Doing It Right with Pandora Sykes

By Pandora Sykes

Society & Culture

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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How to have a more meaningf...

10.27.2022

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. ...

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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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% ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...