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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:05APPLAUSE
00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:34Now, what's happening up in Hull on the Humber?
00:37Nothing other than the British Science Festival.
00:40It's Europe's biggest festival.
00:42It's city-wide, there are talks, lectures, everything to do with science.
00:46You'd love it. Yes. You would absolutely love it.
00:49It's completely free too, as I say, it's right through the city
00:52and all sorts of eminent people are pitching up
00:54and anybody who's got an interest should head for Hull. Brilliant.
00:58Of course, the thing is, you go to these lectures
01:00and you learn something new every time.
01:02I remember going to the Dimbleby lecture last year.
01:05Amazing, because I don't go to too many of these things,
01:08but have you been to a lecture recently where you were amazed
01:11and you learned something really new?
01:13Well, Susie and I went to the Chris Hadfield,
01:16the Canadian Astronauts' Lecture, and he was absolutely fascinating
01:20and he showed us clips and photos over the years
01:23and how the Earth has changed from those views from space.
01:26It was just absolutely brilliant.
01:28And he kind of left you absolutely awe-inspired
01:30and feeling like you've wasted your life at the same time after that.
01:33But speaking of Susie, Susie's in her own lectures.
01:36I'll be going to one of those this week.
01:38I'm sure that'll be equally as exciting.
01:40Brilliant. Our Susie's touring the country.
01:42And it's a one-woman show, is it?
01:44And it's all about words. We'll talk to her about that in a second.
01:47But in the meantime, let's introduce our contestants.
01:50Dave Ashton's back. Three good wins.
01:53Thank you, Nick.
01:54Casually won, too. 95, 105, and then, of course, you slumped.
01:58I did, yeah.
01:59But let's see how you get on today. Great player.
02:01Dave, you're joined by David O'Neill.
02:03So I've got a Dave and a David.
02:05David's a tour guide from Shank Hill, south of Dublin.
02:08Yes.
02:09On the sea there.
02:10And you take groups of visitors around the historic Kilmainham Jail.
02:14Now, Kilmainham is famous because...?
02:16Everybody thinks of it in terms of 1916, but there's a lot more going on.
02:21There's social history, the ordinary prisoners, men, women, children.
02:26Hangings, for example, that take place at the jail.
02:29Prison architecture.
02:30And we are, without a shadow of a doubt,
02:33one of the busiest national monuments in Ireland.
02:35We would have somewhere in the region of 400,000-plus visitors every year.
02:39That's amazing. I've never been.
02:40Of course, that's where the signatories to the Declaration of Independence were held.
02:45And indeed, 16 of them, I think?
02:4714 were executed there.
02:4914 were executed there, yes.
02:51Thank you. Big round of applause then for Dave and David.
02:59And Susie's over there. Susie, your tour, my word.
03:02I'm coming to see you in Cheltenham. Definitely.
03:04Oh, good. I'll get you up on stage.
03:06Oh, no, no, no. No, no, no. I'm selling the ice creams.
03:09OK.
03:10Brilliant stuff. Look forward to that.
03:12You're joined by Charlie State today, BBC Breakfast presenter and journalist.
03:16Welcome back, Charlie.
03:17Thank you very much.
03:20APPLAUSE
03:22Excellent stuff. Let's kick off with Dave Ashton. Yes, Dave.
03:26Thank you, Nick. Afternoon, Rachel.
03:28Afternoon, Dave.
03:29Can I start with a consonant, please?
03:31Thank you. Start today with G.
03:34And another.
03:36S.
03:37And another.
03:39D.
03:40And one more, please.
03:43Y.
03:45And a vowel.
03:47O.
03:48Another vowel.
03:50E.
03:52Another vowel.
03:55O.
03:57A consonant, please.
03:59R.
04:02And a vowel.
04:03And the last one.
04:04A.
04:06And here's the Countdown Clock.
04:18CLOCK TICKS
04:38Well, Dave?
04:39Just a five.
04:40David?
04:41Six.
04:42And a six. Dave?
04:44Er, goodie.
04:46Goodie?
04:47David?
04:48Goosed.
04:49Goosed? That's a good word.
04:52To be goosed, Susie.
04:53Yes. In the dictionary.
04:55What have you got over there?
04:57Charlie?
04:58I've got gorse.
04:59Yes.
05:00We have gorse.
05:01Gorsebushes. Yes, absolutely fine.
05:03There's no goaders, and there's no gooders, unfortunately,
05:07so we'll start with six as well.
05:09Dosage and an Argosy, the large merchant ship,
05:11originally from Dubrovnik and now from Venice.
05:14Thank you for that.
05:16Six points to David, and it's David's letters game now.
05:19Yes, sir.
05:20Afternoon, Rachel.
05:21Afternoon, David.
05:22Can I have a consonant, please?
05:23You can, indeed.
05:24V.
05:26Consonant.
05:28H.
05:29Consonant, please.
05:31L.
05:33Vowel.
05:35U.
05:36Vowel.
05:38E.
05:39Consonant.
05:41D.
05:42Vowel.
05:44I.
05:45Consonant.
05:47R.
05:48And vowel, please.
05:49And the last one.
05:51E.
05:53Stand by.
06:13MUSIC PLAYS
06:25Yes, David?
06:27Six.
06:28Six. Dave?
06:29Seven.
06:30Right. David?
06:31Hurled.
06:32Dave?
06:33Deliver.
06:34And deliver.
06:35Very nice. Yes.
06:37And the corner. Charlie?
06:39Well, I was thinking about someone who gets involved in a duel,
06:42and I thought they might be called a dueler.
06:44That, unfortunately, is the American spelling.
06:46It's in the dictionary, but you need two Ls for the British spelling.
06:49Sorry, Charlie. You look very disappointed.
06:51Yeah, there you go.
06:53What have you got, Susie?
06:55Just a seven, as well.
06:56Reviled.
06:57Reviled, yeah.
06:59Seven plays six.
07:01Dave on seven, and it's Dave we turn to.
07:03Numbers, Dave?
07:05Can I have one from the top, please, Rachel,
07:07and five from anywhere else, please?
07:09You can, indeed. Thank you, Dave.
07:11I'm going to go ahead and decide a little.
07:13The first one of the day is six, seven, five, two, eight, and 100.
07:21And the target, 144.
07:23144.
07:42THEY CONFER
07:55Well, Dave?
07:56144.
07:57And David?
07:58144.
07:59Thank you, Dave.
08:00Eight plus six minus two.
08:02Eight plus six minus two is 12.
08:04Seven plus five is 12.
08:06Seven plus five is 12.
08:08Multiply them together.
08:09Lovely.
08:10And David?
08:11Slightly differently.
08:12Eight times five is 40.
08:14Yep.
08:15Six minus two is four.
08:17It is, indeed.
08:18Add those and add the 100, and that's 144.
08:20Marvellous. 144.
08:21Well done.
08:25So, nothing in it.
08:2617 plays 16.
08:28Dave on 17, as we turn to our first tea time teaser,
08:31which is fond after, and the clue.
08:33The man upset her, and she wasn't fond of him after that.
08:37The man upset her,
08:39and she wasn't fond of him after that.
08:57Welcome back.
08:58I left with the clue, the man upset her,
09:00and she wasn't fond of him after that,
09:02because, I don't know, she felt affronted.
09:05She was affronted.
09:07That's the word we're after.
09:0917 to 16, Dave on 17.
09:11David, your letters game.
09:13Consonant, please.
09:15Thank you, David.
09:16T
09:17And another, please.
09:19H
09:21Consonant.
09:24S
09:25Vowel.
09:27O
09:28Vowel.
09:29A
09:30Vowel.
09:32I
09:33Consonant.
09:34M
09:36Vowel.
09:38E
09:39And consonant.
09:40And lastly, K.
09:43Stand by.
10:05MUSIC PLAYS
10:16David.
10:17Seven.
10:18A seven, Dave?
10:19A six.
10:20Your six?
10:21Homies.
10:22H-O-M-I-E-S.
10:23Homies.
10:24Homies, go on.
10:25David.
10:26Okiest.
10:27Susie?
10:28Yes, could be the okiest chardonnay in the house.
10:31Absolutely fine.
10:32What have we got over there now?
10:34Susie?
10:35I just have five homes.
10:37Mm-hm.
10:38Anything else, Susie?
10:39There is mistake, atheism and hokiest,
10:44meaning the most mawkishly sentimental.
10:47Hokiest.
10:48Yes.
10:49Thank you for that.
10:5017 to 23.
10:51David on 23.
10:52Dave, off we go.
10:55OK.
10:56Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:58Thank you, Dave.
10:59R
11:00And another.
11:02T
11:03And another.
11:05Q
11:07And one more.
11:09T
11:11A vowel.
11:12A
11:14Another.
11:15U
11:17And one more, please.
11:19I
11:21A consonant.
11:23F
11:26And a vowel, please.
11:29And lastly, E.
11:31Stand by.
11:33E
11:34Stand by.
11:35CLOCK TICKS
12:02Well, Dave?
12:03Eight.
12:04And eight, David?
12:05Eight.
12:06Hello, Dave?
12:08Squatter.
12:09And squatter.
12:11Well done.
12:16Now, Charlie. Charlie and Susie?
12:18I had taser.
12:20Yep.
12:21Yep.
12:22A couple more eights, quartet and quitters.
12:26Taser's not a brand name, no?
12:28It is, but the verb, it's a bit like Google.
12:30The noun is capitalised, but the verb isn't.
12:32OK, thank you for that.
12:35All right, 25-31, David on 31,
12:38and it's David's numbers game. David?
12:41Can I have one large and five small, please?
12:44You can, indeed.
12:46One large, five little coming up for you.
12:48And for this round, they are...
12:50six, five, three, ten, nine,
12:55and the large one, 50.
12:57And your target, 857.
12:59857.
13:01MUSIC
13:32David?
13:33Eight four As.
13:35Eight four As.
13:37Now, Dave?
13:38954.
13:39I beg your pardon?
13:40954.
13:42Oh, sorry.
13:43You mean 854, do you?
13:45No.
13:46You mean 954?
13:47I do mean 954, cos I'm from...
13:50In that case, we're going to have a word with David.
13:54Yes, David?
13:56Ten and six, 16.
13:58Yes.
13:59Multiplied by 50.
14:01Nine fives are 45.
14:03Yep.
14:04Plus three is 48.
14:06It is, indeed.
14:07And add them up.
14:08Yep.
14:09Eight four eight.
14:10Rachel, you're on. Help us get out of this.
14:13If you say ten plus nine is 19,
14:1850 minus five, 45,
14:21times those together for 855,
14:24and then six divided by three is two for 857.
14:28Well done.
14:30APPLAUSE
14:33That's the way, all right.
14:35Thank you, thank you.
14:3625 takes 36.
14:37David on 36, and we turn to Charlie.
14:40Charlie, newsman.
14:42Biggest story of the year?
14:44Maybe it's Harry and Meghan, and you were there.
14:47Yeah, one of the joys of my job is every once in a while
14:50you get to have a bird's-eye view on something a bit special
14:55that everyone would love to be at.
14:57I have a generation to say the atmosphere that day was really special,
15:00and even people who weren't terribly keen on the royals
15:03were saying the same thing.
15:05Part of, I think, the reason why people bought into this wedding so much
15:09is Prince Harry himself, who has proved himself,
15:12as the years have gone by, to have sort of real qualities,
15:15real personal skills.
15:17And two years prior to this, so we're talking about July of 2016,
15:23we went to Kensington Palace, where we were told that he was going to talk
15:28about issues around mental health.
15:30And you'll be familiar now with the Heads Together campaign,
15:33which the royals are heading up.
15:35But he gave us an interview, and during the interview,
15:38he, for the first time, referenced his thoughts about his own grieving
15:44in connection with losing his mother.
15:47And it seems odd to say so,
15:49because I've never actually said the words out loud on camera before.
15:54And what he said was, he said,
15:57everything can be OK, but for the first 28 years of my life,
16:01I never talked about it, about grief.
16:04And it was just a rather special moment.
16:07And, of course, since then, in the time since,
16:09they've done so much work around mental health issues
16:13and depression and all those things, and loss.
16:17I think it has been one of their great successes.
16:20And it really is very personally driven by him.
16:24It's a great story, isn't it, I think,
16:26of someone who's really carving a niche for a new generation of royals.
16:31Absolutely. I'll drink to that.
16:37Thank you, Charlie. Thank you indeed.
16:39Now, 25 to 36, Dave. Come, come. It's a letters game.
16:44Thank you. Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Dave.
16:47D
16:49And another.
16:51S
16:53And another.
16:55G
16:56And another.
16:58S
17:00And a vowel.
17:02A
17:03And another vowel.
17:05I
17:07And one more vowel.
17:09E
17:11And a consonant.
17:14T
17:16And one more consonant, please.
17:18And lastly, L.
17:21Stand by.
17:44T
17:52Well, Dave?
17:53Seven.
17:54A seven. David?
17:55Seven.
17:56Yes, Dave?
17:57Glassed.
17:59Yes. Both of you?
18:01Glassed.
18:02Isn't that hitting somebody in the face with a broken glass?
18:05Yes. I mean, it can be the adjective describing something enclosed with glass,
18:09but, yes, it can also mean hitting someone with a glass.
18:13It's not very nice. Yeah.
18:15Susie?
18:16A couple more sevens, ligated and details.
18:19Thank you very much. All right.
18:2143, page 32. David on 43. David?
18:24Consonant.
18:26Thank you, David.
18:27B
18:29Consonant.
18:31W
18:33Consonant.
18:35C
18:36Vowel.
18:39E
18:40Vowel.
18:42I
18:43Vowel.
18:45U
18:46Consonant.
18:48G
18:49Consonant.
18:51R
18:53And vowel.
18:54And the last one.
18:56E
18:57Stand by.
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