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Gillian Russell introduces kit and app reviews, expert advice and the latest fitness news.

Gillian Russell introduces a mix of personal stories, kit and app reviews, expert advice and the latest fitness news to help listeners get the best out of their mind and body

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Personal Best: Why Singing is Good for Your Health!

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Why Singing is Good for Your Health!

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Discovering the impact singing can have on our physical and mental health.

Gillian Russell presents a singing special and discovers what impact singing has on our physical and mental health.

Tom Dyer from Sing With Us Choirs explains what is going on in body and brain when we sing and why singing can hugely benefit our health and wellbeing.

Gillian goes along to the Inverness Choral Society’s rehearsals to find out what some of the singers get out of singing in a choir.

Mac MacDermott talks about how he and his father use singing to cope with his father’s Alzheimer’s.

And can anyone learn to sing?  Tutor Kate O’Connell, who specialises in singing for health, wellbeing and performance, gives Suzy Beaumont her first ever singing lesson.


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