Parky Profiles: Alison Anderson
Movers and Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's
Podot
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Our profile this week is of a Parky on a mission: Alison Anderson who is, as you listen to this episode, cycling across America to raise money for Cure Parkinson's. This isn't Alison's first marathon bike ride, she's previously zoomed across Southeast Asia, raising money and awareness. An inspiration for both her athletic endeavour and fundraising prowess, Alison is living, cycling proof that Parkinson's doesn't have to stop you in your tracks!
You can still sponsor Alison's bike ride across America – go here to send your support!
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Podo. |
| 0:02.0 | You're listening to Movers and Shakers, a podcast about living with Parkinson's. |
| 0:12.0 | The show is generously sponsored by Bordwave, an exclusive European networking community for software founders and CEOs. |
| 0:19.0 | Bordwave is a passionate supporter of Cure Parkinson's. |
| 0:22.9 | For more details on the charity's progress around research and its fundraising, please visit |
| 0:27.8 | cureparkinsons.org.org.com. |
| 0:35.2 | Hello and welcome to Movers and Shakers. I'm Rory Catalan Jones and in the latest in our brief series of Parky profiles, we've got a remarkable person in the pub with us this afternoon. |
| 0:45.0 | But before we reveal who it is, let's find out who else is here. |
| 0:48.4 | Nicholas Mollstone. |
| 0:49.4 | Gillian Lacey Solomon. |
| 0:50.8 | Mark Maudil. |
| 0:51.7 | Paul Mayhajar. |
| 0:52.8 | And our guest today is a woman who was Cure Parkinson's fundraiser of the year in 2017 |
| 0:58.4 | when she's cycled across Vietnam and Cambodia. |
| 1:01.8 | I'm already feeling tired. |
| 1:03.2 | She's also done John O'Grote's to Land's End and cycled to Barcelona for World Parkinson's Congress. |
| 1:08.8 | We're recording this podcast as she's about to set off on |
| 1:11.8 | her biggest challenge so far, cycling coast to coast across the United States of America. |
| 1:17.6 | Welcome, Alison Anderson, also known as The Cyclopath. Yeah, apparently, yes. I've had that name |
| 1:24.3 | for quite a long time. That's great. Let's talk about before the dreaded Parkinson struck you. |
| 1:31.2 | Where were you brought up? |
| 1:32.4 | I was brought up in the east coast of Scotland near Dunday. |
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