The tables (and microphones) are turned for the final episode of season 2, and Jen is interviewed about her life with type 1 diabetes by senior digital producer and great friend Will Hardy.

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This week I chat to the UK’s first professional boxer with type 1 diabetes, Muhammad Ali.

Muhammad Ali: Fighting for a professional boxing licence with type 1 diabetes

Hollyoaks actor Rory Douglas-Speed is this week's guest. A natural born entertainer, he hilariously recounts some of his funniest and most embarrassing experiences from his 20 years of living with type 1 diabetes. He also reveals how a blood glucose meter changed his life, how becoming a dad has changed his perspective on taking care of his health.

Rory Douglas-Speed: Learning to laugh at type 1 diabetes

Lockdown restrictions have started to lift but coronavirus still remains in our midst, and knowing what the right thing to do is as a person with diabetes isn't always clear. Partha Kar, national specialty advisor in diabetes for NHS England talks us through what we should and shouldn't be worrying about, what precautions we should take and answers your questions as the UK starts to tentatively open back up.

Living with diabetes after lockdown: Covid-19 Q&A with Partha Kar

Claire is the founder of Organising Chaos, which sells a range of products and accessories to help people decorate their diabetes. Claire was diagnosed with type 1 in 1997, and in her words has been on a journey from ‘diabad to diabadass’ in the past 23 years.

Claire Panchal: The impact of miscarriage and building a business from diabetes

27-year-old Emma Bowditch is today's guest. Emma suffered an episode of hypoglycaemic hemiparesis in her early 20s, during which half the body is paralysed as an additional symptom of a low blood sugar. Emma didn't have a label for what happened to her for years after, and reached out to me in a bid to raise awareness of this relatively undocumented experience.

Emma Bowditch: Experiencing Hypoglycaemic Hemiparesis

This week I speak to Dave, who has lived with type 1 diabetes for over 40 years after being diagnosed at the age of three. Dave talks through his memories of growing up using glass syringes and steel needles. Dave's daughter Martha received a type 1 diagnosis in 2019 at the age of 12 and he chats about how that's impacted his entire family.

Dave Sowerby: 40 years with type 1 diabetes and dealing with his daughter's diagnosis

This week’s guest is 34-year-old Dan Newman, who takes us on his journey through type 1 diabetes distress and burnout, to developing chronic kidney disease as a complication in 2013, to overcoming feelings of guilt and the pressure to be a ‘perfect’ person with diabetes.

Dan Newman: The pressure of diabetes perfection and the stigma of complications

Radio executive producer, co-founder and all round boss babe Ami Bennett chats about processing a complicated adult diagnosis and adapting her busy, independent life when type 1 diabetes decided to gatecrash just after her 33rd birthday.

Ami Bennett: When type 1 diabetes gatecrashes your busy adult life

Actor Nina Wadia is the first guest of season 2, and what a way to start the series! Nina speaks passionately about her son Aidan's life-changing diagnosis at the age of 10 and how they've adapted as a whole family to the relentless nature of daily life with type 1 diabetes.

Nina Wadia: The guilt of diagnosis and finding the why

The Type 1 on 1 podcast is back for more! Each week another brilliant guest will chat about what it means to live with type 1 diabetes and the experiences that have shaped them. These people are not scaling physical mountains, nor do they have ‘perfect’ blood sugar control (note: nobody does), but they are REAL and they are being extraordinary in their own way: tackling the baffling mayhem of a a wild, relentless and at times infuriating chronic condition as best they can. Oh, and there is PLENTY of hope in there too.

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In this week’s episode business owner and mum of one Nadia Pye talks candidly about juggling the demands of parenthood with the demands of type 1 diabetes.

Nadia Pye: Being a type 1 mum, adult diagnosis and hypo anxiety

Tine is a video producer from Berlin who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a student in 2013 at the age of 22. We discuss her experiences of depression and the relationship between mental health and living with type 1, and the major part that hormones play in managing the condition.

Tine Trommer: Mental health struggles with type 1 diabetes

This week I chat to Pete Davies, a retired teacher who was diagnosed with diabetes in 1956 at the age of 2 - so that’s some 63 years strong with type 1. He didn’t have an insulin pen or glucose meter until he was in his 30s.

Pete Davies: Type 1 diabetes before insulin pens and blood glucose meters

Jacq Allan is the founder and outgoing director of the charity Diabetes With Eating Disorders. She's been working tirelessly for the past decade to get diabulimia, a condition in which diabetics omit insulin to lose weight, officially recognised as a mental illness as well as other forms of diabetes-related eating disorders. Jacq has lived with type 1 diabetes for 15 years.

Jacq Allan: Diabetics with eating disorders

Type 1 on 1 is a podcast that delves into the obscure, complex and challenging world of life with type 1 diabetes. Writer and broadcaster Jen Grieves, who was diagnosed at the age of 8, talks to compelling guests about their experiences of living with type 1 diabetes and how it’s shaped them - showing that there is no ‘normal’ when it comes to handling this whopper of a chronic condition.

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