What's the Time Mr Coren
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Giles and Esther discuss the news from this week's papers; from Matt Hancock playing rugby and a smart backpack to making lockdown leftovers and class. Giles has taken down all the clocks in the kitchen in the hope that Esther will focus on the task at hand.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you an absolutely huge fonter or a zoom iner? |
| 0:04.2 | Perhaps you're an arm stretched out like a zombie when holding a newspaperer? |
| 0:08.4 | Or a holder book so close you might as well be kissing it, er. |
| 0:12.3 | At Spexavers, we get it. You don't want to admit |
| 0:15.1 | it's time to become a glass's wearer. That's okay. We're ready to see you, |
| 0:20.1 | whenever you're ready to see properly. Book an eye test at spec savers.co. UK, |
| 0:25.2 | so you can see clearer. |
| 0:27.0 | U.S. now. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm just turning the clocks away because I know you've got a piece to file but yes I do but it's its |
| 0:37.2 | creativity exists in a infinite and nebulous space not between two random spots on a clock and if every time I talk |
| 0:45.9 | You spare the clock it would depreci I've taken that clock behind me down because it's |
| 0:51.1 | And I didn't make any fuss about it or anything okay |
| 0:54.0 | I just looking at the clock when someone's having sex are we rolling Ben we are oh good yeah |
| 0:59.2 | oh excellent okay got all that bit Go about it. bit. I actually think that this podcast is going to be very very quick this week because I have got a brilliant idea for you |
| 1:27.3 | It is a conversation mic drop. It's like the best idea I've ever had for you, okay? |
| 1:33.0 | Really? Yeah. The Times, page 31, in the world section, |
| 1:38.0 | which I know you don't read because you can't be bothered. |
| 1:40.0 | I get so irritated when I see the faces of all the columnists that I always stop at Op-Ed. |
| 1:43.5 | Schoolbag tells you which books to pack from one of my favourite correspondence, |
| 1:49.5 | Richard Lloyd Perry in Tokyo. In Tokyo, yeah. |
| 1:52.4 | I was going to say, it's not going to be for |
| 1:53.9 | example Tom Kington in Rome. It is not because nothing has happened in Rome for |
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