Reasons to be Cheerful

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

🗓️ 7 December 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We're back in the Notting Hill pub for our final episode of 2024. And after some rather gloomy subjects in recent weeks – from caring responsibilities to assisted dying – the Movers and Shakers are turning their attention to something a little more optimistic. With contributions from listeners – and a couple of special guests – this episode looks at the reasons all Parkies have to be cheerful. Whether that's defying the condition or embracing it, there's always a silver lining to be found.

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	Podoh.
0:10.3	You're listening to Movers and Shakers, a podcast about living with Parkinson's.
0:14.9	The show is sponsored by the generous contributions of private donors.
0:27.8	Hello and welcome to Movers and Shakers.
0:32.7	I'm Rory Ketland-Jones, and we're back in the pub for our final episode of 2024.
0:34.7	Let's see who's turned up.
0:35.7	Nicholas Mawston.
0:37.2	Paul May Huardar.
0:38.2	Mark Maudel.
0:39.5	Gillian Lacey Solomon.
0:41.8	And Jeremy Paxman sends his apologies.
0:43.0	He's got a gammy leg.
0:45.8	Poor old Jeremy and can't make it today, but he'll be back soon.
0:50.2	Now, this was always meant to be a mailbag edition where we read out some of your messages.
0:58.6	And we're still going to do that. But Gillian and I were discussing things the other day, and we came to the conclusion that above all, we needed to end the year on a more cheerful note.
1:02.5	We have been a bit grim recently, don't you think? I mean, we've been talking about end of life.
1:06.9	We've been talking about assisted, dying. It's not very cheerful topic. So we thought,
1:13.3	how about a cheer you up episode? Then there was the failure, wasn't there, after 16 years of that drug, exenotide,
1:17.4	that was supposed to be the first to modify the disease rather than just master's sentence. Yeah, that's a bit grim that one.
1:18.6	That was all a bit grim.
1:19.9	But then I got an email from Anne Oxpara, a huge fan of the podcast.
1:24.7	She had driven me to the station after a book festival in Devon a couple of years ago
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