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How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John

S3 Mike Kerr: ‘Being sober is like life in HD’

How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John

BBC

Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week Elis and John are joined by Mike Kerr, one half of the rock band Royal Blood, to discuss going sober and how the touring lifestyle has impacted his mental health. This episode contains strong language. Details of organisations that can provide help and support on some of the issues raised in this episode or the rest of the series are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline.

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0:00.0

BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:04.7

BBC Five Live.

0:06.6

How do you cope with Ellison John?

0:10.8

Hello, everyone, and welcome to How Do You cope

0:12.5

with Ellison John, the series where we speak

0:14.9

to different guests about challenges they've faced

0:17.0

throughout their lives and what they've done

0:18.7

to overcome them or, in some cases,

0:20.8

not overcome them, but just to live with them.

0:23.7

But before we discuss the specifics

0:26.5

of our conversation today, Ellis,

0:30.4

your shame precedes you.

0:32.9

How be it thus?

0:35.0

Not too bad.

0:36.0

How are you?

0:37.0

For those who may not have listened to the podcast before.

0:40.1

Although I went to the park yesterday,

0:42.0

I took the children to the park,

0:44.1

and there was another dad and his son

0:46.0

was put in a month younger than Steph,

0:47.6

so, stay-mage.

0:49.1

God, that dad was attentive.

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