How To Be Sad with Helen Russell
Health & Fitness
Dr Xand van Tulleken is a much-loved medic, broadcaster and someone with first hand experience of the impact of covid 19. In spring 2020 Xand contracted Covid while preparing to film a documentary about the virus with his twin, Dr Chris van Tulleken. Xand isolated at home for two weeks but continued to experience strange symptoms, including heart palpitations. When these worsened he rushed to University College Hospital, where his twin was working on a Covid ward, and had to have his heart ‘shocked’ back into a normal rhythm with an electric current. Xand talks about his experience of going so publicly from presenter to patient.
He’s also someone who has witnessed more than his fair share of sadness on a global scale, having worked during the genocide in Darfur and in various humanitarian crises all over the world.
So here, we talk about all he’s learned to date and how he copes now. Xand and Helen discus:
Season 3 #4 Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Season 3 #3 Ingrid Fetell Lee
Season 3 #2 Tracii Guns
Season 3 #1 Dr Tal Ben Shahar
Season 2 #10 Daisy Buchanan
Season 2 #9 Rebecca Schiller
Season 2 #8 Baz Ashmawy
Season 2 #7 Matthew Ashton
Season 2 #6 Sophie Walker
Season 2 #5 Jody Day
Season 2 #3 Rosie Green
Season 2 #2 Mungi Ngomane and Reverend Nontombi Naomi Tutu
Season 2 #1 Holly Tucker
BONUS! Steph Douglas of Don’t Buy Her Flowers
#7 Yomi Adegoke
#6 Helen Thorn
#5 Cathy Rentzenbrink
#4 Mo Gawdat
BONUS! How to be Sad audiobook extract
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