Episode 10 Debatable

Hello and welcome to Debatable,

where today one player must answer a series of tricky questions

to try to walk away with a jackpot of over £2,000.

But, as always, they're not on their own,

they will have a panel of well-known faces

debating their way to the answers.

Will they be able to talk the talk?

Well, as usual, that's debatable.

Let's meet them.

Straight talking today. We have comedian Ed Byrne,

we have broadcaster and journalist Angela Rippon,

and actress Sally Lindsay.

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It's an overly-qualified panel, I'm thinking, here, Sally.

-SALLY LAUGHS

-Yes.

-What are you bringing to the dance today?

-Of course, you're an English graduate.

-I am, yeah.

I've got an honours in English.

Not that I can remember much of it cos I was sort of

19 and, you know, away from home.

But I managed to get one, yeah.

Angela, of course,

lots of qualifications that you're bringing to this.

-I've got advanced motoring.

-Yes.

Yes.

And I can still do shorthand.

-Can you?

-Yes.

-That's very cool.

-Really?

Well, because when I was a young journalist

that was what you had to do.

You didn't go to university when I was training to be

a journalist, you were indentured.

You were actually having to work on a newspaper as an apprentice,

and I had to do the equivalent of a three-year degree,

which included politics and newspaper practice

and all sorts of stuff.

But you also had to learn how to do shorthand and typing.

Angela, don't talk yourself up too much.

You know how this show works.

I do! Well, I can take all the questions down.

Ed, of course. Ed knows so much that you just decided

halfway through university,

"Be gone! You can teach me nothing."

I dropped out of my horticultural degree.

Gave up the gardening life.

Well, you're making up for it with the shirt, aren't you?

Yeah, I've got that at least.

-I feel like I don't need qualifications and a degree, I have glasses.

-Yes.

And that just makes people think that I'm smarter than I am.

I can sometimes just do this.

-Very clever.

-I'm impressed.

So, that's the panel. Let's meet today's contestant.

It is Jean from Eccles.

-Welcome to the show.

-Thank you.

-How are you doing?

-Fine, thank you.

Tell us a little bit about yourself, Jean.

So I'm 75,

and I'm retired nurse.

I started when I was 15 and retired when I was 60.

Since then I've been travelling, basically.

Where have you been to?

Australia,

China,

Africa, I'm going to Sri Lanka.

I'm going to ride some elephants.

Really? Yeah.

-You've got a saddle?

-There'll be a saddle.

It's not called a saddle, though, is it?

What is it called? I don't know. What is it called?

-It's called a howdah.

-A howdah?

-She's already shown she knows more than we do.

-That's good knowledge.

-None of us knew that.

-More than the panel...

-You did. Of course you did.

I did not know that. But I do hope that elephant riding wear comes up.

-LAUGHTER

-As a question!

-What do you think of today's panel, Jean?

-Lovely. Yeah.

-Should be all right.

-Do you think?

You're going to need to pay close attention to them

-cos you can only choose one of them, Jean...

-I know.

..to play in the final debate.

-You ready to play?

-Mm-hm.

-OK, best of luck.

Here comes Round One.

This round is multiple choice, Jean.

Four possible answers to each question.

We need you to find the correct one.

There are three questions in this round,

each correct answer is worth £200,

a possible £600.

Let's see if we can get you up and running with this.

(Rectangular.)

-What's you first thoughts on this, Jean?

-I don't know.

That's a good first thought,

-and that's exactly what our panel are here for.

-Right.

Panel, your debate starts now.

I've been to Bhutan.

I've worked there,

and I don't ever remember seeing the flag!

-I know Vietnam. That's a rectangular one.

-That's rectangular.

We can get rid of that one.

Nepal is, isn't it?

-Is it?

-I don't know.

-Laos...

-No idea what the flag looks like.

-With Nepal...

When you see flags at the top of mountains, prayer flags,

-they're all triangular.

-They're triangular.

Or they're very, very long and narrow.

So I don't know if that would...

But I don't know if that would extend to the national flag.

No, I don't think it does.

They put the flag of the person who's there, don't they?

I've got half a mind that Nepal might have

a triangular flight, a pennant-shaped flag.

But I'm really, really not certain.

That leaves us with Laos and Bhutan, doesn't it?

No, but that would mean not rectangular. Nepal...

-Nepal is shaped like a pennant, like a triangle.

-Oh, I see.

-Like a triangle.

-Right, Ed, go on, go for it.

-But that's... You know...

-Go for it.

-That's half a mind.

I'm really not certain enough about that.

Well, the half of the mind that's over here hasn't got

-a clue anyway, have we?

-I haven't.

So are we going to go with Nepal? We're going to go with you.

With the gardener.

-Oh, you're putting it all on me?

-We are.

-All on you.

-All on you.

-I have no memory at all of the other flags.

-Put no great store in this.

We're not sure, but we think it's Nepal.

So, Angela and Sally there skilfully throwing Ed under the bus.

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They say that they all think that it's Nepal.

My first thought was Bhutan,

mainly because I'd never seen a flag from them.

But shall I change my mind?

If I do and it's wrong, he's dead.

-LAUGHTER

-It will be our fault!

If you think it's Bhutan, you think more than we do.

Jean, if you can just give Ed your death stare there.

OK, I'll go with Nepal.

OK, so your first thought was Bhutan.

After hearing our debate,

Ed has convinced you it may be Nepal.

This is all my fault now.

For £200, the correct answer is...

(Come on.)

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-Go on, Ed!

Well done, love!

Good knowledge, Ed.

Well done. Good knowledge.

No, but it's that thing at the back of your mind, it came out. Amazing.

The flag of Nepal consists of two united pennant shapes.

There it is.

Nepal is the only country in the modern world that doesn't have

a four-sided national flag. Well worked out there.

You're off to a flying start.

It means £200 in the prize pot.

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Let's see if we can keep it going with this one.

(This is my worst nightmare.)

Jean has just whispered in my ear, "This is my worst nightmare."

LAUGHTER

I haven't a clue.

-Not a scooby?

-Not a scooby.

OK, panel. Your debate starts now.

Two very confident team members here.

-Nothing Compares 2 U, obviously.

-I'm a massive Prince fan.

Are you? There you go.

I know Nothing Compares 2 U, obviously,

and Manic Monday, obviously.

And I'm thinking I Feel For You was written as well by Prince.

Yeah, I'll tell you what.

I Feel For You was actually a Prince song,

he actually put it on his second album, I think it was.

Manic Monday was written for The Bangles.

Nothing Compares 2 U was written for a sort of protege band

-called The Family.

-The Family. Yeah.

And then he only...

-Prince did a version of it after Sinead O'Connor did it.

-Yes.

-Which leaves us with?

-I'm A Slave 4 U.

Right, so, we didn't even need to debate because we have two

Prince experts on the team,

and the answer is I'm A Slave 4 U.

I'm A Slave 4 U, Jean.

I'll go with the panel, please, cos I haven't got a scooby.

LAUGHTER

-I don't do pop music.

-OK. You don't do pop music.

-No, no.

We're going with the panel, I'm A Slave 4 U - Britney Spears.

For £200, the correct answer is...

It is I'm A Slave 4 U - Britney Spears.

-Good knowledge about The Family, though.

-Yeah.

I'm a Slave 4 U was written by Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams

as part of their writing production team, The Neptunes.

That is very well done, Jean.

I mean, for two questions that you knew absolutely nothing about,

I can tell you it's two out of two.

Another £200 in your prize pot.

-You're up to £400.

-I'll settle for that.

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Here comes your next one.

I've got a sort of inkling but...

it's not definite.

OK, what's your first thoughts?

-510.

-You think 510? You're not quite sure.

Don't play it.

Let's see if we've got any Monopoly players on the panel.

Your debate starts now.

-Mayfair has got to be the most expensive.

-Mayfair or Park Lane.

-Yes, one of those, isn't it?

-I mean, Jean might be right.

It's Old Kent Road, isn't it?

-It's £10, is it? Or...

-No, no, no. It's, like, £50 or £60

is the cheapest one.

Right, in that case, then...

-that might be 360, then.

-Yeah.

I think it's either 460 or 510 cos... You know what?

I've got half a mind... Park Lane and Mayfair,

one of them's about 380 and the other one's 400 and then...

-They are.

-So it's 460, isn't it?

-I think.

It could be one of them's 400 and the other one's 450 and then 510!

-460?

-460, yeah. You go for what you think.

OK, long time since any of us have actually played the game

clearly, but we agree that we think it's 460.

OK, Jean, you first thought 510, they've now gone for 460.

Anything there to make you change your mind?

That was a reasonable debate and

I will agree to go with the panel.

So, you're going with the panel, you're saying 460.

For £200, the correct answer is...

It is 460!

-Very well done!

-That can't be bad, can it?

-Don't look so shocked, Jean!

Well done!

The cheapest properties on the board are Old Kent Road and

Whitechapel Road. You were right, Ed, they both cost £60.

Now, the most expensive property in Mayfair costs £400.

Park Lane is the second most expensive with £350.

It means, Jean,

that after not knowing any of the first three questions,

you have 100% record and you are up,

at the end of Round One, to £600!

So, based on all of that, Jean, how do you think our panel are performing?

They're doing brilliantly.

OK, Jean, let's see how we cope with pictures, it's time for Round Two!

OK, Jean, Round Two is the picture round,

we need you to put three pictures in the correct order.

Each question is worth £300, two questions in this round,

a possible £600 up for grabs.

Here we go.

-Classics one and all.

-I don't do films.

Maybe what we need is a panel with some people that work in the

-entertainment business.

-Absolutely.

Maybe they've been in one or two of the films as well. That would be...

-Yes!

-Because Angela's a good dancer, so maybe she's been in one of them.

OK, let's see if our panel can sort this out for you, Jean.

-Your debate starts now.

-I wish I had been in one of them!

We were just looking at them, actually, I've got a feeling

-in Bye Bye Birdie - he looks very young in that, doesn't he?

-Yes.

-He does.

-So, we reckon that's the oldest one.

So between this one and this one is the trickiness.

Mary Poppins. Chitty Chitty...

-That's an Ian Fleming story, isn't it?

-Yes.

-Stage musical.

Now, on this picture, he looks older than that,

but I know for a fact that he was a big star when

he did that and it was Julie Andrews who was...

The newcomer?

-I've got a half-mind that that came later?

-This came later?

That that came later than Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,

only because the special effects were more impressive,

-there was that mix of live action and cartoon.

-That's very clever.

Cos there was Bedknobs And Broomsticks as well.

-Yes, absolutely.

-OK.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang had a flying car at the end.

It did have a flying car at the end,

but it didn't have any of the other stuff, did it?

-Interesting perspective.

-I have a feeling that that came

later as a sort of big-budget special effects. OK.

OK, let's go that way round, then.

OK, so the special effects in that...

Is what's nudging me towards that.

-And he was a huge star by then as well.

-Massive.

-Yeah, OK.

-Are we agreed, then?

Bye Bye Birdie followed by Chitty Chitty followed by Mary Poppins?

We're agreed?

OK, we have debated and resignedly decided that Bye Bye Birdie is the

oldest of the films, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang came next and Mary Poppins

last simply because it had those wonderful cartoons and GI in it.

So, Jean, they're trying to carbon-date this from the effects of

the movies - anything in there to make you...

No, it's an educated guess and I will go with the panel.

OK, you're putting your faith in the panel.

Bye Bye Birdie, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Mary Poppins for £300,

is that the correct order?

THEY GROAN

-Oh, sorry.

-It goes the other way round.

-It's the wrong order.

Let's have a little look at the correct order.

Bye Bye Birdie was released in 1963, Mary Poppins was released

in '64, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang not released until 1968.

Look, not to worry,

-no money added there, you're still on £600.

-I know.

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Let's see if we can get you back on track with this one, Jean.

Blenheim Palace is in Oxfordshire.

Longleat is in Wiltshire, I think.

And Burghley House is Gloucestershire.

I think, see what the panel says. I have a plan.

You have a plan, Jean,

which is more than our panel have by the looks of things.

-Your debate starts now.

-Well, Burghley, I know,

because it's the seat of one of the great three-day events that we

have in Britain and Burghley House is on the A1 on the right-hand side.

-Right.

-So it's up there and over there.

-Blenheim Palace is in Oxfordshire.

-I knew that.

I think you were confusing Burghley with Badminton House which is

-in Gloucester.

-So where is Burghley, then?

-Burghley is Northamptonshire on the right-hand side.

-Oh, OK.

Blenheim Palace is the home of the Churchills and that is in

-Oxfordshire.

-I knew it was in Oxfordshire. Do you know what?

Prince was supposed to play there once but it didn't happen.

This is true! It was scheduled and then they changed their mind.

So, Longleat's got to be in the middle, hasn't it?

-Yeah, cos it's down here...

-It's down the bottom.

It's south of London, Longleat, isn't it?

So, it goes Blenheim Palace is the one which is in Oxfordshire,

therefore it is the one which is the furthest west.

Longleat is in the middle and Burghley House is in the east.

-What are you thinking?

-I know where Blenheim is, I've been there,

I know where Longleat is, been there.

I haven't been to Burghley.

I think it's a toss between Longleat

and Blenheim which is furthest west.

I'll go with the panel.

OK, you're going with the panel from west to east for £300.

Is that the correct order?

It's the wrong order.

Is it Longleat and then Blenheim?

Jean, you were so, so close to working this one out.

Let's have a little look at the correct order.

Longleat House, and then Blenheim and then Burghley..

Longleat House is in Wiltshire,

that's the most westerly and Blenheim Palace is in

Oxfordshire in the middle and then Burghley House is in Lincolnshire.

There they are.

The most easterly of all three.

Nothing for that one, Jean, but it means that at the end of Round Two,

you still have £600.

APPLAUSE

And there is another thousand pounds up for grabs in our

final round. So, it's time for Round Three.

OK, Jean, in Round Three, all the questions will contain three

statements about a person, a place or a thing.

Only one of those statements is true.

We need you to find those for us.

Two questions in this round,

£500 for each correct answer, so a possible £1,000 up for grabs.

Here comes your first question.

EastEnders, I don't watch. Boarding school with singer Will Young...

That's a possibility. But, as usual, I don't have a scooby.

OK, you're not sure about this one. Let's toss this over to the panel.

Panel, your debate starts now.

I'm pretty sure he made his TV debut on a children's programme,

-didn't he?

-Yes.

And, also, I know he definitely went to boarding school,

but I think he's a little bit older than Will Young.

But...I've got a confession to make, cos I know this answer.

Cos where I filmed the last job I did,

we stayed in the same hotel as Judge Rinder,

and we got on very well, and he said

that he was best man at his wedding.

-So, I definitely, definitely...

-How lucky is that?

-And I remember the wedding pictures.

-Oh, do you?! There you go!

So, we don't really need to debate this one, because we know that the

man who danced at Mr Cumberbatch's wedding was indeed Judge Rinder.

-OK, does that make sense?

-Yes.

So, I will go with Judge Rinder, please, and Sally.

OK, you're going with Sally, you're going with the panel for £500.

The correct statement is...

It is, well done!

APPLAUSE

-Well played, Sally.

-Who knew I would ever need that information?

LAUGHTER

Judge Robert Rinder, and they have been friends

since they were at Manchester University together.

Benedict went to Harrow, Will Young went to Wellington.

He has not appeared on EastEnders,

although he did have an early role in Heartbeat.

-Well played, Sally. £500 into the prize pot.

-Well done.

Jean, it means you're up to £1,100!

-Very nice too, thank you.

-WHOOPING

OK, still 500 up for grabs,

with the final question of this round - here it comes.

Oh, I don't think it's stormophobia.

And I think that lightning lasts...about a second? Less.

The bolt, rather.

I'll see what the panel says.

OK, let's see what the panel makes of this.

Panel, your debate starts now.

I think a lightning bolt lasts...

it can last fractionally longer than a second, can't it? By the time...

-I think I would have thought it was less.

-Less than a second?

-I don't think it's stormophobia.

-Stormophobia's not right.

-Stormophobia's definitely not right.

-My concern with "lightning is hotter

"than the surface of the sun" - I didn't know anything was hotter

than the surface of the sun because I thought you wouldn't survive.

-No.

-I distinctly remember...

-Oh, right, OK, go on, Ed.

-..Johnny Ball saying that.

-I love Johnny Ball.

-Saying what?

-Saying that a lightning bolt

was hotter than the surface of the sun. He might have said...

Yes, he said, "Hotter than the surface of the sun."

-I am sure of it. On a TV show.

-When and where did he say it?

-On a TV show as a kid.

-When we were kids.

-And you were sober?

I was a kid! I know I'm Irish! I was a child!

Johnny Ball...

I am almost 100% certain that Johnny Ball told me,

-not personally...

-I believe that.

-When you're young,

-you feel like the TV's talking directly to you.

-Of course.

Thank you for telling me all that news, by the way!

-Not at all, my pleasure.

-LAUGHTER

-I am sure. Because I remember thinking, "Wow, that's hot."

-Yes.

OK, let's go for that, then.

So we're going to go for the third one,

lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun.

As we are absolutely certain that it's not

stormophobia and lightning does last...

well, doesn't last about a second,

the answer is C, that lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun.

So, the panel are going for C,

lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun.

Yeah, I think stormophobia is not right.

And I think if you blink you'll miss a lightning bolt.

So I'll go with C.

-By a process of elimination...

-I think so.

-..and the knowledge of Johnny Ball...

-Yes.

..lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun.

For £500, is that the correct statement?

-It is!

-Oh, yes.

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Yes, thank you, Johnny Ball.

Good childhood knowledge there, Ed. How did you...

-Sometimes things just stick with you.

-Very impressed.

Lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun,

-reaching a temperature of around 30,000 degrees Celsius.

-Amazing.

A fear of lightning is called astrophobia.

A bolt of lightning lasts on average

about one 10,000th of a second.

-Wow.

-OK, Jean, at the end of Round Three, you're up to £1,600!

-Crikey.

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Not bad.

Quite a tidy sum. Any plans for the money?

Um, well, there are lots of plans, really.

Erm, I just have to put it towards a world cruise.

-Towards a world cruise.

-Mm.

OK, Jean, there's only one question that stands

between you and the money. That is your final debate.

In the final debate, you will have six possible answers.

Only three are correct.

We need you to find all three correct answers in order to win.

But you're not alone because you will be choosing

one of these fine panellists to debate the question with you.

You will have 45 seconds with your panellist.

Will it be the "Prince" among men that is Ed Byrne?

Will it be the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Angela Rippon?

Or will you be called to the bar and have a pint

with Judge Rinder's friend Sally Lindsay?

A difficult choice but I'll choose Ed, please.

OK, Ed, will you join us, please, and we'll play the final debate?

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OK, Ed, Jean has put her faith in you. Are you ready to play?

-I am as ready as I'll ever be, Paddy.

-Good. Feeling confident?

-No, I never said that!

-LAUGHTER

Jean, because it is the final debate,

we're going to give you a choice from these two.

Populations, cartoons.

Only because of my wasted life, I would be better off with

cartoons than populations, but I'm happy to go with either of them.

I have no idea.

Well, I've got a little clue of populations

-but if you're confident with cartoons...

-If...well...

I'd feel happier going with whatever you're happiest with, you know.

-I'm not happy with either of them so we'll go with cartoons.

-OK.

LAUGHTER

Cartoons, then.

Cartoons. OK, Jean, best of luck. £1,600 up for grabs.

45 seconds on the clock.

Here's your final debate question.

Your final debate starts now.

-Right.

-I don't think it's Mickey Mouse.

Neither Mickey Mouse nor Goofy.

Mel Blanc, I don't think Mel Blanc did Disney.

I'm pretty sure he did Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig.

-Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig. So...

-Yeah.

-And you said Mickey Mouse and Goofy...

-Are out.

-Out.

-So it's Barney Rubble or Scooby-Doo.

-Scooby-Doo and Barney Rubble.

I don't know.

I think, er...

-I think it's...

-20 seconds.

I think it's Barney Rubble but I'm not...

..not 100%. That's, er...

10 seconds.

But I think Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig.

And I'm going to leave it to you to decide whether it's Scooby-Doo

or Barney Rubble! I'll drop you in that!

-Jean, I need three answers, please.

-OK.

Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig and...

-..Barney Rubble.

-Barney Rubble.

-It's probably wrong.

-(I think it's right.)

OK, Jean. For £1,600...

..did Mel Blanc do the voice of Bugs Bunny?

He did! We're up and running.

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One down, two to go.

Next, you said Porky Pig.

Was Porky Pig voiced by Mel Blanc?

Yes!

APPLAUSE

Mel Blanc did the voice of Porky Pig.

So it all comes down to this one.

Barney Rubble.

For £1,600, is Barney Rubble the correct answer?

CHEERING

APPLAUSE

Very well played!

-Jean, well done.

-Thank you.

-Well played.

Thank you.

In 1961, Mel Blanc ended up coming out of a coma after a car crash

when a doctor addressed him, "Bugs, how are you doing today, Bugs?"

By which he said, "Nneh! What's up, Doc?"

The surgeon went on to ask him if Porky was there,

if, Daffy, if Tweety, Sylvester and more.

-And he replied in character before waking himself up.

-Wow.

-Fantastic.

Jean, very well played. We are delighted for you.

-You leave with £1,600, well done!

-Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

APPLAUSE

That is it for Debatable.

There's just enough time for me to thank our fantastic panel -

to Ed Byrne, to Angela Rippon and Sally Lindsay.

APPLAUSE

I hope you've enjoyed watching.

We'll see you next time for more heated debates.

For now, it's goodbye from me.

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