"I'm going to stand here till you get fat!"

Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, Unknown, News

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

After a busy but very enjoyable Christmas Giles and Esther return to ponder some of the talking points of the week.

What is a work life balance and how does one get one? How do you wire a plug – why not ask one of Giles many deceased relatives. Is post war rationing the root cause of child obesity?

Finally, how to play Fagin without bowing to stereotype and… stop climbing Everest!

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0:00.0	Hey mate, what's with a giant pile of letters?
0:02.5	Letters?
0:03.4	Ah, my bill room.
0:05.0	Bill room?
0:05.6	Yeah.
0:06.2	Can't open them, can't throw them out, so they go in the pile.
0:09.5	You've got a giant pile of unopened bills, big enough for a room, and you don't want to open them because...
0:15.4	Don't want to know.
0:16.1	Right, well, maybe if you open them, you wouldn't have to sleep in the bath.
0:19.2	Yeah. Study show our relationship with money is formed from the age of seven.
0:23.7	That's why our expert Barclays team is here.
0:25.9	To help you take control of your money today, Barclays, make money work for you.
0:32.2	Come on, come on, come on.
0:33.6	Right, good on.
0:34.6	Okay, fine.
0:35.3	Welcome back to the podcast.
0:37.0	Well done for finding it because it was a bit of a mess before Christmas.
0:41.2	We were moving back into our house and we didn't do a podcast because we had a...
0:44.4	I think we didn't have a row.
0:45.6	We were just too stressed by moving and dropped one and everyone complained.
0:49.1	Did they?
0:49.6	Yeah.
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