Richard Osman: The Gratitude List
How Do You Cope?
Significant Productions
4.9 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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In this week’s bonus episode best-selling author, podcaster and TV host Richard Osman shares the things he's grateful for. Having suffered with poor eyesight his whole life, Richard appreciates the things he can see. Daytime TV and sport also feature, along with a detailed discussion about Ronnie O'Sullivan and what the last signs of humanity might be.
Head to the main episode to hear about Richard's food addiction, his relationship with shame and navigating changing behavioural patterns.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, it's John here, just letting you know that I've written a book. It's called Thirst, 12 drinks that changed my life, and it's available to pre-order now. In many episodes of How Do You Cope, you'll have heard me talk about my relationship with alcohol, and in writing Thirst, I wanted to explore what alcohol means. Why did it mean more to me than other people? Why did it mean some things felt better, and why did it mean so many things went wrong? I also talk about lots of other things you'll have heard me |
| 0:24.5 | and my guests discuss on how do you cope. Meditation, physical pain, gratitude, trauma and therapy. |
| 0:30.8 | There's even a chapter about my bum and its relationship with Buddhism. So if that piques your |
| 0:35.1 | interest, thirst is available to pre-order now. And the |
| 0:38.3 | audiobook, read by me, is available to save or pre-order wherever you get audiobooks from. |
| 0:53.7 | Welcome to The Gratitude List here on How Do You Cope? |
| 0:56.8 | I'm delighted to say that I'm still joined by Richard Osmond. |
| 1:00.7 | And we talked actually towards the end of the episode about changing your perspective on things. |
| 1:07.4 | You spoke about saying to your son, you can either be the tall guy or the tall |
| 1:13.5 | guy who's self-conscious about being tall. There's no third option. And I guess that's a form of, |
| 1:22.2 | well, not gratitude, but gratitude is often taking a positive or truism from a from a negative yeah and i wondered if |
| 1:31.2 | what role gratitude plays in your life well it's interesting that if you if you if you if you |
| 1:36.0 | want to specifically look at taking a positive from a negative so my eyesight which is very very |
| 1:42.6 | very very poor i have but it always has been since I was a kid so I've |
| 1:47.7 | I wasn't I wasn't able to see and then I can't see and so I don't know how anyone else sees the |
| 1:52.8 | world I could I just ask what age you found that out when I was born with a thing called |
| 1:57.5 | nystagmus which is me did your did your parents know early on? Yes, because my mum had it. |
| 2:02.9 | It passes down the female line in. |
| 2:04.6 | And so she, from the second I was born, I think she was sort of devastated because she'd had it and it's been other members of our family. |
| 2:13.7 | But that I have, generally... |
| 2:15.9 | Firstly, little things like, you know, at school, I could never see the board ever. |
| 2:22.3 | I would not even close. |
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