Comedian, writer and mental health advocate Ruby Wax is Rachel Fuller's guest for this week's episode of The Seekers podcast.

Ruby had a hugely successful TV career that spanned 25 years and is now a best-selling author and renowned mental health campaigner. She has a masters in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy from Oxford and has been awarded an OBE for her services to Mental Health. She has written many books about Mental Health and her latest is ‘I’m Not as well as I thought I was’ which tells the story of her recent mental breakdown and recovery.

After the covid lockdown Ruby started off on a series of extraordinary experiences to find meaning and purpose. This included living in a Christian Monastery, working in a refugee camp, swimming with whales and doing a 30 day silent retreat. But while she was doing her epic experiences she had a ‘mental car crash’ as she calls it and ended up in a mental institution for 3 weeks.

Tune in to hear a fascinating conversation about how practicing mindfulness was essential in helping Ruby's mental health.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of The Seekers Rachel is joined by Nakhane, a South African singer, actor and writer, who brilliantly plays the part of Siddartha on the album The Seeker, Rachel's musical version of the classic book.

Nakhane also starred as Siddartha at the one-off special performance of The Seekers at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

Tune in to hear Rachel and Nakhane discuss whether they considers themselves to be a seeker and how their life has been influenced by their Xhosa upbringing.

For more information on The Seeker visit https://theseekermusic.com/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on The Seekers podcast we go behind the scenes at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane to bring you all the excitement & nerves from the dressing rooms of Alfie Boe, Pete Townshend, Sunidhi Chauhan, Yola, Layton William, Idriss Kargbo and of course Rachel Fuller, as they prepare for the one off performance of The Seeker.

Tune in to hear how they prepare for such a big concert, whether they consider themselves 'seekers' and how the show went.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.