Parky Profiles: Emma Lawton
Movers and Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's
Podot
4.7 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Our guest in the latest of our Parky Profile series is Emma Lawton. Emma wears a lot of hats (and not to cover her pink hair!): graphic designer, blogger, stand-up comedian and parky! Having been diagnosed at the age of 29, Emma has spent the last decade coming to terms with her diagnoses and working out how to live a full life and check items off her f***-it list!
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.
Additional production by Ewan Cameron.
Music by Alex Stobbs.
Artwork by Till Lukat.
PR by Sally Jones.
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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. |
| 0:10.6 | You're listening to Movers and Shakers, a podcast about Living with Parkinson's. |
| 0:14.3 | The show is sponsored by Judge Nick Mostin's Old Chambers and by the generous contributions |
| 0:19.6 | of private donors. doners. I'm Rory Kettlin Jones and we're back in the pub for the latest in our series of |
| 0:34.1 | parky profiles interviews with interesting and inspiring people with Parkinson's. |
| 0:39.2 | In a moment we'll meet this week's guest but first let's see who's turned up |
| 0:43.3 | Jillian nacy solomer Nicholas most in Mark Mardel Jeremy Fexman and sadly we were |
| 0:50.8 | we're without a Paul Mejwacher because he's got he's otherwise engaged but he'll be back soon and this |
| 0:58.0 | week's guest is one of the most inspiring parkies I've ever met. |
| 1:01.8 | She was diagnosed with Parkinson's at just 29 and 11 years on |
| 1:05.8 | has faced serious ill health including a major operation on her spine but |
| 1:09.7 | despite that she's carried on working first as a creative director for design agency, |
| 1:14.0 | then in various roles at Parkinson's UK, including Head of Design, |
| 1:18.0 | and she's become an entrepreneur starting an events company. |
| 1:21.0 | And throughout she's been a Tarless Evangelist for better understanding of people |
| 1:24.7 | with Parkinson's speaking at conferences giving TED Talks and appearing on TV including a |
| 1:29.6 | documentary where Microsoft designed a special device to allow her to carry on drawing despite her tremor. |
| 1:35.8 | Our Pargy profile is Emma Lawton. |
| 1:38.4 | Emma, welcome. |
| 1:39.4 | Hello, thank you for having me. |
| 1:40.8 | We're very happy to have you here. |
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