The podcast, drily titled Movers And Shakers, is informative and entertaining on a little-understood condition ✒️ This is public service content of evident quality, writes iburrell
The final member of the core presenting team is Sir Nicholas Mostyn, an extremely engaging High Court judge. Sir Nick’s presence on the podcast have been permitted by the Lord Chief Justice, making him the only serving judge allowed to speak in the media about a subject other than the law. He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2020 and will retire from the bench in the summer.
“What we are doing is fighting back by trying to talk about Parkinson’s while we still can,” Mayhew-Archer tells listeners. He is an irrepressibly funny man. When told that his frozen facial muscles were a sign of the condition, he told his neurologist it was “hard to smile” when “you just told me I’ve got Parkinson’s”.
Unlike some other contributors to this pub-based podcast, he is invariably glass half empty. “I can see nothing good about it,” he says. “I am a gloomy bugger, I accept that!” The formerpresenter realised he had a problem because “I just kept falling over all the time”. A viewer ofThe Movers team have had widely varying experiences with treatments that include dopamine-increasing medication and electrode-generated brain stimulation.
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