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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Daily: COVID, MS and the coming charity crash

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

COVID’s impact on people with multiple sclerosis has been cruel beyond even the privations experienced by the rest of us. Our panelist Ros Taylor has never spoken about her own MS diagnosis before. In conversation with David Martin, CEO of the MS Trust, she discusses the astonishing hardships faced by people with MS during the pandemic, why all charities are facing a potential extinction event… and what listeners can do to rescue essential charities that face total ruin. Presented by Ros Taylor. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved

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photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

0:13.0

I loved going to college.

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It's good you can retrain and do something.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Let's talk about working, learning, saving and making the most of living longer.

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look after theirs with dental life. Pick hope you're enjoying the podcast. If you are you can now support

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us on Patreon the crowdfunding platform. Backers get lots of benefits including an

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ad-free version of the podcasts, attractive mugs and t-shirts and an opportunity to watch our

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1:35.0

Today I'm going to be tackling something that's affected my life in lots of ways since I was diagnosed with it in 2008.

1:42.0

Multiple sclerosis. It's a disease of the nervous system.

1:46.0

More than 100,000 people in the UK suffer from it and it shows up in many, many ways,

1:51.0

from being unable to walk to problems with vision, concentration, and some symptoms I wouldn't

1:56.1

even mention to close friends. In fact, this is the first time I've talked about it publicly,

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