Voice
Movers and Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's
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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Movers and Shakers are back in the Notting Hill pub and this time they're discussing something close to the hearts of broadcasters, comedians and barristers alike: the human voice. The impact of Parkinson's – and its treatments – on the voice is well established, but what can be done to mitigate these issues? And how can we avoid allowing communication to dry up entirely in the fact of increased pressures and difficulties? Well, the gang have roped in an expert speech therapist to walk them through a variety of exercises (that you can join in with at home – just try not to wake the neighbours). And we've got testimony from outside the group about the impacts of a diminished voice, and how best to keep the vocal chords up to scratch.
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 Josh Munday.
Additional editing by Ewan Cameron.
Music by Alex Stobbs.
Artwork by Till Lukat.
PR by Sally Jones.
Movers and Shakers is generously sponsored by Boardwave, high powered Executive networking programme for European Software CEO, Non-Exec Directors, Chairs and their Investors. They are keen supporters of Cure Parkinson's. To find out more, visit https://cureparkinsons.org.uk/
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| 0:00.0 | 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 |
| 0:15.3 | European networking community for software CEOs. Boardwave is a passionate supporter of |
| 0:21.4 | Cure Parkinson's. |
| 0:23.0 | For more details on the charity's progress around research and its fundraising, |
| 0:27.0 | please visit Cure Parkinson's.org. |
| 0:30.0 | UK. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello once more from us movers and shakers. We're in the pub again having a bit of a chat, a bit of a moan, bit of a laugh too. |
| 0:41.0 | Laughter comes as easily as it ever did but the chatting is much harder for me and even |
| 0:46.2 | my ordinary conversation sounds like moaning to my own ears distinctly querulous and |
| 0:50.5 | pathetic. I'm Mark Mardel. Sometimes I feel like saying, Q Verlins. I used to be, Mark |
| 0:56.3 | my darling. But the Republican candidate is learning the hard way that scornfully |
| 1:00.6 | dismissing voters on the other side of the divide isn't particularly good politics. scorn Who are you? So this episode on Voice is very personal for me and for |
| 1:16.2 | Julian too. Yeah I mean my voice is rather different from yours isn't that yours is |
| 1:20.8 | consistently lower than it was, isn't it? |
| 1:23.0 | And mine just comes and goes. |
| 1:26.0 | There are times when it goes entirely, |
| 1:28.0 | and I can't articulate a word, |
| 1:30.0 | and people have to guess what I'm saying. |
| 1:32.0 | I can literally only talk with my eyes which is very |
| 1:35.3 | very disconcerting. But what eyes? Oh aren't she lovely? But nobody understands a word. That's not quite true my daughters do and my husband |
| 1:44.1 | doesn't. So I look at something which means please give me that look there that |
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