Esther and Giles play 'Mr and Mrs'
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
How well do Giles and Esther know each other? Cue a game of Mr and Mrs. What A levels did they take, what were their childhood pets called…or let’s start simple: “What is your wife’s name?” It isn’t Farah Fawcett.
Continuing the game theme Giles plays “what’s in the inflation basket this year? If tinned fish isn’t in there, it should be. If Esther can answer correctly, will she win a speed boat?
Jeremy Clarkson is back with a Grand Tour spin off…except actually he isn’t, he only appears in archive footage. Is it about time to put the whole thing out of its misery…
Finally, a respectful salute to Group Captain John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway, who died this week. He was the last known Battle of Britain pilot. Talk of him and his life stirs up emotional memories for both Giles and Esther leading to a teary end to the show.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey mate, what's with a giant pile of letters? Letters? Ah, my bill room. Bill room? Yeah. |
| 0:06.2 | Can't open them, can't throw them out, so they go in the pile. You've got a giant pile of unopened bills, |
| 0:11.9 | big enough for a room, and you don't want to open them because... Don't want to know. Right, well, maybe if you |
| 0:17.1 | open them, you wouldn't have to sleep in the bath? Yeah. Our relationship with money is formed from a young age. |
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| 0:28.2 | Barclays, make money work for you. |
| 0:33.2 | Morning, Esther. |
| 0:34.3 | Morning. |
| 0:35.8 | It is that time of year again. |
| 0:38.3 | Is it Easter? |
| 0:40.5 | Only if Neil's really slow with the edit. |
| 0:42.8 | Is it time for me to book my Ocardo Christmas slot? |
| 0:46.3 | Not quite. |
| 0:47.6 | Although, funnily enough, speaking about Akado and Christmas and Easter, |
| 0:51.8 | there's quite a lot of Ibiza in the paper where Ibeefa. |
| 0:54.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.5 | Where there's two stories. One of them is like tomorrow is going to be as hot as Ibeefar. |
| 1:01.0 | Here? Yeah. Yeah. Hotter that, no, hotter than Abitha. And you know how they put that in the paper always? It's going to be hotter than Abitha and you're meant to go, ha, I'm so glad I'm here and not in Abitha because we're |
| 1:12.5 | much hotter here and you go, yeah, but the thing about Abitha is the sea and the swimming pools |
| 1:17.1 | and the nice food. |
| 1:18.7 | The vibes and the amazing food. |
| 1:20.1 | Yeah. |
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