A Bumper Back to School Book Special & Thoughts on the Roxanne Pallet Assault Allegations
The High Low
The High Low
4.8 • 9.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
We’re back! We wish we were still on the sun lounger, but here we are, at your disposal - with a giant book chat of what we have enjoyed in the last month.
Also today, we discuss the social media trolling of the late Sinéad McNamara and Instagram influencer Scarlett Dixon; and Celebrity Big Brother’s biggest controversy yet - after soap actor Roxanne Pallet accused fellow contestant and actor Ryan Thomas of assault, which footage revealed to have never happened. The fall-out has been swift; Roxanne has described herself as “the most hated person in Britain.” But when does criticism morph into crucifixion? When will we stop trying to ‘cancel’ or ‘delete’ people - particularly women - from public consciousness? And how do Roxanne’s allegations damage the #MeToo movement?
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BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS:
Normal People, by Sally Rooney
How Do You Like Me Now, by Holly Bourne
Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng
Bitter Orange, by Claire Fuller
The Pisces, by Melissa Broder
Crazy Rich Asians, by Kevin Kwan
Educated, by Tara Westover
Confessions of a Single Mother, by Amy Nicoll
The Wives, by Lauren Weisberger
The Hunting Party, by Lucy Foley
The Break, by Marian Keys
This Is Going To Hurt, by Adam Kay
A Short Affair, edited by Simon Oldfield
The End of The Affair - Graham Green
The Outline - Rachel Cusk
The Cost of Living - Deborah Levy
Cassandra At The Wedding - Dorothy Baker
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| 0:00.0 | At Aztec we've got loads of barbecue heroes, the Goodhousekeeping Institute loved. Fire up |
| 0:04.8 | the Barbies Sunday and enjoy some tastes you know they're all relish, like our Tandori |
| 0:09.0 | King of Ab serving six with £8.50 now £8. Your lot will love them, especially Dad |
| 0:13.8 | on Father's Day. Plus, the weather's not too hot, not too cold. Why wait? Pop something |
| 0:18.5 | on the Barbie that'll cut the mustard. Summer at Aztec. That's more like it. |
| 0:24.0 | Selected Aztec store subject availability, Prox featured a water goodhouse keeping institute |
| 0:27.6 | test approved 2023. |
| 0:47.4 | Welcome to the Back to School Bumper episode of the Highloat, the weekly news and pop culture |
| 0:52.3 | podcast brought to you by writers Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes. |
| 0:57.1 | Welcome back to the Highloat, homies. The last days of summer over. We both had a wonderful |
| 1:01.9 | month off which already slightly feels like it never happened but we're both trying |
| 1:05.5 | to hold on to that feeling of restiveness. I did miss the Highloat on occasions like |
| 1:10.4 | when the Asia Argento story broke and also I miss being able to talk about the loss of |
| 1:15.5 | silly season with all the Corbin, anti-Semitism rouse, the cutting edge stories like stray |
| 1:20.0 | cows being found in hot types which just hacked off the front page in August. I had exactly |
| 1:25.9 | the same feeling where I was like, oh god I missed the Highloat when Theresa made that |
| 1:30.8 | little row body dance. I found myself feeling very, very impassioned and opinionated about |
| 1:36.6 | it. I kept trying to engage everyone in conversations about it. It's too much to see politicians |
| 1:41.6 | like in their downtime. I almost can't, I can't even cope. I just felt enormous sympathy |
| 1:46.5 | for her. I never thought I'd say I have no sympathy for the nature in me but I really, |
| 1:50.8 | really did. I just feel like how many English people do you know that would stand up in front |
| 1:56.6 | of an entirely different culture and in the middle of the day when they're dancing so beautifully, |
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