CO-CURE NOT: A major ME series on BBC Radio

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" Tony Britton <tbritton02 [via Co-Cure Moderators

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NOT: A major ME series on BBC Radio

 

The BBC Radio 4 programme " You and Yours " will be running a 7-part series on

ME at the beginning of November.

 

Updates at _http://www.meassociation.org.uk_

(http://www.meassociation.org.uk)

 

Tony Britton

ME Association

 

Friday November 2: celebrity interview with Shirley Conran, and

announcement about their mini-series the following week. Possibly introduction

of a

musical leitmotif for the series, involving originally composed music by a

PwME,

 

Monday, November 5: A Guy Fawkes Day discussion on why ME produces such

fireworks when it is being discussed. Professor Peter White v Dr William

Weir, with Ondine Upton, former chair of AfME.

 

Nov 6: Interviews with two sufferers: a severely ill lady from Oxfordshire,

and someone who is progressing to some form of recovery

 

Nov 7: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Professor Trudie Chalder v. Dr Charles

Shepherd (plus interviews with with PWME who have tried CBT).

 

Nov 8: Their 'alternative and complementary " approaches day – your day

if they like the sound of you. The ME Association they also look at the

Bowen Technique (Cassandra Dry, from Kent), homeopathy (Dr Susie Rockwell,

from

Hove, East Sussex); meditation (Sue Rawnsley - she's also a Reiki master),

Qi Gong (Dario Gerchi, from Bruton, Somerset), Yoga for people with ME

(Angela Stevens, from Woodhurst, East Sussex), Western Herbal Medicine (Jo

Dunbar, Claygate, Surrey). Probably recorded interviews with the therapists,

then

studio discussion about the therapies by " experts " , as yet undefined.

 

Friday Nov 9: Research advances (discussion with eminent ME researchers).

 

Monday, November 12: A wrap-it-up item, including feedback from listeners.

 

We've contributed to a BBC fact sheet on ME to go with the series.

 

 

 

Tony Britton

PR and Fundraising Consultant ( & Managing Editor), The ME Association

Home-based: 60 Broadgate, Weston, Spalding, PE12 6HY

Tel: 01406 370293 Mob: 07880 502927 Email <tbritton02

 

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