The age of outrage, with Dotty Charles

Doing It Right with Pandora Sykes

Pandora Sykes

Society & Culture

4.6 • 835 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

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 lands at the time we need it most. Outraged: Why Everyone is Shouting and No One Is Talking is about how distracted we have become in our outrage. By shouting about the little things, are we neglecting to talk about the bigger issues in modern society? We discuss the difference between performative outrage, the role of the social media provocateur and the strange case of Rachel Dolezal. How Do We Know We're Doing It Right is out now in both hardback and audiobook, narrated by Pandora.

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0:00.0	We're more focused on seeming progressive than we are in actually being progressive
0:05.4	because we put so much effort into how we are perceived.
0:19.8	You're listening to Doing It Right with me, Pandora Sykes, a podcast where I talk to experts
0:25.1	about the myths, anxieties, trivialities and trends of modern life.
0:29.6	There's no such thing as the right life.
0:32.2	But what might we be getting wrong?
0:34.7	In this series, I'll be exploring outrage culture, arrival fallacy, and the
0:40.0	perils of instant gratification, and lobbing some pretty big questions at my guests, like,
0:45.6	why do human beings find change so hard? What would a more inclusive society look like? And
0:52.7	what is the difference between optimism and hope?
0:56.0	This is a podcast that looks at the little things and the big things and asks, what can we do
1:01.0	to live life better? Not just for ourselves, but for everyone.
1:06.0	Ashley Dotty Charles is a broadcaster and writer. After joining the BBC in 2014, she became the first solo female to host the BBC Radio One Extra Breakfast show,
1:18.6	on which she has interviewed everyone from Oprah Winfrey to Will Smith.
1:22.6	Dotty has also presented BBC One's Sounds Like Friday Night and is the host of the Netflix series
1:28.8	What to Watch on Netflix. And now she's written a book, Outraged Why Everyone is Shouting and No One
1:35.4	is Talking, a lively, humorous plea to channel our outrage in more productive ways. The book
1:41.8	expanded from a piece Dotty wrote for The Guardian in 2018 titled
1:45.8	As a Black Gay Woman, I have to be selective in my outrage. So should you. As a side note, we
1:53.2	recorded this episode before Katie Hopkins, who Dotty interviews in the book and we talk about
1:58.7	in the interview was permanently suspended from Twitter. The piece went viral and led Dotty to in the book and we talk about in the interview was permanently suspended from Twitter.
2:02.3	The piece went viral and led Dotty to think more about the discourse that we see not just exploding online but in our real lives too.
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