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Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown

by Ricky Thamman

Health

'Mentally Sound' is a Newcastle based community radio show about mental health & mental wellbeing. In lockdown we have been recording podcasts, where host Ricky interviews guests, each with their own response to lockdown, be it shielding, isolation, community connection, food banks, politicians, artists, and advice with thanks to therapists.

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Episodes

  1. 'Mentally Sound', Podcast, Episode 101

    #MentallySound #Podcast #SpiceFM #Earthlings #ThePrimalWay #Yoga #BreathWork #FireWalking #Cafe #Homlessness #MensMentalHealth #Nature #Acorn #PoliticalExtremism #UKRiots #OppAttune #Radicalisation #TheConversation #BBCMorningLive #CoffeeTrader

  2. ‘Mentally Sound’, Podcast, Episode 99

    #MentallySound #Podcast #SpiceFM #WorldMentalHealthDay #AsylumMatters #WestEndRefugeeService #RightToRemain #WaysToWellness #SocialPrescribing #LinkWorking #PeerSupport #Horticulture

  3. ‘Mentally Sound’, Podcast, Episode 98

    #SpiceFM #MentallySound #MentalHealth #Mayor #MayorJamieDriscoll #DiversityNE #Workplace #Ethnicity #Racism #Neurodiverse #NorthEast #HappyBirthday #Nutrition #Diet #TynesideCinema #HealthMatters #DrAmirKhan #NorthernStage #OceanRoadMela #SouthShields #SouthTyneside #Food #Music #Yemeni #Bengali

  4. ‘Mentally Sound’, Podcast, Episode 97

    #FinancialHealth #MoneyAndMentalHealth #MartinLewis #MoneySavingExpert #Ethnicity #Racism #NHS #Gateshead #DWP #Employment #Banks #Culture #Discrimination #BatonOfHope #ToParadiseForGlenn #SuicideAwareness #Anxiety #SuicidePrevention #Newcastle #MentalHealthNorthEast #MentalHealth #SpiceFM…

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  5. ‘Mentally Sound’, Podcast, Episode 96

    #ChildrensMentalHealth #CAMHS #SocialWorkers #Schools #ChildPoverty #Community #Counselling #Gateshead #SaveLeisureGateshead #GatesheadLeisureCentre #Disability #MentalHealth #PhysicalHealth #Gym #SwimmingPools #CommunityWellbeing #Anxiety #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek #TynesideCinema #ChaiChaiChai...

  6. 'Mentally Sound', Podcast, Episode 95

    #FoodAndSolidarity #LubberFiend #Renters #Community #Bailiffs #MutualAid #Shelter #Homelessness #Disability #MentalHealth #Rent #RentArrears #Debt #Fundraising #Racism #Merseyside #Refugees #PTSD

  7. 'Mentally Sound', Podcast, Episode 94

    #BayTales #Crime #Fiction #Mystery #AnnCleeves #Writing #Books #WhitleyBay #WhitleyBayPlayhouse #MindCoach #Instagram #Fitness #FitnessCoach #Fatigue #Gym #SelfDiscovery

  8. 'Mentally Sound', New Year Podcast, Episode 93

    #MentallySound #CommunityRadio #SpiceFM #NewYear #Outdoors #Walking #Nature #Wellbeing #Birdsong #Mindfulness #Dementia #Quizzing #Football #WorldCup #Pele

  9. 'Mentally Sound', Christmas Podcast, Episode 92

    #MentallySound #SpiceFM #LifeInLockdown #LifeAfterLockdown #Podcast #Christmas #Winter #WinterOfDiscontent #Loneliness #GiftGiving #CostOfLiving #Therapy #Techniques #WorldCup #LionelMessi

  10. 'Mentally Sound', Podcast, Episode 91

    #MentallySound #SpiceFM #LifeInLockdown #Covid19 #LifeAfterLockdown #MentalHealth #Theatre #Homelessness #Brazil #Workshops #TheatreLaboratory #NorthernStage #OnlineSafetyBill #Refugees #Hassockfield #Consett

  11. 'Mentally Sound', Podcast, Episode 90

    #MentallySound #SpiceFM #LifeInLockdown #Covid19 #LifeAfterLockdown #MentalHealth#Covid #LongCovid #Music #Songwriting #StevePledger #NeverGiveUp #CountyDurham #Durham #WhatTomorrowKnows #Touring #AcousticGuitar

  12. 'Mentally Sound: Life After Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 89

    #WorldMentalHealthDay #Podcast #SpiceFM #AdoptNorthEast #Adoption #Care #KinshipCare #NewcastleMela #MentalHealthConcern #BlackAndAsianMentalHealth #CommunityTransformation #StevePledger #SaltFromTheSea #MentalHealthRadio

  13. 'Mentally Sound: Life After Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 88

    #MentallySound #LifeAfterLockdown #Podcast #NationalMourning #QueenElizabethII #Grief #RoyalFamily #WorldSuicidePreventionDay #CostOfEnergyCrisis #MentalHealthRadio

  14. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 87

    #MentallySound #SpiceFM #LifeInLockdown #Covid19 #MutualAid #ElswickMutualAid #Newcastle #WestEnd #FoodAndSolidarity #CommunityLarder #Trauma #PTSD #TheSpeakmans #Anxiety #Phobias

  15. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 86

    #Heatwaves #Walking #Coast #Exercise #ReverseSAD #SeasonalAffectiveDisorder #Dehydration #Politics #Alcohol #Addiction #SelfMedication #SelfHarm #ChildMentalHealth #Newcastle #WestEnd

  16. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 85

    #MentallySound #Compilation #MentalHealth #LifeInLockdown #Podcast #Anxiety #University #Education #Disability #Discrimination #Writing #AfterEvil #YorkshireRipper #VictimsRights #VictimsSupport #Criminology #Football #Abuse #Floodlights

  17. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 84

    #AfterEvil #VictimsSupport #YorkshireRipper #Crime #MentallySound #Counselling #Grief #Therapy #MensMentalHealth #Writing #Books #Army #FamilyBreakdown #1970s

  18. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 83

    #MentallySound #LifeInLockdown #AndyWoodward #Floodlights #PositionOfTrust #AbuseSurvivor #PanicAttacks #PTSD #Recovery #Football #BBC #EatingDisorder #CostOfLiving #Podcast #SpiceFM #GraphicDesign #PodcastCover

  19. ‘Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown’, Podcast, Episode 82

    #CovidAid #Grief #Loneliness #Charity #Lockdown #LongCovid #GriefChat #Trauma #Bereavement

  20. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 81

    #RamadanMubarak #Fasting #Spirituality #Ukraine #War #ChildMentalHealth #PTSD #SocialMedia #DigitalDetox #KhyberCafe #Newcastle #WestEnd #Poverty #CostOfLivingCrisis

  21. ‘Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown’, Podcast, Episode 80

    #MentallySound #Eightieth #LifeInLockdown #Podcast #WalkAndBlether #Scotland #Dundee #SuicidePrevention #Quayside #Football #MensMentalHealth #CovidRestrictions

  22. ‘Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown’, Podcast, Episode 79

    #NeverGiveUp #RTProjects #StevePledger #CountyDurham #AssemblyRooms #LongCovid #SuicidePrevention #MPeople #LiveMusic #DurhamUniversity

  23. ‘Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown’, Podcast, Episode 78

    #WestEnd #KhyberCafe #CovidRestrictions #Happy2022 #Time #Exercise #Optimism #Melancholy #Vaccines #BoosterProgramme #ChildMentalHealth #Politics #CostOfLiving #LevellingUp #Community #Mindfulness

  24. ‘Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown’, Podcast, Episode 77

    #BlaydonShed #MensSheds #FionaTeasdale #Grief #Loss #Lockdown #Love #CountyDurham #Respite #Workshops

  25. ‘Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown’, Podcast, Episode 76

    #OperatingTheatre #Healthcare #Theatre #Drama #Acting #NewcastleUniversity #Students #Workshops

  26. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 75

    #MentallySound #LifeInLockdown #SpiceFM #Compilation #KhyberCafe #CostOfLiving #Poverty #Dementia #Football #Quizzing #GamblingAddiction #5StagesOfGrief #LockdownBehaviour #HelloStranger #HumanConnections

  27. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 74

    #MentallySound #LifeInLockdown #Omicron #SpiceFM #Grief #HelloStranger #BreastCancer #Bulgaria #Refugees #Connecting #KhyberCafe #WestEnd #Christmas #NewYear2022 #ChildMentalHealth #AntiVaxxers #SocialWork

  28. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 73

    #GratitudeGames #Firefighters #NHS #FrontlineSevices #EmergencyServices #Firefighters #Fundraising #Gambling #GamblingAddiction #Petition #OnlineGambling #Lockdown #Debt #SuicideAwareness #Scratchcards

  29. 'MentallySound: Life In Lockdown, Podcast, Episode 72

    #AzeemRafiq #Racism#BabyLoss #Sport #Cricket#SeasonalAffectiveDisorder #SAD#Christmas #HolidaySeason#Depression #Melatonin #Debt#GiftGiving #Grief #Loss#FiveStagesOfGrief #Denial#DeepakBhalla

  30. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 71

    #NUFC #Football #Volunteering #Abuse #Music #FoodBanks #Politics #Wellbeing #Family #News #Anxiety

  31. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 70

    #MentallySound #LifeInLockdown #KyberCafe #Lockdown #UniversalCredit #WestEnd #FootballForBrains #Quiz #Dementia

  32. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 69

    #MentallySound #LifeInLockdown #NUFCFansFoodBank #NUFC #FoodBank #WestEndFoodBank #NewcastleFoodBank #UniversalCredit #The12thMan #FoodPoverty #Community

  33. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 68

    #Compilation #Cycling #SelfHarm #Aspire #SafeSpace #DomesticAbuse #ChildMentalHealth #Racism #RecoveryCollegeCollective #Debt #Addiction #Stereotypes

  34. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 67

    #Compilation #Healthworks #WestEnd #Diet #BAMEMentalHealth #Stereotypes #NaomiOsaka #Sport #SolitudeInSnow #Acting #Fitness #FemaleEmpowerment #SouthTyneside #Racism

  35. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 66

    #Racism #MentalHealth #Class #Uprising #Sport #Trauma #SimoneBiles #BenStokes #AlbertBandura #Forgiveness #AntiRacism #Art #Heatwave #Gentrification #WestEnd

  36. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 65

    #CREST #SouthShields #Empowerment #Race #Equality #SouthTyneside #Education #Training #Employment #Zimbabwe

  37. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 64

    #YoungPeople #ChildMentalHealth #Schools #Exams #Parents #PeerSupport #Technology #BeHeardTheYoungVoice #Racism #Environment #RoleModels

  38. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 63

    #Football #5ASideTournament #CrystalPalaceFC #MensMentalHealth #Carers #FreedomDay

  39. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 62

    #July19th #FreedomDay #RealityTV #LoveIsland #BodyImage #EmmaRadacanu #Euro2020Final

  40. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 61

    #BritishAsian #MentalHealth #Germany #Stereotypes #IndianCulture #SelfHarm #Parents #Peers #Education #Grandparents #Expectations #PhysicalHealth

  41. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 60

    #60 #Homelessness #Winter #Art #TimeToChange #YoungPeoplesMentalHealth #Climbing #MutualAid #BAMEHealth #Music

  42. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown' Podcast, Episode 59

    #Aspire #WomensHealth #DomesticAbuse #JulesClare #Music #Depression #NHS #Running #SolitudeInSnow

  43. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown' Podcast, Episode 58

    #KirstyDillon #Arts #MethodActing #PTSD #PeerSupport #SelfHarm #Cycling #HurtingToHeal

  44. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 57

    #NaomiOsaka #Stigma #SportAndMentalHealth #CultureWars #BLM #ChangingMinds #PickUpAPenny #NorthTyneside #TherapyCentres #Fundraising

  45. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 56

    #Football #Walking #SuicidePrevention #PostNatalDepression #EatingDisorders #NHS #Nursing #Grief #Dogs

  46. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 55

    #TimeToChange #TimeToTalk #Mind #Rethink #MentalHealthAtWork #Stigma #Schools #Legacy #DiscoveryMuseum #Champions #CommunityHub

  47. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown' Podcast, Episode 54

    #Moutaineering #Climbing #ClimbYourMind #PeerSupport #PostLockdown #Emotions #EmergenceAnxiety #FaceMasks #CovidStressSyndrome

  48. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 53

    #MutualAid #PhoneBoxLarder #Elswick #ArthursHill #NewcastleWestEnd #CleanSlate #Alcohol #Addiction #Debt

  49. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 52

    #ChildrensMentalHealth #Therapy #Schools #Bereavement #PTSD #Counselling #LockdownEasing #India

  50. 'Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown', Podcast, Episode 51

    #BritishAsianMentalHealth #University #China #Survey #Anxiety #Lifestyle #Racism #India

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About this show

'Mentally Sound' is a Newcastle based community radio show about mental health & mental wellbeing. In lockdown we have been recording podcasts, where host Ricky interviews guests, each with their own response to lockdown, be it shielding, isolation, community connection, food banks, politicians, artists, and advice with thanks to therapists.

Hosted by

Ricky Thamman

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Frequently asked questions

How many episodes does Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown have?

Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown has 99 episodes on PodParley. The most recent episode was published on August 5, 2025.

What is Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown about?

'Mentally Sound' is a Newcastle based community radio show about mental health & mental wellbeing. In lockdown we have been recording podcasts, where host Ricky interviews guests, each with their own response to lockdown, be it shielding, isolation, community connection, food banks, politicians,...

How often does Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown release new episodes?

Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown publishes every two weeks, based on its 99 episodes since February 2021.

Who hosts Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown?

Mentally Sound: Life In Lockdown is created and hosted by Ricky Thamman.
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