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 Works Collection at The Ivors Classical Awards. Here she talks to Peter about the joys of composing and the importance of brushing your teeth!

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 charity Medical Aid for Palestine (MAP). In January 2024, Nick led the first medical team into Gaza following the attacks of October 7th and went again in April and May last year. This episode contains distressing content.

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 the Inside Out Awards.

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 wrote her memoir, Dancing with the Red Devil, which captures this time with both humour and sensitivity.

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.

Spring is finally on its way! Peter and Sally reflect on the joy that this can bring.

Peter and Sally share how a moment of empathy can really help!

Peter and Sally chat through The Royal Foundation for Early Childhood’s new Shaping Us Framework.

Peter and Sally share a moment on their thoughts on the start of a new year and January.