Right Side of the Brain
An Arts, Health and Culture podcast created by InterAct Stroke Support interviewing a variety of guests from the Arts and Health fields, who talk about their life, work and sometimes the big ideas and issues of the day. Our podcasts hosts are Nirjay Mahindru and Megan McKie Smith.
Episodes
73 episodes
Avita Jay - Actor
Avita Jay talk about her work as an actor and her experiences of stroke, her father dying of a stroke when Avita was fifteen. Theatre includes: The Empress, Falkland Sound, The Comedy of Errors, The Winter’s Tale (...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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31:39
Adam Pearce - Actor and stroke survivor
Originally from Portsmouth, Adam trained as an actor at the Guildford School of Acting. He has worked in many shows across the West End and UK including Les Miserables, Sunset Boulevard, The Prince of Egypt, Sweeney Todd to name a few.&n...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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45:02
Charlie Dorer - NHS England Stroke quality improvement for Rehabilitation
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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29:02
Cillian O'Brain & Sarah Rickard - Greater Manchester neurorehab and integrated stroke delivery network
Sarah manages the Greater Manchester Neurorehabilitation & Integrated Stroke Delivery Network, which she helped establish in 2015. Previously, Sarah spent much of her career within the NIHR Clinical Research Networks in senior management ro...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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40:56
Edmund Hubbard - Arts Consultant and stroke survivor
Edmund Hubbard is an independent arts consultant and a trustee for InterAct Stroke Support. He talks about his life and the circumstances of his stroke with Nirjay Mahindru. Details about his consultancy work can be found at
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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59:01
Dr Romila Bahl FRCEM MSEM
In 2016, after 10 years working frontline as a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Major Trauma, Dr Bahl decided to pursue her interest in Exercise and Physical activity and retrain formally in Sports and Exercise medicine. She now share...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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34:02
Jenny Benson - Fundraiser and Project Officer- Read for Good
Jenny Benson is the Fundraising and Project Officer at Read for Good, a UK charity with the aim of motivating all children to read for fun, because loving reading changes lives. With a background in fundraising and communications, and in young ...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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30:06
Ségolène Scheuer- Performer and Vocal Empowerment Coach
Ségolène is a Performer and Vocal Empowerment Coach combining voice, language, breathwork and energy therapy to help creatives find their voice in life and in art.She's taken what she's learned from the worlds of wellness, coaching and performa...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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56:00
Professor Marion Walker MBE
Marion Walker is Emeritus Professor of Stroke Rehabilitation at the University of Nottingham and a fully accredited Executive Coach. She has particular expertise in the development and evaluation of complex interventions and has published widel...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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37:22
Helen Daniels - Development co-ordinator and former InterAct Administrator
Helen Daniels is a former InterAct Stroke Support Office Administrator and has recently rejoined the InterAct family as their Development Co-ordinator. Helen is a British mezzo-soprano based in Bern, Switzerland. She is a member of the
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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32:40
Cassandra Hugill - Dept of Neuro imaging UCL
Nirjay Mahindru in conversation with Cassandra Hugill, founder of the UCL World Stroke Day Forum and Public Engagement Manager at the Department of Imaging Neuroscience, UCL, discusses the importance of having lived experts voice in shaping str...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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28:52
Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster - hosts of TRIGGERnometry
Konstantin and Francis share their experiences of developing the hugely successful podcast Triggernometry. Konstantin Kisin is a Russian-British comedian, podcaster, writer and social commentator. He made international headlines in 2018 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 28
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51:01
Torin Douglas - former BBC media journalist and one of the founders of Chiswick Book Festival
Torin Douglas is a highly respected former BBC media correspondent for over 25 years who has also worked for the Independent and the Times. He is one of the founders of the Chiswick Book Festival which starts on Wednesday 7th September.&n...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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26:04
Christabel Flight - Founder of Silver Sunday and Westminster councillor
Christable Flight is the founder of Silver Sunday, an event celebrating older people that occurs on the first Sunday in October. She was a Westminster councillor for 17 years. Further details about Silver Sunday can be found at
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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30:38
Eleanor Caird - Actor and former InterAct reader
Eleanor Caird is an actor that started working for InterAct during the early days of the charity, seeing the plethora of changes that has occured within the charity over the years, and was an active participant in community based projects that ...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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34:18
Ross Foley - Actor and InterAct reader
Actor Ross Foley talks about his experiences working for InterAct Stroke Support, including hospital settings, and the InterAct at Home virtual delivery service.
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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32:19
Professor Judith Mottram
Professor Judith Mottram talks about her work as an Arts professor at the University of Lancaster, the relationship between Art and creativity and also arts and health.
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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29:41
Sartaj Garewal- Actor and founder of Dynamic Presenting.
An English actor and voice artist, born and raised in Wiltshire, UK. Sartaj began as theatre actor in Shakespeare and contemporary productions. Performed in Scott Rudin's 2015 production of "Behind The Beautiful Forevers" at National Thea...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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33:32
Megan McKie Smith - Actor and InterAct reader and poet
Fellow podcast host Megan takes to the other side of the Mic as she is interviewed by Nirjay Mahindru. Megan is an actor, poet, drama facilitator and highly experienced InterAct reader.
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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43:33
Rula Lenska - Actor and InterAct ambassador
Nirjay Mahindru in conversation with actress Rula Lenska. Rula talks about her childhood, her journey within acting, and her support for the various charities she feels passionate about.
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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32:39
Nick Clarke - CEO of Stroke Information and stroke survivor
In conversation with former footballer and stroke survivor Nick Clarke about his stroke and how and why he set up Stroke Information.
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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33:20
Professor Alexander Leff - professor of Neurology
Nirjay Mahindru in conversation with Professor of Neurology Alexander Leff from Kings College London.
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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45:28
Tony Banks - former head of Conferences & events at the Stroke Association
Tony Banks spent 10 years at the Stroke Association and was the head of Conferences and events.
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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33:30
Oliver Ford Davis - Actor & InterAct ambassador
Oliver Robert Ford Davies (born 12 August 1939) is an English actor and writer, best known for his extensive theatre work, and to a broader audience for his role as Sio Bibble in Star Wars Episodes I to III. He is also known for his role as Mae...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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48:48