Helen Pidd

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3,798 appearances 36 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 4d ago

Helen Pidd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 36 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 13.

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Today in Focus · The young and healthy Dutchman who moved into a care home · 10 Sep 2026 podcast

You think, really, that's the direction of travel? voice-verified

Coming up, what if we didn't need these nursing homes? voice-verified

A lot of the hope in your film I found from the chapter where you go to South Korea, a place with the lowest birth rate globally and a country that is understandably worried about the burden of their ageing population. voice-verified

And in fact, they are on track to become the oldest population in the world before too long. voice-verified

And there they are really treating dementia as a preventable disease in many cases. voice-verified

And you spoke to some South Korean experts. voice-verified

Yeah, I think that's really important. voice-verified

Because as I said, I think a lot of people do just... voice-verified

see dementia as a sort of terrible fate that they have absolutely no control over. voice-verified

And of course, you know, for some cases, people, as you said, it's not necessarily anybody's fault. voice-verified

But this idea that such a large percentage of dementia can be slowed or prevented entirely is a message voice-verified

think hasn't got through to many people in the UK yet. voice-verified

lives? voice-verified

And knowing everything that you both know now, after spending all of these years traveling the world and talking to carers and people with dementia, are you afraid of developing it? voice-verified

Wow. voice-verified

I visited one of those with like fake little shops from the olden days. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Well, Tin and Jonathan, thank you so much. voice-verified

It's been really interesting to talk to you. voice-verified

That was Turn to Abyss and Jonathan de Jong. voice-verified

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