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The High Low

Lockdown Sex, I May Destroy You, and Rhik Samadder's I Never Said I Loved You

The High Low

The High Low

Society & Culture

4.89.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, we discuss the findings on Sex In Lockdown: Keep Shagging And Carry On; the astounding work that is Michaela Coel's I May Destroy You and in light of JK Rowling's comments last week, some recommendations for understanding the trans experience. We also feature an exclusive extract from the writer Rhik Samadder's memoir about mental health, love and family, I Never Said I Loved You and lots more podcast recs from Dolly. Plus! Ask The High Low is back.


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Links

Reading

I Never Said I Loved You, by Rhik Samadder

Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man, by Thomas Page McBee

The Gender Games, by Juno Dawson

Consider The Greenland Shark by Katherine Rundell 

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n09/katherine-rundell/consider-the-greenland-shark?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co.uk%2F

Brit-ish by Afua Hirsch


Watching and Listening

Sex In Lockdown: Keep Shagging and Carry On, on Channel 4

I May Destroy You, on BBC iPlayer 

Seahorse, on Vimeo

Laura Marling on Song Exploder

Radio 4’s The Food Programme - Food On Film 

Jerry Seinfeld on WTF 

Afua Hirsch on Fortunately 



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Music

0:15.0

Welcome to the High Lowe, the weekly conversation between Dolly Alderton and Pandora's Sykes.

0:21.0

Welcome Panda, Quick Quesy, did you listen to that Abba song that I sent you?

0:26.0

Yes, I did watch it with you holding a gun to my head. No, I voluntarily watched it. I love a bit of Abba.

0:33.0

How good is that song? I can't process how good it is.

0:39.0

It's called, for all listeners, it's called, Head Over Heels. I was listening to their album, Visitors, and I found it.

0:46.0

I haven't listened to it for years, and truly I haven't listened to anything else for the past seven days.

0:52.0

The minute it ends, back to the beginning. I went on a three hour walk last night, and all I did was listen to it, back to back.

0:58.0

You always do that with music though, I find it quite strange. I know. Maybe that's what normal music fans do.

1:05.0

I think I find the lyrics so compelling. She's extreme, if you know what I mean. What does that mean?

1:13.0

Answers into the highloachshowatgmail.com.

1:16.0

I think you should get that on a t-shirt front. She's extreme, back, if you know what I mean.

1:22.0

Or a cushion. On one side, she's extreme, and then they turn it over.

1:27.0

Perhaps they've been snuggled there for a few hours, getting to know you, and then they turn it over if you know what I mean.

1:32.0

And they think, I do, I do know what you mean. How's that?

1:37.0

It's been a week, hasn't it? It's been a year.

1:41.0

And now the shops are opening again. And slowly, some of us are creeping back towards a social life.

1:49.0

I say creeping because it's definitely quite tentative for many of us.

1:53.0

Yes, creeping at two metre distances. It's so funny when you go to the parks, and you see people greet each other for the first time,

2:02.0

obviously in months and months. It's just so sweet watching them kind of waving passionately at each other, desperate to hug.

2:09.0

And obviously they can't, yeah.

2:11.0

I think people are doing what they would do if they were running towards a glass sliding door,

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