Doing It Right with Pandora Sykes
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Doing It Right with Pandora Sykes
An interview series with journalist Pandora Sykes, about the myths, anxieties and trends of modern life.
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We need to talk about postpartum psychosis, with Catherine Cho
So many women experience a postpartum mental disorder after having a baby. For me, it was postnatal depression. For Catherine Cho, it was postpartum p...
Why you might be languishing, with Corey Keyes
Feeling demotivated? Aimless? Without meaning, or purpose? According to sociologist and psychologist Corey Keyes, you could be languishing.
How tech flattened personal taste, with Kyle Chayka
The homogenisation of popular culture is something I’ve been thinking about for a long time. In my 2020 book, How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right? (wh...
The myth of the sociopath, with Patric Gagne
What does the term ‘sociopath’ mean to you? Serial killer? Social outcast? Or wait - is that a psychopath?
Patric first told her story...
Decolonising beauty, with Afua Hirsch
I’m really interested in talking about the gnarly parts of the beauty industry - where things like tanning and hair removal actually come from. In the...
How to have a more meaningful social life, with Priya Parker
Welcome to the last episode of Series 3! I really hope you have enjoyed the series and it’s given you some pause for thoughts. Don’t forget to rate an...
The expectation effect, with David Robson
Can the way you think about your body, change the way it works? Can a positive outcome about ageing, actually cause you to live longer?
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The myth of the ‘baby brain’ with Chelsea Conaboy
Did you find yourself scrambling for words, losing your keys, forgetting basically everything, when you had a baby? Perhaps you witnessed it in your b...
What we get wrong about sleep, with Russell Foster
Tired all the time? Worried you’re not getting the fabled ‘8 hours’ ? You’re not alone: we’ve become a nation of orthosomniacs. But panic not, because...
The many myths of fast fashion, with Venetia La Manna
I’ve been wanting to do an episode on the many myths of fast fashion since I wrote an essay titled Get The Look, for my 2020 essay collection (which t...
What we get wrong about knife crime, with Gary Younge
What do you know about knife crime? It’s something that happens in gangs and on the streets. It’s something you’ve never had to worry about. Right?
The myth of gendered emotion, with Praga Agarwal
Professor Pragya Agarwal is a data and behavioural scientist, a visiting professor of social inequities and injustice at Loughborough University and t...
What we get wrong about dementia, with Wendy Mitchell
There are 50million people living with dementia worldwide. By 2050, it’s likely to rise to 152 million. But how much do you know about dementia? When...
The myth of good skin, with Jessica DeFino
Jessica DeFino is not your regular beauty journalist. After finding her pieces were regularly rejected from newspapers and magazines for being too inc...
The nuances of grief, with Cariad Lloyd
I'm so pleased to bring you this s2 bonus episode sponsored by Sage Appliances, with Cariad Lloyd, which we recorded in front of a live audience a mon...
How to be sad, with Helen Russell
Helen Russell is a journalist, podcaster and author of How To Be Sad, a part memoir/ manifesto which argues that we can’t talk about happiness, withou...
Re-thinking self-care, with Pooja Lakshmin
Pooja Lakshmin MD is a psychiatrist and writer, specialising in women's mental health. The founder of digital women's health platform Gemma, she is a...
The lonely economy, with Noreena Hertz
Noreena Hertz is an economist and thought leader and the author of The Lonely Century, a fascinating and sprawling study of the epidemic of loneliness...
Introverts and Extroverts, with Arthur Brooks
Arthur Brooks is a social scientist, Harvard professor and author of multiple books, who writes a column for The Atlantic about happiness. After his c...
What the law gets wrong, with Alexandra Wilson
Alexandra Wilson is a criminal and family law barrister, the founder of Black Women In Law and the author of Black & White: a young barrister’s story...
Could a 4-day week ever work? with Alex Pang
Alex Pang is a futurist and tech consultant who has spent twenty years studying our relationship with work. In Shorter, he argues that you get more do...
Understanding autism, with Naoise Dolan
Naoise Dolan is the author of the best-selling novel Exciting Times, who explores through her journalism what it means to be neurodiverse and what all...
Let‘s talk about sex, with Amia Srinivasan
Amia Srinivasan is the Chichele Professor of social and political theory at Oxford University and the author of thought provoking new collection of es...
Trusting your gut, with Stacey Dooley
Stacey Dooley is a broadcaster and presenter, known for making more than 80 documentaries for the BBC on subjects including spy cam sex in South Korea...
Yoda wasn‘t chill all the time, with Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton is a philosopher who has written on work, sex, leisure, architecture - and every other subject in between. I first discovered Alain's...
Arrival fallacy, with Raven Smith
Raven Smith is a British Vogue columnist, an Instagram personality and the author of the essay collection, Trivial Pursuits. I have long admired Raven...
Why do we hate change? with Julia Samuel
Julia Samuel is a psychotherapist, the founder/patron of Child Bereavement UK and the author of two acclaimed non-fiction books, Grief Works and her n...
Optimism vs. hope, with Rutger Bregman
Rutger Bregman is a Dutch historian with a radical new idea: what if human beings are not innately savage and selfish, but compassionate and kind? I t...
The age of outrage, with Dotty Charles
Ashley 'Dotty' Charles is a writer and broadcaster. The first solo female to host 1Xtra Breakfast for the BBC, she is the author of a new book, which...
Seeking inclusivity, with Sinead Burke
Sinéad Burke is a force for good. An educator and disability advocate in the field of fashion and design, she is solutions-driven in her desire to mak...
Comedy for good, with Joe Lycett
Doing It Right is a new podcast series that delves into the way we live our lives. My very first guest is the comedian and TV presenter, Joe Lycett. H...