Just One Thing...
- Jun 7
- 2 min read
I first met Michael Mosley at university, many years ago.
We were on different courses, so our paths didn’t cross that often, but I always found him to be friendly and curious, with a restless, searching intelligence – qualities that later endeared him to his many fans on TV and radio.
Fast forward twenty-five years.
I’ve been hired to work on a BBC drama-documentary and discover, to my surprise, that the executive producer is… Mike Mosley. We’d lost touch after university and Mike is already on his third career.
After a brief stint as a City banker, then several years studying to be a psychiatrist, he’d joined the BBC as a trainee and worked his way up to a senior position in the department that made science and specialist factual programmes.
I eventually worked on three shows that Mike oversaw but, ever keen to develop, soon after the last one he moved in front of the camera. And so started the presenting career that made him a familiar face on TV and a very distinctive voice on the radio.
Which is all a long-winded way of saying that – inspired by Mike’s much-loved BBC radio series, Just One Thing – we’ve started to share online suggestions for simple things we can do to improve our everyday conversations.
Mike’s subject was health; ours is the health of human connection, relationships, which are conducted primarily through how we talk and listen to each other; how we understand and are understood by each other – or not.
So thank you, Mike. You are much missed. And who knows where we might meet again…
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