Don't chop the chop house
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Giles and Esther return refreshed from a half-term halloween break to flick through the papers; from Potter power and Hancock in the jungle, to saving the Bounty and a dining institution. Ben shook off a horrendous migraine to record the show...a day later than usual - but did it help give Giles more time to work on his column?
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| 0:00.0 | Here we are, again, in Kitty's bedroom, up in the attic hiding from the builders, with |
| 0:05.2 | the temporal proviso, I think we should make this week, that is actually not Wednesday |
| 0:09.3 | but Thursday, because Ben had a migraine, correct? |
| 0:12.4 | Which means we're a bit later in the week than we would normally do. |
| 0:14.5 | And I wonder about, you know, we started prepping the podcast early in the week if we've |
| 0:17.5 | lost some of the things. |
| 0:18.5 | For example, obvious nail-tongue thing that we would have to talk about would be Matt Hancock |
| 0:22.2 | going on, I'm a celebrity. |
| 0:23.2 | What is wrong with him? |
| 0:24.2 | But is it all a bit Tuesday? |
| 0:26.0 | No, I think it isn't, because it doesn't, it starts on Sunday night, or Monday, it starts |
| 0:32.8 | quite soon. |
| 0:33.8 | So they pinned him down quite late, or they announced him late, because they think they |
| 0:38.9 | announced it late. |
| 0:39.9 | I think they announced it late. |
| 0:40.9 | Well, they've been rummaging around for new contestants, for ages, we know how long |
| 0:47.1 | they've been rummaging around, because... |
| 0:48.8 | Well, there happens it from time to time, yes, they approached me. |
| 0:52.0 | But ages ago, yeah. |
| 0:53.0 | Well, they approached me right at the beginning when they, every year they think, maybe |
| 0:56.0 | it'll just be so shit that we'll have, sort of, Giles Koran and Matt Shorley and somebody |
| 1:01.2 | as the walker. |
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