Countdown - Thursday 21st July 2022
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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:20APPLAUSE
00:31Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown.
00:33Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:35A chance to test the grey matter, have a few giggles, hopefully,
00:38and then we'll get back to the real world in about 45 minutes from now.
00:41Sounds like a good idea to me.
00:43So let's rock and roll as I introduce a sweet child of mine,
00:47Rachel Riley. Welcome back to the jungle.
00:49You're not that old.
00:50Yeah, listen, I'm excited.
00:52This day, 1987, one of my favourite albums of all time,
00:55released Guns N' Roses, Appetite For Destruction.
00:59Hugely famous LA band.
01:01You think Los Angeles, you think Guns N' Roses.
01:04Yeah.
01:05So my question for you this afternoon is,
01:08were in LA was Slash, their iconic guitarist,
01:12where in LA did he grow up?
01:14I don't know.
01:15West Hollywood's kind of the artist's loft area, isn't it?
01:17I'll go with West Hollywood.
01:18You're close. Stoke-on-Trent.
01:21Well, they're twinned, aren't they?
01:24So, yeah, he was born in London and grew up in Stoke-on-Trent.
01:27He's a great example of someone you just assume is American.
01:31Yeah.
01:32But isn't. He's one of her own.
01:34Right. He's a potter.
01:36Yeah, have you any?
01:38Oh, one that I found out recently.
01:40I love The Sound Of Music, I've seen it a million times.
01:42And in The Sound Of Music, there's a character called Uncle Max.
01:45Oh, yes.
01:46Who's, you know, suave and American and grew up in Saffon, mate.
01:49Yes.
01:50Saffon is one of my own.
01:51Anyway, let's get over to Dictionary Corner,
01:53because it's so easy when it comes to words for Susie Dent
01:56and a man who's got an appetite for anything,
01:59as long as it's got reggae, reggae sauce on it.
02:01Levi Reuss is here.
02:03APPLAUSE
02:06I'm just beaming to have five days in your company.
02:10Yeah, Colin, as I said, I came in this morning and I saw you
02:13and I gave you a nice big bear hug,
02:16because I know you and I connect through music,
02:18so we're like music intellectual type.
02:20You don't even have to speak.
02:22Just sort of with the mind, so it's just really great to be here.
02:25So nice to have you here, Levi.
02:26Cheers.
02:27Real pleasure.
02:28Let's reintroduce our champion back, Laura Hadfield, 24,
02:31going on 65, as we found out yesterday.
02:34We connected over jigsaws.
02:36We also do another thing.
02:37You like holidaying on your own.
02:39Yeah.
02:40When I was 18, I went to Copenhagen on my own,
02:43just decided, why not give it a go?
02:45And then a couple of years later, I went to Stockholm again on my own.
02:50I love it.
02:51And I love that thing when you realise
02:53you haven't actually said a word for 12 hours or 16 hours
02:56and it rarely happens in life.
02:59I'm not sure whether I like the holiday on my own
03:01or people don't like to go on holiday with me.
03:03All right, let's meet our challenger
03:06that's hoping to send Laura packing.
03:08Neil Lindsay's here.
03:09Hi, Neil.
03:10Hi there.
03:11Good.
03:12Now, you do something every week.
03:13Well, I try to read a book every week.
03:15It's quite difficult because I've got a one-year-old baby,
03:17so it's a bit of a challenge at the moment.
03:20Why can't you just read Dogger by Shirley Hughes?
03:22That's a book.
03:23I've read similar books to that about 52 times in a day, so...
03:29Do you have a favourite book of all time?
03:31I don't think I do.
03:32It's a lot about asking what your favourite song is.
03:34It's the sort of thing that changes every day.
03:36It's hard, you know, to pick a favourite book,
03:38but sometimes one just jumps out at you.
03:40May I recommend Word Perfect by Susie Dent?
03:43LAUGHTER
03:44It's 10% Susie, 10%.
03:46All right, that's your cut.
03:48Forget Dickens, Dent's where you want to read.
03:50Right, let's turn the page on this episode of Countdown.
03:53Champion, Laura, it's your letters.
03:55Hi, Rachel. Hi, Laura.
03:56Now, start with a consonant, please.
03:58You can indeed start today with T.
04:00And another.
04:03And another.
04:06And a vowel.
04:09And another.
04:12A consonant.
04:16And another vowel.
04:21Vowel.
04:25And another consonant, please.
04:27Lastly, M.
04:28At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
04:59MUSIC STOPS
05:01Laura, good start.
05:02A seven. A seven.
05:04And Neil? Six.
05:05And a six. What's the six, mate?
05:07Motors. Laura?
05:08Rations.
05:09There's no N in there, unfortunately.
05:11Oh, I must have misheard.
05:13Oh, sorry, Laura. That's OK.
05:14Anything better?
05:15Yeah, we've got a seven here.
05:17Amorous.
05:18Beautiful.
05:19Yes, a person who is in love or who writes about love.
05:22OK, Neil?
05:23Say hello to Rachel for the first time. Let's get more letters.
05:26Hi, Rachel. Hi, Neil.
05:27Consonant, please.
05:28Thank you. T.
05:29Vowel.
05:31A.
05:32Consonant.
05:34W.
05:35Consonant.
05:37R.
05:38Vowel.
05:40I.
05:41Consonant.
05:44D.
05:45Vowel.
05:47A.
05:48Consonant.
05:50N.
05:51And vowel, please.
05:55Lastly, I.
05:5630 seconds.
05:58MUSIC
06:27Neil, how did you get on?
06:29Six.
06:30Six. And Laura?
06:31Just a five.
06:32Just a five. What is it?
06:33A train.
06:34And the six is?
06:35Inward.
06:36Yes, inward.
06:37Inward.
06:38Which will double your lead.
06:40Levi Roots, Susie Dent, over to you.
06:42Yeah, not too bad. Seven, just a seven here. Radiant.
06:45I'm not sure Susie's got anything better than that.
06:47No, I haven't got anything better than radiant,
06:49but it's perfect anyway, isn't it? Radiant.
06:51How can you have a better word than radiant?
06:53I agree.
06:54Love it.
06:55Well, what a start by our challenger here.
06:5712 points up, it's numbers time now, and it'll be Laura choosing those.
07:02Can we have three large and three small, please?
07:04We can indeed.
07:05Your favourite three large, three little coming up, Laura.
07:08The first numbers of the day are 6, 5, 5, 75, 50 and 100.
07:16And the target to reach, 435.
07:19Numbers up.
07:20MUSIC
07:25MUSIC
07:50OK, 435, champ.
07:53Yeah, 435.
07:54Got it. Neil?
07:56440.
07:57OK, so, Laura, chance to claw back ten of those 12 points.
08:00Off you go.
08:01OK, 100 x 5 is 50.
08:03100 x 5, 500.
08:05500, sorry.
08:06Yeah, take 75.
08:08425.
08:09And then 50 divided by 5 is 10.
08:12A second five.
08:13Lovely. 435, well done.
08:15That was the key.
08:16APPLAUSE
08:19That first two-time teaser of the day,
08:21Levi can make this taste a whole lot better, believe me.
08:23Uncle Cuts. Uncle Cuts.
08:26Uncle Cuts into a juicy, tender and tasty rib of beef.
08:30Uncle Cuts into a juicy, tender, tasty rib of beef.
08:34MUSIC
08:43APPLAUSE
08:50Uncle Cuts was your tea-time teaser.
08:52Uncle Cuts into a juicy, tender and tasty rib of beef.
08:56The answer, of course, is succulent.
08:59Levi, if we're having a barbecue, you're in charge.
09:02Come on, make our mouths water.
09:04What are you doing with our rib of beef?
09:06Well, I'd barbecue it with a nice bit of scotch bonnet on top.
09:13Because I know you would like it quite spicy, Colin.
09:15Yes.
09:16So it would definitely be spicy.
09:18Beautiful, right.
09:19Well, listen, you can make dinner after the show.
09:21We'll do that. Let's get on with it.
09:22Niamh, more letters.
09:24Consonant, please.
09:25Thank you, Niamh.
09:26G.
09:27Vowel.
09:29O.
09:30Consonant.
09:32S.
09:33Consonant.
09:34P.
09:35Vowel.
09:37O.
09:38Consonant.
09:39G.
09:41Vowel.
09:43E.
09:44Consonant.
09:46T.
09:49And a vowel, please.
09:52Lastly, A.
09:54Thanks, Rachel.
10:18Laura.
10:19Just a five again.
10:20Five for Laura.
10:21Neil?
10:22Seven.
10:23OK.
10:24Laura, the five.
10:25Pages.
10:26And the seven.
10:27Postage.
10:28Pages.
10:29And postage.
10:30Let's deliver that over to Dictionary Corner.
10:32What do you say, Levi?
10:33Yeah, postage was the best we can do, sir,
10:35but I'll give the winnings to you, sir.
10:37OK.
10:38Let's get more letters now.
10:39Laura.
10:40Can I still have a consonant, please?
10:42A.
10:43Consonant.
10:44P.
10:45Vowel.
10:46O.
10:47Can I still have a consonant, please?
10:49Thank you, Laura.
10:50F.
10:51And another.
10:53V.
10:54And another.
10:56V.
10:57And a vowel.
10:59O.
11:00And another.
11:01E.
11:02And another.
11:04I.
11:06And a consonant.
11:08R.
11:10And another.
11:12D.
11:13And a final consonant, please.
11:16A final L.
11:17Here we go.
11:47Neil.
11:49Seven.
11:50Seven from Neil.
11:51And Laura?
11:52A six.
11:53And a six.
11:54What's the six?
11:55Boulder.
11:56Boulder.
11:57And Neil?
11:58Broiled.
11:59Broiled.
12:00Yes.
12:01Listen, we've got a little culinary theme going here.
12:03But it's actually a...
12:04Well, you might not have spotted it.
12:06Who knows?
12:07But there's a beautiful word in there.
12:09Lovebird.
12:10Ah!
12:11Yes.
12:12Wonderful.
12:13Very good, Dictionary Corner.
12:14Lovebird could have got you eight.
12:16But as it is, Neil stole those points.
12:1816-point gap, and, Neil, it's your numbers.
12:21I can have one large and five small, please.
12:24Back to the more popular choice.
12:26That's the way to do it, Rich.
12:27And for this round, we have two, one, three, ten, eight,
12:33and the big one, 50.
12:35And your target...
12:37Oh, no, I'm going to sit down.
12:39500.
12:40We should have a rule.
12:42Sometimes we don't have to play for 30 seconds.
12:45Jimmy Carr has that power on 8 out of 10,
12:47so speak to the producers.
12:49I don't wield the same power as Jimmy Carr, that's for sure.
13:12MUSIC PLAYS
13:23Right, nobody be clever, cos if we get this over with,
13:26we get more time to talk to Levi in Dictionary Corner.
13:28Laura?
13:29500.
13:30Neil?
13:31500.
13:32How did you do it, Laura?
13:3350 x 10.
13:34How did you do it, Neil?
13:3550 x 10.
13:36Please don't show her the bit of paper.
13:38Please do not show her...
13:39We have to have a level of trust in here, right?
13:41There you go, 10.6.
13:42First time that you've shared a round,
13:44but right now we can sit back.
13:46Day one of five.
13:47We'll enjoy every moment with Levi Roach.
13:49What do you want to talk to us about today?
13:51Yeah, well, today's talk, actually, Colin,
13:53was inspired by Rachel.
13:55Because the last time I was here, one of the last times I was here,
13:58I talked about my name, and I wasn't pleased when my father
14:01had given me the name of a Scottish...
14:03Sorry, of a Scottish name, of Keith.
14:05I'm not Scottish, Levi, so no offence taken.
14:07I think Neil might be a bit more annoyed than me.
14:11Yeah, so I always wanted to change my name
14:13because I kept looking in the mirror thinking,
14:15I don't look Scottish, so there's something wrong there.
14:17So I chose my name because of that Rastafari thing,
14:19Bob Marley sort of inspired it.
14:21So I talked about it, and Rachel asked me,
14:23what was her tribe the last time?
14:25And I think you said you were born in January,
14:27and I said it was Naphtali.
14:29And her blessing was a wild horse let loose.
14:32And, of course, she said, yes, that's me.
14:34I wanted to sort of go through the whole 12 months,
14:37and then everybody would know what their tribe is,
14:39as according to Rastafari.
14:41It starts in April. That's how the calendar starts.
14:44So April is Reuben, and Reuben's colour is silver.
14:48May is Simeon, or Simon, and their colour is gold.
14:52And their part of the body is the hairs.
14:54June is me, which is Levi, and my colour is purple,
14:58and so I always wear purple suits.
15:00And my part of the body is the nose.
15:02If you're in July, you're Judah.
15:04If you're August, you're Hezechar,
15:06and the colour is yellow,
15:08and your part of the body is the hands.
15:10September is Zebulun. Zebulun is pink, and the stomach.
15:15October is Dan, the prophet Dan.
15:18November is Gad, and Gad's colour is red,
15:21and part of the body for that is the productive organs.
15:24So good for Gad if you're Gadite.
15:28Nine is December, and December is Asha.
15:33January is Naphtali, and Naphtali is the hind let loose,
15:38and the hind is a female horse.
15:40And January's colour is green, and the part of the body is her knees.
15:45February is Joseph, and the colour of Joseph is white,
15:50and the part of the body is the calves.
15:52And March is Benjamin, and Benjamin's colour is black,
15:57and part of the body is the feet.
15:59And I know it's been all about males,
16:01because they are the 12 sons of Jacob,
16:03which is what the months are born into.
16:05But there was one female within that tribe,
16:08in case anybody said, where's the women?
16:10And her name was Dinah, and she represents all females
16:14in that respect.
16:15But it's the Rastafari ways of saying that,
16:18well, you are a bit like stargazing, really.
16:21And I think a lot of people do resonate with their tribes
16:24and how it is.
16:25And I didn't know what month you were born, Colin.
16:27Black Feet.
16:28You're Black Feet? Okay, you're March.
16:30And March is from the prophet Zealot.
16:34And elimination is part of your blessing also.
16:38Listen, I eliminate one of these two every afternoon,
16:41Monday to Friday.
16:43I love a bit of elimination.
16:44That was absolutely wonderful.
16:46APPLAUSE
16:50Wasn't that amazing?
16:51Laura, a little bit of time to think.
16:53Maybe relax.
16:54Always nervous when you've won one,
16:56and you come back as champion.
16:57Different pressure.
16:58So let's get it on.
16:59Get some more letters.
17:00Can we start with a consonant, please?
17:02Thank you, Laura.
17:03T.
17:04And another.
17:06N.
17:07And a vowel.
17:10A.
17:11And another.
17:12U.
17:14And another.
17:15A.
17:16And a consonant.
17:18Y.
17:19And another.
17:21F.
17:22A vowel.
17:24E.
17:26And another consonant, please.
17:29Lastly, L.
17:31Good luck.
17:57MUSIC
18:03How did you do, Neil?
18:04Six.
18:05Well done.
18:06Laura?
18:07Six as well.
18:08Neil?
18:09Flaunt.
18:10Laura?
18:11Yeah, same word.
18:12OK, both of you just give yourselves a little kick.
18:14A nice little pad with your toes,
18:15because all you've missed is just one letter.
18:17So we've got flaunty for seven.
18:20Rot it down.
18:21Ah.
18:22Yeah.
18:23It's a bit of a risk.
18:24I was supposed to find it in, but...
18:26So six points each, and Neil, it's your letters.
18:29Consonant, please.
18:30Thank you, Neil.
18:31S.
18:32Vowel.
18:34E.
18:35Consonant.
18:36N.
18:37Consonant.
18:39H.
18:40Vowel.
18:41I.
18:42Consonant.
18:44T.
18:46Vowel.
18:47U.
18:48Consonant.
18:50S.
18:52And vowel, please.
18:55And lastly, E.
18:57Here we go.
19:26MUSIC STOPS
19:29Laura?
19:30A six.
19:31And Neil?
19:32Risky seven.
19:33Oh, you see what I mean?
19:35He's going for it this time, he didn't last time.
19:37Will it pay off?
19:38Laura, the six.
19:39Sheets.
19:40And Neil?
19:41Stouche.
19:42Stouche?
19:43How are you spelling it for me?
19:45With a U.
19:46I suspect it might be a double O.
19:48OK, so I would normally spell it with a double O,
19:50and that's the first spelling in the dictionary,
19:52but it's also there with a U.
19:55No!
19:56APPLAUSE
19:59What else do we have there?
20:01Yeah, we've got an eight.
20:03Enthuses.
20:04Ah, there you go.
20:06Enthuses for it.
20:08The seven is what counts as Neil extends his lead,
20:11and we now get some numbers with Laura.
20:14Can we stick with three large and three small, please?
20:16We can indeed.
20:17Another possible ten points hidden in this round.
20:20And we have 2, 9, 5, 75, 50 and 25.
20:27And the target to reach, 952.
20:30Start the clock.
20:50CLOCK TICKS
21:01Pen's down, please.
21:03Neil?
21:04950.
21:05950.
21:06And Laura?
21:07952.
21:08Go ahead, Laura.
21:0975 plus 25 is 100.
21:11It is.
21:12Times by nine.
21:13900.
21:14And add the 50 and the 2.
21:15Yeah, but it all fell out.
21:17Well done, 952.
21:18APPLAUSE
21:21The deficit reduced to 13, ladies and gentlemen.
21:23We have a competition, and here's your second Tea Time teaser.
21:27One should, one should,
21:29one should think of a guitar when trying to solve this.
21:32One should think of a guitar when trying to solve this.
21:45APPLAUSE
21:51Welcome back. Answer to the Tea Time teaser.
21:54One should, one should think of a guitar when trying to solve this.
21:58The answer is Soundhole.
22:00Here in the studio, our champion, Laura, trails by 13.
22:04Daniil, and, Daniil, it's your letters.
22:07Consonant, please.
22:09Thank you, Neil.
22:10R.
22:11Vowel.
22:12A.
22:13Consonant.
22:15D.
22:16Consonant.
22:18N.
22:19Vowel.
22:21U.
22:22Consonant.
22:24P.
22:26Consonant.
22:28S.
22:30Vowel.
22:32I.
22:34And consonant, please.
22:36And lastly, L.
22:38Start the clock.
22:49CLOCK TICKS
23:10Time is up.
23:12Laura?
23:13Eight.
23:14A huge eight.
23:15Neil?
23:16Eight.
23:17And an eight. What's yours, Neil?
23:18Six.
23:19I wonder, will you be sharing bits of paper, Laura?
23:21Yeah, same word.
23:22Let's have a look.
23:24Plunders.
23:25Four, eight.
23:26Let's head to Dictionary Corner.
23:28Surely, Levi Rich, you can't beat eight.
23:31But I'll need Susie to kind of explain this word.
23:35It's a nine, which I'm punching the air for, and it's Underlips.
23:39Underlips.
23:40Yeah.
23:41No idea.
23:42Pray tell, Susie.
23:43It's simply your lower lips.
23:45Lower lips.
23:46Just a little bit under?
23:47OK, cool.
23:48That is your underlip.
23:49We're all smiling with them right now, Levi.
23:51Brilliant.
23:52APPLAUSE
23:55A stiff underlip.
23:56You've never heard that phrase, have you?
23:58So close.
23:5913 in it.
24:00And it's time for Laura's letters.
24:02Start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
24:04Thank you, Laura.
24:05H.
24:06And another.
24:08C.
24:09And another.
24:11T.
24:12And a vowel.
24:14E.
24:15And another.
24:16And another.
24:17E.
24:19A consonant.
24:20K.
24:22And another.
24:24L.
24:25A vowel.
24:28O.
24:29And another consonant, please.
24:33Lastly, N.
24:35Countdown.
24:46ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
25:06Shoot, Neil.
25:07Six.
25:08Six. And Laura?
25:09Six as well.
25:10OK, Laura, what's your word?
25:11Heckle.
25:12And Neil?
25:13Locket.
25:14You've got sixes.
25:15Levi, can you beat that?
25:16Yeah, we've got a seven.
25:17Boo!
25:18Hey, yeah!
25:19Echelon for seven.
25:20Echelon.
25:21The upper echelons.
25:22That's what we've got today in our two contestants.
25:24But you can relax a bit, recharge the batteries,
25:26and Levi Roots has a box seat here
25:28to the brilliant Susie Dent's Origins of Words.
25:30Where are you taking us today?
25:32Well, I'm going to take my inspiration from Laura today.
25:34Strong, independent woman, solo traveller.
25:36Let's talk about another strong and independent woman,
25:39Emily Pankhurst, born in 1858.
25:42And if you were to ask any man in her lifetime, really,
25:45what suffrage meant, they would have been absolutely aghast
25:48at the notion that it included voting rights for women,
25:51because it then meant something very, very different.
25:53It signified support, really,
25:55and specifically prayers made on behalf of a departed soul.
25:59So a long way from where it ended up.
26:02So you might think that suffering is at the heart of suffrage,
26:05and some of those same men might later have said
26:07that it meant suffering a late dinner
26:09while their women were off getting the rights to vote.
26:12But actually, it simply signified support,
26:14and eventually suffrage was consolidated
26:16in the United States Constitution.
26:18And so suffragette was simply a female campaigner for suffrage,
26:22but nothing to do with suffering.
26:24But that doesn't really tell the whole tale,
26:26because it's got that et at the end of it, which is a diminutive.
26:29If you think about a cigarette, it's a small cigar.
26:31If you think about a laundrette, it was a small laundry.
26:34A hackette was a sort of little female journalist, etc.
26:38So it was seen as being kind of copycat,
26:41inferior, and particularly female.
26:44And so when, at the turn of the century,
26:46newspapers saw this militant shift in women's movements, etc,
26:50and moved away from their sort of quiet petitions,
26:53which is what they thought was most seemly,
26:55they decided that they would use suffragette
26:57against these women to mock them.
26:59And there were awful things.
27:01Postcards printed of shrieking babies with the legend,
27:03I want my vote, and there was a red-faced campaigner
27:06in one of these cards saying she was called
27:08Miss Ought-To-Be-Spanked-First.
27:10That's how bad it was, exactly.
27:12London Daily Mail was among the first to use suffragette for derision.
27:17But what happened, and what happens so often with insults
27:19that are used against people, is that they actually reclaim it,
27:22and that's exactly what happened with the suffragettes,
27:24because they decided that actually suffragist
27:27was a bit too neutral for them,
27:28and they wanted actually to be recognised
27:30for their strong and independent actions, really,
27:34even if some of them were seen as being, as I say, pretty militant,
27:37including taking an axe to a picture in the National Gallery
27:40of Venus admiring herself in a mirror.
27:42So clearly it wasn't to everyone's taste.
27:45But what the journal The Suffragette said in 1914,
27:50explaining why they moved from suffragist to suffragette,
27:53they said, we have all heard of the girl who asked,
27:55what was the difference between a suffragist and a suffragette?
27:58And the answer made to her was that the suffragist
28:01just wants to vote, while the suffragette means to get it.
28:08Mae, more letters.
28:10Consonant, please.
28:11Thank you, Neil.
28:13S
28:14Vowel.
28:16E
28:17Consonant.
28:19R
28:20Consonant.
28:22G
28:23Vowel.
28:25E
28:27Vowel.
28:29I
28:31Consonant.
28:33C
28:35Constant.
28:37T
28:39And vowel, please.
28:41And lastly, O.
28:43Let's go.
29:00MUSIC
29:14Laura.
29:15Seven.
29:16Neil.
29:17Six.
29:18Big moment.
29:19Neil.
29:20Costar.
29:21Laura.
29:22Goriest.
29:23Goriest.
29:24Goriest in the dictionary.
29:25Costar is too short for costamonger.
29:27Anything better than the seven?
29:29Nothing for me, I don't know whether you've got anything there.
29:31There were a couple of eights hiding in there,
29:33so corteges, so the funeral processions,
29:36and coteries, which are small groups of people,
29:39united by an interest, coteries.
29:41Beautiful. A couple of great eights in there from Susie
29:44that got reduced to just six points.
29:46And, Laura, your letters.
29:48Have a consonant, please.
29:50Thank you, Laura. N.
29:52And another.
29:54R.
29:56U.
29:58And another.
30:00O.
30:02A consonant.
30:03M.
30:05And another.
30:07R.
30:09A vowel.
30:11A.
30:13A consonant.
30:15Q.
30:17And another vowel, please.
30:21A final A.
30:23OK, last letters.
30:25CLOCK TICKS
30:55Neil, my friend, how do you do?
30:57Five.
30:58OK, and Laura?
30:59Five.
31:00Neil?
31:01Mourn.
31:02Mourn.
31:03And Laura?
31:04Manor.
31:05There you go.
31:06Levi, how do you get on?
31:07Yeah, no, we've come up with a six, which is armour.
31:11One six.
31:12One six.
31:13Not risk, though.
31:14It's very tense at the moment.
31:15Two rounds left.
31:17Conundrum and numbers, but will it be a crucial conundrum?
31:20We'll find out after Neil.
31:23Pick some digits.
31:25Yeah, one large and five small, please.
31:26Yes, that's the way to do it, my friend.
31:28Laura's hoping it is crucial, and I'm sure you're hoping it's not.
31:31Let's see what we have for this final numbers round.
31:33They are 10, 10, 5, 6, 4, and the large one's 75 this time.
31:40And your target, I think it might be 754.
31:54MUSIC PLAYS
32:16Say it, Laura.
32:18754.
32:19Say it, Neil.
32:20754.
32:21Tell Rachel, Neil.
32:2275 times 10 plus 4.
32:24Thought you might say that.
32:25Laura, I'll show you a bit of paper, Neil.
32:28Crucial Countdown Conundrum coming up.
32:31Listen, Neil reads a book every week,
32:34but this is a story with its last chapter still to be written.
32:39Let's do that now by revealing today's crucial Countdown Conundrum.
32:52MUSIC PLAYS
33:15In the studio, anybody?
33:17Got nothing. I've nothing.
33:20Well, if you've got it at home, you've done very well,
33:22you've beaten everyone here in the studio.
33:23Let's take a look and reveal today's answer.
33:26Insolvent.
33:28Suitable, Laura, you've just been bankrupted.
33:30LAUGHTER
33:32It's been brilliant to have you here. Thank you.
33:34You get to take the teapot with you.
33:35You will get that, Neil, eventually, but we're not sure when.
33:38It could be tomorrow, it could be the day after,
33:41maybe you'll get eight wins and be carried out of here shoulder high.
33:44We'll find out.
33:45What a great game. Thank you, the Bulls.
33:47APPLAUSE
33:51Levi, enjoyed it? You've brought sunshine to the studio.
33:53It's been absolutely amazing and I feel really comfortable in this seat.
33:57You've got a nine, that's why. You're owning it.
33:59You're owning it. Thank you, Susie.
34:01Thank you, as always.
34:02You've got a book recommendation for me, Rachel?
34:04Book a week, he's got to get a list going.
34:06Well, if you like The Suffragettes, Death In Ten Minutes,
34:09the story of Kitty Marion. Very interesting.
34:11Well, he's got 23 hours, 15 minutes to read that.
34:14We want a full book report tomorrow when you come back.
34:17Wonderful stuff. Well, listen, we will be back.
34:19Susie, Rachel and I, you can count on us.
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