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Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it

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As with all of Rosen's writing there is a mix of humour and sadness and while talking about what has helped him Rosen never becomes didactic. Instead, in each of these vignettes you will find dysfunctional humans trying to do their best and bouncing off each other in the process. Also to add that I would recommend reading Many Kinds Of Love beforehand, as it may help with some of the context of Getting Better. He explores the full range of definitions of ‘getting better’ and gives some really practical tips for motivating yourself.

And in "The Political Economist and the Flowers," two contrasting gardeners highlight the cold heart of Darwinian competition. Her teenage mother abandons her in the first few weeks of her life, and left in the 'care' of her father, she ends up lying deserted in a house with no food, no water, no clothes and no warmth. The very last chapter can probably be safely skipped (eat fibre, stay hydrated, take regular exercise, look after your core etc), but then again the very last couple of paragraphs draw a lot of the rambling together a bit.

Food is our greatest ally for good health, but the question of what to eat has never seemed so complicated. Well, I probably “realised” the moment the first person told me, the only problem is, the next day, I would have forgotten.

We welcome national treasure Michael Rosen onto the podcast this week to share some beautiful, witty and thoughtful reflections from his new memoir, Getting Better. The man in the photograph is thickset and beautiful in a chequered shirt, holding something to his mouth.Even though poor Emma [Rosen’s wife] kept explaining it to me over and over again, I still hadn’t fully copped that I had been one of those people you see on the telly, lying inert with tubes coming out of them. In the dream, there was this German man coming towards me, wearing a bib and brace and standing next to a beat-up old 1950s tractor. On a clear spring day in 1995, five members of a religious cult unleashed poison gas on the Tokyo subway system. What does it mean to be a changed person, to experience an event so seismic that you find that things are never the same afterwards? I am particularly glad that Michael Rosen came through his illness and curious to read more of his books.

His memory is now much improved, he says, and he’s making further demands on it by learning a new language.As a teacher, I have long term loved Michael Rosen's writing, but since writing so openly about being ill with Covid in 2020 I couldn't wait for this one. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

With top guests including Stephen Fry, Jack Whitehall, Michael Rosen, Susie Dent, Alex Horne, Paul Sinha, Robin Ince, Josh Widdecombe, Natalie Haynes, Dave Gorman, Richard Herring, Ed Byrne, Jenny Eclair and Milton Jones. What you get is pretty much Rosen's life history, his family background, suffering from undiagnosed thyroid problems, deaths of distant relatives, including, in infancy, a brother he had never known about, death of his son, getting Covid, getting over all the things life threw at him. Amidst all this are more random chapters which end up trying to be a self help book on how we can all get better. It’s just him talking about his own experience and how he might be able to help others, and its just warming, humorous, silly, natural, and above all, honest. Their relationship and marriage, navigating the highs and lows of Hollywood, parenthood, and loss, lasted almost forty years.Getting better is partially the story of Rosen’s recovery from covid and partially a self-help guide. He is suitably tentative about this, recognising that what might work for him might not work for others. Their stories, their lives, and the fate of the world, are bound by a single document: The Scarlet Papers. I had microbleeds in my brain which knocked out most of the sight of my left eye, and most of the hearing in my left ear, I have to say that carefully, I sometimes end up saying most of the hearing in my left eye and sight in my left ear. As he discerns the fundamental issues that led to the attack, Murakami paints a clear vision of an event that could occur anytime, anywhere.

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