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Giles Coren Has No Idea

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Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Giles and Esther scour the British and German newspapers for stories to inspire Giles's column this week; student digs, archaeological digs and millionaires digging controversial basements. Giles contemplates fondues and lederhosen in Bavaria. Esther enjoys a week of peace at home, in London, with the cats.


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0:00.0

May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

0:08.0

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again.

0:15.0

Trains, now on Uber. T's called this not because I literally know nothing, but because it's all about the moment

0:34.4

in the week when I have to sit down and write my column but have absolutely no idea what to write

0:38.7

it about. Which is where my wife Esther comes in, who, having read all the papers whilst I take the kids to school,

0:44.3

always has half a dozen ideas picked out for me when I get back to be discussed at the kitchen

0:48.4

table over a nice cup of coffee. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Here he is.

0:54.0

Oh,

0:55.0

Oh, Oh,

1:02.8

Here he is. Is. Oh, I'm not.

1:04.8

Oh, no, no.

1:07.8

Oh, no. Oh, hi!

1:11.8

Oh, great. Oh, few. Sorry, I was having some, I was calling you and you were calling me and it was...

1:18.4

So this is a bit weird, isn't it, Giles? This is quite weird. I think it's very clear early on that we make it clear to our

1:26.1

listeners that I am not in the kitchen. No, and it's quite odd because you sort of

1:31.2

are in the kitchen because you're on a

1:33.9

face time call on my laptop. But as it stands I am in Bavaria blowing some

1:39.4

food off my laptop because it's my lunch break and I'm filming but the thing is we just got fed up with

1:45.0

having these gaps in the podcast because everyone says oh it's a podcast you have to

1:47.9

be every week people expect you to be there you can't go on holiday so

1:51.2

although I have to be here in Bavaria filming a show about

1:54.6

hotel to the BBC we wanted to do a podcast. So here I am. It's my lunch break in the

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