Hags, babs, rads and grads
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Esther is shocked by a new book she is reading; Giles is shocked to hear that botox is ultimately a manifestation of a fear of death. They discuss the truth about getting old as a woman, and as a man, but more as a woman.
Finally, it doesn’t take a 1st from Oxford to know that the kitchen is the heart of any home, but it seems our American cousins have only just figured this out.
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| 0:00.0 | No, it's not as I like it. |
| 0:02.0 | You can talk about it. |
| 0:03.0 | You can talk about it. |
| 0:04.0 | We can talk about ads if you want. |
| 0:05.0 | We'll start again. |
| 0:06.0 | That's Rowling. |
| 0:07.0 | He's going. |
| 0:08.0 | You haven't had a hasty minute or mess it in the beginning. |
| 0:10.0 | Why? |
| 0:11.0 | That's supposed to be. |
| 0:12.0 | It's supposed to be real. |
| 0:13.0 | It's supposed to be this weird manufactured reality that you wanted to be. |
| 0:17.0 | Here we are. |
| 0:18.0 | And you said what you would eat. |
| 0:19.0 | And is that you pretending to be a hag? |
| 0:22.0 | To make me understand what it is? |
| 0:23.0 | I'm pretending to be a hag. |
| 0:25.0 | You're being hag-ish. |
| 0:26.0 | It comes naturally to me. |
| 0:28.0 | So, this is the book... |
| 0:29.0 | So, I wrote on my sub-sack about this book, |
| 0:31.0 | Hags, The Demonization and Middle-Legs were made by Victoria Smith. |
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