Type 1 on 1 | Diabetes Stories

Welcome to Type 1 on 1: The Diaries! Writer and broadcaster Jen Grieves and producer Ami Bennett are good friends - who both happen to live with type 1 diabetes. For this special spin-off series of Type 1 on 1, nana diabetic Jen (25 years) and baby diabetic Ami (3 years) chat through the frustrating, funny and challenging experiences they’ve faced each week thanks to this ridiculous condition. All...

Welcome to Type 1 on 1: The Diaries! Writer and broadcaster Jen Grieves and producer Ami Bennett are good friends - who both happen to live with type 1 diabetes. For this special spin-off series of Type 1 on 1, nana diabetic Jen (25 years) and baby diabetic Ami (3 years) chat through the frustrating, funny and challenging experiences they’ve faced each week thanks to this ridiculous condition. All...

Welcome to Type 1 on 1: The Diaries! Writer and broadcaster Jen Grieves and producer Ami Bennett are good friends - who both happen to live with type 1 diabetes. For this special spin-off series of Type 1 on 1, nana diabetic Jen (25 years) and baby diabetic Ami (3 years) chat through the frustrating, funny and challenging experiences they’ve faced each week thanks to this ridiculous condition. All...

Welcome to Type 1 on 1: The Diaries! Writer and broadcaster Jen Grieves and producer Ami Bennett are good friends - who both happen to live with type 1 diabetes. For this special spin-off series of Type 1 on 1, nana diabetic Jen (25 years) and baby diabetic Ami (3 years) chat through the frustrating, funny and challenging experiences they’ve faced each week thanks to this ridiculous condition. All...

Welcome to Type 1 on 1: The Diaries! Writer and broadcaster Jen Grieves and producer Ami Bennett are good friends - who both happen to live with type 1 diabetes. For this special spin-off series of Type 1 on 1, nana diabetic Jen (25 years) and baby diabetic Ami (3 years) chat through the frustrating, funny and challenging experiences they’ve faced each week thanks to this ridiculous condition. All...

Welcome to Type 1 on 1: The Diaries! Writer and broadcaster Jen Grieves and producer Ami Bennett are good friends - who both happen to live with type 1 diabetes. For this special spin-off series of Type 1 on 1, nana diabetic Jen (25 years) and baby diabetic Ami (3 years) chat through the frustrating, funny and challenging experiences they’ve faced each week thanks to this ridiculous condition. All...

In this final episode of season 3 of Type 1 on 1, which coincides beautifully with World Diabetes Day, we have a special collaboration. Creator of the You First podcast Fiona Moss interviews me about what the concept of 'You First' means and how that's been shaped by my experiences of living with type 1 diabetes. We chat about at how someone living with type 1 diabetes has to use resilience and co...

Today’s guest is Instagram influencer, creative genius and one of the nicest guys I've had the pleasure of talking all things type 1 diabetes with, Mat Carter. Mat is 32 and runs a creative agency, wonderfully named Ginger Nuts, and is also a qualified personal trainer, having recently worked with Anita Beckwith, the lead dietician for diabetes at Kings College in London. Diagnosed at the age of 1...

Homeland actor Andrea Deck is my guest for this very special episode. Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a teenager, Andrea chats about growing up in a household which was 75% diabetic, what it was like to move countries with a chronic illness and the ingenious places you can hide an insulin pump in your costume on a film set. Andrea's beloved dad Larry lived with type 1 diabetes for more than 60 y...

Living with type 1 diabetes for nearly 40 years, today's guest Boo Dendy has seen and experienced it all when it comes to handling this wild condition, but from the early days of his diagnosis he felt like it was something he had to handle alone. Today's episode is a vivid, whistle-stop tour of Boo's life - from raving and rebelling to balancing his love of chocolate and cava with a love of cyclin...

Dr Sufyan Hussain is a Consultant Diabetes and Endocrine Physician at Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital in London, and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at King’s College London, as well as a father of three and self-confessed 'granola addict'. Passionate about improving care for diabetes, he has also lived with type 1 diabetes for almost 30 years - offering an incredibly unique perspective on what it...

Misdiagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2019 at the age of 50, Alex Haighton finally began treatment for type 1 diabetes seven months later - but not before she became so ill she could no longer work. By the time Alex was taken to A&E, her organs were shutting down. As she approaches her two year diaversary Alex, who lives in London and works for a medical charity, has chosen to speak out about h...

I'm welcoming not one, but two guests to Type 1 on 1 for the first time! Luma is 24 and a youth worker and DJ from South East London, diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in December 2019. She joins me with her mum Jane to talk about how her diagnosis has affected not only her, but her loved ones too. Speaking publicly about her illness for the first time, Luma openly discusses grieving the life she kne...

Pop the kettle on and join us, this week’s podcast episode is a chatty one! My guest Eoin Costelloe was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2012 at the age of 19 at home in Dublin, Ireland. Since then he’s grown an incredible online following with his approach to what he calls ‘redefining’ diabetes, setting up a personal training business specifically for diabetics, and in 2020 he launched The Insul...

I can’t tell you how much I love this week's chat - for so many reasons! Reba Redmond is a writer, public speaker and diabetes advocate living in Ontario, Canada. I hereby declare her a Diabetes VIP too, as she’s a distant cousin of Sir Frederick Banting who co-discovered insulin in 1921 and is the reason anyone with type 1 diabetes is alive today. But Reba is also a rare and brilliant human - one...

A breakfast TV icon to kick off season 3 of Type 1 on 1? Oh go on then... Derrick Evans MBE, better known as Mr Motivator, is this week's guest. King of the lycra-clad small screen throughout the 90s, he got the UK moving in their living rooms each and every morning with his uplifting workouts and memorable catchphrases. His daughter Abigail was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 19, cau...

Type 1 on 1 Season 3 launches Tuesday 14th September 2021! More brilliant, generous guests will join me, Jen Grieves, each week to chat about what it REALLY means to live with type 1 diabetes. I can’t wait to share these incredible stories with you - some are funny, some are emotional, but they're all REAL and will hopefully help you feel less alone when it comes to tackling the good, bad and the...

It’s the final episode of Type 1 on 1 season 2 and my guest is… me. After 10 weeks of chatting in depth with some incredible people about what exactly it means to live with type 1 diabetes, my astute and incredibly kind friend Will Hardy turns the tables to find out allll about my life with type 1 diabetes, and how my feelings towards living with the condition have changed over the 24 years since...

Muhammad Ali made history in 2018 as the first British professional boxer with type 1 diabetes. Three years earlier, his licence application was rejected because of his condition, threatening to end his career. We talk through how he went about convincing the British Boxing Board of Control that he was fit to fight and how advances in diabetes technology helped to get him there - along with a huge...

The incredibly down to earth and absolutely hilarious Hollyoaks actor Rory Douglas-Speed is this week's guest. With an art for storytelling, Rory recounts some of his most embarrassing experiences since his type 1 diabetes diagnosis 20 years ago, including a trip to diabetes camp that put him off speaking to other type 1s for years, and how hypos will just always appear during sex. There are so ma...

We've got something a little different for this week's episode - it's a diabetes and Covid-19 'special' with none other than the voice of reason and action for diabetes in the NHS, Professor Partha Kar because I don't know about you but I'm feeling a bit unsure at the moment. As lockdown restrictions start to ease we're all tentatively and gratefully emerging from our homes. But with coronavirus s...

Claire is the founder of Organising Chaos, which sells a range of products and accessories to help people decorate their diabetes. Claire was diagnosed with type 1 in 1997, and in her words has been on a journey from ‘diabad to diabadass’ in the past 23 years. We cover SO much in this conversation, from a 10 year period in which Claire decided she no longer had diabetes and barely took her insulin...

27-year-old Emma Bowditch is today's guest. Emma suffered an episode of hypoglycaemic hemiparesis in her early 20s, during which half the body is paralysed as an additional symptom of a low blood sugar. Yikes! Emma didn't have a label for what happened to her for years after, and reached out to me in a bid to raise awareness of this relatively undocumented experience. Emma also offers a ton of ins...

This week I speak to Dave, who has lived with type 1 diabetes for over 40 years after being diagnosed at the age of three. Dave talks through his memories of growing up using glass syringes and steel needles, and not being able to test his blood sugar because glucose meters didn't exist. The tables were turned somewhat when his daughter Martha received a type 1 diagnosis in 2019 at the age of 12,...

This week’s guest is 34-year-old Dan Newman. Dan went through a period of diabetes distress and burnout in his teens after being diagnosed with type 1 at the age of 10, and later developed chronic kidney disease in 2013. Dan takes us on an incredible journey, and after a successful kidney transplant and overcoming his own pressure to be a ‘perfect’ person with diabetes, he now is very open about t...