Movers and Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's

This week we're offering listeners a bit of a 'potpourri' episode, featuring updates from each of us, as well as our loyal Northern Correspondent, Christopher Lambton. We're focussing on drinking, drugs and genes, asking the questions we all want answers to: Does drinking actually make our Parkinson's worse? What new developments are there in the field of drugs trials? And could gene-oriented treatments pave the way for a cure? Well, there's good news and bad news..

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 & Ewan Cameron

Music by Alex Stobbs

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Do you have brittle bones? This week we're talking about osteoporosis, the health condition that weakens bones and makes sufferers more prone to breaks. We've all got our own experiences to share, but to give us expert information on the topic, we're joined by endocrinologist, Dr Mark Vanderpump. We also hear from Gillian's first female Ping Pong partner, Pauline Jones, who, when we spoke to her, was expecting to undergo an amputation due crumbling bones in her foot. That may all sound pretty depressing, but there is an optimistic end to this episode, we promise..

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 & Ewan Cameron

Music by Alex Stobbs

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Voice Messages - that's the name of our upcoming webinar series. Why did we give it that name? Well, this year we're campaigning for the Parky Voice, the lesser known symptom of Parkinson's disease that up to 90% of us living with PD suffer from! We've got several strands to our campaign, including our YouTube channel (linked below), which features fantastic videos sent in by you using your Parky voices; we've got our webinar series all about the symptom and how to get support; and we have a surprise coming very soon! Stay tuned for more.

https://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 & Ewan Cameron

Music by Alex Stobbs

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Do we stoop? Does our facial expression change? Do we sound different? And if we do do any of those things, have we, ourselves, even realised? We spoke to four(!) experts to find out more about perception, including physiotherapist and academic, Dr Julie Jones; Mark's speech and language therapist, Dr Elina Tripoliti; neurologist, Ed Newman; and fan of the show and Parkinson's advocate, Dorothy Salathiel. Our takeaway from this episode? We must exercise more and sing often!

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 & Ewan Cameron

Music by Alex Stobbs

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Movers & Shakers are back for another season of informative, inspiring and possibly even entertaining conversations. To kick off season 9, we're speaking to three Parky authors, who have written about... Parkinson's! Miller Caldwell, David Blacker and Jodie Forbes joined us to talk about their writing, of course, why we write, and how creativity can come to us when we least expect it.

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

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Parky Profiles, we're speaking to Andy Cassy, friend of the podcast, fellow Parky ping-pong player, and the only Brit to take part in what has been described as 'a landmark first-in-human clinical trial' in the search for a Parkinson's cure. Andy underwent stem cell surgery in 2024 as part of said trial, organised by one of our other Parky Profile guests, Professor Roger Barker. We spoke to Andy then, and got back in touch recently to see how his view on his experience may have changed. While the dopamine-replacement surgery is not the 'holy grail', he says, it seems to have reduced our guest's symptoms somewhat. Andy shares with us why his surgery was so good - and perhaps what ground is yet to be covered.

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 and Sir Nicholas Mostyn

Produced by Lulu Goad and Ewan Cameron for Podot

Music by Alex Stobbs

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Parky Profiles, we're speaking to Christopher Lambton, a former voice of the BBC. One of our most dedicated fans, Christopher has listened to every Movers & Shakers episode, and, having found our conversations of good use (his words), wanted to get involved himself. After bumping into Gillian somewhere in and amongst the Edinburgh Fringe throng, he proposed himself a Northern Correspondent, to share with us a miraculous story about the Scottish-based Professor, Stephen Wallace, who has succeeded in making Levodopa out of recycled plastic.

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 and Sir Nicholas Mostyn

Produced by Lulu Goad and Ewan Cameron for Podot

Music by Alex Stobbs

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This month we’re interviewing a handful of fascinating people as part of our summer ‘Parky Profiles’ series.

The Parky author, adventurer and cyclist, Lloyd Taylor joins us this week to talk about the journey to writing his best-selling book 'The Kindness of Strangers'. When Lloyd was diagnosed with Parkinson's, he had trouble sharing his news with others. But then, he was invited to join a cycle ride to raise awareness for the disease, having never really been a cyclist before, which resulted in him joining a 60-day relay across Canada and talking about being a Parky every day. He writes about this adventure and what he learnt from it in his book, and gives us a taste of it all in our conversation.

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 and Sir Nicholas Mostyn

Produced by Lulu Goad and Ewan Cameron for Podot

Music by Alex Stobbs

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This month we’re interviewing a handful of fascinating people as part of our summer ‘Parky Profiles’ series.

This week we're joined by renowned academic and researcher, Roger Barker. Roger is professor of clinical neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and a consultant neurologist at the Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Not only is our guest well known for his groundbreaking research into the use of foetal and stem cell transplants to treat Parkinson's, he is also one of the drivers and creators of the lauded World Parkinson's Congress, which we went along to in Phoenix, Arizona, earlier this year.

We wanted to know how Roger came to study medicine, tackle neuroscience and become one of the UK's leading academics in the search for a Parkinson's cure. We also made sure to get his thoughts on the WPC, particularly after one controversial debate..

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 and Sir Nicholas Mostyn

Produced and edited by Ewan Cameron for Podot

Associate Producer: Lulu Goad

Music by Alex Stobbs

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This month we’re interviewing a handful of fascinating people as part of our summer ‘Parky Profiles’ series.

It’s hard to ignore the activities of The Michael J. Fox Foundation. Since its founding in 2000, it has raised over $3 billion in the hunt for a Parkinson's cure. It's the largest non-profit funder of research in to the disease.

We’ve all heard of its founder and namesake, but who is the head honcho making the everyday decisions? We managed to pin down the incredibly busy Deborah Brooks, CEO and co-founder of the foundation. We chat to her about her journey from the world of finance to non-profit and what her dreams are for the MJFF. 

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 and Sir Nicholas Mostyn

Produced and edited by Ewan Cameron for Podot

Associate Producer: Lulu Goad

Music by Alex Stobbs

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.