Can You Hide Your Parkinson's?
Movers and Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's
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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Can you hide your Parkinson's? And should you? Those are the questions we're tackling today, as we're joined in the pub by Rob Burley, a former BBC producer and author of Why Is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me?, a book about the lost art of the political interview. After his PD diagnosis, Rob went on television and found himself subjected to unfortunate social media feedback. Do we always know when it's time to reveal a diagnosis? And can you really keep things private as symptoms set in? This candid chat explores the difficult reality, especially for people still in the workforce.
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.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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| 0:00.0 | Podo. |
| 0:02.5 | You're listening to Movers and Shakers, a podcast about living with Parkinson's. |
| 0:13.3 | The show is generously sponsored by Albion Chambers Bristol, a preeminent set of barristers, |
| 0:18.7 | specialising in providing the highest quality legal advice and representation in criminal, family, inquest and regulatory law. |
| 0:29.2 | Hello and welcome to Movers and Shakers, the award-winning. |
| 0:32.4 | Tarrah. |
| 0:33.0 | Parra. |
| 0:33.7 | Podcast. |
| 0:34.3 | Bro. |
| 0:35.1 | This is good. |
| 0:36.4 | About living with Parkinson's. I'm Rory Gettlin Jones. Don't boo me. |
| 0:39.9 | And we are back in the pub at Natural Habitat. Let's see who's turned up. |
| 0:44.5 | Chill in this. Is Solomon? Nicholas Mostyn. Paul Mayhuyang, Mark Maudel. |
| 0:48.9 | Well, this episode is about how many of us seek to disguise the fact that we have Parkinson's. Why do we do it? Does it |
| 0:55.8 | work at all? And the idea of the episode came from an excellent column written by Rob Burley, |
| 1:00.5 | a television news producer who for many years was BBC head honcho for the big political |
| 1:04.6 | interviews. He wrote a book called Why Is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me? Great, great title. All |
| 1:09.6 | about the story of the long TV politics interview who's passing, he mourns. But his article on the unheard site, headlined, You Can't Hide Your Parkinson's Forever, was about his own experience appearing on GB News where some viewers thought he was drunk or on drugs. Rob is with us in the pub. Hello, Rob. Hello. |
| 1:27.8 | You're not drunk. |
| 1:28.5 | You have got a pint of you. I have a little tiny bit of beer, but I wouldn't say I'm drunk. Yeah, right. Judge for yourself. We'll find out later. Yeah. But before we drill down further into what the message was at that column, let's hear our own thoughts about hiding our condition. Judge, before I have to my own condition, I must say, appearing on CBN News is sort of prima facie |
| 1:48.1 | evidence of being drunk or intoxicated. |
| 1:50.3 | We'll come to that later. |
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