A Pint of Your Finest Horse
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Giles and Esther return to find a column idea; from Boris's roadmap to recovery and Barak Obama and Bruce Springsteen's podcast, to Charles Darwin's heirloom chest and Gwyneth Paltrow's covid cure. With just a couple of weeks until lockdown easing begins Giles is helping Esther come to terms with the children going back to school.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you an absolutely huge fomter or a zoom-in or perhaps you're an arm stretched out like a zombie |
| 0:06.3 | when holding a newspaper or a holds a book so close you might as well be kissing it. |
| 0:11.6 | Er, at SpexAvers, we get it. You don't want to admit it's time to become a glasses wearer. |
| 0:18.0 | That's okay. We're ready to see you whenever you're ready to see properly. |
| 0:22.3 | Book an iTest at spexavers.co.uk so you can see clearer. Er, okay, we'll stop with the |
| 0:29.1 | years now. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm unsettled today. I'm unsettled and I'm upset and I think I will underperform. |
| 0:37.0 | But my one contribution today. Why are you upset? I don't know. I'm trying to get the bottom of it. |
| 0:41.1 | I'm hot. I don't like my outfit. I look fat. You've changed your outfit. I know. I hate what I'm wearing. |
| 0:45.5 | You are a bit fat. I'm going to hit my face. Ben's put his head in the back. This is nice. It's fine. |
| 0:50.6 | It's fine to say that I'm a bit fat. I would rather say you said I was a bit fat. Do you know, |
| 0:54.8 | honestly, you're not a bit fat. You had a thin face a couple of years ago. A couple of years ago. |
| 1:00.3 | Don't be crap on the radio because you're worried that you're looking at it. I'm not going to be |
| 1:03.5 | crap on the radio. But if I say I'm feeling a little unsettled and upset, then I'll be all right. |
| 1:08.0 | Yes, and I'm asking you why you feel unsettled and upset because later on when I listen back to |
| 1:12.4 | the podcast and you said I feel unsettled and upset and I go, yes, but it's an interesting story. |
| 1:17.0 | I think, oh, listeners will think I should have asked her. Why? And nothing, particularly, |
| 1:22.8 | we're not noticing any massive hangovers, are we? I'm going to hangover. |
| 1:26.4 | We settled into the one bottle per night. Per person. No, don't. |
| 1:52.9 | The road map, Boris's road map is out of the things that are going to happen. |
| 2:00.8 | Two major worries. I mean, what are your major worries about the road map? My major worries are |
| 2:05.9 | the emotional fallout of my children going back. Are you now saying that after weeks and months, |
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