The UK’s New Minister for Loneliness; And Are We Children Until The Age of 25?

The High Low

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 January 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

First thing’s first: 1 in 4 women are still skipping their smear test - please don’t be one of them. Dolly talks to Kate Sanger from Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust who emphasises the importance of smear tests in preventing cervical cancer.

Also today, we discuss the UK’s newly appointed Minister for Loneliness, Tracey Crouch - and why loneliness is not just a problem in the elderly ; new evidence which suggests that psychologically we are all children until the age of not 18, but - duh duh duhhhhhh - 25; and why “well-intentioned racism” is still, well, racism.

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Reading:

The linguistic evolution of ‘like’, by John McWhorter for The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/11/the-evolution-of-like/507614/

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman https://www.netflix.com/title/80133311

Money Diary: A freelance writer living in London on 14K, by Anon for Refinery29 http://www.refinery29.uk/money-diary-freelance-writer

The minister for loneliness will need all the friends she can get, by Stewart Dakers for the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jan/23/tracey-crouch-minister-loneliness-friends-powerful-vested-interests

Listening:

Fashion Unzipped, by The Telegraph http://unzipped.podcast.telegraph.co.uk

So You've Been Publicly Shamed on Audible by Jon Ronson: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Non-fiction/So-Youve-Been-Publicly-Shamed-Audiobook/B00S8QO068

Peter Morgan on Fresh Air: https://www.npr.org/2018/01/16/578281741/crown-creator-sees-britains-reigning-monarchs-as-just-a-regular-family

David Remnick interviews David Attenborough for The New Yorker Hour: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/david-attenboroughs-planet-we-just-live-it/

Watching:

Riverdale, on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/80133311

Dreams of A Life on 4 OD: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dreams-of-a-life/on-demand/50028-001

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0:47.5	Welcome to episode 44 of The High Low, the weekly news, pop culture and current affairs
0:52.9	podcast brought to you by journalist Dolly Olson and Pandora Sykes.
0:58.2	In today's episode we will be discussing the new Minister for Loneliness, the importance
1:02.1	of smear tests, well-intentioned racism, quote unquote, and why you're not an adult until
1:07.6	you're 25.
1:09.2	Kicking off with smear tests, I know that's probably not how you imagined this episode
1:13.2	to begin, Pandora and I both separately read a new story this week and both wrote it down
1:18.3	at sort of top of the agenda to speak about this week.
1:21.3	A leading cervical cancer charity, Joe's cervical cancer trust has released new research
1:26.1	that shows one of the main reasons women miss their smear test is because of embarrassment
1:30.6	and body shame.
1:32.5	And I have to say I wasn't surprised.
1:35.3	I was.
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