Giles Coren Has No Idea

Giles Coren Has No Idea

Hosted by Giles Coren and Esther Walker and Esther · The Times

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210
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76
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Cadence
2019
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About Giles Coren Has No Idea

Each week Giles Coren finds himself with no idea what to write about in his weekly column. Having read all the papers and found nothing of interest whatsoever, he takes a break and does the school run. That’s where his wife and fellow journalist Esther Walker comes in. Upon his return, Esther has half a dozen ideas she’s spotted ready to knock around with him over the kitchen table and a much needed pot of coffee. You can read Giles in The Times here; https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/giles-coren (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/giles-coren?page=1) And subscribe to The Times and Sunday Times here; https://www.thetimes.co.uk/subscribe (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/subscribe/) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher
The Times
Category
news
Language
en
Explicit
Yes
First episode
28 Jun 2019
Latest episode
19 Dec 2025
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76 of 210 episodes have a transcript.

  1. 19 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT

    So Long, Farewell

  2. 12 Dec 2025

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  3. 5 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT

    Festive Cheer

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So Long, Farewell

Published 19 Dec 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And I meant I was reading the we're up to the ghost of Christmas present now. We do it every year. And it was blah, blah, blah, spontaneously combust. And Kitty sort of sat out. What is it with Dickens and spontaneous combustion? Because obviously crook in bleak house. I think that's right. Spontaneously combust. Yeah. And it's a thing that the Victorians thought was actually possible. Spontaneous combustion. And when I was little, the kids have the thing that always makes me laugh, which is where they say I really thought that piranhas and quicksand would play a bigger part in my life than they actually have. […]

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