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Hello and welcome to another edition of the award-winning Movers and Shakers, the podcast about

living with Parkinson's and laughing in its face. I'm Mark Mardell and we're once again gathered

in the pub, snug but hopefully not smug, hoping for some good cheer in these freezing conditions.

I didn't just mean the fright for weather we've had outside, but what some of us suffer from. It's a distinctly odd phenomenon of freezing itself. Formerly it's known as fog, freezing of gait, which means when you're walking, you suddenly stop and can't get going again. Perhaps you stand up and can't get going at all. So who's here? Rory Kethynne. Paul May, you like to? Nicholas Mouston Gillen Lacey Salomon And do you freeze Recently we did an

episode on fools

Paul you told us

about you fell

because James. Paul, are you, I'm actually? Nicholas Maston. Gillen, Nessie Salomon. And do you freeze recently?

We did an episode on fools. Paul, you told us about you fell because you froze? I do freeze. I freeze a lot, increasing every day now I'm freezing. And I have falls associated with freezing. The thing is about when I have a fall to do with freezing, I'm not freezing. my body, actually, I lose control of my entire body. So I sort of, I shiver. So you're paralysed? So I'm paralysed, but I shivered through my entire body. So I tumble and I fall. And I can't put any limbs out, arms to hold my fall or do anything. You can't put a limb out to break your fall? Yes, I can't put my arms out. I said you can't put the bins out. Limbs. It sounded like bins, but I think he meant limbs. And when I'm actually having a freezing attack, it's not to do with going through narrow spaces as much as embarrassment or anxiety. Do you have any understanding of what is happening by logic?

No, I don't have no.

We'll go on to that.

Never have an episode.

Never had an episode, so I'm here to learn and understand.

Well, I haven't yet, but I think I'm getting closer.

I was away a few weeks ago in the United States at a big tech exhibition.

And I had a big interview to do. And I went off in a big way. And I arrived at this sort of

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