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Giles Coren Has No Idea

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Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Giles and Esther are back in their lockdown writers room, formerly known as their kitchen, trying to find an idea for his column. This week; from how to holiday in a pandemic to a survivors guide for a second wave. Giles reveals his unconventional homeschool history lessons and Esther threatens divorce...again!


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Are you going to get your snacks together?

0:03.0

Now?

0:04.0

Yeah, of course I will.

0:06.0

But I'm doing something else now.

0:08.0

What are you saying?

0:10.0

What are I saying?

0:11.0

I'm saying it's a miracle we're still married, is what I'm saying it's a miracle we're still married is what I'm saying. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

0:23.0

oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

0:25.0

oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, It is a miracle we're still married. I think that being married during lockdown was fine and easy until about three weeks ago and I don't just mean for us I mean

0:46.2

for everyone I think about three weeks ago everyone hit rock bottom and everyone's

0:50.9

just been sort of kind of bouncing along the bottom since

0:55.6

well you're the one. Oh here comes you're the one you're the one in this

1:00.1

relationship when you say everyone's been bouncing long you're the one who is now

1:02.8

resonates with the voice of the readers I discover was obviously the key thing

1:06.6

since the end of series two in the beginning of series three is that basically we have in that

1:11.5

gap when there's been no podcast there has been

1:14.4

the Corons at home is it called Giles and Esther splendid isolation so we've

1:17.8

been there's been this column because I haven't been able to be in restaurants

1:20.6

because they've all been closed we We've filled the space with this

1:22.9

con and the two of us do where I write the perspective on lockdown and you write

1:26.3

a perspective on lockdown and basically every week the readers all go, yeah go Esther,

1:30.5

she's so right, yeah, yeah, she's the funny one she's you know so I feel a little

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