Grangeski Hill
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Giles and Esther delve into the papers to find an idea for this week's column; from Russian sanctions and the war in Ukraine, to Ancient Greece and Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg in Uncharted. Giles reminisces about children's TV and Esther despairs at their choice for family movie night.
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| 0:00.0 | Received wisdom is that eating sounds bad on the radio, but |
| 0:03.8 | There's been an I know it sounds marvelous in desert island crisps everyone's going |
| 0:08.8 | My old was that thing everyone hated so much. Yes, it was the thing that everyone hated about it |
| 0:12.2 | I'm it's only I'm my plan. I haven't eaten yet. It's part of my my 16 8 diet because I've got a small hangover |
| 0:18.8 | I saved it to now and I thought if I ate now, I'll be on the sugar up |
| 0:23.8 | Because in about 12 minutes after eating this toast I'm gonna want to go to sleep so |
| 0:27.7 | If you've got 12 minutes, so after we get on 12 minus it really bad if I find crunchy. I'm only gonna add in fake toast crunchy |
| 0:35.1 | I |
| 0:55.5 | I noticed from the Daily Mail that the war on Ukraine is over from page per cow |
| 1:01.5 | The big page three which has been war war war is now |
| 1:05.4 | Come in the park of bowls meets Emerald for now and poor and poor Emerald for now is pursuing her excellent career without the use of any |
| 1:11.4 | Fees or any hands? |
| 1:13.4 | I |
| 1:14.4 | Thought she was wearing the super partially discussed before the way that with your other certain amount of wealth |
| 1:19.2 | You don't you're too rich to put your arms in the sleep shoulder roving so you just put it |
| 1:23.2 | So which ladies just have it over their shoulders basically so they can throw off their coat and can easily count their money |
| 1:27.8 | Really easily I thought she was doing that, but then I realized no you're quite she's missing her feet too |
| 1:31.5 | So she's done she's what she's wearing a sort of jacket |
| 1:34.5 | X would cape jacket which is hiding her hands and she's she's done a bit of a Victoria Beckham with her trousers and her trousers cover her shoes |
| 1:42.1 | So she looks like she's got no hands in there. Do you know what she looks like she looks like these a nice book? |
| 1:46.9 | She looks like the sign on the front of the ladies Lou where they take you know where they say triangular triangular |
| 1:52.8 | Yeah, that outfit when she was kind of on the move and swishing around would look amazing |
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