Doing It Right with Pandora Sykes

By Pandora Sykes

What's Doing It Right with Pandora Sykes about?

A weekly interview series created and hosted by Pandora Sykes, about the myths, anxieties and trends of modern life - from sex to sadness to self-care. (Spoiler: there‘s no such thing as the ‘right‘ life.)

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Doing It Right with Pandora Sykes episodes:

10.27.2022
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 and review the show on iTunes to help other people find me. Priya...
10.20.2022
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? I’ve been curious about the mind-body axis for a while, and then I read The Expectation...
10.13.2022
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 best friend, your sibling, your partner. The jokes about how women are lobotomised by motherhood are...
10.06.2022
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 sleep scientist Russell Foster is here to help. The University of Oxford neuroscientist and the...
09.29.2022
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 this podcast series first spun off from). And Venetia La Manna,...
09.22.2022
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? Gary Younge is an author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the university of...
09.15.2022
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 the founder of a research think tank, The 50% Project. She is also the author of five books, most...
09.08.2022
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 it’s a disease so rapidly on the rise, why aren’t we talking more about...
09.01.2022
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 incendiary, or dissing beauty brands who advertised, she founded her newsletter, The Unpublishable, where, in her own words...
10.27.2021
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 month ago. Cariad is a comedian and writer and the creator of the...
10.20.2021
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, without making space for sadness. But why are we so scared of being sad? We...
10.13.2021
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 regular contributor to The New York Times, where she writes about wellness and self-care (amongst other...
10.06.2021
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. We discuss why loneliness is higher in cities where people walk faster, how robots can...
09.29.2021
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 column on introverts and extroverts caught my attention (I am fascinated in personality theories), I rung...
09.22.2021
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 of race and class in a broken justice system. We discuss the bar’s...
09.15.2021
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 done, when you work less. We discuss the problem with open-plan working, why 90% of...
09.08.2021
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 allistic people often misunderstand about autism. We discuss hidden disabilities, the problem with 'likeability' and why...
09.01.2021
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 essays, The Right To Sex. We talk about incel culture, The metric of ‘fuckability’, dating apps, and...
08.23.2020
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, child abuse in the Philippines, female suicide bombers in Nigeria and sex slavery in Islamic...
08.16.2020
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 work in the early noughties, when I inhaled his debut novel, Essays in Love, which...
08.09.2020
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's ability to move between the trivial and the weighty, with ease: writing about IKEA meatballs one...
08.02.2020
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 new one, This Too Shall Pass. A book about why human beings find it so hard to navigate...
07.26.2020
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 talk to Rutger about his uplifting new book, Humankind; the difference between optimism and...
07.20.2020
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 lands at the time we need it most. Outraged: Why Everyone is Shouting...
07.12.2020
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 make society more inclusive. The first little person to appear on the cover of...
07.05.2020
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. He joins me to discuss consumer activism, parking tickets, his BAFTA...
06.30.2020
Doing It Right with Pandora Sykes - coming soon
A new podcast series from High Low podcaster, Pandora Sykes, which delves into the way we live our lives. Each week, Pandora interviews a guest about the trivialities, myths and anxieties that make up a modern existence. This is a podcast...

What's Doing It Right with Pandora Sykes about?

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Doing It Right with Pandora Sykes episodes:

How to have a more meaningful social life, with Priya Parker

The expectation effect, with David Robson

The myth of the ‘baby brain’ with Chelsea Conaboy

What we get wrong about sleep, with Russell Foster

The many myths of fast fashion, with Venetia La Manna

What we get wrong about knife crime, with Gary Younge

The myth of gendered emotion, with Praga Agarwal

What we get wrong about dementia, with Wendy Mitchell

The myth of good skin, with Jessica DeFino

The nuances of grief, with Cariad Lloyd

How to be sad, with Helen Russell

Re-thinking self-care, with Pooja Lakshmin

The lonely economy, with Noreena Hertz

Introverts and Extroverts, with Arthur Brooks

What the law gets wrong, with Alexandra Wilson

Could a 4-day week ever work? with Alex Pang

Understanding autism, with Naoise Dolan

Let‘s talk about sex, with Amia Srinivasan

Trusting your gut, with Stacey Dooley

Yoda wasn‘t chill all the time, with Alain de Botton

Arrival fallacy, with Raven Smith

Why do we hate change? with Julia Samuel

Optimism vs. hope, with Rutger Bregman

The age of outrage, with Dotty Charles

Seeking inclusivity, with Sinead Burke

Comedy for good, with Joe Lycett

Doing It Right with Pandora Sykes - coming soon