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Giles Coren Has No Idea

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Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, Unknown, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

What is a freebie, how do you get them and do you have to pay tax?

A tale of two particular freebies this week, interspersed with a collection of Giles and Esthers own freebies from the past.

While Lady Starmer has fallen foul of some members of the press for her new dresses, Eamonn Holmes has been scoffed at for taking his lady friend on a cruise. Esther and Giles have sympathy, freebies aren’t all they’re cracked up to be and anyway they’re part of the business, aren’t they… 



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0:00.0

There's diggin and then there's super digging.

0:05.0

There's food and then there's baker's super-foods.

0:08.0

There's food.

0:09.0

And then there's baker's super foods.

0:11.0

Made with selected natural ingredients and tasty chicken.

0:15.4

The food.

0:16.4

And then there's Baker Superfoods.

0:19.4

BP is working to roll out EV charging hubs in the UK and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea.

0:28.0

It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain.

0:32.0

While today we're mostly in oil and gas. We increased the

0:35.4

proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and

0:39.1

other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. BP.com slash and not all.

0:49.0

I've been talking to you for about two hours I don't really want to talk to you anymore.

0:55.0

This is what happens when you over prepare.

0:57.0

Well, you are completely over prepared.

0:59.0

And then at the same time I feel anxious because I feel under prepared.

1:02.0

But that's the story of your life,'t it? Yes I suppose so. No I've got it's all going to be fine. We are going to do freebies. We are going to talk about freebies. There's a cry going up of you're the expert, mate, you should know.

1:15.1

Come briefly back from a suit.

1:16.8

The man who hasn't paid for lunch since 2003, the man who's every single holiday involves pictures of his children in disguise in luxury

1:26.2

hotels, all that kind of shit. Okay, so what is the story about freebies? Why are we talking about freebies?

1:38.8

This is our quest in our 12th series to be more like other podcasts.

1:43.0

To be more intelligible.

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