Domestic is Not A Dirty Word: An Author Special With The Great American Novelist, Meg Wolitzer
The High Low
The High Low
4.8 • 9.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
It’s National Biscuit Day! One of (but not the only) favourite days in Dolly’s calendar. We discuss the huge response to our segment on Ireland’s abortion referendum (they repealed!) and issue some vital corrections; natter about why we’re in the golden age of telly; and debate whether a role model - specifically, footballer Raheem Sterling and his gun tattoo - has to reflect societal concerns.
Also today, we host one of our favourite authors Meg Wolitzer, whose novel, The Female Persuasion, makes a timely landing in a post-MeToo age. We discuss inter-generational feminism, female friendship and idolatry and why the ‘domestic novel’ is as important as a grand polemic.
Links
Atlanta, on BBC iPlayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b3q4bk
Hard Knock Wife, by Ali Wong on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/80186940
A Very English Scandal on BBC iPlayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0b5b3z4/a-very-english-scandal-series-1-episode-2
Hadley Freeman on Hugh Grant for The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/may/26/renaissance-hugh-grant-freed-romcom-hell
Chrissy Iley interviews Patti Smith for The Sunday Times Magazine https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/patti-smith-interview-the-return-of-the-punk-priestess-58s05xq00
Diana Tourjee interviews Caitlyn Jenner for Broadly https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/wjb8nb/caitlyn-jenners-quest-for-acceptance
Decca Aitkenhead interviews Chelsea Clinton for The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/26/chelsea-clinton-vitriol-flung-at-me
Tad Friend interviews Donald Glover for The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/donald-glover-cant-save-you
Nobody Cares by Anne T. Donahue: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nobody-Cares-Anne-T-Donahue/dp/1770414231
Patrick Melrose on Now TV: https://www.nowtv.com/watch-patrick-melrose/6ed3e8a5a9b23610VgnVCM1000000b43150a____
BBC Radio 4's Soul Music: Strange Fruit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03jb1w1
BBC Radio 4's Soul Music: Hallelujah: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05mbc0p
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| 0:00.0 | Summer is finally here. |
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| 0:13.1 | What better time to switch up your summer bedding? |
| 0:15.6 | Prepare your holiday wardrobe |
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| 0:23.8 | Or indoors. |
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| 0:27.2 | Shop via our app online or in store. |
| 0:47.4 | Welcome to episode 57 of The Highloat. |
| 0:50.6 | The weekly news and pop culture podcast |
| 0:53.2 | brought to you by journalist Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes. |
| 0:56.8 | What an incredible week it's been. |
| 0:59.0 | The eighth amendment has been repealed. |
| 1:02.6 | We are so thrilled by this news as many, many people are. |
| 1:06.9 | As Janice Turner said, |
| 1:08.0 | this was a battle that all Irish women, |
| 1:10.1 | but British women too, |
| 1:11.7 | felt like they were fighting in their uteruses. |
| 1:14.5 | I spent all Friday night replying to women |
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