Kent – Dover

Episode 8.4
19 December 2002



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Contestants Paul Fullerton and Catriona Kershaw, BT employees from Edinburgh
Start Position Elham church
Clue 1 On the cliffs in a confusing place, you’ll spot the prop. He may be K9 but he’s your uncle! 1
Leads to Capel-le-Fern – on statue of ‘Bob’, the squadron dog, at the Battle of Britain Memorial
Clue 2 Dig a dreadful trade in Lear’s 4:6. The greasy dipper’s in the main, and he’s got his hands full! 2
Leads to Shakespeare Cliff – with swimmer
Clue 3 Looking over the sole gateway, view Gibson’s film soliloquy: so, IS that a pistol in your pocket?! 3, 4
Leads to Dover Castle – in barrel of Queen Elizabeth I’s ‘Pocket Pistol’ cannon
Clue 4 Get warmer up at the Tudor rose. Under the lantern back to the sea: has the Iron Man room for his US trunks? 5
Leads to Walmer Castle – in one of the boots of the Duke of Wellington
Clue 5 Bowes-Lyon’s water of ’95 solves Eco’s whodunnit 6, 7
Leads to Walmer Castle – rose dedicated to the Queen Mother in the Queen Mother’s garden
Result The contestants ran out of time on clue 4 and won £600


Notes
1 ‘Capel’ is an anagram of ‘place’.
2 Followed from the air, Suzi meets a group of swimmers on the beach below the cliffs, is carried to a dinghy and rowed out to sea to meet another swimmer who has the clue.
3 Suzi cheekily adds her own line as she reads out the clue: “...is that a pistol in your pocket, Dermot, or are you just pleased to see me?”.
4 Actor Mel Gibson appeared in a production of Hamlet in which some scenes were filmed at Dover Castle.
5 The ‘Iron Duke’ died at Walmer Castle in 1852.
6 Clue 5 was never read out on the programme because the contestants ran out of time on clue 4.
7 The Queen Mother’s maiden name was Bowes-Lyon. The Queen Mother’s Garden is next to a 95ft lily pond planted to celebrate her 95th birthday. Umberto Eco wrote a whodunnit called ‘The Name of the Rose’.





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