Are Your Book Shelves A Reflection of Your Character - Or Your Curiosity?
The High Low
The High Low
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🗓️ 5 May 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
This week we discuss what your books on your bookshelf say about you, the new lockdown lingo (are you drinking furlough merlot?), whether lockdown telly might have reached its apex, and the concept of heteropessimism.
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Apply here for Penguin's WriteNow scheme: https://www.penguin.co.uk/company/creative-responsibility/writenow.html
If I Had Your Face, by Frances Cha
Culture Call, a podcast by The Financial Times
Louis Theroux on Adam Buxton podcast
A Manual For Heartache: How To Feel Better, by Cathy Rentzenbrink
Exploding the myths behind K-Pop, by Crystal Tai for The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/global/2020/mar/29/behind-k-pops-perfect-smiles-and-dance-routines-are-tales-of-sexism-and-abuse
Marian Keyes interview with The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/28/marian-keyes-books-that-made-me
Indiana Seresin on heteropessimism for The New Inquiry https://thenewinquiry.com/on-heteropessimism/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the High Low, the weekly conversation between Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes. |
| 0:21.0 | I like that new introduction panda that feels very representative of where we've ended up. |
| 0:28.7 | It feels like at the moment it is very much a conversation between us and rather than a news update. |
| 0:35.3 | Pandora I found my lockdown spiritual twin. Her name is Tracing. She went viral on TikTok |
| 0:42.6 | a few weeks ago with a video of her standing on her street with a megaphone shouting at her neighbors. |
| 0:48.0 | I just want you to know that I miss you and I love you. |
| 0:53.1 | Can't wait for the shitshow to be over so that I can touch people, drink with people and have the best life ever. |
| 1:04.8 | Big fan of Tracey, less of a fan of you using the word viral. It has to be banned from all parlance post pandemic. |
| 1:14.2 | I think that's probably true. |
| 1:16.0 | The big question of the week is what do your bookshelves look like? |
| 1:21.7 | Okay, can you actually, can you, I've been avoiding the news the last week. |
| 1:27.8 | Can you tell me what, I think I vaguely understood what the forgery was all about? |
| 1:33.6 | Where did it begin? Politicians took pictures of their bookshelves. |
| 1:37.0 | The Daily Mail columnist Sarah Vine shed a picture. |
| 1:42.4 | I think it was of a book on her bookshelf, but you got like three shelves of her books. |
| 1:48.7 | And the socialist writer Owen Jones retweeted it saying, |
| 1:53.8 | have you seen what book she has on her bookshelf? |
| 1:57.3 | He put, you know, in paraphrasing, he didn't say that. |
| 1:59.0 | And then it included a really controversial book called The Bell Curve, |
| 2:04.5 | which in a nutshell suggests that white people cover the other races. |
| 2:12.5 | Got it. So that's what I think I saw online. |
| 2:15.0 | That became a kind of debate of you are what you read or can you be kind of, |
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