This is a global original podcast.

Hello, I'm James O'Brien, and this is full disclosure, although as you've probably clocked by now,

it's in a rather different format from the usual lengthy interviews with people of interest.

We are at the moment collating some of the calls and contributions to my daily radio program on LBC

as a sort of digest, a pracey of some of the key issues facing the country during this

coronavirus crisis.

So last week's episode, if you missed it, I really would recommend you to download it and

have a listen, looked at the lived experiences. It's a bit of a

pet love of mine, focusing on lived experiences, first-hand testimony, evidence-based contributions

to the conversation about how frontline medical staff were both coping and dealing with the continuing crisis. It was a very, very mixed bag,

but a very informative and often quite inspirational experience. This week we're staying with

health, obviously, I suppose, but looking a little bit more closely at some of the mental health issues that will be

running rampant and at the time largely unnoticed within the context of the lockdown specifically.

We were drawn to that as an idea, partly because we'd spent so much time talking about care,

care homes, the scandalous circumstances

in which some have found themselves and the terrifying stories that we received from everybody

from people who own care homes right through to people who'd been waving at their ex-mother-in-law

through a care home window shortly

before ringing me that morning. And obviously, the more people you speak to, the more reliable

the tapestry that we weave together can become. But about halfway through that show, of which

I think you'll hear some shortly, I realised that we hadn't really been looking at mental

health. We'd looked at the mental health of doctors and nurses, partly because somebody

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