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This episode, Lucy and Smug meet with Clive Parkinson (Director of Arts for Health at Manchester Metropolitan University) and Katie Awdas (Teacher) to talk about how the pandemic has affected access to health care treatment and the impact this has had on their lives.

EPISODE 3: MENTAL HEALTH This episode, Lucy and Smug are joined by Professor Dawn Edge (Professor of Mental Health & Inclusivity and Academic Lead for Equality Diversity & Inclusion, University of Manchester) and Chris Madden (Counsellor & Psychotherapist) talking about their work, the effects the pandemic has on people's working lives and practices, and the opportunity that the downtime has given us to think about inequalities in light of Black Lives Matters.

EPISODE 2: DISABILITY This episode, Lucy and Smug are joined by Siddiq Diwan (Imam and Hospital Chaplain at Manchester Foundation Trust) and Laurence Gambella (Hospital Chaplain at Manchester Foundation Trust and the Christie), talking about their work at the Chaplaincy, the effect that the pandemic has had on their work and their experience of working in a busy hospital environment.

Welcome to 4ofUs, part of our new online and digital content. Join Smug Roberts and Lucy Burke as they host an intimate chat show for the socially distanced... EPISODE 1: DISABILITY This episode Lucy and Smug are joined by Richard Currie, Disability Activist and PhD Student at MMU and Nina Gilligan, Comedian & Ex Probation Service Worker, talking about life in lockdown, disability and their own personal experiences.

This podcast is brought to you by SICK! Digital as part of SICK! Festival 2019, recorded at our End of Life Symposium.
The third panel of the day was entitled ‘Elephants in the Room’. With the rise of Death Cafés and the Death Positive movement, along with a host of documentaries and theatre performances that confront the end of life head-on, are we really getting better at talking about death or is it still something we avoid?
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This podcast is brought to you by SICK! Digital as part of SICK! Festival 2019, recorded at our End of Life Symposium.
The second panel of the day entitled “The Sanctity of Life” explored approaches to the sacred inside and outside clinical settings. At the end of life, many people feel a strong need to reaffirm the sanctity of life, but what does this mean to people, and how do they express it, in an increasingly secular society? How can these feelings find a place in the context of a busy clinical setting?

This podcast is brought to you by SICK! Digital as part of SICK! Festival 2019, recorded at our End of Life Symposium.
This first panel “Turning off the Machine” explores questions around authority, autonomy and decision-making at the end of life, considering the roles of clinical staff, family members and the dying person themselves.

In this episode Mancunian comedian Smug Roberts interviews prolific comic book artist and avid cyclist Kaisa Leka. They discuss Kaisa's work and exceptional pursuits as a cyclist across the world. Kaisa was one of this year's Graphic Encounters artists, whose work was displayed across the Metrolink network in Manchester.

In this episode Mancunian Comedian Smug Roberts interviews Poet, MC, Artist, Facilitator, Writer, Producer and Youth Worker Reece Williams. Reece is Executive Producer of Manchester poetry collective Young Identity and works at local youth mental health charity 42nd Street.

In the final part of this three-part episode, Smug Roberts continues his conversation with Susan Heatley (Matron Nurse Lead for Palliative and End of Life Care), Natalie Holt (Macmillan Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist) & Faye Madden (Project Officer for Supportive and Palliative Care), from Manchester Foundation Trust Hospitals.

In the final part of this three-part episode, Smug Roberts continues his conversation with Susan Heatley (Matron Nurse Lead for Palliative and End of Life Care), Natalie Holt (Macmillan Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist) & Faye Madden (Project Officer for Supportive and Palliative Care), from Manchester Foundation Trust Hospitals.

In the first of this three-part episode Smug Roberts talks to Susan Heatley (Matron Nurse Lead for Palliative and End of Life Care), Natalie Holt (Macmillan Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist) & Faye Madden (Project Officer for Supportive and Palliative Care), from Manchester Foundation Trust Hospitals.

In the episode Smug Roberts interviews Duncan McCombe - Young Entrepreneur, Actor and Community Fundraiser

In this episode Smug Roberts talks with Lucy Burke a Principal Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan University and a lifelong socialist and trade unionist.

Presented by Mancunian comedian, Smug Roberts this first episode is an interview with Lumnije Mustafa, a Specialist Nurse in Organ Donation at Manchester Foundation Trust Hospitals.

An Interview with Prof. Mahesh Nirmalan from the Critical Care Unit at Manchester Foundation Trust Hospitals. Mahesh tells us why he instigated a new edition of "Death and Birth in My Life" with Mats Staub for SICK! Festival 2019.

Author Kevin Betts discusses his experiences in dealing with suicide and its aftermath for those left behind following the death of his father. The lack of support he found in traditional settings and the coping mechanisms he has employed to help him move forward.

There is an argument that says sexual intercourse is only acceptable if both participants share the same motivation, a motivation which is at least sexual and preferably emotional too. The argument is an important one, challenging all kind of abusive and coercive behaviour. But there are other types of consenting transactions, where it is not just hearts and bodies that are on offer.