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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:20APPLAUSE
00:31Hello, everybody. I hope your day is treating you well so far.
00:34But good or bad, it's time to just tune out, put the kettle on
00:37and be amongst friends for the next 45 minutes.
00:40And we all get to sit and enjoy it. You do all the standing, Rachel?
00:43A little bit of that. A lot of sitting down as well.
00:45That's true. Yeah.
00:46Rachel, this day, 1969, everyone watching is going to know,
00:51it's so celebrated, the moon landing.
00:53But you were T minus 17 when that happened.
00:56I've not been back since. I think if they did it again,
00:58it would have the same reaction for a whole new generation
01:00who's never seen it. Yeah.
01:02I do have this really small memory,
01:04and I'm wondering if any viewers actually saw it as well.
01:06There was a TV programme when I was somewhere around there,
01:10and it was a prank show where they were getting people
01:12to send in audition tapes to go to the moon with Paul Ince.
01:16You see, you don't need Paul Ince, you can go yourself,
01:19because, of course, there's private round trips now
01:21that takes you into space, if not the moon.
01:24Who would you give a one-way ticket to space to?
01:27Oh, I don't like to be... Well, Mo Salah, he can go.
01:31That's not a bad one.
01:33Well, if you send Mo Salah up to space, I'm sending you,
01:36and you can spend the rest of your life with him.
01:38It would be worth it. United fans would be grateful.
01:42Zero chance of that happening, right.
01:44Let's head over to someone who's always in her own little world,
01:47orbiting the dictionary, in order to keep Countdown in the right trajectory.
01:51It's Susie Dent, alongside the man who's danced with many a star,
01:55Brendan Cole.
02:00OK, well, listen, what a story we had yesterday on Countdown.
02:0320 years after losing on a crucial Countdown conundrum,
02:06Billy Whitehead came back and found redemption,
02:09becoming our champion.
02:10And I mean this in a very polite way,
02:12but you must remember the moon landing.
02:14I do, Colin. It was my 10th birthday, 20th of July, 1969.
02:18We have a birthday boy today. Happy birthday, Billy!
02:23Well, today you're going up against someone your own age.
02:25I'll explain what I mean. Laura Hadfield's here.
02:28Laura, it's great to have you here. Thank you.
02:30You're 24 years old, but what's your inside age?
02:32We're going to make a thing of this. I love this.
02:34What's your inside age?
02:36Well, my friends all refer to me as an old lady,
02:38cos I like old lady things.
02:40So we're 60s, mid-60s?
02:42We'll go with that, but my mum is in the audience
02:44and she's around my age, so I have to be careful.
02:46So what type of things do you do? Because I'm all in for this.
02:49I'm definitely older than 45, so let's have it.
02:52Like jigsaws, just puzzles in general, Countdown.
02:56Don't... Well, how dare you? This is a young person's show.
02:59Do you have... This is a question, like I do.
03:02Do you have the thing where you can roll up your jigsaw
03:05before you've finished it, take it off the table and then bring it back?
03:08I do. We actually have two in the house.
03:10Two of them. Oh, this is dirty talk.
03:13Do you varnish your jigsaws?
03:15No, I don't do that.
03:17Well, you're not that old, then, if you're not varnishing.
03:19You know what I mean at home. Varnishing jigsaws.
03:21All right, well, listen, let's hope you can roll back the years today.
03:24Good luck, Billy. Could be two in a row.
03:26Or Laura might steal your thunder. Let's find out. Good luck today.
03:29APPLAUSE
03:31OK, from Mission Control.
03:33Time to launch another episode of Countdown.
03:36Champion, your letters.
03:38Hi again, Rachel. Hi, Billy.
03:40I'll have a consonant, please. Thank you. Start today with L.
03:43And another.
03:45C. And another.
03:47D. And another.
03:50S. Vowel.
03:52A. And another.
03:54O. And another.
03:56E.
03:59A consonant.
04:01T. And...
04:05..a vowel.
04:07And lastly, U.
04:09Left off.
04:29MUSIC CONTINUES
04:40Laura, first time, always the hardest on Countdown.
04:42How did you get on? Seven.
04:44Well done. Seven. Billy? Seven.
04:46Yours is, Billy? Clouted.
04:48And Laura? Saluted.
04:50Saluted and clouted.
04:52Over to Brendan.
04:54Yeah, seven. Coasted, cursed.
04:56Couldn't get better than seven, I'm afraid.
04:58We had clouds in there after our astronaut started the show.
05:01Very nice. Lovely start.
05:03Cosmic, seven points each. Laura, let's get your first letters.
05:06Can I have that other consonant, please?
05:08Thank you, Laura. N.
05:10And another.
05:12R.
05:14And a vowel, please.
05:16I. And another.
05:18A. And another consonant.
05:22S.
05:24And another.
05:26F.
05:28Another vowel, please.
05:30E.
05:32A consonant.
05:34T.
05:36And another consonant, please.
05:38Lastly, C.
05:4030 seconds.
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06:12Big hopes here. Laura?
06:14Eight. And eight. And Billy?
06:16Eight. Wow. Laura?
06:18Fanciest. Yes, fanciest.
06:20And Billy? Fanciest.
06:22It's the same word. Fancy that.
06:24APPLAUSE
06:28It felt, Brendan, it was always going to touch for an eight or nine.
06:30Could we go an extra letter? Yeah.
06:32We had fanciest over here, and the other one was...?
06:34Canister. Canister. Yes.
06:36Brilliant. 15 points each.
06:38Time for our first numbers game, and it's Billy picking them.
06:40One large, please, Rachel.
06:42Thank you, Billy. One large, five little.
06:44See if the numbers can separate you two.
06:46First attempt.
06:48Six, ten, seven,
06:50five, one in the large one, 50.
06:52Add the target.
06:54560.
06:56Numbers up.
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07:20MUSIC STOPS
07:28Billy? 560.
07:30Yeah, and Laura? I've got it but not written down.
07:32You go ahead, then.
07:34OK, six times five is 30.
07:36Six times five, 30.
07:38Close to 50.
07:40Plus 50, 80. Times five is seven.
07:42I could bet good money that Billy's not done it the same way, but yeah, 560.
07:46Where do you see this? Billy, go ahead.
07:4850 plus six. 56.
07:50Times ten.
07:52APPLAUSE
07:54Doesn't matter.
07:56Same ten points, no matter what way you do it.
07:58A hard-new set.
08:00Hard-new set. Our first Tea Time teaser today.
08:02She had a new set of bedsheets
08:04and couldn't wait to get wrapped up in them.
08:06She had a new set of bedsheets
08:08and couldn't wait to get wrapped up in them.
08:10MUSIC PLAYS
08:12APPLAUSE
08:24Welcome back.
08:26Hard-new set.
08:28She had a new set of bedsheets
08:30and couldn't wait to get wrapped up in them.
08:32Well, the answer is in suede.
08:34New bedsheets for us old people, Laura.
08:36There's nothing we like better.
08:38Eight o'clock to bed, new bedsheets, Horlicks.
08:40Eight o'clock, maybe not the Horlicks, but the rest of it, yeah.
08:42OK. Half nine, that'll do.
08:44Right, it's your letters.
08:46We'll start with a consonant, please.
08:48Thank you, Laura. M.
08:50And another?
08:52W.
08:54And another?
08:56P. And a vowel, please?
08:58A.
09:00And another? I.
09:02And another?
09:04E.
09:06Another consonant, please?
09:08Another consonant?
09:10L.
09:12And another consonant, please?
09:14Lastly, T.
09:16Thank you, Rachel.
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09:48Laura, how many?
09:50Just a six. A six, Billy?
09:52Seven. Laura, the six?
09:54Impart. And Billy?
09:56Maltier. Brandon?
09:58No further on a seven over here, if you know what I mean.
10:00Primate we had? Yeah.
10:02Was there one other? Trample as well.
10:04Trample? OK. Seven the best you could get, though.
10:06Seven always the champion.
10:08Billy, 32. Laura, 25.
10:10Billy, it's your letters.
10:12Consonant, please, Rachel?
10:14Thank you, Billy. Y.
10:16And another?
10:18G. And another?
10:20D.
10:22And another?
10:24B. Vowel?
10:26I.
10:28And another?
10:30U. And another?
10:32A.
10:34Consonant?
10:36S.
10:38Er...
10:40Vowel?
10:42And the last one, E.
10:44Here we go.
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11:16But you've run away the whole way through that, Billy.
11:18Only a six. A six. Laura?
11:20Seven. A seven. Look at this, Billy. Six?
11:22Badgies.
11:24And Laura? Bodgies.
11:26Bodgies, seven points. At least you didn't smuggle them, eh?
11:28Absolutely. Anything else?
11:30Gordies are there as well.
11:32You know, the sort of reunions at colleges and things.
11:34That could be another seven. Beautiful.
11:36Lovely. We will move on.
11:38It's time for numbers and it's Laura.
11:40Can we try three of each, please?
11:42You can indeed. Back to parity.
11:44See if these can separate you.
11:46Three large, three little. Possibly a challenge.
11:48Right, this selection is 1, 5, 3.
11:50And the big ones, 100, 75 and 25.
11:54And the target...
11:56Oh, 854.
11:58MUSIC PLAYS
12:28854.
12:30Billy, pen down.
12:32850, not written down.
12:34850, not written down. Laura?
12:36851, just about written down.
12:38Let's have it.
12:405 plus 3 is 8.
12:425 plus 3 is 8.
12:44500.
12:46800.
12:4875 take 25 is 50.
12:50Yeah. Adver on and adver one.
12:52Yep, well done. Three away.
12:54Rachel, I thought I had this after six seconds.
12:56And I sat smug for 24 seconds
12:58and realised I'd made a miscalculation.
13:00Oh, brutal.
13:02Well, there was one way that I found.
13:04Just the one. I'm sure there may have been others.
13:06But 100 plus 75.
13:08175. Yeah.
13:10Times that by five. That's what's stood.
13:12For 875. Yeah.
13:14And then how did you get it wrong from here, Colin?
13:16Well, I thought it was 850.
13:18And then I just added the three and the one.
13:20So that was my mistake. We had a 25 left over.
13:22Oh, no! And then the three and the one.
13:24This is like your celebrity attempt all over again.
13:27Disaster, wasn't it? Disaster.
13:29Well done, Rachel. Brilliant.
13:33Laura moves into the lead by seven points as we take a break.
13:36But as it's your last day, Brendan,
13:38you've done all the talking so far,
13:40so we'd like to just take a question each to you.
13:43Susie, you can go first.
13:45OK, well, as someone who, if I could get away with it,
13:48would take one of those push-along penguins on the ice...
13:51Is there a fundamental rule to make you a good ice skater?
13:54The main thing for me in the early days
13:56was actually that you could stay on your knees.
13:58The moment you come out of your knees, you're on the ice.
14:01Stay on your knees, long, slow, steady.
14:03Keep the blades pointing in one direction.
14:05So you're squatting, essentially. Yeah.
14:07The longer you stay on, as soon as I realised that,
14:09it took about three weeks, I think, before I stayed down
14:12and then things started to progress.
14:14Before that, I was absolutely useless.
14:16Thank you. That is excellent.
14:18Lesson learnt already. Rachel.
14:20I guess I was obviously a contestant on Strictly for one year
14:23and then for many years I watched Pasha being the teacher.
14:25It was quite a different experience,
14:27so I'd like to know if you would do anything differently,
14:30having now been a contestant on a show like that,
14:33if you were going back to teach.
14:35Ooh. I found it very hard not to put my own thoughts in there.
14:40I should have just behaved and listened to Vanessa,
14:43but I couldn't help myself, because, especially as a dancer,
14:46you kind of want to have your own input.
14:48Mutual respect is very important within any relationship, people.
14:51Well, I think we'd all agree with that.
14:53Now, I'm not a Strictly fan, or should I say wasn't a Strictly fan,
14:57but Rose Aileen Ellis, I saw a clip on my Twitter feed
15:01and it brought me into the show. Yes.
15:03On two occasions, I cried watching her dance.
15:07So my question to you is, when has a routine moved you to tears?
15:11Whenever you choreograph a routine, whenever you perform a routine,
15:14you want to draw the audience in.
15:16Your goal should be to make the audience watching,
15:19whoever's going to watch it, want to be a part of that number.
15:22So an emotional piece of music is number one key
15:27for making people want to cry.
15:29But you're storytelling, so any time you can...
15:31It's just a touch of a hand, isn't it?
15:33The way two hands touch, the way you touch a shoulder
15:36just to turn her around, to look at you in the eye.
15:38Those moments are what I dance for.
15:40They're why I want to be on a stage and performing,
15:43whether it be in theatre or on a television show.
15:46It's an amazing feeling when you just...
15:49If I could touch you now, I'd touch you now, whatever moment.
15:53Brendan, I'd let you. Thank you so much.
16:00Will it be tears at bedtime tonight,
16:02but will it be Billy or Laura reaching for the Kleenex?
16:05Seven points in it. Billy, you're trailing and it's your letters.
16:08Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Billy.
16:10T.
16:11And another.
16:13L.
16:14And another.
16:16H.
16:17And another.
16:18T.
16:19Vowel.
16:21A.
16:22And another.
16:24I.
16:25And another.
16:27O.
16:28And another.
16:30E.
16:32And a consonant.
16:33And lastly, N.
16:35Good luck, everybody.
16:41MUSIC PLAYS
17:07Time is up. Laura?
17:09Seven.
17:10Go ahead, Bill.
17:11Elation.
17:12Laura?
17:13Toenail.
17:14Toenail and elation.
17:15Very different words, but both seven points.
17:18Just confirming that, all good? Oh, yes, absolutely.
17:20Beautiful. Brendan, anything else?
17:22Tunnelite, for an eight. Tunnelite.
17:24Is that how you pronounce it? Yes, absolutely.
17:26It's from geology and it's a coarse-grained plutonic rock.
17:29Of course it is. Wonderful. If you got that at home, well done.
17:32You beat every single person in the studio,
17:34apart from the dictionary corner.
17:36Laura, your letters.
17:37Start with a consonant, please.
17:39Thank you, Laura.
17:40G.
17:41And another.
17:43W.
17:44And a vowel.
17:46E.
17:48And another.
17:49E.
17:51And another.
17:53U.
17:54A consonant.
17:56S.
17:57And another.
17:59F.
18:01And another.
18:03T.
18:05And another vowel, please.
18:07And the last one, O.
18:09Start the clock.
18:38BUZZER
18:40Not easy, Billy.
18:41Just a five.
18:42A five there. Laura?
18:44Just a five as well.
18:45Solid manners.
18:46Stephen's, Billy?
18:47Guest.
18:48And Laura?
18:49Suite.
18:50Two words, they work. Five points each.
18:52Can we do any better in dictionary corner?
18:54A little six.
18:55Fetus.
18:56Anything else, Sue?
18:57An outsea, to see further than someone else.
18:59Just to be able to see further away, outsea.
19:0120-20 vision.
19:02Right, forget 20-20, 44-51.
19:05Our challenger's still got her nose in front.
19:07So, Billy, choose your numbers carefully.
19:09Too large, please, Rachel.
19:11Cautious choice, still too large.
19:13Four little, coming up.
19:16And the four small ones are four, two, three and four.
19:20And the big ones, 25 and 75.
19:23And this target, 588.
19:25Numbers up.
19:35MUSIC PLAYS
19:57Laura?
19:58588.
19:59OK, and Billy?
20:00588.
20:01No, Billy got it in five seconds.
20:03Laura got it in 29 seconds.
20:06We heard the noise, the pen went down.
20:08So, Laura, off you go.
20:0975 plus 25 is 100.
20:11100.
20:13And then 4 plus 2 is 6.
20:154 plus 2, 6.
20:16Times them together to get 600.
20:18600.
20:194 times 3 is 12 and take that away.
20:20However long it took.
20:21It's ten points to you, by the way.
20:25Billy, there's a few ways to go here.
20:27Did you go a different way?
20:28Yeah, I done 4 times 2 times 75.
20:32Times 75 for 600.
20:34And 4 times 3, take away.
20:36Lovely.
20:37Same result.
20:38Well done.
20:39There you go.
20:40Ten points to you.
20:41APPLAUSE
20:42Very good.
20:43Still seven points the difference.
20:44We mentioned Rose Aileen Ellis when we were having a chat there.
20:47So, timely tea time teaser.
20:48Rose Given.
20:49Rose Given.
20:50Rose was given a special old coin by the monarch.
20:53Rose was given a special old coin by the monarch.
20:56MUSIC PLAYS
21:03APPLAUSE
21:12Welcome back.
21:13Rose Given was the tea time teaser.
21:15Rose was given a special old coin by the monarch.
21:18And that coin was a sovereign.
21:20A sovereign.
21:21And a king of Countdown right now.
21:23Our current king, close to being dethroned,
21:25Billy Whitehead, is losing by seven points.
21:27Delora Hadfield.
21:28Delora, it's your letters.
21:30A thought of a consonant, please.
21:32Thank you, Delora.
21:33N.
21:34And another.
21:36R.
21:37And another.
21:38K.
21:40And a vowel.
21:42I.
21:43And another.
21:44A.
21:46And another.
21:47E.
21:49A consonant.
21:51S.
21:53And another.
21:55G.
21:56A.
21:58And another consonant, please.
22:00Lastly.
22:01P.
22:02Good luck.
22:03MUSIC PLAYS
22:26Laura, how many?
22:27Eight.
22:28And eight.
22:29And Billy?
22:30Eight.
22:31I think you got yours early doors.
22:33What is it?
22:34Speaking.
22:35Speaking.
22:36And Laura?
22:37Sparing.
22:38Wonderful.
22:39And maybe a few other spurs that get you eight points.
22:42We've got one little spur over here.
22:44Sparking is a nice eight.
22:46And if you like a bit of ice, rink.
22:48Rink.
22:49For five.
22:50I got that all on my own.
22:52I was very proud.
22:53Putting the S on was inspired.
22:55Always go plural.
22:56Brilliant.
22:57Billy, letters.
22:58Consonant, please, Rachel.
23:00Thank you, Billy.
23:01N.
23:02And another.
23:03T.
23:04And another.
23:05H.
23:06One more.
23:08L.
23:09Vowel.
23:11O.
23:12And another.
23:13U.
23:14And another.
23:15I.
23:17Consonant.
23:19Vowel.
23:20O.
23:21And another.
23:22M.
23:25Consonant.
23:27Lastly, R.
23:2830 seconds.
23:52MUSIC PLAYS
24:00Laura?
24:01Just a five.
24:02And Billy?
24:03Seven.
24:04The five is?
24:05Unlit.
24:06No worries there, but Billy, seven.
24:08Turmoil.
24:09Excellent.
24:10Laura's feeling the exact definition of that word now,
24:13cos we're tied at 69 points each.
24:16Let's go to Dictionary Corner.
24:18Susie, anything big?
24:19Nothing better than that.
24:22OK, well, listen, let's all sit back.
24:24We'll forget about how tense the studio is right now
24:27for more origins of words.
24:29Well, what day of the week were you born on?
24:32Do you know?
24:33No idea.
24:34OK, well, you know Monday's child is fair of face.
24:37Tuesday's child is full of grace.
24:39Wednesday's child is full of woe.
24:41Thursday's child has far to go.
24:43Friday's child is loving and giving.
24:45Saturday's child works hard for his living.
24:47And the child that is born on the Sabbath day
24:49What's that description of it wasn't born on a Saturday?
24:53Obviously, it's a really, really old, very popular rhyme.
24:57And it comes from the ancient belief
24:59that each day of the week has a certain characteristic.
25:03And that is very much associated with mythology
25:06and the naming of those days of the week.
25:08So Monday, this is why I mentioned it today,
25:10because it's all about the moon.
25:12Tuesday is named after Tyre, the god of war, really,
25:16or combat, so identified with Mars later on.
25:18Wednesday's after Woden, the king of the gods.
25:21Thursday after Thor, the god of war.
25:23Friday after Freya, goddess of love.
25:26You know all of these.
25:27Saturday's the day of Saturn, the Roman god of agriculture.
25:32And then Sunday was the day of the sun.
25:35So all those planetary influences
25:37were thought to be really important.
25:39And you can find that in English in lots of different ways.
25:42So moving aside from the rhyme,
25:44you have somebody who was jovial, was born under Jupiter,
25:47also known as Jove, by Jove, for example, by Jupiter.
25:51Somebody who was mercurial, was named after Mercury,
25:54thought to be like quicksilver and very changeable.
25:57Somebody who was saturnine, was dark and gloomy
26:00and sort of heavy, etc.
26:02So there was a huge amount of beliefs, really,
26:05all tied up in this planetary system of characteristics,
26:10if you like.
26:11So in some ways it does kind of go back to this rhyme as well
26:15because Saturday's child is kind of working hard for the living,
26:19toiling in the fields, for example.
26:21Sunday's child is sunny-natured because of the sun.
26:24Monday's is as fair as the moon.
26:27So, you know, good-looking, essentially, fairer face.
26:30Friday's are probably loving and giving because of Freya.
26:33But the remaining days of the week, they don't quite work
26:36because if you look at Thunder, king of the gods, the god of war,
26:39you would expect them to be really feisty, if not a bit bolshy.
26:42But instead we have Wednesday's is full of woe,
26:45Thursday has far to go, which I think was me,
26:48and it just doesn't quite work out.
26:52But if you go to the original publication of the rhyme,
26:55which was in 1887 and it was published in Harper's Weekly,
26:59those born on a Wednesday can breathe a sigh of relief
27:01because they are no longer full of woe.
27:03That was given to Friday.
27:05And it was Wednesday's child who was loving and giving.
27:08So, at some point, they don't quite sort of knit together,
27:11but I find it fascinating that this idea goes back
27:14to really, really ancient beliefs as to planetary influences
27:17and what they mean for us.
27:19Out of this world.
27:22Is this a thing, Rachel? Do you know what day you were born on?
27:25Yeah, I was born on a Saturday. No!
27:27Yeah, I know most of the family.
27:29I'm intrigued now. I'll have to look it up.
27:31Right, Laura's 69, Billy, 69.
27:36What a finale we have, and, Laura, it's your letters.
27:39Consonant, please. Thank you, Laura.
27:41C.
27:43And another?
27:45S.
27:47And another? N.
27:49And a vowel, please.
27:51E.
27:53And another? O.
27:55And another? E.
27:57Another consonant?
27:59D.
28:01And another?
28:03N.
28:05And another vowel, please.
28:07And lastly, I.
28:09Let's go.
28:33BUZZER
28:41Billy? Only a six.
28:43And Laura? An eight.
28:45Billy? Second.
28:47What's the eight? Incensed.
28:49Absolutely. Wow.
28:51APPLAUSE
28:53What a time to pull that out of the bag, Laura.
28:56Absolutely fantastic stuff.
28:58Brendan, will you just sit back and hang on to the coattails?
29:01Susie also bang on incensed within about three seconds.
29:05Condense is another eight.
29:07Brilliant.
29:09We have three rounds left.
29:11Can Billy make it crucial? He's under pressure.
29:13It's your letters.
29:15Thank you, Billy.
29:17S. And another?
29:19R. And another?
29:21T. Vowel?
29:23E.
29:25And another? E.
29:27One more?
29:29A. Consonant?
29:31M.
29:33Consonant?
29:35S.
29:37Consonant?
29:39Lastly, B.
29:41Last letters.
29:43BUZZER
29:59BUZZER
30:01BUZZER
30:03BUZZER
30:05BUZZER
30:07BUZZER
30:09BUZZER
30:11BUZZER
30:13Right. Laura?
30:15Six.
30:17Billy? Seven.
30:19Laura?
30:21Must.
30:23Billy?
30:25Smeared.
30:27A couple of cricketing terms, actually, for seven.
30:29Beamers and seamers.
30:31Brilliant. Two deliveries left.
30:33Final numbers. Laura, you get to choose them.
30:35Tactics, everything, a point ahead.
30:37Can we try three of each again, please?
30:39You can indeed. Three large, three little.
30:41Sometimes a tricky selection,
30:43taking your own destiny into your own hands.
30:45The final numbers today are ten, six, eight,
30:49and the big ones, 25, 50, and 100.
30:53And your target, 403.
30:55Let's go.
30:57BELL RINGS
31:27403. Laura?
31:29402. One away. Billy?
31:31402. My goodness me.
31:33Billy, you do this one for me.
31:35Ten minus six.
31:37Ten minus six, four.
31:39Times 100. 400.
31:4150 over 25.
31:43Here's your two. Another one.
31:45And your crucial conundrum. Yep.
31:47We'll see, Laura. How do you do it?
31:49Same way. Same way. Let's just have a look.
31:51It's not that we don't trust you, but we don't trust you.
31:53Rachel?
31:55When we came out, we all went,
31:57it'll take three seconds. We were wrong.
31:59Well, if you'd have gone up to go down...
32:01Of course.
32:03..you could say eight times 100 is 800.
32:06Add the six for 806.
32:09You see where I'm going now.
32:1150 over 25 is two.
32:13And just divide it. Yes.
32:15APPLAUSE
32:17Brilliant.
32:19Laura has 84.
32:21Enough to win just about any game of Countdown.
32:24Billy's on 83, looking to second win.
32:27It's Billy's birthday today.
32:29Is Laura about to spoil the party?
32:33Let's reveal today's crucial conundrum.
32:54BELL RINGS
33:06Oh, my goodness, Billy.
33:08Quick. No, I ain't got it.
33:10Oh, well, we know the result now. Victory lap for you.
33:12Couple of seconds left.
33:15Didn't get it, but Laura's our winner today by one point.
33:18APPLAUSE
33:21Let's reveal it.
33:23Misspoken is the Countdown conundrum.
33:25The upshot of it is, Billy, you're beaten on your birthday.
33:29Sorry. Got my teapot, Colin.
33:31Right. And listen, no-one's going to buy you a present
33:34better than that priceless teapot, right?
33:36Good. Take it back to Scotland. Great having you here.
33:38And even though you lost today, you got that redemption.
33:41You did manage to avenge that defeat 20 years ago.
33:44Brilliant. Well done.
33:46APPLAUSE
33:48Laura, you showed all the wisdom of a 60-something today.
33:51So, wonderful stuff.
33:53No going home to do jigsaws. You're back here tomorrow.
33:55Thank you. And that's it, you guys.
33:57Show me all five days if you enjoyed it.
33:59I've had a ball. Thank you very much for having me
34:01and thanks for listening to my very interesting anecdotes, hopefully.
34:04I've really enjoyed it. It's been so good to have you.
34:06Brendan Cole, everybody. Thank you, Susie.
34:08Thank you.
34:11Oh, it's a big gap, beating someone on their birthday.
34:14A little bit cruel, Rachel.
34:16Yeah, I'm sure Billy wants to send Laura into space after that.
34:19Absolutely. Well, listen, we'll come back down to Earth tomorrow.
34:22Same time, same place.
34:24Rachel, Susie and I will be back.
34:26Levi roots as well in Dictionary Corner. You can count on us.
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