Maggi's Mary Wollstonecraft, Princess Diana and A Plunge Into The Christmas Ads

The High Low

Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Brace yourself: Emily in Paris is back for a second series. More importantly: the Christmas ads have dropped! We discuss some of them, and why a great Christmas ad doesn't actually.... have to have anything to do with Christmas.

Also today, we discuss Maggi Hambling's controversial nude statue of founding feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Rupert Everett's new autobiography, a documentary about Vivienne Westwood and the punk movement, and we deep dive into the Princess Diana content of the last week: the two-parter on ITV, with staggering allegations made against Martin Bashir, and the new series of The Crown, starring the magnificent Emma Corrin as Diana.

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Links

To The End Of The World, by Rupert Everett

The Crown series 4 now on Netflix

The Diana Interview: Revenge of a Princess, on ITV Player

What I've learned from 7 years of being single, by Camille Charriere for Harper's Bazaar https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/a34587107/camille-charriere-love-in-your-30s/

How long Covid forced me to confront my past and my identity, by Kathryn Bromwich for The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/08/how-long-covid-forced-me-to-confront-my-past-and-my-identity

Vivienne Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist

Candice Carty-Williams on The Adam Buxton Podcast, Glenn Close on WTF, Keir Starmer on Desert Island Discs and What Trump Might Do In His Remaining Weeks in Office on Fresh Air

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Highloat, the weekly conversation between Pandora's Sikes and Dolly Alderton.
0:20.5	Ooh, that's a bit of a change, normally we're Dolly Alderton Pandora's Sikes.
0:25.8	I'm not going to get all the tiges on your ass, but that is like saying decadent.
0:32.3	I know, sorry, contractually it should be your name first, not alphabetically just, you know,
0:37.9	contractually, but I was in, I think I was in a bit of a wizzy or a tizzy because I came straight
0:43.9	and cold and normally we have about half an hour of waffle, preamble, preamble waffle, preambulatory
0:50.8	waffle. I know, I thought it might be for the first time in, you know, four years, it might be
0:56.4	nice to spare. Joel is up reduced this week, sometimes it's Charlie and normally they have to sit
1:02.0	through half an hour of off mic waffle about love life updates, problems with the boiler issues
1:08.9	with the council. So it'll be nice to spare them that this week. It's not even waffle, it's
1:16.5	off mic waffle. Very good, very good. Listen, I don't mind it being Pandora's Sikes and Dolly
1:21.8	Alderton as long as you're prepared to pay the fine to Avcom. Yeah, I will, I will, I'll pay it later.
1:28.3	I've got so many things I want to talk to you about this week, mainly snippets I want to gauge
1:33.2	your reaction to, like, did you see that Melanie Sykes is back visiting her gondolaire?
1:39.0	No, and this brings me so much joy to tell me everything. Also, how has she managed that
1:46.8	freedom of travel? Because that is not, that is not key work of business, I don't think. I
1:53.1	desperately want to know the update on what happened with her gondolaire, but I don't know how she
1:58.0	was able to get that through the net. I'm regularly perplexed by what people are seemingly managing
2:05.6	to do in lockdown. I can't answer that question. I can't actually tell you anything more about the
2:12.0	gondolaire. I just saw it when I was cruising for stories and I thought I must let Dolly know.
2:18.2	I know that she was very invested, very, very, cynically invested in this first trip to the gondolaire.
2:25.6	So Melanie Sykes back visiting her gondolaire in Venice and other sensation on these is that
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