The Benefits System

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

🗓️ 23 March 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The benefits system can feel, at times, like an unnavigable maze, especially for people with Parkinson's whose conditions are so varied and fluctuate so regularly. On today's episode of Movers & Shakers, the gang gather in the pub to try and put the benefits system on trial (at least, that's what The Judge does). From PIP payments to Universal Credit, how much support is there really for people struggling financial under the pressures of Parkinson's? And does the system, at present, do enough to maintain the dignity of people forced to engage with it?

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.

Additional production by Ewan Cameron.

Music by Alex Stobbs.

Artwork by Till Lukat.

PR by Sally Jones.

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0:00.0	Well, hello from the Movers and Shakers team. We're starting this week with some breaking news.
0:05.2	This is Rory Catherine Jones. We're not in the pub. Where are we, Jillian and what's up?
0:10.0	This is amazing, amazing.
0:13.0	We have just one podcast of the year from the British Press Guild.
0:18.0	The Broadcasting Press Guild.
0:19.0	Broadcasting Press Guild.
0:20.0	Broadcasting Press Guild would be even better if I got it right, wouldn't it?
0:22.0	Well, we've all had a bit to drink. We have got around there. cut in Preska, would be even better if I got it right, wouldn't it?
0:22.6	Well, we've all had a bit to drink.
0:23.7	We have a court wrong.
0:24.7	I have to have to have to.
0:25.7	I have that very much to drink.
0:26.7	God, you can have.
0:27.7	As ever, the judge is interrupting.
0:29.7	We're going to hear a bit of the judge's speech which was mercifully short and then we get
0:33.7	reactions from the team. When I first floated the idea of a podcast you Rory
0:37.7	asked why would anyone want to listen to some decrepit old relics talking about living with Parkinson's.
0:44.8	And you, Jeremy replied, because they might fucking well get it.
0:48.3	Well, I'm absolutely thrilled.
0:50.5	I'm actually even more thrilled that I managed to make it to the stage from this far away.
0:54.8	It was absolutely marvelous and it was very different to the legal world in which I
0:59.6	normally inhabit. We were absolutely astonished. I had taken seriously all the letters that Rory
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