Election Gaffes, Celebrity Truth-Tellers & The Undoing

The High Low

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

What a week to be alive! We discuss some of the many ridiculous things that have happened, mainly on the television, during this last monumental week, plus the riveting revelating that Dr Fauci of the Coronavirus task force in the US, had a celebrity zoom to help stop the spread of misinformation during the pandemic. Plus, swans in love and what we'd call our pet tortoise. And we talk telly: The Undoing, The Queen's Gambit, Emily in Paris (again) and Been So Long, an ambitious, upifting musical rom-com starring Michaela Coel.

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Links

You're Wrong About podcast

Been So Long on Netflix

The Queens Gambit on Netflix

The Undoing, on Sky

Making Love With The Paint, on BBC iPlayer

Octavia Bright on her father being in a care home during lockdown, for The Sunday Times: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/i-can-speak-to-dad-but-i-may-never-hold-him-again-gtnq27p5s

Modern Love in The New York Times

Buy There's Something About Wallace: Lockdown Love on Hampstead Heath by Louisa Green: https://www.deemclean.co.uk/swan-story/

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0:00.0	Music
0:15.6	Welcome to the High-Loat, the weekly conversation between Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes.
0:21.2	Pandora, question, have you ever played the lottery?
0:25.2	Can't believe you've come in to this episode with that.
0:29.2	Yes, I think I've done scratch cards maybe like 10 years ago.
0:35.9	Oh yeah, my housemate was addicted to those. So I was walking down Camden Road last week.
0:44.4	It was right before lockdown happened for the second time on the Wednesday,
0:49.4	so I went out for a final outdoor lunch and a bird shatter on me. Oh yeah, I've had that.
0:57.4	And I went into a cafe on Camden Road just to buy some water and get a napkin to wipe it off.
1:04.7	And the cafe owner was like, that's really, really lucky you should play Euro Millions tonight.
1:11.4	So in my, you know, cinematic head, I was like, I just decided I was about to win the Euro Millions.
1:20.0	Great idea, I'm going to go get a ticket and I said, if and when I win, you and I will split the money.
1:24.9	He was like, great, I'll see you on the other side of lockdown.
1:29.1	And I went and got this ticket and I don't know how people put themselves through this with
1:34.4	the lottery every week. I just knew I was going to win millions of pounds.
1:38.6	I just absolutely knew it. Do you know how much I won?
1:42.0	One pound. None. Absolutely nothing.
1:45.6	It's disgrace. Pathetic. I'm really angry about it. I just don't know how people put themselves
1:52.4	through this. My dad does it every week. They must just think they're not going to win.
1:57.6	I just thought I might have beginners luck. I think that's what brings a lot of people to the
2:01.6	lottery and brings them back each week is this entirely false sense of one's own luck.
2:12.1	Yeah. Anyway, that's the post-election coverage you've been looking for on the
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