Charlie Mackesy

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718 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 8 Jul

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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day · Charlie Mackesy – ‘Grief propelled me into work that saved me’ · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

Which is a privilege.

Carrying them is different.

I think normally what happens is I listen to those things and often get really moved, cry with a good number of people.

And then afterwards...

it feels like a train is slowly hitting me.

Then I go back to where I'm staying and sit on the bed and look out the window and try to look at something, anything that takes my mind off because it's too much sometimes.

There was a moment in lockdown, I always remember it because I was in those days.

I had a lot of people messaging me all the time.

And listen, I'm no sage.

I just wrote a book about a mole who likes cake and friends who are journeying in a difficult way with each other and feeling uncomfortable about things.

But I don't really have... I think people just want to be heard probably and seen.

And so they were saying, ah, I'm a nurse in a ward and my two friends have died and...

You know, help.

And I remember pushing my bike through a field one morning with Barney.

Your dog.

Yeah, in the basket.

And just suddenly stopping and feeling...

It was almost like someone turning on taps in my head.

And I was just weeping and weeping and weeping, standing there, and then lay down.

And I was thinking, you know, when something happens, it's almost passive.

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