A secular Jew, what fun!
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Giles is feeling cut adrift, in the camp but not part of it, fearing the plight of a secular Jew is a rip off.
With that conundrum left unanswered they try to help Barbra Streisand find some fun in her life. Both agree it is more likely a good book by the fire then a private jet to see Katie Perry.
Finally, a big shout out to our listeners in New Zealand – Kia Ora!
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| 0:29.0 | Um so um So, I mean, it's been a month since, what is it now? It's been over a month since, what is it now, it's November the 8th. It's been over a month since the Hamas attacks. |
| 0:32.0 | Eventually you start to think about moving on, I mean... |
| 0:37.0 | Well, it's not really moving on, it's more... |
| 0:42.0 | Nothing on the front page, |
| 0:44.0 | the front page of the times today. |
| 0:45.0 | Literally five things on the front of the paper today. |
| 0:48.0 | Gulp, British women of the world's biggest binge drinkers. |
| 0:51.0 | Good morning, Esther. |
| 0:53.0 | Above that, my liaison with Barbara, What Strise, and told me, |
| 0:59.0 | Cool jeans how to wear your pair, be bold on tax, stories urge Hunt, and police resist calls to ban March. |
| 1:04.7 | Nothing about Gaza. |
| 1:05.8 | I mean technically, the March story. |
| 1:07.8 | But yeah, they moved on, you flipped through the paper and there's Princess Diana and Harry and you know as for |
| 1:14.4 | Selfage as what Captain Tom you know and just saying it's not we had the situation |
| 1:19.7 | where I was wrestling with the fact that the Middle East is unavoidable. Now I'm thinking I |
| 1:26.4 | could write about something else but I'm having a weird the only thing is there's |
| 1:30.3 | no how does one put this column writing is I've done some decent columns on this Are you feeling like that journalist in the Quiet American? |
| 1:45.0 | Oh, no, go on explain? |
| 1:50.0 | So the Quiet American isn't the whole thing about the quite American is that one of the |
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