David Baddiel: Cat Whisperer
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Giles, Esther and the new family kittens purr their way through this week’s news; from London Fashion Week in Southwark Cathedral to removing derogatory terms for women from the Oxford English Dictionary. Writer and comedian David Baddiel drops by to impart his feline wisdom.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Giles Corrin has no idea. It's called this not because I literally know nothing, |
| 0:10.6 | but because it's all about the moment in the week when I have to sit down and write my column but have absolutely no idea what to write it about, which is where my wife Esther comes in, who, having read all the papers 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. |
| 0:37.0 | So are we going to address the elephant on the table? Don't talk about my cat like that. |
| 0:40.0 | The tiny weeny kitten that's on the table playing with your cat. |
| 0:45.0 | Literally playing in the cutest possible way. |
| 0:47.0 | Yeah, it's really cute. |
| 0:48.0 | It could be worse. There could be two kittens. |
| 0:50.0 | Two of them. |
| 0:52.0 | How have the kitten been for you so far Jars? They're fine. They're a source of |
| 0:58.4 | slight anxiety at the moment. I've just fallen off the table. |
| 1:01.8 | Because it's big. I've just fallen off the table. |
| 1:10.0 | Because it's there, you know, I know, in theory, cats fall on their feet and cats are independent and but these cats don't know that yet. |
| 1:13.0 | It turns out kittens aren't. |
| 1:15.0 | It turns out, what? |
| 1:17.0 | See, well done. |
| 1:18.0 | It turns out, because we got these kittens this time, was it this time yesterday was it yesterday |
| 1:24.8 | 48 hours ago for this time two days ago we bought these I bought these tiny |
| 1:29.0 | kittens home and they're the very very lovely breeder I got them from they're not petty rehats but they're crossbreed and very lovely breeder I got them from lives about an hour and a half away |
| 1:40.2 | And these two kittens just cried in the car for an hour and a half on the way home. |
| 1:45.0 | And it was really distressing. It was really, really bad. |
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