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00:30Hello, everybody.
00:32Welcome to another week of Countdown and Channel 4.
00:35Thank you so, so much for tuning in.
00:37Five more shows this week, six more challengers as well.
00:41Fifteen rounds of letters and numbers today.
00:43And whatever happens, we will just roll with it.
00:46Returning after a weekend at a country house is Rachel Riley.
00:50How are you?
00:51You're sneaking in the song titles again.
00:53Well, it was on this day in 1995 was that old battle that happened
00:58of the singles between Blur and Oasis.
01:00Now, it should be said it was pretty nasty, the lead-up to this of how it got.
01:04There was a lot of very bad things said.
01:05But it was roll with it by Oasis and Blur's country house.
01:10And there's a lot of background to it, but Blur moved the date
01:12so it would clash in that day.
01:14And it was seen as the battle of Britpop.
01:17You would have been knee-high to a grasshopper at that stage.
01:20But there were jingly-jangly pop songs.
01:23I'm going to say you probably were as a little kid singing along
01:26to roll with it.
01:28I mean, at my age, that was kind of a battle between Backstreet Boys
01:31and Boyzone.
01:32Oh, yes, yes.
01:33Which Backstreet Boys would win, right?
01:34Oh, no.
01:35I went to see Boyzone.
01:36I was a Boyzone fan.
01:38Let's go over to the next Henry Corner then.
01:40Feeling supersonic every Monday afternoon is the one and only Susie Dent.
01:46And it's just going to be an absolute celebration of words today
01:50because he is a champagne supernova of kindness and love.
01:54The actor, the singer, the writer, the good soul, Tom Reid Wilson.
02:02Well, what a day it was on Friday.
02:04Our octo-champ, Harry Savage, the 21-year-old trainee,
02:08paleontologist, thesaurus, as we called him,
02:11doing that blindfolded Rubik's Cube in 20 seconds.
02:16His last act.
02:17I mean, I don't know what Ken and George are going to bring
02:19as two challengers, but if they haven't got a party trick,
02:22they're going to be really disappointed.
02:24Ken's from Warrington.
02:25How you doing, mate?
02:25Great.
02:26Fabulous.
02:27Good.
02:27Loads to talk to you about.
02:28But what I love is you volunteer over the last 20 years,
02:31helping kids with their reading skills to develop them.
02:36Tell me a bit about that.
02:37Well, it's not just reading.
02:39It's building their character and having a bit of self-belief
02:42and the ability to learn from mistakes,
02:44which they can do quietly with me.
02:47And as you see the children going through school,
02:49from reception right to year six,
02:51you see characters building,
02:53and that is a great source of pleasure to me.
02:55I love that.
02:56It's so rewarding.
02:57Well, listen, I love settling down at night with a good book
03:00and maybe a nice drink.
03:03So it's perfect here.
03:04Ken can help me with the books
03:05and George Baker from Croydon can help me with the booze.
03:07How are you doing?
03:08Yeah, very well.
03:09You're a bit of a Tom Cruise in Cocktail.
03:11I'll explain that reference to Rachel during the first break.
03:16And you do all the tricks as well.
03:18Yeah, all the tricks, all the party tricks.
03:20Mostly started off to sort of entertain kids around the bar
03:22with families and stuff.
03:24But after a couple of broken TVs
03:26and a broken window at home,
03:28it's best to settle off a little bit
03:29and just keep it at work.
03:31I was going to say that must go wrong several times.
03:33Yeah, I was still living with a parent at the time as well
03:35and just sort of, mum, I'm really sorry, run away
03:38and that was enough.
03:39Well, listen, here's to both of you, Ken and George.
03:41Good luck.
03:45Ken, we tossed a coin.
03:46You get to go first in the champion's chair,
03:49but let's see if you can earn it.
03:50Let's get some letters.
03:51All right, thank you.
03:52Afternoon, Rachel.
03:52Afternoon, Ken.
03:54Consonant, please.
03:56Start this week with S.
03:58And a vowel, please.
04:01A.
04:02Consonant, please.
04:04T.
04:05Vowel.
04:06O.
04:08Consonant.
04:09L.
04:10Consonant.
04:11F.
04:13Vowel, please.
04:14A.
04:15Consonant.
04:17T.
04:18And a vowel, please.
04:22And the last one, I.
04:24At home, man in the studio, let's play Countdown.
04:26We'll see you next time.
04:27We'll see you next time.
04:28We'll see you next time.
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04:34We'll see you next time.
04:34We'll see you next time.
04:34We'll see you next time.
04:35Time's up, Ken?
04:59Six.
04:59Well done, and George?
05:00Six.
05:01OK, what have we got, Ken?
05:02Float, Cephal, O, A, D, S.
05:04Yes, and George?
05:05Same word.
05:06Yeah.
05:08Nice, easy start over to Dictionary Corner.
05:11Yeah, there wasn't much more to be had there, actually.
05:13We just had one more, didn't we?
05:14We were totally in concert with you.
05:16Yes, a float you can have if you like.
05:18So, rearranging the deck chairs, really, more than anything there.
05:23George, let's get your first letters of the day.
05:25Hi, Rachel.
05:25Can I have a consonant, please?
05:26You can indeed.
05:28R.
05:28And another.
05:30M.
05:31And another.
05:33X.
05:33And a vowel, please?
05:35O.
05:36And another.
05:37E.
05:38And another.
05:40U.
05:41And a consonant.
05:42D.
05:44And another consonant, please?
05:45T.
05:47And another vowel, please?
05:49Lastly, A.
05:51And 30 seconds.
05:54As you Histvemised by Lord nor Jesus승
05:54T.
05:56And another vowel, please.
06:04That valley has a choice of love.
06:07Thin www.
06:08And another vowel.
06:09This is pottery.
06:09C�-3.
06:10And another vowel, please.
06:12o BLACK.
06:12That Arizona, please.
06:12And another vowel.
06:15So, remember thanks.
06:17And another overexator, please.
06:18And another vowel.
06:19And another vowel.
06:20And another vowel.
06:20And a vowel.
06:21Mr. Baker?
06:24Just a five.
06:25Mr. Heaton?
06:26Six.
06:27At the five, George?
06:28Extra.
06:28Extra.
06:29And the extra letter is?
06:31Routed.
06:32Routed.
06:33Yes.
06:33Routed, rooted, either way.
06:35Very good.
06:35Anything else?
06:37Well, if you flip routed on its head, you've got detour.
06:40Yeah.
06:41So, basically, floatster float.
06:43Yes.
06:44And routed the detour.
06:45Thank you very much.
06:46We have a couple of sevens, if you would like, then.
06:48Yes.
06:49We have matured.
06:51Yes.
06:52Is there.
06:52And just for Tom, we have outread.
06:55Outread.
06:55Brilliant.
06:56Also for Ken.
06:57Right, there you go, Ken.
06:58You've edged in front and you're picking the first numbers round.
07:01Two from the top and any other four, please?
07:03Thank you, Ken.
07:04Two large.
07:05Oh, four little coming up.
07:08And the first one of the week is six, four, one, two.
07:13And the large two, 75 and 50.
07:15And the target to reach with them, 670.
07:18Six, seven, zero.
07:20Numbers up.
07:20All right.
07:22The next one.
07:41We'll find out.
07:46Bye.
07:47that's time ken six seven five five away george six seven one and one away off you go six plus
07:59two plus one is nine yep times seventy five six seven five minus four one away there you go and
08:06tickets to six seventy please rich um couple of ways one of them you could have said 75 times two
08:12is 150 six minus one is five add that on for one five five times it by four four six hundred and
08:20twenty and add on the fifty six seventy yes
08:23end union end union is the first tea time teaser of this week and countdown it's all a bit of a carry
08:34on said the member of the united nations it's all a bit of a carry on said the member of the united
08:40nations
08:53welcome back first tea time teaser of the week it's all a bit of a carry on said the member of the united
09:01nations end union becomes innuendo innuendo which we're all partial to a little bit of right george
09:09let's get back to the letters can i have a consonant please thank you george c and another one
09:14n and another l and a vowel please e and another i and another e and a consonant s and another consonant
09:31h and one more consonant please and lastly r thanks rich
09:38welcome back to the chat
09:49uffs
09:51welcome back to the mic
09:52welcome back to the east
10:05Time's up, George.
10:10Seven.
10:11Ken.
10:11Eight.
10:12And eight.
10:13George.
10:14Sincere.
10:14And what about yourself, Ken?
10:16Silencer.
10:17Oh, a deadly word to come up with.
10:19Brilliant.
10:20The silencer.
10:22Very good.
10:23We had a couple of anagrams of that, didn't we?
10:25Yes, yes.
10:26We had reclines.
10:28Yes, nice.
10:28And licensor.
10:30There you go.
10:31Right, Ken, that was Liesl.
10:32Let's get more letters from you.
10:33Consonant, please.
10:35Thank you, Ken.
10:37Y.
10:38Vowel, please.
10:40I.
10:42Consonant.
10:43B.
10:45Consonant.
10:46L.
10:48Vowel.
10:50E.
10:51Vowel.
10:52U.
10:54Consonant.
10:57P.
10:58Consonant.
11:00G.
11:01And a vowel, please.
11:03And a final E.
11:06And half a minute.
11:07And half a minute.
11:07We're going to stop.
11:12How did you get on, Ken?
11:39Just a five.
11:40Just a five this time, George?
11:41Yeah, same, five.
11:43Good, points to be had.
11:44Bluey.
11:45Yes, and George?
11:46Guile.
11:47And guile, bluey and guile.
11:50Is bluey in the dictionary?
11:51It is, I wasn't sure it was going to be, I know that blueish,
11:53but yes, almost or partly blue, bluey, green, foliar,
11:56just the example here, so, yep, nice.
11:58Anything else?
11:59Yeah, we had nice seven.
12:01Yes, we had big guile.
12:03Oh, big guile.
12:04Just ahead of your lovely guile.
12:06Yes.
12:06Brilliant, so guile and bluey,
12:08as we flick on to another numbers round,
12:12and you're picking, George.
12:13Let's go for six small, please.
12:15Thank you, George.
12:16Six small, does this mean you like the numbers?
12:18We'll see.
12:18We will find out.
12:20Let's have a look.
12:21Six little ones.
12:23Two.
12:24Ten.
12:25Five.
12:26One.
12:28Two.
12:28And ten.
12:30And the target.
12:31Oh, nine, six, eight.
12:34Nine, six, eight.
12:35Numbers up.
12:36Give me up.
12:45Two.
12:46Two.
12:55Two.
12:58Two.
12:59Three.
13:00One.
13:01Two.
13:02Okay.
13:02One.
13:03Two.
13:04One.
13:04One.
13:05One.
13:06The tens help but did they help enough nine six eight George nine six one can
13:12Nothing, okay, so the seven away will get you five points ten times two of twenty ten to use the twenty five tens of fifty
13:20Five tens are fifty fifty minus two is forty eight
13:25The second two yeah fifty minus two forty eight times two together times the twenty four nine hundred and sixty
13:32That's what and you have one left over Wow
13:34I'm two away rich any closer
13:38970 was the best yeah
13:40You can get to a hundred and then take away the two and the one to times fire the remaining ten you can make very good indeed
13:47Well, we don't always coming back tomorrow. That's the key
13:50There's only two points in it really enjoying having two challenges on today. I'm loving having Tom Reed Wilson and dictionary
13:56Oh, right back at your kid every time we talk you're doing something new are you in Spongebob Squarepants?
14:02I am in Spongebob Squarepants as we speak at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
14:07Well, not as we speak because that would mean to be two of you. Well, that's true
14:11That would be really strange, wouldn't it?
14:12But I'm on tonight. Yes. Tell me all about it. Oh, it's a trash of heaven and they're such a talented company
14:19I mean Earth and Marnie and Lewis Corne and Chrissy Beamer who play the three leads are very bendy of larynx
14:28They are absolutely tremendous and I play Squidward who's this tremendous curmudgeon
14:34But kind of a little bit like Walter Mattow was you know, he's kind of a good egg underneath it all not a Fabergé
14:40But a relatively good egg
14:43But I have all these extra appendages Carl
14:46Wow, not because I'm a squid
14:48Yeah, not for the first time
14:50So Squidward, Squidward is your is your kind? Squidward, yes
14:55Because I've never seen it. So what what's the character of Squidward? Like what's the voice? How do you learn to be Squidward?
15:01He's sort of erinaceous. The way I do his voice is a little bit like Paul Lint. I don't know if you remember him
15:08Hmm from Hollywood Squares
15:10When are you ever gonna learn SpongeBob? It's sort of like that. It's got a little bit of Katherine Hepburn in it, too
15:17I think. I wasn't hearing the Katherine Hepburn, I'm being honest
15:22But I run into difficulties with my extra tentacles, I have to say
15:25When I was down the road from here our opening night in the Opera House in Manchester
15:32I share the role with Gareth Gates, you see, so I had had two weeks off and I went back into my bonus trousers and my extra legs were
15:40Funnelled in and I thought this is acutely uncomfortable. I don't remember it being like this
15:45And I tried to do my tap dance in my dressing room and I was completely on the wonk and I looked at my derriere in the mirror
15:53And I thought, oh my goodness. My legs are totally inverted. Yeah
15:57So I sent this emergency message to our whatsapp group and I said my legs are inverted
16:03My gluteus maximus is digging into my real gluteus maximus and I'm in extreme pain
16:09And I look back at the message five minutes later and there were five laughing and nobody came to help me
16:16So I had to stagger down to the wings like a lush with about 30 seconds before the curtain rose and my legs were
16:23Put the right way around and I got through the show
16:25But it really is quite alarming having extra appendages because you never know what they're going to do
16:29Yeah, and and it just sounds like a joyous role. Oh, it's delicious and it's lovely to play a grump
16:36Yeah, because I've never really been a grump in life. No, not at all. It is in me somewhere
16:42Yeah, we've all got inner grump. That's for sure
16:44We could have you on dexterity corner a thousand times and we'd have something to talk about every single day really looking for this week
16:50Thank you Tom
16:55Next it's the letters and Ken a consonant, please. Thank you, Ken L vowel
17:02e consonant d
17:05Vowel
17:07U
17:09Vowel
17:11O
17:12Consonant
17:13T
17:14Consonant
17:17S
17:19Vowel, please
17:21A
17:22And consonant, please
17:26And final K
17:28Start the clock
17:30We'll be right back
17:35We'll be right back
17:37We'll be right back
17:48in the next episode
17:52We'll be right back
17:53That's time up.
18:02Ken?
18:02Seven.
18:03And George?
18:04Seven.
18:05The sevens are?
18:06Stalked.
18:07Same word?
18:07Same word.
18:08There you go.
18:09Wonderful.
18:10Over the dictionary corners, Susie and Tom, what have you got for me?
18:14Yes, we had the very same.
18:16Yes, we love this word.
18:18Thousand.
18:19Another seven.
18:20OK, nothing without?
18:21Oh, no, we didn't find an out one.
18:22Oh, I was really surprised.
18:24I thought we might have a nine in there.
18:26Leave it with us.
18:26All right.
18:27More letters from George.
18:29Hi, I'll start with the consonant again, please.
18:30Thank you, George.
18:31P.
18:32And another one.
18:34N.
18:35Let's have a vowel, please.
18:37U.
18:38And another vowel.
18:39A.
18:40And consonant.
18:42C.
18:43Another consonant.
18:45N.
18:46And another.
18:48W.
18:49And the vowel.
18:51O.
18:52And another consonant.
18:56Lastly, S.
18:57And here we go.
19:14I'll try a risky seven.
19:31A risky seven, that's what we like.
19:32Ken?
19:33A safe five.
19:34Let's have the safe five.
19:36Pawns, P-A-W-N-S.
19:38Yes, and George?
19:39A snow cap.
19:40Suze?
19:40Oh, it's absolutely brilliant.
19:41Yeah, covering of snow on top of a mountain.
19:43Well done.
19:46Anything else in that round?
19:47We can't beat that.
19:48That's absolutely brilliant.
19:49We had unsnap for a six.
19:51Nice one.
19:52OK, third numbers round, and Ken?
19:54Two from the top, please, and four from anywhere.
19:57Thank you, Ken.
19:58Two big four not third numbers of the day are five, two, three, seven, 25, and 100.
20:09And the target, 105.
20:12We'll be all right.
20:13Do eh, eh.
20:27MUSIC PLAYS
20:44105. We have to go through the motions. Dems the rules. Ken?
20:49105. George? Yeah, 105.
20:51I wonder, did you do it the same way? Ken?
20:53100 plus 5. Nice. George?
20:56Yes, same way. Good work.
20:58Ten points each. Interesting game, isn't it?
21:00Steady Ken against Risky George.
21:03Two challengers. I like how it's developing.
21:06After the break, six more rounds to decide.
21:09A new champion this Monday afternoon in Countdown.
21:12And the Tea Time teaser is, I met chap.
21:15I met chap. I met a chap who was down and I could understand his feelings.
21:19I met a chap who was down and I could understand his feelings.
21:26Really enjoying today. It's only about, what, six, seven, eight times a year we get two challengers going against each other.
21:39Just the five points in it. You get a slight lead, George, in the challenger's chair, so let's get some more letters.
21:57I'll start with the consonant, please.
21:59Thank you, George.
22:00B. And another.
22:04H. And another.
22:06D. And a vowel.
22:10E. And another vowel, please.
22:12A. And a consonant.
22:15T. And a vowel, please.
22:19I. And a consonant.
22:21S. And another vowel, please.
22:25And lastly, O.
22:27Let's play.
22:28T.
22:34T.
22:38T.
22:38T.
22:43T.
22:43T.
22:43T.
22:49T.
22:53T.
22:53T.
22:54Decent letters, those, George?
23:01Seven.
23:01And Ken?
23:02Seven.
23:02And a seven.
23:03What have we got?
23:04Boasted.
23:04Boasted?
23:05Yeah, also boasted.
23:06And boasted.
23:07There you go.
23:08Seven points each.
23:09The dictionary corner.
23:11Well, we didn't top seven, did we?
23:12We did have some other sevens.
23:15Yes.
23:15We had hotbeds.
23:17Hotbeds of intrigue.
23:18Yes, good word, that.
23:20OK, sevens all round.
23:22Let's get another letters round then before our origins of words.
23:26And Ken, you're in charge.
23:27Consonant, please.
23:29Thank you, Ken.
23:30V.
23:32Vowel.
23:33E.
23:35Consonant.
23:36G.
23:38Vowel, please.
23:40O.
23:41Consonant.
23:42M.
23:44Consonant.
23:45P.
23:47Vowel.
23:49A.
23:51Consonant.
23:53Z.
23:55Consonant, please.
23:56And lastly, N.
23:58Let's play.
23:58We're going to talk to you first of the next episode.
24:01We'll be back.
24:01We'll be back.
24:01We're going to be back.
24:03We'll be back.
24:03We love a Z and a V in the same round, don't we?
24:32Ken, how many?
24:34Just five.
24:35And George?
24:35Yeah, five as well.
24:36Let's have the words.
24:37Vegan.
24:38Yes, and George?
24:40Mango.
24:41OK, over the dictionary corners.
24:43Vegan, mango, both fine for five.
24:45And Tom?
24:47More than five, surely not.
24:49We had mapani for six.
24:51Oh, Suze.
24:52Yes, bit of a countdown regular, this one.
24:54It's a tree found in dry regions of southern Africa.
24:58And the reason I always remember, the leaves apparently are shaped like butterfly wings
25:01and they fold in the heat.
25:03Yay, lovely.
25:05Lovely.
25:05Listen, let's stay with you for the first origins of words of the week.
25:09Well, I'm fully expecting Tom to come in here because Tom and I have done lots of events
25:14about language together and he knows huge amounts about etymology.
25:17So, feel free.
25:19But I wanted to, we've talked about penguins.
25:22Colin is obsessed with penguins and we've talked about the origin, which is from a Welsh
25:25foot, white head.
25:27And I'm going to throw some other creatures into the sea so we can admire them.
25:33We have the dolphin.
25:34Now, we're not completely clear about this, but dolphins are mammals, obviously, and we
25:39think it goes back to a Greek word, which was dolphin, meaning creature with a womb, which
25:46is lovely.
25:46So, you might think that, you know, it is because it gives birth to live offspring, but actually
25:52some believe it was because the dolphin was thought to look like a human womb.
25:56And there's another lovely theory, which is that the womb in question refers to the special
26:01bond between dolphins and humans, because they were really revered in ancient culture.
26:07Porpoise, not quite so romantic.
26:10Porpoise means pigfish, believe it or not.
26:13From port meaning pig and then it's got the suffix there meaning fish.
26:17And that also reminded me of the walrus, because the Vikings clearly thought that the walrus looked
26:23like a cross between a horse and a whale, so they called it a horse whale.
26:27And then later on, the Anglo-Saxons thought, oh, we're just going to flip this round, so
26:30they called it a whale horse.
26:32And this comes from a time when obviously these creatures were very exotic and people
26:36hadn't really seen them, so they described them by something that they kind of looked
26:41a little bit like.
26:42Like the hippo, the river horse.
26:43Exactly.
26:44Yes.
26:44The hippopotamus, the river horse.
26:47And we were gutting little bits about the narwhal, which is a beautiful, beautiful creature.
26:52It's an arctic whale, it's got this tusk that almost gets formed from its tooth.
26:56This, again, a little bit darker, actually.
26:59We have the whale, which is the whale bit, obviously, but the nar bit actually goes back
27:03to a word for corpse, because of the colour of its skin.
27:07So, there you go, a little bit of delving.
27:10Also, I should just mention that the dauphin, the eldest son of the king of France, also
27:15comes from dolphin, that's the French for dolphin, and it's the family name that comes
27:19from the region of Dauphine in south-east France.
27:23So, people's everywhere.
27:24I should have done squid.
27:25Leave it with me.
27:25Yay.
27:26I'll talk about damp squids.
27:27Yay!
27:32Well, today certainly isn't a damp squib, as there's still just five points in it.
27:38I think we're going all the way, but let's not count our chickens before they hatch.
27:42Four more rounds to go.
27:44George Baker, slightly still, said that before.
27:47Let's get more letters.
27:48Start with a consonant again, please, Rachel.
27:50Thank you, George.
27:51G.
27:52And another one.
27:54D.
27:55And another.
27:56R.
27:57And a vowel, please.
27:59E.
28:00And another vowel.
28:02I.
28:03And another.
28:04I.
28:05And a consonant.
28:07S.
28:08And another consonant, please.
28:10T.
28:11And a final consonant, please.
28:14And a final C.
28:16Good luck, everybody.
28:17.
28:47How many, George?
28:48Seven.
28:49Seven.
28:50And Ken?
28:51Seven.
28:52Very good indeed, George.
28:53Recited.
28:54Recited.
28:55Ken?
28:56I've got gristed.
28:57G-R-I-S-T-E-D.
28:58Recited and gristed.
28:59Yeah, you need two E's for recited, which we don't have, unfortunately.
29:03Oh, sorry.
29:04And I did look up gristed and it's not there.
29:06We talk about gristed the mill, but it's not there as a verb.
29:08A couple of duck eggs.
29:09Sorry.
29:10What can you do?
29:11What can you do?
29:12What can you do?
29:13Nothing.
29:14No.
29:15Nothing.
29:16So, open goal for you here, Tom Reid-Wilson.
29:17Credits.
29:18Yes.
29:19And directs as well.
29:20Oh, so many endings there.
29:22Isn't that underwhelming?
29:23A little bit.
29:24Not a bit more, but, you know, credit, credits, and off we go.
29:28Ken, last letters round.
29:30Consonant, please.
29:31Thank you, Ken.
29:32S.
29:33Consonant.
29:35N.
29:36Vowel.
29:37E.
29:38Consonant.
29:39R.
29:40Vowel.
29:42I.
29:43Vowel.
29:44O.
29:45Consonant.
29:47D.
29:48Vowel.
29:51A.
29:52And a consonant, please.
29:54And a final S.
29:56Countdown.
29:57Part 2.
29:58Part 2.
29:59D.
30:00D.
30:01D.
30:02D.
30:03D.
30:04D.
30:05D.
30:07D.
30:08D.
30:09D.
30:11D.
30:19D.
30:21P.
30:22D.
30:23Time's up. Ken?
30:30Eight. Eight. And George?
30:32Yeah, I'll try an eight as well. Got an eye. Got it at this stage, Ken.
30:35Aneroids. And... And satirise.
30:38Satirise. Aneroids. It's going to be bad news for George.
30:42It is, yes. No T, no two I, so no satirise, I'm afraid, George.
30:45Sorry. And aneroids. Aneroid barometers.
30:49Thank you very much. Yeah, very good.
30:50And what are you two gabbing about the whole way through that?
30:52Well, sardines, which I know has an interesting etymology.
30:58Well, all to do with sardinia, the beautiful, beautiful sardinia.
31:02So, yes, it was the fish from there related to sardonic as well,
31:06but that's another story.
31:07Wow. Right. There's now three points the other way, Ken.
31:11Well done, mate. You're in the lead.
31:13And George, you're picking the last numbers.
31:15Let's have six more again, please, Rachel.
31:17Six more. Got you some points last time.
31:19Let's see if you can work your magic again.
31:21Final numbers of the day.
31:22One, two, four, four, ten, three, oh, ten.
31:29Oh, a pretty rubbish selection.
31:31The target, 603.
31:33603, numbers up.
31:34Some, two, four, ten, three, oh, ten, three, oh, ten.
31:48That, all right.
31:48There you go.
31:49That, all right.
31:51Mr Baker?
32:066-0-3.
32:07Yeah, Ken?
32:086-0-3.
32:09Yes, not difficult at all.
32:11George?
32:114 plus 2, 6.
32:13Yep.
32:14Times 10.
32:14Times 10, 600.
32:16Plus 3.
32:17Yeah, straightforward target for this one.
32:20Good luck with the crucial.
32:21Got to be the same, Ken.
32:22Exactly the same.
32:22Let's have a look.
32:23We trust...
32:24Well, I don't trust you.
32:25No, I trust you.
32:25But, yeah.
32:26There you go.
32:27I love it.
32:29APPLAUSE
32:2972 plays 69,
32:33with two challengers going head-to-head.
32:36It's been close all afternoon,
32:38if you can, would I mean,
32:39but by George,
32:40who's going to win it?
32:41Fingers on the buzzers
32:43as we reveal today's crucial
32:45Countdown Conundrum.
33:18Oh, George, it's the last second.
33:19It is not that infesting.
33:21Let's have a look.
33:22It's right!
33:23APPLAUSE
33:24APPLAUSE
33:24OK, and that's a bit of a gut punch.
33:30Yeah, drink the water, drink the water.
33:31I don't want you to pass out.
33:33That's a bit of a gut punch,
33:34but what a day, what a competition.
33:36Well, I saw faintings and I thought,
33:39eh, it's not going to be that,
33:40but well done, George.
33:42George, you must have a rabbit's foot in your pocket.
33:45Something like that, yeah.
33:46That was brilliant.
33:47You're a risk-taker.
33:48I love it.
33:48I've no idea how you won that.
33:50It was so all over the place.
33:52It was great.
33:52Really good.
33:53Can't wait to see you back here tomorrow.
33:54Looking forward to it.
33:55And we'll talk more.
33:56You picked a good day for a debut, didn't you?
33:58I did indeed.
33:59Gosh, I was having palpitations.
34:02Love it.
34:02Thank you, Tom.
34:03See you tomorrow, Suze.
34:04Yeah, see you then.
34:05Good.
34:05It's a bit like non-uniform day, isn't it, at school?
34:08Because it only happens, you know,
34:10two or three times in a season.
34:12When we get an octo-champ, we get two challengers.
34:14I love it.
34:15It's always a different dynamic, isn't it?
34:16You're such a countdown, Keith, Colin.
34:18Yes!
34:19You really, really are.
34:20People always ask me if that's real, and it is.
34:22Yeah, and so are you.
34:24And that's why we love it.
34:25We all are.
34:26So we'll see you back here tomorrow.
34:27We can't wait.
34:28Suze, Rachel and I,
34:29it's like the first ever show all over again.
34:31We'll be here.
34:32You can count on us.
34:33APPLAUSE
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34:39You can also find our webpage at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
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