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Movers and Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's
Podot
4.7 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Travelling with Parkinson's shouldn't be a nightmare – but often it is. From long lines at the airport to the constant battle for a seat on the Tube, how can people with Parkinson's navigate the frenetic world of travel? On this episode, the Movers and Shakers gather at the pub to consider their experiences – good and bad – and whether there's the chance to reinvent the way that companies and the public think about disabled people travelling. We also speak to a top travel expert, and a former Home Secretary, about the changes needed to make the world of travel a more accommodating place.
Don't forget to sign the Parky Charter petition by going to ParkyPetition.com!
Sponsored by Boardwave, who support Cure Parkinson's.
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Podo. |
| 0:02.0 | You're listening to Movers and Shakers, a podcast about living with Parkinson's. |
| 0:12.0 | The show is generously sponsored by Boardwave, an exclusive European networking community for software founders and CEOs. |
| 0:19.0 | Boardwave is a passionate supporter of Cure Parkinson's. |
| 0:22.9 | For more details on the charity's progress around research and its fundraising, please visit |
| 0:27.8 | cureparkinsons.org.org.com.com. Hello and welcome to another episode of Movers and Shakers, the award-winning podcast about living with Parkinson's. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm Mark Mardell. |
| 0:42.7 | And I'm Gillian Lacey Solomon. |
| 0:44.6 | The subject today is travel, which we all know is supposed to broaden the mind. |
| 0:48.4 | But given the difficulties many of us have travelling with PD, often the very thought of travel has the opposite effect, shrinking your horizon. |
| 0:57.0 | And for us, so often a discussion about travel is actually about the inability to travel. |
| 1:01.2 | Access denied, if you like. |
| 1:02.8 | And that happens to be the title of a scathing report from the cross-party transport committee |
| 1:06.4 | published recently in March, which said, |
| 1:08.9 | Accessibility urgently needs to be recognised as an issue of human rights and protection |
| 1:12.9 | from discrimination, not as an optional customer service matter. |
| 1:16.7 | And a change of mindset at all levels, the system is urgently needed to achieve this. |
| 1:21.0 | So hold very tight, please, ding, ding. |
| 1:23.6 | And mind the gap. |
| 1:25.8 | So before we will get on board for the subject, let's see who's here. |
| 1:29.9 | Nicholas Mostyn, and I've travelled here on my bicycle. |
| 1:32.3 | Excellent. |
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