Pandemic friendships, and how to mend a broken heart
The High Low
The High Low
4.8 • 9.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This year has seen even our closest friendships turn into long-distance ones; what is the impact - and the thought spirals - of your A-list friends becoming peripheral specks in your vision? We discuss, with a funny and thought-provoking piece by Katie Heaney for The Cut. Also today, we natter about how to mend a broken heart, and the evolving nature of romantic relationships, with a special reading from the author Nick Hornby.
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Links
Are All My Friends Mad At Me? By Katie Heaney, for The Cut https://www.thecut.com/2020/09/are-all-my-friends-mad-at-me.html
High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby
Schitt's Creek, on Netflix
Guys We Fucked - Heartbreak Is Universal? with Guy Winch https://luminary.link/8lCmg8hebab
The Psychology of Friendship, by Mahzad Hojjit
Us, on BBC iPlayer
Safe Spaces for Black Women, created by Leyla Hussein https://gf.me/u/y2khxi
Dawn French's Desert Island Discs, 2012 on Radio 4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pf6dx
The Wife, by Meg Wolitzer
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the High Low, the weekly conversation between Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes. |
| 0:20.5 | I've got a big headline for you. |
| 0:23.9 | Big headline, absolute whopper. |
| 0:26.5 | Ready? |
| 0:27.5 | Ready? |
| 0:29.5 | The Queen is... |
| 0:31.5 | ...livid. |
| 0:33.5 | Have you heard about this? |
| 0:34.7 | She is blowing a gasket. |
| 0:37.5 | Why? |
| 0:39.5 | The Queen is reportedly furious after her staff refused to stay with her in a COVID bubble over Christmas. |
| 0:46.5 | Around 20 royal household employees had been asked to remain on the Monarch's estate and |
| 0:51.1 | Sanctuary to support her, Prince Philip and other members of the royal family during |
| 0:54.7 | the festive period, but the group are reportedly fighting against it because they are unwilling |
| 0:59.0 | to self-isolate from their families for four weeks and not be able to see them. |
| 1:03.7 | This means the Queen could be forced to spend Christmas at Windsor Castle. |
| 1:08.0 | Heaven forbid, for the first time in 33 years. |
| 1:11.6 | The Queen is furious. |
| 1:13.3 | A royal source says. |
| 1:14.8 | The staff said enough is enough. |
| 1:16.3 | The rebellion is said to involve cleaners, laundry and maintenance workers. |
| 1:19.7 | What do you make of that? |
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