Fyre Festival, Sex Education & A Bumper Book Chat
The High Low
The High Low
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🗓️ 5 February 2019
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
We’re back! Have you missed us? Dolly’s tits-deep in her Everything I Know About Love tour (buy tickets here: faneproductions.com/dolly and the paperback is out now) and Pandora’s essay, The Authentic Lie, for independent crowd-funding publisher, The Pound Project, is now open for pledging. Buy in online or mini book form, here! (Plus, there’s a foreword by Elizabeth Day.) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/poundproject/the-pound-project-part-four-pandora-sykes
This week we discuss everything we’ve been enjoying since Christmas - what we’ve been watching, listening to and reading (a lot.) It’s all listed below. Sign the The High Low’s sub-editor and freelance journalist Anna Codrea Rado’s brilliant open letter to the media, to secure #FairPayForFreelancers http://bit.ly/fairpayforfreelancers. Donate to help The Pool's staff and freelancers get paid: https://www.gofundme.com/help-the-pool-staff-and-freelancers-get-paid?pc=&rcid=r01-154905562015-fce176adade44eb7
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Books
Notes To Self, by Emilie Pine
Ordinary People, by Diana Evans
All That Man Is, by David Szalay
Becoming, by Michelle Obama
Duped, by Abby Ellin
The Tattooist of Auschwitz, by Heather Morris
Once More We Saw Stars, by Jayson Greene
Vox, by Christina Dalcher
Small Great Things, by Jodi Picoult
A Spark of Light, by Jodi Picoult
My Year or Rest and Relaxation, by Odessa Moshfegh
Swan Song, by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
Bottled Goods, by Sophie van Llewyn
Putney, by Sofka Zinovieff
Instead of a Letter, by Diana Athill
The Orange, by Wendy Cope
Watching & Listening
Bros: After The Screaming Stops, available on BBC iPlayer
Origins With James Andrew Miller, on Sex And The City
Bohemian Rhapsody, at cinemas now
The Favourite, at cinemas now
Mary Poppins Returns, at cinemas now
Emily Blunt, interviewed on Fresh Air
Alison Janney, on WTF
Sex Education, on Netflix now
Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, on Netflix now
Wendy Cope, on Desert Island Discs
Diana Athill, on Desert Island Discs
Journalism
Lauren Bravo for foodism https://foodism.co.uk/features/long-reads/romantic-food-myths-and-realities/
The World of Nora Ephron: a reading list https://foodism.co.uk/features/long-reads/romantic-food-myths-and-realities/
The Ten best life mantras of Diana Athill: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/10-best-life-mantras-brilliant-author-diana-athill/
Diana Athill interviewed for The Lenny Letter: https://www.lennyletter.com/story/diana-athill-interview
Dolly's songs about places playlist -
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 84 of The Highloat, the weekly pop culture and current affairs podcast |
| 0:21.3 | brought to you by journalist Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes. |
| 0:25.7 | Welcome back! |
| 0:26.7 | Welcome back to you, Peishpish. |
| 0:28.5 | Have you missed us? |
| 0:29.5 | You missed me Dolly. |
| 0:31.0 | I have missed you. |
| 0:32.0 | It's nice to finally talk to you again because Pandora and I have it written into our |
| 0:35.2 | respective contracts that we cannot communicate outside of recording time in this studio |
| 0:40.4 | because the powers that be are worried about using up good material. |
| 0:44.4 | Good material. |
| 0:45.4 | So the only way that we can speak to each other is when there are two microphones turning |
| 0:49.7 | over and Charlie Jones is present as a third party in the room. |
| 0:53.8 | Good material, isn't that being generous? |
| 0:56.8 | What I haven't missed you as I've been listening to the glorious love stories of the exchange. |
| 1:01.8 | Anyone that's not familiar, that's Dolly's other podcast. |
| 1:05.1 | She didn't think that the highlight was enough work, so she thought she'd do a whole |
| 1:08.5 | other one. |
| 1:09.5 | But may I recommend? |
| 1:10.5 | But actually, both episodes so far of this series, Brodrob, Stanley Tuch, Jessica, |
| 1:15.4 | Abs, who obsessed with Mateo. |
| 1:17.3 | That's an in joke. |
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