Stephen Fry
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
It's hard enough speaking in public about your mental health - so how is it to be the figurehead? Stephen Fry speaks to Fearne about his work as president of the charity Mind, and the issues he is forced to confront when speaking to others about their own problems. Along the way we hear how Stephen likes to unwind, his new life as a vegetarian, and the many, many wonderful turns of phrase that makes spending time with Stephen such a lovely experience.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Happy Place, the podcast where I, Fern Cotton, have open and |
| 0:07.0 | honest conversations about mental health and all sorts of other things. This |
| 0:11.9 | week I'm so pleased to tell you that the magnificent Stephen Fry talks to me |
| 0:18.1 | during this episode. Now you may have heard that Stephen has been ill, he announced on |
| 0:23.0 | Twitter back in March that he has prostate cancer. We actually recorded this |
| 0:28.4 | piece the day before his announcement so I had no idea but we wish him a very |
| 0:33.4 | restful and speedy recovery. What we do talk about is Stephen's work for mind |
| 0:39.4 | the mental health charity which he's been president of for years. It's just |
| 0:44.1 | such a wonderful conversation full of optimism and some great ideas for how to |
| 0:48.8 | help build your own happy place. There's also a danger because I do live with |
| 0:54.0 | this condition that I'm not going to give myself that it's cured because it isn't |
| 0:56.8 | that if I keep picking at the scab it's not going to be good for me it's going to be |
| 1:01.4 | good for my mental health. |
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