A weekly conversation between writers Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes, that covers highbrow and lowbrow culture. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 days 18 hours 34 minutes
Zadie Smith On Beauty & Trolling The McCanns
It's a new episode of The High Low and we've got a bunch of things to recommend watching, listening to and reading covering everything from Indian Partition to an online black drugs market to male privilege to Vanessa Feltz. In The Top Line...
The Response to Charlottesville & The Curious Tale of Chloe Ayling
The High Low is BACK after a week's hiatus in which Dolly went to Majorca, boggled at its lack of scene and read a bunch of books. Meanwhile Pandora's got summer flu and wants Dolly to update the Good Reads profile. There's Bond, vegan...
The Travesty of Princess Diana's Leaked Tapes & The Legacy of Celebrity Big Brother
It's Episode 20, a milestone of sorts - and Tesco are now paying your tampon tax. Hurrah! Go buy your 'pax from there -- and other supermarkets, we hope you follow their example.This week Dolly and Pandora discuss the invasion of royal priv...
The BBC Pay Gap, To The Bone & R Kelly's Alleged Sex Crime
After a break last week, it's a (bumper) episode 19 of The High Low. Of course, we're talking about the incendiary gender pay gap revealed at the BBC and the wider question of the value of each and every job. We discuss the news of R Kelly...
A Pop-Culture special feat. Rob Kardashian with author Elizabeth Day
It's our second author special this week, with journalist and author, Elizabeth Day. Elizabeth's brilliant 4th book, The Party, comes out on 13th July and has whiffs of the Patrick Melrose novels, by Edward St Aubyn. Pandora and Dolly talk pr...
Serena Williams vs. John McEnroe & Celebs vs. Trolls
In Episode 17 of The High Low, we discuss celebrities quitting Twitter (and why Pandora wants to set up a foundation called The RSPS - the Royal Society for the Protection of Stars) specifically Ed Sheeran who says he can't cope with the...
Corbyn’s Glasto & Why We Should All Strive To Be Average
JezCo took to the stage at Glasto, 7% of Americans think that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, Louis Tomlinson admitted he was the most ‘average’ of 1D, and 95 tower blocks in the UK have failed safety measures. It’s your usual mix of the trivial...
The Rise of the ‘Silver Splitter’ - and Pandora’s Best Bum Facts
Grenfell Tower is an unthinkable national tragedy; with many questions still unanswered, victims missing and families displaced. We discuss the aftermath of the most tragic residential fire since World War Two, Sadiq Khan’s piece for The Guardian, and...
An Author Special with Reni Eddo-Lodge & the return of the Nokia 3310
It's our first ever author special with Reni Eddo-Lodge, whose incendiary book Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race was published earlier this month. We talk to Reni about race relations in the U.K. and why 'reverse racis...
On Belly Bulges and Privilege (and Not The General Election)
It’s General Election week, but there’ll be no talk of #GE2017 here (firstly, it’s already over.) Instead, we discuss Prince William’s revelatory interview with GQ - and Princess Diana’s relationship with the media. Also in today’s episode, we...