Category
📺
TVTranscript
00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:05APPLAUSE
00:31Hello, everybody. Knowing me, Colin Murray,
00:33knowing you, the Countdown viewer, aha!
00:36This afternoon, we're going to host 15 rounds of Letters and Numbers
00:41at Property Police.
00:43It must not, I repeat, must not turn into an all-night rave.
00:47Rachel Riley, smell the cheese. How are you?
00:50LAUGHTER
00:52Smell the cheese yourself, Colin.
00:54It is Alan Partridge's birthday today.
00:56In 1991, in this day, Alan Partridge made his first appearance
01:00on Radio 4 on The R.
01:02I just want to quickly say it was created by Steve Coogan
01:05and Armando Iannucci, who's somewhat of a genius
01:07and should always get mentioned.
01:09But from that little radio appearance in this day,
01:12you know, over 30 years ago, I think it's fair to say
01:15one of the greatest all-time TV comedy creations.
01:19Yeah, and I need to go and actually watch it.
01:21I've seen bits and I know quotes and I think it's funny
01:24and I've watched the recent series,
01:26but I didn't watch the original ones.
01:28I think I was only slightly young when it was out
01:30and I haven't gone back and revisited it,
01:32so I need to find the time.
01:33Enjoy it.
01:34I love when someone hasn't seen someone great,
01:36cos you get to see it.
01:37Well, let's head over to Dictionary Corner
01:39and the Lynn to my Alan, our J of the D, Susie Dent, is here,
01:43and alongside her, a Dictionary Corner guest
01:45who has been described as lovely stuff.
01:48Not my words, the words of Shekin' Stevens.
01:50Edith Holman is here.
01:53Dan! Dan!
01:56Dan!
01:57We're both massive Partridge fans.
01:59Oh, huge.
02:00Shall we talk about it a bit later?
02:01Yeah, please. Let's do it.
02:02Let's do it.
02:03Right, our champion, then, Harry Savage, is here.
02:06So, if Alan Partridge was born in 1991,
02:09get ready to feel old people.
02:11What year were you born in?
02:122001.
02:13There you go.
02:14Ten years younger than Alan Partridge, a TV character.
02:18You've got 586 points so far in five wins,
02:21so you're well on target, if you become an OctoChamp,
02:24to break the 900, which is really special.
02:27Well, listen, you're up against Sam Hughes today.
02:29Sam Hughes is originally from Dorset, now exiled in Folkestone.
02:33And, listen, don't let Harry get away with it here, right,
02:36because he is a former world record holder at speedcubing.
02:40Not the only person here to have been on top of the world.
02:43Tell me about your thing.
02:44Well, this was quite a few years ago.
02:48In an online version of Yahtzee, for one day, and one day only,
02:52I was world champion Yahtzee player.
02:56But I'm smelling a rat here,
02:58cos they don't have the world championship of Yahtzee every day.
03:02So explain that.
03:03So I was just top of the leaderboard for 24 hours.
03:06You take the wins where you can get them.
03:08Absolutely, yeah, yeah.
03:09Excellent. And you work as a counsellor now?
03:11Yes, that's right.
03:12Excellent stuff, mate.
03:13Well, listen, great to have you. It's Sam and Harry.
03:16Harry, let's do it.
03:17Hi again, Rachel. Hi, Harry.
03:19Can I start with a consonant, please?
03:21You can indeed start today with C.
03:24And another consonant.
03:26H.
03:28And another one.
03:29L.
03:31And one more, please.
03:32Y.
03:34And a vowel, please.
03:36A.
03:37Another vowel.
03:39U.
03:40Another vowel.
03:42I.
03:45Another vowel, please.
03:47E.
03:49And a final consonant, please.
03:51And a final B.
03:53At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
04:14MUSIC PLAYS
04:26Harry?
04:27Six.
04:28And Sam?
04:29Yeah, six.
04:30A six, what are the words?
04:31Bleach.
04:32Bleach.
04:33And bleach.
04:34And bleach.
04:35Anything above it?
04:36We had six, but we had beachy.
04:37Can you be belchy?
04:38Or belchy?
04:39Unlike a horse that can't burp, as you found out yesterday.
04:42No.
04:43Can you be belchy?
04:44A horse couldn't be, even if it was in the dictionary.
04:46Sam, let's get your first set of letters.
04:48Excellent.
04:49Hi, Rachel.
04:50Hi, Sam.
04:51Can I have a consonant, please?
04:52You can indeed.
04:53M.
04:54And a vowel.
04:56I.
04:57And a consonant.
05:01L.
05:02Another.
05:04S.
05:05One more.
05:08N.
05:09A vowel, please.
05:11E.
05:13Another.
05:14U.
05:17A consonant.
05:20T.
05:23Oh, dear.
05:24A vowel, please.
05:26A final.
05:28A.
05:2930 seconds.
05:42MUSIC
05:59Sam?
06:00Seven.
06:01Seven.
06:02And Harry?
06:03Eight.
06:04And an eight.
06:05The seven?
06:06Ambulance.
06:07And the eight?
06:08Simulate.
06:09Simulate.
06:10Very nice.
06:12Yeah, ailment.
06:13Nice.
06:14And insulate.
06:15And insulate?
06:16Yeah.
06:17What a nice round.
06:1814 plus six.
06:19First numbers.
06:20And Harry?
06:21Can I have one large, please?
06:22One large.
06:23Simple, potentially.
06:24One large.
06:25And five little ones.
06:26Let's see how...
06:27Simple.
06:28First one of the day.
06:29Eight.
06:30Four.
06:31Ten.
06:32One.
06:33Four.
06:34And 50.
06:35And the target?
06:36328.
06:37328.
06:38Numbers up.
06:39MUSIC
06:40The target?
06:41328.
06:42The target?
06:43328.
06:44The target?
06:45328.
06:46The target?
06:47328.
06:48The target?
06:49328.
06:50The target?
06:51328.
06:52The target?
06:53328.
06:54The target?
06:55328.
06:56The target?
06:57328.
06:58The target?
06:59328.
07:00The target?
07:01328.
07:02The target?
07:03328.
07:04The target?
07:05328.
07:06The target?
07:07328.
07:08The target?
07:09It's 328, Harry.
07:10Yeah, 328.
07:11And Sam?
07:12Yep, 328.
07:13Lovely.
07:14Harry, off you go.
07:15Four times ten.
07:16Four tens are 40.
07:17Add the one.
07:1841.
07:19And times by eight.
07:20Well done.
07:21Magic.
07:22How do you go, Sam?
07:23Very different.
07:24Ten minus four is six.
07:26Yep.
07:27Times 50 is 300.
07:28It is indeed.
07:29Eight minus one is seven.
07:31Yep.
07:32Times four is 28.
07:33The second four.
07:34Lovely.
07:35APPLAUSE
07:36Good work.
07:37APPLAUSE
07:39Good work.
07:40Lovely show today.
07:41I hope you've had a little break from your day,
07:43maybe to forget about your worries and your strife.
07:45Let's get the teatime teaser.
07:47It's scene bars.
07:48Scene bars.
07:49Think of the empty cupboards.
07:51Anestheties.
07:52Think of the empty cupboards.
07:54Anestheties.
08:03APPLAUSE
08:09Welcome back.
08:10Think of the empty cupboard.
08:12The cupboard is bare.
08:13Anestheties is necessities.
08:15Bareness.
08:16The bare necessities.
08:17Louis Prima from The Jungle Book.
08:19Great song.
08:20Right, just the eight points in it.
08:22Let's get back on it.
08:23Sam, letters.
08:24OK.
08:25Consonant, please.
08:26Thank you, Sam.
08:27W.
08:28And a vowel.
08:30E.
08:31And a consonant.
08:32V.
08:33Another.
08:35D.
08:36One more.
08:38T.
08:39Vowel, please.
08:41O.
08:42Another.
08:44A.
08:47Another.
08:49I.
08:51And a consonant, please.
08:53And lastly, P.
08:54Good stuff.
08:55Thanks, Rich.
09:07MUSIC PLAYS
09:27Sam?
09:28Seven.
09:29And Harry?
09:30Eight.
09:31And an eight.
09:32Might be a dinosaur.
09:33We'll find out.
09:34What have you got, Sam?
09:35Pivoted.
09:36Adoptive.
09:37Adoptive.
09:38Not a dinosaur.
09:39Very good.
09:40APPLAUSE
09:42Top drawer countdown, or is it?
09:44Was there one better?
09:45No, it was top drawer for us two.
09:47Very good, very good.
09:48Nothing more needs to be said except for Harry.
09:50More letters.
09:51Can I have a consonant, please?
09:53Thank you, Harry.
09:54N.
09:55And another consonant, please.
09:57D.
09:58And another consonant.
10:00F.
10:01And one more consonant.
10:03D.
10:05And a vowel, please.
10:06O.
10:07Another vowel.
10:09E.
10:10Another vowel.
10:11A.
10:13Another vowel, please.
10:15U.
10:17And a final vowel, please.
10:19And a final E.
10:22And half a minute starts now.
10:24MUSIC PLAYS
10:36MUSIC CONTINUES
10:54How many, Harry?
10:55Seven.
10:56And Sam, how did you get on?
10:57Seven.
10:58Very good indeed.
10:59Let's have the words.
11:00Girardina.
11:01And Sam?
11:02Founded.
11:03I'm not 100% sure it's there.
11:05Susie, I'll refer to you for Harry's word,
11:07not for the first time and not the last time today.
11:09No. Plural of duodenum,
11:11which is the first part of the small intestine.
11:14Seven points each, though not too hard to stomach
11:18as we get on to the numbers.
11:20And, Sam, it's your first time picking.
11:22All right.
11:23Four large, please.
11:24Yes, you're gambling. I like your style.
11:26Well, we'll see.
11:27Good to gamble early.
11:29Right, you need this teapot.
11:31The two little ones, two and one.
11:34And the large ones, 25, 100, 75 and 50, as we know.
11:40And your target, 638.
11:42638. Good luck.
11:44MUSIC PLAYS
12:02MUSIC STOPS
12:14638, Sam?
12:16628.
12:17628, ten away. It would still score, Harry.
12:20648, but not written down.
12:22Oh, my goodness. Ten either side.
12:24They're different, so doesn't matter about writing them down.
12:27Harry will go second. Sam, you're first.
12:30100 minus 75 is 25.
12:34100 plus 75, 25.
12:36Times 25 is 625.
12:38Yeah.
12:39Plus the one and the two.
12:41And the one and the two, yeah, ten below.
12:43Harry, turn the other way.
12:4575, take away 50.
12:4775, take 50, 25.
12:50And then add the one.
12:51Add the one, 26.
12:53Times by the other 25.
12:54Times 25 is 650.
12:56And take away the two.
12:58Take away the two for one the other way.
13:00Rachel, two words, surely not.
13:02Well, if you say 50 times 25 is 1250.
13:09100 minus 75 is 25.
13:13Add them and the one for 1276 and divide it by two.
13:18638.
13:19Yes.
13:20APPLAUSE
13:21Love it. That was brilliant, that one.
13:23Wowed. I'm absolutely wowed.
13:25Let's head over to Dictionary Corner,
13:27where we've got my good friend Edith Bowman again.
13:29We've talked a lot about your soundtrack and work,
13:32which is just wonderful, over the last few days.
13:35But, of course, we grew up together in this business
13:38in the afternoons on Radio 1.
13:41Big Partridge fans,
13:42but we never interviewed Steve Coogan together, did we?
13:44No, when you abandoned me and went to evenings
13:47to follow your indie routes,
13:49he came on in a lunchtime show.
13:51And when they said he was coming on,
13:53I couldn't believe that it was going to happen.
13:56And I had this crazy idea.
13:58So, obviously, Joe had the Live Lounge,
14:00which was outside the studio, and I was like,
14:02what about if we asked Steve Coogan
14:04if he'd do karaoke in the Live Lounge,
14:07Abba, Knowing Me, Knowing You?
14:09And I'm like, he'll never go for it. He did it.
14:11Oh, wow.
14:12So him and I doing karaoke in the Live Lounge,
14:14Knowing Me, Knowing You, and he did the full,
14:16Aha! thing whilst he was doing karaoke.
14:19It was crazy.
14:20Which is amazing.
14:21I interviewed him years later
14:23and I was told, infamously awkward,
14:25and I didn't find that at all.
14:27No, same, actually.
14:28But, like, come on,
14:29we're not going to get in trouble for it now.
14:31We did years and years of interviews together.
14:33Who'd been the most awkward interviews of your career?
14:36That we did.
14:37Or on your own, both.
14:38The one that we did weirdly connects with Partridge.
14:41I know what you're going to say. Aha!
14:43I mean, one member of Aha! in particular was just so rude.
14:47Let me just interrupt.
14:49It was Morton Harkett. Continue.
14:52And then, weirdly, on my own, he wasn't rude or hard,
14:55he just doesn't like those junket environments
14:57where you sit for six minutes on a conveyor belt.
15:00But it was only once I found something
15:02that he got a spark in his head to talk about,
15:05which was Harrison Ford.
15:07And he just was so disinterested talking about the roles.
15:10When I asked him about his role as a carpenter,
15:13prior to being an actor, his wee face lit up
15:16and he was kind of like,
15:17nobody ever talks to me about being a carpenter.
15:20And he went off on one, he was amazing.
15:22You can understand that because, you know, they make a film
15:25and they're only getting paid, like, millions to promote it.
15:28So you can understand why, for six minutes,
15:30they can't show you basic respect.
15:32You know?
15:33You could totally relate to that, can't you?
15:35It's such a hard life.
15:36The two jobs I wouldn't do, or I avoid at all costs,
15:40is the six-minute interviews with actors
15:42when they're promoting a film,
15:44and the two-minute interview after a football match
15:46with the manager.
15:48They're thankless tasks.
15:49They're not interviews.
15:50They shouldn't be called interviews,
15:52because that's not what they are.
15:53Yeah.
15:54They're kind of possible executions.
15:56You just have to avoid saying the wrong...
15:59I remember sending Nicholas Cage once.
16:01Do you remember Knowing, which was a terrible movie?
16:04Knowing or knowing, you shouldn't even remember.
16:07It was awful.
16:08But he didn't shoot anyone in it.
16:10And my first question was,
16:11is it good to have a bit of a departure here
16:13and something a bit different?
16:14He just looked at me and he went,
16:16Did you say that?!
16:18That was it!
16:19That was the interview!
16:20Next interview.
16:21Yeah, exactly.
16:22But we should say most people are fond of the interview.
16:26It's how you approach the interviews
16:28what you get out of it, I think.
16:29No, I disagree.
16:30It's always their fault.
16:32That's all I say.
16:33But I actually have not had a worse experience
16:35than when you and I interviewed Aha.
16:37And they swore on...
16:38We specifically said to them,
16:40this is daytime radio.
16:42There'll be kids on their way home from school.
16:44Please don't swear.
16:45And within the first sentence,
16:47Morton Harkett dropped an F-bomb.
16:49Yeah.
16:50And by that, as we're a family show,
16:52we mean fiddle sticks.
16:53Of course, that's exactly what we mean.
16:55We don't like that word being used either.
17:0144 plays 28.
17:03And Harry Savage looking for a sixth win.
17:05It's your letters.
17:06Could I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
17:08Thank you, Harry.
17:09L
17:10That's another one.
17:12M
17:13It's another consonant.
17:15R
17:16Another consonant, please.
17:18S
17:19And a vowel, please.
17:20A
17:21Another vowel.
17:22E
17:23Another vowel.
17:24I
17:25Another vowel.
17:27A
17:28And a final consonant, please.
17:31A final N.
17:32Start the clock.
17:45CLOCK TICKS
18:04Harry?
18:05Eight.
18:06And Sam?
18:07Eight.
18:08Very good indeed. What's the word, Harry?
18:10Minerals.
18:11Minerals. And Sam?
18:12Minerals.
18:13Let's have a look.
18:14There you go. Oops.
18:15Dictionary corner.
18:17Minerals.
18:18That's it.
18:19We're all good. Everyone's got minerals.
18:21We will move on.
18:22Get more letters.
18:23Sam Hughes.
18:24OK.
18:25Consonant, please.
18:26Thank you, Sam.
18:27S
18:28And a vowel.
18:31E
18:33A consonant.
18:34C
18:35One more.
18:37J
18:38Oh, and another.
18:40R
18:42A vowel, please.
18:44U
18:45Another.
18:47O
18:49A consonant.
18:52D
18:55And a consonant, please.
18:57Lastly, S.
18:58And a consonant. Here we go.
19:14MUSIC PLAYS
19:31That's all the time we can give you, Mr Hughes. How many?
19:33Seven.
19:34Same for you, Mr Savage.
19:35Seven as well.
19:36There you go. Matching each other all the way at the moment.
19:38What have you got?
19:39Crossed.
19:40Crossed.
19:41Crossed as well.
19:42Two crossed, they're in sync at the moment.
19:44Same with Dictionary Corner.
19:46Got a couple of other ones.
19:48Scoured.
19:49Yes.
19:50And sucrose.
19:51Very good indeed. Very good indeed.
19:5359 plays of 43 as we move back to the numbers.
19:57And, Harry?
19:58One large, please.
19:59One large, five little, I know by now.
20:01Thank you, Harry.
20:02And the five little ones are...
20:09And the large one, 75.
20:11And the target for you, 276.
20:14276, numbers up.
20:41MUSIC PLAYS
20:46276, the target. Harry?
20:48Yeah, 276.
20:49Nailed it, Sam.
20:51I think I have 277.
20:53277. OK, Harry, for ten points.
20:56So, seven minus three is four.
20:59Yep.
21:00Eight minus two is six.
21:02It is.
21:03Take the six from the 75.
21:0569.
21:06And multiply by the four.
21:07Times one, four. Lovely. 276.
21:09Well done.
21:11There you go, 69-43.
21:14And when we first met Harry, he told us about,
21:16because of lockdown, he learnt how to do the Rubik's Cube
21:19and set a world record.
21:20Well, Sam, same for you.
21:21You made good use of your time,
21:23cos you started writing a sci-fi novel, right?
21:26It's kind of sci-fi.
21:28I think of it as nature-fi, so nature fiction,
21:31rather than science fiction.
21:33Well, if anyone's listening in the bookstores,
21:35we need a new section and yours will be the first book ever.
21:38That's right, I need a new shelf.
21:39Someone's always got to write the first book in a new genre,
21:42so good luck with that, mate.
21:43Thank you so much.
21:44And the teatime teaser is Sits Easy.
21:46Sits Easy.
21:47She sits down and can easily write for hours.
21:50She sits down and can easily write for hours.
22:01APPLAUSE
22:08It's good to have you back.
22:09Sits Easy becomes essayist.
22:11Essayist.
22:12She sits down and can easily write for hours.
22:14Six rounds left.
22:16Words are a business.
22:17Right now, Sam, let's get nine letters.
22:19Me.
22:20Consonant, please.
22:21Thank you, Sam.
22:23T
22:24And a vowel.
22:26I
22:27And a consonant.
22:29S
22:31Another.
22:33N
22:34Another.
22:36M
22:37A vowel, please.
22:39A
22:41One more.
22:43U
22:45A consonant, please.
22:47D
22:49And a vowel, please.
22:51And lastly, I.
22:54Let's play.
23:07MUSIC PLAYS
23:26How did you get on, Sam?
23:27A seven.
23:28A seven.
23:29And Harry?
23:30A seven as well.
23:31Seven as well.
23:32Sam?
23:33Dustman.
23:34Dustman.
23:35And Harry?
23:36OK, the little facial expression there.
23:38I think he wants that checked, Suze.
23:40Yes.
23:41Thankfully, now, archaic and rare.
23:43Quite misogynistic.
23:44It is to take the virginity of a woman or girl.
23:46My goodness, me.
23:47Yeah.
23:48Seven points each.
23:50Anything else, Edith?
23:51Minutia.
23:52Minutia.
23:53Minutia.
23:54Beautiful.
23:55Means the same as minutiae, so the small details.
23:57The little things that count, innit?
23:5976 plays 50.
24:01We'll get another round of letters in,
24:03and it is indeed Harry.
24:05Another consonant, please.
24:06Thank you, Harry.
24:08T
24:09Another consonant.
24:11C
24:12Another one, please.
24:14N
24:15And one more.
24:17G
24:18A vowel, please.
24:20O
24:21Another vowel.
24:22A
24:23And another vowel.
24:25E
24:26Another vowel, please.
24:28A
24:29And a final consonant, please.
24:31And a final R.
24:33Let's play.
24:35MUSIC
25:03Interesting.
25:04Harry?
25:05Seven.
25:06And Sam?
25:07Yeah, dodgy seven.
25:08What's the seven, Harry?
25:09Negator.
25:10And what's dodgy?
25:11Cognate.
25:12Cognate.
25:13That should be fine.
25:14Yes, yes, linguists talk about cognates all the time.
25:16So it's a word that descends from the same family tree.
25:19Anything else in Dictionary Corners, Susan Ede?
25:22Carnage.
25:23Magic.
25:24Not quite carnage here.
25:2583-57 is a comfortable-ish lead,
25:28but certainly not done yet for Harry Savage.
25:31We have four rounds left as we take a break for Origins of Word Suits.
25:35I was actually going to talk about someone in the Oxford English Dictionary
25:39who doesn't get enough credit.
25:41So we often think that Shakespeare is the bedrock of the OED
25:45because he's provided more first records of words than anybody else.
25:51And we also do think that he didn't invent all these words himself,
25:56that actually he was just a great populariser
25:58and that he absorbed words from around him
26:00and he was the one that gave them voice on the stage.
26:03But the person who coined more new words than anyone else
26:07was probably John Milton.
26:09And John Milton was an incredible writer.
26:12I think most people, if they know him at all,
26:15will know him from something called Paradise Lost, which was very famous.
26:20But in terms of neologisms, he was the man.
26:23And he created them in lots of different ways.
26:25So he would extend an existing word,
26:27so he would give us enjoyable from enjoy.
26:30He would stick an un on the beginning of words, unoriginal, for example.
26:34He gave us sensuous as a kind of riff on sensual
26:38with a slightly different meaning to it.
26:41So those are the ones that you could argue Shakespeare could equally have done
26:44because he loved messing around with existing words.
26:46But he also gave us lots of new ones and I'll give you some examples.
26:49Lovelorn, which is beautiful.
26:52Forsaken by your lover, so you're kind of just lost and languishing.
26:57Earthshaking. That's a good one.
27:00He was the first one, we think, to have given us space, actually,
27:03speaking of sci-fi and nature-fi.
27:05So he was the first one also to use it to refer to outer space,
27:09perhaps paving the way for sci-fi in the future.
27:12Fragrance.
27:14Terrific. Now, he used terrific in its very original sense,
27:17which was inspiring terror.
27:19Not at all meaning something that was good
27:21because that one's completely flipped in meaning.
27:24Goosery, which I love. That one's not survived.
27:26So goosery means behaving like a goose, so very sillily, if you like.
27:31And probably most famously of all, and this is from Paradise Lost,
27:34he gave us pandemonium.
27:36And he coined this as a deliberate opposite, really, to a pantheon.
27:41So pantheon is place of all the gods.
27:43Pandemonium is place of all the demons.
27:46Because we've changed the pronunciation, you forget that demon is in there.
27:50It was a place for all the demons
27:52and it was basically the capital city of hell.
27:55So if you're ever looking for someone who really, really contributed
27:58vast amounts of the English language at a time when it was incredibly fluid
28:01and just absorbed all these wonderful new words,
28:03think of John Milton, because it's not always Shakespeare.
28:06Susie, thank you very much. Great tribute, that was.
28:08Oh, yeah.
28:12Four lines left and, Sam, you're picking these letters.
28:15OK. Consonant, please.
28:17Thank you, Sam. P
28:19And a vowel.
28:21O
28:22A consonant.
28:24T
28:25Another.
28:27D
28:28Another.
28:30K
28:32A vowel, please.
28:34A
28:35Another.
28:37E
28:40A consonant.
28:42R
28:44And another consonant, please.
28:47Lastly, P.
28:49MUSIC PLAYS
29:20Sam.
29:21Seven.
29:22And Harry.
29:23Seven.
29:24A seven as well. Let's get those words.
29:26Trapped.
29:27Trapped.
29:28And also trapped.
29:29Couple of traps.
29:30Susie and Edith.
29:32Re-adopt.
29:33Yes.
29:34That'll give you another seven.
29:36Adopter, also.
29:38Nothing above seven.
29:39So there you go, Sam. You can't do any better than that.
29:42He's got me trapped.
29:43Yeah, he has got you trapped at the moment,
29:45but, listen, if you're top scoring, you're doing the right thing.
29:48Harry, let's get more letters.
29:50Can I start with a consonant, please?
29:52Thank you, Harry.
29:53T
29:54And another.
29:56N
29:57And another.
29:59G
30:00And another consonant.
30:01R
30:02A vowel.
30:04I
30:05Another vowel, please.
30:07I
30:08Another vowel.
30:10A
30:11Another vowel.
30:13O
30:15And a final vowel, please.
30:17And a final E.
30:20Last letters.
30:48That'll do us, Harry.
30:50Nine.
30:51Oh, maxing, Sam.
30:53Just a seven.
30:54Let's have a seven.
30:55Tearing.
30:56Well done, but this is a magnificent nine.
30:58Originates.
30:59Excellent.
31:00APPLAUSE
31:03Well done, Harry.
31:04You have got 108 at least a century
31:07in every single appearance so far.
31:10Dictionary Corner, should we just stand back and admire it?
31:13I think we should.
31:16I was expecting something more complicated.
31:18That was absolutely brilliant.
31:19We had a nice eight, didn't we?
31:21Yeah, because we're quite hungry as well.
31:23Rigatoni.
31:24Good stuff.
31:25Originate does it, though.
31:26108 plus 64.
31:28Look how it changes, just like that.
31:30Ten points up for grabs in the numbers now.
31:32And, Sam Hughes, you're picking.
31:34Four large, please, Rachel.
31:35Four large, just for a little bit more fun at the end of the day.
31:38And these two little ones are two and ten.
31:42And the big four, 75.
31:4475, 100, 25 and 50.
31:48And the target to reach with them, 438.
31:51438, numbers up.
32:14MUSIC PLAYS
32:23438, the target, Sam?
32:25Yeah, 438.
32:26Well done. And Harry?
32:27Just 440.
32:28OK, off you go, Sam.
32:30100 plus 50.
32:32150.
32:33Divided by 25.
32:35I think the 25 is six.
32:36Times 75.
32:38Times 75 is 450.
32:40Take off the ten and the two.
32:42Well done.
32:43APPLAUSE
32:46That was sensational stuff, Sam. Well done.
32:48You're on 74 as a losing total, which is brilliant.
32:5284 would be out of this world.
32:54So let's not give up until the end.
32:56I know you won't, Mr Hughes.
32:57Ten points up for grabs.
32:59Harry, finger on the buzzer.
33:01Sam, you too, as we reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:05MUSIC PLAYS
33:14MUSIC CONTINUES
33:35No-one. Not even Ray.
33:37It's a difficult one today.
33:39Oh, yeah.
33:41Is it ransacked?
33:43Ransacked, yes.
33:48Sam, been a delight to have you.
33:5074 is a great total.
33:52Good luck with the book, good luck with this nature-fi.
33:54Thanks very much.
33:55Remember us when you're rich and famous,
33:57when you've got the money of JK Rowling, all right?
33:59Absolutely.
34:00Thank you very much.
34:01Harry, another tonne up for you.
34:03182 wins away. We'll see you tomorrow.
34:05Thank you. See you tomorrow.
34:06Thank you, Judith. Thank you, Suze.
34:09Hey, listen, I've been talking about Partridge all afternoon
34:12and you haven't seen that, so you watch that tonight.
34:14What should I watch?
34:15Have you seen Episodes?
34:17No.
34:18There's Stephen Mangan, Tamsin Greig, Matt LeBlanc.
34:20I think I recommend that for you. It's very funny.
34:22I shall watch that.
34:23Episodes for me tonight, Partridge for you.
34:25And another episode of Countdown, same time, same place tomorrow.
34:28Rachel, Suze and I will be here. You can count on us.
34:31APPLAUSE
34:32You can contact the programme by email at...
34:34You can also find our web page at...
35:04APPLAUSE