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Our Time's Charity Podcast

My Family, Mental Illness & Me is Our Time Charity’s podcast, hosted by Dr Pamela Jenkins. Each episode shares honest conversations about growing up with a parent who has mental health problems. Listen on our website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.

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The renowned presenter explores her complex relationship with her mother, reflecting on growing up with her grandparents and how her childhood shaped her today.

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Cyrus Pattinson
25 October 2023

Cyrus Pattinson

Cyrus Ramone Pattinson is a rising star in the world of professional boxing. In this episode, Cyrus tells Pamela about his experiences growing up in an unstable living condition, with a mother who has a mental illness.

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Mya-Rose Craig
18 October 2023

Mya-Rose Craig

Known as ‘Bird Girl’, British-Bangladeshi ornithologist and campaigner Mya-Rose Craig reflects on her unconventional childhood, and how her family's shared love of birdwatching helped them cope with difficult times, including her mother's bipolar disorder.

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Emma Kennedy
11 October 2023

Emma Kennedy

Author, screenwriter and comedian Emma Kennedy reflects on the isolation and uncertainty she felt growing up with a mother whose mental illness went undiagnosed during her lifetime—an experience she wrote about in Letters From Brenda.

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Grace Campbell
8 December 2021

Grace Campbell

Comedian and writer Grace Campbell shares how growing up with her father Alastair Campbell, who lived with depression, shaped her childhood, humour and outlook on mental health.

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Camilla Strøm Henriksen
1 December 2021

Camilla Strøm Henriksen

Norwegian director and actress Camilla Strøm Henriksen talks about channelling her childhood into the film Phoenix, and the weight of responsibility she felt as an older sister to a younger brother while their mother struggled with mental illness.

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Neil Coyle
25 November 2021

Neil Coyle

The Labour MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark speaks candidly about growing up with a mother who had schizophrenia and how it’s influenced his life and politics.

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