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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13 January 2025: Is It Flu or Is It Something Else?
TV medic and Strictly star Dr Punam Krishan helps us differentiate between the signs of Carbon Monoxide (CO) poisoning and a winter lurgy. Plus, David Hogg finds out about Seescape, an organisation based in Fife supporting blind and partially sighted people to go to the football.
6 January 2025: New Year's Resolutions & Yoga For Detox
This week, we chat about setting realistic goals for our New Year’s resolutions with yoga teacher Dawn Blezard. And Dawn also joins us to share a twisting yoga exercise to help detox and cleanse our body. Plus, Claire is amused by this week's funny news story, and we continue funny animal facts with the letter "Y".
30 December 2024: Happy New Year!
Yoga teacher Tam is back with a quick exercise, plus we learn some cosy facts about January, and highlight some self-help titles from the RNIB Library.
26 December 2024: The Merry Hour Special Part 2
Join Claire and Paulina for an hour of festive music, funny festive animal facts, a silly Christmas-themed story. Plus, a couple book reviews and a scrumptious desert recipe from VI chef Kim Jaye.
23 December 2024: The Merry Hour Special Part 1
Join Claire and Paulina for a delicious cook-a-long, learn cosy December facts, and do some yoga. All wrapped in festive cheer and music. Catch Part 2 on Boxing Day at 6 pm as we have another delicious recipe, more festive music and two book-ish reviews.
16 December 2024: Loneliness
We’ll hear from Dr Mhairi Thurston and Craig Dunlop from Abertay University about their research into loneliness and isolation amongst blind and partially sighted people. RNIB’s Head of Mental Health Services, Amanda Hawkins will share some tips for how manage feelings of loneliness and yoga teacher Tam, will guide us through some eye yoga. Plus this week, a positive news story.
9 December 2024: Men's Wellbeing Part 2
On this week’s episode we continue our 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 Paul at ManHealth, an organisation supporting men across the North East of England, and yoga teacher Tam joins us with an easy exercise for our wellbeing.
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.