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Giles Coren Has No Idea

Come Fly With Me

Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Giles and Esther sift through this week’s top stories; from the looming potential general election to a change in rules for alcohol in airports. Giles blames Esther for how long the bathroom refit is taking and young Sam Coren makes his podcast debut.



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Giles Corrin has no idea. It's called this not because I literally know nothing,

0:10.7

but because it's all about the moment in the week when I have to sit down and write my column

0:14.1

but have absolutely no idea what to write it about, which is where my wife Esther comes in, who, having read all the papers

0:20.4

whilst I take the kids to school always has half a dozen ideas

0:23.4

picked out for me when I get back to be discussed at the kitchen table over a nice

0:27.1

cup of coffee.

0:31.1

Do you think we should do the thing that we did last week, which I noticed that Ben

0:36.4

the producer left in where we talked about what deities and what's happening in the big

0:41.1

wide world because it's moving so fast that who knows where we'll be in

0:46.8

it all might be the end of the world. Okay three two one go. And so one of the

0:51.6

first things we should do is I think we should just explain to people

0:54.9

listening at whatever they're listening sort of Friday morning that it's currently Wednesday.

0:58.8

So Boris Johnson we may have had a general election by the time.

1:02.1

Yeah, it's possible.

1:03.3

Boris Johnson may be a Lib Dem by Friday morning.

1:07.4

Basically, I don't know, perhaps you would like to explain where we are up to now,

1:10.8

because I don't know, I know rubbish on Brexit, but I feel you're more rubbish now because I don't know I know rubbish on Brexit but I feel you

1:13.6

more rubbish so why don't you try and explain where we're at it's a very low blow

1:17.1

Giles you know I am too scared to read any of that stuff no you do you think exactly the approach that I take which is all good.

1:24.8

Let's ignore Brexit fills 19 pages. Let's talk about all the stuff that isn't Brexit

1:29.1

making the papers much shorter and you have to read less of them. It's exactly what I did

1:32.4

with Northern Ireland for 30 years.

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