The Caveman Café
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Giles and Esther peruse the week's top stories for the final time this series; from disposable cups at the Tory party conference to the world's oldest restaurant in Rome. Despite mentioning sex in virtually every episode, it turns out that Giles isn't God's gift to women after all.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Giles Corrin has no idea. It's called this not because I literally know nothing, |
| 0:10.7 | but because it's all about the moment in the week when I have to sit down and write my column |
| 0:14.1 | but have absolutely no idea what to write it about, which is where my wife Esther comes in, who, having read all the papers |
| 0:20.4 | whilst I take the kids to school always has half a dozen ideas |
| 0:23.4 | picked out for me when I get back to be discussed at the kitchen table over a nice |
| 0:27.1 | cup of coffee. |
| 0:31.1 | This is our last podcast of the series? |
| 0:35.0 | It is, it's not our last podcast forever, or is it? |
| 0:39.0 | Or is it? |
| 0:40.0 | Who knows? And what a long way we've come? |
| 0:41.0 | I know. |
| 0:42.0 | We started with a massive big row. |
| 0:45.0 | And we just had a little massive great big row. |
| 0:48.0 | Do you see the people can tell when we've had a massive row? |
| 0:51.0 | Nope. You see Ben did record at all. |
| 0:54.0 | Do you want to tell them why we had a massive round? |
| 0:56.0 | No, I don't want to tell you. |
| 0:57.0 | We were having a perfectly okay morning, weren't we? |
| 0:58.0 | I think it's the tension that I'm about to go away. |
| 1:01.0 | Is always our exit route? |
| 1:03.0 | We always have an exit route and a reentry route whenever you go away. |
| 1:06.0 | Tonight after recording this podcast, well immediately after recording this podcast I'm going to go upstairs |
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