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“You’re never alone”

December 10 , 2024
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Beth Evans in conversation with Jason Wilsher-Mills  Jason Wilsher-Mills is an artist from Wakefield. His exhibition ‘Jason and the adventure of 254’ is being shown at the Wellcome Collection until 12 January 2025. At the age of eleven, Jason was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition that paralysed him ...

Airing Pain Short: Interview with Jason Wilsher-Mills (Transcript)

August 22 , 2025
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Download Transcript PDF Listen now First broadcast: 02 May 2025 This Airing Pain Shorts focuses on Christine Johnston's interview with the artist Jason Wilsher-Mills Jason Wilsher-Mills, is an artist from West Yorkshire who creates work about disability and childhood trauma. Jason has lived with pain, chronic polyneuropathy, since he was a ...

Airing Pain #149 : Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity (Transcript)

May 21 , 2025
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Download PDF Listen now Airing Pain 149: Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity First broadcast 21st May 2025 This edition of Airing Pain looks at the research into why pain persists, how we can identify people at risk and whether we could prevent it happening. The interviews ...

Airing Pain #149 Trailer: Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity (Transcript)

May 16 , 2025
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Download PDF Listen now Trailer - Airing Pain 149: Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity First broadcast 16th May 2025 Shafiq Sikander, a professor of sensory neurophysiology at the William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University, London. Gareth Hathway, professor of neuroscience at the University of Nottingham’s’ ...

Airing Pain Shorts: Interview with Jason Wilsher-Mills

August 22 , 2025
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This Airing Pain Short is an interview by Christine Johnston with the artist Jason WIlsher-Mills. Contributors:  Jason WIlsher-Mills, is an artist from West Yorkshire who creates work about disability and childhood trauma. Jason has lived with pain, chronic polyneuropathy, since he was a child. Additional Resources:  "You're never alone" - discover ...

Airing Pain #149: Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity

May 21 , 2025
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This edition of Airing Pain looks at the research into why pain persists, how we can identify people at risk and whether we could prevent it happening. In this episode: How does acute short-term pain turn into chronic, persistent pain? Kathleen Sluka explains that people who experience psychological trauma ...

Airing Pain #149 Trailer: Why pain persists: from childhood trauma to faulty immunity

May 16 , 2025
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This edition of Airing Pain focuses on advances in understanding and managing chronic pain, from neuroimmune mechanisms to new diagnostic and treatment approaches. In this trailer for AP 149, listen to excerpts from the full program on:- how does acute, short term pain turn into chronic, persistent pain? - ...

Airing Pain 132: When Children Have Arthritis

May 03 , 2022
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How do you identify illness in young children and coping as a family. This Airing Pain was recorded at the Scottish Network for Arthritis in Children SNAC’s 2022 Family Weekend at Crieff Hydro, which brings together families recently affected by juvenile idiopathic arthritis and some of the country’s leading ...