"The home of the UK's conversation about mental health" Journalist Mick Coyle has been normalising conversations about mental health since 2017. His guests offer no-stigma, no-judgement conversations and insights from their own lived experience. More than 350 episodes are available to listen to for free. Don't suffer in silence, join the conversation. Signposting services in each episode. Shortlist - ARIAs Social Impact 2024 Winner - Commercial Radio News Coverage 2022 Winner - Commercial Radio…
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Mick Coyle has a freebie for you that could change your life. This week he's joining up with CALM to talk about their new scientifically-backed app that's designed to give you help, advice and support through your smartphone. CEO Simon Gunning tells Mick why the latest data tells us why its needed and how the UK's expected to spend BIG on mental health apps in 2026. Find out more about the…
Emma Rushton was enjoying a holiday in Berlin's Christmas markets when terrorists struck. 12 people were killed when a lorry ploughed through a packed city centre in December 2016. Despite the trauma she'd witnessed in the market, Emma's experience as a journalist meant she was invited to speak to media from around the world as an eye-witness. Her training meant she could set out the facts clearly…
As we reach the end of 2025, Mick Coyle has some incredible updates about the Lost Souls investigation . Since Mick brought you the news of 250,000 unmarked graves of mental health patients lying across the UK, often anonymous, often abandoned, he's been speaking with countless charities, organisations, campaigners and politicians about his findings. Since the conversation started, a petition has…
Lou Teasdale joins Journalist Mick Coyle ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day 2025. Lou is on the podcast to talk about her experience of losing loved ones to suicide, and the shocking stats around young suicide in the UK in 2025. She's teaming up with Body & Soul to find new pathways for those struggling with suicidal thoughts, and to find new ways to end the UK's young suicide crisis. Find out…
What is the Baton of Hope, and what does it represent in 2025? Mick Coyle meets the team behind the suicide prevention tour on this week's podcast, and meets some of the people who've been given the honour of carrying it as it makes it way across the UK. Mike McCarthy tells us why the symbolism of carrying hope around the country is needed now more than ever, and what he hopes to achieve with this…
Mick Coyle returns with a new documentary. Over the last few months he's uncovered some uncomfortable truths about the fate of Britain's mental asylum graves. Lost Souls investigates: More than a quarter of a million bodies lie nameless in unmarked and largely forgotten graves around the UK, bodies belonging to people who died in Britain's Mental Asylums. Some of those sites sit in plain sight in…
350 episodes! Shall we crack on with the next 350? Mick Coyle hosts a landmark edition of Mental Health Monday, as we celebrate 350 episodes of the award-winning podcast. Mick's been very busy producing programmes about Birth Trauma and International Women's Day in the last few weeks with his Hits Radio colleagues. Both programmes are a great listen so click on those links and check them out. Now…
When the Hub of Hope launched in 2017 - Mick Coyle had the exclusive story behind its birth with Jake Mills right here on Mental Health Monday. Skip forward seven years, and more than a quarter of a million people are accessing it every 12 months, connecting with local mental health groups, support services, and organisations within their community. Jake's back to talk about the scale of the Hub…
Mick is joining in with Time to Talk Day 2025. Rosie Weatherley from MIND is his guest, as new data takes a look at the impact NOT talking about our mental health can have on ourselves, and young people in our lives. Rosie guides Mick through the first stages of opening up a conversation about mental health, and how to respond if someone tells you about difficult thoughts and feelings. There is…
Mick Coyle marks Children's Mental Health Awareness Week with an important conversation about reading. He's joined by author of the "Sophie Says..." series Esther Marshall to talk about the value in sharing reading time with your children and the mental health benefits it can bring - to you AND your child. Data suggests 52% of parents use books as a way of talking about their child's thoughts and…
