The Joy of A Buffet, Zadie Smith's Lockdown Essays & Ofcom's Diversity Problem

The High Low

Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode we discuss news of the telly: decade-defining reality show, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, is ending after 20 seasons; US soap The Bold & The Beautiful are using dummies in their snogging scenes; and most depressingly and shamefully, Ofcom have received 22,000 (15,600 at the time of record) complaints over dance troupe Diversity's moving dance rendition of George Floyd's death on Britain's Got Talent.

Also today, we discuss the joy of a buffet (with an excerpt from new book In The Kitchen read by Joel Golby), the world's first ever A.I. model agency and the emergence of lockdown literature, featuring Zadie Smith's booklet of essays, Intimations.

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Intimations by Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith on Adam Buxton podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ep-130-zadie-smith/id1040481893?i=1000487206444?i=1000487206444

In The Kitchen: essays on food and life https://www.waterstones.com/book/in-the-kitchen/yemisi-aribisala/joel-golby/9781911547662

Is this the end of the buffet? by Joel Golby https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/sep/13/joel-golby-end-of-the-buffet-in-covid-19

Keeping up with the Kardashians is ending. What does it all mean? by Rosa Lyster https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/13/keeping-up-with-the-kardashians-ending-reality-tv

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Highloat, the weekly conversation between Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes.
0:20.0	Dolly what is this? You are listening to Francesco Dance Remix made by my friend Max Fritchard.
0:39.0	Very talented man, you can follow him on Instagram as well as Max. Very funny, very buff.
0:44.0	Thank you Max and thank you to everyone who tweeted in all their thoughts and theories on Francesco and whether he is a sentient cat or a ghost cat.
0:57.0	What was the general consensus? I haven't seen this ghost cat.
1:01.0	Oh God, they're really stoking this aren't they?
1:07.0	I was really hoping that our sub editor Abby, who mans are in box, I was really hoping that Abby would let us know that the owner of Francesco had been in touch.
1:17.0	I don't know why I really hope that maybe word would get back to Francesco's owner but no because Francesco the sound is still ringing like a daily bell and actually CJ pointed out if you listen to last week's episode there's one point when I'm blithering on about something semi serious and you can hear.
1:36.0	The sound of Francesco in the background in fact maybe we should offer a free beret a high low beret to the first listener who can spot the exact time code in which you can hear Francesco.
1:49.0	100% a beret or perhaps a tote bag if you prefer if you can find that time code.
1:56.0	Kudos to anyone that attempts this.
1:59.0	We're enjoying a little bit of an Indian summer aren't we today and yesterday very thrilling boiling.
2:06.0	I'm not sure if I like it I was quite geared up for autumn.
2:09.0	It's not lasting don't worry.
2:11.0	I was it not? No it's not this week.
2:14.0	Yeah apparently it's I'm not even sure it's the whole of this week apparently it's fading out again say I'll be back to enjoying autumn with just one other household.
2:25.0	The rule of six return.
2:28.0	The rule of six returns and yet I'm going to a Van Morrison concert next week.
2:34.0	How does that work?
2:36.0	I don't understand it I've given up trying to understand it I've had so many voice notes from frustrated friends families neighbors people
2:45.0	I don't even know I've been receiving voice notes from about how confusing this is so it's best just and not even try and understand it anymore.
2:52.0	No and also the point is obviously anything that curbs the spread of the virus great it's just the messaging of it is so fucking baffling.
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