Warming the Dingleberries
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Giles and Esther take a deep dive through this week's papers; from Bonnie Tyler learning to swim and binging watching Netflix, to talking toilets and the French cultural renaissance. Giles has put the clock back on the wall but this week tests Esther on her knowledge of newspaper correspondents.
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| 0:00.0 | It's like one of those ASMR things on YouTube. |
| 0:07.0 | Just the thing you could listen to. |
| 0:08.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:09.0 | You'll get the below the line comments saying, |
| 0:10.7 | you're interested in those other two. What, no? |
| 0:14.0 | Yeah, the only interest in Corrin. |
| 0:15.0 | Only got the job cause of his dad. Well, exactly. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, |
| 0:31.0 | oh, oh, oh, oh. |
| 0:39.0 | Um, you had an interesting idea that you raised earlier. Well, I've got the first story I've got... |
| 0:41.0 | Oh, you want to do something else. |
| 0:42.0 | Well, I've got the thing which I cut out of the time because I didn't want you to see it which I think this is the one this is a surprise to me that I |
| 0:47.1 | I'm surprised not because I thought you might say something that was fun anyway it's just basically it's every other idea that we have or that you have today has to be better than this. |
| 0:57.0 | Okay. |
| 0:58.0 | Bogg standard health check wins backing. |
| 1:01.0 | I think that might be about. Doesn't even say who it's by. It's |
| 1:04.8 | page five of the times. The inventor behind plans for a... |
| 1:09.3 | Toilet? Yes, although it's called... |
| 1:11.0 | It's a lavatory darling, it's the times. |
| 1:13.0 | Toilet, not talking toilet. |
| 1:15.0 | Hang on, one sec. |
| 1:16.0 | Do you feel like you've seen that before? |
| 1:17.0 | Yes, I do feel like we've seen this story before. |
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