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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:34Now, there's a lot of activity north of the border,
00:36particularly around Scone Palace up in Persia there,
00:41because tomorrow, Rewind Scotland,
00:43the great 80s festival of music,
00:46opens its gates and Saturday and Sunday,
00:50all the big bands, the big hair bands of those days,
00:53will be performing, people like Adamant, Toya, ABC to Go West.
00:58I thought, 80s music, well, I was blessed,
01:02because when I was a young chap, it was in the 60s,
01:06and I would argue with anybody
01:08that the 60s was just the best time for popular music.
01:12Rachel, I'm not a great...
01:13I'm not very knowledgeable, to be quite frank with you,
01:16about popular music, but I do know that we had a ball.
01:20The Stones, the Beatles and so on and on and on.
01:22We were very lucky.
01:23How about you? You were born in the 80s.
01:26How do you rate 80s music?
01:28I think it's always the generation when you're kind of teenage
01:31that you go for the most,
01:33so I'd definitely pick the 90s out of my favourite era.
01:35We went to a 90s night, my girlfriends and I,
01:37a couple of years ago.
01:38Hadn't heard songs for, like, 15 years,
01:40and you still know all the words to these, like,
01:42bewitched Backstreet Boys, Boy Zone,
01:45and Spice Girls, 20 years ago.
01:47How can it be that long?
01:48They were good at the time.
01:49Indeed they were.
01:50Now, who have we got with us?
01:51Aidan Lynch is back with us.
01:53Fantastic outing.
01:54First time yesterday, you came in with a bruising 106 points.
01:59Well done.
01:59Well done.
02:00Good to see you back.
02:01Student from Thetford in Norfolk,
02:02ready to go to Sussex, I think, to study politics.
02:05Is that right?
02:05Yep.
02:06So you're going to go and learn all about the political systems
02:09around the world, and good luck to you.
02:11You're joined by Kieran Duffy.
02:13Kieran's a secondary school maths teacher
02:15from Kilcock in County Kildare.
02:18Loves choral singing.
02:19Once was a member of the, indeed, was the conductor
02:22of the Mnouf Chamber Choir, and you've been a member
02:25of many choirs.
02:26I have, indeed.
02:27Brilliant stuff.
02:27And your favourite film is the biopic of the Irish political leader
02:32back in the 20s, Michael Collins.
02:35What was it about Michael Collins that particularly appealed to you?
02:38I suppose it just gets the hairs on the back of your neck
02:41standing up when you think about what some Irish men and women
02:43had to go through for their independence
02:45and to fight for their freedom.
02:47Indeed.
02:48Well, you're very welcome here, Rhett.
02:49Kieran and Aidan, let's have a big round of applause
02:52for our contestants today.
02:58And in the corner of Susie, of course, joined once again
03:01by football pundit, but more importantly, really,
03:05one of the great England goalkeepers, I think,
03:07played 53 times for England, none other than David James.
03:11Welcome back, David.
03:12Thank you very much.
03:12Welcome back.
03:17Now then, Aidan, you've cut your teeth on your first,
03:20you beat a six-times winner.
03:23Let's see how you get on today with your first letters game, perhaps.
03:27Hi, Rachel.
03:28Hi, Aidan.
03:29Can I have a consonant, please?
03:31Start today with D.
03:33Consonant.
03:58And lastly, A.
04:01And here comes the countdown clock.
04:34Yes, Aidan?
04:35Seven.
04:35A seven.
04:36And Kieran?
04:37Just a six, I'm afraid.
04:38And your six?
04:40Moaned.
04:41Moaned and?
04:42Unmoved.
04:43Unmoved.
04:44Yeah.
04:45Excellent.
04:45Very good to get a seven out of that.
04:47Can we beat it?
04:48Can we match it?
04:49David?
04:50I only had vogued.
04:53Okay.
04:54Which didn't beat it or match it, so...
04:56Okay.
04:58Seven points to Aidan.
04:59And Kieran, it's your letters game.
05:01Hi, Rachel.
05:02Hi, Kieran.
05:03Could I have a consonant, please?
05:04Start with...
05:05S.
05:06And a vowel?
05:09I.
05:10And a consonant?
05:12L.
05:13And a vowel?
05:15E.
05:16And a consonant?
05:18C.
05:20And a vowel?
05:22U.
05:23And a consonant?
05:25W.
05:26And another?
05:28R.
05:29And a final consonant, please.
05:32And a final S.
05:34Countdown.
05:35E.
05:37E.
06:05Kieran,
06:07seven I think a seven Aidan yes seven Kieran Curly's yeah cruises now then I'll throw that casually to Susie
06:19I did look up Curly's first thing I'm afraid it's um it's not there on its own okay um bad
06:25luck with that um cruises absolutely fine yeah up to seven very good and in the corner what have we
06:32got David Susie uh we just had another seven sluices
06:36uh sluices the you know the gates that control the flow of water yeah um that's our best sluices yeah
06:44all right
06:4414 points to Aidan and it's Aidan's numbers game now Aidan I'm kind of too large and four small please
06:50Thank you Kennedy thank you Aidan too big for little and for this round the little ones are nine three
06:57six four and the big ones one hundred and fifty
07:02and the target seven hundred and fifty three seven five three
07:06Thank you
07:08Thank you
07:38Aidan seven five three seven five three and Kieran yeah seven five three
07:42Aidan um six add nine is fifteen fifteen
07:46times one fifty is seven fifty and add on the three seven five three lovely and Kieran
07:52I did four plus three is seven by the one hundred is seven hundred yeah plus the fifty and then
07:59nine minus six is the three and added on
08:01perfect well done seven five three again very good well done
08:07so 24 plays at ten as we turn to our first tea time teaser which is I hard one
08:15and the clue this is a hard one James Bond may be able to help this is a hard one
08:20James Bond might be able to help
08:40and the answer Susie is iron head what is an iron head very clever this uh clue uh
08:53because an iron head is a duck otherwise known as the golden eye duck hence James Bond indeed
08:59um and I think in Fleming's estate in Jamaica was called golden eye it was indeed yeah yeah well done
09:04thank you very much Susie 24 please 10 Aidan on 24 and it's Kieran's letters game Kieran
09:12consonant please thank you Kieran B and another
09:18N N and a third please S a vowel A a vowel I a consonant T a consonant S a
09:36vowel O and a final vowel please
09:41S and a final A countdown
09:44and a final A countdown
10:15Yes, Kieran?
10:17I'll risk an eight.
10:19An eight. How about Aiden?
10:21Yeah, an eight.
10:21Two eights.
10:22Kieran?
10:23Abations?
10:25Yes.
10:26Abstains.
10:27And abstains?
10:30Abstains, absolutely fine.
10:32Very good indeed.
10:33You might be thinking of ablations, maybe, or ablutions, but no, abations.
10:37Sorry.
10:37Bad luck. Bad luck.
10:38Anything else, David?
10:39Um, bastions?
10:41Very good.
10:42Yeah.
10:43Abstains was our best for eight.
10:45All right, well done.
10:4632 plays ten, and it's Aiden's letters game.
10:49Aiden?
10:50Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:52Thank you, Aiden.
10:56X.
10:57Better consonant.
10:59N.
11:01Consonant.
11:03H.
11:05And a fourth.
11:07L.
11:08Mal.
11:09E.
11:11Vowel.
11:13A.
11:14Vowel.
11:16O.
11:17Consonant.
11:19R.
11:21And consonant, please.
11:23And lastly, L.
11:26Stand by.
11:27Her.
11:28Andanto.
11:30And cemetery.
11:54If this is made possible, come on and meet you with us.
11:55See you next time.
11:58Aidan.
11:59I'm going to go with a risky seven.
12:00A risky seven.
12:01Kieran.
12:02No, just a four, I'm afraid.
12:04And your four?
12:05Hole.
12:07Now, what's this risk we're talking about?
12:09Exhaler.
12:10And I've just noticed I need two E's, so don't worry.
12:14Yeah, it's actually not there anyway.
12:16I don't know if that makes you feel better.
12:18Probably not.
12:19Now then, can we beat the four?
12:22Susie, you have a nice word, don't you?
12:24It is a nice one, yeah.
12:25It's from South America.
12:26It comes from Spanish, and it's Llanero, L-L-A-N-E-R-O,
12:31and it is an inhabitant of Llanero, which is a treeless plain,
12:37grassy plain in South America.
12:39And this Llanero would be one who works as a cowboy.
12:43Llanero.
12:44Yeah.
12:45How interesting.
12:46Very good.
12:4732 to Kieran's 14, and now it's numbers time.
12:52Kieran.
12:52Could I have one from the top, please, and any other five?
12:55You can indeed, thank you, Kieran.
12:56One large.
12:57Five little.
12:58And these five little ones are nine, three, five, seven, and seven.
13:06And the big one, 75.
13:08And the target, 223.
13:10Two, two, three.
13:11Three, four, five, five, six.
13:43Yes, Kieran?
13:44Yes, 2-2-3.
13:46And Aidan?
13:472-2-3.
13:48Kieran?
13:5075 times 3.
13:512-2-5.
13:52And 7 minus 5 is 2.
13:54Nice and straightforward.
13:55Yep, 2-2-3.
13:56Aidan?
13:56Exactly the same way.
13:58All right.
13:59Great.
14:00All right.
14:01So.
14:0442 plays Kieran's 24 as we turn to David.
14:08And David, you know, being part of a team has got to be a lot of fun, a wonderful experience.
14:14But sometimes tricks get played, particularly amongst a crowd of young guys.
14:20And you had one such experience, I'm told.
14:22Yes, thanks for bringing that up.
14:23Yes.
14:25Yeah, team is very important.
14:26You trust your teammates.
14:28They're the guys who have your back, especially when you're playing for England, because the amount of pressure that the
14:35public put on you, the media put on you,
14:38everybody puts on you.
14:39So, you know, if your teammate's going to help you out, then he's the man you look to.
14:45And I'd recently set up a foundation in Malawi.
14:48And one of my advisors, one of my helpers, had said that there was an opportunity for someone to donate
14:55some money if I went along to an art gallery and did some stuff, whatever it was.
14:59Yeah.
14:59So I thought, yeah, that's good.
15:01The whole family came down.
15:03I'd also been recently looking in a lot of art magazines and seen a few sort of exclusive exhibits, exhibitions
15:11and whatever else.
15:13And I walked into this art gallery.
15:15First thing I saw on a wall was something that featured in one of these magazines.
15:18So I thought, yes, legitimate gallery.
15:21So, you know, no problems.
15:23I'm walking around.
15:24The guy's talking to me.
15:25And I'm trying to get onto the conversation of how are you going to help my foundation.
15:29But this guy kept avoiding that situation and showed me around the gallery a little bit more.
15:35And he explained to me there was this almost priceless vase, strangely positioned near the middle of the room without
15:43any protection.
15:44But I thought, that's nice.
15:47Wasn't that impressed.
15:49Anyway, we had a quick photograph next to this priceless vase, which somehow managed to fall on the floor and
15:55smash.
15:58A horrified audience, if you like, including some young lady who decided to have a go at me for some
16:05reason.
16:05I was like, hang on, what's going on here?
16:07This isn't right.
16:07This isn't right.
16:08Looking at the family, you know, what's going on?
16:10What's going on?
16:11And then I thought, I've got to get out of there.
16:13And then Rio decided to turn up and tell me that I'd been pranked.
16:19Oh, dear.
16:20Yeah.
16:21And it was, you know, the foundation of our relationship changed slightly after that.
16:25And I've actually, I think it was about ten years ago now, and I've been looking for an opportunity to
16:30get him back.
16:30To get him back.
16:31Get him back.
16:32You'll get him back.
16:33I will one day.
16:34You'll get him back.
16:35Well done.
16:35Lovely story.
16:36Now, a wicked prank.
16:42All right.
16:4342 plays.
16:44Kieran's 24.
16:45And Aidan, your letters came down.
16:47Consonant, please.
16:49Start with R.
16:51Consonant.
16:52N.
16:53Consonant.
16:56D.
16:57Vowel.
16:58I.
17:00Vowel.
17:02A.
17:04Vowel.
17:05O.
17:06Consonant.
17:08Consonant.
17:09K.
17:10Consonant.
17:12T.
17:13And a vowel, please.
17:15And a final E.
17:17Goodbye.
17:19Goodbye.
17:20Goodbye.
17:21Goodbye.
17:30Goodbye.
17:33Goodbye.
17:49Aidan.
17:50Eight.
17:50An eight.
17:51Kieran.
17:52Just a six.
17:53And that six.
17:54Tanked.
17:55Now, Aidan.
17:57Water nut.
18:00It's absolutely fine.
18:00Time for maths.
18:01Very good.
18:02Very good.
18:03Eight.
18:03And David and Susie.
18:05Susie had rationed.
18:07Rationed.
18:08Rationed.
18:08Right.
18:09Very good.
18:10And good.
18:10Eight.
18:1150 plays.
18:1224.
18:13And it's Kieran's letters came down.
18:15Kieran.
18:16Consonant, please.
18:17Thank you, Kieran.
18:19N.
18:20And another.
18:23M.
18:23And a third.
18:26D.
18:27And a vowel.
18:29I.
18:30And a vowel.
18:32A.
18:33And a consonant.
18:35F.
18:36And a consonant.
18:39R.
18:40A vowel.
18:42E.
18:43And a final consonant, please.
18:46And a final D.
18:48Stand by.
18:49I.
18:50I.
19:04I.
19:04I.
19:06I.
19:14I.
19:20Kieran.
19:21Six.
19:22A six.
19:23Aidan.
19:24Seven.
19:25Yes, Kieran.
19:26Friend.
19:27Friend and?
19:28Drained.
19:30Absolutely fine.
19:31And over in the corner, Susie and David.
19:34Well, we have a very important part of our society, a fireman.
19:40Fireman, indeed.
19:41Yes.
19:42Yes.
19:42Very good.
19:43Anything else, Susie?
19:44No, that was our seven.
19:44That'll do.
19:45Fireman, indeed.
19:4657 plays.
19:4724.
19:48And it's numbers time.
19:50Numbers for Aidan.
19:51Two large, please, Rachel.
19:53Thank you, Aidan.
19:54I'll go with these two and four little ones.
19:56And for this round, the small ones are five, two, eight, and another eight.
20:03And the big ones, 50 and 100.
20:05And this target, 432.
20:08432.
20:41Yes, Aidan?
20:41432.
20:43432.
20:44Kieran?
20:45No, I lost it, I'm afraid.
20:46Lost it.
20:47Let's go back to Aidan, then.
20:49100 times five is 500.
20:51500.
20:51And then take off everything else from the 500.
20:55The 50, the two, eights, and the two, and you get there.
20:57432, well done.
20:58432, well done.
21:01Well done.
21:03Let's have a tea time teaser.
21:05It's cake comb.
21:07And the clue, Eddie Grant sang about this quick and witty reply.
21:11Eddie Grant sang about this quick and witty reply.
21:31warm welcome back.
21:33I left with the clue, Eddie Grant sang about this quick and witty reply.
21:37Of course, the answer is come back.
21:39He sang, I think, baby come back, but it's come back.
21:43Quick come back.
21:4467 to 24, Aidan in the lead, and it's Kieran's letters again.
21:49Kieran?
21:50A consonant, please.
21:51Thank you, Kieran.
21:52G.
21:53And a vowel.
21:55O.
21:56And a consonant.
21:59Z.
22:00And a vowel.
22:02E.
22:03And a consonant.
22:05P.
22:06And a consonant.
22:09R.
22:10A vowel.
22:12I.
22:13A consonant.
22:15L.
22:17And a final vowel, please.
22:19And a final U.
22:22Stand by.
22:24A consonant.
22:29A consonant.
22:38A consonant.
22:39A consonant.
22:40A consonant.
22:41A consonant.
22:41A consonant.
22:41A consonant.
22:42A consonant.
22:44A consonant.
22:55Kieran?
22:56Five.
22:57Five.
22:58Aidan?
22:58I'll stick with a five.
23:00Kieran?
23:01Prize.
23:03Aidan?
23:04Grope.
23:05Grope?
23:05Yeah.
23:06Grope?
23:07Yes.
23:08What else can we have?
23:09Well, I know you have been in one of these, or are familiar with one of these.
23:13That's a pirogue.
23:13Those are those hollowed-out tree trunks used as canoes.
23:16Yes.
23:17You have been in one of those, haven't you?
23:18I have, actually, yeah.
23:19Yes.
23:19Very good.
23:21All right.
23:2172, please.
23:23And Aidan, your letters came.
23:25A consonant, please.
23:26Thank you, Aidan.
23:27P.
23:29And another.
23:31M.
23:32Consonant.
23:34R.
23:35Foul.
23:37E.
23:38Foul.
23:40O.
23:41Voul.
23:43E.
23:43Foul.
23:47U.
23:48Consonant.
23:50V.
23:52Consonant.
23:54And, to finish, T.
23:56Countdown.
24:28Very good.
24:30Aidan?
24:30I'll stick with a five.
24:32Five, Kieran?
24:33Five as well.
24:34Mm-hmm.
24:35Erupt.
24:36And?
24:37Prove.
24:38And prove.
24:39What have you got?
24:40David?
24:41Well, I had prove.
24:43Yes.
24:44But Susie has permute.
24:46What is permute?
24:48If you work back from permutation, permutation is a change, and to permute is to submit to
24:53a process of alteration.
24:54I think it's used in technology more than in general life.
24:58Thank you very much, you chaps.
25:00And it's 77 to 34, and it's Susie's Origins of Words.
25:05Susie, what have you got for us today?
25:07Well, I think you remember, Nick, I've talked before about the unusual origin of the word
25:11hearse.
25:12because slightly morbid beginning, but the hearse looks back to a harrow in Roman times
25:19that was known as a herpex, and it was like a rake with teeth.
25:24In fact, the ultimate origin is a very ancient word meaning wolf, because the teeth of a rake look like
25:29the teeth of a wolf.
25:30And that was transferred to a hearse and eventually a coffin because of the frames that were put on top
25:36of the coffins or hearses to carry candles for burial ceremonies.
25:41Well, there's another sort of slightly linked word that has an unexpected ancestors quite similar, and that's a verse, a
25:48verse of poetry, because that's got to do with ploughing furrows as well and looks back to Roman agriculture.
25:57It goes back to verses, which means turning, and the idea was that on the fields, on the Roman fields,
26:03a plough would furrow one line and then get to the end of the field and then turn and come
26:08back again.
26:09Just as a line of poetry will get to the end and then you will sort of return back.
26:13It's all to do with the sort of the metre, if you like, so ploughing a field to the metre
26:17of poetry.
26:19But that, one of the reasons I like this is that you can decode so many words from knowing that
26:24the Roman's word for turning was versus.
26:27It gave us reverse, of course.
26:30It gave us version, a turning or an altering of the text.
26:34Vertigo, I feel like you're turning round.
26:37An introvert is somebody who's turned in on themselves.
26:39An extrovert, somebody who's turned outwards towards the world.
26:42And universe, probably my favourite, because many things, the universe is many things,
26:46that when considered, turn into one.
26:49It is sort of one whole, once you bring all these things together and turn it into one.
26:55But yeah, one of the joys of English etymology, I think, anyway, is that you can unpick so much
26:58just from owning one Latin root that gave us so many things.
27:02Fantastic.
27:09And sort of vice versa would be turning.
27:11Vice versa is exactly the same, yes.
27:13So good, so good.
27:1577 plays, 34.
27:17And Ciaran, your letters game, penultimate letters game.
27:20A consonant, please.
27:22Thank you, Ciaran.
27:23R.
27:24And another.
27:27W.
27:28And a third.
27:30S.
27:31And a vowel.
27:33A.
27:34And a vowel.
27:36E.
27:37A consonant.
27:39T.
27:41Another consonant.
27:42P.
27:45A vowel.
27:47I.
27:49And a final consonant, please.
27:52And a final T.
27:55Countdown.
27:56A dönem.
28:09A vowel.
28:12A vowel.
28:12A vowel.
28:12Keep saying.
28:19A猝.
28:20Fuest.
28:20A vowel.
28:21A vowel.
28:21A lentic.
28:22A vowel.
28:24A vowel.
28:26yes karen seven not written down agent seven so karen patters waiters
28:37happy yes all right susie um lots of sevens there was one eight uh there to be found wire taps
28:44um all part of surveillance exercise obviously um a wire taps listening device
28:49yes there for eight a wire tap 84 plays 41 and into the final letters game aiden i'll mix it
28:56up
28:56vowel first thank you aiden a another vowel u consonant f consonant l consonant t consonant
29:13s vowel e vowel i and consonant please and lastly r go and go
29:32so
29:37so
30:01aden sick with a seven a seven kieran and seven
30:06yes aden filters filters and refusal refusal very nice two good words yep two good words and the
30:15corner susie and david eight yes full tier very good and the air susie um 40 is brilliant for eight
30:24and there's fistula as well with an r at the end it's the adjective relating to a fistula which in
30:30medicine is um an abnormal it can be surgically made but an abnormal passage between organs
30:36it's a hole yeah oh yeah not something you want to have absolutely not a fistula fistula yeah
30:42absolutely all right 91 plays 48 and it's a numbers game final one kieran kieran duffy i'll have one from
30:51the top again and any other five thanks thank you kieran one large five little for the final time
30:55today and these numbers are 10 3 6 4 another 6 and 25 and this target 912
31:07912
31:08so
31:10so
31:25so
31:26so
31:39Kieran.
31:419, 10.
31:42Two away.
31:43How about 8?
31:459, 1, 6.
31:46Not written down.
31:48All right.
31:48So we stick with Kieran then.
31:49Kieran.
31:506 plus 3 is 9.
31:526 plus 3, 9.
31:54Times 4 is 36.
31:56Yep.
31:56Times the 25 is 900.
31:58900.
31:59And add the 10.
32:00And that gets you two away.
32:02910.
32:03Well done, Kieran.
32:04But not perfect.
32:05Now, 9, 1, 2 is perfect.
32:07Rachel?
32:09Yes, there were quite a few ways of this one, actually.
32:11You could have said 6 times 6 is 36.
32:15Times that by 25.
32:16Again for 900.
32:18And then 4 times 3 is your 12.
32:20And that's 912.
32:22Well done.
32:22Well done, Rachel.
32:25Well done.
32:26So 55 plays Aiden's 91 as we go into the final round, which is the conundrum round.
32:32So fingers on buzzers.
32:33Let's reveal today's countdown conundrum.
32:40Aiden.
32:40So fast.
32:41Broadwalk.
32:42Let's have a look.
32:44No.
32:45Rest of the time down to you, Kieran.
32:48Yes.
32:50Boardwalk.
32:52Boardwalk, indeed.
32:53Let's see whether you're right.
32:54Here it comes.
32:56Boardwalk.
33:02And I think Aiden's kicking himself a bit.
33:06Yeah.
33:07Very.
33:07But listen, good score.
33:0991, Kieran.
33:10Well done.
33:1065.
33:11No mean achievement.
33:12But today is Aiden's day.
33:15So we thank you for coming all the way from County Kildare, from Kilcock there.
33:19So take this goodie bag with you.
33:21Very best wishes.
33:22All right.
33:23My love to County Kildare as well.
33:25Aiden, good man.
33:26We'll see you tomorrow.
33:27Well done, indeed.
33:28All right.
33:29And we shall see you both tomorrow.
33:31David, more stories from the goldmouth, as it were.
33:36And Susie, too.
33:37See you tomorrow.
33:38All right.
33:39Well done.
33:40Rachel?
33:40I remember that Rio Ferdinand's World Cup wind-ups.
33:43Apparently, it's still on YouTube.
33:45Oh.
33:45To catch up.
33:47Yeah.
33:48Thanks, though, Rach.
33:49Thanks.
33:50It's embarrassing for David, but Rio's hair 10 years ago is embarrassing enough as well.
33:55So worth a watch.
33:56Big hair?
33:57Dreads.
33:58Long dreads and an interesting, yeah, interesting outfit.
34:01No longer in style.
34:02All right.
34:04We'll see you tomorrow.
34:05See you tomorrow.
34:05Rachel, always in style.
34:06Same time, same place.
34:08You be sure of it.
34:08A very good afternoon.
34:10You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com, by Twitter at C4Countdown,
34:16or write to us at Countdown Leagues LS3 1JS.
34:20You can also find our webpage at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
34:27Well, later tonight at nine, what happens when calling around for sugar?
34:31Becomes calling 999.
34:33Neighbourly disputes get tricky, and emergency services must intervene.
34:37Next, this afternoon, while getting seven people to decide on an answer should be quite easy,
34:41shouldn't it?
34:42The question jury is on the way.
34:51You