Hallucinations
Movers and Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's
Podot
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
One of the strangest symptoms of Parkinson's is the sudden appearance of unexplained figures – whether that's a cat or a small child, a barking dog or a fully clad Venetian – in your environment. There hallucinations can be benign, but they can also be unsettling, and this week we're trying to find out what's causing them. Are they related to night terrors? Can they always be rationalised? And are there any potential treatment pathways for people struggling with hallucinatory visions? As ever, we're aided in our quest of understanding by a top expert.
Movers & Shakers is brought to you in partnership with Cure Parkinson's.
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 | Pod-O |
| 0:02.0 | You're listening to Movers and Shakers, a podcast about living with Parkinson's. |
| 0:10.0 | The show is sponsored by Cure Parkinson's, whose urgent and only goal is to find a cure, |
| 0:15.0 | and funded by Bordwave, a networking community for technology leaders and a passionate supporter of Cure Parkinson's. |
| 0:23.0 | For more details on the charity's progress around research and its fundraising, please visit |
| 0:27.9 | cureparkinsons.org.uk. |
| 0:35.4 | Hello and welcome to Moors and Shakers, the award-winning... |
| 0:38.6 | Hey! |
| 0:39.1 | Hey! |
| 0:41.0 | Podcast about living with Parkinson's. |
| 0:43.2 | It always works, isn't it? |
| 0:44.5 | I'm Rory Kathleen Jones. |
| 0:45.8 | We're back in the pub. |
| 0:47.1 | Let's see who's turned up. |
| 0:48.3 | Viglas Mostyn. |
| 0:49.5 | Mark Mordale. |
| 0:50.4 | Paul May he right, sir. |
| 0:51.6 | One key person you may notice is missing. |
| 0:54.9 | Gillian Lacey Solomon was supposed to be flying down from Inverness in Scotland to London last night to join us today. |
| 1:00.5 | But all flights were cancelled because of an air traffic control issue, which is a huge pity because she's got a lot to say about the main topic of today's episode, which is hallucinations, |
| 1:12.1 | one of the scariest symptoms of Parkinson's. Now, don't worry, because we are going to hear |
| 1:16.7 | something from Gillian about this subject, because I've recorded a quick interview with her just |
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