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

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

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Movers and Shakers finds six friends – Rory Cellan-Jones, Gillian Lacey-Solymar, Mark Mardell, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Sir Nicholas Mostyn, and Jeremy Paxman – gathered in a Notting Hill pub to discuss the realities of life with Parkinson's. And maybe find a few silver linings!

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Episodes
  • Try-Athlon 2026
    May 16 2026

    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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    18 mins
  • World Parkinson's Day 2026: Speak Out!
    Apr 12 2026

    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.

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

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    13 mins
  • Positivity
    Mar 21 2026

    For the final episode of this seventh season of Movers and Shakers, we're looking on the bright side of life. Can positivity actually improve your condition? Or does it mask the hardship of life with PD? And what on earth is 'toxic positivity'? To discuss all this – and put the gang on a spectrum from Tigger to Eeyore – we've gathered at the Notting Hill pub for "a laugh and a moan".


    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.

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

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    21 mins
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As usual, well formatted easy to listen to podcast. Certainly should not be missed.

Great insights into DBS with leading neurosurgeon

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Good pod cast. covered a wide range of topic ŵell presented an informative range of topic

PK very good thanks

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I have listened to every episode of this most fantastic podcast and have told many friends, both, who have and also those who do not have PD. The weekly programmes are, I think, an absolute MUST for everyone, particularly the ‘older’ generation so that we can all have an insight into this horrid ‘condition’. Thank you all of you for your wonderfully open discussion, your thoughts, your advice, your own stories and also for getting together every week to put this podcast together. I do not have PD and am now so much more aware the many different aspects of it. Thank you. Hilly Ward

SUCH a good podcast

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In a nutshell this is excellent podcast from a bunch of reprobates talking about Parkinsons disease and the subtext is to de-grimify the condition. Thoroughly recommended for Parkinsons patients and their families.

Very welcome, interesting and informative Podcast

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Great panel and podcast idea. Humour, occasional belligerence, honesty and insight. Neurologists will likely prescribe it next in the letter when they inevitably cancel our next appointment. Pah.

Brilliant to hear all the different experiences - we'd never heard of the brain implant. Particularly liked Mark's openness when interviewed on R4 trailer interview about how he felt his voice now made him sound "querulous and a bit pathetic". Dad used to be a choral and opera singer/conductor and his speaking voice is now tremulous at times but he can still sing at his almost former best. Cruel disease when you're aware of it reducing you.

My Dad has Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) - very similar to Parkinson's but with a tendency to fall backwards rather than forwards. (As a result, I walk behind him with due deference rather than walking backwards in front of him ;-) Small mercies.

Thanks again - it cheered us both up. Dad's now re-listening as he forgot most of it (!) but when I asked for his assessment he smiled and said "brilliant". What more could a podcast hope to achieve?

Fantastic.

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