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00:00Thank you so much for watching.
00:30Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:33Now, I saw recently that a vote was taken to find, to discover, the nation's favourite piece of artwork.
00:41And all sorts of people, of course, bubble to the top, people like Constable and Turner and Lowry.
00:46But the nation actually settled on Banksy's Balloon Girl.
00:50Balloon Girl.
00:51And I kind of think, well, what would my favourite artwork be?
00:55But, of course, it depends on the mood, the time of day, all sorts of things.
00:58So I'm going to go off-piste, if I may, if you'll allow me.
01:01I went to a concert recently, and it was a Beethoven piece and some Schubert.
01:06And onto the podium strode a young man.
01:09He's 27 years old.
01:11And let me tell you, this guy is going to be a world beater.
01:14His name is Duncan Ward.
01:15You haven't even gone for an artist to artist.
01:17You've gone for an artist in the other sense of the word.
01:20I just think he's brilliant.
01:21Duncan Ward, he's going to be a huge, huge world star.
01:25He really is.
01:25Now, back to the original concept of artwork.
01:29What do you reckon?
01:30Oh, as a young artist, I really like it.
01:32I've got one picture up in my flat at the moment.
01:34It's by a guy called Jack Coulter.
01:36And he hears colours.
01:38They're kind of abstract and just beautiful, beautiful colours.
01:41And they just make me in a good mood when I see them.
01:43All right.
01:44Well done.
01:44Now, who's with us?
01:45Guess what, Rachel?
01:47Owen Jackson's back, wearing his number five sweater.
01:50As he would, wouldn't he?
01:52Now then, good luck to you today.
01:54But you've got to get past Jaisal Patel,
01:57a doctor in general practice in Stone in Buckinghamshire.
02:02Welcome.
02:02Welcome.
02:04A qualified scuba diver.
02:05Now, you were telling me that you dove off the barrier reef,
02:10the Great Barrier Reef, some ten years ago.
02:12What was it like?
02:13It was fantastic.
02:15We were on my medical elective about 10, 11 years ago.
02:18Decided to do the course a couple of days inshore
02:20and then a three-day boat trip out onto the reef.
02:23We did spend two nights, got our training and also did a night dive.
02:28Well, you're very welcome here, Jaisal.
02:30And Owen, too.
02:31Let's have a big round of applause for our two brave contestants.
02:39Susie's there.
02:39Of course she is.
02:41Life would not be the same without Susie.
02:43But for the last time, until we drag him back again,
02:46the great impressionist comedian John Coleshaw.
02:48Welcome back.
02:49Oh, thank you.
02:53You're off on your tour again, I suppose.
02:55Yes, that's right.
02:56The Great British take-off midway through now and a spontaneous and improvised show.
03:03Maybe in my little section later we can get some requested names from the audience
03:07and see what sort of spontaneous weave we can follow.
03:11Now, Owen, off we go.
03:14Number five, please, sir.
03:16I'd like to start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
03:18Thank you, Owen.
03:19Start today with C.
03:20And then a vowel.
03:23E.
03:25A consonant.
03:27R.
03:28And a vowel.
03:30I.
03:31A consonant.
03:33P.
03:34A vowel.
03:36A.
03:38A consonant.
03:40H.
03:42A vowel.
03:43O.
03:45And a final consonant, please.
03:48And a final R.
03:50And here's the countdown clock.
03:52iE.
03:54A Bengまで.
04:01Ame a.
04:05A consonant.
04:05A vowel.
04:08A님� CHmonk.
04:09Aucchm.
04:10Abands.
04:10Ahnlich.
04:10Aoust.
04:11A comet.
04:11A Libya.
04:11A kittens.
04:11Aultural.
04:11A soak.
04:12Aываем.
04:13A poetic.
04:13A unlock.
04:14A vector.
04:16A veterinary.
04:19Abres.
04:19Oh, it's an ace and a J cell just a five and that five chirp chirp yes sir poacher and a poacher
04:34poacher seven though oh and oh fair enough I'm sorry I'd love it's really bad works perfectly
04:41for jace that law I might tell you so J cell the beneficiary of that particular little slip
04:47and it's your letters game good afternoon Rachel I'll start with the consonant please thank you
04:52start with P a vowel a a consonant R a vowel I a consonant B a vowel a consonant D
05:16a vowel I and a consonant please and lastly H
05:24stand by
05:25so
05:33J cell six a six and Owen um I'll risk a six so
05:38J cell six a six and Owen um I'll risk a six so J cell pariah and Owen air pad and I'll
05:45J cell six a six and Owen um I'll risk a six so J cell pariah and Owen air pad um oh and you're not
06:10having much luck today it is in but there's two words rather than one sorry bad luck John
06:16Susie yes another uh six looks like diaper at first glance but it's not is it no it's
06:23diaper so it's ir at the end air rather than er and it's a term from geology for a domed
06:28rock formation in which a core of rock has moved upward and it sort of pierces the overlying
06:33structures look forward to finding one of those eleven points to J cell only yet to score now then
06:40maybe it'll be the numbers game Owen I'll gamble with a six small please thank you Owen gambles to
06:47start off with six little ones and the first numbers game of the day is eight ten one seven nine five and
06:56the target eight hundred and seventy four eight seven four
07:01so
07:06so
07:09so
07:13so
07:18Oh, I have one away.
07:36Eight, seven, three.
07:36I'm not fully written down.
07:37Eight, seven, three.
07:39And what about JSL?
07:42Too far away.
07:42Too far?
07:43Yes.
07:44Try it out then, Owen.
07:46OK.
07:46Slowly.
07:47So, I have eight plus one is nine.
07:50Eight plus one is nine.
07:53By ten.
07:55Ninety.
07:57Yeah.
07:59Plus seven.
08:00Plus seven, 97.
08:02And then multiply that by nine.
08:04And multiply that by the nine that you haven't used is eight, seven, three.
08:10One away.
08:10OK.
08:11Well done.
08:13A bit breathless there.
08:14So, how difficult is that, Rachel?
08:16Eight, seven, four?
08:18Took me the whole time.
08:19If you say seven plus five is 12.
08:23Times it by nine, you get 108.
08:26Times that by eight, you get 864.
08:29And then add on the ten, just about get there.
08:31That's the way.
08:32Well done.
08:35Now it's time to turn to our first Tea Time teaser, which is Len admits.
08:39And the clue.
08:40Len admits that it's time to put the gazebo away for the winter.
08:44Len admits that it's time to put the gazebo away for the winter.
08:48Welcome back.
09:04I left you with a clue.
09:05Len admits that it's time to put the gazebo away for the winter.
09:09It's time to dismantle it.
09:14Dismantle.
09:15Now, J-Cell on 11, Owen on 7, and it's J-Cell's letters game.
09:20Good luck.
09:21I'll start with the continent, please, Rachel.
09:22Thank you, J-Cell.
09:24W.
09:24And a vowel.
09:25E.
09:27And a consonant.
09:29L.
09:31And a vowel.
09:33U.
09:34And a consonant.
09:36N.
09:37And a vowel.
09:39E.
09:40And a consonant.
09:42D.
09:44And a vowel.
09:47O.
09:48And a final consonant, please.
09:50And a final G.
09:52Stand by.
09:55D.
09:56Cheers, Al.
10:26Sorry, I lost it there.
10:29No?
10:29Nothing.
10:30I got a six.
10:31A six, and it would be?
10:33Glowed.
10:34Glowed.
10:37Tricky?
10:38John?
10:39Yes, it's quite a tricky line-up there.
10:41Lounged was there for a seven.
10:44That's great.
10:45Lounged, but nothing much more than that, really.
10:47That's about it.
10:48No, there wasn't, but we like lounging.
10:50Yeah.
10:52Eleven plays Owen's 13 now,
10:54and it's Owen's letters game now.
10:57I'll start off with a consonant, please.
10:59Thank you, Owen.
11:00R.
11:02And a vowel?
11:04A.
11:05A consonant?
11:07T.
11:09A vowel?
11:11E.
11:12A consonant?
11:15V.
11:16A vowel?
11:17O.
11:18A consonant?
11:21R.
11:21A vowel?
11:25E.
11:26And a final consonant?
11:29And final T.
11:32And the clock starts now.
11:33A vowel?
11:34A vowel?
11:35A vowel?
11:35A vowel?
11:35A vowel?
11:36A vowel?
11:36A vowel?
11:36A vowel?
11:37A vowel?
11:37A vowel?
11:37A vowel?
11:38A vowel?
11:38A vowel?
11:38A vowel?
11:39A vowel?
11:39A vowel?
11:39A vowel?
11:39A vowel?
11:40A vowel?
11:40A vowel?
11:40A vowel?
11:41A vowel?
11:41A vowel?
11:41A vowel?
11:42A vowel?
11:42A vowel?
11:43A vowel?
11:43A vowel?
11:43A vowel?
11:44A vowel?
11:44A vowel?
11:45A vowel?
11:46A vowel?
11:46A vowel?
11:47A vowel?
11:47A vowel?
11:48A vowel?
11:48A vowel?
11:49A vowel?
11:50A vowel?
11:51A vowel?
11:52Owen.
12:06I think I'm going to stick with a seven here.
12:08A seven, and Jaisal?
12:10Six.
12:10A six, you're six.
12:12Revert.
12:13Revert, and?
12:14Overeat.
12:15Yep, very good.
12:16Overeat, why not?
12:18And John?
12:19Well, in this wonderful way that Susie rattles out these amazing words.
12:25What was your word again?
12:27Overeat.
12:27Overeat, yeah.
12:28That sort of opens up a key, if you like, to overrate at eight.
12:32Yes.
12:33But play with that a little bit more, and we have overtreat for a nine.
12:39Oh, brilliant.
12:40Well done.
12:43Overeat.
12:4720 plays 11, and Jaisal, numbers game.
12:52I'm going to gamble with four large, please.
12:54Thank you for the other in gambling.
12:56Four big ones, two little ones this time, and they are nine and five, and then your four
13:02bigs, 50, 75, 100, and 25, and the target, 863.
13:10863.
13:41Wow.
13:44Jaisal?
13:45Um, I think 863, not fully written down.
13:48All right.
13:49What does Owen think?
13:50I'm going to try 864, also not fully written down.
13:54All right.
13:55Well, look, I think we're going to go to Jaisal first.
13:5850 plus 25 is 75.
14:0050 plus 25, 75.
14:02Divide by 75 is 1.
14:04Yeah.
14:05Yeah.
14:06100 minus the 1 and the 5.
14:09900 minus the 1 and the 5, 94.
14:12I think I've done it wrong.
14:13Times by 9 would be 864, wouldn't it?
14:15Um, uh, 846.
14:18Oh, no, that could be wrong.
14:19I'm afraid.
14:21Oh, lucky.
14:21We turn now to Owen.
14:23Now then, Owen.
14:24What did you declare?
14:25Uh, 864.
14:27Yeah.
14:27Off you go.
14:28Okay.
14:28So it was, uh, 25 plus 50 is 75.
14:3275.
14:34Then divide that by the real 75 for a 1.
14:37Yep.
14:38Um, 5 minus that 1 is a 4.
14:41Yep.
14:415 minus the 1 is the 4.
14:43And then 100 take off 4.
14:4696.
14:47And multiply it by the 9.
14:48Yes.
14:49And that's reversed.
14:50It's 8, 6, 4, 1 away.
14:52Pretty good.
14:53Is it possible, Rachel?
14:56Um, possibly.
14:57Leave it with me.
14:57I will do.
14:58But that's a, that's a very, that's a very, uh, clever business there, Owen.
15:02So, should we go to John Calshall?
15:05May we?
15:06Yes, indeed.
15:07What have you got for us, John?
15:08I love watching the way you work things out, Owen.
15:09It reminds me of, uh, the final moments of a movie and a genius is at the computer.
15:13And they do something and all of a sudden the universe is saved.
15:16It's that kind of thing.
15:18Um, very often I do get asked who are my favourite characters to impersonate.
15:23And it can change, like, stocks and shares.
15:26It depends what sort of mood you're in.
15:28You know, Paul O'Grady's great for putting you in a very chirpy mood.
15:31Just straight away like that.
15:32So quick, so rat-a-tat, so conversational like that.
15:35When, here in a panel setting like this, I suppose, uh, Ian Hislop, uh, comes to mind.
15:41And you get that quizzical sort of sense.
15:43And the way that he moves his head this rapid sort of fashion as he works out, uh, the latest news.
15:49That's quite interesting.
15:50But, uh, I think a long, old-term favourite, um, one of the Dead Ringers-style phone calls that, uh, I remember doing a few years ago was the Jamaican-American singer Shaggy, uh, wrapping his shopping list to, um, a, uh, a well-known department store.
16:07And it's etched on my memory.
16:09And the words always cheer me up.
16:12And it goes a little bit like, um, I'll have a deluxe toilet seat for me mother.
16:15Adjustable spammers that for me brother.
16:17A pair of size ten.
16:18Rupert Beper pajamas.
16:20I'll have a lawn mower because I brought me father's eleven and a din because my head is splitting.
16:23Ten bowls of wool so I could do me knitting.
16:25I'll have a chef of cake and a package of me dodges.
16:27And the autobiography of Ginny Rogers.
16:29Um, well done.
16:33Very silly, but I like it.
16:37Fantastic.
16:38You are a treasure.
16:40So, Owen on 27, Jsell on 11, and it's Owen we turn to now.
16:45Yes, sir.
16:46Thanks, Nick.
16:47Um, I'll go for a consonant, please, Rachel.
16:48Thank you, Owen.
16:49R.
16:50And the vowel.
16:52O.
16:53And the consonant.
16:55N.
16:57Uh, vowel.
16:58U.
17:00And the consonant.
17:01V.
17:03A vowel.
17:04I.
17:06And the consonant.
17:07V.
17:09A vowel.
17:11E.
17:12And then one final consonant.
17:14And a final S.
17:17Stand by.
17:17And the consonant.
17:19And the consonant.
17:19And the consonant.
17:20And the consonant.
17:20And the consonant.
17:20And the consonant.
17:21And the consonant.
17:21And the consonant.
17:22And the consonant.
17:22And the consonant.
17:23And the consonant.
17:23And the consonant.
17:23And the consonant.
17:23And the consonant.
17:23And the consonant.
17:24And the consonant.
17:24And the consonant.
17:24And the consonant.
17:24And the consonant.
17:25And the consonant.
17:25And the consonant.
17:25And the consonant.
17:26And the consonant.
17:26And the consonant.
17:27And the consonant.
17:27And the consonant.
17:28And the consonant.
17:28And the consonant.
17:29And the consonant.
17:30And the consonant.
17:30And the consonant.
17:31And the consonant.
17:32And the consonant.
17:32And the consonant.
17:32And the consonant.
17:33And the consonant.
17:34And the consonant.
17:48Owen?
17:49It's a seven.
17:50It's a seven.
17:51J-Cell?
17:52Six.
17:52And the six is?
17:54Bruise.
17:55Bruise.
17:56Thank you, Owen.
17:57Bovines?
17:59Bovine is there as a noun, I'm pretty sure, as well as an adjective for cow.
18:03Can you put an S on the end, would you?
18:05Yeah, an animal of the cattle group, so buffaloes, bisonic, et cetera.
18:08Yeah, you definitely can put an S on.
18:11OK, thank you.
18:1334, please, 11, and J-Cell, let us go.
18:17I'll start with a consonant, please.
18:19Thank you, J-Cell.
18:20N.
18:21And a vowel?
18:23U.
18:24And a consonant?
18:27R.
18:28And a vowel?
18:30E.
18:31And a consonant?
18:33L.
18:34And a vowel?
18:36I.
18:38And a consonant?
18:40T.
18:41And a vowel?
18:43E.
18:44And a final consonant, please.
18:46And a final P.
18:49Done by.
18:49T.
18:57And a vowel?
18:57I.
18:59I.
18:59I.
19:00I.
19:00Yes, J-Sell.
19:22Seven.
19:23Seven and?
19:24Seven as well.
19:26J-Sell?
19:27Reptile.
19:28Reptile and?
19:29We're all reptiles here.
19:31Good man.
19:33And in the corner, John and Susie, a lovely eight, which Susie discovered, called, is that
19:38Perilune?
19:39Perilune, yes.
19:41You'd like this one, actually, John, because it's the point at which a spacecraft in lunar
19:44orbit is closest to the moon.
19:46Ah-ha, oh, right, yes, like perihelion.
19:49Perilune.
19:49Yes, the new, yes.
19:50In the perimeter.
19:51Well done.
19:52Yes.
19:5441 plays 18.
19:55And now, Owen, your numbers game.
19:57Thank you very much.
19:58I'll have two large numbers and four small, please.
20:01Thank you, Owen.
20:01Two large.
20:02Four little this time.
20:04And there you are.
20:05Ten.
20:06Four.
20:08Five.
20:09Eight.
20:09And the big ones, 50 and 75.
20:12And the target to reach, 834.
20:15Eight, three, four.
20:16Eight, three, four.
20:17Eight, three, four.
20:17Eight, four.
20:18Eight, four.
20:18Eight, four.
20:19Eight, four.
20:19Eight, four.
20:20Eight, four.
20:20Eight, four.
20:21Eight, four.
20:21Eight, four.
20:22Eight, four.
20:22Eight, four.
20:23Eight, four.
20:23Eight, four.
20:24Eight, four.
20:24Eight, four.
20:25Eight, four.
20:26Eight, four.
20:27Eight, four.
20:28Eight, four.
20:29Eight, four.
20:30Eight, four.
20:31Eight, four.
20:32Eight, four.
20:33Eight, four.
20:34Eight, four.
20:35Eight, four.
20:36Eight, four.
20:37Eight, four.
20:38Eight, four.
20:39Eight, four.
20:40Eight, four.
20:41Eight, four.
20:42Eight, four.
20:43Eight, four.
20:44Owen?
20:48Sorry, once again, I don't have it written down.
20:50It's one away, 833.
20:53And J-cell?
20:55836, not fully written down.
20:57836.
20:58So, Owen?
20:59OK, right.
21:01So what I did was 4 minus 5 plus 10.
21:05Oh, 5 minus 4 plus 10, sorry.
21:075 minus 4 plus 10.
21:075 minus 4 plus 10, 11.
21:10Yeah.
21:11Multiply that by the 75 for it.
21:1385.
21:13And out of the 8.
21:16833, one away.
21:20834, though, is really what we needed.
21:23Can you help us on this?
21:25Yes, with this one, if you say 75 plus 8 is 83.
21:30And then times it by 10 for 830.
21:33And just add the 4.
21:34834.
21:35Perfect.
21:36Perfect.
21:36Thank you, Rachel.
21:39As ever, 48 plays 18.
21:41And we go into our final tea time teaser, which is do each nut.
21:47And the clue.
21:48You do a rough total of each nut you can see.
21:51You do a rough total of each nut you can see.
21:55Welcome back.
22:12I left you with a clue.
22:13You do a rough total of each nut you can see.
22:16That would be a...
22:18Headcount.
22:19Headcount.
22:20So, 48 plays 18, only in the lead.
22:24And it's Jsell's Letters Game.
22:25Yes, sir.
22:26I'll start with a consonant, please.
22:27Thanks, Jsell.
22:28Start with Q.
22:30And another.
22:33T.
22:34And a vowel.
22:35A.
22:37And another vowel.
22:38Countdown.
22:59T.
23:00T.
23:15T.
23:17J-Sell.
23:32Seven.
23:33A seven.
23:34Owen?
23:35I've only a six.
23:36Which is?
23:37Trials.
23:39J-Sell.
23:40Taylors.
23:42Well spotted.
23:43Very good.
23:44Very good.
23:45What has the corner spotted for us, Susie?
23:47John?
23:48We had lariats for seven.
23:50Ropes used as lassoes or for tethering animals.
23:53Yeah.
23:53Lariats.
23:54And astral for six, if we wanted it.
23:57We'll take it.
23:58Of course we will.
23:59Astral.
23:59For you, certainly.
24:0148 plays 25.
24:03Now then, Owen, letters game.
24:05I'll kick off with a consonant, please, Rachel.
24:07Thank you, Owen.
24:08N.
24:09And the vowel?
24:11A.
24:11And the consonants?
24:14L.
24:16Vowel?
24:17I.
24:19A consonant?
24:21Y.
24:23Hmm.
24:23A vowel?
24:25E.
24:27And a consonant?
24:29R.
24:30A vowel?
24:33O.
24:34And a final consonant, please.
24:37And a final D.
24:40Stand by.
24:40A vowel?
24:50A vowel.
24:52A vowel.
24:53A vowel?
24:56Owen.
25:12A seven.
25:13J.S.L.?
25:14Just a six.
25:15And the six is?
25:16Nailed.
25:18Nailed.
25:19The seven is alienor.
25:22How would you spell that, Owen?
25:24Like alien from another planet and then O.R.?
25:27Yes, it's actually a legal term, not what you might think.
25:30It's an old-fashioned term for a grantor,
25:32so somebody who makes a grantor a conveyance.
25:36It's absolutely fine.
25:37I see.
25:38Anything else, John?
25:39Yes, an interesting little flow of words.
25:42I don't know why I want to say these.
25:44It's Giles Bradreth.
25:45It's just sort of, come to me, it seems appropriate.
25:48Aneroid.
25:49Lovely word for seven.
25:51Readily, another seven.
25:52And randily, another seven.
25:54There we are.
25:55What a display of words they are.
25:58Thank you very much.
26:01Thank you, Giles.
26:04Thank you, Giles.
26:05Now, Susie, your wonderful origins of words.
26:09What have you?
26:10Well, I'm going to look back to thunderous words and expressions,
26:14so words that go back to the idea of thunder,
26:17which is, of course, a very dramatic metaphor,
26:19so it's not surprising it's so productive in English.
26:21When we're astonished, for example, we are literally thunderstruck,
26:25because the word astonished comes from the Latin ex meaning out,
26:28and tonare, which was to thunder.
26:31And when astonished was first used many centuries ago,
26:34it described somebody who was stunned as if by a blow,
26:38almost in a trance.
26:39And it could be a good thing as well as a bad one.
26:42And in Swedish, we always love this.
26:44The word for thunder, forgive my accent, is tordun,
26:47and that literally means Thor's din,
26:49because he's making such a noise in the sky.
26:52And Thursday, of course, is literally Thor's day,
26:54dedicated to the Viking god.
26:57But I'll end with one of my favourite origins,
26:59and regular viewers will probably remember this one.
27:01To steal someone's thunder goes back to a very unsuccessful playwright
27:06called John Dennis, who in 1704 put on a play,
27:09had a very short run.
27:10It was his own play that he'd written.
27:12And he was still good enough to go and see the performance,
27:16if you like, that replaced him, and that was Macbeth.
27:18He saw the production company.
27:20He sat in the audience, and then he saw
27:22that the thunder-making machine that he himself had invented
27:25for his own play, which was a sort of metal dish,
27:28or a wooden dish with metal balls rolling around,
27:30had been pinched by this company,
27:32and was being used by them.
27:34And allegedly, he stood up in the audience and said,
27:36damn them, they will not let my play run,
27:37but they steal my thunder.
27:39So, really literal origin for stealing someone's thunder,
27:42which I love.
27:42That's a great line.
27:45It's a great line.
27:49Thank you, Susie.
27:50Perfect as ever.
27:51So, 55 plays, 25, and J-Sell, your letters game.
27:57Start with a consonant, please.
27:58Thank you, J-Sell.
27:59S.
28:00And a vowel.
28:02U.
28:03And a consonant.
28:05T.
28:06And a vowel.
28:08E.
28:09And a consonant.
28:11G.
28:13And a vowel.
28:14A.
28:15And a consonant.
28:18M.
28:19And a vowel.
28:22I.
28:24And a final consonant, please.
28:26And a final J.
28:28And the clock starts now.
28:32J-Sell.
28:47J-Sell.
29:01Six.
29:02A six.
29:03Owen.
29:03A seven.
29:05J-Sell.
29:06Images.
29:07Images and?
29:08A game-iest.
29:09A game-iest.
29:10Yes.
29:13One of our favourite superlatives on the show.
29:15We couldn't come up with anything better.
29:16No, that was all that showed up in that round.
29:18That was it?
29:19Yeah, that was it.
29:19Moving on, then.
29:20Here we go.
29:2162, please.
29:2225 to Owen for the final letters game.
29:25Thanks so much, Nick.
29:27Rachel, if I could start with a consonant, please.
29:29Thank you, Owen.
29:30S.
29:31And then a vowel.
29:33A.
29:34A consonant.
29:36M.
29:37And a vowel.
29:39U.
29:40A consonant.
29:42S.
29:43A vowel.
29:45E.
29:47A consonant.
29:48P.
29:50A vowel.
29:53A.
29:54And final consonant, please.
29:56And a final S.
29:59Countdown.
30:00A vowel.
30:01A vowel.
30:01A vowel.
30:02A vowel.
30:02A vowel.
30:03A vowel.
30:03A vowel.
30:03A vowel.
30:03A vowel.
30:03A vowel.
30:04A vowel.
30:04A vowel.
30:04A vowel.
30:05A vowel.
30:05A vowel.
30:05A vowel.
30:05A vowel.
30:06A vowel.
30:06A vowel.
30:06A vowel.
30:06A vowel.
30:06A vowel.
30:06A vowel.
30:07A vowel.
30:07A vowel.
30:07A vowel.
30:08A vowel.
30:08A vowel.
30:09A vowel.
30:10A vowel.
30:10A vowel.
30:11A vowel.
30:11A vowel.
30:12A vowel.
30:13A vowel.
30:13A vowel.
30:14A vowel.
30:15A vowel.
30:15A vowel.
30:16A vowel.
30:17A vowel.
30:18Owen?
30:32I have a seven there.
30:33A seven?
30:34Yeah.
30:35Jaisal?
30:35Seven as well.
30:37Owen?
30:37Assumes.
30:39And?
30:39Assumes.
30:41Well done.
30:43Well done.
30:44Did we get a seven?
30:46Susie?
30:47John?
30:48Yes.
30:49What was it?
30:50Yes.
30:51News just in amasses.
30:54Amasses.
30:56Yes.
30:56He amasses a fortune every day.
30:59That would be nice.
31:01All right.
31:0169 to 32.
31:03In we go.
31:04Jaisal, final numbers game.
31:06One large and five small, please, Rachel.
31:08Thank you, Jaisal.
31:09Potentially keeping it simple, we shall see.
31:11One large, five little, for the final one of the day.
31:13And they are seven, two, eight, four.
31:18Three.
31:19And the big one, 75.
31:21And this target, 146.
31:24One, four, six.
31:25One large.
31:26One large.
31:31One large.
31:36Thanks.
31:36Three.
31:36Two.
31:36Yes, J-Sell.
31:571-4-6.
31:58No surprises here.
31:59J-Sell.
32:0275 times 2.
32:031-50.
32:04And minus the 4.
32:05Nice and straight.
32:06And we'll not quibble about that.
32:08All right.
32:09So, Owen on 79.
32:10J-Sell, 42, as we go into the final round, which is conundrum time.
32:15Gentlemen, fingers on buzzers.
32:16Let's reveal today's countdown conundrum.
32:24Who is that, J-Sell?
32:26Billowing?
32:28Billowing.
32:28Is it billowing, I wonder?
32:30I can see Owen nodding.
32:33Yes.
32:34Well done.
32:36Well done.
32:37Well done.
32:39Stop going.
32:41A good game.
32:42Well done.
32:44So, um, Owen continues his tramp towards Octo Champton.
32:50Very good indeed.
32:51I'll come back to you in a second.
32:52But, J-Sell, thanks for coming.
32:5352.
32:54Not bad.
32:55Not bad at all.
32:56So, take this back to Stone, your goodie bag.
33:00And tell me this.
33:01It's time for our flu jabs.
33:03If you haven't ever had a flu jab, is it a good time to get one?
33:06Is it a good thing to get one?
33:07Absolutely.
33:08If you're eligible for one, please go and have one.
33:10And what about the pneumonia jab?
33:13Different set of rules, but also needed as well.
33:15Thank you for that advice.
33:16I'll be straight round first thing tomorrow.
33:19Well done.
33:20Well done.
33:21Congratulations.
33:22Number six tomorrow.
33:24Tell me this.
33:24I met your nephew, I think, in the audience.
33:27He's come all the way from County Waterford, I guess.
33:29And he says that you've got a special language that very few people understand.
33:34It's called LAMPF.
33:35Yeah.
33:36Tell me what it's like to be in the Countdown studio in LAMPF.
33:40And no codding around either.
33:42See it alone in Barbudic here in two.
33:45I'm having a great time here.
33:47Is there a bit of Irish in there somewhere?
33:49A bit of everything.
33:50It's a bit made up.
33:51Is it?
33:52Hogwash.
33:52Gobbley gook.
33:53Well done, indeed.
33:54Congratulations.
33:55John, you're leaving us.
33:57And a bigly cofefe video, too.
33:59That's all.
34:02You come back soon.
34:04And great good luck with the tour as well.
34:06Oh, thank you very much.
34:07I'm sure it's hilarious.
34:09Thank you very much.
34:10Hope to see you all very soon.
34:11Well, I hope so, too.
34:12In fact, we're counting on it.
34:13Susie, we'll see you tomorrow.
34:14See you then.
34:15See you tomorrow.
34:16Yeah.
34:16Rachel, who's coming tomorrow?
34:17Well, instead of ten guests in one, we've got Dr. Phil tomorrow.
34:20So, just the one, he'll do.
34:22Exactly.
34:22Listen, we'll see you tomorrow.
34:24See you then.
34:24Brilliant stuff.
34:25Join us then.
34:26Phil Hammond.
34:27Dr. Phil will be here.
34:28Same time, same place.
34:29You be sure of it.
34:30A very good afternoon.
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