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🗓️ 11 July 2025
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The Salt Path is a worldwide, multimillion bestselling novel which was later turned into a Hollywood film. It was based on a true story…or so everyone thought. Revelations this week cast considerable doubt on the veracity of the first-person tale. Does it change how Esther and Giles feel about the book?
Greg Wallace has finally been fired by the BBC but the question is did he take a leaf out of the Giles Coren school of defence in his parting statement? Esther has another question too, has Giles ever had the slightest inclination to show his peculiars in the office?
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| 0:00.0 | Until a government brave enough to come along and go, the licence feat is over, my friends. |
| 0:05.8 | It'll just carry on like this forever. |
| 0:07.0 | I think if the thing that takes down the BBC is that they failed to protect the autistic Greg Wallace from a dangerous environment and surrounding him with women that he couldn't help but show his knob to in a sock, I think Britain will have come full circle. That will be peak England. |
| 0:22.6 | Have you ever felt even a tickle of a compulsion to expose yourself? |
| 0:27.6 | As the doorbell rings and I think, wait, quick, let me get my knob in a sock. |
| 0:31.6 | What do you really want to talk about? |
| 0:38.6 | Well, I think what I just wanted to talk about this week is the salt path. |
| 0:43.3 | So I'm just, I'm sure everybody is what I'm talking about. |
| 0:45.1 | Most popular story in the Times this week. |
| 0:47.8 | 200,000 digital hits alone on the T2, I think, interview. |
| 0:53.4 | Was it a piece by someone like Katie Glass? |
| 1:29.2 | It was someone who was just saying, I'm really sad, I like the book. So Katie Glass wrote a thing about how disappointed she was that it wasn't true because she loved the book. Katie's a very sensitive person and believes and, you know, would have chimed with that. Do you need to tell us what the book was, do you think? Yes, I will. I remind everyone. So the salt path is a book written by a woman called Raina Wyn, published in 2018. It's basically about rural homelessness, right? So she loses her cottage. She's married to this guy called Moth. They lose their cottage. They say through no fault of their own. And they... You were aware of the book. Absolutely. I'm aware of the book because it sold two million copies and was translated into like nine million languages it was absolutely massive massive hit |
| 1:33.7 | it wouldn't go away 85 weeks in the top 10 sunday times top 10 top 10 best sell list and it was |
| 1:39.0 | this absolute sort of sensation and they were made homeless and then they went for a walk along the salt path, |
| 1:45.0 | which is a kind of path along the southern coast of England, which is 630 miles long. And they |
| 1:48.8 | camped and they lived wild, basically. They were kind of vagrants, sort of middle class vagrants. |
| 1:53.7 | Despite having done nothing wrong. Well, they claimed that they made a bad investment and they |
| 1:57.4 | lost their home as a result, right? And they claimed that he had a quite |
| 2:01.1 | serious neurological condition, which I think is called either CBD or CDB. It's not cancer. It's a |
| 2:07.2 | neurological condition that makes you very, very unwell. And it got better as a result of their |
| 2:12.3 | walk. Well, so she claimed in the book. The walk was, quote, unquote, healing. |
| 2:21.9 | With this condition, you are supposed to live probably six to eight years, |
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