What Causes Depression?
Movers and Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's
Podot
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
We try not to shy away from the less cheerful topics here on Movers & Shakers, and this week we're once again looking at depression. We're joined in the pub by a top expert – Professor Dag Aarsland – to look at how depression affects Parkies, whether there's something specific about the condition that causes it, and what responses are available. As ever, this is a candid chat that gets to the heart of a matter which is too often left silent.
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Sponsored by Albion Chambers.
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 | I know we're very demanding and every week just about at the moment I'm asking you to do something |
| 0:07.6 | that actually it's the same thing every week. Please do write to your MP. Remember if you signed |
| 0:13.1 | that petition that means that you helped us to get the debate in the House of Commons and that |
| 0:19.6 | will be on the 17th of November, very, very soon, |
| 0:22.9 | and MPs really know so little about Parkinson's, so please tell them about your Parkinson's |
| 0:27.5 | and give them a reason to come to the debate. |
| 0:30.2 | If they care about it, it's much more likely that the Parkey Charter will be adopted. |
| 0:34.3 | All you do is go to parkeypetition.com, put in your details, and it will |
| 0:38.2 | ping you back something, which has the name of your MP, readily filled in already. Thanks. |
| 0:48.6 | You're listening to Movers and Shakers, a podcast about living with Parkinson's. The show is |
| 0:53.8 | generously sponsored by Albion Chambers Bristol, |
| 0:56.7 | a preeminent set of barristers specialising in providing the highest quality legal advice and representation in criminal, family, inquest and regulatory law. |
| 1:08.8 | Welcome to another episode of the brilliant, awardwinning podcast, Movers and Shakers. |
| 1:15.7 | We're here in the pub, gathered here in the pub for a laugh and possibly for a moan. |
| 1:20.8 | Let's see who's here. I'm Nicholas Mawston. |
| 1:22.6 | I'm Paul Mayhew Archer. |
| 1:24.1 | I'm Mark Maudel. |
| 1:25.3 | I'm Gillian Nacy Solomon. |
| 1:27.0 | And I'm Rory Kettlin Jones. Well, we're all appearing a bit cheery, bearing in mind the subject of today's discussion, which is depression. Oh, dear. It's about Parkinson's disease and depression. Whose idea was this? It was my idea, because I maintain that we'd not discussed this before, which wasn't completely accurate. |
| 1:44.8 | But then, of course, forgetfulness is another symptom of biomedicers. |
| 1:48.2 | We discussed this more than two years ago in May 2023, when our guest was neuropsychologist Dr. Jennifer Foley, and it was a very interesting episode. |
| 1:57.3 | So good that we're going to do it twice. |
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