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Giles Coren Has No Idea

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Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Giles and Esther rummage through this week’s top stories; from Meghan Markle editing Vogue to climate change and the Fortnite World Cup. Esther wants to befriend Carrie Symonds and Giles reenacts his favourite scene from Rocky II.


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,

0:10.7

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

I mean I do have the running order here I could yeah we'll see where do we start there's been a lot this week even though it's silly season

0:39.7

I was taking the kids to swimming this morning and on the radio on the way back there was that story about the 10 hottest years ever have been since 2002.

0:48.4

Ten hottest days have been since 2002 and the 10 hottest winter days also and say, oh well maybe it's just

0:56.6

it's okay and you think about it for a few minutes and you put it away while you try and think

1:00.0

of something funny to write about because there's nothing that funny about the end of the world.

1:03.9

And then I was flicking through the times and there's a funny thing about the Quentin Tarantino movie and there's

1:10.1

oh look you need video referees now for jousting.

1:13.3

Imagine the comic implications of that.

1:15.4

Too funny already.

1:16.4

Too funny already.

1:17.4

You know you've got all these excellent things and there's a lovely picture of Boris Johnson

1:20.2

and some chickens and then I turned to page 11 and it says Greenland faces I smelt disaster and there's a picture of a lake with lots of broken bits of ice and there aren't actually any drowning polar bears but there could be and every time I see that I have to go, right, not funny.

1:35.0

Well, your climate change eco-depression, which I think is now a possibly a recognized...

1:41.0

I heard a thing on Radio 4 where they were trying to investigate

1:44.2

whether it was a recognizable thing. Obviously it sounds quite snowflaky, it sounds

1:48.9

quite sort of millennial. But you are the ultimate non-Snowflake, aren't you?

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