Giley's Sleep Diaries
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Giles and Esther return to the kitchen table to flick through the paper's top stories of the week; from Kate Winslet's ancestry to how much sleep we should get and a postcard from DH Lawrence. Giles fears he's being gaslighted and Esther reveals she's related to Billy the Kid...or was it Jesse James?
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine you in a nice comfy seat with your hands behind your head taking in the views instead of taking on the road maybe even taking a nap. That's the bliss of getting where you need to go |
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| 0:24.0 | Avantee west coast, feel good travel. Welcome to Giles Corrin has no idea. It's called this not because I literally know nothing, but because it's all about the moment |
| 0:44.4 | in the week when I have to sit down and write my column but have absolutely no idea what to write |
| 0:48.7 | it about, which is where my wife Esther comes in, who, having read all the papers whilst I take the kids to school, |
| 0:54.3 | always has half a dozen ideas picked out for me when I get back to be discussed at the kitchen |
| 0:58.4 | table over a nice cup of coffee. Well the main problem I think we have this morning is that we had an actual route. |
| 1:09.5 | I'm glad that makes you laugh because I really am because the basically the key thing about this |
| 1:14.4 | podcast is you laughing and giggling and being all happy and we like seriously we had we |
| 1:19.7 | had an I'm telling you then we did we had a brow since this morning I don't know why I don't know why the third episode of our world-beating |
| 1:26.9 | podcast looming the record at 10 o'clock in the morning should have made a stress or something |
| 1:31.6 | I believe it was my wife's fault. I believe that, yeah, the angle |
| 1:37.6 | grinder that you can go in the background is not annoying me at all. Yeah, so we had an actual |
| 1:40.7 | rouse. So whether or not, suddenly I'll discover whether she really thinks I'm funny or not or and vice versa because mostly we just laugh at each other's stuff but if we're having a row then it won't work. |
| 1:50.3 | How are you feeling darling? |
| 1:52.3 | I feel fine. |
| 1:53.0 | You don't think I should admit publicly that we have actual rest. |
| 1:56.0 | I think you should go boil your head, darling. |
| 1:58.0 | That's what I think. Shall we talk about racism? So much race stuff in the papers this week with Donald Trump telling the squad the four |
| 2:19.4 | non-white American politicians are they all senators are they congresswomen. |
| 2:25.0 | We'd have to, you see then we'd have to know all about American politics, |
| 2:27.3 | but they're well-important elected representatives. |
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