Feminism, #MeToo and Clapham's Sticky Carpets: The High Low Meets Oscar-Nominated Margot Robbie
The High Low
The High Low
4.8 • 9.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The High Low is going on maternity leave - or maturity leave, as Pandora accidentally e-mailed someone this week - for 6 weeks, so we’ve decided to go out with a bang, with an interview with the Oscar nominated actor and producer, Margot Robbie. We discuss I, Tonya, about American figure skater, Tonya Harding, with the Australian A-Lister, how she plans to put women centre stage via her production company, LuckyChap productions and what Hollywood really looks like, post MeToo.
Also this week, Pandora champions the feel-good, feminist Amazon Prime drama about a women’s glossy, The Bold Type (like a ‘woke' How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days) and a brilliant new podcast series produced by Save The Children. If you’re looking for some powerful, real-life story-telling, please give it a listen. Meanwhile, Dolly has weaned herself off Mad Men, in order to discover the Instagram account skewering men’s pointed shoes (Sniper Watch, if you’re interested) and read a new book that promises to reduce your worries and anxieties.
We’ll see you in April!
Links
The Bold Type, on Amazon Prime https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0731NL1W3
Anywhere But Home, a podcast by Save The Children https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/anywhere-but-home/id1343264169?mt=2
Sniper Watch instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/sniper_watch_101/
The Worry Trick by David A Carbonell: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Worry-Trick-Brain-Tricks-Expecting/dp/1626253188
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 48 of The High Low, the weekly news, current affairs and pop culture |
| 0:21.0 | podcast brought to you by journalist Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes. |
| 0:26.2 | We're so glad to hear that so many of you enjoyed our author special with the journalist |
| 0:30.1 | Laura Freeman who wrote a wonderful book called The Reading Cure about how her appetite |
| 0:34.5 | for books revived her appetite for food. |
| 0:38.1 | Pandora suggested that I'll be able to read more books when I finish my worldwide book |
| 0:41.7 | tour, which this week is taking me as far as flung as the Waterstone's Guildford. |
| 0:47.5 | What have you been up to, Panda? |
| 0:49.3 | I have watched the entire first series of the bold type, which is an Amazon Prime series |
| 0:54.0 | about a glossy women's magazine and I tweeted that it's like a woke how to lose a guy |
| 0:59.0 | in 10 days. |
| 1:00.5 | It's not remotely realistic. |
| 1:02.1 | The editor is this heavenly matriarch who wants to further everyone's careers. |
| 1:06.8 | She's based on the British editor of US Cosmo Joanna Coles, who is an exec producer on |
| 1:12.8 | the show, fun, and it's so feminist and feel good and also I cried when the fashion assistant |
| 1:19.3 | got her job because my heart is so malleable. |
| 1:22.2 | I think we must flag that maybe because of the hormones rushing through right now rather |
| 1:27.0 | than the narrative brilliance of the bold type. |
| 1:30.6 | You are dismissive of it. |
| 1:32.3 | It is a really, I think it's a really good thing to have out there at the moment for people |
| 1:37.5 | to watch. |
| 1:38.5 | It's absolutely bang on in terms of storylines and diversity and self-awareness and it's |
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