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Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Actor's Tale

Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Giles and Esther work their way through this week's papers; from Jonny Depp and cancel culture and Anglo-Saxon food and The Canterbury Tales. Giles pines for the cricket being delayed and Esther shows off her geography knowledge.


You can read Giles in The Times here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/giles-coren


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Producer: Ben Mitchell



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0:00.0

Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey.

0:11.0

So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.

0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. Tees and sees apply check the Uber app.

0:19.9

Red carpets, designer clothes adoring fans oh the lives of the rich and famous.

0:25.2

Yeah, but privacy, forget it.

0:26.8

Pressure, off the scale.

0:28.4

Terribly famous is the podcast that tells the stories of our most dazzling celebrities to find out what it's like to

0:34.1

walk in their shoes. From Victoria Beckham to Robbie Williams and Naomi Campbell each

0:38.9

series we take you through their glittering highs and eyebrow raising lows and ask is fame and fortune

0:44.7

worth it?

0:45.7

Sorry didn't I mention the clothes?

0:47.6

Follow terribly famous wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:50.0

Okay right. Now you're down in the dump styling because there's nothing in the papers for us to talk about except for...

0:58.0

I'm down in the dumps for more existential reasons than that.

1:01.0

Well because the cat's gone missing again.

1:02.8

Cats being missing is too depressing to be in it. So you know so I can't remember there's some

1:08.8

early point in the podcast or was it even the last season there was my beloved car broke down at forever and so we

1:15.5

bought a new one and then I sort of slightly fell in love with that and then that got

1:18.2

nicked so we're down a car down a cat we're down a cat we're down a cat

1:21.1

no tenzing ten days he's just gone, hasn't he? He's found someone better. He's found

1:25.8

his fancy person. Hello Iris. I think Iris misses him. No, you're projecting. She doesn't care.

1:34.0

What she wants is for some food.

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