Trusting your gut, with Stacey Dooley

Doing It Right with Pandora Sykes

Pandora Sykes

Society & Culture

4.6 • 835 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

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, child abuse in the Philippines, female suicide bombers in Nigeria and sex slavery in Islamic State. She is also the 2018 winner of Strictly Come Dancing and the presenter of a make-up competition, Glow Up. In short: you can't box Dooley in. In the season finale of Doing It Right, I interview one of the most famous women in British media about what makes a good documentary, the importance of trusting your gut and learning from your mistakes in the public eye. Thank you so much for listening to the series! I really enjoyed making it and I hope you squirrelled away some helpful nuggets about how to navigate and metabolise modern life, courtesy of my brilliant guests.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	The thing about me is I'm able to reach a demographic that some people aren't able to tap into.
0:06.0	And I really don't take that for granted. There's nothing lovely at Pandora than when, you know, a kid that's sort of walking home from school comes up to you and says,
0:13.0	oh, you know, I watched your film on child soldiers in the DRC. That's really cool.
0:37.0	You're listening to Doing It Right with me Pandora Sykes, a podcast where I talk to experts about the myths, anxieties, trivialities and trends of modern life.
0:38.8	There's no such thing as the right life. But what might we be getting wrong? In this series, I'll be exploring outrage
0:45.2	culture, arrival fallacy, and the perils of instant gratification, and lobbing some pretty
0:51.3	big questions at my guests, like, why do human beings find change so hard?
0:57.0	What would a more inclusive society look like?
1:00.0	And what is the difference between optimism and hope?
1:03.0	This is a podcast that looks at the little things and the big things
1:07.0	and asks, what can we do to live life better?
1:10.0	Not just for ourselves, but for everyone.
1:14.7	Stacey Dooley is a documentary filmmaker, broadcaster and author. Over the course of her 12-year
1:21.2	career for the BBC, she has presented more than 80 documentaries on hard-hitting topics including
1:26.8	child sex abuse in the Philippines,
1:29.3	domestic violence in Russia and the trafficking of Class A drugs into continental Europe.
1:34.3	She is also the author of a Sunday Times best-selling book, On the Front Line, with the Women Who Fight Back.
1:41.3	In 2018, she received an OBE, and that same year she won the celebrity dance
1:45.8	competition strictly come dancing. I talked to Stacey towards the end of June the same week
1:51.5	that she has three shows on the BBC. Glow Up Britain's next makeup star, EastEnders, Secrets from the Square
1:58.6	and Stacey Dooley investigates SpyCams sex criminals in South Korea.
2:04.2	Not bad considering the country is in lockdown.
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