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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:04APPLAUSE
00:31Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown this Wednesday afternoon.
00:34Whatever your day's like, let's banish the midweek blues
00:37and just enjoy each other's company for the next 50 minutes or so.
00:40And over there, for your eyes only,
00:42licensed to thrill us with her lethal mathematical ability,
00:46it's Rachel Riley. Hi, Rachel.
00:48Don't cross me, Colin. I never would and never have!
00:51It's a strange thing to make a Bond reference
00:54and it's a really weird anniversary.
00:56No Time To Die, the last Bond movie,
00:58they held it back and held it back, so it was a big moment, wasn't it,
01:01when it went into the cinema after all the lockdowns?
01:03It's a year ago today. Where did that go?
01:06I don't know. I don't really mark my diary by Bond films.
01:09Am I the only one, or is everyone with me?
01:12I mark everything I do by Bond films.
01:15I am a huge fan, but even if you're not, of course,
01:18you get involved in the conversation about who should be the next James Bond.
01:22They're not even going to start filming the next one
01:24until the end of next year, so it's going to be ages until they announce it.
01:27There has been that rumour that they're going to have to be under 40
01:30and over 5 foot 10, which ruins a lot of people out,
01:34but regardless of that, who would you have?
01:36That's us gone, Colin.
01:38Take our hats back out of the ring.
01:40I did message Barbara Brockley and say,
01:42well, I'm out, that's ageist.
01:44Who would you have if it was a free choice?
01:46I mean, I'm not the biggest Bond fan,
01:48so I feel a little bit rude even making a suggestion,
01:50and I'm going to go for someone under 5 foot 10 and over 40.
01:53Cillian Murphy. Yeah.
01:55He'd just be in anything, really, and I'd actually go and see it.
01:58I don't really like Bond, but I'd watch him in it.
02:00Yeah, I agree. He just has that...
02:02Because of Peaky Blinders, he would have that sinister edge
02:05that would carry through.
02:06Reggie Jean Page, I think, is a lot of people's favourite
02:09to get their old breakthrough in Bridgerton,
02:12and I think he'd be brilliant. He fulfils the remit.
02:14My choice is half an inch over 5 foot 10
02:18and exactly 40 years old, and he is stunning.
02:22So, first of all, he'd be the best-looking James Bond ever,
02:24and he's Belfast's very own Jamie Dornan.
02:28But I want him to do it in the style of someone from Northern Ireland.
02:31Gone are the martinis shaken, not stirred,
02:34in with the Buckfast wine, you know?
02:37I want him to use phrases like,
02:38Blofeld, you're a Buck Egypt.
02:40That's what I want to see.
02:42I think he's a United fan as well, so I can get on board with that.
02:45Yeah, I hope Reggie Jean Page gets it.
02:47That'd change my mind completely.
02:49Right, let's get over to Dictionary Corner,
02:51our golden eye when it comes to the dictionary.
02:54And beside her, she was the woman with the golden stones
02:58at the last Olympics, our curling champion, Eimear Head.
03:04Well, on a mission for a third win in a row,
03:06he scored 120 on both occasions,
03:09as our Tom from Burford in Shropshire.
03:11You're up against Sarah Woolridge from Wolverhampton.
03:13Welcome here. Hiya.
03:15You're an instant friend.
03:16I was looking through a little list of things in your life.
03:19You would get on with all three of us, right?
03:22Good.
03:23Your favourite TV show is the same as Rachel's, Friends.
03:26Yes.
03:27You love to play poker, and I love to play poker,
03:30so we would unite on that front.
03:32And you're a huge fan of the UFC,
03:34which is Susie's favourite sport as well.
03:36Wow. So that's worked out really well.
03:38But you were on X Factor. Tell me about that.
03:40Yes. Oh, gosh, I'm going back some years now.
03:42I was 14, I believe.
03:45Yeah.
03:46I have improved since then, I'd say.
03:49But I got through the first round, so...
03:51What song did you sing?
03:53It was a Leona Lewis song, I believe.
03:56Yeah. Was it Footprints?
03:58Yes, Footprints In The Sand, yeah.
04:00It's funny, cos we have the backing track to that.
04:02We're just going to play it now.
04:04What? No? Move on?
04:06Maybe not today.
04:07Yeah, we'll see. If you win, we'll maybe sing out.
04:09OK, Tom and Sarah, good luck.
04:13OK, let's see if she can hit the right note.
04:15Let's get the letters from Tom.
04:17Hi, Rachel. Hi, Tom.
04:18Can I start with a vowel, please?
04:20Thank you. Start today with I.
04:22And a second.
04:24A.
04:25A consonant.
04:26S.
04:27And another, please.
04:29P.
04:30And a third.
04:32R.
04:33A vowel.
04:34U.
04:36A consonant.
04:38B.
04:39A vowel, please.
04:41O.
04:44And a final vowel, please.
04:46A final E.
04:48At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
05:19Mr Stevenson?
05:21Seven.
05:22Sarah, how do you do?
05:23Seven.
05:24What's the seven?
05:25Burpees.
05:26Burpees. And Tom?
05:27Soapier.
05:28OK, we'll go over to Dictionary Corner.
05:30We had this quite recently,
05:32and I might have fallen for the same thing that you've fallen for.
05:35Yeah, it's double E at the end, unfortunately.
05:38It's named after the person who invented them,
05:40who was in the US military, and it was double E at the end of his name.
05:43I'm sorry about that, Sarah.
05:44There you go. So you got away clean there, Tom.
05:46Seven points. Anything better in Dictionary Corner?
05:48We did. We managed to get a seven, didn't we, Susie?
05:51Yes. Upraise, as in upraised arm.
05:53Upraise and soapier.
05:55Two sevens, and Tom is off the mark.
05:59But this is your first chance then, Sarah.
06:01Say a little hello to fellow Friends fanatic, Rachel.
06:04Hi, Rachel. Hi, Sarah.
06:06Could I have a consonant, please?
06:08You can indeed.
06:09R.
06:10And a vowel.
06:12I.
06:14A consonant.
06:15J.
06:17A consonant.
06:19M.
06:21And a vowel.
06:23A.
06:24Consonant.
06:26N.
06:28Vowel.
06:30E.
06:32Consonant.
06:34L.
06:36And a consonant, please.
06:38And lastly, D.
06:4030 seconds.
06:45MUSIC PLAYS
07:11Time's up. Sarah?
07:12Six. Good stuff. And Tom?
07:14A seven. OK, the six is...?
07:16Rained.
07:17And raining on your parade, maybe...?
07:19Manlier.
07:20Manlier, as in Jamie Dornan is manlier than Killian Murphy.
07:23Anything better in Dictionary Corner?
07:25We also had mineral.
07:27Mineral. Yeah.
07:28Happy days.
07:2914-0 to Tom, Sarah.
07:31Do not panic. Big ten points now, Tom.
07:33Your numbers.
07:34One from the top, please, Rachel.
07:36Just one from the top this time.
07:38And five little.
07:39A variety of choices coming from you, Tom.
07:41But today we have eight, two, seven, eight, four,
07:46and the large one, 100.
07:48And the target to reach, 561.
07:51561 numbers up.
08:12MUSIC PLAYS
08:23How do you get on, Tom? I think I have it.
08:25Have you written it down? Yes, I have written it down.
08:27And Sarah? 552.
08:29552. OK, so, Tom, let's see if you've got it.
08:32Eight minus two is six.
08:33Eight minus two, six.
08:35Times by the hundred for 600.
08:37600.
08:38And then eight fours are 32.
08:40The other eight?
08:42Add the seven on for 39 and take off.
08:45You do indeed have it. 561.
08:47APPLAUSE
08:50Great start by the chump.
08:52Let's take our first break of today and our first tea time teaser.
08:55Scary one, this.
08:56Teardrop. Teardrop.
08:58This beast won't shed any tears for its victims.
09:01This beast won't shed any tears for its victims.
09:04MUSIC PLAYS
09:11APPLAUSE
09:20Welcome back.
09:21How do you get on with the tea time teaser?
09:23Teardrop. This beast won't shed any tears for its victims.
09:27Could probably describe Tom's performance so far today.
09:30Our champion, Predator.
09:32Predator is the answer.
09:33Let's turn the tables on him, though, Sarah, and get some letters.
09:36Can I have a continent, please?
09:38Thank you, Sarah.
09:39W.
09:41And a vowel.
09:43O.
09:44And a vowel.
09:46O.
09:48And a consonant.
09:50G.
09:52And a consonant.
09:53S.
09:55Consonant.
09:57G.
09:58Vowel.
10:00E.
10:02A vowel.
10:04I.
10:06And a consonant.
10:08And a final N.
10:10Thanks, Rachel.
10:36MUSIC PLAYS
10:42Time's up, Sarah.
10:43Six.
10:44And Tom?
10:45A seven, I think.
10:46A seven.
10:47The six, Sarah?
10:48Sewing.
10:49Yep, strong sewing is there, Tom.
10:50Widgeons.
10:52Yes, you can spell it without the D in it.
10:55Absolutely fine.
10:56Dabbling ducks.
10:57Yep, the widgeons.
10:58Did you say dabbling ducks?
11:00Dabbling ducks.
11:01I thought you might have said that. Tell me more.
11:03It's a brown and grey plumage and the male has a whistling call.
11:06It's a dabbling duck.
11:07It's a dabbling duck.
11:08Simple as that.
11:09Anything better from Eden Muirhead?
11:10Nope, nothing better than a seven.
11:12Why couldn't you beat widgeons? It's absolutely impossible.
11:15Right, Tom, more letters.
11:17A consonant, please, Rachel.
11:18Thank you, Tom.
11:19L.
11:20And a second.
11:22R.
11:23And a vowel, please.
11:25A.
11:26And another vowel.
11:28O.
11:29A third.
11:31E.
11:32And a consonant, please.
11:33S.
11:34And a second.
11:36L.
11:38A vowel.
11:40O.
11:42And a final consonant, please.
11:44And a final H.
11:46Start the clock.
12:02CLOCK TICKS
12:17That's time, Tom.
12:19Seven.
12:20And Sarah?
12:21Just a five.
12:22What's the five, Sarah?
12:23Horse.
12:24Horses there.
12:25And Tom?
12:26Hollers.
12:27Hollers.
12:28Let's holler Dictionary Corner.
12:29Yeah?
12:30It's fine.
12:31Horses.
12:32Yeah.
12:33Eve, you going to shout out anything else?
12:35No, nothing more than seven.
12:37We've got aerosol.
12:38OK, 38 points to zero at the moment, Sarah.
12:40Those points are coming, don't worry.
12:42And the chair will go up, will raise the roof.
12:44Do you want to give me some numbers?
12:46Two from the top and four small, please.
12:48Thank you, Sarah.
12:49Two from the top, four little and ten points coming your way.
12:52This time with four, ten, six, six, 25 and 50.
12:58Your target to reach, 130.
13:01130, numbers up.
13:28MUSIC
13:33130, Tom?
13:34I think so, yeah.
13:35Think so, Sarah?
13:36I think so, too.
13:38Have you both written it down?
13:39Yeah, I've written it down.
13:40You both think so? I'll go with Sarah.
13:4225 times six?
13:44150.
13:46Minus the ten?
13:48140.
13:49Minus the six?
13:50The second six.
13:51Minus the four?
13:52Lovely, well done, 130.
13:53Yes!
13:55Come on, ten points on the board.
13:57Tom, how did you do?
13:5825 takes six, takes six for 13.
14:01Yep.
14:02And times ten.
14:03Lovely, same result.
14:08Come on, Sarah, off the mark.
14:10You've still got the X factor, don't worry about that.
14:12And you can take a break, you can bask in the glory,
14:14because we're going to cross over and have another chat
14:16with Eve Muirhead.
14:17How many times have you met the Queen?
14:19Two or three.
14:20Two or three, just talk me through your experience, the OBE.
14:23Well, it was actually a garden party quite a few years ago
14:26that I first met her, and then it was a celebration lunch,
14:30I think, in Perth the second time.
14:32But I, yeah, was lucky enough to get an OBE just a few months ago
14:37on the back of my MBE, and it was such an exciting day,
14:42and I think what made it better, like, my mum came along with me,
14:45because, you know, mums love those kind of things,
14:47and it wasn't long after the Games, and it was at Windsor Castle,
14:51and the weather was amazing, and do you know what?
14:54It was just a really great day.
14:56Mum, did she embarrass you in any way, or best behaved?
14:59Oh, no, to be fair, no, she was fine.
15:02She had one too many gin and tonics.
15:04Later that night, yeah.
15:05Later that night.
15:06I can't say she didn't.
15:07It's a good thing the toast, isn't it, picked up an OBE.
15:09Thanks so much.
15:12Right, back to the game.
15:13Sarah's on the board.
15:15That's the big news here as we get our next letters.
15:18And, Tom, you're picking them.
15:19Vowel, please, Rachel.
15:20Thank you, Tom. O.
15:22And a second one.
15:23U.
15:24And a third.
15:25A.
15:26Consonant, please.
15:27N.
15:28And another.
15:29P.
15:30And another.
15:31D.
15:32Vowel, please.
15:34E.
15:35Consonant.
15:37T.
15:38And a final consonant, please.
15:40And a final M.
15:42Start the clock.
15:49MUSIC PLAYS
16:13Time's up, Sarah.
16:15Seven, not written down.
16:16And, Tom, an eight.
16:17Sarah, what's your seven?
16:19Mounted.
16:20Mounted.
16:21And, Tom, the eight?
16:23Amounted.
16:24You're not the only one kicking yourself,
16:26not putting the A on the front of that.
16:28Oh, that's pain when that happens, but it's a great eight.
16:31It's very, very good indeed.
16:33Right, let's get back to the game now.
16:35More letters from Sarah.
16:36A consonant, please.
16:37Thank you, Sarah.
16:38S.
16:40Consonant.
16:42R.
16:43Consonant.
16:45N.
16:47Vowel.
16:48U.
16:50Vowel.
16:51A.
16:53Consonant.
16:55F.
16:56Consonant.
16:58R.
16:59Vowel.
17:02E.
17:04And a consonant, please.
17:06And a final Y.
17:08Clock time.
17:09MUSIC PLAYS
17:17MUSIC CONTINUES
17:39How do you do, mate? Six.
17:41How do you do, Sarah? Just a five.
17:43The five As? Fears.
17:44Yes, fears.
17:45And the six? Yearns.
17:47Well, I'm yearning for at least a seven from even your head.
17:50We did. We managed to get a seven.
17:52We got...nursery.
17:54Nursery. Wonderful.
17:55Seven, that'll top score this round as we return to the numbers.
17:59And, Tom, you're going to choose them.
18:01Two from the top, please, Rachel.
18:03Thank you, Tom. Two large, four littlens.
18:06And this round is...
18:08One, two, five,
18:11seven, 50 and 100.
18:14And the target to reach...
18:16818.
18:18818. Numbers up.
18:20MUSIC PLAYS
18:42MUSIC CONTINUES
18:50Sarah?
18:51810.
18:53810. Eight away. And Tom?
18:55820, not written down.
18:57OK, off you go then, Tom. We'll have to have it from your quick smart.
19:00OK. Seven add one is eight.
19:02Seven plus one, eight.
19:04Times by the 100 for 800.
19:07Times by 100, 800.
19:0950 divided by two is 25.
19:11Yep.
19:12And take the five away from that 25, the 20, and add it on.
19:15Yep. That gets you to two away. Well done.
19:18Rach, so how do we get to 818?
19:20No, I'm just one away, so you have to leave this one with me.
19:23OK, but doable? Yes, doable.
19:25Pressure on during this break.
19:27We'll give you a tea-time teaser to get you through it.
19:29Notes pig. This is beautiful, this.
19:31Notes pig. He notes that the pig is very smelly.
19:34He notes that the pig is very smelly.
19:38APPLAUSE
19:45Welcome back. I love this one. Notes pig.
19:48He notes that the pig is very smelly.
19:51Pongiest, pongiest. Beautiful word.
19:54Sarah, our challenger, got it straight away.
19:57Before you'd even seen a second of an advert,
19:59there's something about the pressure on.
20:01Sarah, our challenger, got it straight away.
20:04Before you'd even seen a second of an advert,
20:06there's something about the pressure being off.
20:08It's very different when you're sitting there.
20:10So different. It's easy to get the ones that are not meant for me.
20:13Well, listen, the pressure's off a little bit.
20:15Your 59 behind me gets six rounds, so you can play fast and loose.
20:19You're on tilt, as we say in poker, so you may as well go for it.
20:22Let's get nine letters. OK, could I have a consonant, please?
20:25Thank you, Sarah.
20:27T. A consonant.
20:30D. A vowel.
20:33I. A vowel.
20:35O. Consonant.
20:38G. Consonant.
20:41R. A vowel.
20:44E.
20:46Consonant.
20:48L.
20:50And a vowel, please.
20:52And the last one, U.
20:54Kind of.
21:03MUSIC PLAYS
21:26How are we doing, Tom? I'll go for an eight.
21:28And Sarah? Six.
21:30The sixes? Rioted.
21:32Can you regale us with your eight?
21:34Trilog.
21:36Straight to Susie Dent.
21:38Yes. It makes more sense when you see it's normal spelling,
21:40which is tri-a-log,
21:42because it's a dialogue between three people,
21:44but you can miss out that A, so trilog.
21:46Very good indeed.
21:48That's absolutely top-drawer stuff.
21:50APPLAUSE
21:52Unplayable at the moment.
21:54I'm so glad I'm sat here and not in Sarah's seat
21:56with some of the words that Tom's coming up with.
21:58Anything else from the dynamic duo?
22:00Outride.
22:02Outride for seven.
22:04No points for you either, Edmure Head.
22:06No, unfortunately not.
22:08Rarely will you hear that sentence said on television at any stage.
22:10Let's get more letters from Tom.
22:12A vowel, please, Rachel.
22:14Thank you, Tom. A.
22:16And a consonant.
22:18T.
22:20And a vowel. I.
22:22Consonant, please. Q.
22:24A vowel.
22:26A.
22:28I.
22:30Consonant, please.
22:32S.
22:34And a second.
22:36T.
22:38Erm...
22:40And a final consonant, please.
22:42The most promising of selections.
22:44A final N. Here we go.
22:58MUSIC PLAYS
23:16Another round bites the dust, Sarah. What have you got?
23:18A six. A six. And Tom?
23:20A seven. The sixes?
23:22A times. I'm starting to hate him a little bit as well.
23:24Don't worry. Tom?
23:26Yeah, I had a tamed.
23:28Same word, different letter count. Something fishy's going on.
23:30So frustrating. I'm so sorry.
23:32Yeah, it's simply a matter of counting.
23:34I'm sorry. So it's A-T-T-A-I-N-S-7.
23:36Unlucky, Sarah.
23:38Right, let's get some more origins of words.
23:40Love this part.
23:42Every day Susie Dent with her finger on the trigger.
23:44What have you got?
23:46We're going to try and stick with James Bond, Colin, for you,
23:48given we were talking about this.
23:50Not least because my father has a real air of Roger Moore about him,
23:52I have always thought.
23:54So I'm just going to look at some of the titles of the Bond movies
23:56and there have just been some wonderful ones,
23:58haven't they, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love,
24:00Doctor No, etc.
24:02But I'm going to concentrate maybe on some more unusual ones,
24:04like Goldeneye.
24:06What's Goldeneye got to do with anything?
24:08This is the one, obviously, with Piers Brosnan in it
24:10and M is played for the first time, I think, by Judi Dench.
24:12This was a time when the head of the MI5 was Stella Rimmington,
24:14so very appropriate.
24:16But this wasn't based on any of the Bond novels by Ian Fleming.
24:18It was actually based, or adapted,
24:20from a story by Michael France.
24:22And he chose the name of Fleming's house in Jamaica,
24:24which was called Goldeneye,
24:26which apparently had been named
24:28after one of Fleming's Second World War operations,
24:30where he worked as a senior officer in naval intelligence.
24:32But Goldeneye is a really handsome species of duck,
24:34with striking black and white plumage,
24:36so not what you might expect.
24:38The world is not enough.
24:40Lovely, quite philosophical.
24:42What's that got to do with anything?
24:44Well, it's got to do with the fact that
24:46the world is not enough.
24:48Lovely, quite philosophical.
24:50What's that got to do with anything?
24:52Well, this was actually a motto
24:54from the 17th century of the wealthy financier
24:56Sir Thomas Bond.
24:58And he, of course, gave his name to Bond Street
25:00in London.
25:02And apparently, Ian Fleming said...
25:04Oh, no, sorry, Bond says
25:06on Her Majesty's Secret Service,
25:08it is an excellent motto, which I shall certainly adopt.
25:10But the words themselves
25:12are much more ancient than that,
25:14because it actually goes back
25:16to the 19th century AD
25:18and Juvenal's, or Juvenal's
25:20satires, in which you'll hear
25:22the Latin, non sufficit orbis,
25:24which means pretty much the same thing.
25:26And that was about
25:28Alexander the Great.
25:30But that, in turn, actually
25:32was used earlier by
25:34a poet called Lucan,
25:36who was commenting about Julius Caesar.
25:38So, Julius Caesar
25:40and Alexander the Great, that's quite some pedigree
25:42for James Bond that you've got there.
25:44But I'm going to end with
25:46View to a Kill. Seems very self-explanatory, really.
25:48But this is probably taken from an old
25:50fox-hunting ballad,
25:52which includes the line,
25:54From a view to death in the morning.
25:56And a view, unfortunately,
25:58is the cry that signals the sighting of a fox.
26:00Wonderful.
26:02APPLAUSE
26:04I was in my element there.
26:06And the world is not enough, you've just brought the life.
26:08But next time I hear
26:10Tina Turner, Belt Now Golden,
26:12I'll just be thinking of ducks.
26:14Dabbling ducks.
26:16It's just not MI6 at all.
26:18Unless you duck from a bullet, of course.
26:20But that's ruined that for me, that song.
26:22But brilliant origins of words.
26:24Right, four rounds to go.
26:26Sarah, you're picking these letters.
26:28Consonant, please, Rachel.
26:30Thank you, Sarah.
26:32R.
26:34And a vowel.
26:36A.
26:38And a consonant.
26:40And a consonant.
26:42T.
26:44And a vowel.
26:46E.
26:48Another vowel.
26:50O.
26:52A consonant.
26:54S.
26:56And a consonant, please.
26:58And the last one, P.
27:00Let's go.
27:10MUSIC PLAYS
27:30Sarah?
27:32Seven. And Tom?
27:34Eight. The seven is?
27:36Sported. Sported, there you go.
27:38And Tom?
27:40Adopted.
27:42Adopted and sported, fantastic.
27:44That's just one letter every time, Sarah.
27:46Really good words, but he's some champion.
27:48Eve, what have you got over there for me?
27:50We had a couple of eights.
27:52We had potagers.
27:54Potagers.
27:56And also postgrad.
27:58And postgrad. Tom, you're undergrad at the moment, aren't you?
28:00I am, yeah.
28:02OK, I'll forgive you that.
28:04Right, very good indeed.
28:06Tom, well on target
28:08for another plus 100 score.
28:10And it's last letters this time,
28:12and Tom, you're choosing.
28:14A consonant, please, Rachel.
28:16Thank you, Tom. K.
28:18And a second. P.
28:20And a third. Z.
28:22A vowel, please.
28:24E.
28:26And a second. U.
28:28One more. O.
28:30A consonant, please.
28:32M.
28:34T.
28:36And a final consonant, please.
28:38And a final. N.
28:40Last letters.
29:04MUSIC PLAYS
29:10Tom? Seven.
29:12A seven. And Sarah?
29:14Just a five. And a five. What's the five, Sarah?
29:16Mount. Mount. And Tom?
29:18Unkempt. Unkempt.
29:20Superb. Yes.
29:22Very good indeed.
29:24Right, is that as good as we can get out of those nine letters,
29:26or anything better? It was. We have no better than that.
29:28Unkempt. Very smart indeed.
29:3099 plays 10.
29:32Two rounds left, Tom.
29:34You can't get 120 for a third day running.
29:36The mask is slipping, my friend.
29:38The standards are dropping.
29:40Let's get the last numbers now.
29:42And you get to pick them, Sarah.
29:44Two from the top, please, Rachel.
29:46Thank you, Sarah.
29:48Two large, four little.
29:50Final numbers of the afternoon.
29:52Two. Five. Four.
29:54Ten. And the large ones.
29:56175.
29:58And the target to reach, 263.
30:00263. Numbers up.
30:30We're looking for 263, Sarah.
30:32No, sorry.
30:34No worries. And Tom?
30:36Yeah, 263.
30:38Let's have it, my friend.
30:40575 to 375. Yep.
30:42Take away the 100.
30:44275.
30:46Take away the ten.
30:48There is a ten there.
30:50Oh, I beg your pardon, sorry. Take the two off.
30:52Perfect. Well done. 263.
30:54263. Ten points.
30:56APPLAUSE
30:58There you go. We have reached the end again.
31:00It's been a while since we've had a crucial Countdown Conundrum.
31:03I'm pining for it, but it's been the standard of champion
31:06we've had now for the last two weeks.
31:08Been absolutely sensational.
31:10And who would bet against back-to-back Octo champs?
31:12Tom's still got five more wins he needs.
31:14But let's see, Sarah, if you can thwart them right at the end.
31:17Let's get your finger on the buzzers.
31:19Sarah's got both the teatime teasers within, like, three seconds,
31:22so no pressure at all here.
31:24Let's reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
31:28BELL RINGS
31:47BELL
31:48Tom? I've probably spelt it wrong. Sequinned?
31:50Let's have a look if it's sequinned.
31:52Brilliant.
31:54APPLAUSE
31:56There you go. That's the way, Sarah.
31:58It just depends who you get, really, and he's fantastic.
32:01Tell me it wasn't too traumatic for you today.
32:04No, it's been a great experience.
32:06Good. Well, listen, if it was poker, you'd have taken his house off him.
32:09But, unfortunately, it was Countdown.
32:11Thanks for coming from Wolverhampton. Safe trip back. Thank you.
32:14And Tom, three wins in a row, motoring right now.
32:17Mm-hm. See what happens tomorrow.
32:19Yeah. OK. Lovely stuff.
32:21You'll be back as well, Eve and Susie, looking forward to it.
32:24And, Rachel, that's all from us.
32:26If you could be any character in any James Bond movie you've actually seen,
32:29which one would you be?
32:31I'd probably go for the cat, the villain's cat.
32:34They've got a great cushy life, haven't they?
32:36Just sit there, get stroked, drop hair all over the villain's lair.
32:39Perfect.
32:40At least that's the one you chose that was connected to a cat.
32:43That's good.
32:44Given my temporary status, I'd have to be Oddjob.
32:47But, anyway, Susie, Rachel and I will be back tomorrow.
32:50You can count on us.
32:52You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com
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33:01You can also find our web page at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
33:07Time well spent tonight carving out a winning clock to beat the competition.
33:12New handmade Britain's best woodworker at eight.
33:15Next, Spain's Costa Dorado is calling for a place in the sun.
33:21APPLAUSE