Emotionally Speaking

Roxanna Panufnik is a renowned classical composer. Initially studying at the Royal Academy of Music in 1980s, Roxanna has written everything from opera to choral works, ballet to chamber compositions. In 2023, she was one of 12 composers asked to compose a new work for the coronation of King Charles III and Camilla. In 2024, Roxanna was awarded the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Work...

Professor Nick Maynard is a leading consultant Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon specialising in the treatment of Upper GI conditions and has extensive experience and expertise in cancer and keyhole surgeries. Since 2010, Nick has also been visiting Gaza, initially as a teacher, leading teams out of Oxford to teach medical students and doctors. More recently, Nick has been going out with the British...

Ensuring that we remain healthy and happy in the workplace is vital. Gethin Nadin knows this better than most. Award winning psychologist, author and HR wiz and a Fellow at King’s College London, King’s Business School., Gethin has helped some of the world's biggest organisations to recognise and enhance their employees' wellbeing. In 2023 Gethin was named Mental Health campaigner of the Year at t...

Sarah Standing got an early start as a journalist when she won the Vogue Young Writers competition at the age of 14. Sarah continued to write over the next 40 years for publications including GQ, The Telegraph, Tatler, and The Spectator. During the pandemic, Sarah was unexpectedly diagnosed with non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, which meant she had to undergo chemotherapy during lockdown. Sarah subsequently...

Marchelle is a consultant psychiatrist and psychotherapist and is deeply curious about the relationships between our external landscapes and internal ones, the patterns that are re-enacted in the human relationship with the land, and how they might be changed. Here Peter chats through the joy and grounding that her garden in Somerset has provided for her and her family. Hosted on Acast. See acast....

Spring is finally on its way! Peter and Sally reflect on the joy that this can bring. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Peter and Sally share how a moment of empathy can really help! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Peter and Sally chat through The Royal Foundation for Early Childhood’s new Shaping Us Framework. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Peter and Sally share a moment on their thoughts on the start of a new year and January. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Peter and Sally share a moment on their thoughts on Christmas and December. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Peter and Sally share a moment on their thoughts on November. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Parenting is one of life’s roller coaster journeys; from the highs of precious moments and loving family rituals, to the lows of tested patience and frazzled nerves, it can bring out the best and worst in us. In this episode, broadcaster, writer and children’s therapist, Kate Silverton shares how bringing an understanding of neuroscience can help tame our emotional reactions to bring more empathy...

Professor Sir Andrew Pollard is a world-renowned expert in paediatrics and immunology. From early 2020 he played a leading role in the effort to find a vaccine for the coronavirus. Along with his colleagues at Oxford University, he led the roll out of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. Andrew tells Peter Leonard about dealing with the stresses of leading such an important project and how he coped doi...

Writer and coach Andrew Kauffmann was raised in a loving family, but as a young, gay man in the early 90s, he struggled with self-acceptance and his mental health. He sought the approval of his dad, but felt like he could never quite measure up. When his mum died aged only 50, his family constellation was forever changed. Then later, as an adult, Andrew made a life changing sacrifice to extend hi...

Imam Monawar Hussain was the first Muslim chaplain for the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust working across four major hospitals. He was also the first Muslim Faith Tutor at Eton College. During the coronavirus pandemic Monawar found the trickle of bad news took its toll, and he had to stop work and seek counselling. Monawar’s family, friends and community were integral to his recovery. He tel...

In July 1996, a man wielding a machete ran into a playground in Wolverhampton. 21-year old nursery teacher Lisa Potts was seriously injured when she put herself between the children in her care and her attacker. Her life changed in an instant. Lisa tells Peter Leonard about that day and the whirlwind of the first few years of recovery when her emotional resilience was tested. She explains why lear...

Comedian, presenter, writer and campaigner Ruby Wax has been very public about her mental health. Her most recent book “I’m Not As Well As I Thought I Was” (2023) details a severe breakdown which, after 12 years of good health, she didn’t see coming. In the book Ruby sets off on a series of journeys to try and find “inner peace” including a 30-day silent retreat, swimming with whales, visiting a r...

Series 2 of Emotionally Speaking is on its way. This is the podcast about the ways we can live a more emotionally healthy life. We’re so pleased that the conversations in series 1 have resonated with you. Subscribe to the podcast to hear more stories between Peter Leonard and his guests about life’s emotional challenges and the coping mechanisms that they would add to an emotional toolkit. The fir...

Conductor and broadcaster Ben Gernon remembers a significant moment aged 21 when he had a panic attack in the middle of a performance. He tells Peter Leonard about learning to deal with anxiety and how opening up about it stops it getting ‘out of whack’. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chef and writer Alasdair Gill speaks frankly to Peter Leonard about his experiences of addiction and sobriety. He explains what it’s like to put recovery at the centre of his life and how appreciating the daily, little pockets of goodness and gratitude are so important to his continued success. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode the journalist, writer and agony aunt Virginia Ironside talks about questioning negative thoughts. She tells Peter Leonard about the lessons she’s learnt from working as a young music journalist in an intimidating industry, to ‘detaching with love’ from alcoholic family and friends. Virginia is the author of The Huge Bag of Worries, a book which teaches children about ways to cope...

In this episode Satish speaks of his love of nature, his two and a half year walk around the world for peace, and his childhood experience of being a Jain monk and what he has learnt as an activist and campaigner for peace during his eighty plus years of life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the first episode of our new podcast Emotionally Speaking. Listen to GMB host and Smooth radio presenter Kate Garraway, as she speaks movingly about the difficulties of her late husband’s severe long covid and her own ways of finding something magical every day. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to our first ever podcast series! This is a snippet of what's to come. The first episode launches on the 22nd November and features well-known GMB & Smooth Radio presenter Kate Garraway, with more exciting guests to follow.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.