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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:04APPLAUSE
00:31Hello, everybody. Welcome to the scheduled departure
00:34of another week of Countdown.
00:36Thank you for flying with us, your captain as always, Rachel Riley.
00:39How are you doing? Very well, how are you? Yeah, good.
00:42Have you, random question, ever flown a plane?
00:45No, but I have done one of those flight simulators
00:49at the Red Arrows base.
00:51Couldn't even keep it level, couldn't get in the right spot, nothing.
00:54Even though it's not real, is it realistic enough
00:58that when the ground was coming towards you at a rate of knots,
01:02did you have a proper panic? I didn't.
01:05I hate flying. I was once on a flight into Belfast City Airport,
01:08which people who fly in there regularly know can get a bit rough,
01:12even in a Belfast summer.
01:14But when the crosswind hits the water and it starts going,
01:17the landing was so bad, I was in the back seat,
01:20you know where it shakes the most,
01:22and the two cabin crew were sitting in those two back seats,
01:25and they were like, it's absolutely fine.
01:27When the plane landed, they hugged each other in relief.
01:30Oh, dear. Unbelievable.
01:32Right, well, here we go anyway to Dictionary Corner,
01:34ensuring a smooth journey today.
01:36Our G of the D, Susie Dent.
01:38And look who's sitting right beside her,
01:40taking up all the elbow room.
01:42It's the accidental footballer making his debut in Countdown,
01:45Padnevan! Thank you, Kevin. Thank you.
01:50Looking forward to it, but the star of the show,
01:52without a shadow of a doubt,
01:54our champion, who's flying high with five wins so far.
01:58120, 120, 119, 117,
02:02but on his fourth appearance,
02:04the highest ever single show score
02:08in the history of one of the greatest shows on Earth.
02:12154.
02:14Kind of deserves another round of applause, doesn't it?
02:18But the thing about you, Tom, is you are so down-to-earth,
02:23you won't take any credit for it.
02:25You think you've gotten lucky and you're just happy to be here.
02:28Are you coming back with a bit of swagger today?
02:30Come on, let's do it.
02:31I'll see what I can do.
02:33Try and, yeah, bring a bit of swag, we'll see.
02:35What was the weekend like, just letting it all settle in
02:38that you'd won five, broke the record?
02:40Yeah, I can't say that I did much partying,
02:42but I did break my specs over the weekend,
02:44so maybe, yeah, it'll be unlucky for me, who knows?
02:48Well, that's very good news for a challenger, Steve Robinson.
02:52The reason why we're talking about pilot's licences,
02:55take us back to when you were 17.
02:57Well, when I was 17, I was in the Air Cadets
03:00and I won a flying scholarship,
03:02which gave me 30 hours of flying training,
03:05and then I did the extra eight hours
03:07to get the PPL, the private pilot's licence.
03:10Then a couple of years after I got my PPL,
03:12I started my driving lessons, so I never actually even had
03:15a driving lesson when I had my PPL, kind of thing.
03:18As a teenager, as a 17-year-old, you could legally fly...
03:21I could go and hire a plane and fly it.
03:23..but not a car? Not a car.
03:25Wow. I didn't even have a provisional licence for a car.
03:28Right, Tom and Steve, best of luck.
03:32Clearly boarded, ready for take-off.
03:34Tom, let's get the letters.
03:36Hi, Rachel. Hi, Tom. Can I start with a vowel, please?
03:38You can indeed start the week with I.
03:40And a second?
03:42E.
03:43And a third?
03:45I.
03:46A consonant?
03:47C.
03:48And another?
03:50L.
03:51And a third?
03:53G.
03:54A consonant?
03:56D.
03:57A consonant?
03:59H.
04:00And a final consonant?
04:02And a final S.
04:04That old man in the studio. Let's play Countdown.
04:20MUSIC PLAYS
04:38Steve? Five.
04:40And Tom? An eight.
04:41OK, the five is?
04:43A child.
04:44Child. And without your glasses, the eight?
04:46A rather appropriate one, given the Scots.
04:48Pat, if you didn't get this, I'm going to make you move to Brighton.
04:51No, it's absolutely fantastic.
04:53And I was worried about spelling it correctly.
04:55Yes, it's quite hard, isn't it?
04:57So C-E-I-L-I-D-H-S.
04:59Steve, your first chance to say hello to Rachel.
05:01Hi, Rachel. Hi, Steve. Can I start with a consonant, please?
05:04You can indeed start with P.
05:06And another?
05:08V.
05:09And a third?
05:11G.
05:13And a vowel?
05:14E.
05:16And another vowel?
05:17A.
05:19And a vowel, please?
05:21I.
05:22And a consonant?
05:24T.
05:26And another consonant?
05:28C.
05:30And a final vowel, please?
05:33Final, A.
05:3530 seconds.
05:47MUSIC PLAYS
06:06Time's up. Tom?
06:08Seven. And Steve?
06:09Just a six, I'm afraid.
06:11No worries, Steve. Early doors, what's a six?
06:13Vacate.
06:14Vacate. And Tom?
06:16Captive.
06:17And captive.
06:18A captive audience every time, Tom, you're on Countdown.
06:21What a great start. Anything else from Pat and Susie?
06:24I had vacate, but that was it.
06:26Yes, captive, best that we could find for seven.
06:28There's not going to be very much for us to do today, I think.
06:31Right, 15 nils to start, but a big ten points for Steve.
06:34We'll find out what he's like on the numbers.
06:36Such a big part of Countdown, so underestimated.
06:39Let's get them from our champion, Tom.
06:41One from the top, please, Rachel.
06:43Thank you, Tom.
06:45Five little coming up.
06:46And the first numbers of the day are...
06:52And the large one, 50.
06:54And the target, 274.
06:57274, numbers up.
07:14MUSIC PLAYS
07:29The target, 274. Steve?
07:32Just 271.
07:34Yeah, trickier than it looked. Tom?
07:36I think I might have 274.
07:38Well, that's not good enough for us, so off you go.
07:40Seven add 50 is 57.
07:43Eight take three for five.
07:45Eight take three for five.
07:47And then I'm hoping if you multiply 57 by five, you get 285.
07:50You do.
07:51And then seven add four for 11 and take off.
07:53And the second seven, you do indeed. 274.
07:56Very good.
07:59It's formidable, isn't it?
08:01Let's give everyone a break, especially Steve,
08:03with a teatime teaser.
08:05It's Emma Hitz.
08:06Emma Hitz.
08:07Emma Hitz rock bottom in terms of her acting ability.
08:10Emma Hitz rock bottom in terms of her acting ability.
08:28Welcome back.
08:29Emma Hitz becomes hammiest.
08:31Emma Hitz rock bottom in terms of her acting ability.
08:34Hammiest.
08:35Our champion, Tom, has a 25-0 lead at the moment.
08:39But, darling Steve, don't worry about it, there's a long way to go.
08:42Let's get some more letters.
08:44I'll have a consonant, please.
08:45Thank you, Steve.
08:46T.
08:47And a vowel.
08:49E.
08:51And a consonant.
08:52N.
08:54And another consonant.
08:56R.
08:58And a vowel.
08:59O.
09:01And a consonant.
09:03R.
09:05And a consonant, please.
09:07D.
09:09And a vowel.
09:11I.
09:14And a consonant, please.
09:17And a final L.
09:19Thank you, Rachel.
09:38Steve, my friend?
09:40A seven.
09:41Good, good.
09:42Lovely.
09:43And Tom?
09:44Also a seven.
09:45OK, what's the seven, Tom?
09:46Tendril.
09:47And Steve?
09:48Same word.
09:49There you go.
09:50Tendril and tendril.
09:52As we head to Dictionary Corner, and I have to say,
09:55Pat Nevin is the most intelligent footballer,
09:58past or present, in the history of football.
10:01So, Pat Nevin, you're up.
10:03I have to say, Pat Nevin is the most intelligent footballer,
10:06past or present, I've ever met.
10:08But I would never have him in a pub quiz.
10:10When you put pressure on him, he's awful at quizzes.
10:14So, maybe you've found your calling here.
10:17Possibly not, because when you're under pressure,
10:20it isn't actually being in a studio, right?
10:22Pressure is actually being close to genius.
10:24And I don't mean you.
10:25LAUGHTER
10:28That can be a difficulty.
10:30But I'm getting some good help.
10:32Good help. Did we get anything else apart from...?
10:34Yeah, one more, apart from tendril, is lentoid.
10:37Bit of a countdown word.
10:38It means lens-shaped or lentil-shaped.
10:40There you go. Lentoid.
10:42Some fantastic words there. Weird and wonderful.
10:4532 plays seven.
10:46We know Tom has already scored the all-time single show
10:51highest points total, with 154.
10:54But here's a stat that's going to blow your mind.
10:57Tom has not lost a round of Countdown yet.
11:01And this is his sixth appearance. Let's get some more letters.
11:04Consonant, please. Thank you, Tom.
11:06Y. And a vowel.
11:09A. Consonant.
11:12K. A vowel.
11:15U. Consonant, please.
11:18B. A vowel.
11:21A. Consonant.
11:24N. Another consonant.
11:27T. And a final vowel.
11:30And a final vowel, please.
11:32A final E.
11:34Have I just put the commentator's curse on Tom? Let's find out.
12:00Tom, six. Steve?
12:10And a six as well.
12:12Steve, what's the six?
12:14Butane. Yes, and Tom, great minds.
12:17There you go. Both cooking on gas.
12:20We've got 38 plus 13.
12:22Pat, you must have been thinking the same thing as I was thinking.
12:26I was thinking two things that are very similar to you.
12:29I wonder if you've got the second one.
12:31When it started, I was expecting Yakubu to come up.
12:34Yes, a footballer's name, Yakubu.
12:36And it started just like that.
12:38But you'll notice that Kante came up after that as well.
12:41Fantastic. A double football on your first Countdown.
12:44Anything we can actually count.
12:47No, beauty, butane.
12:49There's also baktun, B-A-K-T-U-N, which is a Mayan word.
12:53And in the ancient Mayan calendar, it was a period of 144,000 days.
12:58Yes, fantastic. Steve, it's your first numbers.
13:02One large and five small, please.
13:04You can indeed. One large, five little.
13:06Another chance to win a round off Tom.
13:09Right, we have 5, 2, 9, 2, 1.
13:14And the big one, 75.
13:16And the target to reach, 163.
13:19163, numbers up.
13:28MUSIC PLAYS
13:51Open goal here, Steve.
13:53Yeah, 163. And Tom?
13:55Also 163. Go ahead, Steve.
13:58Two times 75 is 150.
14:00Yep.
14:01The nine plus a five minus the one is 13.
14:04Sorry, add it on.
14:06Perfect, 163.
14:08Same again.
14:09There you go.
14:13Steve's doing much better now.
14:1523-48 as we break bread for the first time this week with Pat Nevin.
14:20Now, when you're a good friend of somebody, you can say this.
14:23You're an oddball, Pat.
14:25And the most lovable oddball.
14:27Not your stereotypical footballer, hence the accidental footballer
14:30autobiography.
14:32So give me a good example of that.
14:34Well, yeah, OK, so my nickname was Weirdo with the players.
14:37But I actually thought I was the normal one.
14:40And a lot of the time I actually was the normal one.
14:42But, you know, you go to games, you have to...
14:45In the old days, we used to get a bus, a team bus.
14:48These days they fly everywhere.
14:50But in the old days it was a team bus, so you had to spend time,
14:53a lot of time.
14:54I would bring something to read on the coach because it's either that
14:57or playing cards, and I didn't do that.
14:59So I would bring the NME.
15:01But I wouldn't bring one copy, I'd bring two because the boys would
15:04always steal my copy and rip it up to wind me up.
15:07But the other big thing, I was big on reading.
15:09And when you're young, you do read a lot.
15:12I was going through my existentialist Albert Camus phase,
15:16and I wasn't going down very well on the coach.
15:19But one day a strange thing happened.
15:22I'd left the Dusty Airscale home, right?
15:25And I was reading the short stories of Anton Chekhov.
15:28And as I was sitting reading it, one of the players, Dale Jasper,
15:31he walks up, he goes, I know one of your authors.
15:34And I was, wow, Dale, amazing.
15:37That's great, I didn't know.
15:39What a snob that I hadn't noticed, right?
15:41So sit down, chat.
15:43And he said, yeah, but I didn't know you were into Star Trek.
15:48Not that Chekhov.
15:51So I had a wee chat to him about Pavel Chekhov for a wee while.
15:54But it's an odd thing.
15:56I'm not snobbish towards footballers,
15:58but I had different backgrounds and different interests.
16:01But, you know, you had to watch what kind of words,
16:03and you're all keen on words, but what words you used.
16:06I remember one time actually playing in a game.
16:09And as you're playing in the game,
16:11do you mean you get a free kick
16:13and you've got to close down the free kick?
16:16And stupidly, they asked me to be the one
16:18that had to close down the free kick.
16:20I mean, me, really, you know, I'm not the tallest.
16:22And I was trying to run at an angle,
16:24and the referee's saying, no, get back, you're not ten yards.
16:26I went, no, no, I am, it's just I'm at an angle.
16:28And he said, no, no, you're not ten yards.
16:30I went, we're equidistant.
16:32The whole place just stopped and went, equidistant, is it?
16:37Did he book you for it?
16:39He came close to booking me for it.
16:41That's it, Ben, thank you, Pat.
16:44Not your usual footballer stories all week,
16:47without a shadow of a doubt.
16:49Back to the game, Tom, your letters.
16:51A vowel, please, Rachel. Thank you, Tom.
16:53I And a consonant.
16:55D And a second.
16:58L And a vowel.
17:01O A consonant.
17:04R And a vowel.
17:07U A second vowel, please.
17:10E A consonant.
17:13J And a final consonant, please.
17:16And a final, ooh, Z.
17:18Start the clock.
17:40MUSIC PLAYS
17:50Time is up. Tom? Six.
17:52And Steve? Risky six, unwritten.
17:55OK, Steve, what's yours?
17:57Idler.
17:59And Tom? Louder.
18:01Louder, fine.
18:03Idler. I-D-O-L-E-R.
18:05Not in the dictionary, unfortunately.
18:07It's a letter, but not an idler, with that spelling.
18:10So, is louder all we've got?
18:12It is, but the base...
18:14Well, there is one more quite similar,
18:17loured, L-O-U-R-E-D.
18:19It means to frown or look sullen.
18:21Past tense of lour.
18:23What did Tom get? Louder.
18:25What did Tom get? Oh, forget it.
18:30Right, there you go.
18:32Do you know what, the saddest thing is, I find that funny.
18:35Right, let's get more letters from Steve.
18:37Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Steve.
18:40X. And another.
18:43R.
18:45And a third.
18:47S. And a vowel.
18:50O. And another vowel.
18:53E. And a third vowel, please.
18:56A. And a consonant.
18:59M. And another.
19:02R. And another consonant, please.
19:06Lastly, H.
19:08Kite time.
19:33How did you get on, Steve?
19:35Er, seven.
19:37And Tom? Also a seven.
19:39The seven is? Er, hoarser.
19:41Hoarser. And Steve?
19:43Harmers. Harmers and hoarser over at the Dictionary Corner.
19:46Oh, I was really hoping Steve wasn't going to go for harmers,
19:49cos self-harmers are in, but not harmers on their own.
19:51On their own. Which is really bad luck, I'm sorry.
19:54I went for that as well, Pat.
19:56I just went down to the Music League.
19:59Would you get mosher? Someone who moshes?
20:01Yes, I think so. Mosh is certainly in the dictionary.
20:04Oh, you know what? It's not specified that you can be a mosher.
20:07So I would have had to disallow that, Pat, I'm afraid.
20:10Really? Sorry. Yes. That's a surprise, I think.
20:13I'm surprised. I'm really surprised.
20:15There is another seven, if you'd like one.
20:17Yeah. Roamers. Roamers. People who roam.
20:19Oh, yeah, but moshers aren't people who mosh.
20:21Well, where's the justice? Not yet.
20:23Where's the justice?
20:25Right, let's get some numbers now, and, Tom, you're picking.
20:28Two from the top, please, Rachel.
20:30Two this time and four little,
20:32and I'm not having much to do today either.
20:34Let's see if this changes anything.
20:36We have five, one, five, three,
20:39and the big one's 150.
20:42And the target to reach, oh, 878.
20:45878. Numbers up.
20:47878. Numbers up.
21:18Good luck, Steve.
21:21No, more than ten away.
21:23Yeah. Tom?
21:25877, not written down.
21:27OK, so one away for Tom, which would get you seven points.
21:30That's the Countdown Rules, if you're new to the show. Let's hear it.
21:33OK, so 100 plus 50 is 150.
21:36Yep. Take away the three.
21:38Take away the three, 147.
21:40And then I said five add one is six.
21:43Multiply the two together.
21:45For 882.
21:48And take the five off.
21:49The other five gets you one away.
21:51Very good.
21:54That's for seven points, Rachel.
21:56Take me all the way to ten.
21:58I can get you to one away another couple of ways,
22:00but I will have another look for this one.
22:02OK, good time for a break, then.
22:04The tea time teaser is Colin Pat.
22:06Colin Pat.
22:08Colin and Pat had this type of relationship.
22:11Colin and Pat had this type of relationship.
22:16APPLAUSE
22:29Welcome back.
22:31Colin Pat becomes platonic.
22:33Colin and Pat had this type of relationship.
22:36Very presumptuous of the Countdown production crew.
22:39Let's get some more letters now.
22:42It's our air traffic controller directing this one, Steve.
22:46Can I have a consonant start, please, Rachel?
22:48Thank you, Steve.
22:49F.
22:50And another.
22:52S.
22:54And another.
22:56W.
22:57And a vowel.
22:59I.
23:01And another.
23:02E.
23:04And another, please.
23:05O.
23:06And a consonant.
23:08P.
23:09And a consonant.
23:11S.
23:13And a final consonant, please.
23:15A final D.
23:17Thank you, Rachel.
23:41MUSIC
23:49Tom.
23:50Seven.
23:51And Steve.
23:52Just a six, I'm afraid.
23:53Six, Steve.
23:54Swiped.
23:55And I was glad you said that.
23:56And Tom.
23:57Dispose.
23:58Dispose.
23:59Very nice.
24:00There you go over to Dictionary Corner, Susie and Pat.
24:02Did you get any other ones?
24:03No, I just had posse for six, otherwise doused also there.
24:06So dispose is as good as we can get.
24:08Excellent to find a seven in that.
24:10Round disposed of.
24:11Tom, let's get the letters.
24:13Consonant, please, Rachel.
24:14Thank you, Tom.
24:15R.
24:16And a second.
24:18N.
24:19And a third.
24:20L.
24:21And a vowel, please.
24:24E.
24:25And another.
24:26O.
24:27A consonant.
24:29T.
24:30And a vowel.
24:32U.
24:34A consonant.
24:36G.
24:38And a final vowel, please.
24:40And a final E.
24:42Half a minute.
25:08Tom?
25:09Seven.
25:10And Steve?
25:11Seven as well.
25:12What's a seven, Steve?
25:13Gentler.
25:14Gentler.
25:15And Tom?
25:16Lounger.
25:17Lounger.
25:18Gentler.
25:19Two very strong sevens.
25:20A lot of points to pick up in that round.
25:22Pat, how did you do?
25:23Not as good as a seven.
25:24Did you get a seven?
25:25Couldn't beat those sevens.
25:26No.
25:27Lounger for us as well.
25:28Tongue was there for a six.
25:29And a gluten as well.
25:30Gluten.
25:31Gluten.
25:32Gluten.
25:33Gluten.
25:34Gluten.
25:35Gluten.
25:36Gluten.
25:37Gluten as well.
25:38Yes.
25:39For a six.
25:40Right.
25:41And as you're using your tongue right now,
25:42it's time for some origins of words.
25:43Take me on a journey.
25:44I'm going to take you on a journey.
25:46I'm talking about flying.
25:48And obviously, quite often when we fly,
25:50we encounter lots of foreign languages.
25:52And as I often say on the programme,
25:54we really struggle with pronouncing words
25:57that we import from other languages,
25:59which English has done for a millennium and a half.
26:02And so we sort of mangle them to make them a little bit
26:05more familiar and a bit more palatable,
26:07if you like, for us.
26:09And this then results in sort of folk etymologies,
26:13so these kind of myths about where a word comes from,
26:15because we've changed it to something familiar
26:17and given it a whole new identity, really.
26:19So I will start with the muskrat.
26:22So the muskrat, North American animal.
26:25No name in English when the pilgrim fathers
26:28and the early settlers went over to inhabit
26:32what essentially was already an inhabited land, of course.
26:35So they met the indigenous people,
26:37but also met their languages too.
26:39And when they encountered this language,
26:41they heard an Algonquian, a Native American language,
26:44word, muskwash, or something similar.
26:47And they borrowed it into English,
26:49but because it looked a little bit like a rat and a rodent,
26:52they decided, well, that's easier for us,
26:54so we will call it a muskrat,
26:56because it also has a slightly musky smell.
26:58Woodchuck, another one we borrowed from the same language.
27:02It doesn't actually...
27:04It's not able to toss lumber around.
27:07Commonly known, of course, as the groundhog.
27:10We think it goes back to a word that actually meant a fisher,
27:13so someone who fishes for their food.
27:15And finally, the cockroach, I'm afraid to introduce there.
27:18Obviously fossils go back millions and millions and millions of years,
27:22but the word only goes back a few hundred years,
27:25to the early 1600s,
27:27and there's a Spanish word, cucaracha,
27:29which was borrowed into English,
27:31and the cuca means butterfly, caterpillar.
27:34So that's obviously what the bug looked like to them.
27:37But we had the word cock, which meant a rooster, because it's big,
27:42and we had the word roach, which actually meant a fish.
27:45But never mind, cockroach it sounded like,
27:47and cockroach has it stuck.
27:49And as we know, they will outlive us all.
27:51Beautiful.
27:52APPLAUSE
27:54Steve, let's get some letters.
27:56Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Steve.
27:58T
27:59And another.
28:01P
28:02And a third.
28:04M
28:06And a vowel.
28:07A
28:08And another vowel, please.
28:10E
28:11And another.
28:13O
28:14And a consonant.
28:16S
28:18And a consonant, please.
28:20G
28:22And a consonant.
28:25Lastly, N.
28:27Good luck.
28:51MUSIC PLAYS
28:58Steve?
29:00Seven.
29:01And Tom?
29:02Eight.
29:03The seven, Steve?
29:04Is postage.
29:05Fantastic.
29:06But Tom's cut from a different cloth.
29:08What have you got?
29:09Montages.
29:10Well done.
29:11There you go. We'll put it in your highlights reel.
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29:15It's an easy week for you, this.
29:17Just sit there, shut up, we'll move on, yeah?
29:20Well, possible one that could be quite fitting.
29:23Yes, very good for you.
29:25And I don't know if this is really a word.
29:28I think post-match would be a word, but is post-game?
29:31Yes.
29:32Post-game is in.
29:33Post-game interview, it is all one word.
29:35Yes, fantastic.
29:36APPLAUSE
29:38Is that the Americanism there?
29:40They don't have post-match, they have post-game.
29:42Yeah, it is largely North American,
29:44but I think you might hear it over here sometimes.
29:46Fantastic, right.
29:48Tom, on nineties, it stands against Steve's 30.
29:52Let's get some more letters.
29:54Vowel, please, Rachel.
29:56Thank you, Tom. A.
29:57And a consonant.
29:59M.
30:00And a vowel.
30:02E.
30:03A consonant.
30:05F.
30:06A consonant.
30:08S.
30:09And another.
30:11M.
30:12A vowel.
30:14O.
30:15Consonant.
30:17N.
30:18And a final consonant, please.
30:21A final.
30:23R.
30:24Last letters.
30:48Tom?
30:49Seven.
30:50And Steve?
30:51Seven as well.
30:52What's the seven, Steve?
30:53Foreman.
30:54Foreman.
30:55And Tom?
30:56Moaners.
30:57And moaners.
30:58Yeah.
30:59Both excellent.
31:00Over to Dictionary Corner.
31:01Susie, Pat, anything else?
31:03No, it's just strange that we're talking lots of sportsmen's names.
31:06Yeah.
31:07We're doing this George Foreman now,
31:09after getting Kanti and Yakubu.
31:11Yeah.
31:12We're doing this George Foreman now,
31:15after getting Kanti and Yakubu earlier on.
31:17Fantastic.
31:1897 plus 37.
31:20Last numbers now.
31:22And, Steve, you have the honour of picking them.
31:24Can I have... I'll try two large, four small, please.
31:26Two large, four small, for a little bit of fun at the end of the day.
31:29And this last selection is...
31:38And the target to reach...
31:41Three to eight last numbers.
31:43MUSIC
32:14Tom?
32:15Three to eight.
32:16And Steve?
32:17One away, three to seven.
32:18No worries. Tom for ten points.
32:2075 add seven is 82.
32:22It is!
32:23And times four.
32:24And it's as simple as that, three to eight.
32:29Only easy if you see it, though.
32:31107, that's six tonnes in a row, six wins in a row for Tom.
32:34But remember, he's never lost a round, conundrums included.
32:37So, Steve, you could give him a sleepless night.
32:40Come on.
32:41Fingers on the buzzers as we reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:48Tom?
32:49Overshoot.
32:50Let's have a look.
32:56Words that Pat Levin's very familiar with
32:59if you watch the highlights from his career.
33:01Fantastic.
33:02You literally get a two-second window.
33:04117, champion again.
33:07Steve, you get the goodie bag, the ticket, I'll weigh with you.
33:10Thank you very much, yes. Much appreciated.
33:12Didn't really get off the ground, did you?
33:14No, didn't have much of a hope to do with the young man here.
33:17Did you enjoy your experience, though?
33:19Yeah, it's been very good and best of luck.
33:21Thanks, Steve.
33:22Tom, you're maybe the most laid-back character
33:24I've ever had the pleasure to look across.
33:26You've just reached zen on the show.
33:28I know, yeah.
33:29I love it, though.
33:30Meditation for tomorrow, maybe.
33:33Love it.
33:34Love it.
33:35There you go.
33:36Pat, did you enjoy your debut?
33:38I absolutely loved it.
33:40When you're in the company of genius,
33:43it's been fantastic to watch.
33:46You think sometimes you can come on here.
33:48It's much, much harder.
33:50Susie, Pat will see you tomorrow.
33:52Why are you laughing? Did I get it wrong again?
33:54I can't tell with your accent if you're saying downward dog,
33:57which it is, or downward duck, which is what you're saying.
34:00Which it is, or downward duck, which is what you think the pose is.
34:03Downward duck.
34:04Downward duck. No?
34:05No, that's something you probably found on the internet
34:07that we don't want to talk about.
34:09Just stick with the downward dog, you'll be fine.
34:11Well, on that bombshell,
34:13I'm closing down my interface and saying goodbye.
34:16But Susie, Rachel and I will be back tomorrow,
34:18same time, you can count on us.
34:22You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com
34:26or write to us at countdownleagues ls31js.
34:30You can also find our webpage at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
34:38At four this afternoon, patchy period properties return to their pomp.
34:42Renovation nation is all new and starts in just over an hour.
34:45Then a whole new series of B&B battles begins.
34:48Thinly veiled hostility in new 4N5 here on Channel 4.
34:52Next, A Place in the Sun.
34:56APPLAUSE