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Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Great British Food Museum

Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Giles and Esther return to the papers for ideas for this week's column; from museums, cinemas and other cultural spaces re-opening to what a socially distanced holiday in space would look like. Giles reminices about his teen years and Esther fights off a fox with a broom.


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

This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats.

0:11.0

So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.

0:15.0

Trains, now on Uber.

0:18.0

T's and C's apply.

0:20.0

Check the Uber app. I cut out a story from I mean even the time to

0:25.8

manage to illustrate this show with this story with side booth so um it's a bono

0:30.3

name helps me land dog food contract.

0:33.6

No, it wasn't Bono, it's a kind of dog.

0:36.4

Bono name helps me land TV roles,

0:38.6

says Eve Houston, his daughter.

0:40.4

And she is the star of the luminaries, the BBC period of the black,

0:43.8

E Fusen plays Yeddade Yedd Yedd Yedda.

0:45.4

First lead in a mainstream British drama, Bla D'A Bla.

0:47.6

Some of the friends I went to New York performing art school with are the most talented actors

0:51.0

but have found it difficult to get an agent or audition.

0:53.0

That's never been a problem for me and I think that's because of my family.

0:56.0

That's not the way its system should work of course, but if the door is open, walk through it,

1:00.0

it can then be a hindrance because they can't separate you from your father or see you as an individual.

1:04.0

So I thought this was very honest of her and of course...

1:06.0

Yes, it was very honest of her to say that that's how you got the job.

1:08.0

And I thought it just made me think of me, as most stories in the newspaper do. Yeah, okay okay there's a piece to write about nepotism.

1:15.8

Yeah. You look bored. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

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