The Bay Health Festivals Podcasts

Ian Dewar explores the financial benefits of a healthy Bay for healthy Bay business. Podcasts | The Bay Health Festivals

How do you deal with grief in the abnormal world of a pandemic, especially when that grief become a focus for the wider public? Podcasts | The Bay Health Festivals

Can a four-day week really work when it comes to business? Jayne Moorby of Oxley Developments think it can.   The latest edition of The Bay Health Festival’s podcast is out now and considers the impact looking after employee health and wellbeing has and why employees should not be afraid to ask to make changes to achieve a better work/life balance.  Podcasts | The Bay Health Festivals

Would you believe the power of dandelions?  Whet your appetite with this taster and see if you fancy more. Podcasts | The Bay Health Festivals

Can making health more accessible change lives?  Could it change the lives of your employees? Podcasts | The Bay Health Festivals

A sample to whet your appetite and find out important health is to the Bay. Podcasts | The Bay Health Festivals

Nigel Thompson explores how to look after our mental health in January with the help of Gemma Wright, Practice Development Nurse, Professional Nurse Advocate. Podcasts | The Bay Health Festivals

Every business exists to improve its bottom line.  Traditionally that's been seen as an accounting and economic function.  But what if you could improve the productivity of your business, manage your costs better and sustain your future by investing in the health and wellbeing of your employees?  Ian Dewar, founder of the Bay Health Festivals and co-presenter of 'When Life Gives you Lemo...

Sir Trevor Phillips, the former head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and now a Sky News broadcaster, gave a public lecture at the first edition of Bay Health Festivals. In this two-part interview, recorded in September 2020, he discusses various aspects of health with University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust's Lead Chaplain Rev Ian Dewar. In part two, he considers how the w...

Sir Trevor Phillips, the former head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and now a Sky News broadcaster, gave a public lecture at the first edition of Bay Health Festivals. In this two-part interview, recorded in September 2020, he discusses various aspects of health with University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust's Lead Chaplain Rev Ian Dewar. In part one, he talks about his upb...

The Rev Ian Dewar talks to Lancaster garden designer Jennifer Lauruol to explore the idea of growing your own medicine. Jennifer, who died in 2023, had decades of experience as a gardener, including gardening for wildlife, habitat conservation, growing medicinal and culinary herbs, designing sensory and therapeutic gardens, and working in a biodynamic market garden. Her work was featured in The Gu...

From his attic studio overlooking Lancaster, a specialist artist is producing work that has helped us all. From the simple to the complex; from information leaflets to cutting edge research, Philip Ferguson Jones has over 20 years’ experience as a medical artist. Medical art can help break down complex medical concepts and provide an easy and engaging way to learn. Philip’s now a leading figure in...

We’ve just experienced the highs of the festive season and for many January is a tough month to get through. Dark days, bills to pay – it can feel like the winter month lasts a lot longer than others! A drop in temperature can affect how you feel in the winter. If you find the colder months hard on your mental health, it’s a good idea to think about simple ways you can help look after your health...

As many gardens and allotments are put to bed for the winter a group in Barrow are busy planning how to make the most of their land next year. Mind in Furness are cultivating a disused allotment in Vickerstown. The aim is for it to not only produce fresh fruit and veg for the area but also offer care for those whose mental health needs nurturing. As the Bay Health Festivals Nigel Thompson reports...

At the end of January 2020 Covid 19 arrived on our shores.  It took us by surprise, even though we knew that we were long overdue a pandemic.  Only 3 years ago, and yet it seems a long way away.  But perhaps, like the death of a loved one, moments that seem a long way away suddenly become immediate once more, as if they have just happened  That is why acts of remembrance are so important, they giv...

Professor Adam Taylor, from Lancaster University, delivers a demonstration of anatomy and discusses its implications for healthcare with a group of invited 6th form pupils. For more on anatomy and its contribution to science and health, see our book review: The Butchering Art by Lindsay Fitzharris, thebayhealthfestivals.org.uk Podcasts | The Bay Health Festivals

Nigel Thompson visits the 2023 Bay Health Festivals events in Lancaster and Kendal to learn more about the ways we inspire people to live healthier lives and connect the organisations working to improve public health in north Lancashire and south Cumbria.  Podcasts | The Bay Health Festivals

How powerful is your mind?  Is your mind in prison or free?  What simple changes could be made that might make you a new person or build a new community?  In this fascinating interview, neuroscientist Ian Robetson gives us an insight in to where the research is taking us.  For a full bio of Ian https://ianrobertson.org/ Podcasts | The Bay Health Festivals

Want to know what we are all about?  Nigel Thompson from Morecambe Bay Podcasts talks to the founder of Bay Health Festivals, Ian Dewar, and asks; what is The Lost Art of Living and why is it so important for living in the future? Podcasts | The Bay Health Festivals