Sophie Scott
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374 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 2 Jul
Sophie Scott’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What you find in high stress professions, like the police or the fire service or medics or nurses, you tend to find that there are professional jokes, things around which people joke.
So in the UK...
Apparently, one of the things that the police laugh about in the UK is the fire service.
They make jokes about the fire service and presumably vice versa.
And they also will make jokes about the things that they have to deal with, which can make their humor seem very dark.
But actually, I think that's doing several things all at once.
So it's giving people a reason to laugh together.
You're doing a high stress job in a team.
You're going to improve your sense of bonding by getting a chance to laugh together.
You are...
going to be able to deal with some of the stressful things you have to deal with by expressly laughing at it.
You are going to feel better together by laughing at things.
You are keeping other people out.
You're excluding people with the darkness of the thing that you're laughing at and the really specific job-related aspects of that.
I don't think that's random.
It's meant to be a bit shocking to other people because this is actually, you're the team that has to work together.
They are the outsiders.
They don't understand.
There is a literature describing this.
And over the past couple of years, there's been a number of cases in the UK where WhatsApp groups between police officers have been made public and revealing awful things like some horrible crime scene where two sisters were killed in a park in the middle of London in a very public place.
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