The Yes to Life Radio Show: Conversations That Open Up New Perspectives on Cancer Care

What does it mean to look beyond conventional approaches to cancer care? How can lifestyle, nutrition, exercise, emotional wellbeing and integrative medicine contribute to a more personalised approach to supporting people affected by cancer?

These are some of the questions explored in The Yes to Life Radio Show, our regular radio programme broadcast on UK Health Radio.

Hosted by Yes to Life founder Robin Daly, the programme brings together an interesting and diverse range of guests, including doctors, oncologists, scientists, researchers, integrative health practitioners and people with personal experience of cancer.

Through in-depth conversations, the show explores emerging ideas, challenges established thinking and gives a platform to different perspectives on cancer, health and wellbeing.

Recent conversations worth exploring

The programme’s recent episodes cover a particularly wide range of subjects, from exercise and rehabilitation to lifestyle medicine and emotional wellbeing. Some highlights include:

• Catherine Schopfer – Sounding Board: How her experience of breast cancer led her to use her coaching skills to support others affected by cancer.
• Kelly Dodds – From Prehab to Rehab: Exploring the role of exercise in cancer care and recovery, and the development of an app to support people along the way.
• Dr Charlotte Atkinson – Open to Integration: An NHS oncologist sharing her personal experience of Lifestyle Medicine and how it has influenced her clinical practice.
• Vicky Fox – Not Just Posing: A yoga specialist sharing insights into the potential benefits of yoga during treatment and recovery.
• Dr Sharief Ibrahim – Your Metabolic Shift: Exploring Functional Medicine, personal recovery and the insights behind his new book.

These are just a few examples of the conversations available in the programme’s extensive archive.

Where can you listen?

You don’t need to catch the programme when it is broadcast. Past episodes are available to listen to online through the Yes to Life website.

You can browse the archive, search by guest or subject, and choose the conversations that interest you most.

Explore The Yes to Life Show and listen to the episodes

Whether you are living with cancer, supporting someone close to you, working in healthcare or simply interested in a broader understanding of health and wellbeing, we hope you’ll find something valuable in these conversations.

We believe that sharing knowledge, encouraging questions and making space for different perspectives are essential parts of moving cancer care forward.