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00:30Hello, everybody. We are tuned in and all ears for another 15 rounds of Letters and Numbers this afternoon on Countdown.
00:39And coming in loud and clear, Rachel Riley, how are you today?
00:42I'm very well, thank you. How are you?
00:43Yeah, I just want to give a really quick mention before we get underway for this weekend, which is National Radio Day on Sunday.
00:51As it's just you and me talking, I have to say, I do worry about radio.
00:54You know, we live in a modern age of social media and podcasting and posting.
01:00And the more social we become, technically, the less social we actually are.
01:06Do you know what I mean?
01:07I do know what you mean.
01:08A lot of people...
01:09Why does that make you worry about radio?
01:10Well, because as it sort of proliferates into so many ways to get your information, a lot less of it is live and personal.
01:18Because to me, what makes radio unique and nothing's ever replaced it, it's that live voice at the beginning of a day that you're dreading.
01:26That just says, hey, how are you doing today?
01:28Here's a song you might like.
01:30Here's what's going on in the world.
01:31Or in my case, it's, as I do, I love nighttime radio.
01:34That's what I do.
01:35It's that voice at night that says, whatever the day's been like, let's just look at what happened.
01:39Let's have a bit of fun.
01:40Let's all go to bed with a bit of perspective.
01:42Even though I love podcasting and social media is something that I'm on, so I'm not being a hypocrite.
01:47But I think some people underestimate the importance of radio, that human connection.
01:53I just like it when I'm driving.
01:55Driving, especially if it's just you in the car, is one of the times that you're really alone.
02:01Is that why you talk to yourself in the car, then?
02:03You're used to yourself, your voice on the radio.
02:05I, I...
02:05When you're alone, you just want to talk to yourself.
02:07Yes.
02:07Does everyone know that you do that?
02:08Yes, I don't put the radio on the car.
02:10I just host my own radio show for myself.
02:13Sometimes I'll phone Susie, an interviewer, as a guest.
02:16She has no idea it's not going out anywhere on the radio.
02:18I just do it.
02:19But listen, maybe this weekend's a good time.
02:21If you haven't done it for a while, just pick a random station and see if you make that human connection,
02:26which is something we like to do every day here on Countdown as well.
02:29And a big key part of that is whoever's sitting in Dictionary Corner, alongside her G of the D, Susie Dent.
02:35And this is a marriage made in heaven.
02:37This is forged in a lifelong love of words, because Tom Reid Wilson is here.
02:41Hello.
02:45Ready for another day?
02:46Yes, what a blissful week.
02:48Yes.
02:49It's just a trance of heaven to sit here with you.
02:52It is.
02:52It's blissful.
02:53Novelty wears off after a while, you know.
02:55Yeah.
02:56When it's your first week, it's always like that.
02:59I remember that.
03:00I remember that.
03:01Right, well, listen, it's the first time ever on television for George Baker.
03:05Risky George has three wins so far.
03:07He's looking to get halfway to being an octo-chump.
03:10Are you today?
03:11Yeah, very well.
03:11It's been an amazing week.
03:12Was not expecting to still be here on Thursday.
03:14Yeah.
03:15Listen, your summer is not spent reading the dictionary.
03:18It's going to festivals, and you got to see your favourite band this summer at Download.
03:21I did.
03:21Yeah, Download Festival, Metallica, a big metal concert.
03:25Very sort of different environment to this.
03:27Yeah.
03:27But hopefully thriving in both.
03:30One of my favourite things about Metallica is one of the all-time most played live songs
03:36is Seek and Destroy, which you adore.
03:38It's a masterpiece of metal.
03:40You know, it's the first song they ever recorded in a studio.
03:43How is that the first song you ever recorded?
03:46I mean, I play a bit of guitar myself, and the first song I wrote was nowhere near close
03:50to that, I promise you that.
03:51Yeah, we're not going to ask you to play it risky, George.
03:54Good luck today, mate.
03:55You're taking on Dudley Liddiard, who, listen, you're joining us from Formby.
03:59Hello.
03:59Hello.
04:00But you were born in Cape Verde.
04:02Is that family in the military and moving about?
04:04How was that going on?
04:04My father was with cable and wireless.
04:07But I don't remember anything about the Cape Verde, because I left them when I was six months old.
04:10Right, yeah.
04:11You could still get a passport, though.
04:13Well, I could get drafted into the military.
04:16No, hopefully not.
04:17Not with your knee, and I say that out of kindness, because I love the fact you had a knee replacement,
04:23right?
04:23Yeah.
04:23And then it was a new lease of life.
04:25Tell us a bit about that.
04:25You've been doing loads of proper walks and everything.
04:28Well, I've walked from the Cornish border right down to Land's End, which is over 180 miles.
04:33Not in one go.
04:34No, no, jeez.
04:35And I do play a lot of golf.
04:36Yeah.
04:37What a beautiful part of the world it is.
04:39What a walk that is.
04:40Yeah, I was there last week.
04:41How many days for the 180 miles?
04:45I didn't add it.
04:46It was a lot.
04:46You don't need to when it's got that breathtaking scene.
04:49I would recommend anyone who fancies, you know, enjoys walking to have a go at it.
04:53Beautiful.
04:54Beautiful part of the world.
04:55Listen.
04:55One step at a time today, Dudley.
04:57Good luck to Dudley and George.
04:58All right, Matt Oman, let's go.
05:03All right, Rachel, we'll start with the consonant, please.
05:05Thank you, George.
05:06Start today with T.
05:09And another.
05:11Y.
05:12And another.
05:14D.
05:15And a vowel, please.
05:17U.
05:18And another.
05:20I.
05:20And another.
05:23A.
05:24And a consonant, please.
05:26F.
05:27And another consonant.
05:30R.
05:30And a final vowel, please.
05:32And a final.
05:34E.
05:34At home and in the studio, let's play Kitein.
05:37We'll see you next time.
06:09Seven.
06:10Seven.
06:11What have you got?
06:12Dietary.
06:13Dietary and Dudley.
06:15Fruited.
06:16Fruited and dietary.
06:18Very good start.
06:19Yeah, good sevens both.
06:20Good sevens.
06:21Anything else for me?
06:23Artify.
06:24To render artificial, so to make something just look inauthentic.
06:28Nice word.
06:29No score, but nice word.
06:30Yes.
06:31Seven points each.
06:32Dudley, would you like to pick some?
06:33Consonant, please.
06:34Thank you, Dudley.
06:36C.
06:37And another.
06:38P.
06:39One more.
06:42S.
06:43And again.
06:45D.
06:46Vowel.
06:48A.
06:49And another vowel.
06:51E.
06:52And another vowel.
06:55O.
06:56And a consonant.
06:58S.
06:59A.
07:00And one more consonant, please.
07:03And lastly, R.
07:04Right.
07:0530 seconds.
07:06.
07:07.
07:16.
07:19MUSIC PLAYS
07:37With just the three vowels, Dudley, how'd you do?
07:39Seven.
07:40And George?
07:41Seven.
07:42Yes, what's the words?
07:44Crossed.
07:45Crossed.
07:46Scopers.
07:47Scopers, OK with that, Suze?
07:49Yeah, I'm just checking that one.
07:51Not there, actually.
07:53One of those agent nouns that you have to be careful with.
07:55But yes, not in the dictionary.
07:57Sorry.
07:57Yeah, very clever, Dudley, not taking that fourth vial,
08:01which would have opened up a whole load of big words.
08:03How did you get on, Tom?
08:04Well, for eight, we had peas cods.
08:07Peas cods?
08:08Yes.
08:09Peas cod is the pod or legume of the pea plant,
08:13so very often it's one that still contains the peas.
08:16There you go.
08:1714 plays seven.
08:18Challenger with an early lead.
08:20George, it's your numbers.
08:21You love to be here.
08:22Six more again, please, Rachel.
08:24Thank you, George.
08:25Six little ones coming up for the first challenge of the day.
08:29This selection is one, two, six, ten, eight, and nine.
08:36And the target to reach 750.
08:39750 numbers up.
08:41Your partner cannot be engaged in the city.
08:42Okay.
08:42Once again, we're here.
08:43Two more people are...
08:44Three, four.
08:44If you look at the time and do this.
08:45You know, they're up here in the city.
08:45Number one.
08:46Do you want to flip the company?
08:46We can do it.
08:47On the crowd.
08:47If you want to make a smartphone billion money,
08:48чув, you know, and give us something.
08:48It may be a LG, or several people.
08:49You're my grandma says, no.
08:50You know, you're moving away.
08:51If you look at it, you know, you're living well.
08:52And the matter of船 croetaan.
08:52You're living well.
08:53And the matter is, you're living well.
08:54You're right.
08:54You're living well.
08:57What you're living pretty minds are!?
08:57Nice round number, but did you get there, George?
09:13Yeah, 750.
09:14And how'd you get on, Dudley?
09:15750.
09:16Well done.
09:16By 27 seconds, you stopped by what I was watching you.
09:19Well done.
09:20Got there.
09:20I've done a doodle.
09:22George, off you go.
09:23Nine times eight.
09:25Nine times eight.
09:25Nine, eight, 72.
09:26Plus two, plus one.
09:2775.
09:28Times ten.
09:29Gentle on this one.
09:30Same way.
09:34Dudley's in the lead then as we give you your first tea time teaser, Axes Nine.
09:39Axes Nine.
09:40Forget about the nines, this is all about the sixes.
09:42Forget about the nines, this is all about the sixes.
09:45MUSIC PLAYS
09:46Welcome back.
10:01The clue was forget about the nines, this is all about the sixes.
10:04So Axes Nine becomes sexenia, which sounds like an interesting summer festival.
10:09But what is it, Suze?
10:10It's a plural of sexenium, which is simply a specified period of six years, from sex, meaning six, and anus, year.
10:18Thank you, Susie.
10:19Back to the game.
10:20Dudley, you've got your nose in front.
10:22Let's get more letters.
10:23Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:25Thank you, Dudley.
10:26K.
10:26And again.
10:28N.
10:29And another.
10:31R.
10:32And another.
10:34W.
10:36Vowel, please.
10:37E.
10:38And another.
10:39A.
10:40And another.
10:43I.
10:44And another vowel.
10:47O.
10:48And a consonant, please.
10:50And lastly, T.
10:53Thank you, Rachel.
10:54MUSIC PLAYS
11:08Dodley.
11:27Seven.
11:28And George?
11:29Eight.
11:29Oh, very good.
11:30Dodley.
11:31Keratin.
11:32Keratin and George.
11:33Nitwer.
11:35Nitwer.
11:35Very well spotted.
11:36That's excellent.
11:37Yes.
11:38Right.
11:39Interesting nine letters.
11:41Let's toss this about for a while.
11:42What else did you get?
11:43Well, Keratin, just to say, is the main constituent of things like hooves or nails or hairs, that kind of thing.
11:49And Nitwer, was the only eight that we had, wasn't it?
11:50Yes.
11:51We had a lovely seven.
11:52Wonkier.
11:53Wonkier.
11:54Beautiful.
11:55George, you're back in the lead by just a solitary point.
11:58Let's get another nine letters from you.
12:00Start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
12:02Thank you, George.
12:03C.
12:04And another one.
12:05F.
12:06And another.
12:08M.
12:09And a vowel, please.
12:10E.
12:11And another.
12:12E.
12:13And one more.
12:14A.
12:15And a consonant, please.
12:18S.
12:19And another.
12:21T.
12:22And one more vowel, please.
12:24And lastly, U.
12:26Half a minute.
12:27One more, yes.
12:29Two more.
12:49One more.
12:51Two more.
12:51One more.
12:56George? Six. And Dudley? Six. Pretty straightforward, George?
13:02Faeces. And Dudley? Facets. Facets and faeces.
13:07Yes. Six points each. Any advance?
13:11Well, we have a similar thing to something that happened before this week,
13:16where there's a lurking you that can be put into facets to get faucets.
13:22Yeah. There you go. We're here again in exactly the same place.
13:26Right. Well, listen, it doesn't matter. No damage done, Dudley.
13:29Six points each, so still neck and neck, and you're picking the numbers.
13:33Could I have one large, please? One large and five little coming up.
13:38See if the one large makes the difference.
13:41Little ones. Nine, ten, five, seven and eight.
13:46And a large one, 75. And your target, 914.
13:51914. Number's up.
13:53краắnoga ci, 416.
13:54trout.
13:55ライ…
13:55Anditrae…
13:57Grońskie…
13:58Anditrae…
13:59Charaf personal,
14:02ターミー…
14:03Anditrae…
14:04Yip…
14:05Anditrae…
14:06borders…
14:07Anditrae…
14:08Yip…
14:09ä¸å›½â€¦
14:10chercher…
14:11fold…
14:12Toadahe…
14:14Anditenra…
14:15Anditrae…
14:16Toadahe…
14:179-1-4, Dudley?
14:269-1-1.
14:27Three away, and George?
14:299-1-4.
14:30Off you go.
14:308 plus 7 plus 75.
14:328, 7 and 75 makes 90.
14:35Times 10.
14:36900.
14:37Plus the 9 plus 5.
14:38You've made a break, 9-14.
14:40Yeah.
14:43Numbers always strong for you, George.
14:45Well done, 41 plays 30.
14:48And as it's Thursday, what's Thursday without a bit of poetry, Tom Reid-Wilson?
14:52I believe you're going to treat us to some.
14:54Oh, yes.
14:55Well, Susie very sweetly mentioned my etymological children's dictionary,
15:00and the first word for each letter is a poem,
15:03so I thought I'd give you my favourite.
15:05Yes.
15:06The first one is letter A, aardvark.
15:10Aardvarks, like pigs, have a lovely long snout
15:13for sniffing where termites and ants are about.
15:16They snuffle at night time for all they're worth
15:19and use their strong claws for digging the earth.
15:22In Dutch Afrikaans, we are given a clue
15:25by splitting their name from one into two.
15:29Aard is the earth and piggy is vark,
15:32for only an earth pig eats ants in the dark.
15:36Yes.
15:36I know it's not the end,
15:40but, you know, like all good performances,
15:42I want an encore now.
15:43Oh, well, here's the encore.
15:44This is apropos this beautiful aroma that's coming from here.
15:48Nobody's ever said that.
15:50Which I'm partly attributing to this S-word.
15:54Rub-a-dub-dub, you're in the tub
15:57having a wash and a brush and a scrub,
15:59and as you lather your beautiful tresses,
16:02it's not your shampoo,
16:03but your delicate presses
16:05that gave us this ancient Hindi word.
16:09The meaning of champo has slowly transferred
16:12from kneading and gently massaging your head
16:15to the liquid you use when you do it instead.
16:18Brilliant.
16:19I want you to deliver all words from here on
16:25and until the end of Friday's show
16:26in poem form, please.
16:28In Manning Cup.
16:28That was delightful.
16:29Yes, I think we can do that, can't we?
16:31All right, George, get us on the way again.
16:33Have a consonant, please.
16:34Thank you, George.
16:35P.
16:36And another.
16:38R.
16:38And another.
16:40G.
16:41And one more.
16:43N.
16:44Vowel, please.
16:45I.
16:46And another.
16:47O.
16:48And another.
16:50A.
16:51And another.
16:54U.
16:55And a final consonant, please.
16:57A final S.
16:58And here we go again.
17:10George?
17:30Slightly risky eights.
17:32Yeah, Dudley.
17:33I'll risk an eight as well then.
17:35OK.
17:35Is it the blind leading the blind?
17:37Let's find out, George.
17:38Pourings.
17:39Yes, it was whether you were going to pluralise the ing.
17:42Same, Dudley?
17:42I've done the same.
17:43OK, so pourings.
17:45There was a load of sevens in there, but is pourings there?
17:48Not as a noun.
17:50So we have outpourings, but we don't have pourings on its own, I'm afraid.
17:54OK, so sevens.
17:56So pouring, obviously, if that had declared that and so many more.
18:00But what are we talking?
18:01Well, we did have arousing for eight.
18:04Oh, very good.
18:05Yes, and we were trying to think of a rhyme.
18:07We could only think of carousing.
18:08Yes, carousing.
18:09Well, soaping was in there after shampoo, so that was nice.
18:13So we had a wee bit of soaping.
18:14It was almost like we planned it, and soaring, and all sorts.
18:18But you needed to be aroused to get to eight.
18:21So well done.
18:21Yes.
18:22Well done.
18:22So the scores stay the same.
18:25Dudley?
18:25Consonant, please, Rachel.
18:27Thank you, Dudley.
18:28Q.
18:29And another.
18:31T.
18:32And another.
18:32Vowel, please.
18:42Vowel, please.
18:44Vowel, please.
18:45O.
18:47Another vowel.
18:49I.
18:50And another consonant, please.
18:53And lastly, P.
18:55Start the clock.
18:56Start the clock.
18:56One, two, three.
19:02That's the sound of the sound of .
19:03MUSIC PLAYS
19:28Dudley? Just six.
19:29Just the six, and George?
19:31Six as well.
19:31That's the same, just the six.
19:33Dudley?
19:34Mobile.
19:34Mobile.
19:35Polite.
19:36And polite.
19:37Mobile and polite.
19:39Any jiggery, pokery can get us higher than six?
19:41Definitely can't get higher than six this end.
19:44Six points each.
19:45Then back to the numbers, and George?
19:48Six more again, please, Rachel.
19:50Six more.
19:51A fun pick.
19:52Let's see what we have in store.
19:54For this round, your six little ones are six, nine, seven,
19:59ten, one, and eight.
20:03And the target, 793.
20:07793 numbers up.
20:10The same thing in my book,
20:26one, we'll be right back.
20:28793, George?
20:40Yeah, 793.
20:41Well done, and Dudley?
20:42793.
20:43Well done, both of you. Off you go, George.
20:458 times 10 is 80.
20:468 tens are 80.
20:489 plus 1 is 10.
20:49Yep.
20:50Times those together.
20:51800.
20:52And then take off the 7.
20:53A generous target for this one, 793.
20:56Dudley?
20:56Exactly the same.
20:57Well done.
20:58No panicking, clear thinking, really good contest today.
21:06Second Tea Time Teaser is intercut.
21:08Intercut.
21:09This medicine is intercut with a bit of alcohol.
21:12This medicine is intercut with a bit of alcohol.
21:15MUSIC PLAYS
21:17Hello again, this medicine is intercut with a bit of alcohol.
21:34Intercut becomes tincture, Susie, tincture.
21:37I've never went for a couple of tinctures.
21:39No, it just reminds me of old-fashioned chemists and these little brown bottles with tinctures.
21:43They simply are medicines that are made by dissolving a drug in alcohol.
21:46Thank you very much.
21:48Right.
21:49Sobering thought for a champion here.
21:51He's only 11 points ahead.
21:53He's in a real battle here against Dudley.
21:56Lyddiard from Formby.
21:58And you're picking these letters.
22:00Consonant, please, Rachel.
22:01Thank you, Dudley.
22:02V.
22:03And another.
22:04R.
22:05And a third.
22:07T.
22:07Another consonant.
22:10N.
22:11Vowel, please.
22:12I.
22:13Another vowel.
22:14A.
22:15Another vowel.
22:17E.
22:18And another vowel.
22:20O.
22:22And a consonant, please.
22:24Lastly, G.
22:26Let's play.
22:37How many, Dudley?
22:59A dodgy seven.
23:01And George?
23:02Seven.
23:02And a seven as well, Dudley.
23:05Ovating.
23:07Ovating.
23:07And George?
23:08Tearing.
23:09Tearing.
23:10Tearing and ovating.
23:12Ovating, OK?
23:13It's not, unfortunately.
23:15There, as an adjective, having an ovoid shape, like an egg,
23:19or it can also mean a member of an order of Welsh bards.
23:22Yeah.
23:22But not there as a verb, sorry.
23:24Susie, Tom, take me beyond seven.
23:26We had a couple of eights, weren't we?
23:29Averting.
23:31Yep.
23:31And a vintager, somebody who harvests grapes.
23:34Nice.
23:34Didn't see that one.
23:35A vintager's a grape harvester.
23:37Yes.
23:38Yes, that's a beautiful word.
23:40Is that why we say it's a grape vintage, then?
23:42Absolutely.
23:43It's all connected.
23:43All connected with a French wine.
23:45Yes.
23:46Vintner is a lovely word for a wine cellar, isn't it?
23:49It is.
23:49It is.
23:49Too lovely.
23:50Lovely.
23:50It's an origins of words coming your way soon.
23:54Another set of letters, please, George.
23:56Consonant, please.
23:57Thank you, George.
23:57M.
23:58And another.
24:01L.
24:02And another.
24:03N.
24:04And a vowel, please.
24:06E.
24:06And another.
24:07I.
24:08And another.
24:09A.
24:10And a consonant, please.
24:12T.
24:13And another.
24:15S.
24:16And a final consonant, please.
24:18And a final J.
24:20Here we go.
24:21Here we go.
24:52Good on George. Eight. Yes, and Dudley. Eight. And the eight. Manliest. Manliest and Dudley. Exactly the same. Manliest. There you go. Excellent. Surely that's as good as we have. Eight was. Yes, but we had ailments. Ailments. For our eight. That's all right, it's another eight. Fantastic work. Right, Origins Award, Suze. Thank you. I can just go about the periodic table, because I was never a particularly good chemist, but I did like learning how to recite the periodic table, did you? Or was it just me, hydrogen?
25:22Helium, lithium. Wasn't a big thing for me. It's good. I'm looking forward to this.
25:26Well, the naming of our elements is actually quite interesting. So it's all set by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. And any newly discovered elements, and they are discovered, are named after the following criteria.
25:41One is a mythological concept or character. Another is a similar substance to the mineral, a geography, place or region, a certain property that that element has, or a scientist.
25:53But when it comes to their naming, you'll see, if you look through them, that actually Greek and Latin dominate, perhaps not surprisingly. So you have, this will explain some of the symbols, so you have FE for iron, which is from the Latin ferrum.
26:08You have NA for sodium, which is from natrium in Latin as well. And many Greek ones as well. You have Spanish, you might think it's one of the, you know, the most, I think probably the second most spoken language in the world.
26:23But actually only one element so far has been named after a Spanish word, and that's platinum, which comes from plata, meaning silver.
26:31Gaelic also has one, strontium, and Swedish has tungsten as well. And Japanese very recently came into it, number 113, nihonium. So that's added that to the list.
26:43But what I love about the periodic table is that quite often the chemical symbols or the words would just sort of give us a little bit of history of language.
26:52So PB, which is the symbol for lead, that goes back to the Latin plumbum, so it joins one of those.
26:58But that eventually gave us the word plumber, because early plumbers dealt in lead piping.
27:03And it was the same in Roman times as it was in England. Lead was the primary thing that was used.
27:09And CU for copper, I quite like as well, because that goes back to the Latin cuprum ice, which means cypress metal,
27:17because cypress was the main source of that particular metal.
27:21So, again, a little bit of history there.
27:23And one that I particularly love, because German is also up there in the rankings, is nickel.
27:29And nickel is called devil's copper.
27:32Well, that's from the German for devil's copper, because very often miners would find what looked like to be the sort of wonderful ore
27:38that was going to bring them lots of money.
27:40But in the end, it turned out just to be this cheap nickel and not copper at all.
27:44APPLAUSE
27:45If you take anything away from that, it's that Latin for lead is plumbum, which is lovely.
27:5372, 54, and Dudley, your letters.
27:57Consonant, please, Rachel.
27:58Thank you, Dudley.
27:59G.
28:00And again.
28:02S.
28:03Another one.
28:05T.
28:06And a fourth.
28:08P.
28:09Vowel, please.
28:10A.
28:12Another vowel.
28:14E.
28:15Another vowel.
28:17O.
28:18A consonant.
28:20M.
28:22And a last vowel, please.
28:25Lastly, E.
28:27And kind dine.
28:27We'll see you next time.
28:28We'll see you next time.
28:30Bye-bye.
28:30Bye-bye.
28:31MUSIC CONTINUES
29:01And George?
29:02The six.
29:02This is a big moment then.
29:04So the six.
29:05Emotes.
29:06And the seven.
29:08Postage.
29:09Just to break through that you needed at this stage, Dudley,
29:12you were running out of road, but you've delivered with postage.
29:15Well done.
29:16Anything else?
29:18Well, we have post-game.
29:20Mm-hmm.
29:21Oh, lovely.
29:22Lovely.
29:22A very American word, of course.
29:24We have our post-game programme.
29:25Yes.
29:26A little debrief.
29:27Yes, a little post-game debrief.
29:29So, and there you go.
29:31It's a shame you can't do it for e-sports,
29:33because you could have had e-post-game,
29:34but that's not made the dictionary yet for now.
29:36A very, very good eight.
29:38Now, that means, Dudley,
29:40you're just one point away from making it that crucial countdown conundrum.
29:45So it's made it a little too close for comfort for risky George.
29:49Let's get letters.
29:50Continent, please, Rachel.
29:51Thank you, George.
29:52L.
29:52And another.
29:54D.
29:55And another.
29:57W.
29:58Vowel, please.
30:00I.
30:01And another.
30:02E.
30:03Consonant, please.
30:05T.
30:06And one more.
30:08N.
30:09Another vowel, please.
30:11U.
30:12And a final consonant.
30:14And a final G.
30:16Last letters.
30:17One more.
30:20We'll see you later.
30:26Bye.
30:27Bye.
30:30Bye.
30:31Bye.
30:31Bye.
30:43Bye.
30:44Bye.
30:45Bye.
30:46Bye.
30:47How many, George? Seven.
30:49And Dudley? Seven. Sevens, please.
30:51Welding. Welding.
30:53And the same again.
30:55Good stuff. We'll stick those together.
30:57Give them seven points each. What about Dictionary Corner?
31:00Well, we couldn't tramp seven, could we? No.
31:03Twinged.
31:05Twinged is a nice one. And guilted, as in to be guilt-tripped into doing something.
31:10Last numbers, then. Dudley, you need to find an extra point from somewhere.
31:14Good news is, you're picking.
31:16Three large, please. Three large.
31:18It's a strong gamble. I like your style.
31:20And three little ones. Let's hope it pays off for that crucial conundrum.
31:24Final numbers today.
31:25Nine, ten, five.
31:27One hundred, seventy-five and fifty.
31:31And the target, 266.
31:33Two-six-six last numbers.
31:35Two-six and ten, twelve, seven, five.
31:36Six lineas.
31:37Two-six, eight, five,etti Korean citizen.
31:38Three large, thirty-fiveevery as in it.
31:39Two large, twenty-six.
31:40Two large, sixty-six.
31:41Three large, twenty-six.
31:42Two, one half.
31:43One, two l Congress.
31:44One, two.
31:46One, two.
31:47Three, two.
31:48Two, three.
31:48Five, three.
31:49Three, double-six.
31:50Two, three.
31:52Four, seven.
31:53Two, four, six.
31:55Three, two, three.
31:57Two, three.
31:58One, two, three.
31:59One, two, three.
32:00Seven, two, three.
32:012-6-6, the target, Dudley.
32:082-6-9.
32:09Three away, George.
32:112-6-6.
32:122-6-6 for your fourth win and to take you halfway to becoming an octo-champ.
32:17100 plus 75 plus 50.
32:202-2-5.
32:21Five times ten is 50.
32:24Add that on and take away the nine.
32:26Perfect, well done, 2-6-6.
32:27APPLAUSE
32:28Stiff competition for you today, so huge congratulations, George.
32:35I think like a fine wine, you're just getting better with every single round.
32:40I really do.
32:41You could score 99 today if you pull this off.
32:43So let's get your finger on the buzzer.
32:45And Dudley as well.
32:47Hey, 78 as a losing score would be sensational.
32:50So good luck to both of you as we reveal Thursday afternoon's Countdown Conundrum.
32:54Come on, Dudley.
33:03Lifestyle?
33:04Lifestyle!
33:06Yes!
33:08APPLAUSE
33:08Look at that.
33:11You can tell us so many lies now about your performance, can't you?
33:14It was just 11 points.
33:16It was so close.
33:17All that type of stuff.
33:19Have you enjoyed your day?
33:20Certainly, yes.
33:21We've absolutely loved having you.
33:23Keep on walking, my friend.
33:24Keep enjoying the country.
33:25Thanks very much.
33:26You're going to absolutely know where you're staying in that seat.
33:28Happy to be here.
33:29Maybe four more days.
33:31Just getting better and better.
33:32Thank you, mate.
33:33Been of pleasure.
33:34Well done.
33:35Right, off we go.
33:37Off we go.
33:37Into the afternoon, we'll all listen to a bit of radio ahead of National Radio Day.
33:41I'll tell you what you're listening to, because I already know Radio 4 for Tom Reid Wilson,
33:45for sure.
33:46It's predictable.
33:47Genuinely, Susie really likes Tony and Claire on Drive on BBC Five Live.
33:51And Breakfast, yep.
33:52Yeah, there you go.
33:53So you're a big fan of that.
33:54And Rachel, definitely absolute 90s.
33:57Bit of Backstreet Boys, bit of Boyzone.
33:59We're really getting to know each other.
34:00Yeah, either that or Classical.
34:02You know, one of the two.
34:03Same, same.
34:05Boyzone, back, same thing as far as I'm concerned.
34:07We will be back tomorrow, right here.
34:10Susie, Rachel and I.
34:11You can count on us.
34:13You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com.
34:18You can also find our webpage at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
34:39Good, many.
34:45Good, mary.
34:45Good.
34:45How about you?
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