The Highs & Lows of 2017 - with Journalist & Author, Stu Heritage
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The High Low
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🗓️ 27 December 2017
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Happy New Year High Lowers! 2017 has been the year of covfefe, Dr Robert Kelly and of course the birth of yours truly. We have friend of The High Low’s and Guardian journalist Stu Heritage on to review the highs and lows of the past year, including Pandora’s very own and rather difficult Big Fat Quiz of the year which listeners can play at home.
We talk resolutions, New Year plans and Stu’s fantastic book published earlier this year called Don’t Be A Dick, Pete. The book is a very funny and often moving memoir, told through the story of Stu’s relationship with his brother Pete. We sort of wish we’d invited Pete on too, tbh.
Finally, we answer listener questions with Stu as our visiting agony uncle. Including one of our own: who is responsible for those slightly dismissive reviews of The High Low from The Guardian, Stu? Hmmmmm?
Happy New Year High Low listeners. We end on a compilation of the best bits of our first year, one that we couldn’t have done without you and your support. Thank you - and see you in 2018 for more!
LINKS:
Don’t Be A Dick, Pete by Stuart Heritage: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dont-Dick-Pete-Stuart-Heritage/dp/1910931470
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| 0:00.0 | With every £30 shopper at Aldi this summer, your kids can get a free sport session. |
| 0:07.0 | And with over 50 sports to choose from, they might even find one they love. |
| 0:12.0 | So go on, give your kids a taste for sport. Get in! |
| 0:17.0 | Or should that be? Get into Aldi! |
| 0:21.0 | Aldi, every day amazing. |
| 0:24.0 | Ferture claims full terms and exclusions at free sport sessions. |
| 0:27.0 | Aldi.co.uk forward slash terms. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome to episode 40 of The High Low. |
| 0:47.0 | The current fairs and pop culture podcast, |
| 0:50.0 | which is called by journalist Dolly Alderson and Pandora Sykes. |
| 0:53.0 | And this is the new year special. |
| 0:56.0 | 2016 was the year everything went wrong, Brexit, Trump, the death of George Michael. |
| 1:01.0 | And 2017 was the year we tried to glue the world back together. |
| 1:04.0 | It was also the year the High Low was born. |
| 1:07.0 | And what a year it's been. There have been author specials, live shows, |
| 1:11.0 | exciting partnerships, a chart topping high of number two in the iTunes chart, |
| 1:15.0 | well over a million downloads, |
| 1:17.0 | and an interview with our patron saint Tina Brown, |
| 1:20.0 | and vaguely complimentary, but mostly patronising reviews from the Guardian. |
| 1:25.0 | Speaking of, we've got someone special joining us for the High Low's New Year special. |
| 1:30.0 | He's a friend of the podcast, one of the funniest journalists currently writing today, |
| 1:34.0 | and one of our favourites. |
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