Mind Over Matter

In a week when a new vaccine for Covid 19 has been unveiled, this is a podcast focussing on Getting Fit.   My doctor daughter broke it to me several years ago that, as we get older, we have to exercise more, and more, and more...it appears it's exponential...especially with the threat of further viruses around the corner.   This is a montage of old newsreel and recordings of the really extraordinary Mary Bagot-Stack and her daughter, Prunella, often described as Britain's first 'perfect woman', who founded The Women's League of Health and Beauty in 1930, mixed with my attempts to get fit with the NHS app 'Couch to 5K', and pilates with Danielle Moye of  www.lebarrecolchester.co.uk.  and a guest appearance,  from an ancient LP, of Winnie the Pooh voiced brilliantly by Kenneth Connor with the Wonderland Singers and Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra.  The picture  shows members of the The original Bagot-Stack Dancing Academy dancing at Clacton-on-Sea in Essex in 1928... ‘in harmony with the rhythm of the wavelets lapping the sand and with the vibration of the sunlight on sea and shore. Every movement was an object lesson in the expression of the strength and health and passionate joyousness of pulsing natural life.”  Thank you to Dr. Lucy Vermont.