You Can Stand Under My Chum-brella
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Giles and Esther run through the week’s top stories; from Dame Cressida Dick’s hatred of police procedural dramas to the continued rise of the sharing economy and a new series of The Apprentice. Giles and Esther continue to come to terms with being cat owners.
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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. What's wrong with you? Why are you looking all why is it taking you? |
| 0:38.0 | Oh is it right? No, they've got to go outside. No they're going to go outside. |
| 0:41.0 | No, no, no, no, no, not. |
| 0:42.8 | Just for listeners new to this podcast, she's talking about the cats. |
| 0:47.2 | If you sort of scream and go, they've got to be outside. |
| 0:49.5 | She could be talking about anything. |
| 0:50.6 | And it could have been the children. |
| 0:52.3 | It could have been the neighbors. It could have been the children it could have been the |
| 0:53.7 | homeless people that we've decided to give a bed for the night. |
| 0:58.6 | Dyan have you been no? Have you taken them both? |
| 1:03.0 | Should I have put Iris in your room? |
| 1:05.0 | Have you locked to in the room? |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, I shut the room and there's... |
| 1:08.0 | She has shit everywhere. She won't shoot everywhere. |
| 1:10.0 | She won't shoot everywhere. She's more annoying than my tending anyway. |
| 1:12.0 | Okay, fine. So at the current status is, |
| 1:14.4 | we're down here in the kitchen |
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