Stop Talking!
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Giles and Esther complete their weekly trawl through the papers to find ideas for Giles’ Column in The Times.
Today they find Radio 4 interviewers infuriating; talking dogs uninspiring and next doors builders unbearable.
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| 0:00.0 | No. No. |
| 0:01.3 | It's a cute start music. |
| 0:31.0 | I've got a little bit of a cold, so I might be sounding funny and also coughing even more than usual and possibly even blowing my nose. |
| 0:40.0 | But are you going to be a respectable, sorry, but are you going to be a respectful interviewer? |
| 0:45.0 | Clearly, am I going to make it that is going to happen? |
| 0:48.0 | I'm just going to change and I'm sure it's going to be a good first stop talking. |
| 0:53.0 | We are going to have questions and answers not where you really talk if you wouldn't mind. |
| 0:59.0 | Yeah, you see what I'm saying? Are you going to be respectful? |
| 1:05.0 | I think the question is, rather, are you going to be respectful, darling? |
| 1:13.0 | Are you going to play that every time I was talking too much? |
| 1:16.0 | This stop talking, we are... |
| 1:24.0 | Stop talking. |
| 1:26.0 | I wanted to get a really clean hit of the stop talking. |
| 1:29.0 | Stop talking. |
| 1:32.0 | And my kind is to do that, you see, when you're boring me. |
| 1:35.0 | Maybe I should make a little sign that just a stop talking on it and just hold it up. |
| 1:39.0 | This is an audio medium. |
| 1:41.0 | No, but you would just laugh. |
| 1:43.0 | Oh, I see. |
| 1:44.0 | And it would just be, you know, just the gags. |
| 1:46.0 | Anyway, so you hadn't heard the interview? |
| 1:48.0 | I hadn't heard the interview. |
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