Mental Health Monday

Lou Teasdale joins Journalist Mick Coyle ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day 2025.

Lou is on the podcast to talk about her experience of losing loved ones to suicide, and the shocking stats around young suicide in the UK in 2025.

She's teaming up with Body & Soul to find new pathways for those struggling with suicidal thoughts, and to find new ways to end the UK's young suicide crisis.

What is the Baton of Hope, and what does it represent in 2025?

Mick Coyle meets the team behind the suicide prevention tour on this week's podcast, and meets some of the people who've been given the honour of carrying it as it makes it way across the UK.

Mike McCarthy tells us why the symbolism of carrying hope around the country is needed now more than ever, and what he hopes to achieve with this year's event.

Sam Southern, speaking on the 5 year anniversary of her husband's passing, tells of the impact losing a loved one to suicide can have.

And Eloise, fresh from her school exams, joins the podcast ahead of carrying the Baton on day one in memory of her father.

Mick Coyle returns with a new documentary.

Over the last few months he's uncovered some uncomfortable truths about the fate of Britain's mental asylum graves.

Lost Souls investigates:

More than a quarter of a million bodies lie nameless in unmarked and largely forgotten graves around the UK, bodies belonging to people who died in Britain's Mental Asylums.

Some of those sites sit in plain sight in our communities, have been neglected, or even sold off.

One now houses a children's playground.

In our exclusive investigation, Senior Correspondent Mick Coyle looks into what happened to those who died while in the Victorian mental system, why it still matters today and uncovers uncomfortable truths sitting at the heart of our towns and cities.