Bananas for Batman
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Giles and Esther haul themselves through the first papers of the year to find a story for this week's column; from gorillas with covid and vintage comics, to Sex and the City and a royal Mills & Boon. Giles has one eye on the dinner while Esther has hers on the clock.
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| 0:00.0 | Define happy. |
| 0:02.0 | Um... |
| 0:04.0 | Oh, I'm going to record a trailer... |
| 0:06.0 | You've got to start now, so you've got to say something, okay? |
| 0:08.0 | This is audio, not television, yeah? |
| 0:10.0 | Can't just sit there looking handsome like you do on your stupid television shows? |
| 0:13.0 | Do you think I think I have you had it? |
| 0:15.0 | Well, you're the, I don't have much to compare it to you. |
| 0:18.0 | You're the only person I see. |
| 0:20.0 | What about Ben? |
| 0:21.0 | Handsome for my age. |
| 0:22.5 | Handsome. Now have you been it's a this is this is complicated because you're suddenly all |
| 0:47.8 | inverted commas bunnies no that's the wrong way to do but you're all |
| 0:50.9 | busy aren't you no I'm not all busy what I am is... |
| 0:53.4 | There's a big fluster this morning because we have... Our column is back the one that we |
| 0:57.0 | write in the Times that you can buy if you listen to the podcast on Friday. |
| 1:00.0 | Tomorrow on Saturday, by the Times magazine you will find that the Jars on Esther column is about the Corons in lockdown. |
| 1:05.0 | Again, lockdown three and we didn't want to do it, but they said, will you do it? |
| 1:09.0 | And we said, okay. And we said, there's nothing left to say. |
| 1:11.0 | And they said, I think there's something or you're fired yeah |
| 1:13.6 | all right then okay fine so then so then you've got that and then and then you've got to |
| 1:19.1 | write a piece for that you said yes to a piece in the times and the Sunday times |
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