
The Bay Health Festivals Podcasts
The Bay Health Festivals have one very simple aim: to create spaces and opportunities for people to have conversations – easy or difficult – with family, friends, neighbours, and with ourselves. We want these conversations to help us make simple changes that will have a big effect: rediscovering the art of living well. https://www.thebayhealthfestivals.org.uk/
Episodes
19 episodes
Short clip - Love has its Scars
How do you deal with grief in the abnormal world of a pandemic, especially when that grief become a focus for the wider public?
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0:45

Short clip - Want to improve your business? Think Health and Wellbeing 2
Ian Dewar explores the financial benefits of a healthy Bay for healthy Bay business.
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Short clip - Want to improve your business? Think Health and Wellbeing 1
Can a four-day week really work when it comes to business? Jayne Moorby of Oxley Developments think it can. The latest edition of The Bay Health Festival’s podcast is out now and considers the impact looking after employee health a...
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Short clip - Exploring 2023's events 1
Can making health more accessible change lives? Could it change the lives of your employees?
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0:33

Short clip - Backyard Apothecary
Would you believe the power of dandelions? Whet your appetite with this taster and see if you fancy more.
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1:00

Short clip - Mind how you go
Nigel Thompson explores how to look after our mental health in January with the help of Gemma Wright, Practice Development Nurse, Professional Nurse Advocate.
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Short clip - Exploring 2023's events 2
A sample to whet your appetite and find out important health is to the Bay.
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Want to improve your business? Think Health and Wellbeing
Every business exists to improve its bottom line. Traditionally that's been seen as an accounting and economic function. But what if you could improve the productivity of your business, manage your costs better and sustain your futu...
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Talking health and wellbeing with Sir Trevor Phillips - part 2
Sir Trevor Phillips, the former head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and now a Sky News broadcaster, gave a public lecture at the first edition of Bay Health Festivals. In this two-part interview, recorded in September 2020, he disc...
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25:18

Talking health and wellbeing with Sir Trevor Phillips - part 1
Sir Trevor Phillips, the former head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and now a Sky News broadcaster, gave a public lecture at the first edition of Bay Health Festivals. In this two-part interview, recorded in September 2020, he disc...
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16:01

Backyard Apothecary
The Rev Ian Dewar talks to Lancaster garden designer Jennifer Lauruol to explore the idea of growing your own medicine.Jennifer, who died in 2023, had decades of experience as a gardener, including gardening for wildlife, habitat conser...
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26:06

Art and Anatomy
From his attic studio overlooking Lancaster, a specialist artist is producing work that has helped us all.From the simple to the complex; from information leaflets to cutting edge research, Philip Ferguson Jones has over 20 years’ experi...
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17:56
Mind how you go. Looking after your mental health throughout the winter
We’ve just experienced the highs of the festive season and for many January is a tough month to get through. Dark days, bills to pay – it can feel like the winter month lasts a lot longer than others!A drop in temperature can affect how ...
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Growing in Mind
As many gardens and allotments are put to bed for the winter a group in Barrow are busy planning how to make the most of their land next year.Mind in Furness are cultivating a disused allotment in Vickerstown. The aim is for it to not on...
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12:46

Love has its Scars
At the end of January 2020 Covid 19 arrived on our shores. It took us by surprise, even though we knew that we were long overdue a pandemic. Only 3 years ago, and yet it seems a long way away. But perhaps, like the death of a ...
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The Art of Anatomy
Professor Adam Taylor, from Lancaster University, delivers a demonstration of anatomy and discusses its implications for healthcare with a group of invited 6th form pupils.For more on anatomy and its contribution to science and health, ...
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14:55

Exploring 2023's Bay Health Festivals events
Nigel Thompson visits the 2023 Bay Health Festivals events in Lancaster and Kendal to learn more about the ways we inspire people to live healthier lives and connect the organisations working to improve public health in north Lancashire and sou...
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