Parkinson's in the Media

Movers and Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's

Podot

Society & Culture, Parkinson's, Parkinson's Disease, Pd, Medicine, Science, Health, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

A recent spate of Parkinson's related headlines – from miracle pumps to worm-based solutions – have had the Movers and Shakers questioning exactly how the condition is portrayed in the media. Are we getting a good balance between raising the salience of the diseases ill effects, on the one hand, and inspiring hope on the other? To discuss this, the (rather depleted) team in the pub are joined by a top newspaper editor and the Parkinson's UK's media bod.

Sponsored by Boardwave, who support 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.

Artwork by Till Lukat.

PR by Sally Jones.

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0:00.0	Before we kick off, here's some exciting news from us. First of all, the petition at last is live. Please do sign it. The second thing is on April the 11th, World Parkinson's Day. Please, please come and join us outside Parliament. We will be singing our anthem. We will survive, which indeed we will,
0:21.8	with your help. See you there. Information about both these things will be on our website.
0:27.0	In fact, it is already. Thanks.
0:34.0	You're listening to Movers and Shakers, a podcast about Living with Parkinson's.
0:38.3	The show is generously sponsored by Bordwave, an exclusive European networking community
0:43.3	for software founders and CEOs.
0:46.0	Bordwave is a passionate supporter of Cure Parkinson's.
0:49.2	For more details on the charity's progress around research and its fundraising,
0:53.6	please visit cureparkinson's.org.com.
0:59.8	Hello and welcome to another episode of Movers and Shakers. I'm Rory Kathleen Jones and we're back in the pub
1:06.9	for a laugh and a moan about another aspect of life with Parkinson's.
1:11.3	Let's see who has turned up this week.
1:13.6	Gillian, this is Solomon.
1:15.0	Nicholas Mostyn.
1:16.4	Mark Maudill.
1:17.4	We are missing, I'm afraid, both Paul Mayhew Archer and Jeremy Paxman.
1:21.7	They send their apologies.
1:23.3	Now, this week's episode is all about this.
1:26.4	Could genetically modified worms help cure Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease?
1:32.1	Parkinson's disease, it's as though I never had it.
1:34.3	Breakthrough Discovery links immune system to Parkinson's progression.
1:37.9	Well done, team. You should have been on that old program, what the paper say.
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