An Author Special About Navigating and Embracing Failure with Elizabeth Day

The High Low

Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

We discuss Lorraine Kelly’s “performative construct”, Dolly’s piece about I’m In Trouble syndrome and what we don’t know - and need to know - about women in prison, rehabilitation and reform.

And we deep-dive into perfectionism, failure and why society needs to re-frame the idea of “childless” women, with novelist and High Low returning guest, Elizabeth Day, whose memoir How To Fail comes out on April 4th.

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How To Fail, by Elizabeth Day https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-to-fail/elizabeth-day//9780008327323?awc=3787_1553638468_1a3ae434886bc59cdb0f76a91f73672c&utm_source=176013&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=Shopping+FM

Brave, Not Perfect, by Reshma Saujani https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/561367/brave-not-perfect-by-reshma-saujani/9781524762339/

Inheritance, by Dani Shapiro https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554262/inheritance-by-dani-shapiro/9781524732714/

Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant, by Joel Golby https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Joel-Golby/Brilliant-Brilliant-Brilliant-Brilliant-Brilliant--Modern/21821485

Jailbirds, by Mim Skinner https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/titles/mim-skinner/jailbirds/9781841883328/

On the enduring feeling that you’re doing something wrong, by Dolly Alderton for The Sunday Times Style https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dolly-alderton-on-that-enduring-feeling-that-you-ve-done-something-wrong-ckl8wpj6s

MotherFatherSon on BBC iPlayer

Hell Yes, I’m Tough Enough fundraising page: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/ben-alderton

Emilia at The Vaudeville Theatre: https://www.nimaxtheatres.com/shows/emilia/

After Life on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80998491

The emotional life of primates: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/fresh-air/id214089682?mt=2&i=1000432961859

Interviews with Cat Marnell: https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/cat-marnell-money-book-deal.html

https://www.thecut.com/2017/01/cat-marnell-how-to-murder-your-life.html

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Highloat, the weekly current affairs and pop culture podcast brought to you
0:19.7	by Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes. Hot off the press delivered to the Highloat HQ
0:27.0	by CJ is Liam Gallagher tweeting that Tato crisps are the best in the world. How do you feel
0:32.0	about that Dolly? Vindicated, utterly vindicated, particularly when it's been a bit of a rocky
0:37.8	week for Britain's crisps. Controversial week. A controversial week. Channel 5 has done a poll
0:48.1	and published their results of the nation's favourite crisps and it's just, can't
0:54.2	I hate head sort of tails of it. The top tier. Head sort tails, not even a single head
0:58.7	or tail. Head or tails, multiple heads or tails. The top tier. Pringles, original. Doritos
1:07.0	Flamenhot and Walker's Salt and Vinegar. That's strange. Tear underneath that is McCoy's
1:13.6	ready salted. What? Get out of town. Kettle chips, balsamic vinegar. Now I give them this.
1:21.6	Taukes sensations, Thai sweet chili. Yeah, it's good. Fine, you're talking about
1:25.6	the same. I prefer caramelised onion but fine. Love those ones. And then Tyrell's. Naked
1:31.2	Tyrell's. Tyrell's are creeping up the crisp chart. And then the mid tier is actually
1:37.8	all my preferred brands because it's more of kind of lighter textured crisps like Monster
1:42.5	Munch. Yes, it had some pickled onion yesterday. So good. Quavers, what's it? Yeah. Chipsdicks.
1:48.4	Yes, good. And also, a hula hoops. And hula hoops are on that tier pandora. I'd also
1:54.6	argue for a frazzle. Love a frazzle. Even a pungent. Yes, space raider. I love space.
2:00.0	Still 10p. Yeah, they do them in my corner shot. Are they made of? I'm so glad that you
2:05.4	and I are so compatible with our crisps. Yeah. In other news, I have torn off two little
2:12.8	corners. I can see you with your little snippets. Two little snippets when I was reading the
2:16.2	paper in a waiting room this week of stories that I thought pertained to the high lows
2:20.9	interests. Number one, scientists have devised a simple test for fake olive oil that could
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