Cardiac death organs now “good” for transplants

Awoken with a start at 6.55 AM by the phone. At that time of day it’s usually bad news, or somebody in Sweden not thinking. Today, it was BBC Surrey Radio. Phone voice: “Cim, can you do an interview in 20 minutes with Nick Wallis on his breakfast show?” Cim: “Of course”. Cim has of [...]

Do you want to do one good thing today? Go with The Floe

I bet you think I’m going to ask you to sign up for the organ donor register. Well, I’m not. “But just a minute” (I hear you say), “Aren’t you in the middle of a campaign to do that? You were on the radio last week…” Well yes, but today I’ve got something else to [...]

Our job: Find out Why People Would Receive an Organ but Won’t Sign Up

We were interviewed recently on BBC Surrey Radio as part of a new campaign to encourage people to sign up to the NHS organ donor register. The interview as posted unfortunately didn’t cover the whole interview, I think the last few minutes was cut off for some reason.Until we get the permanent download, I’d like [...]

Interview on BBC Surrey Radio

If you got stuck in traffic this morning in the Guildford area, I must apologise.  The extra chaos was no doubt caused because Cim and I were called in to be interviewed live from the studios of BBC Surrey Radio. Rush hour?  Maybe, but traffic is not as bad on interview-free days. We were on [...]

An “Ordinary” Job: Making Someone “Supernormal”

The best description I have heard of Cim so far: “Supernormal”. Dr Malcolm Brown of  Astellas Pharmaceuticals came up with that during our presentation on 3 July at the Staines-based pharmaceutical company, near Heathrow. Astellas is the company that makes Prograf, the anti- rejection drug Cim has taken ever since her kidney transplant in December [...]

Life Givers, BBC1

Before watching the first two Lifegivers programmes on BBC1, my slight worry was who is going to watch this? As posted previously, Cim and I are appearing on Thursday morning*, so that’s got an obvious attraction; we’re not fooled by the promise of Gabby Logan. But really, is it going to be just those families [...]

Live! on the BBC

Did I mention we’re going to be on TV next week? If not, it’s because I didn’t know what it was going to be, but now I do. A very nice young lady phoned Cim a few weeks ago and asked if we’d like to be on TV with our transplant/Antarctica story. Cim said it [...]

Lunch with the Mayor of Brighton

Our Antarctic trip has taken us to unexpected places, like Brighton Town Hall on a very windy Wednesday lunchtime. “Would you like to have lunch with the Mayor of Brighton?” read the email from Anna of The Transplant Trust. “Oh, and by the way, would you mind giving your talk?” Sure we would. Now, I [...]

National Transplant Week

This is what we’ve been working up to since coming back from Antarctica: National Transplant Week, the major awareness and fundraising focus week for our charity, Transplants in Mind. It runs from 6th – 13th July with the media launch tonight (Tuesday 8th, I know), at the Transport Museum in Covent Garden We will be [...]

Southern Counties Radio

Yesterday I was interviewed by Ed Cook from Southern County Radio about our charity and trip to the other side of the world. When Ed turned up to our home I was on the last conference call before the trip with everybody going, including the expedition leader Peter Bland. Ed recorded a bit from the [...]