Type 1 on 1 | Diabetes Stories

My guest this week is executive radio producer, co-founder and all round boss babe Ami Bennett. After months of misdiagnosis, general feeling-kinda-rubbish-but-not-quite-sure-why and two hospital admissions, Ami was diagnosed with type 1 in December 2019 at the age of 33 - and for just a minute it threatened to topple the independent life she's worked so hard to build. The permanence of type 1 dia...

Actor Nina Wadia is the first guest of season 2, and what a way to start the series! Nina speaks passionately about her son Aidan's life-changing and quite terrifying diagnosis at the age of 10 and how they've adapted as a whole family to everything that life with type 1 diabetes brings. From her guilt around his diagnosis in 2017, finding other parents to help her process the situation, not sleep...

The Type 1 on 1 podcast is back for more! Each week another brilliant guest will chat about what it means to live with type 1 diabetes and the experiences that have shaped them. These people are not scaling physical mountains, nor do they have ‘perfect’ blood sugar control (note: nobody does), but they are REAL and they are being extraordinary in their own way: tackling the baffling mayhem of a a...

In this week’s episode business owner and mum of one Nadia Pye talks candidly about juggling the demands of parenthood with the demands of type 1 diabetes, and the challenges it has brought to her life. Nadia, who was diagnosed with type 1 at the age of 35, has severe hypo unawareness, and her fear of hypos expanded into a crippling anxiety after some terrifying low blood sugars while home alone w...

My guest this episode is the fabulous Tine, a video producer from Berlin who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a student in 2013 at the age of 22. We discuss her experiences of depression and the relationship between mental health and living with type 1, and the major part that hormones play in managing the condition. Tine is fierce, frank and fabulous, and not afraid to tackle subjects on her...

This week I chat to Pete Davies, a retired teacher who was diagnosed with diabetes in 1956 at the age of 2 - that’s some 63 years strong with type 1. He didn’t have an insulin pen or glucose meter until he was in his 30s. Growing up in Kenya in the 1960s, Pete would inject using glass syringes and needles that needed to be boiled and sharpened between uses. There were no blood glucose meters, so P...

Please note: This episode of Type 1 on 1 contains honest discussions around diabetes, diabulimia, eating disorders and death which some listeners may find emotionally challenging or triggering. Jacq Allan is the founder and outgoing director of the charity Diabetes With Eating Disorders, the only current charity in the UK that supports and advocates for people that struggle with both type 1 diabet...

Jade is an actor and comedian from Darlington, and has lived with type 1 diabetes since she was 4 years old. In 2018 she took her play Pricks, which journeys through her life dealing with over 70,000 medical pricks, to the Edinburgh Fringe, and this year embarked on a UK tour. Jade is frank and funny as she recounts her experiences of living with type 1, from hiding in the hospital from the doctor...

National Specialty Advisor for Diabetes NHS England and Consultant in Diabetes & Endocrinology Partha Kar lets us peek into the world of type 1 diabetes in the NHS for this week's episode. Partha does not live with type 1 diabetes himself but spends his working life trying to help those who do. He shapes diabetes treatment and care across the NHS as well as working as a consultant in a diabete...

Mum of three Annie Astle is this week's guest. She recalls a dramatic start to her daughter Mimi's life with type 1 diabetes after a hospital admission for DKA at just seven months old turned her family's world upside down. From wading terrified through the complete unknown, learning to micro-dose with syringes to being able to spot a hypo just by the pallor of Mimi's skin, Annie recounts with gra...

Dave Rogers has had type 1 diabetes for 30 years, but spent the first three years trying to manage a misdiagnosis of type 2. A now retired investment banker, Dave has been undergoing treatment for chronic myeloid leukaemia since 2014, after successfully beating testicular cancer in 2004. Dave talks through his colourful life experience with huge openness, discussing how he's dealt with a wealth of...

17-year-old Ella from Leeds was diagnosed when she was nine years old. Ella is an incredible force who isn’t letting her type 1 diabetes stop her from doing all the things her mates are doing, whether that be sitting exams, going on nights out or heading to festivals. Having to challenge the odd teacher or losing her insulin pump in a festival field has not stopped Ella from maintaining her indepe...

This week’s guest is stand up comedian, writer and podcast king Ed Gamble, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 13. Taking what he calls a ‘more than relaxed’ approach to diabetes management in his teenage years, the pursuit of better physical health a decade later led Ed to the unattainable pursuit of blood sugar perfection. He chats about finding a balance between the two approac...

Type 1 on 1 is a podcast that delves into the obscure, complex and challenging world of life with type 1 diabetes. Writer, broadcaster and type 1 diabetic Jen Grieves talks to compelling guests about how living with type 1 has shaped them.