Everything Dolly Alderton knows about love
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Dolly Alderton - award-winning author, podcaster, screenwriter and Sunday Times Style's resident agony aunt - on love, friendship, sex, and being comfortable with yourself ahead of the release of the BBC adaptation of her memoir.
Everything I Know About Love starts Tuesday 7th June on BBC One at 10:40pm and all the episodes will be available on BBC iPlayer.
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Guest: Dolly Alderton, author, podcaster, screenwriter, and columnist for Sunday Times Style.
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| 0:00.0 | Modern Love |
| 0:08.1 | How do you go about navigating friendship, |
| 0:11.9 | dating, sex, family relationships and everything else about love |
| 0:16.6 | in the 21st century? |
| 0:23.7 | It's the question author, podcaster, and Sunday Times resident agony aunt, Dolly Alderton, |
| 0:30.7 | has been trying to answer since she was a teenager, from blogging online to writing an award-winning memoir. |
| 0:38.0 | I really, really did think I knew what love was and what's important about love. |
| 0:44.6 | I kind of take back some of the things I've written and I'm sure that I will feel the same in another five years. |
| 0:53.5 | And now she can add screenwriter to her impressive repertoire. |
| 0:57.8 | She's adapted her coming of age story, |
| 1:00.3 | Everything I Know About Love, |
| 1:02.0 | into a TV series for the BBC, |
| 1:04.2 | which starts tomorrow night. |
| 1:06.4 | It follows four friends as they learn about modern love. |
| 1:11.5 | That's okay. I'm much better at things like judging how long a car journey is going to take. |
| 1:17.9 | You're not really good at that? |
| 1:21.4 | Love you. |
| 1:22.6 | Oh, love you. |
| 1:25.0 | Oh, I wish you'd wear pants. |
| 1:32.1 | Thank you. Oh, I wish you'd wet pants. What lessons has Dolly learnt over the years? |
| 1:35.9 | And what advice does she have to help us all navigate our way through modern love? |
| 1:41.4 | Dolly joined us for a very honest chat. |
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