Dolly Alderton
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Our relationship with lovers, friends and family can be complicated, and something that Dolly has documented through her newspaper columns and podcasts.
In this conversation with Fearne, the podcaster and author discusses her most recent forays into dating, as well as the importance of daydreaming.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Happy Place. I'm Fern Cotton and a massive thank you to |
| 0:08.4 | everyone who's tweeted me to say that they are coming to the Happy Place festival. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm so excited. I will see you there. I'm so looking forward to it. Hello Abbey Deacon |
| 0:18.1 | who says, I just put tickets for my best friend and Sophie and me are unbelievably |
| 0:23.0 | excited. I'm excited to see you. I will see you there Abbey and Sophie. Shaz is |
| 0:27.8 | really looking forward to seeing our live podcast with Billy Munger. He's such an |
| 0:32.6 | inspirational lad. I mean yes you are so correct to be excited. I cannot wait |
| 0:38.9 | into you Billy Munger. If you haven't seen his documentary driven watch it on |
| 0:43.5 | the eye player. He's an exceptional man, a Formula 3 racer who had his legs |
| 0:50.5 | amputated after a horrific accident and he just doesn't stop smiling. He's the |
| 0:55.9 | most phenomenal human. So yeah that's going to be a real highlight of the Happy |
| 1:01.4 | Place festival for sure. So if you do want to join us you want to find out more or |
| 1:05.5 | you want to get yourself a parallel cheeky ticket. All you need to do is go to |
| 1:09.1 | HappyPlaceFestival.com. But we have another guest who inspire your day |
| 1:13.9 | today and that's Dolly Alderton. The way that I feel about my close friends, they |
| 1:20.2 | make me feel understood. They make me feel like my best self. They make me feel |
| 1:25.8 | free. They make me feel safe. They make me feel calm. They make me feel |
| 1:30.5 | entertained. They also drive me insane and I know that I drive them insane too. |
| 1:34.7 | But like all of that is all a good relationship should be. Oh Dolly is just so |
| 1:41.2 | wonderful. She's such a great talker and that chat goes to some quite riveting |
| 1:46.9 | and revealing places. And also she stayed around my house for about an hour |
| 1:52.7 | after because we couldn't stop talking. For this episode of Happy Place we partnered |
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