It Goes Viral
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Giles Coren and Esther Walker scan the pages of the week’s papers for inspiration for his column in the Times. International Women’s Day, parrots and strip cartoons create pause for thought, as does the looming threat of Coronavirus. Giles is caffeine fuelled and on musical form. Esther does not appreciate Iris’s new choice of scent.
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| 0:00.0 | A history where women are missing isn't a history at all. |
| 0:03.6 | I'm Philippa Gregory and I'll take you through nine centuries |
| 0:07.3 | to find women whose stories were not recorded |
| 0:10.0 | as they were just normal women. |
| 0:12.1 | My brave lads of Molden, I will be your leader, for we will not starve. |
| 0:17.0 | And I'll reflect on their lives with women from today. |
| 0:20.0 | There's something about a woman protesting, which is deeply uncomfortable. |
| 0:25.9 | Find normal women, wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:33.8 | Morning, Charles. Morning, Jiles. |
| 0:34.8 | Morning not. |
| 0:35.8 | What was that? |
| 0:36.8 | Something from the estate? |
| 0:37.8 | Catastrophic explosion on the estate. |
| 0:38.9 | Maybe they're doing what they do with disease outbreak sometimes and dropping bombs. |
| 0:43.0 | There was a film where they, maybe they bombed the estate. |
| 0:46.0 | There's a case of coronavirus. |
| 0:47.0 | How are you feeling? |
| 0:48.0 | Shivery? Any cough? |
| 0:49.0 | Tiny? |
| 0:50.0 | Tiny? |
| 0:51.0 | No, you're the one with the cough as discussed in many, many |
| 0:53.6 | former podcasts. My cough is unlinked to any unwellness there. My cough is |
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