The Complicated Case of Shamima Begum; & Why The ‘Tortured Artist’ Debate Should Be Retired

The High Low

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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*** PLEASE NOTE: This episode was recorded about 8 hours before it was announced that Shamima Begum had been denied entry back to the UK and was stripped of her British citizenship.***

This week, we discuss the most flammable news story of the week: the return of Shamima Begum, the 19 year old Londoner who fled to the Islamic State 4 years ago and returned to have her 3rd baby in the UK. Home Secretary Sajid Javid wants to deny her entry - but should a humane society seek to rehabilitate? We also discuss the idea that “young women do not know their own minds” and why vulnerability does not negate agency.

Also this week, we discuss the allegations against singer-songwriter Ryan Adams, and why the ‘tortured artist’ trope is tired and misogynistic.

Plus, Jenna Coleman’s interview gone viral, creepy finger grapes and Dolly’s favourite new musical.

I Met Fear On A Hill, by Leslie Jamison for The Paris Review https://www.theparisreview.org/letters-essays/7318/i-met-fear-on-the-hill-leslie-jamison

In Search of Equilibrium, by Theresa Lola http://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/in%20search%20of%20equilibrium.html

The Sisterhood, by Daisy Buchanan https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-sisterhood/daisy-buchanan/9781472238856

Roma, on Netflix now

The possibility of redemption is central to a humane society, by Kenan Malik for The Observer https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/17/possibility-of-redemption-is-central-to-a-humane-society-shamima-begum

Shamima doesn’t look like anyone’s victim, by Janice Turner for The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/shamima-doesn-t-look-like-anyone-s-victim-whtkc9qln

Anthony Lloyd discusses Shamima Begum https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/shamima-begum-isis-bride

Shamima Begum interview with Quentin Sommerville for BBC News https://youtu.be/TGAxm6KJTWE

A Love Letter to realism in a time of grief: https://www.ted.com/talks/mark_pollock_and_simone_george_a_love_letter_to_realism_in_a_time_of_grief?language=en

Rosita Boland’s investigative piece on Ann Lovett’s boyfriend Richard McDonnell for The Irish Times: https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/i-was-ann-lovett-s-boyfriend-1.3484311?mode=amp

Daisy Jones and The Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Daisy-Jones-Taylor-Jenkins-Reid/dp/1786331519/ref=nodl_

Anna Leszkiewicz on Johnny Depp for The New Statesman: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/film/2018/10/johnny-depp-gq-cover-domestic-abuse-allegations

Laura Snapes on Ryan Adams for The...

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0:00.0	This episode was recorded about four hours before Shemima Begum had her British citizenship
0:04.7	revoked. The ensuing conversation between Dolly and I happened earlier in the day on Tuesday.
0:17.5	Welcome to episode 86 of The Highloh, the weekly popular culture and current affairs podcast
0:31.8	brought to you by journalist Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes. This is the week the Labour party
0:37.2	divided because of its anti-semitism problem, the week that everyone discovered defence
0:41.7	secretary Gavin Williamson's Instagram page where he's constantly posting stories like he's
0:46.9	an influencer and my personal highlight this is the week some footage went viral of an American
0:53.0	community theatre production of a Princess Diana musical and it's one of the best things
0:58.5	and some of the best wigs I've ever seen. Where can I see that? So I've actually found out that
1:04.5	you can watch the performance in full on YouTube. I tweeted it, it was some, I think a TV producer
1:13.9	of a comedian found it, he must have been researching, I went on to his profile and it said he
1:18.8	worked in TV and I think it just reminded me of the years that you spend in TV development where
1:23.7	you have to go googling and researching stuff for days and days on end so he must have just found
1:28.4	it by chance and he tweeted some, is it an old one? I don't know, it's very sort of grainy footage.
1:38.6	I still really know the Princess Diana Cafe on Nottingham Gate and my god I didn't even know
1:43.2	that existed, it's just covered in pictures of Princess Diana, the whole thing. Wow. Also this week
1:49.8	15,000 school children from around the UK marched against climate change on Friday carrying
1:55.2	placards that read, there is no planet B, you can see what they did there, as part of a global
2:00.0	movement known as schools for climate action which began in Sweden in September. I love them and I
2:05.3	love that slogan. I agree activism from a young age for a planet that they will be living on
2:10.7	longer than us and Jenna Coleman went viral with Guardian interview where she was asked by the magazine
2:17.3	what her most embarrassing moment was and she replied, buying a sandwich at Leeds train station.
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