The App That ‘Strips’ Women of Their Make-up; and Boris Johnson’s Comments on Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
The High Low
The High Low
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🗓️ 15 November 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
No singing this week courtesy of Louis Theroux, but three different accents from Pandora in compensation.
This week on The High Low, we discuss Boris Johnson’s buffoonery - and when being a dotard can put another woman’s life in danger. Our hearts go out to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 19 months into a 5 year sentence in Iran. As Boris (finally) meets Nazanin’s husband, Richard, we discuss the Foreign Secretary and why we struggle to understand the seeming impotence of the government in scenarios such as these.
Also today, the controversial new app, MakeApp, which leaves women ‘barefaced’. Dolly think it’s misogynistic; Pandora thinks it’s yet another example of tech working against cultural psychology and the greater good. BTW Pandora did it and Dolly thought she looked better than normal, so, that’s interesting.
And Pandora busts the myth of tumeric lattes with the help of registered dietician Rosie Saunt.
Fun fact to (slightly) bum you out: Amazon have revealed that Fifty Shades of Grey is the No1 downloaded book on Kindle, of all time.
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WATCHING
Louis Theroux documentaries on anorexia, and heroin, on BBC iPlayer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09d5nk2/louis-theroux-talking-to-anorexia
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0991fsb/louis-theroux-dark-states-1-heroin-town
Motherland, on BBC iPlayer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p05j1k3t/motherland-series-1-episode-1
READING
Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Everything-I-Never-Told-You/dp/0349134286
A Different Kind of Pregnancy Announcement, by Leandra Medine for Man Repeller
https://www.manrepeller.com/2017/11/leandra-medine-pregnant.html
How The Myth of The Artistic Genius Excuses The Abuse of Women, by Amanda Hess for The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/arts/sexual-harassment-art-hollywood.html
Out of Time by Miranda Sawyer: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Time-Miranda-Sawyer/dp/0007521073
The Cult of Boris Johnson by Grace Dent:
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 34 of The High Low, the weekly news, current affairs and pop culture |
| 0:20.8 | podcast brought to you by journalist Pandora Sykes and Dolly Alderton. |
| 0:26.3 | This week I have mostly been baffled, firstly by Rita Aura's outfit at the VMA. |
| 0:32.4 | Have you seen that? |
| 0:33.5 | Yeah, did you see what Emma Gannon's tweet was very funny? |
| 0:36.2 | No, what did she say? |
| 0:37.0 | See, the outfit is like a towel-turbine in addressing it. |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.4 | And Emma Gannon said when are free-lancers asked to go out that evening? |
| 0:45.0 | She, her style choices are completely bizarre. |
| 0:48.5 | Someone said it was like a nice satire on the Harvey Weinstein allegations. |
| 0:53.2 | Maybe it was. |
| 0:54.5 | I don't know if she's that deep thinking with the old. |
| 0:58.0 | It looked absolutely extraordinary. |
| 1:00.4 | Anyway, so that was the first thing I was baffled by. |
| 1:02.1 | The second thing I've been baffled by this week are Tumorate lattes, which seem to be |
| 1:06.9 | the new big thing. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm saying them on Twitter, I'm saying them on Instagram. |
| 1:10.8 | I opened up the question on my Twitter as to whether or not the world has gone mad. |
| 1:15.0 | And I got tons of responses. |
| 1:17.2 | Anyway, in my quest to prove that Tumorate lattes are bullshit, I run up my oldest friend, |
| 1:22.0 | Rosie Saunt, who is a registered dietician at King's College London, |
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