An Author Special with Holly Bourne & The Problem With Tiger King

The High Low

Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

It's Week 4 of lockdown and we hope all you cats and kittens are doing okay. Sorry - blame Carole Baskin. We've been watching Tiger King and eesh, do we feel icky. We discuss why that is and why streamed content is becoming increasingly crass. What does the flatpacking of problematic people into entertainment, reveal about us?

Also today, Dolly interviews the YA and contemporary novelist, Holly Bourne, about her new book, Pretending. They discuss sexual violence, the cultural expectations of sex and romance and why porn is doing women a disservice. And we discuss some podcasts that will help us all navigate what Brene Brown calls "the collective weary".

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Reading

House of Glass by Hadley Freeman

Pretending, by Holly Bourne

Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay and Diaries, by Emma Thompson

Coming Undone, by Terri White, out July and avail online for pre-order

Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones

Watching & Listening

Alain de Botton on How To Fail with Elizabeth Day https://howtofail.podbean.com/e/how-to-fail-alain-de-botton/

Unlocking Us, with Brene Brown https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-on-comparative-suffering-the-50-50-myth-and-settling-the-ball/

Save Me Too, on Sky Atlantic

Tiger King, on Netflix

Nothing Like A Dame, available to buy or rent on Amazon prime

Song For Our Daughter by Laura Marling

Retro Sweat - the 80s aerobics class online https://www.instagram.com/retrosweat/?hl=en

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0:00.0	I shall settle into the poor and deep, that in the plural of calm.
0:08.0	I say the curious of the you and me, it's called a six day, so bid you best stay home.
0:17.0	Welcome to the High Low, the weekly current affairs and pop culture, pop cars, getting you
0:21.4	through the PANEDE, hopefully brought to you by Dolly Olverton and Pandora Sykes.
0:26.0	How's week four of lockdown life treating you, Dolly?
0:29.0	Up and down, I had a night out, a figurative night out on Saturday night, which lifted my spirit,
0:37.0	where a group of me and my friends all linked up on Zoom, got very drunk during a pub quiz,
0:43.0	and then we all muted ourselves. This is the key if you want to do a Zoom disco.
0:48.0	We all muted ourselves other than our DJ, who was our friend Lacey.
0:52.0	And then Lacey just played this playlist of all our favourite songs to dance to.
0:57.0	And it was kind of magic. We all just danced for like half an hour, and we could see everyone in our squares dancing.
1:05.0	And then when people had to leave, literally like we were in a club, you would just see someone's face come up to the screen,
1:10.0	blow a kiss and then they'd leave. And then by the end it was obviously just me and Lacey and our friends subrene of the last one standing.
1:17.0	But it was like kind of magic, actually. I really, really, I really, really liked it.
1:21.0	I really recommend doing that. We all had so much fun.
1:24.0	You did Zoom over house party, presumably because the quality of Zoom is much better, isn't it?
1:30.0	Like you and CJ keep disappearing on my house party, everything's very delayed as well. Zoom seems to be the superior.
1:37.0	I'm not wild on house party. I find people get quite pixelated on house party for me.
1:42.0	I normally just prefer to do FaceTime. Do you know what I did do on Zoom yesterday, which was so funny.
1:48.0	I did my yoga studio doing all their classes online. And I did one yesterday that I just I just was laughing so much out the class.
1:59.0	I don't know how much actual yoga I did. Where it was like it was loads and loads of participants.
2:05.0	And this gorgeous lovely yoga instructor speaking like he was big on my screen. And then in the corner there was like a side bar of all the different participants.
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