The Happy Hour
An hour of happiness and wellbeing.
Listen every Monday from 1pm, repeated Thursdays at 6pm and Sundays at 10am.
The Happy Hour is a weekly mix of great music, chat, and happiness and wellbeing hosted by disability advocate Claire Sisk and Paulina Kuchorew. You'll hear experts share advice on looking after our wellbeing, catch candid conversations about sight loss and mental health, and enjoy some music therapy!
Episodes
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2 December 2024: Men's Wellbeing Part 1
On this week’s episode we’ll hear part 1 of our in-depth conversation with researcher Dr Susie Bennett about her work trying to understand why men are at higher risk of suicide and what more we can do to support men effectively. We’re also going to hear from UK charities supporting men, and get some wellbeing recommendation of things you can do to support your wellbeing from Gary and Roger. We'll continue our focus on men's wellbeing, next week.
25 November 2024: Pathway Yoga & Attending Events
This week we chat with Dawn Berkeley-Blezard from Pathway Yoga about her passion for yoga and how she fell in love with it. Student Aliza Rehman joins us to chat about attending a book event featuring her favourite author, Veronica Roth. Plus, happy recommendations for winter, and a funny news story features some questionable fashion.
18 November 2024: Winter Food and Health, Tap-Dancing Pigeon
This week we hear how the food we eat over winter impacts our health from CEO and Founder of Nourished, Melissa Snover. And joining us to talk about the importance of friendship, adventure, teamwork, representation and empathy is multi-award winning children's author Serena Hassan. Plus, Claire talks cooking on the telly, and a very unusual animal roars its mean head for this week's animal facts.
11 November 2024: Australia's Winter Paralympian Peter Rickards, Ambient Sounds and a Big Announcement!
Hubert takes a look at how you can relax with the ambient sounds feature, Claire shares the news of becoming and RNIB ambassador, and Australia’s winter Paralympian Peter Rickards will chat with us about his passion for sport and what it was like competing as first Cross-Country Paralympian from Australia in 1984.
4 November 2024: Nature, Happy Recommendations & Dancing!
We’ll chat with Ann about her passion for dancing and some great dance classes, hear about a National Park Consultation, which could see a new park recognised in Scotland. And we’ll be joined by Holly and Lisa for a little mindful recommendation of something to do for our wellbeing. Plus, your usual funny news story, animal facts, and more happy recommendations!
28 October 2024: Halloween, CrossFit & Yoga!
This week we chat with CrossFit athlete Erica Powell, have a funny news story, chat cosy Halloween recipes, and Paulina joins Shona and Tam to learn more about yoga.
21 October 2024: Happy Retirement and Sensory Workshops
We’ll be chatting with the Happiest man in the world and also the founder of the Happiness research institute about achieving happiness in retirement – Meik Wiking, plus we’re also joined by Andrea from Sight Scotland to hear about a Sensory Workshop project in Glasgow.
14 October 2024: Green Walks Project, Network Rail and Samaritans Partnership
Network Rail and Samaritans tell us about their suicide prevention programme, and we hear from MyVision Oxfordshire about the Green Walks project, which encourages blind and partially sighted people in the area to get out into nature and boost their wellbeing
7 October 2024: Digital Detox, Photography, & Mental Health
10th of October marks World Mental Health Day and this week, Claire and Paulina focus on one actionable skill you can learn to improve your wellbeing, digital detox. Plus, Paulina hears how photography and mental health can be interlinked from Robert H. King.
30 September 2024: AD On Concerts, Accessible Fashion Show, & Cancer Research
24th of September marked World Cancer Research Day and Paulina hears about a treatment that could work alongside usual treatments to shorten their length and negative side effects. Plus, Claire shares what it was like to walk at the London Fashion Week and also experience her favourite singer live with audio description!