BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. Hello, I'm Tina Dehealy. This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.

Every now and then, we'll be taking a bit of a step back from the everyday news cycle

to speak to the people behind it. This week we've managed to tear Stacey Dooley

away from strictly.

Ten years of fronting current affairs documentaries makes her one of TV's best-known female documentary

makers.

She's well known for her raw compassionate style of journalism so today we'll be asking

her should the news have feelings.

So yeah thanks for coming in when you've got all your strictly stuff going on.

That is, I mean you've got the best excuse to say no.

Well no, do you know we're going to do it last week obviously but I sort of did my ribs in so I was yeah I was like old sick note just that's cancel everything and everything's like an hour here and hour there you know I mean so I felt really yes so sorry about it.

No don't be sitting and how are your ribs okay actually

I did the muscles it was the intercosto I keep calling him intercontinental I'm not

saying it right I was like yeah it's not a hotel. I feel like because work is so intense and so

straight and so serious rightly so I think I never really show my lighter sides and we don't really talk about trivial

things necessarily so to be able to do strictly like it's complete escapism it's

so fun I promise you seen I can't tell you it is just the most incredible experience like one of the best things I've ever done actually

But it is just two kind of

Complete opposite ends of the spectrum.

Yeah, but you look like what comes across is you look like you're having so much fun.

Like the best time.

Suppose we should talk about journalism.

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