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00:30Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown on Thursday, April the 25th.
00:35And as you all know, I don't even need to set Rachel Riley.
00:38It's World Penguin Day.
00:40And we never talk about penguins.
00:42Never, never. I didn't know. Why would we?
00:45I'm going to spur you. For one day, I'm going to spur you.
00:48Because it's also the anniversary of the release, 1719,
00:52of a book everybody will know, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
00:56And I feel that that sort of desert island question,
00:58often if you're amongst mixed company, you know some of them you don't,
01:02it's always a good icebreaker, isn't it?
01:04What would be the book you'd take? What's your luxury item?
01:08Who would you live in a desert island with?
01:09If you could take just one person to desert island with you forever,
01:13who's your man Friday?
01:14Well, I mean, if you're not picking your husband or your wife or your partner,
01:17then there's probably something wrong with your relationship, isn't there?
01:19Yeah, so who are you picking?
01:20I'm picking Pash Pash. It's coming with me.
01:23Well, I'm taking Kylie Minogue.
01:25At least one of us is being honest here.
01:27Kylie, you're on the boat.
01:29Unlucky.
01:29I don't think kidnapping people to desert islands is part of the question process.
01:33What would be your one luxury item?
01:35So a bit more serious, that bit, isn't it?
01:37Which is like, what thing would give you solace every day, you know?
01:40Would you choose something that's expendable,
01:42like, you know, one of those massive bars of chocolate?
01:45Or what would be the one thing? Photographs?
01:47I don't know. I think the thing that's keeping me busy at the moment,
01:49you know, when you have kids, you start replaying with stuff
01:52that you haven't touched for years and years and years.
01:54So, you know, doing a jigsaw like you did,
01:56now it's quite therapeutic.
01:57Or, you know, building out of those well-known bricks.
02:00I could sit there for hours.
02:02The kids get bored way earlier than I do.
02:04Do you know what I would take with me?
02:06Whatever Kylie wanted. Simple as that.
02:09Right, let's head on over the dictionary corner.
02:11We're always so lucky to have Susie Dent alongside us.
02:15Listen, Les Dennis is back.
02:16She's going to say, pas pourquoi?
02:17But lovely to have you here, mate.
02:19Lovely to be here. Thank you.
02:21Listen, Charlotte Robson, young enough to be your daughter, of course.
02:25At 16 years old, is our new champion.
02:28But here's where you're going to connect with Les Dennis.
02:31Les in June at Shakespeare North is in Twelfth Night.
02:35I think you're doing Shakespeare in amateur dramatics at the moment.
02:37Is that right? Tell Les about it. I don't care.
02:40What are you doing?
02:41As you like it, I'm playing Phoebe Shepherdess.
02:43Wow, wow. Are you enjoying it?
02:45Absolutely. It's great fun.
02:48Charlotte going for a second win today.
02:50And she's going against Alina.
02:52Now, that's the first time ever I haven't said the second name of a contestant.
02:56Because the way I would say it is Rio Tannen, which is probably right, the anglicized way.
03:01But the way you said it is just absolutely perfect.
03:03Because Alina is from Finland.
03:06So just say a second name.
03:07Riuttanen.
03:08It's just wonderful. There's just no way of doing that.
03:11Even Susie, our polyglot.
03:13Do you want to attempt it?
03:14No, I could guess it was finished.
03:16That's as far as I got.
03:17Yeah, wonderful.
03:18It's the Nen, isn't it?
03:19Yeah, it's tricky.
03:20So what brought you over to the UK?
03:22It's usually love.
03:24It didn't bring me here.
03:26What brought me over in the first place was Monty Python.
03:28But love made me stay to say that.
03:33Wow, wow, goodness me.
03:35What a reason.
03:36What a reason to move over.
03:37Fantastic.
03:38Well, listen, we'll get to know you more throughout today.
03:41It's wonderful to have you Alina and Charlotte.
03:44Best of luck to you both.
03:48Charlotte, off you go.
03:49Hi, Rachel.
03:50Hi, Charlotte.
03:51Can I start with a consonant, please?
03:52You can indeed start today with M.
03:55And another.
03:57H.
03:57And another.
04:00D.
04:01And one more.
04:03L.
04:04And a vowel, please.
04:05O.
04:06And another.
04:08E.
04:08And another.
04:10I.
04:12And one more.
04:14O.
04:15And finish with a consonant, please.
04:17Finish with N.
04:18At home and in the studio, let's play time time.
04:34.
04:34That's time, Charlotte. Six. Six from you and Alina. Six from me as well. Six from you as well.
04:56Well done, Charlotte. Mooned. Mooned. And Alina. Loomed. Loomed and mooned. Two very different words there, Susan.
05:04Yes, like both of those. Excellent. Give you a bit of Shakespeare. If music be the food of love, play on with your melodion.
05:11Ah, melodion. How many is that? For eight. That would be eight. Yeah, normally it's spelled with two e's, but you can spell it with the i as here, and it's a small accordion.
05:18Nice. Great work. Great work on that. Six points each, though. Second letters round. Alina, you're up.
05:23Good afternoon, Rachel. Could I have a consonant, please? You can indeed start with T. And a vowel. E. And a consonant.
05:32L. And a consonant. T. And a vowel. A. Consonant. R. Consonant. D. Vowel. O. And one more consonant, please.
05:53And lastly, N.
05:55And 30 seconds.
05:57And 30 seconds.
05:59Here we go.
06:00T. And 30 seconds.
06:00And 30 seconds.
06:01While we do so, learn.
06:01Here we go.
06:02And 50 seconds.
06:02ina Gibson.
06:03And 30 seconds.
06:03Here we go.
06:04And 30 seconds.
06:04Oh, try it.
06:05Here we go.
06:05And 30 seconds.
06:06When you're watching this Thunderbird.
06:06And 30 seconds.
06:07Let's try it and separately.
06:09Speakerенные together are super fl conductor of the railroad.
06:10And 40 seconds.
06:10You wants to take aligt from this czasu.
06:11And 30 seconds.
06:16If we go.
06:17And run a Québec.
06:17First time.
06:19From 30 seconds.
06:21servi mental movements.
06:23Alina?
06:28Just a six.
06:29And Charlotte?
06:30Seven.
06:30And a seven, a six, Alina?
06:32Rotten.
06:33And for a little lead?
06:34Rattled.
06:35Rattled.
06:36Oh, Alina is rattled.
06:38Nice, she's spotted that.
06:39Yeah.
06:40Nice little seven points there.
06:41Well done for rattled.
06:43You're chewing the end of your glasses leg, like you have a nine.
06:48Like you have a nine.
06:49Sadly, no, I'm rattled because I got rattled too,
06:52but it was a great one to get.
06:54And that's it.
06:55There's a leotard there, of course.
06:59Countdown favourite.
07:00Yes.
07:00Charlotte, numbers, please.
07:02Two large and four small, please, Rachel.
07:04Thank you, Charlotte.
07:04Two from the top row.
07:06Four little ones.
07:07First numbers, as Colin says, are two, five, eight, seven,
07:13and the large two, 25 and 50.
07:16And the target to reach 128.
07:19One, two, eight.
07:20Numbers up.
07:22One, two, eight.
07:52Two, eight.
07:54Fairly straightforward, Charlotte.
07:55Yeah, one, two, eight.
07:56Yeah, and Alina?
07:57Yes, one, two, eight.
07:58That's a very good target to get for your first numbers round.
08:01Charlotte, off you go.
08:02Two times 50.
08:03Two fifties and 100.
08:05Add 25.
08:06One, two, five.
08:07Eight minus five.
08:09One way to get there, one, two, eight.
08:11Exactly the same way.
08:12The same way, yeah.
08:13Well done, well done.
08:1310.2.
08:14Okay, first tea time teaser of this Thursday afternoon.
08:20This clue is inspired.
08:21You fire Linford in the priest's dressing room.
08:24You fire Linford in the priest's dressing room.
08:27Welcome back.
08:43One of those tea time teasers.
08:44I'm sure a lot of people at home in the same boat.
08:47You get it, but then you need the word explained.
08:49You fire Linford in the priest's dressing room.
08:51So it has to be Linford Christy, sac-christy.
08:55Yes.
08:55So sac-christy and connected in some way to priests.
08:58Yes, it's a room in a church where the priest prepares for service.
09:02So it's where their vestments are kept, for example.
09:04Thank you very much.
09:0623.16 then.
09:07Close so far.
09:09And Alina, you're choosing these letters.
09:11Could I have a in vowel, please, Rachel?
09:14Thank you, Alina.
09:15I.
09:16And another vowel.
09:17A.
09:19And another vowel.
09:20O.
09:21A consonant, please.
09:23S.
09:25A consonant.
09:26D.
09:28Consonant.
09:29F.
09:31One more consonant.
09:32N.
09:34And a vowel.
09:36I.
09:37And the last consonant, please.
09:38Lastly, S.
09:40Thanks, Rachel.
09:41Thank you, Rachel.
09:58I.
10:00And I'll see you in the next one.
10:03Alina?
10:13Just a five.
10:14And Charlotte?
10:14Yeah, five as well.
10:15Five as well.
10:16Difficult round, Alina?
10:17Find.
10:18And for you, Charlotte?
10:19Yeah, same.
10:20There you go, that's fine.
10:21Give me five points each and over the dictionary corner.
10:24No, I was obsessed.
10:25I thought I nearly saw my name.
10:26It looked like Dennis.
10:28Just this.
10:29And that was it.
10:30Is that what I was thinking?
10:32But it's a capital A, sadly.
10:34But we could push it to a seven with fission.
10:36Nuclear fission.
10:37Nuclear fission.
10:38Very efficient.
10:39Well done.
10:40Seven points remains the gap.
10:43And Charlotte, you're choosing these nine letters.
10:46I'll start with a consonant, please.
10:47Thank you, Charlotte.
10:48M.
10:49And another.
10:51L.
10:52And a third.
10:54N.
10:55And one more, please.
10:57R.
10:58And a vowel.
11:00A.
11:01And another.
11:02E.
11:03And another.
11:05I.
11:06And one more, please.
11:08E.
11:09And finish with a consonant, please.
11:11Finish with Y.
11:12I'm half a minute.
11:13And a vowel.
11:24I love you.
11:26And a vowel.
11:27Charlotte? A six.
11:46Alina? Six. Six as well. Well done. Charlotte?
11:48Romaine? Yes. And for you, Alina?
11:51Enamel. An enamel.
11:52Let me go back to teeth again like yesterday.
11:54Yeah, but there is a nine, a very last-minute one,
11:58so you can probably tell.
11:59Mine layers, that's a warship, aircraft or land vehicle
12:03from which explosive mines are laid.
12:05Fantastic. Well done.
12:09Let's get more numbers.
12:11Alina, your first time picking.
12:12Can I have one large, please, Rachel?
12:14You can indeed. One from the top.
12:16Five little by default.
12:17And your five small numbers are...
12:20Five.
12:21Eight.
12:22Five.
12:24Two.
12:25And three.
12:25And a large one, 25.
12:27And your target, 501.
12:30501. Let's go.
12:30One.
12:35One from the top.
12:35Five.
12:36Three.
12:39One from the top.
12:46One from the top.
12:47500 and 1 the target. Alina?
13:04I've got 500 not written down.
13:05No worries. One away. Charlotte?
13:07Yeah, I've got 500 too.
13:08Good. Alina, off you go.
13:10So, I've got 2 times 25 is 50.
13:132 times 25 is 50.
13:15Yeah, and then 5 over 5 is 1.
13:19Yep.
13:19Take that away from the 3 and add it to the 8,
13:22so you should get 10.
13:23And then that's 10 times 50.
13:26500, one away.
13:27Charlotte?
13:28So, 8 over 2.
13:298 over 2 is 4.
13:31Times 5.
13:32Is 20.
13:33Times 25.
13:34Times 25, 500.
13:36You see, that's how a relaxed champion does it,
13:38but it doesn't matter, 7 points each.
13:40We've had 501 the other day, we have it again.
13:42How do we get there?
13:43Well, with this one, if you can take Charlotte's method,
13:46but say 5 times 8 is 40.
13:50Before you divide it by 2, times it by 25 for 1,000.
13:54And then you can add the 2 for 1,002.
13:58And you have a second 5 minus 3 for 2 to divide.
14:02Brilliant.
14:03Yes.
14:03What goes up must come down.
14:08Fantastic.
14:09Right, let's take a little break.
14:10Let's have our chat with Liz.
14:11Dennis never run out of things to talk about.
14:14In fact, there's been such a mix of stuff in this Dictionary Corner stint for you, Liz.
14:19What do you want to talk about today?
14:20Well, I want to start by asking you a question, if that's OK.
14:22As long as it's not too personal, Liz.
14:23It's not too personal.
14:25It's basically, I played myself in extras, which I think is a really difficult thing to do.
14:30And I was watching this drama the other night, this very powerful drama called Breathtaking.
14:35Oh, yeah.
14:35The Covid drama, you will know it well, because in a scene where Joanne Froggart is going to the radio, you are the interviewer.
14:44Yes.
14:45Did you play yourself or did you play a fictitious interviewer?
14:49A fictitious interviewer.
14:52So I think Jed Mercurio, one of the brains behind it, I kind of know him from other things.
14:59And he said, look, I think I'm going to bank on a radio presenter trying to act.
15:03I'm going to do it that way round rather than the other way.
15:06And didn't Jed say to you afterwards that that's the hardest thing to do, to play yourself?
15:09Yeah, well, they didn't say, tell me anything really in advance that it was a key scene or anything.
15:14And after, it was actually Brian who was working on it.
15:16And he said, it's really hard to play yourself.
15:19Well, I thought that would have been the easiest thing, but which comes back to extras.
15:23Was that the hardest thing that you've done?
15:25It was.
15:26You know, when you play a character, you can research that character, but you can't really research yourself.
15:30You've done your whole life to research yourself.
15:32But when Ricky called me, he said, how would you like to play a twisted, demented version of yourself?
15:40Yeah.
15:40So that was my way of, you know, he said, think Kyber Enthusiasm, think the Larry Sanders show.
15:46So I knew that all the A-listers that had done that had, you know, lampooned themselves.
15:52So I went into it knowing that I could play myself.
15:55But every time I did a take, you know, Ricky would say, do less, less, do less.
15:59And it reminded me of the wonderful director, Billy Wilder, who said to Jack Lemmon, do less, Jack, do less.
16:07And Jack Lemmon said, if I do less, I'll be doing nothing.
16:11That's what I want, Jack.
16:12Yes.
16:13But so, you know, I played myself.
16:16I had to be drying myself off in a dressing room with Ricky Gervais watching me.
16:21I had to be on stage having a breakdown.
16:24And a couple of weeks after the show had gone out, I was walking around Liverpool and this woman came up to me.
16:30She went, you all right now, lad?
16:32Yeah, why?
16:35She said, after that documentary about your life, she thought it was real.
16:41Thank you, Les.
16:45OK, Charlotte, let's get more letters.
16:48Can I start with a consonant, please?
16:50Thank you, Charlotte.
16:51T.
16:52And another.
16:54P.
16:55And another.
16:57C.
16:58And one more, please.
17:00S.
17:01And a vowel.
17:02A.
17:04And another.
17:05I.
17:06And another.
17:07E.
17:08And a consonant, please.
17:10R.
17:11And a final vowel, please.
17:13And a final O.
17:15And here we go again.
17:16And a homosexual.
17:28So.
17:30And auffy.
17:35And a meme.
17:40And a ».
17:41Time's up there. Charlotte?
17:49Seven. Seven for you. And Alina?
17:52Seven as well. Both of you straight back into the groove. Charlotte?
17:54Rope-iest. Alina? Pastier.
17:57Pastier and rope-iest. Very good.
17:59Just sounds like Les after Saturday night out.
18:02Pastier and rope-iest. Can we add to that?
18:06We're keeping the theatre theme going and for nine we've got operatics.
18:10Ah, yes. Take a five. Bravo! Bravo!
18:15Wonderful. Well spotted. Stole the show there. Stole the show.
18:19More letters from Alina.
18:21Can I have a consonant, please? Thank you, Alina.
18:24B. And a vowel?
18:27U. Another vowel?
18:29A. Consonant?
18:32N. Consonant?
18:35G.
18:37Consonant?
18:39C.
18:39E. Vowel, please.
18:42I.
18:44Consonant?
18:45T.
18:46And one more vowel, please.
18:47And lastly, E.
18:50And start the clock.
18:51And you're getting later.
18:59And you'll be getting later.
18:59And there will be more occasionally.
19:02all right time up Alina a six six and Charlotte a seven a seven from you Alina tough rhyme what
19:30we got there baiting yes and let's head over to Charlotte a beating a beating yeah just put
19:37that in from beating to beating there you go yeah very good indeed but beating was there have you
19:43got the beating of that we have and actually baiting is quite interesting because bait B-A-T-E
19:48describes a hawk that's beating its wings and fluttering off the perch so didn't win but it's
19:53a nice word we have Nate didn't we yes absolute incubate incubate yeah you're on fire today
19:59doing brilliantly in dictionary corner from nine to an eight well done but Charlotte takes the points
20:05to extend that lead as we get more numbers now and champ you're choosing I have one large and five
20:10small please Rachel thank you Charlotte one from the top five from the lower levels and the little ones
20:17are one two seven four and two and the big one 100 and this time you need to find 728 728 numbers up
20:29so
20:34There's a lot of stirring into space and drinking water
21:02going on there. So, I'm assuming, Charlotte?
21:04Yeah, 728. And Alina?
21:06Yeah, 728. She's a seasoned veteran
21:08now. Charlotte, off you go.
21:10100 plus 4. 104.
21:12Times 7. Yep. Same way.
21:14Good stuff. Love it.
21:18All right, here we go.
21:20Tea time teaser. This is what I am. And Countdown,
21:22a lousy ref. Lousy ref.
21:24It's something Lionel wanted you
21:26to consider. It's something Lionel
21:28wanted you to consider.
21:32Hello again. It's something Lionel
21:48wanted you to consider. Now, because the clue
21:50was lousy ref, I'm sure a lot
21:52of people were going, Lionel Messi?
21:54What's he got to do with this?
21:56But it's not. It's Lionel Bart.
21:58And we've been talking about this the whole break.
22:00So, the answer is yourself. Consider
22:02yourself at home. Consider yourself part of the
22:04family, which is from... Oliver.
22:06Oliver. Well done. Thank you very much. Back to
22:08the game. Alina, letters, please.
22:10A vowel, please.
22:12Thank you, Alina. O.
22:15Another
22:16vowel. E.
22:18And a consonant.
22:20D. Another consonant.
22:23N.
22:24A third consonant.
22:25P.
22:26A vowel, please.
22:29A.
22:31A consonant.
22:32R.
22:34A consonant.
22:36L.
22:37And one more consonant, please.
22:40Lastly, S.
22:41Let's play.
22:59Alina?
23:13Seven.
23:14Seven from you, very strong.
23:16Charlotte?
23:16Eight.
23:17Oh, my goodness, me.
23:19Alina?
23:20Ponders.
23:20Right, champ?
23:21Leopards.
23:22For goodness sake, here we go.
23:23Here we go, leopards.
23:25Well done to you.
23:26Yeah, we cannot beat that.
23:27Can't beat an eight.
23:28Excellent.
23:29More letters, please.
23:30Charlotte?
23:31Start with a consonant, please.
23:32Thank you, Charlotte.
23:34R.
23:34And another.
23:36V.
23:37And another.
23:39K.
23:40And one more.
23:42G.
23:43And a vowel, please.
23:44U.
23:45And another.
23:46O.
23:47And a third.
23:49E.
23:50Consonant, please.
23:52S.
23:53And finish with a vowel, please.
23:55Finish with another U.
23:57And 30 seconds.
24:00Theessional Lunaris video.
24:05Oh, my God.
24:07I'm sorry.
24:08Because they're not happening.
24:09You know, Google.
24:10And there may be the Name.
24:10The letter may be the name of the vowel.
24:11Nobody's talking about, from the vowel.
24:11Everybody's talking about her.
24:12Quem you and them not have.
24:13What?
24:15What does that mean?
24:15The word are the tired.
24:25Well done.
24:25Since the vowel, please.
24:25How did the vowel, please.
24:26R.
24:26How many, Charlotte?
24:30Six. Six from you, Alina?
24:32Six as well. Six as well.
24:33Back in the scoring groove, what have you got?
24:35Rogues. Rogues, yes.
24:37I jumped out a bit, didn't I, Alina?
24:39Grouse. And grouse.
24:41Six points each, what we have.
24:42No better than sixes, I don't think.
24:44We had vogues, as in the dance, but no better than six.
24:48Yeah. All right, four rounds left to play,
24:50which means we pause for our origins of words.
24:53Are we on the emails today, Susie?
24:54Yes. Love these emails.
24:56This one comes from Adrian Skelton, who wrote in from Doncaster.
25:01And he says,
25:01I've long understood the meaning of the word tuck,
25:03as in tucked up into bed,
25:05but it has always sounded slightly strange to me
25:07when used as in tucking into a meal.
25:10Does the word have two separate origins or meanings,
25:12or are they linked?
25:14And I often say this, but I love this question
25:16because I've never, ever considered it, ever.
25:19So thank you to Adrian for getting me to think about this.
25:22So tuck, as it turns out, has had quite a story
25:24for such a simple word.
25:26So first and foremost, it's a relative of a German word,
25:30suchen, which means to pull sharply or to snatch away,
25:35or even, in its beginnings, to draw a sword,
25:38to kind of draw a sword out of its sheath very, very quickly.
25:41And this idea led to the use of the word
25:43to mean to inflict some kind of injury.
25:45But it also meant to pull tightly.
25:48So particularly cloth would be pulled tightly,
25:51as on tenters, which I will come back to.
25:54And probably because of this association with cloth,
25:57tuck also meant to pull in loose folds of material.
26:01So when we tuck a shirt into trousers,
26:03we are tucking it away, we're pulling it down,
26:06and we're hiding it away from out of sight
26:09into a place that no-one can see.
26:11And that's why we tuck ourselves away
26:13when we want to avoid company as well.
26:15And so by the 18th century,
26:17we had the idea of tucking away food by consuming it,
26:20which is why we have the tuck shop at school as well.
26:24We put it away, we put it out of sight,
26:26and we tuck into it with relish.
26:29So it's had quite a journey from hurting someone,
26:31pulling out a sword, to the idea of tucking in your shirt
26:34and tucking into a hearty meal.
26:36So it was quite wonderful to investigate that one.
26:39But I said I'd return to tenters,
26:41because Carol and Angus MacDonald asked me
26:44about the story of tenterhooks,
26:46which I've told many a time.
26:48But a lot of people are beginning to say tenderhooks.
26:50I was on tenderhooks.
26:52Because it makes sense,
26:53and no-one knows what tenters are these days,
26:54but they were actually these woollen frames
26:56upon which cloth would be attached by hooks,
27:00stretched really tightly across these frames,
27:03left out in the open air to dry.
27:05And so the idea of being on tenterhooks
27:07is to be in such suspense or tension
27:10as the cloth that was pulled so tightly on those hooks.
27:13Great. Fantastic. Thank you.
27:18And you got to tuck shop. Fantastic.
27:20Look at that. Adrian and Donny,
27:21thank you so, so much for your email.
27:23Countdown at channel4.com.
27:25If you've got a word query,
27:27if you'd like to get Susie on the case,
27:29you can send that to us.
27:30Countdown at channel4.com.
27:32Right. Four rounds left to go.
27:35This isn't over by any stretch of the imagination.
27:38Alina, let's keep going.
27:39Let's get more letters.
27:40Don't give up, Faith.
27:42Consonant, please, Rachel.
27:43Thank you, Alina.
27:44And the last consonant, please.
28:05And lastly, X.
28:07Good luck.
28:08We'll see you next time.
28:38Time's up, Alina.
28:41A risky seven.
28:42A risky seven.
28:43And for you, Charlotte?
28:44Yes, seven.
28:44Seven as well.
28:46Alina?
28:47Girthed.
28:48Girthed.
28:48And Charlotte?
28:49Righted.
28:50Righted.
28:51OK, well, we can tell you now it's not risky
28:53because we had it just a while back,
28:55so we know it's in there.
28:56Yes, exactly.
28:57To girth is to surround or to encircle.
29:01It's quite poetic language,
29:02but there is a verb, so girth is lovely.
29:04And righted, to right a wrong, for example,
29:06very good indeed.
29:07Spot anything else, Mr Dennis?
29:09Nothing else.
29:09We got righted, but that's about it.
29:11That'll do.
29:11Excellent stuff, excellent stuff.
29:13Something else to give now for Alina in this round.
29:15So, Charlotte, let's have some letters.
29:18Start with the consonant, please.
29:20Thank you, Charlotte.
29:20And last letters.
29:45We'll see you next time.
29:47We'll see you next time.
29:47We'll see you next time.
29:48We'll see you next time.
29:48We'll see you next time.
29:49We'll see you next time.
29:49We'll see you next time.
29:50Charlotte, six.
30:17Six from you, Alina.
30:19Six as well.
30:20Six as well.
30:21Six points to seal the deal, Charlotte.
30:22Prance.
30:23Prance it is.
30:24That's in the dictionary.
30:25Alina.
30:26Arcane.
30:27Brilliant.
30:28And you picked up six points as well.
30:29So, well done, Charlotte.
30:30Second win for you.
30:31And anything better than a six?
30:32I think it was just sixes, wasn't it?
30:34Yeah, just sixes for us.
30:35Nuance, quite a nice one.
30:36It's beautiful.
30:37Love it.
30:38Right, 92 plays, 70.
30:40What a crack that is at trying to get the Champions chair.
30:44And still, 20 points up for grabs.
30:46Final numbers, Alina, you're choosing.
30:48Three large, please, Rachel.
30:50Three large.
30:51The lesser spotted three large.
30:53Nice choice.
30:54Let's see what we have for the final numbers today.
30:56Your three smalls are ten, seven and five.
30:59And the three big ones, 25, 75 and 50.
31:03And the target to reach with them, 736.
31:06736 numbers up.
31:07626 numbers up.
31:08626 numbers up.
31:10626 numbers up.
31:13626 numbers up.
31:16There you go, time's up, 7.36, the target.
31:42Elena?
31:43Yeah, 7.36.
31:44Well done, Charlotte.
31:45Yeah, 7.36.
31:46Both nailed it.
31:48Elena, off you go.
31:49So, 75 times 10.
31:52750.
31:53Minus the 7 and the 5.
31:567.38.
31:57And then 50 over 25 is 2.
31:59Lovely.
32:00Well done.
32:01Nice.
32:02Same way, Charlotte?
32:03Very similar.
32:0475 times 10, then 50 over 25 is 2.
32:08Multiply that by 7.
32:09Yeah, 14.
32:09Take that off.
32:10Same as that.
32:10Well done.
32:10Good enough.
32:11Well done.
32:11And with that, we dole out 182 points already in 14 rounds.
32:19102 for Charlotte.
32:21Not just the double champion now, but a centurion.
32:24And Elena, listen, it doesn't come much bigger in defeat than 80 and possibly 90.
32:29So, we'll get to that in a second.
32:31But let's get your fingers on the buzzers then.
32:33And let's hand out these last 10 points as we reveal this Thursday afternoon's Countdown Conundrum.
33:09What?
33:12Charlotte?
33:13I don't think I've not used the A foremost.
33:15Foremost is incorrect.
33:19My goodness.
33:20You probably can't get any closer to being out of time there.
33:22It was unbelievable.
33:24I have to do this.
33:25It's ridiculous.
33:27Elena, there's not enough time for you to hit that button, but I have to play the last point, not one second out.
33:32So, let's start the clock again.
33:33That's fantastic.
33:39Can't believe you didn't get that.
33:42Time is up.
33:43Let me go straight to Rachel Riley, who's got a big grin.
33:45What's the answer?
33:47Staff room.
33:48Staff room.
33:48Staff room.
33:49Fantastic.
33:53Out of this world, Rachel.
33:54Out of this world.
33:55Right.
33:55Well, listen, Charlotte, old news to me.
33:58I can speak to you tomorrow.
33:59Let me have this final time with Alina.
34:01Because I want to mention your family back in Finland.
34:03Yeah.
34:03Because is it true you managed to get hold of an old countdown board game and you've got them playing?
34:08Yeah.
34:09Yeah.
34:09No, they don't like the buzzer.
34:11They don't like the clock.
34:13But, yeah, they do like the game itself.
34:16We'll always look in the bright side of life.
34:18That's what Monty Python say.
34:20And Charlotte, my old timer, my old mucker, we'll see you tomorrow.
34:23See you tomorrow.
34:23Happy days.
34:24Les, Susie, see you tomorrow.
34:25See you then.
34:26And you, Rach, what a show, eh?
34:27Yep.
34:27Let's Ministry of Silly Walks ourselves out of here.
34:29And let's do exactly that.
34:31But we will walk straight back into the studio tomorrow.
34:34We can't wait.
34:35Rachel, Susie and I will be here and count on us.
34:39You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com.
34:43You can also find our webpage at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
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