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🗓️ 7 May 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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The new royal baby, the Caster Semenya furore, the 'hogspital' and the proposed raise to the minimum wage - oh, and 86% of people have revealed that they are disappointed by the Mona Lisa. Sorry, Lis.
Dolly's discovered tribute bands and Pandora's tits-deep in Refinery 29's Money Diaries series.
Also today we have an author special with Rosie Price, the author of sensational debut fiction, What Red Was. A book about family, friendship, privilege and class, at the centre of the narrative is a rape. We discuss trauma, the aftershock of sexual assault and why the idea of writing as 'catharsis' is problematic. What Red Was is out on May 7th and we cannot recommend it enough.
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What Red Was, by Rosie Price https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Rosie-Price/What-Red-Was/23570030
Caster Semenya is a victim of rules that are confusing and unfair, by Kenan Malik for The Observer https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/05/caster-semenya-is-a-victim-of-rules-that-are-confusing-and-unfair
Larry Ray and the Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence, by Ezra Marcus and James D. Walsh for New York Magazine https://www.thecut.com/2019/04/larry-ray-sarah-lawrence-students.html
Refinery29's Money Diary Series https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/money-diary-uk
Conversations on Love with Dr. Lucy Kalanithi, by Natasha Lunn https://instagram.us18.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=ca50d07f68560ca687f3eece1&id=f8198ddab2
When Did Pop Culture Become Homework? by Soraya Roberts for Longreads https://longreads.com/2019/04/26/when-did-pop-culture-become-homework/
How shocking books have changed with their readers, by Leo Benedictus for The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/02/has-fiction-lost-its-edge-american-psycho-bret-easton-ellis-leila-slimani
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Highloat, the weekly pop culture and current affairs broadcast brought to you by Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes. |
0:22.0 | And of course the Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry have had their baby boy and it took precisely three seconds for a press release advertising a Royal Wunsey to land in my inbox. |
0:33.0 | What would be your dream name for it? I don't have a dream name for someone else. How could you not have contemplated? What's your dream name? |
0:40.0 | Malcolm or Perry? Perry, Perry Windsor. Perry Windsor is quite a cool name. How could you not have thought about the test windsor? |
0:50.0 | I've never thought about it Dolly. It just, you've literally just invented it in your brain, you've thought about it. Anyway, many well wishes to Malcolm Windsor. How was your bankie? |
1:03.0 | I went to a lovely hotel with my husband for his birthday and spent the whole thing groaning in bed with either Norovirus or gastroenteritis. And as I said that you let out a giant vape path. |
1:15.0 | I'm sorry I have to vape the day. Literally puffing in the face of my illness. I'm sorry. It's hard to tell which it was because both are fab. But I did watch a lot of this is us which was a dangerous thing to watch when dehydrated. I tried to offset the additional tear moisture leaving my body with Luke as a bit. |
1:33.0 | Four thing. How was yours? Good, pretty wild actually, pretty wild. You did not know if that sort of it's a bit like in your follow up chapter in your book where someone's feeling sad about turning 30 and you remind them you're not yet 30. But please carry on. |
1:47.0 | No, I'm sorry. I have like a massive hangover today if that makes you feel better. No, it doesn't make me feel better. |
1:57.0 | Our first day night kicked off the bankey holiday and I went to Fleetwood back the world's number one Fleetwood Mitrebut. |
2:07.0 | That was amazing and I'm now completely obsessed with seeing tribute acts seeing this myth this week. |
2:17.0 | On the way home so inspired was I by their performance. I realised the next day when I checked my emails that I had ordered a tambourine and a pair of maracas at 12.03 a.m. |
2:32.0 | and they've been delivered sadly to my neighbour and I'm quite worried that he's shaking it and knows what it is. |
2:38.0 | Because I was talking to Elizabeth Day about this. There's something about buying a tambourine which is too premeditated. You need to just sort of have it in the house. |
2:47.0 | Yes, in a little kind of dressing up box. Yeah, just fill it out. There's something so sad about thinking about a person's tragic purchasing it on Amazon Prime. |
2:56.0 | And you know, so that's very fun. And then I saw Elizabeth Day do a hair fair event with Zaryashden on them. |
3:03.0 | Thank you for taking me through your entire weekend. On UOS Heart was Pandora. It's not a planted question up top. |
3:11.0 | And so I'm going to do a live event of how to fail. And Elizabeth was great. She came on at the beginning and she didn't realise she didn't, she wasn't mic'd. |
3:20.0 | So she just spoke with no mic into this huge theatre. And it was so powerful. It was like a TED talk that she had us eating out the palm of her hand. |
3:29.0 | TED talk on failure. Yeah, it was so well. There we go. That should be the next. If anyone from TED talks listening, Elizabeth Day is made to be a TED talker. |
3:38.0 | So I had a lovely weekend. I'm sorry I had a rotten one. That's a right topic on that. |
3:44.0 | Everyone's favourite story this week. Definitely helping me feel better is of course the hedgehog hospital or the hogspertulp. |
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