A Columnists Christmas

Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, News

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Giles and Esther try to find another column idea from this week's papers; from public speaking and Peppa Pig to TV vicars and public speaking. Giles is finding great joy in organising the office Christmas party whilst Esther is recovering from surgery...Listener Poll - does Giles find Esther being on Crutches: A) Funny B) Annoying C) Has been incredibly caring and sympathetic.

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0:00.0	Dolly, is that?
0:04.0	Ben's here.
0:12.0	Do you want to give me one hand?
0:14.0	No, I'm not.
0:22.0	He he he.
0:27.0	Oh!
0:30.0	I'm going.
0:32.0	It is literally the entrance of Long John Silver in Treasure Island.
0:38.0	I have more of a bath than Long John Silver.
0:42.0	All you lack is a parrot on your shoulder.
0:45.0	Oh God.
0:46.0	Operation on my foot and someone still thinks it's funny to put a wippy cushion on my butt.
1:01.0	Oh!
1:14.0	So, so you've got a bad foot?
1:16.0	I've got a bad foot.
1:18.0	I've got an operation on my left foot to remove a tumour that was growing on a nerve.
1:24.0	I didn't know it was on your left foot.
1:26.0	Maybe even the college should be my left foot.
1:28.0	Yeah, my left foot.
1:29.0	You're not kind of hamming it up quite as much as Daniel Daniel, they're the rest of it.
1:33.0	I've never seen my left foot, but I get it confused with my beautiful laundry rep.
1:38.0	My beautiful laundry is about a pair of gay men who run a laundry rep.
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