[1] She was the daughter of the English language teacher to foreign students Philip Anthony Francis Scoones and the National Trust worker Jane Francesca (née Barran).
[4][5] In 2011, she made the first collaboration with the historian Lucy Worsley when she was the assistant producer of the series If These Walls Could Talk broadcast on BBC Four in 2011.
[1] The following year, Scoones again worked with Worsley on the three-part series Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: 17th Century History for Girls on women of Stuart Restoration period following the end of the Commonwealth of England run by Oliver Cromwell.
[1] She was the writer and director of the two-part 2014 BBC Two series Russia's Lost Princesses on the four daughters of Tsar Nicholas II who were murdered by the Bolsheviks.
Scoones went on to direct the BBC Two documentary The Ascent of Woman by the historian Amanda Foreman, discovering stories on history-making women from 10,000 BC to the present.