Life with MND

Day #489: The 1,000 Days Podcast (Episode 2)

Simon

25 Oct 2024

For those of you who liked the first one - here's the next episode of the 1,000 Days Podcast.

In this 2nd episode, we actually do the thing we were meant to do in the 1st episode: talk through my Desert Island Discs.

I can't include all the music in one audio file without breaking all sorts of copyright laws, so I decided to make this Podcast a YouTube playlist, interlacing my conversation with Mark with the full versions of the songs.

Hopefully it works! Here is the link to the playlist:

Let me know if it works - and what you think.

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Day #793: Thank you and farewell

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