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Giles Coren Has No Idea

So Long, Farewell

Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The final ever episode of 'Giles Coren Has No Idea.'

A mix of podcast quiz, listeners good wishes and a star turn from the next generation of podcasters.

It has been a joy and a pleasure. Thank you for listening, emailing and subscribing, we are very grateful to every one of you.

From Giles, Esther and producer Neil a big thank you and a very Merry Christmas.

God Bless us, every one!


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0:00.0

But we haven't got much to talk about. That's why I thought we'd do, we'd, uh, because we've made, we've made, we've made quite a half-assed girl. Every single week for about seven years. Yes. You said there's nothing, we've got nothing. We've got nothing to talk about. And then when it comes to finishing the record, you're like, no, no, no, but I've got more to say. Okay. True. I'll be glad to see the back of that. Well, I, yeah.

0:22.0

Dance.

0:23.1

So what will you look glad to see the back of that little dance.

0:23.1

So what will you look forward to seeing the back of, Esther?

0:26.0

You?

0:26.6

You.

0:26.8

Great.

0:27.1

As the podcast comes to its end, finally, I've noticed, although I think it's Neil's pretty random counting,

0:32.5

this is the 199th and final episode.

0:35.6

It is.

0:36.2

Wobble, wobble.

0:37.4

He goes. Neil doesn't really care. If you go back to the early episodes of Charles Gordon hasn't no idea, and I have, for the quiz, you find it's just like series one, series two, whatever. And then Neil came in and said, too fucking complicated. This is, you know, we just number it. And that was true. It was partly to get around all the one-off season stuff.

0:57.0

So let's call it the 199th because that's fun.

0:59.2

All right.

1:07.3

This is the final one.

1:08.6

We've had lots and lots, thousands and thousands of emails.

1:12.5

OK, tens, dozens of emails. People are being very, very sad. We're not going to read them all out.

1:16.5

But we have had one rather suitably from Bob Cratchett.

1:21.5

It's not really Bob Cratchett, though, isn't it? Who is it? Who is it?

1:23.8

Well, come on. It says bloody close. Bob Cratchett writes, Absolutely Devode, which I think is used to be for devoted. Absolutely Devoted. All Good Things, Et cetera. Thanks for the last... I think he means absolutely devastated. Not absolutely devoted. Oh, yeah. But that's Devard. He's an actor. He's a cleric. Don't spoil it. Sorry.

2:19.9

He's a man who works in the counting officer, Scrooge's, Clark, not cleric. No, it's from Ed Harrison, the actor who played Bob Cratchett in the first iteration of the Christmas Carol that we went to see at Ali Pally. Ali Pally, yeah. Every year does a Christmas Carol, it's very good. And he says, absolutely devastated, all good things, etc. Thanks to the last. It is, was a podcast I saved to enjoy. Look forward to following you elsewhere. Very best. Ed Harrison, Brackett, Bob Cratchett of Christmas Carol past. In the emails that we've had, a lot of people have said, what's going to happen to Neil? Don't worry. Neil does not spontaneously combust as soon as this podcast ends.

2:23.5

How interesting that you chose spontaneously combust, because I was reading Christmas Carol to the kids.

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