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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30Well, good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:34We're coming to the end of March.
00:35In fact, tomorrow is Good Friday and we're heading into the Easter weekend.
00:39Easter weekend?
00:40Great, great religious weekend, of course, but also a time for eating well
00:46and hot cross bun times, Rachel, and seminal cake.
00:50But let's leave that one for our Dictionary Corner guest.
00:53So, what have you got planned?
00:55Nothing.
00:56Nothing?
00:57No, don't do Easter.
00:58Never have done Easter.
00:59It was fun at school.
01:00Easter accounts, I think, were the best bit.
01:02That's good.
01:02Where you get the golden big one and you get to swap it for something more fun.
01:07Indeed.
01:07All right.
01:08Now, John Cole is back, Rachel, our retired yachting instructor from Gosport.
01:12Two good wins, John.
01:14Yes, indeed.
01:14You had a disastrous, if I may say so, a disgraceful first numbers game.
01:20But shall we pass over that?
01:21I think that would be a good thing.
01:23It was a gasp from the audience.
01:26Indeed.
01:26You're joined by Riley Halson, a sociology student at the University of Warwick.
01:32Essex boy from Mahalo.
01:34Yes.
01:34Is that right?
01:35And as a GCSE student, you went to the Prince's Trust and spoke about their good work at Cambridge,
01:42I think.
01:43I did, yeah.
01:44I spoke about that music, as you see, in front of about 200 teachers.
01:48That's good.
01:49The Prince's Trust does a great deal of good work.
01:51They really do.
01:52And been going a long time, but it does tremendous work, I think.
01:55Anyway, good luck to you today.
01:57Good luck, John.
01:58Let's have a big round of applause for John and Riley.
02:05John and Riley.
02:07And over in the corner, Susie, joined once again by restaurant critic, journalist Jay Rayner.
02:12Seminal cake.
02:14Now, what's that?
02:15It's a cake which is meant to have a bunch of marzipan balls to represent Jesus and his
02:20apostles.
02:21The curious thing about this is that actually it's nowhere near as historical an item as
02:27people think.
02:27There have been versions of cakes served up at Easter, but the version we know now with
02:31those little marzipan balls, that goes back, ooh, probably as far back as the 1960s.
02:37Really?
02:37Yeah.
02:38It's a relatively modern invention.
02:39Good stuff.
02:40More from you later.
02:46Thank you, Jay.
02:47And more later.
02:49But let's begin with John.
02:50John, let's have a letters game, shall we?
02:53Thank you, Nick.
02:53Good afternoon, Rachel.
02:54Afternoon, John.
02:55May I have a consonant, please?
02:57You may, thank you.
02:58Start today with G.
03:00Consonant.
03:02C.
03:04Vowel.
03:05I.
03:07Vowel.
03:09A.
03:10Consonant.
03:12T.
03:14Consonant.
03:15R.
03:17Vowel.
03:18E.
03:20Vowel.
03:21Vowel.
03:22O.
03:24And a final consonant, please.
03:26And a final T.
03:28And the clock starts now.
03:30Vowel.
03:41I.
03:42I.
03:42A.
03:43Well, John?
04:02Seven.
04:03Seven. Riley?
04:04I've got a risky seven.
04:06OK, John?
04:08Cottage.
04:09Cottage and garotte.
04:12How are you spelling it?
04:13G-A-R-O-T-T-E.
04:16It is absolutely fine, yes.
04:19I thought it might be the US spelling,
04:21but actually it's just a simple variant on the double R.
04:23So very, very good.
04:25Very good.
04:26Yeah.
04:26It being the wire.
04:28To kill someone by strangulation with a length of wire or cord.
04:32Horrible, horrible way to deal with somebody.
04:35Ghastly.
04:36All right, in the corner.
04:37Oh, John, I am sorry.
04:39I've done this to you before.
04:40Oh, you've got cottage and there is another R.
04:44So you could have had cottage after someone who lives in a cottage.
04:49We should have been aged.
04:54All right, seven apiece.
04:55Riley, off we go.
04:56Letters game.
04:57You're right, Rachel.
04:58Hi, Riley.
04:59Could I get a consonant, please?
05:01Start with V.
05:03And another, please.
05:06R.
05:06And a vowel.
05:08E.
05:09And a consonant.
05:11F.
05:12And another.
05:15D.
05:16And a vowel.
05:18I.
05:19And a consonant.
05:22M.
05:23Another.
05:25R.
05:26And another vowel, please.
05:28And the last one, E.
05:31Stand by.
05:32And another vowel.
05:50Okay.
05:52And another vowel.
05:54And a vowel.
05:54And a vowel.
05:55And a vowel.
05:56Riley. I might have a seven. A seven, John? Only six. And that's six? Fervid. Fervid.
06:10A good word. Now then, I have refried. Very good. Yep. Yep, excellent. So I have a seven.
06:18And over in the corner. Refried is what I've got as well, although it's interesting,
06:22it's a mistranslation, because it suggests that you fry something twice, or in fact it's a Mexican
06:26bean dish, where you boil them first and then you fry them. Got it. So it could be once fried,
06:31but in fact, there's nowhere near enough lettuce for that. Thank you. And the, Susie? No, it was a really
06:37good seven. Fourteen, please. Seven, John on seven, and it's John's numbers game. Thank you, Nick.
06:44Could I have one large and five small, please, Rachel? Just the one large for you. Thank you
06:48very much, John. And these five small ones are three, ten, nine, seven. Another ten, and
06:57the big one, 25. And the target, 917. 917.
07:02And the target, 917. And the target, 917. And the target of the codependence
07:14Well, John, 9-1-8.
07:36Riley?
07:37I have the same 9-1-8s.
07:39John?
07:41OK, I did 9 times 10 times 10.
07:45900.
07:46Add the 25.
07:489-2-5.
07:49And subtract 7.
07:51Yep, one away.
07:53Riley?
07:54Exactly the same way.
07:57Yep.
07:58There we are.
07:59Is there another way?
08:00Or is there a way, indeed, to get 9-1-7?
08:03There is.
08:04If you say 10 times 10 is 100, 9 minus 3 is 6, add that on,
08:11and the 25 to 100 for 1-3-1, and times it by 7.
08:16Perfect.
08:18Well done, Rachel.
08:20As ever.
08:21So, 21 plays 14.
08:23John on 14.
08:24And we turn to our first tea time teaser, which is Maggie Nora.
08:27And the clue.
08:28Maggie and Nora went to hospital together to have this done.
08:32Maggie and Nora went to hospital together to have this done.
08:35Welcome back.
08:51I lived with the clue.
08:52Maggie and Nora went to hospital together to have this done.
08:57What did they have done?
08:58They had an angiogram.
09:01Angiogram.
09:0221 to 14.
09:04Riley on 21.
09:06Yes, Riley.
09:07Letters go.
09:08Could I get a consonant, please, Rachel?
09:10Thank you, Riley.
09:11K.
09:12And another.
09:14D.
09:16And a vowel.
09:17O.
09:18And a consonant.
09:20Z.
09:21And another.
09:23R.
09:24And a vowel.
09:26E.
09:27And a consonant.
09:29M.
09:29And another.
09:32N.
09:32And a vowel.
09:34And lastly, U.
09:37Countdown.
09:37Thee.
09:56Thee.
09:57Thee.
09:58Riley?
10:09I have a five not written down.
10:11John?
10:12Seven.
10:13And a seven.
10:14Riley?
10:15A dozen.
10:16Dozen and?
10:17Mourned.
10:19That's a John, yes.
10:20Very good.
10:22How can we improve on that, I wonder?
10:24I'm not sure I can, just have to point out that the word menu is in there.
10:27I'm slightly obsessed, it's part of my working life.
10:30Quite right, you can spot it a mile off.
10:31Indeed.
10:32Susie?
10:33No, we've mourned as well, Nick.
10:35That's it.
10:36John, your letters came.
10:39Thank you, Nick.
10:41May I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
10:42Thank you, John.
10:43W?
10:45Consonant.
10:47Y?
10:49Vowel.
10:51I?
10:52Vowel.
10:54A?
10:55Consonant.
10:57R?
10:58Consonant.
11:00S?
11:02Vowel.
11:04E?
11:05Vowel.
11:08I?
11:09And a final consonant, please.
11:11And a final L.
11:14Stand by.
11:14I?
11:15dafür, everybody.
11:23Yeah.
11:24I?
11:24I feel, I?
11:25I?
11:25I?
11:26I?
11:27I?
11:27I?
11:28I?
11:30I?
11:30I?
11:30I?
11:32I?
11:34I?
11:35I?
11:37I?
11:37I?
11:38John?
11:47Six.
11:48Riley?
11:49I only have a four.
11:50And that four?
11:51Rise.
11:52Rise and John?
11:54Swayer.
11:55I'll just double check.
11:57It's not there, I'm afraid, John.
11:58OK.
11:59Sawyer.
12:00Turn the letters around, but not swear.
12:02Sorry.
12:03Bad luck.
12:04Bad luck.
12:05Jay?
12:06Um, so we have two sevens for you.
12:09Yes.
12:09Wailers, as in Bob Marley and the.
12:12Yep.
12:12And wearily.
12:16He said wearily.
12:17I'm acting it out for you, just to push it home.
12:19We are absolutely ramming it home.
12:21I know.
12:23Wearily.
12:2325 to Riley.
12:25And John, you're on 21 each a moment ago, but Riley's leapt ahead by four points.
12:31And now, Riley, it's your numbers game.
12:34Could I take one large and five small, please?
12:37You can, indeed.
12:38Thank you, Riley.
12:39One from the top again.
12:40Five more little ones.
12:41And this time, we have five, eight, one, six, two, and a large 75.
12:51And this target, 932.
12:54932.
12:542, 2, 3, 4, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 6, 7, 7, 8, 6, 7, 8, que mils.
12:59MUSIC CONTINUES
13:29No, I hadn't got it.
13:30What about John?
13:319, 3, 5.
13:33Let's try. Let's go for that.
13:36I did 2 times 6.
13:39Yep, 2 times 6 is 12.
13:41Times 75.
13:42900.
13:44Then I did 8 minus 1 is 7.
13:478 minus 1 is 7.
13:48Times 5.
13:49Is 35.
13:5035. 9, 3, 5.
13:52Yep, 3 away.
13:53Well done.
13:55But 3 away still, Rachel.
13:57Can you take us there? 9, 3, 2?
13:58Well, as long as you promise to be kind to John,
14:01because he might kick himself again.
14:02Because if you get to here and say 5 minus 1 is 4,
14:05times 8, you get 32.
14:08There we go.
14:09Well done, Rachel.
14:12All right.
14:13So John has.
14:14He's kept ahead now, 3 points ahead, 28 to 25.
14:18So you guys rest there for a second,
14:20because we're going to have a chat with Jen.
14:21And you've got a fascination for food,
14:26but you've got a great other love, which is jazz.
14:30You're a jazz pianist.
14:31And in fact, this is not long out, is it?
14:33The Jay Rayner Quartet playing A Night of Food and Agony.
14:37Indeed.
14:38But you're touring.
14:39Yeah.
14:39Well, it's more sort of peripatetic playing,
14:42playing at the Gateshead International Jazz Festival
14:44on April the 7th, coming up,
14:46Cheltenham Jazz Festival in early May,
14:47and all points in between.
14:49I've never done the full tour thing.
14:50It's actually quite hard to get musicians out on the road.
14:53So we go from gig to gig.
14:54Okay.
14:54And it's a fabulous other thing to be able to do.
14:57I mean, you know, it's hard work,
15:00particularly if you come from a low bass.
15:02Earlier, one of the programmes I was on,
15:05you were talking about projects.
15:07What's a project mean?
15:08And I would say my longest project is the 41 years
15:10I've spent learning to play the piano.
15:13And it carries on to this day.
15:15So you started as a young boy.
15:16I took classical lessons when I was 10,
15:18for a couple of years,
15:20and then got drawn into synthesizers.
15:22It was the 80s, and I dyed my hair yellow
15:23and ended up looking a bit gloomy.
15:26But was drawn back to the piano
15:27and have been working at that ever since.
15:30It's, you know, I often say I play the music of ghosts.
15:33I'm at a point now where I no longer need to apologise
15:36for not being on anybody's cutting edge.
15:38But what I'm interested in is the great American songbook,
15:41particularly songs about food,
15:43songs about, a lot of blues songs
15:45sound like letters to an agony aunt,
15:47as my late mother was one,
15:49which gives me excuses to tell, frankly, filthy stories,
15:52which I can't tell at this time of day.
15:54All right.
15:55Well, listen, good luck with this,
15:57the Jay Rayner Quartet.
15:59And good luck back at the, when is it, the 7th of...?
16:027th of April, we're at Gateshead.
16:04But I'm also doing my one-man,
16:05I do one-man shows,
16:06and I'm doing a tour of Scotland with those,
16:08without a bunch of musicians.
16:09It's all on my website, which is findable online.
16:11Excellent.
16:12Well, good luck to you.
16:13Now, 28 to 25.
16:19John just inched ahead, and we turn to...
16:22Well, we're with you now, John.
16:23Let us go.
16:24Thank you, Nick.
16:25Consonant, please, Rachel.
16:27Thank you, John.
16:28N.
16:29Consonant.
16:31T.
16:33Consonant.
16:34L.
16:35Vowel.
16:37A.
16:37Another vowel.
16:40I.
16:41Another vowel.
16:44A.
16:46Consonant.
16:47F.
16:49Consonant.
16:50T.
16:52And a final vowel, please.
16:55And a final I.
16:58Stand by.
16:59To.
17:00To.
17:04To.
17:09To.
17:26To.
17:27To.
17:27Well, John?
17:30Seven.
17:31A seven, Riley.
17:33Another five.
17:34And your five is?
17:35Fatal.
17:37Mm-hm.
17:37John?
17:38Fan tail.
17:40Fan tail is excellent, yes.
17:43Can be the overhanging part of the stern of a boat,
17:46the fan of a windmill, also domestic pigeon.
17:49Lots of different meanings.
17:50Very, very good.
17:51Very good.
17:5535 to 25, John, 10 points in the lead.
17:59Riley, let us go.
18:00Could I get a consonant, please, Rachel?
18:02Thank you, Riley.
18:03S.
18:04And another?
18:05T.
18:07And a vowel?
18:08A.
18:09And a consonant?
18:12H.
18:13And another?
18:15P.
18:16And a vowel?
18:17E.
18:18And a consonant?
18:21S.
18:22And another?
18:24L.
18:24And a vowel.
18:26And the last one?
18:28O.
18:29And the clock starts now.
18:31E.
18:35And a vowel.
18:41S.
18:42E.
18:45And a consonant?
18:46Yes.
18:46E.
18:47Do.
18:50And a vowel.
18:51E.
18:51E.
18:51E.
18:52E.
18:53E.
18:53E.
18:54E.
18:54E.
18:54And a vowel.
18:55E.
18:55Riley?
19:02I have a seven.
19:04John?
19:04Seven as well.
19:05Riley?
19:06And hostels?
19:07Yes.
19:08John?
19:09Staples.
19:10Yes.
19:12Staples.
19:12And the corner?
19:14We have two sevens, hapless and topless.
19:18Yes.
19:18But for eight, we are all your apostles.
19:22Apostles indeed.
19:23Thank you very much.
19:25Apostles.
19:28How do we get apostles?
19:29Oh, yeah.
19:30Now, 42 to 32.
19:32And, John, off we go.
19:35Numbers game.
19:36Thank you, Nick.
19:37Try something different, Rachel.
19:39Three large, three small, please.
19:41Why not?
19:41Thank you, John.
19:42Three little, three big coming up.
19:44And the small ones are five, two, and four.
19:49And the large ones, 50, 25, and 100.
19:53And this target, 117.
19:57One, one, seven.
19:58One, one, seven.
19:58Two, two, one.
19:59One, seven.
20:01Two, three big things.
20:02One, seven.
20:03My mom and my mom and my mom and my mom got one.
20:08Two, three big things.
20:10All nine, three big things.
20:10Secondly, if you tresaje.
20:13You come here, boys.
20:15Three.
20:16Two news.
20:16One, eight, you me.
20:17One, two.
20:17Three, two, three big things.
20:18One, two, three big things.
20:19One, two, three big, whole.
20:20You'll see me again.
20:21Two, three, mix together.
20:23Cool.
20:23Three, two, three, two big made.
20:24No, then, John.
20:311-1-7.
20:33And Riley?
20:341-1-7.
20:36Thank you, John.
20:37100 plus 25.
20:391-2-5.
20:412 times 4 is 8.
20:43Yeah.
20:43Take it away.
20:44Another easy one.
20:45And Riley?
20:46Same way.
20:47Same way.
20:47There we go.
20:48Yep.
20:51So there we are.
20:5252 to 42.
20:54That 10-point difference as we turn to our second Tea Time Teaser, which is Dumpy Nose.
21:00And the clue?
21:01Her friends call her Dumpy Nose, but she used a different name altogether.
21:06Her friends call her Dumpy Nose, but she used a different name altogether.
21:24Welcome back.
21:27I left with the clue her friends call her Dumpy Nose, but she used a different name altogether.
21:34The answer to that is pseudonym.
21:37Pseudonym.
21:3852 to 42.
21:40John in the lead.
21:41Riley?
21:41Let's go.
21:43Let us go.
21:44Could I get a consonant, please, Rachel?
21:45Thank you, Riley.
21:46M.
21:47And another?
21:50T.
21:50And a vowel?
21:52I.
21:53And a consonant?
21:56J.
21:56And another?
21:58S.
21:59And a vowel?
21:59And lastly, another I.
22:12Stand by.
22:13I.
22:26I.
22:27I.
22:27I.
22:28I.
22:28I.
22:29I.
22:29I.
22:30I.
22:30Riley, I have a five.
22:47A five.
22:48John?
22:50I'll try a seven.
22:52So, Riley?
22:53I have Schatz.
22:54Schatz and John?
22:56Sushi me.
22:58Ooh.
22:59No.
23:00What?
23:01Sounds like a restaurant, Jay.
23:02Sashimi.
23:02Is it?
23:03Sashimi, yes, not sashimi.
23:05Oh, bad luck, John.
23:06Yeah, it was close.
23:07Yeah.
23:08Now then, Jay, you're looking interested.
23:11Well, obviously, because there was sushi.
23:13Yeah.
23:14Quite obviously in there, so that's all I'm staring at.
23:16We have mishits for seven.
23:20Yeah.
23:21But there's also isthmus in there.
23:24Oh, yes.
23:25Which is, again, is that a seven?
23:27Uh, which is a narrow strip of land with sea on either side.
23:31That's right.
23:32The isthmus of somewhere, yeah.
23:35Susie, anything else?
23:36No, that was our best.
23:3852 to 47.
23:39And now it's John's letters game.
23:41Yes, John?
23:42Thank you, Nick.
23:43Consonant, please, Rachel.
23:44Thank you, John.
23:45X.
23:45And a final consonant, please.
24:13And a final N.
24:14Stand by.
24:15Stand by.
24:16Stand by.
24:21Stand by.
24:43Well, John?
24:47Six.
24:48Yes, Riley?
24:49I have a six.
24:50Two sixes, John?
24:52Be gone.
24:54And Riley?
24:55I have the same.
24:56Be gone.
24:58Yes, absolutely fine.
24:59Be gone.
25:01Jay?
25:01You're going to think I'm obsessed, but there's nose bag in there.
25:05As in, you know, for a good lunch.
25:07Yeah, thank you.
25:08Now, 53 to 58, John on 58, and we turn to Susie.
25:12For her origins of words.
25:15And today, Susie?
25:17Today, a couple of words that we took from medical experiments.
25:21The first one might be quite well known.
25:23We're talking the middle of the 18th century and the English physician Edward Jenner.
25:28And he decided to test a very popular folk tale that milkmaids never caught smallpox,
25:34which was a really acute viral disease of the time.
25:36And he wondered if it was because the maids had been exposed to a similar virus called
25:41cowpox, which was contracted from cow's udders.
25:44These were milkmaids.
25:46And so he experimented by deliberately injecting and infecting an eight-year-old boy called James
25:51Phipps with small amounts of cowpox and then exposing him to smallpox.
25:56And the young boy stayed well.
25:58And his theory was proved.
26:00And the injections of cowpox that the physician gave us as protection became known as vaccinations,
26:05which comes from the Latin vacca, meaning cow.
26:08So that was the first.
26:09The second one perhaps not so well known.
26:12This is a few decades earlier.
26:13An Italian physiologist decided to do an experiment outside, a scientific experiment.
26:18He set up in his back garden a lightning rod and lay on his garden table the corpse of a frog.
26:24He knew that a storm was coming, and so he connected the lightning rod to the frog, and then he waited.
26:29Storm duly came, and whenever lightning flashed nearby, he noticed that the frog's leg twitched madly.
26:36He was very, very excited by this because it proved his theory that animals generate electricity.
26:42In other words, they generate electricity in order to make their body move.
26:46And his theory of animal electricity sent shockwaves, if you excuse the pun, throughout the scientific community.
26:51But there was one professor of physics, and this was in Pavia in Italy.
26:55He was called Alessandro Volta.
26:58He read Galvani's work.
27:01Galvani was the name of the physiologist.
27:03And was really inspired.
27:04He decided to do his own experiments.
27:07And he started to wonder whether, in fact, this was right,
27:10and whether the electricity came from the animals themselves,
27:13or whether it came from the connection of two metals that could create electric current.
27:18He set to work, put metal to metal, and, in fact, proved his theory that this wasn't intrinsic animal electricity,
27:25but that it came from outside.
27:27Harnessing electricity led to all sorts of advances, as you will have guessed.
27:32And as a testament to that impact, the unit of electric potential still bears Volta's name, the vault.
27:38Going back to Galvani and his twitching frog's legs, he, of course, gave us the word galvanise.
27:44Perfect.
27:45Very good.
27:48Stam.
27:49That's brilliant.
27:52Very good.
27:5358 to 53.
27:54Riley.
27:55Now then.
27:56There's nothing in it, Riley.
27:58Have a go.
27:58It's the letters game.
27:59Can I get a consonant, please, Rachel?
28:01Thank you, Riley.
28:02R.
28:03And another.
28:05D.
28:06And a vowel.
28:08U.
28:09And a consonant.
28:12C.
28:12And another.
28:13B.
28:14And a vowel.
28:16I.
28:17And a consonant.
28:19L.
28:20And a vowel.
28:22O.
28:23And another, please.
28:25And the last one.
28:26I.
28:28Stand by.
28:29And a vowel.
28:31And a vowel.
28:45Riley. I have a five. A five, John? Five as well. Riley, the old. Now then, John. Proud.
29:08Yes. That's fives. Can we do better? No. We've got another five for you, though, which again seems to come from my interest in food. Broil, which is a particularly American cooking word, which means to cook with direct heat. So it's like grilling underneath.
29:27Well, while you've been broiling things, Rachel's been cooking up something entirely different. Ah, nice. Still hot. Libido. Very good. Well done. Very good.
29:38So John on 63, Riley 58, and it's John's letters game. Final one. Thank you, Nick. Consonant, please, Rachel.
29:46Thank you, John. N. Consonant. C. Vowel. E. Vowel. O. Consonant. R. Consonant. N. Vowel.
30:08A. Vowel. I. And a final consonant, please. And a final R.
30:16Stand by.
30:18Stand by.
30:18Stand by.
30:20Stand by.
30:21Stand by.
30:22Stand by.
30:23Stand by.
30:24Stand by.
30:25Stand by.
30:26Stand by.
30:27Stand by.
30:28Stand by.
30:29Stand by.
30:30Stand by.
30:31Stand by.
30:32Stand by.
30:33Stand by.
30:34Stand by.
30:35Stand by.
30:36Stand by.
30:37Stand by.
30:38Stand by.
30:39Stand by.
30:40Stand by.
30:41Stand by.
30:42Stand by.
30:43Stand by.
30:44Stand by.
30:45Stand by.
30:46Well, John?
30:50Seven.
30:51A seven, Riley.
30:52And you have a six.
30:54And that six is?
30:55Can.
30:56And John?
30:58Cornea.
30:59Very, very good.
31:00Mmm.
31:01Excellent.
31:02Yeah, well done.
31:03Can we match that, Jay?
31:05There is also cannier.
31:07Yeah.
31:08As in someone who's smarter than perhaps you.
31:11Cannier.
31:12Susie, anything else?
31:13Yes.
31:13Craftier, really.
31:14No, just a couple of sevens from us.
31:1970 to 58.
31:21Final numbers game for Riley.
31:23Can I get six small, please, Rachel?
31:24You can, indeed.
31:25Good gamble, because you need to win this one to stay in the game.
31:28Thank you, Riley.
31:28Six little ones coming up.
31:30And they are seven, three, two, six, nine, and five.
31:38And the target, 398.
31:41Three, nine, eight.
31:45Yes, Riley?
32:00Um, I've made a mistake.
32:02Yes, Riley?
32:14Um, I've made a mistake.
32:16No.
32:17John?
32:18Uh, 400.
32:19400.
32:20Let's go, yeah.
32:21Well, I did, uh, six plus two is eight.
32:25Six plus two for eight.
32:27Times five.
32:30Forty.
32:31Three plus seven is another ten.
32:33Yep.
32:34Times 40 is 400.
32:36400, indeed.
32:37Two away.
32:39But 398, where's that missing two got to, Rachel?
32:42Um, one where you could have said six plus three is nine.
32:46Times nine for 81.
32:48Times five for 405.
32:51And take away the seven.
32:52Three, nine.
32:53Well done.
32:57Superb, as always.
32:58Now, 77 to 58.
33:00Riley on 58.
33:01We go into the final round.
33:03Gentlemen, you know the story.
33:05Fingers on buzzers.
33:06Let's roll.
33:07Today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:16Yes, John?
33:17Concluded.
33:19Concluded.
33:20I can see Riley nodding there.
33:22Concluded.
33:23Let's see whether you're right.
33:24Here it goes.
33:25Well done.
33:31Well done.
33:32Two good players,
33:33but John proves the better today.
33:3687 to Riley's 58.
33:38So Riley's back to Warwick.
33:41With a round of applause, too,
33:44because you played really, really well.
33:45It was only in the latter stages
33:46that he started to sort of edge away.
33:48Yeah.
33:48So he did very well.
33:50Yeah, he did.
33:50Congratulations.
33:51You take this back to,
33:53I don't know whether you're going back to Warwick
33:55or back to Harlow, back home.
33:57By the place.
33:58Wherever it is.
33:59We'll see.
33:59Travel safely.
34:00Well done.
34:01So, John, well done.
34:02You take it easy until we meet again.
34:05Thank you, Nick.
34:05All right.
34:06You come and see us again soon.
34:07Next time.
34:08I'm absolutely in this seat.
34:10Perfect.
34:11And we'll see Susie, too, of course, next time.
34:13Yeah.
34:14All right.
34:14See you then.
34:14And, of course, Rachel, too.
34:16And don't eat all your Easter eggs before Easter.
34:17I shall guzzle them as soon as I see them.
34:21See you then.
34:22See you soon.
34:22Join us next time.
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34:24Same place.
34:25You'll be sure of it.
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