Harry Just Doesn't Get Therapy
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Giles and Esther dissect the papers again: from Harry's misunderstanding of how mental health works, Sir Kier's chance to become a Hollywood star and what links Bill Gates to Marilyn Monroe. Oh, and Esther cries.
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| 0:00.0 | No, they don't. No, they don't. It is not a gender, it does not divide down gender lines. |
| 0:04.9 | Is there always that part of your performance? |
| 0:06.4 | No, it's not part of my performance. That's how you go. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm not performing, darling. That's just how we talk to each other. |
| 0:10.3 | We're just getting sound, that's how we start. |
| 0:12.3 | So he's talking more about the dishwasher. How do you do this? |
| 0:14.1 | Are you an additional source of excessive? |
| 0:15.8 | No, not really. |
| 0:16.8 | You see, bloke. |
| 0:18.0 | He knows that stacking the dishwasher is not a thing that you're doing to appease some weird dishwasher, God. |
| 0:30.0 | No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no |
| 1:00.0 | just for background, I had a migraine a couple of months ago, oh no, last year, that was so bad that I couldn't speak. So my migrates, I've had migraines and I had one last night and even though I treated it with migraine tablet and it wasn't that bad and I didn't not speak but it does the next day make you feel a little bit too. And that's a risk used to not having read the papers all week or having any ideas for the column. Some weeks, you know, any ideas and that's the reality of writing a column is that some weeks you don't have any ideas and it's... |
| 1:30.0 | You've got this podcast is about me not having read it. And then you've read the papers and I can moment have a cup of coffee. Well, you seem like you had so many ideas. Okay. Struggling with various methods. But how do you know? Right. Your mental health issues, yeah. Just doing a Prince Harry, moaning on about your mental health issues and excuses. The only thing is is that Harry, we could, I know, Prince Harry as I was going to write last week but we think it's moved on. Funnily enough. Sorry. |
| 2:00.0 | The only thing that I think rumbles on. Only because the thing that I thought when I said like my mental health issues and I do use it glibly but I feel that having been an analysis for years and years and years and being a reasonably well-known... No, no, no. You are the original matter, yeah. It's fine. I have all sorts of problems. I think it's okay for me to go to my mental health issues and like everyone's got them in lockdown. On the today program this morning, they had yet another thing, I mean I briefly flipped over from Times Radio. Before quickly hastily turning back to the |
| 2:30.0 | better Times Radio. Because my friend Amole Rajan is now doing Radio 4 Breakfast. And doing such a bang-up job as well. It's really great. They were talking about mental health in lockdown and it continues to be a thing. We've been suffering. There's this thing where we're not going to have holidays and it's the rains horrible and it's just everything shit. Yeah, sometimes everything's okay and then sometimes you hit a kind of... You hit a greasy bit, don't you? And you just sort of skid down into a pot hole of depression. |
| 3:00.0 | Prince Harry, I was going... Last week when he was going, I'm badly parented because my dad was badly parented by the queen and she was badly parented. I thought one could write about... The problem is he's in the telling everybody you're in therapy stage. But he's doing it very public, isn't it? When you start analysis, which he clearly has done and everyone's being really, really mean. Really mean. Mathyside and the Sunday Times. A lot of people are going, you know, happy, clappy, stupid, California shit. He should have a bit of British stiff upper lip. It's alright to have a bit of... Kevin Mayer was a bit similar. Was he you read that piece? |
| 3:30.0 | And I think, well, no, he's obviously, you know, he's... I went into analysis when, you know, largely when after my dad died and I got chucked by my... I didn't like it a bit shit. And I'd always been a mentalist anyway. And that was a good time. And I went around for a good few years telling everyone. Yeah. And you put it out there so that they know. And partly because if you're the kind of person who's going into therapy, then you like talking about yourself. So you talk about your therapy. And what you do is you find other people who are in therapy and then they want to talk about it too. And I found that network, these other people who I didn't know. |
| 4:00.0 | It's quite being an expat in Madland. For example. No, it is. It's like a gada or a juda. So I like... He's a juda too. Or a left-handed person, you know. And it's like... Yeah, that doesn't happen with gingers. We spy each other and then just turn around and walk the other way. We don't like being two in a room. That wouldn't work then with you and Harry. Last know. I had to strike him off my list of potential suitors. |
| 4:30.0 | A long time ago because of that very reason. But then when you're like a gada, like a juda, like a lefty dada, which is like not much of a thing. But still, I still like slightly short people. Very tall people, six foot six people. They always like see each other in the room and like we're both that. And let's talk about how she did his banging head all the time. And... And we really can't stand together because then it's too funny. |
| 4:51.0 | It really looks like two giraffes on the Serengeti and all the others every day. But the mad dar, that's the thing. You then talk to other people. |
| 5:03.0 | Oh, you remember people like Lupus, right? It's a tall handsome German. Oh, he's in therapy. So anyway, Harry's doing that. And it's very public. And so he can't stop talking about his analysis. And everyone has thought, he's got this problem, which I identified, you know, he said I'm trying to break the cycle. |
| 5:19.0 | He accidentally called it the genetic cycle. Because he's too dim. |
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