Philippa York: The Gratitude List
How Do You Cope?
Significant Productions
4.9 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s bonus episode ex-cyclist, now journalist and author Philippa York shares the things she’s grateful for. Philippa talks about the importance of health, describes the gratitude she has for existing how she wants to exist, and explains the differences she has experienced entering the female world.
Head to the main episode to hear about Philippa’s lifelong body and gender dysmorphia, how transitioning has affected her loved ones, and why meeting a young trans girl whilst filming a TV advert had a profound effect on her.
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| 0:12.2 | Hello, I'm Marina Hyde. |
| 0:13.9 | And I'm Richard Osmond. |
| 0:15.0 | And we are the hosts of The Rest is Entertainment. |
| 0:17.5 | Now, each week, Richard and I speak about our favourite entertainment news stories and incredible behind-the-scenes facts. In the last few weeks, we've looked at the |
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| 0:56.0 | That's audible.combe.ukeslustwondery. Hello. Before we get into Piper York's Gratitude List, I wanted to mention something I'm currently very grateful for. I have written a book, and it's available to pre-order now. It's called Thirst, |
| 1:29.5 | 12 drinks that change my life, and it's published by Penguin. Regular listeners to How Do You |
| 1:35.3 | Cope will have heard me talk about alcoholism every so often, and this book is a memoir where I can go |
| 1:41.2 | into a bit more detail about my experiences. It's about alcohol, what it did for me and what it did to me. It's also about learning what alcoholism actually is and why we use things to escape ourselves, how I've learned to live without booze in my life. So, if that's of interest to you or someone you might know, then search for Thirst, |
| 2:01.8 | 12 drinks that changed my life, which is available to pre-order from All Good Bookshops and online retailers, |
| 2:08.0 | and I do hope you enjoy today's episode. |
| 2:29.0 | I'm delighted to say that Philippa York is still with me on the gratitude list, and we talked about a lot of what was difficult for you. |
| 2:35.8 | But amongst that story, perhaps I failed to prompt you on some of the amazing things, |
| 2:43.5 | some of the enormous victories, both personal and professional you had. So I wondered what part gratitude plays in your life and what part does it play in your memories? I think people expect me to be more proud of what I did. |
| 2:53.5 | I just looked at them as a set of achievements, which I set out to achieve. |
| 2:58.1 | So I'm not really a proud person. |
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