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00:30Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio on the day that Breakfast at Tiffany's takes off on a UK
00:37tour.
00:37Now, the part of Holly Golightly, so wonderfully portrayed by the glorious Audrey Hepburn way back in 1961,
00:45will be played by Pixie Lott and also by Georgia Mayfoot.
00:50And Pixie, of course, has been starring in the West End version.
00:53So, Truman Capote's story, it was such a great film.
00:57He was a strange man, but that was his big breakout success.
01:01And, of course, it all took place in New York City.
01:04I thought to myself, well, is there anything that has inspired me to go somewhere because I've seen it portrayed
01:11on film?
01:11And the answer, candidly, is no.
01:14So, did you ever see anywhere on a film that you thought, do you know something, I've got to go
01:19there or I must never go there?
01:21Um, well, I've watched Pretty Woman a fair few times in my time.
01:26So, when I went to L.A., I did have to go down to Rodeo Drive and go to the
01:29shop where she was refused and do all the, you know, see the hotel, all that kind of stuff.
01:34Yeah.
01:34All the hot spots, along Rodeo Drive, there's still, there's the shop where she went in.
01:39And there's also a cupcake ATM machine where instead of getting the money out, you literally get a cupcake out.
01:44And it's right next to an ice cream shop.
01:46So, you can get an ice cream while you queue for your cupcake.
01:49Only in L.A.
01:50Brilliant stuff.
01:51All right.
01:52Now, Rach, we've got Jamie Washington back, student from Huthersfield.
01:56Two good wins before the Paralympics.
01:59Well done.
01:59Welcome back, too.
02:01But you're joined today by Gareth Bann, a risk assessment man from Fence in Lancashire.
02:08And you're a bodybuilder, amateur bodybuilder, and a road cyclist, too.
02:13Yeah, they don't normally mix.
02:15The two body shapes don't exactly lend themselves to each other.
02:18I'm quite a bit bigger than the average road cyclist.
02:20So, I'm trying to taper that down a bit and concentrate on cycling at the moment.
02:25On cycling.
02:25Very healthy stuff.
02:26You love New York City.
02:28I do, yes.
02:29Yeah?
02:29Got married in New York City.
02:30I did.
02:31I got married at Bagman's Cove in Central Park.
02:34I'm planning to go back next year for our fifth wedding anniversary.
02:37Good for you.
02:37It's probably my favourite place to holiday.
02:40Yeah.
02:41I still prefer London.
02:42New York City's great.
02:44All right.
02:44Let's have a big round of applause, then, shall we, for Jamie Washington and Gareth Bann.
02:49Welcome.
02:50Welcome to the studio.
02:53Over the corner, of course, back here in the studio, Susie Dent, and, of course, our TV
02:59personality, raconteur, was a producer and talent scout, Michael Whitehall.
03:06Unbelievable.
03:07Such a career.
03:08Thank you very much.
03:09The best storyteller in town.
03:12That's what they say.
03:14Yeah.
03:15Live with it, Michael.
03:17Jamie, shall we have a letters game?
03:20Hi, Rachel.
03:21Hi, Jamie.
03:22Start of a consonant, please.
03:24Start the week with S.
03:26And another.
03:28W.
03:30And another.
03:31G.
03:33And a fourth.
03:35N.
03:36And a vowel.
03:38A.
03:39And another.
03:41I.
03:42And a third.
03:45E.
03:46And a consonant.
03:48D.
03:49And a final consonant, please.
03:52And a final P.
03:53And here's the countdown clock.
03:56And here's the countdown clock.
04:26Yes, Jamie?
04:27A seven.
04:28A seven.
04:29Gareth?
04:29Just a six.
04:30And your six?
04:32Sewing.
04:33Yes.
04:34Spewing?
04:35Spewing.
04:36Spewing?
04:36Yep.
04:37Crowd spewing out from an auditorium.
04:39Mm.
04:40Yeah.
04:41And a river can spew, I think?
04:43Probably, yes.
04:44You can use it in lots of figurative ways, can't you?
04:46What have we got?
04:46Michael, Susie?
04:48We've got, um, spawned.
04:51Yep.
04:51Yep, that will get you to another seven.
04:54Okay.
04:54So two sevens from us.
04:56Seven points to Jamie, and it's Gareth's letters game.
04:59Gareth.
04:59Hi, Rachel.
05:00Hi, Gareth.
05:00Can I have a consonant, please?
05:02Start with T.
05:04And a vowel.
05:06O.
05:06A consonant.
05:09S.
05:10A consonant.
05:12C.
05:13A vowel.
05:14U.
05:16And a vowel, please.
05:19I.
05:20A consonant.
05:22N.
05:23Consonant.
05:25M.
05:27And another vowel, please.
05:29And the last one, E.
05:31Stand by.
05:32One.
05:45Can it be?
05:48Morning.
05:49One.
05:49One.
05:55One.
05:56One.
05:57One.
05:57Two.
05:57One.
05:58Two.
05:59One.
05:59Two.
06:00One.
06:01Sorry.
06:03Yes, Gareth?
06:04Seven.
06:05Seven.
06:05Jamie?
06:06Seven.
06:07Gareth?
06:08Costume.
06:09Costume man?
06:10Costume.
06:12Any more costumes, Michael, Susie?
06:14We didn't have that one, actually.
06:15No.
06:16Very nice.
06:16You had a couple of eight counties there and miscount as well.
06:22And miscount.
06:23Thank you very much.
06:24Fourteen plays seven.
06:26And now, Jamie, first numbers game.
06:29You have one large and five small.
06:30Thanks, Rachel.
06:31Thank you, Jamie.
06:31One from the top, five from the others.
06:33And the first numbers game of the week is two, ten, one, six, eight, and 75.
06:43And the target, 184.
06:45One, eight, four.
06:46One, eight, four.
06:54So, oh, my.
07:18Jamie, 184.
07:21Gareth?
07:21184, but I've not written it down.
07:23Well, tell us about it.
07:25Gareth?
07:26Um, 75 plus 8.
07:33Yep.
07:34Plus 6.
07:35Plus 8, plus 6.
07:37Times 2.
07:3889, times 2.
07:39He's wrong.
07:41100.
07:42178.
07:42Plus the 6.
07:44I'm afraid you've already used it there.
07:46Sorry, Gareth.
07:47Bad luck.
07:47What's Jamie got?
07:4875 plus 10, plus 6, plus 1.
07:5392.
07:5492.
07:54And times by the 2.
07:55Yeah, well done.
07:56184.
07:57Very good.
07:58Very good.
07:59Well done, Jamie.
08:01You ought to be an English teacher.
08:03I think you should be a maths teacher, maybe, because you're very good at the maths.
08:06Well done.
08:07All right.
08:07So, 24 plays 7.
08:09Jamie in the lead.
08:10Let's have a tea time teaser, which is Core Revs.
08:13And the clue, gets better at smartening up the old sofas.
08:18Gets better at smartening up the old sofas.
08:36One welcome back.
08:38I left you with a clue, gets better at smartening up the old sofas.
08:41And the answer is Recovers.
08:44Recovers.
08:45Recovers.
08:4524 plays 7.
08:47And it's Gareth's letters again.
08:49Gareth?
08:49A consonant, please.
08:51Thank you, Gareth.
08:52L.
08:53And another one, please.
08:55T.
08:56And a vowel.
08:57A.
09:00And a consonant.
09:02N.
09:04And a vowel.
09:06O.
09:08And a consonant.
09:09K.
09:11And a vowel.
09:14A.
09:16And another consonant.
09:19D.
09:20And a final vowel.
09:21And a final I.
09:24Stand by.
09:42Gareth.
09:56Gareth.
09:57A six.
09:58A six, Jamie?
09:59No, I've gone wrong there.
10:01So, Gareth?
10:03Dental.
10:04Oh, there's no A.
10:06Nope.
10:09Now then, what can we have in the corner, though?
10:12A couple of sixes over here.
10:14It wasn't an easy one, this one, though.
10:16Ladino is a white clover of a large variety native to Italy.
10:21Yes.
10:22Used for fodder in North America.
10:23And there's also daikon, D-A-I-K-O-N, which is a type of radish.
10:28Radish.
10:28Yes.
10:29The daikon.
10:29Daikon.
10:30That's the daikon.
10:31Thank you very much.
10:3224 plays, seven.
10:33And Jamie, letters game for you.
10:35Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
10:36Thank you, Jamie.
10:52And a final consonant, please.
11:03And a final M.
11:05Stand by.
11:06Dental.
11:08¿Qué eros�
11:09No.
11:35No.
11:36No.
11:37Jamie a six a six Gareth a six Jamie upsets and the same upsets there we go just show that
11:46for
11:47Jamie now can we match that Michael Susie we can match it we were wondering if we could better it
11:56but I don't think we can Jetson is there as in flotsam and Jetson wondering whether you can put
12:00the S at the end says mass noun in the dictionary unwanted material goods that have been thrown
12:05overboard so you can't pluralize it lots of Jetson thank you all right 30 plays 13 and now
12:12Gareth it's time for your numbers game cover two large and four small please Rachel thank
12:17you Gareth two large four little and for this one the small ones are one two five and one and
12:26the
12:26large two twenty five and one hundred and the target seven hundred and twenty five seven to five
12:35so
13:03yes Gareth no nothing
13:06and Jamie yeah seven to five and five plus two for the seven I think Gareth is gonna kick
13:12himself a lot five times hundred plus twenty five yeah what did you do Gareth not that
13:21oh sorry there we go 40 plays 13s we turn to Michael Michael love before the Paralympics you were here
13:32you told us some great showbiz stories and I think you might have another one for us I've got a
13:38little
13:38story it doesn't involve me but involves a great friend of mine Martin Jarvis remember Martin Jarvis still
13:47a good friend former client and he told me this story when he was rehearsing a play that was going
13:57to come into London he was in the country rehearsing it for a week and each night he would come
14:04back to the
14:04hotel he was booked into and there was a girl behind the reception and every night Doris would say oh
14:12good evening Mr.
14:13Jarvis how are you and he'd say I'm absolutely fine how are you Doris he said oh I'm fine thank
14:19you it's so lovely to see you and
14:21that and rehearsals went well it's wonderfully well looking forward to tomorrow and that would happen
14:27every night and then the three or four days went by sort of day five the last day of the
14:34week before
14:35they headed back to London oh Mr. Jarvis how are you good evening hello Doris that's pretty that frock you
14:43haven't worn that have you no no it's new oh you look lovely so looking forward to coming to see
14:49your
14:49play when it opens I'll arrange tickets for you so Martin goes to his room and he picks up the
14:57phone
14:57to ring Ros his wife and the conversation goes like this Ros this play is a nightmare I'm absolutely
15:07going mad none of the actors can act the director can't direct the theatre is chaos it's the most
15:17depressing thing I've ever done in my life and I can't remember a line of it and we open in
15:23a couple
15:23of days time and there was a pause Mr. Jarvis yes this is Doris here you have to dial nine
15:34for an outside line
15:44perfect perfect and that sort of thing happens isn't it true story lovely he's got a wonderful
15:49voice he has he used to be hugely successful in voiceovers I made a lot of money out of him
15:56in his
15:57heyday um it's a good chap nice man indeed 40 plays 13 Jamie in the lead and it's Jamie's letters
16:03game instead of a consonant please Rachel thank you Jamie L and another T and a vowel I and another
16:16O and a
16:18consonant R and another consonant X and a vowel I a consonant S and a final vowel please
16:33and final E countdown
16:36the sound of a consonant R and a vowel I'll use it to the next time
16:37so
16:37the sound of a consonant R and another T and a vowel I a consonant R and a vowel I
16:56a consonant R and a vowel I a consonant R and a vowel I have an
17:06Yes, Jamie?
17:08Seven.
17:08Seven.
17:09Gareth?
17:10Seven.
17:11Jamie?
17:12Trixie's.
17:14Trixie's.
17:16Gareth?
17:17White's.
17:19Now then, what has the corner got for us?
17:21Yeah, a Trixie is a bet consisting of three doubles and one treble.
17:26Probably know that one, Jamie.
17:28And that's absolutely brilliant.
17:30Yeah, to use the X in there.
17:31Not easy.
17:32Anything else, Michael?
17:34Susie, that's it?
17:36We had lots of sevens, yes.
17:38Oilius, loiters, and elixirs is another one using the S.
17:41Oh, I'd like some of that if you've got any spare.
17:43One for potions.
17:44Yeah, an elixir.
17:4647 plays 20.
17:47And Gareth, let us go.
17:50Consonant, please, Rachel.
17:52Thank you, Gareth.
17:53M.
17:54And a vowel.
17:56A.
17:56And a consonant.
17:58N.
18:00And another one.
18:02D.
18:03And a vowel.
18:06U.
18:07A consonant.
18:09T.
18:11And another one.
18:13L.
18:14And a vowel.
18:17E.
18:18And a final consonant, please.
18:20And a final V.
18:22Stand by.
18:24And a vowel.
18:45And a vowel.
18:45And a vowel.
18:45And a vowel.
18:45And a vowel.
18:45And a vowel.
18:46And a vowel.
18:54Gareth?
18:55A seven.
18:56A seven?
18:57A seven.
18:58Yes, Gareth?
18:59Uh, vaulted.
19:00Vaulted and?
19:01Untamed.
19:03Untamed.
19:04Very nice.
19:05Pretty good.
19:06Yes.
19:06Anything for the corner?
19:08Nothing better.
19:09Uh, mantled is there as well, um, sort of cloaked.
19:13The valleys can be mantled in fog.
19:15And actually, a very old meaning, which is quite nice, is to glow with a blush.
19:19So there's talks of her face mantling with emotion, which is quite nice.
19:22Very nice.
19:23Very good.
19:2454, please.
19:2527.
19:26Jamie, numbers, games, come round again.
19:30I have one from the top and any five of us, please, Rachel.
19:33Thank you, Jamie.
19:33One large, five, little.
19:36And this time around, the numbers are five, two, seven, six, one, and 100.
19:43And the target, 904.
19:469.04.
19:47We'll be right here.
19:58Bye-bye.
20:00Bye-bye.
20:03Bye-bye.
20:04Bye-bye.
20:09Bye-bye.
20:13Bye-bye.
20:18Jamie.
20:199-0-4.
20:209-0-4, Gareth?
20:229-0-4, I think.
20:23Jamie.
20:247 plus 2 for 9 times 100.
20:28900.
20:29And 5 minus 1 for the 4.
20:31Yep.
20:31Lovely.
20:329-0-4.
20:33Gareth.
20:33Same way.
20:36There we go.
20:40Well done.
20:4264 plays 37.
20:43As we turn to our second teatime teaser, which is Bat Ratio.
20:47And the clue, the animals don't want to cross the finishing line here.
20:52The animals don't want to cross the finishing line here.
21:11Welcome back.
21:12I left you with a clue the animals don't want to cross the finishing line here.
21:16And that would be the abattoir.
21:19The abattoir.
21:20Certainly not.
21:2164 to 37.
21:22Jamie in the lead.
21:23Gareth.
21:25Letters time.
21:26Consonant, please, Rachel.
21:27Thank you, Gareth.
21:29R.
21:29And a vowel.
21:31And a vowel.
21:33And a consonant.
21:34Z.
21:37Vowel.
21:38U.
21:41Consonant.
21:42S.
21:43And another one.
21:45R.
21:47And another.
21:50N.
21:52And a vowel.
21:55E.
21:56And a final consonant, please, Rachel.
21:58And a final P.
22:00Stand by.
22:01I'm happy to be with you.
22:08Bye.
22:10Bye.
22:12Bye.
22:17Bye.
22:24Bye.
22:26Bye.
22:27Bye.
22:27Bye.
22:29Bye.
22:32gareth just a five a five how about uh jamie six gareth pause and prunes always make you smile
22:43prunes don't they um you can actually add the other r and have pruners uh so you can have
22:49pruners which are shears in the garden sure the pruning trees pruners pruning shears yeah
22:56all right thank you so jamie on 70 gareth on 37 and it's jamie's letters game jamie okay have a
23:02consonant please richel thank you jamie l and another r and a vowel o and another a and a consonant
23:15d and another n and another g and a vowel i and another vowel please and the last one e
23:31stand by
23:35so
24:02yes jamie uh nine a nine gareth a nine
24:08jamie reloading reloading and reloading well done just for that well done
24:18satisfying that isn't it okay and what have we got in the quarter reloading reloading too well done
24:26so that's that's right of us very good um you can turn it around and have a lovely sounding word
24:32a girandol uh which is g-i-r-a-n-d-o-l-e and it's a support for candles
24:38or other lights one of those
24:39branched supports uh that is a girandol a girandol yeah thank you age eight plays 55 and susie
24:47your origins of words now today well i've been thinking about uh words for fisticuffs uh recently
24:56i'm not quite sure why except i came across a wonderful old scottish dialect word the other day
25:01nick which was a collie shangle which is a fight a small skirmish if you like or a stramash
25:07as they might say in scotland these days or a fracker as jeremy clarkson liked to put it
25:12um but another word that means coming to fisticuffs is to be at loggerheads with someone
25:17which is quite a curious term when you think about it um and it's got a slightly curious twisting
25:22story first of all you have to go to the singular uh word loggerhead uh which you will still find
25:29today in many different contexts a species of turtle a bird uh even a place name but originally a loggerhead
25:36was none of these it was used with the meaning of a stupid person a blockhead shakespeare used it in
25:42that way in love's labors lost uh i can't read that one out because it includes a very rude word
25:47but he used it as a as a big insult to somebody uh you were born to do me shame
25:51and he calls them a
25:52loggerhead so loggerhead in the in that sense was literally a block head and that makes sense because
25:58a logger was a thick block of timber and it was fastened to a horse's leg to prevent it from
26:03straying
26:03or roaming uh but if you move on a century or so a loggerhead was also an iron instrument this
26:11is the
26:11definition with a long handle used for melting pitch and for heating liquids one of those liquids that
26:18was heated was balderdash uh which is a fantastic word meaning nonsense today but originally was a
26:24mixture of beer wine milk and occasionally all sorts of strange ingredients including and i know i've
26:30mentioned this on the show before pigeon dung uh was sometimes thrown in don't ask me why um but
26:37this was all the rage it was um quite a heady brew uh apparently if not a very unappetizing one
26:43but the
26:44key thing here is it was stirred occasionally the long poker like instrument that was also called a
26:50loggerhead and the phrase at loggerheads today coming to fisticuffs with somebody is thought to be
26:55because inebriated people drinking that that posset that balderdash uh would sometimes wield this
27:01poker like instrument at each other uh hence they came to literal loggerheads because that's what they
27:06were brandishing at the time brilliant
27:13that's very good excellent 88 to 55 uh gareth let us go uh consonant please rachel thank you gareth b
27:23and a vowel please i and a consonant f and another one s and another one
27:37h h and a vowel o and a consonant t and a consonant p and another vowel and last one
27:51e and here's the countdown clock
28:00so
28:12so
28:12so
28:12so
28:12so
28:27Gareth?
28:29A risky six.
28:31Yes? Just a five.
28:33A five. You're a five, Jamie?
28:34I hope.
28:35Now then, Gareth?
28:38Befits.
28:39Befits? Absolutely fine, yes. Very good.
28:42Very good. And the corner? Can we match it?
28:47Yes. Bishop?
28:48Bishop, yep. A postie is in there.
28:52And also, for seven, a phobist.
28:55Somebody who has a particular phobia about something is a phobist.
28:59Okay. Very good.
29:01Thank you, thank you, Michael.
29:03And it's Jamie's letters game. Final one of the day.
29:07A consonant, please, Rachel.
29:09Thank you, Jamie.
29:10F.
29:12And another.
29:14D.
29:15And a vowel.
29:16A.
29:17And a consonant.
29:20G.
29:21And another consonant.
29:23H.
29:24And a vowel.
29:26U.
29:27And another vowel.
29:29A.
29:33And a final vowel, please.
29:36And a final O.
29:38Stand by.
29:39And a vowel.
29:57And a vowel.
29:58And a vowel.
29:59And a vowel.
29:59And a vowel.
29:59And a vowel.
29:59And a vowel.
30:09Yes, Jamie? Just a five.
30:11A five. Gareth?
30:12A five again.
30:14Guard. Guard and?
30:15Rough.
30:16Rough.
30:18Rough, rough.
30:19Yeah.
30:20Michael, Susie, anything else?
30:23No, couldn't get any better than Michael.
30:24And that's that.
30:25All right, 93 plays 66.
30:28Gareth, final numbers game?
30:30Two large and four small, please, Rachel.
30:33Thank you, Gareth.
30:33Two large, four little for the final one of today's game.
30:37And these numbers are two, two, one, eight.
30:42And the large two, 75 and 50.
30:44And the target, 616.
30:47616.
31:19Gareth?
31:21I think I've got it, but I've probably not.
31:23How about Jamie?
31:24616.
31:26Gareth?
31:2975 plus two.
31:3175 plus two, 77.
31:34Times eight.
31:35Yeah, you have got it.
31:36Well done.
31:37616.
31:38Well done.
31:39And?
31:40Same way.
31:40There we go.
31:41You happy, Gareth?
31:42All right, well done.
31:46Two, two players, 103 and 76, Gareth on 76, as we turn to the final round, conundrum time.
31:55Fingers on buzzers.
31:56Let's roll today's countdown conundrum.
32:24Wow, Jamie.
32:25Mentalist?
32:27Mentalist, let's see whether you're right.
32:30Here it comes.
32:31Wow, well done.
32:35Very good.
32:38113.
32:39That's great stuff.
32:40Well done.
32:41We turn now to Gareth.
32:42Gareth, well played, actually.
32:44That's a good score, but he seems to have got a little bit of a knack with the maths and
32:49with his conundrums, too.
32:50So thank you very much for coming.
32:52All right.
32:53Good luck when you go back to New York for your fifth wedding anniversary.
32:57It will be, yeah.
32:58Yeah?
32:58And you take this goodie bag with you.
33:00Well, you don't have to take it to New York, but you can certainly take it home to Fence
33:03in Lancashire with our very best wishes.
33:06Thank you very much.
33:06Thanks for coming.
33:07Thanks for having us.
33:08All right.
33:08And we shall see you tomorrow.
33:11Yeah.
33:11Well done.
33:11Well done, indeed.
33:14Now, before we say goodbye to you, you're looking tanned.
33:16I hear you've been on the deep blue sea recently.
33:20Have I?
33:21Yeah.
33:22Oh, yes.
33:23That's right.
33:23Anyway, um, Mrs. Whitehall, um, who likes travelling.
33:29I don't like travelling.
33:31But anyway, she said, why don't we go on a cruise?
33:34And she found this cruise, which went to Bermuda.
33:38Bermuda, and we went to Cuba, sadly on the same day as President Obama went with his
33:46entourage, so it was a bit crowded.
33:48And then we had a lovely time in Bermuda, where I bought a couple of jackets.
33:53I think we've seen one of those jackets.
33:55You have, and you may even be seeing it again.
34:00Well, we'll see you tomorrow.
34:02Brilliant.
34:02Thanks, Michael.
34:03And Susie, too.
34:04See you tomorrow.
34:04See you Friday.
34:05All right.
34:05Rachel?
34:06Yep.
34:06See you tomorrow.
34:07See you tomorrow.
34:08Same time tomorrow.
34:09You be sure of it.
34:09A very, very good afternoon to you.
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34:29Well, just days before we find out if Jeremy Corbyn has retained his leadership, dispatches,
34:33goes undercover to investigate momentum.
34:35The battle for the Labour Party tonight at 25 past 7.
34:38Then at 9, with more vehicles on the road, what are the challenges our emergency services
34:42are coming up against?
34:43It's a bit of an eye-opener in 999.
34:45What's your emergency?
34:46Next, though, we're looking for a place in the sun.
34:51We're looking for a place in the future.