Welcome to episode 29 of The High Low. The weekly news and pop culture podcast brought to you by Pandora Sykes and Dolly Alderton.

Hi guys. How are you hanging?

World's falling apart but hopefully you're keeping it together, keeping it real, keeping it chill.

I wanted to do a really wild intro but I always get nervous that this podcast episode will be the first podcast someone that someone listens to.

And I don't want to lose them as they're cussing by doing something really lame by saying it's hosted by D-O-L-L-L-Y-A-L-D-E-R-T-O-N, which is how I originally thought I should

intro the podcast. I like that. Right into us. If you'd like us to mix it up a bit, we'll mix it up a bit.

I get tempted sometimes. So do I. I sometimes want to come in with a song. That's my natural. Wow I think you should try that.

Well, right in. Give us the intros aren't your strongest forte. Well that's what I thought I could express myself through.

It's a better through song. Exactly. But you know people get very attached to certain formats. I do read it the same every single way.

So maybe they like it. Let us know. I'd also like to dedicate this episode of the high low to my older sister, Anna, who on the day that this comes out will have just celebrated her last ever

chemo session. She has battled through six months of chemo and is now feeling bloody exhausted. Her eyes are running, her nose is bleeding, her skin is dry.

She has kept working full time the whole way through. Everyone who knows her is so proud of her. It's been amazing to watch her put up such a valiant fight and we can't wait for you to start feeling better and getting back to your old self because you really deserve it.

We love you Anna. What have you been up to this week pounder? Give us your ex. So I did some speed mentoring on the London I at 7 30 this morning for so so round.

International day of the girl, which is actually really awesome UN initiative and the speed mentoring bit of it involved lots and lots of school girls and lots and lots of different women going into a little pod and then sort of talking about their job and talking about what the girls are interested in.

I had some really really interesting women in my pod, but I had some more interesting girls. My lot was 14 I don't know if they all are from year 9 and it's just really interesting how nothing has changed in terms of gender in the classroom but then how much has changed and how aware the girls are of their position in the world.

This girl was like I get a bit scared about saying I know the answer in the classroom because a boy will laugh at me and I said well I think boys often laugh at girls but you mustn't let that put you off because you'll be the one laughing when you do something really cool when you're older and she was like that will stay with her forever that you said that she was like oh yeah like I know that that she was like I know that it's just that there's 37 of us in our yet out of 120 and it's more just how you know how is girls.

She was talking about empowerment and stuff like that and then another girl told me that she knew that girls were as good as boys and that she that you know was really into kind of supporting other girls so even at 14 I think that they're just so much more aware of equality which you should be I mean a lot's changed since we were.

Yeah it's weird you should set the other last week I went to my friend Will's house and he's got three teenage daughters and one of them is she made the news because she's campaigning for suffrage to be taught on the curriculum and I kind of tried to help her with that and then she emailed me this week being like can you tell me the name of that woman at Camden council that I think we you know I should contact and there is just a feeling that makes me so excited for your future daughter for all of future kids.

I think that they are just for better work they are just more awake more work to this whole I think 14 is really interesting age actually as well because your your sort of a kid sort of a teenager and the Gulf between the 14 year olds you'll have some 14 year olds that will be reading newspapers websites you know fully engaged with everything that's going on in the world but then you'll have some 14 year olds that we still kids at that place.

And she won't be reading won't be reading news outlets won't be developing like physical opinions and I think you know that's always the way I think it's quite an interesting age speaking of impressive teenagers.

Malala who has obviously just gone to Oxford University post this amazing tweet which has had 1 million likes at the time of recording.

Five years ago I was shot in an attempt to stop me from speaking out for girls education today I attended my first lectures at Oxford.

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