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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30Well, good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:35Toys. Toys for kids? No. Well, yes.
00:38But apparently the big thing nowadays, and something like £300 million is spent every year on toys for grown-ups.
00:45I know that, you know, dads have had, well, railways running around the attic for years and years and years.
00:52But there's a new craze, and apparently, as I say, £300 million are spent on kidults, on the kidults.
01:00Grown-ups, wanting to be kids, buying toys.
01:03Sometimes there's sort of modern versions of old toys.
01:07But a lot of them are things like figurines and models and collectibles.
01:11Some of them are based, apparently, on pop culture.
01:14But what amuses me is our little Sophia, who's 15 months old.
01:20She's got not so much a toy, but a child's vacuum cleaner that works.
01:26So it's sort of the other way around, isn't it? Extraordinary.
01:29What about you? I'm sure you're surrounded by toys.
01:32Only because everyone's got kids now. All my friends have got little ones.
01:35So I went around my friend whose daughter, Mabel, just turned two, and she had the best toys.
01:39She was obsessed with animals.
01:41So she had this big, giant chest full of all sorts of realistic animals and dinosaurs.
01:46And her favourite are sharks and penguins.
01:49But what about you?
01:50Me?
01:50No toys?
01:51I'll play with the kids.
01:53Down with the kids?
01:54Yeah.
01:55All right.
01:56But there we are.
01:56Little Sophia has her very own vacuum cleaner, and she helps Mum with the washing up and the hoovering, if you're allowed to say that.
02:05And Dad. I'm sure she helps Dad as well.
02:06Oh, yeah, these days.
02:07In this day, exactly.
02:08I know.
02:09Dad needs to get on the hoover.
02:10Oh, shocking turn of events.
02:13Who we got?
02:13Toby MacDonald is back.
02:15Welcome back, Toby.
02:17Two great wins.
02:18You're doing really well.
02:19Really well.
02:20Sixth-form student from Chard in Somerset.
02:23Toby, you've now got to beat and wrestle with Colin Beckwith.
02:28Welcome, Colin.
02:30Retired prison hospital officer from North Allerton in Yorkshire.
02:34Mm-hmm.
02:35Once upon a time, took a long apprenticeship as a coach builder, and that was in the railway works in York.
02:42Yes, yeah.
02:43What, in the carriage works, I guess?
02:45Carriage works, yeah.
02:46It's fantastic.
02:46But those were the days, you know, when they were, they weren't prefabricated as they are now.
02:53It was wood and metal and...
02:56Slam doors.
02:57Slam doors, oh, yes.
02:58Remember those?
02:59And the leather strap.
03:00Yeah.
03:00The leather strap.
03:01Put-up windows.
03:02That's right.
03:03That's right.
03:03Listen, have a lot of fun, Colin and Toby.
03:06Big round of applause for our contestants.
03:09Toby and Colin.
03:09And Susie's over in the corner, joined for the last time, until we can get him back again,
03:19away from his travels, coming back with new and wonderful stories.
03:23It's a wildlife specialist, countdown favourite, the great Chris Packham.
03:27Welcome back.
03:33Every time you come, you tell the most brilliant story.
03:36So, we're going to release you back into the wild at the end of this.
03:39A bit more search.
03:40And you can go get some more for us.
03:42All right.
03:43Now then, Toby.
03:45Letters go.
03:46A consonant, please, Rachel.
03:47Thank you, Toby.
03:49P.
03:51And another.
03:53H.
03:54And another.
03:57T.
03:59Vowel, please.
04:00I.
04:01And another.
04:03O.
04:04And another.
04:06E.
04:07Consonant.
04:09N.
04:11Vowel.
04:13I.
04:14And a consonant, please.
04:17And lastly, R.
04:18And here's the countdown clock.
04:20Tchen.
04:33Tchen.
04:34Tchen.
04:42Tchen.
04:44Tchen.
04:44Well, Toby?
04:52Eight.
04:53An eight.
04:54And Colin?
04:56Eight.
04:58Toby?
04:59Pointier.
05:00Pointier and?
05:02Thornier.
05:03Thornier.
05:04Oh, you need two R's for thornier.
05:07I'm sorry.
05:09Sorry, Colin.
05:11Could have had phonier.
05:12Could have had phonier for seven, yeah.
05:15We were with pointier too.
05:17Pointier.
05:18Nothing else?
05:19Nothing else.
05:20Let's settle there then.
05:21Eight points to Toby.
05:23Bad luck, Colin.
05:24But you'll be back.
05:25In fact, you'll be back right now.
05:27It's your letters game.
05:30Consonant, please.
05:31Thank you, Colin.
05:33T.
05:34Consonant.
05:36R.
05:38Consonant.
05:40T.
05:41Vowel.
05:42A.
05:43Vowel.
05:45U.
05:46Vowel.
05:48I.
05:50Consonant.
05:51S.
05:54Vowel.
05:57O.
05:58Consonant.
05:59And lastly, T.
06:01Stand by.
06:02ут.
06:18Vowel.
06:19C.
06:21Vowel.
06:22T.
06:22Vowel.
06:23We.
06:25B.
06:26Vowel.
06:26Vowel.
06:26Vowel.
06:28C.
06:29Vowel.
06:29Well, Colin?
06:35Four.
06:36I've looked at it.
06:37Four.
06:38How about Toby?
06:39Seven.
06:41And I said, let's deal with the four and move on, Colin.
06:45Stag.
06:46Stag and Toby?
06:48Agoutis.
06:49Very good.
06:51Susie?
06:52Yep.
06:53Anything else there?
06:54We have a few more sedans.
06:55No, we're like a small rainforest animal that eats Brazil nuts.
06:58We had the Agouti, but we had Guitars and Tourists.
07:02Tourists.
07:02Guitars and Tourists.
07:03The rest on the end.
07:03Tourists.
07:04Well done.
07:06Fifteen points to Toby.
07:07And it's Toby's numbers game.
07:09Yes, sir.
07:11One larger and five small, please, Rachel.
07:13Your usual.
07:14Now, thank you, Toby.
07:14One larger and five little ones.
07:16And the first numbers of the day are one, seven, ten, three, six, and one hundred.
07:25And this target, 550.
07:28Five, five, zero.
07:59Well, Toby?
08:025.50.
08:03And Colin?
08:055.46.
08:07Let's try Toby first, then, shall we?
08:09Toby?
08:10100 plus 10 is 110.
08:12110.
08:13And 6 minus 1 is 5.
08:15Yes.
08:16And times them together?
08:175.50, yes.
08:19Not bad.
08:20Well done.
08:23And now it's time for our first tea time teaser, which is tried nuts.
08:27And the clue, he tried the nuts but couldn't chew them.
08:30He needs to revisit this person.
08:32He tried the nuts but couldn't chew them.
08:35He needs to revisit this person.
08:37Welcome back.
08:53I left you with the clue.
08:54He tried the nuts but couldn't chew them.
08:57He needs to revisit this person.
08:59He needs to revisit his denturist.
09:03Is that a dentist or what?
09:05Somebody who makes dentures.
09:06Oh, is it?
09:07It's a different person, is it?
09:08Model maker?
09:09I think so, yes.
09:10I'm not sure a normal orthodontist would do that.
09:12I'm not sure, to be honest.
09:13But it sounds like they specialise in dentures.
09:16I suppose it'll come to me one day.
09:18I'll have to go see the denturist.
09:21I'm holding him up bay at the moment.
09:2325 points to Toby.
09:24Now, Colin, letters came.
09:28A vowel, please, Rachel.
09:31Thank you, Colin.
09:32E.
09:33Vowel.
09:34A.
09:35Vowel.
09:36O.
09:37Consonant.
09:39B.
09:41Consonant.
09:42L.
09:43Consonant.
09:44T.
09:45Vowel.
09:46I.
09:48Consonant.
09:49X.
09:50Consonant.
09:51And lastly, S.
09:53Stand by.
09:54We'll see you next time.
09:55We'll see you next time.
10:24Well, Colin.
10:26Six.
10:27And Toby.
10:29Seven.
10:31And your six.
10:32Exalts.
10:34Exalts.
10:35Toby.
10:36Boaties.
10:37Boaties, yes.
10:38Boaties, yes.
10:38Very good.
10:39Exalts.
10:40Good word, then.
10:41Very good word.
10:41And in the corner there.
10:43And in the corner there.
10:43Chris and Susie.
10:45Yeah, boaties and isolate for seven, but no better.
10:50So, Toby.
10:53Your letters came now.
10:54A consonant, please, Rachel.
10:58Thank you, Toby.
10:58D.
10:59And another.
11:02P.
11:03And another.
11:04G.
11:06A vowel, please.
11:08E.
11:09And another.
11:10A.
11:11And another.
11:12U.
11:13A consonant.
11:15S.
11:16A vowel.
11:18O.
11:19And a consonant, please.
11:21And lastly, R.
11:24Stand by.
11:25And a consonant, please.
11:55Joby?
11:58Just a six.
11:59A six. Colin?
12:01Six.
12:03Toby?
12:03Rogued.
12:05And Colin?
12:06Spared.
12:08Spared?
12:09Yes, absolutely fine.
12:11Can we get beyond six, Chris?
12:15We grasped it.
12:17You did?
12:18And we got seven.
12:19Well done.
12:20But then we surpassed it with upgrades.
12:23Ah.
12:23With eight.
12:24Perfect.
12:25Very good.
12:27Very good.
12:30All right.
12:31So, six plays.
12:3238.
12:33And it's Colin's numbers game.
12:35Good luck, Colin.
12:36One large and five small, please, Rachel.
12:39Same again.
12:39Thank you, Colin.
12:40One big.
12:41Five not big.
12:42And the little ones are three, five, six.
12:46One and three.
12:48And a large one, 25.
12:51And this target, 618.
12:53Six, one, eight.
12:54Three, two, and two.
13:12Three, four, five, six.
13:17Colin.
13:27I lost it completely, I'm sorry.
13:29Let's turn to Toby.
13:30Toby?
13:31618.
13:33How do we measure?
13:355 minus 1 is 4.
13:36Yep.
13:37Times 25 is 100.
13:39100.
13:40Plus 3.
13:41103.
13:41And times 6.
13:42Lovely, 618, well done.
13:44Neatly done, well done, Toby.
13:46Well done.
13:47APPLAUSE
13:47Very neat.
13:51Chris Pancombe, what have you got for us?
13:54A bit more bird science.
13:56In the northern and southern hemispheres,
13:58when winter comes and it gets cold and resources become thin,
14:02animals are faced with a problem,
14:04and they can overcome that typically in one of three ways.
14:06They can stick it out if they have the capacity,
14:09or they can migrate, move to somewhere where it's warmer
14:12and there's more food available,
14:14or they can hibernate.
14:16But when it comes to birds,
14:18they're not really set up for hibernation,
14:20because in order to hibernate,
14:21you've got to take on fat reserves,
14:23which you can burn throughout the course of the winter.
14:26And if you're a bird,
14:27you can't put on an enormous amount of weight,
14:29because then you won't be able to fly,
14:31which rather defeats the object of being a bird.
14:33So just like us mammals,
14:35they're what we call endothermic.
14:37They need to maintain a constant body temperature.
14:41Now, if we try to do that and we're out in the cold,
14:43we shiver in order to maintain body temperature.
14:46We vibrate our muscles,
14:47but this comes with an energetic cost.
14:49It's the complete opposite of what you want to do
14:51when there's limited resources.
14:52You don't want to spend more staying warm.
14:54Scientists have put heart rate and temperature monitors
15:00on 25 geese,
15:02and they followed them over the course of 18 months.
15:06And they found that between December and January,
15:10their heart rate on a daily basis dropped by 22%,
15:14and their body temperature dropped by 1%
15:18throughout the course of that period.
15:21So their whole metabolism is set up
15:23throughout the course of the winter to slow down,
15:27and their body temperature becomes colder
15:29throughout the course of those winter months.
15:32And this is what we call winter hypermetabolism.
15:36Now, it's likely, of course,
15:38that it's not just geese that are doing this.
15:40It's many other species of birds,
15:42which you can see out there.
15:43So when you gaze out of your window into the garden
15:46and you look at the birds on the lawn,
15:48or you're gazing out over the lake
15:50and you see all of those ducks out there,
15:51the likelihood is that they are quite literally
15:53chilling out to get through the winter.
15:57Extraordinary.
16:02And because they flutter up
16:04and trap the air in their feathers,
16:06and that sort of helps things along too, I'm sure.
16:09They do.
16:09They have the capacity to insulate themselves,
16:11but bear in mind that they still are living in very cold environments.
16:16So they will go to any lengths to reduce that energy expenditure.
16:19And what we've recently learned is the fact that they have the capacity
16:22to lower their body temperature and their heart rate
16:25by some considerable degree.
16:27We couldn't do that.
16:28That would be fatal for us.
16:29All right.
16:31Thank you so much.
16:3248 plays 6.
16:33Colin on 6.
16:34And it is Toby's letters game.
16:37Toby.
16:38Consonant, please, Rachel.
16:39Thank you, Toby.
16:40D.
16:41And another.
16:44T.
16:44And another.
16:47H.
16:48And a vowel.
16:49E.
16:50And another.
16:52A.
16:52And another.
16:54I.
16:55Consonant.
16:57M.
16:58Vowel.
17:00A.
17:02And a consonant, please.
17:04And lastly, S.
17:06Stand by.
17:07Music.
17:08Music.
17:25Music.
17:26Music.
17:27Music.
17:30Music.
17:32TOBY
17:39An eight
17:40An eight, Colin
17:42Six
17:42And that six is?
17:44Heated
17:45Thank you, Toby
17:46Adamites
17:48There's only one E for heated, I'm afraid
17:50I'm sorry, Colin
17:51Adamite
17:53So I'm confident of this one, Toby
17:56Yeah, it is there with a small a
17:58A zinc mineral occurring as yellow, green or colourless crystals
18:01Very good
18:02Well done
18:04Chris and Susie, any advances on that?
18:10Not an advance, but we can equal Adamites with masthead for eight
18:14Very good, masthead
18:15Susie, that's it?
18:17Yep, that was it
18:17Thank you so much
18:18Colin, your letters game
18:19Vowel, please
18:22Thank you, Colin
18:23E
18:24Consonant
18:26N
18:27Vowel
18:29O
18:30Consonant
18:31D
18:32Vowel
18:33I
18:35Consonant
18:36J
18:37Consonant
18:39L
18:40Consonant
18:42R
18:44Vowel
18:44And lastly
18:46E
18:46And here's the countdown clock
18:49We're gonna go
18:53You guys already have to leave this show
18:57And now, if you've had something tokan at all
18:58Be very good
18:59You're going to bomb me
18:59And there's a big camera
19:00And never have to throw it
19:02Okay, sc七
19:02Had to be another question
19:03And now
19:05We're going to die
19:06Question
19:07That's all
19:08Bye
19:09And now
19:10You're going to be
19:11What?
19:12And now
19:12We're going to grillіз
19:13Excellent
19:14And now
19:15We're going to learn
19:15You're going to light up
19:16All right
19:17And here's going to be
19:17Well, Toby?
19:22An eight.
19:23An eight.
19:23Colin?
19:24A risky eight.
19:27Toby?
19:28Rejoined.
19:29Rejoined and?
19:31Joined.
19:33Joined.
19:34Joined.
19:35Don't think we're going to be lucky.
19:38We're not, I'm afraid.
19:39I'm sorry.
19:40That is bad.
19:41I think Colin reckoned it was a bit of a risk.
19:43Yeah.
19:44Chris and Susie?
19:46Just rejoined.
19:47Nothing more.
19:47That's it.
19:48Susie?
19:49No, that was our best.
19:50All right.
19:51Now, Toby, it's a numbers game.
19:54One large and five small again, please.
19:56The usual.
19:56Thank you, Toby.
19:57One from the top and five little.
20:00And for this round, they are four, five, five, seven, one, and one hundred.
20:07And the target, five hundred and eight.
20:12Five oh eight.
20:13One, two, three, five, five, seven, one, and one hundred.
20:14Thanks, Phil.
20:15And the target, five, five.
20:15So, you can watch them.
20:16One, two, three, four, five.
20:17Yeah.
20:17Two, three, four, five, six, seven, one hundred.
20:18One, two, three, three, four.
20:18And the target, five, seven, five, six, seven, six, seven, seven, seven, seven.
20:18Yes, sir.
20:465-0-8.
20:475-0-8.
20:48And Colin?
20:495-0-8.
20:51Toby?
20:52100 times 5.
20:53500.
20:54Plus 7 plus 1.
20:55Yeah, it takes all the 3 seconds.
20:57And Colin?
20:58Yeah.
20:59Good.
20:59All right.
21:00So Toby on 74, Colin on 16, as we head for our second tea time teaser, which is eating
21:07her.
21:07And the clue, she was interrupted while eating her tea, so she's popped it in the microwave.
21:13She was interrupted while eating her tea, so she's popped it in the microwave.
21:18Welcome back.
21:35I left with the clue.
21:35Well, she was interrupted while eating her tea, so she's popped it in the microwave.
21:41Why has she done that?
21:43For reheating it.
21:45Reheating.
21:46That's the answer there.
21:4774 plays 16.
21:48Toby on 74.
21:49And it's Colin's Letters game.
21:51Good luck, Colin.
21:54And a consonant, please.
21:56Thank you, Colin.
21:57S.
21:58Consonant.
21:59R.
22:01Vowel.
22:02A.
22:03Vowel.
22:05I.
22:06Consonant.
22:07F.
22:10Vowel.
22:12O.
22:13Consonant.
22:14N.
22:16Consonant.
22:17Q.
22:18Vowel.
22:19And lastly, E.
22:23Stand by.
22:24BELL RINGS
22:48Well, Colin?
22:56Five.
22:57A five.
22:58And Toby?
22:59Six.
23:00And a six.
23:01Colin?
23:02Fairs.
23:03And Toby?
23:04Reason.
23:07Yes.
23:08Yep, it's absolutely fine for six.
23:11And what news from the corner?
23:12Chris?
23:14Insofar.
23:16Well done, yeah.
23:16Insofar.
23:17Yeah, that would give us some.
23:20All right, 80 playing, 16.
23:22Toby?
23:24We're back with you again.
23:26Toby, your letters game.
23:27Consonant, please, Rachel.
23:28Thank you, Toby.
23:29M.
23:31And another.
23:33D.
23:34And another.
23:36T.
23:37And a vowel.
23:39O.
23:40And another.
23:41A.
23:42And another.
23:44E.
23:45A consonant.
23:48B.
23:49Vowel.
23:52O.
23:53And a consonant, please.
23:55And the last one.
23:56W.
23:57And here's the countdown clock.
24:12Well, Toby?
24:31Six.
24:32And Colin?
24:33Six.
24:34Thanks.
24:35Toby?
24:35Booted.
24:37And Colin?
24:38Booted.
24:40Yep, absolutely fine.
24:42And from the corner, Chris and Susie?
24:45If you were in the right place, you could have had a wombat in the meadow.
24:50Indeed, yeah.
24:51A wombat.
24:52Wombat and meadow.
24:53Indeed.
24:5522, place 86.
24:56Toby on 86.
24:58And it's Susie we turn to now.
25:00Susie, what joy will you bring to us this afternoon?
25:04Well, I have to thank Donald Turner, who emailed us and said he's twice recently come across
25:09the saying, wise words, butter, no parsnips.
25:12What does it mean and where does it come from?
25:15Asks Donald.
25:16It's quite an old-fashioned phrase now, really, but it means nothing's achieved by empty words
25:21or by flattery.
25:22So no matter how much charm you put across, you might not get the result that you want.
25:28It dates to the 17th century, so it is pretty old.
25:32But the question, of course, is why butter and why parsnips?
25:35So first of all, we need to go back to when root vegetables were really the order of the
25:40day.
25:40They were easy to grow, easy to dig up, and turnips, swedes, parsnips, et cetera, feature
25:47a plenty in medieval cookbooks.
25:50And as anyone who's eaten them will know, butter helps them go down, so butter helps a
25:55long, long way.
25:56And it was simply a cry for them to be buttered up, if you like, which became a word for flattery
26:02as well as the literal seasoning of your dish.
26:05If you butter someone up, you are unctuous, you are smooth, you are oily.
26:09Everything that butter represents.
26:12And the English became so fond, or the British really, became so fond of slathering butter
26:16all over their food that the French, who were not great fans of us anyway, were completely
26:23disgusted by the way that we had complete disregard for any sense of oat cuisine and just, as I
26:29say, just layered the butter on.
26:31They still called us the roast beef, so they still associated us with meat rather than butter.
26:35But the Japanese definitely joined in in this sort of complete disgust for the British
26:41diet.
26:42And they called us butter stinkers.
26:44Not just us, actually, but the Europeans in general were known as butter stinkers.
26:47And to this day, apparently, in Japanese, if there's anything obnoxiously Western that
26:51comes around, they will call it a butter stinker, which harks back to those days.
26:56Anyway, the butter habit was firmly entrenched in English cuisine.
26:59We buttered up our parsnips, and that then travelled into English as a byword for the same thing
27:04as buttering up, flattery, et cetera.
27:06But it wasn't just parsnips that received all the butter.
27:10You'll find around the 17th century, soft words, butter no parsnips, cabbage, fish, or
27:15coney, or coney.
27:16That was another word for a rabbit.
27:18And there's a great example in a 1651 book, which goes, words are but wind that do from
27:25men proceed.
27:26None but chameleons on bare air can feed.
27:29Great men large hopeful promises may utter, but words did never fish or parsnips butter.
27:35Very good.
27:37Excellent.
27:42Perfect.
27:43So, 86 to 22, Colin on 22, it's Colin we turn to.
27:49Penultimate letters game.
27:52Vowel, please.
27:53Thank you, Colin.
27:54E.
27:55Vowel.
27:57O.
27:58Consonant.
28:00T.
28:01Consonant.
28:03L.
28:04Vowel.
28:06U.
28:07Consonant.
28:09R.
28:11Consonant.
28:13W.
28:13Vowel.
28:16I.
28:18Consonant.
28:19And lastly, V.
28:21Stand by.
28:22Vowel.
28:23Vowel.
28:24Vowel.
28:24Vowel.
28:24Vowel.
28:25Vowel.
28:25Vowel.
28:26Vowel.
28:26Vowel.
28:26Vowel.
28:26Vowel.
28:27Vowel.
28:27Vowel.
28:28Vowel.
28:28Vowel.
28:28Vowel.
28:28Vowel.
28:28Vowel.
28:28Vowel.
28:28Vowel.
28:28Vowel.
28:29Vowel.
28:29Vowel.
28:29Vowel.
28:30Vowel.
28:30Vowel.
28:30Vowel.
28:30Vowel.
28:31Vowel.
28:32Vowel.
28:32Vowel.
28:32Vowel.
28:32Vowel.
28:33Vowel.
28:34Vowel.
28:34Vowel.
28:36Vowel.
28:52Colin.
28:56Six.
28:57Six.
28:58Toby.
28:58Seven.
29:00Colin.
29:01Wilter.
29:03And Toby.
29:04Outlier.
29:06Yes.
29:06Outlier.
29:07Absolutely fine.
29:09You won't like me for this, Colin, but I'm not sure that Wilter is in there, unfortunately.
29:13Just to wilt, obviously, but you can't have a Wilter.
29:16You know this on purpose, eh?
29:18I'm sorry.
29:19I'll hide under the desk soon.
29:21What can we have, I wonder?
29:24Chris and Susie.
29:26Outlive.
29:27Yes.
29:28Very similar.
29:29And rivulet.
29:31Rivulet.
29:31Rivulet.
29:32Nice word.
29:33It is a nice word.
29:34So, 93 to 22.
29:36Toby, final letters game.
29:38What will you do?
29:39Consonant, please, Rachel.
29:41Thank you, Toby.
29:42N.
29:43And another.
29:46Y.
29:47And another.
29:49L.
29:50And a vowel.
29:51A.
29:52And another.
29:54U.
29:55And another.
29:56E.
29:58Consonant.
29:59M.
30:01A vowel.
30:03O.
30:04And a consonant, please.
30:06And lastly, S.
30:09Stand by.
30:11two.
30:24Two.
30:25We'll be seen soon.
30:26Two.
30:26In one.
30:28Three.
30:28Three.
30:28Three.
30:28Two.
30:29Three.
30:30Two.
30:30Two.
30:30Four.
30:31Four.
30:32Four.
30:33Two.
30:34Two.
30:34Three.
30:36One.
30:37Three.
30:37One.
30:38You.
30:38Three.
30:38Five.
30:38Yes, Toby.
30:44I'll try an eight.
30:46Colin.
30:47Six.
30:48And that six is?
30:49Measly.
30:50Measly.
30:52Now, Toby, what's this eight?
30:55Melanous.
30:56Just writing it down.
30:58You got there before us.
30:59Yes.
31:00Having dark hair or skin.
31:03Same with melanoma, melancholy, etc.
31:05Oh, OK.
31:06Black.
31:06Yeah, very good.
31:07Melanous.
31:08Well done.
31:12And just tips you over the 100 to 101.
31:16Well done for that.
31:17Colin.
31:18Final numbers game.
31:20One large, five small, please.
31:22Thank you, Colin.
31:23Hopefully keeping it simple.
31:24Let's see.
31:25Final one of the day.
31:26Five little ones.
31:28A four, seven, nine, three, and another nine.
31:33And a big one, 100 again.
31:34Keep finding it.
31:36And the target, 204.
31:38Two, zero, four.
31:39Two, zero, four.
31:39Two, zero, four.
32:10Yes, Colin.
32:11204.
32:12And Toby.
32:13204.
32:14Yes, Colin.
32:159 minus 7 is 2.
32:17That's the hard bit.
32:19Times 100.
32:20200.
32:20And the 4.
32:21I'm not wasting the paper on that.
32:23Toby, for sure.
32:25All right.
32:26I think we can take that as read.
32:28111 to 32 as we go into the final round.
32:31Gentlemen, fingers on buzzers.
32:33Good luck to you both.
32:34Let's roll today's countdown conundrum.
32:39PHONE RINGS
32:40Toby MacDonald.
32:46Cataclysm.
32:47Cataclysm.
32:48Let's see whether you're right.
32:51You are right.
32:56APPLAUSE
32:57Amazing.
33:02Well done, Toby.
33:03121.
33:04Colin.
33:05It was close.
33:06It was close.
33:08At the moment, I thought you might keep him under 100.
33:11I was getting there.
33:12You were getting there.
33:13No, you were up against this extraordinary young 17-year-old, Toby MacDonald.
33:19And, you know, that was bad luck.
33:22You came on the wrong day.
33:24So we're going to send you back to North Allerton with a goodie bag and our very best wishes.
33:28Thanks very much.
33:29Thank you very much.
33:29Well done.
33:30Oh, Toby.
33:32Terrific stuff.
33:33Three great wins.
33:35Everyone in a century.
33:37Fantastic.
33:37That's the highest score so far, yeah?
33:39Yeah.
33:39Well done.
33:40See you next time.
33:41See you next time.
33:41You keep going.
33:42All right.
33:43Well done.
33:44Now, as I say, we're releasing you back into the wild, but we're attaching a long piece
33:50of string so we can haul you back to hear more of your wonderful stories.
33:55Please come back soon again.
33:57I certainly will.
33:58Thank you very much for the invite.
34:01Susie, see you next time.
34:02See you then.
34:02All right.
34:03And Rachel, too, of course.
34:05Yeah, we've got Dr. Phil in next time.
34:07We have.
34:08We have.
34:09And we've got Toby MacDonald as well.
34:11I think he might be here for a while, yeah.
34:12I think he might indeed.
34:13We'll see you then.
34:14See you then.
34:14Next time.
34:16Join us then.
34:17Same time.
34:17Same place.
34:18You'll be very sure of it.
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