and minarets
10:49and minarets
10:50well done
10:51that'll sit sweetly with the minster
10:53all right
10:54Stephen
10:54it's a letters game
10:55uh
10:56start with a consonant please Rachel
10:58thanks Stephen
10:59H
10:59and another
11:01r
11:03and another
11:05w
11:07and a vowel
11:08u
11:10and another
11:11i
11:14and another
11:17e
11:18and a consonant
11:19r
11:21and another
11:23n
11:26and a final
11:28consonant
11:29and a final
11:30t
11:31stand by
11:32PRA
11:33n
11:33j
11:33a
11:33to
11:35p
11:36p
11:40i
12:10MUSIC CONTINUES
12:12Very good. And Chris?
12:16Well, Susie's given me hurtier, hurtier, although if I said it, I thought I'd be misusing a word.
12:21Yes, I don't think anyone's going to like this one, but it's in.
12:26No example of the comparative here, but of the hurtie part.
12:31An example is, after 40 collective minutes of sleep, I went to the dentist and told him there was big
12:37hurtie pain.
12:39I think I'm going to go to my dentist and say, I'm sorry, but it's hurtier than when I last
12:45saw you.
12:46He knocked the tooth out, wouldn't he?
12:49No. 34 to 12, Stephens in the lead, and it's Dave's numbers game.
12:54Rachel, can I have one large and five small, please?
12:57You can indeed, thank you, Dave. One large and five small coming up.
13:00And this time, the five small ones are four, ten, two, seven, and nine, and the large one, 75.
13:09And the target, 685.
13:11685.
13:13685.
13:43Well, Dave?
13:44685.
13:46685.
13:47And Stephen?
13:48Yes, 685.
13:49So, Dave?
13:50Nine times 75 equals 675 plus 10.
13:54Yes, very easy.
13:55There we go.
13:56And thank you.
13:58And it's 44 to 22 as we turn to Chris Packham.
14:01Now, Chris, today, what will you tell us?
14:04What will you teach us?
14:05On birds.
14:06On birds is my theme.
14:08And we've looked at taste, and we're now going to go on to vision.
14:11And it's always useful to contrast other animals with ourselves.
14:14We're better able to perceive, or hope to perceive, how they see the world in this instance.
14:20Now, we can discern, this is staggering, but we can discern, humans, 10 million different colours.
14:2710 million different colours we can discern.
14:29Strangely, and as a diversion, only 30 shades of grey, as it turns out.
14:35Birds can discern a great many more colours, because they have tiny oil droplets in the cells of their eyes,
14:42which allow them to do this.
14:43But not only can they see more colours, they can see into different parts of the spectrum.
14:47And many species of bird can look into the ultraviolet part of the spectrum.
14:51And this is particularly useful if they're looking for prey, which leaves signs in the ultraviolet, or if they're blue
14:58birds and they're displaying.
15:00So we know that blue tits, 92% of our gardens have blue tits in them during the winter period.
15:04But the males with the brightest blue caps, which show up under the ultraviolet as a greater degree of blue,
15:11if you like, are more attractive to the females.
15:14But there are two things about birds' visions which are very different than ours.
15:18And that is that the internal structure of the eye is often sculptured to the extent that, for instance, a
15:26bird like a starling has a protrusion coming from the back of its eye into the middle of the sphere,
15:32which allows it to focus both inside its own beak, where it's using its tongue to manipulate its prey, and
15:40also on infinity in the distance at the same time.
15:44Now, very clearly, we can't do that.
15:46The benefit to the starling is that it can concentrate on feeding, whilst also looking out for predators.
15:51But there are other species of birds which don't have these anatomical protrusions.
15:55And what they have is a thing called lateralisation.
15:59Now, this comes from the fact that the brain is split in two.
16:03So, effectively, they have one eye which does a different job to the other one.
16:07And in chickens, for instance, they use their left eye for looking out for predators, distance vision.
16:13And they use their right eye for looking close up for food.
16:17And this evolves in the...
16:19Well, this is caused in the late stages of the incubation of the egg,
16:24because we find at that time the embryo turns over and shields the left eye, so less light reaches it.
16:30And as a consequence, you get this lateralisation.
16:33And if you prevent that from happening, then you get chickens, in this instance,
16:37which are not very good at looking out for predators, not very good at looking out for food.
16:41And they're less attractive to mates and less successful.
16:44And we find that birds who incubate their eggs in total darkness and therefore don't lateralise
16:49are equally not as good at performing these two tasks.
16:53Amazing. I love it. Very good.
17:01So interesting.
17:0244 to 22. Stephen on 44.
17:04And it's Stephen's letters game.
17:06Thank you, Nick.
17:07Start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
17:09Thank you, Stephen.
17:10G.
17:11And another.
17:13R.
17:15And a third.
17:16P.
17:18And a fourth.
17:20M.
17:22And a vowel.
17:24A.
17:26Another.
17:27E.
17:29Another.
17:31O.
17:32Another.
17:34I.
17:36And a final consonant, please.
17:39And a final T.
17:41Stand by.
17:42Two.
17:44And a then.
18:10One.
18:11One.
18:12One.
18:12Steven seven seven Dave I'm gonna try nine good man Steven my great Dave how's
18:23he go in Portage well we can have Portage so I can see where you're going
18:30oh but unfortunately in Portage is not there I'm sorry bad luck what the risk
18:36though always Chris primate is in there good so epigram and an epigram seven
18:46thank you all right 51 plays 22 and it's Dave's letters game Dave can I start
18:51with a constant please thank you Dave G another please D third S fourth Q
19:04fifth C kind of a vowel please E another please a third I and a fourth and the
19:21last one E stand by
19:27so
19:55Dave?
19:56Five.
19:57A five for Dave, Stephen?
19:58Six.
19:59Dave?
20:00Dices.
20:02Dices, yeah, why not?
20:03Stephen?
20:04Cadges.
20:05And cadges.
20:06Now, what of the corner?
20:08What news?
20:09Yeah, cadges.
20:10Cadge was a thing that falconers used to carry their birds about.
20:15Thanks, Chris.
20:16Now, 57 to 22.
20:18We turn to a numbers game now.
20:20It's Stephen's.
20:21Stephen's turn.
20:21Just one large, please, Rachel.
20:23Thank you, Stephen.
20:23One from the top.
20:24And five more of the little ones.
20:27And this time, your numbers are six, five, nine, another six, another nine, and 100.
20:36And the target, 574.
20:39Five, seven, four.
20:41e-mail, Yani.
20:42Have a joy.
20:42Yeah.
21:09Can you explain the name?
21:11Stephen 572 I think not written down not to all right and Dave 576 written down all right so
21:22Stephen I said 100 minus 5 100 minus 5 95 times 6 times 6 is 570 oh I've got it
21:34I've got 571
21:379 divided by 9 yeah mmm let's turn to David bad luck Stephen Dave has a yo where are you
21:45six times 100
21:47six times 100 600 nine plus nine plus six is 24 nine plus nine plus the other six 24 and
21:56subtract
21:57yes two away two away indeed well done but we really want 574 Rachel can we get there um leave
22:07it with me I certainly will there we are 57 place 29 Dave on 29 and we have our second
22:14tea time teaser
22:15which is rich gent and the clue he may have been a rich gent but his personality left me feeling
22:22nauseous he may have been a rich gent but his personality left me feeling nauseous
22:44welcome back I left with the clue he may have been a rich gent but his personality left me feeling
22:48nauseous and the answer is um retching retching there we go retching 57 to 29 Dave it's a letters game
23:01can I have a consonant please Rachel thank you Dave s another t a third s a fourth w a
23:17fifth
23:19l a vowel u another o another e and finish off with a final vowel please and finish off with
23:35you
23:35can't
24:04can't
24:08Yes, Dave.
24:09A six.
24:10A six for Dave and Stephen.
24:12Six.
24:13Dave.
24:14Lowest.
24:15Lowest and?
24:16And an anagram, towels.
24:18And what of the corner?
24:19Chris?
24:20A couple of sevens.
24:22Towsels, slowest.
24:24Yeah.
24:25Owlets.
24:26Owlets.
24:27Owlets.
24:28Young owls.
24:28Lovely.
24:29Now, what shall we do?
24:30Stephen, letters game?
24:32Consonant, please, Rachel.
24:33Thank you, Stephen.
24:35Tea.
24:35And another.
24:38M.
24:39And a third.
24:42B.
24:44Fourth.
24:46P.
24:47Vowel, please.
24:50A.
24:51And again.
24:52I.
24:54And another one.
24:56E.
24:58And a consonant.
25:01Y.
25:02And another consonant.
25:04And lastly, tea.
25:07Done by.
25:09And lastly, tea.
25:40Yes, Stephen.
25:41Six.
25:42A six.
25:43Dave.
25:43Just a five.
25:45Your five.
25:45A piety.
25:47Piety.
25:47Good word.
25:48Stephen.
25:49Patty.
25:51And in the corner.
25:53You can't spell pasty that way, unfortunately.
25:56It's not like pasty.
25:58Not like Cornish pasty, unfortunately, Stephen.
25:59It has to be with a Y or I-E-S in the plural.
26:03Sorry.
26:04All right.
26:04Now, what can we have?
26:06Chris and Susie?
26:08Bitmap.
26:09Bitmap.
26:09Yes.
26:10Yes, indeed.
26:11Anything else, Susie?
26:12No, piety for me, otherwise, as well.
26:13That'll do.
26:14Good word.
26:1540 points to 63.
26:16Stephen on 63.
26:17And it's Susie's origins of words now.
26:20Susie.
26:21I'm going to talk about dragons today.
26:23But dragons, as they've informed and lie behind, if you like, lots of words and expressions in English.
26:30And to start with dragon, that word itself, it goes back to an ancient Greek word meaning to see clearly.
26:38And that was because the serpents, because they were the earliest dragons, serpents were thought to have incredibly sharp eyesight.
26:46The dragon also lies behind Draco.
26:50Now, he was the Greek statesman.
26:52Perhaps he was very sharp-sighted, but he was certainly very cruel and dished out horrible punishments for any ancient
26:58Athenians
26:58who committed even the slightest misdemeanour, hence Draconian, as we know it today.
27:03But his name meant dragon or sharp-sighted, if you go back even further.
27:08Dragoons, dragons, real dragons, or the fictional dragons, may not have killed anybody, but dragoons certainly did.
27:15And the original dragoon was a musket, a carbine, that had such fiery breath that it reminded the soldiers of
27:22a dragon.
27:23So dragons lie behind dragoons and the cavalry soldiers who carried them.
27:27And to rankle goes back to a Greek word, draconculus, and that meant little dragon.
27:33Perhaps it was the scaly skin, perhaps it was because of the festering sore, felt so hot, like that dragon's
27:39breath.
27:40But that's what it meant, a little dragon.
27:42And tarragon was a herb that was often used to cure a rankle, a sort of abscess or a sore,
27:47a festering sore,
27:49because that too was linked to a very, very old word that again meant little dragon.
27:54So dragons are everywhere in the English language, even if they don't exist for real.
27:58Well done.
27:59Thank you so much.
28:00Very good.
28:06All right.
28:0763 to 40.
28:08Stephen on 63.
28:10And it's Dave's letters game.
28:11Dave.
28:12Can I start off with a consonant, please, Rachel?
28:15Thank you, Dave.
28:16N.
28:18Another, please.
28:20F.
28:20A third.
28:23N.
28:25Fourth.
28:28R.
28:29And a fifth.
28:31J.
28:33A vowel, please.
28:35A.
28:36Another.
28:38I.
28:39Another.
28:41E.
28:44And a final vowel, please.
28:46And a final.
28:47O.
28:49Stand by.
28:49Do.
28:51I.
28:53Two.
29:12One.
29:20Dave? A six. A six, Stephen? Six. Dave? Joiner. Joiner and? Rejoin. There we go. Anything fresh
29:30over there? Fanner for six, but how about a Dragon's Inferno for seven? What could be better?
29:37Inferno. Perfect. Well done. Thank you. Susie, that's it? That was it, yes. That's a seven.
29:41Good enough. Good enough. Stephen, it's a letters game for you. Final one of the day.
29:47OK, I'll start with a consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Stephen. G. And another. S. And
29:57another. P. And a vowel, please. I. And another. A. And a consonant. R. And...
30:11And another. S. And a vowel. U. And a final vowel, please. And a final A. Stand by.
30:27A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel.
30:43A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel.
30:43A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel.
30:43A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel.
30:43A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel.
30:43A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel.
30:45A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel.
30:48A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A vowel. A
30:58Stephen?
30:59Six.
31:00A six.
31:01Dave?
31:01Just a five.
31:02Your five?
31:03A grass.
31:05Yes.
31:06Stephen?
31:06Sugar.
31:07Z.
31:08Sugars.
31:09Sugars.
31:10Yes.
31:11Sugar, sugar.
31:12Yep.
31:13And Chris and Susie?
31:14Grasps.
31:15Yep.
31:16Anything else?
31:17Yeah, grasps.
31:17That was for six.
31:18Couldn't do better than six, Nick.
31:2075 plays.
31:2146.
31:22In we go, Dave, into the final numbers game.
31:24Let's finish off with four large, please.
31:27Why not?
31:28Thank you, Dave.
31:28Finish off with four from the top row and two of the other ones.
31:31And the final numbers game of the day is seven and one.
31:35And then the big one, 75, 50, 100, 25.
31:41And the target, 845.
31:43845.
31:45845.
32:14Yes, Dave?
32:16847.
32:18847.
32:19847 and both of you.
32:21All right.
32:22So, Dave.
32:23Okay.
32:241 plus 7 equals 8.
32:26Yep.
32:27Times 100.
32:28800.
32:28800.
32:29Plus the 50.
32:30850.
32:3175 over 3.
32:33Sorry, 75 over 25 equals 3.
32:36And take that away.
32:37Yeah, two away.
32:38847.
32:39There we go.
32:40And Stephen?
32:40Exactly the same.
32:41Exactly the same?
32:42All right.
32:43So, two away.
32:45Good, but not perfect.
32:46845.
32:47I can get you one closer, but this one's actually impossible.
32:51Impossible.
32:51All right.
32:5382 plays 53 as we go into the final game.
32:57Conundrum time, gentlemen.
32:58Let's roll that countdown conundrum.
33:20Yes, Dave?
33:21Is it contrived?
33:23Let's see.
33:24Contrived.
33:26Contrived.
33:26Yes.
33:27Yes.
33:28Yes.
33:34That sort of makes it all better, doesn't it?
33:36It makes it brilliant.
33:37Yeah.
33:37Very good.
33:38Because Stephen's so good at these conundrums.
33:41So, well done.
33:42Back to Sheffield with you.
33:44And take this goodie bag and our very best wishes.
33:48We should be welcoming Stephen Fuller back tomorrow.
33:51Well done.
33:52You've got five wins.
33:55Getting on, aren't you?
33:56Getting on very well.
33:58Thank you very much.
33:58All right.
33:58We'll see you tomorrow.
33:59Brilliant stuff.
34:00And we shall see you both tomorrow.
34:02Indeed.
34:03Susie and Chris, of course.
34:04See you tomorrow, Nick.
34:04Really well done.
34:06Yep.
34:06He's coming back.
34:08Stronger and stronger.
34:09But he blew that conundrum.
34:11How interesting.
34:11You're so mean.
34:12Maybe the strain is beginning to tell.
34:15You're awful.
34:15You're terrible.
34:16Why?
34:17Just, that's a...
34:18Mean.
34:18He just won five shows and you're rubbing in that he didn't get the conundrum.
34:21We've got to keep him up to the mark, Rachel.
34:23You're very draconian, Nick.
34:26Well, a little bit.
34:27We'll see you tomorrow.
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34:29Same time, same place.
34:30You be sure of it.
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35:03The questions keep coming and their answers must be unanimous.
35:07The question jury, isn't it?
35:15You