Emma Gilleece is an architectural historian, activist and writer. She is currently working on a series '100 Buildings of Mid-20th Century Architecture' for the RTÉ Culture website.By Things I Forgot Were Good For Me

Benji Davies is an award-winning illustrator and author. Creator of the bestselling, acclaimed The Storm Whale, Grandad's Island and The Grotlyn, Benji's books have been co-editioned in over thirty-five languages and countries, gaining recognition worldwide.By Things I Forgot Were Good For Me

Leah Boleto is a presenter and news journalist. She worked in radio before starting to present on the small screen working on some fab shows like BBC Breakfast, BBC Sport, Stargazing Live and Newsround. She now works for sky news as an anchor.By Things I Forgot Were Good For Me

Spencer lodge is an entrepreneur, a business strategist, award winning podcast host of ‘Unscripted’ and in the top 100 most influential people in Dubai.By Things I Forgot Were Good For Me

Karen Guggenheim is a pioneer in the global happiness movement, a leader in promoting the science behind well-being to an international audience, and a motivational speaker inspiring people about how to grow post-trauma and rebuild a life focused on meaning, purpose, and happiness. She is the producer of the World Happiness Summit(R), the leading w…

5 July 2023 marks 75 years of the National Health Service Treating over one million people a day in England, the NHS touches all our lives. As part of the celebrations, NHSE has partnered with Things I Forgot Were Good For Me to create an episode dedicated to the NHS 75th Birthday and celebrates the incredible role that volunteers have played and c…

Born in London to professional, touring musicians, our musical director and founder Jane Reeves has always had music in her life. She started learning the piano when she was seven years old and by the time she reached 14 she was studying at Grade 7. She also reached a respectable standard playing the clarinet, French horn and cello and later gained…

Naomi is a television presenter, a dancer and a complete superstar. She has been working non-stop in children’s television since 1999. You will know her from CBBC. She is a panto star and always finding ways to educate and entertain in a fun way.By Things I Forgot Were Good For Me

Stuart Heritage is a feature writer and columnist for The Guardian, The Times, Air Mail and Men's Health. In addition to this, he has written for a range of publications and television programmes, and founded and edited award-winning blogs. For two years running he was named as one of the 50 most influential emerging figures in the British media by…

In this week’s special episode of @forgotpod, we are teaming up with Sharon, a former health care worker who has gone on to use her many years of industry experience to inspire the next generation of learners by teaching in further education. No matter what stage you’re at in your life, whether you are nearing retirement or looking for a career cha…

Lisa is a journalist specialising in travel. She also makes and presents podcasts including the UK number 1 Big Travel Pod. You will recognise her voice from TV and Radio with the latest comments on all things travel.By Things I Forgot Were Good For Me

Baking Nanna Aka Jackie is the one half of the famous twitter bake along and the Great British Bake Off Twitter Bake Along. She inspires people to try baking and founded her community on socials to encourage people to come together to reduce isolation, find joy and to feel like they can bake anything!…

Nick Newman is the CEO of National Careers Week, a fantastic celebration of all things careers guidance, which aims to support young people leaving education and moving on to employment. He came up with the idea for National Careers Week in 2010, after a conversation about how to help students make effective choices about their future career. The f…

In this episode we talk to Baron Richard Layard live at Kindfest 2022. Richard Layard, is a British labour economist, currently working as programme director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. He is also one of the first economists to work on happiness, and his main current interest is how better mental health…

In this week's episode we are joined by the magical Tim Lichfield. Time is a professional magician and member of the Magic Circle bringing wonder wherever he goes. He has appeared on live tv on Channel 4's Steph's Packed Lunch, and is a radio broadcaster as well as being a hypnotherapist. In this episode, Time talks to us about how we have forgotte…

Bijal Shah is a book curator and bibliotherapist, a freelance journalist, an author and a poet. After a decade-plus career in investment banking, Bijal was really keen to pursue her passion for literature, writing and psychology having successfully published a non-fiction book titled 'The Happiness Mindset' having written the book post-completion o…

Herb Baker recently retired from NASA after 42 years of service after spending his career at the Johnson Space Center supporting the Space Shuttle, Space Station, and Orion Programs and at the Kennedy Space Center and NASA Headquarters. In 2010, he was awarded the NASA Exceptional Service Medal and he is currently on the Board of Directors of the N…

Mita Mistry practices Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Acupuncture helping people from all walks of life. She delivers mental health and trauma education to hospitals, doctors, schools workplaces and survivors of domestic abuse. Her book, How to Understand and Deal with Social Anxiety: Everything You Need to Know to Manage Social Anxiety is …

Action Jackson is the UK Ambassador for happiness. An award-winning motivational speakers and author, television talk show host and mentor. His philosophy is ‘Success is not by make, it’s by Work’. In this episode he talks all about the importance of motivation, how we can motivate ourselves and others as well as finding our purpose in life.…

Lauren Silver is an award-winning actor, theatremaker and jolly-anxious clown. Her work has played in national and international venues including London’s Vaudeville Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Liverpool Everyman/Playhouse, Edinburgh Fringe and the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. She is the founder of PlayWell and works with local communitie…

Bobby Seagull is a school maths teacher and Cambridge University Doctorate student. Before moving into education, he was an investment banking trader at Lehman Brothers & Nomura, and qualified as a Chartered Accountant from PwC. He's an ambassador for the charity National Numeracy, a presenter for an Open University course on personal finance for y…

Dr Radha and Giles take a look back at the first two seasons of Things I Forgot Were Good For Me to discuss what they've learned and what's coming up in season 3!By Things I Forgot Were Good For Me

Joe is a Features Writer at GamesRadar+ and has written for a number of gaming, sport and entertainment publications including PC Gamer, Edge, Play and FourFourTwo. Joe is also a mental health advocate and has written a book about video games, mental health and their complex intersections. He is a regular expert contributor on both subjects for BBC…

In this episode we talk to Miranda Keeling is a writer and performer. She writes plays, screenplays, short stories, articles, and poems. Inspired by her popular Twitter account, her book The Year I Stopped to Notice brings together her observations of the magic, humour, and strangeness of ordinary life. We discuss the power of simple observation fo…

In this episode, we chat with Darina Garland who is the Co-founder and Co-CEO of the global outdoor pizza oven brand Ooni. Darina is passionate about developing people, community, growing world-class teams, and authentic partnerships. She champions Ooni’s aim of encouraging everybody, everywhere to make pizza. We talk about the power of food and co…

In this episode we chat to Madeleine Black - an author, speaker, sexual violence activist, former psychotherapist and who hosts her own podcast show called “Unbroken: Healing Through Storytelling. After decades of silence, Madeleine decided to share her own story publicly online in September 2014 and she completely underestimated what the response …

This week, Sarah Stein Lubrano, Content Lead at The School of Life, chats to us about their book, ‘On Failure – How To Succeed at Defeat’. Sarah holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History from Cambridge University. She is currently reading for a DPhil in Political Theory at Oxford Unive…

In this episode, we talk to Pauline Cox who has a deep passion for health and nutrition. Her day-to-day work involves translating complex science into simple, easy to follow steps to make health information increasingly accessible. She is the author of the award-winning book, Primal Living in a Modern World, co-founder of high street and online low…

In this episode, we talk to Roo Irvine who is a regular TV expert and main presenter on shows such as BBC Bargain Hunt, BBC Antiques Roadtrip, and Celebrity Antiques Roadtrip. Roo also owns and operates Kilcreggan Antiques in Argyll & Bute. We chat about how we can discover more about ourselves by connecting with the past through antiques, how anti…

Lyndsey Uglow is the author of ‘Leo & Friends - the extraordinary dogs with the healing touch; and a volunteer who developed the Animal Assisted Intervention team at Southampton's Children's Hospital. In this episode, she talks about her very personal journey into this area of volunteering through her own family experience and the benefits it can b…

Richie, or “The Breath Guy”, is a leading figure and evangelist for Breathwork, the next revolution in health and wellness. He is a Breathwork facilitator, author, and speaker and it is his mission to spread the life-changing possibilities of Breathwork to the world. Having worn many hats, from a corporate management consultant to digital entrepren…

Sue Stuart-Smith, a prominent psychiatrist and psychotherapist. Her book, The Well Gardened Mind was published in 2020 and became a Sunday Times bestseller. She is married to Tom Stuart-Smith, the celebrated garden designer, and, over thirty years together, they have created the wonderful Barn Garden in Hertfordshire. We talk to Sue about what natu…

Chris Barlow is a designer and builder of puppets, props and creatures for TV, film and theatre as well as an illustrator and sculptor. In this episode he talks about why and how we may have come to forget the importance of play as adults, the importance of using our imaginations to help us feel better and why creativity needs to be and is fundamen…

Momtaz Begum-Hossain is a Modern Colour Theorist. She’s the Founder of the ‘Hello Hue’ philosophy and the author of the book Hello Rainbow - Finding Happiness in Colour includes therapeutic colour rituals and mindful crafting ideas inspired by colour therapy. In this episode she reflects on why and how, as adults we may have forgotten how we can en…

Paul Pilot is a writer & singer in the Irish band “the amazing Pilots”. He records, produces and writes for other people and is a score writer for film and television, often asked to work on evocative and human-interest stories making recordings that feature unusual instrumentation. In this episode, he talks about his love for music, how storyt…

Sophie Green is an award-winning wildlife and conservation artist, dedicating her time and work to raise awareness for issues surrounding animal welfare and the environment. In this episode, she talks about art as a form of mindfulness, the importance of finding purpose and why the combination of art and nature is so powerful for our wellbeing, as …

We chat to Houston Kraft, a speaker, author of Deep Kindness published in 2020, and kindness advocate and co-founder of Character Strong. We explore what kindness is, how it is anything but simple and easy, and how it is not just about ‘being nice’. We explore how to practice kindness to self and to others as an act of courage and how to build this…

‘Things I Forgot Were Good For Me’ The podcast hosted by Dr Radha Modgil and Giles Paley-Phillips, that helps you remember, relearn, and be inspired by others about what might be good for you in your day to day life – what might bring you more joy, a sense of groundedness and a stronger sense of your own unique life purpose – never more needed than…