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00:30Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown this Friday afternoon.
00:34We are up for the cup again.
00:3615 rounds of letters and numbers before we head into a massive weekend,
00:41of course, with the Euros final coming up on Sunday.
00:44Hi, Rachel. Hi, Colin.
00:45What's the biggest sporting event you've ever been at?
00:48Oh, I don't like to talk about it.
00:50But I did go to the Champions League final at Wembley when we lost to Barcelona.
00:55Oh.
00:55But, I mean, I got to see Messi play, my beloved Man United.
00:59Still, though.
01:00Yeah, I mean, you don't remember the ones that you lose,
01:03but just going to Wembley and, again, it's just being with your family, isn't it?
01:07Being with all those people supporting the same team as you.
01:10It's great.
01:10You're absolutely right.
01:12I always say that.
01:13I say, you know, what's the best thing about the team you support?
01:16Actually, it's my mates.
01:17Yeah.
01:18It's that feeling of, like, you go through life together.
01:21Yeah, it's the community, it's the songs, it's the environment,
01:24the atmosphere, it's all of it together.
01:26All right, well, listen, let's get over to Dictionary Corner, Rachel.
01:29I'm guessing doing something else on Sunday is our G of the D, Susie Dent.
01:34I'm finishing up her first stint with me in Dictionary Corner,
01:36but our regular, of course, is Myling Klaas.
01:38And our champion, well, 108 on his debut win this week.
01:46He followed it up yesterday with a 118.
01:48John Stitcher, is there a little bit of nerves today?
01:51Because you were on countdown way back in the day and you had three wins.
01:55Yeah.
01:55Oh, yeah, so I suppose this would equal that.
01:58The night before my first game, I was very nervous and struggled to sleep.
02:02But I've kind of calmed down a bit now and relaxed a bit.
02:05Everyone's been so nice, it's helped.
02:06So I think the nerves are starting to go,
02:08but obviously it would be nice to emulate what I did 20 years ago.
02:11I think you'd actually have to beat it, to be fair.
02:13You know, he's all that more experience.
02:15I mention this for a reason, you're a huge Red Dwarf fan
02:18and their fan base is absolutely obsessive.
02:23Yeah, I'm not of the obsessive type, but it's kind of a comfort show for me.
02:26So, you know, if ever I just want to watch something that's easy that I've seen many times before
02:30and still makes me laugh, I'll put Red Dwarf on.
02:32Look, I got to see an episode film live once a long time ago, which was really good.
02:37I had to mention it because even though you would point out it's spelt with a Y and not an I,
02:41you are up against Robin Lister.
02:43So that's why I mention it.
02:44Originally from Oxford, but living just round the corner.
02:46How are you, sir?
02:47Oh, very good.
02:48Had a lovely tram ride in.
02:50Nasty.
02:50Very, very easy indeed and saved us money in a hotel.
02:53So thank you very much.
02:54Good luck to you, Robin.
02:55Good luck to you, John.
02:56Let's have a good game today.
03:00And John, we are off to the races.
03:02Hi, Rachel.
03:03Can I start with a consonant, please?
03:04You can indeed start today with P.
03:07And another one, please.
03:10G.
03:11And another one.
03:13P.
03:14OK.
03:14And a vowel, please.
03:16A.
03:17A vowel.
03:18U.
03:19A vowel.
03:21O.
03:23Another vowel, please.
03:24I.
03:26I.
03:27Consonant.
03:29C.
03:31And another consonant, please.
03:33And a final P.
03:35At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
03:50MUSIC CONTINUES
04:08Not easy, John. Four.
04:11And Robin. Four. Four as well. Go ahead, John.
04:14A coup. And for you, Robin.
04:16Capo. Capo. Yep.
04:19Is that mafia? Well, it has got a meaning in...
04:23..as the head of a crime syndicate,
04:25but the one that Mylene will know, yeah,
04:27it's a clamp across a fretted musical instrument.
04:31I was going to throw that in with an extra P,
04:33but is that C-A-P-O as well? C-A-P-O, yeah.
04:36All right. OK, well, fours.
04:38What an underwhelming start to the programme.
04:40Can you raise the bar a little bit, Mylene?
04:42I can. I can take things to my favourite brew with cuppa.
04:46Oh, lovely. C-U-P-P-A. Yeah.
04:49That will give you five. Nice cuppa.
04:51All right, John and Robin at four points each.
04:55Rocky, start and Robin will get some more.
04:57Hi, Rachel. Hi, Robin.
04:59Could I have a consonant, please?
05:00You can indeed. Start with D.
05:03And another consonant. J.
05:06And a vowel. E.
05:09And another consonant. B.
05:13And a vowel. A.
05:16And a consonant. R.
05:21Another consonant. Q.
05:24And finally, a vowel, please. And finally, I.
05:31And 30 seconds.
05:33the vowel, please.
05:42And the vowel comes to a зал of
05:42Pss, because the vowel, I can snatch it out,
05:44and pill the word lures!
05:46And all to prove it,
05:52the vowel are inland.
05:54You know what?
05:56Then there are jlists.
05:58The vowel.
06:00Amazing apologize.
06:01All right, Robin.
06:05A seven, not written down.
06:06And John?
06:07I'll try a seven.
06:08What have you got?
06:09Braided. I've just realised I don't have the letters.
06:11Ah, you don't have two Ds, yeah.
06:13Unlucky, easy to do.
06:15John, what have you got?
06:16Rebraid?
06:18Oh.
06:18I thought you were going to say braider, which isn't...
06:20I wrote both down.
06:21But your is rebraid.
06:23OK.
06:23Neither, I'm afraid.
06:24Anything else in the dictionary corner?
06:26I've got a six for bard.
06:28Yeah, six is the best that we could do, actually.
06:30Jarred, another one.
06:31Mylene, you're way ahead of these two so far.
06:34Almost an unassailable lead.
06:36Right, let's get numbers for the first time today.
06:39John?
06:40A dare at risker, an impossible one, so we'll go for one large.
06:43One large, five little.
06:44Try and get the points scoring up.
06:47And the first numbers of the day.
06:49Five, nine, ten, two, seven and 75.
06:54And your target, 379.
06:58379. Numbers up.
06:59Mm-hmm.
07:00All right.
07:01Yeah, you're an algo Ebene.
07:05Yeah, you're a agile.
07:06Yeah, yeah.
07:16Yeah.
07:16Yeah.
07:17Yeah.
07:18Yeah, yeah.
07:18Yeah.
07:20Yeah.
07:203-7-9, the target, John?
07:32Yeah, 3-7-9.
07:33Oh, yes, and Robin?
07:34Same here.
07:35Look at this.
07:36Never rains, it pours.
07:37Off you go, John.
07:385 times 75 is 3-7-5.
07:41Yep.
07:41And then 9 minus 7 plus 2 is the 4.
07:44So I got it.
07:46One way to get there.
07:47And Robin?
07:48Same here.
07:48Yeah.
07:50Nice.
07:51Well done.
07:53All right, Friday afternoon on Countdown in time for your Tea Time teaser, which is Grain Cry.
08:00Grain Cry.
08:01She may not live here anymore, but I'm lumbered with all her baggage.
08:04She may not live here anymore, but I'm lumbered with all her baggage.
08:07MUSIC
08:07Welcome back.
08:24She may not live here anymore.
08:25That was a musical part of the clue, but I'm lumbered with all her baggage, carrying.
08:30And that's your mate, of course, Mylene Klaas, isn't it, Cliff Richard?
08:33There you go.
08:34My mate.
08:35Carrie doesn't live here anymore.
08:3814 points each in today's Countdown.
08:40Let's get back to a good start.
08:41Robin, off you go.
08:42Can I have a vowel, please?
08:44Thank you, Robin.
08:44O
08:45And a consonant.
08:48L
08:49And a consonant.
08:51S
08:52And a vowel.
08:56A
08:56And a consonant.
08:58M
09:00And a consonant.
09:02R
09:03And a vowel.
09:06YOU
09:07And a vowel.
09:10E.
09:11And another consonant, please.
09:13Lastly, N.
09:15Thanks, Rich.
09:40MUSIC
09:47Robin, how many? Six.
09:49And for you, John? Eight.
09:50Oh, he's weighed in with a heavy weight. Eight.
09:53What have you got, Robin? Molars.
09:54And what have you got? Numerals.
09:56Numerals. Yeah, yeah, numeral the other day.
09:59Well done. Eight, the best we could get?
10:02Yes, we just had one more.
10:03Susie's very polite. She says we, but it was Susie.
10:05Clean it. Take it.
10:08Almonders. Givers of alms. Lovely.
10:11First lead for champion today.
10:13Let's see if he can maintain it. It's your letters.
10:15Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:17Thank you, John. R.
10:18And another.
10:21M. And one more.
10:24S. Vowel, please.
10:26I. Vowel.
10:29E. Vowel.
10:31A. Consonant, please.
10:34N. Vowel, please.
10:38I.
10:39And another vowel, please.
10:43And final O.
10:45And half a minute.
10:47Even the other vowel, please.
10:48I.Vowel.
10:52A. Vowel.
10:55T. Arbeta is a word.
10:56A.Vowel.
10:57A.Vowel.
10:58A.Vowel.
10:59A.Vowel.
11:00A.Vowel.
11:01No time left, John.
11:19I think I've got an eight.
11:20Only thanks, Robin.
11:22Seven.
11:22OK, so let's have the seven.
11:24Remains.
11:25And then Suzy is going to be called into action here, John.
11:28Romanise.
11:29Romanise, yes, absolutely.
11:31So to Romanise is usually to, with a small r,
11:35is to put text into Roman type or the Roman alphabet.
11:38Very good indeed.
11:39Fantastic.
11:39What a great word to spot there.
11:41That's why he's your champion.
11:43Eight points there.
11:44Mylene, what can we throw in?
11:45There's also remains.
11:47Right.
11:48Yes, not remains, but romaines, as in the lettuces.
11:51Yeah.
11:51Yeah.
11:51All right, fantastic.
11:53Two eights as we get back to the numbers.
11:55But, Robin, you're choosing.
11:57So you can cause trouble if you want.
11:58Let's find out.
11:59All right, could I have three large, please?
12:01You can indeed.
12:02Three large, three little.
12:04A little bit of a gamble.
12:05Let's see what the cards throw up.
12:07The little ones.
12:08Three, six, two.
12:10And the big ones.
12:1125, 75 and 100.
12:14And the target, 651.
12:16Six, five, one.
12:17Numbers up.
12:18One, two.
12:29Two, three.
12:36Two, three.
12:42Two, three.
12:43And this time, Robyn?
12:50651.
12:51Well done. Nailed it, John.
12:53Yes, 651. Well done. Off you go, Robyn.
12:54OK, start with six times 100.
12:57600.
12:59Then add 75 and subtract 25.
13:02450.
13:04And then add three and subtract two.
13:07Yep. Well done, too. And, John?
13:09Exactly the same way.
13:11Excellent. Well done.
13:12APPLAUSE
13:15I'll ask Mylene then, our last chat of the week.
13:17We haven't actually talked about, I was going to say the bread and butter,
13:20but you do so many things, but Classic FM and...
13:24Just tell me a little bit about the...
13:27I suppose the dynamic of what you do there is a little bit different as well.
13:30So, I first listened to Classic FM when it came to air
13:35when I was about 15 years old, so I heard the first broadcast,
13:40which was Zadok the Priest, and I was so excited by it that there was finally a channel.
13:44Yeah.
13:45That was something that I had an affiliation with.
13:48And so the fact that I've now been broadcasting there for...
13:50Ooh!
13:51It's coming up to 18 years.
13:52Wow.
13:53It's just staggering.
13:55I can't believe it's been that long.
13:56I know.
13:57It really has.
13:58But what I love about it is that, you know, it's something that introduces, again,
14:02a new audience to it.
14:03But if you love that kind of music, it's a nice home for you as well.
14:07But I do a lot of music education, especially from the classical side of things,
14:10because I think a lot of people don't know how to get into it,
14:14so it can feel quite alienating.
14:15But if...
14:16Something like, for example, ba-ba-ba-ba...
14:19Everybody knows that riff, let's call it.
14:21But that was actually written by Beethoven when he was trying to emulate fate,
14:26knocking at the door.
14:27Da-da-da-da-da!
14:29So as soon as you give little tidbits like that,
14:31it feels a little bit more accessible.
14:33Liszt.
14:34Liszt was the original rock star.
14:35He had so much fan mail that he couldn't cut enough locks of his hair
14:41to send out to his fans.
14:43So he started cutting off locks of his dog.
14:45No.
14:46Yeah, sending it out.
14:47Yeah.
14:49Mozart, the very first music pirate,
14:52without him we wouldn't have Allegri's Miserere.
14:54He went to the Basilica, he went to Rome when he was 14 years old,
14:59walked in, nobody was allowed to write down music then,
15:02it was something that was held very closely by the church.
15:06He heard it once, went home, wrote down the entire thing from memory,
15:10went back just to make any corrections,
15:13and it's the only reason that we have Allegri's Miserere,
15:16the original musical pirate.
15:18Wow.
15:19But I think it's quite interesting to...
15:21We almost canonise these composers, and in so doing,
15:25we create quite a disservice to them, because they were human...
15:28Yeah.
15:29..and they were quirky, and they fell out of love,
15:33and they had scuffles, and some were loved by royalty and paid for them,
15:37like Handel, and some were real feminists, like Vivaldi.
15:41But everyone still takes from the granddaddy, and that's Bach.
15:45Yeah. Yeah, well, listen, we'll hopefully have you back in Dictionary Corner.
15:50Thank you so much for this story. Thank you.
15:52APPLAUSE
15:53Right, back to begin this Friday afternoon, 40-20.
15:59That's a long way to go. John, let's do it.
16:01Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, John.
16:04T. And another.
16:07H. And one more, please.
16:10L.
16:11L. And a vowel.
16:13U.
16:14Another vowel.
16:15O.
16:16And another vowel.
16:18A.
16:19And one more vowel, please.
16:22O.
16:23A consonant.
16:25T.
16:27And we'll finish with another consonant, please.
16:29Finish with M.
16:31And here we go again.
16:32THEM
16:54O.
16:56John.
17:03Just a five.
17:04Five for you and Robin.
17:06Five as well.
17:07Tricky rounds today.
17:08Off you go, John.
17:08A total.
17:09A total, yep.
17:10And for you, Robin.
17:11Tooth.
17:12And tooth.
17:13And total.
17:14You're using that out to get anything better.
17:16How did we get on?
17:17We didn't use the out.
17:18We did just scramble to a six, but it was very tough.
17:22Right.
17:22I'm not taking the credit.
17:23I had five with mouth.
17:25Yeah.
17:25You can stretch to a six with the word moolah, which is slang for money.
17:30Don't know where it comes from, but moolah.
17:32So, M-O-O-L-A-H.
17:34Rachel, can she not out math us?
17:36Don't look it up.
17:37Don't look it up.
17:38It's definitely not in there.
17:39I always let everything out.
17:40Not yet.
17:41No, I didn't think so.
17:42It'll happen.
17:43Well, she does it, whether it's in the dictionary or not.
17:45Let's stick to the letters for now.
17:47And you're choosing these, Robin.
17:49OK, can I start with the vowel, please?
17:51Thank you, Robin.
17:52A.
17:53And a consonant.
17:54W.
17:57And a consonant.
17:59S.
18:00And a vowel.
18:02E.
18:03And another vowel.
18:05O.
18:06And a consonant.
18:08H.
18:09And a consonant.
18:11D.
18:12And a consonant, please.
18:19And lastly, G.
18:21And start the clock.
18:22O.
18:37And a consonant.
18:40O.
18:40And a consonant.
18:42MUSIC PLAYS
18:52Robin Lister? I've got a six.
18:54And John Stitcher? Yeah, also a six.
18:57A six, Robin? Washed.
18:59Yeah, washed. And John? Showed.
19:01All right, dictionary corner.
19:02Hedges for six, but we have got a seven.
19:06Hogweed. Hogweed.
19:08A large white-flowered weed of the parsley family
19:12used as forage for pigs,
19:14and you can't put the S on it, sadly,
19:16because it's a mass now, but we'll give you a seven at least.
19:18You answered the question before we could ask it.
19:20We know each other so well.
19:21So if you did put the S on that at home, no points for you,
19:24but if you didn't, there you go.
19:25Big seven. 51.35, just to 16 points in it.
19:30Numbers now, John? One large, please.
19:32Thank you, John. You want something easy?
19:35Robin needs a challenge. Let's see what we get.
19:37The little numbers.
19:38Eight, seven, three, nine.
19:42And two on the large one, 25.
19:44And the target to reach 617.
19:47Six, one, seven. Numbers up.
19:49Two, seven, six, one.
19:52Two, seven, seven.
19:53Two, seven, seven.
19:55One, six.
19:58There we go.
19:59Three, seven, seven.
20:04Three, eight.
20:05Three, eight.
20:06Three, eight.
20:07Five, four.
20:08Two, five.
20:09Five, five.
20:09One, ten, seven.
20:11Four, five, two.
20:11Two, five, six.
20:12Two, five.
20:12One, ten.
20:14Tap, ten, seven, six.
20:14Come, go.
20:15617 with just the 25, John?
20:23Yeah, but it's written down very badly.
20:25OK, I'll call that not written down, then, if it's very badly.
20:28One of your squiggles, a John Stitcher squiggle.
20:31617, Robin?
20:32I've got 618.
20:33One away. All right, squiggler.
20:35OK. Nine threes are 27.
20:37Nine threes, 27.
20:39Take away the two for 25.
20:41And then multiply that by the other 25,
20:42because you're 625, and take away the eight.
20:44617, well done.
20:46Ah.
20:49Your squiggle made sense.
20:51Well done.
20:51Big ten points there as we head into our last break of the week
20:54with Moth Play.
20:56Moth Play.
20:58Lots of knowledge about the parrot and arithmetic.
21:01Lots of knowledge about the parrot and arithmetic.
21:03MUSIC
21:03Hello, again.
21:20Lots of knowledge about the parrot and arithmetic.
21:23That's Polly and math.
21:24Polly math was our last tea time teaser.
21:26All right.
21:27Eyes down for final six rounds of the week.
21:2961 plays 35.
21:31Certainly not over yet.
21:32So, Robin, do not give up hope, and let's get nine letters.
21:35All right.
21:35Can I start with a consonant, please?
21:37Thank you, Robin.
21:38N.
21:39And a vowel.
21:40I.
21:41And a consonant.
21:44C.
21:45And another consonant.
21:47G.
21:48And a vowel.
21:50E.
21:51And a consonant.
21:53T.
21:55And a consonant.
21:57N.
21:59And a vowel.
22:01I.
22:02And a consonant, please.
22:04And lastly, S.
22:06And good luck.
22:37Robin?
22:39I'm going to go for a seven.
22:41Seven, and John...
22:42I'll stick with an eight, then.
22:43You're going to go with an eight?
22:44I know what the nine is you have written down.
22:47Robin, the seven?
22:49Tensing.
22:50Tensing.
22:51And John, the eight?
22:52Well, the eight was as enticing as the nine would have been.
22:55Oh, yeah, that's what I have.
22:57Enticing's putting the S on the end.
22:58So would it have counted?
22:59No, you can't put the S on.
23:01It's a brilliant eight, but not there is a noun.
23:03So eight as good as it gets?
23:04It was.
23:05Well, there you go.
23:06It's those little decisions.
23:08And John, you're picking these letters.
23:09A consonant, please, Rachel.
23:10Thank you, John.
23:11L.
23:11And another.
23:14N.
23:14And one more, please.
23:17S.
23:17And a vowel.
23:19E.
23:20Another vowel.
23:21I.
23:22And another vowel, please.
23:23E.
23:24A.
23:25And a consonant.
23:26Z.
23:27And another consonant.
23:29G.
23:31And a vowel to finish, please.
23:33And lastly, A.
23:35Let's play.
23:36B.
23:38O.
23:39O.
23:40O.
23:43O.
23:45O.
23:51O.
23:52O.
23:59Now, then, John.
24:08Eight.
24:09And for Robin.
24:10Eight as well.
24:11And eight as well.
24:11Well done, John.
24:12Sleazing.
24:13Sleazing.
24:14And Robin.
24:15We're at the same here.
24:16Pass that over to John.
24:18Yeah, fine.
24:18It's a horrible word, sleazing, isn't it?
24:22But there is a nine hiding there.
24:24You did have a mischievous face when that clock was ticking.
24:27Yes.
24:28I can't take the credit because I've got eight.
24:29Angel eyes.
24:31Well, angel eyes is, yes, to treat someone like an angel,
24:36to sort of idolise them.
24:40Susie, origin, so what has lasted the week?
24:42Who sent the email today?
24:44Yes, it's a lovely one to finish off with,
24:46an email from Ray Hall in Nuneaton,
24:48who asks for the origin of porridge,
24:50both in terms of breakfast food and a prison sentence.
24:54So I'll start with the food, the really popular food
24:57that most of us love.
24:59Anyway, I know you love your porridge, don't you?
25:01Love a porridge.
25:02Oh, a bit of jam, a bit of peanut butter.
25:04I don't know if you would have liked it in its original state
25:07because it was a soup, originally,
25:09but it was thickened with barley.
25:10I think that sounds quite delicious.
25:12So it's a 16th-century version of pottage that you will find.
25:17Pottage and potage, they often come up on Countdown.
25:21They're all related.
25:22And the French potage, it means a soup these days,
25:24but it's literally something put into a pot.
25:27When we talk about something that is just potluck,
25:31taking potluck,
25:32the idea is that you'll just go with whatever is thrown into the pot that day,
25:35something kind of quite random.
25:36So the porridge that we know today and that has become quite trendy,
25:40which is the oats, boiled in water or milk,
25:42that's mentioned in the 1640s.
25:45So it's still pretty old.
25:46I think most of us would associate it with Scotland.
25:49Now, go on to the prison sense.
25:51That dates only from the 1950s.
25:54And it probably derives either from porridge being a typical prison food
25:59or from another meaning of stir,
26:03not just as in how we stir the porridge,
26:05but it was also a slang term for a prison.
26:08And that may come from a Roma word,
26:11a word of the Romani people,
26:12stirbin, which meant a jail.
26:15And, of course,
26:16we have the wonderful BBC comedy series Porridge in the 1970s
26:21with Ronnie Barker as Fletcher, if you remember.
26:26And he was this kind of kind-hearted, slightly cynical convict,
26:30but it was called Porridge because they were doing porridge,
26:32they were doing thyme.
26:33But we think it may go back to that idea of the stir.
26:36And while we're on breakfast food,
26:38just to say I was asked the other day about a rasher of bacon.
26:41Why do we call it a rasher?
26:42Which is a really good question.
26:43And I'm here to say we really don't know,
26:46we're not completely sure,
26:47but there is a very old sense of rash,
26:50meaning to cut, which would make absolute sense.
26:54But an early lexicographer in 1627
26:57described a rasher as a piece that was rashly or hastily roasted.
27:02But does it not just look like a rash?
27:05No, it's got anything to do with a rash on the body.
27:08Well, you obviously don't know,
27:10because you said it's a mystery.
27:11Maybe we're solving it right here and now.
27:13Maybe, I don't think anyone's ever gone there.
27:16That's great, love that.
27:18Right, thank you to Ray and thank you to Susie.
27:19Yeah, thank you.
27:23Four rounds to go, 77, 43.
27:25Robin, you need a big round here.
27:27Your letters.
27:28All right, could I start with a consonant, please?
27:30Thank you, Robin.
27:31R and a vowel.
27:33E and a consonant.
27:37T and a vowel.
27:40O and a consonant.
27:43S and another consonant.
27:46M and a vowel.
27:48V and finally a vowel, please.
27:58Finally, A.
27:59Kind time.
28:00All right.
28:16All right.
28:18All right, Robin. I've got a seven. A seven for you. And John? Got an eight.
28:35Robin, the seven. Moisture. Which is great. And John? Atomiser. Atomiser.
28:41Very good indeed. Nice.
28:41A trio of eights. As we get our last letters, John. A consonant, please. Thank you, John.
28:57T. And another. S. And one more, please.
29:02T. And a vowel. U. Another vowel. E. And one more vowel, please.
29:09S. U. A consonant.
29:13P. Consonant. N.
29:18I'll finish with a vowel, please. And finish with E.
29:22And last letters.
29:23P. Consonant. NHAN
29:38I'm going to try a seven.
29:55I've got a five.
29:56Five. Like most of us. What's your word, Robin?
29:59Turns.
30:00Not sure about a seven.
30:01It's probably not there, but I'm going to try it.
30:03Unsteep.
30:06Unsteep is not there.
30:08Yeah, I'm afraid.
30:09I'm not at all, sorry.
30:10Turns.
30:11We have an R.
30:12Oh, I'm sorry.
30:13Didn't fancy your seven there, even though you're such a good chump,
30:16but I didn't fancy that at all.
30:18I'll go further and say there's not a seven there,
30:20but maybe Mylene and Susie will surprise the nation.
30:22We have putties.
30:24Long strips of cloth wound around the leg from ankle to the knee
30:28for protection and support.
30:29So it's a bit of a legging thing going on.
30:31Look at that.
30:32Fantastic. Well done.
30:33Thank you very much.
30:34At 85.43, last numbers of the week.
30:39Robin, go for your life.
30:40Can I have two large, please?
30:42You can indeed.
30:43Two large, four little final numbers of the week.
30:46This last selection is...
30:48Five, six, three, eight, 125, and the final target, 484.
30:57Four, eight, four, last numbers.
30:59And we'll be right back to you.
31:08We'll be right back to you.
31:09We'll be right back to you.
31:12All right, 4-8-4, Robyn Lister.
31:33I've got 4-8-3.
31:344-8-3, just the one away, John Stetcher.
31:36Also 4-8-3, but not written down.
31:38All right, you go first, then, champ.
31:40I think I may have forgotten what I've done, but I'll have a go.
31:426-1 is 5.
31:446-1, 5.
31:45Multiply that by 100, it's 500.
31:48Yep.
31:49Minus the 25 and plus the 8.
31:51Minus 25 and add the 8.
31:54Yeah.
31:554-8-3.
31:56All done.
31:56Yeah, John.
31:58Yeah.
31:58Good stuff.
32:01And a 7 point each.
32:04How do we get one closer?
32:05Well, loads of dead ends, but eventually I found 6 divided by 3 is 2,
32:10times 8 is 16, 25 minus 1 is 24, times those together for 384 and add on the 100 for 4-8-4.
32:20I needed 30 days, Rachel, to get that, let alone 30 seconds.
32:2892.50.
32:29Could John make it three centuries on the bounce after such a slow start?
32:34My goodness me.
32:35Let's see if you can stop him, Robin.
32:36You've already got the half century up, which is brilliant.
32:39Let's see if you can add 10 as we reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:13John at the death.
33:15Sand Creek.
33:18Absolutely not.
33:21I think you have 0.1 of a second at Robin.
33:25Yeah, no good.
33:26No good whatsoever.
33:28Susie's got the pen in the air.
33:30Slackened.
33:31Slackened, which is basically what John and Robin just did.
33:34Let's have a look.
33:34APPLAUSE
33:36Very good.
33:39So, not to be 92, no hat-trick of centuries for a champion, John.
33:44Robin, I thought you did quite well.
33:45Are you happy enough?
33:46Very happy.
33:47Have a happy tram journey home.
33:50And for you, John, you've matched what you did all those years ago.
33:54Who was presenting back then?
33:55It was Richard Whiteley.
33:56It was that long ago.
33:57Wow, my goodness.
33:57One of his last few series.
33:59Ah, wonderful.
34:00Wonderful.
34:01Probably back into the history of Countdown.
34:03We'll see you on Monday.
34:04OK.
34:04See you on Monday.
34:05At Mylan, keep banging the drum and telling the stories about the music you love.
34:08That was great to have that chat today.
34:10Thanks for being here.
34:10Thank you for having me.
34:11And Susie, behave yourself.
34:13I know what you're like when the football's on.
34:14I know.
34:15I'll be there.
34:16Be back here.
34:17Yeah.
34:17Enjoy your weekend, Rachel.
34:19You too.
34:19Lovely.
34:20And everybody, enjoy your weekend.
34:22Euro's final on Sunday.
34:23We're back on Monday.
34:24Chris McCausland is in Dictionary Corner once again.
34:27We'll be waiting for you.
34:28You can count on us.
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