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Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
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🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Giles and Esther are trying to work out how best to teach their children to think better about energy - how and when to use it wisely. But who should teach valuable lessons about the economics of the home - the school or themselves, the parents? And how much do they really understand? So in this bonus edition made in partnership with Smart Energy GB Giles and Esther discuss bathtime, underfloor heating and whether something that makes a whirring noise in the kitchen at night is really going to reduce them to penury! And how the smart meter might make it easier to pass on some important wisdom.
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| 0:00.0 | Morning, Giles. |
| 0:16.4 | Exciting, exciting, exciting news. |
| 0:18.3 | This is a free bonus episode of our podcast brought to everyone by Smart |
| 0:22.5 | Energy GB. Isn't the podcast always free? Yes, it is. I know what you mean. It's just an extra one. |
| 0:28.9 | It's added on to the one that listeners will be getting on Friday as usual. It's just slightly |
| 0:33.4 | different. Different how? Well, it's sponsored, isn't it? And it's brought to everyone by Smart Energy |
| 0:39.3 | GB. And they are an organisation and their raison d'etre is to encourage as many people as possible |
| 0:44.2 | to get a smart energy meter installed in their homes. Very interesting. Do you remember a few |
| 0:51.3 | weeks ago the government suggested reforms to the school timetable that will |
| 0:56.0 | make it more sort of life skillsy so including things like financial literacy understanding how |
| 1:00.8 | mortgages work and and stuff like that do you remember that story yeah no i remember the story um |
| 1:05.8 | yes more life skillsy things down with mass down with chemistry down with physics boring up with |
| 1:10.2 | omit making an interpretive dance. |
| 1:11.6 | It's right up my street. |
| 1:13.2 | Well, I think actually the idea is that they will still teach all the old subjects. |
| 1:17.1 | They just want to introduce some lessons that will set children up for adult life because at the moment, children are living. |
| 1:23.6 | No, practical things. |
| 1:27.3 | This is a practical thing. |
| 1:28.4 | It's not, it's not, okay, it's not going to be more sex education. |
| 1:32.7 | The point is, well, as far as I see it anyways, that British education is basically quite |
| 1:38.4 | a Victorian concept and not that much has changed. |
| 1:42.3 | And the idea back then was that they were churning out sort of identical little civil servants. |
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