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🗓️ 10 August 2024
⏱️ 103 minutes
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This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by writer Sarah Ditum to discuss all things the latest on the Cass Review, the anti-immigrant riots, and a bizarre legal case in the art world.
Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s – Abrams Books
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Implementation of the Cass Review
The real story of the website accused of fuelling Southport riots
F**k face by Jake and Dinos Chapman
F*****g Hell | Pinault Collection
Art gallery criticised over neo-Nazi artwork and hosting racist speakers | UK news | The Guardian
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Blockton reported. Today we have a very special guest host while Jesse is in Paris trying to convince female athletes |
0:16.9 | that he's on the official gender recognition committee and that is Sarah DITOM. |
0:21.2 | I've been practicing that pronunciation so please tell me I got it right. |
0:23.8 | Oh my god you did I genuinely thought that you were going to fluff it and I could just I could |
0:28.4 | attack you live on air for a micro-aggression. Well I I had some help. I had a coach, |
0:35.0 | and that would be a mutual friend Helen Lewis, |
0:36.0 | who reminded me, dyed them, rhymes with phytum. |
0:39.0 | So Sarah is a columnist for The Times of London. |
0:42.0 | She covers sex and gender politics and |
0:44.0 | celebrity culture. She's also the author of the book Toxic Women Fame and the |
0:49.1 | tabloid 2000s, at least that's the title here in the US and this book was recently |
0:53.3 | optioned for a TV series by none other than the Paris Hilton |
0:56.8 | Sarah congratulations on that and welcome to Black and reported. Oh thank you for |
1:00.7 | having me the Paris thing is so crazy because obviously I write about her in the book. So it's really like you know that scene in Annie Hall where |
1:09.0 | Woody Allen drags out Marshall McLuhan to get him to like correct someone who's getting |
1:14.0 | Marshall McLuhan wrong. I feel like that. I feel like no one can come at me. I've got Paris |
1:18.9 | right, she bought the book. Like I'm there, I'm good. Have you spoken to spoken to her no I've spoken to the head of her production |
1:27.6 | operation which to be honest that is like quite exciting all by itself and he told me that she had listened to the |
1:35.7 | audio book which is so she didn't read it she left she read her chapter and she |
1:40.3 | listened to the rest of the did Did you voice the audiobook? |
1:44.0 | Yeah, I know. |
1:46.0 | Oh, madness. |
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