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Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Aussie one

Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

G’day cobbers! Giles and Esther take a considered look at the ECB equality report; they then take a far less serious look at ‘cheating Aussie b**tards’.

Is twitter dead Esther pulls on the thread to find out. After a short break it is a whistle stop tour of Wimbledon past and present, Debrett’s guide and puppy yoga before Giles heads off to practice his didgeridoo and Esther feeds the Kookaburras.



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0:00.0

Right then. So today it being a school striped day. Yeah. We've got. The house is just

0:11.0

full of children. Just the house is just full of children. So we've got we've got Kitty

0:15.9

here and we've got. Oh no. I was going to not name them. Oh right. Sorry. We name them.

0:20.7

No, I cannot name them. We'll find out whether or not even Neil will put a bird song over

0:26.1

his son's name. Yeah. People think his son is cool to me. Yeah. Exactly. Or or or. Yes. He's

0:31.7

here having a lovely time. Kitty's having a lovely time. Sam, it turns out that this is who

0:36.0

was at a private school. You pay all that money. You get one extra day of school. But what

0:40.0

value? Not really. But the thing is there's two striped days. We had an inset day as well.

0:44.0

Was that Monday? Yeah. You just saw that's three days. Just sticking on the end. Stick

0:47.3

at all at the end of term. Give us a slightly longer time holiday. That is just not. Yeah.

0:51.1

The school term leads out practically into August and they just take this little. Anyway.

0:55.9

Really, really support the teacher strikes. Clearly they wouldn't strike if they didn't have

1:00.3

major issues to address. But you know, you could once you're striking and the school's closed.

1:06.0

Yeah, you could get together and discuss do whatever the hell it is you're doing. Your inset days

1:10.6

nobody knows.

1:11.4

So I thought, look, what do you think? Do you think do you think to talk about the cricket?

1:26.8

I've had good feedback about our cricket chats. Have you had cricket chats?

1:30.4

Yeah. We had the basketball one. Feedback from? Well, I didn't. I haven't got names,

1:37.6

but I've had some feedback on email, on Instagram, about people are enjoying cricket chat.

1:43.1

I think cricket is a thing that people feel a little bit excluded from. And I think when

1:49.2

people talk about cricket in an accessible way, they quite like it because they feel like it's

1:53.3

sort of, you know, it's like how I sort of can't bear football, but I like reading Henry Winter

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