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Welcome to our blog! Each week a new episode is released we upload a new episode page, as well as a host of other exciting posts. Here you can find guest blog posts, extra information about the Charter, Gillian's "Poetry Corner" - where you can find all of Gillian's spectacular poetry, plus one or two from our special guests - and "Mark's Musings, to get Mark's personal thoughts on the matter in question.


Parky Profiles: Dame Susie Sainsbury
For the second instalment of our summer series profiling extraordinary people with Parkinson's, the gang are joined in the Notting Hill...
Guest Writer
Jun 14, 20241 min read


Parky Profiles: Colonel Guy Deacon
This week we're kicking off our summer mini-series, profiling top Parkies who are leading extraordinary lives despite – or because of –...
Guest Writer
Jun 8, 20243 min read


A Parky Charter Update...
By Mark Mardell Our Parky Charter seems to be a raging success, but we still need your help to turn wishes and promises into cold hard...
Mark Mardell
Jun 2, 20248 min read


Cell Therapy
From levodopa to Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) we're all pretty familiar with the treatments for Parkinson's. But could there be...
Mark Mardell
Apr 27, 20244 min read


What Causes Parkinson's?
What causes Parkinson's? This is one of the trickiest questions facing researchers and doctors – not to mention patients – and it's the...
Guest Writer
Apr 20, 20246 min read


The Movers & Shakers take Downing Street!
This week we have a very special episode of Movers and Shakers: live from Downing Street! On World Parkinson's Day, the Movers and...
Mark Mardell
Apr 13, 20245 min read


Parkinson's on the Screen
From Love and Other Drugs to Shrinking, Curb Your Enthusiasm to Emmerdale, Parkinson's only occasionally makes it to screens (big or...
Gillian Lacey-Solymar
Apr 6, 20243 min read


Medicine in Hospital
What times do you take your Parkinson's medication? Some people are regular as clockwork – morning, lunchtime, evening – while others...
Mark Mardell
Mar 30, 20245 min read


Parkinson’s Nursing Service: Addenbrookes Hospital
A note from Nicola McQueen "We hope by sharing this information it can inspire other centres across the UK to invest in services like...
Guest Writer
Mar 30, 20244 min read


Make them comfortable: every person counts
By Jan Sargeant Jan Sargeant has been actively working to support people with Parkinson’s in a variety of ways since her diagnosis in May...
Guest Writer
Mar 30, 20244 min read


Do you like cricket and live in Kent? Coming this April 2024
Cricket For All have funding from Sport England to deliver cricket for adults in Kent who live with Parkinson's, MS and similar...
Guest Writer
Mar 27, 20241 min read


The Benefits System
The benefits system can feel, at times, like an unnavigable maze, especially for people with Parkinson's whose conditions are so varied...
Mark Mardell
Mar 23, 20242 min read


WINNER FOR PODCAST OF THE YEAR!
Big news, breaking news: we’ve won the Podcast of the year award from the Broadcasting Press Guild against stiff competition. And it is...
Guest Writer
Mar 21, 20241 min read


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Sir Nicholas Mostyn
Mar 20, 20241 min read


Palliative Care
Palliative care: two words that strike fear into most people. But are we thinking about palliative care all wrong? On this week's episode...
Guest Writer
Mar 16, 20242 min read


Support our Parky Charter
Here's our Charter - ‘ The Parky Charter’ - describing five things that people with Parkinson’s need from the government but are not...
Guest Writer
Mar 12, 20241 min read


Tech Again
Due to a failure of imagination within the Movers & Shakers team, we've somehow allowed Rory to do a second episode all about Parkinson's...
Rory Cellan-Jones
Mar 9, 20244 min read


World Parkinson's Day 2024
The Movers & Shakers support Parkinson's UK in shining a light on all the different faces of Parkinson's. As part of their campaign...
Guest Writer
Mar 7, 20241 min read


Poetry Corner
A Little List (for singing when chained to the railings of Downing Street) As some day it may happen to you or even me I've got a little...
Gillian Lacey-Solymar
Mar 6, 20242 min read


Cognitive Decline
The Movers and Shakers are back in the pub and this week they're staring fear square in the eyes, and talking about a major fear:...
Mark Mardell
Mar 2, 20245 min read
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