World Parkinson's Day 2026: Speak Out!
Movers and Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's
Podot
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
This year for our special World Parkinson's Day episode, we're coming to you live from Sutton (Mark's local branch) where they've arranged a day of amazing events to raise awareness of PD, with a particular focus. The voice will be our big campaign for 2026 and we're encouraging everyone to speak out (or sing out, if the desire takes you). Go to moversandshakerspodcast.com for more details on how to get involved!
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.
Sound mixing by Ewan Cameron.
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. |
| 0:10.0 | The show is sponsored by Cure Parkinson's, whose urgent and only goal is to find a cure, |
| 0:15.0 | 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 |
| 0:27.9 | cureparkinsons.org.uk. |
| 0:35.1 | Hello and welcome to another edition of the award-winning podcast. |
| 0:39.5 | Movers and shakers about life with Parkinson's. |
| 0:41.8 | For once we're not in the pub. |
| 0:43.1 | We're in the London Borough of Sutton. |
| 0:45.4 | Why? |
| 0:46.2 | Because we've been invited here. |
| 0:47.8 | And it's World Parkinson's Day. |
| 0:49.4 | It's a tremendous setup. |
| 0:50.7 | We've got a lot of people here. |
| 0:52.0 | There are many stalls. |
| 0:53.0 | Parkinson's UK are here in force. And World Parkinson's Day is being marked in a very significant way in my opinion. Exactly. We were invited here. We were absolutely honoured. We know the importance of local groups and we've got some exciting news which we'll come back to later. But first I think we're're going to hear a bit of singing. Is that right, Mark? |
| 1:12.4 | Yeah, we're going up to the High Street and sing for Sutton are trying to entice people here |
| 1:15.2 | to see the Tai Chi demonstration, which my wife will be part of. |
| 1:43.3 | Music My own Some times in our lives, we all have pain, we all have sorrow. My name's Sharon Bell |
| 1:46.8 | Helen |
| 1:47.4 | We've been singing with Sing Out Saturn |
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