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Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Sins of the Father

Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Giles, Esther and Kitty Coren try and find a column idea from this week's papers; from bad holiday destinations and the Mosely family name to posh vegetarian meals and racism in cricket. Giles is riding on a high after a well received column, Esther tells the less than romantic story around their engagement and Kitty schools us all in how to drop the mic.


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0:00.0

How close do I go to the microwave and do I just be like hi or do I the closer the

0:05.0

better sort of like this is probably best like that yeah you got lots of cool

0:10.7

things to say no just ask me my opinion things

0:30.0

different feelings about columns this week yes thanks to the one that you decided

0:40.3

to write Saturday just gone so we didn't actually talk about on last week's

0:43.6

podcast did we not well we did but Ben cut it out because he was boring Ben had a

0:47.0

bit of a problem editing last week's podcast didn't he we finally had a

0:50.2

proper barn stinker actual marital route instead of har har there's a bit of

0:55.6

husband and wife friction here as we discussed the news I did some table

0:59.2

frumping in some real proper shouting in a situation that well entirely if

1:02.5

you're making if I miss judge the room again anyway so Ben had to make that

1:06.6

all out no but what we were talking about we didn't get on to talking about

1:09.2

the armos do you think the previous week we had a we did a podcast about me

1:13.6

getting dragged and about getting dragged generally and about the fall

1:16.2

out from a column about why there are no male writers and I'd made some jokes

1:20.2

that were not taken as jokes by certain people in the culture war yeah I suppose

1:26.6

I do I don't want to mention the by name and and the problems that can have

1:31.9

when you're dragged and you write a column you're not expecting problems we

1:34.4

did it and this week well a couple of weeks later we thought we talk about

1:37.2

when a column goes just unexpectedly well unexpectedly brilliant I now look I

1:40.9

was because I'm scared he can't and because I'm fully traumatized by just writing

1:45.3

columns and being dragged into everything I was really really worried about this

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