Things I Forgot Were Good For Me

Emma Gilleece is an architectural historian, activist and writer. She is currently working on a series '100 Buildings of Mid-20th Century Architecture' for the RTÉ Culture website.

Benji Davies is an award-winning illustrator and author. Creator of the bestselling, acclaimed The Storm Whale , Grandad's Island and The Grotlyn , Benji's books have been co-editioned in over thirty-five languages and countries, gaining recognition worldwide.

Leah Boleto is a presenter and news journalist. She worked in radio before starting to present on the small screen working on some fab shows like BBC Breakfast, BBC Sport, Stargazing Live and Newsround. She now works for sky news as an anchor. 

Spencer lodge is an entrepreneur, a business strategist, award winning podcast host of ‘Unscripted’ and in the top 100 most influential people in Dubai. 

Karen Guggenheim is a pioneer in the global happiness movement, a leader in promoting the science behind well-being to an international audience, and a motivational speaker inspiring people about how to grow post-trauma and rebuild a life focused on meaning, purpose, and happiness. She is the producer of the World Happiness Summit(R), the leading well-being conference promoting the benefits of an...

5 July 2023 marks 75 years of the National Health Service     Treating over one million people a day in England, the NHS touches all our lives.   As part of the celebrations, NHSE has partnered with Things I Forgot Were Good For Me to create an episode dedicated to the NHS 75th Birthday and celebrates the incredible role that volunteers have played and continue to play within the NHS  We are joine...

Born in London to professional, touring musicians, our musical director and founder Jane Reeves has always had music in her life. She started learning the piano when she was seven years old and by the time she reached 14 she was studying at Grade 7. She also reached a respectable standard playing the clarinet, French horn and cello and later gained accreditation as a registered ABRSM piano teacher...

Naomi is a television presenter, a dancer and a complete superstar. She has been working non-stop in children’s television since 1999. You will know her from CBBC. She is a panto star and always finding ways to educate and entertain in a fun way.

Stuart Heritage is a feature writer and columnist for The Guardian, The Times, Air Mail and Men's Health. In addition to this, he has written for a range of publications and television programmes, and founded and edited award-winning blogs. For two years running he was named as one of the 50 most influential emerging figures in the British media by The Independent. Stuart’s first book, a biography...

In this week’s special episode of @forgotpod, we are teaming up with Sharon, a former health care worker who has gone on to use her many years of industry experience to inspire the next generation of learners by teaching in further education.  No matter what stage you’re at in your life, whether you are nearing retirement or looking for a career change, making the move to further education is a gr...

Lisa is a journalist specialising in travel. She also makes and presents podcasts including the UK number 1 Big Travel Pod. You will recognise her voice from TV and Radio with the latest comments on all things travel.

Baking Nanna Aka Jackie is the one half of the famous twitter bake along and the Great British Bake Off Twitter Bake Along. She inspires people to try baking and founded her community on socials to encourage people to come together to reduce isolation, find joy and to feel like they can bake anything!

Nick Newman is the CEO of National Careers Week, a fantastic celebration of all things careers guidance, which aims to support young people leaving education and moving on to employment. He came up with the idea for National Careers Week in 2010, after a conversation about how to help students make effective choices about their future career. The first NCW was born the following year with just a h...

In this episode we talk to Baron Richard Layard live at Kindfest 2022. Richard Layard, is a British labour economist, currently working as programme director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. He is also one of the first economists to work on happiness, and his main current interest is how better mental health could improve our social and economic life. He is...

In this week's episode we are joined by the magical Tim Lichfield. Time is a professional magician and member of the Magic Circle bringing wonder wherever he goes. He has appeared on live tv on Channel 4's Steph's Packed Lunch, and is a radio broadcaster as well as being a hypnotherapist.  In this episode, Time talks to us about how we have forgotten about the joy of wonder, just how good that is...

Bijal Shah is a book curator and bibliotherapist, a freelance journalist, an author and a poet. After a decade-plus career in investment banking, Bijal was really keen to pursue her passion for literature, writing and psychology having successfully published a non-fiction book titled 'The Happiness Mindset' having written the book post-completion of a diploma in psychodynamic counselling and psych...

Herb Baker recently retired from NASA after 42 years of service after spending his career at the Johnson Space Center supporting the Space Shuttle, Space Station, and Orion Programs and at the Kennedy Space Center and NASA Headquarters. In 2010, he was awarded the NASA Exceptional Service Medal and he is currently on the Board of Directors of the NASA Alumni League. In this episode of the podcast...

Mita Mistry practices Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Acupuncture helping people from all walks of life. She delivers mental health and trauma education to hospitals, doctors, schools workplaces and survivors of domestic abuse. Her book, How to Understand and Deal with Social Anxiety: Everything You Need to Know to Manage Social Anxiety is a practical, supportive and easy-to-read guide to...

Action Jackson is the UK Ambassador for happiness. An award-winning motivational speakers and author, television talk show host and mentor. His philosophy is ‘Success is not by make, it’s by Work’.  In this episode he talks all about the importance of motivation, how we can motivate ourselves and others as well as finding our purpose in life. 

Lauren Silver is an award-winning actor, theatremaker and jolly-anxious clown. Her work has played in national and international venues including London’s Vaudeville Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Liverpool Everyman/Playhouse, Edinburgh Fringe and the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. She is the founder of PlayWell and works with local communities and global companies to promote positive health...

Bobby Seagull is a school maths teacher and Cambridge University Doctorate student. Before moving into education, he was an investment banking trader at Lehman Brothers & Nomura, and qualified as a Chartered Accountant from PwC. He's an ambassador for the charity National Numeracy, a presenter for an Open University course on personal finance for young adults, a regular contributor to Radio Fo...

Dr Radha and Giles take a look back at the first two seasons of Things I Forgot Were Good For Me to discuss what they've learned and what's coming up in season 3!

Joe is a Features Writer at GamesRadar+ and has written for a number of gaming, sport and entertainment publications including PC Gamer, Edge, Play and FourFourTwo. Joe is also a mental health advocate and has written a book about video games, mental health and their complex intersections. He is a regular expert contributor on both subjects for BBC radio.  In this episode, he chats to us about how...

In this episode we talk to Miranda Keeling is a writer and performer. She writes plays, screenplays, short stories, articles, and poems. Inspired by her popular Twitter account, her book The Year I Stopped to Notice brings together her observations of the magic, humour, and strangeness of ordinary life. We discuss the power of simple observation for our mental & emotional wellbeing and how it...

In this episode, we chat with Darina Garland who is the Co-founder and Co-CEO of the global outdoor pizza oven brand Ooni. Darina is passionate about developing people, community, growing world-class teams, and authentic partnerships. She champions Ooni’s aim of encouraging everybody, everywhere to make pizza. We talk about the power of food and cooking to connect people together, about creativity...