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The High Low

Meghan & Harry's Godparent Privacy Furore; And What Makes A True Eccentric?

The High Low

The High Low

Society & Culture

4.89.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Glasto's been and gone and the USA won the Women's World Cup - as the crowd began chanting "equal pay, equal pay." 


This week we cover the latest royal storm in a bone-china teacup, as Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex refuse to name the godparents of their newborn baby, Archie. Are the taxpayers entitled to this intel? Or is it time to stop seeing privacy, in our era of 360 surveillance, in black and white terms? 


We also take the BBC's eccentric quiz and discuss Will Self's riveting new documentary on what makes a true eccentric and how 'the eccentric' is oft commodified or misunderstood. Take the quiz and let us know - how eccentric are YOU? 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2xKy0KkffPNDywmxxC6qrkm/how-eccentric-are-you


Donate to Broadwater Farm's summer play experience https://justgiving.com/crowdfunding/broadwaterfarm


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Links


The Falconer, by Dana Czapnik


The New Me, by Halle Butler


Bitch, by Elizabeth Wurtzel


Camilla Long on HRH Killjoy, for The Sunday Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/for-keeping-mum-about-archies-godparents-i-rechristen-the-peoples-prince-hrh-killjoy-qs87wlrz6


When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez met Greta Thunberg, for The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/29/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-met-greta-thunberg-hope-contagious-climate


Pete Paphides' gorgeous Twitter thread on Glastonbury https://twitter.com/petepaphides/status/1145666196622254081


The Death of the Eccentric, hosted by Will Self for BBC Radio 4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006kt6



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0:00.0

Welcome to the Highloat, the weekly current affairs and pop culture podcast brought to you by

0:19.3

Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sipes. And an official welcome to the summer I feel.

0:24.4

It feels like it's really kicking off now. I keep buying straw breeze that are on offer at

0:28.3

St. Breeze Wimbledon is going on apparently. And I've got blisters on my feet from wearing the same

0:36.6

sand also for no over again. I don't know what I'm going to do about the blister problem. I've got

0:40.4

blisters all over my feet and it's such an anatomist me because I'm wearing the same shoes I've had

0:46.0

for years. Do you think it's caused by hot feet? Trying to get swollen, swollen, little trotters.

0:50.8

Got half a packet of compete on my right foot. Oh very expensive, probably. They are expensive

0:55.8

compete. Why are there two expensive? I'm clever though when you see the little blister bubbling up

0:59.5

and the second-stun. Do you like a compete Charlie? Yes. Correct answer. Since we've been gone to

1:08.1

massive cultural events have happened. Glaston breed and goops wellness festival where tickets cost up

1:13.6

to £4,500. I bought a ticket to it. I really thought you'd fall for that. Obviously I'm not

1:22.3

enough over there. Glaston breed people complain that the plastic band meant queuing to fill up water

1:25.7

bottles for 40 minutes. Progress takes time people. She says that someone who didn't spend the

1:30.5

heatwave queuing for water but sat in a paddling pool on her small patch of London. Astrid her.

1:35.4

Only £510 were left behind this year out of £55,000 which still sounds like quite a lot but when

1:41.7

you compare it to 2015, £5,510 were left behind. It actually shows that I think people are becoming

1:47.6

so much more cognizant of litter and what they live behind and it meant that 99% of the tents were

1:53.2

taken home. If you want to read something really lovely on Glaston breed and its history,

1:57.2

may I recommend Pete Pafidas's 17-part tweet thread about attending the festival every year

2:03.6

since 1992. That's a 27-year tenure instantly. Oh I must read that. I'll link it in the show notes.

2:10.0

It's amazing. Can I circle back just very briefly to your patch of astro turf because I'd like

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