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Sep 2019
26m 34s

You Can Stand Under My Chum-brella

THE TIMES
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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.


You can read Giles in The Times here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/giles-coren


And subscribe to The Times and Sunday Times here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/subscribe


Producer: Ben Mitchell


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