Grant Coren Has No Idea
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Giles and Esther thumb their way through the week's papers for another column idea; from popular baby names and common mannerisms to Shakespeare on TikTok and ageing. Giles is suffering from a Victorian disease and Esther, obviously, finds that hilarious.
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| 0:00.0 | Did you lick? |
| 0:02.6 | What? |
| 0:03.1 | He's doing your own music. Did you lick? |
| 0:05.2 | Did you lick? |
| 0:31.0 | I do actually have some breaking news, I think, Ish, which is a new tea towel from |
| 0:35.5 | Nikki Haslam, one of our favourite things. Even more things, Nikki Haslam finds |
| 0:41.0 | common. Should I read some of my favourite ones? |
| 0:43.4 | When you say breaking news? |
| 0:44.8 | Yeah. Well Simon Conway just sent a picture of it to me and Simon Conway is actually a very |
| 0:50.0 | very like on it with kind of news and stuff. |
| 0:52.4 | Did we do the things he finds common? We did, didn't we? |
| 0:54.6 | We did, didn't we? |
| 0:55.6 | I think this is now the third or perhaps fourth tea towel he's done. |
| 0:59.7 | This is the fourth one, but the third one which I wrote about that was, we did, we |
| 1:02.5 | potted that, didn't we? |
| 1:03.5 | We potted that as well. |
| 1:04.5 | But just as a kind of, you know? |
| 1:05.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.5 | Let Nikki Haslam get some last, for us. |
| 1:09.1 | Even more things, Nikki Haslam finds common. I think the ones I like the most are. |
| 1:15.2 | Long pauses by radio presenters. |
| 1:17.2 | Paintings of fingers now. |
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