I'VE BEEN HACKED!!!
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Giles and Esther return to ruffle up the papers in order to find an idea for this week's column; from a new Prime Minister and a new King, to a inconceivable number of ants and going back to the 80's. Esther is delighted that the new building work has started upstairs and Giles is still reeling from falling victim to a phishing scam.
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| 0:00.0 | So it's table chaos. |
| 0:01.6 | I just so wanted to do, like welcome back, |
| 0:05.5 | sort of massive, how long's the break been, three months, four months? |
| 0:10.0 | Instead what's happened? |
| 0:11.0 | There's been a change of government, there's been a change of monarch, |
| 0:14.7 | neither of which you could have begun to predict. |
| 0:16.8 | I know. |
| 0:17.3 | When we went to a fair last time, I was all set up, I was going to read the papers today and do |
| 0:21.1 | stuff for the podcast. |
| 0:23.3 | So what's happened, listeners, which you will probably know already |
| 0:28.0 | as this is going out on Friday is that Giles has email and it turns out possibly phone. |
| 0:32.8 | Phone! |
| 0:33.5 | Have been hacks. |
| 0:34.7 | Basically, I got an email yesterday, I don't remember, I got an email from a travel company |
| 0:40.6 | saying we've attached your receipt. |
| 0:41.7 | This is a one, sorry, public service information, very clear. |
| 0:45.1 | We're doing this for the good of our... |
| 0:46.5 | We are, we are. |
| 0:47.7 | You know, serial podcast managed to free Adnan Saeed after 20 years in prison |
| 0:53.5 | and we were thinking we should try and do something good with our podcast, weren't we? |
| 0:56.8 | Well, we always do our best. |
| 0:58.3 | We have, we would, I think, freeing prisoners of conscious is strictly for series, |
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