Try-Athlon 2026
Movers and Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's
Podot
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🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
To kick off our eighth season of Movers & Shakers, we're reporting to you from this year's Try-Athlon at the Twickenham Stoop. Organised by the Sports Parkinson's team, the annual event gathers together Parkies from far and wide to partake in a range of Parkinson's-friendly sports, from golf, to walking rugby, and even ballet (which one of our team members had a crack at!). We all put our trainers on, got moving, and recounted for this episode what we got up to. And a reminder that we've launched our campaign on the voice. Please send us your videos raising your Parky voice. Find out how to submit a clip on our website moversandshakerspodcast.com or check out previous submissions on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@TheParkyVoice.
Movers & Shakers is brought to you in partnership with 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.
Associate Producer: Lulu Goad
Music by Alex Stobbs.
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| 0:00.0 | Pod-O |
| 0:02.0 | You're listening to Movers and Shakers, a podcast about living with Parkinson's. |
| 0:10.4 | The show is sponsored by Cure Parkinson's, whose urgent and only goal is to find a cure, |
| 0:15.8 | and funded by Bordwave, a networking community for technology leaders and a passionate supporter of Cure Parkinson's. |
| 0:23.0 | For more details on the charity's progress around research and its fundraising, please visit |
| 0:28.0 | cureparkinsons.org.uk.uk. |
| 0:36.0 | Well, welcome to a brand new series of The Hit Podcast Movers and Shakers. |
| 0:41.6 | We come to you this week from an outside broadcast venue, the Stoop Rugby Ground in Twickenham. |
| 0:50.4 | Before we explain why we're here, let's find out who's here. |
| 0:54.3 | Mark Madel. |
| 0:55.7 | Nicholas Mostyn. |
| 0:56.8 | Gillian Lacey Solomon. |
| 0:58.3 | And Rory Catlin Jones. |
| 1:00.1 | Yeah, we are at the Triathlon, where people from all over the country come to try out various sports that will help them through their Parkinson's. |
| 1:10.0 | We've already run into loads of people we know. The whole Parkinson's community is here, isn't it? It is. And we've started with a warm-up. We would all been out on the pitch, jumping around and waving a leg, and trying to look fit and eager. A-Zam, not all of us were able to do that. I'm going to come in with my little sob story now, |
| 1:32.9 | just because I think it's illustrative. When I came in here, ready to go, mentally ready to go. |
| 1:38.5 | Physically, I just couldn't move a limb and had to totter with my little geisha steps to a chair and sit there while everyone else was warming up. But I am coming back to life bit by bit, |
| 1:43.2 | so back to Rory. |
| 1:50.8 | I've just seen you playing ping pong and you looked very adept and live and physically fit there. So I was really impressed because I'm feeling a bit sluggish myself. The judge, as ever, |
| 1:55.6 | was getting on down. It wasn't Taylor Swift, was it, Judge? But... No, it wasn't, I mean, |
| 2:19.2 | we're all discussing our position. I'm feeling okay, but um, as you can see, there's a bit of, you can't see because you're listening, but the tremor is coming back because I mean, I'm in a slightly, we're going to be discussing this on a later podcast. I'm being titrated off the agonist at the moment and with the result that the drummer's coming back. So anyhow, this is going to be a great day. |
| 2:23.2 | I've met so many familiar faces, and everybody's approaching it with a really positive attitude, |
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