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The High Low

Cow Hugging, Daddy by Emma Cline & An Exclusive Clip from Joan & Jericha

The High Low

The High Low

Society & Culture

4.89.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Today we discuss a love story in Venice, the new "wellness" trend of cow hugging, Matt Hancock's personal app (???) and listeners tell us what they think makes "a good deed". And some things we've been loving, including the feel good Love Life on Netflix. Plus! An exclusive, filthy extract from Joan and Jericha's new book, out on the 29th October.


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Links

Max Woosey's fundraising page for North Devon hospice https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/max-woosey1

Daddy, by Emma Cline, out now

Luster, by Raven Leilani, out in January 2021 and available for pre-order now

Love Life, on BBC iPlayer

Nigella Lawson on the fallacy of guilty pleasures for The Guardian: https://amp.theguardian.com/food/2020/oct/10/peanut-butter-chocolate-cake-and-vegan-gingerbread-five-new-sweet-recipes-from-nigella-lawson?__twitter_impression=true

The role of food in Jewish celebration for Radio 4’s The Food Programme: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-food-programme/id342927791?i=1000495160731

How My Mother and I Became Chinese Propaganda, by Jiayang Fan for The New Yorker (listen to the audio on the same link) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/14/how-my-mother-and-i-became-chinese-propaganda

Dear Joan and Jericha: Why He Turns Away, Do’s and Don’ts from Dating to Death, out on the 29th October



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0:00.0

Welcome to the Highloat, the weekly conversation between Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes.

0:22.8

And speaking of Dolly Alderton, congratulations on the publication of Ghost Star, I'm so

0:29.2

proud of you. Oh, I love you. Thank you. I'd like to congratulate myself, actually, but

0:36.4

not about ghosts. About making a discovery this week, it is old news to some, but for

0:43.2

me, it's new and it's a wonder, and I'm sure it will be new to some of our listeners.

0:48.5

So you'd like to congratulate yourself for finding an old news story. Yeah. I think the

0:53.0

bar is high for this week's episode. Press on now. Did you know that in 2018, Matt

1:03.1

Hancock, when he was culture secretary, launched his own app. No, was it called, what

1:11.8

could Matt Hancock's app be called? I tell you what it's called, it's called Matt Hancock.

1:16.6

Oh, right. And I know that because I downloaded it last week. It's a blue square on my phone

1:22.6

in Calibri font. It just says Matt Hancock. So the app features picture galleries and

1:29.7

videos with updates on his activities. It allows users to sign up as friends and chat

1:36.3

with other fans of the Matt Hancock app. First time users agree to the cheery video of

1:41.9

Mr Hancock saying, hi, I'm Matt Hancock and welcome to my app. So he's just using an

1:47.7

app. I think he's just misunderstood the premise of social media because that's how

1:51.6

people use Instagram or a website. Precisely. The regularities is a little bit patchy. Two

2:00.4

months ago was the last update. Today I'm announcing that we're forming the National

2:04.1

Institution for Health Protection. 11 comments. The comments are pretty poultry. Joanne says,

2:12.0

love to your speech this morning, Matt. You doing brilliantly, trying to get back to normal

2:16.0

again. Hope you had a good timing call will. And then someone else has said, you're a

2:23.2

bell end Matt Hancock. And then before that, there was an update four months ago. Picture

2:31.5

of a horse. Absolutely thrilling. Third straight gold cup win at Royal Ascot for new market

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