An Author Special with The One, The Only, The National Treasure: David Nicholls
The High Low
The High Low
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🗓️ 15 July 2019
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Westminster rules in favour of gay marriage and abortion rights in Northern Ireland, former EDL leader Tommy Robinson is sentenced to 9 months in prison (and banned from YouTube), a man dressed in a gimp suit terrorises the people of Somerset, and a love letter from Tupac to Madonna is expected to fetch $300,000 at auction. Plus, how do YOU feel about Matt Hancock's plan to link up Alexa and the NHS? (Spoiler alert: Dolly doesn't like robots.)
Today we have the man who has sold 8 million books, who possesses the most delicious voice you've ever heard (it even beats Philippe Sands), the one and only David Nicholls, on the show. The screenwriter of multiple hits such as Great Expectations and Patrick Melrose and the best-selling author of Starter for 10, The Understudy, One Day and Us, he is back with a new novel, Sweet Sorrow, about a teenage summer romance in the 80s. We talk about teenage love, parenting and being parented, writing, anxiety in the internet age and that twist in One Day.
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Links
Pre-order Dolly's novel, Ghosts, here! https://www.waterstones.com/book/ghosts/dolly-alderton/9781785177255
Sweet Sorrow, by David Nicholls https://www.waterstones.com/book/sweet-sorrow/david-nicholls/9781529393088
Sweet Home, by Wendy Erskine https://www.waterstones.com/book/sweet-home/wendy-erskine/9781906539726
My Name Is Why, by Lemn Sissay https://www.waterstones.com/book/my-name-is-why/lemn-sissay/9781786892348
The Lingering of Loss, by Jill Lepore for The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/08/the-lingering-of-loss
Kids Don't Damage Women's Careers - Men Do, by Jessica Valenti for Medium's GEN https://gen.medium.com/kids-dont-damage-women-s-careers-men-do-eb07cba689b8
David Szalay on All That Man Is, for BBC Radio 4's Bookclub https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005mg6
Lemn Sissay on Radio 4 Desert Island Discs https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06gthsz
The Adam Buxton Podcast: episode 100 http://adam-buxton.co.uk/podcasts/ep100-joe-cornish-louis-theroux
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the High Logue, the weekly current affairs and pop culture book, |
| 0:18.3 | caused brought to you by Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes. |
| 0:21.9 | This should really be a celebratory, cricketing special. |
| 0:25.2 | Should we turn this episode into it? |
| 0:26.9 | We have the author's special. |
| 0:27.9 | She made this a cricket special. |
| 0:28.9 | I'd love to know how long you think I'll last with that. |
| 0:31.7 | Because last night England won the World Cup final against New Zealand. |
| 0:36.7 | Did you watch it, Pandora? |
| 0:38.2 | I watched it by proxy for seven hours. |
| 0:41.4 | Do you know cricket is the only sport that I can bear to watch? |
| 0:44.7 | And also, just for fact fans and any single cricketers listening, I have such a thing for |
| 0:50.8 | cricketers. |
| 0:51.8 | I think they are so sexy. |
| 0:53.6 | Sexies. |
| 0:54.6 | Very sexy. |
| 0:55.6 | Love their whites. |
| 0:56.6 | Love the pavilion. |
| 0:57.6 | I'd like to get all hot and heavy in a pavilion by the cucumber sandwiches. |
| 1:01.2 | Pandora literally looked just like her breakfast was repeating on her. |
| 1:07.9 | Be done comfortably. |
| 1:08.9 | I'd like to wish you an apology for Dolly's sexual frustration and our |
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