This year has seen even our closest friendships turn into long-distance ones; what is the impact - and the thought spirals - of your A-list friends becoming peripheral specks in your vision? We discuss, with a funny and thought-provoking piece by Katie Heaney for The Cut. Also today, we natter about how to mend a broken heart, and the evolving nature of romantic relationships, with a special reading from the author Nick Hornby.
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Links
Are All My Friends Mad At Me? By Katie Heaney, for The Cut https://www.thecut.com/2020/09/are-all-my-friends-mad-at-me.html
High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby
Schitt's Creek, on Netflix
Guys We Fucked - Heartbreak Is Universal? with Guy Winch https://luminary.link/8lCmg8hebab
The Psychology of Friendship, by Mahzad Hojjit
Us, on BBC iPlayer
Safe Spaces for Black Women, created by Leyla Hussein https://www.salfordcvs.co.uk/safe-space-4-black-women
Dawn French's Desert Island Discs, 2012 on Radio 4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pf6dx
The Wife, by Meg Wolitzer
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