The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

Winter of the mind

Jeremy sits down with mental health professionals to discuss a subject close to his heart: the state of the nation’s mental health. They discuss how it has fared in the pandemic, and what hope there is, and isn’t, for the near future. Participants include Daisy Fancourt, who leads the 'COVID-19 Social Study', a longitudinal study into the psychological and social impact of the pandemic involving over 95,000 adults in the UK; Paul Farmer, CEO of the mental health charity, Mind; Professor Miranda Wolpert, Head of Mental Health Priority Area at the Wellcome Trust, and Marjorie Wallace, CEO of the mental health charity, SANE. Resources:The study Daisy Fancourt is leading into the mental health impacts of covid and covid responses is at <a href="http://www.covidsocialstudy.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.covidsocialstudy.org</a>Information about the work Miranda Wolpert is doing at Wellcome is here: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/active-ingredients-youth-mental-health-story-so-far-nov-wolpert/?trackingId=IgN74vP1TXGolBHc3Ikkew%3D%3D" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/active-ingredients-youth-mental-health-story-so-far-nov-wolpert/?trackingId=IgN74vP1TXGolBHc3Ikkew%3D%3D</a>Marjorie’s mental health charity, SANE, is here: http://www.sane.org.uk/Paul’s mental health charity, Mind, is here: <a href="https://www.mind.org.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.mind.org.uk/</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Jeremy Paxman, of Newsnight and University Challenge fame, has decided there must be more to life than cudgelling politicians and students on TV. ‘The Lock In’ is, as he puts it, “an excuse for me to talk to people I want to hear from, in a place I want to be...the pub”. So it is that, free at last of any editorial oversight, Jeremy has been sitting down in some of London’s finest boozers to enjoy drink and conversation with an eclectic bunch of guests. There are famous ones and obscure ones, but they all have something to say and were willing to sit down with the ‘Grand Inquisitor’ in a pub (or on Zoom, in more recent times). Each and every one is a fascinating conversation. So, pull yourself a pint, pour yourself a glass of plonk, and join The Lock In. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.