Pride and Prejudice and Pamplona
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Giles and Esther gather round the kitchen table to sift through this week’s top stories; from Wimbledon to private schools and running with the bulls in Pamplona. Giles relives his short-lived teenage interrailing trip and bumps into Baroness Shirley Williams whilst buying comics.
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| 1:04.4 | in the week when I have to sit down and write my column but have absolutely no idea what to write |
| 1:08.8 | it about, which is where my wife Esther comes in, who, having read all the papers whilst I take the kids to school, |
| 1:14.3 | always has half a dozen ideas picked out for me when I get back to be discussed at the kitchen table |
| 1:18.9 | over a nice cup of coffee. lovely. |
| 1:30.0 | My idea for you this week is so brilliant that we can all just go home because it's so great. You have one. |
| 1:31.0 | But it's so great. |
| 1:32.0 | Is it really? It is? This would be lovely. I would love one that I could just simply write. The ones where they go, it writes itself. It writes itself. Pride and Pamplona. The lesser known really shit Jane Austen novel where they all go to Spain |
| 1:45.9 | Alas, no, no it's not it's about experience tourism. So you've given this column a title |
| 1:51.7 | What? You caught with this my title they don't normally have titles you've given this column a title. What? |
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