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Giles Coren Has No Idea

Desert Island Crisps: Jamie Theakston

Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week, Giles welcomes a freshly shipwrecked celebrity to Desert Island Crisps for a well earned half-term break. For those of you who haven't heard Giles's Times Radio show, this is the portion of the programme where a different celeb discusses the foods that shaped their lives. In this episode, the broadcaster Jamie Theakston joins Giles to reminisce about 90's TV, starting out as Garth Crooks' assistant and insists that the perfect place for peanut butter is on a burger.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination.

0:12.0

Not a car in the world, as you simply lean back. And before you know it, you're there.

0:20.0

This is how travel should feel, and on our trains, it does.

0:25.0

Avanti West Coast. Feel good travel.

0:30.0

Are you an absolutely huge fomter, or a zoom-in, or perhaps you're an arm stretched out like a zombie when holding a newspaper?

0:38.0

Or a hole's a book so close you might as well be kissing it, eh?

0:42.0

At Spec Savers, we get it. You don't want to admit it's time to become a glasses wearer, eh?

0:48.0

That's okay. We're ready to see you whenever you're ready to see properly.

0:52.0

Book an eye test at SpecSaver.co.uk so you can see clearer, eh?

0:57.0

Okay, we'll stop with the ears now.

1:00.0

Hello, now I've got some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that Esther and I and the whole family have gone off to Wales for half term.

1:21.0

The good news is we're going to give you something else to chew on. It's called Dead at Island Crisps, a special edition of which follows.

1:28.0

As many of you already know, these are interviews I do with my celebrity mates in which I talk to them about their lies through the medium of food.

1:35.0

In this episode, I am joined by the Prince of the 90s Kids TV and the King of Breakfast Radio. It's the one and only Jamie Thiexton.

1:52.0

Have you got anything left for it, Jamie? Because you have come from the heart studios and have you given everything you have for the radio?

1:59.0

I don't know. It's really nice to be able to talk, obviously every morning I sort of talk for a living, but it's nice to be actually talking in front of someone else.

2:08.0

I've got to have missed out, you know, with the lockdown and what have you. It feels so novel to be actually to be spending time with someone.

2:16.0

I've known you for 25 years and this is the first time you've actually had me. It takes a lockdown to get me into your kitchen.

2:26.0

The main reason is because it's not as nice as your kitchen. I've been to your house only the once when you were showing off.

2:34.0

I've been to each of your houses once. That was enough. I came to ditchling a few times.

2:40.0

No, your lovely house in Chisey. Honestly, I kind of, Esther was going, Jamie will never have seen such a small kitchen.

2:47.0

It's just, it's quite exciting being back in North London. This is a place that I was sort of familiar with in my youth.

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