On speaking out against Woody Allen; and why women are still judged by appearance in the workplace
The High Low
The High Low
4.8 • 9.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The High Low is a quarter of a century old (sort of) and to celebrate we have a ton of great reading recommendations for you - scroll down to see our favourite pieces of the week, including a piece on the rise and full of a Muslim cop at the NYPD in The New Yorker, everything you need to know about therapy by Hannah Ewans for Vice and the story of the 48-year-old intern, as seen at The Spectator. This week, we discuss Kate Winslet’s controversial comments (or lack thereof) when asked about working with Woody Allen. Should Hollywood actors seek to distance themselves from known paedophiles like Allen and Polanski; or does great art stand alone? We discuss ethics and responsibility... when your boss is a creep. Also work-related, the tech CEO who dyed her blonde hair brown, to be taken more seriously in the workplace. Have you ever toned down your looks, in an effort to get ahead? We discuss misogyny at work and why it’s important to hold your own.
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OH! And before you go: Dolly solved her phone storage issue. Thank fuck for that.
Books, shows & podcasts that we’ve been consuming this week:
The Most Dangerous Place On Earth, by Lindsey Lee Johnson https://www.amazon.co.uk/Most-Dangerous-Place-Earth/dp/0451483987
The Trials of a Muslim Cop, by Rachel Aviv for The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/11/the-trials-of-a-muslim-cop
The Girlfriend Experience, directed by Steven Soderbergh https://play.google.com/store/tv/show?id=7vM4RanppsI&cdid=tvseason-vo4wdThuG0ESdOZssmmlrw&gdid=tvepisode-BP6eerEBbsA
The 48-year-old intern, for The Spectator https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/09/at-48-and-with-my-three-boys-growing-up-fast-im-the-new-office-intern/
Hannah Ewans on therapy, for Vice https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/8xxyj3/everything-i-wish-id-been-told-before-starting-therapy
Nigella Lawson on home cooking, for The Sunday Times Magazine https://t.co/1wMDrLPw5C?amp=1
Daisy Buchanan on Woody Allen, for The Pool https://www.the-pool.com/news-views/opinion/2017/37/daisy-buchanan-on-famously-abusive-men-and-power
WTF episode with Lena Dunham, on Woody Allen: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Y-JWimJic
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 25 of The Highloat, the weekly news and pop culture podcast brought to |
| 0:18.0 | you by journalists Pandora Sykes and Dolly Alderton. |
| 0:21.3 | And a very special guest this week. |
| 0:23.3 | Guess who's back, back again? |
| 0:25.1 | Davies back? |
| 0:26.1 | Tell a friend. |
| 0:27.6 | He won, he listened to Pandoli, which was sort of our maiden name of this podcast. |
| 0:33.9 | It was our trial podcast before the meat of the highloat. |
| 0:39.3 | But we did it for about six months. |
| 0:41.3 | And our producer was a little man called David McGuire. |
| 0:44.8 | I didn't mean little man. |
| 0:45.8 | I don't know why I said that. |
| 0:46.8 | What if you had up to Dave? |
| 0:47.8 | He's grown a beard. |
| 0:48.8 | He's grown a beard. |
| 0:49.8 | He's got married. |
| 0:51.3 | What else has happened? |
| 0:52.3 | Tell him to amaze. |
| 0:54.3 | Last time Dave was recording with us, it was the Pandoli Christmas special, which can |
| 0:58.8 | insert a clip now. |
| 0:59.8 | You'll probably be able to hear that between us we drank about five bottles of Prosecco. |
| 1:04.6 | Thank you so much to Dave. |
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