Parky Profiles: Linda Grant

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

🗓️ 21 June 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This summer we'll be interviewing a handful of interesting people who are living with Parkinson's. First up: the novelist Linda Grant. Linda started life as a journalist before becoming acclaimed fiction writer who won the Women's Prize in 2000 for her novel When I Lived in Modern Times, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2008 for The Clothes on Their Backs. Here, she talks for the first time about her Parkinson's diagnosis, how it has impacted her writing, and how she plans to become (maybe) the first writer to bring to life a protagonist living with PD.

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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.
0:23.0	For more details on the charity's progress around research and its fundraising, please visit
0:27.8	cureparkinsons.org.org.uk.
0:35.3	Hello and welcome to another edition of Movers and Shakers, the podcast about Living with Parkinson's.
0:40.9	I'm Rory Kethan Jones and we're back in the pub, this time for part of our short summer season of Parky profiles where we meet some fascinating people living with Parkinson's.
0:50.1	But before we introduce this week's guest, let's see who's turned up.
0:53.5	Nicholas Mostyn. Paul Mayh turned up. Nicholas Mawston.
0:54.5	Paul Mayhanchardell.
0:56.5	Oh, I should say, by the way, that Gillian is in hospital having her pump fitted.
1:01.4	Great excitement.
1:02.2	We're wishing her well.
1:03.1	We'll hear about that in the forthcoming series in the autumn.
1:06.1	But we've got a compact team here, ready to go.
1:08.5	Our parkey profile this week is the acclaimed novelist Linda
1:11.8	Grant. Linda won the Orange Prize in 2001 for when I lived in modern times.
1:16.9	2000. Already a mistake.
1:18.9	Already a mistake. Thank goodness we've got a proofreader. Among her other books, the clothes on
1:24.0	their back, the dark circle set in a tuberculosis sanatorium just after the war,
1:28.4	and her most recent The Story of the Forest, described by the Financial Times as epic and marvellously entertaining.
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