Any Ideas Pooh Bear?
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Giles and Esther trawl through the week's papers to find an idea for his column; from Scotland's exam results and Old English language to cancelling poetry and Winnie-the-Pooh. Giles shows off his knowledge of German prose and Esther...well, manages to put up with it!
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| 0:22.4 | I don't have a witty opening gambit I've just realized I just |
| 0:25.8 | You you know how you're saying that you're saying in that special way that you know that Ben can make |
| 0:29.6 | anything sound like a witty opening gambit he'll go to the music now and they'll go |
| 0:33.5 | biddly d and he'll be a thing... Well stop and give him a chance. No he's never |
| 0:38.6 | going to do it there. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, |
| 0:45.0 | oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Straight to the news thing we could talk about Sam's cricket last night. |
| 1:07.0 | Nobody cares about that darling. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm also not going to mention the cat's appointment with the vet at five o'clock today because that's |
| 1:13.6 | also not interesting. It's what they tune in for. And the test match starts, the |
| 1:17.5 | Pakistan test match starts in an hour, so first of all we have to get this done. |
| 1:20.5 | Oh sorry was that my head hitting the microphone? Yeah so that's not a very |
| 1:23.8 | funny joke about how cricket's boring. That's been the joke about cricket for 300 years. |
| 1:28.1 | But a joke that I have not yet made on this podcast? No, so like yes, so yesterday I'm going to I'm going to find a way of writing about the Pakistan |
| 1:35.4 | Test match depending on what happens in the test match today. I might link it back to watching my boy play cricket |
| 1:40.4 | That's a good idea that's really nice. |
| 1:42.0 | Pakistan are coming to play here. |
| 1:44.0 | England is refusing to travel anywhere because of COVID. |
| 1:48.0 | We never travel to Pakistan anyway because of terrorism. |
| 1:51.0 | Nobody does. |
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