Sue Baker

Bryony Gordon's Mad World

The Telegraph

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Mental health campaigner and new-mother Sue Baker speaks to the Telegraph’s Bryony Gordon in a special edition of her podcast, Mad World, where she interviews guests about their mental health experiences. During the discussion, Sue talks about the remarkable part that mental health has played in her life and how she is dealing with a terminal illness diagnosis.

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0:00.0	The Telegraph.
0:02.0	Podcasts
0:09.0	This week on Mad World, I have a woman who's completely awesome.
0:10.0	I have a woman who's completely awesome. I met her as part of my
0:16.4	mental health campaigning work. Her name is Sue Baker. She runs Time to Change, which
0:22.4	is a campaign to end discrimination surrounding mental health issues which is part of mind and rethink mental illness now I met you Sue at an event way back in April this year after the marathon. I'm still
0:38.0	banging on about that. We arranged to have a coffee and what is so fascinating about you is as the coffee went on and we did the normal
0:46.7	talk about campaigning and mental health, the importance of changing the conversation around mental health issues is your own story started to
0:56.6	unravel.
0:57.6	Which we're going to get to.
0:59.3	I start each podcast by asking people how they are, right?
1:03.3	So truthfully, honestly, right this moment,
1:06.7	in the present, how are you, Sue Baker, OBE, no less?
1:12.0	No less is not like a letter given out by the Queen in her birthday on it.
1:15.7	I'm looking forward to getting one at no less.
1:18.0	OBE no less. A whole new category. Yeah I'm good. Yeah, yeah. I'm well. I had a good night
1:25.0	sleep. We've got a young baby so she didn't keep me up last night. My poor
1:29.4	partner can't say the same for her. I'm good. Yeah, looking forward to we're going to have a bit of a break soon for a couple of weeks.
1:36.0	Yeah, no good. Very busy at work. It also seems busier than ever. I think I say that every year, but it definitely feels like it's busy than ever. I think I say that every year but it definitely feels like it's
1:43.9	bigger than ever. Now you as well as running this massive mental health campaign you
1:49.1	I don't want to like sound too bleak but you have cancer? I do yes. So this just came out we were just sitting there having
1:56.4	our flat whites at the in the canteen in the telegraph and you were like oh yeah when I had to take some time off last year and then all
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