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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.


Gillian's Mnemonic
CARPE DIEM (NUNC) C - Cure The State will provide not less than £x p.a. for research into a cure (we need to come up with a figure based...
Gillian Lacey-Solymar
Dec 17, 20232 min read


The Charter
Each week Rory Cellan-Jones guides us between the laughs and moans in the pub. Here is Rory's summary of this week's episode. Should our...
Mark Mardell
Dec 16, 20236 min read


Creativity
Each week Rory Cellan-Jones guides us between the laughs and moans in the pub. Here is Rory's summary of this week's episode. We are now...
Gillian Lacey-Solymar
Dec 2, 20237 min read


Paul's DBS Diary: Part One
(Deep Brain Stimulation) This week we have a special edition of the podcast with an update on the big adventure our dear colleague Paul...
Paul Mayhew-Archer
Nov 11, 20232 min read


Diet
Each week Rory Cellan-Jones guides us between the laughs and moans in the pub. Here is Rory's summary of this week's episode. After last...
Rory Cellan-Jones
Nov 4, 20236 min read


Partners
Each week Rory Cellan-Jones guides us between the laughs and moans in the pub. Here is Rory's summary of this week's episode. This week’s...
Rory Cellan-Jones
Oct 27, 20234 min read


Vin Ray, former Head of International News at the BBC
Vin Ray is the former Head of International News at the BBC. His teams won BAFTA awards, RTS awards, Emmy awards and many more. He gave...
Guest Writer
Oct 15, 20239 min read


Tim Grover, Speech & Language Therapist
Tim qualified as a Speech and Language Therapist in 2004 from University College London attaining a BSc in Speech Sciences, he later...
Guest Writer
Oct 15, 20234 min read


Voice
This week’s episode of the hit podcast about living with Parkinson’s is all about one symptom of the condition that I would bet few members
Mark Mardell
Oct 14, 202311 min read


Pharmacists and their role in supporting patients with Parkinson's
By Stephanie Bancroft BSc MRPharmS, PDSPN Chair Parkinson's Disease (PD) in the UK and the role of pharmacists in supporting patients In...
Guest Writer
May 14, 20233 min read


Medicine
Each week Rory Cellan-Jones guides us between the laughs and moans in the pub. Here is Rory's summary of this week's episode. This week’s...
Rory Cellan-Jones
May 13, 20234 min read


Exercise
Each week Rory Cellan-Jones guides us between the laughs and moans in the pub. Here is Rory's summary of this week's episode. This week’s...
Mark Mardell
Apr 29, 202311 min read


Deep Brain Stimulation
The Movers and Shakers are back in the Notting Hill pub, and this week they're joined by an illustrious guest. Professor Ludvic Zrinzo is...
Rory Cellan-Jones
Apr 22, 20233 min read


Poetry Corner
Life Sentence “Squeeze and stretch” So says the wretched trainer on TV Look at me, just look at me He clenches muscles silently Easily...
Gillian Lacey-Solymar
Apr 9, 20231 min read


Episode One: Who are the Movers and Shakers?
In a quiet back corner of a pub in leafy Notting Hill, six friends share a drink and their experiences of life. They are the "Movers and...
Guest Writer
Mar 18, 20231 min read
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