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00:00Thank you
00:30Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio and I'm glad to tell you that our research department has been acid again and they have informed me that it was on this very day in 1498 that the bristle toothbrush was invented in China.
00:47Now it seems rather long shot that we should know that it was exactly this day in 1498 but I've had it checked by Lara Routh, one of our hugely competent producers here and she says they're right.
00:59And how did it all happen? Well apparently the emperor of the day went hunting, shot a boar and plucked the neck hairs from this poor old boar, that'll be B-O-A-R, put them in an ivory stick and used it as a toothbrush and that's when the Chinese started brushing their teeth.
01:21Can you believe all this stuff Rachel? That was absolutely fascinating Nick.
01:25Apparently you can go to the very palace where it was first used and indeed apparently there's a plaque on the wall, no groaning please, plaque, toothbrush, get it, alright fine.
01:39So, today is the last quarter final of the series and on Friday we'll be crowning a champion of the series, yeah?
01:46And I wonder whether it'll be one of our contestants today. I wonder whether it'll be Susie Purcell, our number four seed. Welcome back Susie.
01:55I've got you down here as the number four seed. You had an eight game run and you scored 686 points. So, how's life been back in Market Harbour? I hear you're a bit of a celeb down there.
02:06Well, I had an article in the paper before I came on. Yes. I wouldn't say I'm a celeb.
02:11So, how's the painting coming on? Yeah, good. I've got a few commissions from these lovely people here.
02:18Excellent stuff. Excellent stuff. Well, I wish you good luck today. Quarterfinals, I mean you've got to be some great contenders to have reached the quarterfinals.
02:26But you're up against Nick. Our number five seed who scored 588 points and since May you've been busy starting off a new side to your business.
02:37Because I think you're a therapist. But now you've got a new side to that business?
02:40Yeah, I'm expanding to look at bringing together various techniques. So, with exercise, good diet, healthy nutrition combined with hypnotherapy.
02:50Yes. To help people with weight problems. So, that's been quite exciting, bringing that all together.
02:55I'm beginning to have a weight problem. Well, we'll talk about that later. And you may well be able to discuss things with Dr. Phil too.
03:02Because you're both, I guess, in the same sort of area. But before we get to Dr. Phil, I want to welcome Susie back to our corner.
03:09And she is, of course, a twin there. She's in harness with Dr. Phil. Good to see you, Doctor.
03:14Yes, good to be here. It's interesting talking about weight, because we're quite mean to people with weight problems.
03:18We call them morbidly obese, which is a horrible term. I much prefer morbidly voluptuous.
03:24You call people that, they'd be much happier if they start losing a bit of weight.
03:27Could a sort of an overweight man be called voluptuous?
03:29Yes.
03:30Really?
03:31Yes. You look pretty voluptuous from where I'm sitting there.
03:33Oh, you old charmer, you. You old charmer.
03:37Now then, let's give our contestants a warm round of applause. That's Nick and Susie.
03:47May we begin the day's proceedings, Nick, with the letters game?
03:51Can I start with a consonant, please?
03:52You can, thank you. Start today with S.
03:55And a second.
03:58N.
03:59And a third.
04:02Y.
04:03And a fourth.
04:04P.
04:07Vowel, please.
04:09E.
04:10And another.
04:13A.
04:14And a third.
04:17E.
04:19And a consonant.
04:22V.
04:23And a final vowel, please.
04:27And a final.
04:28A.
04:29And here's the countdown clock.
04:34Now then, Nick.
04:47now then nick uh just a five a five susie a risky seven all right so let's hear from uh nick first
05:10pains pain susie pavanes yes that's got a ring of truth about it pavan yes they're uh dances very
05:19courtly dances i think they were very popular in the 16th 17th century can you do one susie can you
05:23do the pavan give it a go yeah i think susie would give it a go oh my word phil what have you got no
05:31i'm stuck on susie's pavans i'm afraid yes performed in slow duple time and elaborate clothing
05:36apparently oh my word really what sort of in elizabethan times or in the 16th 17th centuries
05:41all right that'll do that was made for us susie very good well done seven ahead and it's your
05:48letters game hello again rachel hi susie have a consonant please thank you start with m and a
05:55a vowel o a consonant n a consonant j a vowel e a consonant n a consonant r a vowel
06:18i and a consonant please and the last one p stand by
06:27so
06:29so
06:34so
06:37so
06:42so
06:48Susie.
06:59Five.
07:00A five, and Nick?
07:01Six.
07:03All right, Susie.
07:04Ripen.
07:05Ripen.
07:06Nick?
07:07Joyner.
07:07Joyner.
07:08Yes, well spotted.
07:09I think that brings you up to six points.
07:11Well done.
07:12Now then, in the corner.
07:13I can't beat Joyner.
07:14Can you beat Joyner?
07:15I can't beat Joyner, I'm afraid.
07:16No.
07:16Just a measly six.
07:17All right, we'll all join together and dance up a van.
07:20Very good.
07:20Six to Susie.
07:22Seven, and Nick, take it away.
07:24Consonant, please, Rachel.
07:25Thank you, Nick.
07:27L.
07:28And a second.
07:31S.
07:32And a vowel.
07:34U.
07:36And another vowel.
07:38A.
07:40Consonant.
07:42R.
07:43Another consonant.
07:45S.
07:46Another consonant.
07:50L.
07:51A vowel.
07:54O.
07:56And a final consonant, please.
07:59And a final G.
08:01Here we go.
08:02One, two, three, two, three, four, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five
08:32Yes, Nick. Just a five. A five. Susie? Five as well. All right. Nick, glass. And Susie? Slugs. Yes? Yes. We've got a couple of big sixes. Go on. You don't want to get sugars on your goulas. Sugars on your goulas. I'm not sure goulas doesn't have to do with the throat, doesn't it? Yeah, it's a plate or scale on the throat of a reptile or fish. Yeah, they can have more than one. Very good. Twelve to Nick's eleven. Susie, one point ahead and it's your letters game.
09:02Consonant, P. Thank you, Susie. P. And a vowel. A. Consonant. B. Consonant. D. A vowel. O. Consonant. R. Consonant. N. A vowel. E.
09:30And a consonant, please. And the last one. S. Talk time.
09:37S. Talk time.
09:44S. Talk time.
10:14Broadens.
10:15Broadens.
10:16And Nick?
10:17Padrones.
10:18Padrones?
10:19Yes.
10:20Yes.
10:21Padrones.
10:22Excellent.
10:23They are patrons or masters and also mafia bosses.
10:27Padrones.
10:28Very good.
10:29Very good.
10:31Excellent stuff.
10:34Excellent stuff.
10:35Anything else there?
10:36Phil, what have you got for us?
10:37I didn't make it past probes and bedpans.
10:40Well, maybe seven for bedpans.
10:42Very nice, though.
10:43So, one point behind Nick.
10:45It's a numbers game.
10:46Chance to take the lead.
10:47Off you go.
10:48Two large and four small, please.
10:49You can indeed.
10:50Thank you, Nick.
10:51Two from the top and four little ones coming up.
10:54And for the first time in this quarterfinal, the little ones are eight, ten, another eight
11:00and five.
11:01And the large two, twenty-five and seventy-five.
11:05And your target, seven hundred and thirty-four.
11:08Seven, three, four.
11:09Die that's all!
11:20The E subject.
11:22The third thing, five.
11:23So, really about to look?
11:24I can see you in the middle of this게요.
11:25If you know something, wait to see you in the middle of this program, they'll see you maybe
11:27the same as well.
11:28If you know something interesting.
11:30They want us to watch.
11:32They want us to join us.
11:33The last coat is, are trousers.
11:34How was it, Nick?
11:42Yes, 734.
11:43Well done, Susie.
11:44734.
11:44All right, Nick.
11:4610 times 75.
11:4810, 75, so 750.
11:50Minus 8 to minus 8.
11:51Yeah, too easy for you two.
11:53Okay.
11:54734, same way.
11:55Same way.
11:56All right, very good.
11:57Very good.
12:02Very good.
12:03Still one point in it.
12:04Susie in the lead, 30 to 29.
12:07But now it's time to turn our attention to Dr. Phil.
12:11Thank you very much, Nick.
12:12Now, a lot of people think I just make these stories up as I go along.
12:15But in fact, my anecdotes are finally polished.
12:17And I do need a bit of time on my own to polish my anecdotes.
12:20And I was trying to do this this morning.
12:22I get a knock on my door.
12:24Dr. Phil, Dr. Phil, it's Nick.
12:25It's Nick.
12:26You've got to come out now, you blunderer.
12:28I said, Nick, not now.
12:29I'm in the bath.
12:30He said, leave the water in for me.
12:31I said, what's the problem?
12:33And he pushes the Daily Express under the door, calling me a blunderer.
12:37He says, one in six patients at risk from blunders from their GP.
12:41I said, Nick, you don't have to believe this.
12:43This is the Daily Express.
12:44And he said, what I read in the Daily Express is the gospel.
12:46And it's a story that shows that actually, the more pills you are, the more likely you are to make a mistake.
12:51But doctors actually, in our 10-minute consultations, don't have much time to figure out whether you're on the right pills.
12:56So Nick takes me outside.
12:57He said, you gave me these pills last night.
12:58You could have killed me.
12:59Let's look at my pills.
13:00He's on his Dolly Partons.
13:02He's also on low-tech, which is low-sec, which is something for your indigestion.
13:06He's also on Viagra.
13:07I said, why are you on Viagra, Nick?
13:08He said, it stops you falling out of bed.
13:10I said, that's a very old gag.
13:12But Nick is only on four tablets.
13:14I have a woman on 28 tablets a day.
13:16She's 82 years old.
13:17And that's the trouble with medicine these days, is we try and shave a bit of risk off something nasty happening to you.
13:21And the older you get, the more tablets you get on.
13:23And it turns out she gets so confused taking 28 tablets a day, that at the beginning of the month,
13:28she empties them all into a pick-and-mix bowl, and she takes a couple of tablets every time she feeds a cat.
13:32A couple of cat biscuits, a couple of tablets, a couple of cat biscuits.
13:35She's got the two mixed up.
13:36She now has a cat with a cholesterol of zero.
13:38And she smells suspiciously of tuna.
13:43But the point I would make about this study, it's said to try and reassure you,
13:45only one in 500 of our blunders are potentially fatal.
13:48Most of them are sort of less than fatal.
13:49But the point is that you have to take ownership of your tablets.
13:51We prescribe the tablets, but it's up to you to read the leaflet.
13:55Now, I often have patients who've been on tablets for 20 years,
13:57and you say to them, well, what are they for then?
13:58They haven't got a clue.
13:59So it's up to you to be slightly more proactive and to know what's in your Dolly Pardons.
14:03So that's your homework, Nick.
14:04I want you to go home tonight.
14:05I want you to actually read actually what's in all those tablets you're taking
14:08and what the side effects are, and I'll quiz you tomorrow.
14:10How does that sound?
14:11That sounds terrifying.
14:12Excellent.
14:12But I'll do that.
14:13I'll do it.
14:16Well done.
14:20Actually, I'm terribly disciplined.
14:21I'm really very good.
14:22Are you?
14:22You never miss your tablets?
14:23No, never.
14:24I'm terrified about missing them.
14:25When did you last fall out of bed?
14:29Passing swiftly on to a tea time teaser, which is boot fear,
14:35and the clue, no boots, no shoes, and no socks,
14:37no boots, no shoes, and no socks.
14:40Welcome back.
14:57I left you with the clue, no boots, no shoes, and no socks.
15:00So that leaves them barefoot.
15:04Barefoot.
15:04So, we've got a couple of titans here fighting it out for a place in the semis.
15:10Nick on 29, Susie on 30, and Susie, it's your letters game.
15:15Consonant, please, Rachel.
15:16Thank you, Susie.
15:18T.
15:19And a vowel.
15:21O.
15:22Consonant.
15:25S.
15:26Consonant.
15:28L.
15:29Vowel.
15:29I.
15:32Consonant.
15:34T.
15:35Consonant.
15:37R.
15:39Vowel.
15:41U.
15:42And another vowel, please.
15:44And lastly, A.
15:47Stand by.
15:48A.
15:59Yes, Susie.
16:20Seven.
16:21Seven.
16:22Nick.
16:22Seven as well.
16:23Right, Susie.
16:24Outlast.
16:25Outlast.
16:26And Nick.
16:27Taylors.
16:28Happy there?
16:29Very, yes.
16:29All right, and Phil?
16:31I've got rituals.
16:33Yes.
16:33How many's in that?
16:34Seven?
16:34Seven, very good.
16:35What have you got?
16:36Tourist.
16:36Tourist.
16:37Another seven.
16:37Tourist.
16:38Not for seven.
16:39Tourist.
16:40So, Nick, letters game.
16:42Consonant, please, Rachel.
16:43Thank you, Nick.
16:45D.
16:47Vowel.
16:48U.
16:50And another vowel.
16:52E.
16:54Consonant.
16:55Z.
16:56Another consonant.
16:59M.
17:01Another consonant.
17:03N.
17:05Vowel.
17:08O.
17:09Another vowel.
17:12I.
17:14And a final consonant, please.
17:16And a final R.
17:18And it's clock time.
17:19I.
17:20Good.
17:20I.
17:20What's up?
17:22We have to go.
17:22I.
17:23John Godnard.
17:24I.
17:24See you then.
17:2542.
17:25What?
17:25Do you?
17:26What's up?
17:30I.
17:30That's amazing.
17:38Do you have a lot of brauchen?
17:41I.
17:41Do you have to go home?
17:42And a time it looks right.
17:43Fine.
17:44很iny.
17:44I.
17:45Do you have to do it?
17:46Right?
17:47No, I.
17:48Do you have awiad?
17:48Yes, Nick?
17:51Seven.
17:52And Susie?
17:53Seven.
17:54Right.
17:54Nick?
17:55Mourned.
17:56Mourned.
17:57Same.
17:57Mourned.
17:58You're both mourning.
17:59They're both mourned.
18:02And?
18:03They've beaten us, I think.
18:04Yes.
18:05I got remind, which is a measly six.
18:07Yep, minder.
18:08Same here, so well beaten.
18:09All right.
18:10No, they're good.
18:11They are very good.
18:11They've got to be good.
18:12They're in the quarterfinals.
18:14Well done, but it's still a point between them.
18:17Forty-four, Susie.
18:18One point ahead.
18:20And it's your letters game, Susie.
18:21Consonant, please.
18:23Thank you, Susie.
18:24M.
18:25A vowel.
18:27A.
18:28A consonant.
18:31N.
18:33A consonant.
18:35T.
18:36A vowel.
18:38U.
18:39A consonant.
18:41N.
18:43A consonant.
18:45D.
18:47A vowel.
18:50E.
18:51And another vowel, please.
18:52And the last one.
18:54O.
18:55Stand by.
18:55O.
18:56Stand by.
18:56A vowel.
19:02An inkling.
19:05Whoa!
19:05At one factory.
19:06Do not rot.
19:10A vowel.
19:10A vowel.
19:11Sixty-oh.
19:12Wait.
19:13What?
19:13It's nice.
19:14I do not have a vowel.
19:15I don't know.
19:15Do not have a corroboration.
19:15I do not have a vowel.
19:16Because of a vowel.
19:16ThisANNA comes in the誤 Це.
19:17And the vowel.
19:18In the nave.
19:18Oh.
19:19If you want to be a vowel.
19:19This is a vowel.
19:20This must be a vowel.
19:21Is that row?
19:21Why?
19:21I do not have to be able to go.
19:22Oh.
19:23What?
19:23This is a vowel level.
19:23so Susie I think have a nine whoa Nick just a seven and you're seven mounted mounted come on
19:37Susie out manned yes if you are out manned excellent well done Susie well done so 43 to
19:53Susie 62 so Nick let us go constant please Rachel thank you Nick L and another g and a third d and a
20:08fourth s the vowel I another vowel e and another u and a consonant f and a final vowel please
20:30and a final a and they're off
20:34so
20:41Nick eight not written down all right and Susie just a six
20:56just a six and your six glides yours Nick fuselage fuselage oh I like that I think you might need to
21:17ease he's planning fusi yeah yeah and I'm pretty sure it's f-u-s-e-l-a-g-e and it is I'm afraid not bad luck
21:26very bad luck very bad luck now then dr. Phil I've got gadflies I don't have itch they do lies what
21:35they sting yes but get flies also person is not a person who flitters about a lovely figurative sense
21:42yes a person who annoys or criticizes others in order to provoke them into action ah yes absolutely
21:47right now then Susie I'm carrying on with my uh visits to pubs and exploring their and their names
21:55and today's one that actually you might know Phil it's the bag of nails in Brazil yeah well many pubs
22:01um across the country in London's Victoria Bristol uh Wolverhampton it sounds like a very perfunctory
22:07name for a pub and in fact there is one near Buckingham Palace which claims to be converted from an
22:11ironmonger so that's a very plausible explanation but there is also a much more colourful one because
22:16it's thought to be a corruption of bacchanals which were the celebrations of the Roman god of wine
22:21Bacchus was also the god who presided over rituals of madness which was characterized by these
22:27hysterical frenzied dancing and lots of drinking and the goal was to achieve a state of delirious
22:35ecstasy in which souls were said to be freed from their earthly body and able to commune with Bacchus
22:41um the rights that uh that were included here were in ever-increasing feats of strength such as
22:47tackling an animal a very fierce animal unarmed or uproaching trees with their bear with your bare
22:52hands so all of these things were said to have gone on in the Bacchus the bag of nails it sounds like
22:58that does sound like the bag of nails on a friday night i tell you wrestling a wild boar my football
23:02didn't go down there down the bag of nails yeah i must go you must go well they go sounds excellent
23:06all goes back to Bacchus absolutely absolutely
23:12and they're striving to be in a state of what well in the in in those days in classical mythology
23:17they were striving to be in a state of ecstasy so their bodies would be freed from their temporal
23:22chains and they could get up to all sorts of things you've cut out the saucy bits haven't you
23:26that's what you're saying is you've cut out the saucy bits susie sounds very good to me 68 to 43
23:32susie leads and now susie it's your numbers game two from the top please rachel and any other four
23:37thank you susie so we'll go for two large ones and four small ones again and for this round the numbers
23:45are three five eight ten and then the two large 25 and 100 and your target 878 878
24:07how was it susie 878 well done and nick no 875 right take it away susie
24:36100 minus 10 plus 3 minus 87 sorry 10 plus 3 plus 3 10 plus 3 87 times 10 uh you would
24:48use the 10 oh sorry bad luck susie now then nick 875 just 8 times 100 plus 3 times 25 8 times 100
24:59800 and 3 times 25 yeah for the 75 all right so rachel can you take a stand uh yes if you say 10 minus 8 is 2 times 100
25:11100 200 less the 25 is 175 times that by 5 or 875 and add on the three well done excellent well done
25:29very good so picks up to 50 but uh he's still fighting susie who's at 68 but now it's time for tea time teaser
25:36which is begin sum and the clue begin to work out the sum but it's too difficult for you begin to work
25:44out the sum but it's too difficult for you
25:50why because it's it's bemusing bemusing
25:58uh 68 to 50 susie leads nick off you go
26:04consonant please rachel thank you nick
26:08t and the second w and the third
26:27s vowel e another vowel u and the third a
26:35a consonant c another consonant t and the final vowel please and a final e tick tock
26:59a consonant c another vowel you will have a gap that's good what you're going to get there
27:03and you've got to be maybe a
27:10one minute any what you've got to do with you
27:11you'll be able to do a row you'll get that one point of the first one or two
27:17or three or four if you want to do a row you'll get that one point of the first one
27:18but it's a leap to do so i'm sure it's a bit more than one point of the second one
27:21or two right if you're six nick
27:25all right and your six Nick tweets tweets yes Susie cutest the cutest tweet
27:33and the girls there I can't find anything better to a measly six so Susie 74 to
27:4056 still in the lead but you know and then can happen off you go
27:45consonant please thank you Susie H naval I consonant C consonant N a vowel O
28:01consonant K consonant W a vowel a and a consonant please and the last one T
28:17stand by
28:47Suzie? Six. And Nick? Six, not written down. So we'll hear from you, Nick, first. Action. Action. And Suzie? Thwack. Thwack. Thwack. Thwack, yes. About a thwack. A thwack of leather on willow, for instance. For instance, yes. It's a very good word. Thwack. I like a bit of thwack.
29:12Well, enough of that, Nick. Anything else you've got? Not really. I've got cation. Yes, cation. The opposite of an anion is a cation. In P6. Really? What is this? It's a negatively charged particle. Absolutely right. Oh, yes, yes. Cation. Positively. Actually, it's positively charged. Anion is negative, yep. All right. Very good. All right. 80 to 62, as I turn to you, Nick, for a letters game. Consonant, please. Thank you, Nick. R. And a second.
29:42B. And a third. Q. And a vowel. E. And another vowel. O. And a third. A. Consonant. M. Vowel. U. And finish with a consonant, please.
30:11And finish with D. Stand by.
30:15A. Consonant. M. Vowel. U. And finish with a consonant.
30:17A. Consonant. M. Vowel. U. And finish with a consonant.
30:19A. Consonant. M. Vowel. U. And finish with a consonant.
30:21A. Consonant. M. Vowel. U. And finish with a consonant.
30:23A. Consonant. M. Vowel. U. And finish with a consonant.
30:25A. Consonant. M. Vowel. U. And finish with a consonant.
30:27A. Consonant. M. Vowel. U. And finish with a consonant.
30:29A. Consonant. M. Vowel. U. And finish with a consonant.
30:31A. Consonant. M. Vowel. U. And finish with a consonant.
30:33A. Consonant. M. Vowel. U. And finish with a consonant.
30:35Now the Nick seven and Susie just five and your five a door a door
30:54Nick Baroque yeah excellent very good very good indeed Phil
31:00Yes, well after Baroque. We'll have a bit of rumbered
31:02Rumbered yes to do that to do the rumba yes r-u-m-b-a-e-d
31:07It's rather strange on the paper, but it's a good dance rumbered can you rumba can I it takes two to tango how many to rumba?
31:15I think you probably need more than one to rumba as well, but I often rumba on my head
31:22Right we'll pass swiftly on I don't like that at all
31:2680 to 69 so 11 points in it and Susie last numbers game of the day
31:31Two from the top please rachel. Thank you Susie, and I bet you're hoping for a nice and easy one. Mm-hmm. We shall see
31:38So for the last time today the numbers are four one eight
31:44Nine and a large two fifty and one hundred and the target
31:50724 seven two four
31:52I
31:54I
31:56I
31:58I
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