Sociable Isolation
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Giles and Esther are at home, so are their children. No one has had time to read the papers, but inspiration is flowing, like Asterix’s magic potion. Or wine. The cats are nowhere to be seen.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, and I'll just, and Esther what I'm going to do is I'll set us all up into this and I'll drag us and we can talk about some things and then we'll come to this, yeah? Okay, okay, ready? Okay, go. Oh, Welcome to what may be a rather unusual episode of Giles Corrin has no idea. |
| 0:30.0 | It's unusual in so many ways, isn't it, darling? |
| 0:32.0 | It is, it is. I don't know how usual it normally is. |
| 0:35.0 | Esther, would you like to paint a picture of the recording studio scene at this stage? |
| 0:41.0 | Where are we, what is going on? |
| 0:42.0 | We are at the kitchen table which is strewn with homeschooling teaching aides and our children rather than having just been dropped at school by Giles. |
| 0:53.6 | Creating the great irony, this thing about this podcast is, |
| 0:58.0 | I'm just back from the school run, but luckily my wife Esther Walker |
| 1:02.0 | has been reading the papers to give me some ideas for my column. |
| 1:04.3 | But of course there is no school run. |
| 1:05.9 | And I have not read the papers for a week. |
| 1:08.4 | My children are upstairs. |
| 1:10.3 | Are you aware that there's this virus thing happening? |
| 1:12.2 | It's in the papers? |
| 1:13.0 | Have you seen? |
| 1:14.0 | That has much to get through. |
| 1:16.0 | What are the kids doing at home? |
| 1:18.0 | Did you in your news starved phase drive to school and it was shut and you were rattling on the gates? |
| 1:22.0 | No, so this is necessary. to school and it was shut and you were rattling on the gates. |
| 1:22.6 | No, so this is necessarily a bit different because... |
| 1:26.2 | Who is not here? |
| 1:27.2 | Well, our producer is not here. |
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