2025: The Year in Review
Movers and Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's
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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
It's the end of another year – and what a year it's been! From the Big Sing on World Parkinson's Day through the Parky Petition campaign and getting our debate in Parliament, 2025 has been a stellar year for the Movers and Shakers and our community. For this final episode before we tootle off for Christmas, we've gathered at Chez Lacey-Solymar (minus Gillian herself, who was struck down by flu) to recap our year. What were the best moments of the year that's been? And which episodes of the podcast affected us most?
Sponsored by Albion Chambers.
Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, Gillian Lacey-Solymar, Mark Mardell, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Sir Nicholas Mostyn and Jeremy Paxman.
Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.
Sound mixing by Ewan Cameron.
Music by Alex Stobbs.
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| 0:00.0 | Podo. |
| 0:07.8 | You're listening to Movers and Shakers, a podcast about living with Parkinson's. |
| 0:12.5 | The show is generously sponsored by Albion Chambers Bristol, a preeminent set of barristers, |
| 0:17.8 | specialising in providing the highest quality legal advice and representation |
| 0:21.8 | in criminal, family, inquest and regulatory law. |
| 0:28.2 | Hello and welcome to Movers and Shakers. I'm Rory Kathleen Jones and for our final episode of |
| 0:33.8 | 2025, we are not in the pub. Instead, we've led it to Hampstead and Gillian Lacey Salomar's |
| 0:40.2 | house. Let's see who's turned up. Nicholas Mostyn. Paul, may he writer, Mark Modell. |
| 0:46.0 | You may notice that somebody's missing. Gillian. Gillian is sadly upstairs, got a terrible temperature, lost her voice. |
| 0:56.7 | So she is going to contribute out of the ether at some stage after we've actually |
| 1:02.3 | recorded this, but by the magic of a radio, she will make an appearance. |
| 1:07.1 | The point of this week's episode is we're going to chew the fact about what has been a tremendous year for movies and shakers. |
| 1:13.6 | So we're each going to choose a favourite moment and a favourite episode of the year. |
| 1:18.9 | And Gillian, by this extraordinary magical process, is going to deliver hers first. |
| 1:24.6 | Yes, after God knows how long of horrible, horrible chest infection, which then did |
| 1:29.5 | horrible, horrible things for the Parkinson's, I'm back and fine, and yes, dying to give my |
| 1:36.5 | best episode and best moment. Let's start with best episode. For some reason, I think to've got |
| 1:43.6 | the reputation of being a little difficult. |
| 1:45.9 | I can't think why. |
| 1:47.2 | So on that basis, my favourite episode was a red light episode. |
| 1:52.4 | Because, oh, you boys were not exactly keen to do it. |
| 1:57.0 | That's probably the understatement of the year. |
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