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Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Rt Hon Miss Piggy MP

Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Giles and Esther sweat their way through the week's top stories; from the record breaking heatwave to the cabinet reshuffle and dad jokes. Giles discusses the importance of beach etiquette and Esther expresses her hatred of puns.


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


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0:00.0

Welcome to Giles Corrin has no idea. It's called this not because I literally know nothing,

0:10.6

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

Um... The key thing is that I'm going to talk more slowly.

0:45.0

Although people love the podcast,

0:46.3

there are comments on there which say things like,

0:48.0

I had no idea, he sounded like a chipmunk.

0:50.6

I don't think I can read the restaurant reviews anymore and the point is not to drive

0:54.7

way such readers as I already have an alternative or an option for people to bear in mind

1:00.8

which I do do when listening to things like the daily is to turn your phone

1:06.9

to slower speed. You can turn it to half speed and then with all those kind of people like

1:12.4

Michael Barbara O'Baro could talk really fast and here's what else you need to know today. speed and then with all those kind of people like Michael Barbero

1:13.0

who talk really fast and here's what else you need to know today and they all sound

1:15.8

like kind of the frog if you turn it down to slow then suddenly they sound more

1:20.3

like gore of it all. Both of our problem, of course, is that we grew up in very verbally combative households.

1:27.0

But people suddenly interrupted you when you were trying to say something.

1:29.0

Exactly.

1:30.0

And everyone wanted to have the last word and talk over each other.

1:33.0

And now in this house we're all equally stupid but equally determined to get our thing across.

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