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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30Well, good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:33Monday, the 11th of November, welcome to the start of National School Meals Week.
00:39It seems to me it's like a sort of a rolling campaign.
00:42In fact, it's rarely off the front pages.
00:45But, anyway, there we are.
00:47The purpose, really, to provide nutritious school lunches
00:51and sweep away the old perceptions about school meals.
00:54And there are teams of people roaming the countryside,
00:57teaching people about the need to provide nutritious school meals.
01:03And also, I like this a lot, involving local farmers and, you know, food growers
01:09so that their produce is provided locally and doing away with these food miles.
01:16What do you think about it?
01:18I've got to tell you, can I get in first and say my school meals were disgusting.
01:21Oh, no.
01:22Great aluminium trays would be produced full of baked potatoes in the skins, right?
01:29Then you took the skins off, if you felt like it.
01:31And then you built a sort of a castle of mashed potato.
01:35Right.
01:35And then you poured what was laughingly known as gravy in the middle.
01:39And there was a bit of something.
01:41Maybe it was meat.
01:42We never were really quite very sure.
01:44And that was it.
01:45And now look at me.
01:48You've survived all right, Nick.
01:50Just about.
01:51Only because I used to buy other boys boiled eggs on Sundays.
01:54I used to say, I'm prepared to pay sixpence for boiled eggs.
02:00I used to get maybe a clutch of them.
02:02I eat them all together.
02:03Not great for the digestion.
02:05You could be egg-bound.
02:06I took the rest of it and it was all right.
02:10Too much information, Nick.
02:11There we are.
02:13Now we've got Morgan back, Rachel.
02:15Morgan, math student from Peterborough, on five wins.
02:19How are you feeling?
02:20Not too bad.
02:20I didn't expect to get as far as I have.
02:22Well, you've done very well.
02:24But I've got somebody who's going to try and stop you.
02:27And that's Curtis Lippman.
02:28Welcome, Curtis.
02:30Operations manager from Chelmsford in Essex.
02:33Bit of a thrill seeker.
02:34Well, I hope we get some thrills here.
02:36But you hurled, threw yourself out of an aircraft at 8,000 feet and skydived.
02:44Fortunately, you had somebody clinging onto your back, telling you what to do.
02:48He was much more experienced than I was.
02:49Was it fun?
02:50Yeah, lots of fun.
02:51Your girlfriend, she had a go as well.
02:53She did.
02:53She did.
02:54It was actually her idea.
02:55So I was pushed rather than jumped.
02:56Oh, did she make you go first?
03:00No, she went first.
03:01Oh, OK.
03:02I thought maybe there was a murder plot here somewhere.
03:04Anyway.
03:05Very good.
03:06Have fun.
03:07Both of you.
03:07Big round of applause there for Curtis and Morgan.
03:09And over in the corner there, wow, Susie, and looking like a herbaceous border, we've got the wonderful author and comedian Jenny Eclair.
03:22Jenny, welcome back.
03:23Oh, thank you for having me back.
03:25I'm delighted to be here.
03:27And we're delighted to have you.
03:29Morgan, what are you going to do for us?
03:31Letters game.
03:32Hi, Rachel.
03:32Hi, Morgan.
03:33I'll start with a vowel, please.
03:34Start the week with I.
03:36And another.
03:38O.
03:39And a third.
03:41A.
03:42And a consonant.
03:44G.
03:45And another.
03:47S.
03:48And another.
03:50N.
03:51And another consonant.
03:53R.
03:55And a vowel.
03:57E.
03:58And a final consonant, please.
04:00A final G.
04:01Stand by.
04:06Well, Morgan.
04:34Eight.
04:34An eight.
04:35Curtis.
04:36Seven.
04:37And your seven is?
04:38Three gains.
04:39And, Morgan.
04:40Greasing.
04:41Greasing.
04:42Yes.
04:42Very nice.
04:45Greasing.
04:47What about the corner?
04:48Jenny, Susie?
04:49Can you do a plural naggers?
04:51You can.
04:52Yeah.
04:52Not one nagger.
04:54Loads of naggers.
04:55Loads of naggers.
04:55People who nag.
04:56So, nags, in other words.
04:57Yeah.
04:57That's fair for seven.
04:59And one more eight for you, Nick.
05:00Organise.
05:01Organise.
05:02Organise.
05:02Yep.
05:03Thank you very much for that.
05:04Morgan on eight.
05:05And now it's Curtis.
05:07Hi, Rachel.
05:08Hi, Curtis.
05:08Can I have a consonant, please?
05:10Start with D.
05:12And another.
05:15W.
05:16And another.
05:17And it's Countdown.
05:41We'll be back to you next time.
05:43MUSIC PLAYS
06:137
06:147 and?
06:157 as well
06:152 7s
06:16Curtis
06:17Borded
06:17Morgan
06:18Same word
06:19There we go
06:20Jeannie and Susie
06:21Yes I have got one
06:23And it's a good one
06:24It's Bordier
06:25With a W in the middle
06:26Bordier
06:28Yes
06:28A Bordier night
06:29It would have been difficult to experience
06:31Can you imagine?
06:33What about Susie?
06:35That's good 7
06:35Radioed is another one
06:37Radio is a verb
06:38Radioed
06:38Thank you
06:39Radioed for help
06:4015 plays 7
06:42And Morgan
06:43Your numbers came
06:44Can I go for one big and five small please
06:46You can indeed
06:47Thank you Morgan
06:47One from the top row
06:48Five not
06:49And the first numbers of the week
06:51Are
06:521
06:526
06:538
06:547
06:558
06:56And 100
06:57And the target
06:59123
07:00123
07:011
07:012
07:023
07:021
07:022
07:023
07:032
07:044
07:055
07:064
07:065
07:075
07:085
07:095
07:106
07:116
07:126
07:136
07:147
07:167
07:178
07:187
07:198
07:209
07:219
07:2210
07:2310
07:2410
07:2510
07:2610
07:2710
07:2810
07:2910
07:3010
07:3110
07:3410
07:3510
07:3610
07:3710
07:3811
07:3912
07:4010
07:4110
07:4210
07:4310
07:4410
07:4510
07:4610
07:4710
07:4810
07:49So 25 plays 17 as we turn now to our first Tea Time teaser, which is ten minors.
07:56And the clue? The children were invited to share their deepest thoughts with the teacher.
08:01The children were invited to share their deepest thoughts with the teacher.
08:19Welcome back. Welcome back. I left you with the clue.
08:23The children were invited to share their deepest thoughts with the teacher, their innermost thoughts.
08:29Innermost is the answer to that.
08:31Innermost. 25 plays 17. Morgan on 25.
08:34And now, Curtis, it's your letters go.
08:37Start the vowel, please.
08:38Thank you, Curtis. O.
08:40And another.
08:42A.
08:43And another.
08:45I.
08:46And another.
08:48E.
08:49And a consonant, please.
08:51S.
08:52And another.
08:53P.
08:54And another.
08:55R.
08:57And another.
08:58Q.
09:01And another, please.
09:04And lastly, T.
09:06Stand by.
09:06Z Por.
09:15lost.
09:17And another.
09:18Good One.
09:20nes.
09:21And another.
09:23And also, we.
09:24And another.
09:24And another.
09:25We'll be able to hearable.
09:25Because this is a word.
09:25Three.
09:26And another.
09:26Two.
09:27And another.
09:27Three.
09:28And another.
09:29And another.
09:29Three.
09:29Second's saying.
09:30Two.
09:30One.
09:30Two.
09:31One.
09:31Can another.
09:32There.
09:33Three.
09:33One.
09:33Two.
09:34One.
09:34Three.
09:34Two.
09:34Three.
09:35Three.
09:35Yes, Curtis?
09:38Six.
09:39Six, Morgan?
09:40Seven.
09:40Curtis?
09:41Poster.
09:42Poster and?
09:43Ropey-est.
09:44Yes, very good.
09:46Ropey-est.
09:47Now, Jenny.
09:48Well, I've got pirates, but there's no word called sproat.
09:53Oh.
09:54It's a cross between a sprout and a stoat, maybe.
09:58No, I just sort of came up.
10:00Is there?
10:00No, there isn't.
10:01Well, that's that me.
10:02That's me told.
10:04Susie?
10:04You have pirates, we have parties, there's an anagram of that, and also traipse, another
10:08anagram.
10:08Traipse?
10:09Yes.
10:09I like that.
10:10Yeah.
10:11Traipsing off down the road.
10:1332 plays 17.
10:15Morgan, your letters game.
10:17I'll start with a vowel, please.
10:18Thank you, Morgan.
10:19O.
10:20And another.
10:21A.
10:23And a consonant.
10:25H.
10:26And another.
10:28R.
10:29And another.
10:31T.
10:32And a fourth.
10:34C.
10:35And a vowel.
10:37E.
10:38And another.
10:41O.
10:42And a final consonant, please.
10:43A final.
10:45S.
10:45Stand by.
10:46B.
10:57I'm good.
10:59I'm good.
10:59Bye.
11:00Bye.
11:00Morgan.
11:17Seven again.
11:18Seven again. Curtis.
11:20Six.
11:20You're six.
11:21All rights.
11:22Mr Sawyer.
11:23Shooter.
11:24Shooter, yes. Absolutely fine.
11:25And over in the corner.
11:27I've got earshot.
11:29Very good. And Susie?
11:30Nice seven. Yes, seven's all the way, really.
11:32Cahoots, as in in cahoots, cohorts, that kind of thing.
11:3639 plays 17.
11:38And now, Curtis, your shot at the numbers.
11:41One for the top and anywhere else.
11:43Thank you, Curtis.
11:43One big five little coming up again.
11:46And for this round, we have...
11:48Seven.
11:49Nine.
11:50Three.
11:51Three.
11:52Seven.
11:53And 75.
11:55And the target, 317.
11:573-1-7.
11:58One.
11:59One.
11:59Two.
12:00Three.
12:00Three.
12:01One.
12:04Three.
12:05Two.
12:07Two.
12:10Four.
12:12Two.
12:13One.
12:20Two.
12:21Three.
12:22Three.
12:23Spring.
12:23Yes, Curtis?
12:31Nothing at all, I'm afraid.
12:33Too far?
12:33Yep.
12:34Morgan?
12:343, 16, not written down.
12:36Off we go.
12:373, 1, 6.
12:387 minus 3 to give 4.
12:397 minus 3 is 4.
12:40Times by 75 to give 300.
12:43Yep.
12:44And then 9 plus 7 is 16, and add that on.
12:469 plus the other 7 for one away.
12:483, 1, 6.
12:49Well done, but not exactly there.
12:52For that, we turn to Rachel.
12:54This is tricky.
12:55Rachel?
12:56Yes, leave it with me.
12:58Certainly I will.
12:5946, place 17.
13:01Morgan on 46.
13:03As we turn to Jenny Eclare.
13:05Jenny, what have you got for us?
13:07Oh, well, you know we're a dictionary corner here,
13:11but I'm also hypochondria corner.
13:14Yes.
13:15Very odd side effects to being the age I am.
13:1959.
13:20Oh, look, we don't look surprised.
13:21They're going, oh, I thought she was older.
13:23I think, you know, a lot of people know that middle-aged women suffer from funny old things.
13:28But one of the odd side effects, I have something called temper static.
13:33Oh.
13:33Yes, and how it involves my everyday life.
13:37I can't use those, um, you know, this is my mime, I'm very highly trained.
13:43You know when you go in a shop and it's an automatic till?
13:46Mm-hmm.
13:46I can't do that because of my temper static.
13:49I've got so much temper and rage that when I try and swipe an item,
13:55it's like it won't go because I've got the rage and I'll go over and over and over again.
14:00And the more I do it, the more it won't happen.
14:02Do you get that?
14:03No.
14:04Oh.
14:06Do you understand?
14:08I genuinely think I kind of give out this electrical force field.
14:13Yeah.
14:14Of badness.
14:15I see.
14:15That won't let the code do the thing.
14:19I can almost...
14:19It was very technical then, wasn't it, that description?
14:22I thought that was brilliant.
14:23Anything else?
14:25Oh, I have pop-sock leg as well.
14:27What's that?
14:28Well, it's when you've got a fat calf, Nick.
14:30Yeah.
14:30You won't suffer from this.
14:31I think you're probably a thin, carved man.
14:34You normally slaughter the fatted calf, I think.
14:37Oh, well...
14:37Or is that a different calf?
14:39Yeah, I'm talking the calf on my leg.
14:41Oh, I see.
14:42With a pop-sock.
14:43And then what you've got to look out for is a dark welt round the top.
14:47And that means that you're cutting off your blood supply.
14:52And eventually it'll take the oxygen away from your brain.
14:55You have to be very careful.
14:55You have to take the pop-sock off very quickly.
14:58Well, good luck.
14:59And good luck with the ill lot, Les.
15:05And good luck with your fatted calf.
15:08Now, over to Rachel.
15:09Rachel, 317.
15:11I bet you have.
15:12Harder than it looked, this one.
15:13I think if you say 7 times 7 is 49, 3 divided by 3 is 1, 9 minus 1 is 8, times those together
15:22for 392, and then take away the 75.
15:26317.
15:27Fantastic.
15:31Spot on as ever.
15:33Always.
15:33Morgan, how about a letters game?
15:35I'll start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
15:37Thank you, Morgan.
15:38P.
15:39And another.
15:41T.
15:42And another.
15:43K.
15:45And a vowel.
15:47I.
15:48And another one.
15:49A.
15:50And another.
15:52E.
15:53And a consonant.
15:54N.
15:56And another one.
15:57V.
15:58And a final vowel, please.
16:01A final U.
16:03Stand by.
16:04O.
16:17Yes, Morgan?
16:35I think an eight.
16:37Curtis?
16:38Six.
16:39A six?
16:40A risky six.
16:41And how much of a risk?
16:43Putain.
16:44Now, what about Morgan?
16:46Punitive.
16:47Um, punitive, you need two I's.
16:49Um, and how are you spelling that, Curtis?
16:52Uh, so it's P-U-T-A-N-E.
16:55P-U-T-A-I-N would have been in there, but, um, not that spelling.
16:59I'm really sorry.
17:00Bad luck.
17:01Now, what else have we got in the corner there?
17:05Just a very simple six, peanut.
17:07Peanut.
17:09Susie, anything else?
17:10Yeah, six is all round uptake, intake.
17:13And now, Curtis, it's your letters go.
17:15Start of a vowel, please, Rachel.
17:16Thank you, Curtis.
17:17O.
17:18A consonant.
17:20S.
17:21And another.
17:23H.
17:24And another.
17:26M.
17:28And another.
17:30T.
17:31And a vowel.
17:33I.
17:35And another.
17:36U.
17:37And another.
17:38E.
17:39And a consonant, please.
17:42And lastly, Z.
17:44Stand by.
17:56Yes, Curtis.
18:16Six.
18:17And Morgan?
18:18I'll try seven.
18:19Curtis?
18:20Mouth.
18:21Yep.
18:21And homeist?
18:23Homeist, yes.
18:24Yes, homey is in there as a synonym for homely, really, pleasantly comfortable, so homeist
18:30is absolutely fine.
18:31Jenny?
18:32Another seventh without size.
18:35That's it?
18:35Yes.
18:36All right, 53 plays 17, and now Morgan, it's your numbers game.
18:41I'll go two from the top and four small then, please.
18:43Thank you, Morgan.
18:44Two large, four little ones, and the small ones are one, nine, eight and nine, and the
18:52large two, 25 and 50.
18:56And your target, 412.
18:58412.
18:59Two.
18:59Two.
19:00Four.
19:04Three.
19:04Three.
19:07Two.
19:07Well, Morgan?
19:314.10.
19:31And Curtis?
19:324.11.
19:33And 4.11.
19:35Curtis!
19:35No, unfortunately, now I've realised a mistake.
19:39Bit of slippage.
19:41Yes, sadly.
19:42Morgan?
19:438 times 50 is 400.
19:458, 50 is 400.
19:47And then add 9, add 1.
19:48Yep.
19:494.10.
19:50Two away.
19:51Rachel, 4.12.
19:53If you say 8 minus 1 is 7, 50 minus 7 is 43,
20:00times that by 9, 4, 387 and add the 25.
20:07That's the way.
20:08Wonderful.
20:12Wonderful.
20:13So, Morgan, 60, Curtis, 17, as we turn to our second tea time teaser,
20:18which is pruned cut.
20:21And the clue, she pruned the roses and cut the grass,
20:24then suddenly felt very deflated.
20:27She pruned the roses and cut the grass,
20:29then suddenly felt very deflated.
20:32Welcome back.
20:49Welcome back.
20:50I left with the clue, she pruned the roses and cut the grass,
20:53then suddenly felt very deflated.
20:55In fact, she felt sort of punctured.
20:58Punctured is the answer to that.
20:59So, where are we?
21:0160 plays 17.
21:04Morgan on 60.
21:05It's Curtis's letters game.
21:06Good luck.
21:07Consonant, please, Rachel.
21:08Thank you, Curtis.
21:09R.
21:10And another.
21:13S.
21:14And another.
21:16R.
21:17And a vowel.
21:19A.
21:20And another.
21:21O.
21:22And a consonant.
21:24M.
21:26And a vowel.
21:28A.
21:28And a consonant, please.
21:35And the last one, F.
21:37Stand by.
21:38And a vowel.
21:38And a vowel.
21:39And a vowel.
21:39And a vowel.
21:40And a vowel.
21:40And a vowel.
21:40And a vowel.
21:41And a vowel.
21:41And a vowel.
21:42And a vowel.
21:43And a vowel.
21:43And a vowel.
21:44And a vowel.
21:45And a vowel.
21:45And a vowel.
21:46And a vowel.
21:47And a vowel.
21:47And a vowel.
21:47And a vowel.
21:48And a vowel.
21:48And a vowel.
21:49And a vowel.
21:49And a vowel.
21:50And a vowel.
21:51And a vowel.
21:51And a vowel.
21:52And a vowel.
21:52And a vowel.
21:53And a vowel.
21:53And a vowel.
21:54And a vowel.
21:55And a vowel.
21:55And a vowel.
21:56And a vowel.
21:57And a vowel.
21:57And a vowel.
21:58And a vowel.
22:08Well, Curtis?
22:10Five.
22:11Five. Now, Morgan?
22:13Six.
22:14Curtis?
22:15Runes.
22:17Yes, sir.
22:18Aromas?
22:19Yes, very good.
22:21Now, Jenny?
22:22Aromas as well, yeah.
22:24Yes, nothing of any length there.
22:25That was the longest we could find.
22:27Morgan, your letters came.
22:30I'll start with the consonant again, please, Rachel.
22:31Thank you, Morgan.
22:32P?
22:33And another one?
22:35B.
22:37And vowel?
22:38I.
22:40And another?
22:41E.
22:42And a third?
22:44A.
22:45And a consonant?
22:47L.
22:48And another one?
22:50N.
22:52And another?
22:54T.
22:55And a final vowel, please.
22:57A final O.
22:59And here's the countdown clock.
23:00Marshall.
23:02And a foundation...
23:08Huh?
23:09See you next time.
23:10Yeah.
23:11And another one?
23:12It's not enough.
23:13You've got to stop.
23:13You've got to do this.
23:13And a third one,
23:19because of the way.
23:19I've got to do this.
23:19we're going to at work.
23:20And a half enough.
23:22And a second one.
23:23And again it's a half.
23:23And a half.
23:24And a half left.
23:25And another one.
23:26Yeah.
23:26And a half left.
23:27I'll do this maybe more.
23:27And in Europe.
23:27There's a half.
23:28And a half.
23:28Well, Morgan?
23:32A seven.
23:34A seven. Curtis?
23:35Six.
23:36And your six?
23:37Client.
23:39Morgan?
23:40Elation.
23:41Yes, very nice.
23:42Elation. Jenny?
23:43No, I'm sorry, I burnt out on this one.
23:47Susie?
23:48There are a few more sevens.
23:49Polenta is there and notable as well.
23:52But there is a nine there, Nick.
23:54A telescope that can be pointed very sharply at a particular object is pointable.
24:01Pointable.
24:01Pointable.
24:02Yes.
24:05And now it's time for Susie's wonderful origins of words.
24:12Susie?
24:13Well, I've been thinking recently how it's human nature, really,
24:17to kind of conceive of quite complicated ideas or abstract ideas
24:20through very concrete, you know, associations, I suppose.
24:25So they're metaphors, in other words.
24:26And so many of our most everyday English words rely on metaphors
24:31that actually are associated with a particular concrete object.
24:34So I thought I would give you some examples.
24:37I spoke the other day about normal going back to a carpenter's square,
24:40the normal, the sort of right angles being the kind of standard measurement.
24:45Companion has got bread in it because it's somebody with whom you break bread.
24:48Likewise, a mate is somebody with whom you eat your meat at once,
24:53a word that meant all food, not just meat itself, as we would associate it today.
24:58I mentioned that word flatten.
24:59That's in the word explain as well, because plenare in Latin meant to flatten out.
25:04So when you explain something, you are flattening out a complicated argument, perhaps.
25:09And likewise, I mentioned hanging.
25:11Depend goes back to the Latin pender.
25:13It gave us pendulum and pendulous to hang.
25:16So when you depend on something, you hang your argument upon it or you hang your trust upon it.
25:22To impede, the ped in there is ped, Latin for a foot.
25:27So if you impede somebody or are impeded, your foot's entangled in some way.
25:32Millipede has got the same idea of feet in it.
25:35And likewise, if you emancipate somebody, you let go of their hand.
25:38So emancipate has got manus in it, the Latin for hand.
25:42And I'll just finish with one that I always really like.
25:46You would never guess that remorse, perhaps, is linked to morsel, a morsel of food.
25:50Because the idea is that when you feel remorse over something, it comes back to bite you.
25:55Oh, really?
25:56So good.
26:02Wonderful.
26:02Perfectly packaged little lesson there.
26:05I love them.
26:0773 plays 17.
26:08Morgan in the charge at the moment.
26:10And it's Curtis's letters game.
26:12Curtis.
26:13Vowel, please, Rachel.
26:14Thank you, Curtis.
26:15U.
26:17And another.
26:18E.
26:19And a consonant.
26:21S.
26:23And another.
26:25T.
26:25And a vowel, please.
26:29I.
26:29And a consonant.
26:32N.
26:33And a consonant.
26:35S.
26:36And a vowel.
26:39A.
26:40And final consonant, please.
26:41Final J.
26:43Stand by.
26:44And a vowel.
26:45And a vowel.
26:46And a vowel.
26:46And a vowel.
26:47And a vowel.
26:47And a vowel.
26:48And a vowel.
26:48And a vowel.
26:49And a vowel.
26:49And a vowel.
26:49And a vowel.
26:49And a vowel.
26:49And a vowel.
26:50And a vowel.
26:50And a vowel.
26:51And a vowel.
26:51And a vowel.
26:51And a vowel.
26:51And a vowel.
26:52And a vowel.
26:52And a vowel.
26:53And a vowel.
26:53And a vowel.
26:54And a vowel.
26:55And a vowel.
26:55And a vowel.
26:56And a vowel.
26:57And a vowel.
26:57And a vowel.
26:58And a vowel.
26:58And a vowel.
26:59And a vowel.
26:59And a vowel.
27:00And a vowel.
27:00And a vowel.
27:01And a vowel.
27:02And a vowel.
27:14well Curtis seven Morgan I try seven as well Curtis sustain sustain and nasties
27:21think that should be fine actually yes unpleasant or harmful people or things
27:28Jenny did very badly I just got stains stains and Susie sinuate is in there not
27:37quite the same as insinuate it means in zoological terms to have a wavy margin
27:42so something that is slightly zigzagged no I see yeah it's a description thank you
27:48all right so into the final letters game now Morgan gonna start with the vowel
27:52again please Rachel thank you Morgan E and another I and a consonant C and
28:01another M and another L and fourth M and a vowel E and another U and a final consonant please a
28:19final L countdown
28:22so
28:28Morgan, I'll try six.
28:55A six.
28:57Risky six.
28:58And Morgan?
28:59Ice men.
29:00Ice men.
29:01Curtis?
29:02Unlice.
29:03An ice man is there.
29:05A man who sells or delivers ice, particularly in North America.
29:09I think you would de-louse rather than unlice, Curtis.
29:12It looked better written down than it did out loud.
29:15Oh, I'm sorry.
29:16Yes, not there.
29:17Bad luck.
29:18Bad luck.
29:18Now, Jenny and Susie.
29:20Jenny?
29:21There's something called a micellular blanket.
29:24Is it a wool?
29:25My cell?
29:26My cell.
29:27Yes, and you can get micellar water as well, can't you, I think.
29:29In chemical terms, my cell is a collection of molecules in a solution such as those formed
29:36by detergents.
29:37So you can get lots of different examples.
29:39Ah, ah, I've got it a bit wrong.
29:43I've got it quite wrong.
29:45But micellar is a word, okay, I'm going to remember that, and I'm going to use it in
29:49my next book.
29:50You don't use it in your current book, you're called Inheritance, micellar.
29:54No, I, no, weirdly enough, it's not.
29:57That word doesn't, it's a big book, it's got many words in it.
30:00An absolute page-turner, it says here.
30:03You can barely put it down.
30:04You can see, struggling, struggling to put it down.
30:09There we are, thank you.
30:1286 plays 24, stop it, Jenny.
30:16Numbers game for Curtis.
30:17One large and five small, please, Rachel.
30:20Thank you, Curtis.
30:20Last one of the day, one from the top.
30:22Five little ones.
30:24And the selection is five, eight, nine, six, ten, and fifty.
30:32And the final target, 883.
30:35Eight, eight three.
30:36Eight, eight, nine, six, ten, and fifty.
31:07Well, Curtis.
31:08Eight, seven, seven.
31:10Eight, seven, seven, and...
31:12I think 882.
31:14Yes, let's try that.
31:16Uh, 50 minus one is 49.
31:19So, six minus five to make the one.
31:2150 minus six minus five is 49.
31:2410 plus eight is 18.
31:26Yep.
31:26And then times them together to give 882.
31:28Yep, 882, one away.
31:31That's a winner.
31:32Although it's not perfect.
31:33Rachel, can you get 883 out of that for us?
31:36It's been a tricky day today.
31:38Leave it with me, Nick.
31:39Certainly I will.
31:4093, place 24 as we go into the final round, chaps.
31:45Let's roll today's countdown conundrum.
31:47Morgan, speedy Morgan.
31:54Manicable.
31:55Let's see whether you're right.
31:57No.
31:58No.
31:58Curtis.
31:59Curtis.
31:59Curtis.
31:59I'm trying to press the button.
32:29You just squeeze that in, didn't you?
32:40Anyway, well done.
32:41I hope you enjoyed it.
32:42Excellent.
32:42I hope you enjoyed it.
32:43Listen, let's have a word with the audience, because our two great players couldn't manage
32:47it.
32:48I'm going to go to the gentleman right over there.
32:51In balance.
32:52Let's see whether you're right.
32:54Oh, you are?
32:55In balance.
32:55Well done.
33:01Well done indeed.
33:03Morgan, you're back again.
33:05You're back again tomorrow.
33:06Look at that.
33:07Six wins.
33:08Fantastic.
33:08Played so well.
33:09I'll come back to you in a second.
33:10Curtis.
33:11You were good.
33:12You were good.
33:13He was always a point ahead, wasn't he?
33:16That's got to be infuriating.
33:18Yeah.
33:19You were coming in at seven.
33:20He's got an eight.
33:20You were coming in at six.
33:21He's got a seven.
33:22I thought we'd leave friends.
33:23I think you probably will.
33:25But thank you very much indeed for coming.
33:26You take this goodie bag home to Chelmsford with our very, very best wishes.
33:31Thanks for coming.
33:33As I say, Morgan Sawyer, you've got six.
33:37You're after seven.
33:38And who knows?
33:39Fingers crossed.
33:40Absolutely.
33:41Well, well done.
33:41See you tomorrow.
33:42Jenny, you come back tomorrow?
33:43Yes, please.
33:45Indeed.
33:45Yes, certainly, please.
33:47And Susie too?
33:48Yes.
33:48Of course.
33:49And Rachel.
33:50Rachel, what news?
33:51Yes.
33:51Last tricky one of the day.
33:52If you say nine times ten is 90, plus 50 for 140, plus eight for 148, times that by six for 888, and take away the five for 8, 8, 3, 5.
34:06Terrific.
34:12Thanks, Rachel.
34:13Thanks.
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